SAG NOMS! Atonement and Into the Wild flip flop yet again..

This season is crazy! Wahoo. It seems like the SAG nominations came out early this year, and only 2 films released in December are present on their list. Coincidence?

Ensemble:
3:10 To Yuma
American Gangster
Hairspray
Into the Wild
No Country for Old Men

Male Actor - Leading Role:
George Clooney - Michael Clayton
Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood
Ryan Gosling - Lars and the Real Girl
Emile Hirsch - Into the Wild
Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises

Female Actor - Leading Role:
Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie - Away From Her
Marion Cotillard - La Vie En Rose
Angelina Jolie - A Mighty Heart
Ellen Page - Juno

Male Actor - Supporting Role:
Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James...
Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men
Hal Holbrook - Into the Wild
Tommy Lee Jones - No Country for Old Men
Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton

Female Actor - Supporting Role:
Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There
Ruby Dee - American Gangster
Catherine Keener - Into the Wild
Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton

Stunt Ensemble:
300
The Bourne Ultimatum
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

TV:

Actor - Miniseries/TV Movie:
Michael Keaton - The Company
Kevin Kline - As You Like It
Oliver Platt - The Bronx is Burning
Sam Shepard - Ruffian
John Turturro - The Bronx is Burning

Actress - Miniseries/TV Movie:
Ellen Burstyn - For One More Day
Debra Messing - The Starter Wife
Anna Paquin - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Queen Latifah - Life Support
Vanessa Redgrave - The Fever
Gena Rowlands - What If God Were the Sun?

Actor - Drama Series:
James Gandolfini - The Sopranos
Michael C Hall - Dexter
Jon Hamm - Mad Men
Hugh Laurie - House
James Spader - Boston Legal

Actress - Drama:
Glenn Close - Damages
Edie Falco - The Sopranos
Sally Field - Brothers and Sisters
Holly Hunter - Saving Grace
Kyra Sedgwick - The Closer

Actor - Comedy:
Alec Baldwin - 30 Rock
Steve Carell - The Office
Ricky Gervais - Extras
Jeremy Piven - Entourage
Tony Shaloub - Monk

Actress - Comedy:
Christina Applegate - Samantha Who?
America Ferrera - Ugly Betty
Tina Fey - 30 Rock
Mary-Louise Parker - Weeds
Vanessa Williams - Ugly Betty

Ensemble - Drama:
Boston Legal
The Closer
Grey's Anatomy
Mad Men
The Sopranos

Ensemble - Comedy:
30 Rock
Desperate Housewives
Entourage
The Office
Ugly Betty

SAG Predix!

Announcing Thursday, this might be the only real award show we get this year. *sigh*

Best Ensemble:
Atonement - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead - Into the Wild - Juno - No Country for Old Men
Alt: Hairspray
I think 3:10 To Yuma will surprise here, but I don't have the balls to predict it.

Male Actor - Leading:
George Clooney - Michael Clayton
Daniel Day Lewis - There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd
Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises
Denzel Washington - American Gangster
Alt: Frank Langella - Starting Out in the Evening

I think Actor is the category to watch this year. It reminds me of Best Actress 2003 where Theron, Keaton and Watts were locked in and the other 2 spots were up for grabs leading to the slighty-WTF nods for Castle-Hughes and Morton. I'd say Clooney, Day Lewis and Depp are safe. Mortensen keeps appearing and is getting closer to being safe. That last slot is up for grabs. I put Washington and will continue putting him in because he's a vet and there are no real other minorities present in the award season this year. Tom Hanks, maybe, depending on how well Charlie does at the box and with the remaining guilds. I also think one of the young hunks - James McAvoy, Ryan Gosling or Emile Hirsch - will pull the Samantha Morton surprise nod. McAvoy gets the edge being in a Best Picture vehicle. Gosling and Hirsch will no doubt be devastated for not filling the remaininig spot, but if they come to my house, I have two spots they can fill anytime. Such a perverted blog, I know.


Female Actor - Leading:
Amy Adams - Enchanted
Julie Christie - Away From Her
Marion Cotillard - La Vie En Rose
Angelina Jolie - A Mighty Heart
Ellen Page - Juno
Alt: Jodie Foster - The Brave One
Christie, Cotillard, and Page are in. Adams feels right for here even if I think she may be snubbed Oscar morning. Jolie seems to have had a nice revival.

