This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year in Cinema" -- 2017

http://awardswatch.com/2017/11/13/american-gods-outlander-novitiate-the-post-among-19th-womens-image-awards-film-and-television-nominees/

Women’s Image Awards Nominations

Documentary Feature Film

After Spring (Starz)
Gender Revolution (National Geographic Channel)
Hungry (Logo Television Network)
Mansfield 66/67 (Gunpowder and Sky)

Feature Film

The Leisure Seeker (Sony Pictures Classics)
Novitiate (Sony Pictures Classics)
The Post (20th Century Fox)
Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool (Sony Pictures Classics)
Maudie (Sony Pictures Classics)

Actress Feature Film

Helen Mirren The Leisure Seeker
Melissa Leo Novitiate
Sally Hawkins Maudie
Meryl Streep The Post
Annette Bening Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool

Foreign Language Film

First They Killed My Father (Cambodia) (Netflix)
The Divine Order (Switzerland) (Zeitgeist Films / Kino Lorber)
The Square (Sweden) (Magnolia Pictures)
A Fantastic Woman (Chile) (Sony Pictures Classics)

The "written by," "directed by" and "produced by" women categories mix TV and film, which only goes to point out how much more work women get in TV than they do in feature films.

How did The Square make it's way unto that list...

going to see The Square tomorrow

good night and good luck!

Saw it earlier today, actually. So good.

Is that the new one by the director of Force Majeure? I liked FM, but the reviews I've read of this one (both positive and negative) make it sound fairly insufferable, I gotta say.

the ape scene in My Man Godfrey is funnier.

My Man Godfrey is funnier than most things, tbf.

i found FM overrated, won't pay to see this one

Both ^^^^ true for me too. (I have a screener.)

Play is way better than Force Majeure, and this is much more like Play. I love it.

NAACP Image Award Nominations

Outstanding Motion Picture

“Detroit” (Annapurna Pictures)
“Get Out” (Universal Pictures)
“Girls Trip” (Universal Pictures)
“Marshall” (Open Road Films)
“Roman J. Israel, Esq.” (Sony Pictures Entertainment)

Outstanding Independent Motion Picture

“Detroit” (Annapurna Pictures)
“Last Flag Flying” (Amazon Studios)
“Mudbound” (Netflix)
“Professor Marston and the Wonder Women” (Annapurna Pictures)
“Wind River” (Acacia Filmed Entertainment)

Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture

Algee Smith – “Detroit” (Annapurna Pictures)
Chadwick Boseman – “Marshall” (Open Road Films)
Daniel Kaluuya – “Get Out” (Universal Pictures)
Denzel Washington – “Roman J. Israel, Esq.” (Columbia Pictures)
Idris Elba – “The Mountain Between Us” (20th Century Fox)

Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture

Amandla Stenberg – “Everything, Everything” (Warner Bros. Pictures / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures)
Danai Gurira – “All Eyez on Me” (Summit Entertainment)
Halle Berry – “Kidnap” (Aviron Pictures)
Natalie Paul – “Crown Heights” (Amazon Studios)
Octavia Spencer – “Gifted” (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture

Idris Elba – “THOR: Ragnarok” (Marvel Studios)
Laurence Fishburne – “Last Flag Flying” (Amazon Studios)
Lil Rel Howery – “Get Out” (Universal Pictures)
Nnamdi Asomugha – “Crown Heights” (Amazon Studios)
Sterling K. Brown – “Marshall” (Open Road Films)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture

Audra McDonald – “Beauty and the Beast” (Walt Disney Studio Motion Pictures)
Keesha Sharp – “Marshall” (Open Road Films)
Regina Hall – “Girls Trip” (Universal Pictures)
Tessa Thompson – “THOR: Ragnarok” (Marvel Studios)
Tiffany Haddish – “Girls Trip” (Universal Pictures)

Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture

Dee Rees – “Mudbound” (Netflix)
Jordan Peele – “Get Out” (Universal Pictures)
Malcolm D. Lee – “Girls Trip” (Universal Pictures)
Reginald Hudlin – “Marshall” (Open Road Films)
Stella Meghie – “Everything, Everything” (Warner Bros. Pictures / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures)

Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture

Dee Rees, Virgil Williams – “Mudbound” (Netflix)
Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani – “The Big Sick” (Amazon Studios)
Jordan Peele – “Get Out” (Universal Pictures)
Kenya Barris, Tracy Oliver – “Girls Trip” (Universal Pictures)
Mark Boal – “Detroit” (Annapurna Pictures)

Would be thrilled to see Lil Rel Howery get an Oscar nod tbh.

