The Great Gatsby- Catherine Martin
Her- K.K. Barrett
Gravity- Andy Nicholson
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Saturday, February 8, 2014
Art Directors Guild Award Winners
The Great Gatsby- Catherine Martin
Her- K.K. Barrett
Gravity- Andy Nicholson
Saturday, February 1, 2014
Writers Guild Award Winners
MOTION PICTURE
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Her- Spike Jonze
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Captain Phillips- Billy Ray
DOCUMENTARY: Stories We Tell- Sarah Polley
TELEVISION
DRAMA SERIES: Breaking Bad
COMEDY SERIES: Veep
VARIETY SERIES: The Colbert Report
NEW TV SERIES: House of Cards
EPISODIC DRAMA: "Confessions"- Breaking Bad- Gennifer Hutchison
EPISODIC COMEDY: "Hogcock"- 30 Rock- Jack Burditt & Robert Carlock
ANIMATION: "A Test Before Dying"- The Simpsons- Joel H. Cohen
SCREEN LAURAL AWARD: Paul Mazursky
PAUL SELVIN AWARD: Alex Gibney, We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wiki-Leaks
Sunday, January 12, 2014
71st Golden Globe Awards
ACTOR (Drama): Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
ACTRESS (Drama): Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
PICTURE (Musical or Comedy): American Hustle
ACTOR (Musical or Comedy): Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
ACTRESS (Musical or Comedy): Amy Adams, American Hustle
DIRECTOR: Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
SCREENPLAY: Her- Spike Jonze
ANIMATED FEATURE: Frozen
FOREIGN FILM: The Great Beauty (Italy)
SCORE: All is Lost- Alex Ebert
SONG: "Ordinary Love," Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Friday, January 10, 2014
Georgia Film Critics Association
DIRECTOR: Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity
ACTOR: Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
ACTRESS: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Her- Spike Jonze
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Short Term 12- Destin Cretton
ANIMATED FEATURE: Frozen
DOCUMENTARY: Stories We Tell
FOREIGN FILM: No
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Gravity- Emmanuel Lubezki
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Gravity- Andy Nicholson
ORIGINAL SCORE: Her- William Butler & Owen Pallett
ORIGINAL SONG: "Please Mr. Kennedy," Inside Llewyn Davis
ENSEMBLE CAST: American Hustle
BREAKTHROUGH AWARD: Brie Larson, Short Term 12, Don Jon, The Spectacular Now
OGLETHORPE AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN GEORGIA CINEMA: The Spectacular Now
Monday, January 6, 2014
Final 'Hail Mary' FYC Pleas
The nomination voting polls close for the 87th Academy Award on Wednesday, January 8th. If Academy members are anything like me then this time of year is filled with endless anxiety and frustration. Fears of being hopelessly behind just as the lull of the new year wants to push me forward. Did I see everything I wanted to or needed to? What did I miss? How can I process all the hours of cinemas I've crammed in the past few weeks into a cohesive whole celebrating the very best of the past film year? It's all a little too much. If Academy members have this feeling, I'm understand, I sympathize...I'm here to help. Here are some of my favorites, my last minutes pleas of the 2013 cinematic year that I hope you consider. Heck, even if you haven't seen some of them, but are unsure of what to fill your ballots with, just go ahead a trust me.
BEST ACTRESS: Julie Delpy, Before Midnight
The leading actress category is pretty full and full of Oscar vets of varying degrees of worthiness, but one name that should have a higher profile is Delpy, the brittle heart and anguishing soul of Before Midnight. She was worthy the last go around as well in Before Sunset, so perhaps more than little guilt over that upset could be remedied by nominating her here. She brings such a volcanic display of passion, intelligence and anger to the third chapter of the Before series, but there's a consummate craft that modulates the performance and furthermore the film. Delpy already earned Indie Spirit and Globe nominations for her effort, so this isn't totally out of the realm of feasibility, so plop the screener in, acknowledge these great films, or just check it off to rid thyselves of past sins.