Male Actor - Supporting:
Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James...
Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Charlie Wilson's War
Hal Holbrook - Into the Wild
John Travolta - Hairspray
Alt: Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton

Female Actor - Supporting:
Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There
Catherine Keener - Into the Wild
Saoirse Ronan - Atonement
Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton
Alt: Jennifer Garner - Juno
Let's hope SAG can get some steam rolling for Leslie Mann.

GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATIONS!!! - ATONEMENT LEADS WITH 7

THEY SUCK!

WAHOO!

Seriously, how does this Desperate Housewives-loving group not give it a single nomination when it's having its best season ever????

Ah well..


Best Motion Picture - Drama:
American Gangster - Atonement - Eastern Promises - The Great Debaters - Michael Clayton - No Country for Old Men - There Will Be Blood
Oh you must be kidding me with this Oprah-Denzel shit? 7 nominations? Damn, they must have hated Into the Wild. Go David Cronenberg, though!

Best Actress - Drama:
Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Chrisie - Away From Her
Jodie Foster - The Brave One
Angelina Jolie - A Mighty Heart
Keira Knightley - Atonement
I NAILED IT!

Best Actor - Drama:
George Clooney - Michael Clayton
Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood
James McAvoy - Atonement
Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises
Denzel Washington - American Gangster
Did good here, too

Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical:
Across the Universe - Charlie Wilson's War - Hairspray - Juno - Sweeney Todd
If someone could explain to me how Across the Universe is better than Knocked Up, I'd really like to know.

Best Actress - Comedy/Musical:
Amy Adams - Enchanted
Nikki Blonsky - Hairspray
Helena Bonham Carter - Sweeney Todd
Marion Cotillard - La Vie En Rose
Ellen Page - Juno
Damn, and I thought they really loved Nicole?

Best Actor - Comedy/Musical:
Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd
Ryan Gosling - Lars and the Real Girl
Tom Hanks - Charlie Wilson's War
Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Savages
John C. Reilly - Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
LOL - If it tastes like Cox...

Best Animated Film:
Bee Movie - Ratatouille - The Simpsons Movie

Best Foreign Language Film:
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - The Kite Runner - Lust, Caution - Persepolis

Best Supporting Actress:
Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There
Julia Roberts - Charlie Wilson's War
Saoirse Ronan - Atonement
Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton
Doorman. DOORMAN!

Best Supporting Actor:
Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James...
Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Charlie Wilson's War
John Travolta - Hairspray
Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton
Casey shall be my boyfriend for this award season.

Best Director:
Tim Burton - Sweeney Todd
Ethan & Joel Coen - No Country for Old Men
Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Ridley Scott - American Gangster
Joe Wright - Atonement
I love Ridley as much as the next person, but...

Best Screenplay:
Juno - No Country for Old Men - Atonement - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Charlie Wilson's War
Almost exactly as expected.

Best Original Score:
Into the Wild - Grace Is Gone - The Kite Runner - Atonement - Eastern Promises
Fuck you, Eastwood. Did you know that there was another score to Grace Is Gone but they hired Eastwood to redo it at the last minute??? DID YOU???

Best Original Song:
"Despedida" - Love in the Time of Cholera
"Grace Is Gone" - Grace Is Gone
"Guarenteed" - Into the Wild
"That's How You Know" - Enchanted
"Walk Hard" - Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Ugh, fucking Eastwood again. Go Enchanted!

TV:

Drama:
Big Love - Damages - Grey's Anatomy - House - Mad Men - The Tudors

Actress - Drama:
Patricia Arquette - Medium
Glenn Close - Damages
Minnie Driver - The Riches (AAAWAAAAHOOOO!!!!)
Edie Falco - The Sopranos
Sally Field - Brothers & Sisters
Holly Hunter - Saving Grace
Kyra Sedgwick - The Closer

Actor - Drama:
Michael C. Hall - Dexter
Jon Hamm - Mad Men
Hugh Laurie - House
Jonathan Rhys Meyers - The Tudors
Bill Paxtor - Big Love

Best Series - Comedy:
30 Rock - Californication - Entourage - Extras - Pushing Daisies (!!!!)

Comedy - Actress:
Christina Applegate - Samantha Who
America Ferrera - Ugly Betty
Tina Fey - 30 Rock
Anna Friel - Pushing Daisies
Mary-Louise Parker - Weeds
Go, Fey and Friel, Go!

