2013 Awards Season Thread- Page 3

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 12/9/13 at 7:07pm

Here's AFI'S top ten list: http://www.vulture.com/2013/12/gravity-make-afi-top-ten.html

MOVIES OF THE YEAR:

12 YEARS A SLAVE
AMERICAN HUSTLE
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS
FRUITVALE STATION
GRAVITY
HER
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
NEBRASKA
SAVING MR. BANKS
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET


And while they're not exactly awards, Metacritic is keeping its usual running tab of critics' Top Ten lists: http://www.metacritic.com/feature/film-critic-top-10-lists-best-movies-of-2013 Updated On: 12/9/13 at 07:07 PM

[strummergirl]

Posted: 12/9/13 at 8:37pm

AFI's list tend to be boring but they also tend to be accurate. Usually 1 or 2 films miss out. I would say the 3 most vulnerable are Fruitvale Station/Saving Mr. Banks (I am waiting for the guild nods to see how it does)/Captain Phillips.

Only Film Critics Society (OFCS) also had their nominations. There's was great but members completely copped to the fact most of them hadn't yet seen The Wolf of Wall Street.

BEST PICTURE
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Before Midnight
Blue Is the Warmest Color
Drug War
Gravity
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Short Term 12
The Wind Rises

BEST DIRECTOR
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen – Inside Llewyn Davis
Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity
Spike Jonze – Her
Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave
Hayao Miyazaki – The Wind Rises

BEST ACTOR
Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave
Tom Hanks – Captain Phillips
Oscar Isaac – Inside Llewyn Davis
Mads Mikkelsen – The Hunt
Joaquin Phoenix – Her

BEST ACTRESS
Amy Adams – American Hustle
Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
Julie Delpy – Before Midnight
Adèle Exarchopoulos – Blue Is the Warmest Color
Brie Larsen – Short Term 12

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips
Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave
Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club
Matthew McConaughey – Mud
Sam Rockwell – The Way, Way Back

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Sally Hawkins – Blue Jasmine
Scarlett Johansson – Her
Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle
Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave
Léa Seydoux – Blue Is the Warmest Color

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
American Hustle
Blue Jasmine
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Museum Hours

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
12 Years a Slave
Before Midnight
In the House
Short Term 12
The Wind Rises

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Despicable Me 2
From Up on Poppy Hill
Frozen
Monsters University
The Wind Rises

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Blue Is the Warmest Color
Drug War
Museum Hours
Wadjda
The Wind Rises

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM
56 Up
The Act of Killing
At Berkeley
Blackfish
Stories We Tell

BEST EDITING
12 Years a Slave
Drug War
Gravity
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
12 Years a Slave
The Grandmaster
Gravity
The Great Beauty
Inside Llewyn Davis

The actress selections in both lead and supporting are awesome, Isaac and Mikkelsen are getting support in lead, I love paying due to Johnnie To's Drug War and although Museum Hours seems like an odd nomination, apparently it has 2 versions: One English and one German in narration voice-over.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 12/9/13 at 8:43pm

I'd love to see Sam Rockwell sneak into the Oscar nominations, but I highly doubt that'll happen.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 12/9/13 at 8:56pm

Justin Chang, one of the leading member critics of LAFCA, gives an insider write-up on the vote. Everything was so close. Glenn Whipp tweeted the official tallies that corroborate with Chang's write-up. Chang also revealed his ballot. Other critics have done this though Chang seems more conventional while when J. Hoberman tends to show his ballot at NYFCC, it just seems like trolling. Love that he had Elyes Aguis from The Past in his Supporting Actor category. That kid is on my short-list in the category and I want that film's kid ensemble to win something this year.

http://variety.com/2013/film/columns/inside-the-l-a-film-critics-vote-gravity-her-and-the-ties-that-bind-1200935340/

Karina Longworth, she's one of my favorite critics but she has semi-left writing film criticism in publications and has focused on writing on the industry and books for Cahiers du Cinema (check out her stuff on Grantland), also plans to reveal her ballot for LAFCA. She outed herself as the sole voter who put Simon Pegg for The World's End in her Top 3 at actor in which case, I am very interested to find out what else she put in her ballot. Even Chang acknowledged The World's End in his Top 3 at screenplay.

Updated On: 12/9/13 at 08:56 PM

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/9/13 at 10:17pm

I'm glad to see The Great Gatsby getting some love in the technical categories from the Washington and St. Louis critics.

I watched it again over the weekend (third time seeing it now), and critics and audiences be damned, it's one of my favorite movies of the last several years. It keeps growing on me with each viewing. And the art direction, cinematography, costumes, and score are just brilliant.

[tazber]

Posted: 12/9/13 at 11:21pm

Drug War?

How completely odd. It was good sure, but it was just another in a long line of Chinese crime thrillers that have been pooping up like weeds lately.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 12/9/13 at 11:31pm

What ever gets To any kind of mainstream attention/recognition is fine with me. Plus I think the movie was more of a statement in how lousy action cinema was this year.

