After a momentary holiday lull, it’s back on! Or as Calvin Candie says in Django Unchained. “We got us a fight going on that’s a good bit of fun.” Academy voters were given one extra day to mull over their Oscar nomination ballots, thanks to a voting deadline extension necessitated by complaints and concerns over the Academy’s first-ever electronic voting system. They could use that 24 hours to digest the Producers Guild Award nominations, which were announced Wednesday, a day early.
From here, the awards season proceeds at 48 frames per second, bringing the Oscar race into sharp focus. The Director’s Guild of America nominations for Best Director will be announced Jan. 8, with Oscar nominations announced on the 10th,in advance of the Golden Globes, which will be handed out on the 13th. The PGA ceremony will be held on the 26th, followed by the SAG awards the following night. Feb. 2 brings the DGAs, one of the most reliable Oscar indicators, followed by the Independent Spirit Awards (and the Razzies) on the 23rd and the Oscars on the 24th.
This is the earliest Oscar voting in history, Variety’s Jon Weisman noted, and he feared for the “dark horse” candidates as voters race to catch up to the big ticket films such as Django Unchained and Les Miserables that were released at the end of the year. “We’ll never quantify the impact… on the coming Academy Award nominations, but I’m thinking negative,” he writes.
The Best Picture race was most impacted this week. So, let’s consult the Gold Linings Playbook to see which films benefited from the PGA bump.
Best Picture
Since 1990, the winner of the PGA’s Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding…
The group gave Zero Dark Thirty its top Best Picture and Best Director prizes in addition to Best Actress for Jessica Chastain, while Lincoln’s Daniel Day-Lewis took Best Actor with the Chicago Film Critics Association Monday.
[Related: Golden Globes Unveil 70th Edition Nominees And 'Zero Dark Thirty' Takes Top National Board Of Review Honors]
[Related: LA Film Critics Name 'Amour' Best Picture, Boost 'The Master,' Jazz Up Oscar Race]
The wins follow:
Best Picture: Zero Dark Thirty
Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Best Actress: Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Best Supporting Actor: Phillip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams, The Master
Best Original Screenplay: Zero Dark Thirty by Mark Boal
Best Adapted Screenplay: Lincoln by Tony Kushner
Best Foreign Language Film: Amour
Best Documentary: The Invisible War
Best Animated Feature: ParaNorman
Best Cinematography: Mihai Milaimare Jr., The Master
Best Original Score: Jonny Greenwood, The Master
Best Art Direction: Moonrise Kingdom
Best Editing: William Goldenberg & Dylan Tichenor, Zero Dark Thirty
Most Promising Performer: Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Most Promising Filmmaker: Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild
[Related: NY Film Critics Circle Spices Up Oscar Race With 'Zero Dark Thirty' Best Picture Pick]
The film won a number of prizes including Best Picture. Also in Monday’s round-up of news, seven films made the Academy’s Shortlist of titles competing in the hair and makeup category; Lili Taylor’s latest is set for a Berlin premiere; newcomers in the Specialty Box Office opened weak over the weekend; and film critic Karina Longworth is leaving L.A. Weekly.
Silver Linings Playbook Wins 4 Satellite Awards Including Best Picture
David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook took five prizes at the 17th annual Satellite Awards Sunday including Best Picture and best director for Russell and best actor prizes for Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, THR reports.
7 Movies On Makeup Short List
Seven films remain in competition for the Makeup and Hairstyling category for the 85th Academy Awards. Hitchcock, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Les Misérables, Lincoln, Looper, Men in Black 3 and Snow White and the Huntsman made the short list. Three nominees will lead into the Oscar ceremony.
Lili Taylor’s The Cold Lands Set for Berlin Premiere
The film by Tom Gilroy will have its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in February. Also starring John Ventimiglia, the pic revolves around Atticus who flees from authorities after his mother’s sudden death into the rugged mountains and dense forests of upstate New York. The feature is part of the initial films announced in the Berlinale’s Generation Programme. See the full list of announced titles here.
Any Day Now Soft as Holdovers Hyde Park On Hudson and Silver Linings Playbook Stay Solid
Any Day Now bowed in 16 theaters a brave story starring Alan Cumming about a gay couple fighting to retain custody of special needs child they reared. Any Day Now is a brave film and story that…
Kat Von D and Deadmau5 started rubbing their tattooed genitals together last September and they stopped for a minute in November after she subtly accused him of passing his mau5 dick to another whore, but true love always prevails! Mau5 just couldn’t get enough of licking Jesse James’ dried jizz off of Kat Von D’s stomach, because they got back together and now they’re engaged to be married. Like two 15-year-olds who met on MySpace and live thousands of miles apart, Deadmau5 asked Kat Von D to be his future ex-wife on Twitter and tweeted a picture of the ring he’s going to get her:
After Kat Von D printed that picture out and wrapped it around her finger, she typed these words:
And then DeadMau5 kept this public display of pure class going….
I really can’t wait for them to get married on Skype, spend their honeymoon by posting stock pictures of tropical places on Instagram and give birth to a Tumblr before getting divorced on Facebook. A true modern day romance. Yes, Kat Von D just got engaged (for like the ten millionth time) to a DJ who regularly wears a mouse head and proposed to her ass on Twitter, but he’s still a major upgrade from Jesse James. So there’s that.
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Prognosticators have maybe five (or even as few as two) possible Oscar winners, and most lists of ten (or so) have many of the same titles though perhaps in various orders. But folks, the nominations have yet to come in and the Academy made that clear today with its list of 282 feature films for 2012 that are eligible for Best Picture.
