tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59725703365161713312024-03-05T15:12:32.288+00:00A Gente não VêDiogoF.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13406452870609515020noreply@blogger.comBlogger493125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5972570336516171331.post-54321053287857634172013-11-16T01:09:00.000+00:002013-11-16T15:43:35.996+00:00LEFF: "Only Lovers Left Alive", one thousand years of existencial crisis<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm not a superstitious Victorian but, in these days, vampires are all around the place. From massive book and movie franchises<i>, Twilight</i> put them out there. It sucked the gloom out of the heirs of Count Dracula and Nosferatu, turning them into teenage sparkling fantasies, while shamelessly disregarding any consideration for the culturally and socially cemented vampire mythology. But the important thing is: they are being seriously revised. <i>Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter</i>, however stupid it may sound, plays with the historical figure of the American President; the incredible Swedish <i>Let the Right One In</i> tells a sinister love story between vampire children.<br />
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And how would <b>Jim Jarmush</b> do it? Well, by simply fang-biting a Jim Jarmush story and turning it.<br />
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<i>Only Lovers Left Alive</i> is a languid, ironic, existentialist, dark romance about two lovers who have been in love for centuries. Adam (<b>Tom Hiddlestone</b>), in black, is a suicidal romantic musician, cynical about the current times, still mourning over the death
of his heroes (Galileu, Newton, great scientists mostly), depressing
over technology and a decaying, valueless society, revolted about the
way his musical career turned out (he never put anything out there,
though he's the real composer of some of the greatest Schubert pieces, and the others). Eva (<b>Tilda Swinton</b>), in white, is a wise, restrained but grateful, tolerant, kind, dance-loving "person", still bewildered by book passages
she's been reading for hundreds of years (when she travels, she literally takes the best books ever written, which obviously includes <b>David Foster Wallace</b>'s <i>Infinite Jest</i>). Two unforgettable performances (is it that everything Tilda touches turns into gold?) fairly sidekicked by <b>John Hurt </b>(I always bow down to this guy), <b>Mia Wasikowska </b>(feels so real that she was bit around the sixties and currently lives in L.A.) and <b>Anton Yelchin</b>.<br />
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The couple is melancholically cool ("That is so 15th century."). The places are metaphors for contemporary America and a convicted world. Seductive roamers, car night-drifters, they cross back and forth through the bankrupt, collapsed city of Detroit (where operas were once sang in beautiful theaters, where the greatest American cars were once made) and get stuck in Tanger, Morocco.<br />
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References and self-consciousness are just enough, shedding the film in an amusing, playful aura (Marlowe wrote everything Shakespeare took credit for, and still hates the "philistine" for it; Eve's sister draconian qualities turn out to be mere pesky teenage irresponsibility; humans are called "zombies"; it abandons the elegant stylistic virtues of the first five minutes to focus entirely on the characters).<br />
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This is mythological: they have fangs, they're bloodsuckers, they can
turn people or suck them to death, they can't live during the day,
they're immortal but can die if stabbed with a wooden spike or shot with
a wooden bullet, and so on. But this is also the most human,
naturalistic vampire story imaginable - say, they don't sleep in coffins
because things can be much more comfortable and... normal. They
struggle to stay hidden, because the media would destroy them. They
struggle to stay fed because society would catch them (you can't throw
bodies in the Thames like in the 1600's).<br />
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But, most of all, though they've been everywhere and witnessed everything, though they're the most cult and bright people in the world, they struggle to find a meaning of life. And just like in a <b>Woody Allen</b> film, only love keeps them alive.<br />
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DiogoF.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13406452870609515020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5972570336516171331.post-1668685748437631392013-11-10T15:42:00.001+00:002013-11-10T18:06:36.578+00:00LEFF: "Inside Llewyn Davis", a masterpiece, should we wonder why?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Bob Dylan </b>sang about how times were changing. When he was electrified from cord-drumming, frayed folksinger into one of the most influential rock starts of all time, he was scared as all shit and his first albums were blown in the same winds that flurried the countercultural long hairdos of hippies and easy riders. Those are the biopics of legendary historical definition we know. But <i>Inside Llewyn Davis</i> takes place in 1961, right before Dylan arrived to the New York folkscene, and hums about the ragged waifishes whose verses never met acclaim but had to be sang there and then if the unfathomable, shadowed roots of change and success of folk music were to grow. <br />
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They were a meager coterie of young folk musicians who had their own culture, away from the America of the McCarthyism, and despised the ephemeral, gooey pop commercial hits the radios played. They gigged in the heavy scented cafés of The Greenwich Village, dark holes where this secret language expressed the native rawness, honesty and the hoarse authenticity of the early music, without ever glimpsing at what the world was saving for three-cord players. They were a tale of suspension, of in-between. That's were Llewyn starts, joking that if it's not old an it's not new, then it's a folk song.<br />
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Our guy is a penniless, couchsurfing homeless, has a passive-agressive relationship with a woman he impregnated who needs to abort, can't get representation nor royalties, doesn't sell, loses a cat and so on. Brave and brilliant storytelling create characters and tone (two of strongest elements of the <i>coenesque</i>) not according to the brothers' career but to the specific sense
of time, place and people they are portraying: Llewyn Davis' life is also
suspended and his journey, like the lyrics and melodies of the time, is the most sincere,
authentic, emotional film the <b>Coen</b>'s have ever made. With them, I'm used to feel fear, anxiety or existential angst, but this tragicomedy made my bursts of laugh crumble into deep sadness.<br />
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Cats are the simplest of the comic-reliefs and the few sources of momentary serenity in Llewyn's life (the others are the songs). But they're also reminders of delicious Coen trademarks - they are quirks and codes for one of the most beautiful, oneiric shots of the filmmakers' filmography. There are eerie establishing shots, with weird lines and perspective and <b>John Goodman</b> is a treat as their typical boaster character - a comatose Jazz musician who represents the «Folksongs? I thought you said you were a musician.» attitude and walks with the help of two crutches (wink at <b>Wilder</b>'s <i>Double Indemnity</i>).<br />
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The brothers are exquisite craftsmen of plot (remember <i>Fargo</i> and <i>Miller's Crossing</i> crime twists) but, and summoning the cat's name (Ulysses), it recalls <i>O Brother, Where Art Thou</i> episodic framework, with an open ending that hits us with a punch in the belly and locks us in the same suspension, despair and uncertainty of the whole picture.<br />
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The cast is top notch: <b>Oscar Isaac</b> scores the best performance I've seen this year with restrained anger and desperation; <b>Carey Mulligan</b> is a beautiful, furious woman who, in other life, could've been the perfect love interest; <b>Justin Timberlake</b> and <b>Adam Driver</b> are hilarious; <b>Garret Hedlund</b> is silently gorgeous and idealistic, has a <b>Jack Kerouac</b> semblance and recites a poem echoing the Beat Generation; <b>Stark Sands</b> could have his own movie with only five minutes on screen; and the rest keeps up.<br />
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The details of reconstruction are precious, and the atmosphere and hue seem lifted off the cover of <i>The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan</i>. They keep playing with genre like no one else in the business, mixing the best of the biopic (Llewyn is inspired by <b>Dave Von Ronk</b>'s posthumous memoir, <i>The Mayor of the MacDouglas Street</i>), the musical (the film is pin-pointed around full-length performances of folk songs) and the road movie.<br />
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But <i>Inside Llewyn Davis</i> is much more than narrative and stylistic accomplishment. The Coens created an epically intimate story about an all-time looser, a
guy who will be loading forever while others make money, history and
newspaper covers. It is a profound interrogation on the premise of life, where no matter how good you are, whatever you do, you'll hit on things, things will hit on you, and the future always wears a hooded cape (or a suit, but then it stands in a somber alley, like in a film noir). Abandonment and loneliness make one wrestle with integrity and
despair, and the only thing capable of he<span style="font-size: small;">ating a pair of wet socks
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">When a desk clerk assuredly asks Llewyn «You're not Hugh Davis' kid are you?», Llewyn finally cracks: «Why not?» </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">Maybe, again, Dylan was right: «So it ain’t no use to sit and sigh now, darlin’ / And it ain’t no use to sit and cry now / It ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, darlin / Just wonder who’s gonna buy you ribbons when I’m gone.»</span><br />
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DiogoF.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13406452870609515020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5972570336516171331.post-52651488553948636152013-10-25T20:28:00.000+01:002013-10-25T23:29:41.542+01:00Artigo convidado para o Split Screen nomeado para os TCN Blog Awards<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Escrevi em português sobre <a href="http://splitscreen-blog.blogspot.pt/2013/10/festival-de-san-sebastian-2013-seccao.html"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><b>a minha experiência</b></span></a> no <b>61º Festival Internacional de Cinema de San Sebastián</b>, para o blog <a href="http://splitscreen-blog.blogspot.pt/"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><b>Split Screen</b></span></a>, e ontem recebi a notícia de que eu e o Split Screen fomos nomeados para <a href="http://cinemanotebook.blogspot.pt/2013/10/tcn-2013-nomeados-reportagem.html"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><b>Melhor Reportagem nos Take/Cinema Notebook Blog Awards 2013</b></span></a> (o <b>A Gente Não Vê</b> esteve nas nomeações em 2010, como Melhor Novo Blog). O Split Screen é um sítio incrível, coordenado pelo <b>Tiago Ramos</b>, que coleccionou nomeações para Blogger do Ano, Melhor Artigo de Cinema (sobre as indústrias de cinema portuguesa e b<br />
