Thursday, February 28, 2013

Spielberg spearheads jury of Cannes'13

President of the Jury

Friday, February 22, 2013

Academy Awards: my picks for Sunday [RESULTS]

16/24 and 18/24 with alternatives. Didn't see Life of Pi coming.




BEST FILM
Argo 
Alternative: Lincoln

BEST DIRECTOR
Steven Spielberg (Lincoln) 
Alternative: Michael Haneke (Amour)
Ang Lee (Life of Pi)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)
Alternative: Mark Boal (Zero Dark Thirty)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Chris Terrio (Argo)
Alternative: Tony Kushner (Lincoln)

BEST ACTOR
Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln) 
Alternative: Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook)

BEST ACTRESS
Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook) 
Alternative: Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Anne Hathaway (Les Miserábles) 
Alternative: Amy Adams (The Master)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTORS
Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained) 
Alternative: Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)

BEST FOREIGN FILM
Amour (Austria)
Alternative: Kon-Tiki (Norway)

BEST ANIMATED FILM
Wreck-it-Ralph 
Alternative: Frankenweenie
Brave

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Searching for Sugar Man 
Alternative: The Gatekeepers

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Lincoln (Janusz Kaminski)
Alternative: Skyfall (Roger Deakins)
Life of Pi (Claudio Miranda)

BEST ART DIRECTION
Lincoln 
Alternative: Les Miserábles

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Lincoln
Alternative: Anna Karenina

BEST HAIR AND MAKE-UP
Les Miserábles 
Alternative: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

BEST EDITING
Argo
Alternative: Zero Dark Thirty

BEST SOUND EDITING
Zero Dark Thirty 
Alternative: Skyfall
[it's a tie: both movies won the Oscar]

BEST SOUND MIXING
Les Miserábles 
Alternative: Skyfall

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Avengers 
Alternative: Life of Pi

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Lincoln 
Alternative: Skyfall
Life of Pi

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Skyfall" (Skyfall) 
Alternative: "Suddenly" (Les Miserábles)

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Asad
Alternative: Death of a Shadow
Curfew

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Paperman
Alternative: Heads Over Heels

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
Open Hearts
Alternative: Kings Point
Inocente


Sunday, February 3, 2013

Argo fuck yourself, Academy


Having missed the nomination for Best Director by the Academy might have been the best thing to ever happen to Ben Affleck and his Argo. Since 1948, only six times didn't the Oscar winner match the DGA's victor. Steven Spielberg for The Color Purple (1985) and Ron Howard for Appolo 13 (1995), like Ben, didn't even get a nomination. The others were Anthony Harvey with A Lion in the Winter (1968), Francis Ford Coppola with The Godfather (1972), Ang Lee with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and Rob Marshall with Chicago (2002).

The other winners here.