The BAFTAs were just announced! I didn't get to watch them, unfortunately, but still gotta love seeing what might be happening as we travel the road to the Oscars. I have a previous post listing nominees, but this post includes the winners. As always, the winners are bolded!
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Philomena - Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope
12 Years a Slave - John Ridley
Behind the Candelabra - Richard LaGravenese
Captain Phillips - Billy Ray
The Wolf of Wall Street - Terence Winter
ANIMATED FILM
Frozen - Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
Despicable Me 2 - Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin
Monsters University - Dan Scanlon
BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION
Sleeping With the Fishes - James Walker, Sarah Woolner, Yousif Al-Khalifa
Everything I Can See From Here - Bjorn-Erik Aschim, Friederike Nicolaus, Sam Taylor
I Am Tom Moody - Ainslie Henderson
BRITISH SHORT FILM
Room 8 - James W. Griffiths, Sophie Venner
Island Queen - Ben Mallaby, Nat Luurtsema, Emma Hughes
Keeping Up With the Joneses - Megan Rubens, Michael Pearce, Selina Lim
Orbit Ever After - Chee-Lan Chan, Jamie Stone, Len Rowles
Sea View - Anna Duffield, Jane Linfoot
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Gravity - Emmanuel Lubezki
12 Years a Slave - Sean Bobbitt
Captain Phillips - Barry Ackroyd
Inside Llewyn Davis - Bruno Delbonnel
Nebraska - Phedon Papamichael
COSTUME DESIGN
The Great Gatsby - Catherine Martin
American Hustle - Michael Wilkinson
Behind the Candelabra - Ellen Mirojnick
The Invisible Woman - Michael O'Connor
Saving Mr Banks - Daniel Orlandi
DIRECTOR
Alfonso Cuaron - Gravity
Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave
David O. Russell - American Hustle
Paul Greengrass - Captain Phillips
Martin Scorsese - The Wolf of Wall Street
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
EE RISING STAR
Will Poulter
Dane DeHaan
George MacKay
Lupita Nyong'o
Lea Seydoux
EDITING
Rush - Dan Hanley, Mike Hill
12 Years a Slave - Joe Walker
Captain Phillips - Christopher Rouse
Gravity - Alfonso Cuaron, Mark Sanger
The Wolf of Wall Street - Thelma Schoonmaker
FELLOWSHIP
Dame Helen Mirren
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 Cuaron, David Heyman
Philomena - Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan, Tracey Seaward
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
The Great Beauty - Paolo Sorrentino, Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima
The Act of Killing - Joshua Oppenheimer, Signe Byrge Sorenson
Blue Is the Warmest Colour - Abdellatif Kechiche, Brahim Chioua, Vincent Maraval
Metro Manila - Sean Ellis, Mathilde Charpentier
Wadjda - Haifaa Al-Mansour, Gerhard Meixner, Roman Paul
LEADING ACTOR
Chiwetel Ejiofor - 12 Years a Slave
Bruce Dern - Nebraska
Christian Bale - American Hustle
Tom Hanks - Captain Phillips
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Wolf of Wall Street
LEADING ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine
Amy Adams - American Hustle
Emma Thompson - Saving Mr Banks
Judi Dench - Philomena
Sandra Bullock - Gravity
MAKE-UP AND HAIR
American Hustle - Evelyne Noraz, Lori McCoy-Bell, Kathrine Gordon
Behind the Candelabra - Kate Biscoe, Marie Larkin
The Butler - Debra Denson, Candace Neal, Robert Stevenson, Matthew Mungle
The Great Gatsby - Maurizio Silvi, Kerry Warn
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Peter Swords King, Richard Taylor, Rick Findlater
ORIGINAL FILM MUSIC
Gravity - Steven Price
12 Years a Slave - Hans Zimmer
The Book Thief - John Williams
Captain Phillips - Henry Jackman
Saving Mr Banks - Thomas Newman
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
American Hustle - Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell
Blue Jasmine - Woody Allen
Gravity - Alfonso Cuaron, Jonas Cuaron
Inside Llewyn Davis - Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Nebraska - Bob Nelson
OUTSTANDING BRITISH CONTRIBUTION TO CINEMA
Peter Greenaway
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
Kieran Evans - Kelly & Victor
Colin Carberry, Glenn Patterson - Good Vibrations
Kelly Marcel - Saving Mr Banks
Paul Wright, Polly Stokes - For Those In Peril
Scott Graham - Shell
PRODUCTION DESIGN
The Great Gatsby - Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn
12 Years a Slave - Adam Stockhausen, Alice Baker
American Hustle - Judy Becker, Heather Loeffler
Behind the Candelabra - Howard Cummings, Barbara Munch-Cameron
Gravity - Andy Nicholson, Rosie Goodwin, Joanne Woollard
SOUND
Gravity - Glenn Freemantle, Skip Lievsay, Christopher Benstead, Niv Adiri, Chris Munro
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
Inside Llewyn Davis - Peter F. Kurland, Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff, Paul Urmson
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 - Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann, Burt Dalton
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Barkhad Abdi - Captain Phillips
Bradley Cooper - American Hustle
Daniel Bruhl - 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
Sunday, February 16, 2014
Sunday, February 02, 2014
The Experience of Loss As a Fan
Today was a heavy day. First I saw DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (you may be able to expect an eventual post on that at some point, but no promises), which is not the cheeriest movie in the Oscar race. On my way home, though, I was dealt a devastating blow. I saw, via Jezebel, of all places, that Philip Seymour Hoffman had been found dead in his New York home.
