Awards Season 2024

[Matt]

I didn’t realize that there are two Saoirse Ronan movies this year and I honestly thought, until Never Cursed’s post on the film in the Films of 2024, that Blitz was the one where she plays a woman living on the Orkney islands after rehab. That’s The Outrun, which apparently already opened in the US last week.

Is there any film (other than maybe the Jesse Eisenberg film) out of Sundance this year that has made any kind of ripple in the awards season waters? I looked at the list of award-winners and didn’t recognize a single title.

[Never Cursed]

Is there any film (other than maybe the Jesse Eisenberg film) out of Sundance this year that has made any kind of ripple in the awards season waters? I looked at the list of award-winners and didn’t recognize a single title.

One of the documentaries (Gaucho Gaucho, Union if anyone picks it up) has to be a serious contender, and I Saw The TV Glow will surely be a main player in the indie awards circuit. But most of the dramatic competition/premiere category this year either flopped hard or was never destined for that kind of attention.

[domino harvey]

What if Eastwood saves the day and Juror #2 is another Million Dollar Baby?

Like a bad comedy skit, this year won’t stop: WB is dumping this with no ad campaign whatsoever in 50 theaters on Nov 1st, and with no plans to expand. So no, this isn’t coming to save us

[beamish14]

What if Eastwood saves the day and Juror #2 is another Million Dollar Baby?

Like a bad comedy skit, this year won’t stop: WB is dumping this with no ad campaign whatsoever in 50 theaters on Nov 1st, and with no plans to expand. So no, this isn’t coming to save us

Damn. An ignominious end to a long, albeit frustrating, directorial career

[Matt]

I don’t know how much credence I give to the people reporting this, but I do wonder if the film is testing poorly or they’re just waiting to see what kind of word-of-mouth it gets. Or more likely they realize there is just no theatrical market anymore for films targeted to older audiences. His pre-pandemic films performed respectably, if not profitably.

Poor Nicholas Hoult has had major roles in films for over 20 years and he just cannot quite break through to the A list.

[knives]

Eastwood’s films have actually been pretty guaranteed money makers for awhile though this does feel like WB not knowing how to market him any longer.

[beamish14]

Eastwood’s films have actually been pretty guaranteed money makers for awhile though this does feel like WB not knowing how to market him any longer.

They always came in under budget, and he’s an excellent planner who never shoots excessive numbers of takes or deviates from scripts. Some did very poorly on their initial release, notably White Hunter, Black Heart and his 2 films with Matt Damon

[domino harvey]

Cynthia Erivo posted a completely unhinged response to the fan edit that attempted to fix the awful and much-derided official movie poster so that it actually looked like the original artwork

[captveg]

Alienating fans by scolding them is certainly a choice.

[Matt]

Everyone involved in this movie is working so hard to make sure that no one wants to see it.

[domino harvey]

Not from this year obviously, but I was reading Andrew Sarris and was tickled to learn that at the DGA awards for 1966, Mike Nichols’ name was erroneously read for Virginia Woolf and he had to be stopped from collecting for the real winner, Fred Zinnemann. Guess Beatty and Dunaway can hope their mishap will be as forgotten as this one was!

[lacritfan]

Oscars: Conan O’Brien Will Host Hollywood’s Biggest Night

[ryannichols7]

pity they're wasting a good host on such a weak field

[therewillbeblus]

I predict a very satisfying year of winners nonetheless, and Conan will kill it - seems like a win-win

[captveg]

Someone on another forum mentioned bringing Paul Rudd on stage to introduce one of those tribute to the movies montages only to have that clip from Mac & Me play instead, and now I'll be crushed if this doesn't happen.

[knives]

Jimmy Kimmel already did that carry over joke so well a few years ago.

[Matt]

Picking up the conversation in the Emilia Perez thread about Oscar chances for actresses: it is so wild to me to think that Mikey Madison, the girl from "Better Things" is the front-runner for Best Actress, but that's how Hollywood works--one breakout role is enough. Which made me think of Angelina Jolie and the unlikelihood that the girl from Hackers was the front-runner for Best Supporting Actress the same year as Toni Collette in The Sixth Sense, Catherine Keener in Being John Malkovich, Samantha Morton in Sweet and Lowdown, and Chloë Sevigny in Boys Don't Cry. Which made me wonder if Angelina is in the conversation for Best Actress this year for Maria. It looks like several of the "experts" on GoldDerby have her as the favorite.

