Awards Daily

If the King’s Speech wins, it will become the first film in 83 years of Oscar history with a British monarch as the central figure to win Best Picture. [source]

If the Social Network wins Screenplay, Editing, Directing but then loses Best Picture it will join the ranks of only two movies in Oscar history to do so:

A Place in the Sun
Traffic

In the years that Oscar has split with Picture/Director, only twice has the DGA winner lost the Oscar for Best Director but then had the film win Best Picture:

Crash (Did not win DGA)
Chicago (won DGA, The Pianist won BD)
Gladiator (did not win DGA, Traffic won BD)
Shakespeare in Love (did not win DGA, Saving Private Ryan won BD)
Chariots of Fire (did not win DGA, Reds won BD)
The Godfather (won DGA, Cabaret won BD)
In the Heat of the Night (did not win DGA, The Graduate won BD)
Around the World in 80 Days (did not win DGA, Giant won BD)
An American in Paris (did not win DGA, A Place in the Sun won BD)

If the Social Network and David Fincher win on Sunday, they will be the third to win without the DGA:

Ron Howard, Apollo 13 (PGA, DGA, SAG, SEFCA), lost to Mel Gibson, Braveheart (Globe for Dir, BFCA for Best Dir, Eddie, WGA)
Steven Spielberg, the Color Purple (NBR, DGA) lost to Sidney Pollock, Out of Africa (won Globe)
Anthony Harvey, the Lion in Winter (won Globe, NYFCC, WGA, DGA) lost to Carol Reed and Oliver (won Globe)

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She’s kind of got this thing down. James Franco is just along for the ride, Brian Dunkleman style.

In the past few months I’ve been interviewed a couple of times, the most recent is for Ask Men with a wonderfully titled article, “How Crash Saved the Oscars.” ¬†But a week or so ago I was interviewed by a former critic and journalist who writes for the LA Daily News and he asked me why I thought the Oscars were so important. ¬†After all, he said, we’ve always just assumed the Oscars were a middlebrow group that had nothing whatsoever to do with awarding quality filmmaking. ¬†That isn’t a direct quote but it’s the gist. ¬†This sentiment was echoed by Marshall Fine, who wrote a piece for the Huffington Post, and also by Peter Rainer who moderated our Oscar blogger panel at the Santa Barbara Film Fest.

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I’m really hoping Russell Brand gives out the award for Best Picture. He’s been announced as the latest presenter, along with Scarlett Johansson (will she bring Sean Penn?)

SXSW will screen Hesher in March and provides a clip after the cut.

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• Best Sound Editing: DIALOGUE AND ADR IN A FEATURE FILM: ‚ÄúThe Social Network!”
• Best Sound Editing: SOUND EFFECTS AND FOLEY IN A FEATURE FILM: ‚ÄúInception!”
• Best Sound Editing: MUSIC IN A FEATURE FILM: ‚ÄúINCEPTION”
• Best Sound Editing: MUSIC IN A MUSICAL FEATURE FILM: ‚ÄúCountry Strong‚Äù
• Best Sound Editing: SOUND EFFECTS, FOLEY, DIALOGUE, ADR IN AN ANIMATION FEATURE FILM: ‚ÄúHow to Train Your Dragon‚Äù
• Best Sound Editing: DOCUMENTARY IN FEATURE FILM: ‚ÄúRush: Beyond the Lighted Stage‚Äù
• Best Sound Editing: SOUND EFFECTS, FOLEY, DIALOGUE AND ADR IN A FEATURE FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: ‚ÄúMicmacs‚Äù
• VERNA FIELDS AWARD IN SOUND EDITING FOR STUDENT FILMMAKERS: ‚ÄúStanley Pickle‚Äù
• MPSE CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD to Walter Murch

Thanks to SoundWorks on Twitter for the updates. The biggest difference between the MPSE Awards and the Best Sound Editing Oscar is that these guys tonight have a better clue about why they’re awarding what to whom. That’s why they match up with the Oscars about 5% of the time.TV categories after the cut.

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We are compiling them little by little, bit by bit. We will be adding more, changing, altering, taking away.  But so far, this is what we have in the preliminary stages.  Thanks to Marshall Flores for helping to gather the data and put it into spreadsheets.

There is much left to do on it so be kind, rewind.

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