I wanted to take a second, away from my multiple posts about awards shows, to reflect on experiencing loss when you're a fan.
When John Ritter died in 2003, I cried for hours. That was my first experience with a loss that, as is the view of many people, really wasn't something that should affect me. Heath Ledger's death, in 2008, was another blow, and even more devastating than John's. I walked around in a fog for the entire day. I barely heard people. I felt as if the world had shifted. When I heard Richard Griffiths had died last year, I was heartbroken, but nowhere near what I had felt when John and Heath had died. Artists have since died that I greatly admired, but I haven't felt any blow like those I felt with John and Heath - until today. With the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman, the world has again shifted.
A lot of people don't get this. I didn't know them, right? It's normal to be sad, but to be heartbroken? That's weird. I'm not related to them, I'm not a friend, I never even met them, and if they were still alive, I probably still wouldn't have met them. (Unless entirely by chance.) They're celebrities. They have no idea I exist, and wouldn't care if I did. Right?
Wrong. I think that is wrong. Obviously, I wouldn't know if they would care if I existed. That's not the reason I cared so deeply about these people. In a Tweet, Emma Woodman of Hereafter Events (more on this amazing company later in the post) said, "You connected through his art." This just struck me as the absolutely spot-on description of how I feel about these men. (And all the women I love, such as Maggie Smith. I just happen to have lost men lately.) I truly did connect through all of their art. They got to me with their talent. And they all got to me in such significantly different ways.
John Ritter was very much a father figure. I do have a father, who is amazing, there's no sob story there, but he was another figure. I watched him on 8 Simple Rules for ages, and I grew up watching him on reruns of Three's Company. Obviously, he was a father figure in terms of 8 Simple Rules. But he was also a laugh riot on Three's Company. He also seemed like such a nice man - that seems trivial. But it's still something I felt.
Heath Ledger started out as a crush, and as I grew and matured, and as his roles grew and matured, he became someone I admired and I couldn't wait to see where he would go next. (Brokeback Mountain just solidified this for me.) I am the farthest thing from a Batman fan - in terms of not being knowledgeable at all - but he was easily astounding in The Dark Knight. I went through a major evolution with Heath, and hearing of his death rocked me to the core.
Finally, today, with Philip Seymour Hoffman - it was another blow that felt like it shattered everything. I have always loved him - my primary loves were definitely Almost Famous and Capote. That man, to me, could truly do anything he set his mind to. Even in the smallest role, he dominated, and he was so smart. (I'm hating the past tense.) He was a quiet genius, and I don't think he ever got enough recognition for what he brought to the world's table.
What ties these together? I think they were all completely unexpected. It hardly matters what they died of; none of them were deaths that people saw coming. It was upsetting when Richard Harris died; I mourned him. But he had cancer, and he was quite elderly. It was expected, though still sad when it happened. But you had more capacity and more time to prepare yourself. For these men, there was no preparation. One day, I woke up, and I heard the news. It took me years to watch the last episode of 8 Simple Rules that dealt with John's character, and I couldn't stand the continuation of the series. It took me ages to watch 10 Things I Hate About You again, and I used to watch it every few months. Now, it's going to be extremely difficult to see anything with Philip. I just saw a photoset from Catching Fire that I've seen twenty times, but now it's different.
I connected with these people through their art. I feel I have that connection to them, so when it is severed, and I know I won't be seeing any of their new art, it hurts. No, I don't know them. That doesn't mean I can't feel their loss. Why should you only be able to be upset about death when you know people? With that logic, you shouldn't feel bad about people being murdered, because you didn't know them. (See how flawed that is?) Obviously, this isn't quite the same thing, but I refuse to pretend I feel nothing at the loss of these artists just because I didn't know them. I felt that connection, and it hurts, especially when it's such an incredibly shocking loss.
Hereafter Events is a company I've become fascinated with and really supportive of recently. Emma Woodman runs it (I started following her on Twitter without having any idea what her business was about when I was looking for event companies to connect with) and she plans celebrations of life. This is such an important area of the event world; who wants to plan a loved one's celebration? It's hard to get out of your head and think of the celebration aspect, and planning a funeral is incredibly difficult. (Obviously, funeral directors are the people who plan the actual funeral service; but celebrations of life are becoming huger and huger, and so important to overcome the popular perception of a loss as being incredibly depressing and nothing else.) She also runs Death Cafes, and though I haven't made it to one yet, I am so excited to attend in the future. They involve having conversations about death and erasing the perception of complete depression, and they just sound so cool. I've been thinking about working in that world, and can't wait to talk to Emma and her team more, and her reassurance that the fact that I feel this loss so keenly is fine makes me even more excited. Please check her out! Twitter
Anyway. I wanted to get some of that out. It's been running around my head all day. I feel better than I did earlier, but the loss will always be there. And I'm okay with that. I'm a fan, and I can feel loss too.
