Moonrise Kingdom won five kudos, including best picture, ensemble and original screenplay, while Prometheus took supporting actor and a slew of tech honors, in the AD Forum awards for the first half of 2012. Best director went to Nuri Bilge Ceylan for the stunning Turkish mystery Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, which also won cinematography. However, the Dardenne brothers’ The Kid with a Bike took home best foreign-language film, along with best supporting actress.
Best Picture: Moonrise Kingdom
Best Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan/Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Best Actor: Matthais Schoenaerts/Bullhead
Best Actress: Rachel Weisz/The Deep Blue Sea
Best Supporting Actor: Michael Fassbender/Prometheus
Best Supporting Actress: Cecile de France/The Kid with a Bike
Best Adapted Screenplay: Terence Davies/The Deep Blue Sea
Best Original Screenplay: Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola/Moonrise Kingdom
Best Ensemble: Moonrise Kingdom
Best Cinematography: Gokhan Tiryaki/Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Best Film Editing: Andrew Weisblum/Moonrise Kingdom
Best Art Direction: Arthur Max/Prometheus
Best Costumes: Eiko Ishioka/Mirror Mirror
Best Original Score: Alexandre Desplat/Moonrise Kingdom
Best Sound: Prometheus
Best Sound Editing: Prometheus
Best Makeup: Prometheus
Best Visual Effects: Prometheus
Best Non-English Language Film: The Kid With a Bike
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I didn’t vote on this, but if I did, my choices would go like this (this counts only movies released before July 1st):
Picture: Beasts Of The Southern Wild
Director: Behn Zeitlin, Beasts Of The Southern Wild
Actor: (tie) Jason Segel, Jeff Who Lives At Home/Jack Black, Bernie
Actress: Quevanzhene Wallis, Beasts Of The Southern Wild
Sup. Actor: (tie) Dwight Henry, BOTSW/Matthew McConaughey, Magic Mike
Sup. Actress: Shirley Maclaine, Bernie
Original Screenplay: The Cabin In The Woods
Adapted Screenplay: Beasts Of The Southern Wild
Didn’t really see any real Oscar material per se. I just thought Moonrise Kingdom was OK, considering I’m a big Wes Anderson fan.
PICTURE: The Dark Knight Rises
DIRECTOR: Christopher Nolan
ACTOR: Jason Segel- Jeff Who Lives at Home
ACTRESS: Michelle Williams- Take This Waltz
SUPPORTING ACTOR: Seth Rogen- Take This Waltz OR Michael Fassbender- Prometheus OR Bruce Willis- Moonrise Kingdom
SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Anne Hathaway- Dark Knight Rises
OG SCRIPT: Cabin in the Woods
ADAPTED SCRIPT: The Avengers OR Klown
Still haven’t watched Beasts of Southern Wild yet, dying to see that, but other than that. Nothing has truly stood out for me yet.
My personal choices from the nominees: (unfortunately, I was outvoted, LOL)
Picture: Beasts of the Southern Wild
Director: Benh Zeitlin, Beasts
Actor: Anders Danielsen Lie, Oslo
Actress: Quvenzhane Wallis, Beasts
S. Actor: Simon Russell Beale, Deep Blue Sea
S. Actress: Cecile de France, Kid with a Bike
Adapted Screenplay: Beasts
Original Screenplay: Kid with a Bike
Ensemble: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Score: The Secret World of Arrietty
Cinematography: Beasts
Art Direction: Prometheus
Sound/Sound Editing: The Hunger Games
*of… >_>
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My personal choices: (pre-July)
Best Picture- ‘The Avengers’ (I loved it, what can I say?)
Best Director: Ridley Scott, ‘Prometheus’
Best Actor: Robert Downey Jr., ‘The Avengers’ (I didn’t get to see a whole lot of films pre-July, lol)
Best Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, ‘The Hunger Games’ (runner up: Michelle Williams, ‘Take This Waltz’)
Best Supporting Actor: Michael Fassbender, ‘Prometheus’ (runner up: Seth Rogen, ‘Take This Waltz’)
Best Supporting Actress: Sarah Silverman, ‘Take This Waltz’ (runner up: Charlize Theron, ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’)
I haven’t seen much movies this year, pity i don’t get to watch much new movies every year.
Oslo August 31st, Footnote, Take this Waltz, The Deep Blue Sea, Elena etc are some of the best i have seen so far.
How was David ANYTHING like Gigolo Joe other than the fact that they were robots? Joe was a showman; brash and excitable.
