It is official, the movie award season has kicked off and the top nominees are The Artist and Hugo (YAY FOR HUGO!!!). The other nominees are as follows:
BEST PICTURE
"The Artist"
"The Descendants"
"Drive"
"Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close"
"The Help"
"Hugo"
"Midnight in Paris"
"Moneyball"
"The Tree of Life"
"War Horse"
BEST ACTOR
George Clooney – "The Descendants"
Leonardo DiCaprio – "J. Edgar"
Jean Dujardin – "The Artist"
Michael Fassbender – "Shame"
Ryan Gosling – "Drive"
Brad Pitt – "Moneyball"
BEST ACTRESS
Viola Davis – "The Help"
Elizabeth Olsen – "Martha Marcy May Marlene"
Meryl Streep – "The Iron Lady"
Tilda Swinton – "We Need to Talk About Kevin"
Charlize Theron – "Young Adult"
Michelle Williams – "My Week With Marilyn"
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Kenneth Branagh – "My Week With Marilyn"
Albert Brooks – "Drive"
Nick Nolte – "Warrior"
Patton Oswalt – "Young Adult"
Christopher Plummer – "Beginners"
Andrew Serkis – "Rise of the Planet of the Apes"
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Berenice Bejo – "The Artist"
Jessica Chastain – "The Help"
Melissa McCarthy – "Bridesmaids"
Carey Mulligan – "Shame"
Octavia Spencer – "The Help"
Shailene Woodley – "The Descendants"
BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Asa Butterfield – "Hugo"
Elle Fanning – "Super 8"
Thomas Horn – "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close"
Ezra Miller – "We Need to Talk About Kevin"
Saoirse Ronan – "Hanna"
Shailene Woodley – "The Descendants"
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
"The Artist"
"Bridesmaids"
"The Descendants"
"The Help"
"The Ides of March"
BEST DIRECTOR
Stephen Daldry – "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close"
Michel Hazanavicius – "The Artist"
Alexander Payne – "The Descendants"
Nicolas Winding Refn – "Drive"
Martin Scorsese – "Hugo"
Steven Spielberg – "War Horse"
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
"The Artist" – Michel Hazanavicius
"50/50" – Will Reiser
"Midnight in Paris" – Woody Allen
"Win Win" – Screenplay by Tom McCarthy, Story by Tom McCarthy & Joe Tiboni
"Young Adult" – Diablo Cody
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
"The Descendants" – Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
"Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" – Eric Roth
"The Help" – Tate Taylor
"Hugo" – John Logan
"Moneyball" – Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, Story by Stan Chervin
BEST ART DIRECTION
"The Artist": Production Designer: Laurence Bennett, Art Director: Gregory S. Hooper
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2": Production Designer: Stuart Craig, Set Decorator: Stephenie McMillan
"Hugo": Production Designer: Dante Ferretti, Set Decorator: Francesca Lo Schiavo
"The Tree of Life": Production Designer: Jack Fisk, Art Director: David Crank
"War Horse": Production Designer: Rick Carter, Set Decorator: Lee Sandales
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
"The Artist" – Guillaume Schiffman
"Drive" – Newton Thomas Sigel
"Hugo" – Robert Richardson
"The Tree of Life" – Emmanuel Lubezki
"War Horse" – Janusz Kaminski
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
"The Artist" – Mark Bridges
"The Help" – Sharen Davis
"Hugo" – Sandy Powell
"Jane Eyre" – Michael O’Connor
"My Week With Marilyn" – Jill Taylor
BEST EDITING
"The Artist" – Michel Hazanavicius and Anne-Sophie Bion
"Drive" – Matthew Newman
"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" – Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
"Hugo" – Thelma Schoonmaker
"War Horse" – Michael Kahn
BEST MAKEUP
"Albert Nobbs"
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2"
"The Iron Lady"
"J. Edgar"
"My Week With Marilyn"
BEST SONG
"Hello Hello" – performed by Elton John and Lady Gaga/written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin – "Gnomeo & Juliet"
"Life’s a Happy Song" – performed by Jason Segel, Amy Adams and Walter/written by Bret McKenzie – "The Muppets"
"The Living Proof" – performed by Mary J. Blige/written by Mary J. Blige, Thomas Newman and Harvey Mason, Jr. – "The Help"
"Man or Muppet" – performed by Jason Segel and Walter/written by Bret McKenzie – "The Muppets"
"Pictures in My Head" – performed by Kermit and the Muppets/written by Jeannie Lurie, Aris Archontis and Chen Neeman – "The Muppets"
BEST SCORE
"The Artist" – Ludovic Bource
"Drive" – Cliff Martinez
"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
"Hugo" – Howard Shore
"War Horse" – John Williams
BEST SOUND
" Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2"
"Hugo"
"Super 8"
"The Tree of Life"
"War Horse"
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2"
"Hugo"
"Rise of the Planet of the Apes"
"Super 8"
"The Tree of Life"
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
"The Adventures of Tintin"
"Arthur Christmas"
"Kung Fu Panda 2"
"Puss in Boots"
"Rango"
BEST ACTION MOVIE
"Drive"
"Fast Five"
"Hanna"
"Rise of the Planet of the Apes"
"Super 8"
BEST COMEDY
"Bridesmaids"
"Crazy, Stupid, Love"
"Horrible Bosses"
"Midnight in Paris"
"The Muppets"
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
"In Darkness"
"Le Havre"
"A Separation"
"The Skin I Live In"
"Where Do We Go Now"
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
"Buck"
"Cave of Forgotten Dreams"
"George Harrison: Living in the Material World"
"Page One: Inside the New York Times"
"Project Nim"
"Undefeated"
So, what does this mean? Well, two major things off the top of the bat: 1. Drive just got a TREMENDOUS boost for major award chances like Best Picture, Actor and Original Screenplay and 2. Glenn Close's chances at a nomination just took an equally tremendous blow. With 11 nominations, The Artist and Hugo have become top contenders for the prestigious Best Picture award, but not to be counted our are War Horse or The Descendents (both with 7 nominations).
