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Re: Awards Season 2020

#76 Post by therewillbeblus » Wed Sep 09, 2020 11:53 am

I'm not trying to say that this is the first time the academy has done something I disagree with, though I don't define fairness as polar opposite political grand gestures to 'even things out' as if that's a measurable thing

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#77 Post by movielocke » Wed Sep 09, 2020 12:40 pm

This strikes me as a first step, and generally these sorts of affirmative directions do result in opportunity and increased participation by marginalized groups, and it is doing something rather than nothing, and it is a broadly systemic first step, which is really good, a Rooney rule for casting directors would do very little, system wide.

Rather than quotas I’d think of these as benchmarks, and they are benchmarks that can be improved upon.

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Re: Awards Season 2020

#78 Post by Nasir007 » Wed Sep 09, 2020 6:24 pm

So my general assumption is almost every movie will qualify through B, C and D. And you just need 2 of A, B, C, D to qualify. So A wouldn't be as important. But just for curiosity I decided to see explore the past 10 years for eligibility based on A

Wouldn't meet A

Ford v Ferrari (2019)
The Irishman (2019)
1917 (2019)
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019)
Dunkirk (2017)
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Spotlight (2015)
Bridge of Spies (2015)
The Revenant (2015)
American Sniper (2014)
Boyhood (2014)
American Hustle (2013)
Her (2013)
Nebraska (2013)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Argo (2013)
Les Misérables (2012)
The Artist (2011)
The Descendants (2011)
Hugo (2011)
Midnight in Paris (2011)
Moneyball (2011)
The Tree of Life (2011)
War Horse (2011)
The King's Speech (2010)
127 Hours (2010)
The Fighter (2010)
The Social Network (2010)
Toy Story 3 (2010)

Arguably meets A on the following grounds

Jojo Rabbit (2019) - main theme centered on Jews
Bohemian Rhapsody (2019) - main narrative centered on LGBTQ+ person
La La Land (2016) - significant supporting actor John Legend
Lincoln - main theme is centered on african-americans

Don't remember or know enough

Vice (2018)
Darkest Hour (2017)
Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
Hell or High Water (2016)
The Big Short (2015)
Birdman (2014)
Whiplash (2014)
127 Hours (2010)
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Re: Awards Season 2020

#79 Post by captveg » Wed Sep 09, 2020 7:47 pm

Little Women would qualify for A for having "a main storyline or subject that centers on an underrepresented identity group." (Women)

One would likely be able to qualify other films from your "wouldn't meet A" list with the same, such as Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood and Les Misérables, depending on how "main story" one considers the Tate and Fantine storylines, respectively.

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Re: Awards Season 2020

#80 Post by Nasir007 » Wed Sep 09, 2020 8:17 pm

Ah that's a good point. I think Little Women definitely qualifies. I will remove it.

I don't think with Once or Les Mis you could make a case they are based on the story of those women. Once is clearly a story about middle aged masculine relevance and Les Mis is JVJ's redemption story through and through.

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Re: Awards Season 2020

#81 Post by felipe » Wed Sep 09, 2020 10:39 pm

So... it seems like this changes absolutely nothing to the films that were being nominated already (and I'm not saying it should), just feels like the Academy trying to avoid future criticism.

What? 1917 is not diverse enough? Actually, the makeup and hairstyling departments were both led by women thanks to our new rules.

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Re: Awards Season 2020

#82 Post by Slaphappy » Thu Sep 10, 2020 6:18 am

So there's a three year adjustment period. Let's hope 2023 Oscars will look like
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Re: Awards Season 2020

#83 Post by tenia » Thu Sep 10, 2020 7:02 am


felipe wrote:Actually, the makeup and hairstyling departments were both led by women thanks to our new rules.
I've read stats, I think from the UK, showing that hairstyling, make up and costumes are the 3 movie departments which employs more women than men.
Which feels extremely cliché. I guess kitchen would be the 4th one in terms of women employment.

