Awards thread

[tazber]

Posted: 11/29/11 at 12:07pm

**Edited to be a general awards thread rather than posting each critics group individually. Added 12/02/11 - NBR**

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NY film critics:

Voting now

The winners so far:

Best Actor Brad Pitt, Moneyball & The Tree of Life
Best Actress Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
Best Supporting Actor Albert Brooks, Drive
Best Supporting Actress Jessica Chastain, The Tree of Life, The Help, and Take Shelter
Best First Feature Margin Call
Best Non-Fiction Film Cave of Forgotten Dreams

More to come......

ETA:

Best Foreign Language Film A Separation
Best Director Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki, The Tree of Life
Best Screenplay Steven Zaillian & Aaron Sorkin, Moneyball

Updated On: 12/2/11 at 12:07 PM

[tazber]

Posted: 11/29/11 at 12:19pm

Good for Pitt. He was wonderful in both of those pics. I know everyone is clamoring for Clooney or Oldman (or Fassbender?) this year, but I think Pitt has always been underrated.

Albert Brooks - great performance. But not the best of the year IMO.

Chasitain - luminous in Tree and just perfect in Take Shelter. Very happy about this one.

Cave of Forgotten Dream? I love me some Herzog, but this film was really a bore. Amazing for like 20 minutes, then repetitive. So many more deserving docs this year.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 11/29/11 at 12:52pm

Happy for Brooks (I think part of the performance is the shock to the system that this is Albert Brooks who I think should be nominated- winning is another story) and Chastain. I was hoping for the leads that an original character portrayal like Fassbender in Shame than another portrayal of a real-life figure getting rewarded (I know Pitt also got kudos for Tree of Life, but Moneyball was a more accessible, crowd-pleasing film).

As for documentary, Senna and Bill Cunningham New York were my favorites but the others I saw, If a Tree Falls and Tabloid were just pretty disappointing an boring.

Hoping Refn or Fincher gets it for directing.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 11/29/11 at 12:59pm

Good for Pitt. He was sensational in both flims.

"Tree of Life" is still light years ahead of any other movies I've seen so far this year.

[tazber]

Posted: 11/29/11 at 1:00pm

Tree Of Life (my favorite film of the year so far btw) is probably going to win every cinematography award this season.


(Lol, I just posted the same thing about Tree, growl!)

Updated On: 11/29/11 at 01:00 PM

[tazber]

Posted: 11/29/11 at 1:10pm

Strummer,

I'm updating my original post as the winners are announced so you probably missed that Michel Hazanavicius won for directing.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 11/29/11 at 1:13pm

Great minds think alike, Taz, and apparently ours do, too

There's still a ****load I have yet to see, but if I see one or two more movies that come anywhere near "Tree of Life," I will consider 2011 a banner year for films.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 11/29/11 at 1:30pm

Thanks, taz.

[tazber]

Posted: 11/29/11 at 1:35pm

Best Picture The Artist

[WhizzerMarvin]

Posted: 11/29/11 at 2:20pm

All respect to Pitt and his performances this year, but Jean Dujardin should have won for making The Artist what it was. For me he was even essential to that film than the direction and score. Will be interesting to see what happens as award season rolls on.

[Calvin]

Posted: 11/29/11 at 3:05pm

I'm hoping to see The Artist soon and it blows me away. I just haven't had the "wow" film yet this year. There have been several I've quite enjoyed -- Tree of Life, Win Win, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Meek's Cutoff, Beginners, Higher Ground -- but I would be hard-pressed to name a definitive "favorite" of mine for the year thus far.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 11/29/11 at 3:15pm

Evidently Brad Pitt's checks cleared. There's no other explanation for his bizarre win as Best Actor.

On the other hand, at least they managed to refrain from giving Best Director to Terrence Malick for his ridiculous TREE OF LIFE.

