4 Shots From 4 Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films is all about letting the visuals do the talking.
4 Shots From 4 Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films lets the visuals do the talking!
Today, I’m using this feature to take a look at the history of the Academy Award for Best Picture. Decade by decade, I’m going to highlight my picks for best of the winning films. To start with, here are 4 shots from 4 Films that won Best Picture during the 2010s! Here are….
4 Shots From 4 Best Picture Winners: The 2010s
The Artist (2011, dir by Michel Hazanavicius, DP: Guillaume Schiffman)
12 Years A Slave (2013, dir by Steve McQueen, DP: Sean Bobbitt)
Moonlight (2016, dir by Barry Jenkins, DP: James Laxton)
The Shape of Water (2017, dir by Guillermo Del Toro, DP: Dan Lausten)
Fans of classic horror movies were dancing in the streets from Karloffornia to Transylvania when THE SHAPE OF WATER won the Oscar for Best Picture last night! After 90 long years, a genre-themed film was given the Academy’s top honor. Guillermo Del Toro, a lifelong fantasy and classic film fan, also received an Oscar as Best Director (and quoted Jimmy Cagney in YANKEE DOODLE DANDY in his acceptance speech!). Coincidentally, last night was the anniversary of the birth of William Alland , producer of THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, which served as an inspiration for THE SHAPE OF WATER. Somewhere in Hollywood heaven, Mr. Alland, director Jack Arnold, stars Richard Carlson, Richard Denning, Nestor Paiva, and Ben Chapman are all beaming with pride! (Happily, Julie Adams and Riccou Browning are still with us to join in the celebration).
More Oscar ramblings:
*The opening sequence, mixing old & new black…
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Here are the winners of the 90th annual Academy Awards!
Best Picture — The Shape of Water
Best Director — Guillermo Del Toro for The Shape Of Water
Best Actor — Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
Best Actress — Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Supporting Actor — Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Supporting Actress — Allison Janney, I, Tonya
Best Original Screenplay– Jordan Peele, Get Out
Best Adapted Screenplay — James Ivory, Call Me By Your Name
Best Animated Feature — Coco
Best Production Design — The Shape of Water
Best Cinematography — Blade Runner 2049
Best Costume Design — Phantom Thread
Best Film Editing — Dunkirk
Best Hair and Makeup — Darkest Hour
Best Sound Mixing — Dunkirk
Best Sound Editing — Dunkirk
Best Visual Effects — Blade Runner 2049
Best Original Score — The Shape of Water
Best Original Song — “Remember Me” from Coco
Best Foreign Language Film — A Fantastic Woman
Best Documentary Feature — Icarus
Best Animated Short — Dear Basketball
Best Live Action Short — The Silent Child
Best Documentary Short — Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405
Since the Oscars are tomorrow, I guess now would be the time for me to make my final guesses as to what will win! So, without further ado:
Best Picture — Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Director — Guillermo Del Toro, The Shape of Water
Best Actor — Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
Best Actress — Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Supporting Actor — Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Supporting Actress — Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird
Best Original Screenplay — Get Out
Best Adapted Screenplay — Call Me By Your Name
Best Animated Feature — Coco
Best Production Design — The Shape of Water
Best Cinematography — Mudbound
Best Costume Design — Phantom Thread
Best Film Editing — Dunkirk
Best Makeup and Hairstyling — Wonder
Best Sound Mixing — Dunkirk
Best Sound Editing — Dunkirk
Best Visual Effects — War For The Planet of the Apes
Best Original Score — Phantom Thread
Best Original Song — “Remember Me” from Coco
Best Documentary Feature — Icarus
Best Foreign Language Film — The Square
Best Animated Short — Negative Space
Best Live Action Short — DeKalb Elementary
Best Documentary Short — Heroin(e)
You know that I’ve had a busy Tuesday when I’m only now getting around to posting the 90th Annual Oscar nominations!
Here they are. Nominees in bold appear on both the Academy’s list and my list of the films that I would have nominated if I was the one solely in charge!
Best Picture:
Call Me By Your Name,
Darkest Hour,
Dunkirk,
Get Out,
Lady Bird,
Phantom Thread,
The Post,
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson for Phantom Thread
Guillermo Del Toro for The Shape of Water
Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird
Christopher Nolan for Dunkirk
Jordan Peele for Get Out
Best Actor
Timothee Chalamet in Call Me By Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis in Phantom Thread
Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out
Gary Oldman in Darkest Hour
Denzel Washington in Roman Israel Esq.
Best Actress
Sally Hawkins in Shape of Water
Frances McDormand in Three Billoards Outside Ebbing Missouri
Margot Robbie in I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan in Lady Bird
Meryl Streep in The Post
(At this point, I got tired of typing out all of the nominees myself and I did a cut and paste from the list of nominees posted at Awards Watch. Please thank Awards Watch by visiting their wonderful site.)