Actor - Comedy:
Alec Baldwin - 30 Rock
Steve Carell - The Office
David Duchovny - Californication
Ricky Gervais - Extras
Lee Pace - Pushing Daisies (!!!!!)

Miniseries or TV Movie:
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - The Company - Five Days - Longford - The State Within

Actress - Miniseries/TV Movie:
Bryce Dallas Howard - As You Like It
Debra Messing - The Starter Wife
Queen Latifah - Life Support
Sissy Spacek - Pictures of Hollis Woods
Rush Wilson - Jane Eyre (Masterpiece Theatre)

Actor - Miniseries/TV Movie:
Adam Beach - Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee (UGH!)
Ernest Borgnine - A Grandpa for Christmas (DOUBLE UGH!)
Jim Broadbent - Longford
Jason Isaacs - The State Within
James Nesbit - Jekyll

Supporting Actress - ALL TV:
Rose Byrne - Damages
Rachel Griffiths - Brothers & Sisters
Katherine Heigl - Grey's Anatomy
Samantha Morton - Longford
Anna Paquin - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Jaime Pressly - My Name Is Earl
NO KRISTEN CHENOWETH!?!?!??!?!

Supporting Actor - ALL TV:
Ted Danson - Damages
Kevin Dillon - Entourage
Jeremy Piven - Entourage
Andy Serkis - Longford
William Shatner - Boston Legal
Donald Sutherland - Dirty Sexy Money

GOLDEN GLOBE PREDICTIONS!!!

It's always a headache. I'm never fully confidant. There's things I'd love to go back and change, switch around or drop completely. Same shit, different year.

As usual, the HFPA sometimes nominates 6 things, so I've enclosed 2 alternatives as well as a "No guts, no glory" which won't get me points for my score, rather bragging rights! I'm hoping for some surprise The Bourne Ultimatum love, just so the series could get something.

Ashley Judd, Hayden Panetierre and a currently unannounced third will reveal the nominations Thursday morning around 8AM. I'd really love Miss Judd (or one of the other two) to get to read 'Ashley Judd - Bug.' In fact, that would be the biggest "WAHOO!" of the morning for me, followed closely by 'Leslie Mann - Knocked Up.' Mann could end up being this year's Emily Blunt, we'll see. On a sidenote, I hope they announce all the categories, as last year the first "round" of nominees was announced but not broadcast. I remember everyone freaking out when the rumor hit that Blunt had been nominated but no one heard it directly or could get confirmation till after the list had been posted on the Hollywood Foreign Press's website. Fun times. But I live for this stuff.

(EDIT 12/13 - 11:26PM -- Judd apparently isn't announcing now? Hayden will be joined by Ryan Reynolds, Dane Cook (VOMIT!) and Quentin Tarantino. Could they really not find better people to announce?)

Here goes..



Motion Picture - Drama:
Atonement - Into the Wild - Michael Clayton - No Country for Old Men - There Will Be Blood
6th: Before the Devil Knows You're Dead; 7th: 3:10 To Yuma; No Guts, No Glory: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical:
Charlie Wilson's War - Hairspray - Juno - Knocked Up - Sweeney Todd
6th: Lars and the Real Girl; 7th: Once; NGNG: I'm Not There

Director:
Tim Burton - Sweeney Todd
Ethan and Joel Coen - No Country for Old Men
Sean Penn - Into the Wild
Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Joe Wright - Atonement
6th: PT Anderson - There Will Be Blood
7th: Sidney Lumet - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
NGNG: David Fincher - Zodiac

Screenplay:
Atonement - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Juno - No Country for Old Men - There Will Be Blood
6th: Charlie Wilson's War; 7th: Michael Clayton; NGNG: Knocked Up

Actor - Drama:
George Clooney - Michael Clayton
Daniel Day Lewis - There Will Be Blood
Frank Langella - Starting Out in the Evening
James McAvoy - Atonement
Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises
6th: Denzel Washington - American Gangster
7th: Tommy Lee Jones - In the Valley of Elah
NGNG: Emile Hirsch - Into the Wild

Actor - Comedy/Musical:
Steve Carell - Dan in Real Life
Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd
Ryan Gosling - Lars and the Real Girl
Tom Hanks - Charlie Wilson's War
Seth Rogen - Knocked Up
6th: Richard Gere - The Hoax
7th: Don Cheadle - Talk to Me
NGNG: Glen Hansard - Once

