Oklahoma Critics officially smarter than Ebert:
Best Film of 2008: Slumdog Millionaire dir. Danny Boyle
Top Ten Films (listed alphabetically):
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- The Dark Knight
- Doubt
- Frost/Nixon
- Happy-Go-Lucky
- Milk
- Rachel Getting Married
- Slumdog Millionaire
- WALL-E
- The Wrestler
Best Foreign Film: Let the Right One In, dir. Tomas Alfredso
Best First Feature: Synecdoche, New York, dir. Charlie Kaufman
Best Documentary: Man on Wire, dir. James Marsh
Best Animated Film: WALL-E dir. Andrew Stanton
Best Director: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Actress: Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Best Actor: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Best Supporting Actress: Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Best Original Screenplay: Robert D. Siegel, The Wrestler
Best Adapted Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire
Obviously Worst Film: The Love Guru
Not-So-Obviously Worst Film: Mamma Mia!
(thanks to rgg)
30 Responses for "Oklahoma Critics Awards"
No offense, Ryan. But that is extremely obnoxious.
Ebert can HAVE his opinion. What’s it to you? It is extremely unfair of you to say anyone’s opinion is “smarter” than his.
Total gold star for those last two awards.
I agree with Whoo. That wasn’t a classy or gracious thing to say, especially at this time of the year.
Obvious list and awards.
Are you gonna be dissing Ebert everytime you get a chance now?
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Is there any critics prize already choose that Ledger didn’t win? 100% unanimous, right?
Jeez, get a sense of humor, guys. And Gustavo, are you going to pile on every chance you get? How about just finding another site? We both work too hard to put up with this crap, don’t we, Ryan? Ebert’s Button review was probably one of his worst ever. And he can take it. Anyone who is familiar with Ebert’s personality knows that he can dish it out better than anyone and has no problem taking it.
Sasha, I’ll stop it, but I can foresee you two doing the same thing with Turan’s review and Scott/Dargis’ review, so I better react on Ebert’s, and right now. But I already stopped.
Joao, I THINK Brolin’s gotten at least one for Milk.
Joao, a couple critic awards have gone to Brolin and one went to Shannon. Anyway is like 99 % for Ledger !!! Hurray!!!
Slumdog getting more love as Wall-E and TDK, who is locked for an Oscar nom. Not even DGA or PGA (where it will also have nods) can track TDK otherways.
Jorge, i agree that Hawkins is NOT the actress of the year (she won’t win), but her nomination is practically a lock. I’m rooting for Hathaway to take home that Oscar. If Leo or Scott Thomas take it, i wouldnt be bothered.
Another interesting thing: Marisa Tomei is getting more and more attention for her role in The Wrestler. For me, that category is locked (Cruz, Davis, DeWitt, Tomei, Winslet) and ready to have a three horse race.
“Are you gonna be dissing Ebert everytime you get a chance now?”
Every time I feel like he’s wrong.
He wants to say Juno is the best movie of the year, and The Great Debaters is a **** 4-star movie, I’m not gonna roll over and agree just because he’s La Ebert.
“Obvious lists and awards” Gustavo?
Do we want to snub great movies and performances just because you think near-universal consensus is “obvious”?
No, Ryan, I don’t mind the obvious, but it’s still obvious.
And I don’t really think Frost/Nixon is one of the ten best movies of the year a group of critics can come up with.
“And I don’t really think Frost/Nixon is one of the ten best movies of the year a group of critics can come up with.”
well, you know I agree with you there, Gustavo.
So, we’re officially smarter than the Oklahoma critics, which makes both of us smarter than Ebert. I’m happy with that logic.
It’s starting to be disconcerting to see such widespread critical appreciation for the amazing Let the Right One In, knowing it isn’t even eligible for the only catagory in which it has a chance of being nominated.
I’m with Ryan. Most people criticize other critics, and Ebert, as a critic, certainly criticizes others, so by saying Oklahoma is smarter than Ebert, its just a criticism of his ability to..riticize! Ebert was only one of 2 out of 100 major national critics who preferred Crash to Brokeback in 2005, the other being a right wing Kansas City critic, so that itself proves Ryan’s point!
(no, Roeper was not part of the poll, nor should have he been, he’s even worse than Ebert…let the stones fly).
By the way, Heath is at around 90%. He lost the Satellite to Michael Shannon; the National Board of Review to Josh Brolin; and New York to Josh Brolin. In New York’s defense, they gave him Best Actor for Brokeback, which he richly deserved, and for which he will win his Oscar as much as Dark Knight. It is worth stating the obvious, he was a GREAT actor, those two performances are among the all-time best.
