Awards Season 2009

[animatedude]

i wanna try the beer he is drinking...i wonder what it's...it looks darker than your average beer.

[ayaa1977]

The top awards are ridiculous. Meryl Streep & RDJr! Hurt Locker won nothing.

I was perhaps the most enthusiastic of you guys about The Hangover, but even I would admit that it was not the right choice for Best Comedy. But if you but it in contest, the other nominees were: It is complicated which was crap, Nine which everybody hated, Julie and Julia which was a schizophrenic experience for most, and  (500) Days of Summer which was excellent but no one saw. The Golden Globes people are known as Star Fuckers, and that is would explain many choices, for instance RDJ, and Sandra Bullock, over the bluntly more deserving nominees (Mat Damon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Stuhlbarg, and every other nominee in the Female category). As for Avatar winning, I predict a big uproar if it won the Oscar, the kind we haven't seen since Crash won 5 years ago, perhaps even bigger.

Also to be objective, Meryl Streep, Mo'Nique, Jeff Bridges, and almost all the TV wins are justified.   

[kaytee]

Going as per the SAG awards C Waltz, Jeff Bridges and Monique are a lock for the Oscar awards. Sandra Bullock has become the front runner now after winning the SAG award for The Blind Side. What happened to Carey Mulligan??

[animatedude]

her performance was over hyped since early 2009...

[shariqq]

Sandra Bullock's now old enough to get the Oscar too. Guess the acting Oscars are a lock (unless there's an upset). And probably Avatar $2b will bowl-over any chances of Hurt Locker taking the top two awards. It's going to be a boring Oscar ceremony.

[ayaa1977]

Sandra Bullock's now old enough to get the Oscar too. Guess the acting Oscars are a lock (unless there's an upset). And probably Avatar $2b will bowl-over any chances of Hurt Locker taking the top two awards. It's going to be a boring Oscar ceremony.

I predict an upset, Oscars likely have surprises especially in the acting category. May be this time around Myrel Streep will be the bride instead of the bride's maid, don't forget her last Oscar win was more than 25 years ago. 

[ayaa1977]

Kathryn Bigelow the director of The Hurt Locker was announced Saturday as the first female to win the Director's Guild Award top honor as the Best Director beating her ex James Cameron, Quentin Tarantino, Lee Daniels, and Jason Reitman.

[kaytee]

The race is now over for the best director award I guess.

[X.]

Frankly, I couldn't give a fuck.

[shariqq]

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[ayaa1977]

The race is now over for the best director award I guess.

Not quite yet my friend. For instance, in 2003 DGA Award went to Rob Marshall for Chicago, but the Oscar went to Roman Polanski for The Pianist. Also in 2001, DGA gave its top honor to Ang Lee for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, while the Oscar went to Steven Soderbergh for Traffic.

DGA selection is usually a strong indication for the way the Oscar will go, but exceptions happen from time to time.

[shariqq]

We should have our own "WM Awards". To REALLY honor which movies and who we think deserve the elusive and exclusive "WM Award winner" title.

"...WM Award^TM winner Jim Jarmusch not only reinvents himself, but goes on to kick the dick out of crowd favorites Cameron and Scorsese", etc.

[X.]

I have to say LIMITS OF CONTROL is so far the best film of 2009, for me.

This WM Awards is a good idea. But in order for us to do it, that means the group needs to finalize their thoughts regarding the Best Films of 2009. Then we can just build on that and publish the WM Awards.

[ayaa1977]

The British Academy of Film and Television Art BAFTA announced its 2009 Awards, and The Hurt Locker swept all the main categories including Best Film, Directing, Original screenplay, and Editing. Avatar was a couple of technical Awards but that was it. Here's the list of winners and nominees.
 

