Awards Season 2012

[Black Hat]

To be fair the host selection and especially what goes on during the show, even more so this year, has far more to do with whoever produces than the Academy, ABC or host. Zadan & Maran did exactly what they intended this year, make no apologies and would do the same exact show next year (with a different host) if given the opportunity.

[flyonthewall2983]

In more pressing matters, The MTV movie awards shuns Twilight

[Murdoch]

Haha, who the hell wants to watch a "serious" MTV Awards (or any MTV Awards for that matter)?

[colinr0380]

That sounds strange especially since the recent advert I caught for the Twilight series breathlessly describes it as "the love story that defined a generation". Surely MTV would want to get be associated with that generation?

Unless perhaps the adverts were talking about the mothers rather than the daughters?

[Feego]

Twilight wasn't entirely shut out -- Taylor Lautner received a nomination for BEST SHIRTLESS PERFORMANCE.

This really isn't so surprising to me. It seems like the MTV Awards have been trying to position themselves as kind a junior Oscars for the last three years or so, throwing out nominations to such surprising, Oscar-winning performances as Kate Winslet in The Reader (because you KNOW 15-year-olds all over the U.S. were rushing out to see that).

[cdnchris]

Well, since Winslet is nude a lot of the time, 15-year-old boys, maybe.

[colinr0380]

That reminds me that the last time I really noted the MTV Awards was when Selma Blair and Sarah Michelle Gellar won the "Best Screen Kiss" award for Cruel Intentions back in 2000!

(And now I feel really old!)

Come to think of it that was also the same year that they did that Mission: Improbable spoof to tie in with Mission: Impossible 2 in which Ben Stiller plays Tom Cruise's stunt double - this was a great piece for fans of John Woo, since one sequence re-plays a highlight from one of his Hong Kong films, Plain Jane To The Rescue, where the unfortunate title character gets employed as a stunt double, who after the director yells cut during a fight scene has to replace the actress to take the full force of the blows!

[mfunk9786]

I'm so much stupider for having read that AV Club article.

[Adam]

But the Academy Award ratings were apparently up quite a bit, due to teenagers wanting to see McFarlane, so I imagine we might get more along those lines.
I think the simplest way to shorten the show would be to have only about 4 award presenters, and each one presents 6 or 7 awards. Just plow thru the awards.

[mfunk9786]

See, I think the opposite - they lump categories together, leaving long stretches of tributes and montages and dull performances - awards need to be spread out throughout the show so it never feels too weighted toward one side or the other.

[flyonthewall2983]

But the Academy Award ratings were apparently up quite a bit, due to teenagers wanting to see McFarlane, so I imagine we might get more along those lines.

There's a catch-22 involved there. They won't get as much star-power attending (other than nominees obviously), specifically the people who've been criticizing him in public lately. Hell, I'm pretty sure Brad and Angelina weren't there because of him.

[lacritfan]

Didn't know where else to post this. Didn't want to gunk up Awards 2013. Lots of cool people joining the Academy (Emmanuelle Riva, Danny Trejo, Fred Kelemen, Jafar Panahi, Cliff Martinez, etc.) but the other 90% will probably ensure more of the same.
I would've just put the link but from past experience I know the LA Times forces you to join to show their content.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invited 276 new members into the organization on Friday -- 100 more than were included in the 2012 invitees -- including a large number of minorities and women, such as Rosario Dawson, Lucy Liu, Sandra Oh, Jennifer Lopez, Michael Peña, Danny Trejo and Chris Tucker in the actors branch.

The larger invitee list reflects the academy's recent decision to expand and diversify its ranks by relaxing a cap on membership that has restricted new admittances since 2004.

A Los Angeles Times study published last year found that academy voters are markedly less diverse than the moviegoing public and even more monolithic than many in the film industry may have suspected.

At the time of the study, Oscar voters were nearly 94% Caucasian and 77% male, The Times found. Blacks are about 2% of the academy and Latinos are fewer than 2%. Oscar voters have a median age of 62, the study showed. People younger than 50 constitute just 14% of the membership.

The new invitees also illustrates a shift to a younger membership with actors Jason Bateman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rebecca Hall and Paula Patton gaining admittance.

Invitees, with rare exception, almost unanimously join the organization. An asterisk by an invitee's name indicates they have been invited to join more than one branch and must choose one.

