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[Wenton]

Dec 6, 2012 16:04:45 GMT -4 Mugsy said:

I wish the Oscars had a best ensemble or best cast award. Sometimes an individual doesn't stand out that much, but the sum of the whole is amazing.

I also like the awards for the acting equivalent of Rookie of the Year.

Basically the Tarantino/Soderbergh award. Adding something like that would be an excellent idea and give the Oscars a badly needed new dynamic.

The Rookie of the Year idea is fantastic as well. The MTV Movie Awards built up a ton of hip buzz via their unconventional but very astute "Breakthrough Performance" style awards in the early 90's.

In their heyday, they had more street cred than the Oscars.

[GoldenFleece]

I saw Silver Linings Playbook and think there's no way Jennifer Lawrence wins Best Actress for that. Right now I'm predicting Jessica Chastain--Zero Dark Thirty has garnered very strong reviews, Jessica's older than Jennifer and the role sounds weighty enough to be deemed "worthy" of winning a lead actor Oscar.

[canuckcutie]

There is a lot of buzz about Jessica but from everything I've seen about ZDT it's more of an ensemble piece and I have a hard time picturing her role as little more than sitting at a desk with her brow furrowed and exclaiming where is Bin Laden! I could be wrong. I really want to see it but from the little I've read I think she's getting lots of attention but I suspect her part is really more of a supporting nature.

[mochakitty]

Los Angeles Film Critics Award (LAFCA) Winners:

Best Picture
Amour, Runner-up: The Master

Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master), Runner-up: Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty)

Best Actor
Joaquin Phoenix (The Master), Runner-up: Denis Lavant (Holy Motors)

Best Actress
Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook) and Emmanuelle Riva (Amour
)

Best Supporting Actor
Dwight Henry (Beasts of the Southern Wild), Runner-up: Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)

Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams (The Master), Runner-up: Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables and The Dark Knight Rises)

Best Animated Film
Frankenweenie, Runner-up: It’s Such a Beautiful Day

Best Foreign-Language Film
Holy Motors, Runner-up: Footnote

Best Documentary
The Gatekeepers, Runner-up: Searching for Sugar Man

Best Screenplay
Chris Terrio (Argo), Runner-up: David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)

Best Cinematography
Roger Deakins (Skyfall), Runner-up: Mihai Malaimare Jr. (The Master)

Best Editing
Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg (Zero Dark Thirty), Runner-up: William Goldenberg (Argo)

Best Music Score
Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild), Runner-up: Jonny Greenwood (The Master)

Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award
Leviathan

New Generation Award
Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)

Boston Society of Film Critics Winners:

Best Film
Zero Dark Thirty
, Runner-ups: Amour and Moonrise Kingdom

Best Director
Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty), Runner-up: Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master)


Best Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln), Runner-up: Denis Lavant (Holy Motors)

Best Actress
Emmanuelle Riva (Amour
), Runner-up: Deanie Yip (A Simple Life)

Best Supporting Actor
Ezra Miller (The Perks of Being a Wallflower
), Runner-up: Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained)

Best Supporting Actress
Sally Field (Lincoln
), Runner-up: Emma Watson (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

Best Ensemble Cast
Seven Psychopaths
, Runner-up: Moonrise Kingdom

Best Animated Film
Frankenweenie
, Runner-up: ParaNorman

Best Documentary
How to Survive a Plague, Runner-up: The Queen Of Versailles

Best Foreign-Language Film
Amour


Best Screenplay
Tony Kushner (Lincoln
), Runner-up: Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola (Moonrise Kingdom)

Best Cinematography
Mihai Malaimare, Jr. (The Master
), Runner-ups: Robert Yeoman (Moonrise Kingdom) and Claudio Miranda (Life of Pi)

Best Editing
William Goldenberg and Dylan Tichenor (Zero Dark Thirty), Runner-up: William Goldenberg (Argo)

Best Use of Music in a Film
Moonrise Kingdom
, Runner-up: Django Unchained

Best New Filmmaker
David France (How to Survive a Plague), Runner-up: Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)

[Mugsy]

Wow, the acting awards are all over the place. No obvious winners this year. I like the notion of a runner-up, although I'm not sure if there's any point to doing that with the Oscars. Would they get a silver statuette?