rasileira, a partir do filme O Som ao Redor), Melhor Crítica de TV (Rectify - Temporada 1), Melhor Blog Colectivo e Melhor Reportagem (Fantasporto 2013).<br />
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I wrote in Portuguese about my experience at the 61st San Sebastián International Film Festival, on the blog Split Screen, and yesterday received the news me and Split Screen were nominated for Best Coverage on the 2013 Take/Cinema Notebook Blog Awards (A Gente Não Vê was nominated in 2010, for Best New Blog). Split Screen is an amazing place, coordinated by Tiago Ramos, who collected nominations for Blogger of the Year, Best Film Article (writing about the Portuguese and Brazilian film industries, inspired by the movie Neighboring Sounds), Best TV Review (Rectify - Season 1), Best Collective Blog and also Best Coverage (Fantasporto 2013). DiogoF.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13406452870609515020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5972570336516171331.post-91865280541719850922013-10-17T18:34:00.000+01:002014-03-01T17:28:12.249+00:00Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival is even stronger (yap) in 2013If I could make it to all the sessions, I could cut my most-anticipated-2013-films list by a chunky half or something like that. Once again, the festival is amazingly eclectic, bringing acclaimed authors and creators from arts other than the seventh (literature, music, painting, dancing, even drifting into television). Please, check out the <a href="http://www.leffest.com/pt/convidados"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">guests</span></b></a> because I wouldn't have room to take them all into fair account.<br />
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My <b>personal</b> highlights:<br />
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Everything by <b>Wong Kar-Wai</b> and <b>James Gray</b>, including their latests <i>The Grandmaster </i>and <i>The Immigrant</i>, respectively (the directors will be in Lisbon for masterclasses);<br />
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<i>Inside Llewyn Davis</i>, written and directed by the <b>Coen brothers</b>, my most awaited film of the year;<br />
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<i>Gloria</i>, written by <b>Sebastián Lelio</b> and <b>Gonzalo Maza</b> and directed by Lelio, starring Silver Bear winner <b>Paulina Garcia</b>, one of the beautiful films I saw in San Sebastián; <br />
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<i>The Past</i>, written and directed by <b>Asghar Farhadi</b>, the author of one of the most surprising and brilliant films of 2011, <i>A Separation</i> (nominated for Oscar for Best Original Screenplay and winner of Best Foreign Film), starring <i>The Artist</i> star <b>Bérénice Bejo</b>, Iran's pick for the foreign Oscar race;<br />
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<i>Blue is the Warmest Color</i>, written and directed by <b>Ghalia Lacroix</b> and
<b>Abdellatif Kechiche</b> (based on a comic by <b>Julie Maroh</b>), directed by
Kechiche, the three-hour-long epic about teenage lesbian love who won
the Golden Palm and has been causing much controversy in the media
lately; <br />
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<i>Fruitvale Station</i>, written and directed by <b>Ryan Coogler</b>, the most adored Sundance-flick of the year (a little bit like <i>Beasts of the Southern Wild</i> last year);<br />
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<i>A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III</i>, written and directed by frequent <b>Wes Anderson</b> collaborator and son of King Francis Ford, <b>Roman Coppola</b>;<br />
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<i>Child's Pose</i>, written by <b>Razvan Radulescu</b> and <b>Calin Peter</b>, directed by Peter, hopefully another Romenian pearl, who nabbed the Golden Bear this year;<br />
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<i>Venus in Fur</i>, written by <b>David Ives</b> (based on his play) and <b>Roman Polanski</b>, directed by Polanski, two years after LEFF brought <i>Carnage</i>, one of the best movies of 2011; <br />
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<i>Like Father, Like son</i>, written and directed by <b>Hirokazu Koreeda</b>, film sensation in Cannes and winner of the Audience Award in Sab Sebastián (unfortunately I couldn't see it);<br />
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<i>Short Term 12</i>, written and directed by <b>Destin Creton</b>, a drama about a foster home by a guy who worked in one for a couple of years, has been gathering big award buzz;<br />
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<i>Only Lovers Left Alive</i>, written and directed by <b>Jim Jarmush,</b> and who doesn't want to see a vampire movie that's not about teenagers and is directed by the owner of the arthouse club and the MoMA star <b>Tilda Swinton</b>?<br />
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In August 2013, I was one of the twelve lucky European young cinephiles to be selected to attend a <b>Film Journalism Workshop</b> by <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Cspan%20style=%22color:%20#bf9000;%22%3E"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><b>Nisi Masa - European Network of Young Cinema</b></span></a>, the first time they<b> </b>would do it in San Sebastián. Between Sep. 20th and Sep. 28th, we rushed between sessions through the lighthearted city, watching as many screenings as we could, reviewing them before daily editorial meetings in our bunker, and before some good fun in all sorts of festival parties.<br />
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<a href="http://www.nisimasa.com/?q=taxonomy/term/6"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><b>Nisimazine</b></span></a>, Nisi Masa's official online publication, focused on the section <b>Kutxa - New Directors</b> which, besides the prize money shared by the director and the Spanish distributor of the winner, may launch the selected filmmakers to the balcony of world cinema. It received the first or second feature of big names such as <b>Pedro Almodóvar</b> (<i>Fuck Me...</i>), <b>Danny Boyle</b> (<i>Shallow Grave</i>), <b>Nicolas Winding Refn</b> (<i>Pusher</i>), <b>Thomas McCarthy</b> (<i>The Station Agent</i>), <b>Sarah Polley</b> (<i>Take This Waltz</i>), <b>Nadine Labaki</b> (<i>Caramel</i>), J<b>oon-ho Bong</b> (<i>Memories of Murder</i>), among many others. But then, we also wrote about the <b>Official Selection</b>, <b>Latin Horizons</b>, <b>Pearls</b> and some from the <b>Made in Spain </b>section.<br />
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I wrote for Nisimazine in English about <i>Funeral at Noon</i> (Kutxa - New Directors), <i>So Much Water </i>(Latin Horizons), <i>Workers</i> (Latin Horizons) and <i>Gloria</i> (Pearls<b>) </b>and interviewed <i>Gloria</i>'s co-writer/director <b>Sebastián Lelio</b> and, with my colleague Amy Thompson, <i>Luton</i>'s director <b>Michalis Konstantatos</b>. You might want to check all the great work done by this talented and cohesive team and can access the four newsletters <a href="http://www.nisimasa.com/?q=node/509"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">here</span></b></a> or the final San Sebastián edition <b><a href="http://issuu.com/emiliep/docs/nisimazine_san_sebastian2013"><span style="color: #bf9000;">here</span></a></b>.<br />
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I was then invited by Tiago Ramos to write in Portuguese for <a href="http://splitscreen-blog.blogspot.pt/"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">Split Screen</span></b></a>, where you can find my thoughts about <i>Gravity</i>, <i>Prisoners</i>, <i>The Wind Rises</i>, <i>Dallas Buyers Club</i>, <i>The Zero Theorem</i>, <i>Los Ilusos</i> and <i>Family Tour</i> <a href="http://splitscreen-blog.blogspot.pt/2013/10/festival-de-san-sebastian-2013-seccao_9.html"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">here</span></b></a>; <i>Enemy</i>, <i>The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet</i>, <i>Living is Easy with Eyes Closed</i>, <i>Cannibal</i> and <i>Bad Hair</i> <b><a href="http://splitscreen-blog.blogspot.pt/2013/10/festival-de-san-sebastian-2013-seleccao.html"><span style="color: #bf9000;">here</span></a></b>; and <i>Luton</i>, <i>Paradise</i>, <i>The Gambler</i>, <i>The Green Jacket</i>, <i>Mother of George</i> and <i>Wolf </i><a href="http://splitscreen-blog.blogspot.pt/2013/10/festival-de-san-sebastian-2013-seccao.html"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">here</span></b></a>.<br />
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My global thoughts about being there made a guest post in fellow recent-film-grad and film critic Robyn Davis' blog <a href="http://scriptsandscreens.com/2013/10/05/guest-post-diogo-figueira-muses-on-his-time-at-the-ssiff/"><b><span style="color: #bf9000;">Scripts and Screens</span></b></a>, and I quote myself:<br />
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«My words were commanded the herculean task of recalling the San Sebastián experience, or shall I say experiment, that locked me up in a parallel reality for ten days, from Sep. 19th to Sep. 28th. I watched twenty-five films and liked (to different degrees) half of them, which crushes my previous ratio record. I met people and made friends all over Europe (though Chile is not Europe). I took the same photo day after day, by the bridge towards the Kursaal, trying to capture the culturally rich, easy-going, sea-bathed vibe of this peculiar city in Northern Spain.<br />
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You’ll get close to what I felt if you can say it out loud, in one single breath:<br />
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Giant posters, luxury rooms, red carpets, wet people on top of surfboards, wind-motioned people on top of bicycles, hundreds of journalists with accreditation green cards hanging by the neck, bars full of colored pintxos where is nearly impossible to choose what to eat, charming sand-colored buildings, beach surrounded by small mountains dressed in pine forest, the sea and the river so beautiful PTA could’ve shot <i>The Master</i> there, parties for all and for nothing, business card trading always around the corner (which turned networking from dreadful activity to routine), Annette Bening watching <i>The Face of Love</i> in a regular screening (as if she’d go unnoticed), Hugh Jackman being incredibly humble and funny, Denis Villeneuve revealing himself as one of the greatest filmmakers of a generation…<br />
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Easy? What’s easy is to watch the films again. The people are what I’m already missing the most.»<br />
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DiogoF.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13406452870609515020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5972570336516171331.post-70050758732924055562013-04-18T21:03:00.002+01:002013-04-18T21:04:15.344+01:00Cannes'13 great line-up <div style="text-align: center;">
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<b>Coen Brothers</b> (Inside Llewyn Davis), <b>Roman Polanski</b> (Venus in Fur), <b>Alexander Payne</b> (Nebraska), <b>Asghar Farhadi</b> (The Past), <b>Nicolas W. Refn</b> (Only God Forgives), <b>J.C. Chandor</b> (All is Lost), <b>Sofia Coppola</b> (The Bling Ring),) and I am just happy.<br />
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More <a href="http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/official-2013-cannes-film-festival-lineup/"><span style="color: white;"><b>here</b></span></a>.