Actress - Drama:
Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie - Away From Her
Jodie Foster - The Brave One
Angelina Jolie - A Mighty Heart
Keira Knightley - Atonement
6th: Sienna Miller - Interview
7th: Tang Wei - Lust, Caution
NGNG: Ashley Judd - Bug

Actress - Comedy/Musical:
Amy Adams - Enchanted
Marion Cotillard - La Vie En Rose
Nicole Kidman - Margot at the Wedding
Laura Linney - The Savages
Ellen Page - Juno
6th: Helena Bonham Carter - Sweeney Todd
7th: Keri Russell - Waitress
NGNG: Nikki Blonsky - Hairspray

Supporting Actor:
Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James...
Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Charlie Wilson's War
Hal Holbrook - Into the Wild
John Travolta - Hairspray
6th: Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton
7th: Max Von Sydon - The Diving Bell...
NGNG: Ben Foster - 3:10 To Yuma

Supporting Actress:
Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There
Catherine Keener - Into the Wild
Saoirse Ronan - Atonement
Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton
6th: Leslie Mann - Knocked Up
7th: Vanessa Redgrave - Atonement
NGNG: Jennifer Garner - Juno

Original Score:
3:10 To Yuma - The Assassination of Jesse James... - Atonement - Lust, Caution - There Will Be Blood
6th: Ratatouille

Original Song:
Enchanted - The Golden Compass - Hairspray - Into the Wild - Once
6th: Grace Is Gone

Foreign Language Film:
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - The Kite Runner - Lust, Caution - The Orphanage
6th: La Vie En Rose

Animated Film:
Persepolis - Ratatouille - The Simpsons Movie
(Are there 3 or 5 here?)


And for TV...

GO PUSHING DAISIES!!!

Broadcast Film Critics Association Nominations:

Retarded side note: The BFCA announces ratings for the films it sees throughout the year. The film that received the highest rating for the year, The Bourne Ultimatum, did not got get a single nomination here. Total bullshit, anyone? The Savages didn't receive a single nomination. And I also love that in Best Song, you don't have to write the song, you just have to sing it.

Best Picture:

American Gangster - Atonement - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Into the Wild - Juno - The Kite Runner - Michael Clayton - No Country for Old Men - Sweeney Todd - There Will Be Blood

Best Actor
George Clooney - Michael Clayton
Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp - Sweeney Todd
Ryan Gosling - Lars and the Real Girl
Emile Hirsch - Into the Wild
Viggo Mortensen - Eastern Promises

Best Actress
Amy Adams - Enchanted
Cate Blanchett - Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie - Away From Her
Marion Cotillard - La Vie en Rose
Angelina Jolie - A Mighty Heart
Ellen Page - Juno

Best Supporting Actor
Casey Affleck - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Javier Bardem - No Country for Old Men
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Charlie Wilson's War
Hal Holbrook - Into the Wild
Tom Wilkinson - Michael Clayton

Best Supporting Actress
Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There
Catherine Keener - Into the Wild
Vanessa Redgrave - Atonement
Amy Ryan - Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton - Michael Clayton

Best Acting Ensemble
Hairspray
Juno
No Country for Old Men
Sweeney Todd
Gone Baby Gone
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Best Director
Tim Burton - Sweeney Todd
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men
Sidney Lumet - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Sean Penn - Into the Wild
Julian Schnabel - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Joe Wright - Atonement

Best Writer
Diablo Cody - Juno
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen - No Country for Old Men
Tony Gilroy - Michael Clayton
Nancy Oliver - Lars and the Real Girl
Sean Penn - Into the Wild
Aaron Sorkin - Charlie Wilson's War

Best Animated Feature
Bee Movie
Beowulf
Persepolis
Ratatouille
The Simpsons Movie

Best Young Actor
Michael Cera - Juno
Michael Cera - Superbad
Freddie Highmore - August Rush
Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada - The Kite Runner
Edward Sanders - Sweeney Todd

Best Young Actress
Nikki Blonsky - Hairspray
Dakota Blue Richards - The Golden Compass
AnnaSophia Robb - Bridge to Terabithia
Saoirse Ronan - Atonement

Best Comedy Movie
Dan in Real Life
Hairspray
Juno
Knocked Up
Superbad

Best Family Film
August Rush
Enchanted
The Golden Compass
Hairspray
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Best Picture Made for Television
The Company
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Tin Man
The War

