FrauBlucher wrote:National Society of Film Critics
Even when I don't 100% agree with them, still is and will always be my favorite film group. When I first started appreciating film in the mid-80's they were the only ones to honor Ran, Stranger Than Paradise, The Dead, Unbearable Lightness of Being and Drugstore Cowboy with best picture. I haven't actually compared them with LA and NY but I would say they easily have the most Criterion releases in their best picture winners.
(Also this marks the Coens' first NSFC best pic win).
BEST PICTURE
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Lee Daniels' the Butler
Nebraska
12 Years a Slave
the Wolf of Wall Street
BEST DIRECTOR
Alfonso Cuarón / Gravity
Paul Greengrass / Captain Phillips
Steve McQueen / 12 Years a Slave
David O Russell / American Hustle
Martin Scorsese / the Wolf of Wall Street
BEST ACTRESS
Amy Adams / American Hustle
Cate Blanchett / Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock / Gravity
Judi Dench / Philomena
Emma Thompson / Saving Mr Banks
BEST ACTOR
Bruce Dern / Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio / the Wolf of Wall Street
Chiwetel Ejiofor / 12 Years a Slave
Tom Hanks / Captain Phillips
Matthew McConaughey / Dallas Buyers Club
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Sally Hawkins / Blue Jasmine
Jennifer Lawrence / American Hustle
Lupita Nyong'o / 12 Years a Slave
June Squibb / Nebraska
Oprah Winfrey / Lee Daniels' the Butler
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Barkhad Abdi / Captain Phillips
Daniel Bruhl / Rush
Michael Fassbender / 12 Years a Slave
James Gandolfini / Enough Said
Jared Leto / Dallas Buyers Club
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Before Midnight
Captain Phillips
Philomena
12 Years a Slave
the Wolf of Wall Street
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
American Hustle
Blue Jasmine
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
BEST PICTURE:
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
Saving Mr. Banks
The Wolf of Wall Street
BEST DIRECTOR:
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for Inside Llewyn Davis
Alfonso Cuarón for Gravity
Paul Greengrass for Captain Phillips
Steve McQueen for 12 Years a Slave
David O Russell for American Hustle
BEST ACTOR:
Bruce Dern for Nebraska
Chiwetel Ejiofor for 12 Years a Slave
Tom Hanks for Captain Phillips
Matthew McConaughey for Dallas Buyers Club
Robert Redford for All is Lost
BEST ACTRESS:
Amy Adams for American Hustle
Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock for Gravity
Judi Dench for Philomena
Emma Thompson for Saving Mr Banks
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Jennifer Lawrence for American Hustle
Lupita Nyong'o for 12 Years a Slave
Julia Roberts for August: Osage County
June Squibb for Nebraska
Oprah Winfrey for Lee Daniels' the Butler
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Barkhad Abdi for Captain Phillips
Daniel Bruhl for Rush
Michael Fassbender for 12 Years a Slave
Tom Hanks for Saving Mr. Banks
Jared Leto for Dallas Buyers Club
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
12 Years a Slave
Before Midnight
Captain Phillips
Philomena
The Wolf of Wall Street
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
American Hustle
Blue Jasmine
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
I suspect Inside Llewyn Davis will make it into Best Picture despite being shut out of the last four major guilds because it will have a pocket of devoted fans (see Tree of Life in 2011), but I think the Best Director is way too competitive (perhaps the most competitive next to Best Actor). I'd put the next most likely as Jonze (who's already been nominated by the directors once before), but I have no earthly idea who he'd replace... Baffleck 2014 and McQueen gets shut out? Nah. But maybe? Nah. But maybe? Maybe Scorsese gets the shaft (though it'd be his first merited nom in a while)? Depends how fervid the Her fans are, I reckon
Including the Coens for Best Director was a tough decision for me. It would theoretically make sense to choose Scorsese over them (as Wolf has been receiving more attention as of lately), but I'm very afraid that the Academy is not going to roll with the film (the most recent screening at the Academy resulted in a member shouting "Shame on you!" to Mr. Scorsese).
Back in 2010, everyone suspected Christopher Nolan to get a nomination for Inception, and then despite very little awards attention for True Grit, the Coens managed to snag 10 nominations for the film, even beating out Nolan for a Best Director nomination. I suspect something similar might happen this year, albeit with Wolf.
Jonze has a chance at receiving a nomination, most notably evidenced by the late surge for Her, but I think he will have to suffice for a nomination (and possibly win) for Best Original Screenplay.
