Brad Brevet at Ropes of Sil posted the official Fox Searchlight poster of The Wrestler:
[update: and now the official official poster]
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82nd Oscar Ceremony
Hosts: Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin
Producers: Adam Shankman, Bill Mechanic
Director: Hamish Hamilton
Music: Marc Shaiman
Pedro Almodovar - Tuesday, December 1, 2009: Official Screen Credits forms due
Monday, December 28, 2009: Nominations ballots mailed
Saturday, January 23, 2010: Nominations polls close 5 p.m. PT
Tuesday, February 2, 2010: Nominations announced 5:30 a.m. PT, Samuel Goldwyn Theater
Wednesday, February 10, 2010: Final ballots mailed
Monday, February 15, 2010: Nominees Luncheon
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“While I’m obviously not ruling it out, I don’t think Avatar will win Best Picture, and the new preferential voting system is precisely why. Had they stuck with just having each member vote on their favorite of the nominees, it might have won, but something tells me that there are a lot of people within the Academy who are part of the backlash against the film, and will therefore place it at #10 on their ballots. You have to keep in mind that from now on, the movie with the most #1 votes is not necessarily the movie that wins. It’s easy to imagine Avatar will get a lot of #1 votes, but it’s equally easy to imagine it will get a lot of #10 votes as well, and that will really hurt it.
So you kind of have to think more along the lines of which movie will have the least against it, rather than the most for it. The Hurt Locker will undoubtedly get a lot of #1 votes as it is the frontrunner, and while I’m sure there will be those who put it at or near the bottom of their ballots, it seems to me that it will have a lot less low-end placements than Avatar will, and so The Hurt Locker easily has the edge over Avatar in that respect.
Inglourious Basterds also seems like the kind of movie that will split voters. It’ll get a lot of #1 and #2 votes, but probably also a lot of #9 and #10 votes. So I don’t think it’ll win (though again, I’m not ruling it out). Precious will probably get less 9’s and 10’s, but I frankly don’t think it will get enough 1’s and 2’s to pull off a win. I think it’ll get mostly mid-range votes. Same goes for Up in the Air, though I imagine even that will get more 1’s and 2’s than Precious will.
So to sum it up, I think The Hurt Locker, while not an absolute, no-turning-back lock, is still the clear frontrunner in this race. If we’re talking about a potential upset though, why not really factor in the new preferential voting system and try to imagine how much that could end up benefiting a film like, say, Up? While it might not get too many #1 votes, I can easily see it getting a lot of 2-4 votes, and who know? If the frontrunners all develop strong enough backlashes, then it could be that this year’s Best Picture will go not to the movie that is the most liked, but rather the movie that is the least DISliked. Just saying.”
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Inglourious Basterds***+****
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An Education*****
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George Clooney, Up in the Air+*++***
Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker**+*
Colin Firth, A Single Man****
Morgan Freeman, Invictus+***
Best Actress
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Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia++++**
Carey Mulligan, An Education+****
Gabby Sidibe, Precious****
Helen Mirren, The Last Station**
Best Supporting Actor
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Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker***
Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Up*
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Armando Iannucci, In the Loop+
Geoffrey Fletcher, Precious**
Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell, District 9**
Nick Hornby, An Education*
Best Editing
Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron, Avatar+**
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Julian Clarke, District 9**
Joe Klotz, Precious
Sally Menke, Inglourious Basterds**
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Mauro Fiore, Avatar+**
Christian Berger, White Ribbon+++*
Barry Ackroyd, The Hurt Locker***
Robert Richardson, Inglourious Basterds***
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Avatar+**
Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus*
Nine*
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria
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Avatar+**
The Hurt Locker***
Star Trek* **
Inglourious Basterds
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The Hurt Locker
Up
Star Trek
Inglourious Basterds
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Catherine Leterrier,Coco Avant Chanel*
Janet Patterson, Bright Star**
Colleen Atwood, Nine*
Monique Prudhomme, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
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Michael Giacchino, Up+*
Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders, The Hurt Locker!
