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domino harvey wrote:American...
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY...
?

It was co-produced by Kennedy/Marshall and directed by Schnabel, so that makes it American enough for the AFI. Same thing happened with Letters from Iwo Jima last year.

Cde. wrote:]It's an American film with an American director and screenwriter filmed in France with a French cast and some French crewmembers.

Screenwriter Ronald Harwood is originally from South Africa and has lived in London for over 50 years. Still though, I'll buy the notion that The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is just about as much American as it is French. You may recall that Johnny Depp was originally slated to play the lead until the shooting schedule interfered with one of his pirate movies.

Jeff wrote: You may recall that Johnny Depp was originally slated to play the lead until the shooting schedule interfered with one of his pirate movies.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. It's pretty much as American (maybe less so) as LFIJ.

Satellite Award Winners

Motion picture, drama: "No Country for Old Men"
Motion picture, comedy or musical: Juno
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, "No Country for Old Men"
Orginal screenplay: Diablo Cody, "Juno"
Adapted screenplay: Christopher Hampton, "Atonement"
Actress in a motion picture, drama: Marion Cotillard, "La Vie en Rose"
Actor in a motion picture, drama: Viggo Mortenssen, "Eastern Promises"
Actress in a motion picture, comedy or musical: Ellen Page, "Juno"
Actor in a motion picture, comedy or musical: Ryan Gosling, "Lars and the Real Girl"
Actor in a supporting role: Tom Wilkinson ("Michael Clayton") and Casey Affleck ("The Assassination of Jessie James by the Coward Robert Ford")
Motion picture, foreign language: "Lust, Caution"
Motion picture, animated or mixed media: "Ratatouille"
Motion picture, documentary: "Sicko"
Original score: Alberto Iglesias, "The Kite Runner"
Original song: Clint Eastwood and Carole Bayer Sager, "Grace Is Gone," "Grace is Gone"
Cinematography: Janusz Kaminski, "The Diving Bell and The Butterfly"
Visual effects: Chris Watts, Grant Freckelton, Derek Wentworth, Daniel Leduc, "300"
Editing: Pietro Scalia, "American Gangster"
Sound, editing and mixing: Karen Baker Landers, Kirk Francis, Per Hallberg, Scott Millan, David Parker, "The Bourne Ultimatum"
Art direction and production design: Guy Dyas, Davied Allday, "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"
Costume design: "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"

Jeff wrote:Original song: Clint Eastwood and Carole Bayer Sager, "Grace Is Gone," "Grace is Gone"

Well, now we know how the Academy is going to figure out a way to nominate Clint Eastwood this year...

Ebert's Top Ten of the year.

A.O. Scott, Manohla Dargis, and Steven Holden's lists appear in today's New York Times. Gotta love Dargis:
[quote="Manohla"]Paul Thomas Anderson's “There Will Be Blood,â€

National Society of Film Critics choices

Film
There Will Be Blood

Director
Paul Thomas Anderson

Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis

Actress
Julie Christie

Supporting Actor
Casey Affleck

Supporting Actress
Cate Blanchett

Foreign Language Film
4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days

Documentary Film
No End in Sight

Screenplay
the Savages

The Goldeen Globes ceremony is officially cancelled thanks to the WGA strike. A news conference will announce the winners instead.

So awesome. Networks think they can just do whatever and the writers will eventually back down. This'll all be over in a month because there's no way ABC wants to lose the Oscars.

The "Critic's Choice" (BFCA) Awards are airing live right now on VH1. They had a waiver or something I think. They may end up being the only televised awards this season.

They're on right now? Damn -- I forgot to set my DVR!

Jeff wrote:The "Critic's Choice" (BFCA) Awards are airing live right now on VH1. They had a waiver or something I think. They may end up being the only televised awards this season.

Actually, for some reason they were never covered by the Guild's rules in the first place so there was no justification in striking. There was some AP article about it earlier today but I can't find it just now.

domino harvey wrote:Actually, for some reason they were never covered by the Guild's rules in the first place so there was no justification in striking. There was some AP article about it earlier today but I can't find it just now.

Ah. That makes sense. Turns out it was the SAG awards I was thinking of that got the waiver, so I guess there will be one more awards show after all.

Here are the winners:

Best Picture - No Country for Old Men
Best Directors - Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Best Actress - Julie Christie - Away From Her
Best Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood
Best Picture Made for Television - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Best Documentary -Sicko
Best Family Film - Enchanted
Best Animated Film - Ratatouille
Joel Siegel Humanitarian Award - Don Cheadle
Best Foreign Language Film - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Supporting Actress - Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone
Best Supporting Actor - Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men
Best Song - Falling Slowly - Once
Best Composer - Jonny Greenwood - There Will Be Blood
Best Comedy - Juno
Best Young Actor - Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada - The Kite Runner
Best Young Actress - Nikki Blonsky - Hairspray
Best Screenplay - Diablo Cody - Juno
Best Ensemble - Hairspray

Jeff wrote:The "Critic's Choice" (BFCA) Awards are airing live right now on VH1. They had a waiver or something I think. They may end up being the only televised awards this season.

The Independent Spirit Awards were granted a waver

domino harvey wrote:

Jeff wrote:The "Critic's Choice" (BFCA) Awards are airing live right now on VH1. They had a waiver or something I think. They may end up being the only televised awards this season.

The Independent Spirit Awards were granted a waver

Okay, so that's three shows with the go-ahead (more than enough). Here's the story on the SAG waiver.

Sort of surprising DGA noms:

Paul Thomas Anderson
Joel and Ethan Cohen
Tony Gilroy
Sean Penn
Julien Schnabel

Where the hell is Joe Wright?????

Bye Bye Best Pic nom for Atonement and Sweeney Todd. Juno's still in it but barely.

They always nominate at least one Best Pic without a Best Director nom, so my bet's still on Atonement.

tavernier wrote:They always nominate at least one Best Pic without a Best Director nom, so my bet's still on Atonement.

I thought of that, it's definitely gonna be Juno before it's Atonement

With that DGA field, could be 2 or 3 slots that don't line up this year.

there's no more erratically directed film this year than Into the Wild.

portnoy wrote:there's no more erratically directed film this year than Into the Wild.

Haven't seen that one, but I bet La vie en rose gives it a run for its money in those stakes.

Matt wrote:

portnoy wrote:there's no more erratically directed film this year than Into the Wild.

Haven't seen that one, but I bet La vie en rose gives it a run for its money in those stakes.

Erratic direction, thy name is La vie en rose.

tavernier wrote:

Matt wrote:

portnoy wrote:there's no more erratically directed film this year than Into the Wild.

Haven't seen that one, but I bet La vie en rose gives it a run for its money in those stakes.

Erratic direction, thy name is La vie en rose.

Into the Wild is uneven, but La Vie en Rose possesses some of the worst direction I have witnessed in a 'serious' film in a long time. I'm not sure what the intended point of the cross cutting between Edith's (brown) concert and Marcel's (yellow) boxing match was meant to be, but it succeeded in giving me a migraine.