Awards Watch Archive for December, 2012

Critics Top Ten List 2012: Andrew O’Hehir, Salon

Andrew O’Hehir 1. Wuthering Heights 2. Holy Motors 3. Amour 4. Zero Dark Thirty 5. Rust And Bone 6. Lincoln 7. Once Upon A Time In Anatolia 8. Whore’s Glory 9. Oslo, August 31 10. Take This Waltz

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Critics Top Ten List 2012: Fred Topel, CRAVE Online

Fred Topel 1. Detention 2. Indie Game: The Movie 3. Looper 4. Holy Motors 5. The Sessions 6. Perks Of Being A Wallflower 7. A Late Quartet 8. ParaNorman 9. The Dark Knight Rises 10. Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning  

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Critics Top Ten List 2012: Neil Young, Tribune

Neil Young 1. Elena 2. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 3. Project X 4. Sightseers 5. Ted 6. Le Havre 7. Damsels In Distress 8. Barbara 9. Cosmopolis 10. Moonrise Kingdom

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Critics Top Ten List 2012: Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

Steven Rea (alphabetical) Amour Beasts of the Southern Wild Flight Lincoln Moonrise Kingdom Rust and Bone Searching for Sugar Man The Sessions Silver Linings Playbook Zero Dark Thirty

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Critics Top Ten List 2012: Col Needham, IMDB

Col Needham 1. Prometheus 2. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 3. Rust and Bone 4. Safety Not Guaranteed  5. Silver Linings Playbook 6. Argo 7. Beasts of the Southern Wild 8. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World 9. Byzantium 10 Life of Pi

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The Woz On Les Mis’ Minx Manxman, Samantha Barks

The Woz On Les Mis‘ Minx Manxman, Samantha Barks

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Critics Top Ten List 2012: Shelly Kraicer

Shelly Kraicer Continuous Coverage, Omer Fast (video installation) Defining Love: A Failed Attempt Four Ways to Die in My Hometown (我故乡的四种死亡方式) Holy Motors Finding Refuge in Ishinomaki In Another Country Leviathan Memories Look at Me (记忆望着我) Perret in France and Algeria Postcards from the Zoo Three Sisters (三姊妹) Small Roads Walker & No Form (行者, 無色)

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Critics Top Ten List 2012: Craig Keller

Craig Keller 1. Like Someone in Love Open Five 2 Louie: Season 3 4. Damsels in Distress 5. Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie 6. Sound of My Voice 7. The Unspeakable Act 8. The Comedy 9. This Is 40 10. Red Flag

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Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Names “Argo” Best Film of 2012

Top 10 Films 1. “Argo.” 2. “Zero Dark Thirty.” 3. “Moonrise Kingdom.” 4. “Django Unchained.” 5. “Silver Linings Playbook.” 6. “Beasts of the Southern Wild.” 7. “The Master.” 8. “Lincoln.” 9. “Looper.” 10. “Les Miserables.” Best Director: Ben Affleck, “Argo.” Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, “Lincoln.” Best Actress: Jessica Chastain, “Zero Dark Thirty.” Best Animated Film: “Wreck-It…

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Critics Top Ten List 2012: Mike Russell, The Oregonian

  Mike Russell 1. Moonrise Kingdom 2. The Master 3. Kill List 4. Cloud Atlas 5. The Avengers/The Cabin in the Woods 6. Damsels in Distress 7. Looper 8. 21 Jump Street 9. Skyfall 10. The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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Critics Top Ten List 2012: Charlie McCollum, San Jose Mercury-News

Charlie McCollum   1. Zero Dark Thirty 2. Lincoln 3. Beasts of the Southern Wild 4. Amour 5. Argo 6. Silver Linings Playbook 7. Moonrise Kingdom 8. Bernie 9. Searching for Sugar Man 10. Skyfall  

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Critics Top Ten List 2012: Drew McWeeny, HitFix

Drew McWeeny 1. Holy Motors 2. Django Unchained 3. The Act Of Killing 4. Cloud Atlas 5. Zero Dark Thirty 6. The Perks Of Being A Wallflower 7. Silver Linings Playbook 8. Looper 9. Moonrise Kingdom 10. This Is 40  

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Critics Top Ten List 2012: Katey Rich, Cinema Blend

Katey Rich 1. The Master 2. Anna Karenina 3. Zero Dark Thirty 4. Bernie 5. Take This Waltz 6. Amour 7. Cloud Atlas 8. Queen of Versailles 9. Holy Motors 10. ParaNorman    

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Critics Top Ten List 2012: Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

Kenneth Turan 1. Amour 2. Argo 3. The Dark Knight Rises 4. Footnote 5. The Gatekeepers / The Law In These Parts 6. Lincoln 7. Rust and Bone 8. Silver Linings Playbook 9. Middle of Nowhere / Robot & Frank / Safety Not Guaranteed 10. Zero Dark Thirty

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Critics Top Ten List 2012: Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Peter Travers The Master Zero Dark Thirty Beasts of the Southern Wild Lincoln Argo Silver Linings Playbook Les Miserables Life of Pi Moonrise Kingdom The Dark Knight Rises

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Critics Top Ten List 2012: Brian D. Johnson, Maclean’s

Brian D. Johnson 1. Zero Dark Thirty 2. Stories We Tell 3. The Master 4. Django Unchained 5. Skyfall 6. Amour 7. Life of Pi 8. Lincoln 9. Beasts of the Southern Wild 10. Silver Linings Playbook

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Critics Top Ten List 2012: Sam Adams, AV Club

Sam Adams Top 15 1. Moonrise Kingdom 2. It’s Such A Beautiful Day 3. Middle Of Nowhere 4. Magic Mike 5. Killer Joe 6. Amour 7. The Deep Blue Sea 8. Wuthering Heights 9. Barbara 10. The Master 11. Zero Dark Thirty 12. Holy Motors 13. Starlet 14. The Perks Of Being A Wallflower 15. Killing Them Softly

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Critics Top Ten List 2012: Scott Tobias, AV Club

Scott Tobias Top 15 1. The Master 2. The Turin Horse 3. The Deep Blue Sea 4. Holy Motors 5. The Loneliest Planet 6. Moonrise Kingdom 7. Once Upon A Time In Anatolia 8. Zero Dark Thirty 9. The Comedy 10. Amour 11. Goodbye First Love 12. Miss Bala 13. Haywire 14. Looper 15. Lincoln

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Critics Top Ten List 2012: Tasha Robinson, AV Club

Tasha Robinson Top 15 1. The Avengers 2. Wreck-It Ralph 3. Zero Dark Thirty 4. Chasing Ice 5. I Wish 6. Where Do We Go Now? 7. The Master 8. Beasts Of The Southern Wild 9. The Secret World Of Arrietty 10. The Cabin In The Woods 11. Life Of Pi 12. The Rabbi’s Cat 13. Cloud Atlas 14. Haywire 15. Looper

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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