 Film: “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”
For Your Consideration: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Director: John Madden
Screenplay: Ol Parker
Realistic Nominations: Supporting Actress
Oscar Scene: “I’m gay. Although nowadays more in theory than in practice.”
After Tom Wilkinson received his first Oscar nomination for In the Bedroom (2001), there was nothing I thought he couldn’t do. A string a slightly above average performances in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Batman Begins (2005), and of course his Oscar-nominated turn in Michael Clayton (2007) only confirmed my theory. As Graham in John Madden’s The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Wilkinson illuminates a romantic sensitivity that stands as one of the year’s best works.
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 For Your Consideration – Best Supporting Actor: Alan Rickman
Film: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Director: David Yates
Screenplay: Steven Kloves
Realistic Nominations: Art Direction, Cinematography, Sound Editing, Visual Effects, Make up
Oscar Scene: “You have your mother’s eyes”
Alan Rickman brought Professor Severus Snape to life in the Harry Potter series by giving him an eccentric personality, and a vacant way of speaking. He reached the height of his depth when he brought passion, affection, tenderness and feeling to Snape’s character in the final installment of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.
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 For Your Consideration: Best Achievement in Directing
Film: “We Need to Talk About Kevin”
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Writer: Lynne Ramsay & Rory Kinnear
Realistic Nominations: Best Actress (Tilda Swinton)
Oscar Scene: Kevin’s bow (after the massacre).
Few women find themselves in Oscar’s conversation for Best Director. Most recently we saw Kathryn Bigelow win her much deserved Oscar for “The Hurt Locker” but there have been plenty of women worthy of citation over the past decade. Sofia Coppola was nominated for writing and directing the independent classic, “Lost in Translation” but what of Julie Taymor for her wonderful adaptation of the Beatles’ classic songs in “Across the Universe.” Before the “Twilight” franchise, Catherine Hardwicke put her stamp on the indie film, “Thirteen” starring Evan Rachel Wood and Oscar Winner Holly Hunter. Obviously we’ve seen Jane Campion awarded for her work in “The Piano” but she brought to life the beautiful “Bright Star” and “Portrait of a Lady,” both ignored by the Academy.
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 For Your Consideration – Best Lead Actor – Joel Edgerton
Film: Warrior
Director: Gavin O’Connor
Screenplay: Gavin O’Connor, Cliff Dorfman and Anthony Tambakis
Realistic Nominations: Best Supporting Actor – Nick Nolte
Oscar Scene: “I’m sorry, Tommy…I’m sorry…tap, Tommy…it’s okay…it’s okay…I love you, I love you, Tommy!”
Warrior is an endearingly predictable and sentimental sports drama with big lunges of emotion that end up being more powerful than they have any “right” to be. This success can be primarily attributed to the film’s two stars Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton, who articulate the Bitter Introvert With A Dark Past and the Everyman Thrust Back Into One Last Fight, respectively, much better than its screenplay ever does. Many critics have (not unjustifiably) heaped praise on Hardy, but sadly, Edgerton’s work has been relatively ignored. That’s unfortunate; for my money he was actually the film’s MVP. Read more on Circuit Consideration: Joel Edgerton in Warrior…
 For Your Consideration – Best Original Score – Harry Escott
Film: “Shame”
Director: Steve McQueen
Screenplay: Steve McQueen & Abi Morgan
Realistic Nominations: Best Actor (Michael Fassbender)
Oscar Scene: Opening Sequence on the Train
Reviews for Steve McQueen’s “Shame” have been mostly positive citing the powerful performances of Michael Fassbender and Academy Award Nominee Carey Mulligan with many jumping for the screenplay by Writer/Director Steve McQueen and Abi Morgan. A forgotten and overlooked aspect of this dark yet hauntingly beautiful picture is the score set in place by Harry Escott. Escott has delivered unique, lingering scores on films like “Hard Candy” and “A Mighty Heart.”
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 For Your Consideration – Best Supporting Actress – Anjelica Huston
Film: “50/50″
Director: Jonathan Levine
Screenplay: Will Reiser
Realistic Nominations: Best Original Screenplay
Oscar Scene: “You never call me back.”
In Jonathan Levine’s “50/50″ critics praised the work of Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the screenplay of Will Reiser but the work of Academy Award Winner Anjelica Huston was the high mark for myself in this decent story of a young man battling cancer. In her near fifteen minutes of screen time, Huston shatters the screen as the overbearing mother constantly worried about her cancer-stricken son and her Alzheimer’s taken husband.
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Film: “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”
