Gurus o’ Gold: November 22, 2011
Rank | Last Chart | Best Picture | Breznican | Ellwood | Hammond | Harris | Howell | Karger | Olsen | Poland | Pond | Stone | Tapley | Thompson | VanAirsdale | Wloszczyna | Votes | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 |
The Artist |
1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 157 | |
2 | 1 |
The Descendants |
5 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 153 | |
3 | 3 |
War Horse |
2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 137 | |
4 | 4 |
Midnight In Paris |
9 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 14 | 108 | |
5 | 5 |
The Help |
6 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 105 | |
6 | 6 |
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close |
12 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 13 | 85 | ||
7 | 7 |
Moneyball |
10 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 72 | |||
8 | 8 |
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo |
4 | 9 | 8 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 12 | 59 | |||
t9 | 9 |
The Tree Of Life |
7 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 13 | 52 | ||
t9 |
Hugo |
8 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 11 | 12 | 52 | ||||
10 |
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy |
10 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 12 | 45 | ||||
The Ides of March |
9 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 23 | |||||||||||
Young Adult |
3 | 10 | 2 | 13 | |||||||||||||||
The Iron Lady |
9 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 9 | ||||||||||||||
J Edgar |
11 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 4 | 7 | |||||||||||||
My Week With Marilyn |
9 | 12 | 2 | 5 | |||||||||||||||
Shame |
12 | 11 | 12 | 3 | 4 | ||||||||||||||
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Pt. 2 |
12 | 11 | 2 | 3 | |||||||||||||||
One Vote Wonders | |||||||||||||||||||
Margin Call |
10 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
Drive |
11 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
The Adventures of Tintin |
11 | 1 | 2 |
Rank | Last Chart | I\'d Be Thankful For This Unexpected Nomination | Breznican | Ellwood | Hammond | Harris | Howell | Karger | Olsen | Poland | Pond | Stone | Tapley | Thompson | VanAirsdale | Wloszczyna | Votes | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kirsten Dunst Melancholia |
* | * | * | * | * | 5 | 5 | ||||||||||||
Shame |
* | * | * | 3 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
Nick Nolte Warrior |
* | * | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
Andy Serkis Rise of the Planet of the Apes |
* | * | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
Drive |
* | * | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
Michael Shannon Take Shelter |
* | * | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
One Vote Wonders | |||||||||||||||||||
Kristin Wiig Bridesmaids, Best Actress |
* | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Jodie Foster Carnage, Best Supporting Actress |
* | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Steven Soderbergh Contagion, Director |
* | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Brad Pitt The Tree of Life |
* | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Robert Forster The Descendants |
* | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Sir Ben Kingsley Hugo |
* | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Uggie the dog The Artist |
* | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Cars 2 NOT Nominated For Animated Feature |
* | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Patton Oswalt Young Adult |
* | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Melissa McCarthy Bridemaids |
* | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Olivia Colman Tyranasaur |
* | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
The Ides of March |
* | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Owen Wilson Midnight in Paris |
* | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Ezra Miller We Need to Talk About Kevin |
* | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Ralph Fiennes Coriolanus, Best Director |
* | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Mia Wasikowska Jane Eyre |
* | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Joseph Gordon-Levitt 50/50 |
* | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Tom McCarthy Win Win original screenplay |
* | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Corey Stoll Midnight in Paris |
* | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Jessica Chastain The Help |
* | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Lynne Ramsay We Need to Talk About Kevin |
* | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Mike Mills Beginners, Original Screenplay |
* | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Drake Doremus Like Crzay |
* | 1 | 1 |
Just to be sure, everything except War Horse and Dragon Tatoo has started screening already and even if the guru’s have not seen the movie there is buzz, whispers, assurances of quality etc…
And does anyone think that Dragon Tatoo would be continously mentioned if it was not Fincher at the helm? Judging from the already released version, there’s no amazing depth to the material and I don’t see how everyone is so sure that Fincher is going to be able to craft some Oscar level film. If Mann decided to film some Alex Cross beachreader would we have been chomping at the bit for all these months for it?
Good point, hcat, although “Girl” is likely one notch above an “Alex Cross beachreader.” I assume it’s that those “Girl” books have just been soooo popular; I sometimes think I’m the only person in the US who CAN read who hasn’t read them. And even a work of low-to-middlebrow “popular fiction” (“Bonfire of the Vanities,” anyone) somehow seems prestigious compared to “lower” narrative forms like the cinema, so people are salivating. I did see the Swedish film, and the trailer for the Fincher version looks like exactly the same film, with better-known actors. I almost feel like we’re back in the days of the early talkies, when they shot a second version of the same film, “Dracula,” for instance, on the same sets in a second language because they didn’t think people liked subtitles. Well, they turned out to be right about that.
Actually they didn’t have subtitles when Dracula came out. That’s why Eskimo still used intertitles to translate the Inuit dialogue, as though it were a silent film. Using subtitles on an optical printer came a year or two after that.
I’m curious about Dave dropping We Bought a Zoo this week. I know the vast majority of cineastes, oscar watchers, and critics have already prejudged the film and made up their minds to hate it more than any other film this year, but I was curious if the film might Blind Side the race a bit by touching a nerve with Oscar emotions…
Ever since the first trailer for Zoo dropped it was apparent that Fox was not going for anything more than a Marley and Me family lite drama. Not that its particularly a bad thing, they can do wonders with pleasant by the numbers comedies. But the Crowe fans just will not give up hope that it might be something sublime. Crowe is a great talent and hopefully a big hit with Zoo will get his career back on track but with the current ads and the PG rating, this is not looking like the Crowe movie his fans have been waiting for. Hopefully next year.
and Ms. Isaacs, Bonfire of the Vanities a work of low to middlebrow popular fiction? I would hope you are routinely reading untranslated Nabakov to justify peering down your nose at Wolfe like that. 🙂
Now A Man in Full, that’s fair game
Speaking of Bonfire, it’s been 20 years now. How long before another filmmaker decides to take a crack at it? The story might actually work better now that it’s a period piece.
I think it’s interesting that the top five films are, so far, clearly delineated from he rest (the sixth film is twenty points below). Maybe the Academies move to up to ten best picture nominees wasn’t warranted afterall – just an observation.