Awards Watch Archive for January, 2013

2012 Critics Awards: Oklahoma Film Critics

Best Film Argo Zero Dark Thirty Moonrise Kingdom Django Unchained Silver Linings Playbook Beasts of the Southern Wild The Master Lincoln Looper Les Misérables Best Director Ben Affleck (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…

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2012 Critics Awards: Central Ohio Film Critics

Best Film Moonrise Kingdom Best Director Wes Anderson (Moonrise Kingdom) Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln) Best Actress Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook) Best Supporting Actor ChristophWaltz (Django Unchained) Best Supporting Actress Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables) Best Original Screenplay Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola (Moonrise Kingdom) Best Adapted Screenplay Tony Kushner (Lincoln) Best Animated Film ParaNorman…

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2012 Critics Awards: North Texas Film Critics

Best Picture: Lincoln

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2012 Critics Awards: Alliance of Women Film Journalists

Best Film – Zero Dark Thirty

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2012 Critics Awards: Vancouver Film Critics

INTERNATIONAL AWARDS BEST FILM Zero Dark Thirty BEST ACTOR Joaquin Phoenix, The Master BEST ACTRESS Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Amy Adams, The Master BEST DIRECTOR Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty BEST SCREENPLAY Mark Boal, Zero Dark Thirty BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Holy Motors BEST DOCUMENTARY Searching for Sugar Man…

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2012 Critics Awards Scoreboard

With 29 critics groups voting, Lincoln is at the top of the scoreboard, with Zero Dark Thirty, The Master and Argo just behind. ParaNorman is the animated favorite, while is a wide field for documentaries…

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65th Annual DGA Awards Feature Film Nominees Announced

LOS ANGELES, CA: On January 8, 2013, DGA President Taylor Hackford announced the five nominees for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2012. “DGA members have chosen an incredibly rich and varied group of filmmakers to nominate for this year’s Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film Award. These directors represent the…

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The International Dimension Of Life Of Pi’s $400 Million Box Office

The International Dimension Of Life Of Pi‘s $400 Million Box Office

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Vancouver Film Critics Go Zero Dark Thirty, Bigelow, Chastain, Boal

Vancouver Film Critics Go Zero Dark Thirty, Bigelow, Chastain, Boal And – A New Award Named For Local Film “Community Builder” Ian Caddell, Who Died In November

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ZERO DARK THIRTY PICKS UP FOUR VFCC AWARDS

BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW AND REBELLE LEAD CANADIAN WINNERS VANCOUVER, B.C. – Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty has won Best Film at the 13th Annual Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards, held at the Railway Club in Vancouver on Monday night. Bigelow’s controversial account of the hunt for Osama bin Laden also earned Best Director, Best Actress (Jessica Chastain) and Best Screenplay (Mark…

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Alliance Of Women Film Journalists Play Take 5 For Zero Dark Thirty

Alliance Of Women Film Journalists Play Take 5 For Zero Dark Thirty

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ALLIANCE OF WOMENS FILM JOURNALISTS ANNOUNCES 7TH ANNUAL EDA AWARD WINNERS

January 7, 2013 – The Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ), a membership organization of leading women film journalists and critics from across the U.S., Canada and the U.K., has announced the winners of its 7th Annual EDA Awards. Starting with Best Film, “Zero Dark Thirty” swept the AWFJ EDA “Best of” categories with five…

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Gurus o’ Gold: 3 Days From Nominations

Refreshed from the holiday break, the Gurus take one last shot at Picture, Acting, and Directing just hours before the DGA nominations and 55 hours before the Oscar nominations are announced.

Look for charts of all categories (except shorts) by Thursday afternoon.

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Francine Prose On Amour

“Haneke is to be praised and admired for filming—so beautifully and so truthfully—straight down into the abyss, and for inviting us to take a long hard look at what’s there.” Francine Prose On Amour

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Visual Effects Society’s 11th Annual Awards Nominees Led By Hobbit, Avengers, Pi

Visual Effects Society’s 11th Annual Awards Nominees Led By Hobbit, Avengers, Life Of Pi

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Visual Effects Society Announces Nominees for 11th Annual VES Awards

Warner Bros.’ ‘The Hobbit,’ Paramount’s ‘The Avengers’ and Fox’s ‘Life of Pi’ Lead Feature Nominations Los Angeles – The Visual Effects Society (VES) is pleased to announce the nominees for the 11th Annual VES Awards, which recognize outstanding visual effects artistry in 24 categories of film, animation, television, commercials and video games. Nominees were selected…

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2012 Critics Awards: Utah Film Critics

Best Picture Zero Dark Thirty Best Achievement in Directing Wes Anderson, Moonrise Kingdom Best Lead Performance by an Actor Joaquin Phoenix, The Master Best Lead Performance by an Actress Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook & Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty (Tie) Best Supporting Performance by an Actor Dwight Henry, Beasts of the Southern Wild Best…

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2012 Critics Awards: Nevada Film Critics

Best Film – Argo

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2012 Critics Awards: Online Film Critics

Best Picture Argo Best Director Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master) 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 Misérables) Best Original Screenplay Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola (Moonrise Kingdom) Best Adapted Screenplay Chris Terrio (Argo) Best Cinematography…

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“The category is called best foreign language film, not best foreign language film as selected by an overly politicized committee in every nation of the world.”

“The category is called best foreign language film, not best foreign language film as selected by an overly politicized committee in every nation of the world.”

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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