Best Foreign Language Film
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
La Vie en Rose
Lust, Caution
The Orphanage

Best Song
"Come So Far", Queen Latifah, Nikki Blonsky, Zac Efron, Elijah Kelley - Hairspray
"Do You Feel Me", Anthony Hamilton - American Gangster
"Falling Slowly", Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, Jesse L. Martin and Cast - Once
"Guaranteed", Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild
"That's How You Know", Amy Adams - Enchanted

Best Composer
Marco Beltrami - 3:10 to Yuma
Alexandre Desplat - Lust, Caution
Clint Eastwood - Grace Is Gone
Jonny Greenwood - There Will Be Blood
Dario Marianelli - Atonement
Alan Menken - Enchanted

Best Documentary
Darfur Now
In the Shadow of the Moon
The King of Kong
No End In Sight
Sharkwater
Sicko

New York Film Critics Circle Awards...

Ugh, this year is boring already? Spice things up, BFCA and HFPA!

Best Film - NCFOM
Best Director - Joel & Ethan Coen - NCFOM
Best Actor - Daniel Day Lewis - TWBB
Best Actress - Julie Christie - Away From Her
Best Supporting Actor - Javier Bardem - NCFOM
Best Supporting Actress - AR/GBG
Best Screenplay - NCFOM
Best Cinematography - TWBB
Best Documentary - No End In Sight
Best Foreign Film - The Lives of Others
Best Animated Film - Persepolis
Best First Film - Sarah Polley - Away From Her

More Critics Awards...

Here's what the next 2 weeks look like:

Dec. 10 - New York Film Critics Circle Winners
Dec. 11 - Broadcast Film Critics Association noms - (awards 1/7)
Dec. 13 - GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATIONS!!!! (awards - 1/13)
Dec. 14 - Chicago Film Critics Winners (EBERT!)
Dec. 16 - AFI Winners, Satellite Winners
Dec. 20 - Screen Actors Guild Nominations - (awards - 1/27)

I'll have my Globe and SAG predix the Tuesday before their respective nomations. And my full list of Oscar predictions will be December 21 - a month and a day before the nominations. FUN STUFF, KIDS!

Oh, and to make things easier:
NCFOM - No Country for Old Men
TWBB - There Will Be Blood
AR/GBG - Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
BTDKYD - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
TDBATB - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
This will just save me time.



WASHINGTON DC FILM CRITICS:

Best Picture - NCFOM
Best Director - Ethan & Joel Coen, NCFOM
Best Actor - George Clooney, Michael Clayton
Best Actress - Julie Christie, Away From Her
Best Supporting Actor - Javier Bardem, NCFOM
Best Supporting Actress - AR/GBG & BTDKYD
Best Original Screenplay - Juno
Best Adapted Screenplay - Charlie Wilson's War
Best Ensemble - NCFOM
Best Foreign Language Film - TDBATB
Best Animated Film - Ratatouille
Best Documentary Film - Sicko
Best Art Direction - Sweeney Todd
Best Breakthrough Performance - Ellen Page, Juno

BOSTOM FILM CRITICS:

Best Picture - NCFOM
Best Direction - Julian Schnabel, TDBATB
Best Actor - Frank Langella, Starting Out in the Evening
Best Actress - Marion Cotillard, La Vie En Rose
Best Supporting Actor - Javier Bardem, NCFOM
Best Supporting Actress - AR/GBG
Best Cinematography - TDBATB
Best Screenplay - Ratatouille
Best Documentary - Crazy Love
Best Foreign Language Film - TDBATB
Best New Filmmaker - Ben Affleck, GBG
Best Ensemble Cast - BTDKYD

NEW YORK FILM CRITICS ONLINE:

Best Picture - (tie) - TWBB & TDBATB
Best Actor - Daniel Day Lewis, TWBB
Best Actress - Julie Christie, Away From Her
Director - PT Anderson, TWBB
Supporting Actress - Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There
Supporting Actor - Javier Bardem, NCFOM
Breakthrough Performaner - Ellen Page, Juno
Debut Director - Sarah Polley, Away From Her
Ensemble Cast - BTDKYD
Screenplay - The Darjeeling Limited
Documentary - Sicko
Foreign Language Film - (tie) - The Lives of Others & Persepolis
Animated - Persepolis
Cinematography - TWBB
Film Music - TWBB

