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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences can go stuff itself, Andrea Riseborough
Film academy is implementing review after questions raised over last-minute celebrity-backed campaign in best actress category
Who better to call attention to the absence of attention, for deserving work, than the lucky few who made the A-list? Kate Winslet, Jane Fonda, Charlize Theron, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Amy Adams have contributed mightily to the acting profession. They are brand-names. They have reached out to their not-nearly-so-well-known sister, Andrea Riseborough, and offered her a hand to the next level. This is what workers do. They look out for one another and show kindness. They unite against the bosses. They welcome into their midst the indie. They fight the system. Brava!
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What should win. What will win.
Best Picture
“All Quiet on the Western Front” (Netflix) A Netflix/Amusement Park Film in co-production with Gunpowder Films in association with Sliding Down Rainbows Entertainment/Anima Pictures Production Malte Grunert, Producer
“Avatar: The Way of Water” (Walt Disney) A 20th Century Studios Production James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers
“The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight) A Blueprint Pictures/Film4/TSG Entertainment Production Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin and Martin McDonagh, Producers
“Elvis” (Warner Bros.) A Bazmark Production Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick and Schuyler Weiss, Producers
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24) A Hot Dog Hands Production Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang, Producers
“The Fabelmans” (Universal/Amblin Partners) An Amblin Partners Production Kristie Macosko Krieger, Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner, Producers
“Tár” (Focus Features) A Standard Film Company/EMJAG Production Todd Field, Alexandra Milchan and Scott Lambert, Producers
“Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount) A Paramount Pictures/Skydance/Jerry Bruckheimer Films Production Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, David Ellison and Jerry Bruckheimer, Producers
“Triangle of Sadness” (Neon) A Plattform Production Erik Hemmendorff and Philippe Bober, Producers
“Women Talking” (Orion Pictures/United Artists Releasing) A Plan B Entertainment / hear/say Production Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Frances McDormand, Producers
Actor in a Leading Role
Austin Butler in “Elvis” (Warner Bros.)
Colin Farrell in “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight)
Brendan Fraser in “The Whale” (A24)
Paul Mescal in “Aftersun” (A24)
Bill Nighy in “Living” (Sony Pictures Classics)
Actress in a Leading Role
Cate Blanchett in “Tár” (Focus Features)
Ana de Armas in “Blonde” (Netflix)
Andrea Riseborough in “To Leslie” (Momentum Pictures)
Michelle Williams in “The Fabelmans” (Universal/Amblin Partners)
Michelle Yeoh in “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)
Directing
Martin McDonagh “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight)
Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)
Steven Spielberg “The Fabelmans” (Universal/Amblin Partners)
Todd Field “Tár” (Focus Features)
Ruben Östlund “Triangle of Sadness” (Neon)
Actor in a Supporting Role
Brendan Gleeson in “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight)
Brian Tyree Henry in “Causeway” (Apple)
Judd Hirsch in “The Fabelmans” (Universal/Amblin Partners)
Barry Keoghan in “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight)
Ke Huy Quan in “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)
Actress in a Supporting Role
Angela Bassett in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (Walt Disney)
Hong Chau in “The Whale” (A24)
Kerry Condon in “The Banshees of Inisherin” (Searchlight)
Jamie Lee Curtis in “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)
Stephanie Hsu in “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24)
Animated Feature Film
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio Marcel the Shell With Shoes On Puss In Boots The Sea Beast Turning Red
Documentary Feature Film
All That Breathes All The Beauty and the Bloodshed Fire of Love A House Made of Splinters Navalny
International Feature Film
All Quiet on the Western Front Argentina, 1985 Close EO The Quiet Girl
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
All Quiet on the Western Front Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Living Top Gun: Maverick Women Talking
Writing (Original Screenplay)
The Banshees of Inisherin Everything Everywhere All at Once The Fabelmans Tár Triangle of Sadness
Cinematography
All Quiet on the Western Front Bardo Elvis Empire of Light Tár
Film Editing
The Banshees of Inisherin Elvis Everything Everywhere All at Once Tár Top Gun: Maverick
Music (Original Score)
All Quiet on the Western Front Babylon The Banshees of Inisherin Everything Everywhere All at Once The Fabelmans
Music (Original Song)
“Applause” from “Tell It like a Woman” (Samuel Goldwyn Films) Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
“Hold My Hand” from “Top Gun: Maverick” (Paramount) Music and Lyric by Lady Gaga and BloodPop
“Lift Me Up” from “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (Walt Disney) Music by Tems, Rihanna, Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Goransson Lyric by Tems and Ryan Coogler
“Naatu Naatu” from “RRR” (Variance Films/Sarigama Cinemas) Music by M.M. Keeravaani Lyric by Chandrabose
“This Is A Life” from “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (A24) Music by Ryan Lott, David Byrne and Mitski Lyric by Ryan Lott and David Byrne
Production Design
All Quiet on the Western Front Avatar: The Way of Water Babylon Elvis The Fabelmans
Costume Design
Babylon Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Elvis Everything Everywhere All at Once Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Makeup and Hairstyling
All Quiet The Batman Black Panther Elvis The Whale
Live Action Short Film
An Irish Goodbye Ivalu Le Pupille Night Ride The Red Suitcase
Documentary Short Film
The Elephant Whisperers Haulout How Do You Measure a Year Stranger at the Gate
Animated Short Film
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse The Flying Sailor Ice Merchants My Year of Dicks An Ostrich Told Me the World is Fake and I Think I Believe It
Sound
All Quiet on the Western Front Avatar: The Way of Water The Batman Elvis Top Gun: Maverick
Visual Effects
All Quiet on the Western Front Avatar: The Way of Water The Batman Black Panther Top Gun: Maverick
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Will Tom Cruise film his next movie in space? In July 2020, Cruise, director Doug Liman, and writer Christopher McQuarrie teamed with Univer
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At the heart of the film is an indelible scene…
Navalny had got an FSB agent to confess on camera and describe how he’d been part of the clean-up gang, sent in to remove any traces of novichok from Navalny’s clothes.