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There was scarcely one movie I watched I didn't want to know what this man thought about. He wore more than the bleak title of film critic. He acknowledged the immense responsibility he carried on his thumbs and spelled the words with great passion. That made him a true writer.<br />
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<a href="http://www.esquire.com/blogs/culture/ebert-post-it-notes"><span style="color: white;"><b>Roger Ebert's Post-It Notes</b></span></a> (Esquire)<br />
<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/cartoonists/2011/04/roger-ebert-wins-the-cartoon-caption-contest.html"><span style="color: white;"><b>Roger Ebert Wins the Cartoon Caption Contest</b></span></a> (The New Yorker)
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DiogoF.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13406452870609515020noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5972570336516171331.post-37803104391975305912013-04-03T13:41:00.000+01:002013-04-03T13:48:53.737+01:00"Estórias" (2013), hello, goodbye, and whatever's in the middle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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If you're not from Lisbon and never casually hit the remote control to glimpse at a two-minute report on the curious figure of <b>João Serra</b>, you might haven't heard of him. He was known as <b>Sr. do Adeus</b> (<b>Mr. Goodbye</b>), for wandering Saldanha at night, carrying a shopping bag, and perpetually waving goodbye at transient cars. Night after night, year after year, wearing black-rimmed glasses, long white hair slicked back, and a warm smile on his face. Shortly, previously oblivious drivers grabbed the wheel with one hand while stretched the other to mimic the salute. Was he a hopeful man or an insane token?<br />
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<b>Estórias</b> (2013), an hour-long documentary by Portuguese young filmmaker <b>João Gomes</b> was produced a couple of years after Serra's death and opens with archive footage, combining the always well-groomed man on some of those nights with anonymous arms of dozens and dozens of people, fluttering in farewell, homaging the latest. He became a tiny local legend of human affection.<br />
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Now, if you don't know Gomes (the rest of his filmography only includes <b>Natália, Diva Tragicómica</b>, a documentary about a Portuguese part-mysterious-singer, part-folk-myth, that will remind you of <b>Sunset Boulevard</b>'s <b>Norma Desmond</b>), and consider the 60-minute format and the production by TV channel RTP2 you may fear you're in for one cute little newsreel like those you may have missed when zapping on and off around news-broadcasts. I shall tell you how unforgivably unfair that would be. For when the prologue ends and the rest of the movie begins, it doesn't become an obvious descriptive biographical piece about one figure. It rips those expectations to shreds and embraces three new characters whose lives, intertwined by editing with the peaceful, kind, but enigmatic look of João Serra, tell a story about loneliness, the value and nature of relationships, and bittersweet expectations about life and whatever goes beyond that.<br />
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<b>Frederico</b> is an outsider on the sidewalk, where he rides a bike contraflow, slowly, trying to dodge the peasants. Seems lost. His job is a bore and he doesn't have companions. But he found out about <b>Alfama-te</b> (takes in the historical neighborhood of Alfama and "amo-te" means "i love you"), a concept that defies you to, among other things, set up a table in the pavement - towel, cutlery and actual food included - and invite a portion of strangers to have a fancy dinner. They meet, eat and drink. At the same time, they listen to each other and also speak. It's like having a chat. Only during these vanishing hours, the bells ring louder. They strike relationships. They seem best friends for one night, on a sequence of <b>The Big Chill</b> (1983). Frederico, divorced with two kids, tells the same story over and over again, night after night, to everyone he brings together around that talbe. He craves for watching the Apocalypse from a high place. Follow the sight of the mass destruction live, until the last second goes off. Sometimes, he wants to face the end of the world in the middle of an orgy; sometimes, he wants to be holding his kids. There's something disturbingly grateful, irresponsibly conscious and existentialist. <br />
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<b>Helena</b> lives alone, seems to work alone in an office with a dozen other equipped secretaries, eats alone her packed lunch. The only time of day she's close to a living thig is at the gym, where she seems to spend half of her day. She hates to sleep and thus runs, lifts weights, rides the bicycle, stretches, does aerobics. And still, she barely has a chat with someone, so forget about human warmth. <br />
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<b>Joaninha</b> is terrificly funny and sweet. The widest, happiest smile of the movie, that never wears off (literally). She's old, and became a TV star as an extra. No wonder, as she comes back for one day and still commands the crowd into erupting bursts of cheers. And this is why she's the one who hurts us the most. The voice-over tells us about her deceased husband, how she can't even stare at the pictures and how black she feels inside sometimes, despite the mask of joy she never peels off - she refuses to, because she believes she lived her life to the fullest and the memories are hers and thus has not the right to spread grief. She articulates one of the most painful truths I have ever heard, that plunged in me like an ice-cold sword: "I was very happy. And that's why I suffer." She is envied at work, but those are plastic relationships she merely manages.<br />
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"Estórias" means "stories". Frederico doesn't remember who he met last night, as if he restarted his life over and over again, trying to get rid of the compromise of living among others, but always reaching for human contact at the end of the day. As if he, by rejecting family and friends, could face the inherent loneliness of life on his own, reincarnating a personal hope of a new unknown path brave, at every dinner. Helena, the only character who never enacts one single act of optimism, seems sad for whatever she's lost (and we don't surely know what that is) and breathes condemnation from every pore. Joaninha carries on. She is the happiest and saddest person in the world, and the news is, that's the best we can achieve one day. The joke is on us. <br />
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Because this is a story told through stories, this is the story of João Serra. Those doors constantly closing throughout the film are the main link. An estranged person believing he could try to reach the others by enacting the simplest, most symbolic social gesture there is. He knew his time was drawing near, but he too was bittersweetly hopeful. Of what? Maybe of getting a response, maybe of just being able to do it over and over again.<br />
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"Estórias" is a mirror room. They mirror each other and somehow mirror ourselves. They wave, we wave back.<br />
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<i>Alternative</i>: Lincoln</div>
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<strike>Steven Spielberg (Lincoln) </strike></div>
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<strike><i>Alternative</i>: Michael Haneke (Amour)</strike><br />
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Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)</div>
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<i>Alternative:</i> Mark Boal (Zero Dark Thirty)</div>
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<b>BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY </b></div>
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Chris Terrio (Argo)</div>
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<i>Alternative:</i> Tony Kushner (Lincoln)</div>
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<b>BEST ACTOR </b></div>
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Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln) </div>
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<i>Alternative:</i> Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook)</div>
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<b>BEST ACTRESS </b></div>
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Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook) </div>
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<i>Alternative:</i> Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)</div>
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<b>BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS </b></div>
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Anne Hathaway (Les Miserábles) </div>
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<i>Alternative:</i> Amy Adams (The Master)</div>
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<b>BEST SUPPORTING ACTORS </b></div>
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Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained) </div>
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<i>Alternative:</i> Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)</div>
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<b>BEST FOREIGN FILM </b></div>
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Amour (Austria)</div>
<i>Alternative:</i> Kon-Tiki (Norway)</div>
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<b>BEST ANIMATED FILM </b></div>
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<strike>Wreck-it-Ralph </strike></div>
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<strike><i>Alterna</i><i>tive:</i> Frankenweenie</strike><br />
<span style="color: orange;">Brave </span><strike><br /></strike></div>
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<b>BEST DOCUMENTARY </b></div>
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Searching for Sugar Man
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<i>Alternative:</i> The Gatekeepers</div>
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<b>BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY </b></div>
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<strike>Lincoln (Janusz Kaminski)</strike></div>
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<strike><i>Alternative</i>: Skyfall (Roger Deakins)</strike><br />
<span style="color: orange;">Life of Pi (Claudio Miranda) </span></div>
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<b>BEST ART DIRECTION </b></div>
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Lincoln </div>
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<i>Alternative:</i> Les Miserábles</div>
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<b>BEST COSTUME DESIGN </b></div>
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<strike>Lincoln</strike></div>
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<i>Alternative:</i> Anna Karenina</div>
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<b>BEST HAIR AND MAKE-UP </b></div>
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Les Miserábles </div>
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<i>Alternative:</i> The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey</div>
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<b>BEST EDITING</b></div>
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Argo</div>
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<i>Alternative:</i> Zero Dark Thirty</div>
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<b>BEST SOUND EDITING </b></div>
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Zero Dark Thirty </div>
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<i>Alternative:</i> Skyfall<br />
<span style="color: orange;">[it's a tie: both movies won the Oscar] </span></div>
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Les Miserábles </div>
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<i>Alternative:</i> Skyfall</div>
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<b>BEST VISUAL EFFECTS </b></div>
