Monday, 25 February 2013

Oscars 2013 - Winners in full

Hi all!

By now you will have seen the winners all over the news, or you may have sat up late to watch the event live.
In case you were in the dark, here is the full winners list!

BEST PICTURE

Argo
Amour

Django Unchained

Les Misérables

Life Of Pi
Lincoln

Zero Dark Thirty

Beasts Of The Southern Wild

Silver Linings Playbook



BEST DIRECTOR

Life Of Pi - Ang Lee

Lincoln - Steven Spielberg
Amour - Michael Haneke

Silver Linings Playbook - David O. Russell

Beasts Of The Southern Wild - Benh Zeitlin




BEST ACTOR
Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln
Denzel Washington - Flight
Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook

Hugh Jackman - Les Misérables

Joaquin Phoenix -
The Master
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained

Alan Arkin - Argo

Robert De Niro - Silver Linings Playbook

Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master
Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln


BEST ACTRESS
Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook

Emmanuelle Riva – Amour
Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty
Quvenzhané Wallis - Beasts Of The Southern Wild

Naomi Watts - The Impossible


BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Anne Hathaway - Les Misérables 

Amy Adams - The Master
Helen Hunt - The Sessions

Sally Field – Lincoln
Jacki Weaver -
Silver Linings Playbook
BEST ANIMATED FILM

Brave
Frankenweenie

ParaNorman

The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists

Wreck-it-Ralph

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY


Chris Terrio - Argo
Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin - Beasts Of The Southern Wild 

David Magee - Life Of Pi

Tony Kushner - Lincoln
David O. Russell -
Silver Linings Playbook
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained
Michael Haneke – Amour
Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola - Moonrise Kingdom

Mark Boal - Zero Dark Thirty

John Gatins -
Flight
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Life Of Pi - Claudio Miranda

Anna Karenina - Seamus McGarvey

Django Unchained - Robert Richardson

Lincoln - Janusz Kaminski

Skyfall - Roger Deakins

COSTUME DESIGN

Anna Karenina - Jacqueline Durran

Les Misérables - Paco Delgado
Lincoln - Joanna Johnston

Mirror Mirror - Eiko Ishioka

Snow White And The Huntsman - Colleen Atwood

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Searching For Sugar Man
5 Broken Cameras
The Gatekeepers 

How To Survive A Plague
The Invisible War


BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Inocente
Kings Point
Mondays At Racine
Open Heart

Redemption

BEST FILM EDITING
Argo - William Goldenberg

Life Of Pi - Tim Squyres

Zero Dark Thirty - Dylan Tichenor, William Goldenberg

Lincoln - Michael Kahn

Silver Linings Playbook - Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Amour – Austria
Kon-Tiki - Norway

No - Chile

A Royal Affair – Denmark
War Witch - Canada

BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
Les Misérables - Lisa Westcott, Julie Dartnell
Hitchcock - Julie Hewett, Martin Samuel, Howard Berger
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Peter Swords King, Richard Taylor, Rick Findlater

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Life Of Pi - Mychael Danna
Anna Karenina - Dario Marianelli

Argo - Alexandre Desplat

Lincoln - John Williams
Skyfall - Thomas Newman

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

'Skyfall' from Skyfall
'Before My Time' from Chasing Ice
'Everybody Needs A Best Friend' from Ted
'Pi's Lullaby' from Life Of Pi

'Suddenly' from
Les Miserables
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

Lincoln
Anna Karenina
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Les Miserables
Life Of Pi

BEST ANIMATED SHORT
Paperman
Adam and Dog

Fresh Guacamole
Head Over Heels
Maggie Simpson In "The Longest Daycare"



BEST LIVE FILM SHORT

Curfew

Asad
Buzkashi Boys

Death Of A Shadow
Henry

BEST SOUND EDITING

Zero Dark Thirty
& Skyfall
Argo

Django Unchained
Life Of Pi


BEST SOUND MIXING
Les Miserables
Argo
Life Of Pi
Lincoln

Skyfall

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Life Of Pi


The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Marvel Avengers Assemble 

Prometheus 

Snow White And The Huntsman 

Monday, 18 February 2013

Monday, 11 February 2013

BAFTAS 2013 - Winners in full

In case you haven't already seen it everywhere, but the Baftas happened in lovely Covent Garden last night.

