Awards Season Feature Post

Awards Season 2015-16 Scoreboard

Carol Keeping a tally of the (wins/nominations) for this year's awards season. Scroll down way below to see which Awards are being...

Oct 31, 2013

Review: Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)


Voice Cast:
                       Minami Takayama, Rei Sakuma, Keiko Toda, Minami Takayama, Kappei Yamaguchi, Koichi Yamadera, Mieko Nobusawa, Koichi Miura, Haruko Kato, Hiroko Seki and Yuko Kobayashi

Director:
                   Hayao Miyazaki

October Update - Oscars 2014 Nominations Prediction


It is best I guess to do these at the end of every month. You never know when or where the abundance or lack of "Oscar buzz" takes a movie away. While there is still not much clarity in terms of the race because the critics awards and the major guilds have a lot of time left to start the whole mania, I have simply tried to go with the buzz, track record and my personal opinion. So, The Wolf of Wall Street is indeed in. Foxcatcher and The Monuments Men are going to be released in 2014. The Counselor got bad reviews, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty wasn't well received, the buzz for Labor Day has died. Then there are some significant and worthy indie titles from earlier this year which people are forgetting. Some 'significant' movies with awards favorite directors/actors/technicians which have yet to be seen by the masses. Too much confusion but still, here are my (end of October) Oscar nominations predictions.

Best Picture:-

Frontrunners

1) 12 Years a Slave
2) Gravity
3) American Hustle
4) Inside Llewyn Davis
5) Captain Phillips
6) The Wolf of Wall Street

Oct 28, 2013

Quick Takes: Hello I Must Be Going, Men in Black 3 and Wreck-It Ralph


Hello I Must Be Going (2012)

Cast:
           Melanie Lynskey, Blythe Danner, John Rubinstein, Christopher Abbott and Julie White

Director:
                   Todd Louiso

Oct 26, 2013

Review: The Grandmaster (2013)



Cast:
           Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Zhang Ziyi, Song Hye-kyo, Chang Chen, Zhao Benshan, Wang Qingxiang, Zhang Jin, Yuen Woo-ping, Xiaoshenyang, Cung Le, Shang Tielong, Lo Hoi-pang, Chin Shih-chieh, Wang Jue, Lau Ga-yung, Lau Shun, Zhou Xiaofei, Bruce Leung, Julian Cheung, Lo Mang and Berg Ng

Director:
                    Wong Kar Wai

Oct 25, 2013

Review: The Hunt (2013)


Cast:
           Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Alexandra Rapaport, Annika Wedderkopp, Susse Wold, Lars Ranthe, Anne Louise Hassing and Ole Dupont

Director:
                    Thomas Vinterberg

Oct 24, 2013

Gotham Independent Film Awards 2013 Nomination


And so it begins! Gotham Awards are always the first to announce their nominees, the preference here is mostly independent films. Those small gems that are most likely to be overlooked during the hectic and crowded season in two months time. I have yet to review many films from this year and this announcement is likely to give me that push I need.

12 Years a Slave, Before Midnight and Inside Llewyn Davis are the strongest films being nominated in the main category. Ain't Them Bodies Saints is lyrical filmmaking with nothing much to say, though I am not questioning its nomination here. Most happy for Upstream Color, a movie least likely to get the big awards. Blue Caprice is a movie I liked and it has a nice presence here with 2 nominations. Strong picks in the both acting categories and breakthrough sections. And while I haven't seen the movie yet but  Scarlett Johansson for Don Jon?

Oct 3, 2013

Review: My Neighbor Totoro (1988)


Voice Cast: (Japanese)
                                               Noriko Hidaka, Chika Sakamoto, Shigesato Itoi, Sumi Shimamoto, Hitoshi Takagi, Naoko Tatsuka, Tanie Kitabayashi and Toshiyuki Amagasa

Director:

                    Hayao Miyazaki

Note:- If you guys remember (highly doubt you will), I started a Studio Ghibli marathon more than a year before but somehow couldn't review all of the movies? Well I am doing them now. The ones I have already reviewed might not actually be up to my current standards of writing but what can I do? Maybe I'll re-review them in the future or something but for now, I am continuing right from where I left.