Is that the new one by the director of Force Majeure? I liked FM, but the reviews I've read of this one (both positive and negative) make it sound fairly insufferable, I gotta say.

"Insufferable" is a good response to The Square. It tries to Say Something about inequality and the media outrage cycle, but gets bogged down in liberal cringe. And it reaffirms my belief that every movie that comes in at over 2 hours should be taken out of the director's hands and cut to 90 minutes.

regardless of how bad The Square is it can't be as stupid as that "belief".

"every" is too doctrinaire, but wd've helped with Blade Runner 2049

(as would 0 minutes)

Producers Guild of America nominees for Documentary Feature:

Chasing Coral
City of Ghosts
Cries From Syria
Earth: One Amazing Day
Jane
Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower
The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee

Not an intensely impressive slate afaic.

Unless Jane is about Goodall, I've never even heard of any of these.

Only doc I've seen so far this year is the Gilbert Gottfried one, but haven't there been some notable ones? The Wiseman NYPL thing, for instance?

No overlap whatsoever with the Gothams' list ...

Ex Libris – The New York Public Library
Rat Film
Strong Island
Whose Streets?
The Work

And the first heavy-hitting bit of detrius: the Independent Spirit Award Nominees.

BEST FEATURE

Call Me By Your Name
Get Out
The Florida Project
Lady Bird
The Rider

BEST DIRECTOR

Sean Baker, The Florida Project
Jonas Carpignano, A Ciambra
Luca Gudagnino, Call Me By Your Name
Jordan Peele, Get Out
Benny Safdie & Josh Benny, Good Time
Chloé Zhao, The Rider

BEST SCREENPLAY

Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
Azazel Jacobs, The Lovers
Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Jordan Peele, Get Out
Mike White, Beatriz at Dinner

BEST MALE LEAD

Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
Harris Dickinson, Beach Rats
James Franco, The Disaster Artist
Daniel Kaluuya, Get Out
Robert Pattinson, Good Time

BEST FEMALE LEAD:

Salma Hayek, Beatriz at Dinner
Francis McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Margot Robbie, I, Tonya
Saiorse Ronin, Lady Bird
Shinobu Terajima, Oh Lucy!
Regina Williams, Life and Nothing More

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE

Holly Hunter, The Big Sick
Allison Janney, I, Tonya
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Lois Smith, Marjorie Prime
Taliah Lennice Webster, Good Time

BEST SUPPORTING MALE

Nnamdi Asomugha, Crown Heights
Armie Hammer, Call Me by Your Name
Barry Keoghan, The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Benny Safdie, Good Time

BEST DOCUMENTARY

The Departure
Faces/Places
Last Men in Aleppo
Motherland
Quest

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM

BPM (Beats Per Minute)
A Fantastic Woman
I Am Not a Witch
Lady Macbeth
Loveless

A few other categories here: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/independent-spirit-award-nominations-full-list-2017-1057823/item/

Willem Dafoe seems a huge ommission, as well as Gerwig in director.

waiting for someone to have the cojones to give Mother a screenplay nod

lol the Spirit male lead category is almost as All-Babe as any Oscar year's supporting actress!

(at least two of them are good performances, tho)

None of the three I've seen (the non gay jailbait perfs) are slouches.

saw three billboards last night and am officially baffled by the praise. some great performances but imho very confused and ill-timed.

any of you seen I, Tonya?

Thought so, but I'm confusing it with I, Olga. That one is pretty good.

anyone seen Beach Rats?

A disappointment. I liked her last film a lot.

yep, not good

Natl Board of Review tomorrow. Hoping for a Cynthia Nixon upset.

is it not even sexy?

Gotham winners, by the way ...