The 2013 invitees are:

Actors

Jason Bateman -- “Up in the Air,” “Juno”
Miriam Colon -- “City of Hope,” “Scarface”
Rosario Dawson -- “Rent,” “Frank Miller’s Sin City”
Kimberly Elise -- “For Colored Girls,” “Beloved”
Joseph Gordon-Levitt -- “Lincoln,” “The Dark Knight Rises”
Charles Grodin -- “Midnight Run,” “The Heartbreak Kid”
Rebecca Hall -- “Iron Man 3,” “The Town”
Lance Henriksen -- “Aliens,” “The Terminator”
Jack Huston -- “Not Fade Away,” “Factory Girl”
Milla Jovovich -- “Resident Evil,” “Chaplin”
Lucy Liu -- “Kill Bill: Vol. 1,” “Chicago”
Jennifer Lopez -- “What to Expect When You’re Expecting,” “Selena”
Alma Martinez -- “Born in East L.A.,” “Under Fire”
Emily Mortimer -- “Hugo,” “Lars and the Real Girl”
Sandra Oh -- “Rabbit Hole,” “Sideways”
Paula Patton -- “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol,” “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”
Michael Peña -- “End of Watch,” “Crash”
Emmanuelle Riva -- “Amour,” “Hiroshima, Mon Amour”
Jason Schwartzman -- “Moonrise Kingdom,” “Rushmore”
Geno Silva -- “Mulholland Drive,” “Amistad”
Danny Trejo -- “Machete,” “Heat”
Chris Tucker -- “Silver Linings Playbook,” “Rush Hour”


Cinematographers
Luca Bigazzi -- “This Must Be the Place,” “Certified Copy”
Benoît Delhomme -- “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas,” “The Proposition”
Simon Duggan -- “The Great Gatsby,” “Killer Elite”
Greig Fraser -- “Zero Dark Thirty,” “Snow White and the Huntsman”
Jonathan Freeman -- “Remember Me,” “Fifty Dead Men Walking”
Greg Gardiner -- “Race to Witch Mountain,” “Elf”
Eric Gautier -- “Into the Wild,” “The Motorcycle Diaries”
Agnès Godard -- “Sister,” “Beau Travail”
Eduard Grau -- “Buried,” “A Single Man”
Jess Hall -- “The Spectacular Now,” “Brideshead Revisited”
Fred Kelemen -- “The Turin Horse,” “The Man From London”
Mark Lee Ping Bing -- “Norwegian Wood,” “In the Mood for Love”
Reed Morano -- “Little Birds,” “Frozen River”
Oleg Mutu -- “Beyond the Hills,” “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days”
Alex Nepomniaschy -- “Narc,” “Safe”
Christian Sebaldt -- “Resident Evil: Apocalypse,” “Race to Space”
Ben Seresin -- “World War Z,” “Unstoppable”
Adam Stone -- “Mud,” “Take Shelter”
Checco Varese -- “Girl in Progress,” “The Aura”
Ken Zunder -- “Bending the Rules,” “That’s What I Am”

Costume Designers
Paco Delgado -- “Les Misérables,” “Biutiful”
Sophie de Rakoff -- “This Means War,” “Legally Blonde”
Carlo Poggioli -- “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,” “Cold Mountain”


Designers
Lori Balton -- “Argo,” “The Dark Knight Rises”
Judy Becker -- “Silver Linings Playbook,” “The Fighter”
Simon Bright -- “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” “Avatar”
Martin T. Charles -- “Marvel’s The Avengers,” “The Artist”
David M. Crank -- “The Master,” “Lincoln”
Stefan Paul Dechant -- “Oz the Great and Powerful,” “True Grit”
Tracey A. Doyle -- “The Muppets,” “21”
Anna Lynch-Robinson -- “Les Misérables,” “An Education”
Maria Nay -- “Identity Thief,” “Ray”
David Smith -- “Crazy, Stupid, Love,” “The Holiday”


Directors
Nikolaj Arcel -- “A Royal Affair,” “Truth About Men”
Ava DuVernay* -- “Middle of Nowhere,” “I Will Follow”
Paul Feig -- “The Heat,” “Bridesmaids”
Catherine Hardwicke -- “Twilight,” “Thirteen”
Kirk Jones -- “What to Expect When You’re Expecting,” “Waking Ned Devine”
Ken Kwapis -- “Big Miracle,” “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants”
Pablo Larraín -- “No,” “Tony Manero”
Steve McQueen -- “Shame,” “Hunger”
Kim Nguyen -- “War Witch (Rebelle),” “City of Shadows”
Jafar Panahi* -- “This Is Not a Film,” “The Circle”
Todd Phillips -- “The Hangover,” “Old School”
Joachim Rønning -- “Kon-Tiki,” “Max Manus”
Espen Sandberg -- “Kon-Tiki,” “Max Manus”
Tim Story -- “Think Like a Man,” “Fantastic Four”
Benh Zeitlin -- “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” “Glory at Sea”

