Tag: The King’s Speech
Oscar 2011 Short Preview – What Movie Must Have to Deserve an Oscar?
Ok, we all know (or, at least I hope we know) that the upcoming Oscar night will not open our eyes and show us what movie deserves our attention. That award, unfortunately, doesn’t mean that the movie is the best one, or even the really good one. But I also know that tomorrow, we’ll be watching that spectacle, and hoping that our favorite movie wins. So, let’s start our little “fight” and try to answer some questions.
I’m sure I’ll never forget The Hurt Locker that took almost everything in every single category at the last year’s Oscar. If anybody cares about my opinion – Wikileaks‘ Iraq “movie” that represents the insanity of human beings and their victims, deserved Oscar more than Bigelow’s.
And I know that some out there don’t share my opinion. And it’s totally ok. But, why should we mix movies with politics now? Well, that’s exactly the thing – it’s not us! It’s Oscar that started the whole thing!
I mean, how is it possible that a movie like Avatar, made for enjoyment, lost this race? Now, please, don’t give me that “weak script” answer, and read between the lines for change…
So, let me ask you once again – what is it, that one movie must have to deserve an Oscar? Artistic impression? Art of the moment? Good and original story? Famous cast? Political background? Can anybody even answer that question?
This year we have almost identical situation. The Hurt Locker last year. The King’s Speech this year. Yes, I do know that these are completely different movies, and when I say completely – I mean, nothing in common, but that still leads us to the above mentioned question.
The Academy obviously doesn’t like blockbusters, they like to nominate a movie that will train our artificial intelligence (no, I’m not talking about Spielberg’s movie), and it sounds logical. And, if you take a little look at this year’s list of nominations, you already see that each one of 10 nominated movies really has the art moment – but how can we measure that and say – look, here’s the best one!?
For example, I think that Black Swan has it all! No, not just because we have ballet in the movie, because, let’s face it – the ballet here has almost a side effect. Then, we have 127 Hours, Inception, True Grit and of course The King’s Speech.
Winners of the 63rd Annual DGA Awards
The Directors Guild of America presented the 63rd Annual DGA Awards on Saturday night, January 29, at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland. The King’s Speech won a key award from Hollywood directors, four days after the British royals drama picked up a leading 12 Oscar nominations.
The film’s director, Tom Hooper, was named winner of the union’s prize for outstanding achievement in feature film at a ceremony in Hollywood, beating competition that included another Oscar favorite, The Social Network director David Fincher. The Directors Guild of America contest also included Christopher Nolan for Inception, Darren Aronofsky for Black Swan and David O. Russell for The Fighter. The second of two movies on thing mentioned also received Oscar nominations, along with Joel and Ethan Coen for True Grit, who were unnoticed by the DGA.
The Weinstein Company Wants To Censor The King’s Speech
The movie’s executive producer and distributor Harvey Weinstein is ready to set free a new marketing strategy that aims to seize more movie going public who normally wouldn’t go near a historical drama about a British king.
That risky decision makes re-editing the movie to erase course language and secure a lower rating that will open The King’s Speech to a broader audience. Weinstein, whose New York-based studio the Weinstein Co. released the film, said he is talking with director Tom Hooper about trimming the blasphemy that earned the film an R rating in order to get a PG-13 or even PG.
The movie rating system has had a number of high profile critics ever since. Film critic Roger Ebert for instance, argues that the system places too much accent on sex while allowing the violence. Moreover, Ebert argues that the rating system is more focused on trivial aspects of the movie such as the number of times a profane word is used rather than at the general theme of the movie.
In Britain, a 12-and-over rating has helped “The King’s Speech” to top the box office chart for the last three weekends, beating such bigger budget pictures as Gulliver’s Travels and The Green Hornet. Weinstein said:
The British numbers are huge because the rating lets families see the movie together. Tom and I are trying to find a unique way to do this that keeps his vision of the movie.”
