Awards Season 2009

[tenia]

I have also seen "A Prophet" and it is basically "Scarface" set in a French prison.

Without the De Palma old garbage style, and without Pacino completely f***ed up, and without the bad dialog, and the bad accents, and...

[aox]

so, assuming he wasn't talking about the Hawks' film, what you are saying is that A Prophet is nothing like Scarface?

[Westwood]

Am I right or when at the Golden Globes they showed clips and titles of his movies, they didn't show New York, New York??
If they did, it was a split second. I don't think it would have been too cheesy to play a few chords of the theme, and instead of wasting precious time showing Di CRapio in all his movies they could have shown some beautiful NYNY images and maybe a shot of Liza Minnelli.

[xavier110]

SAG Winners:

Best Ensemble: Inglourious Basterds
Best Actor: Jeff Bridges
Best Actress: Sandra Bullock
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz
Best Supporting Actress: Mo'Nique

We know 3 of our Oscar winners; Bullock seems to be slightly ahead of Streep.

[domino harvey]

Oh lord, "Oscar-winner Sandra Bullock"... c'mon someone else

[lacritfan]

Unless Mel Gibson storms out drunk and rants a diatribe against Basterds and all the Jews this is definitely shaping up to be the most boring Oscars of all time.

[Highway 61]

Unless Mel Gibson storms out drunk and rants a diatribe against Basterds and all the Jews this is definitely shaping up to be the most boring Oscars of all time.

Last year was worse. I'm happy to see Bridges getting his due, and we could very likely have the first female Best Director winner. Plus, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin are guaranteed to be better than Hugh Jackman.

[domino harvey]

Every once in a while the Oscars throw a curveball in the acting prizes-- hello Marcia Gay Harden and Anna Paquin-- to keep everyone on their toes. Unfortunately this will almost certainly be the Year of Praising Popular Things to atone for the Dark Knight backlash of last year. And we'll all suffer for past sins.

And last year was the worst Oscars in recent memory, agreed

[tavernier]

We've had Oscar winner Julia Roberts, Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow, Oscar winner Marisa Tomei and Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon, so why not let Sandy join that not-so-select club?

[lacritfan]

Unless Mel Gibson storms out drunk and rants a diatribe against Basterds and all the Jews this is definitely shaping up to be the most boring Oscars of all time.

Last year was worse. I'm happy to see Bridges getting his due, and we could very likely have the first female Best Director winner. Plus, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin are guaranteed to be better than Hugh Jackman.

OK, I agree with all that, especially if Bigelow wins. But remember, this year...
"Ladies and Gentlemen, Arnold schwarzenegger!"
Arnold: "Wot due you get when you cumbine the breeliant mind of James Kammeron with the grate-test cumputer graph-icks uv augh time. You get Avi-tar!"
(montage followed by applause)
Now multiply that by ten.

[domino harvey]

Let Cameron computer-generate his own awards show for himself and let a real movie win

[Westwood]

Let Cameron computer-generate his own awards show for himself and let a real movie win

I wholeheartedly agree!

[John Cope]

Let Cameron computer-generate his own awards show for himself and let a real movie win

What's a "real movie"?

[domino harvey]

Let's define "art" first

[Westwood]

I think it almost every image in a movie was created "on a computer" then it should fall under the animation category

[lacritfan]

PGA gives Best Picture to Hurt Locker.

[xavier110]

PGA gives Best Picture to Hurt Locker.

It's over.

[Highway 61]

PGA gives Best Picture to Hurt Locker.

It's over.

Yeah. My assuredness at Avatar's winning looks to have been completely foolish, thank God.

[Dr Amicus]

It certainly opens the race up again - but remember, the PGA gave the Best Picture to Brokeback over Crash, and the opposite happened at the Oscars.

Now, Crash had got the Ensembe performance from the SAG (their 'best film' equivalent) - and this year that went to Basterds. It's a wide open field, and if Actors (as I've said before, the largest single branch of the Academy) are behind one film, that gives it the edge.

I think it's a three way fight at the moment - all these have some 'momentum' which Up in the Air never seemed to manage. I'll stick by my earlier prediction that Avatar WON'T win, for the reasons mentioned in my earlier post, but I think it still has a half decent chance - just not as likely as either Hurt Locker or Basterds.

[xavier110]

Effectively killing Avatar's Best Picture prospects, Kathryn Bigelow wins the Directors Guild Award.

[rohmerin]

oh my god, we are so nervious ! Claudia Llosa is a runner for the Oscar with La teta asustada. Will she really be in the final 5 on Tuesday? I don't think la teta will be an Oscar winner, but the nomination will be possible.

I saw her Golden Bear at her place. So shinning, so attractive. I must confess I didn't feel good enough to ask to hold it for a sec.

BTW: Gran Torino was voted by far the best foreign film of the last year by Spanish critics (followed by the Swedish vampires and the Tarantino basterds). Celda 211 was named best Spanish movie.

[tavernier]

BTW: Gran Torino was voted by far the best foreign film of the last year by Spanish critics

Are Spanish critics that bad?

[Caged Horse]

Effectively killing Avatar's Best Picture prospects, Kathryn Bigelow wins the Directors Guild Award.

Director's guild concludes that working with real people in a real desert is more challenging than telling guys in motion-capture suits to wave their arms about while standing in front of a studio lot bluescreen; who'da thought it?

[domino harvey]

LOL @ Tom O'Neil, who bet the farm on Cameron winning the DGA. Of course, according to him, Inglorious Basterds is gonna sweep

[Caged Horse]

Fans who stress how cinematically innovative Avatar is seem to forget that its technological antecedents The Jazz Singer, Becky Sharp, Bwana Devil, The Robe and The Last Starfighter never won much either.