The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics announced their picks for the best of 2015 today. In a move that many are predicting may be imitated by the Academy, they named Spotlight best film while giving director to Mad Max Fury Road‘s George Miller.
I love the Online Film Critics Society, I really do. Every year, when they announce the nominees for their end-of-the-year awards, they always seem to honor the films that truly deserve to be honored. For instance, this year, they found room to not only nominate the Academy front runners — like Spotlight, The Martian, Carol, Brooklyn, and Mad Max — but they also gave nominations to Ex Machina, Sicario, and Inside Out. Ex Machina, Sicario, and Inside Out all deserve to be in the Oscar conversation and hopefully, these nominations will help them stay there.
Here are the nominations from the Online Film Critics Society!
Best Supporting Actress:
Rooney Mara (Carol)
Cynthia Nixon (James White)
Kristen Stewart (Clouds of Sils Maria)
Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl)
Kate Winslet (Steve Jobs)
Best Original Screenplay: Ex Machina (Alex Garland) Inside Out (Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley)
Mistress America (Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach) Sicario (Taylor Sheridan) Spotlight (Josh Singer, Tom McCarthy)
Awards season continues! Earlier today, the African-American Film Critics Association announced their picks for the best of 2015! They named Straight Outta Compton best picture and gave their best director award to Ryan Coogler for Creed.
Check out all of the awards below!
Best Picture: “Straight Outta Compton” (Universal Pictures)
Best Director: Ryan Coogler – “Creed” (Warner Bros.)
Best Ensemble: “Straight Outta Compton” (Universal Pictures)
Best Actor: Will Smith – “Concussion” (Sony)
Best Actress: Teyonah Parris – “Chi-Raq” (Roadside Attractions)
Best Supporting Actor: Jason Mitchell – “Straight Outta Compton” (Universal Pictures)
Best Supporting Actress: Tessa Thompson – “Creed” (Warner Bros.)
Best Independent Film: “Chi-Raq” (Roadside Attractions)
Best Screenplay: Rick Famuyiwa – “Dope” (Open Road Films)
Breakout Performance: Michael B. Jordan – “Creed” (Warner Bros.)
Best Animation: “The Peanuts Movie” (20th Century Fox)
Best Documentary: “A Ballerina’s Tale” (Sundance Selects)
Best Song: “See You Again” – Furious 7 (Atlantic Records)
Best TV Comedy: “Black-ish” (ABC)
Best TV Drama: “How to Get Away with Murder” (ABC)
Best Cable/New Media TV Show: “Survivor’s Remorse” (Starz)
Boston and New York were not the only critics to vote today! The Los Angeles Film Critics Association announced their picks for the best of 2015 as well! Mad Max: Fury Road won best director but Spotlight won best picture with Fury Road as the runner-up. In other words, the LAFCA liked Fury Road but decided to play it safe. Let’s not forget that this is the same group of people who once named The Descendantsbest picture with The Tree of Lifeas the runner-up.
(Dear award-giving groups: Just so you know, playing it safe is really freaking boring.)
I really don’t know much about the New York Film Critics Online but, for whatever reason, the people at Awards Daily seem to hate them. And that’s more than enough reason for me to like them! Anyway, the NYFCO met today and announced their picks for the best of 2015.
And the big winner was Mad Ma…oh wait. No, sorry. The big winner was Spotlight. Check out the rest of the winners below:
Best Picture: Spotlight
Best Director: Tom McCarthy – Spotlight
Best Actress: Brie Larson – Room
Best Actor: Paul Dano – Love & Mercy
Best Supporting Actress: Rooney Mara – Carol
Best Supporting Actor: Mark Rylance – Bridge of Spies
Breakthrough Performance: Alicia Vikander – The Danish Girl
Best Screenplay: Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer – Spotlight
Best Use of Music: Love & Mercy
Best Debut Director: Alex Garland – Ex Machina
Best Ensemble Cast: Spotlight
Best Foreign Language Film: Son of Saul
Best Documentary Feature: Amy
Best Animated Feature: Inside Out
With three major groups of critics scheduled to announce their picks for the best of 2015, today is a big day for those of us who love Awards Season. First off, here are the picks of the Boston Society of Film Critics! While the awards are nicely spread around, it’s not surprising that the Boston Society of Film Critics picked a Boston film for best picture.
One good thing about Mad Max: Fury Road doing so well during award seasion is that it gives me an excuse to say that “So-and-so Is Mad About Max!” Thank you, film critics, for making my job a lot easier.
