LA Film Critics and No Guts, No Glory!
LAFCA time table:
2:30pm - Best Film, Actress, Actor, Director, Animated Film, Foreign Language Film, New Generation Award.
12:30pm PST to include winners/runners-up for Music, Prod. Design, Cinematography, Script, Doc and Supporting Acting cats.
I’ve asked a few peeps to predict the LA Film Critics, which announce today in the early afternoon. Please include your own predictions, plus your No Guts, No Glory! The rules always apply: up to three and they have to be really unusual choices. Not something like “Up in the Air” to win Best Picture but rather “Crazy Heart” to win Best Pic. Anyway, here are the predictions:
The Players:
Damien Bona, Inside Oscar
Erik Childress, The Oscar Eye
Ed Douglas, Coming Soon
Peter Knegt, Indiewire
Craig Kennedy, Living in Cinema
Ryan Adams, Awards Daily
Kris Tapley, Guy Lodge, In Contention
Best Picture:
A Serious Man: Peter Knegt
Up in the Air: Ed Douglas
Avatar: Damien Bona, Craig Kennedy
The Hurt Locker: Ryan Adams, Erik Childress, Guy Lodge, Kris Tapley, Sasha Stone
Best Actor:
Colin Firth: Ryan Adams, Damien Bona, Craig Kennedy, Guy Lodge
George Clooney: Sasha Stone
Jeff Bridges: Ed Douglas, Peter Knegt, Kris Tapley
Jeremy Renner: Erik Childress
Best Actress
Carey Mulligan, An Education: Erik Childress, Sasha Stone, Kris Tapley
Gabourey Sidibe, Precious: Guy Lodge, Craig Kennedy
Catalina Saavedra, The Maid: Guy Lodge
Tilda Swinton, Julia: Ryan Adams, Peter Knegt
Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia: Ed Douglas
Supporting Actor
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds: Damien Bona, Erik Childress, Ed Douglas, Peter Knegt, Guy Lodge, Kris Tapley
Stanley Tucci, Lovely Bones: Craig Kennedy, Sasha Stone, Ryan Adams
Supporting Actress
Anna Kendrick: Damien Bona, Craig Kennedy
Mo’Nique: Ed Douglas, Peter Knegt, Guy Lodge, Sasha Stone, Kris Tapley
Julianne Moore: Ryan Adams, Erik Childress
Director
James Cameron, Avatar: Damien Bona, Ed Douglas
Jason Reitman, Up in the Air: Kris Tapley
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker: Erik Childress, Ryan Adams, Peter Knegt, Guy Lodge, Sasha Stone
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basters: Craig Kennedy
Screenplay
Up in the Air: Erik Childress, Ed Douglas, Guy Lodge, Sasha Stone
Inglourious Basterds: Damien Bona
The White Ribbon: Ryan Adams
A Serious Man: Craig Kennedy, Peter Knegt, Kris Tapley
Documentary
Anvil!: Damien Bona
The Beaches of Agnes: Guy Lodge
The Cove: Erik Childress, Ed Douglas, Craig Kennedy, Peter Knegt, Sasha Stone, Kris Tapley,
Food, Inc: Ryan Adams
My two No Guts, No Glory are what Damien Bona is predicting – Avatar for Picture, Director.
Zizo Abul Hawa says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 10:05am
Best Picture: “Up in the air”
Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow “The Hurt Locker”
Best Actor: George Clooney “Up in the air”
Best Actress: Carey Mulligan “An Education”
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz “Inglourious Basterds”
Best Supporting Actress: Anna Kendrick “Up in the air”
Best Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino “Inglourious Basterds”
Best Foreign Language Film: “The White Ribbon”
Best Documentary: “The Cove”
Best Animated Feature: “Up”
NO GUTS NO GLORY:
Best Actress: Shohreh Aghdashloo
Best Supp. Actress: Penelope Cruz
Best Adapted Screenplay: In The Loop
Simone says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 10:07am
I’m hoping that Inglourious Basterds and The Hurt Locker do very well today.
