Thanx, HFP

Embarrassment and/or trainwreck just about sum up the past evening's Golden Globes telecast, which generally unraveled like a slightly more lubricated version of The People's Choice Awards. Every once in a while the Hollywood Foreign Press surprises with a noteworthy, maybe unexpected winner, like Sally Hawkins in Happy-Go-Lucky or Julian Schnabel for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, but tonight again placed the Globes at the punchline of an easy joke I never mind hearing. While Michael Haneke's win in the Foreign category for The White Ribbon was certainly well-deserved, the description of the rest of the ceremony as a "popularity contest" is pretty dead-on, with the top film honors bestowed upon James Cameron, his Avatar and Todd Phillips' The Hangover (both the highest domestic gross-ers of their respective categories). Toss Sandra Bullock (over Helen Mirren, mind you), Sherlock Holmes, Julie & Julia (though Ms. Streep's speech was expectedly lovely) and Mo'Nique, and you've got yourself one lame-ass awards show. Aside from Christoph Waltz and Jeff Bridges (I haven't seen Crazy Heart), I'd be plenty happy to not have to hear any of the Globe winners' names read when the Oscars nominations are announced on 2 February. At least it won't take much for the Oscars to not grate as hard (as they usually do) this year.

Golden Globe Nominations 2010

The Golden Globe nominations are in and have proven what a strange year it has been for Hollywood. While two nods for Meryl Streep is usually an annual affair, two for Sandra Bullock is just about unheard-of; Matt Damon makes the third actor with two nominations. In the non-acting categories, Jason Reitman and Quentin Tarantino received two nominations for directing and writing. As usual, the nominations were all over the board, giving recognition to films most people would would argue don't deserve it (Nine, Avatar, Tobey Maguire... at least if early word is accurate). But the two best moves the Hollywood Foreign Press made were ignoring both Lee Daniels and Rob Marshall in the directing category. I've discussed Daniels previously, but Marshall is quite possibly one of the worst directors in Hollywood. Chicago worked (for the most part) as a result of its source material and Catherine Zeta-Jones, but pay attention to any of the non-musical scenes, and you'll see that the guy can't direct for shit.

So who was missing, in terms of expectations? Invictus for picture, even though ol' Clint got a directing nod; Jeremy Renner; A Single Man in any non-acting category; Samantha Morton and Ben Foster; In the Loop, period; the Coens and A Serious Man in the Musical/Comedy category; and of course Tilda Swinton, though Julia came out so early this year, all the award folk have forgotten. Oh, and also, Mariah Carey. Full nominees, including the television categories and film music ones (Karen O. is now a GG nominee), via the press release.

Best Picture - Drama

- Avatar, d. James Cameron
- The Hurt Locker, d. Kathryn Bigelow
- Inglourious Basterds, d. Quentin Tarantino
- Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, d. Lee Daniels
- Up in the Air, d. Jason Reitman

Best Picture - Musical/Comedy

- (500) Days of Summer, d. Marc Webb
- The Hangover, d. Todd Phillips
- It's Complicated, d. Nancy Meyers
- Julie & Julia, d. Nora Ephron
- Nine, d. Rob Marshall

Best Director

- Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
- James Cameron, Avatar
- Clint Eastwood, Invictus
- Jason Reitman, Up in the Air
- Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds

Best Actor - Drama

- Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
- George Clooney, Up in the Air
- Colin Firth, A Single Man
- Morgan Freeman, Invictus
- Tobey Maguire, Brothers

Best Actress - Drama

- Emily Blunt, The Young Victoria
- Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
- Helen Mirren, The Last Station
- Carey Mulligan, An Education
- Gabourey Sidibe, Precious

Best Actor - M/C

- Matt Damon, The Informant!
- Daniel Day-Lewis, Nine
- Robert Downey, Jr., Sherlock Holmes
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt, (500) Days of Summer
- Michael Stuhlbarg, A Serious Man

Best Actress - M/C

- Sandra Bullock, The Proposition
- Marion Cotillard, Nine
- Julia Roberts, Duplicity
- Meryl Streep, It's Complicated
- Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia

Best Supporting Actor

- Matt Damon, Invictus
- Woody Harrelson, The Messenger
- Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
- Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
- Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

Best Supporting Actress

- Penélope Cruz, Nine
- Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
- Anna Kenrick, Up in the Air
- Mo'Nique - Precious
- Julianne Moore, A Single Man

Best Screenplay

- Neill Blomkamp, District 9
- Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker
- Nancy Meyers, It's Complicated
- Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air
- Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds

Foreign-Language Film

- Baarìa, d. Giuseppe Tornatore, Italy
- Broken Embraces [Los abrazos rotos], d. Pedro Almodóvar, Spain
- The Maid [La nana], d. Sebastián Silva, Chile
- A Prophet [Un prophète], d. Jacques Audiard, France
- The White Ribbon [Das weiße Band], d. Michael Haneke, Austria/Germany/France/Italy

