Last night, at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Lesley Manville, Jacki Weaver, John Hawkes and Hailee Steinfeld accepted their Virtuoso awards. More videos of these great performers after the cut (Lesley Manville was ROBBED).
I am predicting True Grit will take both of the sound awards, or perhaps just sound mixing. Another great thing worth a read is Kris Tapley’s interview with the sound mixer of Salt, Greg Russell.
SoundWorks Collection: The Sound of “True Grit” from Michael Coleman on Vimeo.
Yeah, stick a fork in Oscar race 2010. ¬†The Weinsteins win this round. But we have to entertain ourselves in the coming weeks – if, for no other reason, we still have at least three weeks before the Oscars finally roll themselves out, choose their winner. ¬†By then, we’ll all be exhausted of film awards altogether.
I remember there was a moment this race when it looked like the thing was done. ¬†I don’t think maybe people really grasp the uniqueness of this year’s race in terms of one film winning ALL OF THE CRITICS awards and one film winning ALL OF THE GUILDS. ¬†The King’s Speech failed to win a single Best Picture award — that has never happened, I don’t think, in the years I’ve been covering the race. It should have, by all rights, being a sweeping weepie, won the NBR and the Globe. ¬†TKS should have won there. ¬†David Fincher should have won the DGA. ¬†Everything is off about this year; nothing makes sense.
These posters that say “if best picture nominees told the truth” does sort expose movie marketing for what it is as it also reminds me of people who say things that drive me crazy on a daily basis, not just in the comments section of this site and others, but “out there in the world” too. ¬†Some are funnier than others; some are just plain dumb. ¬†Some are downright mean. ¬†I suspect that they do reveal some of what people really think, though. ¬†I give up. ¬†I think I’d rather be a janitor, dude.
More after the cut.
The USC Scripter Award goes to Aaron Sorkin, screenwriter of The Social Network and Ben Mezrich, author of The Accidental Billionaires.
The USC Scripter Awards will be live webcast tonight, Friday, according to their website, so make sure to tune in for all of the fun. It essentially comes down to True Grit vs. The Social Network vs. Winter’s Bone for the Scripter.
Last year, Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner won the Scripter. The year before it was Slumdog Millionaire, and the year before that it was the easiest one to call in their history: No Country for Old Men. Capote took the one before that. You can see more Scripter history here, going all the way back to 1988.
