Utah Film Critics Association Awards 2013

It was "Gravity" that was the big winner at the Utah Film Critics Association Awards, winning both picture and director along with cinematography. That makes its second best picture award from US critics. But that wasn't the most surprising thing here. Bill Nighy won supporting actor award for "About Time" which is something I wasn't expecting to happen, ever! Also "The World's End" was a surprise winner of original screenplay. Such out of field choices.

Below is the full list of the winners.

Best Picture: Gravity

Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity

Detroit Film Critics Society Nominations 2013

Detroit Film Critics Society announced their nominations for this year and they are kind of all over the place. And I don't mean that in a bad way though. Short Term 12 and Before Midnight in best picture, different directors then the picture lineup, Stanley Tucci for The Hunger Games etc. And also, both Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts gets their first nominations from a critics group in their respective categories. I am not liking the sudden absence of Coen's Inside Llewyn Davis from these awards. Also the three films 12 Years a Slave, Gravity and Her are getting nominated in almost every critics awards.

Here is the full list of nominations.

Best Picture

12 Years a Slave
Before Midnight
Gravity
Her
Short Term 12

Oscars 2013 - My First Attempt at Predictions

              So yesterday, it was announced that "The Silver Linings Playbook" won the Audience Choice Best Picture Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. The movie being from the infamous Weinsteins already made it something to look forward to but winning this award which did wonders for recent winners like Slumdog Millionaire and The King's Speech and both of them for being "Crowd-Pleasing" Movies might do the same for Silver Linings. Okay maybe not exactly but you never know... Argo was destined to win this award due the very enthusiastic response that it got (it was a runner up along with The Impossible). Both of these "Crowd-Pleasing" movies can definitely win or at least get nominated for many awards including the Oscars. Roger Ebert as you may know already predicted Argo to be the winner.

A Look at Telluride-Toronto-Venice Film Festivals 2012

                   Here comes the Fall Festival Season where movies are booed or given standing ovations, where movies either get buzzed or busted! Telluride Film Festival Opened with a surprise Screening of ARGO and Venice Film Festival Opened with a-not-so-great-choice THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST by Mira Nair. 

           Below is the lineup for ongoing Telluride and Venice Film Festivals followed by the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival which will open with screening of this fall's one of the most awaited action movies, LOOPER.

Oscars 2013 - The Race so Far

                    Awards season and particularly Oscars Season is really fascinating if not very accurate when it comes to giving awards to the very deserving movies and actors. But still i find myself waiting and anticipating them and here in this case, predicting them. This year's Academy Awards left me in a state of shock for nominating movies that didn't deserved to be called as the 9 best movies Hollywood made last year. Nor were a few actors deserving enough to actually get nominated over much more brilliant performances but Academy always had this very annoying habit of honoring actors and movies that aren't actually based on how great a movie was, talk about politics.