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  • Venice Recap: ‘Poor Things’ Wins Golden Lion; ‘Priscilla’ and Hamaguchi Pick Up Prizes as Well

    Venice Recap: ‘Poor Things’ Wins Golden Lion; ‘Priscilla’ and Hamaguchi Pick Up Prizes as Well

    With Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things winning the Golden Lion a couple days back, it has cemented itself as a top 6 Best Picture contender. High-profile films like Maestro and Ferrari were shutout, while films like Priscilla, Evil Does Not Exist, El Conde, and Memory all won major awards. Of these films, however, other than Poor Things, I think Maestro is the only film that will end up earning a Best Picture nod. It’s the type of major studio distributed film backed by big stars that does not need as much festival acclaim as indie films like Memory and Evil Does Not Exist do.

    Poor Things should follow the trajectory of films like The Shape of Water, Roma, Joker, and Nomadland, all films that won the Golden Lion at Venice and ended up translating that into becoming top five Best Picture contenders in their respective years.

    Here are the rest of the Venice winners.

    Golden Lion
    Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos

    Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize
    Evil Does Not Exist, Ryusuke Hamaguchi

    Silver Lion Best Director
    Matteo Garrone, Io Capitano

    Special Jury Prize
    Green Border, Agnieszka Holland

    Best Screenplay
    Pablo Larrain and Guillermo Calderón, El Conde

    Best Actress
    Cailee Spaeny, Priscilla

    Best Actor
    Peter Sarsgaard, Memory

    Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor or Actress
    Seydou Sarr, Io Capitano

    HORIZONS
    Best Film
    Explanation For Everything, Gábor Reisz

    Best Director
    Mika Gustafson, Paradise Is Burning

    Special Jury Prize
    Una Sterminata Domenica, Alain Parroni

    Best Actress
    Margarita Rosa De Francisco, El Paraiso

    Best Actor
    Tergel Bold-Erdene, City of Wind

    Best Screenplay
    El Paraiso, Enrico Maria Artale

    Best Short Film
    A Short Trip, Erenik Beqiri

    Lion of the Future – Luigi De Laurentiis Award for a Debut Film
    Love Is A Gun, Lee Hong-Chi

    HORIZONS EXTRA
    Audience Award
    FELICITÀ (HAPPINESS), Micaela Ramazzotti

    VENICE CLASSICS

    Best Documentary
    Thank You Very Much, Alex Braverman

    Best Restored Film
    OHIKKOSHI (MOVING), Shinji Somai

    VENICE IMMERSIVE

    Grand Jury Prize
    Songs For A Passerby, Celine Daemen

    Special Jury Prize
    Flow, Adriaan Lokman

    Immersive Achievement Prize
    Emperor, Marion Burger, Ilan Cohen

  • Toronto and Venice Release Lineups: ‘Maestro’, ‘Priscilla’, ‘The Killer’, ‘Poor Things’ Will Debut

    Toronto and Venice Release Lineups: ‘Maestro’, ‘Priscilla’, ‘The Killer’, ‘Poor Things’ Will Debut

    2023 is poised to be a strange year for film festivals. With the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes showing no signs of stopping, many of these films’ stars will be absent at the festivals. Both festivals will run as planned even without many of their films’ A-list talent showing up. Actors campaigning for their films has always had a large impact on their film’s Oscar chances and more significantly on their chances at acting awards. It will be interesting to see how that changes this year.

     

    ‘Maestro’ (Netflix)

    VENICE

    The lineup for this year’s Venice Film Festival was just announced. This is the first major festival lineup announcement of the Oscar season and it gives us our first introductory look at this year’s possible contenders. In six of the past seven years, a top two Picture contender has played at Venice and this trend shows no signs of stopping.

    In my predictions from this month, I have two of the films that have shown up in the Venice lineup in the top 10: Bradley Cooper’s Maestro and Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things. However, Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, Ava DuVernay’s Origin, Michael Mann’s Ferrari, Ryusuke Hamguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist, David Fincher’s The Killer, Michel Franco’s Memory, Pablo Larrain’s El Conde, and Matteo Garrone’s Io Capitano should also be watched. If any one of these ten films leave Venice highly-acclaimed and/or win one of their top prizes, their chances of being a Best Picture contender expand greatly. While I’m not confident that any of these films will become a top 2 Best Picture contender this season, I’m essentially guaranteeing that one of them will end up being a top 5 contender.

    Anyways, here is the Venice slate:

    Competition

    Comandante, dir: Edoardo de Angelis (opening night film)

    Adagio, dir: Stefano Sollima
    La Bête, dir: Bertrand Bonello
    DogMan, dir: Luc Besson
    El Conde, dir: Pablo Larrain
    Enea, dir: Pietro Castellitto
    Evil Does Not Exist, Ryusuke Hamaguchi
    Ferrari, dir: Michael Mann
    Finalmente L’Alba, dir: Saverio Costanzo
    The Green Border, dir: Agnieszka Holland
    Holly, dir: Fien Troch
    Hors-Saison, dir: Stéphane Brizé
    Io Capitano, dir: Matteo Garrone
    The Killer, dir: David Fincher
    Lubo, dir: Giorgio Diritti
    Maestro, dir: Bradley Cooper
    Memory, dir: Michel Franco
    Origin, dir: Ava DuVernay
    Poor Things, dir: Yorgos Lanthimos
    Priscilla, dir: Sofia Coppola
    The Promised Land, dir: Nikolaj Arcel
    Die Theorie Von Allem, dir: Timm Kroger
    Woman Of, dirs: Malgorzata Szumowska, Michal Englert

    Out of Competition

    Fiction

    Aggro Dr1ft, dir: Harmony Korine
    The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, dir: William Friedkin
    Coup de Chance, dir: Woody Allen
    Daaaaaal!, dir: Quentin Dupieux
    Hit Man, dir: Richard Linklater
    L’Ordine del Tempo, dir: Liliana Cavani
    The Palace, dir: Roman Polanski
    The Penitent, dir: Luca Barbareschi
    Snow Leopard, dir: Pema Tseden
    Vivants, dir: Alix Delaporte
    The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, dir: Wes Anderson (short)

    Here are the Best Picture nominees that went to Venice from the past 7 years:

    2022 – In Competition: Tar (Best Actress winner), The Banshees of Inisherin (Best Actor and Best Screenplay winner)

    2021 – In Competition: The Power of the Dog (Silver Lion winner); Out of Competition: Dune

    2020 – In Competition: Nomadland (Golden Lion winner)

    2019 – In Competition: Joker (Golden Lion winner), Marriage Story

    2018 – In Competition: The Favourite (Grand Jury Prize and Best Actress winner), Roma (Golden Lion winner); Out of Competition: A Star is Born

    2017 – In Competition: The Shape of Water (Golden Lion winner), Three Billboard Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Best Screenplay winner)

    2016 – In Competition: Arrival, La La Land (Best Actress winner); Out of Competition: Hacksaw Ridge

    Based on this, it would be reasonable to suspect that at least two fiction films from this year’s in competition and out of competition slates will make it in Best Picture. I don’t really see anything from the out of competition slate becoming a Picture contender but in terms of likelihood, the films from the competition slate that I think have a best chance of receiving a Picture nomination are, Maestro, Poor Things, Origin, Priscilla, Ferrari, The Killer, and Evil Doesn’t Exist. If DuVernay’s Origin is highly-acclaimed, I can see that film being a possible Picture winner. The film tackles historical systemic racism in the United States and could very well be the kind of accessible socially-conscious cinematic lightning rod the Academy would want to support if it ends up being very good. If the film is near the quality and raw strength of previous Duvernay projects When They See Us and 13th, I think we might have our Best Picture winner.

