Per the LA Times: And the nominees are… Best Play “The Assembled Parties” by Richard Greenberg “Lucky Guy” by Nora Ephron “The Testament of Mary” by Colm Toibin “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” by Christopher Durang Best Musical “Bring It On,...
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Independent Spirit Awards Winners Best Film: Silver Linings Playbook Best Director: David O. Russell, Silver Linings Best Cinematography: Ben Richardson, Beasts of the Southern Wild Best Male Lead: John Hawkes, The Sessions Best Female Lead: Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Cassavetes Award: Middle of Nowhere Best Screenplay: David O. Russell, Silver Linings Best International...
It’s widely believed and often proven that winning an Independent Spirit Award the day before the Academy Awards is the kiss of death for nominees on Oscar Night. In a year as topsy-turvy as this, it remains to be seen whether that conventional wisdom will hold true again this weekend. Sasha, Craig and I didn’t talk with each other in advance about how...
Best Film: Argo Leading Actor: Lincoln, Daniel Day-Lewis Leading Actress: Amour, Emmanuelle Riva Director: Argo, Ben Affleck Film not in the English Language: Amour, Michael Haneke, Margaret Ménégoz Supporting Actor: Django Unchained, Christoph Waltz Supporting Actress: Les Miserables, Anne Hathaway Cinematography: Life of Pi, Claudio Miranda ...
All of the adaptations in this category were great and deserving. Sadly, one was more deserving than all of the others if you were looking to reward the source material and the screenplay. There were two, actually – Lincoln and Life of Pi and they night have actually caused the other some trouble. Argo is continually the only film people seem able to agree upon....
I have been all that good at predicting the BAFTAs. They are like herding cats in many ways, unless they have aligned themselves with Oscar, which happens on occasion, and especially has been recently since Oscar pushed the date back. Very little wiggle room. A consensus vote tells us which films are getting the popular vote at a given moment in time. And that’s...
One of the big awards shows, among many, inserted into the awards race now is the BAFTA, the British Academy of Film and Television Awards. When I first started, in 1999, no one in the Oscar race paid any attention to the BAFTAs because they were held after the Oscars. This put a healthy divide between the two groups and really did seem to mean — this is what...
