Awards Daily

It was exciting to hear the news yesterday, that Christopher Nolan, for his next film in his Batman series, was casting Tom Hardy. But it was also news that Anne Hathaway was going to be the new Catwoman. Since Hathaway will host the 83rd Academy Awards, one cannot help but mind meld the three together somehow.

The general consensus on Twitter seemed to be, regarding Hathaway, that fans were prepared to trust that Christopher Nolan knew what he was doing.

Catwoman is a difficult icon to topple, but apparently everyone said the same thing about Heath Ledger who then went on to win a posthumous Oscar for playing the Joker.

Whatever Nolan is thinking with Hathaway, there will be that same genius twist on a character. Then again, there aren’t many Heath Ledgers around. My personal preference has been Michelle Pfeiffer’s take on the felicon. I would have been totally down with Marion Cotillard. But What think you?

We have a winner for our Golden Globes contest, with 14 right, which means Daniele Giovannoli from Italy got a perfect score. She wins a $50 Amazon gift card. Please send an email to awardsdaily@gmail.com for prize info!

And the winner of the Haiku Giveaway Inception DVD is: Derek, who wrote:
Dazzling Black Swan,
A King who inspired all,
I’m CEO Bitch.

Please send an email to awardsdaily@gmail.com for prize info!

Runners-up for Globe (missing only one), after the cut. Also, select Haikus that I loved.

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We are going to be getting our Moviegasm podcasts up and running soon — we had to take a break for a variety of reasons. Jeff Wells, Phil Contrino and I recorded this podcast yesterday morning, post-Golden Globes. The BAFTA nods hadn’t yet come out, so we can’t/don’t go there. It is a snapshot of what we were thinking yesterday. Hope you enjoy it. Or, if you don’t enjoy it, you can at least tolerate it.

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BEST FILM

• BLACK SWAN
• INCEPTION
• THE KING‚ÄôS SPEECH
• THE SOCIAL NETWORK
• TRUE GRIT

DIRECTOR

• 127 HOURS – Danny Boyle
• BLACK SWAN – Darren Aronofsky
• INCEPTION – Christopher Nolan
• THE KING‚ÄôS SPEECH – Tom Hooper
• THE SOCIAL NETWORK – David Fincher

LEADING ACTOR

• JAVIER BARDEM – Biutiful
• JEFF BRIDGES – True Grit
• JESSE EISENBERG – The Social Network
• COLIN FIRTH – The King‚Äôs Speech
• JAMES FRANCO – 127 Hours

LEADING ACTRESS

• ANNETTE BENING – The Kids Are All Right
• JULIANNE MOORE – The Kids Are All Right
• NATALIE PORTMAN – Black Swan
• NOOMI RAPACE – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• HAILEE STEINFELD – True Grit

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Best Motion Picture – Drama
* The Social Network
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
* The Kids Are All Right
Best Director – Motion Picture
* David Fincher for The Social Network
Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
* The Social Network: Aaron Sorkin
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
* Colin Firth for The King’s Speech
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
* Natalie Portman for Black Swan

(full list of winners, updated after the cut)

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Adding up the weekend box-office estimates for the top Best Picture contenders, we find True Grit vaulting into 3rd place with a long trail ahead yet to ride. (Run, Little Blackie, run!) Wasn’t expecting too many surprises when I drew up a chart for the most successful BP hopefuls, but found a few anyway. Nice to see Shutter Island is Scorsese’s biggest worldwide box-office earner ever (and expect The Invention of Hugo Cabret to surpass that a year from now.) Check the numbers after the cut, and make your own happy discoveries.

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For many of the artists who make movies there is nothing more degrading than the awards circuit. No one wants to admit that they make movies to win awards, because most people don’t make movies to win awards – they make them because they love making movies. They appreciate it when their peers and the critics love them enough to award their films, but they know just as well what it’s like to get no love or attention from either; a cold lover is a cold lover.

So when they ignore you one year and love you the next, are you to take that seriously? Do you believe them this time because this time it’s going to be different? And then, when you offer them something the following year and they turn their noses up at it, what then?

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