    Here is the rest of the Venice slate:

    Short (Out of Competition)

    Welcome to Paradise, dir: Leonardo Di Costanzo

    Non-Fiction (Out of Competition)

    Amor, dir: Virginia Eleuteri Serpieri
    Enzo Jannacci Vengo Anch’io, dir: Giorgio Verdelli
    Frente a Guernica (Version Integrale), dirs: Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi
    Hollywoodgate, dir: Ibrahim Nash’at
    Menus Plaisirs – Les Troisgros, dir: Frederick Wiseman
    Ryuichi Sakamoto Opus, dir: Neo Sora

    Series (Out of Competition)

    D’Argent et de Sang (episodes 1-12), dirs: Xavier Giannoli, Frederic Planchon
    I Know Your Soul (episodes 1-2), dirs: Alen Drljevic, Nermin Hamzagic

    Special Screening

    La Parte del Leone: Una Storia della Mostra, dirs: Baptiste Etchegary, Guiseppe Bucchi

    Horizons

    En Attendant la Nuit, dir: Céline Rouzet
    Behind the Mountains, dir: Mohamed Ben Attia
    A Cielo Abierto, dirs: Mariana Arriaga, Santiago Arriaga
    City of Wind, dir: Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir
    Dormitory, dir: Nehir Tuna
    El Paraiso, dir: Enrico Maria Artale
    Explanation for Everything, dir: Gabor Reisz
    The Featherweight, dir: Robert Kolodny
    Gasoline Rainbow, dirs: Bill Ross, Turner Ross
    Heartless, dirs: Nara Normande, Tiao
    Hesitation Wound, dir: Selman Nacar
    Housekeeping for Beginners, dir: Goran Stolevski
    Invelle, dir: Simone Massi
    Paradise Is Burning, dir: Mika Gustafson The Red Suitcase, dir: Fidel Devkota Shadow of Fire, dir: Shinya Tsukamoto
    Una Sterminata Domenica, dir: Alain Perroni
    Tatami, dirs: Guy Nattiv, Zar Amir Ebrahimi

    Horizons Extra

    Bota Jone, dir: Luana Bajrami
    Day of the Fight, dir: Jack Huston
    Felicita, dir: Micaela Ramazzotti
    Forever Forever, dir: Anna Buryachkova
    L’Homme d’Argile, dir: Anais Tellenne
    In the Land of Saints and Sinners, dir: Robert Lorenz
    Pet Shop Boys, dir: Olmo Schnabel
    Stolen, dir: Karan Tejpal
    The Rescue, dir: Daniela Goggi

    Venice Classics

    Non-Fiction

    Un Altra Italia Era Possibile, Il Cinema Di Guiseppe De Santis, dir: Stefano Della Casa
    Bill Douglas My Best Friend, dir: Jack Archer
    Dario Argento Panico, dir: Simone Scafidi
    Frank Capra: Mr America, dir: Matthew Wells
    Ken Jacobs From Orchard Street to the Museum of Modern Art, dir: Fred Riedel
    Le Film Pro-Nazi d’Hitchcock, dir: Daphne Baiwir
    Landrian, dir: Ernesto Daranas Serrano
    Michel Gondry Do It Yourself, dir: François Nemeta
    Thank You Very Much, dir: Alex Braverman

     

    ‘The Zone of Interest’ (A24)

    TORONTO

    In the last ten years, the eventual Best Picture winner has played at TIFF seven times. As a result, it has garnered a reputation as the most important festival in the Oscar race. Additionally, in the last 10 years, excluding the COVID year 2020, at least three films that screened at TIFF were nominated for Best Picture later that season. This year, Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest, Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, George C. Wolfe’s Rustin, Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins, Ellen Kuras’ Lee, Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, Ladj Ly’s Les Indesirables, Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera, Hirokazu Koreeda’s Monster, Craig Gillespie’s Dumb Money, Christos Nikou’s Fingernails, Michel Franco’s Memory, Kristin Scott Thomas’ North Star, James Hawes’ One Life, Michael Winterbottom’s Shoshanna, Ethan Hawke’s Wildcat, and Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils are some of the most high-profile films being shown.

    Anyway, here is the Toronto slate:

    Gala Presentations 

    Concrete Utopia, directed by Um Tae-Hwa

    Dumb Money, directed by Craig Gillespie

    Fair Play, directed by Chloe Domont

    Flora and Son, directed by John Carney

    Hate to Love: Nickelback, directed by Leigh Brooks

    Lee, directed by Ellen Kuras

    Next Goal Wins, directed by Taika Waititi

    NYAD, directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin

    Punjab ’95, directed by Honey Trehan

    Solo, directed by Sophie Dupuis

    The End We Start From, directed by Mahalia Belo

    The Movie Emperor, directed by Ning Hao

    The New Boy, directed by Warwick Thornton

    The Royal Hotel, directed by Kitty Green

    Special Presentations

    A Difficult Year, directed by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache

    A Normal Family, directed by Hur Jin-ho

    American Fiction, directed by Cord Jefferson

    Anatomy of a Fall, directed by Justine Triet

    Close to You, directed by Dominic Savage

    Days of Happiness, directed by Chloé Robichaud

    El Rapto, directed by Daniela Goggi

    Ezra, directed by Tony Goldwyn

    Fingernails, directed by Christos Nikou

    Four Daughters, directed by Kaouther Ben Hania

    His Three Daughters, directed by Azazel Jacobs

    Hitman, directed by Richard Linklater

    In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon, directed by Alex Gibney

    Kidnapped, directed by Marco Bellocchio

    Knox Goes Away, directed by Michael Keaton

    La Chimera, directed by Alice Rohrwacher

    Last Summer, directed by Catherine Breillat

    Les Indésirables, directed by Ladj Ly

    Memory, directed by Michel Franco

    Monster, directed by Kore-eda Hirokazu

    Mother Couch, directed by Niclas Larsson

    North Star, directed by Kristin Scott Thomas

    One Life, directed by James Hawes

    Pain Hustlers, directed by David Yates

    Poolman, directed by Chris Pine

    Reptile, directed by Grant Singer

    Rustin, directed by George C. Wolfe

    Seven Veils, directed by Atom Egoyan

    Shoshana, directed by Michael Winterbottom

    Sing Sing, directed by Greg Kwedar

    Smugglers, directed by Ryoo Seung-wan

    Swan Song, directed by Chelsea McMullan

    The Beast, directed by Bertrand Bonello

    The Burial, directed by Maggie Betts

    The Convert, directed by Lee Tamahori

    The Critic, directed by Anand Tucker

    The Dead Don’t Hurt, directed by Viggo Mortensen

    The Holdovers, directed by Alexander Payne

    The Peasants, directed by DK Welchman and Hugh Welchman

    The Zone of Interest, directed by Jonathan Glazer

    Together 99, directed by Lukas Moodysson

    Unicorns, directed by Sally El Hosaini and James Krishna Floyd

    Uproar, directed by Paul Middleditch and Hamish Bennett

    Wicked Little Letters, directed by Thea Sharrock

    Wildcat, directed by Ethan Hawke

    Woman of the Hour, directed by Anna Kendrick

    Here are the Best Picture nominees that went to Toronto from the past 10 years:

    2022 – Special Presentations: All Quiet on the Western Front, The Banshees of Inisherin, The Fabelmans, Triangle of Sadness, Women Talking

    2021 – Gala Presentations: Belfast (People’s Choice Award 1st place); Special Presentations: Drive My Car, The Power of the Dog (People’s Choice Award 3rd place); Special Events: Dune

    2020 – Gala Presentations: Nomadland (People’s Choice Award 1st place); Special Presentations: The Father

    2019 – Gala Presentations: Ford v Ferrari, Joker; Special Presentations: Jojo Rabbit (People’s Choice award 1st place), Marriage Story (People’s Choice Award 2nd place), Parasite (People’s Choice Award 3rd place)

    2018 – Gala Presentations: Green Book (People’s Choice Award 1st place), A Star is Born; Special Presentations: Roma (People’s Choice Award 3rd place)

    2017 – Gala Presentations: Darkest Hour; Special Presentations: Call Me By Your Name (People’s Choice Award 3rd place), Lady Bird, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (People’s Choice Award 1st place)

    2016 – Gala Presentations: Arrival; Special Presentations: La La Land (People’s Choice Award 1st place), Lion (People’s Choice Award 2nd place), Manchester by the Sea; Platform: Moonlight

    2015 – Gala Presentations: The Martian; Special Presentations: Brooklyn, Room (People’s Choice Award winner), Spotlight (People’s Choice Award 3rd place)

    2014 – Special Presentations: The Imitation Game (People’s Choice Award 1st place), The Theory of Everything, Whiplash

    2013 – Special Presentations: 12 Years a Slave (People’s Choice Award 1st place), Dallas Buyers Club, Gravity, Philomena (People’s Choice Award 2nd place)

    Based on this, I think it’s reasonable to expect that four to five of the films playing at TIFF will end up as Best Picture nominees. I’m not confident on whether this year’s Best Picture winner will play at TIFF, but history says that at least two of this year’s top five contenders will play at Toronto. In terms of likelihood, the films from the competition slate that I think have a best chance of receiving a Picture nomination are, The Zone of Interest, Anatomy of a Fall, Rustin, Lee, Next Goal Wins, Les Indesirables, and The Holdovers.