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 11/29/11 at 3:24pm

I don't get the praise for Tree of Life either. I couldn't even enjoy that movie after smoking a bowl.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 11/29/11 at 4:28pm

Meryl Streep *yawn*

[tazber]

Posted: 11/29/11 at 4:48pm

I found Malick's visual poetry to be profound and deeply thought provoking.

It's hard to explain why I loved it, and I totally get that many people will find it pretentious. But his rhythm and the juxtaposition of images and themes moved me.

I mean there isn't really a narrative, and it's not the kind of movie that has any concern for Aristotilean poetics, but to me that's why it's so transcendent.

It's a movie you absorb.

And just for the record, I'm not one of those arty film snobs. I greatly disliked The Thin Red Line and (as you all know) have a huge soft spot for horror movies and Cormanesque B-flicks.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 11/29/11 at 5:02pm

Ugh...I was SO BORED by The Thin Red Line. I really haven't seen much this year at all. I'll probably watch Tree of Life this weekend and I really want to see The Artist, but it's not running in Chicago yet. It does seem to be the front runner thus far. Rottentomatoes reports 100% positive from Top Critics.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 11/29/11 at 5:11pm

There are so many movies I need to see with The Tree of Life, The Artist, Mink's Cutoff, Take Shelter, We Need to Talk About Kevin, and a bunch of others. Of my favorites of this year so far, one is an awards contender (Drive) while the other two are genre films that are in no way award movies for their respected studios(13 Assassins and Attack the Block*).

*-If there was justice the Basement Jaxx soundtrack did for Attack the Block in addition to the soundtrack the Chemical Brothers did for Hanna would each get nominated for original score.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 11/29/11 at 6:18pm

I cannot imagine why The Immortals was overlooked

The scene with the guy doing his Gallagher impression was a classic.

[tazber]

Posted: 11/29/11 at 7:30pm

Loved 13 Assassins and Attack The Block too, Strummer.

Anything Miike does has my full attention* and Attack The Block was everything Super 8 wanted to be but was too self conscious to achieve.


*on a side note, I just watched Miike's Visitor Q. Has anyone else seen this? If Pasolini's Salo and David Lynch's Eraserhead had a baby, it would be Visitor Q.
There is truly no other director who leaves me as utterly speechless as Miike. And not always in a good way.

[tazber]

Posted: 12/2/11 at 1:38am

NBR picks Hugo for best picture. Also a little Harry Potter love.

And strummer, 13 Assassins was one of the 5 best foreign films.


Best Film Hugo

Top 10 Films
The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
The Ides of March
J. Edgar
The Tree of Life
War Horse

Best Actor George Clooney, The Descendants

Best Actress Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About Kevin

Best Supporting Actor Christopher Plummer, Beginners

Best Supporting Actress Shailene Woodley, The Descendants

Best Director Martin Scorsese, Hugo

Best Original Screenplay Will Reiser, 50/50

Best Adapted Screenplay Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon & Jim Rash, The Descendants

Breakthrough Performance Felicity Jones, Like Crazy and Rooney Mara, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Best Foreign Film A Separation

Top 5 Foreign Films
13 Assassins
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
Footnote
Le Havre
Point Blank

Best Documentary Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory

Top 5 Documentaries
Born to Be Wild
Buck
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Project Nim
Senna

Best Animated Feature Rango

Best Ensemble Cast The Help

Best Debut Director J.C. Chandor, Margin Call

Spotlight Award Michael Fassbender, A Dangerous Method, Jane Eyre, Shame, X-Men: First Class

NBR Freedom of Expression Crime After Crime and Pariah

Special Achievement in Filmmaking The Harry Potter franchise

Top 10 Independent Films
50/50
Another Earth
Beginners
A Better Life
Cedar Rapids
Margin Call
Shame
Take Shelter
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Win Win



link

[tazber]

Posted: 12/11/11 at 5:53pm

LA Film Critics:

Best Picture
The Descendants
(Runner-up: The Tree of Life)