I also like an actor winning for more than one performance - if they've had two or three very good performances in a year, it could trump one lone exceptional performance.

[Deleted]

Thanks mochakitty for bringing over the critics results I try to stay away from awardsdaily these days (my usual source during awards season) because the site owner went basically crazy when it was clear the The King's Speech would win two years ago so I can only imagine her rage at Les Mis' buzz

And yeah, it's cool to see the wealth being spread for actors this year, let's hope the bigger awards can keep the suspense up right until the Oscars.


ETA: Critics Choice, SAG and GG noms will be announced this week!


ETA: What's up with that Naomi Watts film? I'm pissed off about that movie without having seen it. I don't know about other countries but there've been several German films these past few years that focus on Tsunami survivors without ever mentioning the local population. I've had quite enough of that. And that film has been getting so much praise now...

[mochakitty]

SAG Nominations:

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
BRADLEY COOPER / Pat – “SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK” (The Weinstein Company)
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS / Abraham Lincoln – “LINCOLN” (Touchstone Pictures)
JOHN HAWKES / Mark – “THE SESSIONS” (Fox Searchlight)
HUGH JACKMAN / Jean Valjean – “LES MISÉRABLES” (Universal Pictures)
DENZEL WASHINGTON / Whip Whitaker – “FLIGHT” (Paramount Pictures)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
JESSICA CHASTAIN / Maya – “ZERO DARK THIRTY” (Columbia Pictures)
MARION COTILLARD / Stephanie – “RUST AND BONE” (Sony Pictures Classics)
JENNIFER LAWRENCE / Tiffany – “SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK” (The Weinstein Company)
HELEN MIRREN / Alma Reville – “HITCHCOCK” (Fox Searchlight)
NAOMI WATTS / Maria – “THE IMPOSSIBLE” (Summit Entertainment)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
ALAN ARKIN / Lester Siegel – “ARGO” (Warner Bros. Pictures)
JAVIER BARDEM / Silva – “SKYFALL” (Columbia Pictures)
ROBERT DE NIRO / Pat, Sr. – “SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK” (The Weinstein Company)
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN / Lancaster Dodd – “THE MASTER” (The Weinstein Company)
TOMMY LEE JONES / Thaddeus Stevens – “LINCOLN” (Touchstone Pictures)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
SALLY FIELD / Mary Todd Lincoln – “LINCOLN” (Touchstone Pictures)
ANNE HATHAWAY / Fantine – “LES MISÉRABLES” (Universal Pictures)
HELEN HUNT / Cheryl – “THE SESSIONS” (Fox Searchlight)
NICOLE KIDMAN / Charlotte Bless – “THE PAPERBOY” (Millennium Entertainment)
MAGGIE SMITH / Muriel Donnelly – “THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL” (Fox Searchlight)

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
ARGO
THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL
LES MISÉRABLES
LINCOLN
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
KEVIN COSTNER / “Devil Anse” Hatfield – “HATFIELDS & McCOYS”
WOODY HARRELSON / Steve Schmidt – “GAME CHANGE”
ED HARRIS / John McCain – “GAME CHANGE”
CLIVE OWEN / Ernest Hemingway – “HEMINGWAY & GELLHORN“
BILL PAXTON / Randall McCoy – “HATFIELDS & McCOYS”

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
NICOLE KIDMAN / Martha Gellhorn – “HEMINGWAY & GELLHORN”
JULIANNE MOORE / Sarah Palin – “GAME CHANGE”
CHARLOTTE RAMPLING / Eva Delectorskaya – “RESTLESS”
SIGOURNEY WEAVER / Elaine Barrish Hammond – “POLITICAL ANIMALS”
ALFRE WOODARD / Ouiser – “STEEL MAGNOLIAS”