     

  • Cannes 2023: ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ Takes Palme, ‘The Zone of Interest’ and ‘Fallen Leaves’ Take Other Prizes

    Cannes 2023: ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ Takes Palme, ‘The Zone of Interest’ and ‘Fallen Leaves’ Take Other Prizes

    Justine Triet became just the third female director to win the Palme D’Or with ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ taking Cannes’ top prize. Critical darling ‘The Zone of Interest’ was awarded with the second prize and we will very likely be seeing both films pop up again and again later in the year when awards season kicks into full gear. Alice Rohrwacher’s ‘La Chimera’ and Todd Haynes’ ‘May December’ left the Croisette without prizes while Aki Kaurismaki’s ‘Fallen Leaves’ won the Cannes Jury Prize.

    Here are the awards and their winners:

    Palme d’Or
    Anatomy of a Fall, dir: Justine Triet

    Grand Prize
    The Zone of Interest, dir: Jonathan Glazer

    Best Director
    Tranh Anh Hung, The Pot-au-Feu

    Jury Prize
    Fallen Leaves, dir: Aki Kaurismaki

    Best Screenplay
    Yuji Sakamato, Monster

    Best Actress
    Merve Dizdar, About Dry Grasses

    Best Actor
    Koji Yakusho, Perfect Days

    Camera d’Or
    Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, dir: Thien An Pham

    Short Film Palme d’Or
    27, dir: Flóra Anna Buda

    Special Mention:
    Far, dir: Gunnur Martinsdottir Schluter

  • Oscars 2023: EEAAO Wins 7; Fraser, ‘All Quiet’ Surprise

    Oscars 2023: EEAAO Wins 7; Fraser, ‘All Quiet’ Surprise

    The biggest story of the night is Everything Everywhere All at Once’s absolute dominance. It won seven Oscars including Best Picture, Director, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress (a controversial win for Jamie Lee Curtis), Original Screenplay, and Editing. From its SXSW release to now, the film has been steadily gathering steam to become the Oscar-crushing behemoth that it did. Its seven Oscars is the most any film has won in a single year since Gravity won seven in 2014.

    Brendan Fraser won Best Actor! The fan-favorite star from The Whale triumphed in Best Actor, winning over presumed favorite Austin Butler. In other news, Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front won four of its nine nominations (surprising Babylon in Production Design), while The Banshees of Insiherin, The Fabelmans, Elvis and Tar were all completely snubbed. So much for sharing the wealth.

    After an electrifying performance, RRR’s “Naatu Naatu” won Best Original Song, becoming the first Indian film to have its song win (Slumdog Millionaire was not an Indian film). Everything Everywhere All at Once and Top Gun: Maverick won in Best Editing and Sound respectively, breaking the stat tying those two categories together for ten years.

    Anyways, here are the winners:

    Best Picture

    All Quiet on the Western Front — Malte Grunert, Producer
    Avatar: The Way of Water — James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
    The Banshees of Inisherin — Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Martin McDonagh, Producers
    Elvis — Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick and Schuyler Weiss, Producers
    Everything Everywhere All at Once — Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang, Producers
    The Fabelmans — Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner, Producers
    Tár — Todd Field, Alexandra Milchan and Scott Lambert, Producers
    Top Gun: Maverick — Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, David Ellison and Jerry Bruckheimer, Producers
    Triangle of Sadness — Erik Hemmendorff and Philippe Bober, Producers
    Women Talking — Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Frances McDormand, Producers

    Best Directing

    The Banshees of Inisherin — Martin McDonagh
    Everything Everywhere All at Once — Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
    The Fabelmans — Steven Spielberg
    Tár — Todd Field
    Triangle of Sadness — Ruben Östlund

    Best Actor in a Leading Role

    Austin Butler in Elvis
    Colin Farrell in The Banshees of Inisherin
    Brendan Fraser in The Whale
    Paul Mescal in Aftersun
    Bill Nighy in Living

    Best Actress in a Leading Role

    Cate Blanchett in Tár
    Ana de Armas in Blonde
    Andrea Riseborough in To Leslie
    Michelle Williams in The Fabelmans
    Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Best Actor in a Supporting Role

    Brendan Gleeson in The Banshees of Inisherin
    Brian Tyree Henry in Causeway
    Judd Hirsch in The Fabelmans
    Barry Keoghan in The Banshees of Inisherin
    Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Best Actress in a Supporting Role

    Angela Bassett in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
    Hong Chau in The Whale
    Kerry Condon in The Banshees of Inisherin
    Jamie Lee Curtis in Everything Everywhere All at Once
    Stephanie Hsu in Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Best Costume Design

    Babylon — Mary Zophres
    Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — Ruth Carter
    Elvis — Catherine Martin
    Everything Everywhere All at Once — Shirley Kurata
    Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris — Jenny Beavan

    Best Sound

    All Quiet on the Western Front — Viktor Prásil, Frank Kruse, Markus Stemler, Lars Ginzel and Stefan Korte
    Avatar: The Way of Water — Julian Howarth, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Dick Bernstein, Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers and Michael Hedges
    The Batman — Stuart Wilson, William Files, Douglas Murray and Andy Nelson
    Elvis — David Lee, Wayne Pashley, Andy Nelson and Michael Keller
    Top Gun: Maverick — Mark Weingarten, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Chris Burdon and Mark Taylor

    Best Original Score

    All Quiet on the Western Front — Volker Bertelmann
    Babylon — Justin Hurwitz
    The Banshees of Inisherin — Carter Burwell
    Everything Everywhere All at Once — Son Lux
    The Fabelmans — John Williams

    Best Adapted Screenplay

    All Quiet on the Western Front — Screenplay by Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson and Ian Stokell
    Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery — Written by Rian Johnson
    Living — Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
    Top Gun: Maverick — Screenplay by Ehren Kruger and Eric Warren Singer and Christopher McQuarrie; Story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks
    Women Talking — Screenplay by Sarah Polley

    Best Original Screenplay

    The Banshees of Inisherin — Written by Martin McDonagh
    Everything Everywhere All at Once — Written by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
    The Fabelmans — Written by Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner
    Tár — Written by Todd Field
    Triangle of Sadness — Written by Ruben Östlund

    Best Live-Action Short Film

    “An Irish Goodbye” — Tom Berkeley and Ross White
    “Ivalu” — Anders Walter and Rebecca Pruzan
    “Le Pupille” — Alice Rohrwacher and Alfonso Cuarón
    “Night Ride” — Eirik Tveiten and Gaute Lid Larssen
    “The Red Suitcase” — Cyrus Neshvad

    Best Animated Short Film

    “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse” — Charlie Mackesy and Matthew Freud
    “The Flying Sailor” — Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby
    “Ice Merchants” — João Gonzalez and Bruno Caetano
    “My Year of Dicks” — Sara Gunnarsdóttir and Pamela Ribon
    “An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It” — Lachlan Pendragon

    Best Animated Film

    Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio — Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar and Alex Bulkley
    Marcel the Shell With Shoes On — Dean Fleischer Camp, Elisabeth Holm, Andrew Goldman, Caroline Kaplan and Paul Mezey
    Puss in Boots: The Last Wish — Joel Crawford and Mark Swift
    The Sea Beast — Chris Williams and Jed Schlanger
    Turning Red — Domee Shi and Lindsey Collins