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<strike>The Avengers </strike></div>
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<i>Alternative:</i> Life of Pi</div>
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<b>BEST ORIGINAL SCORE </b></div>
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<strike>Lincoln </strike></div>
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<strike><i>Alternative:</i> Skyfall</strike><br />
<span style="color: orange;">Life of Pi </span></div>
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<b>BEST ORIGINAL SONG </b></div>
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"Skyfall" (Skyfall) </div>
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<i>Alternative:</i> "Suddenly" (Les Miserábles) </div>
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<b>BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM</b></div>
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<strike>Asad</strike></div>
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<strike><i>Alternative:</i> Death of a Shadow</strike><br />
<span style="color: orange;">Curfew </span></div>
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<b>BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM</b></div>
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Paperman</div>
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<i>Alternative:</i> Heads Over Heels</div>
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<b>BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM</b></div>
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<strike>Open Hearts</strike></div>
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<span style="color: orange;">Inocente </span></div>
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Having missed the nomination for <b>Best Director</b> by the <b>Academy</b> might have been the best thing to ever happen to <b>Ben Affleck</b> and his <b>Argo</b>. Since 1948, only six times didn't the Oscar winner match the <b>DGA</b>'s victor. <b>Steven Spielberg</b> for <b>The Color Purple</b> (1985) and <b>Ron Howard</b> for <b>Appolo 13</b> (1995), like Ben, didn't even get a nomination. The others were <b>Anthony Harvey</b> with <b>A Lion in the Winter </b>(1968), <b>Francis Ford Coppola</b> with <b>The Godfather</b> (1972), <b>Ang Lee</b> with <b>Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon </b>(2000) and <b>Rob Marshall</b> with <b>Chicago</b> (2002).<br />
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The other winners <a href="http://www.dga.org/Awards/Annual.aspx"><b><span style="color: white;">here</span></b></a>.<br />
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I couldn't help but notice a newly forged body of criticism towards <b>Django Unchained</b>, the antebellum southwestern spaghetti by <b>Quentin Tarantino</b>, another masterpiece if I may. I've heard it in many voices, I've read it in many heartburnt texts, and they seem to suggest that Quentin became suddenly cursed by his darling filmography. Whereas until now the myriad of references, the loudspeaking influences, the flamboyant homages and the twisted pastiche aesthetics, all contributed to the ecstasy of his unique approach to film, <b>Django Unchained</b> made a strange room for sad people complaining about the same things they've been praising all these years.<br />
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Now, it is too much referencing. Wearied pastiche. Stop trying to homage stuff. Quit mixing <b>Morricone</b> with <b>RZA</b>. <b>Tarantino</b> knows nothing about western spaghetti or <b>Sergio Corbucci</b>.<br />
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What I guess is wrong with these Ambassadors of Paradox is the fact that they can't keep up with <b>Quentin Tarantino</b>. He steals from every movie ever made. By doing that, he breaks the fourth wall and yet is capable to draw you particularly close to his universe. It's a different kind of nearness from that of the classics. It's taking the notion of participating in the story by following
character dramatic hypothesis and put it into another dimension. It might not be <b>Lubitsch</b>'s 2+2 but some slightly more complicated mathematical operation. <b>Tarantino</b> and the movie merge into an identity and that identity has been watching the very same stuff you have. You watch the scenes from <b>Reservoir Dogs</b>, <b>Pulp Fiction</b> or <b>Kill Bill</b> and shout "Oh, I know that!", "Oh I got that!", "Oh, I've seen it before!".<br />
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The trouble is: it must make some people think they are close not to this identity, but to <b>Quentin, the Director</b>, in a species of symbiotic relationship responsible for moviemaking. <br />
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Only this time he exceeded himself. Not in quantity; in quality. He injected whole genre conventions once again, he twisted them, he brought contemporaneity and made historical revisionism, he was so subtle and intelligent, so intense and dynamic, these people couldn't ever bear it. For the first time ever, they couldn't keep up with the benchmarks. They realized Quentin is actually a genius - meaning far, far away from them in terms of making movies. And now they feel abandoned. Forsaken by a man they thought they had gripped in the early nineties but who fortunately races at an unexpected but delightful pace that will leave them waving on the side of the road.<br />
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<li>Five-star momentum by hosts <b>Tina Fey</b> and <b>Amy Poehler</b> who deserved a Golden Globe themselves.</li>
<li>European art-house film director <b>Michele Haneke</b> was handled the Globe for <b>Best Foreign Feature</b> by the hands of <b>Sylvester Stallone</b> and <b>Arnold Schwarzenegger</b>.</li>
<li>Lincoln didn't win this war at all, except for<b> Daniel Day-Lewis</b>. Instead major categories went to <b>Les Miserábles</b> and <b>Argo</b> (thumbs up to <b>Ben Affleck</b>) although they both missed the writing trophy.</li>
<li>Ben Affleck evoked the absent <b>Paul Thomas Anderson</b>: <i>"(...) I want
to thank the many talented people that weren't nominated. Paul Thomas
Anderson who's like, I think, Orson Welles. There are so many others."</i> </li>
<li>One of the best moments of the night, the only person more surprised than you and me to hear <i>"And the Golden Globe [for Best Screenplay] goes to... Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained."</i> was <b>Quentin Tarantino</b> himself. <b>Christoph Waltz</b> mirrored his 2010 win with <b>Inglorious Basterds</b>.</li>
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<li><b>Lena Dunham</b> and <b>Girls</b> took <b>Best Actress, Comedy</b> and <b>Best Series, Comedy</b> home the night <b>season two</b> premiered. <b>Homeland</b> swept off <b>Best Series, Drama</b> and <b>Lewis</b> and <b>Danes</b> went along. The actress confessed during the second season <i>"Carrie was actually carrying [a baby]"</i>.</li>
<li><b>Jodie Foster</b> gave a passionate speech, where she kind of came out for the first time in public and spoke about how she values privacy after 47 years in the movie business that turned her life into a reality show. Led everybody to tears when she addressed her sons, her mother and Cydney Bernard, <i>"my heroic co-parent, my ex-partner in love but righteous soul sister in life"</i>.</li>
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My picks and the results:<br />
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<b>BEST PICTURE (DRAMA)</b></div>
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Argo</div>
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<strike><i>Alternative:</i> Lincoln</strike></div>
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<b>BEST PICTURE (COMEDY)</b></div>
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<strike>Silver Linings Playbook</strike></div>
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<i>Alternative:</i> Les Miserábles</div>
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<b>BEST SCREENPLAY</b><br />
<strike>Chris Terrio ("Argo")</strike><br />
<strike><i>Alternative:</i> David O. Russel ("Silver Linings Playbook")</strike></div>
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Quentin Tarantino ("Django Unchained")<br />
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<b>BEST DIRECTOR</b><br />
Ben Affleck ("Argo")<br />
<strike><i>Alternative:</i> Steven Spielberg ("Lincoln")<br />
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</b><b>BEST ACTOR, DRAMA</b><br />
Daniel Day-Lewis ("Lincoln)<br />
<strike><i>Alternative:</i> Denzel Washington ("Flight")</strike><br />
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<b>BEST ACTOR, MUSICAL OR COMEDY</b><br />
Hugh Jackman ("Les Miserables") <br />
<strike><i>Alternative:</i> Bradley Cooper ("Silver Linings Playboy")</strike><br />
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<b>BEST ACTRESS, DRAMA</b><br />
<strike>Naomi Watts ("The Impossible")</strike></div>
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<i>Alternative:</i> Jessica Chastain ("Zero Dark Thirty")<br />
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<b>BEST ACTRESS, MUSICAL OR COMEDY</b><br />
Jennifer Lawrence ("Silver Linings PLaybook")<br />
<strike><i>Alternative:</i> Judi Dench ("The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel")</strike><br />
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<b>BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR</b><br />
<strike>Leonardo DiCaprio ("Django Unchained")<br />
<i>Alternative:</i> Tommy Lee Jones ("Lincoln")</strike></div>
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Christoph Waltz ("Django Unchained")<br />
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<b>BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS</b><br />
Anne Hathaway ("Les Miserables)</div>
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<strike><i>Alternative:</i> Amy Adams ("The Master")</strike><br />
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<b>BEST FOREIGN FILME</b> </div>
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<strike>Rust and Bone</strike></div>
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<i>Alternative:</i> Amour<br />
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<b>ANIMATED FILM</b><br />
Brave<br />
<strike><i>Alternative:</i> Wreck-It-Ralph
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<b>BEST ORIGINAL SCORE</b>:<br />
<strike>John Williams, "Lincoln."</strike></div>
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<i>Alternative:</i> Mychael Danna, "Life of Pi"</div>
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"Skyfall" ("Skyfall")</div>
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<strike>"Suddenly" ("Les Miserábles")</strike></div>
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<b>BEST SERIES, DRAMA</b><br />
Homeland<br />
<strike><i>Alternative:</i> Breaking Bad</strike><br />
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<b>BEST SERIES, MUSICAL OR COMEDY</b><br />
"Girls"<br />
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<b>BEST ACTOR, DRAMA</b><br />
Damian Lewis ("Homeland")</div>
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<b>BEST ACTRESS, DRAMA</b><br />
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<i>Alternative:</i> Claire Danes ("Homeland")<br />
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<b>BEST ACTOR, MUSICAL OR COMEDY</b><br />
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<i>Alternative:</i> Don Cheadle ("House of Lies")<br />
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<b>BEST ACTRESS, MUSICAL OR COMEDY</b><br />
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<i>Alternative:</i> Lena Dunham (Girls)<br />
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Game Change</div>
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<b>BEST ACTTOR, MINISERIES OR MOVIE FOR TV</b><br />
<strike>Woody Harrelson (Game Change)<br />
<i>Alternative:</i> Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock)</strike></div>
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Kevin Costner (Hatfields & McCoys)<br />
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<b>BEST ACTRESS, MINISERIES OR MOVIE FOR TV</b><br />
Julianne Moore (Game Change)<br />
<strike><i>Alternative:</i> Jessica Lange (American Horror Story: Asylum)
