Awards Watch Archive for January, 2011

PGA Bow To King’s Speech A Game Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch?

PGA Bow To King’s Speech A Game Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch?

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Producers Guild 2010 Awards

The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures THE KING’S SPEECH Producers: Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin The Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures TOY STORY 3 Producer: Darla K. Anderson The Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures WAITING FOR ‘SUPERMAN’ Producer: Lesley Chilcott The…

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The Costume Designers Guild Nominates…

The Costume Designers Guild Nominates…

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Eisenberg: “Every time I hear about an award or a nomination, it makes me realize how much I must’ve been losing before.”

Eisenberg: “Every time I hear about an award or a nomination, it makes me realize how much I must’ve been losing before.”

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Oscar’s Foreign Lingo Shortlist

Oscar’s Foreign Lingo Shortlist: Biutiful, Dogtooth, Incendies, In A Better World, Outside The Law, Confessions, Simple Simon, Life Above All, Even The Rain

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The Golden Globes 2010 Awards

Cecil B. DeMille Award Robert De Niro Best Motion Picture Drama The Social Network Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama Natalie Portman, Black Swan Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama Colin Firth, The King’s Speech Best Director Motion Picture David Fincher, The Social Network Best Foreign Language Film In a Better World (Denmark)…

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The Golden Globes Movie Winners

The Golden Globes Movie Winners And – The Updated Scoreboard

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Vancouver Film Critics 2010 Awards

BEST FILM The Social Network BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Carlos BEST DIRECTOR David Fincher, The Social Network BEST ACTOR Colin Firth, The King’s Speech BEST ACTRESS Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s Bone BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Christian Bale, The Fighter BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit BEST SCREENPLAY Aaron Sorkin, The Social Network BEST DOCUMENTARY Exit Through…

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Critics’ Choice Goes Social/First/Portman/Bale/Leo

Inception Leads With Six (Smaller) Wins Critics’ Choice Goes Social/First/Portman/Bale/Leo

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Iowa Film Critics 2010 Awards

Best Film The Social Network Best Director David Fincher, The Social Network Best Actor Colin Firth, The King’s Speech Best Actress Natalie Portman, Black Swan Best Supporting Actor Christian Bale, The Fighter Best Supporting Actress Melissa Leo, The Fighter Best Animated Film Toy Story 3 Best Film That Has Yet to Open in Iowa Another…

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7 Weeks To Oscar: And So, Phase One Ends…

Ballots are in. Will anything change from now until Oscar night?

Could be. But probably not.

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Gurus o’ Gold, 1/12/11

The Gurus have as narrow a view of most of the guilds seem to have right now. So like the selections, the page will go unadorned today. Mila Kunis and Jeremy Renner have some heat, as The Gurus look at the Supporting Acting categories, which just last month looked like free-for-alls. And the Directors are down to a list of 6 contenders.

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The Top Tens: January 12, 2011

As we get closer to finishing the 2010, the top of the chart seems solid. Nothing changes in the top ten, but Everyone Else moves up into the rankings.

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Critics Top Ten List 2010: Scott Tobias

Scott Tobias The Onion AV Club 1. Dogtooth 2. Winter’s Bone 3. Carlos 4. The Social Network 5. Exit Through The Gift Shop 6. Everyone Else 7. Shutter Island 8. Mother 9. Toy Story 3 10. Restrepo

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Critics Top Ten List 2010: Nathan Rabin

Nathan Rabin Onion AV Club 1.Blue Valentine 2. Black Swan 3. Greenberg 4. Best Worst Movie 5. Inception 6. Exit Through The Gift Shop 7. The Social Network 8. The King’s Speech 9. True Grit 10. Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World

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Critics Top Ten List 2010: Keith Phipps

Keith Phipps The Onion AV Club 1. Winter’s Bone 2. Black Swan 3. The Social Network 4. Inception 5. Toy Story 3 6. True Grit 7. Exit Through The Gift Shop 8. Mother 9. Rabbit Hole 10. Carlos

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Critics Top Ten List 2010: Noel Murray

Noel Murray The Onion AV Club Black Swan Winter’s Bone The Social Network Mother The Illusionist Greenberg Inception Carlos Dogtooth True Grit

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Critics Top Ten List 2010: David Ehrenstein

David Ehrenstein LA Weekly The Ghost Writer Howl I Am Love Inferno Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench The Social Network The City of Your Final Destination The Kids Are All Right

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Critics Top Ten List 2010: Bruce Ingram

Bruce Ingram Pioneer Press Winter’s Bone The Social Network The Ghost Writer The King’s Speech The Fighter True Grit Toy Story 3 Buried Night Catches Us Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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Critics Top Ten List 2010: Joanne Thornborough

Joanne Thornborough The Daily Journal Winter’s Bone The Social Network Kick-Ass Inception Toy Story 3 Hereafter Let Me In Tangled Scott Pilgrim v. the World The Runaways

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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.”
~ 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