2013 Awards Season Thread — Page 4

^ Emma's nominated. Best Actress - Drama

I think Tom Hanks's chances of getting a nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the Oscars for 'Saving Mr. Banks' are getting slimmer.

I think The Butler was always a SAG movie because every SAG member was in that movie.

Of course the Comedy/Musical category was way more interesting than the Drama category. Good year.

And HOT DAMN somebody finally nominated Greta Gerwig for Frances Ha and therefore I cannot hate their film selections.

But it is hard to decipher who was 'snubbed' when the Globes having clearly been the last-ditch effort nominations for many movies and performances. Winslet and Elba have no shots at other nominations. But I can't help but think of that unnamed HFPA member who had that cynical comment about James Gandolfini getting a possible Globe nod and him saying, 'Well, he's not going to be there'.

I said it before and I'll say it again: the lack of recognition for the electric scores but sticking with the string scores this year is one of the most boring awards developments. For some reason I thought there was a breakthrough when Trent Reznor's scores for Fincher won stuff.

EDIT: Also The Wind Rises was weirdly ineligible for animated film but is in for Foreign. **shrugs**

Updated On: 12/12/13 at 11:38 AM

Yeah, they bumped MONUMENTS MEN after Clooney made a statement about it not really being an awards-contender type film. I guess people expected it to be, based on its creative team and cast.

They also bumped FOXCATCHER all the way to later next year, which I was beyond excited to see this year. The trailer (is it a trailer?) that was released made me even more anxious to see it! Steve Carrell is unrecognizable.

Updated On: 1/3/14 at 11:55 AM

It's not a source so much as prognosticating.

The ads for "The Butler", with the 'sure-to-be-nominated' claim are bugging me!

Oprah, Oprah, Oprah...

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It seems that 'Dallas Buyers Club' was not yet released in the U.K. because it was not nominated at the BAFTAs. Amy Adams and Meryl Streep are still neck-to-neck for the fifth nomination for Best Actress at the Oscars. Adams got a nomination over Streep at these awards.

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/01/08/gravity-american-hustle-bafta-nominations/

Updated On: 1/8/14 at 09:38 AM

^ I think your right. This source says that although 'Dallas Buyers Club' does not open till February, films that debuted before the BAFTAs were eligible. Voters did see the film.

http://www.thewrap.com/BAFTA-nominations-12-Years-a-Slave-Gravity-American-Hustle

Could simply be that Dallas Buyer's Club was either not seen enough despite being eligible ala American Hustle and The Wolf of Wall Street in the early critics awards OR it's just like a Crash where it's just most popular with Hollywood people. I think DBC placement in WGA was just filler (as some many things were ineligible by the WGA) and PGA was just one of those lamenting, 'We used to make those movies'.

I see Streep and Redford in most trouble. Neither are really campaigning and both films seem so deflated at this point. I think preferential ballot favors Leo, he'll be a lot of people's #1, and American Hustle is looking like a top player with Gravity and 12 Years a Slave so I think Cooper, Lawrence, and Adams are in for their categories.

Sadly, I think Adele Exarchopoulos has no shot after the BAFTAs. Emmanuelle Riva did not get a Globe or SAG but she won the BAFTA her year which showed she was a threat last year. Despite tying Blanchett with the LA Film Critics and historically getting the Palme d'or for her performance, I think she's pushed out because of strength in American competition.

I think the Leading Actor and Actress fields are crowded while the supporting can get a lot of filler. Wouldn't shock me if a Sally Hawkins or even a Sarah Paulson got a filler nomination spot a la Jackie Weaver.

No, actors are not "placed" in categories for Oscars. That's the hubris of the public relations machines who campaign heavily with those "For Your Consideration" ads, where they merely SUGGEST to Academy voters where the actor should be placed.

The voting ballots have five blank lines on it for each of the four acting categories. You can write down any eligible name you want on any line.

Often the "suggestion" for a category works, but sometimes it does not. It has backfired on actors who didn't get enough votes in either category, but were considered shoo-ins for a nomination, because the votes split between leading and supporting categories.

It's also happened where an actor was nominated in a different category. For example, Susan Sarandon was promoted in the Supporting Actress category for "Atlantic City." All of the ads said it. But she was nominated for Leading Actress instead, because that's where the majority of the Academy voters felt she belonged (and she scored enough votes to get the nom).

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Adams is being submitted in Lead and that has never changed. Besides, her and Lawrence would cancel each other out and really, Amy should not just be relegated to supporting her whole career.

http://www.awardsdaily.com/FYC/gallery/2013-14/photo.php?id=3200

As for the DGAs, my money is on Greengrass as the odd man out. Sony can't juggle 2 top contenders at once in American Hustle and Captain Phillips and it's clear which film is getting more nominations. Coens/Jonze/Payne for that last spot. Scorsese is also vulnerable but the preferential ballot in the directors branch will also have him #1 on many ballots too.

I actually love those 2 performances but I find the category extraordinarily weak in the precursors that I am hoping for those nominations rather than a Julia Roberts type or nomination.

Perhaps it's because I think she has zero talent, but I'd be ELATED if Oprah didn't get an Oscar nomination. (Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.) She might be rich, but what does that mean? (OK, a lot, but...)

I'm, as always, excited about the nominations for the Oscars next week. I think they'll be more predictable than last year, but there's nothing I like more than meaningless awards given between apples and oranges.