Animated Feature

- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, d. Phil Lord, Chris Miller
- Coraline, d. Henry Selick
- Fantastic Mr. Fox, d. Wes Anderson
- The Princess and the Frog, d. Ron Clements, John Musker
- Up, d. Peter Docter, Bob Peterson

A hodgepodge of Critics Awards, Decade listings, Shortlists, Nominations Rammed into One Post

As I technically have seven days to finish my own Decade List (more on the progress of that later on), I'm going to throw a bunch of end-of-the-year shit your way with little commentary, though you'll notice a lot of similarities below. I'm distracted enough as it is. Firstly, the LA Film Critics Association have named their awards for 2009 this afternoon. The New York Film Critics Online is, according to Twitter, in the midst of theirs right now (Correction: They were when I started writing this; they've finished and named, curiously, Avatar as the best film of 2009. Full list here). Here's the LAFCA:

Picture: The Hurt Locker, d. Kathryn Bigelow
Runner-Up: Up in the Air, d. Jason Reitman
Director: Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
Runner-Up: Michael Haneke - The White Ribbon [Das weiße Band]
Actor: Jeff Bridges - Crazy Heart
Runner-Up: Colin Firth - A Single Man
Actress: Yolande Moreau - Séraphine
Runner-Up: Carey Mulligan - An Education
Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds
Runner-Up: Peter Capaldi - In the Loop
Supporting Actress: Mo'Nique - Precious
Runner-Up: Anna Kendrick - Up in the Air
Cinematography: Christian Berger - The White Ribbon
Runner-Up: Barry Ackroyd - The Hurt Locker
Production Design: Philip Ivey - District 9
Runner-Up: Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg - Avatar
Music Score: T-Bone Burnett, Stephen Bruton - Crazy Heart
Runner-Up: Alexandre Desplat - Fantastic Mr. Fox
Foreign Film: Summer Hours [L'heure d'été], d. Olivier Assayas, France
Runner-Up: The White Ribbon, Germany/Austria/France/Italy
Documentary/Non-Fiction: (tie) The Beaches of Agnès [Les plages d'Agnès], d. Agnès Varda; The Cove, d. Louie Psihoyos
Animated Film: Fantastic Mr. Fox, d. Wes Anderson
Runner-Up: Up, d. Peter Docter, Bob Peterson

The Boston Society of Film Critics also dished out their awards today. They are as follows:

Picture: The Hurt Locker, d. Kathryn Bigelow
Director: Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
Actor: Jeremy Renner - The Hurt Locker
Actress: Meryl Streep - Julie & Julia
Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds
Supporting Actress: Mo'Nique - Precious
Ensemble Cast: (tie) Precious; Star Trek
Screenplay: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen - A Serious Man
Cinematography: Barry Ackroyd - The Hurt Locker
Foreign Film: Summer Hours [L'heure d'été], d. Olivier Assayas, France
Documentary: The Cove, d. Louie Psihoyos
Animated Film: Up, d. Peter Docter, Bob Peterson
Editing: Bob Murawski, Chris Innis - The Hurt Locker
New Filmmaker: Neill Blomkamp - District 9
Use of Music in a Film: Crazy Heart

The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association named their winners on 7 December. They are as follows:

Film: Up in the Air, d. Jason Reitman
Director: Kathryn Bigelow - The Hurt Locker
Actor: George Clooney - Up in the Air
Actress: Carey Mulligan - An Education
Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz - Inglourious Basterds
Supporting Actress: Mo'Nique - Precious
Ensemble Cast: The Hurt Locker
Breakthrough Performance: Gabourey Sidibe - Precious
Adapted Screenplay: Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner - Up in the Air
Original Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino - Inglourious Basterds
Foreign Film: Sin Nombre, d. Cary Fukunaga, Mexico/USA
Documentary: Food, Inc., d. Robert Kenner
Animated Film: Up, d. Peter Docter, Bob Peterson
Art Direction: Nine

Over the weekend, the Australian Film Institute, also known as AFI, handed out their annual awards, with Warwick Thornton's Samson & Delilah claiming the Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay (by Thornton), the Young Actor Award (for both leads, Marissa Gibson and Rowan McNamara), Cinematography, Sound and the AFI Members' Choice Award. Other winners include Balibo, which nabbed prizes for Adapted Screenplay (David Williamson, Robert Connolly), Editing, Actor (for Anthony LaPaglia) and Supporting Actor (Oscar Isaac). Kudos also to my favorite gals from Muriel's Wedding, Rachel Griffiths and Toni Collette, for each taking home an award for Best Supporting Actress in Beautiful Kate and the International Best Actress Award for The United States of Tara, respectively.

