Awards Update Archive for December, 2012
Critics Top Tens Update

The first 100 lists and Zero Dark Thirty leads the Top Tens by a significant margin. Further down the list, The Dark Knight Rises and The Sessions move into the Top 20, and The Master makes a leap forward. Still lots more lists to come …
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Ebert Top-10s, With A Promise Of More To Come
Read the full article »The 2012 Top Ten Lists Updated

It’s still early, but Zero Dark Thirty, Amour and Lincoln rule the top of the Top Ten lists, while Looper, Django Unchained and This is Not a Film make moves upward.
See individual Top Ten Lists here.
Read the full article » 6 Comments »Gurus o’ Gold: All We Want For Christmas Is Our Two Best Pics…

The Gurus wish you all a happy holiday.
But they would be even happier if they could pick a couple of surprise Oscar nominations. And there are also a few nominations that they think might be surprise gifts left under the ol’ Oscar tree.
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As the first lists roll in, Zero Dark Thirty and Amour lead the chart. With just 21 lists, there are more than 85 movies mentioned so far… seems to be a lot of love to go around.
Read the full article » 13 Comments »Gurus o Gold: And All That Was Left Were The Oscar Nominations…

There wasn’t a lot of movement in chart placement this week, though a lot of individual votes shifted.
For a slightly more expanded look at the race, The Gurus each voted for 11 Best Picture candidates and 7 candidates in each of the acting categories and director. Just how close do The Gurus think Javier Bardem, Emmanuelle Riva, and Nicole Kidman are to being nominees? Take a look.
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Given where this season is… these nominations are pretty much a non-event. Really, the one thing that turned up here that could move the meter a touch when Oscar voting starts on Monday (and ends in 3 weeks and a day) is Rachel Weisz, who has now been honored here and by NYFCC. But the rest… not really anything outside of the curve as has been laid out for weeks and months.
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LINCOLN – 7
ARGO – 5
DJANGO UNCHAINED – 5
LES MISERABLES – 4
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK – 4
ZERO DARK THIRTY – 4
LIFE OF PI – 3
SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN – 3
THE MASTER – 3
Gurus o’ Gold: Post-NYFCC/Pre-Globes Nominations

The Gurus patiently waited to opine this week, though about half of the group felt that waiting for Nation Board of Review to announce was completely unnecessary.
The big mover this week was Zero Dark Thirty and director Kathryn Bigelow. There was also a bit of a bump for Django Unchained. Otherwise, it was mostly tightening, including a 6-man race for Best Actor.
Read the full article » 12 Comments »2012 European Film Awards Winners
THE 25th EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS: WINNERS The more than 2,700 members of the European Film Academy—filmmakers from across Europe—have voted for this year’s European Film Awards. At the awards ceremony in Berlin the following awards were presented: EUROPEAN FILM 2012: AMOUR France / Germany / Austria, 127 min Written & directed by Michael Haneke produced…
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