The bad member screening of Wolf is a fair point and if the film wasn't already sweeping the other guilds with noms I might be leery of it even making Best Picture, but the Best Director slot is only filled in the nomination phase by other directors, so I think the membership will be eager to nominate a director as old as Scorsese making such a youthful pic. It's a really tough call-- I could see Captain Phillips under-performing, but even then Greengrass was already lauded by the directors for United 93, a film with less momentum than this at the time. There's going to be some interesting results-- clearly some of the front-runners will fizzle at the finish line to nomination, there's just not enough room here and elsewhere this year
BEST FILM
12 Years a Slave, Anthony Katagas, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen
American Hustle, Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison, Jonathan Gordon
Captain Phillips, Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca
Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón, David Heyman
Philomena, Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan, Tracey Seaward
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón, David Heyman, Jonás Cuarón
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Justin Chadwick, Anant Singh, David M. Thompson, William Nicholson
Philomena, Stephen Frears, Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan, Tracey Seaward, Jeff Pope
Rush, Ron Howard, Andrew Eaton, Peter Morgan
Saving Mr Banks, John Lee Hancock, Alison Owen, Ian Collie, Philip Steuer, Kelly Marcel, Sue Smith
The Selfish Giant, Clio Barnard, Tracy O’Riordan
OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
Colin Carberry (Writer), Glenn Patterson (Writer) for Good Vibrations
Kelly Marcel (Writer) for Saving Mr Banks
Kieran Evans (Director/Writer) for Kelly + Victor
Paul Wright (Director/Writer), Polly Stokes (Producer) for For Those in Peril
Scott Graham (Director/Writer) for Shell
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer, Signe Byrge Sørensen
Blue is the Warmest Colour, Abdellatif Kechiche, Brahim Chioua, Vincent Maraval
The Great Beauty, Paolo Sorrentino, Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima Metro Manila Sean Ellis, Mathilde Charpentier Wadjda Haifaa Al-Mansour, Gerhard Meixner, Roman Paul
DOCUMENTARY
The Act of Killing, Joshua Oppenheimer
The Armstrong Lie, Alex Gibney
Blackfish, Gabriela Cowperthwaite
Tim’s Vermeer, Teller, Penn Jillette, Farley Ziegler
We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks, Alex Gibney
ANIMATED FILM
Despicable Me 2, Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin
Frozen, Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
Monsters University, Dan Scanlon
DIRECTOR
12 Years a Slave, Steve McQueen
American Hustle, David O. Russell
Captain Phillips, Paul Greengrass
Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón
The Wolf of Wall Street, Martin Scorsese
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
American Hustle, Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell
Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen
Gravity, Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón
Inside Llewyn Davis, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Nebraska, Bob Nelson
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
12 Years a Slave, John Ridley
Behind the Candelabra, Richard LaGravenese
Captain Phillips, Billy Ray
Philomena, Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope
The Wolf of Wall Street, Terence Winter
LEADING ACTOR
Bruce Dern, Nebraska
Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
Christian Bale, American Hustle
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips
LEADING ACTRESS
Amy Adams, American Hustle
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Emma Thompson, Saving Mr Banks
Judi Dench, Philomena
Sandra Bullock, Gravity
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
Bradley Cooper, American Hustle
Daniel Brühl, Rush
Matt Damon, Behind the Candelabra
Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
Julia Roberts, August: Osage County
Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave
Oprah Winfrey, The Butler
Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine
ORIGINAL MUSIC
12 Years a Slave, Hans Zimmer
The Book Thief, John Williams
Captain Phillips, Henry Jackman
Gravity, Steven Price
Saving Mr Banks, Thomas Newman
CINEMATOGRAPHY
12 Years A Slave, Sean Bobbitt
Captain Phillips, Barry Ackroyd
Gravity, Emmanuel Lubezki
Inside Llewyn Davis, Bruno Delbonnel
Nebraska, Phedon Papamichael
EDITING
12 Years a Slave, Joe Walker
Captain Phillips, Christopher Rouse