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Enough Said- Nicole Holofcener
It's a shame that Holofcener has never been nominated for writing before since her style is so specific and witty and almost elementary in what makes up good writing. She came close, perhaps, a few years ago when her script for Please Give earned a WGA nomination, but the Academy has never bitten. Sure, there's a bit of a Woody Allen thing that centers her films, as all her films take the perspective of a white and neurotic middle class woman grappling with white middle class issues, but Allen has been out of touch for years (decades?) and the Academy still bites when he's done something decent. Holofcener, on the other hand, has always brought a brittle, perceptive economy to her films and Enough Said is one of her strongest, a deft, funny, utterly relatable human drama about real grown-ups. Deceptively simple perhaps to a fault (and it's true that sometimes the filmmaking itself is somewhat pedestrian), but urgent, heartfelt, tender and real.
BEST PICTURE: Frances Ha
How about this-- any Oscar voter currently stumped, why not just vote for Noah Baumbach's joyous and scrumptious comedy of manners in every category. I mean if The King's Speech was beloved enough to merit sound nominations, there really is no ceiling for the besotted ones. And nothing in 2013 was deserving of unanimous praise than this witty, generous Greta Gerwig-headlined gift. I've gushed time and time again about the may joys of the film and while I'm not silly enough to think for a second that this plea won't fall on deaf ears, I encourage each and all to find this gorgeous amalgam of vintage Woody Allen, French New Wave cinema and very contemporary hipster-dom and discover for themselves. We can all dance around the streets to the tune of Bowie afterward.
BEST DIRECTOR: Spike Jonze, Her
Moving along from straight up fantasy to a very real contender that hopefully doesn't get shafted. Hey Academy, remember, you once dug Spike Jonze-- you even nominated him for his feature directorial debut Being John Malkovich all the way back in 1999, so this isn't even that crazy to ask of you to acknowledge the pristine polish, magic and artistry he brought to Her. While he's surely going to nominated for writing the screenplay to the boy meets operation system romantic dramedy, it's the direction of the film that's the real selling point-- all that fantastic, subtle, playful and evocative flourishes to a totally feasible, yet soft world building of a near future Los Angeles should not go unnoticed. And while you're at it, please remind your production designer and director of photography friends that Her is worthy of slots there as well.
BEST COSTUME DESIGN: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire- Trish Summerville
Summerville already proved her laurels with her chic and stylish designs for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, becoming David Fincher's go-to costumer (she'll re-team with him on Gone Girl), but her Catching Fire costumes were eye-catching and alluring in contrasting the grimy and poor cloth in the districts to the opulent, whatsits all around the Capitol. The budget clearly rose in the second chapter, and the film is a richer, bolder, more colorful thing because of it, but the artistry on display-- especially from Summerville-- was definitely Oscar worthy.
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: In a World...- Lake Bell
This probably won't happen and that's cool, however In a World... kind of got a bum rap. Bell won the Screenwriting Prize at Sundance last winter and the film made but a minor splash when it premiered last summer, but the film is so sneaky and smart and deserved a lot more than it got. Using the conceit of voice over artists as a microcosm of the film industry as a whole, Bell displayed such wit and insight in gender politics while maintaining an steely, amusing grip of the film as a whole. It's a comedy, and a damn good one, but there's more to it. Plus, if you're gonna ignore Holofcener, there should be a few female writers nominated this year-- 2013 was a great year for female actors and filmmakers, you just had to (as this film makes implicitly clear) really search for them.
BEST ACTOR: Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis
Likely one of the actors teetering on the dreaded sixth or seventh slots of a very crowded Best Actor race, but there's still a chance (right?) that Isaac's glorious chamber piece of a performance in the Coen Brothers' folk rock odyssey that right can prevail in the end. In truth Isaac plays a difficult character-- a brooding failure of a folk singer trying to break through right on the cusp of when Bob Dylan was about to start a revolution. He's not always likable in that cookie-cutter way we like our leading men to be, but the film goads us swiftly into rooting for him. It helps that his voice is a thing of wonder and Isaac portrays Llewyn Davis as an uniquely charismatic, endlessly talented loser. Plus, really, just think how cool the actors branch will look in history for nominating it? Seriously, your grandchildren are judging you.