Best Film
The Hurt Locker (2008)
Avatar (2009)
An Education (2009)
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009)
Up in the Air (2009/I)

Alexander Korda Award for Outstanding British Film of the Year
Fish Tank (2009)
An Education (2009)
In the Loop (2009)
Moon (2009)
Nowhere Boy (2009)

Best Actor
Colin Firth for A Single Man (2009)
Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart (2009)
George Clooney for Up in the Air (2009/I)
Jeremy Renner for The Hurt Locker (2008)
Andy Serkis for Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010)

Best Actress
Carey Mulligan for An Education (2009)
Saoirse Ronan for The Lovely Bones (2009)
Gabourey Sidibe for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009)
Meryl Streep for Julie & Julia (2009)
Audrey Tautou for Coco avant Chanel (2009)

Best Supporting Actor
Christoph Waltz for Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Alec Baldwin for It's Complicated (2009)
Christian McKay for Me and Orson Welles (2008)
Alfred Molina for An Education (2009)
Stanley Tucci for The Lovely Bones (2009)

Best Supporting Actress
Mo'Nique for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009)
Anne-Marie Duff for Nowhere Boy (2009)
Vera Farmiga for Up in the Air (2009/I)
Anna Kendrick for Up in the Air (2009/I)
Kristin Scott Thomas for Nowhere Boy (2009)

David Lean Award for Achievement in Direction
Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker (2008)
Neill Blomkamp for District 9 (2009)
James Cameron for Avatar (2009)
Lone Scherfig for An Education (2009)
Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Best Screenplay (Original)
The Hurt Locker (2008): Mark Boal
The Hangover (2009): Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
Inglourious Basterds (2009): Quentin Tarantino
A Serious Man (2009): Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Up (2009): Bob Peterson, Pete Docter

Best Screenplay (Adapted)
Up in the Air (2009/I): Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner
District 9 (2009): Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
An Education (2009): Nick Hornby
In the Loop (2009): Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (2009): Geoffrey Fletcher

Best Cinematography
The Hurt Locker (2008)
Avatar (2009)
District 9 (2009)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
The Road (2009)

Best Editing
The Hurt Locker (2008)
Avatar (2009)
District 9 (2009)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Up in the Air (2009/I)

Best Production Design
Avatar (2009)
District 9 (2009)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Best Costume Design
The Young Victoria (2009)
Bright Star (2009)
Coco avant Chanel (2009)
An Education (2009)
A Single Man (2009)

Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music
Up (2009): Michael Giacchino
Avatar (2009): James Horner
Crazy Heart (2009): T-Bone Burnett, Stephen Bruton
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009): Alexandre Desplat
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (2010): Chaz Jankel

Best Make Up/Hair
The Young Victoria (2009)
Coco avant Chanel (2009)
An Education (2009)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
Nine (2009)

Best Sound
The Hurt Locker (2008)
Avatar (2009)
District 9 (2009)
Star Trek (2009)
Up (2009)

Best Achievement in Special Visual Effects
Avatar (2009)
District 9 (2009)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
The Hurt Locker (2008)
Star Trek (2009)

Best Film not in the English Language
Un prophète (2009)
Los abrazos rotos (2009)
Coco avant Chanel (2009)
Låt den rätte komma in (2008)
Das weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (2009)

Best Animated Feature Film
Up (2009)
Coraline (2009)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

Orange Rising Star Award
Kristen Stewart
Jesse Eisenberg
Nicholas Hoult
Carey Mulligan
Tahar Rahim

Carl Foreman Award for the Most Promising Newcomer
Duncan Jones for Moon (2009)(Director)
Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson, Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock, David Pearson for Mugabe and the White African (2009)(Directors, Producers)
Eran Creevy for Shifty (2008)(Writer/Director)
Stuart Hazeldine for Exam (2009)(Writer/Director)
Sam Taylor Wood for Nowhere Boy (2009)(Director)

Best Short Animation
Mother of Many
The Gruffalo (2009)
The Happy Duckling (2008)

Best Short Film
I Do Air (2009)
14 (2008/II)
Jade (2009)
Mixtape (2009/II)
Off Season (2009)