The Hundred-Word Review: SAVING MR. BANKS (2013)

Director:
John Lee Hancock

Screenplay:
Kelly Marcel
Sue Smith

Main Cast:
Emma Thompson
Tom Hanks
Colin Farrell
Paul Giamatti
Jason Schwartzman
Ruth Wilson
Bradley Whitford
B.J. Novak
Rachel Griffiths
Annie Rose Buckley

While this film may start out as your run-of-the-mill Disney fairytale, it moves to darker nuances quite early in the story thanks to a well-constructed narrative structure. As the Sherman brothers belt out the immortal lyrics that made "Mary Poppins'" a timeless classic, P.L. Travers, embodied by the sublime Emma Thompson, recollects her heartbreaking childhood and we, the viewers, go from disliking her uptight demeanour to feeling elated at her newfound serenity in the space of a couple of hours. Tom Hanks is perfectly at ease as larger-than-life Walt Disney and Colin Farrell is harrowingly memorable as Travers's unfortunate father.

LINK to an article about P.L. Travers's life that appeared on The Sydney Morning Herald's website (SPOILER ALERT!!!):
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/the-truth-behind-mary-poppins-creator-pl-travers-20140104-30akz.html

The Hundred-Word Review: JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (2014)

Director:
Kenneth Branagh

Screenplay:
Adam Cozad
David Koepp
based on the characters invented by Tom Clancy

Main Cast:
Chris Pine
Kenneth Branagh
Kevin Costner
Keira Knightley

The main problem with this film is that it is a spy story that does not feel like one because of its lacking cinematography. Each frame is languid, there is no sense of urgency and no sense of discomfort to rattle the viewer. The film's unremarkable score follows suit. As for the script, the characters are not clearly outlined, which makes it hard to empathize with Jack Ryan's struggles, despite a good effort from Chris Pine. Kenneth Branagh's direction feels too laid back, even disinterested at times, but he excels as the film's villain, complete with a spot-on Russian accent.

LINK to a very recent article about Chris Pine's regrets concering the film:
http://variety.com/2014/film/news/chris-pine-deeply-regrets-not-getting-jack-ryan-right-1201388184/

20th Critics' Choice Movie Awards: Nominees

"Birdman"

BEST PICTURE
Birdman
Boyhood
Gone Girl
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Nightcrawler
Selma
The Theory of Everything
Unbroken
Whiplash

BEST ACTOR
Benedict Cumberbatch – The Imitation Game
Ralph Fiennes – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler
Michael Keaton – Birdman
David Oyelowo – Selma
Eddie Redmayne – The Theory of Everything

BEST ACTRESS
Jennifer Aniston – Cake
Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night
Felicity Jones – The Theory of Everything
Julianne Moore – Still Alice
Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl
Reese Witherspoon – Wild

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Josh Brolin – Inherent Vice
Robert Duvall – The Judge
Ethan Hawke – Boyhood
Edward Norton – Birdman
Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher
J.K. Simmons – Whiplash

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
Jessica Chastain – A Most Violent Year
Keira Knightley – The Imitation Game
Emma Stone – Birdman
Meryl Streep – Into the Woods
Tilda Swinton – Snowpiercer

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Ellar Coltrane – Boyhood
Ansel Elgort – The Fault in Our Stars
Mackenzie Foy – Interstellar
Jaeden Lieberher – St. Vincent
Tony Revolori – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Quvenzhane Wallis – Annie
Noah Wiseman – The Babadook

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
Birdman
Boyhood
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Into the Woods
Selma

BEST DIRECTOR
Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Ava DuVernay – Selma
David Fincher – Gone Girl
Alejandro G. Inarritu – Birdman
Angelina Jolie – Unbroken
Richard Linklater – Boyhood

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Birdman – Alejandro G. Inarritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Jr., Armando Bo
Boyhood – Richard Linklater
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Wes Anderson, Hugo Guinness
Nightcrawler – Dan Gilroy
Whiplash – Damien Chazelle

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
The Imitation Game – Graham Moore
Inherent Vice – Paul Thomas Anderson
The Theory of Everything – Anthony McCarten
Unbroken – Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, Richard LaGravenese, William Nicholson
Wild – Nick Hornby

BEST CINEMATOGRAPY 
Birdman – Emmanuel Lubezki
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Robert Yeoman
Interstellar – Hoyte Van Hoytema
Mr. Turner – Dick Pope
Unbroken – Roger Deakins

BEST ART DIRECTION
Birdman – Kevin Thompson/Production Designer, George DeTitta Jr./Set Decorator
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Adam Stockhausen/Production Designer, Anna Pinnock/Set Decorator
Inherent Vice – David Crank/Production Designer, Amy Wells/Set Decorator
Interstellar – Nathan Crowley/Production Designer, Gary Fettis/Set Decorator
Into the Woods – Dennis Gassner/Production Designer, Anna Pinnock/Set Decorator
Snowpiercer – Ondrej Nekvasil/Production Designer, Beatrice Brentnerova/Set Decorator

BEST EDITING
Birdman – Douglas Crise, Stephen Mirrione
Boyhood – Sandra Adair
Gone Girl – Kirk Baxter
Interstellar – Lee Smith
Whiplash – Tom Cross

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Milena Canonero
Inherent Vice – Mark Bridges
Into the Woods – Colleen Atwood
Maleficent – Anna B. Sheppard
Mr. Turner – Jacqueline Durran

BEST HAIR & MAKEUP
Foxcatcher
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Into the Woods
Maleficent

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Edge of Tomorrow
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Interstellar

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Big Hero 6
The Book of Life
The Boxtrolls
How to Train Your Dragon 2
The Lego Movie

BEST ACTION MOVIE
American Sniper
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Edge of Tomorrow
Fury
Guardians of the Galaxy

BEST ACTOR IN AN ACTION MOVIE
Bradley Cooper – American Sniper
Tom Cruise – Edge of Tomorrow
Chris Evans – Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Brad Pitt – Fury
Chris Pratt – Guardians of the Galaxy

BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE
Emily Blunt – Edge of Tomorrow
Scarlett Johansson – Lucy
Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Zoe Saldana – Guardians of the Galaxy
Shailene Woodley – Divergent