[tazber]

Posted: 12/11/13 at 9:33am

SAG noms:

FILM

Ensemble Cast
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
August: Osage County
Dallas Buyers Club
The Butler

Lead Actor
Bruce Dern, Nebraska
Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips
Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
Forest Whitaker, The Butler

Lead Actress
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock, Gravity
Judi Dench, Philomena
Meryl Streep, August: Osage County
Emma Thompson, Saving Mr. Banks

Supporting Actor
Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
Daniel Bruhl, Rush
Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave
Janes 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
June Squibb, Nebraska
Oprah Winfrey, The Butler

Television Stunt Ensemble:
Boardwalk Empire
Breaking Bad
Game of Thrones
The Walking Dead
Homeland

Film Stunt Ensemble:
All Is Lost
Fast and Furious 6
Lone Survivor
Rush
The Wolverine

[tazber]

Posted: 12/11/13 at 9:35am

The Butler did well here, which kind of surprised me.

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/11/13 at 9:56am

I'm not surprised at all. It's this year's "The Help."

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/11/13 at 9:58am

I don't see any glaring omissions or surprises.

And I have to say, I'm not all that excited about this year overall.

Nothing I'm really interested to see, except Saving Mr. Banks, and no big "wow" frontrunner movie. They all have something that turns me off, either a little or a lot.

[madbrian]

Posted: 12/11/13 at 10:02am

Although I haven't seen Nebraska, I'm surprised Will Forte was left of the supporting actors list. He's gotten great reviews.

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/11/13 at 10:07am

The SAG noms are also the first list that you can truly count as a "precursor" to the Oscars. While they don't get everything to line up exactly, the industry guild awards are the larger pool from which the majority of the Academy voters are chosen.

[tazber]

Posted: 12/11/13 at 10:10am

I was surprised Redford didn't make it.

Bruhl, who I've been a fan of for years, seemed to have lost his momentum so I'm glad he wasn't forgotten.

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/11/13 at 10:11am

^ Actually, you're right. I would have assumed Redford was a shoo-in.

[americanboy99]

Posted: 12/11/13 at 10:37am

Shocked to see Redford missing. I respected the performance and the film more than liking them/ having a sincere emotional reaction to them, which perhaps played some factor.

Haven't seen AMERICAN HUSTLE- but I'm always in the Amy Adams camp, so I secretly wished she'd make the cut.

In terms of FRUITVALE, I would so much prefer seeing Melonie Diaz's chilling performance recognized over Spencer's. Spencer was great but subdued, and Diaz really carries the emotional weight of the film's third act.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 12/11/13 at 11:00am

I'm so sick of that bitch Streep getting nominated for everything. I bet they'd nominate her for homemade porn.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 12/11/13 at 4:00pm

Really just can't with this Daniel Bruhl (Who I also really like) category fraud. He was co-lead in Rush. These are the type of nominees people circled months in advance. This is not a criticism of the voting but it's like in 2007 when SAG awarded Hairspray and 3:10 to Yuma both SAG Ensemble nods in one of the strongest years in film. It's because way too many studios decided to put out these screeners and screenings way too close to the deadline.

Other thoughts:

Dallas Buyer's Club in as ensemble is pretty surprising.

Really surprised how Redford was left out but the leading categories this year are stacked.

I'm still surprised at Bradley Cooper getting no traction in one of the most open categories. Previous nominee, same director, etc. SAG tends to push performances into categories so maybe there was a split on whether or not he could go lead or supporting.

I do think the later releases were effected. American Hustle did get in as ensemble and supporting actress but Sony was really super late on sending out screeners. Lawrence is in a pretty weak category, and one I see getting the most overlap with Oscars, and coming off a previous winning year. Adams' performance has been celebrated and she has been in the critics awards discussions but her performance is supposedly very subtle as opposed to everyone else being showy not just in her film but her category. She has to get in while nominee contenders lose steam, which I think Streep is most vulnerable at this point (the performance is polarizing, the movie's reviews are middling, and she won her 3rd- there might be some fatigue). But she also has to watch out for the category's X-factor, Adele Exarchopoulos from Blue is the Warmest Color being the Emmanuelle Riva foreign film nomination. Riva got critic awards and notices but did not translate to SAG or the Globes. I am rooting for Amy as well. It'd be great if she got her first lead nomination.

Wolf of Wall Street, I already mentioned why it seemed likely it would go empty-handed with SAG. Some people seemed surprised that Her was left off but I have no idea what WB's plans were with SAG anyway.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 12/11/13 at 7:34pm

I was so shocked Redford didn't land a nomination, I had him pegged as an early frontrunner. It'll be an uphill battle to get a lead actor win at the Oscars without a corresponding SAG nod; it's never happened before in this category. My money is on Matthew McConaughey, he has that kind of role, though really, I'd love to see Chiwetel Eijiofor win. I cannot believe Whitaker got a nod, I guess I just don't get him as an actor, Oscar winner or not. I didn't realize DALLAS BUYERS CLUB would have that kind of support, doesn't deserve it IMO, but this is a sign that people are passionate about the film and I wouldn't be surprised to see it win lead and supporting actor.
I wish Amy Adams had been able to get in. The kind of subtle, measured acting she does tends to be overshadowed by louder performances (some of which are great--Viola Davis and Jennifer Lawrence--and some of which are too hammy for my taste--Melissa Leo). I hope she gets recognized come Oscar time, but the lead actress category seems pretty locked.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 12/11/13 at 9:12pm

If Jared Leto wins an Academy Award...well, that would be sad.

