Monthly Archives: January 2013
Movie Quote of the Day – Fame, 1980 (dir. Alan Parker)
Hilary van Doren: You see, I was offered this place in the San Francisco Ballet. I haven’t told anyone yet, but I’m gonna take it. I don’t care what they think. I’m a good dancer. Better than good. Maybe even the best in the school. And that’s not conceit, it’s just simple honesty. If I stay in New York, everyone will think I bought my way into ABT. And I’m not starving myself for Balanchine’s City Ballet. Not that I mind doing the corps de ballet bullshit. I’d sooner do it out of town. I’ll pay my dues on the west coast, come back to New York a star. You see, I’ve always had this crazy dream of dancing all the classical roles before I’m twenty-one. I want Giselles and Coppélias coming out of my feet. And Sleeping Beauties, and the Swan. I want bravos in Stuttgart and Leningrad and Paris. Maybe even a ballet created especially for me. You see? There’s no room for a baby.
Nurse: Will this be Master Charge or American Express, honey?
“Argo” Named Best Picture, Affleck Best Director at Critics Choice Awards
Best Picture: Argo
Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Actress: Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Supporting Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
Young Actor/Actress: Quvenzhane Wallis
Acting Ensemble: Silver Linings Playbook
Director: Ben Affleck
Original Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
Adapted Screenplay: Tony Kushner, Lincoln
Cinematography: Claudio Miranda, Life of Pi
Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood/Katie Spencer, Anna Karenina
Editing: William Goldenberg/Dylan Tichenor, Zero Dark Thirty
Costume Design: Jacqueline Durran, Anna Karenina
Makeup: Cloud Atlas
Visual Effects: Life of Pi
Animated Feature: Wreck-It Ralph
Action Movie: Skyfall
Actor in an Action Movie: Daniel Craig, Skyfall
Actress in an Action Movie: Jennifer Lawrence, The Hunger Games
Comedy: Silver Linings Playbook
Actor in a Comedy: Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Actress in a Comedy: Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Sci-Fi/Horror Movie: Looper
Foreign Language Film: Amour
Documentary Feature: Searching for Sugarman
Song: Skyfall
Score: John Williams, Lincoln
Movie Quote of the Day – New York, New York, 1977 (dir. Martin Scorsese)
Jimmy: I know you from some place.
Francine: No.
Jimmy: You don’t remember me?
Francine: No.
Jimmy: You don’t remember we met a few years ago? It was at a party or a dance. We had a long conversation. You can’t remember that?
Francine: No.
Jimmy: I just want to explain to you, first of all, my parents are over there, my mother and father, my brother and sister. So I got to see them because I just was two years in the service, you know, so they haven’t see me. Now, I want to get your phone number so I can tell you tomorrow about what I was thinking about. There’s something very, very important I’ve got to talk to you about.
Francine: No.
Jimmy: No what? No what?
Francine: No.
Jimmy: No?
Francine: No.
Jimmy: No, no, no. You don’t understand. Give me your number. You got a pencil or something?
Francine: No.
Jimmy: All right. I have a photographic memory. Just give me your number, and I’ll remember it.
Francine: No.
Jimmy: Yes.
Francine: No.
Jimmy: Yes.
Francine: No.
Jimmy: Can I meet you at Central Park? I’m serious.
Francine: I know. No.
Jimmy: I mean, come on. There’s no way…
Francine: No!
