2014 Awards Thread- Page 5

[Roscoe]

Posted: 1/9/15 at 3:19pm

I'm fine with Ms. Arquette winning Supporting Actress this year.

I'm thinking that IMITATION GAME is going to be the Big Winner on Oscar night. It's just got OSCAR MOVIE written all over it, doesn't it.

The fix seems to be in somehow, Weinstein-wise. There was a strange article in this week's ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY about the historical dramas currently in release, and how accurate/inaccurate they are, and in discussing IMITATION GAME the article only refers to the issues around the character of Joan Clarke, and made NO MENTION AT ALL of the more significant, entirely fabricated Soviet Spy plotline.

Updated On: 1/9/15 at 03:19 PM

[madbrian]

Posted: 1/9/15 at 3:33pm

"Just the idea of Patricia Arquette winning an Oscar makes me so damn happy."

I feel the same way about JK Simmons.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 1/9/15 at 3:39pm

Sorry -- JK Simmons must lose to Josh Brolin for INHERENT VICE. I have spoken.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 1/9/15 at 3:48pm

Wow, the screenplay of Imitation Game is worse than I thought.
Lies, lies, and insulting lies

[Roscoe]

Posted: 1/9/15 at 3:54pm

Yup -- and nobody seems to care, interestingly. I mean, there's a line between dramatic license and depicting someone as a helper to a Soviet Spy.

Updated On: 1/9/15 at 03:54 PM

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 1/9/15 at 4:10pm

To be fair in the movie his not turning Cairncross in comes off, to me at least, far more like putting the mission, rather than his own safety, ahead of everything. Still, many of the liberties taken with the story come are offensive and cheap. I wasn't a huge fan of the movie before reading of them; now, I'm over it.

[east side story]

Posted: 1/9/15 at 5:15pm

"Yeah, how dare she keep doing work that film organizations choose to honor."

Oh please. It wouldn't matter what kind of performance she delivers, she is always nominated because of who she is. She earned her reputation as the Queen of the industry, yes. But even she does not deserve to be nominated for each film she appears in that is released after October.

Updated On: 1/9/15 at 05:15 PM

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 1/9/15 at 5:24pm

SHE'S NOT NOMINATING HERSELF

[HenryTDobson]

Posted: 1/9/15 at 7:15pm

^agreed with Mysterious. It's hardly Streep's fault that these nominations keep rolling in for her. If anything, I'm sure she feels a slight guilt because she realizes that her name alone gets her in. I remember when she was on Ellen last year, she almost seemed embarrassed to have been nominated (over her good friend, Emma Thompson)... but there's nothing she can do, so she might as well embrace it.

With the BAFTA nomination in place, is there any hope for Amy Adams squeaking by into an Oscar nomination?

[east side story]

Posted: 1/9/15 at 8:39pm

Never said she was nominating herself. Love the all caps, though!

I'm just tired of her always getting in with these saturated performances. She hasn't been great since 2002. Yeah, she was fine in The Iron Lady, but goodness was that film a wreck.

I remember Mysterious mentioning on the other board about not liking Arquette's performance and/or film. Which is fine. She's still winning.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 1/9/15 at 10:37pm

Selma's in trouble. There's no question about it. Word is Paramount is cheap about sending out screeners and also funneled a lot of campaign money into an Interstellar awards campaign before Selma was officially locked. By that I mean, it literally was an 11th hour lock. Even the AFI Fest that got the train moving was an unfinished film. But Interstellar failed to register in any of these awards. I suppose Paramount thought this would be Gravity Part Deux, but Gravity had both 3D, a smart, savvy studio campaign (WB), and the fact Cuaron was not considered the typical populist, popcorn film filmmaker while Nolan created his own brand of blockbuster. Anyway, Paramount has mishandled their year monumentally. They spent close to $20 million on obtaining Chris Rock's Top Five at Toronto and then rush it out, have a bizarre release roll-out for an extremely populist, broad comedy film, and has flopped when it easily could have been great alternative programming if not a potential awards player at the industry spots like the Golden Globes.

I honestly still think it's Boyhood at # 1. Now, the Cinematography guild (ASC) giving a nod to The Imitation Game makes me think it is a strong potential # 2. But, damn, The Grand Budapest Hotel is hitting at guilds and at BAFTA. I think Wes Anderson has made him a lock at a first director nomination, while hitting screenplay, makeup, art direciton, cinematography, Best Picture, Sound categories, and, potentially Best Actor and Score. Fiennes hitting BAFTA is huge for him. If Fiennes manages a nomination in that heated competition, I honestly wouldn't deny people who say it is the actual # 2 to Boyhood. It would be cool for two Texan filmmakers who came around the same period to absolutely no expectations facing off at the Oscars with deeply personal films. The key is if Fox Searchlight can actually balance two major awards contenders in Birdman and TGBH. Birdman is expected but I just don't see it being too threatening, unless it completely dominates SAG. I wouldn't be shocked if it didn't get an Editing nod while something like Nightcrawler or Whiplash, much flashier editing and obviously more cuts, did.