The other AFI (the American Film Institute) named their 10 Best Films of 2009 today, in alphabetical order (note that only American films are eligible): Coraline [d. Henry Selick], The Hangover [d. Todd Phillips], The Hurt Locker [d. Kathryn Bigelow], The Messenger [d. Oren Moverman], Precious [d. Lee Daniels], A Serious Man [d. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen], A Single Man [d. Tom Ford], Sugar [d. Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck], Up [d. Peter Docter, Bob Peterson] and Up in the Air [d. Jason Reitman].

The British Independent Film Awards were dolled out over a week ago, but I didn't have the time to post it then. I am especially pleased at the recipient of the Best Director Prize. The major winners below; full list here:

Film: Moon, d. Duncan Jones
Director: Andrea Arnold - Fish Tank
Douglas Hickox Award (for Directorial Debut): Duncan Jones - Moon
Actor: Tom Hardy - Bronson
Actress: Carey Mulligan - An Education
Supporting Actor: John Henshaw - Looking for Eric
Supporting Actress: Anne-Marie Duff - Nowhere Boy
Most Promising Newcomer: Katie Jarvis - Fish Tank
Screenplay: Armando Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Tony Roche - In the Loop
Documentary: Mugabe and the White African, d. Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson
Foreign Independent Film: Let the Right One In [Låt den rätte komma in], d. Tomas Alfredson, Sweden

Sacha Gervasi's Anvil! The Story of Anvil was the surprise winner at the International Documentary Association's gala last week. Despite its growing fan base, the film was not short-listed for the Academy Award Documentary category. Also, Thanks to the Alternative Film Guide for providing a schedule for all the upcoming critics and industry awards (check this link). Tomorrow: the New York Film Critics Circle and the San Francisco Film Critics, as well as both Chicago and my hometown St. Louis' "nominations." Both Chicago and STL will announce their official winners on 21 December. And, for those with award frenzy (I can't count myself as one of them this year, even though I'm spending all this time posting these listings), the Golden Globe nominations will be announced on Tuesday, the 15th.

The Golden Globes have listed their record-breaking 69 foreign language films that will be eligible for that category's 5 nominees, announced on Tuesday. Among the qualifying films (full list here via Variety): About Elly [d. Asghar Farhadi], Ajami [d. Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani], Baarìa [d. Giuseppe Tornatore], Broken Embraces [d. Pedro Almodóvar], No puedo vivir sin ti [d. Leon Dai], City of Life and Death [d. Lu Chuan], Eden Is West [d. Costa-Gavras], The Girl on the Train [d. André Techiné], The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [d. Niels Arden Oplev], I Killed My Mother [d. Xavier Dolan], Lebanon [d. Samuel Maoz], The Maid [d. Sebastián Silva], Micmacs [d. Jean-Pierre Jeunet], Mother [d. Bong Joon-ho], Police, Adjective [d. Corneliu Porumboiu], A Prophet [d. Jacques Audiard], Rudo & Cursi [d. Carlos Cuarón], Samson & Delilah [d. Warwick Thornton], The Secret in Their Eyes [d. Juan José Campanella], Thirst [d. Park Chan-wook] and The White Ribbon [d. Michael Haneke].

Now onto decade proceedings. The Onion's A.V. Club ranked their 50 Best Films of the '00s on 3 December. Their top 10 is below, but you can check out all 50 plus commentaries on their website.

01. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 2004, d. Michel Gondry, USA
02. 25th Hour, 2002, d. Spike Lee, USA
03. There Will Be Blood, 2007, d. Paul Thomas Anderson, USA
04. No Country for Old Men, 2007, d. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, USA
05. Memento, 2000, d. Christopher Nolan, USA
06. Spirited Away, 2001, d. Hayao Miyazaki, Japan
07. Kill Bill, Vol. 1, 2003, d. Quentin Tarantino, USA
08. Capturing the Friedmans, 2003, d. Andrew Jarecki, USA
09. The New World, 2005, d. Terrence Malick, USA/UK
10. Children of Men, 2006, d. Alfonso Cuarón, UK/USA/Japan

Also of note, take a look at Michael Atkinson at Zero for Conduct's 50 Best Films of the '00s. His top 10 are below, but the full list can be found here.