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
STEVE BUSCEMI / Enoch “Nucky” Thompson – “BOARDWALK EMPIRE”
BRYAN CRANSTON / Walter White – “BREAKING BAD”
JEFF DANIELS / Will McAvoy – “THE NEWSROOM”
JON HAMM / Don Draper – “MAD MEN”
DAMIAN LEWIS / Nicholas Brody – “HOMELAND”

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
CLAIRE DANES / Carrie Mathison – “HOMELAND”
MICHELLE DOCKERY / Lady Mary Crawley – “DOWNTON ABBEY”
JESSICA LANGE / Sister Jude – “AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM”
JULIANNA MARGULIES / Alicia Florrick – “THE GOOD WIFE”
MAGGIE SMITH / Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham – “DOWNTON ABBEY”

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
ALEC BALDWIN / Jack Donaghy – “30 ROCK”
TY BURRELL / Phil Dunphy – “MODERN FAMILY”
LOUIS C.K. / Louie – “LOUIE”
JIM PARSONS / Sheldon Cooper – “THE BIG BANG THEORY”
ERIC STONESTREET / Cameron Tucker – “MODERN FAMILY”

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
EDIE FALCO / Jackie Peyton – “NURSE JACKIE”
TINA FEY / Liz Lemon – “30 ROCK”
AMY POEHLER / Leslie Knope – “PARKS AND RECREATION”
SOFIA VERGARA / Gloria Delgado-Pritchett – “MODERN FAMILY”
BETTY WHITE / Elka Ostrovsky – “HOT IN CLEVELAND”

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
30 ROCK
THE BIG BANG THEORY
GLEE
MODERN FAMILY
NURSE JACKIE
THE OFFICE

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
BOARDWALK EMPIRE
BREAKING BAD
DOWNTON ABBEY
HOMELAND
MAD MEN

Critics’ Choice Movie Awards Nominations:

BEST PICTURE
Argo
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
The Master
Moonrise Kingdom
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

BEST ACTOR
Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln
John Hawkes – The Sessions
Hugh Jackman – Les Miserables
Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
Denzel Washington – Flight

BEST ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty
Marion Cotillard – Rust and Bone
Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva – Amour
Quvenzhane Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts – The Impossible

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Alan Arkin – Argo
Javier Bardem – Skyfall
Robert De Niro – Silver Linings Playbook
Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master
Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln
Matthew McConaughey – Magic Mike

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams – The Master
Judi Dench – Skyfall
Ann Dowd – Compliance
Sally Field – Lincoln
Anne Hathaway – Les Miserables
Helen Hunt – The Sessions

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Elle Fanning – Ginger & Rosa
Kara Hayward – Moonrise Kingdom
Tom Holland – The Impossible
Logan Lerman – The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Suraj Sharma – Life of Pi
Quvenzhane Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
Argo
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Les Miserables
Lincoln
Moonrise Kingdom
Silver Linings Playbook

BEST DIRECTOR
Ben Affleck – Argo
Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty
Tom Hooper – Les Miserables
Ang Lee – Life of Pi
David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook
Steven Spielberg – Lincoln

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Quentin Tarantino – Django Unchained
John Gatins – Flight
Rian Johnson – Looper
Paul Thomas Anderson – The Master
Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola – Moonrise Kingdom
Mark Boal – Zero Dark Thirty

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Chris Terrio – Argo
Tony Kushner – Lincoln
David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook
David Magee – Life of Pi
Stephen Chbosky – The Perks of Being a Wallflower

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Life of Pi – Claudio Miranda
Lincoln – Janusz Kaminski
Les Miserables – Danny Cohen
The Master – Mihai Malaimare Jr.
Skyfall – Roger Deakins

BEST ART DIRECTION
Anna Karenina – Sarah Greenwood/Production Designer, Katie Spencer/Set Decorator
The Hobbit – Dan Hennah/Production Designer, Ra Vincent & Simon Bright/Set Decorators
Les Miserables – Eve Stewart/Production Designer, Anna Lynch-Robinson/Set Decorator
Life of Pi – David Gropman/Production Designer, Anna Pinnock/Set Decorator
Lincoln – Rick Carter/Production Designer, Jim Erickson/Set Decorator

