All five have connected with teen audiences worldwide in both the mainstream media as well as the nerd blogosphere, and all have received numerous nominations in the latest
batch of critics awards.
It's interesting that there is so much attention invested in which films and filmmakers get left out
of critics awards in the early stages of the Oscar race.
For her work in the film, Mulligan won a
number of critics awards for Best Actress, as well as garnering nominations from the Hollywood Foreign Press, the Screen Actors Guild, and the Academy.
’12 Years A Slave» has been winning a
rash of critics awards the last week, and today the Las Vegas Film Critics Society joined in the fun also awarding top prize to the Fox Searchlight film along with Steve McQueen for directing and Lupita N'yongo for Supporting Actress.
But I meant that Goodfellas was winning a
lot of critics awards prior to the announcement of the Oscar nominations.
@Loyal: Well if The Social Network ends up with a ton of Oscar nominations, as well as the
majority of critics awards, it will indeed appear to be the surefire winner.
And while Ali's favorite status also seemed solid early on, thanks to a number
of critics award wins, there have been a few unexpected twists in his narrative — including an upset by Nocturnal Animals star Aaron Taylor - Johnson at the Golden Globes, and one by Lion's Dev Patel at the BAFTA Awards Sunday night.
Four years later Eastwood won not only the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture, but also a
slew of critics awards and the prestigious Directors Guild Award for his work on the instant classic «Unforgiven,» easily among the finest three westerns ever made.
Also, can I just say that I am so so happy that Steve Carell isn't showing up anywhere in the first
round of critics awards and nominations.
As December draws to a close, our second forum poll series of the month sees what a few
weeks of critics awards (okay, and SAG) can do to the race.
Regardless of its duplicitous intent and inevitable destination, I found The Act of Killing, which has dominated
many of the critics awards including those of my own Online Film Critics Society, repugnant for the spotlight it turned on unrepentant mass murders.
I think I understand Feinberg feeling like LAFCA is saying, «No, the best performance of the year is actually in this movie that only we've seen,» but it's the
point of the critics awards to judge on merit and not confine themselves to outside expectations.
At this writing, Sean Penn and Mickey Rourke seem to be the two frontrunners in the lead actor race, with Penn given the edge having won the lion's
share of critics awards and the SAG statuette.
Both are certainly way above the Washington D.C. critics, who are currently in the Razzie position in
terms of critics awards this year for their utter lack of imagination.
'12 Years A Slave» has been winning a
rash of critics awards the last week, and today the Las Vegas Film Critics Society joined in the fun also awarding top prize to the Fox Searchlight film along with Steve McQueen for directing and Lupita N'yongo for Support...
ACTRESS Portman has been winning
lots of critics awards but, strangely, her film (just as strong or even stronger than her eery performance) isn't doing as well.
Boyhood has swept a
majority of critics awards this last week, but today the Las Vegas Film Critics Society put their chips behind Fox Searchlight's Birdman, awarding the film seven awards for best picture, best director, best actor, best screenplay, cinematography, ensemble and score.
• Stephen Schaefer bemoans the broadcast realities and «cookie cutter sameness»
of critics awards in the 21st century.