King’s Speech Ensemble Wins at Santa Barbara
The King’s Speech has been given another top Oscars boost just two days after alleged gold at the Producers Guild Awards in Hollywood – the cast has won the Best Ensemble prize at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) committee.
Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, Geoffrey Rush and other members of the cast – as well as director Tom Hooper – are expected to attend the awards ceremony on January 31st at the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara.
Firth was honored with the festival’s Outstanding Performance of the Year award last year for his work in A Single Man.
Rush will be honored singly at the festival with the Montecito Award. According to the festival, the Montecito Award is given to
“a performer who has given a series of classic and standout performances in his/her career”
Oscar Nominations 2011: The Full List
Quit doing all your home work, and pay good attention! Why? What do you mean – why? The nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards have just been announced, and you don’t want to miss that, do you?
So, who are the biggest players this year?
Tom Hooper‘s The King’s Speech definitely leads the race with even 12 nominations, including best picture, directing, original screenplay and actor for Colin Firth.
As usual, Joel and Ethan Coen are the part of the race too, this time with the remake of the western True Grit, that gained 10 nominations, including best picture.
Let’s move on…
Social Network, King’s Speech Aim for Oscars
The Social Network, a story about the prickly author of Facebook, and The King’s Speech, a saga of Queen Elizabeth II’s stammering father, are to be announced shortly, among likely nominees for Hollywood’s top prize, at Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
The 83rd Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, February 27, 2011, telecast live from the historic Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on ABC at 8PM ET.
The two films are the best-picture front-runners. With a best-drama win at the Golden Globes and top honors from key critics groups, “The Social Network” seems to have the edge. But “The King’s Speech” pulled off an upset over the weekend for the main prize at the Producers Guild of America Awards, whose winner often goes on to claim best picture at the Oscars.
The Producers Guild of America Help Predict Oscars
The King’s Speech won best-produced film from the Producers Guild of America on Saturday, a great courage to its Oscar ambitions in an awards season so far much swollen by The Social Network. On the same night the organization praised Scott Rudin, the primary producer on ” The Social Network,” with a lifetime achievement award. Other films in line for the best-produced movie of the year were Black Swan, The Fighter and Toy Story 3, which won best-produced animated film.
The Producers Guild of America represents more than 4,500 producers nationwide, prepared for its 22nd annual Producers Guild Awards — set for Saturday at the Beverly Hilton.
Golden Globe 2011 Winners
The Social Network won top honors Sunday at the Golden Globes with four prizes, together with best drama and director, solidifying its position as an Academy Awards favorite.
Winning the dramatic lead-acting prizes were Colin Firth for the monarchy saga The King’s Speech and Natalie Portman for the psychosexual thriller Black Swan.
Lead-acting honors for the Globes’ musical or comedy categories went to Annette Bening for the lesbian-family story The Kids Are All Right and Paul Giamatti for the cynic tale Barney’s Version.
The boxing drama The Fighter got both supporting acting Globes, for Christian Bale and Melissa Leo.
I’m personally loath to acknowledge the kind of wonderful response this film has received for fear of becoming addicted to it, so suffice it to say, it’s been really nice,”
said David Fincher, whose film also won the Globes for screenplay for Aaron Sorkin and musical score for Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
Critics’ Choice Awards 2011: The Queen and King of Hollywood – Portman and Firth Win at Critics’ Choice Awards
Natalie Portman and Colin Firth took top honors Critics’ Choice Awards at Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Friday night (January 14), making them many people’s favorites for the Oscars. The actress, who won for her role in Black Swan, used her acceptance speech to thank the film’s director Darren Aronofsky for introducing her to her husband-to-be, dancer Benjamin Millepied.
You are responsible for getting me skinny and indirectly responsible for getting me very fat, as you introduced me to my love
Meanwhile, Colin Firth’s win for his role as the stammering King George in The King’s Speech, topped off a week which also saw him awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
