I thought Steve Zahn was fabulous in Rescue Dawn but otherwise I'm inclined to agree, especially upon hearing how they changed the story (lied) to make it more dramatic.
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
Pretty quiet this year, no? WGA strike maybe? I am just not hearing any kind of film or acting buzz. Usually by now we have an idea about who will be annointed in February. Right now, beside Ellen Page, zip. I couldn't even gather a list of potential BP noms (only Juno).
For me, the only lock for Best Picture nomination is "No Country for Old Men", and then it gets a little hazy.
There's no big consensus pick for 1-2 really strong films this year, and it's going to be a free-for-all in terms of campaigning to push the winnahs over the top in the balloting.
Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton Sean Penn, Into the Wild Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” “La Vie en Rose” “Norbit” “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” “Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” “300”
American Society of Cinematographers nominations
The Assassination of Jesse James - Roger Deakins No Country for Old Men - Roger Deakins There Will Be Blood - Robert Elswit The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Janusz Kaminski Atonement - Seamus McGarvey
Best Picture - No Country for Old Men Best Directors - Joel Coen & Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men Best Actress - Julie Christie - Away From Her Best Actor - Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood Best Picture Made for Television - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Best Documentary - Sicko Best Family Film - Enchanted Best Animated Film - Ratatouille Joel Siegel Humanitarian Award - Don Cheadle Best Foreign Language Film - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Best Supporting Actress - Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone Best Supporting Actor - Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men Best Song - Falling Slowly - Once Best Composer - Jonny Greenwood - There Will Be Blood Best Comedy - Juno Best Young Actor - Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada - The Kite Runner Best Young Actress - Nikki Blonsky - Hairspray Best Screenplay - Diablo Cody - Juno Best Ensemble - Hairspray
BEST PICTURE 1. There Will Be Blood (48) – Paul Thomas Anderson [Paramount Vantage] 2. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (28) – Julian Schnabel 3. No Country for Old Men (27) – Joel and Ethan Coen BEST DIRECTOR 1, Paul Thomas Anderson (47) – There Will Be Blood [Paramount Vintage] 2. Joel and Ethan Coen (29) – No Country for Old Men 2. Julian Schnabel (29) – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly BEST ACTOR 1.Daniel Day-Lewis (66) – There Will Be Blood [Paramount Vantage] 2. Frank Langella (34) -- Starting Out in the Evening 3. Philip Seymour Hoffman (21) -- The Savages, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead BEST ACTRESS 1. Julie Christie (53) – Away from Her [Lionsgate] 2. Marion Cotillard (50) – La Vie en Rose 3. Anamaria Marinca (28) – 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR 1. Casey Affleck (37) - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford [Warner Bros.] 2. Javier Bardem (30) – No Country for Old Men 3. Philip Seymour Hoffman (29) – Charlie Wilson’s War BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS 1. Cate Blanchett (42) – I’m Not There [The Weinstein Company] 2. Amy Ryan (29) – Gone Baby Gone and Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead 3. Tilda Swinton (23) – Michael Clayton BEST SCREENPLAY 1. Tamara Jenkins (28) – The Savages [Fox Searchlight] 2. Paul Thomas Anderson (19) – There Will Be Blood 3. Ronald Harwood (17) – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY 1. There Will Be Blood (51) – Robert Elswit 2. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (40) – Janusz Kaminski 3. No Country for Old Men (33) – Roger Deakins BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM 1. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (57) – Cristian Mungiu [IFC] 2. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (42) – Julian Schnabel 3. Persepolis (18) – Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud BEST NONFICTION FILM 1. No End in Sight (43) – Charles Ferguson [Magnolia] 2. Sicko (20) – Michael Moore 3. Terror’s Advocate (18) – Barbet Schroeder
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM to “Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind” by John Gianvito
FILM HERITAGE AWARD “to Ford at Fox, a 21-disc box set from Fox Home Video.”
FILM HERITAGE AWARD “to Ross Lipman of the UCLA Film and Television Archive for the restoration of Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep and other independent films.”