BEST COMEDY
Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
St. Vincent
Top Five
22 Jump Street

BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY
Jon Favreau – Chef
Ralph Fiennes – The Grand Budapest Hotel
Michael Keaton – Birdman
Bill Murray – St. Vincent
Chris Rock – Top Five
Channing Tatum – 22 Jump Street

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY
Rose Byrne – Neighbors
Rosario Dawson – Top Five
Melissa McCarthy – St. Vincent
Jenny Slate – Obvious Child
Kristen Wiig – The Skeleton Twins

BEST SCI-FI/HORROR MOVIE
The Babadook
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Interstellar
Snowpiercer
Under the Skin

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Force Majeure
Ida
Leviathan
Two Days, One Night
Wild Tales

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Citizenfour
Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me
Jodorowsky’s Dune
Last Days in Vietnam
Life Itself
The Overnighters

BEST SONG
Big Eyes – Lana Del Rey – Big Eyes
Everything Is Awesome – Jo Li and the Lonely Island – The Lego Movie
Glory – Common/John Legend – Selma
Lost Stars – Keira Knightley – Begin Again
Yellow Flicker Beat – Lorde – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

BEST SCORE
Alexandre Desplat – The Imitation Game
Johann Johannsson – The Theory of Everything
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Gone Girl
Antonio Sanchez – Birdman
Hans Zimmer – Interstellar

27th European Film Awards: Winners

"L'arte della felicità"

Due premi all'Italia, Miglior commedia e Miglior film d'animazione.

EUROPEAN FILM 2014
IDA Directed by: Paweł Pawlikowski Written by: Paweł Pawlikowski & Rebecca Lenkiewicz Produced by: Eric Abraham, Piotr Dzięcioł & Ewa Puszczyńska

EUROPEAN COMEDY 2014
THE MAFIA ONLY KILLS IN SUMMER (La mafia uccide solo d'estate) by Pierfrancesco Diliberto 

EUROPEAN DISCOVERY 2014 – Prix FIPRESCI
THE TRIBE (Plemya) by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy

EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY 2014
MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE by Marc Bauder

EUROPEAN ANIMATED FEATURE FILM 2014
THE ART OF HAPPINESS (L’arte della felicitá) by Alessandro Rak

EUROPEAN SHORT FILM 2014
THE CHICKEN by Una Gunjak

EUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2014
Paweł Pawlikowski for IDA

EUROPEAN ACTRESS 2014
Marion Cotillard in TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (Deux jours, une nuit)

EUROPEAN ACTOR 2014
Timothy Spall in MR. TURNER

EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER 2014
Paweł Pawlikowski & Rebecca Lenkiewicz for IDA

EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER 2014 – Prix CARLO DI PALMA
Łukasz Żal & Ryszard Lenczewski for IDA

EUROPEAN EDITOR 2014
Justine Wright for LOCKE

EUROPEAN PRODUCTION DESIGNER 2014
Claus-Rudolf Amler for THE DARK VALLEY (Das Finstere Tal)

EUROPEAN COSTUME DESIGNER 2014
Natascha Curtius-Noss for THE DARK VALLEY (Das Finstere Tal)

EUROPEAN COMPOSER 2014 Mica Levi for UNDER THE SKIN

EUROPEAN SOUND DESIGNER 2014
Joakim Sundström for STARRED UP

EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 2014
Agnès Varda 

EUROPEAN ACHIEVEMENT IN WORLD CINEMA 2014
Steve McQueen 

EUROPEAN CO-PRODUCTION AWARD 2014 – Prix EURIMAGES
Ed Guiney

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD 2014 for Best European Film
IDA by Paweł Pawlikowski

72nd Golden Globe Awards: Nominees (Film)

"Gone Girl"

Here are your 2015 Golden Globe nominees! 


Best Motion Picture - Drama 
Boyhood
Foxcatcher
The Imitation Game
Selma
The Theory of Everything


Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy 
Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Into the Woods
Pride
St Vincent

Best Director 
Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
Ava DuVernay (Selma)
David Fincher (Gone Girl)
Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman)
Richard Linklater (Boyhood)


Best Actress - Drama
Jennifer Aniston (Cake)
Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything)
Julianne Moore (Still Alice)
Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)
Reese Witherspoon (Wild)


Best Actor - Drama 
Steve Carrell (Foxcatcher)
Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game)
Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler)
David Oyelowo (Selma)
Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything)


Best Actress - Musical or Comedy 
Amy Adams (Big Eyes)
Emily Blunt (Into The Woods)
Helen Mirren (The Hundred-Foot Journey)
Julianne Moore (Maps to the Stars)
Quvenzhané Wallis (Annie)


Best Actor - Musical or Comedy 
Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
Michael Keaton (Birdman)
Bill Murray (St. Vincent)
Joaquin Phoenix (Inherent Vice)
Christoph Waltz (Big Eyes)


Best Supporting Actress 
Patricia Arquette (Boyhood)
Jessica Chastain (A Most Violent Year)
Keira Knightley (The Imitation Game)
Emma Stone (Birdman)
Meryl Streep (Into The Woods)


Best Supporting Actor 
Robert Duvall (The Judge)
Ethan Hawke (Boyhood)
Edward Norton (Birdman)
Mark Ruffalo (Foxcatcher)
JK Simmons (Whiplash)


Best Screenplay 
Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl)
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo (Birdman) Richard Linklater (Boyhood)
Graham Moore (The Imitation Game)


Best Foreign Language Film
Force Majeure (Sweden)
Gett: The Trial of Vivian Amsalem (Israel)
Ida (Poland/Denmark)
Leviathan (Russia)
Tangerines (Estonia)


Best Animated Feature 
Big Hero Six
The Book of Life
The Boxtrolls
How to Train Your Dragon 2
The Lego Movie


Best Original Score
Alexandre Desplat (The Imitation Game)
Jóhann Jóhannsson (Theory of Everything)
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross (Gone Girl)
Antonio Sanchez (Birdman)
Hans Zimmer (Interstellar)


Best Original Song 
Big Eyes (Big Eyes)
Glory (Selma)
Mercy Is (Noah)
Opportunity (Annie)
Yellow Flicker Beat (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1)

Screen Actors Guild Awards 2015: Nominees (motion picture)

Steve Carell in "Foxcatcher"

The "Oscar Games" have officially begun... Behold the nominees!