BEST FEATURE
Call Me by Your Name

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Strong Island

BINGHAM RAY BREAKTHROUGH DIRECTOR AWARD
Jordan Peele for Get Out

BEST SCREENPLAY
Get Out, Jordan Peele

BEST ACTOR
James Franco in The Disaster Artist

BEST ACTRESS
Saoirse Ronan in Lady Bird

BEST ENSEMBLE
The 2017 Best Actor/Best Actress nominating committee has also voted to award a special Gotham Jury Award for ensemble performance to Mudbound. The award will go to actors Carey Mulligan, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Clarke, Jason Mitchell, Mary J. Blige, Rob Morgan, and Jonathan Banks.

BREAKTHROUGH ACTOR
Timothée Chalamet in Call Me by Your Name

AUDIENCE AWARD
Get Out

And here we go!

NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW

BEST PICTURE: The Post
BEST DIRECTOR: Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
BEST ACTOR: Tom Hanks, The Post
BEST ACTRESS: Meryl Streep, The Post
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: Foxtrot
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Coco
BEST DOCUMENTARY: Jane
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist
BEST DIRECTORIAL DEBUT: Jordan Peele, Get Out
BEST ENSEMBLE: Get Out
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE: Timothée Chalamet, Call Me By Your Name
SPOTLIGHT AWARD: Wonder Woman, Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot
NBR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: First They Killed My Father
NBR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992

TOP FILMS
Baby Driver
Call Me By Your Name
The Disaster Artist
Downsizing
Dunkirk
The Florida Project
Get Out
Lady Bird
Logan
Phantom Thread

TOP TEN INDEPENDENT FILMS
Beatriz at Dinner
Brigsby Bear
A Ghost Story
Lady Macbeth
Logan Lucky
Loving Vincent
Menashe
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
Patti Cake$
Wind River

TOP 5 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMS
A Fantastic Woman
Frantz
Loveless
Summer 1993
The Square

TOP 5 DOCUMENTARIES
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Brimstone & Glory
Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
Faces Places
Hell On Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS

ooooooof

Giving The Post three of the top four awards is soooo NBR.

And I say that as the ilxor who will probably wind up liking the movie the most.

Even still, the Nat'l Board of Review doesn't know how to count.

Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project

the grossest win

How will you keep track of all your betes noir this year?

have you seen my worst songs project? They're in my blood.

I'm sure I'll have no room to rib once I catch Downsizing.

NYFCC on Thursday

i.e. the group that actually DID give La La Land best picture last year

The voting has begun #NYFCC

— Sidney Falco (@Sidney_Falco) November 30, 2017

Maybe Oscar will do us all the favor of giving all 5 best actor slots to actresses instead this year:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/gary-oldman-the-oscar-frontrunner-with-a-dark-past

Not online yet, so the commentary that's so crucial isn't available yet, but here's John Waters' essential list for the year:

1. Baby Driver (Edgar Wright)
2. I, Olga Hepnarová (Petr Kazda, Tomáš Weinreb)
3. The Strange Ones (Christopher Radcliff, Lauren Wolkstein)
4. Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello)
5. Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes)
6. Graduation (Christian Mungiu)
7. The Wizard of Lies (Barry Levinson)
8. Lady Macbeth (William Oldroyd)
9. Wonder Wheel (Woody Allen)
10. Tom of Finland (Dome Karukoski)

Welp, so much for Get Out's best film hopes, probably:

BEST FIRST FILM: GET OUT (JORDAN PEELE)

— Sidney Falco (@Sidney_Falco) November 30, 2017

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: PBM (BEATS PER MINUTE) / ROBIN CAMPILLO #NYFCC

— Sidney Falco (@Sidney_Falco) November 30, 2017

Elizabeth Olsen should've been nominated in Supp Actress.

I swear Columbus was briefly streaming on Amazon Prime, didn’t catch it in time

it's fine i don't know why people liked it so much

IGW was watchable, not the scorching anti-Twitter jeremiad we need

six Cesars to BPM

http://variety.com/2018/film/news/robin-campillos-bpm-beats-per-minute-wins-best-film-at-cesar-awards-1202715674/

Finally: my longform aggregation roundup of the ~31 films shot on 35mm released in 2017. https://t.co/BzuYJipC4P

— Vadim Rizov (@vrizov) April 5, 2018

Great piece, thanks for the link... that bit about Sean Baker preserving his digitally shot films and losing one of the master files for Starlet is really sobering.