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<b>BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, MINISERIES OR MOVIE FOR TV</b><br />
<strike>Max Greenfield (New Girl)<br />
<i>Alternative:</i> Eric Stonestreet (Modern Family)</strike></div>
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Ed Harris (Game Change)<br />
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<b>BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, MINISERIES OR MOVIE FOR TV</b><br />
Maggie Smith (Downton Abbey)<i> </i></div>
<i> <strike> Alternative:</strike></i><strike> Archie Panjabi (The Good Wife)</strike>
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<b>BEST PICTURE (DRAMA)</b></div>
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Argo</div>
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<i>Alternative:</i> Lincoln</div>
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<b>BEST PICTURE (COMEDY)</b></div>
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Silver Linings Playbook</div>
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<i>Alternative:</i> Les Miserábles </div>
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<b>BEST SCREENPLAY</b><br />
Chris Terrio ("Argo")<br />
<i>Alternative:</i> David O. Russel ("Silver Linings Playbook")<br />
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<b>BEST DIRECTOR</b><br />
Ben Affleck ("Argo")<br />
<i>Alternative:</i> Steven Spielberg ("Lincoln")<br />
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Daniel Day-Lewis ("Lincoln)<br />
<i>Alternative:</i> Denzel Washington ("Flight")<br />
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<b>BEST ACTOR, MUSICAL OR COMEDY</b><br />
Hugh Jackman ("Les Miserables") <br />
<i>Alternative:</i> Bradley Cooper ("Silver Linings Playboy")<br />
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<b>BEST ACTRESS, DRAMA</b><br />
Naomi Watts ("The Impossible")</div>
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<i>Alternative:</i> Jessica Chastain ("Zero Dark Thirty")<br />
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<b>BEST ACTRESS, MUSICAL OR COMEDY</b><br />
Jennifer Lawrence ("Silver Linings PLaybook")<br />
<i>Alternative:</i> Judi Dench ("The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel")<br />
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<b>BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR</b><br />
Leonardo DiCaprio ("Django Unchained")<br />
<i>Alternative:</i> Tommy Lee Jones ("Lincoln")<br />
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<b>BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS</b><br />
Anne Hathaway ("Les Miserables)</div>
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<i>Alternative:</i> Amy Adams ("The Master")<br />
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<b>BEST FOREIGN FILME</b> </div>
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Rust and Bone</div>
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<i>Alternative:</i> Amour<br />
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<b>ANIMATED FILM</b><br />
Brave<br />
<i>Alternative:</i> Wreck-It-Ralph
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<b>BEST ORIGINAL SCORE</b>:<br />
John Williams, "Lincoln."</div>
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<i>Alternative:</i> Mychael Danna, "Life of Pi"</div>
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"Skyfall" ("Skyfall")</div>
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"Suddenly" ("Les Miserábles")</div>
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<b>BEST SERIES, DRAMA</b><br />
Homeland<br />
<i>Alternative:</i> Breaking Bad<br />
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<b>BEST SERIES, MUSICAL OR COMEDY</b><br />
"Girls"<br />
<i>Alternative:</i> "Modern Family"<br />
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<b>BEST ACTOR, DRAMA</b><br />
Damian Lewis ("Homeland")</div>
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<i>Alternative:</i> Steve Buscemi ("Boardwalk Empire")<br />
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<b>BEST ACTRESS, DRAMA</b><br />
Michelle Dockery ("Downtown Abbey")</div>
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<i>Alternative:</i> Claire Danes ("Homeland")<br />
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<b>BEST ACTOR, MUSICAL OR COMEDY</b><br />
Louis C. K. ("Louie")</div>
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<i>Alternative:</i> Don Cheadle ("House of Lies")<br />
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<b>BEST ACTRESS, MUSICAL OR COMEDY</b><br />
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep)<br />
<i>Alternative:</i> Lena Dunham (Girls)<br />
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Game Change</div>
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<i>Alternative:</i> The Hour</div>
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<b>BEST ACTTOR, MINISERIES OR MOVIE FOR TV</b><br />
Woody Harrelson (Game Change)<br />
<i>Alternative:</i> Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock)<br />
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<b>BEST ACTRESS, MINISERIES OR MOVIE FOR TV</b><br />
Julianne Moore (Game Change)<br />
<i>Alternative:</i> Jessica Lange (American Horror Story: Asylum)
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<b>BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, MINISERIES OR MOVIE FOR TV</b><br />
Max Greenfield (New Girl)<br />
<i>Alternative:</i> Eric Stonestreet (Modern Family)<br />
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<b>BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, MINISERIES OR MOVIE FOR TV</b><br />
Maggie Smith (Downton Abbey)<i> </i></div>
<i> Alternative:</i> Archie Panjabi (The Good Wife)<br />
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<b>BEST FILM</b></div>
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Argo </div>
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Zero Dark Thirty</div>
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Lincoln<br />
Silver Linings Playbook </div>
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Django Unchained </div>
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6. Les Miserábles </div>
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7. Life of Pi </div>
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8. The Master </div>
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9. Moonrise Kingdom </div>
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10. Skyfall </div>
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<i>FYC</i> (For Your Consideraion - probably won't be nominated but would deserve it nonetheless): Flight </div>
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<b>BEST DIRECTOR </b></div>
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Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty) </div>
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Steven Spielberg (Lincoln) </div>
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Ben Affleck (Argo) </div>
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Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained) </div>
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Ang Lee (Life of Pi) </div>
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<i>Alternative 1</i>: Tom Hooper (Les Miserábles) </div>
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<i>Alternative 2</i>: Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master) </div>
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<i>FYC:</i> Juan Antonio Bayona (The Impossible) </div>
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<b>BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY</b></div>
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Zero Dark Thirty </div>
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Django Unchained </div>
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The Master </div>
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Moonrise Kingdom </div>
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Flight </div>
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<i>Alternative 1</i>: Amour </div>
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<i>Alternative 2</i>: Looper </div>
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<i>FYC</i>: Detachment </div>
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<b>BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY </b></div>
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Argo </div>
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Life of Pi </div>
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Lincoln </div>
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Silver Linings Playbook </div>
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower </div>
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<i>Alternative 1</i>: Beasts of the Southern Wild </div>
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<i>Alternative 2</i>: Les Miserábles </div>
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<i>FYC</i>: Skyfall </div>
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<b>BEST ACTOR </b></div>
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Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln) </div>
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Joaquin Phoenix (The Master) </div>
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John Hawks (The Sessions) </div>
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Hugh Jackman (Les Miserábles) </div>
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Denzel Washington (Flight) </div>
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<i>Alternative 1</i>: Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook) </div>
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<i>Alternative 2</i>: Joseph Gordon-Lewitt (Looper) </div>
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<i>FYC</i>: Mathew McCounaghey (Killer Joe) </div>
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<b>BEST ACTRESS </b></div>
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Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook) </div>
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Naomi Watts (The Impossible) </div>
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Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty) </div>
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Marion Cotillard (Rust and Bone) </div>
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Quvenzhane Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild) </div>
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<i>Alternative 1</i>: Emmanuelle Riva (Amour) </div>
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<i>Alternative 2</i>: Keira Knightley (Anna Karenina) </div>
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<b>BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS </b></div>
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Anne Hathaway (Les Miserábles) </div>
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Amy Adams (The Master) </div>
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Helen Hunt (The Sessions) </div>
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Sally Field (Lincoln) </div>
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Nicole Kidman (The Paperboy) </div>
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<i>Alternative 1: </i>Maggie Smith (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) </div>
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<i>Alternative 2</i>: Jacki Weaver (Silver Linings Playbook) </div>
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<i>FYC</i>: Kelly Reilly (Flight) </div>
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<b>BEST SUPPORTING ACTORS </b></div>
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Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master) </div>
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Leonardo Di Caprio (Django Unchained) </div>
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Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained) </div>
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Tommy Lee Jones (Lincoln)<br />
Alan Arkin (Argo) </div>
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<i>Alternative 1: </i>Javier Bardem (Skyfall) </div>
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<i>Alternative 2</i><i>:</i> Mathew McCounaghey (Magic Mike) </div>