Documentary
Orlando Bagwell -- “Citizen King,” “Malcolm X: Make It Plain”
Rebecca Cammisa -- “God Is the Bigger Elvis,” “Which Way Home”
Yung Chang -- “China Heavyweight,” “Up the Yangtze”
Michael Chin -- “Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple,” “In the Shadow of the
Stars”
Christine Choy -- “In the Name of the Emperor,” “Who Killed Vincent Chin?”
Bonni Cohen -- “The Island President,” “Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic”
Eduardo Coutinho -- “As Canções,” “Cabra Marcado Para Morrer (Twenty Years Later)”
Miriam Cutler -- “Kings Point,” “Ethel”
Andrea Nix Fine -- “Inocente,” “War/Dance”
Sean Fine -- “Inocente,” “War/Dance”
Robert Frank -- “Pull My Daisy”
William Greaves -- “Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey,” “Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take
One”
Lauren Greenfield -- “The Queen of Versailles,” “Thin”
Patricio Guzmán -- “Nostalgia for the Light,” “The Battle of Chile”
Vivien Hillgrove -- “Symphony of the Soil,” “In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee”
Heddy Honigmann -- “El Olvido (Oblivion),” “Crazy”
Vikram Jayanti -- “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector,” “Game Over: Kasparov and
the Machine”
Peter Kinoy -- “Poverty Outlaw,” “When the Mountains Tremble”
Claude Lanzmann -- “Le Rapport Karski (The Karski Report),” “Shoah”
Kim Longinotto -- “Rough Aunties,” “Sisters in Law”
Stanley Nelson -- “Freedom Riders,” “Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple”
Jehane Noujaim -- “Control Room,” “Startup.com”
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy -- “Transgenders: Pakistan’s Open Secret,” “Saving Face”
Marcel Ophuls -- “Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie,” “The Sorrow and the Pity”
José Padilha -- “Secrets of the Tribe,” “Bus 174 (Ônibus 174)”
Jafar Panahi* -- “This Is Not a Film,” “The Circle”
Elise Pearlstein -- “Last Call at the Oasis,” “Food, Inc.”
Raoul Peck -- “Fatal Assistance (Assistance Mortelle),” “Lumumba: La Mort du Prophète”
Kevin Rafferty -- “Harvard Beats Yale 29-29,” “The Atomic Cafe”
J. Ralph* -- “Chasing Ice,” “Man on Wire”
Bob Richman -- “Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory,” “Waiting for ‘Superman’ ”
T. Woody Richman -- “How to Survive a Plague,” “Fahrenheit 9/11”
Veronica Selver -- “Berkeley in the Sixties,” “You Got to Move: Stories of Change in the
South”
Jon Shenk -- “The Island President,” “Lost Boys of Sudan”
Ricki Stern -- “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work,” “The Devil Came on Horseback”
Robert Stone -- “Earth Days,” “Radio Bikini”
Annie Sundberg -- “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work,” “The Devil Came on Horseback”
Renee Tajima-Pena -- “Who Killed Vincent Chin?,” “My America (Or Honk If You Love
Buddha)”
Agnès Varda -- “The Beaches of Agnès,” “The Gleaners and I”
Roger Ross Williams -- “God Loves Uganda,” “Music by Prudence”
Pamela Yates -- “Granito: How to Nail a Dictator,” “The Reckoning: The Battle for the
International Criminal Court”
Amy Ziering -- “The Invisible War,” “Derrida”


Executives
Holly Bario
Jeb Brody
Eric d’Arbeloff
Dean C. Hallett
Lynn Harris
Jeff Ivers
Jonathan King
Robert Kirby
Dylan Leiner
Nick Meyer
Andrew Millstein
Hannah Minghella
Angela Morrison
Brian Roberts
Mark Roybal
Tucker Tooley
Kevin Tsujihara


Film Editors
Michael Berenbaum -- “What to Expect When You’re Expecting,” “Sex and the City”
Jeff Freeman -- “Ted,” “Cruel Intentions”
James Haygood -- “Where the Wild Things Are,” “Fight Club”
Stuart Levy -- “Savages,” “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps”
Mary Jo Markey -- “Star Trek Into Darkness,” “Super 8”

