Awards Watch Archive for January, 2004

Cesar Awards

Best Picture Les Invasions barbares by Denys Arcand Best Director Denys Arcand for Les Invasions barbares Best Foreign Film Mystic River by Clint Eastwood Best Foreign Picture from the European Union Good bye Lenin! by Wolfgang Becker Best Actor Omar Sharif for Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran Best Actress Sylvie Testud for Stupeur…

Read the full article »

Boston Film Critics

Picture Mystic River Runners Up Lost in Translation Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Director Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation) Runner Up Peter Jackson (LOTR: Return Of The King) New Filmmaker Andrew Jarecki (Capturing the Friedmans) Runner Up Sylvain Chomet (The Triplets of Belleville) Actor Bill Murray (Lost in Translation) Runner-Up Sean…

Read the full article »

Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards

Best Picture The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Best Actor Sean Penn – Mystic River Best Actress Charlize Theron – Monster Best Supporting Actor Tim Robbins – Mystic River Best Supporting Actress Renee Zellweger – Cold Mountain Best Acting Ensemble The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Best…

Read the full article »

British Academy Film Awards

FILM OF THE YEAR The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Barrie M Osborne/Fran Walsh/Peter Jackson The Alexander Korda Award OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM OF THE YEAR Touching the Void – John Smithson/Kevin MacDonald The Carl Foreman Award for special achievement by a British Director/Producer or Writer in their first feature film Emily…

Read the full article »

American Society of Cinematographers

WINNERS Best Cinematography – Feature Film John Schwartzman – Seabiscuit Best Cinematography – Episodic Television “Pick a Number” – Carnivale – Jeffrey Jur Best Cinematography – Television Moive, Miniseries, or Pilot – Cable or Pay Carnivale “Pilot” – Tami Reiker Best Cinematography – Television Movie, Miniseries, or Pilot – Network Television Hitler: The Rise of…

Read the full article »

Annie Awards

Winners PRODUCTION CATEGORIES Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Theatrical Feature “Finding Nemo” – Pixar Animation Studios Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Home Entertainment Production “The Animatrix” – Silver Pictures/Warner Home Video Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Short Subject “Boundin” – Pixar Animation Studios Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Television Commercial Lamisil: “It’s Alive” – Wild…

Read the full article »

American Film Institute Top Ten

2003 Movies of the Year American Splendor Finding Nemo The Human Stain In America The Last Samurai The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Lost in Translation Master and Commander Monster Mystic River 2003 TV Programs of the Year Alias Angels in America Arrested Development Everybody Loves Raymond Joan of Arcadia Nip/Tuck…

Read the full article »

Art Directors Guild

Best Production Design – Period or Fantasy – Motion Picture Girl with a Pearl Earring – Ben Van Os The Last Samurai – Lilly Kilvert The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Grant Major Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl – Brian Morris Seabiscuit – Jeannine Oppewall…

Read the full article »

American Cinema Editors

BEST FILM EDITING (DRAMA) Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King BEST FILM EDITING (COMEDY) Pirates of the Caribbean BEST FILM EDITING (DOCUMENTARY) Spellbound Best Film Editing – Half Hour Television Series Will & Grace – “Last Ex to Brooklyn” – Peter Chakos Best Film Editing – Hour Television Series 24 – “10…

Read the full article »

2003-2004 Critics Scoreboard

Follow us as we shadow national and international awards among the following movies: 21 Grams, A Mighty Wind, All the Real Girls, American Splendor, Bad Santa, Bend it Like Beckham, Big Fish, Blue Car, Calendar Girls, City of God, Cold Mountain, Dirty Pretty Things, Elephant, Finding Nemo, Freaky Friday, Girl With a Pearl Earring, House of Sand and Fog, In America, Japanese Story, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Laurel Canyon, Lost in Translation, Love Actually, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Monsieur Ibrahim, Monster, Morvern Callar, Mystic River, Open Range, Pieces of April, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Raising Victor Vargas, Seabiscuit, Shattered Glass, Soldier’s Girl, Something’s Gotta Give, Spider, The Barbarian Invasions, The Cooler, The Human Stain, The Last Samurai, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Magdalene Sisters, The School of Rock, The Secret Lives of Dentists, The Singing Detective, The Station Agent, Thirteen, Under the Tuscan Sun, Veronica Guerin, Virgin, Whale Rider

Read the full article »

Awards Watch

Quote Unquotesee all »

It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?

So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.

And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.

There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.

I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.

So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.

But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”

My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher

“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.

~ David Simon