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2015 Awards Thread; Like death and taxes...
Topic Started: Nov 24 2015, 11:39 AM (3,150 Views)
Aaron
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Mister Jiggy, Esq.,Dec 14 2015
05:15 PM
Aaron,Dec 14 2015
04:21 PM
I'm thinking in the vein of Eternal Sunshine, Lost in Translation from old days. Or Tree of Life for more recently.

Aaron - I'm not following, are you saying those critical darlings were snubbed? All 3 of those were Oscar nominated (2 for BP) and the first two won at least one in other major categories.

I meant that they swept critics awards, but didn't take home the big hardware. I didn't recall them winning but it has been a long time. Maybe a better example would be something like Synecdoche, NY, which is too inaccessible to get Oscar appeal, but wins over a lot of critics. It seems rare that a film wins critical awards and Best Picture. The Hurt Locker is an exception. Tree of Life was like a steam engine through the critical circuit and that got it a BP nod in the expanded field, but didn't take home any Oscars -- not even cinematography where it was most deserving.

Anyway, my point is that in the 2010s we see a lot more critical accolades for action/adventure films. Part of that may be due to Hollywood not taking as many risks, hence a lot of biopics come out around Oscar time.
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Aaron,Dec 14 2015
05:46 PM
Part of that may be due to Hollywood not taking as many risks, hence a lot of biopics come out around Oscar time.

Another factor might be one I've mentioned on here a few times--the Academy's change in recent years to the ranked preferential voting system for the Best Picture category on the final ballots.

This system was in use during the nominating phase as far back as I can remember, but it wasn't until around the time of the expanded BP field that they switched to it for the final BP vote as well.

Under the old rules, you simply marked your one choice for Best Picture on the final ballot. Now you're supposed to rank them in preferential order, #1-9 or whatever it happens to be for that year.

The result is that any love-it-or-hate-it movie like the ones you named have no chance. Although they have a ton of #1 votes due to the very passionate support at the top, they're also likely to have an equal or greater number of #8-9 votes because they're so divisive by nature.

Naturally a chief beneficiary of that format is respectable, but middle-of-the-road fare like biopics and handsomely-mounted "prestige" productions. They get far fewer #1 votes, but they're also dramatically more likely to get a swarm of votes in the #2-4 range and thus win the big prize.
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Mister Jiggy, Esq.
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Sharon - while I suspect you are right - it didn't play out that way for BP this year (for 2014). Winner Birdman would fall in the love-it-or-hate-it category and losers The Theory of Everything or The Imitation Game in the middle-of-the-road fare category. Of course, none of this is an exact science.

Aaron I now gather your point - but only one film can win - and I think a nomination is also a strong indicator of Oscar taste and to me it becomes more of a stretch to be critical of this taste by looking at the winner's only and not giving credit for the nomination. Years ago its hard to imagine something like The Grand Budapest Hotel even getting a BP nomination. The expanded field is a development I like.
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That is a good point, and the same goes for Birdman. Last year the critical accolades more or less lined up with the winners in a lot of categories. Of course the early critical favorite was Boyhood, which ended up with only an acting Oscar, but it was the frontrunner during the early Oscar season.

Sharon makes an excellent point about the preferential system and that could hurt Mad Max and maybe Carol (I haven't seen it), both of which will get a lot of #1 votes, but something like Spotlight may be less divisive.

Anyway, it was just an observation about the year. The championing of Mad Max reminds me of The Dark Knight, but I am pretty sure that Mad Max will at least get nominated, probably The Martian too.
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Aaron
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Speaking of Boyhood, looks like it is getting announced as a Criterion release tomorrow along with some other goodies.
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Village Voice Poll top ten:

Best Picture

1. Mad Max: Fury Road

2. Carol

3. Spotlight

4. Phoenix

5. Tangerine

6. Anomalisa

7. Clouds of Sils Maria

8. Inside Out

9. Brooklyn

10. The Assassin
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Everybody's in the awards game these days:

Indiana Film Journalists Association

Best Film
Winner: “Spotlight”
Runner-up: “Room”

