This song can be found on the T2: Trainspotting soundtrack and the video features some clips from that film. You might not notice because there’s a chance you’ll distracted by the audience trying to kill the lead singer.
Enjoy!
This song can be found on the T2: Trainspotting soundtrack and the video features some clips from that film. You might not notice because there’s a chance you’ll distracted by the audience trying to kill the lead singer.
Enjoy!
With the Oscar nominations due to be announced tomorrow, now is the time that the Shattered Lens indulges in a little something called, “What if Lisa had all the power.” Listed below are my personal Oscar nominations. Please note that these are not the films that I necessarily think will be nominated. The fact of the matter is that the many of them will not. Instead, these are the films that would be nominated if I was solely responsible for deciding the nominees this year. Winners are starred and listed in bold.
(You’ll also note that I’ve added four categories, all of which I believe the Academy should adopt — Best Voice-Over Performance, Best Casting, Best Stunt Work, and Best Overall Use Of Music In A Film.)
(Click on the links to see my nominations for 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, and 2010!)
Best Picture
The Disaster Artist
Kedi
Lady Bird
The Meyerowitz Stories
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Director
Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird
Patty Jenkins for Wonder Woman
*David Lowery for A Ghost Story*
Martin McDonagh for Three Billboard Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Andy Muschietti for It
Edgar Wright for Baby Driver
Best Actor
*Sam Elliott in The Hero*
James Franco in The Disaster Artist
Jake Gyllenhaal in Stronger
Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out
James McAvoy in Split
Robert Pattinson in Good Time
Best Actress
Gal Gadot in Wonder Woman
Sally Hawkins in Maudie
Frances McDormand in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Cynthia Nixon in A Quiet Passion
Aubrey Plaza in Ingrid Goes West
*Saoirse Ronan in Lady Bird*
Best Supporting Actor
Woody Harrelson in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Sam Rockwell in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Adam Sandler in The Meyerowitz Stories
Bill Skarsgard in It
*Patrick Stewart in Logan*
Jason Sudekis in Colossal
Best Supporting Actress
Holly Hunter in The Big Sick
Catherine Keener in Get Out
Sophia Lillis in It
*Laurie Metcalf in Lady Bird*
Carey Mulligan in Mudbound
Ella Rumpf in Raw
Best Voice-Over or Stop Motion Performance
Will Arnett in The LEGO Batman Movie
Gael Garcia Bernal in Coco
Bradley Cooper in Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 2
Doug Jones in The Shape of Water
*Andy Serkis in War for the Planet of the Apes*
Dan Stevens in Beauty and the Beast
Best Original Screenplay
Get Out
*Lady Bird*
The Meyerowitz Stories
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Adapted Screenplay
Before I Fall
*The Disaster Artist*
Their Finest
Best Animated Film
Cars 3
Coco
Leap!
Best Documentary Feature
Karl Marx City
*Kedi*
Risk
Step
Strong Island
32 Pills: My Sister’s Suicide
Best Foreign Language Film
First They Killed My Father
Frantz
*Kedi*
Best Casting
Detroit
Dunkirk
Get Out
Lady Bird
*The Meyerowitz Stories*
Best Cinematography
Dunkirk
Lost City of Z
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Costume Design
The Beguiled
Thor: Ragnarok
Best Editing
Before I Fall
Dunkirk
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
The Disaster Artist
Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2
Lady MacBeth
Logan Lucky
My Cousin Rachel
*Thor: Ragnarok*
Best Original Score
*Good Time*
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Wind River
Best Original Song
“Buddy’s Business” from Brawl In Cell Block 99
“Evermore” from Beauty and the Beast
“Friends are Family” from The Lego Batman Movie
“How Does A Moment Last Forever” from Beauty and the Beast
“Myron/Byron” from The Meyerowitz Stories
*”The Pure and the Damned” from Good Time*
Best Overall Use Of Music
Atomic Blonde
The Disaster Artist
Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2
Thor: Ragnarok
Best Production Design
The Beguiled
Thor: Ragnarok
Best Sound Editing
*Dunkirk*
War For The Planet of the Apes
Best Sound Mixing
*Dunkirk*
War For The Planet of the Apes
Best Stuntwork
Dunkirk
Thor: Ragnarok
Best Visual Effects
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Thor: Ragnarok
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
*War For The Planet of the Apes*
Films Listed By Number of Nominations
9 Nominations — Wonder Woman
7 Nominations — Baby Driver, Dunkirk, It, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
6 Nominations — A Ghost Story, Lady Bird, Thor: Ragnarok
5 Nominations — Beauty and the Beast, The Disaster Artist, The Meyerowitz Stories
4 Nominations — The Big Sick, Blade Runner 2049, Get Out, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Logan, Spider-Man: Homecoming, War For The Planet Of The Apes
3 Nominations — Good Time, Kedi, The LEGO Batman Movie
2 Nominations — Before I Fall, The Beguiled, Coco, Kong: Skull Island, Raw, Shape of Water
1 Nominations — Atomic Blonde, Brawl in Cell Block 99, Cars 3, Colossal, Detroit, First They Killed My Father, Frantz, Free Fire, The Hero, Ingrid Goes West, It Comes At Night, Karl Marx City, Lady MacBeth, Leap!, Logan Lucky, Lost City of Z, Maudie, Mudbound, My Cousin Rachel, A Quiet Passion, Risk, Split, Step, Strong Island, Stronger, T2: Trainspotting, Their Finest, 32 Pills: My Sister’s Suicide, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Victoria & Abdul, Wind River
Films Listed By Number of Wins
3 Oscars — A Ghost Story, Lady Bird
2 Oscars — Baby Driver, Dunkirk, Good Time, Kedi, War For the Planet of the Apes, Wonder Woman
1 Oscar — Beauty and the Beast, The Disaster Artist, The Hero, The LEGO Batman Movie, Logan, The Meyerowitz Stories, Thor: Ragnarok
Will the Academy be smart enough to agree with me? Probably not. We’ll see what happens tomorrow!
