Showing posts with label academy awards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label academy awards. Show all posts

Monday, February 27, 2017

The 89th Annual Academy Awards - WINNERS

I just decided to do a whole new post with the winners at the Oscars last night - mostly because I'm too lazy to deal with the weird formatting. (Although I'm sure it'll still make me angry - it likes to just do things by itself, no matter how many times I fix spacing!)

Needless to say, these Oscars were VERY memorable. I went to the viewing at a local cinema here - love that that's an option and that it's free! (Only costs a canned food donation. princesscinemas.com) That ending - oh, that ending. Live TV is both the best and the worst. I surprisingly didn't hate Jimmy Kimmel as a host - that running feud with Matt Damon shockingly never got old! (Although why everyone hates on We Bought a Zoo so hard is beyond me; I am a Cameron Crowe fangirl, after all.)

This season also brought out a different side of my Twitter feed; I had no idea people I followed absolutely detested La La Land. I thought it was beautifully done but of course, it doesn't compare to films of a different nature, such as Moonlight (yes, I agree that it rightfully won over La La Land). I did unfollow one account because of the absolute hatred they spewed about the film; it was overwhelming. And I don't usually unfollow for that reason, but there was no justification for it that I could find.

Anyway! On we go!

BEST PICTURE

Arrival
Fences
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water

Hidden Figures
La La Land
Lion
Manchester By the Sea
Moonlight

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

Casey Affleck for Manchester By the Sea
Andrew Garfield for Hacksaw Ridge
Ryan Gosling for La La Land
Viggo Mortenson for Captain Fantastic
Denzel Washington for Fences

Brie Larson's complete lack of emotion, and her smile being wiped off her face when she announced, says it all. To give one of the highest acting honours to someone accused of many, many instances of sexual harassment, abuse and intimidation is disgusting. I don't even want to watch Manchester By the Sea, and I swore out loud when this person's name was announced. It's yet another instance of Hollywood pretending everything is fine and turning a blind eye, much the same as Johnny Depp. Denzel should have won, but Ryan was also incredible. Anyone but that choice.

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

Isabelle Huppert for Elle
Ruth Negga for Loving
Natalie Portman for Jackie
Emma Stone for La La Land
Meryl Streep for Florence Foster Jenkins

MY LADY. I saw this coming ten miles away and as an Emma Stone fan, I was here for it. (Again, wasn't QUITE prepared for the hate on my timelines but there you have it.) And her moment with Brie Larson backstage was just incredible; check out Brie's Instagram to see it.

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Mahershala Ali for Moonlight
Jeff Bridges for Hell or High Water
Lucas Hedges for Manchester By the Sea
Dev Patel for Lion
Michael Shannon for Nocturnal Animals

From all I've heard, insanely well deserved. And the first Muslim actor ever to win an Academy Award.

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Viola Davis for Fences
Naomie Harris for Moonlight
Nicole Kidman for Lion
Octavia Spencer for Hidden Figures
Michelle Williams for Manchester By the Sea

Another titan getting  her well deserved award.

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

Kubo and the Two Strings
Moana
My Life As a Zucchini
The Red Turtle
Zootopia

I did thoroughly enjoy Zootopia, but from what I've heard, it shouldn't have won over Moana, and we have to consider the racial aspects there. Same with Kubo.

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Bradford Young for Arrival
Linus Sandgren for La La Land
Greig Fraser for Lion
James Laxton for Moonlight
Rodrigo Prieto for Silence

COSTUME DESIGN

Johanna Johnston for Allied
Colleen Atwood for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Consolata Boyle for Florence Foster Jenkins
Madeline Fontaine for Jackie
Mary Zaphres for La La Land

Never bet against Colleen Atwood. And it's the Harry Potter franchise's first Oscar!

DIRECTING

Denis Villeneuve for Arrival
Mel Gibson for Hacksaw Ridge
Damien Chazelle for La La Land
Kenneth Lonergan for Manchester By the Sea
Barry Jenkins for Moonlight

Not complaining, again, I liked La La Land. I'm just thoroughly relieved Mel Gibson didn't win; even he said he wouldn't win. I was rooting for Damien or Barry.

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Fire at Sea
I Am Not Your Negro
Life, Animated
O.J.: Made in America
13th

DOCUMENTARY SHORT

Extremis
4.1 Miles
Joe's Violin
Watani: My Homeland
The White Helmets

FILM EDTING

Joe Walker for Arrival
John Gilbert for Hacksaw Ridge
Jake Roberts for Hell or High Water
Tom Cross for La La Land
Nat Sanders and Joi McMillon for Moonlight

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Land of Mine - Denmark
A Man Called Ove - Sweden
The Salesman - Iran 
Tanna - Australia
Toni Erdmann - Germany

An inspiring statement from this winner, who stayed home in solidarity with those in the six other countries besides his impacted by Trump's fucking ridiculous ban.

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

Eva von Bahr and Love Larson for A Man Called Ove
Joel Harlow and Richard Alonzo for Star Trek Beyond
Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini and Christopher Nelson for Suicide Squad

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)

Mica Levi - Jackie
Justin Hurwitz - La La Land
Dustin O'Halloran and Hauschka - Lion
Nicholas Britell - Moonlight
Thomas Newman - Passengers

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)

"Audition (The Fools Who Dream)" from La La Land - Music by Justin Hurwitz; Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
"Can't Stop the Feeling" from Trolls - Music and Lyric by Justin Timberlake, Max Martin and Karl Johan Schuster
"City of Stars" from La La Land - Music by Justin Hurwitz; Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
"The Empty Chair" from Jim: The James Foley Story - Music and Lyric by J. Ralph and Sting
"How Far I'll Go" from Moana - Music and Lyric by Lin-Manuel Miranda

YOU DIDN'T LET MY MAN EGOT BECAUSE OF THAT SONG? The only other song that would have softened the blow would have been "Audition" - "City of Stars" isn't that good. (Also why they didn't let Emma Stone perform "Audition" at least is beyond me; John Legend completely changed the tone. He's incredible, don't get me wrong, but Emma made me cry singing that song. All those people saying she can't sing are insane, also; she's unconventional, and it isn't exactly a trained Broadway voice, but she killed it.)

PRODUCTION DESIGN

Arrival - Patrice Vermette (Production Design) and Paul Hotte (Set Decoration)
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - Stuart Craig (Production Design) and Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration)
Hail, Caesar! - Jess Gonchor (Production Design) and Nancy Haigh (Set Decoration)
La La Land - David Wasco (Production Design) and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco (Set Decoration)
Passengers - Guy Hendrix Dyas (Production Design) and Gene Serdena (Set Decoration)

I would have thought/hoped this went to Fantastic Beasts so this was a bit of a surprise to me. I get it upon reflection, though.

SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)

Blind Vaysha
Borrowed Time
Pear Cider and Cigarettes
Pearl
Piper

SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)

Ennemis Interieurs
La Femme et le TGV
Silent Nights
Sing
Timecode

SOUND EDITING

Sylvain Bellemare for Arrival
Wylie Stateman and Renee Tondelli for Deepwater Horizon
Robert Mackenzie and Andy Wright for Hacksaw Ridge
Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan for La La Land
Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman for Sully

SOUND MIXING

Bernard Gariepy Strobl and Claudia La Haye for Arrival
Kevin O'Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie and Peter Grace for Hacksaw Ridge
Andy Nelson, Ai-Ling Lee and Steve A. Morrow for La La Land
David Parker, Christopher Scarabosio and Stuart Wilson for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Mac Ruth for 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

VISUAL EFFECTS

Craig Hammack, Jason Snell, Jason Billington and Burt Dalton for Deepwater Horizon
Stephane Ceretti, Richard Bluff, Vincent Cirelli and Paul Corbould for Doctor Strange
Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones, and Don Lemmon for The Jungle Book
Steve Emerson, Oliver Jones, Brian McLean and Brad Schiff for Kubo and the Two Strings
John Knoll, Mohen Leo, Hal Hickel and Neil Corbould for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)

Arrival  - Eric Heisserer
Fences - August Wilson
Hidden Figures - Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi
Lion - Luke Davies
Moonlight - Barry Jenkins (Screenplay) and Tarell Alvin McCraney (Story)

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)

Hell or High Water - Taylor Sheridan
La La Land - Damien Chazelle
The Lobster - Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou
Manchester By the Sea - Kenneth Lonergan
20th Century Women - Mike Mills

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

The 89th Annual Academy Awards - Nominations

Here they are!! Nominations for the 2017 Oscars are IN. Not surprised about some of them, but oh so excited. I'm going to be attending another event this year, and will probably be livetweeting, but will do an updated post the next day or so. (Follow @DanaDeMille)

