This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year in Cinema" -- 2012

You deserve it. this is how democracy dies, etc

Imagine if the studio had gotten its way and called ZDT For God and Country.

God, I hate Sasha Stone, but I can't stop following her on Twitter b/c she's a Voice in the Conversation.

I can't wait to waterboard you, Morbs.

get in line

SS's desperate attempts to assign some form of Nate Silver-like patternism on showbiz awards is often funny. More often sad.

at least this election that doesn't change a thing doesn't cost $6B.

The Hobbit should be so frugal.

Poor Ann Dowd.

Best Supporting Actress: Sally Field, Lincoln

coming up, Prettiest Interrogator

@gemko
Aaaaaaaaand now I want to cull the NYFCC roster with a scythe, as usual.

is Nathaniel of The Film Experience hitting "refresh" repeatedly

He's not alone.

@derekabowman
The last time I used the refresh button this much was Election Day. Ok, I'm using it more today #nyfcc

@AwardsDaily
I'm fairly sure that the last time supporting actress and picture matched it was Dianne WiestHANNAH AND HER SISTERS. #NYFCC

I mean jesus.

SS's desperate attempts to assign some form of Nate Silver-like patternism on showbiz awards is often funny. More often sad.

This is the worst. I got into a heated e-mail exchange a couple of years ago with Jaymc's Film-Critic Friend b/c he was trying to make Oscar predix based on how often various guild/crix nominations matched up with Oscar noms. Like, because on average, 3/5 of the BFCA's best director nominees also get nominated for Oscars, then we can assume that the average will hold as an exact tried-and-true percentage from year to year, and the only challenge is to figure out which 2 BFCA nominees will be left in the dust by AMPAS. This is beyond dumb -- the sample is too small and the variables are too great to extrapolate anything meaningful from these historical comparisons.

Sorry, thread. This just happens to be the one day a year I pay any attention to Twitter.

Aww, snap.

Best Supporting Actor: Matthew McConaughey for Bernie and Magic Mike

(That snap was the sound of his thong coming off.)

there's such a thing as comedy?

will make the dinner lively

xxps, yeah jaymc, I subscribe to my Slant compadre's theory that the only tried and true way of predicting these things is to just watch the movies and know the AMPAS.

Tho that's certainly led us wrong any number of times. Statistically no more often than SS.

Frankenweenie winning animated film worth it for all the whining about Paranorman getting snubbed.

Best Foreign Language Film: Amour

Guess that means top award is going Lincoln or ZDT.

Whoa.

Best Actress: Rachel Weisz, The Deep Blue Sea

Amazing.

Relevant tweet:

@AwardsDaily
Wow, that's out of left field, Rachel Weisz for Deep Blue Sea (a movie I could not sit through) for Best Actress #nyfcc

so sorry Jennifer Lawrence couldn't sit on his face

excellent!

Dept. of regularly scheduled programming:

Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln

(His 5th NYFCC award.)

Wow @ 5th. (One supporting, I see.)

Most overall zzzzzz history of all four acting categories? Discuss: http://www.nyfcc.com/awards/?cat=2

I like his supporting perf (Laundrette) more than any of the other four that got him wins.

Oof, Ed's tweet is looking more and more unfortunate.

Best Screenplay: Tony Kushner, Lincoln

@MarkHarrisNYC
We interrupt this Twitterfeed to say WOOOOHOOOO!!!!!

Aw.

Such is the weirdness of awards season that I'm sort of "meh" about a movie I genuinely like a whole lot sweeping the NYFCC.

happy with three of the four acting winners (DDL's not one of them).

Bigelow wins director.

for Point Break?!?

LOL, NYFCC's embargo against awarding Spielberg for his direction continues.

Guess Ed was right. Lesson learned.

Best Picture: Zero Dark Thirty

For reference:

Best Picture
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Director
Kathryn Bigelow, ZERO DARK THIRTY

Best Screenplay
Tony Kushner, LINCOLN

Best Actress
Rachel Weisz, THE DEEP BLUE SEA

Best Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis, LINCOLN

Best Supporting Actress
Sally Field, LINCOLN

Best Supporting Actor
Matthew McConaughey, BERNIE, MAGIC MIKE

Best Cinematographer
Greig Fraser, ZERO DARK THIRTY

Best Animated Film
Frankenweenie

Best Non-Fiction Film (Documentary)
The Central Park Five

Best Foreign Film
Amour

Best First Film
David France, HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE

This is what happens when you nominate everything. Laura Linney in Hyde Park on Hudson.

http://www.indiewire.com/article/complete-list-of-2012-satellite-award-nominations

Guess Ed was right.

That's not a sweep. Weisz over Chastain, uh, fuckyeah.

Most overall zzzzzz history of all four acting categories?

Snored through McC, huh, and Weisz too lifelike? Didn't look too hard but 2006 was Forest Whitaker, Helen Mirren, Jackie Earle Haley, Jennifer Hudson. FW was kinda embarrassing, skipped the other 3.

No, I meant best lead actor category has had the most boringest history overall with the NYFCC. Or at least the one with the least adventurous choices.

Have any of the ILX film hivemind seen The Sessions? It has a lot of positive reviews but it seems like such dire oscarbait.

M@rk H@rris is on a crusade against the word Oscarbait this year. But, yes, The Sessions is Oscarbait. Not even so much "mature" about its sexual content as it is just plain open/explicit. (Also, seems like the dude had more women at his side than Guido Anselmi.)

I dunno Eric, NYFCC's Best Actors probably come out ahead of AAs if you go thru the last 30 years (Thewlis, Newman for NF, Irons for DR, Steve Martin).

Both can still be true.

The New York Critics finished the '90s with an excellent run: Fonda in Ulee's Gold, Nolte in Affliction, and Farnsworth in The Straight Story. (Don't remember Fonda as well as the other two.)