Jeez, you spend a couple of hours over the weekend in a movie theater - actually, you know, watching movies - and there’s suddenly an awards avalanche to catch up on. Here we have the New York Film Critics Online, The Boston Society of Film Critics, the American Film Institute Top 10, the International Press [...]
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Josh Brolin and Sean Penn take Manhattan and so does their film Milk
Here are the New York Film Critics Circle awards:
Picture: Milk
Director: Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky
Actor: Sean Penn, Milk
Actress: Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Supporting Actor: Josh Brolin, Milk
Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Screenplay: Jenny Lumet, Rachel Getting Married
Cinematographer: Anthony Dod Mantle, Slumdog Millionaire
Animated Film: WALL-E
Foreign Film: 4 Months, 3 Weeks [...]
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While I was puttering around with the predictions post, I didn’t notice that the Los Angeles Film Critics Association had gone up:
Picture: Wall·E
Runner-up: The Dark Knight
Director: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Runner-up: Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight
Actor: Sean Penn, Milk
Runner-up: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Actress: Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Runner-up: Melissa Leo, Frozen River
Supporting actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Runner-up: [...]
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For a while, the Academy was prepared to make one of its most egregious errors in recent memory (and that’s saying something) by disqualifying Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard’s marvelous and innovative score for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight because there were too many composers listed on the score sheet - a violation of [...]
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It was about this time last year when, despite my best efforts, I realized LiC was fully involved in awards season. This year I’m not even trying to resist it.
The junket monkeys of the Broadcast Film Critics Association announced their nominations this morning with At the Movies poseurs Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz doing the [...]
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WAFCA, the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association has gone ass over tea kettle for Danny Boyle’s crowd pleasing Slumdog Millionaire. I suspect this first batch of critical raves for Slumdog won’t be the last.
Film: Slumdog Millionaire
Director: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Actor: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Actress: Meryl Streep, Doubt
Ensemble: Doubt
Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Supporting Actress: [...]
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The International Documentary Association honored Ari Folman’s animated Waltz with Bashir and James Marsh’s Man on Wire in a tie for the best documentaries of 2008 last night. The other nominees included Kassim the Dream, Stranded and Young@Heart.
Waltz with Bashir is a beautifully animated and haunting recount of the 1982 conflict between Israel and Lebanon. [...]
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NBR: We’re Beatrice
Nothing speaks to my awards season ennui quite like the early December picks of the mysterious National Board of Review. Nobody knows who these people are or how they spend their daytime hours. The grainy photographic evidence I came up with last year proved inconclusive. This year I have some video footage, but [...]
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The 18th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards (formerly known as simply the Gotham Awards) were handed out last night with Courtney Hunt’s Frozen River beating Lance Hammer’s Ballast, Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York, Tom McCarthy’s The Visitor and Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler for Best Feature. Frozen River’s Melissa Leo also took Breakthrough Actor for her [...]
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I’m still not ready for awards season, but here are some more. This time it’s the Hollywood chapter of the International Animated Film Society whose Annie Awards are a reliable predictor of future Oscar glory.
Awards types seem surprised that DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda scored 16 nominations (17 if you count the animated videogame nomination) [...]
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The awards train keeps on rolling with this weekend’s announcement of the nominees for the Satellite Awards from the International Press Academy where Slumdog Millionaire and Milk each received six nods.
Though Slumdog was shut out of the acting categories, it racked up nominees for best drama, director Danny Boyle, adapted screenplay Simon Beaufoy, original score [...]
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Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle’s winning story of the impoverished Indian teen who has a chance to take the top prize on a popular television game show, won three prizes of its own on Sunday when it snagged a handful of British Independent Film Awards including best British independent film, best director for Boyle and most [...]
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The mysterious body that chooses the pool of potential documentary feature nominees for the Oscars every year probably stepped in another flaming bag of poo yesterday with the release of this year’s short list.
The effusive praise heaped upon Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father by critics, bloggers and audiences alike has gone [...]
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Yahoo has the trailer for Laurent Cantet’s 2008 Palme d’Or winning film The Class.
Click to see trailer at Yahoo
France’s official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar opens in New York and Los Angeles on December 25. It’s also playing at AFI Fest which officially begins Thursday.
Thanks to Jennybee for the heads up!
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Awards season picked up a little steam today with a batch of nominations from the International Documentary Association and the British Independent Film Awards.
The 2008 IDA Documentary Award nominees are:
Kassim the Dream - the story of Ugandan child soldier turned World Champion boxer Kassim “The Dream” Ouima (Coming to AFI Fest).
Man on Wire - this [...]
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