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December 03, 2009
Press Release (edited): N-Bored-R
The Idiot Awards continue to roll out this week, as the least important players try to position themselves (with the exception of ISAs, which should know better already.)
Today, it's the Nobody But Resthomers group.
They guessed right when the frontrunners were clear last two years. In the decade before that, their Best Picture winner was nominated but didn't win 7 of 10 times and 2 more times, the film wasn't nominated. This year's winner will definitely be nominated. Big grain of salt, folks, even though the millions of Oscar experts flooding the internet these days will drone on about it for days until the next inconsequential event happens.
As suual, they spread the wealth. No mention of the unseen (until HFPA sees it tomorrow... no guests allowed... unlikely to be kept promises of silence) Avatar, Nine, A Single Man, The Road, The Lovely Bones, Crazy Heart. But they love the TV movie.
Okay... enough energy wasted on these needy children. They should be embarrassed, but they have no shame. Maybe they can join HFPA.
UP IN THE AIR
NAMED 2009 BEST FILM OF THE YEAR BY THE
NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW
***
2010 Gala to be held on Tuesday, January 12th with
Meredith Vieira as Mistress of Ceremonies
New York, NY – December 3rd, 2009 – The National Board of Review named Up In The Air the 2009 Best Film of the Year. Directed by Jason Reitman, Up In The Air is the timely odyssey of Ryan Bingham, a corporate downsizer and consummate modern business traveler who, after years of staying happily airborne, suddenly finds himself ready to make a real connection. The film will be released in select theaters on December 4th by Paramount Pictures.
Below is a full list of the awards given by the National Board of Review:
Best Film: UP IN THE AIR
Best Director: CLINT EASTWOOD, Invictus
Best Actor(s):
GEORGE CLOONEY, Up In The Air
MORGAN FREEMAN, Invictus
Best Actress: CAREY MULLIGAN, An Education
Best Supporting Actor: WOODY HARRELSON, The Messenger
Best Supporting Actress: ANNA KENDRICK, Up In The Air
Best Foreign Language Film: A PROPHET
Best Documentary: THE COVE
Best Animated Feature: UP
Best Ensemble Cast: IT’S COMPLICATED
Breakthrough Performance by an Actor: JEREMY RENNER, The Hurt Locker
Breakthrough Performance by an Actress: GABOUREY SIDIBE, Precious
Spotlight Award for Best Directorial Debut:
DUNCAN JONES, Moon
OREN MOVERMAN, The Messenger
MARC WEBB, (500) Days of Summer
Best Original Screenplay: JOEL AND ETHAN COEN, A Serious Man
Best Adapted Screenplay: JASON REITMAN and SHELDON TURNER, Up In The Air
Special Filmmaking Achievement Award: WES ANDERSON, The Fantastic Mr. Fox
William K. Everson Film History Award: JEAN PICKER FIRSTENBERG
NBR Freedom of Expression:
BURMA VJ: REPORTING FROM A CLOSED COUNTRY
INVICTUS
THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA: DANIEL ELLSEBERG AND THE PENTAGON PAPERS
Ten Best Films
(in alphabetical order)
AN EDUCATION
(500) DAYS OF SUMMER
THE HURT LOCKER
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
INVICTUS
THE MESSENGER
A SERIOUS MAN
STAR TREK
UP
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
Five Best Foreign-Language Films
(in alphabetical order)
THE MAID
REVANCHE
SONG OF SPARROWS
THREE MONKEYS
THE WHITE RIBBON
Five Best Documentaries
(in alphabetical order)
BURMA VJ: REPORTING FROM A CLOSED COUNTRY
CRUDE
FOOD, INC.
GOOD HAIR
THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA: DANIEL ELLSBERG AND THE PENTAGON PAPERS
Top Ten Independent Films:
(in alphabetical order)
AMREEKA
DISTRICT 9
GOODBYE SOLO
HUMPDAY
IN THE LOOP
JULIA
ME AND ORSON WELLES
MOON
SUGAR
TWO LOVERS
Posted by dpoland at December 3, 2009 11:19 AM
Comments
Well that's a populist list if I've ever seen one.
