Friday, January 25, 2013

JANUARY WRAP-UP/AWARDS UPDATE




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.


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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