Awards Season 2009

[domino harvey]

Both AFI lists are sketchy but man is everything forgiven by them recognizing the brilliance of Party Down

[puxzkkx]

Yolande Moreau wins Best Actress at LAFCA for Seraphine?!?!?!?!

Clearly Turan's work.

[reno dakota]

NY Film Critics Circle

Glad to see some love for Terence Davies!

[Dr Amicus]

Golden Globes

2 Nominations for Streep in the same category?

Robert Downey Jr? Really? For Sherlock Holmes?

The inclusion of Colin Firth has just made my mother-in-law a very happy woman though...

[rs98762001]

No Terence Davies at the Globes??!!

[lacritfan]

Meanwhile Roger Corman, Gordon Willis, John Calley and Lauren Bacall already receive their honorary Oscars.
WTF? This already happened? We're gonna have to sit through five more Best Picture clips but miss tributes to these greats?

[Dr Amicus]

No Terence Davies at the Globes??!!

No Best Documentary feature.

And much as I'd like to see him in the Best Director category, that was never a likely proposition.

[reno dakota]

San Francisco Film Critics Circle

Finally, a win for Colin Firth. (Tell your mother-in-law, Dr Amicus.)

[rs98762001]

No Terence Davies at the Globes??!!

No Best Documentary feature.

And much as I'd like to see him in the Best Director category, that was never a likely proposition.

I was joshing. I'd be surprised if a sole member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Whatever has even heard of Davies, let alone seen Of Time and the City.

[Andre Jurieu]

Robert Downey Jr? Really? For Sherlock Holmes?

Actually, that performance seems to be getting a substantial amount of praise from quite a few well-respected critics (including the guys at Slant, who are a forum favorite). Of course, it appears to be in the same vein as Depp's performance as Jack Sparrow.

[domino harvey]

Globes aren't necessarily all that predictive, but An Education barely getting any notice here and elsewhere doesn't look good for its chances

[knives]

Globes aren't necessarily all that predictive, but An Education barely getting any notice here and elsewhere doesn't look good for its chances

The rumour is supposedly the villain being Jewish for no reason has kicked it's chances in half. Stupid I know.

[dx23]

I would love to know why is the film Precious being marketed with that long, ridiculous title.

[Matt]

I would love to know why is the film Precious being marketed with that long, ridiculous title.

To avoid confusion with that Chris Evans/Dakota Fanning movie that came out earlier this year that nobody remembers. But that doesn't say why they can't just stick with plain old "Precious." The long title has "contractual obligation" written all over it.

[dx23]

I would love to know why is the film Precious being marketed with that long, ridiculous title.

To avoid confusion with that Chris Evans/Dakota Fanning movie that came out earlier this year that nobody remembers. But that doesn't say why they can't just stick with plain old "Precious." The long title has "contractual obligation" written all over it.

Thanks for clearing that up. At least the title doesn't go "Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey presents Lee Daniels' Precious:Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire"

[lacritfan]

Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations
(An Education gets some love Domino).

[domino harvey]

Cahiers Best of 2009:

1. Les Herbes folles – Alain Resnais
2. Vincere – Marco Bellochio
3. Inglourious Basterds – Quentin Tarantino
4. Gran Torino – Clint Eastwood
5. Singularités d’une jeune fille blonde – Manoel de Oliveira
6. Tetro – Francis Ford Coppola
7. The Hurt Locker – Kathryn Bigelow
8. Le Roi de l’évasion – Alain Guiraudie
9. Tokyo Sonata – Kiyoshi Kurosawa
10. Hadewijch – Bruno Dumont

And if that's too high brow for you, John Waters' Top Ten:

1 Import Export (Ulrich Seidl) The most sorrowful movie of the year is also the best. The miserable lives of Ukrainian immigrants in Vienna make this agonizing but brilliantly directed opus the cinematic equivalent of slitting your wrists. A new genre? Depression porn? Hey, I got off.

