Awards Watch Archive for February, 2011

DP/30: With The Oscar Winners

ACTOR Colin Firth, The King’s Speech ACTRESS Natalie Portman, Black Swan SUPPORTING ACTRESS Melissa Leo, The Fighter DIRECTOR Tom Hooper, The King’s Speech SCREENWRITER Aaron Sorkin, The Social Network CINEMATOGRAPHER Wally Pfister, Inception EDITOR Angus Wall & Kirk Baxter, The Social Network ANIMATED FEATURE Lee Unkrich, Toy Story 3 DOCUMENTARIES Inside Job – director Charles…

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Oscar Night

It’s Oscar Night .. have you filled out your ballot yet?

Get a little help from the Gurus and the results of the Guild Awards and the Critics Scoreboard.

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Gurus o Gold… The FINAL Last Minute Changes (Round 3)

If you are interested in some last minute changes of heart in Doc, Short Doc, and Live Action Short, you’ve found the right link.

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Independent Spirit Awards

Best Picture Black Swan Best Director Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan Best Actress Natalie Portman, Black Swan Best Actor James Franco, 127 Hours Best Supporting Actress Dale Dickey, Winters Bone Best Supporting Male John Hawkes, Winter’s Bone Best Screenplay The Kids Are All Right Best Cinematography Matthew Libatique, Black Swan Best Documentary Exit Through the Gift…

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Spirits’ Swan-ey River: Film, Portman, Aronofsky, Libatique; Big Kiss To Kids Script

Spirits’ Swan-ey River: Film, Portman, Aronofsky, Libatique; Big Kiss To Kids Script

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The Guild Awards

The Guild Awards … DGA | PGA | WGA | SAG | Art Directors | Cinematographers | Editors | Costume Designers

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The Guild Awards

The Guild Awards … Director’s Guild  Producers Guild Writers Guild Screen Actors Guild Art Directors  Cinematographers  Cinema Editors  Costume Designers

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“Does it surprise anyone to learn that James Franco has had two guys filming every moment of his Oscar rehearsals?”

“Does it surprise anyone to learn that James Franco has had two guys filming every moment of his Oscar rehearsals?”

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Gurus o Gold… Last Minute Changes (Round 2)

The Last Full Gurus Chart Last Minute Changes (Round One) Gregory Ellwood Best Documentary Feature * Inside Job – 1 Best documentary short subject * The Warriors of Qiugang – 1 Best live action short film * Na Wewe – 1 Original screenplay * The King’s Speech – 1 Pete Hammond BEST DIRECTOR: David Fincher…

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3 Days To Oscar

We’re almost there… just a few more parties… a few more gowns… a few more hours of watching the Sunday sound and fury… and then… we start all over again!

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Oscars And ABC Extend Contract To 2020

Oscars And ABC Extend Contract To 2020

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Longworth On Oscar’s Very Safe Bets

Longworth On Oscar’s Very Safe Bets

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“‘I think there’s something about the Oscars that makes people want to party”

“‘I think there’s something about the Oscars that makes people want to party,’ says Debbie Laiche, whose signature dish involves seven layers of multicolored Jell-O, cut in mini-squares.”

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Sherak On Banksy

“Does that mean he couldn’t run on? Sure he could. Listen, he’d run right over me. I’m not gonna stand up to stop him. Nobody is, that’s not what we do. Would this be fun? I guess to some people.” Sherak On Banksy

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Gurus o’ Last Minute Changes (Round 1)

Here are 10 last minutes changes that Gurus would like to make to their
final ballots
.

We’ll be back on Thursday and then again on Saturday if there are any more last second flashes of insight!

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American Cinema Editors: 2010 ACE Awards

Best Edited Feature, Drama The Social Network Best Edited Feature Comedy/Musical Alice in Wonderland Best Edited Animated Feature Toy Story 3 Best Edited Documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop Best Edited Miniseries or Movie for TV Temple Grandin Best Edited 1/2-Hour Series Modern Family Best Edited 1-Hour Series Walking Dead Best Edited 1-Hour Non-Commercial Series…

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Art Director’s Guild 2010 Awards

Excellence In Production Design For A Period Feature Film The King’s Speech Excellence In Production Design For A Fantasy Feature Film Inception Excellence In Production Design For A Contemporary Feature Film Black Swan

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Costume Designers Guild 2010 Awards

Excellence in Contemporary Film “Black Swan” – Amy Westcott Excellence in Period Film “The King’s Speech” – Jenny Beavan Excellence in Fantasy Film “Alice in Wonderland” – Colleen Atwood Outstanding Made for Television Movie or Miniseries “Temple Grandin” – Cindy Evans Outstanding Contemporary Television Series “Glee” – Lou Eyrich Outstanding Period/Fantasy Television Series “Boardwalk Empire”…

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DP/30 – 43 Oscar Nominees

ACTOR Javier Bardem, Biutiful Jeff Bridges, True Grit Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network with Andrew Garfield James Franco, 127 Hours Colin Firth, The King’s Speech ACTRESS Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s Bone Natalie Portman, Black Swan Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine SUPPORTING ACTRESS Amy Adams, The Fighter Melissa Leo, The Fighter Hailee Steinfeld, True…

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American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) 2010 Awards

Best Feature Wally Pfister, Inception Television Episodic Series/Pilot Jonathan Freeman, Boardwalk Empire Television Movie/Miniseries Stephen Windon, The Pacific

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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