BEST PICTURE

Arrival
Fences
Hacksaw Ridge
Hell or High Water
Hidden Figures
La La Land
Lion
Manchester By the Sea
Moonlight


ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

Casey Affleck for Manchester By the Sea
Andrew Garfield for Hacksaw RidgeRyan Gosling for La La Land
Viggo Mortenson for Captain Fantastic
Denzel Washington for Fences

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

Isabelle Huppert for Elle
Ruth Negga for LovingNatalie Portman for JackieEmma Stone for La La Land
Meryl Streep for Florence Foster Jenkins

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Mahershala Ali for MoonlightJeff Bridges for Hell or High Water
Lucas Hedges for Manchester By the Sea
Dev Patel for LionMichael Shannon for Nocturnal Animals

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Viola Davis for Fences
Naomie Harris for Moonlight
Nicole Kidman for Lion
Octavia Spencer for Hidden FiguresMichelle Williams for Manchester By the Sea

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

Kubo and the Two Strings
Moana
My Life As a Zucchini
The Red Turtle
Zootopia


CINEMATOGRAPHY

Bradford Young for Arrival
Linus Sandgren for La La Land
Greig Fraser for LionJames Laxton for MoonlightRodrigo Prieto for Silence

COSTUME DESIGN

Joanna Johnston for Allied
Colleen Atwood for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find ThemConsolata Boyle for Florence Foster Jenkins
Madeline Fontaine for Jackie
Mary Zaphres for La La Land

DIRECTING

Denis Villeneuve for Arrival
Mel Gibson for Hacksaw Ridge
Damien Chazelle for La La Land
Kenneth Lonergan for Manchester By the Sea
Barry Jenkins for Moonlight

DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)

Fire at Sea
I Am Not Your Negro
Life, Animated
O.J.: Made in America
13th 

DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)

Extremis
4.1 Miles
Joe's Violin
Watani: My Homeland
The White Helmets

FILM EDITING

Joe Walker for Arrival
John Gilbert for Hacksaw Ridge
Jake Roberts for Hell or High Water
Tom Cross for La La Land
Nat Sanders and Joi McMillon for Moonlight

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Land of Mine - Denmark
A Man Called Ove - Sweden
The Salesman - Iran
Tanna - Australia
Toni Erdmann - Germany

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

Eva von Bahr and Love Larson for A Man Called Ove
Joel Harlow and Richard Alonzo for Star Trek Beyond
Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini and Christopher Nelson for Suicide Squad

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)

Mica Levi for Jackie
Justin Hurwitz for La La Land
Dustin O'Halloran and Hauschka for Lion
Nicholas Britell for Moonlight
Thomas Newman for Passengers

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)

"Audition (The Fools Who Dream)" - La La Land - Music by Justin Hurtwitz, Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
"Can't Stop the Feeling" - Trolls - Music and Lyric by Justin Timberlake, Max Martin and Karl Johan Schuster
"City of Stars" - La La Land - Music by Justin Hurwitz, Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
"The Empty Chair" - Jim: The James Foley Story - Music and Lyric by J. Ralph and Sting
"How Far I'll Go" - Moana - Music and Lyric by Lin-Manuel Miranda

I wasn't going to comment much on these but I AM SO EXCITED about "Audition" from La La Land getting nominated - I adore that song and it moved me. But I also really want Lin-Manuel Miranda to EGOT so I'm conflicted.

PRODUCTION DESIGN

Patrice Vermette (Production Design) and Paul Hotte (Set Decoration) for Arrival
Stuart Craig (Production Design) and Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration) for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Jess Gonchor (Production Design) and Nancy Haigh (Set Decoration) for Hail, Caesar!
David Wasco (Production Design) and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco (Set Decoration) for La La Land
Guy Hendrix Dyas (Production Design) and Gene Serdena (Set Decoration) for Passengers

SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)

Blind Vaysha
Borrowed Time
Pear Cider and Cigarettes
Pearl
Piper


SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)

Ennemis Interieurs
La Femme et le TGV
Silent Nights
Sing
Timecode

SOUND EDITING

Sylvain Bellmare for Arrival
Wylie Stateman and Renee Tondelli for Deepwater Horizon
Robert Mackenzie and Andy Wright for Hacksaw Ridge
Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan for La La Land
Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman for Sully

SOUND MIXING

Bernard Gariepy Strobl and Claude La Haye for Arrival
Kevin O'Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie and Peter Grace for Hacksaw Ridge
Andy Nelson, Ai-Ling Lee and Steve A. Morrow for La La Land
David Parker, Christopher Scarabosio and Stuart Wilson for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Mac Ruth for 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

VISUAL EFFECTS

Craig Hammack, Jason Snell, Jason Billington and Burt Dalton for Deepwater Horizon
Stephane Ceretti, Richard Bluff, Vincent Cirelli and Paul Corbould for Doctor Strange
Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones and Don Lemmon for The Jungle Book
Steve Emerson, Oliver Jones, Brian McLean and Brad Schiff for Kubo and the Two Strings
John Knoll, Mohen Leo, Hal Hickel and Neil Corbould for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)

Eric Heisserer for Arrival
August Wilson for Fences
Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi for Hidden Figures
Luke Davies for Lion
Barry Jenkins (Screenplay) and Tarell Alvin McCraney (Story) for Moonlight

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)

Taylor Sheridan for Hell or High Water
Damien Chazelle for La La Land
Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou for The Lobster
Kenneth Lonergan for Manchester By the Sea
Mike Mills for 20th Century Women

Thursday, January 14, 2016

Academy Awards - UPDATED WITH WINNERS

The biggest awards ceremony of the year is almost upon us. The nominations were announced this morning, and there have already been many, many discussions. (Somewhat overshadowed by the world learning of the death of Alan Rickman. My heart is broken.) Most of these discussions center around the fact that the nominations are...pretty white-centric. And they are. They always are. This needs to change, but we need to be changing the Academy roster to do this. They're working on it, but it's going to take a long time to roll over. People are invited every year (I usually post this list too), but it depends on those people. And politics are a huge factor that people like to either mock or pretend don't exist. Politics are the main way the Academy Awards happen at all.

However, this ceremony still fascinates me. I like to see what's obviously Oscar material. It's an interesting cultural view. A really good thing, though, is that Mad Max: Fury Road actually got a ton of nominations, and I have to say, I wasn't expecting it to see it in anything but the technical categories. Nice surprise, I'll take it!

BEST PICTURE
The Big Short
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revanant
Room
Spotlight

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Bryan Cranston, Trumbo
Matt Damon, The Martian
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Revenant
Michael Fassbender, Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne, The Danish Girl

There aren't really any surprises in this category, as usual. I'm glad to see Bryan Cranston. And maybe this will be the year poor Leonardo DiCaprio actually gets his damn Oscar! (I haven't seen The Revenant so I can't comment on whether or not he would deserve it for this specific role.)

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Cate Blanchett, Carol
Brie Larson, Room
Jennifer Lawrence, Joy
Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn

It's weird that I haven't seen J-Law's new film; usually, I watch everything she's in. I've heard next to nothing about Joy, though - she did win the Globe, so there must be a little merit there. And I'm happy for Saoirse Ronan - she's incredible! I'm thinking Brie Larson or Cate Blanchett, though.

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Christian Bale, The Big Short
Tom Hardy, The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight
Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
Sylvester Stallone, Creed

This could be the year for Sly; a lot of people are gunning for him to win. Glad to see Mark Rylance in there; a bit of a different lineup!

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara, Carol
Rachel McAdams, Spotlight
Alicia Vikander, The Danish Girl
Kate Winslet, Steve Jobs

I'm just happy to see my girl Rachel McAdams back in the film world. I can't wait to see Spotlight. And I sort of can't believe this is her first Oscar nod! I'm also hearing a lot about Alicia Vikander suddenly.

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Anomalisa
Boy and the World
Inside Out
Shaun the Sheep Movie
When Marnie Was There

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Ed Lachman, Carol
Robert Richardson, The Hateful Eight
John Seale, Mad Max: Fury Road
Emmanuel Lubezki, The Revenant
Roger Deakins, Sicario 

COSTUME DESIGN
Sandy Powell, Carol
Sandy Powell, Cinderella
Paco Delgado, The Danish Girl
Jenny Beavan, Mad Max: Fury Road
Jacqueline West, The Revenant

DIRECTING
Adam McKay, The Big Short
George Miller, Mad Max:Fury Road
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, The Revenant
Lenny Abrahamson, Room
Tom McCarthy, Spotlight

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Amy
Cartel Land
The Look of Silence
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom

DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Body Team 12
Chau, Beyond the Lines
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
A Girl In the River: The Price of Forgiveness
Last Day of Freedom

FILM EDITING
Hank Corwin, The Big Short
Margaret Sixel, Mad Max: Fury Road
Stephen Mirrione, The Revenant
Tom McArdle, Spotlight
Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey, Star Wars: The Force Awakens

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Embrace of the Serpent (Colombia)
Mustang (France)
Son of Saul (Hungary)
Theeb (Jordan)
A War (Denmark)

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damian Martin, Mad Max: Fury Road
Love Larson and Eva von Bahr, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
Sian Grigg, Duncan Jarman and Robert Pandini, The Revenant

This is one category in which I'm not at all surprised to see Mad Max nominated.