Best Director
Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life
(Runner-up: Martin Scorsese, Hugo)

Best Actor
Michael Fassbender, A Dangerous Method, Jane Eyre, Shame, X-Men: First Class
(Runner-up: Michael Shannon, Take Shelter)

Best Actress
Yun Jung-hee, Poetry
(Runner-up: Kirsten Dunst, Melancholia)

Best Supporting Actor
Christopher Plummer, Beginners
(Runner-up: Patton Oswalt, Young Adult)

Best Supporting Actress
Jessica Chastain, Coriolanus, The Debt, The Help, Take Shelter, Texas Killing Fields, The Tree of Life
(Runner-up: Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs)

Best Animated Film
Rango
(Runner-up: The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn)

Best Documentary/Nonfiction Film
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
(Runner-up: The Arbor)

Best Screenplay
A Separation, Asghar Farhadi
(Runner-up: The Descendants, Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash)

Best Cinematography
The Tree of Life, Emmanuel Lubezki
(Runner-up: City of Life and Death, Cao Yu)

Best Production Design
Hugo, Dante Ferretti
(Runner-up: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Maria Djurkovic)

Best Music/Score
Hanna, The Chemical Brothers
(Runner-up: Drive, Cliff Martinez)

Best Independent/Experimental Film
Spark of Being
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Chastain and Plummer solidify their front runner status.

As do Descendants and Tree of Life

Oswalt and Yun Jung-hee are totally from left field.

Elizabeth Olsen continues to go unrecognized for Martha, Mary....

[tazber]

Posted: 12/11/11 at 6:09pm

Boston Film Critics:

Best Picture
The Artist

Best Actor
Brad Pitt, Moneyball

Best Actress
Michelle Williams, My Week with Marilyn

Best Supporting Actor
Albert Brooks, Drive

Best Supporting Actress
Melissa McCarthy, Bridesmaids

Best Director
Martin Scorsese, Hugo

Best Screenplay
Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin and Stan Chervin, Moneyball

Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki, The Tree of Life

Best Documentary
Project Nim

Best Foreign-Language Film
Incendies

Best Animated Film
Rango

Best Film Editing
Christian Marclay, The Clock
(awarded in memory of Karen Schmeer)

Best New Filmmaker
Sean Durkin, Martha Marcy May Marlene
(awarded in memory of David Brudnoy)

Best Ensemble Cast
Carnage

Best Use of Music in a Film
Tie: Drive and The Artist

[tazber]

Posted: 12/11/11 at 6:14pm

New York Online Critics:

Best Picture The Artist
Best Director Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Best Actor Michael Shannon, Take Shelter
Best Actress Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
Best Supporting Actor Albert Brooks, Drive
Best Supporting Actress Melissa McCarthy, Bridesmaids
Best Screenplay Nat Faxon, Jim Rash, Alexander Payne, The Descendants
Best Ensemble Cast Bridesmaids
Best Foreign Language Film A Separation
Best Documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Best Animated Film The Adventures of Tintin
Breakthrough Performer Jessica Chastain, The Tree of Life, The Debt, The Help, Take Shelter, Texas Killing Fields, Coriolanus
Best Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezski, The Tree of Life
Best Use of Music Ludovic Bource, The Artist
Best Debut Director Joe Cornish, Attack the Block

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The weekend's big winner has to be Albert Brooks who seems to now be catching up to Plummer in the Supporting Actor race.

Also Michael Shannon seems to be claiming the 5th spot in the Best Actor race.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 12/11/11 at 6:17pm

Go Michelle!

Each Awards season I have at least one person (or movie) I'm rooting for, and this year it looks to be Michelle Williams.

Updated On: 12/11/11 at 06:17 PM

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 12/11/11 at 8:38pm

2011 has been one of the strongest years for film in a very long time.

Can't wait for the Oscars to make their announcements and once again illustrate just how all-wrong they get it.