This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year in Cinema" -- 2018

good lord that is my nightmare

leave no trace was so good

Most of the regional crix have now weighed in, and if you thought they would tilt the best actor race back to Bradley Cooper or Christian Bale, nope.

https://variety.com/2019/film/awards/roma-alfonso-cuaron-ethan-hawke-regina-king-dominate-critics-awards-circuit-1203095798/

After reading through Walter Chaw's year-end wrap up, I'm looking for second opinions on: Thunder Road, Damsel, Madeline's Madeline, Blaze, Skate Kitchen and The Rider. Anyone?

― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Tuesday, January 1, 2019 10:54 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Thunder Road is worth seeing. I wasn't 100% crazy about it immediately after watching it but it's stuck with me. The lead (who also directed iirc) is just such a live wire that he completely makes the picture worthwhile on his own.

Here, have 'em...

FULL LIST OF WINNERS FOR THE 22ND ONLINE FILM CRITICS SOCIETY AWARDS:

BEST PICTURE
Roma

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

BEST DIRECTOR
Alfonso Cuarón - Roma

BEST LEAD ACTOR
Ethan Hawke - First Reformed

BEST LEAD ACTRESS
Toni Collette - Hereditary

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Michael B. Jordan - Black Panther

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Regina King - If Beale Street Could Talk

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Paul Schrader - First Reformed

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Barry Jenkins - If Beale Street Could Talk

BEST EDITING
Eddie Hamilton - Mission: Impossible - Fallout

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Alfonso Cuarón - Roma

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Nicholas Britell - If Beale Street Could Talk

BEST DEBUT FEATURE
Ari Aster - Hereditary

BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Roma

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Won't You Be My Neighbor?

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
Annihilation - Best Visual Effects
Black Panther - Best Costume Design
Mission: Impossible - Fallout - Best Stunt Coordination
A Quiet Place - Best Sound Design
A Star Is Born - Best Original Songs

ONLINE FILM CRITICS SOCIETY'S BEST OF THE YEAR
1. Roma
2. BlacKkKlansman
3. If Beale Street Could Talk
4. First Reformed
5. The Favourite
6. You Were Never Really Here
7. Annihilation
8. Eighth Grade
9. Hereditary
10. A Star Is Born
11. Suspiria

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
Roger Deakins
Spike Lee
Rita Moreno
Robert Redford
Agnès Varda

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

Director Ryan Coogler, for Black Panther's distinctive critical and box office appeal

The city of Oakland, CA, for hosting two of 2018's most socially and artistically compelling films about race relations, "Sorry to Bother You" and "Blindspotting."

Rita Moreno? did she do a Marvel?

1,352 acting credits, and aside from West Side Story, all in shows I've no interest in ever seeing again.

Slate's year-ending Movie Club started without my knowing it...

https://slate.com/culture/2019/01/thanos-avatar-2018-movies.html

Rita Moreno? did she do a Marvel?

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, January 2, 2019 2:15 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/emmys/la-et-st-rita-moreno-one-day-at-a-time-emmys-20180402-story.html

God bless the AARP Movies For Grown-Ups Awards ...

Best Picture/Best Movie for Grownups
A Star Is Born
BlacKkKlansman
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Green Book
Roma

Best Actress
Sandra Bullock (Bird Box)
Glenn Close (The Wife)
Viola Davis (Widows)
Nicole Kidman (Destroyer)
Julia Roberts (Ben Is Back)

Best Actor
Willem Dafoe (At Eternity’s Gate)
Hugh Jackman (The Front Runner)
Viggo Mortensen (Green Book)
Robert Redford (The Old Man & the Gun)
John C. Reilly (Stan & Ollie)

Best Supporting Actress
Angela Bassett (Black Panther)
Blythe Danner (What They Had)
Judi Dench (All Is True)
Nicole Kidman (Boy Erased)
Michelle Yeoh (Crazy Rich Asians)

Best Supporting Actor
Robert Duvall (Widows)
Sam Elliott (A Star Is Born)
Robert Forster (What They Had)
Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
Ian McKellen (All Is True)

Best Director
Kenneth Branagh (All Is True)
Alfonso Cuarón (Roma)
Peter Farrelly (Green Book)
Mimi Leder (On the Basis of Sex)
Spike Lee (BlacKkKlansman)

Best Screenwriter
Peter Farrelly, Brian Hayes Currie & Nick Vallelonga (Green Book)
Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara (The Favourite)
Peter Hedges (Ben Is Back)
Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
Paul Schrader (First Reformed)

Best Ensemble
Black Panther
Bohemian Rhapsody
Crazy Rich Asians
The Front Runner
Widows

Best Grownup Love Story
All Is True
On the Basis of Sex
Private Life
The Old Man & the Gun
What They Had

Best Intergenerational Film
A Quiet Place
Beautiful Boy
Ben Is Back
Crazy Rich Asians
Mary Poppins Returns

Best Time Capsule
BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
First Man
If Beale Street Could Talk
Roma

Best Documentary
Amazing Grace
Bathtubs Over Broadway
RBG
The Rest I Make Up
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Best Foreign Film
Cold War (Poland, France, U.K.)
Never Look Away (Germany)
Roma (Mexico)
Shoplifters (Japan)
The Guilty (Denmark)

Yay The Guilty :)

PGA Nods ...

Black Panther
BlacKkKlansman
Bohemian Rhapsody
Crazy Rich Asians
The Favourite
Green Book
A Quiet Place
Roma
A Star is Born
Vice

+ their animated feature picks

The Grinch
Incredibles 2
Isle of Dogs
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Yes, Bohemian Rhapsody has best picture-equivalent nominations from PGA, SAG and the Globes now.

lotsa 60-year-olds who usta have bad mustaches

will win/should win's for the GG's
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jan/04/golden-globes-2019-film-categories-who-win-favourite-star-born-wife-bohemian-widows-buster-scruggs

favourite star-born-wife bohemian-widows

Nat’l Society is voting right now, and judging by the margin Roma won cinematography by, it’ll take the top prize there no sweat.

as opposed to Roma, all sweat.