Carrie Underwood was a more convincing Maria than Leto was as a trans.

[east side story]

Posted: 12/11/13 at 9:42pm

Not too jazzed about this season myself, but I am ready to see Blanchett FINALLY get her Best Actress Oscar. The woman should have at least three Academy Awards by now.

[tazber]

Posted: 12/12/13 at 9:00am

Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series — Drama
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Tatiana Maslany, Orphan Black
Taylor Schilling, Orange is the New Black
Kerry Washington, Scandal
Robin Wright, House of Cards

Best Television Series — Comedy Or Musical
The Big Bang Theory
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Girls
Modern Family
Parks and Recreation

Best Original Song — Motion Picture
“Atlas,” Catching Fire
“Let It Go,” Frozen
“Ordinary Love,” Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom
“Please, Mr. Kennedy,” Inside Llewyn Davis
“Sweeter Than Fiction,” One Chance

Best Original Score — Motion Picture
All is Lost
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
12 Years a Slave
The Book Thief
Gravity

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Jacqueline Bisset, Dancing on the Edge
Janet McTeer, The White Queen
Hayden Panettiere, Nashville
Monica Potter, Parenthood
Sofia Vergara, Modern Family

Best Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made for Television
American Horror Story: Coven
Behind The Candelabra
Dancing on the Edge
Top of the Lake
The White Queen

Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series — Comedy Or Musical
Zooey Deschanel, New Girl
Lena Dunham, Girls
Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Amy Poehler, Parks And Recreation

Best Screenplay — Motion Picture
12 Years a Slave, John Ridley
American Hustle, Eric Singer, David O. Russell
Her, Spike Jonze
Nebraska, Bob Nelson
Philomena, Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Josh Charles, The Good Wife
Rob Lowe, Behind the Candelabra
Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad
Corey Stoll, House of Cards
Jon Voight, Ray Donovan

Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series — Comedy Or Musical
Jason Bateman, Arrested Development
Don Cheadle, House of Lies
Michael J. Fox, The Michael J. Fox Show
Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory
Andy Samberg, Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Best Foreign Language Film
Blue is the Warmest Color
The Great Beauty
The Hunt
The Past
The Wind Rises

Best Animated Film
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Frozen

Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series — Drama
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Liev Schreiber, Ray Donovan
Michael Sheen, Masters of Sex
Kevin Spacey, House of Cards
James Spader, The Blacklist

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture — Comedy Or Musical
Christian Bale, American Hustle
Bruce Dern, Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street
Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis
Joaquin Phoenix, Her

Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips
Daniel Brühl, Rush
Bradley Cooper, American Hustle
Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave
Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture — Drama
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock, Gravity
Judi Dench, Philomena
Emma Thompson, Saving Mr. Banks
Kate Winslet, Labor Day

Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Matt Damon, Behind The Candelabra
Michael Douglas, Behind The Candelabra
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Dancing on the Edge
Idris Elba, Luther
Al Pacino, Phil Spector

Best Television Series — Drama
Breaking Bad
Downton Abbey
The Good Wife
House of Cards
Masters of Sex

Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Sally Hawkins, Blue Jasmine
Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave
Julia Roberts, August: Osage County
June Squibb, Nebraska

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture — Comedy Or Musical
Amy Adams, American Hustle
Julie Delpy, Before Midnight
Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Enough Said
Meryl Streep, August: Osage County

Best Motion Picture — Comedy Or Musical
American Hustle
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Helena Bonham Carter, Burton and Taylor
Rebecca Ferguson, The White Queen
Jessica Lange, American Horror Story: Coven
Helen Mirren, Phil Spector
Elisabeth Moss, Top of the Lake

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture — Drama
Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
Idris Elba, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips
Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club
Robert Redford, All Is Lost

Best Director — Motion Picture
Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity
Paul Greengrass, Captain Phillips
Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave
Alexander Payne, Nebraska
David O. Russell, American Hustle

Best Motion Picture — Drama
12 Years a Slave
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Philomena
Rush

Cecil B. DeMille Award
Woody Allen

[tazber]

Posted: 12/12/13 at 9:02am

The Wind Rises ended up in the Foreign Language category instead of Animated feature.

I find that odd, especially since there are only 3 noms in the Animated Feature category.

Also, love that Elba and Ejiofor both got 2 noms for lead actor (TV and Film)

Updated On: 12/12/13 at 09:02 AM

[Wynbish]

Posted: 12/12/13 at 9:51am

Not to take anything away from Lupita, but I wish Sarah Paulson was getting more buzz about her performance in the movie.

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/12/13 at 10:59am

Was Saving Mr. Banks totally shut out, or did it not make the cutoff for the Globes?