Actor in a Supporting Role
WILLEM DAFOE
The Florida Project
WOODY HARRELSON
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
RICHARD JENKINS
The Shape of Water
CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER
All the Money in the World
SAM ROCKWELL
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Actress in a Supporting Role
MARY J. BLIGE
Mudbound
ALLISON JANNEY
I, Tonya
LESLEY MANVILLE
Phantom Thread
LAURIE METCALF
Lady Bird
OCTAVIA SPENCER
The Shape of Water
Writing (Original Screenplay)
THE BIG SICK
Written by Emily V. Gordon & Kumail Nanjiani
GET OUT
Written by Jordan Peele
LADY BIRD
Written by Greta Gerwig
THE SHAPE OF WATER
Screenplay by Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor; Story by Guillermo del Toro
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI
Written by Martin McDonagh
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
Screenplay by James Ivory
THE DISASTER ARTIST
Screenplay by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber
LOGAN
Screenplay by Scott Frank & James Mangold and Michael Green; Story by James Mangold
MOLLY’S GAME
Written for the screen by Aaron Sorkin
MUDBOUND
Screenplay by Virgil Williams and Dee Rees
Animated Feature Film
THE BOSS BABY
Tom McGrath and Ramsey Naito
THE BREADWINNER
Nora Twomey and Anthony Leo
COCO
Lee Unkrich and Darla K. Anderson
FERDINAND
Carlos Saldanha
LOVING VINCENT
Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman and Ivan Mactaggart
Foreign Language Film
A FANTASTIC WOMAN
Chile
THE INSULT
Lebanon
LOVELESS
Russia
ON BODY AND SOUL
Hungary
THE SQUARE
Sweden
Documentary Feature
ABACUS: SMALL ENOUGH TO JAIL
Steve James, Mark Mitten and Julie Goldman
FACES PLACES
Agnès Varda, JR and Rosalie Varda
ICARUS
Bryan Fogel and Dan Cogan
LAST MEN IN ALEPPO
Feras Fayyad, Kareem Abeed and Søren Steen Jespersen
STRONG ISLAND
Yance Ford and Joslyn Barnes
Documentary (Short Subject)
EDITH+EDDIE
Laura Checkoway and Thomas Lee Wright
HEAVEN IS A TRAFFIC JAM ON THE 405
Frank Stiefel
HEROIN(E)
Elaine McMillion Sheldon and Kerrin Sheldon
KNIFE SKILLS
Thomas Lennon
TRAFFIC STOP
Kate Davis and David Heilbroner
Music (Original Score)
DUNKIRK
Hans Zimmer
PHANTOM THREAD
Jonny Greenwood
THE SHAPE OF WATER
Alexandre Desplat
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI
John Williams
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI
Carter Burwell
Music (Original Song)
MIGHTY RIVER
from Mudbound; Music and Lyric by Mary J. Blige, Raphael Saadiq and Taura Stinson
MYSTERY OF LOVE
from Call Me by Your Name; Music and Lyric by Sufjan Stevens
REMEMBER ME
from Coco; Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
STAND UP FOR SOMETHING
from Marshall; Music by Diane Warren; Lyric by Lonnie R. Lynn and Diane Warren
THIS IS ME
from The Greatest Showman; Music and Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Film Editing
BABY DRIVER
Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos
DUNKIRK
Lee Smith
I, TONYA
Tatiana S. Riegel
THE SHAPE OF WATER
Sidney Wolinsky
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI
Jon Gregory
Cinematography
BLADE RUNNER 2049
Roger A. Deakins
DARKEST HOUR
Bruno Delbonnel
DUNKIRK
Hoyte van Hoytema
MUDBOUND
Rachel Morrison
THE SHAPE OF WATER
Dan Laustsen
Production Design
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
BLADE RUNNER 2049
Production Design: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Alessandra Querzola
DARKEST HOUR
Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
DUNKIRK
Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Gary Fettis
THE SHAPE OF WATER
Production Design: Paul Denham Austerberry; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin
Costume Design
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Jacqueline Durran
DARKEST HOUR
Jacqueline Durran
PHANTOM THREAD
Mark Bridges
THE SHAPE OF WATER
Luis Sequeira
VICTORIA & ABDUL
Consolata Boyle
Makeup and Hairstyling
DARKEST HOUR
Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick
VICTORIA & ABDUL
Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard
WONDER
Arjen Tuiten
Sound Mixing
BABY DRIVER
Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin and Mary H. Ellis
BLADE RUNNER 2049
Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill and Mac Ruth
DUNKIRK
Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker and Gary A. Rizzo
THE SHAPE OF WATER
Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern and Glen Gauthier
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI
David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Stuart Wilson
Sound Editing
BABY DRIVER
Julian Slater
BLADE RUNNER 2049
Mark Mangini and Theo Green
DUNKIRK
Richard King and Alex Gibson
THE SHAPE OF WATER
Nathan Robitaille and Nelson Ferreira
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI
Matthew Wood and Ren Klyce
Visual Effects
BLADE RUNNER 2049
John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2
Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner and Dan Sudick
KONG: SKULL ISLAND
Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza and Mike Meinardus
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI
Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould
WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES
Joe Letteri, Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon and Joel Whist
Short Film (Animated)
DEAR BASKETBALL
Glen Keane and Kobe Bryant
GARDEN PARTY
Victor Caire and Gabriel Grapperon
LOU
Dave Mullins and Dana Murray
NEGATIVE SPACE
Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata
REVOLTING RHYMES
Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer
Short Film (Live Action)
DEKALB ELEMENTARY
Reed Van Dyk
THE ELEVEN O’CLOCK
Derin Seale and Josh Lawson
MY NEPHEW EMMETT
Kevin Wilson, Jr.