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Re: Awards Season 2020

#84 Post by Ribs » Thu Sep 10, 2020 7:47 am

Nasir007 wrote:
Wed Sep 09, 2020 6:24 pm
So my general assumption is almost every movie will qualify through B, C and D. And you just need 2 of A, B, C, D to qualify. So A wouldn't be as important. But just for curiosity I decided to see explore the past 10 years for eligibility based on A
The second proviso of category A is way more loose then you're making it seem: any movie, so long as it has a total higher than 30% of POC, female, disabled, or LGBTQ cast combined, will meet the criteria. Which a chunk of those movies would.

Ultimately these rules will probably have the least impact in the first category because hiring six PAs, paying interns, and having a diverse team at the studio is a lot easier. (The fourth category is especially weak in the sense of inspiring any real change, as I cannot imagine that any major studio including the indie ones don't have at least two people who meet their criteria; while truly independent movies do exist and are technically eligible for Best Picture this will probably really lock them out as a matter of principle just because they don't have many executive level staff behind them).

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Re: Awards Season 2020

#85 Post by Nasir007 » Thu Sep 10, 2020 9:30 am

Ribs wrote:
Thu Sep 10, 2020 7:47 am
Nasir007 wrote:
Wed Sep 09, 2020 6:24 pm
So my general assumption is almost every movie will qualify through B, C and D. And you just need 2 of A, B, C, D to qualify. So A wouldn't be as important. But just for curiosity I decided to see explore the past 10 years for eligibility based on A
The second proviso of category A is way more loose then you're making it seem: any movie, so long as it has a total higher than 30% of POC, female, disabled, or LGBTQ cast combined, will meet the criteria. Which a chunk of those movies would.

Ultimately these rules will probably have the least impact in the first category because hiring six PAs, paying interns, and having a diverse team at the studio is a lot easier. (The fourth category is especially weak in the sense of inspiring any real change, as I cannot imagine that any major studio including the indie ones don't have at least two people who meet their criteria; while truly independent movies do exist and are technically eligible for Best Picture this will probably really lock them out as a matter of principle just because they don't have many executive level staff behind them).
The 2nd provision of A is very confusingly worded so I kinda ignored it. It says - "At least 30% of all actors in secondary and more minor roles are from at least two of the following underrepresented groups: Women. Racial or ethnic group, LGBTQ+, People with cognitive or physical disabilities, or who are deaf or hard of hearing."

Basically say 100 secondary or minor roles in a movie - 30 of them should be either women or race-based or LGBT or physical disabilities. Now say a black woman will not be counted twice. It is still the same 30%.

This rule is hard to adjudicate because what constitutes a minor role? How are they going to define that? Less than 10 words? No words? About 50 words? Do extras count? This rule is moot essentially due to vagueness.

Now take a movie like Irishman. It has an ensemble cast but essentially 3 women right? De Niro's wife and Pesci's wife and Anna Paquin. And between the 3 they might have less than 50 words or so. So it would fail. Dunkirk does not even have women in speaking roles I think. But there are several nurses that appear? Does that count?

Something like Argo - I find it impossible to judge. Several women do appear. But what is the pool we are counting to determine if they make up 30%.

I feel we as layman are definitely not able to determine if a film meets A through the second provision. But the rule itself is overbroad and might be abused, as people will add extras to the credit cast list and meet the number. "Minor role" will have to be defined for this to be a useful criteria.

EDIT: Also the at least 2 is confusing - basically even if you have 30% women, you would fail unless one of them was a POC or lgbt.

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Re: Awards Season 2020

#86 Post by Toland's Mitchell » Thu Sep 10, 2020 1:29 pm

Encouraging inclusion is a good thing, however I think this is a PR stunt more than anything else, a public reminder the Academy is always trying to be woke as if we didn't already know. Almost every set I work on, the BTL crew is more than 30% women/minority/LGBTQ. I know I'm not the only member here who works in the industry, so hopefully others' experiences have been similar. Anyway, as Nasir007 mentioned yesterday, almost every recent BP nominee likely met the standards anyway, therefore this doesn't change much (anything?). It just seems like a lazy progressive gesture that may not effectively achieve the inclusive goals it strives for, while at the same time fights against future criticism, as felipe mentioned. Furthermore, I can't help but feel the Academy also wanted attention...as our minds are focused on bigger things in 2020 (coronavirus, the election, protests, etc.), the Academy wanted to say 'hey we're still here and we're still woke, and oh by the way don't forget to watch the Oscars next year.'