Were I picking today, and this is heavily stressing the BAFTAs, I would go by this:

Picture
Boyhood
The Imitation Game
Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Whiplash
American Sniper
The Theory of Everything
Selma
Foxcatcher- It takes the last spot because Miller weirdly has a lot of respect with the Academy and Megan Ellison's growing profile as the go-to auteur producer

Nightcrawler- Preferential ballot makes me think this could make a lot of number 1s but I remain cautiously optimistic about its chances
Gone Girl
Unbroken
Interstellar

Director
Richard Linklater
Wes Anderson
Damien Chazelle
Clint Eastwood
Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu

Morten Tyldum
Bennett Miller
Ava DuVernay


Best Actor
Michael Keaton
Eddie Redmayne
Benedict Cumberbatch
Jake Gyllenhaal
Bradley Cooper

Ralph Fiennes
David Oyewolo- Controversial snub!
Steve Carell- Like, if this guy makes it over Ralph or Jake, I'm going to give the Academy a Liz Lemon eye-roll. SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE.

Best Actress
Julianne Moore
Reese Witherspoon
Rosamund Pike
Felicity Jones
Jennifer Aniston

Marion Cotillard
Amy Adams- I'd rather she sit out this year. Her upcoming project with Denis Villeneuve sounds way more interesting.

Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette
Emma Stone
Keira Knightley
Rene Russo- Here's hoping. This is just something I just flat out support.
Laura Dern

Sienna Miller
Meryl Streep- Shocker! She gets reviews but Disney isn't an effective awards campaigner in the slightest and this category got suddenly competitive.
Jessica Chastain


Best Supporting Actor
JK Simmons
Edward Norton
Ethan Hawke
Mark Ruffalo
Josh Brolin- I just saw Inherent Vice. Oh, please let this happen! Preserve the category!

Miyavi- He might be the most out of nowhere pick. Probably better the snore of a Duvall nomination.
Robert Duvall- JFC, WHY ARE WE STILL TALKING ABOUT HIM?!?!? Like, why can't Riz Ahmed get in on some of that Nightcrawler momentum? Or even Tony Revolori for TGBH.
Tom Wilkinson- LBJ suddenly the hot topic of the film and Paramount was ill-prepared. Given their luck, he'll be the only thing nominated.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 1/9/15 at 10:48pm

For the crap Selma has taken regarding LBJ (short hand: DuVernay seems incredibly cynical in general about Johnson's whole role on Civil Rights beyond pragmatism and perhaps due in fact the man was multifaceted, yet largely viewed as a racist versus JFK, All-American man who largely kept his country club attitudes private even if his actual work in Civil Rights was pretty awful), The Imitation Game one is so obvious and should be treated with the same if not more criticism. But it is also so very British. Only die hard historians of the CIA/clandestine services really talk about the Cambridge Spies and how a few of them were indeed homosexuals. So if these are Americans first run in with Alan Turing, they likely know jack about the Cambridge Spies let alone how much dramatic license in making Turing veer toward cowardice to 'protect' himself when faced with knowing there is a spy and saying nothing. But whatever, people are eating the film up and that's the problem with the film. Alan Turing shouldn't be popcorn entertainment. Turing's a tragic figure and Cumberbatch in interviews describing the general persecution and treatment of him and other gay men in the UK at the time did better than the film itself. The film is almost afraid of its subject. It loves the closet.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 1/13/15 at 8:02pm

DGA Award Nominees:

WES ANDERSON
The Grand Budapest Hotel
(Fox Searchlight Pictures)


CLINT EASTWOOD
American Sniper
(Warner Bros. Pictures)


ALEJANDRO G. IÑÁRRITU
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
(Fox Searchlight Pictures)

RICHARD LINKLATER
Boyhood
(IFC Films)

MORTEN TYLDUM
The Imitation Game
(The Weinstein Company)

None of these are shocking if you notice Tyldum's film being backed by Weinstein and the surges by Eastwood and Anderson's films late in the game. Again, Selma had a screeners issues and unlike The Grand Budapest Hotel that also didn't do the screener game, it hadn't been out since March.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 1/14/15 at 7:31am

“Never said she was nominating herself.”

“She needs to let the other ladies have a go at it.”

So, let’s define her agency, please.

If you don’t like her, that’s fine. In subsequent posts, that seems to be what you actually mean. But don’t blame her for something she has no control over. That makes you look dumb, and even dumber when you defend it.

And for the record, I thought Arquette was perfectly adequate in “Boyhood,” which I found to be an admirable if unenlightening experiment.

