2014 Awards Thread- Page 2

[east side story]

Posted: 12/3/14 at 11:06am

I would be over the moon if Marion Cotillard got into Best Actress for either of her strong performances this year. The Immigrant, or Two Days, One Night. Every time I watch one of her performances I think: "My god, she's my favorite actress."

The viable Supporting Actress contenders seem to be as follows: Arquette, Streep, Emma Stone, Keira Knightley and Jessica Chastain. Laura Dern is her usual effervescent self in Wild, so of course she is lovely. I don't think the role has enough meat behind it to get nominated. But who knows. After Jacki Weaver snuck in for Silver Linings Playbook a few seasons back, I have come to expect one surprise nominee in this category. I'm also pulling for Carrie Coon to get a nomination for Gone Girl.

Still Alice screeners have been sent out. According to the press release, along with the new Annie film, it was one of the films featured in Sony's screener hack leak from last week.

Updated On: 12/3/14 at 11:06 AM

[Roscoe]

Posted: 12/3/14 at 11:14am

Moore should have won for THE HOURS, one of the most shocking and obscene mis-steps in Oscar history.

I need to check out THE IMMIGRANT and/or TWO DAYS/ONE NIGHT -- Cotillard's one of the living greats.

[tazber]

Posted: 12/3/14 at 11:21am

Two Days One Night is expectedly fantastic and heartbreaking.

The Dardennes are long overdue for recognition.

[trentsketch]

Posted: 12/3/14 at 7:04pm

Not that they'll have any bearing on Oscar season, but Australia's AACTAs released their nominations and they're kind of awesome.

Best Film

THE BABADOOK (haiku review)
CHARLIE'S COUNTRY (review)
PREDESTINATION
THE RAILWAY MAN (TIFF experience)
TRACKS (review)
THE WATER DIVINER

Best Direction

Jennifer Kent, THE BABADOOK (interview)
Rolf de Heer, CHARLIE'S COUNTRY
Peter Spierig and Michael Spierig, PREDESTINATION
David Michod, THE ROVER (review)

Best Lead Actor

Russell Crowe, THE WATER DIVINER
David Gulpilil, CHARLIE'S COUNTRY
Damon Herriman, THE LITTLE DEATH
Guy Pearce, THE ROVER

Best Lead Actress

Kate Box, THE LITTLE DEATH
Essie Davis, THE BABADOOK
Sarah Snook, PREDESTINATION
Mia Wasikowska, TRACKS

The Film Experience has the full run down.


AACTA nominations Updated On: 12/3/14 at 07:04 PM

[LarryD2]

Posted: 12/7/14 at 3:04pm

Boyhood and Birdman won big at The Boston Society of Film Critics:

Best Picture - Boyhood
Best Director - Richard Linklater, Boyhood
Best Foreign Film - Two Days One Night
Best Actor - Michael Keaton, Birdman
Best Actress - Marion Cotillard, The Immigrant and Two Days One Night
Best Supporting Actor - JK Simmons, Whiplash
Best Supporting Actress - Emma Stone, Birdman
Best Screenplay - Birdman/Boyhood (tie)
Best Documentary - Citizenfour
Best Cinematography - Birdman
Best Editing - Boyhood
Best Animated Film - The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
Best Use of Music in a Film - Inherent Vice
Best New Filmmaker - Dan Gilroy, Nightcrawler
Best Ensemble Cast - Boyhood





Updated On: 12/7/14 at 03:04 PM

[LarryD2]

Posted: 12/7/14 at 3:06pm

Also, the LA Film Critics Association is announcing their winners via Twitter.
https://twitter.com/lafilmcritics

[east side story]

Posted: 12/7/14 at 11:51pm

At this point, I would say that Boyhood is winning Best Picture.

Patricia Arquette beat out Julianne Moore in Best Actress with the LA Film Critics Association today. She will be in Supporting for the Globes, SAG, and Oscars. I would be genuinely shocked if she did not win at this point. Same with Linklater in Best Director.

[LarryD2]

Posted: 12/8/14 at 9:44am

Critics' Awards are not always the best indicator of how the majors will shake out. Look at ZERO DARK THIRTY. BOYHOOD is a great film and a critical darling--no surprise it's largely cleaning up with the critics. It will be nominated, but I wouldn't say a win is a foregone conclusion.

[east side story]

Posted: 12/8/14 at 11:00am

I wholeheartedly agree about critics' awards not equalling Oscar gold. I do believe, however, that this year is the exception.

[tazber]

Posted: 12/8/14 at 11:39am

The Boston Critics awards are usually in line with the Academy's choices.

