Awards Season 2016

[mfunk9786]

movielocke: Would it do nothing for your dismissive reduction of my interpretation of this year's race to know that I was the first person on this site to offer his/her thoughts on La La Land back in October, and that they remain essentially unchanged since that time? That was two and a half months ago, and it is either the most pathetic brag or most sincere evidence that I can provide to back up the fact that the hype surrounding this film's award chances is irrelevant to me. I simultaneously knew and didn't know about its awards appeal before I even sat down for that screening. It makes no difference in what I expressed above your post.

[flyonthewall2983]

On the TV side, glad to see The People Vs. OJ Simpson was recognized. as was Sarah Paulson's incredible performance. But was The Crown that good?

[swo17]

Argo is a heist film.

So quirky.

[dda1996a]

Obviously he confused it with Bottle Rocket.

[Werewolf by Night]

But was The Crown that good?

Better than The People vs. OJ Simpson? Not quite, but it is award-worthy. I am not unhappy that it won.

[Ribs]

Producer's Guild nominees:

Arrival
Deadpool
Fences
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
Hidden Figures
La La Land
Lion
Manchester By the Sea
Moonlight

[mfunk9786]

If Deadpool is nominated for Best Picture I'm going to walk out to sea slowly, until you no longer see the top of my bald head on the horizon, never to return to land again

[knives]

I'll laugh. It's a total piece of juvenelia that doesn't deserve the recognition it is getting, but it will be too much fun working through the thought process and how it functions as old people trying to understand the zeitgeist of the moment.

[Ribs]

It won't make it; I'd say Hell or High Water is still on the edge and could not make it and that's considerably more likely to be nominated in the first place. The Producer's Guild is always 2-3 off from the actual nominees and due to the mechanics of the Oscars balloting there'll usually only be 7 or 8 nominees (and Hidden Figures is the one late-comer with momentum that I think might displace these two).

[domino harvey]

Jackie is DOA outside of Portman, at least

[Ribs]

Well, and below-the-line craft categories, but even still considering Carol couldn't really break through there anywhere last year I can't see how it manages it this year.

The Best Actress race is *always* consistent of a ton of movies not in the conversation elsewhere. It's gotten better* in the past few years since the BP expansion for obvious reasons, but look back 15 years ago to when you had five years in a row where a total of six nominated actresses were in movies also nominated for Best Picture. There were even two years where the whole field of nominees weren't in any BP-nominated films. Emma Stone's win this year will probably be the first Best Actress + Best Picture winner since Million Dollar Baby.

*Better in the sense 2/5 is better than 1/5 as an average

[mfunk9786]

Jackie is DOA outside of Portman, at least

It sure is

[wattsup32]

If Deadpool is nominated for Best Picture I'm going to walk out to sea slowly, until you no longer see the top of my bald head on the horizon, never to return to land again

This is an interesting detail. Having never seen you, in my head you were always bald. But, Costanza bald, not Kojak bald.

[mfunk9786]

Absolutely Costanza bald. Since I was 19 years old.

[Dead or Deader]

Worst offenses of 2016 according to reverseshot.

[hearthesilence]

That's actually a solid list of offenses. (Sadly, one could even double it.) Kudos to them.

[mfunk9786]

"All of the movies that came out this year are Actually Bad" - Reverse Shot

[DarkImbecile]

"All of the movies that came out this year are Actually Bad" - Reverse Shot

Three of the movies on their list are on my top ten list, and a couple others I quite liked, but I have to admit I still enjoyed reading these tear-downs, often because I so totally disagree with the misguided critique that it actually solidifies my opinion of the film in question (The Neon Demon, Jackie, Midnight Special). In fact, the only hit job I agreed with was The Birth of a Nation; even the Deadpool pan takes it a little too far, and that was my 46th-ranked film out 63 seen so far for 2016 (how can they even attempt to argue that we don't need "masturbation via absurdly tiny hands" jokes now more than ever?).

