Golden Globes 2014: candidati e pronostici (sezione Film).

Tina Fey ed Amy Poehler, ossia le illustri presentatrici della settantunesima edizione dei Golden Globes, in diretta su SkyUno a partire dalle 1:00 del 13 gennaio 2014.

Trattandosi di un post in italiano, è da notare che "La Grande Bellezza" è riuscito ad ottenere la nomination per Miglior film straniero, anche se il favorito pare il già vincitore della Palma d'Oro a Cannes, "La Vie d'Adèle" (tradotto letteralmente in Italia), distribuito negli Stati Uniti con il titolo "Blue Is the Warmest Color".

Io qualche idea circa i vincitori ce l'ho già, al di là delle mie opinioni personali che si orientano in modo un po' discorde rispetto alle probabili scelte della Hollywood Foreign Press Association. E voi che ne pensate?

Se non potete o non volete seguire la cerimonia in diretta, sappiate che twitterò i vincitori in tempo reale su @LadyHotTinRoof


BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
12 Years a Slave
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Philomena
Rush

Probabile vincitore: Gravity

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine”
Sandra Bullock, “Gravity”
Judi Dench, “Philomena”
Emma Thompson, “Saving Mr. Banks”
Kate Winslet, “Labor Day”

Probabile vincitore: Cate Blanchett 

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
Chiwetel Ejiofor, “12 Years a Slave”
Idris Elba, “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom”
Tom Hanks, “Saving Mr. Banks”
Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club”
Robert Redford, “All Is Lost”

Probabile vincitore: Matthew McConaughey

BEST MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
American Hustle
Her
Inside Lleywn Davis
Nebraska
The Wolf Of Wall Street

Probabile vincitore: American Hustle

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Amy Adams, “American Hustle”
Julie Delpy, “Before Midnight”
Greta Gerwig, “Frances Ha”
Julia Dreyfus, “Enough Said”
Meryl Streep, “August: Osage County”

Probabile vincitore: Amy Adams 

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Christian Bale, “American Hustle”
Bruce Dern, “Nebraska”
Oscar Isaac, “Inside Llewyn Davis”
Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Wolf of Wall Street”
Joaquin Phoenix, “Her”

Probabile vincitore: Bruce Dern

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Frozen

Probabile vincitore: Frozen

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Blue is the Warmest Color
The Great Beauty
The Hunt
The Past
The Wind Rises

Probabile vincitore: Blue is the Warmest Color

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
Sally Hawkins, “Blue Jasmine”
Jennifer Lawrence “American Hustle”
Lupita Nyong’o, “12 Years a Slave”
Julia Roberts, “August: Osage County”
June Squibb, “Nebraska”

Probabile vincitore: Lupita Nyong'o

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
Barkhad Abdi, “Captain Phillips”
Daniel Brühl, “Rush”
Michael Fassbender, “12 Years a Slave”
Bradley Cooper, “American Hustle”
Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club”

Probabile vincitore: Jared Leto

BEST DIRECTOR – MOTION PICTURE

Alfonso Cuarón, “Gravity”
Paul Greengrass, Captain Phillips”
Steve McQueen, “12 Years a Slave”
Alexander Payne, “Nebraska”
David O. Russell, “American Hustle”

Probabile vincitore: Alfonso Cuarón

BEST SCREENPLAY – MOTION PICTURE
Her – Spike Jonze
Nebraska – Bob Nelson
Philomena – Jeff Pope, Steve Coogan
12 Years A Slave – John Ridley
American Hustle – Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell

Probabile vincitore: Her (Spike Jonze)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE – MOTION PICTURE
Alex Ebert, All Is Lost
Alex Heffes, Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom
John Williams, The Book Thief
Hans Zimmer, 12 Years A Slave
Steven Price, Gravity

Probabile vincitore: Gravity (Steven Price)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG – MOTION PICTURE
Atlas, Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Let It Go, Frozen
Ordinary Love, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Please Mr Kennedy, Inside Llewyn Davis
Sweeter Than Fiction, One Chance

Probabile vincitore: Ordinary Love (U2) da Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Screen Actors Guild Awards 2013: le candidature (Film)

Come ogni anno, ecco a voi i premi che, con poche eccezioni, hanno sempre rovinato la sorpresa alla cerimonia dei premi Oscar, dato che nella maggior parte dei casi gli attori che vincono il SAG vincono anche l'Oscar.