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Re: Awards Season 2020

#87 Post by Zot! » Fri Sep 11, 2020 4:54 am

Toland's Mitchell wrote:
Thu Sep 10, 2020 1:29 pm
Encouraging inclusion is a good thing, however I think this is a PR stunt more than anything else, a public reminder the Academy is always trying to be woke as if we didn't already know.
Exactly, If there was a positive outcome from this, I wish it might convince people that we can stop using an Oscar win as a mark of quality, but rather earmarking as populist fodder. But then ordinary people keep quoting box-office gross as a determination of a film's artistic value, so I suppose you can't win.

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Re: Awards Season 2020

#88 Post by eerik » Wed Oct 21, 2020 2:40 pm

Student Academy Award winners announced.

Estonia's "My Dear Corpses" won the international narrative category. First such honour for our tiny film school. :)

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Re: Awards Season 2020

#89 Post by Nasir007 » Sun Nov 01, 2020 4:29 pm

Interesting tidbit in Anne Thompson's and Eric Kohn's indiewire podcast. I had never imagined it but SBC and Borat 2 are gunning for the oscars hard. SBC demoted himself to supporting for Chicago 7 so that he could be lead in Borat and 2 and the are also pushing the actress who played his daughter and other categories too.

Thompson acknowledged that the movie is definitely helped by its more overt political nature in an election year - targeting trump, pence, trump associates and trump voters. I think liberal Hollywood would just eat that up.

So what I thought was the film's weakest element might work in the film's favor and lead it to awards glory.

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Re: Awards Season 2020

#90 Post by domino harvey » Tue Dec 01, 2020 2:41 am

Reading the most likely nominees for this season on GoldDerby makes me feel like Rip Van Winkle. I have not heard of like half of these movies, what is happening

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Re: Awards Season 2020

#91 Post by Dr Amicus » Tue Dec 01, 2020 6:28 am

I know the film isn't out yet, but just from seeing a (filmed live) production of Everybody's Talking About Jamie I've been predicting a nomination for Richard E Grant for the past year. His role, an aging drag queen who acts as mentor to the main character, is a gift and Grant is popular, especially after his time on the award circuit a couple of years back.

Gold Derby doesn't agree with me...

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Re: Awards Season 2020

#92 Post by Jack Kubrick » Wed Dec 02, 2020 4:54 pm

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Cahiers Du Cinema top ten of 2020.

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Re: Awards Season 2020

#93 Post by domino harvey » Wed Dec 02, 2020 4:57 pm

Wow, that’s the first time I’ve seen them love a Mouret film! I don’t know whether to be worried or not

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#94 Post by knives » Wed Dec 02, 2020 7:13 pm

Don’t worry. This is the all new sold out caheirs.

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Re: Awards Season 2020

#95 Post by domino harvey » Wed Dec 02, 2020 7:29 pm

Oh right! Some of these picks sound like classic Cahiers. And then there's Énorme...