Other Finalists (listed alphabetically):
“Anomalisa”
“The Big Short”
“Carol”
“The End of the Tour”
“Mad Max: Fury Road”
“The Martian”
“Steve Jobs”
“Straight Outta Compton”

Best Animated Feature
Winner: “Anomalisa”
Runner-Up: “Inside Out ”

Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: “Son of Saul”
Runner-Up: “Goodnight Mommy”

Best Documentary
Winner: “Amy”
Runner-Up: “Meru”

Best Original Screenplay
Winner: Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer, “Spotlight”
Runner-up: Matt Charman, Joel & Ethan Coen, “Bridge of Spies”

Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner: Emma Donoghue, “Room”
Runner-up: Adam McKay and Charles Randolph, “The Big Short”

Best Director
Winner: George Miller, “Mad Max: Fury Road”
Runner-up: Tom McCarthy, “Spotlight”

Best Actress
Winner: Brie Larson, “Room”
Runner-up: Charlotte Rampling, “45 Years”

Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Greta Gerwig, “Mistress America”
Runner-up: Elizabeth Banks, “Love & Mercy”

Best Actor
Winner: Jacob Tremblay, “Room”
Runner-up: Jason Segel, “The End of the Tour”

Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Mark Ruffalo, “Spotlight”
Runner-up: Idris Elba, “Beasts of No Nation”

Best Vocal/Motion Capture Performance
Winner: Phyllis Smith, “Inside Out”
Runner-up: Tom Noonan, “Anomalisa”

Best Musical Score
Winner: Junkie XL, “Mad Max: Fury Road”
Runner-up: Disasterpeace, “It Follows”

Original Vision Award
Winner: “Anomalisa”
Runner-up: “Chi-Raq”

The Hoosier Award
Winner: Angelo Pizzo, writer/director/producer
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I will step off-topic for a second and hand out the first Hoosier Award of Fugee Fantasy Basketball to vornporn: Hoosier Daddy?

:naughty:
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Russ,Dec 15 2015
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I will step off-topic for a second and hand out the first Hoosier Award of Fugee Fantasy Basketball to vornporn: Hoosier Daddy?

:naughty:

I'd be a shoo-in for this if I played Fantasy Basketball, because I actually live in Indiana.
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UK Critics Circle nominees

Carol leads with seven, 45 Years got six, five for Mad Max, The Revenant and Steve Jobs. Two docs in the Best Picture category: Amy and The Look of Silence. Tom Hardy nominated in both Actor categories. Supporting Actress has a couple of performances that I don't think have turned up much anywhere else: Olivia Colman in The Lobster and Tilda Swinton in Trainwreck. Hard to Be a God among the Foreign Language Film nominees.
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American Film Institute (AFI)

MOVIES OF THE YEAR

THE BIG SHORT
BRIDGE OF SPIES
CAROL
INSIDE OUT
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
THE MARTIAN
ROOM
SPOTLIGHT
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS
STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON

TV PROGRAMS OF THE YEAR

THE AMERICANS
BETTER CALL SAUL
BLACK-ISH
EMPIRE
FARGO
GAME OF THRONES
HOMELAND
MASTER OF NONE
MR. ROBOT
UNREAL
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Oh, good grief. The Broadcast Film Critics Association couldn't dare delay their nominations until after Star Wars: The Force Awakens was released, so now they're retro-fitting it into the Best Picture category. Apparently, they did this for Cast Away a few years back, too. Whatevs. I'll adjust the earlier nomination post accordingly.

http://www.vulture.com/2015/12/critics-cho...st-picture.html
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National Society of Film Critics -- with point totals (in the Best Director category, Haynes and McCarthy had the same point total, but Haynes was the one who appeared on the majority of ballots, so he got the win)

BEST PICTURE
Spotlight — 23
Carol — 17
Mad Max: Fury Road — 13

BEST DIRECTOR
Todd Haynes, Carol — 21
Tom McCarthy, Spotlight — 21
George Miller, Mad Max: Fury Road — 20