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: The Spectacular Now- Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber
A certain amount of leeway can be forgiven for the lack of awardage for The Spectacular Now-- it's a movie about teenagers that all but touts its after-school-like programming as a badge of honor, but the fresh and invigorating adaptation of Tim Tharp's novel is perceptive and alive and allows for its actors to do great work in such a rare way, it would be shame for it be unacknowledged. Perhaps it feels too-lived in and the film is likely too-little seen, but that's no excuse. Neustadter & Weber were on the cusp of a nomination five years ago for the original screenplay (500) Days of Summer that never came to fruition, but their work on The Spectacular Now is better and bigger (by being smaller) that it's all the more deserving.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Spring Breakers- Benoît Debie
I understand that Spring Breakers probably wasn't really your thing. I'm okay with that, it wasn't really my thing either. In fact, I didn't even particularly care for Harmony Korine's brash, the kids-are-not-alright neon nightmare. However, separating tremendous technical achievements from the overall quality of a film is another matter and one that the Academy membership should appreciate as well. Debie, the rigorous and exhausting talent who's lensed films like Enter the Void, The Runaways and Irreversible is a undisputed talent. The fever dream shots make give the film the nightmare-dreamlike setting that it needed but didn't deserve. His contributions were utterly fantastic and awards worthy.
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: The World's End- Simon Pegg & Edgar Wright
Yeah, the pub carousing turned apocalyptic comedy probably isn't something that was ever on your radar, I understand that. But the witty, inventive and intelligently sharp screenplay for The World's End handles so many neat parlor tricks that it was easy to forget that the film is actually quite moving. All of the sci-fi/frat house comedy that's packed on the surface doesn't take away the quietly sobering grace notes of human connection and growing pains that face a group of high school friends now faced with the hobbles of grown-up existence. Have a pint and get a sense of humor.
Okay, I was pretty rough on you, but heed my advise.
The leading actress category is pretty full and full of Oscar vets of varying degrees of worthiness, but one name that should have a higher profile is Delpy, the brittle heart and anguishing soul of Before Midnight. She was worthy the last go around as well in Before Sunset, so perhaps more than little guilt over that upset could be remedied by nominating her here. She brings such a volcanic display of passion, intelligence and anger to the third chapter of the Before series, but there's a consummate craft that modulates the performance and furthermore the film. Delpy already earned Indie Spirit and Globe nominations for her effort, so this isn't totally out of the realm of feasibility, so plop the screener in, acknowledge these great films, or just check it off to rid thyselves of past sins.
It's a shame that Holofcener has never been nominated for writing before since her style is so specific and witty and almost elementary in what makes up good writing. She came close, perhaps, a few years ago when her script for Please Give earned a WGA nomination, but the Academy has never bitten. Sure, there's a bit of a Woody Allen thing that centers her films, as all her films take the perspective of a white and neurotic middle class woman grappling with white middle class issues, but Allen has been out of touch for years (decades?) and the Academy still bites when he's done something decent. Holofcener, on the other hand, has always brought a brittle, perceptive economy to her films and Enough Said is one of her strongest, a deft, funny, utterly relatable human drama about real grown-ups. Deceptively simple perhaps to a fault (and it's true that sometimes the filmmaking itself is somewhat pedestrian), but urgent, heartfelt, tender and real.
How about this-- any Oscar voter currently stumped, why not just vote for Noah Baumbach's joyous and scrumptious comedy of manners in every category. I mean if The King's Speech was beloved enough to merit sound nominations, there really is no ceiling for the besotted ones. And nothing in 2013 was deserving of unanimous praise than this witty, generous Greta Gerwig-headlined gift. I've gushed time and time again about the may joys of the film and while I'm not silly enough to think for a second that this plea won't fall on deaf ears, I encourage each and all to find this gorgeous amalgam of vintage Woody Allen, French New Wave cinema and very contemporary hipster-dom and discover for themselves. We can all dance around the streets to the tune of Bowie afterward.
Moving along from straight up fantasy to a very real contender that hopefully doesn't get shafted. Hey Academy, remember, you once dug Spike Jonze-- you even nominated him for his feature directorial debut Being John Malkovich all the way back in 1999, so this isn't even that crazy to ask of you to acknowledge the pristine polish, magic and artistry he brought to Her. While he's surely going to nominated for writing the screenplay to the boy meets operation system romantic dramedy, it's the direction of the film that's the real selling point-- all that fantastic, subtle, playful and evocative flourishes to a totally feasible, yet soft world building of a near future Los Angeles should not go unnoticed. And while you're at it, please remind your production designer and director of photography friends that Her is worthy of slots there as well.
