SAG Award nominees – UP IN THE AIR snubbed
Don’t ask me how it happened, but Up in the Air missed out on a Best Ensemble nomination when the Screen Actors Guild announced the SAG Award nominees this morning. At this point, I’d like to point out that only Braveheart has ever gone on to win Best Picture at the Oscars without a SAG Ensemble nomination–and that was the SAG Awards’ inaugural year. One things is for sure: Things are certainly looking up for The Hurt Locker. From AwardsDaily: Best Ensemble An Education The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds Nine Precious Best Actress Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side Helen Mirren, The Last Station Carey Mulligan, An Education Gabby Sidibe, Precious Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia Best Actor Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart George Clooney, Up in the Air Colin Firth, A Single Man Morgan Freeman, Invictus Jeremy Renner, The Hurt...
Read MoreBFCA nominees – INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, NINE lead with 10 nods each
After yesterday’s ridiculous AFI list, it’s nice to see that the Broadcast Film Critics Association is in tune with both Oscar and the culture at large. The BFCA is still a critics group, of course. I wouldn’t bet on seeing all ten of their nominees in the Best Picture race. But any group that doesn’t honor The Hangover automatically carries more clout in the long run. BEST PICTURE Nominees: • Avatar • An Education • The Hurt Locker • Inglourious Basterds • Invictus • Nine • Precious • A Serious Man • Up • Up In The Air Full list after the jump. BEST ACTOR Nominees: • Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart • George Clooney – Up In The Air • Colin Firth – A Single Man • Morgan Freeman – Invictus • Viggo Mortensen – The Road •...
Read MoreAFI Awards 2009 – Best films & TV shows of the year
AFI MOVIES OF THE YEAR-OFFICIAL SELECTIONS CORALINE THE HANGOVER THE HURT LOCKER THE MESSENGER PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL ‘PUSH’ BY SAPPHIRE A SERIOUS MAN A SINGLE MAN SUGAR UP UP IN THE AIR AFI TV PROGRAMS OF THE YEAR-OFFICIAL SELECTIONS THE BIG BANG THEORY BIG LOVE FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS GLEE MAD MEN MODERN FAMILY THE NO. 1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY NURSE JACKIE PARTY DOWN TRUE...
Read MoreSpirit Award nominees announced
Precious is moving closer to Oscar and The Last Station has a big fan base (watch out for Plummer). That’s what we learned when both films took six Spirit Award nominations this morning. My only question: Where the hell are the Best Feature nominations for A Serious Man and Goodbye Solo??? Film Independent’s 25th annual Spirit Awards ceremony will be held on Friday, March 5, 2010, at 8 p.m. PT. Full nominee list via IndieWire: BEST FEATURE (Award given to the Producer) “(500) Days Of Summer,” Producers: Mason Novick, Jessica Tuchinsky, Mark Waters, Steven J. Wolfe “Amreeka,” Producers: Paul Barkin, Christina Piovesan “Precious,” Producers: Lee Daniels, Gary Magness, Sarah Siegel-Magness “Sin Nombre,” Producer: Amy Kaufman “The Last Station,” Producers: Bonnie Arnold, Chris Curling, Jens Meuer BEST DIRECTOR Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, “A Serious Man” Lee Daniels, “Precious” Cary Joji...
Read MoreTune-Worthy: Mary J. Blige’s ‘I Can See In Color’ from PRECIOUS
If you’re looking for likely Best Original Song winners at next March’s Oscar ceremony, look no further than Mary J. Blige’s “I Can See in Color” from the Oscar contender Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire. Mary J.’s never even been nominated for Oscar. I know, what a travesty. Well, it’s an honor to be nominated, but this song could get her to the...
Read MoreAn Oscar Education – Predictions Updated
A funny thing happened when I finally saw An Education. I realized that the film, with some of the strongest female characters your likely to see on film this or any year, was going to be a hard sell to the Academy. Carey Mulligan’s role doesn’t fit the mold that Oscar has developed: either deglam or play a famous female figure. If you do both (see: Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose) you get the gold. If you do neither, well, you’re Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada. At least that’s how it used to be. When I wrote my first Oscar post of the season, I mentioned that this year we could finally see a female director win the Best Director statue. I was talking about The Hurt Locker‘s Kathryn Bigelow, who I have since removed...
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