get in line
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 December 2012 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
SS's desperate attempts to assign some form of Nate Silver-like patternism on showbiz awards is often funny. More often sad.
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Monday, 3 December 2012 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
at least this election that doesn't change a thing doesn't cost $6B.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 December 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
The Hobbit should be so frugal.
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Monday, 3 December 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
Poor Ann Dowd.
Best Supporting Actress: Sally Field, Lincoln
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Monday, 3 December 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
coming up, Prettiest Interrogator
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 December 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
@gemkoAaaaaaaaand now I want to cull the NYFCC roster with a scythe, as usual.
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Monday, 3 December 2012 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
is Nathaniel of The Film Experience hitting "refresh" repeatedly
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 December 2012 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
He's not alone.
@derekabowmanThe last time I used the refresh button this much was Election Day. Ok, I'm using it more today #nyfcc
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Monday, 3 December 2012 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
@AwardsDailyI'm fairly sure that the last time supporting actress and picture matched it was Dianne WiestHANNAH AND HER SISTERS. #NYFCC
I mean jesus.
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Monday, 3 December 2012 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Sax Blatterday (jaymc), Monday, 3 December 2012 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Monday, 3 December 2012 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
(That snap was the sound of his thong coming off.)
there's such a thing as comedy?
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 December 2012 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
will make the dinner lively
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Monday, 3 December 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Monday, 3 December 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
Tho that's certainly led us wrong any number of times. Statistically no more often than SS.
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Monday, 3 December 2012 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Monday, 3 December 2012 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
Whoa.
Best Actress: Rachel Weisz, The Deep Blue Sea
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Monday, 3 December 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
Amazing.
― Gukbe, Monday, 3 December 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
Relevant tweet:
@AwardsDailyWow, that's out of left field, Rachel Weisz for Deep Blue Sea (a movie I could not sit through) for Best Actress #nyfcc
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Monday, 3 December 2012 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
so sorry Jennifer Lawrence couldn't sit on his face
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 December 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
excellent!
― Simon H., Monday, 3 December 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
Dept. of regularly scheduled programming:
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Monday, 3 December 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
(His 5th NYFCC award.)
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Monday, 3 December 2012 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
Wow @ 5th. (One supporting, I see.)
― Sax Blatterday (jaymc), Monday, 3 December 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
Most overall zzzzzz history of all four acting categories? Discuss: http://www.nyfcc.com/awards/?cat=2
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Monday, 3 December 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
I like his supporting perf (Laundrette) more than any of the other four that got him wins.
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Monday, 3 December 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
Oof, Ed's tweet is looking more and more unfortunate.
Best Screenplay: Tony Kushner, Lincoln
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Monday, 3 December 2012 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
@MarkHarrisNYCWe interrupt this Twitterfeed to say WOOOOHOOOO!!!!!
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Monday, 3 December 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
Aw.
― Sax Blatterday (jaymc), Monday, 3 December 2012 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Monday, 3 December 2012 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
happy with three of the four acting winners (DDL's not one of them).
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 December 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
Bigelow wins director.
― Sax Blatterday (jaymc), Monday, 3 December 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
for Point Break?!?
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 December 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
LOL, NYFCC's embargo against awarding Spielberg for his direction continues.
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Monday, 3 December 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
Guess Ed was right. Lesson learned.
Best Picture: Zero Dark Thirty
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Monday, 3 December 2012 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
For reference:
Best PictureZero Dark ThirtyBest DirectorKathryn Bigelow, ZERO DARK THIRTYBest ScreenplayTony Kushner, LINCOLNBest ActressRachel Weisz, THE DEEP BLUE SEABest ActorDaniel Day-Lewis, LINCOLNBest Supporting ActressSally Field, LINCOLNBest Supporting ActorMatthew McConaughey, BERNIE, MAGIC MIKEBest CinematographerGreig Fraser, ZERO DARK THIRTYBest Animated FilmFrankenweenieBest Non-Fiction Film (Documentary)The Central Park FiveBest Foreign FilmAmourBest First FilmDavid France, HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE
Best DirectorKathryn Bigelow, ZERO DARK THIRTY
Best ScreenplayTony Kushner, LINCOLN
Best ActressRachel Weisz, THE DEEP BLUE SEA
Best ActorDaniel Day-Lewis, LINCOLN
Best Supporting ActressSally Field, LINCOLN
Best Supporting ActorMatthew McConaughey, BERNIE, MAGIC MIKE
Best CinematographerGreig Fraser, ZERO DARK THIRTY
Best Animated FilmFrankenweenie
Best Non-Fiction Film (Documentary)The Central Park Five
Best Foreign FilmAmour
Best First FilmDavid France, HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE
― Sax Blatterday (jaymc), Monday, 3 December 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Monday, 3 December 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:18 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:42 (eleven years ago) link
Have any of the ILX film hivemind seen The Sessions? It has a lot of positive reviews but it seems like such dire oscarbait.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:46 (eleven years ago) link
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.)
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:50 (eleven years ago) link
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).
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:54 (eleven years ago) link
Both can still be true.
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:58 (eleven years ago) link
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.)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 01:06 (eleven years ago) link
sure.
I think I will nominate jafar Panahi for best actor, tho he doesn't show up here:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/criticwire/the-criticwire-survey-the-best-performances-of-the-year#
AND cosign:
Scott Nye, Rail of Tomorrow:
"While there have probably been richer, deeper performances, I'm going to use this space to give a shout-out to Yoo Jun-sang in Hong Sang-soo's 'In Another Country.' Yoo takes a role that's of little consequence in an almost pointedly inconsequential film and fills every moment onscreen with a manner of life and vitality I haven't seen in any other performance this year. Just seeing him walk or run is vastly entertaining, nevermind the exuberant will to please everyone with whom he interacts. It's rare to find a performer, especially these days, who can entertain just by appearing onscreen, but Yoo achieves that marvelously."
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 01:09 (eleven years ago) link
Has anyone ever won an award for two separate roles like McConaughey? I guess either must have received an equal number of votes, but why bother?
― kathryn bigelow, female juggalo (qiqing), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 01:10 (eleven years ago) link
Actors are often nominated for multiple roles.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 01:12 (eleven years ago) link