Oscar Nominations 2013
Best Picture:
- Argo
- Amour
- Beasts of the Southern Wild
- Django Unchained
- Les Miserables
- Life Of Pi
- Lincoln
- Silver Linings Playbook
- Zero Dark Thirty
Best Director:
- Michael Haneke, Amour
- Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern WIld
- Ang Lee, Life Of Pi
- Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
- David O. Russell , Silver Linings Playbook
Best Actor:
- Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
- Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
- Denzel Washington, Flight
- Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables
- Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Best Actress:
- Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
- Naomi Watts, The Impossible
- Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
- Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
- Quvenzhané Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Best Supporting Actor:
- Alan Arkin, Argo
- Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
- Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
- Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
- Robert DeNiro, Silver Linings Playbook
Best Supporting Actress:
- Amy Adams, The Master
- Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
- Helen Hunt, The Sessions
- Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook
- Sally Field, Lincoln
Best Original Screenplay:
- Michael Haneke, Amour
- Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
- John Gatins, Flight
- Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Moonrise Kingdom
- Mark Boal, Zero Dark Thirty
Best Adapted Screenplay:
- Chris Terrio, Argo
- Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin, Beasts Of The Southern Wild
- David Magee, Life Of Pi
- Tony Kushner, Lincoln
- David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Best Foreign Language Film:
- Amour
- Kon-Tiki
- No
- A Royal Affair
- War Witch
Best Animated Film:
- Brave
- Frankenweenie
- ParaNorman
- The Pirates! Band of Misfits
- Wreck-It Ralph
Best Documentary
- 5 Broken Cameras
- The Gatekeepers
- How to Survive a Plague
- The Invisible War
- Searching for Sugar Man
Best Cinematography
- “Anna Karenina” Seamus McGarvey
- “Django Unchained” Robert Richardson
- “Life of Pi” Claudio Miranda
- “Lincoln” Janusz Kaminski
- “Skyfall” Roger Deakins
Best Costume Design
- “Anna Karenina” Jacqueline Durran
- “Les Misérables” Paco Delgado
- “Lincoln” Joanna Johnston
- “Mirror Mirror” Eiko Ishioka
- “Snow White and the Huntsman” Colleen Atwood
Best Film Editing
- “Argo” William Goldenberg
- “Life of Pi” Tim Squyres
- “Lincoln” Michael Kahn
- “Silver Linings Playbook” Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers
- “Zero Dark Thirty” Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg
Best Makeup
- “Hitchcock”
Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel - “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”
Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane - “Les Misérables”
Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell
Best Original Score
- “Anna Karenina” Dario Marianelli
- “Argo” Alexandre Desplat
- “Life of Pi” Mychael Danna
- “Lincoln” John Williams
- “Skyfall” Thomas Newman
Best Song
- “Before My Time” from “Chasing Ice”
Music and Lyric by J. Ralph - “Everybody Needs A Best Friend” from “Ted”
Music by Walter Murphy; Lyric by Seth MacFarlane - “Pi’s Lullaby” from “Life of Pi”
Music by Mychael Danna; Lyric by Bombay Jayashri - “Skyfall” from “Skyfall”
Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth - “Suddenly” from “Les Misérables”
Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg; Lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil
Best Production Desgin
- “Anna Karenina”
Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer - “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”
Production Design: Dan Hennah; Set Decoration: Ra Vincent and Simon Bright - “Les Misérables”
Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Anna Lynch-Robinson - “Life of Pi”
Production Design: David Gropman; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock - “Lincoln”
Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson
Best Sound Editing
- “Argo” Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn
- “Django Unchained”Wylie Stateman
- “Life of Pi” Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton
- “Skyfall” Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers
- “Zero Dark Thirty”Paul N.J. Ottosson
Best Sound Mixing
- “Argo”
John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia - “Les Misérables”
Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes - “Life of Pi”
Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin - “Lincoln”
Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Ronald Judkins - “Skyfall”
Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson
Best Visual Effects
- “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”
Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White - “Life of Pi”
Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott - “Marvel’s The Avengers”
Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick - “Prometheus”
Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill - “Snow White and the Huntsman”
Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson
Best Short – Documentary
- “Inocente”
Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine - “Kings Point”
Sari Gilman and Jedd Wider - “Mondays at Racine”
Cynthia Wade and Robin Honan - “Open Heart”
Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern - “Redemption”
Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill
Best Best Short – Animated
- “Adam and Dog” Minkyu Lee
- “Fresh Guacamole” PES
- “Head over Heels” Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O’Reilly
- “Maggie Simpson in “The Longest Daycare”” David Silverman
- “Paperman” John Kahrs
Best Short – Live Action
- “Asad” Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura
- “Buzkashi Boys”Sam French and Ariel Nasr
- “Curfew” Shawn Christensen
- “Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)” Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele
- “Henry” Yan England
Producers Guild, Directors Guild and Writers Guild Nominations
I guess I have been slacking in my updates. Here’s all the guild nominations. Argo, Lincoln, Life of Pi and Zero Dark Thirty show up on all three lists.
Producers Guild:
The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures:
- “Argo” (Warner Bros.)