Yesterday, the New Mexico Film Critics Association named their picks for the best of 2017! They also became the first group to pick Blade Runner 2049 as the best film of 2017.
Here are their winners:
Best Picture
Winner: “Blade Runner 2049”
Runner Up: “Lady Bird:
Best Director
Winner: Greta Gerwig, “Lady Bird”
Runner Up: Denis Villeneuve, “Blade Runner 2049”
Glenn Strange Honorary Awards
Best Actor
Winner: Sam Elliot, “The Hero”
Runner Up: James Franco, “The Disaster Artist”
Best Actress
Winner: Jennifer Lawrence, “mother!”
Runner Up: Jessica Rothe, “Happy Death Day”
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Catherine Kenner, “Get Out”
Runner Up: Maryana Spivak, “Loveless”
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Harrison Ford, “Blade Runner 2049”
Runner Up: Ewen Bremner, “Trainspotting II”
Best Ensemble
Winner: “Raw”
Runner Up: “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”
Best Original Screenplay
Winner: “November”
Runner Up: “Lady Bird”
Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner: “The Disaster Artist”
Runner Up: “Call Me By Your Name”
Best Animated Film
Winner: “Loving Vincent”
Runner Up: “The Breadwinner”
Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: “November” (Estonia)
Runner Up: “BPM” (France)
Best Editing
Winner: “November”
Runner Up: “Blade Runner 2049”
Best Cinematography
Winner: “Blade Runner 2049”
Runner Up: “Song of Granite”
Best Music/Score
Winner: “The Shape of Water”
Runner Up: “mother!”
Best Production Design
Winner: “Blade Runner 2049”
Runner Up: “The Shape of Water”
Best Documentary
Winner: “City of Ghosts”
Runner Up: “Faces Places”
Best Young Actor/Actress
Winner: Garance Mirillier, “Raw”
Runner Up: Sophia Lillis, “It”
Best Original Song
Winner: “The Misery of Love” from “Call Me By Your Name”
Runner Up: “Prayers for this World” from “Cries from Syria”
Hi! Lisa here, filling in for Val, with today’s music video of the day!
Before anyone asks, my selection of this music video has absolutely nothing to do with the current situation between the U.S. and North Korea. To be honest, when I picked this video, I didn’t even know that was going on. The fact that I picked Atomic at a time when everyone is freaking out about nuclear war is just one of those coincidences that helps to keep life interesting!
No, the reason I picked this video was because I’m getting ready to finally watch T2 Trainspotting but, before I watch T2, I have to rewatch the original Trainspotting. Sleeper’s cover of Atomic is prominently featured in Trainspotting and I have to admit that I’ve always liked that chorus of “Your hair is beautiful.” I’ve always loved my hair.
(My boyfriend got excited when I told him I would be featuring this song because apparently, he used to listen to it while running down pedestrians in Grand Theft Auto. And, actually, I can imagine this would be a pretty good driving music.)
Anyway, I did some research to see if I could explain just what exactly this song is actually about. It turns out that the song is actually about nothing. Courtesy of Songfacts, here is Blondie’s lead singer, Debbie Harry, on how Atomic came to be:
“He (Blondie Keyboardist Jimmy Destri) was trying to do something like ‘Heart Of Glass,’ and then somehow or another we gave it the spaghetti western treatment. Before that it was just lying there like a lox. The lyrics, well, a lot of the time I would write while the band were just playing the song and trying to figure it out. I would just be scatting along with them and I would just start going, ‘Ooooooh, your hair is beautiful.'”