    Best Original Song

    “Applause” from Tell It Like a Woman; Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
    “Hold My Hand” from Top Gun: Maverick; Music and Lyric by Lady Gaga and BloodPop
    “Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever; Music by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Goransson; Lyric by Tems and Ryan Coogler
    “Naatu Naatu” from RRR; Music by M.M. Keeravaani; Lyric by Chandrabose
    “This Is a Life” from Everything Everywhere All at Once; Music by Ryan Lott, David Byrne and Mitski; Lyric by Ryan Lott and David Byrne

    Best International Feature Film

    All Quiet on the Western Front — Germany
    Argentina, 1985 — Argentina
    Close — Belgium
    EO — Poland
    The Quiet Girl — Ireland

    Best Makeup and Hairstyling

    All Quiet on the Western Front — Heike Merker and Linda Eisenhamerová
    The Batman — Naomi Donne, Mike Marino and Mike Fontaine
    Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — Camille Friend and Joel Harlow
    Elvis — Mark Coulier, Jason Baird and Aldo Signoretti
    The Whale — Adrien Morot, Judy Chin and Anne Marie Bradley

    Best Production Design

    All Quiet on the Western Front — Production Design: Christian M. Goldbeck; Set Decoration: Ernestine Hipper
    Avatar: The Way of Water — Production Design: Dylan Cole and Ben Procter; Set Decoration: Vanessa Cole
    Babylon — Production Design: Florencia Martin; Set Decoration: Anthony Carlino
    Elvis — Production Design: Catherine Martin and Karen Murphy; Set Decoration: Bev Dunn
    The Fabelmans — Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Karen O’Hara

    Best Cinematography

    All Quiet on the Western Front — James Friend
    Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths — Darius Khondji
    Elvis — Mandy Walker
    Empire of Light — Roger Deakins
    Tár — Florian Hoffmeister

    Best Visual Effects

    All Quiet on the Western Front — Frank Petzold, Viktor Müller, Markus Frank and Kamil Jafar
    Avatar: The Way of Water — Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett
    The Batman — Dan Lemmon, Russell Earl, Anders Langlands and Dominic Tuohy
    Black Panther: Wakanda Forever — Geoffrey Baumann, Craig Hammack, R. Christopher White and Dan Sudick
    Top Gun: Maverick — Ryan Tudhope, Seth Hill, Bryan Litson and Scott R. Fisher

    Best Documentary Feature

    All That Breathes — Shaunak Sen, Aman Mann and Teddy Leifer
    All the Beauty and the Bloodshed — Laura Poitras, Howard Gertler, John Lyons, Nan Goldin and Yoni Golijov
    Fire of Love — Sara Dosa, Shane Boris and Ina Fichman
    A House Made of Splinters — Simon Lereng Wilmont and Monica Hellström
    Navalny — Daniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller and Shane Boris

    Best Documentary Short Subject

    “The Elephant Whisperers” — Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga
    “Haulout” — Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev
    “How Do You Measure a Year?” — Jay Rosenblatt
    “The Martha Mitchell Effect” — Anne Alvergue and Beth Levison
    “Stranger at the Gate” — Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones

    Best Film Editing

    The Banshees of Inisherin — Mikkel E.G. Nielsen
    Elvis — Matt Villa and Jonathan Redmond
    Everything Everywhere All at Once — Paul Rogers
    Tár — Monika Willi
    Top Gun: Maverick — Eddie Hamilton

  • SAG Awards 2023: Fraser Triumphs; EEAAO Completes PGA, DGA, SAG Trifecta

    SAG Awards 2023: Fraser Triumphs; EEAAO Completes PGA, DGA, SAG Trifecta

    Everything Everywhere All at Once has now won the guild trifecta of PGA, DGA, and SAG, something no film has done since 2015’s Best Picture winner Birdman. It also took three of the four acting awards, showing the massive amount of love that SAG had for the film. With Michelle Yeoh’s win, no contender has won all four major acting precursors, making this year one of the most up in the air in a while.

    Brendan Fraser’s SAG-winning speech was incredible, powerful, and rousing. It’s exactly the kind of speech that turns Academy members heads and his performance is the kind of transformational, head-turning work that receives Oscars. While Austin Butler triumphed at the Globes and at BAFTA, those two awards bodies award young actors in the major acting categories more often than the Academy usually does. I think Fraser has this.

    While Barry Keoghan won at BAFTA, that was a one-off and Ke Huy Quan will easily take the Oscar. Now, the other supporting category isn’t as clear cut. While Jamie Lee Curtis surprised with a win here, that is an incredibly predictable SAG pick (they have a preference for big stars). So the question is will the Academy will go with Angela Bassett (who has GG and CCA like 2019 winner Regina King) or will they go with Kerry Condon (who has just BAFTA like Mark Rylance in 2016)? At this stage, I am leaning towards Condon since I think Bassett would have been a no-brainer prediction if she had won SAG but my thoughts on this have been like a yo-yo.

    While Michelle Yeoh is the lead from the film that has unquestionably captured the zeitgeist, Tar clearly has love from the academy being the only film with Picture, Directing, Editing, acting, and Cinematography nominations. I think Blanchett will take this, though like with my Supporting Actress prediction this is subject to change.

    Here are the winners and nominees:

    OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A CAST IN A MOTION PICTURE

    WINNER: Everything Everywhere All At Once

    Babylon

    The Banshees of Inisherin

    The Fabelmans

    Women Talking

    OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

    WINNER: Brendan Fraser, The Whale

    Austin Butler, Elvis

    Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin

    Bill Nighy, Living

    Adam Sandler, Hustle

    OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

    WINNER: Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Cate Blanchett, Tár

    Viola Davis, The Woman King

    Ana de Armas, Blonde

    Danielle Deadwyler, Till

    OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

    WINNER: Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Paul Dano, The Fabelmans

    Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin

    Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin

    Eddie Redmayne, The Good Nurse

    OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

    WINNER: Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

    Hong Chau, The Whale

    Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin

    Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once

    OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY AN ENSEMBLE IN A DRAMA SERIES

    WINNER: The White Lotus

    Better Call Saul

    The Crown

    Ozark

    Severance

    OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES

    WINNER: Jason Bateman, Ozark

    Jonathan Banks, Better Call Saul

    Jeff Bridges, The Old Man

    Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul

    Adam Scott, Severance

    OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES

    WINNER: Jennifer Coolidge, The White Lotus

    Elizabeth Debicki, The Crown

    Julia Garner, Ozark

    Laura Linney, Ozark

    Zendaya, Euphoria

    OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY AN ENSEMBLE IN A COMEDY SERIES

    WINNER: Abbott Elementary

    Barry

    The Bear

    Hacks

    Only Murders in the Building

    OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES

    WINNER: Jeremy Allen White, The Bear

    Anthony Carrigan, Barry

    Bill Hader, Barry

    Steve Martin, Only Murders in the Building

    Martin Short, Only Murders in the Building

    OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES

    WINNER: Jean Smart, Hacks

    Christina Applegate, Dead to Me

    Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

    Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary

    Jenna Ortega, Wednesday

    OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE ACTOR IN A TELEVISION MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES

    WINNER: Sam Elliott, 1883

    Steve Carell, The Patient

    Taron Egerton, Black Bird

    Paul Walter Hauser, Black Bird

    Evan Peters, Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story

    OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE ACTOR IN A TELEVISION MOVIE OR LIMITED SERIES

    WINNER: Jessica Chastain, George and Tammy

    Emily Blunt, The English

    Julia Garner, Inventing Anna

    Niecy Nash-Betts, Dahmer- Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story

    Amanda Seyfried, The Dropout

    OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A STUNT ENSEMBLE IN A MOTION PICTURE

    WINNER: Top Gun: Maverick

    Avatar: The Way of Water

    The Batman

    Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

    The Woman King

    OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY A STUNT ENSEMBLE IN A COMEDY OR DRAMA SERIES

    WINNER: Stranger Things

    Andor

    The Boys

    House of the Dragon

    Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

    Source: Vanity Fair

  • PGA Awards 2023: ‘EEAAO’ Wins Another; ‘Navalny’ Cements Itself as Doc Frontrunner

    PGA Awards 2023: ‘EEAAO’ Wins Another; ‘Navalny’ Cements Itself as Doc Frontrunner

    Everything Everywhere All at Once is going to win Best Picture. There are no ifs and or buts about it. PGA is the most important precursor and with EEAAO’s win here and at DGA and Critics Choice, it has all it needs to truly truly cement it as the Best Picture frontrunner. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio which has now won at PGA, CCA, the Golden Globes, and the Annies will be winning Animated Feature with essentially complete certainty as well.