ORIGINAL SCORE
Thomas Newman, Bridge of Spies
Carter Burwell, Carol
Ennio Morricone, The Hateful Eight
Johann Johansson, Sicario
John Williams, Star Wars: The Force Awakens

ORIGINAL SONG
"Earned It," Fifty Shades of Grey - Music and Lyric by Abel Tesfaye, Ahmad Balshe, Jason Deheala Quenneville and Stephen Moccio
"Manta Ray," Racing Extinction - Music by J. Ralph; Lyric by Antony Hegarty
"Simple Song #3," Youth - Music and Lyric by David Lang
"Til It Happens to You," The Hunting Ground - Music and Lyric by Diane Warren and Lady Gaga
"Writing's On the Wall," Spectre - Music and Lyric by Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith

THIS WAS CRAZY. Can't believe Bond won over a song with an essential message, sung so incredibly by Gaga. (And introduced by Joe Biden, randomly but amazingly.)

PRODUCTION DESIGN
Adam Stockhausen (Production Design) and Rena DeAngelo and Bernhard Henrich (Set Decoration), Bridge of Spies
Eve Stewart (Production Design) and Michael Standish (Set Decoration), The Danish Girl
Colin Gibson (Production Design) and Lisa Thompson (Set Decoration), Mad Max: Fury Road
Arthur Max (Production Design) and Celia Bobak (Set Decoration), The Martian
Jack Fisk (Production Design) and Hamish Purdy (Set Decoration), The Revenant

ANIMATED SHORT FILM
Bear Story
Prologue
Sanjay's Super Team
We Can't Live Without Cosmos
World of Tomorrow

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
Ave Maria
Day One
Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)
Shok
Stutterer

SOUND EDITING
Mark Mangini and David White, Mad Max: Fury Road
Oliver Tarney, The Martian
Martin Hernandez and Lon Bender, The Revenant
Alan Robert Murray, Sicario
Matthew Wood and David Acord, Star Wars: The Force Awakens

SOUND MIXING
Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Drew Kunin, Bridge of Spies
Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff and Ben Osmo, Mad Max: Fury Road
Paul Massey, Mark Taylor and Mac Ruth, The Martian
Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montano, Randy Thom and Chris Duesterdiek, The Revenant
Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio and Stuart Wilson, Star Wars: The Force Awakens

VISUAL EFFECTS
Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Ardington and Sara Bennett, Ex Machina
Andrew Jackson, Tom Wood, Dan Oliver and Andy Williams, Mad Max: Fury Road
Richard Stammers, Anders Langlands, Chris Lawrence and Steven Warner, The Martian
Rich McBride, Matthew Shumway, Jason Smith and Cameron Waldbauer, The Revenant
Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould, Star Wars: The Force Awakens

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Charles Randolph and Adam McKay, The Big Short
Nick Hornby, Brooklyn
Phyllis Nagy, Carol
Drew Goddard, The Martian
Emma Donoghue, Room


ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Matt Charman and Ethan & Joel Coen, Bridge of Spies
Alex Garland, Ex Machina
Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley; Original story by Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen, Inside Out
Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy, Spotlight
Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff; Story by S. Leigh Savidge & Alan Wenkus and Andrea Berloff, Straight Outta Compton

Saturday, February 21, 2015

The 87th Annual Academy Award - Nominees

It's here, it's here! One of the biggest nights in the award show season - and I'm still excited, despite one of the most severe instances of lack of diversity that I've seen since I started watching the show. HOWEVER, not having seen all the films in question, I can't put forward concrete opinions. All I can do is offer my opinion based on the trends I'm seeing from the other shows. I will be liveblogging, this post will be updated with winners!

The show airs February 22nd, 2015. (Tomorrow!) (Yes, I had to redo the blog post; the formatting got really weird and my other one also got buried.)

BEST PICTURE
American Sniper - Clint Eastwood, Robert Lorenz, Andrew Lazar, Bradley Cooper, Peter Morgan
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) - Alejandro G. Inarritu, John Lesher, James W. Skotchdopole
Boyhood - Richard Linklater, Cathleen Sutherland
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales, Jeremy Dawson
The Imitation Game - Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, Teddy Schwarzman
Selma - Christian Colson, Oprah Winfrey, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner
The Theory of Everything - Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lisa Bruce, Anthony McCarten
Whiplash - Jason Blum, Helen Estabrook, David Lancaster

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Steve Carell - Foxcatcher
Bradley Cooper - American Sniper
Benedict Cumberbatch - The Imitation Game
Michael Keaton - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Eddie Redmayne - The Theory of Everything

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Marion Cotillard - Two Days, One Night
Felicity Jones - The Theory of Everything
Julianne Moore - Still Alice
Rosamund Pike - Gone Girl
Reese Witherspoon - Wild

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Robert Duvall - The Judge
Ethan Hawke - BoyhoodEdward Norton - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Mark Ruffalo - Foxcatcher
J.K. Simmons - Whiplash

Another lock, but so deserved. I've loved this man's work for years, and it's so important he be recognised finally.

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Patricia Arquette - Boyhood
Laura Dern - Wild
Keira Knightley - The Imitation Game
Emma Stone - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Meryl Streep - Into the Woods

This was one of my locks - I KNEW it. But it is so deserved. AND THAT SPEECH! INCREDIBLE. Meryl Streep jumped out of her seat and I did too. Equality!

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Big Hero 6 - Don Hall, Chris Williams, Roy Conli
The Boxtrolls - Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable, Travis Knight
How to Train Your Dragon 2 - Dean DeBlois, Bonnie Arnold
Song of the Sea - Tomm Moore, Paul Young
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya - Isao Takahata, Yoshiaki Nishimura

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) - Emmanuel Lubezki
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Robert Yeoman
Ida - Lukasz Zal, Ryszard Lenczewski
Mr Turner - Dick Pope
Unbroken - Richard Deakins

I thought I saw this coming!

COSTUME DESIGN
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Milena Canonero
Inherent Vice - Mark Bridges
Into the Woods - Colleen Atwood
Maleficent - Anna B. Sheppard
Mr Turner - Jacqueline Durran

I have to say this was a surprise! I always figure Colleen Atwood, but I also really adore Colleen Atwood. I also find it interesting that we have a token male in this category, rather than a token female. I love women, and they run the world, but more men should feel like they can get into costume design too. 

DIRECTING
Alejandro G. Inarritu - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Richard Linklater - Boyhood
Bennett Miller - Foxcatcher
Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel
Morten Tyldum - The Imitation Game

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
CitizenFour - Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy, Dirk Wilutzky
Finding Vivian Maier - John Maloof, Charlie Siskel
Last Days in Vietnam - Rory Kennedy, Keven McAlester
The Salt of the Earth - Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, David Rosier
Virunga - Orlando von Einsiedel, Joanna Natasegara

DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 - Ellen Goosenberg Kent, Dana Perry
Joanna - Aneta Kopacz
Our Curse - Tomasz Sliwinski, Maciej Slesicki
The Reaper (La Parka) - Gabriel Serra Arguello
White Earth - J. Christian Jensen

FILM EDITING
American Sniper - Joel Cox, Gary D. Roach
Boyhood - Sandra Adair
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Barney Pilling
The Imitation Game - William Goldenberg
Whiplash - Tom Cross

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Ida (Poland) - Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski
Leviathan (Russia) - Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev
Tangerines (Estonia) - Directed by Zaza Urushadze
Timbuktu (Mauritania) - Directed by Abderrahmane Sissako
Wild Tales (Argentina) - Directed by Damian Szifron

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Foxcatcher - Bill Corso, Dennis Liddiard
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Frances Hannon, Mark Coulier
Guardians of the Galaxy - Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou, David White

MUSIC - ORIGINAL SCORE
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Alexandre Desplat
The Imitation Game - Alexandre Desplat
Interstellar - Hans Zimmer
Mr Turner - Gary Yershon
The Theory of Everything - Johann Johannsson

MUSIC - ORIGINAL SONG
"Everything Is Awesome" from The LEGO Movie - Music and Lyric by Shawn Patterson
"Glory" from Selma - Music and Lyric by John Stephens, Lonnie Lynn
"Grateful" from Beyond the Lights - Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
"I'm Not Gonna Miss You" from Glen Campbell...I'll Be Me - Music and Lyric by Glen Campbell, Julian Raymond
"Lost Stars" from Begin Again - Music and Lyric by Gregg Alexander, Danielle Brisebois

PRODUCTION DESIGN
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Adam Stockhausen (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration)
The Imitation Game - Maria Djurkovic (Production Design); Tatiana Macdonald (Set Decoration)
Interstellar - Nathan Crowley (Production Design); Gary Fettis (Set Decoration)
Into the Woods - Dennis Gassner (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration)
Mr Turner - Suzie Davies (Production Design); Charlotte Watts (Set Decoration)

I kind of called this. It was a very Wes Anderson, fantastical set, and was a beautiful design. Though I haven't seen the other ones, besides Into the Woods.