Performance by a cast in a motion picture
"Birdman"
"Boyhood"
"The Grand Budapest Hotel"
"The Imitation Game"
"The Theory of Everything"

Performance by a male actor in a leading role
Michael Keaton, "Birdman"
Benedict Cumberbatch, "The Imitation Game"
Eddie Redmayne, "The Theory of Everything"
Jake Gyllenhaal, "Nightcrawler"
Steve Carell, "Foxcatcher"

Performance by a female actor in a leading role
Julianne Moore, "Still Alice"
Reese Witherspoon, "Wild"
Felicity Jones, "The Theory of Everything"
Rosamund Pike, "Gone Girl"
Jennifer Aniston, "Cake"

Performance by a female actor in a supporting role
Patricia Arquette, "Boyhood"
Keira Knightley, "The Imitation Game"
Emma Stone, "Birdman"
Meryl Streep, "Into The Woods"
Naomi Watts, "St. Vincent"

Performance by a male actor in a supporting role
Robert Duvall, "The Judge"
Ethan Hawke, "Boyhood"
Edward Norton, "Birdman"
Mark Ruffalo, "Foxcatcher"
J.K. Simmons, "Whiplash"

Action performance by a stunt ensemble in a motion picture
“Fury”
“Get On Up”
“The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies”
“Unbroken”
“X-men: Days Of Future Past”

Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens Teaser Trailer

2015 Independent Spirit Awards: Nominees

BEST FEATURE
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Producers: Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, Arnon Milchan, James W. Skotchdopole
Boyhood Producers: Richard Linklater, Jonathan Sehring, John Sloss, Cathleen Sutherland
Love is Strange Producers: Lucas Joaquin, Lars Knudsen, Ira Sachs, Jayne Baron Sherman, Jay Van Hoy
Selma Producers: Christian Colson, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Oprah Winfrey
Whiplash Producers: Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook, David Lancaster, Michael Litvak

BEST DIRECTOR
Damien Chazelle – Whiplash
Ava DuVernay – Selma
Alejandro G. Iñárritu – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Richard Linklater – Boyhood
David Zellner – Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter

BEST SCREENPLAY
Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski – Big Eyes
J.C. Chandor – A Most Violent Year
Dan Gilroy – Nightcrawler
Jim Jarmusch – Only Lovers Left Alive
Ira Sachs & Mauricio Zacharias – Love is Strange

BEST FIRST FEATURE (Award given to the director and producer)
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Director: Ana Lily Amirpour Producers: Justin Begnaud, Sina Sayyah
Dear White People Director/Producer: Justin Simien Producers: Effie T. Brown, Ann Le, Julia Lebedev, Angel Lopez, Lena Waithe
Nightcrawler Director: Dan Gilroy Producers: Jennifer Fox, Tony Gilroy, Jake Gyllenhaal, David Lancaster, Michel Litvak
Obvious Child Director: Gillian Robespierre Producer: Elisabeth Holm
She’s Lost Control Director/Producer: Anja Marquardt Producers: Mollye Asher, Kiara C. Jones

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
Desiree Akhavan – Appropriate Behavior
Sara Colangelo – Little Accidents
Justin Lader – The One I Love
Anja Marquardt – She’s Lost Control
Justin Simien – Dear White People

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD
Blue Ruin Writer/Director: Jeremy Saulnier Producers: Richard Peete, Vincent Savino, Anish Savjani It Felt Like Love Writer/Director/Producer: Eliza Hittman Producers: Shrihari Sathe, Laura Wagner Land Ho! Writers/Directors: Aaron Katz & Martha Stephens Producers: Christina Jennings, Mynette Louie, Sara Murphy
Man From Reno Writer/Director: Dave Boyle Writers: Joel Clark, Michael Lerman Producer: Ko Mori
Test Writer/Director/Producer: Chris Mason Johnson Producer: Chris Martin

BEST FEMALE LEAD
Marion Cotillard – The Immigrant
Rinko Kikuchi – Kumiko,
The Treasure Hunter Julianne Moore – Still Alice
Jenny Slate – Obvious Child
Tilda Swinton – Only Lovers Left Alive

BEST MALE LEAD
André Benjamin – Jimi: All Is By My Side
Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler
Michael Keaton – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
John Lithgow – Love is Strange
David Oyelowo – Selma

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE
Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
Jessica Chastain – A Most Violent Year
Carmen Ejogo – Selma
Andrea Suarez Paz – Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
Emma Stone- Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

BEST SUPPORTING MALE
Riz Ahmed – Nightcrawler
Ethan Hawke – Boyhood
Alfred Molina – Love is Strange
Edward Norton – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
J.K. Simmons – Whiplash

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Darius Khondji – The Immigrant
Emmanuel Lubezki – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Sean Porter – It Felt Like Love
Lyle Vincent – A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Bradford Young – Selma

BEST EDITING
Sandra Adair – Boyhood
Tom Cross – Whiplash
John Gilroy – Nightcrawler
Ron Patane – A Most Violent Year
Adam Wingard – The Guest

BEST DOCUMENTARY (Award given to the director and producer)
20,000 Days on Earth Directors: Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard Producers: Dan Bowen, James Wilson
CITIZENFOUR Director/Producer: Laura Poitras Producers: Mathilde Bonnefoy, Dirk Wilutzky Stray Dog Director: Debra Granik Producer: Anne Rosellini
The Salt of the Earth Directors: Juliano Ribeiro Salgado and Wim Wenders Producer: David Rosier Virunga Director/Producer: Orlando von Einsiedel Producer: Joanna Natasegara

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM (Award given to the director)
Force Majeure (Sweden) Director: Ruben Östlund
Ida (Poland) Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Leviathan (Russia) Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Mommy (Canada) Director: Xavier Dolan Norte,
The End of History (Philippines) Director: Lav Diaz
Under the Skin (United Kingdom) Director: Jonathan Glazer