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Picture: I Am Legend Transformers The Golden Compass Pirates of the Carribbean: At World's End Spider Man 3
Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Motion Picture: Ratatouille Zodiac Kite Runner We Own the Night Blades of Glory
Best Single Visual Effect of the Year Transfromers - Desert Highway Sequence Pirates of the Caribbean - Jack and Davy Duel 300 - Crazy Horse sequence Surf's Up - Riding the Visual Effects Tube Spiderman 3 - Birth of Sandman
Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Motion Picture: Spiderman3 - Sandman Waterhorse - Carusoe Pirates of the Caribbean - Davy Jones Enchanted - Pip Transformers - Optimus Prime I Am Legend - Infected Leader
Outstanding Animated Character in an animated feature: Surf's Up - Chicken Joe Shrek 3 - King Harold Beowulf - Beowulf Surf's Up - Cody Ratatouille - Collette
Outstanding effects in an animated motion picture Beowulf Shrek the Third Ratatouille - food Surf's Up Ratatouille - rapids
Outstanding Created environment in a motion picture: Sweeney Todd - the old bailey Pirates of the Caribbean - The Maelstrom zodiac - Washington and Cherry harry Potter - Hall of Prophecy Rush Hour 3 I Am Legend - Times Square Hunt
Outstanding models or miniatures in a motion picture: Pirates of the Caribbean - practical and digital ships live free or die hard - freeway sequence Transformers Harry Potter -Hogwarts Spiderman3 - building crane destruction
Outstanding Compositing Transformers Pirates Harry Potter I am Legend Waterhorse Pirates
Outstanding Special Effects in a Motion Picture Harry Potter
Only No Country for Old Men can be considered a lock at this point, the other frontrunners, in a rough order of likelyhood:
There Will be Blood Juno Atonement Into the Wild Michael Clayton Diving Bell and the Butterfly American Gangster Charlie Wilson's War Sweeney Todd Before the Devil Knows YOu're Dead Hairspray
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY JUNO Written by Diablo Cody, Fox Searchlight MICHAEL CLAYTON Written by Tony Gilroy, Warner Bros. Pictures THE SAVAGES Written by Tamara Jenkins, Fox Searchlight KNOCKED UPWritten by Judd Apatow, Universal Pictures LARS AND THE REAL GIRLWritten by Nancy Oliver, MGM
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN Screenplay by Ethan Coen & Joel Coen, Based on the Novel by Cormac McCarthy, Miramax THERE WILL BE BLOOD Screenplay by Paul Thomas Anderson, Based on the Novel Oil by Upton Sinclair, Paramount Vantage THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY Screenplay by Ronald Harwood, Based on the Book by Jean-Dominique Bauby, Miramax INTO THE WILD Screenplay by Sean Penn, Based on the Book by Jon Krakauer, Paramount Vantage ZODIAC Screenplay by James Vanderbilt, Based on the Book by Robert Graysmith, Paramount Pictures DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY THE CAMDEN 28Written by Anthony Giacchino, First Run Features NANKING Screenplay by Bill Guttentag & Dan Sturman & Elisabeth Bentley, Story by Bill Guttentag & Dan Sturman, THINKFilm NO END IN SIGHTWritten by Charles Ferguson, Magnolia Pictures THE RAPE OF EUROPA Written by Richard Berge, Nicole Newnham and Bonni Cohen, Menemsha Films SICKOWritten by Michael Moore, Lionsgate/The Weinstein Company TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE Written by Alex Gibney, THINKFilm
Cinema Audio Society Nominations for Best Sound Mixing
Motion Pictures The Bourne Ultimatum Into the Wild No Country for Old Men 300 Transformers
Television Movies and Mini-Series Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee The Company part 2 High School Musical 2 The Kill Point-Part 5 Tin Man
Television Series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - “Living Doll" Jericho - "Why We Fight” Scrubs - "My Musical The Sopranos- “The Blue Comet" 24 - "Day 6: 10:00 P.M.-11:00P.M."
Television – Non-Fiction, Variety or Music - Series or Specials A&E Rocks: "Bon Jovi” Deadliest Catch: "The Unforgiving Sea” Faces of Earth: "The Human World” Great Performances at the Met: "The Magic Flute” The War: "Episode 2- When Things Get Tough”
DVD Original Programming Bring It On: In It To Win It Doctor Strange: The Sorcerer Supreme Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society The Invincible Iron Man Species: The Awakening
Best Actor - Drama - Film Daniel Lewis - There Will Be Blood
Television Series, Drama Mad Men, AMC
Foreign Language Film The Diving Bell And The Butterfly (France, United States)
Best Picture - Comedy/Musical Sweeney Todd
Best Actor - Comedy/Musical - Film Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd
Best Director - Film Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell & The Butterfly
Actress, Musical or Comedy - Television Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Original Score - Film Dario Marianelli, Atonement
Best Actress - Drama - Film Julie Christie - Away From Her
Series, Musical or Comedy - Television Extras, HBO
Actor, Musical or Comedy - Television David Duchovny, Californication
Best Writer - Film Joel Coen and Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men Actress, Miniseries or Movie - Television Queen Latifah, Life Support Actor, Miniseries or Movie - Television Jim Broadbent, Longford
Best Supporting Actor- Film Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men
Miniseries or Movie - Television Longford, HBO
Best Actress- Comedy/Musical- Film Marion Cotillard - La vie en rose
Animation - Film Ratatouille
Actor, Drama- Television Jon Hamm, Mad Men Supporting Actress, Series, Miniseries or Movie Samantha Morton, Longford Actress, Drama - Television Glenn Close, Damages Supporting Actor, Series, Miniseries or Movie Jeremy Piven, Entourage Original Song - Film "Guaranteed" - Into The Wild Music & Lyrics By: Eddie Vedder
it was a terrible show and I greatly missed the pageantry and speeches, I also didn't like the random categories (best actor drama, best supporting actor film) where they didn't allow the clip with audio to be show just read the names over the clip. And they dropped the handful of technicals from the broadcast. shameful. And they couldn't have picked worst hosts if they tried, made me want to scream at the tv to shut the f up. And the chatter by the hosts and the cut to the EW commentators who discussed favorites and upsets during after or before the winner was announced was incredibly crass. There are going to be a lot of very pissed off people in hollywood at how sports-like that was.
And I'm still trying to figure out how Marion Cotillard was an underdog with the HFPA according to the commentators.