Zum 72. Mal verleiht die Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) die Golden Globes.
Dieser Post wird live während der Ausstrahlung aktualisiert mit den Gewinnern (Anmerkung: Die Verleihung startet am Montag den 12.1. um 2:00 und dauert etwa 3 Stunden):
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, bekannt für Biutiful, Babel und 21 Gramm ist zurück mit dem grammatikalisch furchtbar geschriebenen Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). Nebenbei hatte er seine Finger auch noch beim Drehbuch im Spiel. Michael Keaton verkörpert einen alten Superheldendarsteller, der sich selbst und allen anderen beweisen will, dass er ein ernstzunehmender Künstler ist. Mal schauen, wie die Antwort darauf sein wird.
Im Regiedebüt von Dan Gilroy (Drehbuchautor von Real Steel und The Bourne Legacy) begleiten wir Lou Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal), welcher in die moralisch fragwürdige Welt der titelgebenden Nightcrawler eintaucht – Personen, die spätabends Unfälle oder Verbrechen Filmen, um das Bildmaterial an Morgenshows zu verkaufen.
Im Laufe der Viennale habe ich Whiplash gesehen. Damien Chazelle gibt mit Whiplash de facto sein Regiedebüt und dirigiert Miles Teller als jungen Schlagzeugspieler, der unter dem harten Regime von Jazzlehrer J.K. Simmons bestehen will. Was dabei herauskommt sind geladene Performances und ein Publikum das von den Musikstücken aufgeladen, vibrierend in den Sesseln sitzt.
Drehbuchautor Steven Knight (Eastern Promises) hat sich zum dritten Mal auf den Regiestuhl gewagt und sein neuestes Drehbuch, No Turning Back (Originaltitel: Locke) selbst verfilmt. Die hochambitionierte Prämisse ist ein Kammerspiel, das mit nur einem Schauspieler auf einem einzigen Set auskommt: Tom Hardy sitzt im Auto und telefoniert.
Vorarbeiter Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) ist mit dem Auto unterwegs nach Hause, als er plötzlich umkehrt. Der komplette Film spielt sich im Gefährt ab, in dem Locke mit Hilfe der Freisprechanlage dutzende Telefonate führt, die die Hintergründe seiner Fahrt aufdecken.
Such a fantastic race! Tonight was the night the first Science Fiction movie won Best Director while 12 Years a Slave still got some great recognition by winning Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress (Lupita Nyong’o). The race (aside from some questionable choices in Documentary and Foreign Language Film but that always happens in those categories) was just a joy to watch with Gravity getting more recongition that I could have ever hoped for back when I watched Cuarón’s masterpiece for the first time.
Dallas Buyers Club scored big with three wins for Make Up, Jared Leto and Matthew McConaughey.
The big surprise winner is Spike Jonze for original screenplay (Her) and American Hustle turned out to be the big loser with 0/10.
Personal Scores:
Flipthetruck’s score: 18/21 (not counting shorts)
Existential Coffee’s score: 20/21 (not counting shorts)
Number of wins by movies:
For the full list hit the jump.
It’s Oscar time again!
The Super Bowl for movie fans is upon us!
And no Oscar race would be complete without our annual predictions.
And this year is going to be one of the best races in recent Oscar history. Very rarely does the Academy have a lineup full of really great talents and movies that will truly stay with us for a long time (anyone remember Benjamin Button? Yeah, me neither).
The list ranges from
And those are just the five nominees who also have a nomination for Best Director. On top of that are so much more brilliant pieces it is actually spooky. I have yet to catch up on Philomena and Dallas Buyers Club but I highly doubt that they will be The Reader or Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close of 2014 – meaning the movie you keep wondering why it was nominated at all.
But now to our tips. As with the last years I sat down with Existential Coffee and we compiled our list for winners. If we disagreed about one category my predictions will be in blue and Existential Coffee’s in red.
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If a note at the beginning of the movie reads
“some of this actually happened”
you pretty much know what you are going to get. American Hustle is loosely based on true events but the historical accuracy is never in the foreground. David O. Russell’s (The Fighter, Silver Linings Playbook) newest movie once again has garnered an incredible amount of Oscar buzz (incredible 10 nominations).
Starring Christian Bale and Amy Adams as the two con artists Irving Rosenfeld and Sydney Prosser the director once again skillfully brings out the best of his actors and delivers a much more layered movie than last year’s Silver Linings Playbook. This is probably due to the double crossing nature of the characters which leaves the audience questioning who is playing which game and why.
Director Steve McQueen’s third movie 12 Years a Slave is based on the autobiography by Solomon Northup (portrayed by Chiwetel Ejiofor). A free black man from New York in 1841 who got abducted by two men who pretending to hire him as a violinist. Very quickly Solomon – now referred to as Platt – gets sold to a slaveowner (Benedict Cumberbatch) and is facing the harsh reality of working as a slave.
Riding on a lot of Oscar buzz 12 Years a Slave had me after a few minutes and after the movie was over I had this rare moment when I realized that I actually really love both frontrunners for best picture at the Oscars (Gravity being the other contender).