Hunter says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 10:08am
Best Picture: Me and Orson Welles
Best Supporting Actor: Christian McKay
Best Score: Sherlock Holmes
Ben M. says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 10:08am
NGNG
Best Picture: Sherlock Holmes
Best Actor: Sam Worthington
Best Screenplay: The Hangover
Nick K. says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 10:10am
NGNG:
Best Picture: Where the Wild Things Are
Best Director: Michael Haneke (The White Ribbon)
Best Animated Film: Mary and Max
Alex in Movieland says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 10:11am
No guts, no glory:
BEST PICTURE: A Single Man
Johnny says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 10:13am
Best Picture: “An Education”
Best Director : James Cameron “Avatar”
Best Actor : Jeff Bridges “Crazy Heart”
Patrick says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 10:21am
NGNG:
Best Actor: Ben Foster, The Messenger
Best Sup. Actress: Samantha Morton, The Messenger
Best Director: Michael Haneke, White Ribbon
Matt says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 10:21am
NGNG
Best Picture: 500 Days of Summer
Actor: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Supporting Actress: Samantha Morton
Kay says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 10:22am
it’ll be interesting who are the winners.
Tufas says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 10:22am
Picture: Inglorious Basterds
Director: Spike Jonze
Actor: Sam Rockwell
Joschi says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 10:22am
No Guts, No Glory:
Best Picture: Inglourious Basterds
Best Screenplay: Michael Haneke, White Ribbon
Best Director: Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
SAG Actor says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 10:25am
S. Actor: Zach Galifianakis, The Hangover
Director: Clint Eastwodd
No awards for Precious.
Loyal says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 10:25am
Avatar for Best Picture and Best Director
N8 says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 10:27am
Best Picture: A Serious Man (NGNG)
Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Best Actor: Colin Firth
Best Actress: Carey Muligan
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz
Best Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique
Best Screenplay: Up in the Air
Best Foreign Language Film: A Prophet
Best Documentary: Food, Inc.
Best Animated Feature: Fantastic Mr. Fox
Best Cinematography: Harry Potter (NGNG)
Best Production Design: Nine
Best Music Score: Where the Wild Things Are
Marble_Plum says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 10:27am
Best Picture: Up
Best Supporting Actress: Vera Farmiga
Best Supporting Actor: Christian McKay
Ed says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 10:29am
NGNG
Best Picture – “Where the Wild Things Are”
Best Actor – Hal Holbrook, “That Evening Sun”
Best Actress – Tilda Swinton, “Julia”
Clayton says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 10:31am
Best Picture: Up in the Air
Best Director: James Cameron
Best Actor: George Clooney
Best Actress: Carey Mulligan
Best Supp. Actor: Christian McKay
Best Supp. Actress: Mo’Nique
Best Screenplay: (500) Days of Summer
Best Foreign: A Prophet
Best Documentary: The Cove
Best Animated: Up
NGNG
Coraline for Best Animated
(500) Days of Summer for Best Picture
Spike Jonze for Best Director
Jon R says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 10:34am
NGNG
Best Picture – The Lovely Bones
Best Director – Peter Jackson
Best Screenplay – The Lovely Bones
Nel says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 10:42am
Urgh not even going to bother with the predictable winners of the top prizes
No guts no glory
Best Actress: Tilda Swinton
Best Picture: Up (Damn it I had no tissues)
Best Director: Spike Jonze
Zac says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 10:44am
NGNG:
Inglorious Basterds for Best Picture.
Nicolas Cage for Best Actor for Knowing.
Anthony Mackie for Best Supporting Actor for The Hurt Locker.
Armando (Caracas, Venezuela) says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 10:46am
Picture: A Single Man
Actor: Jeff bridges
Director: Tom Ford
Googooboo says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 10:52am
I’ll join the Avatar brigade: Avatar for BP and Cameron for Director.
grepe says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 10:56am
NGNG:
Best Director: Clint Eastwood
Best Supp. Actor: Woody Harrelson
Best Supp. Actress: Julianne Moore
Best Screenplay: The Hurt Locker
Best Foreign: The White Ribbon
Best Score: Coco Before Chanel – Alexandre Desplat
Ryan Adams says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 11:00am
I’m still sleepy.