While the video takes place in a post-apocalyptic world (and features artist Jean-Michel Basquiat as the man who takes away the horse at the beginning), the song actually has nothing to do with nuclear war. It’s actually not about anything. It’s just a good song!
Enjoy!
T2, Danny Boyle’s sequel to Trainspotting, has already been released in the UK, where it received good but not great reviews.
(If anyone is interested in opening a TSL Bureau in the United Kingdom, please let us know.)
It’ll be released in America later this month. Here’s the latest trailer for the American release!
Why are these Oscar predictions “way too early?”
Well, unlike every other movie blogger right now, I am not attempting to predict who and what will be nominated on January 24th. Instead, with this post, I am attempting to predict which 2017 releases will be nominated next year! In short, I am attempting to predict what movies and which performers will emerge as Oscar contenders over the next 12 months.
Needless to say, this is more than a little bit foolish on my part. I haven’t seen any of the films listed below. Some of these films don’t have release dates and others are coming out so early in the year that, in order to be contenders, they’ll have to be so spectacular that neither the Academy nor the critics end up forgetting about them. For the most part, the true picture of the Oscar race usually doesn’t start to emerge until the summer.
For now, these predictions are, for the most part, wild guesses and they should be taken with more than just a grain of salt. Each month, I will revise my predictions. At the very least, next year, we’ll probably be able to look back at this post and laugh.
(Whenever trying to make early Oscar predictions, one should remember all of the award bloggers who predicted Nicole Kidman would win an Oscar for Grace of Monaco, just to then see the movie make its long-delayed premiere on Lifetime.)
With all that in mind, here are my way too early Oscar predictions for January!
Best Picture
Battle of the Sexes
The Beguiled
Crown Heights
Darkest Hour
Downsizing
Dunkirk
War Machine
Again, for the most part, these predictions are a combination of wild guesses, instinct, and wishful thinking. It’s entirely possible that none of these films will actually be nominated for best picture. (Some might even end up premiering on Lifetime, you never know.) Here’s why I think that some of them might be remembered next year at this time:
All Eyez On Me is a biopic of Tupac Shakur. Assuming the film is done correctly, Shakur’s life would seem to have all the elements that usually go into an Oscar-winning film.
Battle of the Sexes is a film based on a true incident, a 1970s tennis match between a feminist and a self-declared male chauvinist. It’s directed by the team behind the Oscar-nominated Little Miss Sunshine and it stars two former nominees, Emma Stone and Steve Carell.
The Beguiled might be wishful thinking on my part but, at this point, wishful thinking is all I have to go on for most of these predictions. The Beguiled is a remake of a Clint Eastwood film and it’s directed by one of my favorite directors, Sofia Coppola! Much like Battle of the Sexes, its misogynist-gets-what’s-coming-to-him storyline might make it the perfect film for the first year of the Trump presidency.
Blade Runner 2047 is one of the most eagerly anticipated films of 2017 and it’s directed by Denis Villeneuve, who is hot off of Arrival. The Oscar success of Mad Max: Fury Road proved that a sequel can be a contender.
Every year, at least one contender emerges out of Sundance and this year, it could very well be Crown Heights. It tells a fact-based story, about a man trying to win his best friend’s release from prison after the latter is wrongly convicted. That all sounds very Oscar baity.
Speaking of Oscar bait, Darkest Hour stars Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill. If that doesn’t sound like Oscar bait, I don’t know what does.
Downsizing is Alexander Payne’s latest film. It’s about a man (Matt Damon), who shrinks himself. It may not sound like typical Oscar bait but Payne is definitely a favorite of the Academy’s.
Dunkirk is Christopher Nolan’s big epic for 2017. Will it be another huge success or will it just be bombastic? We’ll see. The Academy has a weakness for World War II films and it could be argued that the very successful yet never nominated Nolan is overdue for some Academy recognition. (It is true that Inception received a nomination for best picture but Nolan himself was snubbed.)
T2: Trainspotting is probably coming out too early in the year to be a legitimate contender but who knows? The trailer was great. Danny Boyle is directing it. And, much as with Blade Runner 2047, Mad Max: Fury Road proved that a well-made and intelligent sequel can find favor with the Academy.
War Machine is described as being a satire about the war in Afghanistan. Could it be another Big Short? With Obama out of office, the Academy might be more open to political satire than they’ve been in the past.
Best Director
Danny Boyle for T2: Trainspotting
Sofia Coppola for The Beguiled
Christopher Nolan for Dunkirk
Alexander Payne for Downsizing
Denis Villeneuve for Blade Runner 2047
Again, there’s a lot of random guessing here. Personally, I’d love to see Sofia Coppola receive a second nomination for best director. Payne and Boyle are always possibilities and, if Villeneuve’s work on Arrival is ignored this year, nominating him for Blade Runner would be a good way to make up for it. As for Nolan, he’s going to get nominated some day. Why not for Dunkirk?