    Navalny winning here at PGA was huge. While consensus frontrunner Fire of Love won DGA, Navalny now has both BAFTA and PGA, a combo that the last two winners in this category had (My Octopus Teacher and Summer of Soul). I’ve had as my winner for a month now because of its strong showing at guild nominations and since the political documentaries that win are like this (ones that are almost completely non-controversial to the general liberal Hollywood population).

    Here’s the full list of nominees and winners.

    Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures

    • “Avatar: The Way of Water”
    • “The Banshees of Inisherin”
    • “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
    • “Elvis”
    • “Everything Everywhere All At Once” (WINNER)
    • “The Fabelmans”
    • “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”
    • “TÁR”
    • “Top Gun: Maverick”
    • “The Whale”

    Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures

    • “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” (WINNER)
    • “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On”
    • “Minions: The Rise of Gru”
    • “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish”
    • “Turning Red”

    Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Drama

    • “Andor”
    • “Better Call Saul”
    • “Ozark”
    • “Severance”
    • “The White Lotus” (WINNER)

    Danny Thomas Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television – Comedy

    • “Abbott Elementary”
    • “Barry”
    • “The Bear” (WINNER)
    • “Hacks”
    • “Only Murders in the Building”

    David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Limited or Anthology Series Television

    • “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”
    • “The Dropout” (WINNER)
    • “Inventing Anna”
    • “Obi-Wan Kenobi”
    • “Pam & Tommy”

    Award for Outstanding Producer of Televised or Streamed Motion Pictures

    • “Fire Island”
    • “Hocus Pocus 2”
    • “Pinocchio”
    • “Prey”
    • “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” (WINNER)

    Award for Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television

    • “30 for 30”
    • “60 Minutes”
    • “George Carlin’s American Dream”
    • “Lucy and Desi”
    • “Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy” (WINNER)

    Award for Outstanding Producer of Live Entertainment, Variety, Sketch, Standup & Talk Television

    • “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah”
    • “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
    • “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” (WINNER)
    • “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”
    • “Saturday Night Live”

    Award for Outstanding Producer of Game & Competition Television

    • “The Amazing Race”
    • “Lizzo’s Watch Out For The Big Grrrls” (WINNER)
    • “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars”
    • “Top Chef”
    • “The Voice”

    The Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Motion Picture

    • “All That Breathes”
    • “Descendant”
    • “Fire of Love”
    • “Navalny” (WINNER)
    • “Nothing Compares”
    • “Retrograde”
    • “The Territory”

    The Award for Outstanding Sports Program

    • “Formula 1: Drive to Survive”
    • “Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Detroit Lions”
    • “Legacy: The True Story of the LA Lakers”
    • “McEnroe”
    • “Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Come Off” (WINNER)

    The Award for Outstanding Children’s Program

    • “Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock”
    • “Green Eggs and Ham”
    • “Sesame Street” (WINNER)
    • “Snoopy Presents: It’s the Small Things, Charlie Brown”
    • “Waffles + Mochi’s Restaurant”

    The Award for Outstanding Short-Form Program

    • “Better Call Saul: Filmmaker Training”
    • “Love, Death + Robots”
    • “Only Murders in the Building: One Killer Question” (WINNER)
    • “Sesame Street’s #ComingTogether Word of the Day Series”
    • “Tales of the Jedi”

    Source: IndieWire

  • BAFTA 2023: ‘All Quiet’ Surprises With 7, Including Best Film

    BAFTA 2023: ‘All Quiet’ Surprises With 7, Including Best Film

    All Quiet on the Western Front won 7 awards at this year’s BAFTA Awards including Best Film, Director, Adapted Screenplay, and Cinematography. How many of these will the film win at the Oscars? at this point it has Best International Film in the bag and is a possible winner for Cinematography, but I doubt it expands past that.

    Oscar frontrunner Everything Everywhere All at Once was held to just Best Editing while its main challenger The Banshees of Inisherin came out with four, Best British Film, Original Screenplay, Supporting Actress, and a surprising Supporting Actor win for Barry Keoghan. With these wins, and Austin Butler and Cate Blanchett’s wins in Best Actor and Best Actress respectively, none of the acting races have a clear frontrunner, making this. Though if Blanchett ends up winning at SAG that will change. Since Eddie Redmayne in 2015, every BAFTA winner in Best Actor has also won at the Oscars and if Butler wins at SAG he will have the same three major precursors (GG, BAFTA, and SAG) that fellow biopic winners Redmayne and Malek did in 2015 and 2019 respectively.

    My pick for Best Documentary, Navalny won at BAFTA, making me even more confident that it will triumph over All the Beauty and the Bloodshed and Fire of Love with the Academy as well. It’s exactly the kind of political film they like, not too extreme, highly watchable, and relevant but not at the top of the current news cycle.

    Here are the BAFTA winners:

    Best film

    “All Quiet on the Western Front” *WINNER

    “The Banshees of Inisherin”

    “Everything Everywhere All At Once”

    “Elvis”

    “‘TÁR”

    Outstanding British film

    “Aftersun”

    “The Banshees of Inisherin” *WINNER

    “Brian and Charles”

    “Empire of Light”

    “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande”

    “Living”

    “Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical”

    “See How They Run”

    “The Swimmers”

    “The Wonder”

    Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer

    “Aftersun” Charlotte Wells (writer/director) *WINNER

    “Blue Jean” Georgia Oakley (writer/director), Hélène Sifre (producer)

    “Electric Malady” Marie Lidén (director)

    “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande” Katy Brand (writer)

    “Rebellion” Elena Sánchez Bellot (director) Maia Kenworthy (director)todi

    Best film not in the English language

    “All Quiet on the Western Front” *WINNER

    “Argentina, 1985”

    “Corsage”

    “Decision to Leave”

    “The Quiet Girl”

    Best documentary

    “All That Breathes”

    “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed”

    “Fire of Love”

    “Moonage Daydream”

    “Navalny” *WINNER

    Best animated film

    “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio” *WINNER

    “Marcel the Shell with Shoes On”

    “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish”

    “Turning Red”

    Best director

    Edward Berger, “All Quiet on the Western Front” *WINNER

    Martin McDonagh, “The Banshees of Inisherin”

    Park Chan-wook, “Decision To Leave”

    Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, “Everything Everywhere All At Once”

    Todd Field, “TÁR”

    Gina Prince-Bythewood, “The Woman King”

    Best original screenplay

    Martin McDonagh, “The Banshees of Inisherin” *WINNER

    Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, “Everything Everywhere All At Once”

    Tony Kushner and Steven Spielberg, “The Fabelmans”

    Todd Field, “TÁR”

    Ruben Östlund, “Triangle of Sadness”

    Best adapted screenplay

    Edward Berger, Ian Stokell and Leslie Patterson, “All Quiet on the Western Front” *WINNER

    Kazuo Ishiguro, “Living”

    Colm Bairéad, “The Quiet Girl”

    Rebecca Lenkiewicz, “She Said”

    Samuel D. Hunter, “The Whale”

    Best lead actress

    Ana de Armas, “Blonde”

    Cate Blanchett, “TÁR” *WINNER

    Viola Davis, “The Woman King”

    Danielle Deadwyler, “Till”

    Emma Thompson, “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande”

    Michelle Yeoh, “Everything Everywhere All At Once”

    Best lead actor

    Austin Butler, “Elvis” *WINNER

    Brendan Fraser, “The Whale”

