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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2015 6:19:50 GMT
Starting this a bit late, but here are the results of the 2015 BAFTA awards. I have been betting on Eddie Redmayne for the Oscars as well. Boyhood won best film, and Grand Budapest Hotel won the greatest number of awards. |
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Post by bjd on Feb 9, 2015 7:50:46 GMT
What! We don't get to criticize clothes?
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Post by bjd on Feb 9, 2015 10:30:19 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2015 13:34:49 GMT
Wrong kind of entertainment!  As I recall, the red carpet catfest is on the Port & Starboard branch. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2015 23:57:11 GMT
Well, Timbuktu was the big winner at the French Academy Awards tonight with 7 wins. Sunday night it will magically transform itself into a Mauritanian film to try for the best foreign film Oscar in Hollywood.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2015 20:25:13 GMT
The main thing that struck the media about the César awards last night was how it gave most of the acting awards to extremely young people.
Best actor - Pierre Niney for Yves Saint Laurent, age 25
Best actress - Adèle Haenel for Les Combattants, age 26
Best supporting actor - Reda Kateb for Hippocrate, age 37 -- he's the old guy
Best supporting actress - Kristen Stewart for Clouds of Sils Maria, age 24
Best male newcomer - Kevin Azaïs for Les Combattants, age 23
Best female newcomer - Louane Emera for La Famille Bélier, age 18
Such awards (except for the newcomers) are pretty amazing when you are up against people like Catherine Deneuve, Marion Cotillard, Juliette Binoche, Romain Duris, Niels Arestrup, etc.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2015 18:57:52 GMT
Well, I watched the Oscars (starting at 2:30am) and was at least confirmed in my certainty that Eddie Redmayne would win best actor. I have to wait until March 18 to see Still Alice and until the day after tomorrow to see Birdman.
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Post by lola on Feb 23, 2015 19:46:30 GMT
Every time I see stills from Birdman I think I must have liked it more than it seemed at the time. It has cool visuals.
Our daughter's been summarily laid off from her job for budget reasons, is coming home for a few days of comfort food and TLC. Unfortunately the only big screen film currently in town that I'd care to see is Deux Jours, Une Nuit. Probably not a good choice to take her; we'll rent Grand Budapest instead.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2015 19:48:37 GMT
Well, both of them are worth seeing. I'm not sure if I would categorize Grand Budapest Hotel as an optimistic movie anyway.
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Post by lola on Feb 26, 2015 0:39:54 GMT
I'm not looking for optimism as much as something that's not about a young woman desperate for a job. I'll get around to it sometime.
My response to Birdman is based on my own total-fed-up-ness with ego trips in general. That and films where gorgeous young women lust after middle-aged men.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2015 15:53:34 GMT
The 75 year old men who run Hollywood think that real life is like that, because their own real life is like that, even if the 'lust' is just an act.
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