2004 Critics and Other Organizations Top 10 Lists (1 Viewer)

[Seth Paxton]

Are you sure that the NSFC didn't have 13 Going on 30 in there somewhere?

Cripes. I feel ill over the whole thing. Passion, F911, Dogville, I get the varying opinions on those due to subject and style, but this is just dumbfounding.

What's next, an Oscar nom to blow the Chocolat shock out of the water?

 

[Scott Weinberg]

The complete winners list for the 8th Annual OFCS Awards are as follows:

Best Picture: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Best Director: Michel Gondry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Best Actor: Paul Giamatti, Sideways

Best Actress: Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Best Supporting Actor: Thomas Haden Church, Sideways

Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett, The Aviator

Best Original Screenplay: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Screenplay by Charlie Kaufman, Story by Charlie Kaufman and Michel Gondry and Pierre Bismuth

Best Adapted Screenplay: Sideways, Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, based on the novel by Rex Pickett

Best Cinematography: Hero, Christopher Doyle

Best Editing: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Valdís Óskarsdóttir

Best Score: The Incredibles, Michael Giacchino

Best Documentary: Fahrenheit 9/11

Best Foreign-Language Film: Hero (China)

Best Animated Feature: The Incredibles

Breakthrough Filmmaker: Zach Braff, Garden State

Breakthrough Performance: Catalina Sandrino Moreno, Maria Full of Grace

 

[Edwin Pereyra]

Scott, are OFCS members automatically members also of the National Society of Film Critics? Or are there separate standards to belong in both? If so, what are they?

I was just trying to reconcile each organization's Best Picture pick and was wondering. Thanks.

~Edwin

 

[teapot2001]

We all know that early releases tend to get overlooked, but here's one case of why one movie got overlooked. In Roger Ebert's Answer Man, he admits that Spartan, which received four stars, didn't make his top-ten list nor his honorable-mention list, because his search for four-star movies didn't return Spartan.

~T

 

[Edwin Pereyra]

Found the answer. I guess one has to write for a national publication to belong to the National Society of Film Critics.

~Edwin

 

[Edwin Pereyra]

THE TOP 30

Current Tally with over 60 organizations and individual critics participating: Films With Most Mentions - 1st paren.; #1 Mentions - 2nd paren.

1. Sideways (62)(24-#1)
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (48)(8-#1)
3. Million Dollar Baby (41)(9-#1)
4. Incredibles, The (36)(1-#1)
5. Before Sunset (33)(5-#1)
6. Aviator, The (30)(6-#1)
7. Maria Full Of Grace (23)(2-#1)
8. House of Flying Daggers (21)(4-#1)
....Kinsey (21)
10. Vera Drake (19)(2-#1)

11. Collateral (18)
12. Very Long Engagement, A (17)
13. Bad Education (15)(2-#1)
.....Finding Neverland (15)(2-#1)
.....Hotel Rwanda (15)(1-#1)
16. Hero (14)(3-#1)
.....Ray (14)(2-#1)
.....Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (14)(1-#1)
19. Spider-Man 2 (13)
20. Motorcycle Diaries, The (12)(1-#1)
.....Fahrenheit 9/11 (12)

22. Moolaade (11)
23. Dogville (9) (1-#1)
.....Goodbye Dragon Inn (9)
25. Tarnation (7) (1-#1)
.....Notre Musique (7)
27. Big Red One, The - The Restoration (6)(1-#1)
.....Baadasssss! (6)
.....Closer (6)
.....Sea Inside, The (6)

~Edwin

 

[Seth Paxton]

Even more proof that Aviator will win the Oscar. It will then result in endless complaints that Sideways, Eternal, and M$B were all robbed. The critics got it right, the Academy is clueless.

Me, I'll be happy with any of them winning and won't see such a thing as "yet another example of why the Academy is stupid".

 

[teapot2001]

Aviator is ranked sixth, how is that proof it'll win the Oscar?

I've noticed that non-critics have gone out of their way to mention how good Sideways and Million Dollar Baby are. You don't really hear much about Aviator (although I think it's better than those two).

~T

 

[Holadem]

While Sideways and M$B may be better movies (I certainly enjoyed Sideways more than the Aviator, haven't seen M$B), The Aviator just fits the mold better for an Oscar winner: long, period piece, true story, somewhat historically relevant (not just any history, but some of of Hollywood's), A-list actors, A-list director...

I think Sideways would have better chances at a win if it featured at least one A-list actor. As it is, methinks it is condemned to remain a critical darling.

No?

EDIT: Oh, it will be a cold day in hell before Eternal Sunshine wins best picture. If it's nominated at all.

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H

 

[Edwin Pereyra]

OT. At the National Board Of Review Awards dinner, Republican Clint Eastwood quipped, "Michael Moore and I actually have a lot in common - we both appreciate living in a country where there's free expression."

Then he said, "But, Michael, if you ever show up at my front door with a camera - I'll kill you." That provoked a lot of laughter from the crowd.

But apparently, he was serious when he further said, "I mean it."



~Edwin

 

[Edwin Pereyra]

You said it. As if the Oscars is the final authority to what each year's Best Picture should be.

~Edwin

 

[Holadem]

ROTK swept last year's award - I am Oscar's bitch forever

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H

 

[Edwin Pereyra]

Actually, people who bitch that the Academy doesn't get the Best Picture right is because it didn't pick their personal choice for the top prize. But when they do pick the same film, then they are happy and they sing praises to the Academy.



~Edwin