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lacritfan wrote:At this point I hope Dick Pope wins the Oscar for Best Cinematography. Someone from Leigh's company needs to win one eventually.

Easily my favorite cinematography this year. Just gorgeous.

Shocked that Mr. Turner was nearly given the shaft from the BAFTA awards. Nominations for the physical production and technical aspects of the film, but completely shut out of acting, directing, writing and of course Best Film. I liked the film the quite a bit, and considering how well Leigh usually does with BAFTA nominations, you'd think his biggest critical and commercial success in 10, maybe 15 years would have done much better.

What? How to Train Your Dragon 2 wins over The Lego Movie? The Golden Globes are a travesty.

Birdman won for the screenplay, the worst part about it (and I loved that movie).

Grand Budapest over Birdman proves there is some justice in the HFPA

Very happy with Budapest's result. I think, if it does it's campaigning exactly right, it can end up in the same "if its not Boyhood, it can be any of these" tier as Selma and Birdman. It's such a change from last month, when it was barely in consideration for a nomination at the Oscars, that it actually is (an albeit still unlikely) contender for the big prize.

Can't believe the momentum it has gathered. It premiered at Berlinale in February, was released stateside the first week of March, and it's like it just opened last month. It's the only film nominated for every guild's awards.

Jeff wrote:Can't believe the momentum it has gathered. It premiered at Berlinale in February, was released stateside the first week of March, and it's like it just opened last month. It's the only film nominated for every guild's awards.

Yup. It's already listed as re-opening at a local cinema next week (which I'm ecstatic for), and I expect it'll manage to increase it's Box Office considerably further (from its already high total) with this tremendous amount of Awards buzz.

Golden Globes
Best Motion Picture, Drama - Boyhood
Best Actor, Drama - Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything
Best Actress, Drama - Julianne Moore, Still Alice
Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Best Actress, Musical or Comedy - Amy Adams, Big Eyes
Best Actor, Musical or Comedy - Michael Keaton, Birdman
Best Animated Motion Picture - How to Train Your Dragon 2
Best Foreign Language Film - Leviathan
Best Supporting Actress - Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
Best Supporting Actor - J.K. Simmons, Whiplash
Best Director - Richard Linklater, Boyhood
Best Screenplay - Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo, Birdman
Best Original Score - Johann Johannsson, The Theory of Everything
Best Song - “Glory,” by John Legend & Common—Selma

DGA Nominations go to Eastwood, Iñárritu, Linklater, Tyldum, and Wes Anderson

In Contention is now projecting 7 Oscar nominations for The Grand Budapest Hotel, including Best Director and Best Picture, though that still wouldn't lead the field - they're projecting 10 nominations for Birdman. Will be interesting to see how everything shakes out.

mfunk9786 wrote:Mommy leads Canadian Academy Nominations with a metric ton of recognition

Let's not forget costume and make-up noms for Trailer Park Boys 3!

In case anyone is curious about Enemy being shut-out, it did a qualifying run last year, but didn't pick up much of anything (a strategy that also failed Take This Waltz a few years back).

I'm wondering what competition there was in the costume category that Mommy, a movie populated by people wearing modern day street clothes, is nominated. Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize It was robbed in that category! Oh, it got nominated too? OK, cool, as long as that's settled.

I'm curious about the visual effects achievements of Wet Bum

And here I was afraid I'd be missing out on some great cinema from my country when I moved to the States. How thankful I am that that's obviously not an issue.

Nominees for Best Film at the AACTA Awards, to be given out in Sydney on 29 January:

The Babadook
Charlie's Country
Predestination
The Railway Man
Tracks
The Water Diviner

Interesting list. I've seen all except Predestination and The Water Diviner, the two which haven't opened in the UK yet.

