Awards Season 2021

[DarkImbecile]

More Oscars only 10 months away, barring another historic, worldwide disruption to the theatrical exhibition industry!

[therewillbeblus]

Hopefully we at least get a PTA/Wes Anderson/Mike Mills original screenplay competition

[The Narrator Returns]

NBC has cancelled next year's Golden Globes telecast

EDIT: and Tom Cruise has returned all three of his Golden Globes

[beamish14]

NBC has cancelled next year's Golden Globes telecast

About time. A $60 million dollar waste for NBC. We can thank Netflix in part for this, as Ted Sarandos was the first to say that they were no longer supporting the HFPA.

[beamish14]

Damn. Tom Cruise just returned his three Golden Globes

[beamish14]

Awards shows are at a major impasse, and the new cycle has yet to begin. I kind of wonder if this will trickle down to other awards like the Pulitzer (which has had a lot of nomination committee issues). The Brit Awards just announced major changes over their ridiculous citizenship requirements.

[knives]

Besides everything that is typically wrong with it what new thing started this?

[beamish14]

Besides everything that is typically wrong with it what new thing started this?

Pressure had been building to restructure the HFPA for the lack of diversity among the shoddy journalists in their ranks. Then, their previous president (an Afrikaner!) was revealed to have made some incredibly racist remarks about BLM in some emails. Finally, they didn't commit to making any meaningful changes, and the floodgates burst.

[Pavel]

Wasn't the biggest problem their willingness to accept gifts, vacations and bribes in general from studios that wanted their film/series to be "considered"?

[knives]

That’s old news. Afrikaner being racist makes more sense as a problem.

[beamish14]

Wasn't the biggest problem their willingness to accept gifts, vacations and bribes in general from studios that wanted their film/series to be "considered"?

Oh, that's been their defining characteristic from the start, and their brazen lack of any scruples with taking bribes has been openly mocked. What's changed is the industry's willingness to tolerate an entity that has no black members.

[flyonthewall2983]

Somewhat old news, but Brendan Fraser accused the former president of sexual harrassment. In the HFPA's internal investigation of the incident, they concluded that it was just "a joke".

[therewillbeblus]

Sounds more like straight up sexual assault to me, and the rebuttal that it was just a "pinch" because of rumors Fraser did it himself to others doesn't exactly spin it into anything else...

[Pavel]

Emmy noms

[therewillbeblus]

So now Hamilton is considered a TV movie? I remember when there was rumbling around Oscar chances under consideration as a feature film (which obviously did not happen)- did the distributors decide to categorize it differently for awards chances, or was the categorization imposed by some third-party higher power?

[Pavel]

So now Hamilton is considered a TV movie? I remember when there was rumbling around Oscar chances under consideration as a feature film (which obviously did not happen)- did the distributors decide to categorize it differently for awards chances, or was the categorization imposed by some third-party higher power?

I can't say for sure, but I remember that Hamilton was deemed ineligible for the Oscars pretty early on into awards season and that Daveed Diggs got a Supporting Actor in a TV Movie or Limited Series nom at the SAGs

[Never Cursed]

Apparently Cahiers du Cinema exists enough in some form to put together a (fairly conservative and slapdash) year-end editorial list:

Top 10 films of 2021:
1. First Cow (Kelly Reichardt)
2. Annette (Leos Carax)
3. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
4. Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
5. France (Bruno Dumont)
6. The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson)
7. À l'abordage (Guillaume Brac)
8. La Jeune Fille et l'Araignée (Silvan Zürcher and Ramon Zürcher)
9. The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)
10. Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven)

[hearthesilence]

Apparently Cahiers du Cinema exists enough in some form to put together a (fairly conservative and slapdash) year-end editorial list:

Top 10 films of 2021:
1. First Cow (Kelly Reichardt)
2. Annette (Leos Carax)
3. Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
4. Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
5. France (Bruno Dumont)
6. The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson)
7. À l'abordage (Guillaume Brac)
8. La Jeune Fille et l'Araignée (Silvan Zürcher and Ramon Zürcher)
9. The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)
10. Benedetta (Paul Verhoeven)

Funny to see The French Dispatch on there after seeing Jonathan Rosenbaum's criticism of the film. Discerning French viewers love The French Dispatch - what more do you want???

What I find most disconcerting about Wes Anderson’s new formalist feature is its attitude towards France, which somehow manages to come across as derisive yet disinterested at the same time: not angry or witty enough to be effective as satire yet not observant enough to seem accurate, at least to a onetime resident of that country such as myself. According to all the American reviews I’ve read, it’s not really about France at all but about the American journalists and critics who report from France about France and the French. But because the movie is basically about them and not about the French, it strikes me as being only half-witted much of the time. The material for a knowing send-up of French culture is present yet unexplored and underdeveloped because the movie doesn’t really seem to care much about French people — only about French movies, French food, and other exports.

[hearthesilence]

From Artforum:

John Waters's Top Ten of 2021

and

Jim Hoberman's

[soundchaser]

I wonder what it would take for Waters NOT to put a Dumont film in his Top 10

[domino harvey]

I would have lost a bet on him having Titane listed

[Maltic]

Funny to see The French Dispatch on there after seeing Jonathan Rosenbaum's criticism of the film. Discerning French viewers love The French Dispatch - what more do you want???

What I find most disconcerting about Wes Anderson’s new formalist feature is its attitude towards France, which somehow manages to come across as derisive yet disinterested at the same time: not angry or witty enough to be effective as satire yet not observant enough to seem accurate, at least to a onetime resident of that country such as myself. According to all the American reviews I’ve read, it’s not really about France at all but about the American journalists and critics who report from France about France and the French. But because the movie is basically about them and not about the French, it strikes me as being only half-witted much of the time. The material for a knowing send-up of French culture is present yet unexplored and underdeveloped because the movie doesn’t really seem to care much about French people — only about French movies, French food, and other exports.

I was about to ask whether J-Ro took the opportunity to mention that he used to live in France

[hearthesilence]

From Richard Brody:

"Fascinating detail in Marcos Uzal's excellent editorial on @cahierscinema year-end list: [translated] 'the re-evaluation of The French Dispatch by many of us after our nearly unanimous disappointment at Cannes,' their recognition on second viewing that among other things, 'what we could take for a sterile saturation is rather a matter of mad experimentation.' As I said, you have to see it twice to see it once."

[DarkImbecile]

And here’s The French Dispatch atop Brody’s top 35 of the year

[therewillbeblus]

Love that @zola placement