19th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards Winners List
Another one for 12 Years a Slave… sigh. Best Picture 12 Years a Slave Best Actress Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine Best Actor Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club Best Supporting Actress Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave Best Supporting Actor Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club Best Director Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity Best Original Screenplay Her Best Adapted Screenplay 12 Years a Slave Best Acting Ensemble American Hustle Best Young Actor/Actress Adele Exarchopoulos, Blue is the Warmest Color Best Animated Feature Frozen Best Documentary Feature 20 Feet From Stardom Best Foreign Language Film Blue is the Warmest Color Best Comedy Film American Hustle Best Actor in a Comedy Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street Best Actress in a Comedy Amy Adams, American Hustle Best Action Movie Lone Survivor Best Actress in an Action Movie Sandra Bullock, Gravity Best Actor in an Action Movie Mark Wahlberg, Lone Survivor Best Song “Let It...
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86th Academy Award Nominations List! AMERICAN HUSTLE and GRAVITY Lead with 10 Nods
You don’t always have to have the most nominations to win Best Picture, but it certainly helps. American Hustle and Gravity, in this case, might just have hurdled past 12 Years a Slave in the Oscar race, scoring 10 nominations each, while 12 Years got nine. Full analysis later. Anyway, here’s the complete list: Best Picture American Hustle Captain Phillips Dallas Buyers Club Gravity Her Nebraska Philomena 12 Years a Slave The Wolf of Wall Street Best Actor Christian Bale, American Hustle (Sony Pictures Releasing) Bruce Dern, Nebraska (Paramount) Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street (Paramount) Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight) Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club (Focus Features) Best Actress Amy Adams, American Hustle (Sony Pictures Releasing) Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine (Sony Pictures Classics) Sandra Bullock, Gravity (Warner Bros.) Judi Dench, Philomena (The Weinstein Company) Meryl Streep, August: Osage County (The Weinstein Company) Best Supporting Actor Barkhad Abdi, Captain Phillips Bradley Cooper, American Hustle Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave...
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The 71st Golden Globes: A Lesson in Awards Show Shenanigans and Politics
The Golden Globes has, in my mind, always been the reckless and rebellious cousin to the Oscars, with the Hollywood Foreign Press’ celebration of cinema and television seeming not quite as stuffy and serious as the Academy’s affair. The party this year, however, got a little out of hand and in not enough of the right ways, either. Some of my criticisms may seem pointlessly unsolvable, and I realize that, especially given my growing and deepening investment in all things film seeming to correlate with my feeling that awards, in general, have grown increasingly predictable. First, let me point out that there were some surprises in the latter portion of this year’s Globes specifically; I was pleased when Robin Wright won for her elegantly wicked turn in House of Cards, and for Andy Samberg and Brooklyn Nine Nine to...
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71st Annual Golden Globe Motion Picture Winners!
Did we just find a chink in the chain of 12 Years a Slave? The film may have one best drama at the Golden Globes last night, but that’s the only award it took home. No director. No screenplay. No score. Maybe the HFPA decided to spread the wealth, or maybe a slavery drama doesn’t have the same impact on foreign media as it does American. We’ll find out more when the Oscar nominations are announced on Thursday, for sure. But right now it looks like there may be some weakness in the frontrunner… even if the Globes mean nothing come Oscar time. BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA 12 Years a Slave BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA Matthew McConaughey, Dallas...
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HFPA Announces 2013 Golden Globe Nominees
More on the 2013 Golden Globe Nominees later, but 12 Years a Slave and American Hustle lead the motion picture pack with 7 nominations each. Here’s the full list of both TV and Movie nominees: Best Motion Picture, Drama 12 Years a Slave Captain Phillips Gravity Philomena Rush Best 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 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 Director – Motion Picture Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity Paul Greengrass, Captain Phillips Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave Alexander Payne, Nebraska David O. Russell, American Hustle Best Screenplay – Motion Picture Spike Jonze, Her Bob Nelson, Nebraska Jeff Pope Steve, Philomena John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave David O. Russell and Eric Singer Warren, American Hustle Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy...
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AFI Picks The Top Ten Movies And TV Shows Of 2013. Snooze Away.
Well, the American Film Institute, a body that should not be picking top tens or best movies of this or any year, has returned once again to deliver the world’s most boring, inconsequential list of top movies and TV programs of 2013. I’ve never liked these lists, 0r the short-lived awards ceremony, primarily because AFI should focus on the history and impact of motion pictures. Putting together a list like this leaves out films like Short Term 12, The Butler, Before Midnight and Spring Breakers for consensus fare. Their list always makes the Academy look like risk takers, that’s how conservative AFI is. And it’s certainly not the Sight and Sound list. Hell, it’s not even capturing the biggest film’s of the year like Hunger Games: Catching Fire or Fast & Furious 6, movies that certainly have a greater cultural impact than most of the ones...
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