Intanto vi riporto le candidature, mentre questo fine settimana vi dirò chi, secondo me, rischia di vincere tutto.


20th ANNUAL SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS NOMINATIONS THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES

 Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role BRUCE DERN / Woody Grant – “NEBRASKA” (Paramount Pictures) CHIWETEL EJIOFOR / Solomon Northup – “12 YEARS A SLAVE” (Fox Searchlight Pictures) TOM HANKS / Capt. Richard Phillips – “CAPTAIN PHILLIPS” (Columbia Pictures) MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY / Ron Woodroof – “DALLAS BUYERS CLUB” (Focus Features) FOREST WHITAKER / Cecil Gaines – “LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER” (The Weinstein Company)

 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role CATE BLANCHETT / Jasmine – “BLUE JASMINE” (Sony Pictures Classics) SANDRA BULLOCK / Ryan Stone – “GRAVITY” (Warner Bros. Pictures) JUDI DENCH / Philomena Lee – “PHILOMENA” (The Weinstein Company) MERYL STREEP / Violet Weston – “AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY” (The Weinstein Company) EMMA THOMPSON / P.L. Travers – “SAVING MR. BANKS” (Walt Disney Pictures)

 Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role BARKHAD ABDI / Muse – “CAPTAIN PHILLIPS” (Columbia Pictures) DANIEL BRÜHL / Niki Lauda – “RUSH” (Universal Pictures) MICHAEL FASSBENDER / Edwin Epps – “12 YEARS A SLAVE” (Fox Searchlight Pictures) JAMES GANDOLFINI / Albert – “ENOUGH SAID” (Fox Searchlight Pictures) JARED LETO / Rayon – “DALLAS BUYERS CLUB” (Focus Features)

 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role JENNIFER LAWRENCE / Rosalyn Rosenfeld – “AMERICAN HUSTLE” (Columbia Pictures) LUPITA NYONG’O / Patsey – “12 YEARS A SLAVE” (Fox Searchlight Pictures) JULIA ROBERTS / Barbara Weston – “AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY” (The Weinstein Company) JUNE SQUIBB / Kate Grant – “NEBRASKA” (Paramount Pictures) OPRAH WINFREY / Gloria Gaines – “LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER” (The Weinstein Company)

 Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture

 12 YEARS A SLAVE (Fox Searchlight Pictures) BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH / Ford PAUL DANO / Tibeats GARRET DILLAHUNT / Armsby CHIWETEL EJIOFOR / Solomon Northup MICHAEL FASSBENDER / Edwin Epps PAUL GIAMATTI / Freeman SCOOT McNAIRY / Brown LUPITA NYONG’O / Patsey ADEPERO ODUYE / Eliza SARAH PAULSON / Mistress Epps BRAD PITT / Bass MICHAEL KENNETH WILLIAMS / Robert ALFRE WOODARD / Mistress Shaw

AMERICAN HUSTLE (Columbia Pictures) AMY ADAMS / Sydney Prosser CHRISTIAN BALE / Irving Rosenfeld LOUIS C.K. / Stoddard Thorsen BRADLEY COOPER / Richie DiMaso PAUL HERMAN / Alfonse Simone JACK HUSTON / Pete Musane JENNIFER LAWRENCE / Rosalyn Rosenfeld ALESSANDRO NIVOLA / Federal Prosecutor MICHAEL PEÑA / Sheik (Agent Hernandez) JEREMY RENNER / Mayor Carmine Polito ELISABETH RÖHM / Dolly Polito SHEA WHIGHAM / Carl Elway

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (The Weinstein Company) ABIGAIL BRESLIN / Jean Fordham CHRIS COOPER / Charles Aiken BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH / “Little” Charles Aiken JULIETTE LEWIS / Karen Weston MARGO MARTINDALE / Mattie Fae Aiken EWAN McGREGOR / Bill Fordham DERMOT MULRONEY / Steve JULIANNE NICHOLSON / Ivy Weston JULIA ROBERTS / Barbara Weston SAM SHEPARD / Beverly Weston MERYL STREEP / Violet Weston MISTY UPHAM / Johnna

DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (Focus Features) JENNIFER GARNER / Dr. Eve Saks MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY / Ron Woodroof JARED LETO / Rayon DENIS O’HARE / Dr. Sevard DALLAS ROBERTS / David Wayne STEVE ZAHN / Tucker

LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER (The Weinstein Company) MARIAH CAREY / Hattie Pearl JOHN CUSACK / Richard Nixon JANE FONDA / Nancy Reagan CUBA GOODING, JR. / Carter Wilson TERRENCE HOWARD / Howard LENNY KRAVITZ / James Holloway JAMES MARSDEN / John F. Kennedy DAVID OYELOWO / Louis Gaines ALEX PETTYFER / Thomas Westfall VANESSA REDGRAVE / Annabeth Westfall ALAN RICKMAN / Ronald Reagan LIEV SCHREIBER / Lyndon B. Johnson FOREST WHITAKER / Cecil Gaines ROBIN WILLIAMS / Dwight D. Eisenhower OPRAH WINFREY / Gloria Gaines

National Board of Review: i migliori del 2013

Questi vincitori potrebbero sembrare poco rilevanti, ma attenzione, è qui che i membri dell'Academy prendono definitivamente atto dei film di qualità usciti nel corso dell'anno... al via la stagione delle statuette!
Prevedo buone cose sia per Joaquin Phoenix che per Emma Thompson che per Alfonso Cuarón...

Best Film: HER

Best Director: Spike Jonze, HER

Best Actor: Bruce Dern, NEBRASKA

Best Actress: Emma Thompson, SAVING MR. BANKS

Best Supporting Actor: Will Forte, NEBRASKA

Best Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer, FRUITVALE STATION

Best Original Screenplay: Joel and Ethan Coen, Inside LLEWYN Davis

Best Adapted Screenplay: Terence Winter, THE Wolf of Wall Street

Best Animated Feature: The Wind Rises

Breakthrough Performance: Michael B. Jordan, Fruitvale Station

Breakthrough Performance: Adele Exarchopoulos, BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR

Best Directorial Debut: Ryan Coogler, Fruitvale Station

Best Foreign Language Film: THE PAST

Best Documentary: Stories We Tell

William K. Everson Film History Award: George Stevens, Jr.

Best Ensemble: PRISONERS

Spotlight Award: Career Collaboration of Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio

NBR Freedom of Expression Award: Wadjda

Creative Innovation in Filmmaking Award: Gravity

Top Films
12 YEARS A SLAVE

Fruitvale Station

Gravity

Inside Llewyn Davis

Lone Survivor

Nebraska

Prisoners

Saving Mr. Banks

The Secret Life of Walter MITTY

THE Wolf of Wall Street

Top 5 Foreign Language Films
Beyond the Hills

Gloria

The Grandmaster

A Hijacking

The Hunt

Top 5 Documentaries
20 Feet from Stardom

The Act of Killing

After Tiller

Casting By

The Square

Top 10 Independent Films
Ain’t Them Bodies Saints

Dallas Buyers Club

In a World…

Mother of George

Much Ado About Nothing

Mud

The Place Beyond the Pines

Short Term 12

Sightseers

The Sound of Cinema

Alla fine degli anni Novanta, prima del balzo di qualità delle serie televisive anglosassoni e, soprattutto, prima che avessi una televisione in casa, il mio unico - religiosissimo - appuntamento settimanale era su Radio Dimensione Suono con Claudio Sorrentino e Marco Minelli, che conducevano un programma chiamato "I suoni del cinema". Sebbene fosse formalmente dedicato al doppiaggio (ah, quelle horreur!), il programma in questione aveva il pregio di far sentire alcune scene in originale dei film in uscita, era ben montato e condotto con simpatia e vivacità dai due conduttori.

Adesso BBC Radio 6 propone un programma dal titolo simile ma il cui intento è decisamente più ambizioso e stuzzicante e consiste nel rivisitare alcuni momenti "topici" nella storia del cinema nei quali la colonna sonora è stata protagonista, ad opera di personaggi che a vario titolo lavorano nel cinema. Alcuni nomi? Danny Elfman, Quentin Tarantino e David Lynch.

Il link al programma, che potete ascoltare in diretta o qualche giorno più tardi, lo trovate qui: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03bkhv9

Buon ascolto!

La sindrome del pubblicitario neuron-free / atto primo: il delfino "tonnato" della Coop

Vi è capitato di recarvi alla Coop ed acquistare le scatolette di tonno all'olio d'oliva "in-house"?

