How about I post a reminder list of all the Golden Globe nominees, and then it will be easy for me to update all the ‘winners’ by deleting the ‘losers’ from the page as if their sudden unfortunate lack of importance causes them to be obliterated and buried. Would that be symbolic enough?
MOTION PICTURE
BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
Boyhood
BEST DIRECTOR – MOTION PICTURE
Richard Linklater – Boyhood
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
Julianne Moore – Still Alice
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
Eddie Redmayne – Theory of Everyting
BEST MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
The Grand Budapest Hotel
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY/MUSICAL
Amy Adams – Big Eyes
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY/MUSICAL
Michael Keaton – Birdman
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
J.K Simmons – Whiplash
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
How To Train Your Dragon 2
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE – MOTION PICTURE
Johann Johannsson – The Theory of Everything
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“Glory” (Selma)
BEST SCREENPLAY – MOTION PICTURE
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo – Birdman
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Leviathan
TELEVISION
Best Actor in a TV Series, Drama
Kevin Spacey, House of Cards
Best Actress in a TV Series, Drama
Ruth Wilson, The Affair
Best TV Series
The Affair
Best TV Series, Comedy or Musical
Transparent
Best TV Movie or Miniseries
Fargo
Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Honorable Woman
Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie
Billy Bob Thornton, Fargo
Best Actor, TV Series Comedy
Jeffery Tambor, Transparent
Best Actress in a TV Series, Comedy
Gina Rodriguez, Jane the Virgin
Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries, or TV Movie
Joanne Froggatt, Downton Abbey
Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series or TV Movie
Matt Bomer, The Normal Heart
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Cecil B. Demille Award – George Clooney
^ Both are getting Criterion Collection releases eventually. It’s a virtual certainty that neither will be forgotten. To be in the Criterion Collection is to gain cinematic immortality. To assert that one will be remembered and one forgotten, when discussing these two films and their auteur directors, is idiotic.
No one, except sorrowful souls, will ever go back and watch Boyhood again in coming years. Budapest will be watched repeatedly for years to come and savor it like the fine wine it is.
Boyhood was whatever for me. I never understood the hype.
“Mr.Tose, it quite simply means that TGBH has universal support across every facet of the film industry, you know, the people who actually vote for the Oscars?”
Sorry about the delay – I do sleep sometimes. 😮 But, guess what, troll – so did The Social Network and Lincoln, they also got nominated for all the guilds. Those won Best Picture, right?!… Oh, wait, no, they actually lost… to movies that DIDN’T get nominated for all the guilds. Just like it’s going to go down this year. You want more examples? Bet I can easily get it up to 5 (and probably more) in just the last 10-15 years! (P.S. Thanks for making me waste 20′ of my life checking on obvious examples your ignorant ass should already know before making such comments!…)
On another note – Boyhood is an excellent movie (albeit not the masterpiece for the ages people are saying it is) and I definitely don’t think it will be forgotten in years to come. Just like the movies in the same director’s Before trilogy (in which not much of note happens either) haven’t been forgotten. It’ll easily be remembered as one of the best movies of the year, at least, but probably not as one of the best of all time, like people seem to think at the moment. We’ll see. 🙂 But I’m quite sure it won’t be forgotten (not least of all, because it WILL win the Oscar).
I like Boyhood because the way that it was structured over a 12 year period, it really would not have worked going from one major conflict with people “freaking out” (as you apparently wanted to see Mason Jr. do) to another conflict to still another conflict after that. It didn’t need to create conflict for the sake of conflict. Life is complicated on its own, and that territory is for other, more formulaic, less realistic films to tread. That doesn’t mean those moments didn’t happen; we often do catch the scenes in between those moments (or directly after them) that reveal more about characters than would their haphazard reaction to things while they are “in the moment,” so to speak. There was one high conflict section of Boyhood that involved the abusive marriage and domestic violence. Other than that, it was a film meant to “recreate” the experience of growing up more than to “dramatize” it.
I would much rather see the beautifully-rendered “father-son bonding at the campsite scene,” the awkward “grandpa who doesn’t really understand anything I’m going through giving me a gun for my birthday” scene, and the realistic “we’re hanging out somewhere we shouldn’t be and underage drinking and talking about chicks but we’re not gonna do anything that will get us in juvenile detention” scene put on film ONE TIME than see formulaic cliches and common conflicts portrayed onscreen for the UMPTEENTH TIME.
People like movies because they are an escape from everyday life, but that was not Linklater’s mission when filming Boyhood. It was not to provide an escape; it was probably to cause us to look back at our own childhood and reflect on the good times and bad. And just to remember what it was like. I wish I grew up in the same timeline as Mason Jr. — I imagine that the people who are Ellar Coltrane’s age now are really going to appreciate this film in about 20 years. So to say that this film will swiftly be forgotten seems an utter falsehood.
“None of the things you mentioned challenged him though. He was the same sad sack kid from beginning to end. How did he respond to anything? He didn’t. He just was there like a painting. He didn’t cry that I remember. He didn’t freak out. He could not be moved. He just sat.”
Maybe you need to look more closely? And surely crying and freaking out are not the only indications of whether one is “moved” or not?
“But all this BOYHOOD love didn’t exist around here a couple weeks ago.”
Really? I see it as almost the opposite. I don’t remember so much Boyhood hate on AD until about a month ago, when it became increasingly obvious it’s the film to beat for BP. Every year the front runner seems to suffer a major backlash on AD and other Oscar websites. It was ever thus.
“I have no problem with you or anyone else liking it. I was trying to guess why people do because it doesn’t make any sense to me.”
I think that’s the problem, though. When you try to “guess” why people like a movie you don’t and use broad generalizations to sweep all people who like the movie into one category, it tends to come across as smug and a little condescending. Antoinette, didn’t you mention that your favorite movie of the year was Exodus: Gods and Kings? Frankly, why someone would think that is the best movie of the year kind of baffles me, but I’m not going to say that you or anyone who thinks Exodus is the best movie of the year must be nostalgic for the Bible school classes they had when they were children or are just nostalgic for watching those big-budget Bible movies at home with their parents on Sunday nights. Doesn’t it seem reasonable that there could be many different reasons why people appreciate Boyhood, just as there could be many different reasons why people appreciate Exodus: Gods and Kings?
Joe – Regarding your predictions in Original song, the song from Boyhood you listed is actually just called “Hero.” It is by the band Family of the Year and was not made for this movie; it is on their regular 2012 album, which is a very good album. Boyhood does have at least one original song eligible — the one that Hawke performs in the movie with his friend while his kids are staying over at their place. I think it’s called “Split the Difference.” Hawke wrote it. It’s kind of quirky in an “I’m Easy” (from the movie Nashville) kind of way. I could see it getting nominated. But it certainly isn’t the song you are thinking of, which isn’t eligible.
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– The Artist
– Million Dollar Baby
– Chicago
– The English Patient
– Unforgiven
– Platoon
– The Deer Hunter
– Rocky
– Oliver!
– My Fair Lady
So I stopped at 1964, but it<s more common then you would think
Also how is it anymore engrossing than the 7up series documentaries which were real and ( shock horror ) didn’t have a crappy pedestrian screenplay.
Asking whether the artist” would be a great film if it were mad with sound is asinine because that’s the whole point of the film – it couldn’t have been made in 1 year. The gimmick is impossible to separate from the finished film – and I mean that in a good way. What the film does is use the very medium in a way that it had rarely been used before
Give it a couple of years. It’ll be forgotten.
Benjitirl : At the top of my head
– Gladiator
– Titanic
– Braveheart