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD
Inherent Vice Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Casting Director: Cassandra Kulukundis Ensemble Cast: Josh Brolin, Martin Donovan, Jena Malone, Joanna Newsom, Joaquin Phoenix, Eric Roberts, Maya Rudolph, Martin Short Serena Scott Thomas, Benicio Del Toro, Katherine Waterston, Michael Kenneth Williams, Owen Wilson, Reese Witherspoon

SPECIAL DISTINCTION AWARD Foxcatcher Director/Producer: Bennett Miller Producers: Anthony Bregman, Megan Ellison, Jon Kilik Writers: E. Max Frye, Dan Futterman Actors: Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo, Channing Tatum

18th ANNUAL PIAGET PRODUCERS AWARD Chad Burris Elisabeth Holm Chris Ohlson

21st ANNUAL KIEHL’S SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Director: Ana Lily Amirpour
H. Directors: Rania Attieh & Daniel Garcia
The Retrieval Director: Chris Eska

20th ANNUAL LENSCRAFTERS TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD
Approaching the Elephant Director: Amanda Rose
Wilder Evolution of a Criminal Director: Darius Clark Monroe
The Kill Team Director: Dan Krauss
The Last Season Director: Sara Dosa

Ci siamo: annunciato il cast di "Guerre Stellari: Episodio VII"/The cast of "Star Wars: Episode VII" has been announced!

I nuovi/The newcomers: 

John Boyega, Daisy Ridley

Uno dei protagonisti della serie cult "Girls"/From the cult HBO tv series "Girls": 

Adam Driver

Attore versatile e camaleontico, da "Robin Hood" a "Inside Llewyn Davis"/A truly versatile actor: Oscar Isaac

L'immortale Gollum/The one and only Gollum: 

Andy Serkis

Figlio d'arte e astro nascente ("Harry Potter", "About Time")/The rising star: 

Domhnall Gleeson

Un pilastro del cinema, dai capolavori di Bergman a Hollywood/One of the greats: 

Max von Sydow

Quelli che "a volte ritornano"/A few familiar faces: 

Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, Kenny Baker

Kevin Bacon omaggia "Footloose" a trent'anni dall'uscita... ed è strepitoso!

2014:

1984, per chi volesse confrontare:

Charlie Bit My Finger Redux: "Bitman Begins"!

Vi ricordate il video virale "Charlie Bit Me"?

Quel geniaccio di Jimmy Kimmel ha pensato bene di reinterpretarlo servendosi di vere e proprie stelle di Hollywood.
Per il vostro divertimento, ecco "Bitman Begins" (il titolo vi ricorda niente?), con i fratelli Chris e Liam Hemsworth, Meryl Streep e Tom Hanks.

Oscars 2014: Full Winners List/Tutti i vincitori

Uno dei momenti più divertenti della cerimonia, il "selfie" di Ellen DeGeneres
The now famous "selfie" that broke the RT record on Twitter

Scusate il ritardo, la mia connessione mi ha abbandonato... Excuse the lateness, my connection went AWOL...

Poco male, non ci sono particolari sorprese... No big surprises here...

Best Actor in a Leading Role (Attore protagonista)
Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club

Best Actress in a Leading Role (Attrice protagonista)
Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine

Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Attore non protagonista)
Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club

Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Attrice non protegonista)
Lupita Nyong'o -  12 Years a Slave

Best Director (Regista)
Alfonso Cuarón - Gravity

Best Foreign Language Motion Picture (Film straniero)
The Great Beauty (Italy)

Best Motion Picture (Film)
12 Years a Slave

Best Animated Feature Film (Film d'animazione)
Frozen

Best Original Screenplay (Sceneggiatura originale)
Her - Spike Jonze

Best Adapted Screenplay (Sceneggiatura non originale)
12 Years a Slave - John Ridleyr

Best Original Score (Colonna sonora)
Gravity - Steven Price

Best Original Song (Canzone)
Let It Go (Frozen)

Best Cinematography (Fotografia)
Gravity

Best Film Editing (Montaggio)
Gravity

Best Visual Effects (Effetti visivi)
Gravity

Best Sound Mixing (Sonoro)
Gravity

Best Sound Editing (Montaggio sonoro)
Gravity

Best Production Design (Scenografia)
The Great Gatsby

Best Costume Design (Costumi)
The Great Gatsby

Best Make-up & Hairstyling ("Trucco & parrucco")
Dallas Buyers Club

Best Animated Short Film (Cortometraggio d'animazione)
Mr. Hublot

Best Live Action Short Film (Cortometraggio)
Helium

Best Documentary Short Subject (Miglior cortometraggio documentario)
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life

Best Documentary Feature (Documentario)
20 Feet from Stardom

Oscars 2014 Live Tweeting!

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La peculiare congiuntura che potrebbe avvicinare tra loro gli Independent Spirit Awards e gli Oscars

Ieri si sono tenuti gli Independent Spirit Awards, che si sono sempre contraddistinti per aver premiato film e attori più "di nicchia", per giunta il giorno prima che venissero consegnati i premi Oscar.

Tuttavia, a causa delle nuove regole che disciplinano i meccanismi di selezione e votazione dell'Academy, al giorno d'oggi i film che si trovano in difficoltà quando si tratta di conquistare le ambite statuette sono proprio quelli c.d. mainstream, mentre i "piccoli" film tendono a fare piazza pulita nelle categorie principali.

L'esempio lampante è dato dal fatto che nel corso della cerimonia di ieri i premi nelle categorie attoriali sono andati ai favoriti per il premio Oscar di stanotte, per la precisione:
Miglior attrice protegonista - Cate Blanchett, "Blue Jasmine"
Miglior attore protagonista - Matthew McConaughey, "Dallas Buyers Club"
Miglior attrice non protagonista - Lupita Nyong'o, "12 Years a Slave"
Miglior attore non protagonista - Jared Leto, "Dallas Buyers Club"

Domanda: non è che forse sia il caso di riportare i premi Oscar alla loro vocazione originaria, ossia alla loro grande sintonia con il pubblico piuttosto che con la critica, peraltro quest'ultima già "placata" da altri prestigiosi premi?