THE SILENT CHILD
Chris Overton and Rachel Shenton
WATU WOTE/ALL OF US
Katja Benrath and Tobias Rosen
Congratulations to all the nominees!
Check out the nominations here and the winners below!
Best Picture (Drama) — Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Picture (Comedy) — Lady Bird
Best Director — Guillermo Del Toro, The Shape of Water
Best Screenplay — Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
Best Actor (Drama) — Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour
Best Actor (Comedy) — James Franco, The Disaster Artist
Best Actress (Drama) — Frances McDormand, Three Billboard Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Actress (Comedy) — Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird
Best Supporting Actor — Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Supporting Actress — Allison Janney, I, Tonya
Best Animated Feature Film — Coco
Best Foreign Language Film — In the Fade
Best Original Song — “The Is Me” from The Greatest Showman
Best Original Score — Alexandre Desplat, The Shape of Water
With awards season now in full swing, I’m a lot more confident when it comes to making my Oscar predictions. While I don’t know if it’s possible to guess with one hundred per cent accuracy, I would say that I’m 99.9% sure that these predictions are going to line up with January’s nominations.
If I’m wrong … well, keep it to yourself.
Be sure to check out my earlier predictions for November, October, September, August, July, June, May, April, March, February, and January.
Best Picture
Call Me By Your Name
The Disaster Artist
Dunkirk
The Florida Project
Get Out
Lady Bird
The Post
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
Best Director
Guillermo Del Toro for The Shape Of Water
Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird
Christopher Nolan for Dunkirk
Jordan Peele for Get Out
Steven Spielberg for The Post
Best Actor
Timothee Chalamet in Call Me By Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis in Phantom Thread
James Franco in The Disaster Artist
Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out
Gary Oldman in Darkest Hour
Best Actress
Sally Hawkins in The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Margot Robbie in I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan in Lady Bird
Meryl Streep in The Post
Best Supporting Actor
Willem DaFoe in The Florida Project
Woody Harrelson in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Christopher Plummer in All The Money In The World
Sam Rockwell in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Michael Stuhlbarg in Call Me By Your Name
Best Supporting Actress
Mary J. Blige in Mudbound
Tiffany Haddish in Girls Trip
Holly Hunter in The Big Sick
Allison Janney in I, Tonya
Laurie Metcalf in Lady Bird
In case you’re wondering which sites I use to keep informed about the developments in the Oscar race, my two favorites are Awards Circuit and Awards Watch. Both of them are more than worth a visit and are run by people who have a much better track record than I do, as far as predicting these things is concerned!
The Chicago Independent Film Critics Circle should not be mistaken for the Chicago Film Critics Association. However, since they’re both in Chicago, that does give me an excuse to once again use this picture of Al Capone.
Here are the nominees!
THE 10 BEST INDEPENDENT FILMS (in alphabetical order):
The Big Sick, Call Me By Your Name, The Florida Project, Get Out, A Ghost Story, Lady Bird, Lucky, Mudbound, The Shape of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
THE 10 BEST STUDIO FILMS (in alphabetical order):
Baby Driver, Blade Runner 2049, Dunkirk, Logan, The Lost City of Z, mother!, Phantom Thread, The Post, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Wonder Woman
The complete list of nominees for the 2017 CIFCC Awards:
Oddly, the Florida Film Critics showed very little love to The Florida Project. The acclaimed film only received one nomination, for Willem DaFoe.
BEST PICTURE
BEST DIRECTOR
BEST ACTOR
BEST ACTRESS
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
BEST ENSEMBLE
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
BEST ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN
BEST SCORE
BEST DOCUMENTARY
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
BEST ANIMATED FILM
BEST FIRST FILM
BREAKOUT AWARD
Through the Shattered Lens 