[domino harvey]

BAFTAS

BEST FILM
ARRIVAL Dan Levine, Shawn Levy, David Linde, Aaron Ryder
I, DANIEL BLAKE Rebecca O'Brien
LA LA LAND Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz, Marc Platt
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA Lauren Beck, Matt Damon, Chris Moore, Kimberly Steward,Kevin J. Walsh
MOONLIGHT Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adele Romanski

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
AMERICAN HONEY Andrea Arnold, Lars Knudsen, Pouya Shahbazian, Jay Van Hoy
DENIAL Mick Jackson, Gary Foster, Russ Krasnoff, David Hare
FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM David Yates, J.K. Rowling, David Heyman, Steve Kloves, Lionel Wigram
I, DANIEL BLAKE Ken Loach, Rebecca O'Brien, Paul Laverty
NOTES ON BLINDNESS Peter Middleton, James Spinney, Mike Brett, Jo-Jo Ellison, Steve Jamison
UNDER THE SHADOW Babak Anvari, Emily Leo, Oliver Roskill, Lucan Toh

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
The Girl With All the Gifts: MIKE CAREY (Writer), CAMILLE GATIN (Producer)
The Hard Stop: GEORGE AMPONSAH (Writer/Director/Producer), DIONNE WALKER (Writer/Producer)
Notes on Blindness: PETER MIDDLETON (Writer/Director/Producer), JAMES SPINNEY (Writer/Director), JO-JO ELLISON (Producer)
The Pass: JOHN DONNELLY (Writer), BEN A. WILLIAMS (Director)
Under the Shadow: BABAK ANVARI (Writer/Director), EMILY LEO, OLIVER ROSKILL, LUCAN TOH (Producers)

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
DHEEPAN Jacques Audiard, Pascal Caucheteux
JULIETA Pedro Almodóvar
MUSTANG Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Charles Gillibert
SON OF SAUL László Nemes, Gábor Sipos
TONI ERDMANN Maren Ade, Janine Jackowski

DOCUMENTARY
13th Ava DuVernay
THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK- THE TOURING YEARS Ron Howard
THE EAGLE HUNTRESS Otto Bell, Stacey Reiss
NOTES ON BLINDNESS Peter Middleton, James Spinney
WEINER Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg

ANIMATED FILM
FINDING DORY Andrew Stanton
KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS Travis Knight
MOANA Ron Clements, John Musker
ZOOTROPOLIS Byron Howard, Rich Moore

DIRECTOR
ARRIVAL Denis Villeneuve
I, DANIEL BLAKE Ken Loach
LA LA LAND Damien Chazelle
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA Kenneth Lonergan
NOCTURNAL ANIMALS Tom Ford

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
HELL OR HIGH WATER Taylor Sheridan
I, DANIEL BLAKE Paul Laverty
LA LA LAND Damien Chazelle
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA Kenneth Lonergan
MOONLIGHT Barry Jenkins

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
ARRIVAL Eric Heisserer
HACKSAW RIDGE Robert Schenkkan, Andrew Knight
HIDDEN FIGURES Theodore Melfi, Allison Schroeder
LION Luke Davies
NOCTURNAL ANIMALS Tom Ford

LEADING ACTOR
ANDREW GARFIELD Hacksaw Ridge
CASEY AFFLECK Manchester by the Sea
JAKE GYLLENHAAL Nocturnal Animals
RYAN GOSLING La La Land
VIGGO MORTENSEN Captain Fantastic

LEADING ACTRESS
AMY ADAMS Arrival
EMILY BLUNT The Girl on the Train
EMMA STONE La La Land
MERYL STREEP Florence Foster Jenkins
NATALIE PORTMAN Jackie

SUPPORTING ACTOR
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON Nocturnal Animals
DEV PATEL Lion
HUGH GRANT Florence Foster Jenkins
JEFF BRIDGES Hell or High Water
MAHERSHALA ALI Moonlight

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
HAYLEY SQUIRES I, Daniel Blake
MICHELLE WILLIAMS Manchester by the Sea
NAOMIE HARRIS Moonlight
NICOLE KIDMAN Lion
VIOLA DAVIS Fences

ORIGINAL MUSIC
ARRIVAL Jóhann Jóhannsson
JACKIE Mica Levi
LA LA LAND Justin Hurwitz
LION Dustin O'Halloran, Hauschka
NOCTURNAL ANIMALS Abel Korzeniowski

CINEMATOGRAPHY
ARRIVAL Bradford Young
HELL OR HIGH WATER Giles Nuttgens
LA LA LAND Linus Sandgren
LION Greig Fraser
NOCTURNAL ANIMALS Seamus McGarvey