Posted by: Aladdin Sane ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.mcnblogs.com/thehotblog/nav-commenters.gif)
at December 3, 2009 11:36 AM
I should hate these guys for creaming over Clint YET AGAIN, but I'm loving that screenplay award for the Coens.
Posted by: lazarus at December 3, 2009 11:37 AM
What is the TV movie? Up in the Air?
Posted by: The InSneider at December 3, 2009 11:40 AM
No. Not Up in the Air
Posted by: David Poland at December 3, 2009 11:45 AM
World's Greatest Television Director...
Posted by: mutinyco at December 3, 2009 11:49 AM
Damn. No love for That Evening Sun.
Posted by: Joe Leydon at December 3, 2009 11:57 AM
This is where is gets crazy, Joe. You know how idiotic this group is and yet you worry about their "love" of a movie or performance as though it matters.
This is, with all love, the sickness we all get this time of year... we know, but we forget because any fucking port in a storm at least feels like something.
Posted by: David Poland at December 3, 2009 12:01 PM
I would think that, for a small-budget indie like That Evening Sun, any mention would be helpful. If not for Oscar gold, or even wider theatrical release, then at least a more receptive audience when it's released on home video. You know, that whole light a candle rather than curse the darkness sort of thing.
Posted by: Joe Leydon at December 3, 2009 12:05 PM
It still confounds me that people liked Star Trek. And I typically have a boner for all things Abrams.
Posted by: Josh Massey at December 3, 2009 12:49 PM
Poland,
indiewire says Avatar is screening for the HFPA on the 8th, not tomorrow.
Which is it?
Posted by: loyal at December 3, 2009 12:58 PM
Glad to see Get Low will get its US premiere at Sundance.
Posted by: Joe Leydon at December 3, 2009 01:44 PM
It's always annoyed me that they don't include the "Best Film" on their "Ten Best Films" list. Ditto for foreign and docs. Wouldn't be a problem but I often see the ten best list reproduced with no mention of the film that was their #1.
Posted by: Krazy Eyes at December 3, 2009 03:48 PM
Ah yes, the annual "I hate the NBR!!!" post.
Posted by: jeffmcm at December 3, 2009 04:32 PM
Like clockwork, Jeff. And we can expect the same posts about the Hollywood Foreign Press, and how none of this matters, no one knows anything, blah blah blah. I hope he'll at least take the time to include the Broadcast Film Critics in that list of irrelevant and tasteless voting bodies.
Posted by: lazarus at December 3, 2009 05:36 PM
I'm confused. Is it that an Independent film can't be one of the 10 best films of the year? What's the criteria that separates them? From what I see, District 9 was released by Tristar and 500 Days of Summer was released by Fox Searchlight. Honest question, what's the difference?
Also for a movie with so much juice coming in, surprised there is no Precious in either category.
Posted by: bulldog68 at December 3, 2009 06:07 PM
"I hope he'll at least take the time to include the Broadcast Film Critics in that list of irrelevant and tasteless voting bodies."
The Checkered Demon just smiled.
Posted by: Joe Leydon at December 3, 2009 06:15 PM
Lousy organization but I do approve of their indifference towards Precious.
Posted by: Dignan at December 3, 2009 10:14 PM
IndieWIRE is incorrect, loyal... unless things have changed in the last 12 hours.
Posted by: David Poland at December 4, 2009 12:51 AM
From what I see, District 9 was released by Tristar and 500 Days of Summer was released by Fox Searchlight. Honest question, what's the difference?
None. Both were independent productions picked up by studios/dependents for distribution. Plus The Messenger and The Hurt Locker are decidedly independent productions from independent distributors (Summit is much bigger than Oscilloscope, but I wouldn't put them among the majors quite yet). I think "Top Ten Independent Films" really means "Top Ten Independent Films Not Good Enough to Be in the Actual Top Ten."
Posted by: Bob Violence at December 4, 2009 11:47 PM
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