2 Antichrist (Lars von Trier) If Ingmar Bergman had committed suicide, gone to hell, and come back to earth to direct an exploitation/art film for drive-ins, this is the movie he would have made

3 In the Loop (Armando Iannucci) A smart, mean, foulmouthed British satire about the struggle for global power that asks the all-important question: How do you debate the invasion of Iraq if your gums start to bleed in the middle of your presentation?

4 World’s Greatest Dad (Bobcat Goldthwait) Why, oh why, wasn’t this blackest of comedies a hit? Appallingly rude, decidedly family unfriendly, this autoerotic-suicide tale of a hateful son and his clueless father left the viewer gasping in surprise.

5 Brüno (Larry Charles) Don’t listen to the critics—it’s better than Borat. Imagine a hetero teen couple in a mall on a first date somewhere in Middle America watching Sacha Baron Cohen pantomime every known gay male sex act, ending in a joyous “facial.” Sometimes audiences get what they deserve.

6 Lorna’s Silence (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne) How do these great art films get financed? European socialism, that’s how, and I’m glad the taxpayers abroad put up the dough for this Tracking Shots“R”Us masterpiece. Only the Dardenne brothers could get away with not showing the dramatic action that climaxes the whole movie. Just think if they had to test-screen this film in America!

7 Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodóvar) There was some grumbling from Cannes that this wasn’t one of Pedro’s best, but boy were those rumors wrong. It’s a beaut! A relentlessly intelligent melodrama filled with so many dizzying plot points that you’ll experience vertigo.

8 The Baader Meinhof Complex (Uli Edel) Now here were some kids who knew how to cause trouble! Hmmm...What should we do today? Stop the Olympics or blow up a commercial airplane? These radicals made the Weathermen look like pussies.

9 Whatever Works (Woody Allen) Gerontophilia never seemed so appealing. This time, Woody goes a little gay and lives to tell about it with lovely, comic success. I am so mad I don’t have this director’s career.

10 The Headless Woman (Lucrecia Martel) Bleached hair, hit-and-run accidents, in-laws with hepatitis? Huh? I didn’t get it, but I sure did love it!

[xavier110]

National Society of Film Critics Winners
Best Picture: The Hurt Locker
Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)
Best Actor: Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)
Best Actress: Yolande Moreau (Seraphine)
Best Supporting Actor: (tie) Paul Schneider (Bright Star) & Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)
Best Supporting Actress: Mo'Nique (Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' By Sapphire)
Best Screenplay: Joel & Ethan Coen (A Serious Man)
Best Foreign Language Film: Summer Hours
Best Documentary: The Beaches of Agnes
Best Cinematography: Christian Berger (The White Ribbon)
Best Production Design: Nelson Lowry (Fantastic Mr. Fox)

The Hurt Locker sweeps, joins L.A. Confidential, Schindler's List, and Goodfellas as the only films to win the triple crown (LA/NY/NSFC).

[Murdoch]

Great to see Schneider win.

[Andre Jurieu]

The Hurt Locker sweeps, joins L.A. Confidential, Schindler's List, and Goodfellas as the only films to win the triple crown (LA/NY/NSFC).

Which means it has a 66% chance of not winning the Oscar. I kid, I kid ... it obviously has no chance.

Great to see Schneider win.

Agreed! Though I have this awful feeling he will soon verge into that "so underrated, he's overrated" territory.

[lacritfan]

Producers Guild of America Nominations
AVATAR
DISTRICT 9
AN EDUCATION
THE HURT LOCKER
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
INVICTUS
PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE
STAR TREK
UP
UP IN THE AIR

[tavernier]

That list reminded me what a lousy year this has been. Don't tell me Avatar will be this year's Titanic.... ](*,)

[xavier110]

They avoided Nine. That's all that matters.

[lacritfan]

Directors Guild of America nominations: Kathryn Bigelow, James Cameron, Lee Daniels, Jason Reitman, Quentin Tarantino

[tavernier]

Lousy film year reiterated again