I've also started a hashtag - it's probably too long to catch on, but I like to add it to the lesser known, lesser recognised categories like this. #thesecategoriesmattertoo

SHORT FILM - ANIMATED
The Bigger Picture - Daisy Jacobs, Christopher Hees
The Dam Keeper - Robert Kondo, Dice Tsutsumi
Feast - Patrick Osborne, Kristina Reed
Me and My Moulton - Torill Kove
A Single Life - Joris Oprins

SHORT FILM - LIVE ACTION
Aya - Oded Binnun, Mihal Brezis
Boogaloo and Graham - Michael Lennox, Ronan Blaney
Butter Lamp (La Lampe au Beurre de Yak) - Hu Wei, Julien Feret
Parvaneh - Talkhon Hamzavi, Stefan Eichenberger
The Phone Call - Mat Kirkby, James Lucas

SOUND EDITING
American Sniper - Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) - Martin Hernandez, Aaron Glascock
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - Brent Burge, Jason Canovas
Interstellar - Richard King
Unbroken - Becky Sullivan, Andrew DeCristofaro

SOUND MIXING
American Sniper - John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, Walt Martin
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) - Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montano, Thomas Varga
Interstellar - Gary A. Rizzo, Gregg Landaker, Mark Weingarten
Unbroken - Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montano, David Lee
Whiplash - Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins, Thomas Curley

VISUAL EFFECTS
Captain America: The Winter Soldier - Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Bryan Grill, Dan Sudick
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett, Erik Winquist
Guardians of the Galaxy - Stephanie Ceretti, Nicolas Aithadi, Jonathan Fawkner, Paul Corbould
Interstellar - Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter, Scott Fisher
X-Men: Days of Future Past - Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, Tim Crosbie, Cameron Waldbauer

WRITING - ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
American Sniper - Written by Jason Hall
The Imitation Game - Written by Graham Moore
Inherent Vice - Written for the screen by Paul Thomas Anderson
The Theory of Everything - Screenplay by Anthony McCarten
Whiplash - Written by Damien Chazelle

Gotta say, wasn't expecting that one either!

WRITING - ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) - Written by Alejandro G. Inarritu, Nicolas Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., Armando Bo
Boyhood - Written by Richard Linklater
Foxcatcher - Written by E. Max Frye, Dan Futterman
The Grand Budapest Hotel - Screenplay by Wes Anderson; Story by Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness
Nightcrawler - Written by Dan Gilroy

Well. I'm sad to see Gillian Flynn snubbed for Gone Girl, as well as David Fincher (though I seem to be somewhat alone in enjoying that film, from the amount of people I've talked to who HATED it). And apparently snubbing Ava DuVernay for Selma was a travesty, though I haven't yet had a chance to see Selma. And my timeline blew up when the nominations were announced with outrage over the lack of nominations for The LEGO Movie. 

In the end, the nominations were generally what I expected, and I have some awards I'm expecting. (Julianne Moore and J.K. Simmons, for instance.)

I'm mostly really excited to see what Neil Patrick Harris has up his sleeve. Apparently he's got the writers of Frozen writing one of his musical numbers! (Thank goodness for his musical numbers.) Tomorrow's the big night, and I'm still excited!

Sunday, March 02, 2014

The Oscars 2014 - Complete List

The biggest night is here!! I'll be liveblogging - this post will be updated with every winner and my thoughts! Winners are bolded! I'll be putting comments below the nominees, so be sure to scroll down. Here we go!

BEST PICTURE
American Hustle - Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison, Jonathan Gordon (Producers)
Captain Phillips - Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca (Producers)
Dallas Buyers Club - Robbie Brenner, Rachel Winter (Producers)
Gravity - Alfonso Cuarón, David Heyman (Producers)
Her - Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze, Vincent Landay (Producers)
Nebraska - Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa (Producers)

Philomena - Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan, Tracey Seaward (Producers)
12 Years a Slave - Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, Anthony Katagas (Producers)
The Wolf of Wall Street - Nominees to be determined (as of January 16, 2014)

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Christian Bale - American Hustle
Bruce Dern - Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Wolf of Wall Street
Chiwetel Ejiofor - 12 Years a Slave
Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Amy Adams - American Hustle
Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock - Gravity
Judi Dench - Philomena
Meryl Streep - August: Osage County

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Barkhad Abdi - Captain Phillips
Bradley Cooper - American Hustle
Michael Fassbender - 12 Years a Slave
Jonah Hill - The Wolf of Wall Street
Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Sally Hawkins - Blue Jasmine
Jennifer Lawrence - American Hustle
Lupita Nyong'o - 12 Years a Slave
Julia Roberts - August: Osage County
June Squibb - Nebraska

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
The Croods - Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco, Kristine Belson
Despicable Me 2 - Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin, Chris Meledandri
Ernest & Celestine - Benjamin Renner, Didier Brunner
Frozen - Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho
The Wind Rises - Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki

CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Grandmaster - Philippe Le Sourd
Gravity - Emmanuel Lubezki
Inside Llewyn Davis - Bruno Delbonnel
Nebraska - Phedon Papamichael
Prisoners - Roger A. Deakins

COSTUME DESIGN
American Hustle - Michael Wilkinson
The Grandmaster - William Chang Suk Ping
The Great Gatsby - Catherine Martin
The Invisible Woman - Michael O'Connor
12 Years a Slave - Patricia Norris

DIRECTING
David O. Russell - American Hustle
Alfonso Cuarón - Gravity
Alexander Payne - Nebraska
Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave
Martin Scorsese - The Wolf of Wall Street

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
The Act of Killing - Joshua Oppenheimer, Signe Byrge Sørensen
Cutie and the Boxer - Zachary Heinzerling, Lydia Dean Pilcher
Dirty Wars - Richard Rowley, Jeremy Scahill
The Square - Jehane Noujaim, Karim Amer
20 Feet from Stardom Morgan Neville, Gil Friesen and Caitrin Rogers

DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
CaveDigger - Jeffrey Karoff
Facing Fear - Jason Cohen
Karama Has No Walls - Sara Ishaq
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life - Malcolm Clarke, Nicholas Reed
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall - Edgar Barens

FILM EDITING
American Hustle - Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers, Alan Baumgarten
Captain Phillips - Christopher Rouse
Dallas Buyers Club - John Mac McMurphy, Martin Pensa
Gravity - Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger
12 Years a Slave - Joe Walker

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Broken Circle Breakdown - Belgium
The Great Beauty - Italy
The Hunt - Denmark
The Missing Picture - Cambodia
Omar - Palestine

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Dallas Buyers Club - Adruitha Lee, Robin Mathews
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa - Stephen Prouty
The Lone Ranger - Joel Harlow, Gloria Pasqua-Casny

MUSIC: ORIGINAL SCORE
The Book Thief - John Williams
Gravity - Steven Price
Her - William Butler, Owen Pallett
Philomena - Alexandre Desplat
Saving Mr Banks - Thomas Newman

MUSIC: ORIGINAL SONG
"Alone Yet Not Alone" from Alone Yet Not Alone - Music by Bruce Broughton; Lyrics by Dennis Spiegel
"Happy" from Despicable Me 2 - Music and Lyrics by Pharrell Williams
"Let It Go" from Frozen - Music and Lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
"The Moon Song" from Her - Music by Karen O; Lyrics by Karen O and Spike Jonze
"Ordinary Love" from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom - Music by Paul Hewson, Dave Evans, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen; Lyrics by Paul Hewson

PRODUCTION DESIGN
American Hustle - Judy Becker (Production Design); Heather Loeffler (Set Decoration)
Gravity - Andy Nicholson (Production Design); Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard (Set Decoration)
The Great Gatsby - Catherine Martin (Production Design); Beverley Dunn (Set Decoration)
Her - K.K. Barrett (Production Design); Gene Serdena (Set Decoration)
12 Years a Slave - Adam Stockhausen (Production Design); Alice Baker (Set Decoration)