Sure, they both had existential crises (as do all good artificial intelligence characters), but David was curious, childlike, and yet possessing of a somber malevolence. There was no malevolence at ALL in Joe.
Regardless, here’s my top 10 of the first half of 2012:
1. Damsels in Distress
2. Moonrise Kingdom
3. The Kid with a Bike
4. The Day He Arrives
5. The Secret World of Arrietty
6. Polisse
7. Magic Mike
8. Miss Bala
9. Prometheus
10. Haywire
Honorable Mentions: Bernie, Declaration of War, Keyhole, The Turin Horse
Not Seen: Beasts of the Southern Wild, Oslo August 31st, Kill List, Post Mortem
As one who voted, I’d say I haven’t seen Beasts of the Southern Wild yet. Its unfortunate since it is still only available in a few cities in the US yet and I hope to see it this week. I’d seen every other nominee though. Beasts’ problem is that its late end of the first half release made it eligible but also made it unlikely to be seen by many voters.
I think I’m on a different time zone than everyone else. Most of the time when I come here no one is posting. And then when I come back I missed like 60 comments. *shrug* It’s okay if you’re an obnoxious European, Tero. I’m a dumb American. 🙂
I didn’t comment here because well I don’t go in the forum. And secondably I didn’t like MOONRISE KINGDOM. I saw it Thursday and thought it was fine. You know, nothing wrong with it. It’s just not my thing. And this year there have been so many good movies that are my thing that seeing this win at this point is a harbinger of doom for me.
I’m personally thrilled that ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA and THE KID WITH A BIKE were so highly lauded. They’re my top two favorite films released this year.
Sure, Mark, there were lots of good make-up effects in Prometheus. I’d had voted for it over the other nominees – Dark Shadows, The Hunger Games, Moonrise Kingdom and Snow White and Huntsman.
Best Makeup to Prometheus? Surely some mistake?!
Yeah, boo Fassbender. He’s alright, but I can name four better performances in supporting actor this year: Smirnov/Elena, Norton/Moonrise, Adasinsky/Faust, Renier/Kid with a Bike. Sigh.
At leasts that overrated Beasts was shut out. 🙂
“At leasts that overrated Beasts was shut out. ”
On the contrary, that mostly invalidates this groups’ taste. Sorry. This, I take it, is the forum and not the readers of this site. I really hope people start thinking more clearly and not in a reactionary way – we have enough of that crap on Twitter. Don’t just hate a movie because other people like it. Honestly.
“That’s marvelous” – Brandt
You win a shiny new belt.
Can’t say I agree with naming Fassbender the best supporting actor. Just because he was responsable for the least anoying acting performance of the movie doesn’t make him award-worthy in my eyes. What he did is basicly did lame copy of Jude Law in “A.I.”
Here’s the essence of that character – http://chzsetphaserstolol.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/sci-fi-fantasy-prometheus-in-a-nutshell.gif
I spun three Mattoc’s – what do I win!?
I was underwhelmed with A Kid With a Bike. I liked it fine, thought the performances were great. I just didn’t see the point. It reminded me of Umberto D. Loved it, but seemed too self aware about the audience – if that makes sense.
Tero, I was at work – and I didn’t want to reply to your essay on arse-stitching.
Of course it’s dead silent. Thanks to NBC, we’re still watching this morning’s Olympics coverage here on the west coast. It’s a friggin’ time warp.
I posted on the one active thread. That’s all.
^Da Fuck?
You haven’t contributed jack to this thread, Tero. What do you want?
No-one talks. Sometimes this website is just dead silent. I try to be provocative and then you dismiss me as an obnoxious European who you should not even reply to. What does PaulH do that I don’t? Hate all the great movies? Well, I can’t do that.
And don’t tell me you were not here. You are. Now.
Weisz and Fassbender! Good choices, folks 🙂
And despite my overall reservations* with it Moonrise Kingdom did have a really killer array of performers. The Royal Tenenbaums was as good a piece of evidence as any as to why the Oscars should have an ensemble award. Anderson gets major talent.
*yeah, I know, my “reservations” don’t mean shit
I think Beasts wasn’t widely seen before the voting closed, so it had no chance to build up momentum. That is sad.
But Cecile de France winning is very cool.
I voted, so I can complain. Yikes, these are terrible choices. MIRROR MIRROR, absolutely, MOONRISE KINGDOM, OK, but PROMETHEUS? DEEP BLUE SEA? No.
Beasts Of The Southern Wild is completely shut out. This makes me sad.
This makes me even more excited to see The Deep Blue Sea tomorrow! Lots of great choices here