Final BAFTA Noms Also Are In
By Jordan R. Young
Cant count Jeff Bridges out in Crazy Heart
LONDON (Hollywood Today) 1/22/10 –The Orange British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) upped the ante in the Oscar race this morning, announcing their final nominations—narrowing each category to five selections from the 15 noms in their preliminary “long list.” Only the Academy Award noms themselves, and of course the Razzies (for the year’s worst films) remain unknown elements.
As the Academy for Motion Picture Arts & Sciences readies its lists of contenders (due February 2), speculation runs rampant in Hollywood—and the world over—as to who will get the coveted noms. While the Directors Guild of America, the Screen Actors Guild, the Producers Guild of America, the Golden Globes, BAFTA and others are closely watched barometers, the Oscar noms themselves—never mind the awards—can escalate careers to new heights.
Is it possible to buy an Oscar nom? You’d better believe it, with the stakes as high as they are; all that advertising and PR during awards season has been known to turn a few heads here and there. Chill Wills proved it beyond a doubt nearly 50 years ago, with his surprise nom for Best Supporting Actor in “The Alamo,” and Hollywood has followed suit ever since.
In the Best Picture race, “Avatar” seemingly leads the pack, with “The Hurt Locker,” “Precious” and “Up in the Air” all serious contenders. My pick is “Avatar,” an artistic triumph as well as a box office blockbuster.
The Best Actor race appears to be a contest between Jeff Bridges (“Crazy Heart”) and George Clooney (“Up in the Air”); Best Actress is a duel between Meryl Streep (“Julie and Julia”), Sandra Bullock (“The Blind Side”) and newcomer Gabourey Sidibe (“Precious”). Saturday’s SAG Awards will determine the Oscar winners. I’ve changed my mind about both since first handicapping the race: I’m betting on Bridges and Bullock.
My Best Director pick James Cameron (“Avatar”) will have stiff competition from Lee Daniels (“Precious”) and Kathryn Bigelow (“The Hurt Locker”). Anything can happen in the categories for Original and Adapted Screenplay, but one thing has already been decided: WGA announced today the prestigious Laurel Award for lifetime achievement will go to three-time WGA winner Barry Levinson (“Diner,” “Avalon,” “Rain Man”).
The awards season calendar is shaping up as an eventful one:
SAG awards 1/23
PGA awards 1/24
DGA awards 1/30
Grammies 1/31
Razzie noms 2/1
Oscar noms 2/2
ADG awards 2/13
ACE awards 2/14
WGA awards 2/20
BAFTAs 2/21
ASC awards 2/27
Razzies 3/6
Oscars 3/7
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BAFTA’s Final Nominations
BEST FILM
AVATAR James Cameron, Jon Landau
AN EDUCATION Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey
THE HURT LOCKER Nominees TBC
PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness, Gary Magness
UP IN THE AIR Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman, Daniel Dubiecki
LEADING ACTOR
JEFF BRIDGES Crazy Heart
GEORGE CLOONEY Up in the Air
COLIN FIRTH A Single Man
JEREMY RENNER The Hurt Locker
ANDY SERKIS Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
LEADING ACTRESS
CAREY MULLIGAN An Education
SAOIRSE RONAN The Lovely Bones
GABOUREY SIDIBE Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
MERYL STREEP Julie & Julia
AUDREY TAUTOU Coco Before Chanel
DIRECTOR
AVATAR James Cameron
DISTRICT 9 Neill Blomkamp
AN EDUCATION Lone Scherfig
THE HURT LOCKER Kathryn Bigelow
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Quentin Tarantino
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
THE HANGOVER Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
THE HURT LOCKER Mark Boal
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Quentin Tarantino
A SERIOUS MAN Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
UP Bob Peterson, Pete Docter
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
DISTRICT 9 Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
AN EDUCATION Nick Hornby
IN THE LOOP Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE Geoffrey Fletcher
UP IN THE AIR Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner
FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
BROKEN EMBRACES Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar
COCO BEFORE CHANEL Carole Scotta, Caroline Benjo, Philippe Carcassonne, Anne Fontaine
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN Carl Molinder, John Nordling, Tomas Alfredson
A PROPHET Pascal Caucheteux, Marco Cherqui, Alix Raynaud, Jacques Audiard
THE WHITE RIBBON Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka, Margaret Menegoz, Michael Haneke
ANIMATED FILM
CORALINE Henry Selick
FANTASTIC MR. FOX Wes Anderson
UP Pete Docter
SUPPORTING ACTOR
ALEC BALDWIN It’s Complicated
CHRISTIAN McKAY Me and Orson Welles
ALFRED MOLINA An Education
STANLEY TUCCI The Lovely Bones
CHRISTOPH WALTZ Inglourious Basterds
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
ANNE-MARIE DUFF Nowhere Boy
VERA FARMIGA Up in the Air
ANNA KENDRICK Up in the Air
MO’NIQUE Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS Nowhere Boy
MUSIC
AVATAR James Horner
CRAZY HEART T-Bone Burnett, Stephen Bruton
FANTASTIC MR FOX Alexandre Desplat
SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL Chaz Jankel
UP Michael Giacchino
CINEMATOGRAPHY
AVATAR Mauro Fiore
DISTRICT 9 Trent Opaloch
THE HURT LOCKER Barry Ackroyd
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Robert Richardson
THE ROAD Javier Aguirresarobe
EDITING
AVATAR Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, James Cameron