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<i>FYC: </i>Ezra Miller (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) </div>
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<b>BEST FOREIGN FILM </b></div>
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Amour (Áustria) </div>
The Intouchables (França) </div>
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The Deep (Islândia) </div>
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Kon-Tiki (Noruega) </div>
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A Royal Affair (Dinamarca) </div>
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<i>Alternative 1: </i>No (Chile) </div>
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<i>Alternative 2:</i>Beyond the Hills (Roménia) </div>
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<b>BEST ANIMATED FILM </b></div>
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Brave </div>
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Wreck-it-Ralph </div>
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The Rise of the Guardians </div>
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Frankenweenie </div>
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Hotel Transylvania </div>
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<i>Alternative 1:</i>The Painting </div>
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<i>Alternative 2:</i>Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted </div>
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<b>BEST DOCUMENTARY </b></div>
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The Imposter </div>
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Bully </div>
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The Gatekeepers </div>
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The Invisible War </div>
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This is Not a Film </div>
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<i>Alternative 1: </i>Searching for Sugar Man </div>
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<i>Alternative 2: </i>Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God </div>
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<b>BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY </b></div>
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The Master (Mihai Malaimare Jr. ) </div>
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Django Unchained (Robert Richardson) </div>
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Zero Dark Thirty (Greig Fraser) </div>
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Lincoln (Janusz Kaminski)
Skyfall (Roger Deakins) </div>
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Life of Pi (Claudio Miranda) </div>
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<i>Alternative 1: </i>Les Miserábles (Danny Cohen) </div>
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<i>Alternative 2: </i>Argo (Rodrigo Pietro) </div>
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<b>BEST ART DIRECTION </b></div>
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Django Unchained </div>
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Lincoln </div>
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Anna Karenina </div>
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Life of Pi </div>
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Les Miserábles </div>
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<i>Alternative 1: </i>The Master </div>
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<i>Alternative 2: </i>Moonrise Kingdom </div>
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<i>FYC</i>: Cloud Atlas </div>
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<b>BEST COSTUME DESIGN </b></div>
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Django Unchained </div>
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Lincoln </div>
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Les Miserábles </div>
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Anna Karenina </div>
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Cloud Atlas </div>
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<i>Alternative 1:</i> Moonrise Kingdom </div>
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<i>Alternative 2:</i> Mirror Mirror </div>
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<i>FYC</i>: The Master </div>
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<b>BEST HAIR AND MAKE-UP </b></div>
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Lincoln </div>
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Les Miserábles </div>
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey </div>
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<i>Alternative 1: </i>Hitchcock </div>
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<i>Alternative 2: </i>Looper </div>
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<i>FYC</i>: Cloud Atlas </div>
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<b>BEST EDITING</b></div>
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Zero Dark Thirty </div>
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Flight </div>
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Lincoln </div>
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Les Miserábles </div>
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Argo </div>
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<i>Alternative 1: </i>Skyfall </div>
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<i>Alternative 2: </i>The Master </div>
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<i>FYC</i>: The Impossible </div>
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<b>BEST SOUND EDITING </b></div>
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The Avengers </div>
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey </div>
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Skyfall </div>
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Zero Dark Thirty </div>
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The Dark Knight Rises </div>
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<i>Alternative 1: </i>Les Miserábles </div>
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<i>Alternative 2: </i>Life of Pi </div>
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<i>FYC</i>: Killing Them Softly </div>
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<b>BEST SOUND MIXING </b></div>
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The Avengers </div>
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Les Miserábles </div>
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Skyfall </div>
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Zero Dark Thirty </div>
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The Dark Knight Rises </div>
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<i>Alternative 1: </i>Life of Pi </div>
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<i>Alternative 2: </i>Lincoln </div>
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The Avengers </div>
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey </div>
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Life of Pi </div>
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The Dark Knight Rises </div>
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Battleship: LA </div>
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<i>Alternative 1: </i>Cloud Atlas </div>
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<i>Alternative 2: </i>Prometheus </div>
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<i>FYC: </i>The Amazing Spiderman </div>
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The Master </div>
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Beasts of the Southern Wild </div>
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Lincoln </div>
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey </div>
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<i>Alternative 1: </i>Life of Pi </div>
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<i>Alternative 2: </i>Anna Karenina </div>
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<i>FYC:</i> The Dark Knight Rises </div>
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<b>BEST ORIGINAL SONG </b></div>
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"Suddenly" (Les Miserábles) </div>
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"Skyfall" (Skyfall) </div>
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"Song of the Lonely Mountain" (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) </div>
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"Learn Me Right" (Brave) </div>
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"Who Did That to You?" (Django Unchained) </div>
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<i>Alternative 1: </i>"Touch the Sky" (Brave) </div>
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<i>Alternative 2: </i>"Everybody Needs a Best Friend" (Ted) </div>
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I ought to be looking for the black box of this screening. Nothing went wrong and I'm still one piece but I'd like to find the frame of my face realizing <b>Gatins</b> and <b>Zemeckis</b> had stored in a much different approach to the premise than I had in mind: an action-packaged ride of a wrong man running from a massive Government conspiracy. Instead, I saw a dedicated character-study of one man clinging to a wrecked personal life.<br />
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A one-minute opening scene with very little dialog and a lot of good visual first strokes of the main character. Katrina (<b>Nadine Velazquez</b>), a beautiful naked stewardess finds her panties while Whip Whitaker (thumbs up to<b> Denzel Washington</b>) collects the last two drops of vodka out of a bouquet of empty bottles, lights a cigarette for breakfast, and answers the cellphone to his divorced wife asking for money. The rough night has come to an end because he now has a plane to fly. Or hasn't it? He snuffs a line of coke to pump him up and get him ready for the clouds.<b> Joe Cocker</b>'s <b>Feelin Alright</b> rocks in - this was going to be good storytelling.<br />
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The plane departs, turbulence hits and things go murky: a sleepy, alcoholized, drugged pilot must regain control of the engine, diving nose-down, and stop it from crashing. It's a frenetic rhythm caught through editing; an intensity of stakes given by Washington's voice, maneuvering and rapid-thinking; a subtlety of emotions plastered on the pilot's face when a stewardess dies after saving a child and when he asks Margaret (<b>Tamara Tunie</b>) to declare her love for her son to the black box. The coin of unexpectedness flips when Whitaker flips the plane upside down, arresting the descent and starting to glide, before bringing it back to normal position and landing in a field. He looses consciousness and you can finally breathe. Extraordinary sequence.<br />
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Ensued is the most simple of stories. Whip wakes up in a hospital bed, six people have died (including Katrina), more than half were injured. Who is to blame? No Cold-War syndrome, no post-9/11 trauma, no cabal of any kind. But this newly congratulated hero, the hand of the latest miracle of God, had a toxicological exam made. Who is to blame? Is he the wrong man, the right man, the righteous man? Is he a savior or a killer? The airplane was probably defective, as grants Charlie (<b>Bruce Greenwood</b>), his friend and representative of the pilots union; but he was drunk and high too. Yet, "Nobody could have landed that plane like I did.", Whip retorts. Hugh Lang (<b>Don Cheaddle</b>), a lawyer specialized in going against NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) investigations, is the only one capable of getting Whitaker through the agency's hearing - he can annul the toxicological analysis and focus the defense on mechanical deficiency.<br />
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Whip takes refuge on his father's farm to stay away from the media, sweeps off any trace of booze and weed and tries to reconnect. He can't reach his ex-wife nor his son, but he has met Nicole (great surprise by <b>Kelly Relly</b>) at the hospital. She deserves her own POV not only for a wise foreshadowing (why is cocaine like a panic-button sometimes) but also to prove we are in for well-rounded characters beyond a sole, typical, action movie plot function. She represents the hopeful fringe to cure, compassion and affection, while his friend Harling Mays (<b>John Goodman</b> in his typical 7-minute-overall show-stealing) is a bohemian drug-dealer capable of cheering up Rose DeWitt Bukater when she's back on the lifeboat.<br />