Makeup Artists and Hairstylists
Luisa Abel -- “The Dark Knight Rises,” “Inception”
Anne Aulenta-Spira -- “The Place beyond the Pines,” “Drive”
Terry Baliel -- “The Dark Knight Rises,” “J. Edgar”
Thomas Floutz -- “The Call,” “Hellboy II: The Golden Army”
Kay Georgiou -- “Promised Land,” “Lincoln”
Bernadette Mazur -- “Men in Black 3,” “The Campaign”
Kim Santantonio -- “Gangster Squad,” “Frost/Nixon”
Lisa Tomblin -- “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,” “Harry Potter and the Deathly
Hallows: Part 1”
Kelvin R. Trahan -- “Argo,” “Memoirs of a Geisha”
Lisa Westcott -- “Les Misérables,” ”Shakespeare in Love”


Members-at-Large
Victoria Alonso
Fred Baron
Ben Bray
Pieter Jan Brugge
Jackie Burch
Leo Davis
Susie Figgis
Lori Furie
Glenn S. Gainor
Joe Gareri
Lance Gilbert
Andy Gill
Mindy Marin
Laray Mayfield
Jeanne McCarthy
Neil Meron
Gary Powell
Ned Price
Michelle Satter
Stefan Sonnenfeld
Cindy Tolan
Brent Woolsey


Music
Ramiro Belgardt -- “Star Trek Into Darkness,” “Lincoln”
Ramin Djawadi -- “Safe House,” “Iron Man”
Jennifer Dunnington -- “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” “Hugo”
Siedah Garrett -- “Rio,” “Dreamgirls”
Joe Hisaishi -- “Ponyo,” “Spirited Away”
Henry Jackman -- “This Is the End,” “Wreck-It Ralph”
Cliff Martinez -- “Drive,” “Traffic”
Prince -- “Purple Rain,” “Happy Feet”
J. Ralph* -- “Chasing Ice,” “Man on Wire”
Aaron Lael Zigman -- “Peeples,” “Sex and the City”


Producers
Stefan Arndt -- “Amour,” “The White Ribbon”
Jason Blum -- “The Purge,” “Paranormal Activity”
Finola Dwyer -- “Quartet,” “An Education”
Jack Giarraputo -- “Anger Management,” “The Wedding Singer”
Veit Heiduschka -- “Amour,” “The White Ribbon”
Lloyd Levin -- “Green Zone,” “Watchmen”
Julie Lynn -- “Albert Nobbs,” “Nine Lives”
Margaret Menegoz -- “Amour,” “The White Ribbon”
Andrea Sperling -- “Smashed,” “Like Crazy”


Public Relations
Rachel Cadden
Theresa Cross
Jeff S. Elefterion
Julie Fontaine
Jackson George
Anne Globe
Michael Lawson
Dennis O’Connor
Blair Rich
John G. Sabel


Short Films and Feature Animation
Marc Bertrand -- “Gloria Victoria,” “Hollow Land”
Bryan Buckley -- “Asad,” “The Wake-Up Caller”
Shawn Christensen -- “Curfew,” “Brink”
Eric Darnell -- “Madagascar,” “Shrek”
John C. Donkin -- “Ice Age Continental Drift,” “Gone Nutty”
Ken Duncan -- “9,” “Shark Tale”
Danielle Feinberg -- “Brave,” “WALL-E”
Sam Fell -- “ParaNorman,” “The Tale of Despereaux”
Matt Groening -- “Maggie Simpson in ‘The Longest Daycare,’” “The Simpsons Movie”
Vicky Jenson -- “Shark Tale,” “Shrek”
Travis Knight -- “ParaNorman,” “Coraline”
Steve May -- “Brave,” “Up”
Rich Moore -- “Wreck-It Ralph,” “Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!”
Robert Neuman -- “Wreck-It Ralph,” “Tangled”
Brandon Oldenburg -- “Rise of the Guardians,” “The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore”
PES -- “Fresh Guacamole,” “Western Spaghetti”
Steve Pilcher -- “Brave,” “Shrek the Third”
Normand Roger -- “Hollow Land,” “The Banquet of the Concubine”
Clark Spencer -- “Wreck-It Ralph,” “Bolt”