Summerville already proved her laurels with her chic and stylish designs for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, becoming David Fincher's go-to costumer (she'll re-team with him on Gone Girl), but her Catching Fire costumes were eye-catching and alluring in contrasting the grimy and poor cloth in the districts to the opulent, whatsits all around the Capitol. The budget clearly rose in the second chapter, and the film is a richer, bolder, more colorful thing because of it, but the artistry on display-- especially from Summerville-- was definitely Oscar worthy.
This probably won't happen and that's cool, however In a World... kind of got a bum rap. Bell won the Screenwriting Prize at Sundance last winter and the film made but a minor splash when it premiered last summer, but the film is so sneaky and smart and deserved a lot more than it got. Using the conceit of voice over artists as a microcosm of the film industry as a whole, Bell displayed such wit and insight in gender politics while maintaining an steely, amusing grip of the film as a whole. It's a comedy, and a damn good one, but there's more to it. Plus, if you're gonna ignore Holofcener, there should be a few female writers nominated this year-- 2013 was a great year for female actors and filmmakers, you just had to (as this film makes implicitly clear) really search for them.
Likely one of the actors teetering on the dreaded sixth or seventh slots of a very crowded Best Actor race, but there's still a chance (right?) that Isaac's glorious chamber piece of a performance in the Coen Brothers' folk rock odyssey that right can prevail in the end. In truth Isaac plays a difficult character-- a brooding failure of a folk singer trying to break through right on the cusp of when Bob Dylan was about to start a revolution. He's not always likable in that cookie-cutter way we like our leading men to be, but the film goads us swiftly into rooting for him. It helps that his voice is a thing of wonder and Isaac portrays Llewyn Davis as an uniquely charismatic, endlessly talented loser. Plus, really, just think how cool the actors branch will look in history for nominating it? Seriously, your grandchildren are judging you.
A certain amount of leeway can be forgiven for the lack of awardage for The Spectacular Now-- it's a movie about teenagers that all but touts its after-school-like programming as a badge of honor, but the fresh and invigorating adaptation of Tim Tharp's novel is perceptive and alive and allows for its actors to do great work in such a rare way, it would be shame for it be unacknowledged. Perhaps it feels too-lived in and the film is likely too-little seen, but that's no excuse. Neustadter & Weber were on the cusp of a nomination five years ago for the original screenplay (500) Days of Summer that never came to fruition, but their work on The Spectacular Now is better and bigger (by being smaller) that it's all the more deserving.
I understand that Spring Breakers probably wasn't really your thing. I'm okay with that, it wasn't really my thing either. In fact, I didn't even particularly care for Harmony Korine's brash, the kids-are-not-alright neon nightmare. However, separating tremendous technical achievements from the overall quality of a film is another matter and one that the Academy membership should appreciate as well. Debie, the rigorous and exhausting talent who's lensed films like Enter the Void, The Runaways and Irreversible is a undisputed talent. The fever dream shots make give the film the nightmare-dreamlike setting that it needed but didn't deserve. His contributions were utterly fantastic and awards worthy.
Yeah, the pub carousing turned apocalyptic comedy probably isn't something that was ever on your radar, I understand that. But the witty, inventive and intelligently sharp screenplay for The World's End handles so many neat parlor tricks that it was easy to forget that the film is actually quite moving. All of the sci-fi/frat house comedy that's packed on the surface doesn't take away the quietly sobering grace notes of human connection and growing pains that face a group of high school friends now faced with the hobbles of grown-up existence. Have a pint and get a sense of humor.
Okay, I was pretty rough on you, but heed my advise.