Anyway, yesterday, the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics announced their nominees for the best of 2015! And, once again, a lot of love was shown to Fury Road. However, I am even happier to see that they also gave some attention to one of my favorite films of the year, Ex Machina.
Best Original Screenplay:
Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen (Bridge of Spies)
Alex Garland (Ex Machina)
Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley (Original Story by Pete Docter and Ronnie Del Carmen) (Inside Out)
Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer (Spotlight)
Amy Schumer (Trainwreck)
The Boston Online Film Critics announced their picks for the best of 2015 earlier today and once again, my expectations have been defied! I figured that since Spotlight is a Boston-story, it would be an easy pick for the Boston critics.
But no! The Boston Online Critics went for … MAD MAX: FURY ROAD! According to Awards Circuit, Creed was the runner-up. (Though, to be clear, the Boston Online Critics definitely did like Spotlight, naming it the 5th best film of 2015 and giving it awards for screenplay and ensemble.) Now again, that doesn’t mean that either Fury Road or Creed is going to be Oscar-nominated. But, every bit helps. With each victory, the idea of a Fury Road best picture nomination becomes just a little more plausible.
Here’s my question — one month ago, would you have believed that the early critics awards would be dominated by Mad Max, Sylvester Stallone, and Kristen Stewart?
This week for #LateNightMovie we watched ‘The Creeping Terror’ and there are several things I want to say about this movie, but I will get to those soon!
From the start tho, Tammy, this was a great movie for us! Awesome pick! I never doubt the movies you pick for us, and this was another amazingly (horrible) one! 😉
Director:
Vic Savage (as A.J. Nelson)
Writers:
Vic Savage, Robert Sillphant*
Stars:
Vic Savage as Martin Gordon
Shannon O’Neil as Brett Gordon
Plot:
After escaping from a crashed space ship, a snail like creature terrorizes all humanity! And all humanity snail squishing follows.
Review:
Okay, many of us retro sci-fi geeks regard this as one of the worst films ever (as pointed out by the quips below). And there have been many reviews done about how bad this movie is. So I won’t take my review in that direction. What I will do is point out all of the nepotism in the movie.
First, Vic Savage! Let’s just all giggle and get over that, AJ!
Second, most likely, Robert didn’t write this movie; His brothers Allan and Sterling did. From all the records, it looks like Robert had very little to do with the writing, but is credited anyway.
It is not consequential how the movie got made, but better the fact that we had a great movie to watch!
And obviously the #LateNightMovie gang had fun!
kellythul:
In Spirographvision
We all had our goggles on for that, Kelly! WarrenPeas64:
This movie is exquisitely excrementlike, but I adore it
TRDowden:
SFX Guy: Okay, here’s what we’ll do. You grab that part of the creature from the last movie we did, and I’ll just sew a couple of rugs on the back of it
JesCoolbaugh:
Nothing this big???? Poor dear…
Sadly, yep! 😦
PinkyGuerrero:
like no one had driven on the road before them
Janeen_FluffyJ:
special unit last night was much better
Wait for the comments, Jinni!
Philo1000:
Is this a Japanese movie?
JesCoolbaugh:
That narrator is so handy. Saves so much time having to write pesky dialogue and stuff…
ekym:
we should DUB our own dialogue into one of these for fun
I thought that is what we did each week at LNM, Myke! LOL
PinkyGuerrero:
never pick the baby up, children are toxic
TRDowden:
It’s the IKEA carpet that ate Cleveland
PinkyGuerrero:
the monster isn’t attracted to hootenannies
WarrenPeas64
So these people are 1) incredibly stupid 2) deaf and 3) have NO peripheral vision
LisaMarieBowman:
But at the end of filming, they rolled up the carpet, lit it on fire, and got really high so there was that.
PinkyGuerrero:
this is like a pre-roomba, everything getting swept under the rug
kellythul:
no words
Well you did have words Kelly, And I will give you to them!
Kelly said it best!
kellythul:
REPORT: Identified human weaknesses: 1) They stand still when frightened. 2) They stand still when their dancing is interrupted 3) Some are SUPER fat 4) They can easily be tricked into crawling
If you want to see what all the LNM fun is about, here is a link to The Creeping Terror!
Thank you Warren, Pinky, Phil, Lisa, Myrna, Kapt Kurt, Kelly, Jes, Jinni, Holly, Myke and Ambie for watching #LateNightMovie with me!
Through the Shattered Lens 