Awards Watch Archive for January, 2013

FP On The Internal CIA Account Of How The Argo Rescue Went Down

FP On The Internal CIA Account Of How The Argo Rescue Went Down

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Critics Top Ten List 2012: Peter Suderman

Peter Suderman The Washington Times Zero Dark Thirty The Avengers Django Unchained The Master The Cabin in the Woods The Grey Magic Mike Killing Me Softly Beasts of the Southern Wild Skyfall  

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Critics Top Ten List 2012: Ryan Painter

Ryan Painter KUTV Argo Beasts of the Southern Wild The Dark Knight Rises Frankenweenie Holy Motors Lincoln Looper The Perks of Being a Wallflower Silver Linings Playbook Zero Dark Thirty  

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Critics Top Ten List 2012: Bob Bloom

Bob Bloom JC Online Zero Dark Thirty Safety Not Guaranteed Les Miserables The Dark Knight Rises Argo Lincoln Silver Linings Playbook Searching for Sugar Man Django Unchained Skyfall  

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Critics Top Ten List 2012: Randy Myers

Randy Myers San Jose Mercury News Zero Dark Thirty Argo The Master Amour Beasts of the Southern Wild Moonrise Kingdom Silver Linings Playbook Looper The Grey In the Family  

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Critics Top Ten List 2012: Duane Dudek

Duane Dudek JS Online Lincoln Argo Zero Dark Thirty Moonrise Kingdom Life of Pi Beasts of the Southern Wild Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of GOd The Imposter Searching for Sugar Man Amour

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Critics Top Ten List 2012: Mack Rawden

Mack Rawden Cinema Blend Argo Silver Linings Playbook Zero Dark Thirty Skyfall Lincoln Pitch Perfect Looper Beasts of the Southern Wild 21 Jump Street Life of Pi

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Critics Top Ten List 2012: Bill Wine

Bill Wine CBS Argo Silver Linings Playbook Skyfall Zero Dark Thirty Les Miserables The Dark Knight Rises The Sessions The Other Son Looper Bully      

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Critics Top Ten List 2012: Joe Williams

Joe Williams St. Louis Today Argo Django Unchained The Impossible Life of Pi The Master Moonrise Kingdom On the Road Samsara Searching for Sugar Man Silver Linings Playbook  

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Critics Top Ten List 2012: Mike Scott

Mike Scott Nola.com Beasts of the Southern Wild Zero Dark Thirty Lincoln Moonrise Kingdom The Sessions Django Unchained Argo Killer Joe Silver Linings Playbook Life of Pi  

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Critics Top Ten List 2012: Tom Charity

Tom Charity CNN Django Unchained The Master Zero Dark Thirty Silver Linings Playbook Beasts of the Southern WIld Life of Pi Killing Them Softly Bernie Skyfall Frankenweenie      

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Critics Top Ten List 2012: Bob Grimm

Bob Grimm Anchorage Press Les Miserables The Impossible Zero Dark Thirty Moonrise Kingdom Looper Safety Not Guaranteed Ruby Sparks Seven Psychopaths Beasts of the Southern Wild The Grey

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Critics Awards 2012: Broadcast Film Critics

Best Picture Argo Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln Best Actress Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty Best Supporting Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master Best Supporting Actress Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables Best Young Actor/Actress Quvenzhane Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild Best Acting Ensemble Silver Linings Playbook Best Director Ben Affleck, Argo Best Original Screenplay Django…

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WINNERS OF THE 18TH ANNUAL CRITICS’ CHOICE MOVIE AWARDS

WINNERS OF THE 18TH ANNUAL CRITICS’ CHOICE MOVIE AWARDS   Best Picture – Argo Best Actor – Daniel Day-Lewis Best Actress – Jessica Chastain Best Supporting Actor – Philip Seymour Hoffman Best Supporting Actress – Anne Hathaway Best Young Actor/Actress – Quvenzhane Wallis Best Acting Ensemble – Silver Linings Playbook Best Director – Ben Affleck…

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AMERICAN CINEMA EDITORS (ACE) ANNOUNCES NOMINEES FOR THE 63RD ANNUAL ACE EDDIE AWARDS RECOGNIZING THE BEST EDITING OF THE YEAR IN FILM,

AMERICAN CINEMA EDITORS (ACE) ANNOUNCES NOMINEES FOR THE 63RD ANNUAL ACE EDDIE AWARDS RECOGNIZING THE BEST EDITING OF THE YEAR IN FILM, TELEVISION AND DOCUMENTARIES Universal City, CA, Jan. 11 –American Cinema Editors (ACE) today announced nominations for the 63rd Annual ACE Eddie Awards recognizing outstanding editing in nine categories of film, television and documentaries. Winners will be…

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Gurus o’ Gold: Nominations Morning (Page 2 of 2)

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Gurus o’ Gold: Nominations Morning (Page 1 of 2)

NOW With More Gurus!

The Gurus take on all the Oscar categories, except for shorts. This round, The Gurus have Lincoln winning 7 Oscars, including Best Picture, Director, Actor, and Adapted Screenplay. And Skyfall would be win the second most Oscars, with three. The second page of nominations can be found here.

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20W2O: “They” – The Oscar Morning Sequel

While there are people/films out ahead in many categories, they are all still open. And there is now a super-idiot-sized Phase 2 in which the fight can be fought. And fought it will be. The public dissection of Lincoln‘s historic veracity – fair or not – has commenced while you were getting your 7am coffee.

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Ebert Oscars

“Quvenzhané utters an incredible scream in Beasts, a cry like an elemental force of nature, and if that cry echoes through the Dolby Theater on February 24, it will be a moment for history.” Ebert Oscars

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O’Hehir Stirs The Hummus Over Bigelow Oscar Rebuff

O’Hehir Stirs The Hummus Over Bigelow Oscar Rebuff

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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