2023 Festivals/Awards Thread

[Buscemi2]

That Wish nomination looked suspect. But remember, these are the same people who nominated multi-Razzie winner Music for Best Picture a few years back.

As for Dead Reckoning, I'm thinking it might have been done to retroactively recognize Top Gun: Maverick's box office success. But as it's clearly a popularity category, I'd expect it be one of several wins for Barbie.

[transformers2]

Critics Choice Nominations:

Best Picture:
American Fiction
Barbie
The Color Purple
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
Poor Things
Saltburn

Best Director:
Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Greta Gerwig, Barbie
Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things
Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer
Alexander Payne, The Holdovers
Martin Scorsese, Killers of the Flower Moon

Best Actor:
Bradley Cooper, Maestro
Leonardo DiCaprio, Killers of the Flower Moon
Colman Domingo, Rustin
Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers
Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer
Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction

Best Actress:
Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon
Sandra Huller, Anatomy of a Fall
Greta Lee, Past Lives
Carey Mulligan, Maestro
Margot Robbie, Barbie
Emma Stone, Poor Things

Best Supporting Actor:
Sterling K. Brown, American Fiction
Robert De Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Charles Melton, May December
Mark Ruffalo, Poor Things

Best Supporting Actress:
Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple
America Ferrera, Barbie
Jodie Foster, Nyad
Julianne Moore, May December
Da'Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers

Best Young Actor/Actress:
Abby Ryder Fortson, Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Ariana Greenblatt, Barbie
Calah Lane, Wonka
Milo Machado Graner, Anatomy of a Fall
Dominic Sessa, The Holdovers
Madeline Yuna Voyles, The Creator

Best Acting Ensemble:
Air
Barbie
The Color Purple
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer

Best Original Screenplay:
Air
Barbie
The Holdovers
Maestro
May December
Past Lives

Best Adapted Screenplay:
American Fiction
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
All of Us Strangers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

Best Cinematography:
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Saltburn

Best Editing:
Air
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

Best Production Design:
Asteroid City
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Saltburn

Best Costume Design:
Barbie
The Color Purple
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon
Poor Things
Wonka

Best Hair and Makeup:
Barbie
The Color Purple
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Priscilla

Best Visual Effects:
The Creator
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3
Mission-Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One
Oppenheimer
Poor Things

Best Animated Feature:
The Boy and the Heron
Elemental
Nimona
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Wish

Best Foreign Language Film:
Anatomy of a Fall
Godzilla Minus One
Perfect Days
Society of the Snow
The Taste of Things
The Zone of Interest

Best Comedy:
American Fiction
Barbie
Bottoms
The Holdovers
No Hard Feelings
Poor Things
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best Score:
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Society of the Snow
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best Song:
"Dance the Night"-Barbie
"I'm Just Ken"-Barbie
"Peaches"-The Super Mario Bros. Movie
"Road to Freedom"-Rustin
"This Wish"-Wish
"What Was I Made For"-Barbie

[Buscemi2]

I'm surprised someone remembered Are You There, God? It's Margaret. This one was pretty much DOA at the box office.

And Rustin feels like it's been completely forgotten, after only getting some praise out of Toronto.

[numbersix]

I'm surprised someone remembered Are You There, God? It's Margaret. This one was pretty much DOA at the box office.

And yet it's topping the lists in Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. From here it looks like a generic teen movie, so curious what the critics see in it.

[transformers2]

The great reviews encouraged me to check it out when it was released in April and I'm glad that I did. While it wasn't fully my cup of tea, it's a really well-written/acted, unique coming-of-age story. Kelly Fremon Craig is a gifted filmmaker that will hopefully continue to get gigs despite its dismal BO performance.

[Buscemi2]

The gap between The Edge of Seventeen, another film that critics loved but audiences ignored, and Margaret was seven years. Unless an indie label or streaming service pays attention or James L. Brooks wants to make another movie, it's highly unlikely Craig gets a third feature and probably ends up having to retreat to television/streaming shows. It seems like you can only work steadily as a director in Hollywood if your movies make a profit, the Internet loves you, or you're an actor who wants to direct.

[Buscemi2]

The Boys in the Boat is out of the race. Early reviews are pretty much what I expected them to be: very mixed.

Clooney as a director seems to have really coasted over the past decade or so.

Meanwhile, it looks like Rebel Moon Part I just became the favorite to win Worst Picture at the Razzies. This would be Netflix's third consecutive Worst Picture winner if this does happen.