    Colin Farrell, “The Banshees of Inisherin”

    Daryl McCormack, “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande”

    Paul Mescal, “Aftersun”

    Bill Nighy, “Living”

    Best supporting actress

    Angela Bassett, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”

    Hong Chau, “The Whale”

    Kerry Condon, “The Banshees of Inisherin” *WINNER

    Jamie Lee Curtis, “Everything Everywhere All At Once”

    Dolly De Leon, “Triangle of Sadness”

    Carey Mulligan, “She Said”

    Best supporting actor

    Brendan Gleeson, “The Banshees of Inisherin”

    Barry Keoghan, “The Banshees of Inisherin” *WINNER

    Ke Huy Quan, “Everything Everywhere All At Once”

    Eddie Redmayne, “The Good Nurse”

    Albrecht Schuch, “All Quiet on the Western Front”

    Michael Ward, “Empire of Light”

    Best original score

    Volker Bertelmann, “All Quiet on the Western Front” *WINNER

    Justin Hurwitz, “Babylon”

    Carter Burwell, “The Banshees of Inisherin”

    Son Lux, “Everything Everywhere All At Once”

    Alexandre Desplat, “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”

    Best casting

    Lucy Pardee, “Aftersun”

    Simon Bär, “All Quiet on the Western Front”

    Nikki Barrett, Denise Chamian, “Elvis” *WINNER

    Sarah Halley Finn, “Everything Everywhere All At Once”

    Pauline Hansson, “Triangle of Sadness”

    Best cinematography

    James Friend, “All Quiet on the Western Front” *WINNER

    Greig Fraser, “The Batman”

    Mandy Walker, “Elvis”

    Roger Deakins, “Empire of Light”

    Claudio Miranda, “Top Gun: Maverick”

    Best editing

    Sven Budelmann, “All Quiet on the Western Front”

    Mikkel E.G. Nielsen, “The Banshees of Inisherin”

    Matt Villa, “Elvis”

    Paul Rogers, “Everything Everywhere All At Once” *WINNER

    Eddie Hamilton, “Top Gun: Maverick”

    Best production design

    Christian M. Goldbreck, Ernestine Hipper, “All Quiet on the Western Front”

    Florencia Martin, Anthony Carlino, “Babylon” *WINNER

    James Chinlund, Lee Sandales, “The Batman”

    Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy, Bev Dunn, “Elvis”

    Curt Enderle, Guy Davis, “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”

    Best costume design

    Lisy Christl, “All Quiet on the Western Front”

    J.R. Hawbaker and Albert Wolsky, “Amsterdam”

    Mary Zophres, “Babylon”

    Catherine Martin, “Elvis” *WINNER

    Jenny Beavan, “Mrs Harris Goes To Paris”

    Best makeup and hair

    Heike Merker, “All Quiet on the Western Front”

    Michael Marino and Zoe Tahir, “The Batman”

    Shane Thomas, Louise Coulston, Mark Coulier and Barrie Gower, “Elvis” *WINNER

    Naomi Donne, Barrie Gower, Sharon Martin, “Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical”

    Anne Marie Bradley, Judy Chin, Adrien Morot, “The Whale”

    Best sound

    Lars Ginzsel, Frank Kruse, Viktor Prášil and Markus Stemler, “All Quiet on the Western Front” *WINNER

    Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Julian Howarth, Gary Summers and Gwendoyln Yates Whittle, “Avatar: The Way of Water”

    Michael Keller, David Lee, Andy Nelson and Wayne Pashley, “Elvis”

    Deb Adair, Stephen Griffiths, Andy Shelley, Steve Single and Roland Winke, “TÁR”

    Chris Burdon, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Mark Taylor and Mark Weingarten, “Top Gun: Maverick”

    Best special visual effects

    Markus Frank, Kamil Jafar, Viktor Müller and Frank Petzoid, “All Quiet on the Western Front”

    Richard Baneham, Daniel Barrett, Joe Letteri and Eric Saindon, “Avatar: The Way of Water” *WINNER

    Russell Earl, Dan Lemmon, Anders Langlands and Dominic Tuohy, “The Batman”

    Benjamin Brewer, Ethan Feldbau, Jonathan Kombrinck and Zak Stoltz, “Everything Everywhere All At Once”

    Seth Hill, Scott R. Fisher, Bryan Litson and Ryan Tudhope, “Top Gun: Maverick”

    Best British short animation

    “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse” *WINNER

    “Middle Watch”

    “Your Mountain is Waiting”

    Best British short film

    “The Ballad Of Olive Morris”

    “Bazigaga”

    “Bus Girl”

    “A Drifting Up”

    “An Irish Goodbye” *WINNER

    EE Rising Star

    Aimee Lou Wood

    Daryl McCormack

    Emma Mackey *WINNER

    Naomi Ackie

    Sheila Atim

    Source: CNN

  • DGA Awards 2023: The Daniels Win Another Major Prize on Their Way to Oscar

    DGA Awards 2023: The Daniels Win Another Major Prize on Their Way to Oscar

    The Daniels’ winning at DGA, means another major prize for Everything Everywhere All at Once on its way to presumed triumph at the Oscars on March 12th. This gives them two of the four major directing precursors (they also won for directing at Critics Choice) and are definitively in the pole position in the category.

    On the documentary side, Fire of Love’s Sara Dosa won for her work. In the last five years, every Best Documentary winner has won at least one genre documentary award at the Critics Choice Awards, and this year Fire of Love and Navalny are the only nominees with a genre documentary prize. My chips are on Navalny to win as the Academy has shown a bias against archival documentaries unless they were undeniable winners (like last year’s Summer of Soul). Navalny’s win at BAFTA further cements it in my mind as the likely winner.

    Here are the rest of the winners at DGA:

    OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT IN THEATRICAL FEATURE FILM

    Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert
    Everything Everywhere All at Once

    DRAMA SERIES

    Sam Levinson
    Euphoria, “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird” (HBO)
    Mr. Levinson’s Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Manager: Will Greenfield
    First Assistant Directors: Valerie Johnson, Sally Brunski
    Second Assistant Directors: Cindy King, Colin Duffy
    Second Second Assistant Directors: James Chestnut
    Additional Second Assistant Director: Aaron Rose Leone

    COMEDY SERIES

    Bill Hader
    Barry, “710N” (HBO)
    Mr. Hader’s Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Manager: Aida Rodgers
    First Assistant Director: Gavin Kleintop
    Second Assistant Director: Erin Stern Linares
    Second Second Assistant Directors: Yarden Levo, Chalis Romero

    COMMERCIALS

    Kim Gehrig
    Somesuch, Inc.

    Accessibility, Apple ‑ Apple (Direct)
    First Assistant Directors: Michael Estrella
    Second Assistant Director: Brian Steffen
    Second Second Assistant Director: Shauna Frontera

    Run Baby Run, iPhone ‑ Apple (Direct)
    First Assistant Director: Matias Nilsson
    Second Assistant Director: Carl Jackson
    Second Second Assistant Director: Michael Paulson

    OUTSTANDING DIRECTORIAL ACHIEVEMENT OF A FIRST-TIME THEATRICAL FEATURE FILM DIRECTOR

    Charlotte Wells
    Aftersun
    (A24)

    MOVIES FOR TELEVISION AND LIMITED SERIES

    Helen Shaver
    Station Eleven, “Who’s There?” (HBO Max)
    Ms. Shaver’s Directorial Team:

    Unit Production Manager: David Nicksay
    First Assistant Director: Jennifer Wilkinson
    Second Assistant Director: Anna Vogt

    REALITY PROGRAMS

    Ben Simms
    Running Wild with Bear Grylls, “Florence Pugh in the Volcanic Rainforests of Costa Rica” (National Geographic Channel)
    Mr. Simms’ Directorial Team:
    Associate Director: Sara Brown

    CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS

    Anne Renton
    Best Foot Forward, “Halloween” (Apple TV+)
    Ms. Renton’s Directorial Team:
    Unit Production Manager: Lance W. Lanfear
    First Assistant Director: Nandi Bowe
    Second Assistant Director: Susie Balaban
    Second Second Assistant Director: Tim Neven