01. La commune (Paris, 1871), 2000, d. Peter Watkins, France
02. What Time Is It There?, 2001, d. Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan/France
03. Werckmeister Harmonies [Werckmeister harmóniák], 2000, d. Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky, Hungary/Italy/Germany/France
04. Adaptation., 2002, d. Spike Jonze, USA
05. 2046, 2004, d. Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong/China/France/Germany
06. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 2004, d. Michel Gondry, USA
07. Time of the Wolf [Le temps du loup], 2003, d. Michael Haneke, Austria/France/Germany
08. Battle in Heaven [Batalla en el cielo], 2005, d. Carlos Reygadas, Mexico/France/Germany/Belgium
09. Caché, 2005, d. Michael Haneke, Austria/France/Germany/Italy
10. Inland Empire, 2006, d. David Lynch, USA/Poland/France

Reverse Shot has their Best of the Decade proceedings in medias res, counting down from 20 for the rest of the month. They're up to #16 with Olivier Assayas' Summer Hours [L'heure d'été]. So far, they have the following: Joel and Ethan Coen's No Country for Old Men at #17, Cristi Puiu's The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu [Moartea domnului Lăzărescu] at #18, Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men at #19 and Terence Davies' The House of Mirth at #20. To keep up with their countdown, check this link periodically.

For all your film list needs, please check out David Hudson's posts at The Auteurs' Notebook, which rounds up a seemingly mind-boggling collection of film writings, from the elite to the 0ccasional middle-brow. Also on The Auteurs' Notebook, Adrian Curry ranks the best posters of the decade (film quality notwithstanding). As he told me, he loves "negative space," so keep that in mind... his collection is uniformly excellent (though I could maybe do without the entire third row of runners-up). The gorgeous, haunting image of Naomi Watts' shedding a tear (what she does best) on the poster for Michael Haneke's Funny Games remake tops the list (see above).

And finally, a bit of musical lists to close this entry. The A.V. Club made lists for both the decade and 2009; 50 for the '00s, 25 for '09. The top 10s of both lists are below:

The '00s

01. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells, 2001
02. Kanye West - The College Dropout, 2004
03. Radiohead - Kid A, 2000
04. OutKast - Stankonia, 2000
05. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, 2002
06. The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday, 2005
07. Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica, 2000
08. Arcade Fire - Funeral, 2004
09. Jay-Z - The Blueprint, 2001
10. The National - Alligator, 2005

Two-Thousand-and-Nine

01. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
02. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
03. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
04. Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
05. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
06. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
07. P.O.S. - Never Better
08. Converge - Axe to Fall
09. Brother Ali - Us
10. Andrew Bird - Noble Beast

Slant Magazine also dropped a pair of 2009 music lists, one for albums, the other for singles. It's almost not worth mentioning due to their #2 pick in the album section, but aside from that, their spell- and fact-checker was out sick, as they misspelled the title of their #1 album of 2009 and referred to Bat for Lashes' album by the wrong solar entity. Regardless, here's their 10 Albums and Singles. Full list here.

LPs

01. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
02. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! [ugh]
03. Patrick Wolf - The Bachelor
04. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
05. St. Vincent - Actor
06. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
07. Japandroids - Post-Nothing
08. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II
09. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
10. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

Singles

01. Animal Collection - "My Girls" [Merriweather Post Pavilion]
02. Lady GaGa - "Poker Face" [The Fame]
03. Phoenix - "1901" [Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix]
04. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Zero" [It's Blitz!]
05. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Heads Will Roll" [It's Blitz!]
06. Major Lazer featuring Mr. Lexx and Santigold - "Hold the Line" [Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do]
07. Grizzly Bear - "Two Weeks" [Veckatimest]
08. Camera Obscura - "French Navy" [My Maudlin Career]
09. Dirty Projectors and David Byrne - "Knotty Pine" [Dark Was the Night]
10. Girls' Generation - "Gee" [Gee]

The Decade List: Awards (2005)

For the sake of not going on a tirade about you-know-what, I'll just leave the awards section without any commentary. So here it is.

Cannes, held 11-22 May 2005

Palme d'Or: L'enfant [d. Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne]
Grand Prix: Broken Flowers [d. Jim Jarmusch]
Prix du jury: Shanghai Dreams [d. Wang Xiaoshuai]
Best Director: Michael Haneke - Caché
Best Actor: Tommy Lee Jones - The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Best Actress: Hana Laszlo - Free Zone
Best Screenplay: Guillaume Arriaga - The Three Burials of Mesquiades Estrada
Technical Grand Prize: (tie) Leslie Shatz - Last Days (for the sound design); Robert Rodriguez - Sin City (for the visual shaping)
Camera d'Or: (tie) Me and You and Everyone We Know [d. Miranda July], The Forsaken Land [d. Vimukthi Jayasundara]


Venice, held 31 August-10 September 2005

Golden Lion: Brokeback Mountain [d. Ang Lee]
Grand Special Jury Prize: Mary [d. Abel Ferrara]
Best Director: Philippe Garrel - Les amants réguliers (Regular Lovers)
Best Actor: David Strathairn - Good Night, and Good Luck.
Best Actress: Giovanna Mezzogiorno - La bestia nel cuore (Don't Tell)
Best Screenplay: George Clooney, Grant Heslov - Good Night, and Good Luck.
Career Golden Lion: Manoel de Oliveira, Stanley Donen


