Awards Watch Archive for January, 2015
Critics Top Ten List 2014: Christopher Haskell
MoviePilot Whiplash Breathe In The Drop Joe Captain America: Winter Soldier Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Snowpiercer The Rover Interstellar Transformers 4
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Chicago Examiner Whiplash Selma Boyhood The Grand Budapest Hotel Gone GIrl American Sniper The One I Love Birdman The Imitation Game Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
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1. ‘Whiplash’: Essentially a 107-minute anxiety attack. That’s a compliment.
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To be certain, with the near killing of The Interview at the end of the year, there was plenty to get angry about, but overall 2014 was a pretty darn good year at the movie theater, especially for the genre films that are our primary focus here at Nerdvana.
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Ryan Beltram
There were certainly some surprises in 2014 and kicking off my list is one that had everyone shouting “Everything is awesome.”
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Choosing a top 10 as the curtain falls is not as easy as you might think. This year’s list includes science-fiction (a rare occurrence) and two semi-musicals (even more rare). Sadly, it includes few box office bonanzas. We always love it when we find a commercial hit that is also a gem – a “Forrest Gump” or “Titanic.” It makes me feel less like a jerk. “Gone Girl” is perhaps the closest
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Mike Noyes
There were some pretty amazing films released and some train-wrecks, and a whole lot in-between. Presented here are my ten favorite films of this year. Though, it must be noted that I really wanted to see Inherent Vice and it really annoys me that it’s not getting a wide release until next year, being in limited release just so it can get award nominations.
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Germain Lussier
Top-ten lists can be predictable. They often feature the same 15 or so movies, recycled and reshuffled to a point where it’s pretty obvious those were the best movies of the year — or at least the ones that made it to the top of the consensus pile. But out of the hundreds of films released every year, why cut it off at ten?
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Guardians of the Galaxy was easily one of the most unexpected successes of 2014. At this point it’s easy to expect a particular level of quality from Marvel, but few people were able to predict just how thrilling this space adventure would be.
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Twin Cities Daily Planet 1. Boyhood, directed by Richard Linklater (USA) 2. The Grand Budapest Hotel, directed by Wes Anderson (USA/Germany/UK) 3. Inherent Vice, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (USA) 4. CITIZENFOUR, directed by Laura Poitras (Germany/USA) 5, Blue Ruin, directed by Jeremy Saulnier (USA/France) 6. The Overnighters, directed by Jesse Moss (USA) 7. Tales…
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I think my favorite part of this job is making this list every year. So here it is — my top 10 best films of 2014. You may have heard of some of these film…you might not know any of them. This is it, the best films of the year … (in my opinion). – See more at: http://chelmsford.wickedlocal.com/article/20150107/NEWS/150107674/?Start=1#sthash.NrxBeZyS.dpuf
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: David Poland
I didn’t find bringing this list down to ten to be terribly difficult. I don’t quite know why. There are some films in the other 32 “runners-up” that could have moved into this list. But there was no movie gnawing at me that I feel terrible about not including. It was a good year for films, but it was a year of relative subtlety.
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“If there’s a certain number of viewings at which this film ceases to delight, I haven’t reached it yet. The jokes are still hilarious and get me laughing every time.”
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I’m starting this piece with less than an hour to go in the Oscar voting. And my advice (this is the cheap stuff… if I ever became an awards consultant, my advice would be way more valuable than this) is different for Phase II. But here goes… a list. I hate lists. But it feels like the right format here…
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“There are a lot of heroes in Selma, and the fact that the film deliberately centers on the experiences of the ones who marched, rather than the ones who fought the battle from Washington, isn’t a slap in the face to Johnson or to history. It’s simply a perspective on history that we rarely see, by the…
Read the full article »Critics Top Ten List 2014: Nick Schager
1. Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh) 2. National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman) 3. Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) 4. Gone Girl (David Fincher) 5. A Field in England (Ben Wheatley) 6. Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne) 7. Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer) 8. Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch) 9. Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund)…
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“Golden Globes Fashion: What Will Be This Year’s ‘It’ Color?”
Read the full article »20 Weeks To Oscar: In A Holding Pattern
There will be plenty to do for the next week, as we wait for the only nominations that the industry actually cares about. The Critics Choice Awards… Golden Globes… in some ways, these are really the start of the award season for real people. Neither group is particularly legit and neither will have more than a very, very minor influence on the ultimate Oscar winners. More, these televised awards tend to continue the process the settling.
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Bilge Ebiri On “Oscar Films And The Prison Of Historical Accuracy”
Read the full article »Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Names Boyhood Top Film of 2014
OKLAHOMA CITY, January 5, 2015—The Oklahoma Film Critics Circle, a statewide group of professional film critics, announced its ninth annual list of awards for achievement in cinema, awarding Best Director to Richard Linklater and naming Linklater’s film, Boyhood, the Top Film of 2014. Boyhood’s Patricia Arquette won Best Supporting Actress, giving the film a total of three…
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