    DOCUMENTARY

    Sara Dosa
    Fire of Love (National Geographic)

    VARIETY/TALK/NEWS/SPORTS – SPECIALS

    Glenn Weiss
    The 75th Annual Tony Awards (CBS)
    Mr. Weiss’s Directorial Team:
    Associate Directors: Ken Diego, Robin Abrams, Susan Kopensky, Ricky Kirshner
    Stage Managers: Garry Hood, Bennymar Almonte, Phyllis Digilio, Peter Epstein, Andrew Feigin, Doug Fogel, Jeffry Gitter, Tyler Goldman, Arthur Lewis, Kevin Lishawa, Julie LoRusso, Seth Mellman, Jason Pacella, Jeffrey Pearl, Annette Powlis, Lauren Class Schneider, Eddie Valk

    VARIETY/TALK/NEWS/SPORTS – REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING

    Liz Patrick
    Saturday Night Live, “Host and Musical Guest Jack Harlow” (NBC)
    Ms. Patrick’s Directorial Team:
    Associate Directors: Michael Mancini, Michael Poole, Laura Ouziel‑Mack
    Stage Managers: Gena Rositano, Chris Kelly, Eddie Valk

    Source: Deadline

  • 2023 Oscar Nominations: ‘Everything Everywhere’ and ‘All Quiet’ Lead the Pack

    2023 Oscar Nominations: ‘Everything Everywhere’ and ‘All Quiet’ Lead the Pack

    Everything Everywhere All at Once getting in for Costume Design and Score (should’ve gone with my gut on this), and Original Song, all categories the film was not favored to get nominated in, is a clear indication of the overwhelming Academy-wide support it has. It led the pack with 11 nominations.

    All Quiet on the Western Front announced itself as a tech giant, taking nine nominations. The war film followed up its massive BAFTA haul with reduced, but still impressive, results with the Academy.

    They did what they did last year with Belfast’s Caitrona Balfe and Judi Dench. While Balfe did better with the precursor nominations, the Academy went with the veteran Dench come nominations morning. This time around, The Fabelmans’ Paul Dano performed better at the precursors, but his costar Judd Hirsch got in with the Academy.

    Descendent becomes the first Higher Ground Oscar-eligible documentary film to miss Best Documentary. Making way for A House Made of Splinters to receive a nomination.

    Ruben Ostlund got in for Triangle of Sadness and his film was selected for Picture over The Whale (which was snubbed in Adapted Screenplay as well). Brendan Fraser is still the front runner for Actor, but his path now seems slightly more difficult.

    In the acting categories, Brian Tyree Henry (YES!), Paul Mescal (YES!), and Andrea Riseborough surprised with nominations. Riseborough’s inclusion is especially notable as she had a strong but incredibly last-minute campaign that was ran by her Hollywood friends. Her inclusion (along with Michelle Williams) led to both Danielle Deadwyler and Viola Davis being snubbed for Till and The Woman King respectively.

    The Oscars will be televised on March 12th, live from the Dolby Theater on ABC.

    Here is the complete list of nominees:

    Best Picture

    All Quiet on the Western Front

    Avatar: The Way of Water

    The Banshees of Inisherin

    Elvis

    Everything Everywhere All at Once

    The Fabelmans

    TÁR

    Top Gun: Maverick

    Triangle of Sadness

    Women Talking

    Directing

    Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin

    Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans

    Todd Field, TÁR

    Ruben Östlund, Triangle of Sadness

    Actor in a Leading Role

    Austin Butler, Elvis

    Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin

    Brendan Fraser, The Whale

    Paul Mescal, Aftersun

    Bill Nighy, Living

    Actress in a Leading Role

    Cate Blanchett, TÁR

    Ana de Armas, Blonde

    Andrea Riseborough, To Leslie

    Michelle Williams, The Fabelmans

    Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Actor in a Supporting Role

    Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin

    Bryan Tyree Henry, Causeway

    Judd Hirsch, The Fabelmans

    Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin

    Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Actress in a Supporting Role

    Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

    Hong Chao, The Whale

    Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin

    Jamie Lee Curtis, Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once

    International Feature Film

    All Quiet on the Western Front

    Argentina, 1985

    Close

    EO

    The Quiet Girl

    Cinematography

    All Quiet on the Western Front

    Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

    Elvis

    Empire of Light

    TÁR

    Production Design

    All Quiet on the Western Front

    Avatar: The Way of Water

    Babylon

    Elvis

    The Fabelmans

    Visual Effects

    All Quiet on the Western Front

    Avatar: The Way of Water

    The Batman

    Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

    Top Gun: Maverick

    Costume Design

    Babylon

    Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

    Elvis

    Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

    Sound

    All Quiet on the Western Front

    Avatar: The Way of Water

    The Batman

    Elvis

    Top Gun: Maverick

    Original Score

    All Quiet on the Western Front

    Babylon

    The Banshees of Inisherin

    Everything Everywhere All at Once

    The Fabelmans

    Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

    All Quiet on the Western Front

    Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

    Living

    Top Gun: Maverick

    Women Talking

    Writing (Original Screenplay)

    The Banshees of Inisherin

    Everything Everywhere All at Once

    The Fabelmans

    TÁR

    Triangle of Sadness

    Live Action Short Film

    An Irish Goodbye

    Ivalu

    Le Pupille

    Night Ride

    The Red Suitcase

    Animated Short Film

    The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse

    The Flying Sailor

    Ice Merchants

    My Year of Dicks

    An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It

    Film Editing

    The Banshees of Inisherin

    Elvis

    Everything Everywhere All at Once

    TÁR

    Top Gun: Maverick

    Makeup and Hairstyling

    All Quiet on the Western Front

    The Batman

    Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

    Elvis

    The Whale

    Animated Feature Film

    Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

    Marcel the Shell With Shoes On

    Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

    The Sea Beast

    Turning Red

    Original Song

    “Applause”

    “Hold My Hand”

    “Lift Me Up”

    “Naatu Naatu”

    “This Is A Life”

    Documentary Short Subject

    The Elephant Whisperers

    Haulout

    How Do You Measure a Year?

    The Martha Mitchell Effect

    Stranger at the Gate

    Documentary Feature

    All That Breathes

    All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

    Fire of Love

    A House Made of Splinters

    Navalny

  • BAFTA Nominations 2023: ‘All Quiet’ Shocks With 14; ‘Fabelmans’ Limited to Screenplay

    BAFTA Nominations 2023: ‘All Quiet’ Shocks With 14; ‘Fabelmans’ Limited to Screenplay

    All Quiet on the Western Front’s massive haul of fourteen nominations is the biggest story of the morning and makes predicting what the Netflix film and what the international film will be this year in Picture so much easier. It’s so interesting how All Quiet on the Western Front had basically no major precursor nods, it missed out at CCA, PGA, DGA, AFI, and NBR (it did win Adapted Screenplay here though). So even with this haul, I don’t think it is a top 5 Best Picture contender at the Oscars by any means, but I think it would be foolish of me not to have in my Best Picture nomination predictions and topping by Best International Feature predictions.

    Unlike last year where 2 of the 6 nominees in the performance categories were chosen by a membership-wide vote, this year 3 of the 6 were chosen by BAFTA members and the other 3 were chosen by juries. As a result, I think they deserve more closer analysis, in terms of Oscar nomination predictions, than I think they did in the last couple years.

    Another shock of the morning was Spielberg’s The Fabelmans coming out with exactly one nomination, in Original Screenplay. It was snubbed in Cinematography, Production Design, and Score, all technical categories it is projected to be nominated in at the Oscars. As a result of this, I foresee an Editing snub for the film and this gives even more evidence that Everything Everywhere All at Once is the clear frontrunner.