Oklahoma Film Critics Circle
Top Ten of 2013:
- Her
- American Hustle
- 12 Years a Slave
- Gravity
- Inside Llewyn Davis
- Captain Phillips
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- All is Lost
- Dallas Buyers Club
- Prisoners
DIRECTOR: Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity
ACTOR: Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
ACTRESS: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Her- Spike Jonze
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: 12 Years a Slave- John Ridley
ANIMATED FEATURE: Frozen
DOCUMENTARY: The Act of Killing
FOREIGN FILM: The Hunt
FIRST FEATURE: Fruitvale Station- Ryan Coogler
GUILTY PLEASURE: Iron Man Three
BODY OF WORK: Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club, Mud, The Wolf of Wall Street
OBVIOUSLY WORST FILM: Grown Ups 2
NOT-SO-OBVIOUSLY WORST FILM: August: Osage County
Thursday, January 2, 2014
And Now Things Get Serious (PGA Nominations)
Happy New Year. Musings and Stuff took an unexpected break for the holidays, and all the exhaustion that comes with this time of year, but it's time to start fresh as the 2013 Oscar Race is ever solidified (for better or worse) by today's announcement of the nominees of the best of the year from the Producers Guild Association of America.
The nominees are:
The PGA have been a streak with the Best Picture Oscar since No Country For Old Men's victory in 2007, so the outcome here will more than likely be our eventual king of 2013. Some the usual suspects (Captain Phillips, American Hustle, Gravity, Nebraska, 12 Years a Slave) arrive and are safe, but the remaining line-up is a bit harder to read, prompting confusion and more questions.
Is Blue Jasmine, long ago abandoned as the Cate Blanchett-only show, now a possible Best Picture nominee?
Can Dallas Buyers Club, fresh from its inexplicable SAG Ensemble nomination, join the fray?
Are Wolf of Wall Street and Her, passionately loved (and some corners hated) auteur projects, safe?
Just how telling is that lazy nomination for Saving Mr. Banks?
And of the snubs-- neither Inside Llewyn Davis, Lee Daniels' The Butler, Fruitvale Station, August: Osage County, Prisoners or All is Lost made the cut. Are they DOA? Interestingly, the Weinstein Company and their typically plentiful crop of prestige films didn't make the cut this year.
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE (Almost didn't feel the need to include because it's just so depressing)
The nominees are:
- 12 Years a Slave
- American Hustle
- Blue Jasmine
- Captain Phillips
- Dallas Buyers Club
- Gravity
- Her
- Nebraska
- Saving Mr. Banks
- The Wolf of Wall Street
Is Blue Jasmine, long ago abandoned as the Cate Blanchett-only show, now a possible Best Picture nominee?
Can Dallas Buyers Club, fresh from its inexplicable SAG Ensemble nomination, join the fray?
Are Wolf of Wall Street and Her, passionately loved (and some corners hated) auteur projects, safe?
Just how telling is that lazy nomination for Saving Mr. Banks?
And of the snubs-- neither Inside Llewyn Davis, Lee Daniels' The Butler, Fruitvale Station, August: Osage County, Prisoners or All is Lost made the cut. Are they DOA? Interestingly, the Weinstein Company and their typically plentiful crop of prestige films didn't make the cut this year.