Toronto, held 8-17 September 2005

People's Choice Award: Tsotsi [d. Gavin Hood]
Discovery Award: Look Both Ways [d. Sarah Watt]
Best Canadian Feature: C.R.A.Z.Y. [d. Jean-Marc Vallée]


Berlin, held 10-20 February 2005

Golden Bear: U-Carmen [d. Mark Dornford-May]
Best Director: Marc Rothermund - Sophie Scholl: Die letzten Tage (Sophie Scholl: The Last Days)
Best Actor: Lou Taylor Pucci - Thumbsucker
Best Actress: Julie Jentsch - Sophie Scholl: Die letzten Tage
Jury Grand Prix: Peacock [d. Gu Changwei]
Outstanding Artistic Achievment: The Wayward Cloud [d. Tsai Ming-liang]
Honorary Golden Bear: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Im Kwon-taek
Teddy (Feature): Un año sin amor (A Year Without Love) [d. Anahí Berneri]
Teddy (Documentary): Katzenball [d. Veronika Minder]


Sundance, held 20-30 January 2005

Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): Forty Shades of Blue [d. Ira Sachs]
Grand Jury Prize (World Cinema): O Herói (The Hero) [d. Zézé Gamboa]
Grand Jury Prize (Documentary): Why We Fight [d. Eugene Jarecki]
Grand Jury Prize (World Cinema Documentary): Shape of the Moon [d. Leonard Retel Helmrich]
Director (Dramatic): Noah Baumbach - The Squid and the Whale
Director (Documentary): Jeff Feuerzeig - The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Special Jury Prize (Dramatic): (tie) Rian Johnson - Brick; Miranda July - Me and You and Everyone We Know (for originality of vision); Amy Adams - Junebug; Lou Taylor Pucci - Thumbsucker (for their performances)
Special Jury Prize (World Cinema): (tie) Jorge Gaggero - Cama adentro (Live-In Maid); Maren Ade - Der Wald vor Iauter Bäumen (The Forest for the Trees)
Special Jury Prize (Documentary): (tie) Jessica Sanders - After Innocence; Geoffrey Richman, Conor O'Neill - Murderball (for the editing)
Special Jury Prize (World Cinema Documentary): (tie) Simone Bitton - Mur (Wall); Sean McAllister - The Liberace of Baghdad
Cinematography (Dramatic): Amy Vincent - Hustle & Flow
Cinematography (Documentary): Gary Griffin - The Education of Shelby Knox
Audience Award (Dramatic): Hustle & Flow [d. Craig Brewer]
Audience Award (Documentary): Murderball [d. Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro]
Audience Award (World Cinema): Brødre (Brothers) [d. Susanne Bier]
Audience Award (World Cinema Documentary): Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire [d. Peter Raymont]


Academy Awards, held 5 March 2006

Best Picture: Crash [d. Paul Haggis]
Best Director: Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote
Best Actress: Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line
Best Supporting Actor: George Clooney - Syriana
Best Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz - The Constant Gardener
Best Original Screenplay: Paul Haggis, Robert Moresco - Crash
Best Adapted Screenplay: Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana - Brokeback Mountain
Best Cinematography: Dion Beebe - Memoirs of a Geisha
Best Documentary: La marche de l'empereur (March of the Penguins) [d. Luc Jacquet]
Best Foreign Film: Tsotsi [d. Gavin Hood]
Animated Feature: Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit [d. Steve Box, Nick Park]
Honorary Award: Robert Altman


BAFTAs, held 19 February 2006

Best Film: Brokeback Mountain [d. Ang Lee]
Best Director: Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
Best British Film: Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit [d. Steve Box, Nick Park]
Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote
Best Actress: Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line
Best Supporting Actor: Jake Gyllenhaal - Brokeback Mountain
Best Supporting Actress: Thandie Newton - Crash
Best Original Screenplay: Paul Haggis, Robert Moresco - Crash
Best Adapted Screenplay: Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana - Brokeback Mountain
Best Cinematography: Dion Beebe - Memoirs of a Geisha
Film Not in the English Language: De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) [d. Jacques Audiard]


European Film Awards, held 3 December 2005

Best Film: Caché [d. Michael Haneke]
Best Director: Michael Haneke - Caché
Best Actor: Daniel Auteuil - Caché
Best Actress: Julia Jentsch - Sophie Scholl: Die letzten Tage (Sophie Scholl: The Last Days)
Best Cinematography: Franz Lustig - Don't Come Knocking
Best Screenplay: Hany Abu-Assad, Bero Beyer - Paradise Now
Best Documentary: Un dragon dans les eaux pures du Caucase (The Pipeline Next Door) [d. Nino Kirtadze]
Discovery: Anklaget (Accused) [d. Jacob Thuesen]
Screen International: Good Night, and Good Luck. [d. George Clooney]
Audience Award (Actor): Orlando Bloom - Kingdom of Heaven
Audience Award (Actress): Julia Jentsch - Sophie Scholl: Die letzten Tage
Audience Award (Director): Marc Rothemund - Sophie Scholl: Die letzten Tage
Life Achievement Award: Sean Connery