BEST EDITING
Argo – William Goldenberg
Les Miserables – Melanie Ann Oliver, Chris Dickens
Life of Pi – Tim Squyres
Lincoln – Michael Kahn
Zero Dark Thirty – William Goldenberg, Dylan Tichenor

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Anna Karenina – Jacqueline Durran
Cloud Atlas – Kym Barrett, Pierre-Yves Gayraud
The Hobbit – Bob Buck, Ann Maskrey, Richard Taylor
Les Miserables – Paco Delgado
Lincoln – Joanna Johnston

BEST MAKEUP
Cloud Atlas
The Hobbit
Les Miserables
Lincoln

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Avengers
Cloud Atlas
The Dark Knight Rises
The Hobbit
Life of Pi

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Brave
Frankenweenie
Madagascar 3
ParaNorman
Rise of the Guardians
Wreck-It Ralph

BEST ACTION MOVIE
The Avengers
The Dark Knight Rises
Looper
Skyfall

BEST ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE
Christian Bale – The Dark Knight Rises
Daniel Craig – Skyfall
Robert Downey Jr. – The Avengers
Joseph Gordon-Levitt – Looper
Jake Gyllenhaal – End of Watch

BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE
Emily Blunt – Looper
Gina Carano – Haywire
Judi Dench – Skyfall
Anne Hathaway – The Dark Knight Rises
Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games

BEST COMEDY
Bernie
Silver Linings Playbook
Ted
This Is 40
21 Jump Street

BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Jack Black – Bernie
Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
Paul Rudd – This Is 40
Channing Tatum – 21 Jump Street
Mark Wahlberg – Ted

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Mila Kunis – Ted
Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
Shirley MacLaine – Bernie
Leslie Mann – This Is 40
Rebel Wilson – Pitch Perfect

BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE
Cabin in the Woods
Looper
Prometheus

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Amour
The Intouchables
A Royal Affair
Rust and Bone

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Bully
The Imposter
Queen of Versailles
Searching for Sugar Man
The Central Park Five
West of Memphis

BEST SONG
“For You” – performed by Keith Urban/written by Monty Powell & Keith Urban – Actor of Valor
“Skyfall” – performed by Adele/written by Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth – Skyfall
“Still Alive” – performed by Paul Williams/written by Paul Williams – Paul Williams Still Alive
“Suddenly” – performed by Hugh Jackman/written by Claude-Michel Schonberg & Alain Boublil & Herbert Kretzmer – Les Miserables
“Learn Me Right” – performed by Birdy with Mumford & Sons/written by Mumford & Sons – Brave

BEST SCORE
Argo – Alexandre Desplat
Life of Pi – Mychael Danna
Lincoln – John Williams
The Master – Jonny Greenwood
Moonrise Kingdom – Alexandre Desplat

[Atreides]

Nicole Kidman?!? WTF? For peeing on Zac Efron's face?

[GoldenFleece]

Awards Daily worked out who got nominated before the announcement thanks to a SAG site glitch. The Oscars and the Golden Globes are probably doubling up to make sure that doesn't happen ahead of their nominations.

Melissa McCarthy got an Oscar nod for playing someone who took a dump in a sink but that wasn't totally surprising, people actually saw Bridesmaids.

Is Javier for Skyfall actually going to happen? As Bond villains go he was entertaining enough, the opening monologue was nice, but really? I feel like he'd only get the Oscar nomination because he's Javier Bardem and not because the performance was that amazing. Ditto Alan Arkin for Argo.

[technicolor]

I thought Bardem was good, but certainly not Oscar-worthy. IMO both Judi Dench and Daniel Craig were better in Skyfall. I know Craig is not happening, since the field is crowded and no one ever got a nom for playing James Bond, and I'm okay with that. And I do think you could make an argument that Dench's performance warrants a nomination. But Bardem's really doesn't. The character wasn't written well enough for that and what he did with it was very good and entertaining, but certainly not amazing. When you compare it to Ledger's Joker, for example, it's really not in the same ballpark at all IMO.