SHORT FILM: ANIMATED
Feral - Daniel Sousa, Dan Golden
Get a Horse! - Lauren MacMullan, Dorothy McKim
Mr Hublot - Laurent Witz, Alexandre Espigares
Possessions - Shuhei Morita
Room on the Broom - Max Lang, Jan Lachauer

SHORT FILM: LIVE ACTION
Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me) - Esteban Crespo
Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything) - Xavier Legrand, Alexandre Gavras
Helium - Anders Walter, Kim Magnusson
Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?) - Selma Vilhunen, Kirsikka Saari  
The Voorman Problem - Mark Gill, Baldwin Li

SOUND EDITING
All Is Lost - Steve Boeddeker, Richard Hymns
Captain Phillips - Oliver Tarney
Gravity - Glenn Freemantle
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Brent Burge
Lone Survivor - Wylie Stateman

SOUND MIXING
Captain Phillips - Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith, Chris Munro
Gravity - Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead, Chris Munro
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick, Tony Johnson
Inside Llewyn Davis - Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff, Peter F. Kurland
Lone Survivor - Andy Koyama, Beau Borders, David Brownlow

VISUAL EFFECTS
Gravity - Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk, Neil Corbould
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, Eric Reynolds
Iron Man 3 - Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash, Dan Sudick
The Lone Ranger - Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams, John Frazier
Star Trek Into Darkness - Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann, Burt Dalton

WRITING: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Before Midnight - Written by Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
Captain Phillips - Screenplay by Billy Ray  
Philomena - Screenplay by Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope
12 Years a Slave - Screenplay by John Ridley
The Wolf of Wall Street - Screenplay by Terence Winter

WRITING: ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
American Hustle - Written by Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell
Blue Jasmine - Written by Woody Allen
Dallas Buyers Club - Written by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack
Her - Written by Spike Jonze
Nebraska - Written by Bob Nelson

HONOURARY AWARDS
Angela Lansbury
Steve Martin
Piero Tosi

HUMANITARIAN AWARD
Angelina Jolie

8:31pm - Of course Ellen's not wearing a gown! People are crazy. And seven years ago was the last time she hosted? Wow. And love the "so different!" Everyone is nominated who was last time; perfection.

8:32pm - Only Ellen could pull off that Barkhad Abdi joke without being too offensive. AND the Liza Minnelli joke!

8:33pm - I always forget the Oscars get themes. Heroes in Hollywood is a good one, though.

8:34pm - Definitely laughing more this year than last! I'll always take Ellen over Seth MacFarlane.

8:35pm - Love the 'total of six years of college' - especially with people like Lupita Nyong'o in the room!

8:37pm - It is the Hunger Games. Jennifer Lawrence won last year. PERFECT. And gotta love that Ellen is pushing to bring her the Oscar - no more tripping! She only trips once, generally, so we should be good.

8:40pm - Oh Ellen! Killing it with the subtle penis jokes for Jonah Hill!

8:41pm - I obviously have a problem remembering the order of awards. I always forget Best Supporting Actor is given first!

8:43pm - YES! Jared Leto definitely, more than anyone, deserved this award. He broke my heart and lifted it at the same time. His performance in Dallas Buyers Club blew me away. This award was maybe predictable after he swept the awards all season long, but it doesn't mean that getting this highest honour doesn't mean anything.

8:47pm - Ahh Jim Carrey, not feeling shafted at all! Haha. I find Jim Carrey less and less funny as time goes on,though.

8:51pm - Oh, Ellen. Never gives up a moment to plug Finding Nemo. Who's excited for the second one? (Because Ellen's more excited than you are, I promise.)

8:47pm - Love Pharrell engaging with everyone in the front row! Meryl would, but Amy Adams was amazing. She was so into it! Love her so much.

8:59pm - I love Catherine Martin's design work, and I also love her. She's awesome. And Gatsby costumes were phenomenal! Love her work with Luhrmann. Also, things you learn: she's married to Baz Luhrmann. I used to know who everyone was married to!

9:20pm - I'm not sure I can handle the adorbs of JGL! Bowing to Emma Watson, looking like an excited little boy to open the envelope - the man is so amazing.

9:30pm - I was SO hoping Kate and Goldie would be presenting together. Oh well. I bet Jason Sudeikis is crossing fingers for HELIUM to win - he was nervous about pronunciation! OH IT WAS HELIUM!

9:42pm - Love the honourary Oscars! Steve Martin is so gracious. And Angela Lansbury - 'are you the living definition of range.' Well put, Geoffrey Rush. Well. Put. AND she would call an Oscar a golden chap.

9:43pm - Piero Tosi, yes!

9:44pm - Jean Herschel Award for Angelina Jolie is in no way surprising, but much as I don't like her as an actress, she does great work.

9:55pm - Fingers crossed for Benedict Cumberbatch to run around behind U2 onstage and do another epic photobomb.

10:04pm - I still think the Science & Tech awards should get WAY more recognition. These are the people who make things POSSIBLE!

10:35pm - No one can tell me P!nk can't sing. Not ever. Not a conventional belting voice, but she's still lovely to listen to.

10:36pm - Things I learn: I'm really bad at liveblogging and really good at livetweeting.

11:36pm - Really, Angelina Jolie? Maybe you don't cut off Sidney Poitier. Who cares what the teleprompter says or if he's slow? Shush!

There were really no upsets this year! That often makes for a fun but volatile time. I figured most of the people who won would win. But I also didn't have a problem with anyone who won, really. It mostly made me see that I need to see all of the films! When I'm not planning an event going up two days after the Oscars, I will see all of the nominated films. Thanks for coming along on the awards season ride for another year!

The Independent Spirit Awards 2014 - Complete List

Today is Oscar Day, yes, but we've got to keep up with the other award shows winners! These are the Independent Spirit Awards - some of my favourites, though I always manage to fail to watch them - so check it out! As always, the bolded nominees are the winners!

BEST FEATURE
12 Years a Slave
All Is Lost
Frances Ha
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska

BEST DIRECTOR
Shane Carruth - Upstream Color
J.C. Chandor - All Is Lost
Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave
Jeff Nichols - Mud
Alexander Payne - Nebraska

BEST SCREENPLAY
Woody Allen - Blue Jasmine
Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke & Richard Linklater - Before Midnight
Nicole Holofcener - Enough Said
Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber - The Spectacular Now
John Ridley - 12 Years a Slave

BEST FIRST FEATURE
Blue Caprice
Concussion
Fruitvale Station
Una Noche
Wadjda

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY
Lake Bell - In a World...
Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Don Jon
Bob Nelson - Nebraska
Jill Soloway - Afternoon Delight
Michael Starrbury - The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Sean Bobbitt - 12 Years a Slave
Benoit Debie - Spring Breakers
Bruno Delbonnel - Inside Llewyn Davis
Frank G. DeMarco & Peter Zuccarini - All Is Lost
Matthias Grunsky - Computer Chess

BEST EDITING
Shane Carruth & David Lowery - Upstream Color
Jem Cohen & Mark Vives - Museum Hours
Jennifer Lame - Frances Ha
Cindy Lee - Una Noche
Nat Sanders - Short Term 12

BEST FEMALE LEAD
Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine
Julie Delpy - Before Midnight
Gaby Hoffmann - Crystal Fairy
Brie Larson - Short Term 12
Shailene Woodley - The Spectacular Now

BEST MALE LEAD
Bruce Dern - Nebraska
Chiwetel Ejiofor - 12 Years a Slave
Oscar Isaac - Inside Llewyn Davis
Michael B. Jordan - Fruitvale Station
Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club
Robert Redford - All Is Lost

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE
Melonie Diaz - Fruitvale Station
Sally Hawkins - Blue Jasmine
Lupita Nyong'o - 12 Years a Slave
Yolanda Ross - Go for Sisters
June Squibb - Nebraska

BEST SUPPORTING MALE
Michael Fassbender - 12 Years a Slave
Will Forte - Nebraska
James Gandolfini - Enough Said
Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club
Keith Stanfield - Short Term 12

BEST DOCUMENTARY
20 Feet From Stardom
After Tiller
Gideon's Army
The Act of Killing
The Square

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
A Touch of Sin (China)
Blue Is the Warmest Color (France)
Gloria (Chile)
The Great Beauty (Italy)
The Hunt (Denmark)

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD
Mud (Director, casting director, cast) - WINNER

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD
Given to the writer, director and producers of a feature made for under $500,000
Computer Chess
Crystal Fairy
Museum Hours
Pit Stop
This Is Martin Bonner

SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD
Recognises a talented filmmaker of singular vision who has not yet received appropriate recognition. The award includes a $25,000 unrestricted grant.
Shaka King - Newlyweeds
Aaron Douglas Johnston - My Sister's Quinceanera
Madeline Olnek - The Foxy Merkins

STELLA ARTOIS TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD
Presented to an emerging director on non-union features who has not yet received significant recognition. The award includes a $25,000 unrestricted grant funded by Stella Artois.
Kalyanee Mam - A River Changes Course
Jason Osder - Let the Fire Burn
Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez - Manakamana

PIAGET PRODUCERS AWARD
The Piaget Producers Award honours emerging producers who, despite highly limited resources, demonstrate the creativity, tenacity and vision required to produce quality independent films. The award includes a $25,000 unrestricted grant funded by Piaget.
Toby Halbrooks & James M. Johnston
Jacob Jaffke
Andrea Roa
Frederick Thornton

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Oscar Nominations 2014

And here we are! The biggest award show of the season takes place March 2, 2014 - and I will be taking some time off from a busy event planning whirlwind to liveblog this big night! For now, here are the 86th Academy Award nominations. Come back to this blog for the liveblogging, where I will update the post with winners as they're announced, and you'll also see some commentary. I will also be livetweeting at twitter.com/annoying_dana. I'm excited!

