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Post by mamaleh on Dec 14, 2011 15:22:05 GMT -5
The usual suspects have turned up in the SAG nominations announced today: Clooney (DESCENDANTS), Pitt (MONEYBALL) and DeCaprio (even though the last got mixed reviews for J. EDGAR). It's that inevitable vicious circle: Great scripts beget great roles which go to the top echelon who earn award noms because of the great roles, which leads to their getting great scripts, and so on and on.
One of these years--maybe next, with LES MIZ?--it'll be Hugh's turn.
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Post by narrows101 on Dec 15, 2011 9:42:54 GMT -5
I'll tell you right now, if Spielberg's "Lincoln" comes out at the end of the year, Daniel Day-Lewis is nominated. It seems you can (mostly) only be nominated/win if you play a real person.
Recent winners:
2004 - Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles 2005 - Philip Seymour Hoffman as Capote 2006 - Forrest Whitaker in Last King of Scotland 2008 - Sean Penn as Harvey Milk 2010- Colin Firth as King George VI
Nominations:
2004- Leo D. as Howard Hughes, Johnny Depp as James Barrie, Don Cheadle in Hotel Rwanda.
2005 - Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash, David Strathaim as Edward R. Murrow
2008 - Frank Langella as Richard Nixon
2009 - Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela
2010 - Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg, James Franco as Aron Ralston
You *know* Leo will be nominated for J. Edgar this year.
See, pretty much a guarantee for DDL next year (I wouldn't be surprised if he won either).
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Post by Kristin on Dec 15, 2011 9:53:38 GMT -5
I'll tell you right now, if Spielberg's "Lincoln" comes out at the end of the year, Daniel Day-Lewis is nominated. It seems you can (mostly) only be nominated/win if you play a real person. Recent winners: 2004 - Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles 2005 - Philip Seymour Hoffman as Capote 2006 - Forrest Whitaker in Last King of Scotland 2008 - Sean Penn as Harvey Milk 2010- Colin Firth as King George VI Nominations: 2004- Leo D. as Howard Hughes, Johnny Depp as James Barrie, Don Cheadle in Hotel Rwanda. 2005 - Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash, David Strathaim as Edward R. Murrow 2008 - Frank Langella as Richard Nixon 2009 - Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela 2010 - Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg, James Franco as Aron Ralston You *know* Leo will be nominated for J. Edgar this year. See, pretty much a guarantee for DDL next year (I wouldn't be surprised if he won either). Okay, I'm LOL'ing at the fact that while I wouldn't expect you to know Paul Rusesabagina (whom Don Cheadle played in Hotel Rwanda), besides that, you put the name of the person whom everyone played except Idi Amin (Forrest Whittaker). I'm guessing you haven't seen either of those films (They're both excellent, by the way). Not criticizing either - I just thought it was funny.
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Post by Kristin on Dec 15, 2011 10:07:58 GMT -5
Meanwhile, here's the thing - if an actor is playing a real person, and for 2 hours in that film you think you're watching the person they're portraying, especially someone who most people are familiar with, then those performances are really good. I think people see that as more of a challenge than portraying a fictional character.
However, if Hugh can knock it out of the park with JVJ, he's got as much a chance as anybody I think.
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Post by narrows101 on Dec 15, 2011 10:18:26 GMT -5
I'll tell you right now, if Spielberg's "Lincoln" comes out at the end of the year, Daniel Day-Lewis is nominated. It seems you can (mostly) only be nominated/win if you play a real person. Recent winners: 2004 - Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles 2005 - Philip Seymour Hoffman as Capote 2006 - Forrest Whitaker in Last King of Scotland 2008 - Sean Penn as Harvey Milk 2010- Colin Firth as King George VI Nominations: 2004- Leo D. as Howard Hughes, Johnny Depp as James Barrie, Don Cheadle in Hotel Rwanda. 2005 - Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash, David Strathaim as Edward R. Murrow 2008 - Frank Langella as Richard Nixon 2009 - Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela 2010 - Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg, James Franco as Aron Ralston You *know* Leo will be nominated for J. Edgar this year. See, pretty much a guarantee for DDL next year (I wouldn't be surprised if he won either). Okay, I'm LOL'ing at the fact that while I wouldn't expect you to know Paul Rusesabagina (whom Don Cheadle played in Hotel Rwanda), besides that, you put the name of the person whom everyone played except Idi Amin (Forrest Whittaker). I'm guessing you haven't seen either of those films (They're both excellent, by the way). Not criticizing either - I just thought it was funny. LOL - I actually *was* going to put Idi Amin, but I was only about 99.9% positive that's who it was (even though I saw the movie!) and I was too lazy to look it up to be sure. However, I *did* look up Paul R. to see if that was a real person - I didn't see that movie and hadn't heard of him, so I put down the name of the movie instead since I wasn't sure of the name recognition, unlike the others - there's that "assume" thing again!.... I should have been consistent and put down all the character names...