E se, zitto zitto, quatto quatto, Leonardo Di Caprio vincesse finalmente l'Oscar, ora che il "fenomeno McConaughey" è già passato di moda (forse)?

Un'immagine da "The Wolf of Wall Street" (di M. Scorsese, 2013)

Ah, quanta differenza fa un mese nell'effimero mondo di Hollywood!

A gennaio Matthew McConaughey - vincitore del Golden Globe come Miglior attore protagonista nella categoria "Film drammatico e del SAG come Miglior attore protagonista - era l'inatteso golden boy della cosiddetta "stagione dei premi", con la sua interpretazione decisamente originale e azzardata rispetto al curriculum da tipico bellimbusto delle commedie romantiche americane e tutti lo davano già vincitore del premio Oscar.

I suoi principali rivali avevano entrambi un punto debole: l'inglese Chiwetel Ejiofor - che poi ha vinto, meritandoselo, il BAFTA come Miglior attore protagonista per "12 anni schiavo", come vuole la tradizione isolazionista britannica - era relativamente poco conosciuto a Hollywood, nonostante sia stato assolutamente eccezionale per oltre un decennio (mai sentito parlare dello straordinario "Kinky Boots"?); Leonardo di Caprio - pur vincendo il Golden Globe nella categoria "Commedia o musical" - aveva su di sé un'aura negativa a causa delle controversie relative al film per cui è nominato, "The Wolf of Wall Street", in più occasioni definito volgare, pretenzioso e troppo lungo.

Tuttavia, sfumata la polemica su quest'ultimo, anche grazie alla vigorosa opera di smentita del regista Martin Scorsese, critici e votanti hanno avuto modo di concentrarsi sulla interpretazione larger than life di Leonardo Di Caprio, al quale - ingiustamente, si dice tuttora - è stata negata l'ambita statuetta.

La questione è riassunta benissimo da Owen Gleiberman, critico di Entertainment Weekly, che scrive:
"I think one reason he has a chance to pull an upset on Oscar night, whisking victory away from McConaughey, is that the whole “It’s time” vibe that’s been a cornerstone of this McConaughey moment applies, if anything, even more to Leo. As much as any actor, he has been carrying the damn industry for close to 20 years. Forget The Aviator and the unspeakably awful Gangs of New York. DiCaprio’s finest Scorsese performance may well be the one he gave in Shutter Island — at least, his finest until now. For in The Wolf of Wall Street, DiCaprio does what only a born movie star who is also an audacious actor can do: He uses the true-life character of Jordan Belfort to take us on a magic carpet ride of immorality. His speeches to the Stratton Oakmont offices are fascinatingly jacked up, full of manic movement and discovery — they’re pep talks turned into athletic events. The words, as Leo delivers them, give off a hum; it’s “Greed is good” remade into a corporate anthem of smash-your-enemies bravado. Watching The Wolf of Wall Street, of course we admire the way that Belfort does and says whatever he wants (that’s what we always love about movie gangsters, even when they don’t carry guns), but he also comes off as a closet madman, and that’s the honesty of DiCaprio’s performance" [link: The Best Actor race is the hottest ever. And yes, Leonardo could win by Owen Gleiberman]

Detto questo, occorre comunque scrivere a chiare lettere che McConaughey rimane il favorito per la vittoria e c'è chi non esclude la vittoria dell'intensissimo Ejiofor, non essendosi necessariamente spezzata la maledizione che vuole Di Caprio sempre vicino all'Oscar senza stringerlo tra le mani, e infine chi propende per una sorta di "premio alla carriera" al veterano Bruce Dern per "Nebraska".

L'unica cosa su cui concordano tutti è che Christian Bale, già vincitore per "The Fighter" e nominato quest'anno per "American Hustle" - interpretazione che diversi hanno definito la migliore della sua carriera, non vincerà.

Speciale Oscar 2014. Recensione breve: Blue Jasmine (di W. Allen, 2013)

Candidato ai premi Oscar: - Miglior attrice protagonista
                                                       - Miglior Attrice non protagonista
                                                    - Miglior sceneggiatura originale

“There’s a world of men out there who’d never think of ripping a phone out of the wall” 

Il genio di Woody Allen ha saputo cogliere più volte ciò che molti grandi autori non sono stati in grado di carpire: l’animo femminile. “Blue Jasmine” è esemplare in questo senso, al centro della storia vi è il rapporto tra due sorelle (adottive), in particolar modo la loro specularità nel ripetere gli errori del passato, specularità che nel corso della storia dà luogo ad una inattesa, originale e sottile forma di solidarietà ed affetto tra le due. Sebbene la sceneggiatura non sia esattamente tra le migliori di Allen, pur non mancando le folgoranti battute che ne caratterizzano lo stile, le interpretazioni di Cate Blanchett e Sally Hawkins – in particolar modo la prima, un mix straordinario (e assolutamente meritevole del premio Oscar) di fragilità e velleitarietà - sono sicuramente tra le migliori mai viste in un film di Allen, a tal punto da catturare empaticamente lo spettatore, che passa dal disprezzare gli evidenti difetti delle sorelle a tifare spudoratamente per entrambe, nella speranza che trovino un loro pur precario equilibrio interiore e non siano più “blue”. Cupo e brillante allo stesso tempo, questo è un film che tiene dall'inizio alla fine.

