Sag noms 2011, a huge win for The Help, and, as expected, a slew of noms for The Descendents and The Artist.
SAG is not playing around giving noms to the most popular movies, knowing that it's usually a huge predictor for upset Oscar noms and wins. More pretentious bull shit, but important nonetheless.
Many may be surprised they left out Michael Fassbinder, who had a remarkable year, and Albert Brooks in Drive, and I personally thought Andy Serkis in Rise of the Planet of the Apes would get more press, especially with the film coming out on DVD/BluRay.
Glenn Close scored a nom for Albert Nobbs, and Leonardo Dicaprio got his for J. Edgar. Two films that did pretty poorly critically actually making comeback with these nominations, although them winning is far from a reality yet.
Best Cast Noms went to The Artist, Bridesmaids, The Descendents, The Help and Midnight in Paris. Bridesmaids is, of course, the upset pick, though look for The Help to take down the main one.
Those crazy actors always predict the correct winners, bar some absurdity (Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow).
Hugo fans may be disappointed that their film was shut out, but that can all change tomorrow with the Globes nominations!!!
See ya then!
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Thursday, December 1, 2011
NBR gives "Hugo" Best Picture
The National Board of Review claims Martin Scorsese's adaptation Hugo, to be the best film of the year.
Surprised? Don't be.
There have been a number of extremely popular and acclaimed children's films throughout the years, none of which have made an impact on award season other than in animated categories.
However, the National Board of Review has had a feud with the mainstream Oscar-buzzing media dating all the way back to the 1930s. As the second oldest film awards next to the Oscars, the NBR has ever since tried to award films the Oscars wouldn't.
So to speak, this victory for Hugo in the Oscar race is marginal at best.
What is important is the NBR posts a top-10 list for the year, which we can almost always pick out the future Oscar nominations. Here's what we got:
The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Hugo
The Ides of March
J. Edgar
The Tree of Life
War Horse
No surprises except maybe J. Edgar, who had an underwhelming box office performance and sub-par reviews. If there were 5 Oscar nominees, you can certainly find them here, save a late surge by an independent film (like Take Shelter).
Not Surprisingly however, Best Actor went to George Clooney for The Descendants, and Best Actress went to Tilda Swinton for We Need to Talk About Kevin.
You can find the whole list in the award section. I'll be back later this week with hopefully more clarity of the race and pray, more witty commentary...
Surprised? Don't be.
There have been a number of extremely popular and acclaimed children's films throughout the years, none of which have made an impact on award season other than in animated categories.
However, the National Board of Review has had a feud with the mainstream Oscar-buzzing media dating all the way back to the 1930s. As the second oldest film awards next to the Oscars, the NBR has ever since tried to award films the Oscars wouldn't.
So to speak, this victory for Hugo in the Oscar race is marginal at best.
What is important is the NBR posts a top-10 list for the year, which we can almost always pick out the future Oscar nominations. Here's what we got:
The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Hugo
The Ides of March
J. Edgar
The Tree of Life
War Horse
No surprises except maybe J. Edgar, who had an underwhelming box office performance and sub-par reviews. If there were 5 Oscar nominees, you can certainly find them here, save a late surge by an independent film (like Take Shelter).
Not Surprisingly however, Best Actor went to George Clooney for The Descendants, and Best Actress went to Tilda Swinton for We Need to Talk About Kevin.
You can find the whole list in the award section. I'll be back later this week with hopefully more clarity of the race and pray, more witty commentary...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
NY Films Critics Awards announced, 2012 award season begins
SOOOOOOOOO, yeah
I been on hiatus, waiting for this day to come, so it's time to get right.
NY film critics, one of the most prestigious critics awards came out today, so let's break it down.
Best Picture went to The Artist, a silent, black and white film...
so imma drop some knowledge on you, the very first year the Oscars started was also the first year sound was heard in Hollywood films ("you ain't heard nothin' yet"? The Jazz Singer?? nm). However, the film, as racially degrading as it is perceived today, was a huge hit, but ineligible to contend with the silent films of the day. So that makes the only silent Best Picture winner, Wings (actually won Best Production), and the last silent film to be nominated was the next year, Ernst Lubitsch's The Patriot (1929), which was partially in sound (we think, the film has since been the only best picture nominee to be lost).
The Artist is a film about this era, an actor whose career is ended by the innovation of talkies, in the style of Emil Jannings, star of The Patriot and first ever winner of Best Actor.