Andiamo, sono quasi sempre in offerta, vi sarà capitato sicuramente!

Su ciascuna scatoletta appare la raffigurazione di un essere di dubbia identità, che il marchio si cura di informarci essere un delfino.

"Dalla parte dei delfini", per la precisione.

Ora, posto che esprimere il proprio sostegno a questi splendidi odontoceti su di una scatoletta di tonno è come organizzare un Bar-Mitzvah ad Auschwitz, penso che la prima reazione di chiunque noti questa inquietantissima immagine sia di chiedersi "perché?! Cosa fanno solitamente quelli del tonno in scatola ai delfini?!".

Ebbene, non si tratta di un'esternazione frutto di un umorismo nero degno dei Monty Python, bensì dell'infelicemente concepito marchio indicante la conformità del tonno in scatola Coop allo standard di certificazione indicato dallo Earth Island Institute, un'organizzazione non-profit con sede a San Francisco il cui oggetto è - non scherzo - la salvaguardia dei delfini nella pesca del tonno. No, non è il titolo di un manoscritto mai pubblicato di Douglas Adams, bensì un'esigenza di tutela scaturente dai metodi a quanto pare barbarici utilizzati nell'Oceano Pacifico Orientale per la pesca del tonno, che sono la causa del tasso di mortalità abnormemente elevato dei delfini in quella zona. Purtroppo quella parte del mondo sembra essere particolarmente crudele nei loro confronti, basta vedere lo straziante documentario "The Cove", vincitore del premio Oscar nel 2010.

Data la serietà del problema, forse sarebbe stato preferibile ingaggiare dei pubblicitari (non so se si chiamino ancora così ma chi se ne frega) con qualche neurone all'attivo, specialmente in considerazione del fatto che la denominazione del marchio non suona bene in alcuna lingua, complice il fatto di essere per sua definizione esclusivamente presente sulle scatolette di tonno (l'inglese "dolphin safe" sembra quasi voler alludere al fatto che i delfini si cibino di tonno in scatola... quella sì che sarebbe stata una pubblicità deliziosamente raccapricciante, non trovate?). E la Coop come ha pubblicizzato l'iniziativa? Così: "I delfini? Togliamoli di tonno"... si commenta da sola.

Fun Fact: Was the Name of a Minor Harry Potter Character Inspired by a Relative of Mine?

Let me start off by saying that I haven't read the Harry Potter books. It's not that I didn't want to, but when I was sent a copy of the first book for Christmas back in 1997, before it became famous, I found the first few chapters oddly boring and dragged out. I'm sure the reason was that I was still a child and was more interested in the world I had created through my drawings and stories (I didn't own a TV, you see...) than someone else's.

Plus, it had only been about four years since I had discovered "Star Wars and, if you are a Star Wars fan, you know what those first few years felt like.

My first experience with the movies was traumatic: it was Boxing Day 2001, "Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone" had been out in Italy for a mere twenty days and the cinema was packed. Add to that the fact that the listings had a typo and everyone had shown up late, therefore making that day's second showing especially packed, the fact that I was sitting behind a really tall guy and in front of two hysterical, thirty or forty-something harpies who kicked the back of my chair for the whole duration of the film and you get the picture - no pun intended.

It wasn't until I became very close with a massive Harry Potter fan a few years later, after the final Lord of the Rings film had been released, that I finally decided to give that saga another chance: no one I knew - English or otherwise - was enthusiastic about J.K. Rowling's writing, so I decided to give the films a go.

I bought the DVDs of the ones that had already been released (the first four, if I remember correctly) and watched one every night until I was done.

Guess what: I loved them.

Shortly before then, I visited my great uncle and aunt in Aberfeldy, Scotland. I had never been to their house before and soon after I arrived they told me their neighbour was J.K. Rowling and even took me round to see her house. At the time I didn't make much of it, given that I was not a fan, but the purpose of this overly long and annoying introduction is to explain my surprise when I went to see "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I" and discovered that the Minister for Magic's was called Rufus Scrimgeour (in the film he is portrayed by an uncharacteristically stern Bill Nighy).

Since my relatives often met J.K. Rowling while on their daily walks and lived right next to her while she was writing the second half of the saga, I wonder whether they were her inspiration for this particular character's surname. I guess we'll never know...