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Re: Awards Season 2020

#96 Post by lacritfan » Sat Dec 12, 2020 10:09 pm

2020 European Film Awards:

European Film - Another Round, dir. Thomas Vinterberg
European Director - Thomas Vinterberg for Another Round
European Actress - Paula Beer for Undine
European Actor - Mads Mikkelsen for Another Round
European Screenwriter - Thomas Vinterberg, Tobias Lindholm for Another Round
European Discovery — Prix Fipresci - Carlo Sironi for Sole
European Documentary - Alexander Nanau for Collective
European Comedy - The Big Hit, dir. Emmanuel Courcol
European Animated Feature - Josep, dir. Aurel
EFA Award for Innovative Storytelling - Mark Cousins for Women Make Films
European Cinematography - Matteo Cocco for Hidden Away
European Editing - Maria Fantastica Valmori for Once More Unto the Breach
European Production Design - Cristina Casali for The Personal History of David Copperfield
European Costume Design - Ursula Patzak for Hidden Away
European Make-Up & Hair - Yolanda Piña, Félix Terrero & Nacho Diaz for The Endless Trench
European Original Score - Dascha Dauenhauer for Berlin Alexanderplatz
European Sound - Yolande Decarsin & Kristian Selin Eidnes Andersens for Little Girl
European Visual Effects - Inaki Madariaga for The Platform
European Sound - Kristian Selin, Eidnes Andersen, Yolande Decarsin for Little Girl
European Short Film - All Cats Are Grey in the Dark, dir. Lasse Linder
European University Film Award - Saudi Runaway, dir. Susanne Regina Meures
Eurimages Co-Production Award - Luís Urbano

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Re: Awards Season 2020

#97 Post by therewillbeblus » Sat Dec 12, 2020 10:12 pm

Awesome, I've been thrilled for Another Round (Druk) (which is actually playing virtual screenings right now)

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Re: Awards Season 2020

#98 Post by lacritfan » Sun Dec 20, 2020 11:36 pm

L.A. Film Critics Association
Best Picture: Small Axe
Runner Up: Nomadland

Director: Chloe Zhao (Nomadland)
Runner-up: Steve McQueen (Small Axe)

Actor: Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom)
Runner-up: Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal)

Actress: Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman)
Runner-up: Viola Davis (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom)

Supporting Actor: Glynn Turman (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom)
Runner-up: Paul Raci (Sound of Metal)

Supporting Actress: Youn Yuh-jung (Minari)
Runner-up: Amanda Seyfried (Mank)

Screenplay: Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)
Runner-up: Eliza Hittman (Never Really Sometimes Always)

Documentary: Time
Runner-up: Collective

Animation: Wolfwalkers
Runner-up: Soul

Foreign-language: Beanpole
Runner-up: Martin Eden

Editing: Yorgos Lamprinos, (The Father)
Runner-up: Gabriel Rhodes (Time)

Production Design: Donald Graham Burt, (Mank)
Runner-up: Sergey Ivanov, (Beanpole)

Music/Score: Soul
Runner-up: Lovers Rock

Cinematography: Shabier Kirchner (Small Axe)
Runner-up: Joshua James Richards (Nomadland)

Career Achievement Award: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Harry Belafonte

Douglas Edwards Independent/Experimental Film: John Gianvito's Her Socialist Smile

New Generation: Radha Blank, The 40-Year-Old Version

Legacy Award: Norman Lloyd

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Re: Awards Season 2020

#99 Post by lacritfan » Sun Dec 20, 2020 11:41 pm

New York Film Critics Circle
Best Picture: First Cow
Best Director: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland
Best Actor: Delroy Lindo, Da 5 Bloods
Best Actress: Sidney Flanigan, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Best Supporting Actor: Chadwick Boseman, Da 5 Bloods
Best Supporting Actress: Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
Best Screenplay: Eliza Hittman, Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Best Animated Film: Wolfwalkers
Best Cinematography: Small Axe (all films)
Best First Film: The 40-Year-Old Version
Best Foreign-Language Film: Bacurau
Best Nonfiction Film: Time
Special Award 1: Kino Lorber's Kino Marquee Virtual Cinema
Special Award 2: Spike Lee "New York New York" Love Letter
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Re: Awards Season 2020

#100 Post by Pavel » Mon Dec 21, 2020 6:08 am

lacritfan wrote:
Sun Dec 20, 2020 11:36 pm
L.A. Film Critics Association
Best Picture: Small Axe
I'd seen the argument that this is a TV show and the argument that it's five separate movies, but I hadn't seen the argument that it's actually a single film.

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