This is just after a first glance. I'll edit this later tonight after I've had some time to let the nominees sink in.
*edit: Okay, now that I've reviewed them further, I can safely say that I don't think Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is that tight of a lock for multiple nominees. Unless the PGA and Golden Globes decide otherwise, it's chances are pretty slim. Ditto The Ides of March, which only managed an Acting Ensemble nomination, indicating what I've been saying, which is it's a great ensemble acting piece, but a stale movie (usually stage plays adapted to movies have that problem).
Another movie that took a big hit was David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. After earning a spot in the National Board of Review's Top 10 films this year, it looked pretty likely that it could sneak in to the Best Picture slot, especially since the Academy's trying to appeal to the masses to watch their show (then quit nominating Harvey Weinstein's crap like The Reader over actually well-made, audience pleasing movies like The Dark Knight or Wall-E). However, the critics awards nominated it for only Score and Editing, two of the categories that Fincher's Social Network won last year. Could this be a sign that the movie is faltering? Only nods from the Golden Globe/Producers Guild nominations/seasonal box office will boost it's chances.
Another crowd-pleaser that took a big hit here was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. Since it's release this past July, the studio has been HEAVILY promoting it to be nominated for Best Picture. It was able to make the National Board of Review's Top 10, who also gave it (well, the franchise) a Special Achievement Award for it's "Distinguished Translation from Book to Film". Would the series be able to get a nomination the way that The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King did? Well, all three Lord of the Rings movies were nominated for Best Picture and Harry Potter movies haven't been able to be nominated outside of the technical categories. I'm predicting that the same will happen come Oscar night, but it's still early.
It's looking more and more clear that The Help is going to have a really strong showing come nomination time. With 8 nominations, it's getting some really good buzz, which is good news for Best Actress candidate Viola Davis and Best Supporting Actress candidate Octavia Spencer, who could receive their second and first nominations respectively. It also bodes well for Jessica Chastin, who could sneak in here with her performance in this film or her performance in The Tree of Life (I'll get to that movie in a minute...). So, I'm calling it now, expect a Best Picture nod for The Help. The big question will be how much support will it have? Will it earn a bevy of nominations or will the opinion that it glosses over racial issues harm it getting nominated in too many categories?
Also, this may have to be the year that I suck up and admit that there are going to be two people in contention as strong contenders that I find incredibly overrated: Terrence Malick's Tree of Life and Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris. Personally, I can't stand these two pretentious snobs and their pretentiously snobby movies, but there's been a lot of support for them this year, so I may have to suck it up and wait for another year where the nominees aren't so...pretentious. Oh, look how artistically I use nature as parallels for the destruction of human existence! Look at me, I'm an artist! I'm an artist, look at me!! I made The Thin Red Line...fuck you, Terrence Malick! You ostentatious hack job trying to "redefine cinema as poetry", the 60s are over, tell a fucking coherent story!!!...but I digress...
On a happy note, I am completely jubilant over all three songs from The Muppets getting nominations! Hopefully, this translates well to a win for it at the Oscars, making it the first and only Muppet movie to win an Oscar. However, the BCFA's past two years for Best Song haven't have the best track record for nominations paralleling, so who's to say where it's going to go for here. Either way, I don't care, I just love seeing praise given to good Muppet movies. :)
So, the race is officially under way, we have front runners, we have dark horses, we have snowballs in hell, we have all sorts of contenders here. This is going to be a fun year for movie awards...well, fun for movie nerds like me who enjoy following these things, for everyone else, you'll probably be asking "what the hell is that movie?"
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