BEST PICTURE
American Hustle - Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison, Jonathan Gordon (Producers)
Captain Phillips - Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca (Producers)
Dallas Buyers Club - Robbie Brenner, Rachel Winter (Producers)
Gravity - Alfonso Cuarón, David Heyman (Producers)
Her - Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze, Vincent Landay (Producers)
Nebraska - Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa (Producers)

Philomena - Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan, Tracey Seaward (Producers)
12 Years a Slave - Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, Anthony Katagas (Producers)
The Wolf of Wall Street - Nominees to be determined (as of January 16, 2014)

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Christian Bale - American Hustle
Bruce Dern - Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Wolf of Wall Street
Chiwetel Ejiofor - 12 Years a Slave
Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Amy Adams - American Hustle
Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock - Gravity
Judi Dench - Philomena
Meryl Streep - August: Osage County

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Barkhad Abdi - Captain Phillips
Bradley Cooper - American Hustle
Michael Fassbender - 12 Years a Slave
Jonah Hill - The Wolf of Wall Street
Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Sally Hawkins - Blue Jasmine
Jennifer Lawrence - American Hustle
Lupita Nyong'o - 12 Years a Slave
Julia Roberts - August: Osage County
June Squibb - Nebraska

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
The Croods - Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco, Kristine Belson
Despicable Me 2 - Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin, Chris Meledandri
Ernest & Celestine - Benjamin Renner, Didier Brunner
Frozen - Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho
The Wind Rises - Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki

CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Grandmaster - Philippe Le Sourd
Gravity - Emmanuel Lubezki
Inside Llewyn Davis - Bruno Delbonnel
Nebraska - Phedon Papamichael
Prisoners - Roger A. Deakins

COSTUME DESIGN
American Hustle - Michael Wilkinson
The Grandmaster - William Chang Suk Ping
The Great Gatsby - Catherine Martin
The Invisible Woman - Michael O'Connor
12 Years a Slave - Patricia Norris

DIRECTING
David O. Russell - American Hustle
Alfonso Cuarón - Gravity
Alexander Payne - Nebraska
Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave
Martin Scorsese - The Wolf of Wall Street

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
The Act of Killing - Joshua Oppenheimer, Signe Byrge Sørensen
Cutie and the Boxer - Zachary Heinzerling, Lydia Dean Pilcher
Dirty Wars - Richard Rowley, Jeremy Scahill
The Square - Jehane Noujaim, Karim Amer
20 Feet from Stardom - Nominees to be determined (as of January 16, 2014)

DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
CaveDigger - Jeffrey Karoff
Facing Fear - Jason Cohen
Karama Has No Walls - Sara Ishaq
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life - Malcolm Clarke, Nicholas Reed
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall - Edgar Barens

FILM EDITING
American Hustle - Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers, Alan Baumgarten
Captain Phillips - Christopher Rouse
Dallas Buyers Club - John Mac McMurphy, Martin Pensa
Gravity - Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger
12 Years a Slave - Joe Walker

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
The Broken Circle Breakdown - Belgium
The Great Beauty - Italy
The Hunt - Denmark
The Missing Picture - Cambodia
Omar - Palestine

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Dallas Buyers Club - Adruitha Lee, Robin Mathews
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa - Stephen Prouty
The Lone Ranger - Joel Harlow, Gloria Pasqua-Casny

MUSIC: ORIGINAL SCORE
The Book Thief - John Williams
Gravity - Steven Price
Her - William Butler, Owen Pallett
Philomena - Alexandre Desplat
Saving Mr Banks - Thomas Newman

MUSIC: ORIGINAL SONG
"Alone Yet Not Alone" from Alone Yet Not Alone - Music by Bruce Broughton; Lyrics by Dennis Spiegel
"Happy" from Despicable Me 2 - Music and Lyrics by Pharrell Williams
"Let It Go" from Frozen - Music and Lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
"The Moon Song" from Her - Music by Karen O; Lyrics by Karen O and Spike Jonze
"Ordinary Love" from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom - Music by Paul Hewson, Dave Evans, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen; Lyrics by Paul Hewson

PRODUCTION DESIGN
American Hustle - Judy Becker (Production Design); Heather Loeffler (Set Decoration)
Gravity - Andy Nicholson (Production Design); Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard (Set Decoration)
The Great Gatsby - Catherine Martin (Production Design); Beverley Dunn (Set Decoration)
Her - K.K. Barrett (Production Design); Gene Serdena (Set Decoration)
12 Years a Slave - Adam Stockhausen (Production Design); Alice Baker (Set Decoration)

SHORT FILM: ANIMATED
Feral - Daniel Sousa, Dan Golden
Get a Horse! - Lauren MacMullan, Dorothy McKim
Mr Hublot - Laurent Witz, Alexandre Espigares
Possessions - Shuhei Morita
Room on the Broom - Max Lang, Jan Lachauer

SHORT FILM: LIVE ACTION
Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me) - Esteban Crespo
Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything) - Xavier Legrand, Alexandre Gavras
Helium - Anders Walter, Kim Magnusson
Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?) - Selma Vilhunen, Kirsikka Saari  
The Voorman Problem - Mark Gill, Baldwin Li

SOUND EDITING
All Is Lost - Steve Boeddeker, Richard Hymns
Captain Phillips - Oliver Tarney
Gravity - Glenn Freemantle
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Brent Burge
Lone Survivor - Wylie Stateman

SOUND MIXING
Captain Phillips - Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith, Chris Munro
Gravity - Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead, Chris Munro
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick, Tony Johnson
Inside Llewyn Davis - Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff, Peter F. Kurland
Lone Survivor - Andy Koyama, Beau Borders, David Brownlow

VISUAL EFFECTS
Gravity - Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk, Neil Corbould
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, Eric Reynolds
Iron Man 3 - Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash, Dan Sudick
The Lone Ranger - Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams, John Frazier
Star Trek Into Darkness - Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann, Burt Dalton

WRITING: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Before Midnight - Written by Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
Captain Phillips - Screenplay by Billy Ray  
Philomena - Screenplay by Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope
12 Years a Slave - Screenplay by John Ridley
The Wolf of Wall Street - Screenplay by Terence Winter

WRITING: ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
American Hustle - Written by Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell
Blue Jasmine - Written by Woody Allen
Dallas Buyers Club - Written by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack
Her - Written by Spike Jonze
Nebraska - Written by Bob Nelson

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Academy Awards 2013 - The Big One!

All right! The Oscars are almost here - SUNDAY! - and we're almost done with the awards season! (And I will probably stop posting these kinds of posts. Maybe. Or I'll just revert to detailing the Internet awards. Although I will probably also be watching the Canadian Screen Awards on March 3rd, so there's that.) But because this is the big one - I'll update as I watch the ceremony! (I should be good to watch this one - the nice thing about a huge awards show is that more channels have it, and I'm not relying on one Canadian channel that might screw me over. Looking at you, Global.) I also livetweet - @Annoying_Dana.

EDIT: This is tonight!

Now, I do already have a post with the nominees in it, but it also has a long ramble about why I love the Oscars, and I want to keep that, so go check that out (http://danabettyjune.blogspot.ca/2013/01/because-i-have-no-life.html) and meanwhile, this post will be kept just for nominees and updating! (It's my blog, I can do what I want, right?)
Here we go! (Again.)

