Couple
of quick updates, for anyone that hasn’t taken a look at the Oscar nominations
they have been out for a couple of weeks now:
This
year is a bit different in the fact that nominations came out before the Golden
Globes which may explain some disparity between the Globe winners and the films
that garnered the most Academy nominations.
Usually the Globes are a decent barometer for some of the major Oscar
races, this year may be harder to predict because films like ‘Argo’, winner of
Best Picture and Director at the Globes, failed to earn as much attention from
the Academy.
Globe
winners: http://www.goldenglobes.org/2012/12/nominations-2013/
The
Academy did surprise some with the amount of support ‘Beasts of the Southern
Wild’ and ‘Amour’ received. Usually
there is an indie darling or two in the mix at the Oscars but usually with one
or two nominations whereas ‘Beasts’ and ‘Amour’ combined for 9 nominations.
The
next big award show, that will hopefully clear up the awfully cloudy Oscar
picture, is the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
The SAG awards take place Sunday January 27th at 8pm
EST. Hopefully the winners will help
cement some of the acting categories on Oscar night, or as we saw at the
Globes, make everything that much harder to determine. Beyond SAG there are additional guild awards
(Writer’s, Director’s, ect), the BAFTAs, and the Independent Spirit Awards
leading up to Oscar night.
I
will continue coverage on the races and what the upcoming award shows mean to
predicting Oscar outcomes. I was able to
catch ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ last weekend and should have a full review on Kathryn
Bigelow’s Bin Laden film shortly; it will most likely be my last full review of
the season.
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