Independent Spirit, held 4 March 2006

Best Feature: Brokeback Mountain [d. Ang Lee]
Best First Feature: Crash [d. Paul Haggis]
Best Director: Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
Best Male Lead: Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote
Best Female Lead: Felicity Huffman - Transamerica
Best Supporting Male: Matt Dillon - Crash
Best Supporting Female: Amy Adams - Junebug
Best Screenplay: Dan Futterman - Capote
Best First Screenplay: Duncan Tucker - Transamerica
Best Cinematography: Robert Elswit - Good Night, and Good Luck.
Best Documentary: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room [d. Alex Gibney]
Best Foreign Film: Paradise Now [d. Hany Abu-Assad]
John Cassavetes Award (for features made for under $500,000): Conventioneers [d. Mora Stephens]
Someone to Watch Award: Neill Dela Llana, Ian Gamazon - Cavite


Golden Globes, held 16 January 2006

Picture (Drama): Brokeback Mountain [d. Ang Lee]
Picture (Comedy/Musical): Walk the Line [d. James Mangold]
Director: Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain
Actor (D): Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote
Actress (D): Felicity Huffman - Transamerica
Actor (M/C): Joaquin Phoenix - Walk the Line
Actress (M/C): Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line
Supporting Actor: George Clooney - Syriana
Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz - The Constant Gardener
Screenplay: Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana - Brokeback Mountain
Foreign Film: Paradise Now [d. Hany Abu-Assad]
Cecil B. DeMille Award: Anthony Hopkins


Césars Awards, held 25 February 2006

Best Film (Meilleur film): De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) [d. Jacques Audiard]
Best Director (Meilleur réalisateur): Jacques Audiard - De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté
Best Actor (Meilleur acteur): Michel Bouquet - Le promeneur du champ de Mars (The Last Mitterrand)
Best Actress (Meilleure actrice): Nathalie Baye - Le petit lieutenant
Best Supporting Actor (Meilleur acteur dans un second rôle): Niels Arestrup - De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté
Best Supporting Actress (Meilleure actrice dans un second rôle): Cécile De France - Les poupées russes (Russian Dolls)
Most Promising Actor (Meilleur espoir masculin): Louis Garrel - Les amants réguliers (Regular Lovers)
Most Promising Actress (Meilleur espoir féminin): Linh Dan Pham - De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté
Best Original Screenplay (Meilleur scénario original): Radu Mihăileanu, Alain-Michel Blanc - Va, vis et deviens (Live and Become)
Best Adapted Screenplay (Meilleur scénario adaptation): Jacques Audiard, Tonino Benacquista - De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté
Best Cinematography (Meilleure photographie): Stéphane Fontaine - De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté
Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger): Million Dollar Baby [d. Clint Eastwood]
Best First Film (Meilleur premier film): Darwin's Nightmare [d. Hubert Sauper]
Honorary César: Hugh Grant, Pierre Richard


Razzies, given 4 March 2006

Worst Film: Dirty Love [d. John Mallory Asher]
Worst Director: John Mallory Asher - Dirty Love
Worst Actor: Rob Schneider - Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
Worst Actress: Jenny McCarthy - Dirty Love
Worst Supporting Actor: Hayden Christensen - Star Wars: Episode III - The Revenge of the Sith
Worst Supporting Actress: Paris Hilton - House of Wax
Worst Screenplay: Jenny McCarthy - Dirty Love
Worst Remake/Sequel: Son of the Mask [d. Lawrence Guterman]

The Decade List: Awards (2002)

For as wonderful of a year as 2002 was for film, I'm not sure you'd be able to gather that from the list of awards below. Other than Pedro Almodóvar's Talk to Her and Todd Haynes' Far from Heaven, most of the top prize-winning films left me rather lukewarm. Talk to Her and Roman Polanski's The Pianist seemed to have been the most widespread in their accolades, but I'm frankly not sold on the latter. In fact, you're likely to only see one WWII/Holocaust film on the entire decade list, and that won't be until 2006.

As I said earlier, there are still at least 15 films I want to write about from 2002. They will be unraveling throughout the next couple months as I get around to re-watching them (it's going to be easier the closer I get to December, with the later entries fresher in my memory).