Mark Ruffalo: The Importance of Being Honest

In the midst of all the controversy surrounding the positively medieval Texas Abortion Bill, one voice stood out from the crowd: the distinctively even-tempered, soft-voiced Mark Ruffalo.

Even though most people know him as Bruce Banner/The Hulk from the star-studded blockbuster "The Avengers", Ruffalo took part in quite a few movies before reaching much deserved fame, as he jokingly remarked a little over a year ago while chatting to Graham Norton by citing his "eight fans".

To me he'll always be sweet, awkward Matt Flamhaff from the 2004 comedy "13 Going on 30", but Ruffalo was no short of fierce in speaking up for women's rights in a recent open letter for an abortion rights rally in Jackson, Mississippi.

By bravely recounting his own mother's traumatic experience with the illegal abortion procedure she underwent before the historic 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, Ruffalo noted (the following exerpts are taken from US Weekly): " It was a time when women were seen as second-rate citizens who were not smart enough, nor responsible enough, nor capable enough to make decisions about their lives. It was a time that deserved to be left behind, and leave it behind we did, or so it seemed." He then added: "I don't want to turn back the hands of time to when women shuttled across state lines in the thick of night to resolve an unwanted pregnancy, in a cheap hotel room just south of the state line. Where a transaction of $600 cash becomes the worth of a young woman's life." And finally: "I trust them with their choices, I trust them with their bodies, and I trust them with their children. I trust that they are decent enough and wise enough and worthy enough to carry the right of Abortion and not be forced to criminally exercise that Right at the risk of death or jail time."

Bravo, Mr Ruffalo! It's quite unheard of for a man to take such an honest and reasonable stance on abortion in the face of widespread fanatism. I wish all men had such massive balls and that much good sense.

I say good sense because nowadays who the hell remembers what common sense is all about?!

A few weeks ago I was talking to an acquaintance about the murder of Dr George Tiller by an anti-abortionist fanatic and, at some point, this person blurted out something about the good doctor deserving to die because he himself had murdered innocent lives.

Setting aside for a moment the fact that defining the term "life" is not a walk in the park, given that there is hardly a shared view as to its actual meaning and implications, I remarked that if the value placed on life alone was to be considered exclusive, what was preventing us from criminalizing women who suffered miscarriages? After all, didn't their bodies put an end to innocent lives too?

The very notion is absurd, of course, but what anti-abortionists don't seem to realise is that you either decide to oppose abortion based on the sole natural - if nebulous - element of life, in which case no anti-abortionist should believe anyone deserves to die, or you admit that you have an idea as to who you think should live and who shouldn't, based on your moral, religious and what not beliefs.

In the former case, the idea that a young woman could die as a result of an illegally performed procedure should alarm these people at least as much as the thought of abortion itself. They seem to believe that if you outlaw abortion, women shall magically stop seeking them, but every single person who is blessed with the tiniest spark of intelligence knows that wouldn't happen, for the agony of carrying an entity which is perceived as foreign and therefore hostile, as many studies suggest, greatly outweighs the fear of getting cought.

In the latter case, the implication is clear: once you admit your aversion to the procedure is based on your personal view of the world, you admit someone else has a different view and forcing them to follow your rulebook has nothing to do with protecting others, but is merely a selfish desire for control.

Anyway, bravo Mark Ruffalo!

Un primo giudizio...

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Golden Globes 2013: i vincitori LIVE!

Via via che saranno annunciati i vincitori aggiornerò il blog... che emozione!

Ore 4:59... mission:accomplished.

Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Daniel Day Lewis, Lincoln - WINNER
Richard Gere, Arbitrage
John Hawkes, The Sessions
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Denzel Washington, Flight

Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty - WINNER
Marion Cotillard, Rust and Bone
Helen Mirren, Hitchcock
Naomi Watts, The Impossible
Rachel Weisz, The Deep Blue Sea

Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Jack Black, Bernie
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
High Jackman, Les Misérables - WINNER
Ewen McGregor, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Bill Murray, Hyde Park on Hudson

Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Emily Blunt, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Judy Dench, Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook - WINNER
Maggie Smith, Quartet
Meryl Streep, Hope Springs

Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Amy Adams, The Master
Sally Field, Lincoln
Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables - WINNER
Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Nicole Kidman, The Paperboy

Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Alan Arkin, Argo
Leonardo DiCaprio, Django Unchained
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained - WINNER

Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Les Misérables - WINNER
Moonrise Kingdom
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Silver Linings Playbook

