The Online Film Critics Society, of which I am a proud member has announced our nominees for the best in filmmaking in 2015. I'll skip past the press release to get to the good stuff: here are the nominees in all categories.
Best Picture:
Brooklyn
Carol
Ex Machina
Inside Out
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Sicario
Spotlight
Best Animated Feature:
Anomalisa
The Good Dinosaur
Inside Out
The Peanuts Movie
Shaun the Sheep Movie
Best Film Not in the English Language:
The Assassin (Taiwan)
Goodnight Mommy (Austria)
Mustang (France)
Phoenix (Germany)
Son of Saul (Hungary)
Best Documentary:
Amy
Best of Enemies
Cartel Land
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
The Look of Silence
Best Director:
Todd Haynes (Carol)
Tom McCarthy (Spotlight)
George Miller (Mad Max: Fury Road)
Ridley Scott (The Martian)
Denis Villeneuve (Sicario)
Best Actor:
Matt Damon (The Martian)
Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant)
Michael Fassbender (Steve Jobs)
Michael B. Jordan (Creed)
Ian McKellen (Mr. Holmes)
Best Actress:
Cate Blanchett (Carol)
Brie Larson (Room)
Charlotte Rampling (45 Years)
Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn)
Charlize Theron (Mad Max: Fury Road)
Best Supporting Actor:
Benicio Del Toro (Sicario)
Oscar Isaac (Ex Machina)
Mark Ruffalo (Spotlight)
Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies)
Sylvester Stallone (Creed)
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)
Best Adapted Screenplay:
Brooklyn (Nick Hornby)
Carol (Phyllis Nagy)
The Martian (Drew Goddard)
Room (Emma Donoghue)
Steve Jobs (Aaron Sorkin)
Best Editing:
Mad Max: Fury Road (Margaret Sixel)
The Martian (Pietro Scalia)
The Revenant (Stephen Mirrione)
Sicario (Joe Walker)
Steve Jobs (Elliot Graham)
Best Cinematography:
The Assassin (Ping Bin Lee)
Carol (Edward Lachman)
Mad Max: Fury Road (John Seale)
The Revenant (Emmanuel Lubezki)
Sicario (Roger Deakins)
07 December 2015
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Never thought Stallone would be getting a "Best Supporting Actor" nod for Rocky VII: Adrian's Revenge. Was his performance really that outstanding?
ReplyDeleteThat one I cannot speak to. Hopefully I finally be able to see Creed before voting ends on Saturday.
ReplyDeleteCreed is good. Tracks the basic plot of Rocky a bit too closely for my tastes, but good.
DeleteStallone is a fucking revelation in it. He's rarely if ever been this good in his career, and he hasn't been since at least Rocky Balboa, if not longer.
Decent batch of nominees…until we get to the part where Rooney Mara is listed as a “supporting” actress. What, does the OFCS take all their marching orders from Harvey Weinstein or do they think a romantic drama isn't allowed to have two leads?
ReplyDeleteOut of curiosity, have you seen The Assassin yet? I'm anxious to read what you say (I'm under the assumption you've seen more Hou than me.)
ReplyDeleteI was so, so underwhelmed by "Room" that the awards buzz is actually staring to annoy me, like I'm on a different planet or something.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe anyone who read the book could be impressed by the movie, and anyone who didn't read the book should be pissed off that the poster and trailers gave away the ending. But that's just me...
Feel the same way about Sicario. Other than about twenty minutes at the end that doesn't even involve the nominal protagonist, it's a big bag of unsatisfying whoopty-shit. I mean, it's better than Enemy or Prisoners, but most things are.
ReplyDeleteGlad to see Ex Machina on there, however, which is the only perfect, 10/10 movie I've seen over the course of this whole weak year. (Though in defense of 2015, Fury Road, Ant-Man, and Crimson Peak were all pretty close--meanwhile, Carol isn't out here in Pittsburgh yet, The Revenant obviously isn't, and if I don't go see The Assassin tomorrow, I won't get to. So it could still turn out OK.)
The list of movies I've seen/not reviewed is becoming laughably unmanageable, but that's what winter break is for, if I can't make any headway before then. I will say that I have unreservedly positive feelings towards The Assassin, and I want to see it a second time before I review it.
ReplyDeleteAnd I DO NOT endorse the OFCS's hurtful and uncharacteristic embrace of category fraud.
I could have sworn Tim reviewed Magic Mike XXL, although for the life of me I can't find it on the site.
ReplyDeleteYou laugh, but it seriously is one of the best films I've seen in 2015, and I'll bet my house right now I won't find another that is more purely enjoyable this year. It has already been popping up on some end of year best lists, so I'm not alone on this.
If Tim hasn't reviewed, let me just prime him by saying I think it qualifies as a musical...and a damn good one.
MMXXL is the primary example of a movie that fell into the hole of packing and moving, and I just never found a moment to catch up once it hit DVD. It's one of the main candidates for my "Movies I Missed in 2015" viewing & blogging.
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