I’ll just remind everybody that the LAFCA are these 52 humans:
Robert Abele
David Ansen
Andrew Barker
Charles Champlin
Justin Chang
Peter Debruge
Alonso Duralde
David Ehrenstein
Stephen Farber
F.X. Feeney
Scott Foundas
Todd Gilchrist
Mike Goodridge
James Greenberg
Ray Greene
Tim Grierson
Kirk Honeycutt
Mark Keizer
Leonard Klady
Andy Klein
Robert Koehler
Christy Lemire
Emanuel Levy
Sheri Linden
Lael Loewenstein
Justin Lowe
Wade Major
Leonard Maltin
Willard Manus
Todd McCarthy
Myron Meisel
Joe Morgenstern
Amy Nicholson
Jean Oppenheimer
HJ Park
John Powers
Claudia Puig
Peter Rainer
Michael Rechtshaffen
Harriet Robbins
James Rocchi
Richard Schickel
Henry Sheehan
Brent Simon
Charles Solomon
Bob Strauss
Ella Taylor
Kevin Thomas
Luke Y. Thompson
Kenneth Turan
Glenn Whipp
Chuck Wilson
I wish we knew which of those critics piss off the others the most.
Any LAFCA member who’s reading this is welcome to answer that question anonymously.
Scott says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 11:00am
NGNG:
Pic: District 9
Actor: Nic Cage for Bad Lieutenant: NOLA
Actress: Sandra Bullock
Supp Actress: Julianne Moore
Supp Actor: Lenny Kravitz
Director: J. Cam
anthony b says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 11:03am
no guts no glory
Best Picture: The Messenger
Best Actor: Sam Rockwell for Moon
Best Screenplay: In the Loop
Ben says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 11:07am
No Guts, No Glory
Where The Wild Things Are sweeps.
Lev Lewis says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 11:08am
No Guts, No Glory
Jacques Audiard (A Prophet) for Best Director
Tilda Swinton (Julia) for Best Actress
Michael Fassbender (Fish Tank) for Best Supporting Actor
a.m.Panth says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 11:09am
I just don’t want Up in the Air to win, or for that matter the pixar movie UP, no ups will be good. Hopefully Inglourious Basterds will finally get some love, LA does love their local boy Tarantino.
I dont think the Hurt Locker will get anything, I might be wrong but I dont think that I am.
I am going to go hardcore on my no guts no glory.
best picture: District 9
best director: District 9
Best Actor: Nic Cage Bad Lieutenant
Best Actress: Saorese Ronan (yea i know i misspelled it) “the lovely bones”
best s. actress – melanie laurent “inglourious”
and this last one isnt a no guts but
s. actor – christoph waltz “inglourious”
Markku says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 11:14am
NGNG:
Best Picture: A Prophet
Best Actress: Katie Jarvis – Fish Tank
Best Supporting Actor: Michael Fassbender – Fish Tank / Inglorious Basterds
Nel says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 11:15am
@ 30#
I have a strong feeling that Saoirse Ronan is going to be amazing in The Lovely Bones but I just feel that it had lost its awards buzz due to critics not understanding the metanarrative of the movie.
Alex in Movieland says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 11:17am
this new A Prophet wave makes me smile
in a good way. But I think they’re more of a Haneke group
Nel says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 11:19am
@ Alex
I loved the Prophet but really think that Haneke is due his critical rewards. The Prophet, I thought was a stronger movie but only by a bit.
Pat says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 11:19am
Ng, Ng:
Best Actress: Tilda Swinton in Julia
Best Supporting Actress: Rosamund Pike in An Education
Fingers crossed for Precious!!!
