
Best Motion Picture – Argo
Best Documentary Feature: Searching for Sugar Man
Reality Series: American Masters
Animated Feature: Wreck-It Ralph
Comedy Series: Modern Family
PGA competition TV award: Amazing Race
Best Live Talk Show: Stephen Colbert
Winner will be announced here around 8. Put your predictions down below.
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Grand Jury Prize: Fruitvale
U.S. Doc Grand Jury Prize: Blood Brother
U.S. Dramatic Directing Award: Afternoon Delight
U.S. Doc Directing Award: Cutie and the Boxer
U.S. Dramatic Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: In a World
Sundance: Screenwriting Award, World Cinema Dramatic: Barmak Akram from Afghanistan for ‘Wajma.’
U.S. Dramatic Cinematography Award: Bradford Young for Ain’t Them Bodies Saints & Mother of George
US Dramatic Special Jury Acting to Miles Teller & Shailene Woodley for The Spectacular Now
Audience Winner: Fruitvale
US Doc Audience Award: Blood Brother
Audience Award for Best World Narrative: Metro Manila
World Doc Audience Award: The Square
Best of Next: This is Martin Bonner
World Doc grand jury prize: A River Changes Course
World Doc directing prize: The Machine That Makes Everything Disappear
World Cinema Special Jury Prize (Documentary): Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize: Computer Chess
World Cinema Dramatic Screenwriting Award: WAJMA (AN AFGHAN LOVE STORY) (Barmak Akram)
World Cinema Dramatic Cinematography Award: LASTING (d.p. Michal Englert) Read more on Sundance Film Festival Awards ‘Fruitvale’…
Every so often as a critic you get the opportunity to witness a film that’s so ingrained in your experience that it becomes difficult to even comprehend how you feel about the film. On one hand, Fruitvale is a rich, if slightly problematic, retelling of the day in the life of Oscar Grant, the Oakland man who was shot by police officers on New Year’s Day 2009. On the other is innate sense of personal relevance. I can still tell you exactly where I was sitting when I heard about him getting shot, the worry on my parent’s (and to speak the truth, all Black parents) faces that something like this could happen to me (their children), and the anger, not just African Americans, but most Bay Area residents felt when the officer who shot him was only sentenced to two years jail time. There’s no way to divorce those experiences from watching a film like this. However the movie doesn’t ask you to, it just wants you to be in the moment as it tells it’s story. For those reasons, Fruitvale is a feat of movie making, something that operates well within the medium and invites you to bring your emotions along for the ride. Read more on SUNDANCE: Fruitvale (***)…
As the Academy draws near, the Awards Circuit continues to stretch out its hand to our readers. If you’re not aware, we pride ourselves in listening, interacting, and enjoying our readership. There are many things for all lovers of film to get involved in as we draw a close to awards season.
We have partnered with FunOfficePools.com to handle our annual Oscar pool contest. This will give everyone the opportunity to officially go on record and win some cool prizes. Register at Fun Office Pools, choose your predicted winners for the Academy Awards and you could win all the Best Picture nominees (when they are released) on DVD or Blu-Ray. That’s for our first place winner. The second place winner will receive an Awards Circuit shirt or hoodie from our merchandise store.
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It’s hard for lightning to strike twice, let alone three times, but somehow the team of Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, and Richard Linklater have done just that with Before Midnight. Almost two decades since they first charmed audiences in Before Sunrise (1995) and nearly a full decade since they returned with the equally impressive sequel Before Sunset (2004), the trio are back and as good as ever.
Co-writer/director Richard Linklater is again content to sit back and let co-writers/stars Delpy and Hawke inhabit these characters. We’ve grown to love and care about them, something the team uses to their advantage in some really interesting ways this time around. As much as it’s a direct sequel, the most compatible film to this one might actually be the recent Judd Apatow flick This is 40. A movie about what happens when youthful love is replaced by something more complex; Before Midnight is a home run for all involved. Read more on SUNDANCE: Before Midnight (***½)…
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