2014 Awards Thread

[tazber]

Posted: 12/1/14 at 4:22pm

The NY Film Critics Circle has announced their winners.

Delighted for Spall. Hoping he takes the Oscar.

Best Film
Boyhood

Best Actor
Timothy Spall, Mr. Turner

Best Actress
Marion Cotillard, The Immigrant; Two Days, One Night

Best Director
Richard Linklater, Boyhood

Best Supporting Actor
J.K. Simmons, Whiplash

Best Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette, Boyhood

Best Animated Film
The Lego Movie (dirs. Phil Lord, Christopher Miller)

Best Screenplay
The Grand Budapest Hotel (dir. Wes Anderson)

Special Award
Adrienne Mencia

Best Cinematography
Darius Khondji, The Immigrant

Best First Film
Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook




Link

Updated On: 12/1/14 at 04:22 PM

[FishermanBob]

Posted: 12/1/14 at 7:23pm

Glad to see J.K. Simmons, a criminally underrated actor is finally getting some recognition.

[Fantod]

Posted: 12/1/14 at 7:36pm

Very happy that Wes Anderson won for his best movie yet (though Rushmore and Moonrise Kingdom are both wonderful) and that The Lego Movie won for best animated movie, though there wasn't much competition aside from How to Train Your Dragon 2 which was a letdown from the first one. Updated On: 12/1/14 at 07:36 PM

[east side story]

Posted: 12/1/14 at 8:31pm

Gotham Awards are currently happening this evening as well. National Board of Review winners are announced tomorrow.

I was quite pleased by the NYFCC winners. And I am hoping that today begins a winning streak for Patricia Arquette that pulls right into the station on Oscar night. If she steamrolls through the televised awards, she's a shoe-in.

[madbrian]

Posted: 12/2/14 at 7:23am

"Glad to see J.K. Simmons, a criminally underrated actor is finally getting some recognition."

^^This^^

[tazber]

Posted: 12/2/14 at 9:15am

The Gotham winners are in the link below.

Film - Birdman
Actor - Keaton
Actress - Moore
Gotham winners

[Roscoe]

Posted: 12/2/14 at 11:24am

Glad to see Spall pick up some recognition -- he's one of the best out there, and MR. TURNER has some of his best work to date, he's entirely deserving of the Oscar which can only mean he won't get it. And Linklater's getting long overdue attention too, may it continue.

A shame that silly BIRDMAN thing is still getting attention...

Updated On: 12/2/14 at 11:24 AM

[tazber]

Posted: 12/2/14 at 12:06pm

Out of the contenders for Best Actor this year Spall definitely deserves to win.

I would also love to see Mike Leigh nominated, but that's not going to happen.

[east side story]

Posted: 12/2/14 at 2:55pm

National Board of Review Winners:
Best Film: A Most Violent Year
Best Directo: Clint Eastwood, American Sniper (What a joke.)
Best Actor: (TIE) Oscar Isaac, A Most Violent Year & Michael Keaton, Birdman
Best Actress: Julianne Moore, Still Alice
Best Supporting Actor: Edward Norton, Birdman
Best Supporting Actress: Jessica Chastain, A Most Violent Year
Top Films (in alphabetical order): American Sniper, Birdman, Boyhood, Fury, Gone Girl, The Imitation Game, Inherent Vice, The Lego Movie, Nightcrawler, Unbroken



Updated On: 12/2/14 at 02:55 PM

[trentsketch]

Posted: 12/2/14 at 3:21pm

Can I just say how happy I am that both The Babadook and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night already picked up awards this season? Neither is likely to get any mainstream awards recognition, but it's great to see such well-done horror be honored.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 12/2/14 at 3:49pm

They're still tossing awards to that Eastwood hack. Unbelievable.

[east side story]

Posted: 12/2/14 at 4:40pm

Agreed. Such a mystery to me that they still hold his work in such high regard.

[haterobics]

Posted: 12/2/14 at 5:05pm

I suppose it it slightly more honest to just criticize people outright as undeserving of praise for movies that aren't even out yet than waiting until they are released and pretending the opinion was informed by the actual movie.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 12/2/14 at 7:41pm

Good God it's been a staggeringly bad year for film.

[east side story]

Posted: 12/2/14 at 7:51pm

There are ways to see films before they are widely released.

Thanks though.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 12/2/14 at 10:01pm

If you are encouraging illegal downloads, you are part of the problem.

[east side story]

Posted: 12/2/14 at 11:33pm

Screenings and screeners, folks. They do exist.

[haterobics]

Posted: 12/2/14 at 11:45pm

Yes, but you are on a website where actual knowledge is not a prerequisite to having a strong opinion about something, and nothing you said about Eastwood was indicative of you having seen the film...

[StageManager2]

Posted: 12/3/14 at 1:44am

Just watched Still Alice this past weekend. I hope Julianne Moore doesn't win the Oscar for this. If she does, it'll just be a makeup/career win, which would be a shame. Moore deserves to win for a magnificent performance that would be listed with some of the greats. IMO, she should have won for Boogie Nights and/or Far From Heaven.

Still Alice plays like a TV Movie of the Week, and it doesn't give Moore much to do. I mean, Moore is reliable, meaning that she always tries to give it her all to every role she has, regardless of quality, but the script doesn't let her shine. The movie ends abruptly just as she's beginning to impress. If she wins, years from now people will say, "She won an Oscar for that?!"

[Roscoe]

Posted: 12/3/14 at 9:00am

You'd have a point if I'd expressed any kind of opinion about Eastwood's current film. As it is, I expressed an opinion about the way that Eastwood, one of the least interesting filmmakers in world cinema, still gets awards tossed at him on a seemingly annual basis, the way Streep gets her inevitable Oscar Nomination just for showing up.

Updated On: 12/3/14 at 09:00 AM

[haterobics]

Posted: 12/3/14 at 9:06am

But that was the point, that you can't really question Eastwood getting undue accolades for a movie you didn't see yet. I mean, I guess you can...

[Roscoe]

Posted: 12/3/14 at 9:25am

I've seen enough of Eastwood's half-assed output to be of opinion that all of his accolades are undue, and based on past experience (including the obscenely overrated UNFORGIVEN and that MILLION DOLLAR BABY thing) I think I can rest assured that this latest couple of awards (from the National Board of Review, yet) are similarly undue.

Eastwood's a hack.

Updated On: 12/3/14 at 09:25 AM

[east side story]

Posted: 12/3/14 at 10:26am

I am done talking about Eastwood.

In regards to Still Alice, I will agree with StageManager2. Even with her performance having moments of greatness, the film is quite Lifetime-y. At this point, and it is still quite early, I'm sure she will win Best Actress. She has the narrative, and I suppose it is her turn. (I'm secretly rooting for Rosamund Pike.)

[LarryD2]

Posted: 12/3/14 at 10:40am

Moore should have won for FAR FROM HEAVEN, but if she wins this year, she'd hardly be the first to receive an Oscar as a sort-of career retrospective prize.

I hope Marion Cotillard is remembered for THE IMMIGRANT. It was great to see the NYFCC give it to her.

Aside from Arquette, Streep, and Chastain, who do we think some of the viable Supporting Actress contenders are? Emma Stone? How big is Laura Dern's role in WILD?

[Roscoe]

Posted: 12/3/14 at 10:40am

Where'd you see STILL ALICE?