[numbersix]

Even on paper boys on the boat looked like weak sauce. George hasn't directed a decent film since confessions of a dangerous mind

[Buscemi2]

The trailer showed the entire movie in two minutes but I know some were expecting it to be good because of the book's success.

[Buscemi2]

The Color Purple finally had its embargo lifted. General consensus states it to be good (70 on Metacritic) but not great, basically.

[transformers2]

This is 2024 festival news, but I'm not making a new thread until shortly after the new year starts damn it! Spaceman and Cuckoo will be having their world premieres at Berlin in February.

[Buscemi2]

I wouldn't have expected an Adam Sandler movie to premiere at Berlin.

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Oscars Shortlists:
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM:
American Symphony
Apolonia, Apolonia
Beyond Utopia
Bobi Wine: The People’s President
Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy
The Eternal Memory
Four Daughters
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
In the Rearview
Stamped from the Beginning
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
A Still Small Voice
32 Sounds
To Kill a Tiger
20 Days in Mariupol

DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM:
The ABCs of Book Banning
The Barber of Little Rock
Bear
Between Earth & Sky
Black Girls Play: The Story of Hand Games
Camp Courage
Deciding Vote
How We Get Free
If Dreams Were Lightning: Rural Healthcare Crisis
Island in Between
The Last Repair Shop
Last Song from Kabul
Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó
Oasis
Wings of Dust

INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM:
Armenia, Amerikatsi
Bhutan, The Monk and the Gun
Denmark, The Promised Land
Finland, Fallen Leaves
France, The Taste of Things
Germany, The Teachers’ Lounge
Iceland, Godland
Italy, Io Capitano
Japan, Perfect Days
Mexico, Totem
Morocco, The Mother of All Lies
Spain, Society of the Snow
Tunisia, Four Daughters
Ukraine, 20 Days in Mariupol
United Kingdom, The Zone of Interest

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING:
Beau Is Afraid
Ferrari
Golda
Killers of the Flower Moon
The Last Voyage of the Demeter
Maestro
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Society of the Snow

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE):
American Fiction
American Symphony
Barbie
The Boy and the Heron
The Color Purple
Elemental
The Holdovers
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Poor Things
Saltburn
Society of the Snow
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The Zone of Interest

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG):
It Never Went Away from American Symphony
Dear Alien (Who Art In Heaven) from Asteroid City
Dance The Night from Barbie
I’m Just Ken from Barbie
What Was I Made For? from Barbie
Keep It Movin’ from The Color Purple
Superpower (I) from The Color Purple
The Fire Inside from Flamin’ Hot
High Life from Flora and Son
Meet In The Middle from Flora and Son
Can’t Catch Me Now from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People) from Killers of the Flower Moon
Quiet Eyes from Past Lives
Road To Freedom from Rustin
Am I Dreaming from Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

ANIMATED SHORT FILM:
Boom
Eeva
Humo (Smoke)
I’m Hip
A Kind of Testament
Koerkorter (Dog Apartment)
Letter to a Pig
Ninety-Five Senses
Once upon a Studio
Our Uniform
Pachyderme
Pete
27
War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko
Wild Summon

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM:
The After
The Anne Frank Gift Shop
An Avocado Pit
Bienvenidos a Los Angeles
Dead Cat
Good Boy
Invincible
Invisible Border
Knight of Fortune
The One Note Man
Red, White and Blue
The Shepherd
Strange Way of Life
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Yellow

SOUND:
Barbie
The Creator
Ferrari
The Killer
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Napoleon
Oppenheimer
The Zone of Interest

VISUAL EFFECTS:
The Creator
Godzilla Minus One
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Napoleon
Poor Things
Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire
Society of the Snow
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Biggest Surprises:
-No Wonka, The Little Mermaid or Wish in Best Original Song, but 2 entries from Flora and Son

-Anslem not making the cut in Best Documentary Feature

-The Last Voyage of the Demeter and Beau is Afraid getting in over Barbie and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3 in Makeup and Hairstyling

-No musical or music movies other than Maestro being on the Best Sound list

[Buscemi2]

They'll probably just give Best Sound to Oppenheimer anyway, as the loudest movie tends to win in most years.

[StarLord123]

Barbie will now compete for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar despite campaigning for Best Original Screenplay.