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE (Almost didn't feel the need to include because it's just so depressing)
- The Croods
- Despicable Me 2
- Epic
- Frozen
- Monster's University
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Austin Film Critics Association
PICTURE: Her
Top Ten of 2013
- Her
- 12 Years a Slave
- Gravity
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- Inside Llewyn Davis
- Short Term 12
- Mud
- Before Midnight
- Dallas Buyers Club
- Captain Phillips
ACTOR: Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
ACTRESS: Brie Larson, Short Term 12
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Her- Spike Jonze
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: 12 Years a Slave- John Ridley
ANIMATED FEATURE: Frozen
DOCUMENTARY: The Act of Killing
FOREIGN FILM: Blue is the Warmest Color
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Gravity- Emmanuel Lubezki
SCORE: Her- Arcade Fire
FIRST FILM: Fruitvale Station- Ryan Coogler
BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST: Brie Larson, Short Term 12
BEST AUSTIN FILM: Before Midnight
SPECIAL HONORARY AWARD: Scarlett Johansson, Her
Monday, December 16, 2013
Indiana Film Journalists Awards
runner-up: Her
DIRECTOR: Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave
runner-up: Spike Jonze, Her
ACTOR: Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
runner-up: Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
ACTRESS: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Blue is the Warmest Color
runner-up: Brie Larson, Short Term 12
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
runner-up: Jeremy Renner, American Hustle
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
runner-up: June Squibb, Nebraska
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Her- Spike Jonze
runner-up: Rush- Peter Morgan
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Before Midnight- Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke
runner-up: 12 Years a Slave- John Ridley
MUSICAL SCORE: 12 Years a Slave- Hans Zimmer
runner-up: Rush- Hans Zimmer
ANIMATED FEATURE: Frozen
runners-up: The Wind Rises; The Croods
DOCUMENTARY: The Act of Killing
runner-up: Stories We Tell
FOREIGN FILM: Blue is the Warmest Color
runner-up: The Grandmaster
ORIGINAL VISION AWARD: Her
runner-up: Gravity
THE HOOSIER AWARD: Medora
Friday, December 13, 2013
Detroit Film Critics Awards
DIRECTOR: Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity
ACTOR: Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
ACTRESS: Brie Larson, Short Term 12
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Scarlett Johansson, Her
SCREENPLAY: Her- Spike Jonze
DOCUMENTARY: Stories We Tell
ENSEMBLE CAST: American Hustle
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE: Brie Larson, Short Term 12
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| Scarlett Johansson's "Samantha" in Her. |
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
San Diego Film Critics Society
DIRECTOR: Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity
ACTOR: Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis
ACTRESS: Cate Blanachett, Blue Jasmine
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Shailene Woodley, The Spectacular Now
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Her- Spike Jonze
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Before Midnight- Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy & Ethan Hawke
ANIMATED FEATURE: The Wind Rises
DOCUMENTARY: The Act of Killing
FOREIGN FILM: Drug War
CINEMATOGRAPHY: To the Wonder- Emmanuel Lubezki
FILM EDITING: Captain Phillips- Christopher Rouse
PRODUCTION DESIGN: The Great Gatsby- Catherine Martin & Karen Murphy
SCORE: Her- Arcade Fire
ENSEMBLE CAST: American Hustle
KYLE COUNTS AWARD: Destin Cretton
Sunday, December 8, 2013
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
DIRECTOR: Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity
runner-up: Spike Jonze, Her
ACTOR: Bruce Dern, Nebraska
runner-up: Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
ACTRESS: (tie) Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine; Adéle Exarchopouos, Blue is the Warmest Color
SUPPORTING ACTOR: (tie) James Franco, Spring Breakers; Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave
runner-up: June Squibb, Nebraska
SCREENPLAY: Before Midnight- Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke & Richard Linklater
runner-up: Her- Spike Jonze
ANIMATED FEATURE: Ernest & Celestine
runner-up: The Wind Risese
DOCUMENTARY: Stories We Tell
runner-up: The Act of Killing
FOREIGN FILM: Blue is the Warmest Color
runner-up: The Great Beauty
SCORE: Inside Llewyn Davis- T Bone Burnett
runner-up: Her- Arcade Fire & Owen Pallett
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Gravity- Emmanuel Lubezki
runner-up: Inside Llewyn Davis- Bruno Delbonnel
FILM EDITING: Gravity- Alfonso Cuarón & Mark Singer
runner-up: Upstream Color- Shane Carruth & David Lowery
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Her- K.K. Barrett
runner-up: Inside Llewyn Davis- Jess Gonchor
DOUGLAS EDWARD INDEPENDENT/EXPERIMENTAL FILM/VIDEO AWARD: Cabinets of Wonder: Films and a Performace by Charlotte Pryce
NEW GENERATION PRIZE: Megan Ellison
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
National Board of Review
PICTURE: Her
Top Ten of 2013:
(in alphabetical order)
- 12 Years a Slave
- Fruitvale Station
- Gravity
- Inside Llewyn Davis
- Lone Survivor
- Nebraska
- Prisoners
- Saving Mr. Banks
- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
- The Wolf of Wall Street
ACTOR: Bruce Dern, Nebraska
ACTRESS: Emma Thompson, Saving Mr. Banks
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Will Forte, Nebraska
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Octavia Spencer, Fruitvale Station
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Inside Llewyn Davis- Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: The Wolf of Wall Street- Terence Winter
ENSEMBLE CAST: Prisoners
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE (male): Michael B. Jordan, Fruitvale Station
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE (female): Adéle Exarchopoulos, Blue is the Warmest Color
DIRECTORIAL DEBUT: Ryan Coogler, Fruitvale Station
ANIMATED FEATURE: The Wind Rises
FOREIGN FILM: The Past
Top Five Foreign Films of 2013:
- Beyond the Hills
- Gloria
- The Grandmaster
- A Hijacking
- The Hunt
DOCUMENTARY: Stories We Tell
Top Five Documentaries of 2013:
- 20 Feet From Stardom
- The Act of Killing
- After Tiller
- Casting By
- The Square
Top Ten Independent Films of 2013:
- Ain't Them Bodies Saints
- Dallas Buyers Club
- In a World...
