So, The Artist is going to win all the Oscars, right? It certainly looks that way after it cleaned out the BAFTAs last night. None of the awards here were particularly surprising, so we might be in for a fairly boring Oscars ceremony in a couple of weeks, but I guess all of the people on this list might as well go ahead and start cleaning off the shelf space for their statuettes. I still think that Viola Davis will win the Oscar over Meryl Streep, though.
- Best Film: The Artist
- Outstanding British Film: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- Best Actor: Jean Dujardin, The Artist
- Best Actress: Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
- Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer, The Help
- Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer, Beginners
- Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
- Best Animated Film: Rango
- Adapted Screenplay: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- Documentary: Senna
- Rising Star Award: Adam Deacon
- Original Screenplay: The Artist
- Production Design: Hugo
- Outstanding Debut By A Director, Writer, or Producer: Tyrannosaur, Paddy Considine, Diarmid Scrimshaw
- Foreign Language Film: The Skin I Live In
- Makeup & Hair: The Iron Lady
- Costume Design: The Artist
- Cinematography: The Artist
- Editing: Senna
- Sound: Hugo
- Original Music: The Artist, Ludovic Bource
- Special Visual Effects: Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Part II
Also in awards, The Tree Of Life picked up an Outstanding Achievement award for Emmanuel Lubezki at the American Society of Cinematographers awards ceremony last night. Other cinematographers who picked up awards were Jonathan Freeman for an episode of Boardwalk Empire, Michael Weaver for an episode of Californication, and Martin Ruhe for the TV movie Page Eight.
You know, I have this sneaking suspicion that The Artist won everything not due to it being a good movie or anything (I wouldn't know, cos still nowhere is showing it), but more due to the fact that it's a silent movie and, "Wow! That must have been so hard! Let's give it everything!"
Actual ceremony was rather boring, too. Stephen Fry was off his game, several people looked bored out of their minds and the awards were super predictable. The only highlights were Kristen Wiig and Chris O'Dowd's introduction to Outstanding Debut... and Meryl Streep getting everything wrong on her way to collect her BAFTA. Disappointment all round.
On the bright side, the Top Gear before hand was friggin' hysterical!
Yeah, it was a pretty uneventful show. Seemed like all the awards went to the predictable choices. I'm glad Rango won though because it deserved the win. The Artist will win everything at every award show, just as everyone already knew.
You're right. These award show's main mentality, chiefly the Oscars, is to promote and call out movies that are DIFFERENT and not always BETTER. It's why awful musicals are usually nominated for awards; even though they're terrible movies they get praise because musicals aren't common anymore. Also, it's safe to assume that the vast majority of people who vote on these awards are older people who have completely different taste and something like The Artist brings them a certain nostalgia in the way 8-bit video game throwbacks appeal to older gamers. I think that's why as time goes on winners at most of these award shows become irrelevant and the movies that have legs down the road and stick are movies that are often overlooked and appealed to a younger audience at their release.
It is sad that a silent movie which seems to consist of a formula of 'concentrated nostalgia' is winning over modern forward thinking films which advance the medium.
I watched the BAFTAs and, while not surprised that The Artist won for Best Director, Film, Screenplay, Music etc, I really was shocked when Dujardin won instead of Gary Oldman, I thought good old fashioned British favouritism would prevail, but alas, Smiley was not rewarded.
@Jason_Miami:
The artists didn't win every award at the Golden Globe.
@jackanderson: There is something on that. Another reason is that the artist is a throwback to an era long gone in Hollywood, an era many of the voters (namely elder generation) grow nostalgic of...
I am not saying The Artist is a bad movie or it doesn't deserve some recognition, but if it were because of industry nostalgia, I believe Hugo is far better.
Wow nice, I'm glad Senna won both Documentary and Editing!
I don;t understand why people give a shit about the BAFTAs, and I'm British.
Dammit, The Artist was at a theater just 20 minutes away from me but they lost it after one week!! WTF!
I was going to watch the BAFTAs, it started, then I realised oh wait this is going to be super boring because of all the predictable nominations. And I usually like the BAFTAs.
So I played some Darkness 2. Skewering dudes with car doors and impaling them through the fucking skull has never felt so good.
@AssInAss said:
Is it me, or was James Franco channelling a 12-year-old for that entire movie?
@Undeadpool said:
He was going for full retard.
I don't think anyone is willing to argue that The Artist isn't a good film, but I just can't help but feel that it's completely undeserving of the accolades its been receiving. The OSS films are superior to The Artist in almost every way.