Top 10 films (in alphabetical order) (it's actually 11???)
Atonement - BTDKYD - The Darjeeling Limited - TDBATB - I'm Not There - Juno - Michael Clayton - NCFOM - Persepolis - Sweeney Todd - TWBB


LOS ANGELOS FILM CRITICS:

Best Picture - TWBB
Runner-Up: TDBATB
Best Director - PT Anderson - TWBB
Runner-Up: Julian Schnabel - TDBATB
Best Actor: Daniel Day Lewis - TWBB
Runner-Up: Frank Langella - Starting Out in the Evening
Best Actress: Marion Cotillard - La Vie En Rose
Runner-Up: Anamaria Marinca - 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Best Supporting Actor: Vlad Ivanov - 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Runner-Up: Hal Holbrook - Into the Wild
Best Supporting Actress: AR, GBG & BTDKYD
Runner-Up: Cate Blanchett - I'm Not There
Best Screenplay: The Savages
Runner-Up: TWBB
Best Animated Film: (tie) Ratatouille & Persepolis
Best Documentary Film: No End In Sight
Runner-Up: Sicko
Best Cinematography: TDBATB
Runner-Up: TWBB
Best Production Design: TDBATB
Runner-Up: Sweeney Todd
Best Music: Once
Runner-Up: TWBB
New Generation Award: Sarah Polley, Away From Her

New Trailers: Sex and Emile Hirsch

Ah, to dream...

So I don't know if Speed Racer looks really good or really bad? But I kinda like this trailer. And who knew Christina Ricci could pull off a bob?

And really? Did anyone expect a Sex and The City movie teaser to not actually include something like 'next summer, they're coming' or any play on the word come. But this teaser is honestly heaven. And super gay. And if it doesn't get an Oscar nomination for Costume Design, I'm gonna have to cut a bitch.

Go Speed Racer

Get Carried Away

National Board of Review for 'Old Men'

I get the feeling this could take everything right up to the Oscar, ending-haters be damned. A very good day for the Affleck clan: Casey, Ben, Jennifer Garner's film and costar, Matt Damon's film and Amy Ryan!




New York, NY – December 5th, 2007 – The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures named NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN the 2007 Best Film of the Year. Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, released by Miramax and Paramount Vantage on November 21st, the film is based on Cormac McCarthy’s novel. It simultaneously strips down the American crime drama and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible, and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines.

For Best Actor and Actress of 2007, the NBR honors two artists whose performances were truly outstanding. The 2007 Best Actor, GEORGE CLOONEY, was selected for his performance in the title role of Michael Clayton. For the 2007 Best Actress honor, the NBR has selected JULIE CHRISTIE for her performance in Away From Her.

Below is a full list of the awards given by the National Board of Review:

Best Film: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Best Director: TIM BURTON, Sweeney Todd
Best Actor: GEORGE CLOONEY, Michael Clayton
Best Actress: JULIE CHRISTIE, Away From Her
Best Supporting Actor: CASEY AFFLECK, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Best Supporting Actress: AMY RYAN, Gone Baby Gone
Best Foreign Film: THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
Best Documentary: BODY OF WAR
Best Animated Feature: RATATOUILLE
Best Ensemble Cast: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Breakthrough Performance by an Actor: EMILE HIRSCH, Into The Wild
Breakthrough Performance by an Actress: ELLEN PAGE, Juno
Best Directorial Debut: BEN AFFLECK, Gone Baby Gone
Best Original Screenplay (tie):
DIABLO CODY, Juno and NANCY OLIVER, Lars and the Real Girl
Best Adapted Screenplay: JOEL COEN and ETHAN COEN, No Country For Old Men

Top Ten Films:
(In alphabetical order)
THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD
ATONEMENT
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
THE BUCKET LIST
INTO THE WILD
JUNO
THE KITE RUNNER
LARS AND THE REAL GIRL
MICHAEL CLAYTON
SWEENEY TODD

Top Five Foreign Films:
(In alphabetical order)
4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, 2 DAYS
THE BAND’S VISIT
THE COUNTERFEITERS
LA VIE EN ROSE
LUST, CAUTION


Top Five Documentary Films
(In alphabetical order)
DARFUR NOW
IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON
NANKING
TAXI TO THE DARKSIDE
TOOTS

Top Independent Films
(In alphabetical order)
AWAY FROM HER
GREAT WORLD OF SOUND
HONEYDRIPPER
IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH
A MIGHT HEART
THE NAMESAKE
ONCE
THE SAVAGES
STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING
WAITRESS

Career Achievement – MICHAEL DOUGLAS
William K. Everson Film History Award – ROBERT OSBORNE
Career Achievement in Cinematography – ROGER DEAKINS
The BVLGARI Award for NBR Freedom of Expression – THE GREAT DEBATERS and PERSEPOLIS

Trio of actors join Van Sant's Harvey Milk film

It's annoying how most of the headlines for this casting went "Actors got Milk."