Navalny does not blink or miss a beat. He just piles on the pressure and insists on more details. “On which piece of cloth was your focus on? Which garment had the highest risk factor?” he asks. And the answer comes back: “The underpants.”
The FSB had tried to kill him with his own underpants.
It’s two years since the arrest and imprisonment of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Here his deputy talks about continuing his fea
“Navalny, from being an anti-corruption investigator/blogger, managed to create the biggest opposition organisation that was independent from the Kremlin. And he managed to do this by recruiting and training a lot of people. He was innovative in crowdfunding and he made a very important move from blogging to YouTube which made his anti-corruption content more and more readily available and in an entertaining form. It’s a political party created off the back of a media organisation.”
Above all, he was entertaining. Navalny relentlessly, simply and endlessly took the piss. His refusal to take Putin seriously is at least part of the reason he’s now in a maximum-security prison.
Doug Liman v. Brett Kavanaugh: Justice was made in secrecy over the last year, with NDAs signed by everyone involved. The project was self-funded by Liman, making his documentary debut. He told the Hollywood Reporter that the supreme court holds “special meaning” to him, his father having been a lawyer and activist and his brother a federal judge. He was frustrated by the FBI investigation into Kavanaugh that “never happened,” and sought the help of renowned documentary producers Liz Garbus and Amy Herdy, both with specialised experience of films about sexual assault allegations, to do the work that he saw as unfinished, if barely started at all.
Covertly-made Justice, from director Doug Liman, shows to sold-out audience and shines new light on allegations of sexual assault
This, she says, brought her into the orbit of Kavanaugh, who came from a privileged family and was known as a heavy drinker at the time (he is referred to in the film as someone who was usually “more drunk than everyone else”). Ramirez recounts the alleged event, when she was intoxicated and, she says, made, without her consent, to touch Kavanaugh’s penis, which he had placed near her face.
“I feel like we’re in The Shining,” my boyfriend whispered to me, though there was no one around else around. We’d been on the boat for less than two hours.
It was almost empty, from another era and didn’t even take us to where we were going
2001 A Space Odyssey (1968)
Because Hollywood loves to costume itself as IRL.
A surge of celebrity endorsements for Andrea Riseborough’s performance in a little-seen indie drama offer a strange case study in Oscar camp
To Leslie, which co-stars Marc Maron, Owen Teague, Allison Janney and Stephen Root, is the type of gritty, poverty-adjacent indie drama that draws critical praise and awards attention but struggles to find distribution and audience… Riseborough’s committed performance … is in a recognizable awards genre of, for lack of a better term, “going ugly” or poor.
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The China Film Administration has never explained why Marvel films have been blocked since mid-2019. Film industry analysts have raised several potential reasons over the years, including the presence of LGBTQ+ characters and symbols of US patriotism, like the Statue of Liberty…
Latest Black Panther and Ant-Man superhero flicks get February release in country famously controlling over Hollywood movies
Remembering the great special effects pioneer Derek Meddings on his birthday. Superman (1978), Moonraker (1979), Thunderbirds Are Go (1966), Krull (1983)
You can believe in the worlds he has made for you. What an amazing and rare talent is Mr Meddings. —Margaret Yang
Film makes the abuse seem ever more real; it is right in front of your face, traumatising children and providing an equally uncomfortable watch for those that have experienced child abuse. Added to which the large-scale musical numbers and special effects and 🤯
Emma Thompson’s sadistic Agatha Trunchbull follows in the tradition of the Brothers Grimm, Stephen King and M3gan – but graphic scenes of ab
Worst Movie 2022: The Banshees of Inisherin. Because of the donkey, what happens to the donkey, and Martin McDonagh’s loathsome opinion of human nature in general. EO seems a balm.
They might seem like creatures who plod along thoughtlessly, but people who care for them know better
"Donkeys are prey animals who have learned to mask signs of pain to not alert potential predators of their vulnerability. To the untrained eye, donkeys may seem to plod along without much feeling, but people who care for them know better."
OUR FOOLISH OBSESSION WITH SERIAL KILLERS: "I ask whether killing people within the wide swath of humanity that the police don’t care about actually means you’re smart."
I. If you shoot someone in the head with a .45 every time you kill somebody, it becomes like your fingerprint, see? But if you strangle one,
The serial killer media industrial complex rages on, but what has it taught us? Very little about the crimes in question, and much more about ourselves.
After all this killing, which is the only way headline writers are allowed to express that Kraft Singles saw a 1.6 percent decline in sales in 2018, it’s remarkable that there was anything left to destroy. But somehow, we managed. ARE AMERICAN SERIAL KILLERS A DYING BREED? a Guardian headline wondered in 2018, and to me, the answer was clear.
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Don DeLillo wrote White Noise in 1983–84 in Bronxville, New York. Today the posh "bedroom community" is famous as the home of NFL kingpin Roger Goodell. Bronxville is also where humanity formally surrendered to the sports utility vehicle. Bronxville's "public face" on 31 December 2022 is mostly parking lots, acres of gray. DeLillo said this would happen. He said many other things about America, mostly with unnerving accuracy.
White Noise might not be "unfilmable." But we will never know it if this important book — read White Noise alongside DeLillo's Mao II (1991) — is entrusted to movie directors whose technical incompetence is matched only by their self-satisfaction. Noah Baumbach's insipid, play-stagey White Noise isn't even a cartoon of what might have been. The oversharing trailer is all you need to know. At least you are not confused, American.
—Margaret Yang
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