This week's a pretty busy one when it comes to the awards season. The Golden Globes will be announced on Sunday (13th January), whilst the nominations for the Producers' Guild Awards, Director's Guild Awards and Writers' Guild Awards have been announced.
Today saw the nomination announcement of two very different film awards.
Firstly, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) announced their film award nominations. Here are some of their choices:
BEST FILM
Argo
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
Anna Karenina
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Les Miserables
Seven Psychopaths
Skyfall
LEADING ACTOR
Ben Affleck - Argo
Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln
Hugh Jackman - Les Miserables
Joaquin Phoenix - The Master
LEADING ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty
Marion Cotillard - Rust and Bone
Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook
Helen Mirren - Hitchcock
Emmanuelle Riva - Amour
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Alan Arkin - Argo
Javier Bardem - Skyfall
Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master
Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln
Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams - The Master
Judi Dench - Skyfall
Sally Field - Lincoln
Anne Hathaway - Les Miserables
Helen Hunt - The Sessions
DIRECTOR
Ben Affleck - Argo
Kathryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty
Michael Haneke - Amour
Ang Lee - Life of Pi
Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained
A full list can be found here.
There are some interesting choices here- notably Ben Affleck as Best Actor for Argo (in all other award nomination, he's been up for Best Director), the choice of Michael Haneke for Best Director and Javier Bardem and Judi Dench in the Supporting categories for Skyfall. As you can imagine, there is often a skew towards British films and talent in these nominations (it is the British Academy, after all).
The BAFTA Film Awards will be handed out on Sunday 10th February.
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Today also saw the nominations announced for the Golden Raspberry Awards (a.k.a. Razzies).
Dishonouring the very worst in cinema in 2012, these nominations seem strangely familiar yet oddly comforting at the same time. The Razzie panel have always taken a fairly extreme dislike to a) Adam Sandler; b) Eddie Murphy; c) The Twilight franchise and d) Nicolas Cage, and this year's been a banner year for all of them.
Worst Picture
Battleship
The Oogieloves in Big Balloon Adventure
That's My Boy
A Thousand Words
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II
Worst Director
Sean Anders - That's My Boy
Peter Berg - Battleship
Bill Condon - The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II
Tyler Perry - Good Deeds / Madea's Witness Protection
John Putch - Atlas Shrugged: Part II
Worst Actress
Katherine Heigl - One for the Money
Milla Jovovich - Resident Evil: Retribution
Tyler Perry - Madea's Witness Protection
Kristen Stewart - The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II / Snow White and the Huntsman
Barbra Streisand - The Guilt Trip
Worst Actor
Nicolas Cage - Ghost Rider 2: Spirit of Vengeance / Seeking Justice
Eddie Murphy - A Thousand Words
Robert Pattinson - The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II
Tyler Perry - Alex Cross / Good Deeds
Adam Sandler - That's My Boy
Worst Supporting Actress
Jessica Biel - Playing For Keeps / Total Recall
Brooklyn Decker - Battleship / What to Expect When You're Expecting
Ashley Greene - The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II
Jennifer Lopez - What to Expect When You're Expecting
Rihanna - Battleship
Worst Supporting Actor
David Hasselhoff - Pirannha 3-DD
Taylor Lautner - The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II
Liam Neeson - Battleship / Wrath of the Titans
Nick Swardson - That's My Boy
Vanilla Ice - That's My Boy
Worst Screen Ensemble
Battleship
The Oogieloves in Big Balloon Adventure
That's My Boy
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II
Madea's Witness Protection
Worst Screenplay
Atlas Shrugged Part II
Battleship
That's My Boy
A Thousand Words
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II
Worst Remake, Rip-Off, or Sequel
Ghost Rider 2: Spirit of Vengeance
Pirannha 3-DD
Red Dawn
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II
Madea's Witness Protection
Worst Screen Couple
Any two cast members from Jersey Shore in The Three Stooges
Mackenzie Foy and Taylor Lautner in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II
Tyler Perry and his drag in Madea's Witness Protection
Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg, Leighton Meester, or Susan Sarandon in That's My Boy
It's quite a surprise not to see John Carter or Prometheus on the list as they were both pretty dreadful. Anyway, the Razzies will be handed out on Saturday 23rd February (the day before the Oscars, as is traditional).
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The 85th Academy Award nominations will be announced tomorrow (Thursday 10th January) so it's time for me to get off the fence and work out my Official Oscar Nomination Predictions. I'll post them shortly.
Tez
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