Sound
Bobbi Banks -- “The Call,” “Hustle & Flow”
Jose Antonio Garcia -- “Argo,” “Babel”
Simon Hayes -- “Les Misérables,” “X-Men: First Class”
Edward J. Hernandez -- “Real Steel,” “Basic Instinct”
Daniel S. Irwin -- “Prometheus,” “Little Children”
Drew Kunin -- “Life of Pi,” “Lost in Translation”
Michael W. Mitchell -- “The Dark Knight Rises,” “The Matrix Reloaded”
Tom Ozanich -- “Project X,” “Kill Bill: Vol. 2”
Mark Paterson -- “Les Misérables,” “The Pirates! Band of Misfits”
Richard Pryke -- “127 Hours,” “Slumdog Millionaire”
Erin Michael Rettig -- “A Good Day to Die Hard,” “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”
Ann Scibelli -- “Prometheus,” “Inglourious Basterds”
Brian T. Slack -- “Chéri,” “Crossover”
Bruce Tanis -- “Gangster Squad,” “X-Men: First Class”
F. Elmo Weber -- “Identity Thief,” “The Kids Are All Right”
Christopher T. Welch -- “Silver Linings Playbook,” “(500) Days of Summer”
Dave Whitehead -- “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” “District 9”
Stuart Wilson -- “Skyfall,” “War Horse”


Visual Effects
Jason Bayever -- “Life of Pi,” “The Wolfman”
Mark Breakspear -- “The Great Gatsby,” “Tropic Thunder”
Philip Brennan -- “Snow White and the Huntsman,” “Minority Report”
Tony Clark -- “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” “Harry Potter and the Goblet of
Fire”
David Clayton -- “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” “Avatar”
Michael Dawson -- “Snow White and the Huntsman,” “The Devil’s Double”
Erik-Jan De Boer -- “Life of Pi,” “Night at the Museum”
Donald R. Elliott -- “Life of Pi,” “Seabiscuit”
John Goodson -- “Red Tails,” “Marvel’s The Avengers”
Charley Henley -- “Prometheus,” “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”
John McLeod -- “Django Unchained,” “The Aviator”
Mark Noel -- “Oz the Great and Powerful,” “Transformers”
David Prescott -- “Transformers,” “X-Men”
Guillaume Rocheron -- “Life of Pi,” “Sucker Punch”
Wendy Rogers -- “Puss in Boots,” “Shrek”
David Alexander Smith -- “The Amazing Spider-Man,” “The Matrix Reloaded”
Wayne Stables -- “The Adventures of Tintin,” “Avatar”
Richard Stammers -- “Prometheus,” “Angels & Demons”
Richard Stutsman -- “Zero Dark Thirty,” “Independence Day”
Christopher Townsend -- “Captain America: The First Avenger,” “The Day after Tomorrow”
Stephan Trojansky -- “Marvel’s The Avengers,” “Hereafter”
David Watkins -- “Ali,” “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”
Jeff White -- “Marvel’s The Avengers,” “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”
Trevor Wood -- “Prometheus,” “The Golden Compass”


Writers
Jessica Bendinger -- “Aquamarine,” “Bring It On”
Reggie Rock Bythewood -- “Notorious,” “Get on the Bus”
Tina Gordon Chism -- “Peeples,” “Drumline”
Julie Delpy -- “Before Midnight,” “2 Days in Paris”
Lena Dunham -- “Nobody Walks,” “Tiny Furniture”
Ava DuVernay* -- “Middle of Nowhere,” “I Will Follow”
John Gatins -- “Flight,” “Coach Carter”
John Hamburg -- “I Love You, Man,” “Meet the Parents”
John Lee Hancock -- “Snow White and the Huntsman,” “The Blind Side”
Rian Johnson -- “Looper,” “Brick”
Jeff Nichols -- “Mud,” “Take Shelter”
Sarah Polley -- “Take This Waltz,” “Away From Her”
Chris Terrio -- “Argo,” “Heights”


Associates
Lorrie Bartlett
Paul Bronfman
Markham L. Goldstein
Robert Harvey
Gregory S. Laemmle
Sandra Marsh
Adam Schweitzer
Kimberly Snyder
Matthew L. Snyder
Les Zellan

[hearthesilence]

Some longtime icons of world cinema finally getting in, and Prince and Matt Groening!

[colinr0380]

And Lena Dunham

[hearthesilence]

Jesus, look at how many executives and PR people they let in - if anything, the haters should worry about that voting bloc.

[flyonthewall2983]

It's roughly the same problem I have with the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame voting board. It includes people like David Letterman, who in return loans them Paul every year to ham it up on stage next to the inductees year after year. And they probably have way more consideration to record company people instead of musicians as to who gets in or not.