I'm so happy for Josh Brolin. What a great year he's having between Grindhouse, American Gangster and No Country for Old Men! Plus, he gets to go home with Diane Lane. Lucky guy. I guess licking Patricia Arquette's armpit in Flirting with Disaster paid off, huh?

Anywho, the only major person yet to cast for this film is Dianne Feinstein. (Marcia Gay Harden would be a good pick.) I'm still skeptical on Sean Penn as I think Robert Downey Jr would've been a great choice. But nevertheless, it's Gus Van Sant. That's reason enough to be excited.

From Comingsoonnet:

Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch and James Franco are in final negotiations to appear opposite Sean Penn in Gus Van Sant's biopic Milk.

The Focus Features/Groundswell Productions film stars Penn as Harvey Milk, the country's first openly gay elected official, a San Francisco city supervisor who was assassinated in 1978.

Brolin will play Dan White, the rival politician and supervisor who shot Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone to death at City Hall. Hirsch has been cast as gay rights activist Cleve Jones, an intern and close ally of Milk's, who went on to found the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. Franco will play Scott Smith, Milk's lover and campaign manager.

Principal photography is set to begin in January in San Francisco.

Golden Satellite Nominees!

National Board of Review announces tomorrow! WAHOO!

Again, these Globe knockoffs are completely arbitrary and unimportant. They fit right in with the rest of award season.



MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA
"The Lookout" (!!!!!!!)
"Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead"
"Away From Her"
"Eastern Promises"
"No Country For Old Men"
"3:10 To Yuma"

MOTION PICTURE, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
"Hairspray"
"Juno"
"Shoot ‘Em Up"
"Lars and the Real Girl"
"Knocked Up"

ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA
Julie Christie, "Away From Her"
Angelina Jolie, "A Mighty Heart"
Marion Cotillard, "La Vie En Rose"
Tilda Swinton, "Stephanie Daley"
Keira Knightly, "Atonement"
Laura Linney, "The Savages"

ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA
Denzel Washington, "American Gangster"
Josh Brolin, "No Country For Old Men"
Christian Bale, "Rescue Dawn"
Viggo Mortensen, "Eastern Promises"
Frank Langella, "Starting Out in the Evening"
Tommy Lee Jones, "In the Valley of Elah"

ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Katherine Heigl, "Knocked Up"
Amy Adams, "Enchanted"
Ellen Page, "Juno"
Emily Mortimer, "Lars and the Real Girl"
Nicole Kidman, "Margot at the Wedding"
Cate Blanchett, "I’m Not There"

ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Richard Gere, "The Hoax"
Seth Rogen, "Knocked Up"
Ben Kingsley You Kill Me
Ryan Gosling, "Lars and the Real Girl"
Clive Owen, "Shoot ‘Em Up"
Don Cheadle, "Talk to Me"

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Saoirse Ronan, "Atonement"
Emmanuelle Seigner, "La Vie En Rose"
Tilda Swinton, "Michael Clayton"
Amy Ryan, "Gone Baby Gone"
Taraji P. Henson "Talk to Me"
Ruby Dee, "American Gangster"

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Jeff Daniels, "The Lookout"
Brian Cox, "Zodiac"
Tom Wilkinson, "Michael Clayton"
Ben Foster, "3:10 To Yuma"
Javier Bardem, "No Country For Old Men"
Casey Affleck, "The Assassination of Jessie James"

MOTION PICTURE, FOREIGN LANGUAGE
"Ten Canoes" Australia
"Offside" Iran
"La Vie En Rose" France
"Lust, Caution" China
"4 Months 3 Weeks & 2 Days" Romania
"The Orphanage" Spain

MOTION PICTURE, ANIMATED OR MIXED MEDIA
"Persepolis"
"The Simpsons Movie"
"The Golden" Compass
""Ratatouille"
"300"
"Beowulf"