DISTRICT 9 Julian Clarke
THE HURT LOCKER Bob Murawski, Chris Innis
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Sally Menke
UP IN THE AIR Dana E. Glauberman
PRODUCTION DESIGN
AVATAR Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, Kim Sinclair
DISTRICT 9 Philip Ivey, Guy Potgieter
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan
THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS Nominees TBC
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS David Wasco, Sandy Reynolds Wasco
COSTUME DESIGN
BRIGHT STAR Janet Patterson
COCO BEFORE CHANEL Catherine Leterrier
AN EDUCATION Odile Dicks-Mireaux
A SINGLE MAN Arianne Phillips
THE YOUNG VICTORIA Sandy Powell
SOUND
AVATAR Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, Tony Johnson, Addison Teague
DISTRICT 9 Brent Burge, Chris Ward, Dave Whitehead, Michael Hedges, Ken Saville
THE HURT LOCKER Ray Beckett, Paul N. J. Ottosson
STAR TREK Peter J. Devlin, Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Mark Stoeckinger, Ben Burtt
UP Tom Myers, Michael Silvers, Michael Semanick
SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
AVATAR Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham, Andrew R. Jones
DISTRICT 9 Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros, Matt Aitken
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE John Richardson, Tim Burke, Tim Alexander, Nicolas Aithadi
THE HURT LOCKER Richard Stutsman
STAR TREK Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh, Burt Dalton
2 responses so far ↓
1 david // Jan 24, 2010 at 4:38 pm
are u frik=ecken retarted. nice predictions . best film, an education? really. that movie was only praised becasue of some good acting. every award show so far has inglourious basterds, avatar, the hurt locker, precious, and up in the air. you decide to be smart and go, nope, i think an education is the best. the only thing it is ever nominated for is best supporting actress.
2 Naomi Hamm // Jan 26, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Movie Review:
For Hollywood today,
“The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus:”
Red velvet plush rug trimmed in shimmery gold.
Red velvet curtains drawn.
Young girl with coppery-red hair wearing a thin bright red evening gown.
Lights; film rolling, hummingly, actors in place. The show must go on!
Producer-Director Terry gilliam once again has cranked out a five-star film with late great actor Heath Ledger”s last attempt at stardom before his untimely passing.
Heath’s stunning performance and sultry voice goes hand in hand withh other dark and debonair actors signed on to complete the latest amongst many of movies from said Director Terry Gilliam. Actors of the new Millinuem as well as one from the last: Johnny Depp.
Actors all Magnique!
On Jan, 22, 2008, Heath Ledger was found dead in his Broome Street NYC loft apartment from an alleged over-dose of pills which had been prescribed to him by physcians.
The other pills rumored to have been found around him but they weren’t his, is still suspect as of this day.
At a later date another Dr had stated that the very few pills (and mixture of) ingested by young and hunky and versatile Heath Ledger was not enough to cause his death .
A FBI and DEA was opened and yet mere months as quickly closed. Heath Ledger’s doctors were never indicted in a court of law. No one took out a lawsuit for Heath after his death.
The mystery of his death still remains almost two years hence.
Was his death faked for publicity?
Admist grief and the almost likelihood of failure Director Extrodinaire Terry G strove to complete his pal Heath’s last? film for the benefit of Heath’s family and friends and fans alike. But Terry showed his true talent and fierce perservence despite Heath’s alleged? passing and the toil and turmoil it took to “Never give up, in the face of no hope whatsoever” is a real thumbs up, at least in my minds eye.
And of course to you the die-hards whom still believe the impossible: that Heath is alive and well.
Well then I say so be it!
Time passes and goes on. A star rises and then falls. Heath, counfounded and confused by the always-present pressures of fame. seperation and constant legal issues and by the papparizi’s, he has now come ‘into his own’
Ever-revolving doors, pushes them thru a different realm. Gondolas splicing through weeping willows draped lavender, green, violet and pinks and birds-egg-shell blue lake.
Heath in a cream-hued suit, tall and sleek and vulnerable. His co-star: Lily Cole’s blouse opened slightly revealing a pretty pale lavender and lace push-up bra.
Heath, not a bleach blond and with a darker foundation to change his own pale skin tones, but also with a moustache and beard.
Min me> No. Not me. But he.
Heath fast-talking and winsome seemed to me to be in a whole lot of scenes to not have completed filming.
We weep, and yet hope that someday the real truth will out and his reappearance on silver screen and elsewhere will unfold as we quietly lead ourselves back to our own lives.
A flame flickered then blew out softly but sadly and into the cold Jan New York City night, a star arose to the heavens above: the laughter and the light still we remember and still remain and we alls till miss him and await for the wonderful time of when he will pick up againa nd move onto more movie roles, more directors movies he will to make. A pipe dream. Oh yes and so much more.
Until that day we plant our gardens, crochet and glide along down the avenue of HOLLYWOOD DREAMS.
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