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The drama progresses on Zemeckis' calm, observant, introspective camera. Quiet places, soft light. What could have usually been a third-act resurrection (<i>e.g.</i>, flushing down marijuana; trying an AA meeting) are tests, failed tests, on the middle of the story. Turbulence that instead sends Whitaker on his own personal emotive steep downfall. The legal drama angle keeps a large pace but every new scene comes underlined by the protagonist's moral struggle - he is awfully tired of lies. Two surprising turns at the end - what he needs to go to the hearing of the NTSB (headed by <b>Melissa Leo</b>) and what happens there (delicious metaphors and character arc). Then you ask, what kind of man his he?<br />
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While <b>Lincoln </b>and <b>Zero Dark Thirty</b> have been gathering the most appraisal from critics, the absence of <b>Django Unchained</b> and <b>Les Miserables</b> from any major film festivals and their extended secrecy until the premieres both on December 25th swept them off sight of early Oscar projections - but what about this? I believe <b>The Master </b>will play differently to the Academy and I'm particularly happy with <b>Moonrise Kingdom</b>'s surprise and <b>Argo</b>'s confirmation. Where the hell is <b>Mad Men</b> and go <b>Girls</b>!<br />
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<b>BEST PICTURE, DRAMA</b><br />
Argo<br />
Lincoln<br />
Life of Pi<br />
Django Unchained<br />
Zero Dark Thirty<br />
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<b>BEST PICTURE, MUSICAL OR COMEDY </b><br />
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel<br />
Les Miserables,<br />
Moonrise Kingdom,<br />
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen,<br />
Silver Linings Playbook<br />
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<b>BEST SCREENPLAY</b><br />
Mark Boal ("Zero Dark Thirty")<br />
Tony Kushner ("Lincoln")<br />
David O. Russel ("Silver Linings Playbook")<br />
Quentin Tarantino ("Django Unchained") <br />
Chris Terrio ("Argo")<br />
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<b>BEST DIRECTOR</b><br />
Ben Affleck ("Argo")<br />
Kathryn Bigelow ("Zero Dark Thirty")<br />
Ang Lee ("Life of Pi")<br />
Steven Spielberg ("Lincoln")<br />
Quentin Tarantino ("Django Unchained") <br />
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</b><b>BEST ACTOR, DRAMA</b><br />
Daniel Day-Lewis ("Lincoln)<br />
Richard Gere ("Arbitrage")<br />
John Hawkes ("The Sessions")<br />
Joaquin Phoenix ("The Master")<br />
Denzel Washington ("Flight")<br />
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<b>BEST ACTOR, MUSICAL OR COMEDY</b><br />
Hugh Jackman ("Les Miserables") <br />
Jack Black ("Bernie")<br />
Bradley Cooper ("Silver Linings Playboy")<br />
Bil Murray ("Hyde Park on Hudson")<br />
Ewan McGregor ("Salmon Fishing in the Yemen")<br />
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<b>BEST ACTRESS, DRAMA</b><br />
Jessica Chastain ("Zero Dark Thirty")<br />
Marion Cotillard ("Rust and Bone")<br />
Helen Mirren ("Hitchcock")<br />
Naomi Watts ("The Impossible")<br />
Rachel Weisz ("The Deep Blue Sea")<br />
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<b>BEST ACTRESS, MUSICAL OR COMEDY</b><br />
Emily Blunt ("Salmon Fishing in the Yemen")<br />
Judi Dench ("The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel")<br />
Jennifer Lawrence ("Silver Linings PLaybook")<br />
Maggie Smith ("Quartet")<br />
Meryl Streep ("Hope Springs") <br />
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<b>BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR</b><br />
Alan Arkin ("Argo")<br />
Leonardo DiCaprio ("Django Unchained")<br />
Philip Seymour Hoffman ("The Master")<br />
Tommy Lee Jones ("Lincoln")<br />
Christoph Waltz ("Django Unchained")<br />
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<b>BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS</b><br />
Amy Adams ("The Master")<br />
Sally Field ("Lincoln")<br />
Anne Hathaway ("Les Miserables)<br />
Helen Hunt ("The Sessions")<br />
Nicole Kidman ("The Paperboy")<br />
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<b>BEST FOREIGN FILME</b><br />
Amour<br />
A Royal Affair<br />
The Intouchables<br />
Kon-Tiki<br />
Rust and Bone<br />
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<b>ANIMATED FILM</b><br />
Brave<br />
Frankenweenie<br />
Hotel Transylvania<br />
Rise of the Guardians<br />
Wreck-It-Ralph</div>
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<b>BEST ORIGINAL SCORE</b>:<br />
Mychael Danna, "Life of Pi"<br />
Alexandre Desplat,
"Argo"<br />
Dario Marianelli, "Anna Karenina"<br />
Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek and
Reinhold Heil, "Cloud Atlas"<br />
John Williams, "Lincoln."<br />
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<b>BEST SERIES, DRAMA</b><br />
Boardwalk Empire<br />
Breaking Bad<br />
Downton Abbey<br />
Homeland<br />
The Newsroom<br />
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<b>BEST SERIES, MUSICAL OR COMEDY</b><br />
"The Big Bang Theory"<br />
"Episodes"<br />
"Girls"<br />
"Modern Family"<br />
"Smash" <br />
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<b>BEST ACTOR, DRAMA</b><br />
Steve Buscemi ("Boardwalk Empire")<br />
Bryan Cranston ("Breaking Bad")<br />
Jeff Daniels ("The Newsroom")<br />
Jon Hamm ("Mad Men")<br />
Damian Lewis ("Homeland")<br />
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<b>BEST ACTRESS, DRAMA</b><br />
Connie Britton ("Nashville")<br />
Glenn Close ("Damages")<br />
Claire Danes ("Homeland")<br />
Michelle Dockery ("Downtown Abbey")<br />
Julianna Margulies ("The Good Wife")<br />
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<b>BEST ACTOR, MUSICAL OR COMEDY</b><br />
Alec Baldwin ("30 Rock")<br />
Don Cheadle ("House of Lies")<br />
Louis C. K. ("Louie")<br />
Matt LeBlanc ("Episodes")<br />
Jim Parsons ("The Big Bang Theory") <br />
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<b>BEST ACTRESS, MUSICAL OR COMEDY</b><br />
Zooey Deschanel (New Girl)<br />
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep)<br />
Lena Dunham (Girls)<br />
Tina Fey (30 Rock)<br />
Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation)<br />
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Hatfields & McCoys</div>
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<b>BEST ACTTOR, MINISERIES OR MOVIE FOR TV</b><br />
Kevin Costner (Hatfields & McCoys)<br />
Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock)<br />
Woody Harrelson (Game Change)<br />
Toby Jones (The Girl)<br />
Clive Owen (Hemingway & Gellhorn)<br />
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<b>BEST ACTRESS, MINISERIES OR MOVIE FOR TV</b><br />
Nicole Kidman (Hemingway & Gellhorn)<br />
Jessica Lange (American Horror Story: Asylum)<br />
Sienna Miller (The Girl)<br />
Julianne Moore (Game Change)<br />
Sigourney Weaver (Political Animals)<br />
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<b>BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR, MINISERIES OR MOVIE FOR TV</b><br />
Max Greenfield (New Girl)<br />
Ed Harris (Game Change)<br />
Danny Huston (Magic City)<br />
Mandy Patinkin (Homeland)<br />
Eric Stonestreet (Modern Family)<br />
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<b>BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS, MINISERIES OR MOVIE FOR TV</b><br />
Hayden Panettiere (Nashville)<br />
Archie Panjabi (The Good Wife)<br />
Sarah Paulson (Game Change)<br />
Maggie Smith (Downton Abbey)<br />
Sofia Vergara (Modern Family)<br />
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The Portuguese filmmaker features in this year's nominations for the Annie Awards, the highest regarded film festival exclusively dedicated to animation. The nine-minute short film <b>Kali, the Little Vampire</b> (2012) goes for <b>Best Short Film </b>and has its English voice-over lend by British star <b>Christopher Plummer</b>.<br />
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<i>Brave</i> - Pixar Animation Studio<i>s</i></div>
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<i>Frankenweenie</i> - The Walt Disney Studios<i> </i></div>
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<i>Hotel Transylvania</i> - Sony Pictures Animation<i> </i></div>
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<i>Rise of the Guardians</i> - DreamWorks Animation<i> </i></div>
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<i>The Pirates! Band of Misfits</i> - Aardman Animations<i> </i></div>
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<i>The Rabbi's Cat</i> - GKIDS<i> </i></div>
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<i>Wreck-It Ralph</i> - Walt Disney Animation Studios</div>
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Brad and Gary - Illumination Entertainment</div>
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Bydlo - National Film Board of Canada</div>
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Eyes on the Stars - StoryCorps</div>
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Goodnight Mr. Foot - Sony Pictures Animation</div>
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Kali the Little Vampire - National Film Board of Canada</div>
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Maggie Simpson in The Longest Daycare - Gracie Films in Association with 20th Century Fox TV</div>
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Paperman - Walt Disney Animation Studios</div>
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Chris Butler - <i>ParaNorman</i> - Focus Features</div>
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Gideon Defoe - <i>The Pirates! Band of Misfits</i> - Aardman Animations</div>
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Hayao Miyazaki, Keiko Niwa, Karey Kirkpatrick - <i>From Up on Poppy Hill</i> - GKIDS</div>
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John August - <i>Frankenweenie</i> - The Walt Disney Studios</div>
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Mark Andrews, Steve Purcell, Brenda Chapman, Irene Mecchi - <i>Brave</i> - Pixar Animation Studios</div>
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Phil Johnston, Jennifer Lee - <i>Wreck-It Ralph</i> - Walt Disney Animation Studios</div>
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<b>Animated Effects in an Animated Production</b> </div>
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Andrew Nawrot, Joe Gorski, Grant Laker - <i>ParaNorman</i> - Focus Features</div>
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Andrew Schneider <i>Ice Age: Continental Drift</i> - Blue Sky Studios</div>
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Andy Hayes, Carl Hooper, David Lipton - <i>Rise of the Guardians</i> - DreamWorks Animation</div>
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Bill Watral, Chris Chapman, Dave Hale, Keith Klohn, Michael K. O'Brien <i>Brave</i> - Pixar Animation Studios</div>
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Brett Albert - <i>Wreck-It Ralph</i> - Walt Disney Animation Studios</div>
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Jihyun Yoon - <i>Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted</i> - DreamWorks Animation</div>
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Joel Aron - Star Wars: The Clone Wars' - Lucasfilm Animation Ltd.</div>
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Jerome Platteaux, John Sigurdson, Ryan Hopkins, Raul Essig, Mark Chataway <i>The Avengers</i> - Industrial Light & Magic</div>
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Stephen Marshall, Joseph Pepper, Dustin Wicke <i>The Amazing Spider-Man</i> - Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures Animation</div>
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Sue Rowe, Simon Stanley-Clamp, Artemis Oikonomopoulou, Holger Voss, Nikki Makar, Catherine Elvidge <i>John Carter</i> - Cinesite</div>
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Willi Geiger, Rick Hankins, Florent Andorra, Florian Witzel, Aron Bonar <i>Battleship</i> - Industrial Light & Magic</div>
