Ohio is Coen ‘Country’ Too
Besides bestowing Best Picture, Director, Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem), Best Ensemble and Best Adapted Screenplay on No Country for Old Men, the Ohio Film Critics also gave Daniel Day-Lewis the Best Actor prize for There Will be Blood.
Last but not least, they recognized Philip Seymour Hoffman as Actor of the Year for “an exemplary body of work” in three films: Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, Charlie Wilson’s War and The Savages.
I can almost forgive them for 2004 now.
Almost.
Here’s the updated chart which kind of rhymes with “thanks Sartre.”
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And the beat goes on, so that when they don’t win Best Picture or Best Director I will have one more reason to hate the Academy. (see, I’m trying to be as negative on this as possible so as not to bugger their chances.)
PSH deserves an Oscar nomination for his body of work this year. Glad to see he has been getting recognition by a couple of critics’ groups.
If Daniel Day wasn’t rocking some serious brillaince in BLOOD, I would be pulling for Hoffman for Devil or The Savages for that matter. Two of my favorite Hoffman performances period.
I was looking to see if there was any info yet on the ADG noms and found this on Poland’s site:
http://www.moviecitynews.com/awards/2008/critics/ohio.html
Apparently, PTA was the runner up for best director. :-)
Less love for Diving Bell. It’s in their top 10 but didn’t get into foreign. Trumped by The Lives of Others, with runner-up being The Orphange. Well, they’re different anyway.
If I weren’t a lazy man, and I am (quite possibly the laziest in all of Los Angeles County, which would place me high in the runnin’ for laziest worldwide), I’d check to see if there has been a recent year where critics were so nearly unanimous in their praise for one film.
A) I’m sure it’s happened but
B) In the last few years I think there are more critics groups getting more attention than before.
PSH picked a bad year to be great in three different movies. But yeah, I’d have to pick Devil as my favorite. People who were thrown off and didn’t buy his character arc at the end weren’t paying attention to the intensely slow burn he was going through the whole movie and would appear he was going through his whole life.
Funny that The Orphanage was Foreign runner up but didn’t crach their top ten. According to their top 10, the 2nd best foreign film is Diving Bell. I smell some Karl Rove shennangians going on here!
Ok, I’m gonna say it: Isn’t The Lives of Others a TWO THOUSAND AND SIX film. DIdn’t beat Pan’s Labyrinth last year at the Oscars? Why is everyone looping this in with last year? Loved the movie, but its last year is it not?
It depends on where you live. It was released for a week in NY and LA for Oscar attention, but it didn’t get an official release until February-ish 2007.
Consequently, the same thing is going to happen next year with 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days…well the same if it wins the Oscar which is far from certain in my mind even if it’s deserved.
Sure is, 4 mo/3weeks/2days isn’t opening in Portland until late Feb, which means for most of the country it’s a 2008 release.
Same thing happened a few years back to City of God. It’s somewhat idiotic that distributors hold these Best Foreign Oscar contenders back so late. It makes the entire race for those awards fairly pointless for most Americans now.
Heck, half of last year’s contenders didn’t even open in American theaters until late Winter of 2007.
I think they’re counting on the attention they’ll get because of the nominations and assuming that without them, subtitle averse Americans will steer clear. The race becomes pointless for most people, but most people aren’t even paying attention to the race itself…just weirdoes like us who will likely see the movies no matter what.
Wow, that made no sense whatsoever.
Someone should say to the Coens, “Quit pictures, kids. You’ll never top [No Country for Old Men],” ala Welles after Citizen Kane.
(I’d kick them in the ass, though, because I don’t want them to quit at all.)
joel, I couldn’t agree more about these foreign language films and their releases. I didn’t get around to seeing After the Wedding in cinemas, a beautiful film by Susanne Bier, until May. May!
*sigh* remember for cool points you’re supposed to ref 4 months, 3 weeks,and 2 days as 432.
darn it don’t you want to be cool on the net ??? ;)
everyone 432. ;)
and go p.s.h. :)