    Here are the BAFTA nominees:

    BEST FILM
    ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Malte Grunert
    THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Martin McDonagh
    ELVIS Gail Berman, Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Patrick McCormick, Schuyler Weiss
    EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, Jonathan Wang
    TÁR Todd Field, Scott Lambert, Alexandra Milchan

    OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
    AFTERSUN Charlotte Wells, Producer(s) TBC
    THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin
    BRIAN AND CHARLES Jim Archer, Rupert Majendie, David Earl, Chris Hayward
    EMPIRE OF LIGHT Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris
    GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE Sophie Hyde, Debbie Gray, Adrian Politowski, Katy Brand
    LIVING Oliver Hermanus, Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley, Kazuo Ishiguro
    ROALD DAHL’S MATILDA THE MUSICAL Matthew Warchus, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Jon Finn, Luke Kelly, Dennis Kelly
    SEE HOW THEY RUN Tom George, Gina Carter, Damian Jones, Mark Chappell
    THE SWIMMERS Sally El Hosaini, Producer(s) TBC, Jack Thorne
    THE WONDER Sebastián Lelio, Ed Guiney, Juliette Howell, Andrew Lowe, Tessa Ross, Alice Birch, Emma Donoghue

    OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
    AFTERSUN Charlotte Wells (Writer/Director)
    BLUE JEAN Georgia Oakley (Writer/Director), Hélène Sifre (Producer)
    ELECTRIC MALADY Marie Lidén (Director)
    GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE Katy Brand (Writer)
    REBELLION Maia Kenworthy (Director)

    FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
    ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Edward Berger, Malte Grunert
    ARGENTINA, 1985 Santiago Mitre, Producer(s) TBC
    CORSAGE Marie Kreutzer
    DECISION TO LEAVE Park Chan-wook, Ko Dae-seok
    THE QUIET GIRL Colm Bairéad, Cleona Ní Chrualaoí

    DOCUMENTARY
    ALL THAT BREATHES Shaunak Sen, Teddy Leifer, Aman Mann
    ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED Laura Poitras, Howard Gertler, Nan Goldin, Yoni Golijov, John Lyons
    FIRE OF LOVE Sara Dosa, Shane Boris, Ina Fichman
    MOONAGE DAYDREAM Brett Morgan
    NAVALNY Daniel Roher, Diane Becker, Shane Boris, Melanie Miller, Odessa Rae

    ANIMATED FILM
    GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar, Alex Bulkley
    MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON Dean Fleisher Camp, Andrew Goldman, Elisabeth Holm, Caroline Kaplan, Paul Mezey
    PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH Joel Crawford, Mark Swift
    TURNING RED Domee Shi, Lindsey Collins

    DIRECTOR
    ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Edward Berger
    THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Martin McDonagh
    DECISION TO LEAVE Park Chan-wook
    EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
    TÁR Todd Field
    THE WOMAN KING Gina Prince-Bythewood

    ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
    THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Martin McDonagh
    EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
    THE FABELMANS Tony Kushner, Steven Spielberg
    TÁR Todd Field
    TRIANGLE OF SADNESS Ruben Östlund

    ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
    ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, Ian Stokell
    LIVING Kazuo Ishiguro
    THE QUIET GIRL Colm Bairéad
    SHE SAID Rebecca Lenkiewicz
    THE WHALE Samuel D. Hunter

    LEADING ACTRESS
    CATE BLANCHETT Tár
    VIOLA DAVIS The Woman King
    DANIELLE DEADWYLER Till
    ANA DE ARMAS Blonde
    EMMA THOMPSON Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
    MICHELLE YEOH Everything Everywhere All At Once

    LEADING ACTOR
    AUSTIN BUTLER Elvis
    COLIN FARRELL The Banshees of Inisherin
    BRENDAN FRASER The Whale
    DARYL McCORMACK Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
    PAUL MESCAL Aftersun
    BILL NIGHY Living

    SUPPORTING ACTRESS
    ANGELA BASSETT Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
    HONG CHAU The Whale
    KERRY CONDON The Banshees of Inisherin
    DOLLY DE LEON Triangle of Sadness
    JAMIE LEE CURTIS Everything Everywhere All At Once
    CAREY MULLIGAN She Said

    SUPPORTING ACTOR
    BRENDAN GLEESON The Banshees of Inisherin
    BARRY KEOGHAN The Banshees of Inisherin
    KE HUY QUAN Everything Everywhere All At Once
    EDDIE REDMAYNE The Good Nurse
    ALBRECHT SCHUCH All Quiet on the Western Front
    MICHEAL WARD Empire of Light

    ORIGINAL SCORE
    ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Volker Bertelmann
    BABYLON Justin Hurwitz
    THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Carter Burwell
    EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Son Lux
    GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO Alexandre Desplat

    CASTING
    AFTERSUN Lucy Pardee
    ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Simone Bär
    ELVIS Nikki Barrett, Denise Chamian
    EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Sarah Halley Finn
    TRIANGLE OF SADNESS Pauline Hansson

    CINEMATOGRAPHY
    ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT James Friend
    THE BATMAN Greig Fraser
    ELVIS Mandy Walker
    EMPIRE OF LIGHT Roger Deakins
    TOP GUN: MAVERICK Claudio Miranda

    EDITING
    ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Sven Budelmann
    THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Mikkel E. G. Nielsen
    ELVIS Jonathan Redmond, Matt Villa
    EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Paul Rogers
    TOP GUN: MAVERICK Eddie Hamilton

    PRODUCTION DESIGN
    ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Christian M. Goldbreck, Ernestine Hipper
    BABYLON Florencia Martin, Anthony Carlino
    THE BATMAN James Chinlund, Lee Sandales
    ELVIS Catherine Martin, Karen Murphy, Bev Dunn
    GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO Curt Enderle, Guy Davis

    COSTUME DESIGN
    ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Lisy Christl
    AMSTERDAM J.R. Hawbaker, Albert Wolsky
    BABYLON Mary Zophres
    ELVIS Catherine Martin
    MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS Jenny Beavan

    MAKE UP & HAIR
    ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Heike Merker
    THE BATMAN Naomi Donne, Mike Marino, Zoe Tahir
    ELVIS Jason Baird, Mark Coulier, Louise Coulston, Shane Thomas
    ROALD DAHL’S MATILDA THE MUSICAL Naomi Donne, Barrie Gower, Sharon Martin
    THE WHALE Anne Marie Bradley, Judy Chin, Adrien Morot

    SOUND
    ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Lars Ginzsel, Frank Kruse, Viktor Prášil, Markus Stemler
    AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Julian Howarth, Gary Summers, Gwendoyln Yates Whittle
    ELVIS Michael Keller, David Lee, Andy Nelson, Wayne Pashley
    TÁR Deb Adair, Stephen Griffiths, Andy Shelley, Steve Single, Roland Winke
    TOP GUN: MAVERICK Chris Burdon, James H. Mather, Al Nelson, Mark Taylor, Mark Weingarten

    SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
    ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Markus Frank, Kamil Jafar, Viktor Müller, Frank Petzoid
    AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER Richard Baneham, Daniel Barrett, Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon
    THE BATMAN Russell Earl, Dan Lemmon, Anders Langlands, Dominic Tuohy
    EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Benjamin Brewer, Ethan Feldbau, Jonathan Kombrinck, Zak Stoltz
    TOP GUN: MAVERICK Seth Hill, Scott R. Fisher, Bryan Litson, Ryan Tudhope

    BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
    THE BOY, THE MOLE, THE FOX AND THE HORSE Peter Baynton, Charlie Mackesy, Cara Speller, Hannah Minghella
    MIDDLE WATCH John Stevenson, Aiesha Penwarden, Giles Healy
    YOUR MOUNTAIN IS WAITING Hannah Jacobs, Zoe Muslim, Harriet Gillian

    BRITISH SHORT FILM
    THE BALLAD OF OLIVE MORRIS Alex Kayode-Kay
    BAZIGAGA Jo Ingabire Moys, Stephanie Charmail
    BUS GIRL Jessica Henwick, Louise Palmkvist Hansen
    A DRIFTING UP Jacob Lee
    AN IRISH GOODBYE Tom Berkeley, Ross White

    EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
    AIMEE LOU WOOD
    DARYL McCORMACK
    EMMA MACKEY
    NAOMI ACKIE
    SHEILA ATIM

    Source: Deadline