Best Motion Picture – Drama
Argo - WINNER
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Screenplay for a Motion Picture
Zero Dark Thirty
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino) - WINNER
Argo

Best Director – Motion Picture
Ben Affleck, Argo - WINNER
Katherine Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
Ang Lee, Life of Pi
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained

Best Score for a Motion Picture
Life of Pi (Mychael Danna) - WINNER
Argo
Anna Karenina
Cloud Atlas
Lincoln

Best Animated Film
Brave - WINNER
Frankenweenie
Hotel Transylvania
Rise of the Guardians
Wreck it Ralf

Best Original Song – Motion Picture
“For You” – Act of Valor
“Not Running Anymore” – Stand Up Guys
“Safe & Sound” – The Hunger Games
“Skyfall” – Skyfall (Adele and Paul Epworth) - WINNER
“Suddenly” – Les Misérables

Best Foreign Language Film
Amour (Austria) - WINNER
A Royal Affair (Denmark)
The Intouchables (France)
Kon-Tiki (Norway/UK/Demark)
Rust and Bone (France)

Oscars 2013: un candidato al giorno toglie il critico di torno.

Premessa: la categoria di documentario e quelle relative ai corti non faranno parte degli aggiornamenti.

MIGLIORI EFFETTI VISIVI

                                       The Avengers

                                        The Hobbit 

 Life of Pi

 Prometheus

Snow White and the Huntsman

Critics' Choice Awards 2013 - Vincitori

I premi forse più scrupolosi della Awards' season.

BEST PICTURE
Argo – WINNER
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Django Unchained
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
The Master
Moonrise Kingdom
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty

BEST ACTOR
Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln - WINNER
John Hawkes – The Sessions
Hugh Jackman – Les Miserables
Joaquin Phoenix – The Master
Denzel Washington – Flight

BEST ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty – WINNER
Marion Cotillard – Rust and Bone
Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva – Amour
Quvenzhane Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts – The Impossible

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Alan Arkin – Argo
Javier Bardem – Skyfall
Robert De Niro – Silver Linings Playbook
Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master – WINNER
Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln
Matthew McConaughey – Magic Mike

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams – The Master
Judi Dench – Skyfall
Ann Dowd – Compliance
Sally Field – Lincoln
Anne Hathaway – Les Miserables – WINNER
Helen Hunt – The Sessions

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Elle Fanning – Ginger & Rosa
Kara Hayward – Moonrise Kingdom
Tom Holland – The Impossible
Logan Lerman – The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Suraj Sharma – Life of Pi
Quvenzhane Wallis – Beasts of the Southern Wild – WINNER

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
Argo
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Les Miserables
Lincoln
Moonrise Kingdom
Silver Linings Playbook - WINNER

BEST DIRECTOR
Ben Affleck – Argo – WINNER
Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty
Tom Hooper – Les Miserables
Ang Lee – Life of Pi
David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook
Steven Spielberg – Lincoln

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Quentin Tarantino – Django Unchained – WINNER
John Gatins – Flight
Rian Johnson – Looper
Paul Thomas Anderson – The Master
Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola – Moonrise Kingdom
Mark Boal – Zero Dark Thirty

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Chris Terrio – Argo
Tony Kushner – Lincoln – WINNER
David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook
David Magee – Life of Pi
Stephen Chbosky – The Perks of Being a Wallflower

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Life of Pi – Claudio Miranda – WINNER
Lincoln – Janusz Kaminski
Les Miserables – Danny Cohen
The Master – Mihai Malaimare Jr.
Skyfall – Roger Deakins

BEST ART DIRECTION
Anna Karenina – Sarah Greenwood/Production Designer, Katie Spencer/Set Decorator – WINNER
The Hobbit – Dan Hennah/Production Designer, Ra Vincent & Simon Bright/Set Decorators
Les Miserables – Eve Stewart/Production Designer, Anna Lynch-Robinson/Set Decorator
Life of Pi – David Gropman/Production Designer, Anna Pinnock/Set Decorator
Lincoln – Rick Carter/Production Designer, Jim Erickson/Set Decorator

BEST EDITING
Argo – William Goldenberg
Les Miserables – Melanie Ann Oliver, Chris Dickens
Life of Pi – Tim Squyres
Lincoln – Michael Kahn
Zero Dark Thirty – William Goldenberg, Dylan Tichenor – WINNER