- Mother of George
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Mud
- The Place Beyond the Pines
- Short Term 12
- Sightseers
- The Spectacular Now
SPOTLIGHT AWARD: Career collaboration of Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio
CREATIVE INNOVATION IN FILMMAKING AWARD: Gravity
NBR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AWARD: Wadjda
WILLIAM K. EVERSON FILM HISTORY AWARD: George Stevens, Jr.
Monday, August 19, 2013
New York Film Festival Line-Up
The 51st New York Film Festival has announced its official line-up. Captain Phillips will open the festival, while The Secret Life of Walter Mitty will be the centerpiece gala and Her will close the prestigious film festival.
OPENING NIGHT
Captain Phillips (US)- Tom Hanks stars as in Paul Greengrass' latest intrigue-a-real life about the hijacking of of a US cargo ship by Somali pirates. One of Sony's high button Oscar contenders.
MAIN LINE-UP
About Time (UK)- Domhall Gleeson (Anna Karenina) does the time warp in Richard Curtis' latest romantic fantasy co-starring Rachel McAdams and Bill Nighy.
Abuse of Weakness (France)- Catherine Breillat, director of Romance and Fat Girl, introduces her latest provocation starring Isabelle Huppert.
Alan Partridge (UK)- Declan Lowney's comedy starring Steve Coogan.
All is Lost (US)- J.C. Chandor's Margin Call follow-up is the one-man survival drama starring Robert Redford, a role that's had major awards talk since debuting in Cannes.
American Promise (US)- Docuementary by Joe Brewster and Michele Stephenson that follows two African American families.
At Berkeley (US)- Frederick Wiseman's documentary is a study of the famed University of Berekely.
Bastards (France)- Claire Denis' contemporary film noir makes it's North American premiere after debuting at Cannes this past May.
Blue is the Warmest Color (France)- The controversial Cannes Palme D'or winner from director Abdellatif Kechiche will continue to polarize in it's hopes of gaining awards traction.
Burning Bush (Czech Republic)- Czech mini-series from Europa Europa director Agnieszka Holland.
Child of God (US)- James Franco's Cormac McCarthy adaptation comes to NYFF after famously premiering at Cannes.
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Captain Phillips (US)- Tom Hanks stars as in Paul Greengrass' latest intrigue-a-real life about the hijacking of of a US cargo ship by Somali pirates. One of Sony's high button Oscar contenders.
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Abuse of Weakness (France)- Catherine Breillat, director of Romance and Fat Girl, introduces her latest provocation starring Isabelle Huppert.
Alan Partridge (UK)- Declan Lowney's comedy starring Steve Coogan.
All is Lost (US)- J.C. Chandor's Margin Call follow-up is the one-man survival drama starring Robert Redford, a role that's had major awards talk since debuting in Cannes.
American Promise (US)- Docuementary by Joe Brewster and Michele Stephenson that follows two African American families.
At Berkeley (US)- Frederick Wiseman's documentary is a study of the famed University of Berekely.
Bastards (France)- Claire Denis' contemporary film noir makes it's North American premiere after debuting at Cannes this past May.
Blue is the Warmest Color (France)- The controversial Cannes Palme D'or winner from director Abdellatif Kechiche will continue to polarize in it's hopes of gaining awards traction.
Burning Bush (Czech Republic)- Czech mini-series from Europa Europa director Agnieszka Holland.
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