Well if it was meant as a joke, it was hard to discern it as such, which is the problem with the net, I guess.
Look, I understand that critics can criticize other critics, I just think that when it descends to the level of insults, it’s just not enjoyable to read. That’s why I don’t go to David Poland’s site anymore and why I had always thought that this site had risen above that. And you know Sasha, I’ve always been a huge supporter of what you guys do. Of course, it’s your site and you can do whatever you want with it–it’s just disappointing to me as a fan when stuff like this comes up. I have no idea what Ebert can or cannot take–I come to a lot of this stuff cold. So what else am I supposed to think when I read that? Maybe it’s just the Canadian in me.
Anyway, that’s my whine for today.
The “officially” part of “officially smarter” is supposed to be the clue that I’m kidding around, Alan. We know Roger Ebert can handle a few jibes because we see how he handles everything else in his life. Mr. Ebert has even been gracious enough to come dive into discussions here and smack down some brats first-hand. (not me; I was on his side that night.)
You guys are forgetting how much Sasha and Ryan respect Ebert. Everyone acknowledges that he is one of the smartest critics around, but sometimes he just doesn’t see a movie the same way as everyone else.
Hell Michael Phillips, my favorite critic, loved the shit out of 10,000 BC.
Yea, 10,000 BC.
And so for that week or two, you jab that person for something that is clearly hilarious, and then you move on. That’s what you do to people you respect.
Quote: Another interesting thing: Marisa Tomei is getting more and more attention for her role in The Wrestler. For me, that category is locked (Cruz, Davis, DeWitt, Tomei, Winslet) and ready to have a three horse race.
I LOVE Rosemarie DeWitt and I pray she gets a nomination. I just don’t see her rising above 7th place behind Cruz, Davis, Adams, Tomei, Henson, and Winslet.
Does DeWitt still have a realistic shot for Best Supporting Actress despite not getting nominated for a Globe or a SAG or a Critic’s Choice??
Roger Ebert, is a recognized critical comments have been considerably closer to the views of AMPAS.
But his comments are just one more opinion, not because they are tearing their hair out.
And we must be ignorant to say that the designation of Oklahoma and Ebert are negligible, for the above anteriomente about Ebert.
And if Sally Hawkins is so insignificant to many of those who write in this column, why waste their time to criticize, “is that there’s really scared to be considered for an Oscar, and move to be considered favorites, it must be remembered that best actress is struggling to seven women and Hawkins won LAFCA, NYCC, San Francisco, Boston, Oklahoma and more besides being a finalist in Chicago, Detroit, etc, etc and can not remember how many awards, must be for something and not a coincidence.
Joel: It has happened in the past that a performer has been nominated for an Oscar despite being passed over by the Critic’s Choice, Globes, and SAG. We only have to trace back to last year to find an example (Laura Linney).
But I agree that the lack of such nominations makes DeWitt a bit of a longshot for an Oscar nomination. It still could happen, obviously, but the odds are working against her at this point.
Personally, I’d love to see her get an Oscar nod. We’ll see.
WOO GO SALLY FTW
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The Dark Knight is the best movie of 2008.
2009 will be the year of Public Enemies starring Johnny Depp.
I am the expert.
2009: also the year of Sherlock Holmes, Nine, The Lovely Bones, The Wolfman, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Watchmen, The Informant, Up, Terminator Salvation, Star Trek, Wolverine, The Road, The Soloist and this.
Hey, maybe Ebert’s just smarter than you guys!!! Seriously, I hope this doesn’t turn into another 2005/6 Oscar season when folks were calling Ebert a “right-wing homophobe”.
While, I didn’t like the remark regarding Ebert (I prefer to have my news and editorials separated) I have to go a bit farther and say that I hate a lot of his reviews. Ebert has no dramatic background, he looks at things from a literary perspective. That’s fine and dandy but as one with his Masters in Theater Arts I’m completely on the other side of the fence. Movies shouldn’t be based on any sort of logical basis but on the emotional effectiveness of them. I understand the paradox that a review talking about how the film makes someone feel is inherently boring and does not lend itself to prose but there has to be a better way. Also I disagree with him quite a bit, Dark City is not one of the greatest films ever.
Joel & Robert, I am also rooting for Dewitt! One of the best performances this year. But, I want more love for the seemingly forgotten & brilliant Bill Irwin.
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