[Bucky Builder]

Posted: 1/14/15 at 7:50am

I want to get on the Arquette train, but I just can't. Laura Dern gave the best supporting performance in WILD this year and I fear she might miss out. Arquette got overshadowed by Ethan Hawke. He was the real revelation in Boyhood.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 1/14/15 at 8:04am

I'm just tired of her always getting in with these saturated performances.

east side story, what is it about "she doesn't nominate herself" that you don't understand? It's not her doing. If you have such an issue with it then start a letter writing campaign to Academy members or start an online petition, stop complaining about things you have absolutely no control over.


She hasn't been great since 2002.

That really is just your opinion, which of course you are entitled to, but her consistent nominations say otherwise. So that's that.

Arquette was fine in BOYHOOD and I'm actually quite surprised she won the Golden Globe but it is what it is.

A Golden Globe win however does not guarantee an Oscar win.

Updated On: 1/14/15 at 08:04 AM

[Bucky Builder]

Posted: 1/14/15 at 8:18am

I'd agree with you Carlos, but Arquette is pretty much locked for the Oscar. The only person that has a chance to upset is Streep and even that is a huge long shot.

[east side story]

Posted: 1/14/15 at 10:53am

This is a message board. I am allowed to talk about how I feel Streep gets nominated for doing less than stellar work nearly every year or so. If you feel antagonized by that, that would be your own issue. Not mine. But I most certainly do appreciate being called "dumb."

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 1/14/15 at 11:07am

Okay, then let's talk reading comprehension. I'm fine with you talking about how you feel that Streep gets nominated when she doesn't deserve it. But surely you can acknowledge that your assertion that she has some control over getting nominated is, in point of fact, completely wrong.

[tazber]

Posted: 1/14/15 at 11:24am

She has never not deserved any of her nominations.

She is truly the greatest living film actor.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 1/14/15 at 11:34am

If you feel antagonized by that, that would be your own issue.

I certainly don't feel antagonized by it. I just think some of your "feelings" are misplaced as if she had a say in how many times she's been nominated. You however seem antagonized by her countless nominations but then again that would your own issue.







Updated On: 1/14/15 at 11:34 AM

[Roscoe]

Posted: 1/14/15 at 11:46am

Meryl Streep muses on her career:

"My friends and I were sitting around yesterday having a casual conversation about how the one thing all great actors have in common is that they have all starred in at least one classic piece of cinema. For my good friend Al Pacino it's obviously The Godfather and Dog Day Afternoon. For Robert De Niro there's Raging Bull and Taxi Driver. And for Diane Keaton, a no-brainer: Annie Hall.

The one actor who truly stumped us, however, was me. Now, I know I'm a good actress. I'm Meryl Streep. I've won two Academy Awards, and I have been nominated for 15. That's a record. But what my friends and I figured out is that the name Meryl Streep isn't really synonymous with one truly unforgettable film. It's weird to think about, but it's undeniably true."
The Onion -- From 2009, but no less accurate....

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 1/14/15 at 11:50am

Personally I think her classic piece of cinema is SOPHIE'S CHOICE. To me that's her GODFATHER or her ANNIE HALL.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 1/14/15 at 12:01pm

As she herself says, via The Onion:

"Of course, next SOPHIE'S CHOICE comes up. Sure. Absolutely. That makes complete sense. But have you actually watched SOPHIE'S CHOICE lately? Boy, talk about a movie that has not aged well. My performance is very good. No question. Oscar-worthy even. But if it weren't me delivering those long monologues, people would see SOPHIE'S CHOICE for what it really is: a fairly routine melodrama, with a Holocaust backstory thrown in to make the love triangle seem less banal."

I myself say -- yup. Kevin Kline's riveting performance as Nathan and Nestor Almendros' ravishing cinematography are the only reasons to endure the High Literary Significance the movie wraps itself in.

La Streep again, via The Onion:

"The annoying thing about all of this is that I've worked with directors who have produced some of the finest films in American cinema. I'm just not in any of them. I do a movie with Robert Altman, but it's A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION. Mike Nichols calls me up, not for CARNAL KNOWLEDGE, but HEARTBURN. Does anyone in the world other than Mike Nichols own the DVD of HEARTBURN?

So here we are. I'm 60 years old (in 2009) without a ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST or BONNIE AND CLYDE to my name. Meryl Streep: "Great actress, okay movies."

And by the way, THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE is not a classic. Well, at least not the one I was in."

Me again: she'll always have MAMMA MIA! And she can have it.

Updated On: 1/14/15 at 12:01 PM

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 1/14/15 at 12:36pm

Ha. I own a DVD of "Heartburn," Meryl!

And I have to disagree with your police work, Roscoe. I watched "Sophie's Choice" for the first time four years ago and was pretty bowled over by it.

Updated On: 1/14/15 at 12:36 PM