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Dan Nguyen <i>Brave</i> - Pixar Animation Studios</div>
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David Pate <i>Rise of the Guardians</i> - DreamWorks Animation</div>
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Jaime Landes <i>Brave</i> - Pixar Animation Studios</div>
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Phillppe LeBrun <i>Rise of the Guardians</i> - DreamWorks Animation</div>
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Pierre Perifel <i>Rise of the Guardians</i> - DreamWorks Animation</div>
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Travis Hathaway <i>Brave</i> - Pixar Animation Studios</div>
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Travis Knight “<i>ParaNorman</i> - Focus Features</div>
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Will Becher <i>The Pirates! Band of Misfits</i> - Aardman Animations</div>
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Erik de Boer, Amanda Dague, Matt Brown, Mary Lynn Machado, Aaron Grey <i>Life of Pi</i> - Orangutan - Rhythm & Hues Studio</div>
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Erik de Boer, Matt Shumway, Brian Wells, Vinayak Pawar, Michael Holzl <i>Life of Pi</i> - Tiger - Rhythm & Hues Studio</div>
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Jakub Pistecky, Maia Kayser, Scott Benzu, Steve King, Kiran Bhat <i>The Avengers</i> - Industrial Light & Magic</div>
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Mike Beaulieu, Roger Vizard, Atushi Sato, Jackie Kochler, Derek Esparza, Richard Smith, Mac Tyrie - Columbia Pictures - <i>The Amazing Spider-Man</i> - Sony Pictures Animation</div>
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Bill Schwab, Lorelay Bove, Cory Loftis, Minkyu Lee <i>Wreck-It Ralph</i> - Walt Disney Animation Studios</div>
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Carlos Grangel <i>Hotel Transylvania</i> - Sony Pictures Animation</div>
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Carter Goodrich <i>Hotel Transylvania</i> - Sony Pictures Animation</div>
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Craig Kellman <i>Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted</i> - DreamWorks Animation</div>
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Heidi Smith <i>ParaNorman</i> - Focus Features</div>
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Yarrow Cheney, Eric Guillon, Colin Stimpson <i>Dr. Seuss' The Lorax</i> - Illumination Entertainment</div>
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Genndy Tartakovsky <i>Hotel Transylvania</i> - Sony Pictures Animation</div>
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Johan Sfar, Antoine Delesvaux <i>The Rabbi's Cat</i> - GKIDS</div>
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Remi Bezancon, Jean-Christophe Lie <i>Zarafa</i> - GKIDS</div>
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Rick Moore <i>Wreck-It Ralph</i> - Walt Disney Animation Studios</div>
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Alexandre Desplat <i>Rise of the Guardians</i> - DreamWorks Animation</div>
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Bruce Retief <i>Adventures in Zambezia</i> - Saltzman Communications</div>
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Henry Jackman <i>Wreck-It Ralph</i> - Walt Disney Animation Studios</div>
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Joel McNeely, Brendan Milburn, Valerie Vigoda <i>Secret of the Wings</i> - DisneyToon Studios</div>
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John Powell, Adam Schlesinger, Ester Dean <i>Ice Age: Continental Drift</i> - Blue Sky Studios</div>
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John Powell, Cinco Paul <i>Dr. Seuss' The Lorax</i> - Illumination Entertainment</div>
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Kendal Cronkhite-Shaindlin, Shannon Jeffries, Lindsey Olivares, Kenard Pak <i>Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted</i> - DreamWorks Animation</div>
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Marcello Vignali <i>Hotel Transylvania</i> - Sony Pictures Animation</div>
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Nash Dunnigan, Arden Chen, Jon Townley, Kyle McNaughton <i>Ice Age: Continental Drift</i> - Blue Sky Studios</div>
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Nelson Lowry, Ross Stewart, Pete Oswald, Ean McNamara, Trevor Dalmer <i>ParaNorman</i> - Focus Features</div>
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Norman Garwood, Matt Berry <i>The Pirates! Band of Misfits</i> - Aardman Animation</div>
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Patrick Hanenberger, Max Boas, Jayee Borcar, Woonyoung Jung, Perry Maple, Peter Maynez, Stan Seo, Felix Yoon <i>Rise of the Guardians</i> - DreamWorks Animation</div>
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Rick Heintzich <i>Frankenweenie</i> - The Walt Disney Studios</div>
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Steve Pilcher <i>Brave</i> - Pixar Animation Studios</div>
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Emmanuela Cozzi <i>ParaNorman</i> - Focus Features</div>
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Johanne Matte <i>Rise of the Guardians</i> - DreamWorks Animation</div>
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Leo Matsuda <i>Wreck-It Ralph</i> - Walt Disney Animation Studios</div>
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Lissa Treiman <i>Wreck-It Ralph</i> - Walt Disney Animation Studios</div>
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Rob Koo <i>Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted</i> - DreamWorks Animation</div>
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Adam Sandler as Dracula <i>Hotel Transylvania</i> - Sony Pictures Animation</div>
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Alan Tudyk as King Candy <i>Wreck-It Ralph</i> - Walt Disney Animation Studios</div>
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Atticus Shaffer as "E"Gore <i>Frankenweenie</i> - The Walt Disney Studios</div>
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Catherine O'Hara as Weird Girl <i>Frankenweenie</i> - The Walt Disney Studios</div>
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Imelda Staunton as Queen Victoria <i>The Pirates! Band of Misfits</i> - Aardman Animations</div>
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Jim Cummings as Budzo <i>Adventures in Zambezia</i> - Saltzman Communications</div>
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Jude Law as Pitch <i>Rise of the Guardians</i> - DreamWorks Animation</div>
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Kelly MacDonald as Merida <i>Brave</i> - Pixar Animation Studios</div>
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<b>Editorial in an Animated Feature Production</b></div>
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Catherine Apple <i>Hotel Transylvania</i> - Sony Pictures Animation</div>
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Joyce Arrastia <i>Rise of the Guardians</i> - DreamWorks Animation</div>
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Mark Rosenbaum <i>Secret of the Wings</i> - DisneyToon Studios</div>
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Nicholas A. Smith, ACE, Robert Graham Jones, ACE, David Suther <i>Brave</i> - Pixar Animation Studios</div>
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Tim Mertens <i>Wreck-It Ralph</i> - Walt Disney Animation Studios</div>
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I am not stretching my words to the length of a cat's tail writing about <b>The Master</b> (2012). I shall be back in a few months after I've seen it again and therefore be able to put into paper what I believe the experience deserves. I watched it last night as one of my most expected films of all time (considering I wasn't there for many of the great classics) and yet how could I still be surprised, I don't know. I am not speaking of quality evaluation. I am speaking of an unparalleled cinematic experience, much like <b>Tree of Life</b> (2011). Only I liked it more than <b>Malick</b>'s, for being such an intensive character study. A tale of mentor-pupil, magnetically bonded like <b>Baker Hall </b>and <b>John C. Reilley</b> in <b>Hard Eight</b> (1995) (although, yes, the only thing I am currently questioning is Hoffman's motivation, because even Baker Hall has one). An hipnotic, time-traveling technicolor-like visual approach, carrying the rebirth of a man psychologically destroyed by the Second World War (Freddie Quell) at the hands of the founder of a religious cult (Lancaster Dodd), "The Cause", mystically hoping to cure the former soldier and thus believe he himself has unlocked the meaning of life. One is an hormonal wreckage, clinging to a bitter lost love (sweet innocence); the other, like Daniel Plainview, the most ambitious man in the world. Waving between <b>Thomas Pynchon</b> in literature, and mixing <b>Kubrick</b> and <b>Fellini</b>'s perverse worlds with even more twisted, degrading and neglected fears, wishes and imaginations. <b>Joaquin Phoenix</b> is otherworldly (many will consider it "overacting" and its legitimate), <b>Hoffman</b> is bizarre and <b>Amy Adams</b> is ravishingly manipulative. Dodd fights an afflictive battle to try to understand Quell's mind, as he progressively becomes the only capable man of questioning the master, accomplishing his own rebirth and going back for his pure ancient desires. Between madness and make-believe, from oniric humiliation to magic-realistic lush (the dream and the phone, the eyes turning black, the decadent lust, the color of the sea).<br />
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My first ticket for <b>Brian DePalma</b>'s retrospective gave me entrance to his 1968 <b>Greetings</b>, which won him a <b>Silver Berlin Bear</b>. I went in completely unaware of what I was up to see, but I did expect a thrilling plot and restless tracking shots. Instead, this satirical piece on Vietnam War, about three young men trying to elude the U.S. army's recruiters, unfolded as a sewing of sketches linked by world, characters and their expectations, but never by the usual causal-effect logic. I didn't know <b>Jonathan Warden</b> nor <b>Gerrit Graham</b> but watched <b>Robert de Niro</b> playing his first major role. DePalma brought DeNiro back as the same character played here, Jon Rubin, in <b>Hi Mom!</b> (1970), an adaptation of one of the funniest chapters of this piece: Jon convinces a woman to behave intimately in front of a camera with its lens cut like a window (the reference is obvious, <b>Rear Window</b> (1954)), an experimental project that instantly turns in something else when she's finally nude. It has a wonderful payoff when he works out the same plot on a Vietnamese woman, in the middle of a war he doesn't want to fight. It's a very <i>nouvelle-vaguian</i> sketch out of a very <i>nouvelle-vaguian</i> aesthetics (and the intertextuality is extremely obvious, as the references to <b>Blow Up</b> (1966)). A portrait where everybody is paranoid or obsessed about something (JFK's assassination, finding a soulmate, having sex), caring about the war seems more stupid and meaningless than singing for no purpose at all.<br />
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<b>Amour</b> (2012), by <b>Michael Haneke</b>, is not a perfume. It is a <b>Golden Palm winner</b> that stems out of a very truthful, very sad premise. It then breeds out of two brilliant performances by the European legends <b>Jean-Louis Trintignant</b> and <b>Emmanuelle Riva</b>. The colors are coherent, the texture and the framing create the lonesome house, a metaphor for minds of the characters, knowing their time is drawing near. Technically, nothing to point out and we even get the pleasure to hear a bit of music, not like many of his works. But it all goes away by minute twenty, when you've realized you still have two hours of endless boring chat, repetitive scene after repetitive scene, infinite shots where the old man cuts flowers one after the other. It's painful at some point. And not because of those people's suffering, which I don't deny but didn't care about. I would've liked it if it was a fifteen minute short film without dialog.
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