The film is getting rave reviews, the actor Jean Dujardin ironically won the Best Actor award at Cannes without even speaking a line. Bringing it back to back in the days, when you didn't need words to impress people. The film is technically french even though it is silent, so the voters at Cannes might have been biased.
Best Actor went to Brad Pitt for Moneyball and The Tree of Life. Years ago, you would've laughed when I told you the pretty boy from Seven Years in Tibet was winning Best Actor, and to be honest the reason you're probably not laughing now is because you know that he has won for lack of a better contender.
Not to take anything away from him, he was entertaining in Moneyball (I have yet to see TOL), but to be honest, Brad Pitt not quite an actor, but a movie star. his main thing is eating every time the shot is cut to him. This award might have just been some TOL love, but there is generally not a lot of competition in Best Actor for the first time since I can remember...
Best Actress was Meryl Streep as Margret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. I can't say I'm in love with this... oh wait, YES I CAN. Look, I like Meryl as much as the next person, I don't deny she's fab, but I'm more excited to see an American playing a Brit!!! We usually give awards for the reverse, and this helps Meryl come on strong for the Oscars. She's been nominated a record 16 times and has only won twice, she was snubbed the last two times by some last minute surges from Kate Winslet and Sandra Bullock, so you know everybody's looking to give her another Oscar, and put her in the elite class of three or more acting awards.
Albert Brooks won Best Supporting Actor for Drive. I am a bit surprised by this, but he was definitely the most entertaining part of the film.
Jessica Chastain, the 30 year old actress out of NorCal who had a fantastic year, won Best Supporting Actress for The Tree Of Life, The Help and Take Shelter.
Best Director was The Artist's Michel Hazanavicius, and Screenplay went to Moneyball (two former Oscar winners Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillain
The full list is in the Awards section
I been on hiatus, waiting for this day to come, so it's time to get right.
NY film critics, one of the most prestigious critics awards came out today, so let's break it down.
Best Picture went to The Artist, a silent, black and white film...
so imma drop some knowledge on you, the very first year the Oscars started was also the first year sound was heard in Hollywood films ("you ain't heard nothin' yet"? The Jazz Singer?? nm). However, the film, as racially degrading as it is perceived today, was a huge hit, but ineligible to contend with the silent films of the day. So that makes the only silent Best Picture winner, Wings (actually won Best Production), and the last silent film to be nominated was the next year, Ernst Lubitsch's The Patriot (1929), which was partially in sound (we think, the film has since been the only best picture nominee to be lost).
The Artist is a film about this era, an actor whose career is ended by the innovation of talkies, in the style of Emil Jannings, star of The Patriot and first ever winner of Best Actor.
The film is getting rave reviews, the actor Jean Dujardin ironically won the Best Actor award at Cannes without even speaking a line. Bringing it back to back in the days, when you didn't need words to impress people. The film is technically french even though it is silent, so the voters at Cannes might have been biased.
Best Actor went to Brad Pitt for Moneyball and The Tree of Life. Years ago, you would've laughed when I told you the pretty boy from Seven Years in Tibet was winning Best Actor, and to be honest the reason you're probably not laughing now is because you know that he has won for lack of a better contender.
Not to take anything away from him, he was entertaining in Moneyball (I have yet to see TOL), but to be honest, Brad Pitt not quite an actor, but a movie star. his main thing is eating every time the shot is cut to him. This award might have just been some TOL love, but there is generally not a lot of competition in Best Actor for the first time since I can remember...
Best Actress was Meryl Streep as Margret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. I can't say I'm in love with this... oh wait, YES I CAN. Look, I like Meryl as much as the next person, I don't deny she's fab, but I'm more excited to see an American playing a Brit!!! We usually give awards for the reverse, and this helps Meryl come on strong for the Oscars. She's been nominated a record 16 times and has only won twice, she was snubbed the last two times by some last minute surges from Kate Winslet and Sandra Bullock, so you know everybody's looking to give her another Oscar, and put her in the elite class of three or more acting awards.
Albert Brooks won Best Supporting Actor for Drive. I am a bit surprised by this, but he was definitely the most entertaining part of the film.
Jessica Chastain, the 30 year old actress out of NorCal who had a fantastic year, won Best Supporting Actress for The Tree Of Life, The Help and Take Shelter.
Best Director was The Artist's Michel Hazanavicius, and Screenplay went to Moneyball (two former Oscar winners Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillain
The full list is in the Awards section
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