Jeff says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 11:26am
NGNG:
Best Picture – The White Ribbon
Best Actor – Tahar Rahim (A Prophet)
Best Actress – Tilda Swinton (Julia)
Nel says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 11:28am
Heck I just remembered Abbie Cornish
I loved her in Bright Star but since my love of Tilda is more – I will go for Bright Star in my best pic NGNG pick
Kate Winslet says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 11:36am
No guts, just gloriously wrong:
Best Picture: Old Dogs
Best Actress: Kristen Stewart, New Moon
Best Actor: Tracy Morgan, G-Force
Bill Freeberg says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 11:39am
No Guts No Glory – LAFCA
Best Picture – Inglorious Basterds (Although, I was not impressed by it. LA likes Tarantino)
Actor: Ben Foster, The Messenger
S. Actor: Zach Galifianakis – The Hangover
Actress: Gabby Sibide – Precious
S. Actress: Julianne Moore – A Single Man
Director – Tom Ford – A Single Man
Timmer says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 11:40am
lol #38. In honor of your list, I’ll go with:
Best Actor: John C. Reilly, Cirque de Freak
Best Actress: Sandra Bullock, All About Steve
Best Picture: you’re right… Old Dogs
Real NGNG:
Picture: Invictus
Director: Werner Herzog
Actor: Nic Cage
Actress: Sandra Bullock
Well, okay only the Invictus choice was a real one…
damon c says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 11:46am
Best Picture: The White Ribbon
Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Best Actor: Colin Firth
Best Actress: Helen Mirren
Best Supporting Actor: Woody Harrelson
Best Supporting Actress: Anna Kendrick
Best Screenplay: A Serious Man
Best Foreign Language Film: A Prophet
Best Documentary: The Cove
Best Animated Feature: Fantastic Mr. Fox
NGNG:
Best Picture: A Serious Man
Best Director: Neil Blomkamp
Precious, Nine and The Lovely Bones shut out
Kay says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 11:46am
From their Facebook page:
Best Use of Music in a film
-Crazy Heart
bharatnayak says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 11:47am
Best Picture: A Serious Man
Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Best Actor: Colin Firth
Best Actress: Carey Mulligan
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz
Best Supporting Actress: Anna Kendrick
Best Screenplay: A Serious Man
Best Foreign Language Film: A Prophet
Best Documentary: The Beaches of Agnes
Best Animated Feature: Up
Aaron says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 11:47am
Picture: The Hurt Locker
Director: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Actor: Colin Firth, A Single Man
Actress: Carey Mulligan, An Education
Supp Actor: Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Supp Actress: Julianne Moore, A Single Man
Screenplay: Inglourious Basterds
ztuuz says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 11:47am
NGNG:
Pic: Avatar
Actor: Viggo Mortensen
Actress: Shohreh Agdashloo
Supp Actress: Sigourney Weaver
Supp Actor: Christopher Plummer
Director: Pete Docter, Bob Petersen
Score: Coraline
John-Paul says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 11:51am
Actual predictions:
Best Picture- Up in the Air
Best Director- James Cameron, Avatar
Best Actor- Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
Best Actress- Carey Mulligan, An Education
Best Supporting Actor- Christian McKay, Me and Orson Welles
Best Supporting Actress- Mo’Nique, Precious
Best Screenplay- Up in the Air
Best Foreign Language Film- The White Ribbon
Best Documentary- The Cove
Best Animated Feature- Up
NGNG:
Best Picture- Star Trek
Best Actor- Viggo Mortensen, The Road
Best Supporting Actor- Zach Galifinakis, The Hangover
Paddy M says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 11:56am
NGNG
Best Picture – A Prophet
Best Director – Spike Jonze
Best Actor – Max Records
Kay says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 11:57am
oops I made a mistake, that’s the boston awards.
Zach says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 12:29pm
NGNG:
Best Actor: Matt Damon (The Informant!)
Best Actress: Robin Wright Penn
Best Supporting Actor: Tobey Maguire
Guy Lodge says:
Sunday, December 13, 2009 at 12:41pm
Just to clarify, Catalina Saavedra is my only Best Actress guess. I’m predicting Sidibe for the New Generation award.
Thanks for the mention, Sasha!