And here are the winners in full....

BEST FILM
*ARGO Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, George Clooney
LES MISÉRABLES Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh
LIFE OF PI Gil Netter, Ang Lee, David Womark
LINCOLN Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy
ZERO DARK THIRTY Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, Megan Ellison

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
ANNA KARENINA Joe Wright, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster, Tom Stoppard
THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL John Madden, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Ol Parker
LES MISÉRABLES Tom Hooper, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh, William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer
SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin

*SKYFALL Sam Mendes, Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, John Logan

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
*BART LAYTON (Director), DIMITRI DOGANIS (Producer) The Imposter
DAVID MORRIS (Director), JACQUI MORRIS (Director/Producer) McCullin
DEXTER FLETCHER (Director/Writer), DANNY KING (Writer) Wild Bill
JAMES BOBIN (Director) The Muppets
TINA GHARAVI (Director/Writer) I Am Nasrine

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
*AMOUR Michael Haneke, Margaret Ménégoz
HEADHUNTERS Morten Tyldum, Marianne Gray, Asle Vatn
THE HUNT Thomas Vinterberg, Sisse Graum Jørgensen, Morten Kaufmann
RUST AND BONE Jacques Audiard, Pascal Caucheteux
UNTOUCHABLE Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache, Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Yann Zenou, Laurent Zeitoun

DOCUMENTARY
THE IMPOSTER Bart Layton, Dimitri Doganis
MARLEY Kevin Macdonald, Steve Bing, Charles Steel
McCULLIN David Morris, Jacqui Morris

*SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN Malik Bendjelloul, Simon Chinn
WEST OF MEMPHIS Amy Berg

ANIMATED FILM
*BRAVE Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman
FRANKENWEENIE Tim Burton
PARANORMAN Sam Fell, Chris Butler

DIRECTOR
AMOUR Michael Haneke

*ARGO Ben Affleck
DJANGO UNCHAINED Quentin Tarantino
LIFE OF PI Ang Lee
ZERO DARK THIRTY Kathryn Bigelow

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
AMOUR Michael Haneke

*DJANGO UNCHAINED Quentin Tarantino
THE MASTER Paul Thomas Anderson
MOONRISE KINGDOM Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola
ZERO DARK THIRTY Mark Boal

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
ARGO Chris Terrio
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin
LIFE OF PI David Magee
LINCOLN Tony Kushner

*SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK David O. Russell

LEADING ACTOR
BEN AFFLECK Argo
BRADLEY COOPER Silver Linings Playbook

*DANIEL DAY-LEWIS Lincoln
HUGH JACKMAN Les Misérables
JOAQUIN PHOENIX The Master

LEADING ACTRESS
*EMMANUELLE RIVA Amour
HELEN MIRREN Hitchcock
JENNIFER LAWRENCE Silver Linings Playbook
JESSICA CHASTAIN Zero Dark Thirty
MARION COTILLARD Rust and Bone

SUPPORTING ACTOR
ALAN ARKIN Argo

*CHRISTOPH WALTZ Django Unchained
JAVIER BARDEM Skyfall
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN The Master
TOMMY LEE JONES Lincoln

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
AMY ADAMS The Master

*ANNE HATHAWAY Les Misérables
HELEN HUNT The Sessions
JUDI DENCH Skyfall
SALLY FIELD Lincoln

ORIGINAL MUSIC
ANNA KARENINA Dario Marianelli
ARGO Alexandre Desplat
LIFE OF PI Mychael Danna
LINCOLN John Williams

SKYFALL Thomas Newman

CINEMATOGRAPHY
ANNA KARENINA Seamus McGarvey
LES MISÉRABLES Danny Cohen

*LIFE OF PI Claudio Miranda
LINCOLN Janusz Kaminski
SKYFALL Roger Deakins

EDITING
*ARGO William Goldenberg
DJANGO UNCHAINED Fred Raskin
LIFE OF PI Tim Squyres
SKYFALL Stuart Baird
ZERO DARK THIRTY Dylan Tichenor, William Goldenberg

