Monthly Archives: January 2011
POLL: Predict The 16th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards!
The Broadcast Film Critics Association’s Critics’ Choice Awards are tonight (they air starting at 5PM PST on VH1), so I thought it might be fun to get your thoughts on who you think will win tonight. Black Swan leads the nominees with 12 nominations, followed by The King’s Speech and True Grit with 11 each. After the cut I’ve got polls set up for some of the major categories. You can see all the categories and nominations here. Also, while you’re at it, if you could take a second to vote for Cinema Fanatic at the 2011 Total Movie Blog Awards, I’d be ever so grateful.
Movie Quote of the Day – Brief Encounter, 1945 (dir. David Lean)
Laura Jesson: This can’t last. This misery can’t last. I must remember that and try to control myself. Nothing lasts really. Neither happiness nor despair. Not even life lasts very long. There’ll come a time in the future when I shan’t mind about this anymore, when I can look back and say quite peacefully and cheerfully how silly I was. No, no, I don’t want that time to come ever. I want to remember every minute, always, always to the end of my days.
Movie Quote of the Day – Chicago, 2002 (dir. Rob Marshall)
Roxie Hart: What do you want?
Amos Hart: I want you to come home. You said you still wanted to. And the baby.
Roxie Hart: Baby? What baby? [beat] Oh , Jesus. What do you take me for? There ain’t no baby.
Amos Hart: There ain’t no baby?
[beat]
Roxie Hart: They didn’t even want my picture. I can’t understand that. Why didn’t they even want my picture?
Movie Quote of the Day – The Wrestler, 2008 (dir. Darren Aronofsky)
Randy ‘The Ram’ Robinson: I just want to tell you, I’m the one who was supposed to take care of everything. I’m the one who was supposed to make everything okay for everybody. It just didn’t work out like that. And I left. I left you. You never did anything wrong. I used to try to forget about you. I used to try to pretend that you didn’t exist, but I can’t. You’re my girl. You’re my little girl. And now, I’m an old broken down piece of meat. . .and I’m alone. And I deserve to be all alone. I just don’t want you to hate me. [beat] Okay?
Movie Quote of the Day – Snatch., 2000 (dir. Guy Ritchie)
Bullet Tooth Tony: You should never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.
Oscar Vault Monday – The Piano, 1993 (dir. Jane Campion)
I saw The Piano for the first time about a year ago after I’d seen Campion’s most recent film Bright Star, which I unabashedly love, and decided I needed to see her “masterpiece.” While I liked Bright Star more, I think it’s mostly because of the sentiments expressed in the latter. I definitely think The Piano is one of the best films I have ever seen and Holly Hunter gives a show-stopping performance. The film won the Palme d’Or and Best Performance prizes at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. Jane Campion became only the second woman to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards, winning three: Best Costume Design, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Original Screenplay (won), Best Supporting Actress Anna Paquin (won), Best Actress Holly Hunter (won), Best Director and Best Picture. It was up against The Fugitive, In The Name of the Father, The Piano, The Remains of the Day and winner Schindler’s List.
Movie Quote of the Day – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2003 (dir. Peter Jackson)
Witch King: You fool. No man can kill me. Die now.
Eowyn: I am no man.
DGA Announces Nominees
Most years the DGA coincides exactly with the five nominees at the Academy Awards. But there have been year where one director gets a DGA, but not an Oscar nod. There are even years where two of the DGA nominees don’t make it to Oscar. Right now, I think Fincher is mostly definitely the closest thing we have to a lock.
This year’s nominees are:
- Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan
- David Fincher – The Social Network
- Tom Hopper – The King’s Speech
- Christopher Nolan – Inception
- David O. Russell – The Fighter
Hailee Steinfeld and the Best Supporting Actress Race
There’s been a lot of chatter as of late on Twitter about 14 year-old Hailee Steinfeld’s chances at an Oscar nomination and whether her performance should be considered for Best Actress or Best Supporting Actress. The debate seems to be whether the role is a lead role or a supporting role. While I think it is a lead role, what is really in question is where she has the best chance of getting a nomination – and even perhaps winning. That’s how studios decide how to campaign a role. Though Steinfeld is the heart of True Grit, she has the best chance in the Best Supporting Actress category.
Movie Quote of the Day – (500) Days of Summer, 2009 (dir. Marc Webb)
Tom: It’s these cards and the movies and the pop songs, they’re to blame for all lies and the heartache, everything.
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