Gravity Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger
Rush Dan Hanley, Mike Hill
The Wolf of Wall Street, Thelma Schoonmaker
PRODUCTION DESIGN
12 Years a Slave, Adam Stockhausen, Alice Baker
American Hustle, Judy Becker, Heather Loeffler
Behind The Candelabra, Howard Cummings
Gravity, Andy Nicholson, Rosie Goodwin, Joanne Woodlard
The Great Gatsby, Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn
COSTUME DESIGN
American Hustle, Michael Wilkinson
Behind the Candelabra, Ellen Mirojnick
The Great Gatsby, Catherine Martin
The Invisible Woman, Michael O’connor
Saving Mr Banks, Daniel Orlandi
MAKE UP & HAIR
American Hustle, Evelyne Noraz, Lori Mccoy-Bell
Behind the Candelabra, Kate Biscoe, Marie Larkin
The Butler, Debra Denson, Beverly Jo Pryor, Candace Neal
The Great Gatsby, Maurizio Silvi, Kerry Warn
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Peter Swords King, Richard Taylor, Rick Findlater
SOUND
All is Lost, Richard Hymns, Steve Boeddeker, Brandon Proctor, Micah Bloomberg, Gillian Arthur
Captain Phillips, Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith, Chris Munro, Oliver Tarney
Gravity, Glenn Freemantle, Skip Lievsay, Christopher Benstead, Niv Adiri, Chris Munro
Inside Llewyn Davis, Peter F. Kurland, Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff
Rush, Danny Hambrook, Martin Steyer, Stefan Korte, Markus Stemler, Frank Kruse
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
Gravity, Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk, Neil Corbould, Nikki Penny
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, Eric Reynolds
Iron Man 3, Bryan Grill, Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Dan Sudick
Pacific Rim, Hal Hickel, John Knoll, Lindy De Quattro, Nigel Sumner
Star Trek Into Darkness, Ben Grossmann, Burt Dalton, Patrick Tubach, Roger Guyett
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
Everything I Can See From Here, Bjorn-Erik Aschim, Friederike Nicolaus, Sam Taylor
I Am Tom Moody, Ainslie Henderson
Sleeping With The Fishes, James Walker, Sarah Woolner, Yousif Al-Khalifa
BRITISH SHORT FILM
Island Queen, Ben Mallaby, Nat Luurtsema
Keeping Up With The Joneses, Megan Rubens, Michael Pearce, Selina Lim
Orbit Ever After, Chee-Lan Chan, Jamie Stone, Len Rowles
Room 8, James W. Griffiths, Sophie Venner
Sea View, Anna Duffield, Jane Linfoot
THE EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
Dane Dehaan
George Mackay
Lupita Nyong’o
Will Poulter
Léa Seydoux
The directors best friend.........
Earlier today, The American Cinema Editors (ACE) announced the nominees for the 2014 ACE Eddie Awards. Voting will end on January 29th and the winners of the 64th annual ACE Eddie Awards will be announced on Friday, February 7 in Los Angeles.
BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (DRAMATIC):
12 Years a Slave - Joe Walker
Captain Phillips - Chris Rouse, A.C.E.
Gravity - Alfonso Cuarón & Mark Sanger
Her - Eric Zumbrunnen, A.C.E. & Jeff Buchanan
Saving Mr. Banks - Mark Livolsi, A.C.E.
BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (COMEDY OR MUSICAL):
American Hustle - Jay Cassidy, A.C.E., Crispin Struthers & Alan Baumgarten, A.C.E.
August: Osage County - Stephen Mirrione, A.C.E.
Inside Llewyn Davis - Roderick Jaynes
Nebraska - Kevin Tent, A.C.E.
The Wolf of Wall Street - Thelma Schoonmaker, A.C.E.
BEST EDITED ANIMATED FEATURE FILM:
Despicable Me 2 - Gregory Perler, A.C.E.
Frozen - Jeff Draheim
Monsters University - Greg Snyder
BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE):
20 Feet from Stardom - Douglas Blush, Kevin Klauber & Jason Zeldes
Blackfish - Eli Despres
Tim's Vermeer - Patrick Sheffield
And then there's these guys...
The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) has announced nominations in the theatrical motion picture category of the28th Annual ASC Awards for Outstanding Achievement. The winner will be revealed at the awards ceremony on February 1, at the Hollywood & Highland Ray Dolby Ballroom.
Following the announcement ASC President Richard Crudo said: "Our members believe these cinematographers have set the contemporary standard for artful, theatrical motion picture cinematography. They have mastered a complex craft which contributes vitally to the storytelling process, and augments the intentions of everyone involved with the production."
The nominees are:
1. Sean Bobbitt, BSC for 12 Years A Slave
2. Barry Ackroyd, BSC for Captain Phillips
3. Philippe Le Sourd for The Grandmaster
4. Emmanuel Lubezki, ASC, AMC for Gravity
5. Bruno Delbonnel, ASC, AFC for Inside Llewyn Davis
The Narrator Returns wrote:Despite the absence of the best acting, direction, or writing, 12 Years a Slave is the year's best dramatic film.