[pianocrash]

Picking up the conversation in the Emilia Perez thread about Oscar chances for actresses: it is so wild to me to think that Mikey Madison, the girl from "Better Things" is the front-runner for Best Actress, but that's how Hollywood works--one breakout role is enough. Which made me think of Angelina Jolie and the unlikelihood that the girl from Hackers was the front-runner for Best Supporting Actress the same year as Toni Collette in The Sixth Sense, Catherine Keener in Being John Malkovich, Samantha Morton in Sweet and Lowdown, and Chloë Sevigny in Boys Don't Cry. Which made me wonder if Angelina is in the conversation for Best Actress this year for Maria. It looks like several of the "experts" on GoldDerby have her as the favorite.

I think it's distinction that's always been a Best Actress/gendered bias, whereas a seasoned player late in the game is more often an Actor (male) nomination (you could also place youth in relation to this, a la Tatum O' Neal & Anna Paquin, and it might still make sense).

Mikey will first and foremost be the third Manson kid in Once Upon A Time, something as unhinged a fate a possible for a character that pops ups in the forefront during the last quarter of that film & is as ridiculous as that ask is (you might not remember "her", but no one will forget what happened to her character).

[therewillbeblus]

One breakout role should be enough to win one single award for one movie in an awards ceremony, it's not like they should be giving out lifetime achievement awards

And Madison was incredible on Better Things

[Matt]

Oh, I'm not saying she's not deserving, just that it's always surprising when a younger actor breaks onto the major awards scene in this way. I was a big fan of "Better Things." I am strongly in favor of new talent getting recognition and not just the same few actresses getting nominated for every little thing they appear in. But I would also enjoy seeing Angelina mount a serious dramatic comeback after wallowing in garbage far below her talents for so many years.

I feel like Pamela Anderson (for The Last Showgirl) might be showered this year's critics awards (or nominations) and be totally overlooked by the major awards.

[Red Screamer]

Cahiers du cinéma top ten:

1. Miséricorde (Guiraudie)
2. May December (Haynes)
3. In Water (Hong)
4. The Zone of Interest (Glazer)
5. All We Imagine as Light (Kapadia)
6. Los delincuentes (Moreno)
7. Evil Does Not Exist (Hamaguchi)
8. Ma vie ma gueule (Fillières)
9. Trap (Shyamalan)
10. Volveréis (Trueba)

I haven’t got around to reading their pieces on the Guiraudie and Shyamalan yet, but I’m looking forward to doing so even more now.

[lacritfan]

New York Film Critics Circle
Best Film: “The Brutalist”
Director: RaMell Ross, “Nickel Boys”
Actor: Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist”
Actress: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, “Hard Truths”
Supporting Actor: Kieran Culkin, “A Real Pain”
Supporting Actress: Carol Kane, “Between the Temples”
Screenplay: “Anora” — Sean Baker
Animated Film: “Flow”
Cinematography: “Nickel Boys” — Jomo Fray
First Film: “Janet Planet” — Annie Baker
International: “All We Imagine as Light”
Non-Fiction Film: “No Other Land”
Student Prizes: Alexander Swift (Undergraduate, Vassar) and Drew Smith (Graduate, NYU)
Special Award: To Save and Project: The MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation

[lacritfan]

National Board of Review
Best Film: “Wicked”
Best Director: Jon M. Chu, “Wicked”
Best Actor: Daniel Craig, “Queer”
Best Actress: Nicole Kidman, “Babygirl”
Best Supporting Actor: Kieran Culkin, “A Real Pain”
Best Supporting Actress: Elle Fanning, “A Complete Unknown”
Best Original Screenplay: “Hard Truths” – Mike Leigh
Best Adapted Screenplay: “Sing Sing” — Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar
Breakthrough Performance: Mikey Madison, “Anora”
Best Directorial Debut: India Donaldson, “Good One”
Best Animated Feature: “Flow”
Best International Film: “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”
Best Documentary: “Sugarcane”
Best Ensemble: “Conclave”
NBR Freedom of Expression: “No Other Land”
NBR Spotlight Award: Creative Collaboration of Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande
Outstanding Achievement in Stunt Artistry: “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga”
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography: “Nosferatu” — Jarin Blaschke

Top 10 Films (in alphabetical order):
“Anora”
“Babygirl”
“A Complete Unknown”
“Conclave”
“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga”
“Gladiator II”
“Juror No. 2”
“Queer”
“A Real Pain”
“Sing Sing”

[hearthesilence]

Jim Hoberman has a full top ten. (So far, this year's front-runners for awards have left me feeling empty and not surprisingly they're absent from his picks with the possible exception of No Other Land should that get recognized.)

1. No Other Land
2. Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
3. The Goldman Case
4. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
5. Intercepted
6. BG
7. Green Border
8. Subtitled
9. Dahomey
10. Civil War

[GaryC]

2025 AACTA Award nominations.. Better Man and Boy Swallows Universe have record numbers of nominations for a film and a miniseries, sixteen and twenty-two respectively.