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Post by Jamie on Dec 15, 2011 11:40:00 GMT -5
Has anyone seen Rock of Ages on Broadway? I don't like Tom Cruise as an actor, but this is the movie version of a musical and my natural inclination is to support the genre.
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Post by team on Feb 11, 2012 4:15:11 GMT -5
I'm so into Ryan Gosling. Seen almost all his movies (just some tv-series remain, but I don't like TV-series, so I'm not gonna see them ... telling the truth I've not seen Corelli, I just can't..). Extremely talented guy, has a STRONG filmography (I wonder who's his agent... would be nice if he could do something for Hugh too...) and in his 30 he has 4 Golden Globes and 1 Oscar nominations for Best leading actor. And I like the fact that he hasn't "that one role" yet, so he's different all the time and you never know what expect next. Have you seen 'Half Nelson' (2006) - he got an Oscar nomination for it. It's genius.
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Post by ladyt220 on Nov 8, 2012 15:06:33 GMT -5
Totally off-topic and irrelevent really but I just saw this on my twitter feed -
Bertie Carvel will reprise his performance as Miss Trunchbull in the Broadway production of Matilda The Musical at the Shubert from March 4
If you can, I would thoroughly recommend seeing it. Bertie Carvel is fabulous and does the most truly astonishing impression of a horse. I'm kicking myself for not getting to see him a second time during it's UK run. Also the music's great and the show's stupidly good fun. Which I appreciate is totally the last thing on anyone's mind right now given the Sandy-induced disruption so I'll shut up now.
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Post by Jamie on Nov 11, 2012 12:37:04 GMT -5
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Post by sydneyfan on Nov 11, 2012 14:09:08 GMT -5
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Post by Dark Phoenix on Nov 12, 2012 1:27:57 GMT -5
And of course some people are again not getting it how he meant it.
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Post by wombat on Nov 15, 2012 9:41:43 GMT -5
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Post by scrffy78 on Feb 20, 2013 12:36:14 GMT -5
The recent Grill Team podcast and mentions of Hugh's Howard Stern interview leads to me ask the question: who has seen the movie Shame with Michael Fassbender? I finally saw it on HBO/Showtime/Cinemax (one of them), after not being able to get the DVD from the library because it's NC-17. He plays a man with a sex addiction whose troubled younger sister shows up and disrupts his ability to get it on, watch porn, and masturbate whenever he wants at home.
Obviously, there are a lot of sex scenes. He received many awards nominations for this role, mostly from critics associations, but also from BAFTA. It's a very "out-there" role and I can imagine the movie being uncomfortable to watch for some. There's a group sex scene towards the end that is quite long, for example. The music composed for the film is very mellow and minimalist, especially for the sex scenes. For the one group sex scene there is no sound from the actors, but only the sustained sounds from the orchestral score. Probably the main way to distinguish something like this from one of the late night pornos on HBO, etc. is the score. There's more plot and much better acting, but if I had flipped onto Shame without knowing what it was, I'd think I was watching an arty porno. He must have trusted Steve McQueen, the director, so much to agree to this film.
Carey Mulligan plays the troubled sister and Michael Fassbender played anguish and self-loathing very well, so I see why he was recognized for this, but I don't think I could recommend this to anyone I know, at least without a big caveat that there is A LOT of sex and a lot of naked people. I watch shows like True Blood and American Horror Story too, and those are also things that I would recommend sparingly, and with caveats that they are really sexually explicit and really violent.
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Post by wombat on Feb 20, 2013 13:06:51 GMT -5
I saw Shame a few months ago and found it hard to sit through. It wasn't so much the amount of sex but that it was depressing and very slow. I don't think I can think of anything more to say about it other than sex addiction doesn't seem at all sexy.
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Post by scrffy78 on Feb 20, 2013 17:23:55 GMT -5
Exactly. Carey Mulligan has a scene where she sings a depressing version of "New York, New York," which I didn't even think was possible to do. Normally a hopeful song.
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Post by Jamie on Feb 20, 2013 20:15:43 GMT -5
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Post by SueFB on Feb 20, 2013 20:23:27 GMT -5
They do look very cute there. I wish I knew what Russell said in his presentation speech.
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Post by adoannie on Feb 21, 2013 16:04:46 GMT -5
I can't believe it's actually a glass alligator. Best. Trophy. Ever.
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Post by Jamie on Sept 16, 2013 21:49:25 GMT -5
Samantha Barks in Chicago. Quite different from Eponine
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Post by narrows101 on Sept 17, 2013 5:08:53 GMT -5
Samantha Barks in Chicago. Quite different from Eponine Holy cow, you ain't kidding! Still would have loved to have seen Hugh in that movie!!!
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