Cannes

Palme d'Or: The Pianist [d. Roman Polanski]
Grand Prix: Mies vailla menneisyyttä (The Man Without a Past) [d. Aki Kaurismäki]
Prix du jury: Divine Intervention [d. Elia Suleiman]
Best Director: (tie) Im Kwon-taek - Chihwaseon; Paul Thomas Anderson - Punch-Drunk Love
Best Actor: Olivier Gourmet - Le fils [The Son]
Best Actress: Kati Outinen - The Man Without a Past
Best Screenplay: Paul Laverty - Sweet Sixteen
Camera d'Or: Bord de mer (Seaside) [d. Julie Lopes-Curval]


Venice

Golden Lion: The Magdalene Sisters [d. Peter Mullan]
Grand Special Jury Prize: House of Fools [d. Andrei Konchalovsky]
Best Actor: Stefano Accorsi - Un viaggio chiamato amore (A Journey Called Love)
Best Actress: Julianne Moore - Far from Heaven
Career Golden Lion: Dino Risi


Toronto

People's Choice Award: Whale Rider [d. Niki Caro]
Discovery Award: The Magdalene Sisters [d. Peter Mullan]
Best Canadian Feature: Spider [d. David Cronenberg]


Berlin

Golden Bear: (tie) Bloody Sunday [d. Paul Greengrass]; Spirited Away [d. Hayao Miyazaki]
Best Director: Otar Iosseliani - Lundi matin (Monday Morning)
Best Actor: Jacques Gamblin - Laissez-passer (Safe Conduct)
Best Actress: Halle Berry - Monster's Ball
Jury Grand Prix: Halbe Treppe (Grill Point) [d. Andreas Dresen]
Outstanding Artistic Achievment: Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Béart, Fanny Ardant, Virginie Ledoyen, Danielle Darrieux, Firmine Richard, Ludivine Sagnier - 8 femmes (8 Women)
Honorary Golden Bear: Robert Altman, Claudia Cardinale
Teddy (Feature): Walking on Water [d. Tony Ayres]
Teddy (Documentary): Alt om min far (All About My Father) [d. Even Benestad]
Teddy (Jury Award): Juste une femme [d. Mitra Farahani]


Sundance

Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic): Personal Velocity: Three Portraits [d. Rebecca Miller]
Grand Jury Prize (Documentary): Daughter from Danang [d. Gail Dolgin, Vicente Franco]
Director (Dramatic): Gary Winick - Tadpole
Director (Documentary): Rob Fruchtman, Rebecca Cammisa - Sister Helen
Special Jury Prize (Dramatic): (three-way tie) Manito, for Franky G, Leo Minaya, Manuel Cabral, Hector Gonzalez, Julissa Lopez, Jessica Morales, Panchito Gómez; Real Women Have Curves, for America Ferrara, Lupe Ontiveros; Secretary, for Steven Shainberg
Special Jury Prize (Documentary): (tie) How to Draw a Bunny [d. John W. Walter]; Señorita extraviada (Missing Young Woman) [d. Lourdes Portillo)
Cinematography (Dramatic): Ellen Kuras - Personal Velocity: Three Portraits
Cinematography (Documentary): Daniel B. Gold - Blue Vinyl
Audience Award (Dramatic): Real Women Have Curves [d. Patricia Cardoso]
Audience Award (Documentary): Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony [d. Lee Hirsch]
Audience Award (World Cinema): (tie) Bloody Sunday [d. Paul Greengrass]; L'ultimo bacio (The Last Kiss) [d. Gabriele Muccino]


Academy Awards

Best Picture: Chicago [d. Rob Marshall]
Best Director: Roman Polanski - The Pianist
Best Actor: Adrien Brody - The Pianist
Best Actress: Nicole Kidman - The Hours
Best Supporting Actor: Chris Cooper - Adaptation
Best Supporting Actress: Catherine Zeta-Jones - Chicago
Best Original Screenplay: Pedro Almodóvar - Hable con ella (Talk to Her)
Best Adapted Screenplay: Ronald Harwood - The Pianist
Best Cinematography: Conrad L. Hall - Road to Perdition
Best Documentary: Bowling for Columbine [d. Michael Moore]
Best Foreign Film: Nirgendwo in Afrika (Nowhere in Africa) [d. Caroline Link]
Animated Feature: Spirited Away [d. Hayao Miyazaki]
Honorary Award: Peter O'Toole


BAFTAs

Best Film: The Pianist [d. Roman Polanski]
Best Director: Roman Polanski - The Pianist
Best British Film: The Warrior [d. Asif Kapadia]
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis - Gangs of New York
Best Actress: Nicole Kidman - The Hours
Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Walken - Catch Me If You Can
Best Supporting Actress: Catherine Zeta-Jones - Chicago
Best Original Screenplay: Pedro Almodóvar - Hable con ella (Talk to Her)
Best Adapted Screenplay: Charlie Kaufman, Donald Kaufman - Adaptation
Best Cinematography: Conrad L. Hall - Road to Perdition
Film Not in the English Language: Talk to Her


