And the Race Begins
The Los Angeles Film Critics announced their year-end awards today. The big winners were Brokeback Mountain and Capote. A History of Violence was close behind. The New York critics announce Monday and the Golden Globe nominations are Tuesday. Somewhere next week also produces the Broadcast Film Critics Association nominations. By this time next week, the Oscar nomination picture will look much clearer.This didn’t do much to clear anything up, except giving a bit of a shoulder to Walk the Line, but Witherspoon and Phoenix will overcome that no problem. Obviously, the biggest surprise here is Vera Farmiga—a relatively unknown that probably has no chance of an Oscar nomination, considering nobody’s seen her movie. But where is The Constant Gardener? And Joan Allen? Sigh…. And who would’ve ever suspected that Dan Futterman, the actor, would go on to write an award winning screenplay? The biggest head-scratcher for me is Good Night, and Good Luck winning for Best Cinematography. Sure, it looked good, but framing---not so impressed.
Here are all the winners from Anne Thompson of The Hollywood Reporter.
Picture: Brokeback Mountain (over A History of Violence)
Director: Ang Lee (over David Cronenberg)
Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote (over Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain)
Actress: Vera Farmiga, Down to the Bone (over Judi Dench, Mrs. Henderson Presents)
Supporting Actress: Catherine Keener, for four films (Capote, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, The Interpreter), over Amy Adams of Junebug
Supporting Actor: William Hurt, A History of Violence (over Frank Langella, Good Night, and Good Luck)
Screenplay: Dan Futterman, Capote (tied with Noah Baumbach, The Squid and the Whale)
Cinematography: Robert Elswit, Good Night, and Good Luck (over 2046)
Production Design: 2046 (over Good Night, and Good Luck)
Music: Joe Hisaishi, Howl's Moving Castle
New Generation Award: Terrence Howard, Hustle & Flow
Documentary: Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man (over Alex Gibney's Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room)
Animated Feature: Wallce + Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Foreign Film: Michael Haneke's Cachet (over 2046).
posted by cinegod @ 5:45 PM
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RE: Dan Futterman, I was watching a re-run of "Sex and the City" on TBS the other night, and Futterman was a guest star! He was dating Kristin Davis' character, which was weird b/c she thought he was gay. In the end, although he was straight, he ended up being more in touch w/ his feminine side than she was, and that was the deal breaker.
Still, I was glad to finally be able to put a name w/ a face. I got the "Creative SCreenwriting magazine" podcast where they interviewed Futterman and learned that "Capote" is his first script. EVER. He'd tinkered around with short stories and stuff, but this was his first attempt at a screenplay. Not too damn bad, huh? I expect great things from him in the future...meanwhile, Capote is currently my favorite movie of '05.
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