They chose Boyhood this year.
Link

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 12/8/14 at 1:53pm

Moore should have won for THE HOURS, one of the most shocking and obscene mis-steps in Oscar history.

While I didn't find the oversight "shocking", I agree she was the most deserving of that film. But then, I thought she deserved higher recognition for Short Cuts, Magnolia, Far From Heaven and The Kids Are Alright (tied with Annette Bening) as well.

[east side story]

Posted: 12/8/14 at 2:02pm

If only Moore had won for Boogie Nights.

[east side story]

Posted: 12/8/14 at 3:19pm

http://www.dcfilmcritics.com/awards/

DC Area Film Critics, similar to most groups, loved Boyhood and Birdman.

[LarryD2]

Posted: 12/8/14 at 7:45pm

African American Film Critics Association

Best Picture: Selma
Best Director: Ava DuVernay, Selma
Best Actor: David Oyelowo, Selma
Best Actress: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Belle
Best Supporting Actor: Tyler Perry, Gone Girl/JK Simmons, Whiplash (tie)
Best Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer, Black or White
Best Screenplay: Gina Prince-Bythewood, Beyond the Lights
Best Ensemble: Get On Up
Best Independent Film: Dear White People
Best Documentary: Life Itself
Best Animated Film: The Boxtrolls

Top Ten Films:

1. Selma
2. The Imitation Game
3. The Theory of Everything
4. Birdman
5. Belle
6. Top Five
7. Unbroken
8. Dear White People
9. Get On Up
10. Black or White

[east side story]

Posted: 12/10/14 at 9:57am

Golden Globes tomorrow.
SAG Award Nominations

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 12/10/14 at 10:39am

I'm disappointed that 'Into the Woods' did not get nominated for Best Ensemble in a Motion Picture.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 12/10/14 at 10:51am

There seems to be a lot of love for THE IMITATION GAME, which surprises me. I thought the performances were quite good (not great), but the movie really flattened out a fascinating person.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 12/10/14 at 10:55am

I'm just not seeing BOYHOOD as being Best Picture Oscar material -- it's the kind of challenging, interesting, risk-taking material that picks up nominations while easy risk-free re-assuring stuff like THE KING'S SPEECH and A BEAUTIFUL MIND take home the knick-knacks.

[trentsketch]

Posted: 12/10/14 at 12:00pm

The attention for Tessa Thompson in Dear White People makes me happy. She has no shot of a major award for that film, but she's so good in it. What she is getting is Breakthrough Performance awards. That plus Selma should (hopefully) get her more work in the future.

Boyhood is a lock for a Best Picture nomination. It just has no shot of winning. Too weird for the full voter pool to back it, but strong enough to get enough #1 votes to make the cut. Think The Tree of Life a few years ago. Linkletter might get Best Director because of the amount of work he put into the film. Arquette is for sure getting in for Supporting Actress. Everything else is up in the air for that film.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 12/10/14 at 3:10pm

Selma completely shut out of the SAGS. As was A Most Violent Year, odd given its NBR awards for best pic, Isaac as best actor and Chastain for best supporting actress.

Aside from that, out of curiosity, one question. Normally, this time of year I'm very excited about holiday season movies. Am I the only one generally under-enthused about this year's end of the year offering of prestige movies? Not sure if it's just that I've got the holiday blues (a definite possibility) or if there's something unusually unappealing about this year's offerings.

Of course, I ask the question knowing well that some - perhaps many - of these movies may actually be excellent and there's no way to know before seeing them.

[tazber]

Posted: 12/10/14 at 3:15pm

Such a "meh" season Henrik, I agree.

The entire year has been really uninteresting.

I'm not surprised about A Most Violent Year. That NBR love sort of came out of left field.

I'm also disappointed ITW didn't get an ensemble SAG nomination.

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 12/10/14 at 3:21pm

I was not expecting Jennifer Aniston to suddenly get buzz, but some critics are calling this the best performance of her career. The only time she ever let go of playing Rachel Green was in the 'Horrible Bosses' films.

[Fantod]

Posted: 12/10/14 at 3:22pm

I think the conventional best picture for this year would be The Theory of Everything. Boyhood might have a shot because of the crazy amount of of critical praise it has been getting. I personally would like The Skeleton Twins to win because I found it to be the most emotionally true movie of the year. I hope Grand Budapest gets a nomination and hopefully a win for best screenplay.

Updated On: 12/10/14 at 03:22 PM

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 12/10/14 at 3:30pm

I'm not surprised by the praise for Boyhood. It's a movie I didn't expect to love but did.

[Fantod]

Posted: 12/10/14 at 3:32pm

I liked boyhood, but I think I would have liked to have watched it one hour at a time in an HBO miniseries or something instead of a whole movie.