European Film Awards

Best Film: Hable con ella (Talk to Her) [d. Pedro Almodóvar]
Best Director: Pedro Almodóvar - Talk to Her
Best Actor: Sergio Castellitto - Bella Martha (Mostly Martha); L'ora di religione (Il sorriso di mia madre) (My Mother's Smile)
Best Actress: Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Béart, Fanny Ardant, Virginie Ledoyen, Danielle Darrieux, Firmine Richard, Ludivine Sagnier - 8 femmes (8 Women)
Best Cinematography: Pawel Edelman - The Pianist
Best Screenplay: Pedro Almodóvar - Talk to Her
Best Documentary: Être et avoir (To Be and To Have) [d. Nicolas Philibert]
Discovery: Hukkle [d. György Pálfi]
Screen International: Divine Intervention [d. Elia Suleiman]
Audience Award (Actor): Javier Cámara - Talk to Her
Audience Award (Actress): Kate Winslet - Iris
Audience Award (Director): Pedro Almodóvar - Talk to Her
Life Achievement Award: Tonino Guerra


Independent Spirit

Best Feature: Far from Heaven [d. Todd Haynes]
Best First Feature: The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys [d. Peter Care]
Best Director: Todd Haynes - Far from Heaven
Best Male Lead: Derek Luke - Antwone Fisher
Best Female Lead: Julianne Moore - Far from Heaven
Best Supporting Male: Dennis Quaid - Far from Heaven
Best Supporting Female: Emily Mortimer - Lovely & Amazing
Best Debut Performance: Nia Vardalos - My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Best Screenplay: Mike White - The Good Girl
Best First Screenplay: Erin Cressida Wilson - Secretary
Best Cinematography: Edward Lachman - Far from Heaven
Best Documentary: Bowling for Columbine [d. Michael Moore]
Best Foreign Film: Y tu mamá también [d. Alfonso Cuarón]
Someone to Watch Award: Przemyslaw Reut - Paradox Lake


Golden Globes

Picture (Drama): The Hours [d. Stephen Daldry]
Picture (Comedy/Musical): Chicago [d. Rob Marshall]
Director: Martin Scorsese - Gangs of New York
Actor (D): Jack Nicholson - About Schmidt
Actress (D): Nicole Kidman - The Hours
Actor (M/C): Richard Gere - Chicago
Actress (M/C): Renée Zellweger - Chicago
Supporting Actor: Chris Cooper - Adaptation
Supporting Actress: Meryl Streep - Adaptation
Screenplay: Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor - About Schmidt
Foreign Film: Hable con ella (Talk to Her) [d. Pedro Almódovar]
Cecil B. DeMille Award: Gene Hackman


Césars Awards

Best Film (Meilleur film): The Pianist [d. Roman Polanski]
Best Director (Meilleur réalisateur): Roman Polanski - The Pianist
Best Actor (Meilleur acteur): Adrien Brody - The Pianist
Best Actress (Meilleure actrice): Isabelle Carré - Se souvenir des belles choses (Beautiful Memories)
Best Supporting Actor (Meilleur acteur dans un second rôle): Bernard Le Coq - Se souvenir des belles choses
Best Supporting Actress (Meilleure actrice dans un second rôle): Karin Viard - Embrassez qui vous voudrez (Summer Things)
Most Promising Actor (Meilleur espoir masculin): Jean-Paul Rouve - Monsieur Batignole
Most Promising Actress (Meilleur espoir féminin): Cécile De France - L'auberge espagnole
Best Screenplay (Meilleur scénario): Costa-Gavras, Jean-Claude Grumberg - Amen.
Best Cinematography (Meilleure photographie): Pawel Edelman - The Pianist
Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger): Bowling for Columbine [d. Michael Moore]
Best European Union Film (Meilleur film de l'Union Européenne): Hable con ella (Talk to Her) [d. Pedro Almódovar]
Best First Film (Meilleur premier film): Se souvenir des belles choses [d. Zabou Breitman]
Honorary Césars: Bernadette Lafont, Spike Lee, Meryl Streep


Razzies

Worst Film: Swept Away [d. Guy Ritchie]
Worst Director: Guy Ritchie - Swept Away
Worst Actor: Roberto Benigni, Breckin Meyer - Pinocchio
Worst Actress: (tie) Britney Spears - Crossroads; Madonna - Swept Away
Worst Supporting Actor: Hayden Cristensen - Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Worst Supporting Actress: Madonna - Die Another Day
Worst Screenplay: George Lucas, Jonathan Hales - Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Worst Remake/Sequel: Swept Away