I wanted to take a second, away from my multiple posts about awards shows, to reflect on experiencing loss when you're a fan.
When John Ritter died in 2003, I cried for hours. That was my first experience with a loss that, as is the view of many people, really wasn't something that should affect me. Heath Ledger's death, in 2008, was another blow, and even more devastating than John's. I walked around in a fog for the entire day. I barely heard people. I felt as if the world had shifted. When I heard Richard Griffiths had died last year, I was heartbroken, but nowhere near what I had felt when John and Heath had died. Artists have since died that I greatly admired, but I haven't felt any blow like those I felt with John and Heath - until today. With the death of Philip Seymour Hoffman, the world has again shifted.
A lot of people don't get this. I didn't know them, right? It's normal to be sad, but to be heartbroken? That's weird. I'm not related to them, I'm not a friend, I never even met them, and if they were still alive, I probably still wouldn't have met them. (Unless entirely by chance.) They're celebrities. They have no idea I exist, and wouldn't care if I did. Right?
Wrong. I think that is wrong. Obviously, I wouldn't know if they would care if I existed. That's not the reason I cared so deeply about these people. In a Tweet, Emma Woodman of Hereafter Events (more on this amazing company later in the post) said, "You connected through his art." This just struck me as the absolutely spot-on description of how I feel about these men. (And all the women I love, such as Maggie Smith. I just happen to have lost men lately.) I truly did connect through all of their art. They got to me with their talent. And they all got to me in such significantly different ways.
John Ritter was very much a father figure. I do have a father, who is amazing, there's no sob story there, but he was another figure. I watched him on 8 Simple Rules for ages, and I grew up watching him on reruns of Three's Company. Obviously, he was a father figure in terms of 8 Simple Rules. But he was also a laugh riot on Three's Company. He also seemed like such a nice man - that seems trivial. But it's still something I felt.
Heath Ledger started out as a crush, and as I grew and matured, and as his roles grew and matured, he became someone I admired and I couldn't wait to see where he would go next. (Brokeback Mountain just solidified this for me.) I am the farthest thing from a Batman fan - in terms of not being knowledgeable at all - but he was easily astounding in The Dark Knight. I went through a major evolution with Heath, and hearing of his death rocked me to the core.
Finally, today, with Philip Seymour Hoffman - it was another blow that felt like it shattered everything. I have always loved him - my primary loves were definitely Almost Famous and Capote. That man, to me, could truly do anything he set his mind to. Even in the smallest role, he dominated, and he was so smart. (I'm hating the past tense.) He was a quiet genius, and I don't think he ever got enough recognition for what he brought to the world's table.
What ties these together? I think they were all completely unexpected. It hardly matters what they died of; none of them were deaths that people saw coming. It was upsetting when Richard Harris died; I mourned him. But he had cancer, and he was quite elderly. It was expected, though still sad when it happened. But you had more capacity and more time to prepare yourself. For these men, there was no preparation. One day, I woke up, and I heard the news. It took me years to watch the last episode of 8 Simple Rules that dealt with John's character, and I couldn't stand the continuation of the series. It took me ages to watch 10 Things I Hate About You again, and I used to watch it every few months. Now, it's going to be extremely difficult to see anything with Philip. I just saw a photoset from Catching Fire that I've seen twenty times, but now it's different.
I connected with these people through their art. I feel I have that connection to them, so when it is severed, and I know I won't be seeing any of their new art, it hurts. No, I don't know them. That doesn't mean I can't feel their loss. Why should you only be able to be upset about death when you know people? With that logic, you shouldn't feel bad about people being murdered, because you didn't know them. (See how flawed that is?) Obviously, this isn't quite the same thing, but I refuse to pretend I feel nothing at the loss of these artists just because I didn't know them. I felt that connection, and it hurts, especially when it's such an incredibly shocking loss.
Hereafter Events is a company I've become fascinated with and really supportive of recently. Emma Woodman runs it (I started following her on Twitter without having any idea what her business was about when I was looking for event companies to connect with) and she plans celebrations of life. This is such an important area of the event world; who wants to plan a loved one's celebration? It's hard to get out of your head and think of the celebration aspect, and planning a funeral is incredibly difficult. (Obviously, funeral directors are the people who plan the actual funeral service; but celebrations of life are becoming huger and huger, and so important to overcome the popular perception of a loss as being incredibly depressing and nothing else.) She also runs Death Cafes, and though I haven't made it to one yet, I am so excited to attend in the future. They involve having conversations about death and erasing the perception of complete depression, and they just sound so cool. I've been thinking about working in that world, and can't wait to talk to Emma and her team more, and her reassurance that the fact that I feel this loss so keenly is fine makes me even more excited. Please check her out! Twitter
Anyway. I wanted to get some of that out. It's been running around my head all day. I feel better than I did earlier, but the loss will always be there. And I'm okay with that. I'm a fan, and I can feel loss too.
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