James Horner, Avatar*
Alexandre Desplat, The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Hans Zimmer, Sherlock Holmes*
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A Prophet, France+*
The White Ribbon, Germany**
El Secreto de Sus Ojos, Argentina
Ajami, Israel
The Milk of Sorrow, Pru
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The Cove++**+
Food, Inc.**
The Beaches of Agnes++*
Burma VJ*
The Most Dangerous Man in America
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Coraline****
The Princess and the Frog***
The Secret of Kells
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District 9* *
Star Trek**
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The Young Victoria**
Star Trek*
Il Divo*
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The Weary Kind – T Bone Burnett, Ryan Bingham, Crazy Heart ++
Down in New Orleans, The Princess and the Frog
Almost There – Randy Newman, The Princess And The Frog***
Loin de Paname, Paris 36
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The Door
Instead of Abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish
The New Tenants
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French Roast
Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)
Logorama
A Matter of Loaf and Death
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China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
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No Response for "Official Poster for The Wrestler Revealed"
XXL-WXW super-supersize.
What’s the tattoo on his right middle finger? Is that JOB? JOE?
Please tell me it’s not Joe the Wrestler.
Who here has seen this? How would you rank the brutality of the first 30 minutes to the fights in Raging Bull, M$B or other rock-em-sock-em films?
this is not the official poster rope of silicon and in contention have already corrected this
the poster shown in the festival is the official one
XXL: It’s his brother, Joe. Late brother. Real tattoo.
Also, this was a comp poster. Turns out it leaked and the studio was non-too-happy, so they’ve gone ahead and put up the actual final poster:
http://www.incontention.com/?p=2985
so when can we expect the trailer of the movie? can’t wait!!
Thanks Kris. Nobody’s ever mistaken me for an Extra Extra Large World Extreme Wrestler before.
Yeah, thought something seemed off about the mock-up or whatever you call it. Aronofsky doesn’t strike me as a Helvetica kind of guy. Side by side comparison shows the vast improvement.
Gotta say, I enjoy seeing the stages in the design process as much as I do the final result. I still like this TIFF poster too. Glad to see they found a way to incorporate that concept.
Hope nobody got Stinkfaced for the leak.
Dude that’s hilarious. Obviously, the link caught my eye and I thought that was the name.
A thousand apologies.
Ryan, there is a scene in The Wrestler, I’m not sure if it’s in the first 30 minutes, that is beyond brutal. It is disgustingly funny too and is extremely plot-pertinent, so I won’t go into any details here, but it involves common household/office items. As I posted in another thread, this movie is like Raging Bull without the high-art gloss. I’m a fan.
Whatev.
I read THE WRESTLER script, and I thought it was pretty good. For the first 2/3rds, its playing itself as the wrestling version of those old boxing melodramas (ROCKY, ON THE WATERFRONT, etc.) and then in the last act it becomes the Anti-ROCKY.
As a wrestling fan, I was pleased that someone finally dramatized the brutal and depressing reality of professional wrestling. You have some guys who used to headline PPVs at major arenas, broadcasted worldwide, make millions of bucks….and in the process, they fucked their bodies up from injuries, steroid abuse, all the while pissing away their fortune.
There is a great scene in THE WRESTLER script I read, where Mickey Rourke’s character gives a speech to 700 something wrestling fans out to watch his last match, where he details his nasty list of injuries, like repeated back surgeries that shortened him. I’m reminded of the great Terry Funk. If you don’t know that madman, go Google him up, and that’s pretty much his story: Was NWA World Heavyweight champ in the 1970s, wouldn’t quit until he was practically crippled, and that was in 2007 I believe.
But Mickey Rourke’s situation, living in a trailer, getting the shit beaten out of him for measley handful of dollars in independent wrestling dates, alienated his family, steroids wrecked his physique and heart, occassionally getting pussy from the “ring rat” groupies, and nobody giving a shit about him.
That’s the story of way too many wrestlers, from Jake “The Snake” Roberts to Lex Luger and others, that writer Robert D. Siegel obviously did his homework.
The ending though, is just incredible.
There’s your Best Actor winner, right there!!
Best.Film.of.2008. Period……I can’t think of anything that will even come close right now (Although “Dear Zachary” is just as good – if one can call something like that “good”), but ROurke is simply astonishing……So, so good
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