Gurus o’ Gold: November 22, 2011


Rank Last Chart Best Picture BreznicanEllwoodHammondHarrisHowellKargerOlsenPolandPondStoneTapleyThompsonVanAirsdaleWloszczyna 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 BreznicanEllwoodHammondHarrisHowellKargerOlsenPolandPondStoneTapleyThompsonVanAirsdaleWloszczyna 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
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6 Responses to “Gurus o’ Gold: November 22, 2011”

  1. hcat says:

    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?

  2. Danella Isaacs says:

    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.

  3. movielocke says:

    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…

  4. hcat says:

    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

  5. prettok says:

    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.

  6. Blindowl says:

    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.