Awards Watch Archive for December, 2007

The Top Ten Chart for December 30, 2007

By MCN Editor - Sunday, December 30th, 2007
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The Top Ten Chart for December 28, 2007

By MCN Editor - Friday, December 28th, 2007
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The Top Ten Chart for December 26, 2007

By MCN Editor - Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
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The Top Ten Chart for December 24, 2007

By MCN Editor - Monday, December 24th, 2007
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The Top Ten Chart for December 23, 2007

By MCN Editor - Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
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The Top Ten Chart for December 21, 2007

By MCN Editor - Friday, December 21st, 2007
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Best Screenplay Chart

By David Poland - Thursday, December 20th, 2007

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Writer(s) – Film GG Comment Michael Clayton Tony Gilroy Juno Diablo Cody * The Savages Tamara Jenkins Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead Kelly Masterson Lars & The Real Girl Nancy Oliver Knocked Up I’m Not There Margot At The Wedding American Gangster In The Valley Of Elah BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Writer(s)…

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Best Actress Chart

By David Poland - Thursday, December 20th, 2007

BEST ACTRESS Actress – Film GG SAG Comment Marion Cotillard – La Vie En Rose M/C A Julie Christie – Away From Her D A Keira Knightley – Atonement D Ellen Page – Juno M/C A Helena Bonham Carter – Sweeney Todd M/C Angelina Jolie – A Mighty Heart D A Laura Linney – The…

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Best Actor Chart

By David Poland - Thursday, December 20th, 2007

BEST ACTOR Actor – Film GG SAG Comment Johnny Depp – Sweeney Todd C/M Daniel Day Lewis – There Will Be Blood D A George Clooney – Michael Clayton D A Ryan Gosling – Lars C/M A Viggo Mortensen – Eastern Promises D A James McAvoy – Atonement D Phillip Seymour Hoffman – The Savages…

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Best Director Chart

By David Poland - Thursday, December 20th, 2007

BEST DIRECTOR Director – Film GG Comment The Best Picture Runners The Coen Bros – No Country For Old Men * Tony Gilroy – Michael Clayton Tim Burton – Sweeney Todd * Joe Wright – Atonement * The Superstars Of Directing ’07 Paul Thomas Anderson – There Will Be Blood Julian Schnabel – The Diving…

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Best Picture Chart

By David Poland - Thursday, December 20th, 2007

BEST PICTURE Release Date Picture Studio Globe Nom Comment Nov 9 No Country For Old Men Mira D The most locked Oct 5 Michael Clayton WB D The most likely consensus builder Dec 21 Sweeney Todd DW M/C The most muscled one Dec 7 Atonement Focus D The most in need of Leno and Letterman…

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10 Weeks To Go The Last Oscar Column (Until January 3)

By David Poland - Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Well, we’re down to where we were a month ago! Back on November 15, I wrote: “It’s also an unusual year because so many of these films are so good.  Everyone has personal favorites and films they just don’t like, but if you run down the list of the dozen or so films still in…

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The Top Ten Chart for December 16, 2007

By MCN Editor - Sunday, December 16th, 2007
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Best Actress Chart

By David Poland - Thursday, December 13th, 2007

BEST ACTRESS Actress – Film GG Comment Marion Cotillard – La Vie En Rose M/C Helena Bonham Carter – Sweeney Todd M/C Julie Christie – Away From Her D Keira Knightley – Atonement D Ellen Page – Juno M/C Laura Linney – The Savages Angelina Jolie – A Mighty Heart D Amy Adams – Enchanted…

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Best Actor Chart

By David Poland - Thursday, December 13th, 2007

BEST ACTOR Actor – Film GG Comment Johnny Depp – Sweeney Todd C/M Daniel Day Lewis – There Will Be Blood D George Clooney – Michael Clayton D James McAvoy – Atonement D Phillip Seymour Hoffman – The Savages C/M Josh Brolin – No Country For Old Men Denzel Washington – American Gangster D Tom…

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Best Director Chart

By David Poland - Thursday, December 13th, 2007

BEST DIRECTOR Director – Film GG Comment The Best Picture Runners The Coen Bros – No Country For Old Men * Tony Gilroy – Michael Clayton Tim Burton – Sweeney Todd * Joe Wright – Atonement * The Superstars Of Directing ’07 Julian Schnabel – The Diving Bell & The Butterfly * Sidney Lumet –…

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Best Picture Chart

By David Poland - Thursday, December 13th, 2007

BEST PICTURE Release Date Picture Studio Globe Nom Globe Guess Comment Oct 5 Michael Clayton WB D D The silent killer Dec 21 Sweeney Todd DW M/C M/C There will be a lot of talk about blood Nov 9 No Country For Old Men Mira D D Already quieting down… but still “in” Dec 7…

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12 Weeks To Go Around The World In 80 Nominations

By David Poland - Thursday, December 13th, 2007

Wow… that was… muted. It is odd that I find myself becoming The Awards Curmudgeon (trademark pending) while at the same time a fan of the idea of The Season.  I think it is a result of the hype overload – to which I am a party – that gets bigger and bigger every year……

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Best Screenplay Chart

By David Poland - Thursday, December 13th, 2007

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Writer(s) – Film GG Comment Michael Clayton Tony Gilroy Juno Diablo Cody * The Savages Tamara Jenkins Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead Kelly Masterson Lars & The Real Girl Nancy Oliver Knocked Up I’m Not There Margot At The Wedding American Gangster In The Valley Of Elah BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Writer(s)…

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59 Songs Tune Up For 2007 Oscar®

By David Poland - Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Beverly Hills, CA — Fifty-nine songs from eligible feature-length motion pictures are being considered in the Original Song category for the 80th Academy Awards®, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today. The original songs, along with the motion picture in which each song is featured, are listed below in alphabetical order by…

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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.”
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“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