Could very well nearly be the story at the Oscars: Best Actor and Best Picture and that's it. It could even pull a Grand Hotel and just walk away with Best Picture. No voters seem passionate about it and yet everyone is afraid to not vote for it because... they don't want to be called racists?
The Narrator Returns wrote:Despite the absence of the best acting, direction, or writing, 12 Years a Slave is the year's best dramatic film.
I'd expect the same Cuarón/12 Years split at the Oscars. I expect McConaughey might edge out Ejiofor there too, but Lupita Nyong'o and John Ridley may have better luck with the Academy, who aren't quite the namebrand starfuckers the Hollywood Foreign Press is.
12 Years isn't my favorite film this year, but it's a damn good one, and I wouldn't have any problem with it cleaning up at the Oscars. Besides which, it would really irritate both Armond White and Thomas Cl-- er, Nothing. That is reward enough for me.
I was really pulling for Gravity and I thought it had a better chance at the Globes than at the Oscars (but either way, I knew it would have to be either Gravity or 12 Years a Slave). Oh well.
Globes recap :
Best Motion Picture (Drama) - 12 Years a Slave
Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama) - Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Best Actor in a Motion Picture (Drama) - Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) - American Hustle
Best Actress In A Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) - Amy Adams, American Hustle
Best Actor in a Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy) - Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture - Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture - Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
Best Director - Motion Picture - Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity
Best Screenplay - Motion Picture - Spike Jonze, Her
Best Animated Feature Film - Frozen
Best Foreign Language Film - The Great Beauty
Best Original Score - Motion Picture - Alex Ebert, All is Lost
Best Original Song - Motion Picture - U2, Ordinary Love, Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom
I was surprised to see the Globes go with 12 Years a Slave last night over Gravity. The Globes seem to be more concerned with bigger, more star-studded films than the fare that the Academy usually favors (think back to 2009, when Avatar won Best Picture - Drama at the Globes, while The Hurt Locker won Best Picture at the Oscars).
Ultimately, I still maintain that the Globes aren't necessarily a good indicator of what the Academy will end up choosing. If anything though, the ceremony this year does back up the fact that it is still a three-horse race between 12 Years a Slave, American Hustle, and Gravity (I would rank them in that order, in terms of their winning chances).
I absolutely loved American Hustle but I sincerely hope it doesn't win against 12 Years, which I found disappointing, because I feel the inevitable backlash over what many would consider the frivolous film winning over the "important" one would make Hustle a new Crash (or, why not, a new How Green Was My Valley).
Crash was the same kind of "important" film as 12 Years is. The reason for its recent devaluation has less to do with what it beat and more to do with how people watched it again/thought about it for five minutes and realized that it was terrible.
Oscar predix - Do I go safe or hope they're wacky and honor some of my personal favs? I say go wacky.
Picture
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Blue Jasmine
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
Wolf of Wall Street
Director
Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity
Spike Jonze, Her
Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave
Alexander Payne, Nebraska
David O Russell, American Hustle
Actor
Bruce Dern, Nebraska
Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis
Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
Joaquin Phoenix, Her
Actress
Amy Adams, American Hustle
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock, Gravity
Judi Dench, Philomena
Meryl Streep, August: Osage County
Supporting Actor
Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
Bradley Cooper, American Hustle
Will Forte, Nebraska
James Gandolfini, Enough Said
Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club
Supporting Actress
Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave
Julia Roberts, August: Osage County
Octavia Spencer, Fruitvale Station
June Squibb, Nebraska
Original Screenplay
American Hustle
Blue Jasmine
Frances Ha
Her
Nebraska
Adapted Screenplay
12 Years a Slave
August: Osage County
Before Midnight
Captain Phillips
Wolf of Wall Street
Way to diminish it when it'd be earned for a strong performance in a good film - this isn't a situation where he was mediocre in some middle-of-the-road project and just happened to die. He could have been nominated for Enough Said were he still with us, too.
Also, I will eat my hat if either Joaquin Phoenix or Oscar Issac are nominated for Best Actor. It is [sadly] just not going to happen in such a crowded field.
P.S.: Not sure if people have been paying attention to the Best Makeup race, but it seems that we will soon be referring to it as the Oscar nominated hit Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
I haven't seen it, but I hope that's the case. The two recent posthumous wins I can think of in big categories (Conrad Hall for Road To Perdition and Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight) had plenty of merit beyond sympathy.