Here we go:

BEST PICTURE: THE RIDER (44 points)

RUNNERS-UP:
ROMA (41 points)
BURNING (27 points)

— National Society of Film Critics (@NatSocFilmCrix) January 5, 2019

BEST SCREENPLAY: Armando Iannucci, David Schneider and Ian Martin, THE DEATH OF STALIN (47 points)

RUNNERS-UP:
Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty, CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? (27 points)
Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara, THE FAVOURITE (24 points)

— National Society of Film Critics (@NatSocFilmCrix) January 5, 2019

Kinda wish it had been Burning that defeated Roma there, but at this point in the season, any surprise is a nice surprise.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Steven Yeun, BURNING (40 points)

RUNNERS-UP:
Richard E. Grant, CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? (35 points)
Brian Tyree Henry, IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK, WIDOWS and SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE (32 points)

— National Society of Film Critics (@NatSocFilmCrix) January 5, 2019

BEST ACTOR: Ethan Hawke, FIRST REFORMED (58 points)

RUNNERS-UP:
Willem Dafoe, AT ETERNITY'S GATE (30 points)
Ben Foster, LEAVE NO TRACE (25 points)
John C. Reilly, THE SISTERS BROTHERS and STAN & OLLIE (25 points)

— National Society of Film Critics (@NatSocFilmCrix) January 5, 2019

oh well:

BEST ACTRESS: Olivia Colman, THE FAVOURITE (36 points)

RUNNERS-UP:
Regina Hall, SUPPORT THE GIRLS (33 points)
Melissa McCarthy, CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? (27 points)

— National Society of Film Critics (@NatSocFilmCrix) January 5, 2019

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Regina King, IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (47 points)

RUNNERS-UP:
Elizabeth Debicki, WIDOWS (37 points)
Emma Stone, THE FAVOURITE (24 points)

— National Society of Film Critics (@NatSocFilmCrix) January 5, 2019

Oh but don't stop there, Alfred.

BEST DIRECTOR: Alfonso Cuarón, ROMA (60 points)

RUNNERS-UP:
Lee Chang-dong, BURNING (22 points)
Chloé Zhao, THE RIDER (22 points)

— National Society of Film Critics (@NatSocFilmCrix) January 5, 2019

Reverse Shot's top 10: http://www.reverseshot.org/features/2519/best_2018

Zama repeats the Film Comment poll triumph here.

The RS intro lists all the movies they've cited as #1s over the years, and it's an interesting progression:

Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Before Sunset
The New World
L’enfant
Syndromes and a Century
Flight of the Red Balloon
Summer Hours
Alamar
The Tree of Life
The Deep Blue Sea
To the Wonder
Boyhood
In Jackson Heights
No Home Movie
A Quiet Passion
Zama

that RS top ten is excellent.

straight white guys are only gonna win these prizes if they make tapioca like Green Book, it seems

Boring winners

Wtf @ all the Cuarón love

i learned from the golden globes is that the green book writer thinks he has written the most important popular movie of all time.

also, none of the BoRhap winners mentioned Singer.

Did they mention Fletcher?

Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody won the two best picture awards and we’re flummoxed that Cuaron, who has won every other prize for directing so far, also won the Globe?

MD'A tallies the votes and comes up with this year's ersatz Village Voice film critics poll, and it's not Roma!

http://www.panix.com/~dangelo/vvfilmpoll2018.html

WGA nominations announced

Adapted Screenplay
"BlacKkKlansman"
"Black Panther"
"Can You Ever Forgive Me?"
"If Beale Street Could Talk"
"A Star Is Born"

Original Screenplay
"Eighth Grade"
"Green Book"
"A Quiet Place"
"Roma"
​"Vice"

not big Schrader fans

any exclusions bcz of union legalese?

surprised that First Reformed got snubbed xp

The Favourite and Sorry to Bother You were two I know we’re ineligible, but yes, support truly is soft for First Reformed. Which makes it all the happier it won the faux-Village Voice poll

just to confirm, apparently FR was eligible

I can't think of a recent example of a film sweeping in one category (Actor), topping or making almost every major critic's list, and getting snubbed like this at the GG and at WGA.

Granted, I still think he's gonna get nominated (and not win) for a certain big prize that Morbs won't hiss about if I mention it.

Wtf @ all the Cuarón love

Agreed. That said, there is a long critical tradition of overrating gritty and therefore "authentic" tales of the working-class underdog.

yeah, and movies that suggest profundity rather than actually being profound (like The Tree of Life).

oh, I didn't know Schrader has been urging the industry to cast Spacey

long critical tradition of overrating gritty and therefore "authentic" tales of the working-class underdog

What other films have been critically overrated for being gritty and therefore "authentic"? And which critics in particular are you talking about?

yeah, and movies that suggest profundity rather than actually being profound (like The Tree of Life).

Yes. I was looking to coin the term "Malick Syndrome" for movies and other works of TToL's ilk.

What other films have been critically overrated for being gritty and therefore "authentic"?

See Bicycle Thieves and every other foreign-language Oscar winner in its vein.

If Bicycle Thieves is overrated (hint: it isn't) then it's overrated by directors too - they placed it tenth in the most recent Sight and Sound poll:

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news/sight-sound-2012-directors-top-ten

I would be interested to hear you name some films about working class life that aren't 'overrated'

Killer of Sheep (Burnett, 1978).

The Florida Project!