PGA award nominations

Good Afternoon and Happy New Year!  We are in the midst of a huge week in this year’s award season.  Yesterday the Producers’ Guild of America released nominations for their awards, and so did the Art Director’s Guild. 

Other major award nominations coming out this week include the acs’s, the dga and wga awards and the eddies, as well as the BAFTA’s tomorrow.  It’s all culminating in hollywoods biggest dress me up and get me drunk, jerk off festival, the 72nd Golden Globes.

In case you’re wondering, George Clooney will be there, he’s getting the cecil b demille award on Sunday, fresh off the heels of his extraordinary 2014, in which he was in The Monuments Men, and, uh, that’s it. 

If you haven’t heard of the Monutments men, it’s ok, nobody has.  It’s about a group of your favorite movie stars acting sarcastically and hunting for treasure , and starring the same bad guys as Raiders of the lost ark and the remains of the day.

It’s convenient because it might be up for razzies.

Anyway, the PGA awards bear strong resemblance to the Professional Golf Association, because if the Oscars were the hole, the PGA gets first drive to try and get as close to the hole as possible.  Each of the last seven years, they have struck a proverbial hole in one.

And by first drive, I’m discounting the Spirit awrds, who are pretty awful golfers and the guilds will just have to let them “play through.”

The only big story is the continuation from what you might have seen on the Sunday morning news show, controversy around Selma.  Ava Duvernay’s historical drama has been dragged under the bus by white news people in washington, who have nothing better to do until the new congressional clown car comes roaring back into town.

The controversy is of course the portrayal of LBJ as an obstacle in the fight for voting rights.  My opinion on that is here:

In my estimation, Selma was dropped in favor of American Sniper so I guess classical patriotism is not dead. In the world…

I stil don’t think American Sniper has much of a chance at being nominated by the Academy for Best Picture, as there are already 10 films that are potential Best Picture nominees.  The nomination ballots are due tomorrow, and the film is still playing only at ONE theater in Hollywood, and having not been up for anything else, it may be difficult for nomintiors to have sniped a copy (I fucking love puns).

The only thing the movie has going for it now is the fact that Bradley Cooper is, like, sooooooo popular.  Everyone wants to be near him…

Except his nipples.

Finally, the Art Directors Guild put up their nominations on Tuesday.  The Production Design Oscars are not always aligned with the guilds winners, but there has never been a film that has won an Oscar that was not at least nominated for a guild award since its inception in 2000.  We’re probably looking at The Grand Budapest Hotel or Into the Woods to pick up steam.

And that’s all for now, check back with me soon, and happy viewing!