MOTION PICTURE, DOCUMENTARY
"The King Of Kong"
"The 11th Hour"
"Sicko"
"No End In Sight"
"Darfur Now"
"Lake Of Fire"

DIRECTOR
Ang Lee, "Lust, Caution"
Olivier Dahan, "La Vie En Rose"
David Cronenberg, "Eastern Promises"
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, "No Country For Old Men"
Sidney Lumet, "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead"
Sarah Polley, "Away From Her"

SCREENPLAY, ORIGINAL
Scott Frank, "The Lookout"
Diablo Cody, "Juno"
Kelly Masterson, "Before the Devil Knows You’Re Dead"
Tony Gilroy, "Michael Clayton"
Nancy Oliver,"Lars and the Real Girl"
Steven Knight, "Eastern Promises"

SCREENPLAY, ADAPTED
James Vanderbilt, "Zodiac"
Christopher Hampton "Atonement"
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, "No Country For Old Men"
David Benioff, "The Kite Runner"
Sarah Polley,"Away From Her"
Wang Hui Ling, James Schamus,"Lust, Caution"

ORIGINAL SCORE
Dario Marianelli, "Atonement"
James Newton Howard, "The Lookout"
Michael Giacchino, "Ratatouille"
Alberto Iglesias, "The Kite Runner"
Howard Shore, "Eastern Promises"
Nick Cave, "The Assassination of Jesse James"

ORIGINAL SONG
"Do You Feel Me"/Diane Warren, "American Gangster"
"If You Want Me"/Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova, "Once"
"Come So Far"/Marc Shaiman, "Hairspray"
"Rise"/Eddie Vedder, "Into The Wild"
"Grace Is Gone"/Clint Eastwood & Carole Bayer Sager, "Grace Is Gone"
"Lyra"/Kate Bush, "The Golden Compass"

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Harris Savides, "Zodiac"
Robert Elswit, "There Will Be Blood"
Bruno Delbonnel, "Across The Universe"
Janusz Kaminski, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
Roger Deakins, "The Assassination Of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford"
Henry Braham, "The Golden Compass"

VISUAL EFFECTS
Scott Farrar, "Transformers"
Michael Fink, "The Golden Compass"
Chris Watts, Grant Freckelton, Derek Wentworth, Daniel Leduc, "300"
Peter Chiang, Charlie Noble, David Vickery, Mattias Lindahl, "The Bourne Ultimatum"
Thomas Schelesny, Matt Jacobs, Tom Gibbons, "Enchanted"
Jerome Chen, Sean Phillips, Kenn Mc Donald, Michael Lantieri, "Beowulf"

FILM EDITING
Pietro Scalia, "American Gangster"
Jill Savitt, "The Lookout"
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, "No Country For Old Men"
Richard Marizy, "La Vie En Rose"
Christopher Rouse, "The Bourne Ultimatum"
Ronald Sanders, "Eastern Promises"

SOUND (EDITING & MIXING)
Mike Prestwood-Smith, Mark Taylor, Glenn Freemantle, "The Golden Compass"
Nikolas Javelle, Jean-Paul Hurier, "La Vie En Rose"
Christopher Boyes, Paul Massey, Lee Orloff, George Watters II, "Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’S End"
Scott Heckler, Eric Norris, Derek Vanderhorst, "300"
Karen Baker Landers, Kirk Francis, Per Hallberg, "The Bourne Ultimatum"
Tod Maitland, Skip Lievsay, Rick Kline, Jeremy Peirson, "I Am Legend"

ART DIRECTION & PRODUCTION DESIGN
Guy Dyas, David Allday, "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"
Patricia Norris, Martin Gendron, Troy Sizemore, "The Assassination Of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford"
Dennis Davenport, David Gropman, "Hairspray"
Mark Tildesley, "Sunshine"
Gary Freeman, Stephen Morahan, Denis Schnegg, David Allday, Matthew Gray, Charles Wood, "Amazing Grace"
Mark Friedberg, Peter Rogness, "Across the Universe"

COSTUME DESIGN
Alexandra Byrne, "Elizabeth: The Golden Age"
Yvonne Blake, "Goya’S Ghosts"
Marit Allen, "La Vie En Rose"
Rita Ryack, "Hairspray"
Jenny Beavan, "Amazing Grace"
Jacqueline Durran, "Antonement"