EDITING
ARRIVAL Joe Walker
HACKSAW RIDGE John Gilbert
LA LA LAND Tom Cross
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA Jennifer Lame
NOCTURNAL ANIMALS Joan Sobel

PRODUCTION DESIGN
DOCTOR STRANGE John Bush, Charles Wood
FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM Stuart Craig, Anna Pinnock
HAIL, CAESAR! Jess Gonchor, Nancy Haigh
LA LA LAND Sandy Reynolds-Wasco, David Wasco
NOCTURNAL ANIMALS Shane Valentino, Meg Everist

COSTUME DESIGN
ALLIED Joanna Johnston
FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM Colleen Atwood
FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS Consolata Boyle
JACKIE Madeline Fontaine
LA LA LAND Mary Zophres

MAKE UP & HAIR
DOCTOR STRANGE Jeremy Woodhead
FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS J. Roy Helland, Daniel Phillips
HACKSAW RIDGE Shane Thomas
NOCTURNAL ANIMALS Donald Mowat, Yolanda Toussieng
ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY Nominees tbc

SOUND
ARRIVAL Claude La Haye, Bernard Gariépy Strobl, Sylvain Bellemare
DEEPWATER HORIZON Mike Prestwood Smith, Dror Mohar, Wylie Stateman, David Wyman
FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM Niv Adiri, Glenn Freemantle, Simon Hayes, Andy Nelson, Ian Tapp
HACKSAW RIDGE Peter Grace, Robert Mackenzie, Kevin O’Connell, Andy Wright
LA LA LAND Mildred Iatrou Morgan, Ai-Ling Lee, Steve A. Morrow, Andy Nelson

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
ARRIVAL Louis Morin
DOCTOR STRANGE Richard Bluff, Stephane Ceretti, Paul Corbould, Jonathan Fawkner
FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM Tim Burke, Pablo Grillo, Christian Manz, David Watkins
THE JUNGLE BOOK Robert Legato, Dan Lemmon, Andrew R. Jones, Adam Valdez
ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY Neil Corbould, Hal Hickel, Mohen Leo, John Knoll, Nigel Sumner

BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
THE ALAN DIMENSION Jac Clinch, Jonathan Harbottle, Millie Marsh
A LOVE STORY Khaled Gad, Anushka Kishani Naanayakkara, Elena Ruscombe-King
TOUGH Jennifer Zheng

BRITISH SHORT FILM
CONSUMED Richard John Seymour
HOME Shpat Deda, Afolabi Kuti, Daniel Mulloy, Scott O’Donnell
MOUTH OF HELL Bart Gavigan, Samir Mehanovic, Ailie Smith, Michael Wilson
THE PARTY Farah Abushwesha, Emmet Fleming, Andrea Harkin, Conor MacNeill
STANDBY Charlotte Regan, Jack Hannon

EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
ANYA TAYLOR-JOY
LAIA COSTA
LUCAS HEDGES
RUTH NEGGA
TOM HOLLAND

[dda1996a]

Aren't the baftas supposed to be about British made cinema? The complete shutout of Robbie Ryan out of cinematography is pretty ridiculous considering how terrific his work was, that he is British and worked on two of the now nominated for Best British Film (and how work was valuable to both movies). I never understood how the baftas work but this is mostly American films with a British productions thrown into the mix

[Ribs]

As should be apparent from the Best British Film category, it just ended up being a fairly weak year in terms of mainstream prestige output from the UK. It's not a British film but I know quite a few were expecting this to be the awards that Love and Friendship broke out at, but that's amounted to nothing.

[Fiery Angel]

BAFTAS

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
MOONLIGHT Barry Jenkins

Huh? It's adapted from a play.

[swo17]

An unproduced play, which different organizations have different ways of categorizing.

[dda1996a]

As should be apparent from the Best British Film category, it just ended up being a fairly weak year in terms of mainstream prestige output from the UK. It's not a British film but I know quite a few were expecting this to be the awards that Love and Friendship broke out at, but that's amounted to nothing.

Still, how can they not nominate one of their best cinematographers, who is responsible not only for shooting a palme d'or winning film (haven't seen Daniel Blake to comment) and also shoot the exquisite and beautiful American Honey. Instead they nominate other cinematographers. I'm not complaining about Ryan not getting nominated, just found it strange how such a British-less group of nominees are presented at the baftas.

[Werewolf by Night]

American cultural hegemony is a bitch.