BEST ACTOR
Michael B. Jordan, Creed — 29
Géza Röhrig, Son of Saul — 18
Tom Courtenay, 45 Years — 15

BEST ACTRESS
Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years — 57
Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn — 30
Nina Hoss, Phoenix — 22

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies — 56
Michael Shannon, 99 Homes — 16
Sylvester Stallone, Creed — 14

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Kristen Stewart, Clouds of Sils Maria — 53
Alicia Vikander, Ex Machina — 23
Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs — 17
Elizabeth Banks, Love & Mercy — 17

BEST SCREENPLAY
Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy, Spotlight — 21
Charlie Kaufman, Anomalisa — 15
Charles Randolph and Adam McKay, The Big Short — 15

BEST NON-FICTION FILM
Amy — 23
In Jackson Heights — 18
Seymour: An Introduction — 15

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Ed Lachman, Carol — 25
Mark Lee Ping-bin, The Assassin — 22
John Seale, Mad Max: Fury Road — 12

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Timbuktu — 22
Phoenix — 20
The Assassin — 16
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PGA nominees (Producers Guild of America)

The Big Short
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Ex Machina
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Sicario
Spotlight
Straight Outta Compton

Hmmm... I think maybe the Oscar race just got a little fuzzier. Supposed sure things such as Carol and Room -- not nominated. Strong possibilities such as Creed and Trumbo -- nope. A pat on the back for mega-successful zeitgeist smash Star Wars: The Force Awakens -- didn't happen.

Not surprised that The Hateful Eight didn't make it. Awards voters can overlook QT's bloodiness (Basterds and Django both got PGA nods), but having no one to root for may have been too much to ask.

The producers of Ex Machina, Sicario and Straight Outta Compton must be thrilled today, but Oscar love is probably still a long shot. Still, this livens things up a little.

EDIT:

For some reason, the first article I read about this didn't list the nominees in the following categories:

Documentary

Amy
The Hunting Ground
The Look of Silence
Meru
Something Better to Come

Animation

Anomalisa
The Good Dinosaur
Inside Out
Minions
The Peanuts Movie

Long-Form Television

American Crime (Season 1)
American Horror Story: Hotel (Season 5)
Fargo (Season 2)
True Detective (Season 2)
A Very Murray Christmas

Episodic Television - Drama

Better Call Saul (Season 1)
Game of Thrones (Season 5)
Homeland (Season 4)
House of Cards (Season 3)
Mad Men (Season 7B)

Episodic Television - Comedy

Inside Amy Schumer (Season 3)
Modern Family (Season 6)
Silicon Valley (Season 2)
Transparent (Season 1)
Veep (Season 4)

Non-Fiction Television

30 for 30 (Season 6)
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (Season 3)
The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (Season 1)
Shark Tank (Season 6)
Vice (Season 3)

Competition Television

The Amazing Race (Seasons 25 and 26)
Dancing with the Stars (Seasons 19 and 20)
Project Runway (Season 13)
Top Chef (Season 12)
The Voice (Seasons 7 and 8)

Live Entertainment and Talk Television

The Colbert Report (Season 11)
Key & Peele (Season 4)
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (Season 2)
Real Time with Bill Maher (Season 13)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (Season 2)

Children's Program

Doc McStuffins
The Fairly OddParents
Octonauts
Sesame Street
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Toy Story That Time Forgot

Digital Series

30 for 30 Shorts
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
Epic Rap Battles of History
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Double Agent
This American Life Presents: Videos 4 U

Sports Program

Back on Board: Greg Louganis
E:60
Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Houston Texans
Kareem: Minority of One
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel
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American Society of Cinematographers (ASC)

“Bridge of Spies” (Janusz Kaminski)
“Carol” (Ed Lachman)
“Mad Max: Fury Road” (John Seale)
“The Revenant” (Emmanuel Lubezki)
“Sicario” (Roger Deakins)

Hmm, no Hateful Eight. Robert Richardson has never won an ASC award despite three Oscar wins (JFK, The Aviator, Hugo), while Roger Deakins has won three ASC awards, but no Oscars.
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