[Related: Oscar Index: 'Zero Dark Thirty' Caught In The Cross-Hairs]
Rules are rules and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences officially considers a feature film that played in a commercial motion picture theater in Los Angeles County by midnight, December 31 and begin a minimum seven consecutive day run.
[Related: Golden Globes Unveil 70th Edition Nominees]
Under Academy rules, a feature-length motion picture must have a running time of more than 40 minutes and must have been exhibited theatrically on 35mm or 70mm film, or in a qualifying digital format. Feature films that receive their first public exhibition or distribution in any manner other than as a theatrical motion picture release are not eligible for Academy Awards in any category.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Dog Days to Django Unchained; The First Time to Flight; Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted to Magic Mike; 17 Girls to The Sessions… They’re all on the official list, so don’t count out the non-elite not making Awards headlines.
The 85th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 10, 2013, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2012 will be presented on Sunday, February 24, 2013
The Oscar Index’s head is spinning. What critics organization didn’t announce their nominees or award-winners this week? On Thursday it was the Golden Globes, on Wednesday the SAGs, and Monday the AFI and BFCA. The Boston, Detroit, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Phoenix, San Diego, St. Louis and Washington critics associations also weighed in with their picks.
But critics don’t vote for the Academy Awards, so much of this will have little bearing on who will be nominated for an Academy Award; not Lincoln’s seven Golden Globe nominations, not Dwight Henry’s Best Supporting Actor win from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association for Beasts of the Southern Wild, and not the Washington D.C. Film Critics Association’s pick of Zero Dark Thirty as the year’s best film.
By splitting its acting categories into drama and musical-comedy, the Golden Globes muddle the view of the fields, but they do afford some Oscar dark-horses like Richard Gere some necessary exposure to keep their chances alive. Meanwhile, the Screen Actors Guild Awards do matter as an Oscar precursor, as do perhaps some preemptive strikes at a probable Oscar frontrunner.
But how big a target is Zero Dark Thirty? We got a pretty good idea this week. Let’s go to the Gold Lining Playbook.
Best Picture
Zero Dark Thirty might have sustained some damage this week in the wake of several newspaper pieces that charge the film with being pro-torture and questioning the character of the real-life inspiration for the CIA analyst portrayed in the film by Jessica Chastain. A New York Times Op-Ed piece provocatively opened, “I’m betting that Dick Cheney will love the new movie Zero Dark Thirty,” Greg…
Full Story »Happy Golden Globes Nomination Day everyone! While you mull over this year’s crop of obvious picks (“Argo f*** yourself,” Academy) and not so obvious surprises (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Hope Springs, Taylor Swift and Jon Bon Jovi? Are we really doing this, HFPA?) let’s delight in the reactions of the chosen few who’ll vie for Golden Globes glory on Sunday, January 13. (Updated as nominee reactions roll in…)
UPDATED with Jack Black hilarity & more:
Helen Mirren, actress, Hitchcock (Best Actress – Drama)
“Alma thanks you from the bottom of her heart for the recognition of her contribution to film.”
Wes Anderson, director, Moonrise Kingdom (Best Picture – Comedy or Musical)
“I received this news by text message on the fast train to Berlin. The Hollywood Foreign Press has brightened a bleak snowy day in Germany for me. I could not be more pleased on behalf of our gang.”
Jack Black, actor, Bernie (Best Actor – Comedy or Musical)
“OK…I’m only doing Richard Linklater movies from now on. I’m so proud of our little engine that could. Thank you HFPA!”
Emily Blunt, actress, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (Best Actress – Comedy or Musical)
“I’m so incredibly thankful to the Hollywood Foreign Press for recognizing our little movie that could. Ewan and the entire cast and crew could not be more deserving of this honor, and I’m thrilled that I’m able to share this moment among such a fantastic group of nominees.”
Ben Affleck, director of Argo (Best Director, Best Motion Picture – Drama)
“I want to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for honoring Argo with five nominations. These nominations reflect the courage and determination of real life heroes in the US,…
Lincoln lead the 70th Golden Globe nominations in the Motion Picture category Thursday morning, taking seven categories, including Best Motion Picture Drama, Best Director for Steven Spielberg and Best Actor, Drama for Daniel Day-Lewis. Argo and Django Unchained both scored five noms, also placing in the Best Motion Picture Drama category and Best Director for Ben Affleck and Quentin Tarantino respectively.
[Related: Screen Actors Guild Unveils 19th Annual Award Nominees and 'Lincoln' And 'Les Misérables' Lead Critics Choice Award Nominees]
Other top Awards contenders Zero Dark Thirty, Les Misérables and Silver Linings Playbook scooped up four nominations each, with Les Misérables and Silver Linings Playbook taking noms for Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy. Moonrise Kingdom, Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen rounded out the category.
MOTION PICTURE CATEGORIES
Motion Picture, Drama
Argo, Warner Bros. Pictures, GK Films, Smokehouse Pictures; Warner Bros. Pictures
Django Unchained, The Weinstein Company, Columbia Pictures; The Weinstein Company/Sony Pictures Releasing
Life of Pi, Fox 2000 Pictures; Twentieth Century Fox
Lincoln, DreamWorks Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox; Touchstone Pictures
Zero Dark Thirty, Columbia Pictures and Annapurna Pictures; Sony Pictures Releasing
[Related: 'Zero Dark Thirty' Takes Top National Board Of Review Honors]
Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Blueprint Pictures/Participant Media; Fox Searchlight Pictures
Les Miserables, Universal Pictures, A Working Title Films/Cameron Mackintosh Productions; Universal Pictures
Moonrise Kingdom, Indian Paintbrush; Focus Features
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, CBS Films
Silver Linings Playbook, The Weinstein Company
Director
Ben Affleck, Argo
Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
Ang Lee, Life of Pi
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained…
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