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Anna Karenina – Jacqueline Durran – WINNER
Cloud Atlas – Kym Barrett, Pierre-Yves Gayraud
The Hobbit – Bob Buck, Ann Maskrey, Richard Taylor
Les Miserables – Paco Delgado
Lincoln – Joanna Johnston

BEST MAKEUP
Cloud Atlas – WINNER
The Hobbit
Les Miserables
Lincoln

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Avengers
Cloud Atlas
The Dark Knight Rises
The Hobbit
Life of Pi – WINNER

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Brave
Frankenweenie
Madagascar 3
ParaNorman
Rise of the Guardians
Wreck-It Ralph – WINNER

BEST ACTION MOVIE
The Avengers
The Dark Knight Rises
Looper
Skyfall – WINNER

BEST ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE
Christian Bale – The Dark Knight Rises
Daniel Craig – Skyfall – WINNER
Robert Downey Jr. – The Avengers
Joseph Gordon-Levitt – Looper
Jake Gyllenhaal – End of Watch

BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE
Emily Blunt – Looper
Gina Carano – Haywire
Judi Dench – Skyfall
Anne Hathaway – The Dark Knight Rises
Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games – WINNER

BEST COMEDY
Bernie
Silver Linings Playbook – WINNER
Ted
This Is 40
21 Jump Street

BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Jack Black – Bernie
Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook – WINNER
Paul Rudd – This Is 40
Channing Tatum – 21 Jump Street
Mark Wahlberg – Ted

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Mila Kunis – Ted
Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook – WINNER
Shirley MacLaine – Bernie
Leslie Mann – This Is 40
Rebel Wilson – Pitch Perfect

BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE
Cabin in the Woods
Looper – WINNER
Prometheus

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Amour – WINNER
The Intouchables
A Royal Affair
Rust and Bone

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Bully
The Imposter
Queen of Versailles
Searching for Sugar Man – WINNER
The Central Park Five
West of Memphis

BEST SONG
“For You” – performed by Keith Urban/written by Monty Powell & Keith Urban – Actor of Valor
“Skyfall” – performed by Adele/written by Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth – Skyfall – WINNER
“Still Alive” – performed by Paul Williams/written by Paul Williams – Paul Williams Still Alive
“Suddenly” – Performed by Hugh Jackman / Music by Claude Michel Schonberg, Lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil
“Learn Me Right” – performed by Birdy with Mumford & Sons/written by Mumford & Sons – Brave

BEST SCORE
Argo – Alexandre Desplat
Life of Pi – Mychael Danna
Lincoln – John Williams – WINNER
The Master – Jonny Greenwood
Moonrise Kingdom – Alexandre Desplat

Live! I primi candidati ai premi Oscar 2013.

Le categorie saranno integrate via via...

Attrice non protagonista
Sally Field - Lincoln
Anne Hathaway - Les Misérables
Jackie Weaver - Silver Linings Playbook
Helen Hunt - The Sessions
Amy Adams - The Master

Attore non protagonista
Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained
Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master
Robert De Niro - Silver Linings Playbook
Alan Arkin - Argo
Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln

Attrice protagonista
Naomi Watts - The Impossible
Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva - Amour
Quvenzhané Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild

Attore protagonista
Daniel Day Lewis - Lincoln
Denzel Washington - Flight
Hugh Jackman - Les Miséerables
Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook
Joaquin Phoenix - The Master

Sceneggiatura non originale
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Argo
Lincoln
Silver Linings Playbook
Life of Pi

Sceneggiatura originale
Flight
Zero Dark Thirty
Django Unchained
Amour
Moonrise Kingdom

Regia
David O. Russell - Silver Linings Playbook
Ang Lee - Life of Pi
Steven Spielberg - Lincoln
Michael Haneke - Amour
Benh Zeitlen - Beasts of the Southern Wild

Film
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Silver Linings Playbook
Zero Dark Thirty
Lincoln
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Amour
Django Unchained
Argo

Commento a caldo:
Dove sono gli splendidi Skyfall - con il magnifico Javier Bardem - e The Dark Knight Rises? Perché Leonardo Di Caprio continua ad essere ignorato sistematicamente dalla Academy? Perché la categoria dei film è schizofrenica rispetto a quella dei registi? Solo alcune delle domande alle quali cercherò di dare una risposta (auto)convincente...