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Killing Them Softly -- the lack of love for this fine film in the US was startling; nay, a disgrace. The critical establishment is rapidly losing all credibility; see also the kudos lavished on the dubious Zero Dark Thirty.
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Why Scott your predictions look awful familiar to The Hollywood Reporter's own...Scott Feinberg...maybe you two are the same? lol
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Why Scott your predictions look awful familiar to The Hollywood Reporter's own...Scott Feinberg...maybe you two are the same? lol
Nope. It's probably just that this year's seem like a pretty obvious bunch -- the biggest questions for me seem to be how many Best Picture nominations there'll be, whether Silver Linings Playbook's disappointing box-office (despite the rave reviews and hot stars) will hurt it, and whether Django can overcome its trashiness/controversialness and get major nominations.
Still hoping that The Impossible and Looper get nominated for at least one award (Looper is one of the short-listed 7 for Makeup).
Glad to see the love for Killing Them Softly; for me, even the political content doesn't detract, and dovetails nicely in Pitt's final lines. One commenter on another film blog wrote something like "They should have just filmed the damn book," which seems a little odd to me, because despite the title and year change, Killing Them Softly's one of the most word-for-word close adaptations I've ever seen.
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Never a fan of Actor Matthew McConaughey, he changed my mind this year with three, (to me), amazing performances. Two I really liked and the third one, not too much. What I didn't care for was 'Magic Mike', mainly the film which was dreadful but the best thing in it was McConaughey. He was better in 'Bernie' which was quite wonderful. And then there was Friedkin's 'Killer Joe' (Unrated version) which was a mess, though it was entertaining. McConaughey should be nominated for his genuinely terrifying and hypnotic performance in 'Killer Joe'.
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I agree about McConaughey. For years he'd seemed like just one of those charismatic performers who can pretty much only just play themselves (assuming that his breakthrough role in Dazed & Confused was basically himself), but besides being perfectly cast in Magic Mike (he's even eligible for Best Song!), he was outstanding in Bernie and even better in Killer Joe. (He's also good in The Paperboy, but the less said about that film the better, except that throughout the film he has these small facial scars that were one of the most subtle but convincing makeup jobs I'd ever seen).
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Wow, did you dislike ZERO DARK THIRTY that much Scott? Not a single personal vote for a nomination!
As for Meryl Streep getting a best actress nomination for HOPE SPRINGS, maybe if Hell freezes over. Doubtful if Mirren will squeak in either. Those two spots are reserved for Riva and Watts.
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Wow, did you dislike ZERO DARK THIRTY that much Scott? Not a single personal vote for a nomination!
As for Meryl Streep getting a best actress nomination for HOPE SPRINGS, maybe if Hell freezes over. Doubtful if Mirren will squeak in either. Those two spots are reserved for Riva and Watts.
I actually thought Zero Dark Thirty was very good, I plan to see it again in a month or so, and I'll be happy to see it receive major nominations (I certainly preferred it to Argo, everyone else's favorite film of the year, which was perfectly fine and skilled and ultimately forgettable). I just tend to list the films I'm personally fonder of for my own nominations, which this year were the likes of Looper, Dark Knight, Wallflower, Impossible, and so forth (I enjoyed Django so much that I plan to see it a second time tomorrow, but I don't think I nominated that for anything on my personal list). Zero Dark Thirty doesn't need any votes from me, it already has enough supporters (unlike The Impossible).
I hope you're right about Riva and especially Watts; Streep could certainly use a year off from nominations, especially after her third Oscar, and I wouldn't put Springs up there with her top performances of the last decade or two (which for me were Bridges of Madison County, One True Thing and The Devil Wears Prada).
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Streep could certainly use a year off from nominations, especially after her third Oscar
I think Streep will get a breather this year. But she has a new film coming out in late 2013, AUGUST OSAGE COUNTY that will most likely put her back in the ring. It's based on a Tony award winning Pulitzer Prize winning play and has Oscar written all over it. Streep plays the drug addicted matriarch of a dysfunctional family including daughter Julia Roberts. Ewan McGregor, Sam Shepard, Chris Cooper and Juliette Lewis are in it too.
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August: Osage County will need to find a large audience to be a big Oscar contender. Reviews will be strong but it's a film with limited appeal.
I don't know. THE HURT LOCKER never really found an audience. It's the lowest grossing best picture Oscar winner in the last few decades which is why Sony is handling ZERO DARK THIRTY with kid gloves, opening it only in New York and L.A. to get the benefit of critical praise, critics awards and eventually Oscar nominations before opening wide to the rest of the country.
With the powerhouse punch of Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts in the lead roles, A: OC should get butts into seats (unless the reviews are awful which is unlikely).
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Wouldn't it be fitting and a show to the world how 'classy' The Academy can be if it were a sweep of the top tier (at least for nominations) for:
'AMOUR' - Best Film
'AMOUR' - Best Foreign Film
'AMOUR' - Best Director, Michael Haneke
'AMOUR' - Best Actress, Emmanuelle Riva
and, 'AMOUR - Best Actor, Jean-Louis Trintignant
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Wouldn't it be fitting and a show to the world how 'classy' The Academy can be if it were a sweep of the top tier (at least for nominations) for:
'AMOUR' - Best Film
'AMOUR' - Best Foreign Film
'AMOUR' - Best Director, Michael Haneke
'AMOUR' - Best Actress, Emmanuelle Riva
and, 'AMOUR - Best Actor, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Considering how frequently it's alleged that Academy members tend to be of the older generation (older than me even, which is saying a lot these days), I don't see Amour as presenting the kind of comforting view of old age that would sit well with them. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel or Quartet are much more likely to find favor, though I'd be happily surprised by major nominations for Amour.
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