BAFTA 2014: Winners/Vincitori

12 Anni Schiavo, vincitore del BAFTA come Miglior film

BEST FILM
12 YEARS A SLAVE Anthony Katagas, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen

DIRECTOR
GRAVITY Alfonso Cuarón

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
AMERICAN HUSTLE Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
PHILOMENA Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope

LEADING ACTOR
CHIWETEL EJIOFOR 12 Years a Slave

LEADING ACTRESS
CATE BLANCHETT Blue Jasmine

SUPPORTING ACTOR
BARKHAD ABDI Captain Phillips

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
JENNIFER LAWRENCE American Hustle

ORIGINAL MUSIC
GRAVITY Steven Price

CINEMATOGRAPHY
GRAVITY Emmanuel Lubezki

EDITING
RUSH Dan Hanley, Mike Hill

PRODUCTION DESIGN
THE GREAT GATSBY Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn

COSTUME DESIGN
THE GREAT GATSBY Catherine Martin

MAKE UP & HAIR
THE GREAT GATSBY Maurizio Silvi, Kerry Warn

SOUND
GRAVITY Glenn Freemantle, Skip Lievsay, Christopher Benstead, Niv Adiri, Chris Munro

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
GRAVITY Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk, Neil Corbould, Nikki Penny

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
THE GREAT BEAUTY Paolo Sorrentino, Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima

DOCUMENTARY
THE ACT OF KILLING Joshua Oppenheimer

ANIMATED FILM
FROZEN Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
GRAVITY Alfonso Cuaron, David Heyman, Jonas Cuaron

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
KIERAN EVANS (Director/Writer) Kelly + Victor

BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
SLEEPING WITH THE FISHES James Walker, Sarah Woolner, Yousif Al-Khalifa

BRITISH SHORT FILM
ROOM 8 James W. Griffiths, Sophie Venner

THE EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
WILL POULTER

20th Screen Actors Guild Awards: i vincitori/the winners (Film)

Commento a caldo: sorprese zero... andiamo avanti... nella speranza che la cerimonia degli Oscar non sia altrettanto prevedibile.

Firsthand comment: no surprises here... moving on... I'm worried the Oscars will turn out to be a real snoozefest.

Best Ensemble Cast (Cast): American Hustle

Best Leading Actress (Attrice protagonista): Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine

Best Leading Actor (Attore protagonista): Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club

Best Supporting Actress (Attrice non protagonista): Lupita Nyong'o - 12 Years a Slave

Best Supporting Actor (Attore non protagonista): Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club

86th Academy Awards nominees/ I candidati agli Oscar 2014

Best Actor in a Leading Role (Attore protagonista)
Christian Bale - American Hustle
Bruce Dern - Nebraska
Leonardo Di Caprio - The Wolf of Wall Street
Chiwetel Ejiofor - 12 Years a Slave
Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club

Best Actress in a Leading Role (Attrice protagonista)
Amy Adams - American Hustle
Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock - Gravity
Judi Dench - Philomena
Meryl Streep - August: Osage County

Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Attore non protagonista)
Barkhad Abdi - Captain Phillips
Bradley Cooper - American Hustle
Michael Fassbender - 12 Years a Slave
Jonah Hill - The Wolf of Wall Street
Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club

Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Attrice non protegonista)
Sally Hawkins - Blue Jasmine
Jennifer Lawrence - American Hustle
Lupita Nyong'o -  12 Years a Slave
Julia Roberts - August: Osage County
June Squibb - Nebraska

Best Director (Regista)
David O. Russell - American Hustle
Alfonso Cuarón - Gravity
Alexander Payne - Nebraska
Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave
Martin Scorsese - The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Foreign Language Motion Picture (Film straniero)
Broken Circle Breakdown (Belgium)
The Great Beauty (Italy)
The Hunt (Denmark)
The Missing Picture (Cambodia)
Omar (Palestine)

Best Motion Picture (Film)
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Nebraska
Philomena
12 Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Animated Feature Film (Film d'animazione)
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Ernest & Celestine
Frozen
The Wind Rises

Best Original Screenplay (Sceneggiatura originale)
American Hustle - Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell
Blue Jasmine - Woody Allen
Dallas Buyers Club - Craig Borten, Melissa Wallack
Her - Spike Jonze
Nebraska - Bob Nelson

Best Adapted Screenplay (Sceneggiatura non originale)
Before Midnight - Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
Captain Phillips - Billy Ray
Philomena - Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope
12 Years a Slave - John Ridley
The Wolf of Wall Street - Terence Winter

Best Original Score (Colonna sonora)
The Book Thief - John Williams
Gravity - Steven Price
Her - William Butler and Owen Pallett
Philomena -  Alexandre Desplat
Saving Mr. Banks - Thomas Newman

Best Original Song (Canzone)
Alone Yet Not Alone (id.)
Happy (Despicable Me 2)
Let It Go (Frozen)
The Moon Song (Her)
Ordinary Love (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom)

Best Cinematography (Fotografia)
The Grandmaster
Gravity
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
Prisoners

Best Film Editing (Montaggio)
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
12 Years a Slave

The rest of the nominees here/ gli altri candidati a questo link: Oscar nominees PDF

Golden Globes 2014: i vincitori

Jared Leto, Miglior attore non protagonista per Dallas Buyers Club

Ne ho indovinati nove su quattordici. Potevo fare di meglio. E voi?


DRAMA

Winner: 12 Years a Slave

Nominees: 12 Years a Slave; Captain Phillips; Gravity; Philomena; Rush


MUSICAL OR COMEDY

Winner: American Hustle

Nominees: American Hustle; Her; Inside Llewyn Davis; Nebraska; The Wolf of Wall Street


ACTOR IN A DRAMA

Winner: Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club as Ron Woodroof)

Nominees: Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave as Solomon Northup); Idris Elba (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom as Nelson Mandela); Tom Hanks (Captain Phillips as Captain Richard Phillips); Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club as Ron Woodroof); Robert Redford (All Is Lost as Our Man)


ACTRESS IN A DRAMA

Winner: Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine as Jasmine Francis)

Nominees: Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine as Jasmine Francis); Sandra Bullock (Gravity as Dr. Ryan Stone); Judi Dench (Philomena as Philomena Lee); Emma Thompson (Saving Mr. Banks as P. L. Travers); Kate Winslet (Labor Day as Adele Wheeler)


ACTOR IN A MUSICAL OR COMEDY

Winner: Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street as Jordan Belfort)

Nominees: Christian Bale (American Hustle as Irving Rosenfeld); Bruce Dern (Nebraska as Woody Grant); Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street as Jordan Belfort); Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis as Llewyn Davis); Joaquin Phoenix (Her as Theodore Twombly)



ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL OR COMEDY

Winner: Amy Adams (American Hustle as Sydney Prosser)

Nominees: Amy Adams (American Hustle as Sydney Prosser); Julie Delpy (Before Midnight as Céline Wallace); Greta Gerwig (Frances Ha as Frances Halladay); Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Enough Said as Eva); Meryl Streep (August: Osage County as Violet Weston)


SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A DRAMA, MUSICAL OR COMEDY

Winner: Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club as Rayon)

Nominees: Barkhad Abdi (Captain Phillips as Abduwali Muse); Daniel Brühl (Rush as Niki Lauda); Bradley Cooper (American Hustle as Richie DiMaso); Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave as Edwin Epps); Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club as Rayon)


SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A DRAMA, MUSICAL OR COMEDY

Winner: Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle as Rosalyn Rosenfeld)

Nominees: Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine as Ginger); Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle as Rosalyn Rosenfeld); Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave as Patsey); Julia Roberts (August: Osage County as Barbara Weston-Fordham); June Squibb (Nebraska as Kate Grant)


DIRECTOR

Winner: Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity)

Nominees: Alfonso Cuarón (Gravity); Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips); Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave); Alexander Payne (Nebraska); David O. Russell (American Hustle)


SCREENPLAY

Winner: Spike Jonze (Her)

Nominees: Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope (Philomena); Spike Jonze (Her); Bob Nelson (Nebraska); John Ridley (12 Years a Slave); Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell (American Hustle)


ORIGINAL SCORE

Winner: Alex Ebert (All Is Lost)

Nominees: Alex Ebert (All Is Lost); Alex Heffes (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom); Steven Price (Gravity); John Williams (The Book Thief); Hans Zimmer (12 Years a Slave)


ORIGINAL SONG

Winner: Ordinary Love by U2 and Danger Mouse (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom)

Nominees: Atlas by Coldplay (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire); Let It Go by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (Frozen); Ordinary Love by U2 and Danger Mouse (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom); Please Mr. Kennedy by Ed Rush, George Cromarty, T Bone Burnett, Justin Timberlake, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (Inside Llewyn Davis); Sweeter Than Fiction by Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff (One Chance)


ANIMATED FILM

Winner: Frozen

Nominees: The Croods; Despicable Me 2; Frozen


FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Winner: The Great Beauty

Nominees: Blue Is the Warmest Color; The Great Beauty; The Hunt; The Past; The Wind Rises

La stagione dei premi 2014: film drammatici

Gravity di A. Cuarón

Molto difficile rendere ad altri l'idea di un film come questo. Io l'ho visto con altre due persone e la reazione di tutti è stata molto forte: c'è chi durante i titoli di coda è stato immobile ed in silenzio, c'è chi è riuscito a proferire qualche esclamazione sbalordita e poi ci sono io, che mi sentivo fisicamente male, come avessi passato un'ora e mezzo - questa la durata, sia effettiva che nell'ambito della narrazione - insieme a Sandra Bullock, avendo sopportato prove fisiche al di là dell'umano. Forse è perché lo stile registico di Cuarón quasi supera l'estremo realismo proprio di un documentario, facendo sì che lo spettatore si senta in tutto e per tutto impotente e al contempo addentro alle vicende dei personaggi. Ciò non significa tuttavia che questo film sia privo dei linguaggi propri del cinema, anzi! Che si tratti della fotografia o delle interpretazioni, degli effetti visivi o della sceneggiatura, questo film è un gioiello, non raffinato bensì straziante nella sua immediatezza. Uno degli aspetti più interessanti - sicuramente essenziale per la riuscita del film - è costituito dalla spiritualità sui generis che pervade tutta la trama: non voglio rivelare alcunché perché ve ne accorgerete man mano, dico solo che è questa peculiare dimensione che dona profondità alla storia e fa entrare il film sottopelle. 

Gli altri candidati: 12 Years a Slave
                           Captain Phillips
                           Philomena
                           Rush

Golden Globes 2014: Miglior film d'animazione. Il vincitore

Frozen - Il regno di ghiaccio, di C. Buck e J. Lee

Se la gelida regina di Hans Christian Andersen era una figura minacciosa e ieratica, non a caso inserita in una fiaba dark con cui il Tim Burton dei tempi d'oro avrebbe fatto faville, in questo superlativo adattamento la regina non è un personaggio negativo, bensì una giovane donna dotata di poteri al di là della propria comprensione, che la costringono a vivere segregata dal mondo esterno. Di per sé questa idea sarebbe già abbastanza per costruirci sopra un film intero, ma il cuore pulsante della storia è rappresentato dal complesso rapporto che lega due sorelle e, sorprendentemente, non è il personaggio da tutti conosciuto il protagonista, per così dire, "operativo" della storia, bensì la sorella minore, priva di poteri magici e quindi più aperta verso il mondo. Con una sceneggiatura che oscilla al contempo tra i classici della Disney, le brillanti commedie della Pixar e una concezione assolutamente originale e profonda del genere d'animazione - segnatamente, del nuovo modello rappresentato dai personaggi femminili che lo popolano rispetto agli stereotipi del passato, questo film è magistralmente coinvolgente per tutte le età, con una trame colma di sorprese e personaggi simpaticissimi, senza contare che nella versione originale il ritorno alla musicalità d'antan è assistito da vere e proprie star di Broadway. 

Gli altri nominati sono: The Croods
                                  Despicable Me 2

British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) 2014: Nominations/ Candidature

GRAVITY by A. Cuarón: 11 BAFTA Nominations

BEST FILM
12 YEARS A SLAVE Anthony Katagas, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen
AMERICAN HUSTLE Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison, Jonathan Gordon
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca
GRAVITY Alfonso Cuarón, David Heyman
PHILOMENA Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan, Tracey Seaward

DIRECTOR
12 YEARS A SLAVE Steve McQueen
AMERICAN HUSTLE David O. Russell
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Paul Greengrass
GRAVITY Alfonso Cuarón
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET Martin Scorsese

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
AMERICAN HUSTLE Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell
BLUE JASMINE Woody Allen
GRAVITY Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
NEBRASKA Bob Nelson

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
12 YEARS A SLAVE John Ridley
BEHIND THE CANDELABRA Richard LaGravenese
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Billy Ray
PHILOMENA Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET Terence Winter