Apparently the Razzie nominees were announced today

Worst Picture
Saving Christmas
Left Behind
The Legend of Hercules
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Transformers 4: Age Of Extinction

Worst Actress
Drew Barrymore- Blended
Cameron Diaz- The Other Woman and Sex Tape
Melissa McCarthy- Tammy
Charlize Theron- A Million Ways To Die In The West
Gaia Weiss- The Legend of Hercules

Worst Actor
Kirk Cameron- Saving Christmas
Nicholas Cage- Left Behind
Magellan Lutz- The Legend of Hercules
Seth MacFarlane- A Million Ways To Die In The West
Adam Sandler- Blended

Worst Supporting Actor
Mel Gibson in The Expendables 3
Kelsey Grammer in The Expendables 3, Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return (voice only), Think Like a Man Too and Transformers: Age of Extinction
Shaquille O'Neal in Blended
Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Expendables 3
Kiefer Sutherland in Pompeii

Worst Supporting Actress
Cameron Diaz- Annie
Megan Fox- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Nicola Peltz- Transformers: Age of Extinction
Bridgette Cameron Ridenour- Saving Christmas
Susan Sarandon- Tammy

Worst Screen Combo
Any two robots, actors (or robotic actors) in Transformers: Age of Extinction
Kirk Cameron and his ego in Saving Christmas
Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel in Sex Tape
Kellan Lutz and either his abs, his pecs or his glutes in The Legend of Hercules
Seth MacFarlane and Charlize Theron in A Million Ways to Die in the West

Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel
Annie
Atlas Shrugged: Part III
The Legend of Hercules
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Transformers: Age of Extinction

Worst Director
Michael Bay- Transformers: Age of Extinction
Darren Doane- Saving Christmas
Renny Harlin- The Legend of Hercules
Jonathan Liebesman- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Seth MacFarlane- A Million Ways to Die in the West

Worst Screenplay
Left Behind (screenplay by Paul LaLonde and John Patus, based on the novel by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins)
Saving Christmas (written by Darren Doane and Cheston Hervey)
Sex Tape (screenplay by Kate Angelo, Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller, story by Kate Angelo)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (screenplay by Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec and Evan Daugherty, based on the characters created by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman)
Transformers: Age of Extinction (screenplay by Ehren Kruger, based on Hasbro's Transformers action figures)

Razzle Redeemer Award
Ben Affleck
Jennifer Aniston
Mike Meyers
Keanu Reeves
Kristen Stewart

Weird, Left Behind didn't get a Worst Director and Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel nomination.

matrixschmatrix wrote:I'm curious about the visual effects achievements of Wet Bum

Amazingly, that bum wasn't actually wet.

I don't believe anyone posted the results of the European Film Awards, which had some really competitive shortlists, as they often do: Ida picked up the four big filmmaking awards in Best Film, Director, Screenwriter, Cinematographer and added the People's Choice to boot.

Overall a strong Oscar set with a few surprises (our first Best Director without a Best Picture nom since the increase) and very happy for Whiplash doing as well as it did

Surely the biggest shock the Oscar nominations have offered for a very long time is the absence of The Lego Movie from the Animated Feature list. That it lost the Golden Globe was surprising enough to me, but to not even get nominated by the Academy is pretty unbelievable. I was under the impression the movie was almost universally adored.

What a surprising set of announcements. Thrilled for the Grand Budapest team, Marion Cotillard, and the damn-near perfect set of cinematography nominees.

domino harvey wrote:our first Best Director without a Best Picture nom

Since they went to more than five pic nominees that is. Before that, it happened all the time.

Also, this:

domino harvey wrote:No chance in hell Grand Budapest Hotel gets the most Oscar noms. None. Period. It will likely do quite well, but c'mon

"BIRDMAN & GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL lead 2015 Oscar with 9 Nominations each." \:D/

Questions I still have - why only 8 and not 10 best film nominations and why The Lego Movie wasn't nominated for best animated film, although I'm glad to see 2 nominations in that category to GKids films (Song of the Sea, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya).

Pretty much every one of my favorites this year overperformed in one or two categories, so I'm delighted.

Mr. Turner was especially a surprise, as I had not even remotely considered it for anything like Score.

Jake Gyllenhaal's performance is still unparalleled for me this year in the big American films, so it's surprising to not see him nominated. It's always funny to see the one random foreign acting performance that some how gets a nomination. As much as Cotillard was very good and I am a fan, her nomination is less to do with acting and more to do with being a Hollywood darling. And, yes, it's very surprising about The Lego Movie.

Jeff wrote:

domino harvey wrote:No chance in hell Grand Budapest Hotel gets the most Oscar noms. None. Period. It will likely do quite well, but c'mon

"BIRDMAN & GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL lead 2015 Oscar with 9 Nominations each." \:D/

C'mon, sticky already.