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I don't know if I count as one of "those other people" but I've been reading the reactions. I enjoyed the Oscars. Even though my favorite, There Will Be Blood, didn't win BD and BP, I'm a huge Coen Brothers fan so I was very happy to see them win. I was happy for Once, Tilda, Marion, The Golden...

There Will Be Blood (Period), The Golden Compass (Fantasy) and No Country For Old Men (Contemporary) won the Art Directors Guild. No Country For Old Men won the Cinema Audio Society awards.

I wasn't very excited last year. I was still hurting terribly from Brokeback Mountain's loss and though I liked most of the movies up for nominations, there wasn't anything I felt passionate about. This year's totally different. I'm passionate, nay, totally completely OBSESSED with There...

(snob alert, sorry) Agreed, but for her to win over Cotillard, Christie and Linney (I haven't seen Elizabeth myself) would be an absolute joke, just as the absurd thought of Juno winning over There Will Be Blood, No Country For Old Men, Michael Clayton or Atonement is. Page didn't even give the...

I feel the same about Boogie Nights and Magnolia (and Punch-Drunk Love too) but I also feel that way about There Will Be Blood. I've seen it 3 times and I've been itching to go back to the theater to see it again, but circumstances have conspired against it. I know I'll see it at least a few...

As mentioned earlier, it was disqualified at the last minute, even after the votes had been counted. I think it's a given that it would have been a nominee. The disqualification is outrageous and stinks of some behind-the-scenes shenanigans. All I really really REALLY wanted was for There...

I saw Cloverfield at a sneak preview last night. I'm not going to spoil the movie, but I will say that if you're the LEAST BIT sensitive to shakycam, you're going to hate this movie with the passion of a million suns. It's nothing BUT! I have no sensitivity to shakycam whatsoever. I loved...

Interesting thoughts Patrick! I don't think we know enough about Paul to be sure of that. His family was messed up. The father was a brutal weakling (he let Plainview walk all over him, but he'd beat Mary for not praying), his twin brother was a con artist posing as a evangelist, plus he lived...

Why? Personally, I really don't care what happens with anything as long as There Will Be Blood is nominated. I can even take a Best Picture loss if it loses to No Country For Old Men. Daniel Day-Lewis better not lose though. That would be the biggest blunder by the Academy since Citizen...

Just a bump to say that all the latest Guild and non-Guild awards have been updated. Me doing this is probably unnecessary, since Adam is keeping everything up-to-date himself in the other thread, but I'll keep up the tradition for the rest of this awards season.

Just a bump to say I've posted the Visual Effects Society and American Society of Cinematographers nominations. Also, tons of results have been added to the non-Guild Awards page. Guild page non-Guild page

Thanks Jose! I read that SAG members on the nominating panel didn't get screeners of Atonement until very late, and it's still in limited release, so not enough of them saw it. I was wondering, because it's shocking to me that Atonement got no nominations at all. I still think it'll get a...

UPDATE: Art Directors and Cinema Audio Society winners added. As I've done for the past 7 years, I'm keeping track of the various Guild Awards. Instead of posting results here though, I've made a web page. I've just added the first of the Guild awards, the nominations for the Screen...

I updated my Awards page with the AFI winners and the Satellite winners. The AFI Movies of the year were: Before The Devil Knows You're Dead The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Into The Wild Juno Knocked Up Michael Clayton No Country For Old Men Ratatouille The Savages There Will Be Blood

I've updated my Awards Season page with the winners from the Chicago Film Critics.

Yeah, that's a pretty big snub. I still think it will get an Oscar nomination though. I was hoping against hope that Kate Bush's song from The Golden Compass, or Sinead O'Connor's song from that Waterhorse movie would get nominated. Ah well. I've seen most of the movies that have opened...

I updated my page too, though I'll tweak some more later. ACROSS THE UNIVERSE! ACROSS THE UNIVERSE! ACROSS THE UNIVERSE! I'm so happy for Amy Ryan! She must be walking around in a daze, with this and the critics awards she's gotten. Just wait until she gets the Oscar nom!

I'm a long-lost cousin nowadays, but out of tradition, I will start a Guild thread once the SAG nominations come out the 20th. Like last year I won't put the nominations in the thread itself, but will post to say I've updated my web page. Luckily, even though the archives got munched here, I had...

Yup! And if she is nominated, and if the movie were nominated for BP, Ray and I will look like prognosticating geniuses! :laugh:

This is going to be a HUGE hit. Amy Adams is going to become a movie star with this movie. Amy Adams is going to be nominated for an Academy Award with this movie (you laugh, but just you wait and see). Amy Adams might just walk away with the Oscar with this movie (you laugh, but it...

*waves to John!* I would have come out of the woodwork soon anyway. It's almost time for my annual Guild awards thread in the Movies section. Oh man, you guys know the way to this girl's heart, that's for sure. Kate's my main musical goddess (and I discovered from being a Gabriel fan)...

:eek: Wow, someone read (and understood!) the "Happy Rhodes" portion of that? I'm in heaven! If there were a "I bow to you sir" smiley, I'd use it. :emoji_thumbsup:

We own the laserdiscs of The Whole Story and Live at the Hammersmith Odeon too. I'd much rather have DVDs. In other news, I've heard from someone who's heard the song "Lyra" and likens it to "And So Is Love" from The Red Shoes, and says that it fits the film perfectly. Good to know that it's...

I don't know whose fault it is, but Kate herself has to take some of the blame. She's become downright allergic to promotion. She barely did any in England for the release of Aerial, let alone anywhere else. Putting her videos on DVD would seem to be a very logical thing to do. It's not just...

First, for those who love Kate Bush, she's recorded a new song, "Lyra," for the ending credits of The Golden Compass. It'll be the first new Kate since 2005's Aerial. I was there opening day no matter what, but that's worth a midnight showing the night before. Fans are going a little nuts...

I moved the Guild results to a web page because it all fits on one page. This is the latest up-to-date version: suspended-in-gaffa.com/guilds They're all done now except for the Golden Reels, which don't get announced until the day before the Oscars, and the Hair and Makeup people, who...

*double-take* *looks at the date I posted the OP: December 10, 2002* Wow, how weird that my threads for Walk The Line, The Fountain and now Rabbit-Proof Fence pop up ages later. I'm glad that this film is not forgotten. Thanks for the walk down memory lane Tim!

I agree with you on these, and add... Love for the brilliant Pan's Labyrinth! Yay! The 3 Mexicans all getting something! Yay! Marie Antoinette not shut out! Yay! The Good German, The Good Shepherd, The Illusionist, The Prestige, Curse of the Golden Flower all getting some love! Yay...

Directors Guild noms are up. Thanks Nathan. I'm having a tough time this year. None of the movies I was passionate about (such as Apocalypto) are up for any major awards, so it's tedious this year to get myself to care about any of them. The different boards, the length limit of posts, and...

You're right. I understand that more now intellectually than I did at the time, but for me it was an understanding born of hindsight, not from anything I saw at the time, not from an emotional connection. That might have to do with the fact that I was already an old fart when my Harry Potter...