LEADING ACTOR
BRUCE DERN Nebraska
CHIWETEL EJIOFOR 12 Years a Slave
CHRISTIAN BALE American Hustle
LEONARDO DICAPRIO The Wolf of Wall Street
TOM HANKS Captain Phillips

LEADING ACTRESS
AMY ADAMS American Hustle
CATE BLANCHETT Blue Jasmine
EMMA THOMPSON Saving Mr. Banks
JUDI DENCH Philomena
SANDRA BULLOCK Gravity

SUPPORTING ACTOR
BARKHAD ABDI Captain Phillips
BRADLEY COOPER American Hustle
DANIEL BRÜHL Rush
MATT DAMON Behind the Candelabra
MICHAEL FASSBENDER 12 Years a Slave

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
JENNIFER LAWRENCE American Hustle
JULIA ROBERTS August: Osage County
LUPITA NYONG’O 12 Years a Slave
OPRAH WINFREY The Butler
SALLY HAWKINS Blue Jasmine

ORIGINAL MUSIC
12 YEARS A SLAVE Hans Zimmer
THE BOOK THIEF John Williams
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Henry Jackman
GRAVITY Steven Price
SAVING MR. BANKS Thomas Newman

CINEMATOGRAPHY
12 YEARS A SLAVE Sean Bobbitt
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Barry Ackroyd
GRAVITY Emmanuel Lubezki
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS Bruno Delbonnel
NEBRASKA Phedon Papamichael

EDITING
12 YEARS A SLAVE Joe Walker
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Christopher Rouse
GRAVITY Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger
RUSH Dan Hanley, Mike Hill
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET Thelma Schoonmaker

PRODUCTION DESIGN
12 YEARS A SLAVE Adam Stockhausen, Alice Baker
AMERICAN HUSTLE Judy Becker, Heather Loeffler
BEHIND THE CANDELABRA Howard Cummings
GRAVITY Andy Nicholson, Rosie Goodwin, Joanne Woodlard
THE GREAT GATSBY Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn

COSTUME DESIGN
AMERICAN HUSTLE Michael Wilkinson
BEHIND THE CANDELABRA Ellen Mirojnick
THE GREAT GATSBY Catherine Martin
THE INVISIBLE WOMAN Michael O’Connor
SAVING MR. BANKS Daniel Orlandi

MAKE UP & HAIR
AMERICAN HUSTLE Evelyne Noraz, Lori McCoy-Bell
BEHIND THE CANDELABRA Kate Biscoe, Marie Larkin
THE BUTLER Debra Denson, Beverly Jo Pryor, Candace Neal
THE GREAT GATSBY Maurizio Silvi, Kerry Warn
THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG Peter Swords King, Richard Taylor, Rick Findlater

SOUND
ALL IS LOST Richard Hymns, Steve Boeddeker, Brandon Proctor, Micah Bloomberg, Gillian Arthur
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith, Chris Munro, Oliver Tarney
GRAVITY Glenn Freemantle, Skip Lievsay, Christopher Benstead, Niv Adiri, Chris Munro
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS Peter F. Kurland, Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff
RUSH Danny Hambrook, Martin Steyer, Stefan Korte, Markus Stemler, Frank Kruse

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
GRAVITY Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk, Neil Corbould, Nikki Penny
THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, Eric Reynolds
IRON MAN 3 Bryan Grill, Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Dan Sudick
PACIFIC RIM Hal Hickel, John Knoll, Lindy De Quattro, Nigel Sumner
STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS Ben Grossmann, Burt Dalton, Patrick Tubach, Roger Guyett

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
THE ACT OF KILLING Joshua Oppenheimer, Signe Byrge Sorensen
BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR Abdellatif Kechiche, Brahim Chioua, Vincent Maraval
THE GREAT BEAUTY Paolo Sorrentino, Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima
METRO MANILA Sean Ellis, Mathilde Charpentier
WADJDA Haifaa Al-Mansour, Gerhard Meixner, Roman Paul

DOCUMENTARY
THE ACT OF KILLING Joshua Oppenheimer
THE ARMSTRONG LIE Alex Gibney
BLACKFISH Gabriela Cowperthwaite
TIM’S VERMEER Teller, Penn Jillette, Farley Ziegler
WE STEAL SECRETS: THE STORY OF WIKILEAKS Alex Gibney

ANIMATED FILM
DESPICABLE ME 2 Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin
FROZEN Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
MONSTERS UNIVERSITY Dan Scanlon

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
GRAVITY Alfonso Cuaron, David Heyman, Jonas Cuaron
MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM Justin Chadwick, Anant Singh, David M. Thompson, William Nicholson
PHILOMENA Stephen Frears, Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan, Tracey Seaward, Jeff Pope
RUSH Ron Howard, Andrew Eaton, Peter Morgan
SAVING MR. BANKS John Lee Hancock, Alison Owen, Ian Collie, Philip Steuer, Kelly Marcel, Sue Smith
THE SELFISH GIANT: Clio Barnard, Tracy O’Riordan

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
COLIN CARBERRY (Writer), GLENN PATTERSON (Writer) Good Vibrations
KELLY MARCEL (Writer) Saving Mr. Banks
KIERAN EVANS (Director/Writer) Kelly + Victor
PAUL WRIGHT (Director/Writer), POLLY STOKES (Producer) For Those in Peril
SCOTT GRAHAM (Director/Writer) Shell

BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
EVERYTHING I CAN SEE FROM HERE Bjorn-Erik Aschim, Friederike Nicolaus, Sam Taylor
I AM TOM MOODY Ainslie Henderson
SLEEPING WITH THE FISHES James Walker, Sarah Woolner, Yousif Al-Khalifa

BRITISH SHORT FILM
ISLAND QUEEN Ben Mallaby, Nat Luurtsema
KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES Megan Rubens, Michael Pearce, Selina Lim
ORBIT EVER AFTER Chee-Lan Chan, Jamie Stone, Len Rowles
ROOM 8 James W. Griffiths, Sophie Venner
SEA VIEW Anna Duffield, Jane Linfoot

THE EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
DANE DEHAAN
GEORGE MACKAY
LUPITA NYONG’O
WILL POULTER
LEA SEYDOUX