Best Actor
Tom Cruise in American Made
Sam Elliott in The Hero
Hugh Jackman in The Greatest Showman
Logan Lerman in Sidney Hall
Gary Oldman in Darkest Hour
In American Made, Tom Cruise plays a real-life drug runner. It sounds like one of those change-of-pace roles that often results in an Oscar nomination. Gary Oldman has never won an Oscar and has only been nominated once. The Academy might want to rectify that situation by nominating him for playing Winston Churchill. And finally, Hugh Jackman as P.T. Barnum in a big budget musical that’s scheduled to open on Christmas Day? It sounds like either a total disaster or the formula for Oscar gold!
Logan Lerman is one of those actors who appears to be destined to eventually be nominated for an Oscar and, in Sidney Hall, he ages over thirty years. Finally, Sam Elliott is a beloved veteran who has never been nominated. If The Hero is a hit at Sundance, it’s easy to imagine the Oscar campaign that will follow.
Best Actress
Jessica Chastain in The Zookeeper’s Wife
Judi Dench in Victoria and Abdul
Nicole Kidman in The Beguiled
Emma Stone in Battle of the Sexes
Naomi Watts in The Book of Henry
As of this writing, Meryl Streep does not have a movie scheduled to be released in 2017, which means that another actress will get the sport usually reserved for her. But who? Jessica Chastain could be nominated because she’s Jessica Chastain and the Academy loves her. Judi Dench plays Queen Victoria for a second time in Victoria and Abdul. The Academy loves movies about British royalty and Dench has already been nominated once for bringing Victoria to life. Naomi Watts plays a loving but possibly crazy mother in The Book of Henry, which again sounds like a very Oscar baity role. If Emma Stone doesn’t win for La La Land, the Academy could make it up to her by nominating her for Battle of the Sexes.
As for Nicole Kidman in The Beguiled — well, let’s call that wishful thinking. My hope is that Sofia Coppola will do great things with The Beguiled and she will get another great performance out of Nicole Kidman. We’ll see if I’m right.
Best Supporting Actor
Robert Carlyle in T2: Trainspotting
Johnny Depp in Murder on The Orient Experss
James Franco in The Masterpiece
Bill Skarsgard in It
Kevin Spacey in Billionaire Boys Club
Admittedly, the guesses here are fairly random but there is a logic behind each nominee. Robert Carlyle was great in Trainspotting so he might be just as great in T2. In Billionaire Boys Club, Kevin Spacey plays a sleazy con artist and that sounds like the type of role with which he could do wonders. If It is to be a success, Bill Skarsgard is going to have to be a terrifying Pennywise. If Heath Ledger could win for playing the Joker, surely Skarsgard could be nominated for playing Pennywise.
As for James Franco in The Masterpiece … yes, it’s more wishful thinking on my part. Franco will be playing Tommy Wiseau, the director of the notorious The Room. Wiseau is, needless to say, an eccentric figure. Not only do I think James Franco could give an award-worthy performance in the role but I also just like the idea of someone getting an Oscar for playing Tommy Wiseau.
Finally, we have Johnny Depp in Murder on The Orient Express. Why not? It seems like someone from that film’s huge cast is destined to be nominated so why not Johnny Depp?
Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Aniston in The Yellow Birds
Danai Guirra in All Eyez On Me
Kelly MacDonald in T2: Trainspotting
Kristin Scott Thomas in Darkest Hour
Tilda Swinton in War Machine
These guesses are even more random than my guesses for supporting actor. Jennifer Aniston and Danai Guirra will both be playing mothers who lose their sons. A lot of people were surprised when Aniston was not nominated for Cake so here’s a chance for the Academy to make it up to her. As for Kristin Scott Thomas, she’ll be playing Winston Churchill’s wife and the Academy loves historical wives (i.e., Helena Bonham Carter in The King’s Speech and Felicity Jones in The Theory of Everything).
As for the last two predictions, Tilda Swinton is listed because she’s Tilda Swinton. Kelly MacDonald is listed for the same reason that I put Robert Carlyle down for supporting actor. She was just so good in the first film.
So, there you go! Those are my too early Oscar predictions for January! Will they prove to be accurate? Probably not.
But we’ll see how things change over the next couple of months. At the very least, you’ll be able to look back at this post and laugh at me for thinking that … oh, let’s say Battle of the Sexes … would ever be nominated for an Academy Award.
As for me, I’ll be revising my predictions in February. At least by that point, maybe the Sundance Film Festival will have provided some guidance…