VISUAL EFFECTS
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, R. Christopher White
Life of Pi - Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer, Donald R. Elliott
Marvel's The Avengers - Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams, Dan Sudick
Prometheus - Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley, Martin Hill
Snow White and the Huntsman - Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould, Michael Dawson

WRITING: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Argo - Written by Chris Terrio
Beasts of the Southern Wild - Screenplay by Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin
Life of Pi - Written by David Magee
Lincoln - Written by Tony Kushner
Silver Linings Playbook - Written by David O. Russell

WRITING: ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Amour - Written by Michael Haneke
Django Unchained - Written by Quentin Tarantino
Flight - Written by John Gatins
Moonrise Kingdom - Written by Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola
Zero Dark Thirty - Written by Mark Boal

SHORT FILM: LIVE ACTION
Asad - Bryan Buckley & Mino Jarjoura
Buzkashi Boys - Sam French & Ariel Nasr
Curfew - Shawn Christensen
Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw) - Tom Van Avermaet & Ellen De Waele
Henry - Yan England

SOUND EDITING
Argo - Erik Aadahl & Ethan Van der Ryn
Django Unchained - Wylie Stateman
Life of Pi - Eugene Gearty & Philip Stockton
Skyfall - Per Hallberg & Karen Baker Landers
Zero Dark Thirty - Paul N.J. Ottosson

SOUND MIXING
Argo - John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, Jose Antonio Garcia
Les Miserables - Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, Simon Hayes
Life of Pi - Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill, Drew Kunin
Lincoln - Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom, Ronald Judkins
Skyfall - Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell, Stuart Wilson

MUSIC: ORIGINAL SONG
"Before My Time" from CHASING ICE - Music and Lyric by J. Ralph
"Everybody Needs a Best Friend" from TED - Music by Walter Murphy; Lyric by Seth MacFarlane
"Pi's Lullaby" from LIFE OF PI - Music by Mychael Danna; Lyric by Bombay Jayashri
"Skyfall" from SKYFALL - Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
"Suddenly" from LES MISERABLES - Music by Claude-Michel Schoenberg; Lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil

PRODUCTION DESIGN
Anna Karenina - Sarah Greenwood (Production Design), Katie Spencer (Set Decoration)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Dan Hennah (Production Design), Ra Vincent and Simon Bright (Set Decoration)
Les Miserables - Eve Stewart (Production Design), Anna Lynch-Robinson (Set Decoration)
Life of Pi - David Gropeman (Production Design), Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration)
Lincoln - Rick Carter (Production Design), Jim Erickson (Set Decoration)

SHORT FILM: ANIMATED
Adam and Dog - Minkyu Lee
Fresh Guacamole - PES
Head over Heels - Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly
Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare" - David Silverman
Paperman - John Kahrs

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Amour - Austria
Kon-Tiki - Norway
No - Chile
A Royal Affair - Denmark
War Witch - Canada

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Hitchcock - Howard Berger, Peter Montagna, Martin Samuel
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane
Les Miserables - Lisa Westcott, Julie Dartnell

MUSIC: ORIGINAL SCORE
Anna Karenina - Dario Marianelli
Argo - Alexandre Desplat
Life of Pi - Mychael Danna
Lincoln - John Williams
Skyfall - Thomas Newman

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
5 Broken Cameras - Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi
The Gatekeepers - Dror Moreh, Philippa Kowarsky, Estelle Fialon
How to Survive a Plague - David France, Howard Gertler
The Invisible War - Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering
Searching for Sugar Man - Malik Bendjelloul, Simon Chinn

DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Inocente - Sean Fine, Andrea Nix Fine
Kings Point - Sari Gilman, Jedd Wider
Mondays at Racine - Cynthia Wade, Robin Honan
Open Heart - Kief Davidson, Cori Shepherd Stern
Redemption - Jon Alpert, Matthew O'Neill

FILM EDITING
Argo - William Goldenberg
Life of Pi - Tim Squyres
Lincoln - Michael Kahn
Silver Linings Playbook - Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers
Zero Dark Thirty - Dylan Tichenor, William Goldenberg

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Anna Karenina - Seamus McGarvey
Django Unchained - Robert Richardson
Life of Pi - Claudio Miranda
Lincoln - Janusz Kaminski
Skyfall - Roger Deakins

COSTUME DESIGN
Anna Karenina - Jacqueline Durran
Les Miserables - Paco Delgado
Lincoln - Joanna Johnston
Mirror Mirror - Eiko Ishioka
Snow White and the Hunstman - Colleen Atwood

DIRECTING
Amour - Michael Haneke
Beasts of the Southern Wild - Benh Zeitlin
Life of Pi - Ang Lee
Lincoln - Steven Spielberg
Silver Linings Playbook - David O. Russell

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Alan Arkin - Argo
Robert De Niro - Silver Linings Playbook
Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master
Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln
Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Amy Adams - The Master
Sally Field - Lincoln
Anne Hathaway - Les Miserables
Helen Hunt - The Sessions
Jacki Weaver - Silver Linings Playbook

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Brave - Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman
Frankenweenie - Tim Burton
ParaNorman - Sam Fell, Chris Butler
The Pirates! Band of Misfits - Peter Lord
Wreck-It Ralph - Rich Moore

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty
Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook
Emmanuelle Riva - Amour
Quvenzhane Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild
Naomi Watts - The Impossible

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln
Hugh Jackman - Les Miserables
Joaquin Phoenix - The Master
Denzel Washington - Flight

BEST PICTURE
Amour - Margaret Menegoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, and Michael Katz, Producers
Argo - Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, and George Clooney, Producers
Beasts of the Southern Wild - Dan Janvey, Josh Penn and Michael Gottwald, Producers
Django Unchained - Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin and Pilar Savone, Producers
Les Miserables - Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward and Cameron Mackintosh, Producers
Life of Pi - Gil Netter, Ang Lee and David Womark, Producers
Lincoln - Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers
Silver Linings Playbook - Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen and Jonathan Gordon, Producers
Zero Dark Thirty - Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow and Megan Ellison, Producers

Friday, February 08, 2013

Invitations to Join the Academy

We're closer to the Oscars! This entire post is taken from oldfilmsflicker.tumblr.com. (Please check Marya Gates out - her website is cinema-fanatic.com. She is one of the smartest writers and I love her posts.)

Beverly Hills, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is extending invitations to join the organization to 176 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures. Those who accept the invitation will be the only additions in 2012 to the Academy’s roster of members. ”These film professionals represent some of the most talented, most passionate contributors to our industry,” said Academy President Tom Sherak. “I’m glad to recognize that by calling each of them a fellow Academy member.” Voting membership in the organization has now held steady at just under 6,000 members since 2003. The 2012 invitees are:

ACTORS
Simon Baker - "Margin Call," "L.A. Confidential"
Sean Bean - "Flightplan," "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring"

Bérénice Bejo - "The Artist,"  "OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies"
Tom Berenger - "Inception," "Platoon"


Demián Bichir - "A Better Life," "Che"
Jessica Chastain - "The Help," "The Tree of Life"
Clifton Collins, Jr. - "Star Trek," "Traffic"
Bryan Cranston - "Contagion," "Little Miss Sunshine"
Jean Dujardin - "Les infidels," "The Artist"
Richard E. Grant - "The Iron Lady," "Withnail & I"
Jonah Hill - "Moneyball," "Superbad"
Ken Howard - "J. Edgar," "In Her Shoes"
Diego Luna - "Milk," "Y Tu Mama Tambien"
Margo Martindale - "Secretariat," "Million Dollar Baby"
Melissa McCarthy - "Bridesmaids," "The Back-Up Plan"
Matthew McConaughey - "The Lincoln Lawyer," "A Time to Kill"
Janet McTeer - "Albert Nobbs," "Tumbleweeds"
S. Epatha Merkerson - "Mother and Child," "Terminator 2: Judgment Day"
Sam Rockwell - "Cowboys & Aliens," "Noon"
Andy Serkis - "The Prestige," "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"
Octavia Spencer - "The Help," "The Soloist"
Lili Taylor - "Being Flynn," "High Fidelity"
Nia Vardalos - "For a Good Time, Call...", "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"
Kerry Washington - "Django Unchained," "Ray"
Michelle Yeoh - "The Lady," "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"

DESIGNERS
Laurence Bennett - "The Artist," "Crash"
David Brisbin - "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," "Dead Presidents"
Scott Chambliss - "Cowboys & Aliens," "Mission: Impossible III"
Wendy Chuck - "The Descendants," "Sideways"
Maria Djurkovic - "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," "The Hours"
Sanja Milkovic Hays - "Battle:  Los Angeles," "Mission to Mars"
Mayes Rubeo - "Avatar," "Apocalypto"
Anne Seibel - "Midnight in Paris," "The Devil Wears Prada"
Sharon Seymour - "The Ides of March," "Friday Night Lights"
Sammy Sheldon - "X-Men: First Class," "V for Vendetta"