- Producers: Ben Affleck, George Clooney, Grant Heslov
- “Beasts of the Southern Wild” (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
- Producers: Michael Gottwald, Dan Janvey, Josh Penn
- “Django Unchained” (The Weinstein Company)
- Producers: Reginald Hudlin, Pilar Savone, Stacey Sher
- “Les Misérables” (Universal Pictures)
- Producers: Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh
- “Life of Pi” (Fox 2000 Pictures)
- Producers: Ang Lee, Gil Netter, David Womark
- “Lincoln” (Touchstone Pictures)
- Producers: Kathleen Kennedy, Steven Spielberg
- “Moonrise Kingdom” (Focus Features)
- Producers: Wes Anderson & Scott Rudin, Jeremy Dawson, Steven Rales
- “Silver Linings Playbook” (The Weinstein Company)
- Producers: Bruce Cohen, Donna Gigliotti, Jonathan Gordon
- “Skyfall” ( Columbia Pictures)
- Producers: Barbara Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson
- “Zero Dark Thirty” ( Columbia Pictures)
- Producers: Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Megan Ellison
The Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures:
- “Brave” (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
- Producer: Katherine Sarafian
- “Frankenweenie” (Walt Disney Pictures)
- Producers: Allison Abbate, Tim Burton
- “ParaNorman” (Focus Features)
- Producers: Travis Knight, Arianne Sutner
- “Rise of the Guardians” (Paramount Pictures)
- Producers: Nancy Bernstein, Christina Steinberg
- “Wreck-It Ralph” (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
- Producer: Clark Spencer
Directors Guild:
- Ben Affleck “Argo”
- Kathryn Bigelow “Zero Dark Thirty”
- Tom Hooper “Les Miserables”
- Ang Lee “The Life of Pi”
- Steven Spielberg “Lincoln”
Writers Guild:
Best Original Screenplay,
- “Flight”, John Gatins
- “Looper”,Rian Johnson;
- “The Master”, Paul Thomas Anderson
- “Moonrise Kingdom”, Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola
- “Zero Dark Thirty”, Mark Boal
Best Adapted Screenplay:
- “Argo”, Chris Terrio
- “Life of Pi”, David Magee
- “Lincoln”, Tony Kushner
- “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, Stephen Chbosky
- “Silver Linings Playbook”, David O. Russell
Best Documentary Screenplay:
- “The Central Park Five”, Sarah Burns andDavid McMahon and Ken Burns
- “The Invisible War”, Kirby Dick
- “Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God”, Alex Gibney
- “Searching for Sugar Man”, Malik Bendjelloul
- “We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists”, Brian Knappenberger
- “West of Memphis”, Amy Berg & Billy McMillin
“Lincoln” Leads BAFTA Nominations
Best Film:
- Argo
- Les Miserables
- Life Of Pi
- Lincoln
- Zero Dark Thirty
Best British Film:
- Anna Karenina
- The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
- Les Miserables
- Seven Psychopaths
- Skyfall
Best Director:
- Michael Haneke, Amour
- Ben Affleck, Argo
- Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
- Ang Lee, Life Of Pi
- Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
Best Actor:
- Ben Affleck, Argo
- Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
- Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
- Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables
- Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Best Actress:
- Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
- Helen Mirren, Hitchcock
- Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
- Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
- Marion Cotillard, Rust and Bone
Best Supporting Actor:
- Alan Arkin, Argo
- Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
- Javier Bardem, Skyfall
- Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
- Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Best Supporting Actress:
- Amy Adams, The Master
- Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
- Helen Hunt, The Sessions
- Judi Dench, Skyfall
- Sally Field, Lincoln
Rising Star Award (voted by the public):
- Elizabeth Olsen
- Andrea Riseborough
- Suraj Sharma
- Juno Temple
- Alicia Vikander
Best Original Screenplay:
- Michael Haneke, Amour
- Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
- Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master
- Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Moonrise Kingdom
- Mark Boal, Zero Dark Thirty
Best Adapted Screenplay:
- Chris Terrio, Argo
- Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin, Beasts Of The Southern Wild
- David Magee, Life Of Pi
- Tony Kushner, Lincoln
- David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Best Film Not in the English Language:
- Amour
- Headhunters
- The Hunt
- Rust and Bone
- Untouchable
Best Animated Film:
- Brave
- Frankenweenie
- ParaNorman
Best Documentary:
- The Imposter
- Marley
- McCullin
- Searching For Sugar Man
- West Of Memphis

























