Zero Dark Thirty! Bigelow! Weisz! Awards season is on.
The New York Film Critics Circle awards were handed out today. The winners are:
Best Film: Zero Dark Thirty
Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty)
This is the movie we’re most excited to see. (Yes, even more than The Hobbit. Which opens next week; we’ve already cleared our schedule.)
How does Jessica Chastain’s cryface compare with Claire Danes’s on Homeland? Their characters were probably based on the same person.
Best Screenplay: Tony Kushner (Lincoln)
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)
We gather the only way Daniel Day-Lewis won’t get his third Academy Award is if the voters realize it will be his third.
Best Actress: Rachel Weisz (The Deep Blue Sea)
She’s incandescent as a woman who throws her life away for a man. Oscar! Oscar! Warning: Watch with strong drink. (Hmm we just mentioned this movie. We are psychic.)
Best Foreign Language Film: Amour by Michael Haneke
White Ribbon turned us into a fan; before that we were afraid of him.
Best Animated Film: Frankenweenie
Best Supporting Actor: Matthew McConaughey (Bernie, Magic Mike)
We said it after watching Magic Mike: McConaughey is good for something, alright alright alright.
Best Supporting Actress: Sally Field (Lincoln)
Best Cinematographer: Greig Fraser (Zero Dark Thirty)
Best Non-Fiction Film (Documentary): The Central Park Five
Best First Film: David France (How to Survive a Plague)
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December 4th, 2012 at 18:57
Beauty and talent, onscreen pairings with heartthrobs like Tom Hiddleston, Keanu Reeves, Jeremy Renner, real-life romance with Mr. James Bond himself – I want to be reincarnated as a Rachel Weisz.
December 4th, 2012 at 21:30
Some thoughts:
1) As much as I love Argo (which was my horse in this race), I am *pumped* for Zero Dark Thirty. I just hope it doesn’t get taken down by some shadowy campaign to discredit Bigelow and Boal for not distinguishing fact from fiction in the screenplay. And speaking of both movies, is that Ron Livingston playing another role as a bureaucratic suit?
2) I love Rachel Weisz, and I’d rather her with Jessica Chastain and Marion Cotillard in that category than Jennifer Lawrence, who seems to be playing the MPDG card this year in that movie with Bradley Cooper. That said, I shall refrain from any commentary about Rachel in The Deep Blue Sea vs. Bourne Legacy vs. Avengers and whatnot.
3) Daniel Day Lewis. Always Daniel Day Lewis. (Even though I’m watching Lincoln for JGL and Michael Stuhlbarg.)
December 5th, 2012 at 00:51
I got into Haneke since seeing Cache. Now *that* was quite the metaphor for post-911 hysteria. The scene with the unexpected violent turn was quite the shocker.
A copy of Das weisse band has been sitting on the “to view” pile and gathering dust for a while now. It should make its turn in the video player soon. I wasn’t aware that he had a new movie out. Thanks for the info.