CINEMATOGRAPHERS
Florian Ballhaus - "Mr. Popper's Penguins," "The Devil Wears Prada"
Oliver Bokelberg - "Win Win," "The Station Agent"
Anna J. Foerster - "Anonymous"
Larry Fong - "Super 8," "300"
Alwin Kuchler - "Hanna", "Proof"
Toyomichi Kurita - "Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family," "Waiting to Exhale"
George Mooradian - "Crazy as Hell," "Nemesis"
Guillaume Schiffman - "The Artist," "OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies"
Terry Stacey - "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen," "Friends with Money"

 DIRECTORS
Joseph Cedar - "Footnote (Hearat Shulayim)," "Beaufort"
Jean-Pierre Dardenne - "The Kid With a Bike (Le gamin au velo)," "The Child (L'enfant)"
Luc Dardenne - "Lorna's Silence (Le silence de Lorna)," "The Son (Le fils)"
Philippe Falardeau - "Monsieur Lazhar," "It's Not Me, I Swear! (C'est pas moi, je le jure!)"
Asghar Farhadi - "A Separation (Jodaieye Nadar az Simin)," "About Elly (Darbareye Elly)" -- ALSO INVITED TO THE WRITERS' BRANCH
Rodrigo Garcia - "Albert Nobbs," "Mother and Child"
Michel Hazanavicius - "Les infideles (The Players)", "The Artist" -- ALSO INVITED TO THE WRITERS BRANCH
Kasi Lemmons - "Talk to Me," "Eve's Bayou"
Terrence Malick - "The Tree of Life," "The Thin Red Line"
Michael R. Roskam - "Bullhead (Rundskop)"
Wong Kar Wai - "My Blueberry Nights," "In the Mood for Love"

DOCUMENTARY
John Battsek - "The Tillman Story," "One Day in September"
Amy Berg - "Bhutto," "Deliver Us from Evil"
Simon Chinn - "Project Nim," "Man on Wire"
Marshall Curry - "If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front," "Street Fight"
Johanna Demetrakas - "Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche," "Bus Riders Union"
Daniel Junge - "Saving Face," "The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner"
Mary Lampson - "Kimjongilia," "Harlan County, USA"
Sam Pollard - "Gerrymandering," "4 Little Girls"
Glenn Silber - "El Salvador: Another Vietnam," "The War at Home"
Lucy Walker - "The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom," "Waste Land"

EXECUTIVES
James Amos
Michael Bostick
Richard Brener
Howard Mark Cohen
David C. Glasser
Jeffrey B. Goldstein
Frederick Huntsberry
Jon Jashni
Michael Marshall
Tony Safford
Gregory Silverman
Nigel Sinclair

FILM EDITORS
Kirk Baxter - "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," "The Social Network"
Nicolas De Toth - "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," "The Sum of All Fears"
Scott Hill - "Zookeeper," "Bruce Almighty"
Dan Lebental - "Iron Man 2," "Elf"
Glen Scantlebury - "Transformers," "Bram Stoker's Dracula"

MAKEUP ARTISTS AND HAIRSTYLISTS
Mark Coulier - "The Iron Lady," "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2"
Linda Flowers - "The Hunger Games," "The Social Network"
Toni G - "Salt," "Monster"
Amanda Knight - "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2", "Mission: Impossible"
Tami Lane - "Superman Returns," "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"

MEMBERS-AT-LARGE
Wendy Aylsworth
Kyle Cooper
Patrick Crowley
Bud Davis
Chris deFaria
Sarah Katzman
John Kilkenny
Heidi Levitt
Kerry Lynn McKissick
Elizabeth Sayre
Michael Tadross
Mary Vernieu

MUSIC
Ludovic Bource - "The Artist," "OSS 117: Lost in Rio"
Alberto Iglesias - " Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," "The Constant Gardener"
Conrad Pope - "My Week with Marilyn," "The Rising Place"
Ryuichi Sakamoto - "Love Is the Devil," "The Last Emperor"
Theodore Shapiro - "The Big Year," "I Love You, Man"

PRODUCERS
Letty Aronson - "Midnight in Paris," "Match Point"
Michael Barnathan - "The Help," "Rent"
Jean Brehat - "London River," "Days of Glory (Indigenes)"
Susan Cartsonis - "Beastly," "What Women Want"
Tracey Edmonds - "Jumping the Broom," "Soul Food"
Dede Gardner - "The Tree of Life," "Running with Scissors"
Grant Heslov - "The Ides of March," "Good Night, and Good Luck." -- ALSO INVITED TO THE WRITERS' BRANCH
Thomas Langmann - "The Artist," "Mesrine: Public Enemy #1"
William Packer - "Think Like a Man," "This Christmas"
Aaron Ryder - "The Raven," "The Prestige"
Peter Saraf - "Our Idiot Brother," "Little Miss Sunshine"
Mary Jane Skalski - "Win Win," "The Station Agent"

PUBLIC RELATIONS
Larry Baldauf
Cindi Berger
Matthew P. Brubaker
Brian Daly
Rebecca Kearey
Adam Keen
Katie Martin Kelley
Eric Kops
Derek McLay
Michelle Sewell
Mark Woollen

SHORT FILMS AND FEATURE ANIMATION
Paul Cichocki - "Brave," "WALL-E"
Eric Daniels - "Tangled," "Meet the Robinsons"
Amanda Forbis - "Wild Life," "When the Day Breaks"
Emily Hubley - "The Toe Tactic," "Pigeon Within"
Willliam Joyce - "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore," "Meet the Robinsons"
Marv Newland - "CMYK," "Tete a Tete a Tete"
Floyd Norman - "Waking Sleeping Beauty," "Mulan"
Jonas Rivera - "Up," "Cars"
Michelle Steffes - "The Interview," "Day Labor"
David Verrall - "Dimanche/Sunday," "Madame Tutli-Putli"
Jennifer Yuh Nelson - "Kung Fu Panda 2," "Madagascar"

SOUND
Erik Aadahl - "Transformers: Dark of the Moon," "Monsters vs. Aliens"
Deb Adair - "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance," "Moneyball"
Stephen M. Bartkowicz - "Tyler Perry's Good Deeds," "Red State"
John T. Cucci - "Snow White & the Huntsman," "Prometheus"
Chuck Garsha - "Misery," "Die Hard"
Mildred Iatrou - "The Green Hornet," "The Tree of Life"
Tim LeBlanc - "For Greater Glory," "Something Borrowed"
Bo Persson - "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," "Fanny & Alexander"
Gary L.G. Simpson - "Captain America: The First Avenger," "The Bourne Ultimatum"
Philip Stockton - "Hugo," "Brokeback Mountain"


VISUAL EFFECTS
Scott Benza - "Transformers: Dark of the Moon," "Iron Man"
Greg Butler - "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2," "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King"
Sheena Duggal - "The Hunger Games," "Spider-Man 3"
Christopher Evans - "Hugo," "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
Ben Grossmann - "Hugo," "The Italian Job"
Dan Lemmon - "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," "King Kong"
John Rosengrant - "Real Steel," "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines"
Eric Saindon - "Avatar," "X-Men: The Last Stand"
R. Christopher White - "The Lovely Bones," "Jurassic Park III"
Guy Williams - "Marvel's The Avengers," "Avatar"
Joss Williams - "Hugo," "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street"

WRITERS
J.C. Chandor - "Margin Call"
Asghar Farhadi - "A Separation (Jodaieye Nadar az Simin)," "Beautiful City (Shahr-e ziba)" (ALSO INVITED TO DIRECTORS BRANCH)
Michel Hazanavicius - "The Artist," "OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies" (ALSO INVITED TO DIRECTORS BRANCH)
Grant Heslov - "The Ides of March," "Good Night, and Good Luck." (ALSO INVITED TO PRODUCERS BRANCH)
Stephen King - "Pet Sematary," "Creepshow"
Oren Moverman - "The Messenger," "I'm Not There."
Annie Mumolo - "Bridesmaids"
Nicholas Stoller - "The Muppets," "Get Him to the Greek"
Peter Straughan - "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," "The Men Who Stare at Goats"
Kristen Wiig - "Bridesmaids"

Additionally, the Academy invited Fritz Gabriel Bauer, Lee S. Berger, Ronald Bernstein, Ariel Emanuel, Jean-Marie Lavalou, Bryan Lourd, Dale Oliver, Jeremy Plager, John B. Quinn and Steve Weinstein to Associate membership. Associate members are not represented on the Board and do not have Academy Awards voting privileges.

Three individuals (noted above by an asterisk) have been invited to join the Academy by multiple branches. These individuals must select one branch upon accepting membership.

New members will be welcomed into the Academy at an invitation-only reception in September.