PRODUCTION DESIGN
ANNA KARENINA Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer

*LES MISÉRABLES Eve Stewart, Anna Lynch-Robinson
LIFE OF PI David Gropman, Anna Pinnock
LINCOLN Rick Carter, Jim Erickson
SKYFALL Dennis Gassner, Anna Pinnock

COSTUME DESIGN
*ANNA KARENINA Jacqueline Durran
GREAT EXPECTATIONS Beatrix Aruna Pasztor
LES MISÉRABLES Paco Delgado
LINCOLN Joanna Johnston
SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN Colleen Atwood

MAKE UP & HAIR
ANNA KARENINA Ivana Primorac
HITCHCOCK Julie Hewett, Martin Samuel, Howard Berger
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY Peter Swords King, Richard Taylor, Rick Findlater

*LES MISÉRABLES Lisa Westcott
LINCOLN Lois Burwell, Kay Georgiou

SOUND
DJANGO UNCHAINED Mark Ulano, Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti, Wylie Stateman
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY Tony Johnson, Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick, Brent Burge, Chris Ward

*LES MISÉRABLES Simon Hayes, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, Jonathan Allen, Lee Walpole, John Warhurst
LIFE OF PI Drew Kunin, Eugene Gearty, Philip Stockton, Ron Bartlett, D. M. Hemphill
SKYFALL Stuart Wilson, Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell, Per Hallberg, Karen Baker Landers

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Peter Bebb, Andrew Lockley
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, R. Christopher White

*LIFE OF PI Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer
MARVEL AVENGERS ASSEMBLE Nominees TBC
PROMETHEUS Richard Stammers, Charley Henley, Trevor Wood, Paul Butterworth

SHORT ANIMATION
HERE TO FALL Kris Kelly, Evelyn McGrath
I’M FINE THANKS Eamonn O'Neill

*THE MAKING OF LONGBIRD Will Anderson, Ainslie Henderson

SHORT FILM
THE CURSE Fyzal Boulifa, Gavin Humphries
GOOD NIGHT Muriel d'Ansembourg, Eva Sigurdardottir

*SWIMMER Lynne Ramsay, Peter Carlton, Diarmid Scrimshaw
TUMULT Johnny Barrington, Rhianna Andrews
THE VOORMAN PROBLEM Mark Gill, Baldwin Li

THE EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
ELIZABETH OLSEN
ANDREA RISEBOROUGH
SURAJ SHARMA

*JUNO TEMPLE
ALICIA VIKANDER

Wednesday, 6 February 2013

Silver Linings Playbook

After a short spell in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano (Bradley Cooper) moves back in with his parents and tries to be well in order to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets mysterious Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), a sister of his friends annoying wife.  Pat’s family are also a little dysfunctional with a father with OCD and an obsession with American football and gambling and an over emotional mother, we discover Pat has Bipolar Disorder.

Pat tries to work hard to get his “silver linings”, getting fit, staying off his drugs, trying hard to control his illness.  When Tiffany enters his life, they decide to use each other to find the best in each other on the road to wellness.

Bradley Cooper shows a very different side to the actor/characters we have seen before.  Here he isn’t the comedian or the good looking love interest, he is the mad fuck up, the unshaven unwitting hero in a story doomed to failure.  And with that, he shines as Pat, all the bipolar tics and sudden switches in emotion are done to perfection.  Some of the great comedic moments come from his sudden changes in emotion, from happy to angry and back again in a second.

The interaction between him and his father played again rather skilfully by Robert De Niro is so tender and harsh all in one.  And the tension between Lawrence and Cooper at times were electric, the emotions bubbling under the surface and in your face all at the same time.

Great to see Anupam Kher as Dr Cliff in a major Hollywood feature, not seen him since Bend It Like Beckham!

I didn’t know what to expect from this film, I am no Cooper fan and tend to avoid his films in general.  But this was a cute little film that took me by the head and shook it around a little.  Some great performances, some unintentional hilarious laughs and a few little tears.  It won’t win any Oscars in my book but it’s a great underdog.