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Early today the east coast group started to vote for their annual winners and seems that there is no visible trend from an independent film award and the two major film critics, as for example Best Film category in Gotham went to Call Me by Your Name, in NBR to The Post and the NYFCC to Lady Bird.  There are high probabilities current award season will be interesting and perhaps even unpredictable which makes all exercises a lot more fun. The NYFCC also announced that this year's ceremony will be dedicated to the memory of late film critic, filmmaker and author Richard Schickel.  The awards will be handed out in New York in January. In previous years the call-by-many "harbingers of the Oscars nominations" score have been on the lower side but last year score was on the positive side with La La Land, Moonlight and Manchester by the Sea got top and many awards.  So, if this year group repeats, Lady Bird, The Florida Project and Call Me By Your Name could get nominations. My...

Today, November 29 the post becomes alive again and activity will become intense until a week before Christmas when will quiet a bit with January activity will gain full force to end quietly around the first weeks of February 2018. ---///--- 10/7/17 The annual film critics awards post starts today.  Now all the fuzz and buzz about #Oscars2018 foreign-language submissions is over and it's time to start with all the fuzz and buzz from film critics that always gives you a better idea about the films that could win nominations and the one that will collect the award.  Yes, we know that not very often great films win AMPAS accolades, so IF we wish to guess right on the Oscars office pool or any of the many online polls -some with good prices- then here will find info for better guessing.  Enjoy! Post will be a work in progress until the last critics group announces their winner which will happen in early February 2018. Most critics' groups are American but you will also find ...

Last Monday, November 27th, the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) announced the winners of the current edition of the annual Gotham Awards at a ceremony hosted by John Cameron Mitchell and held at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. Wasn't able to watch ceremony live but was able to see a couple of tweets that made me laugh loud as one was saying something like this:  "Who is that guy?" referring of course to wonderful real-life character and film director extraordinaire John Cameron Mitchell; another questions his ensemble piece that wasn't until saw Mitchell's photos understood why can someone who isn't familiar with his outstanding/remarkable looks will question what he's wearing, lol!  He is just fab but can understand if someone haven't seen him before will have extreme reactions, either you love him or you hate him.  I do love him and enjoy every single time he's on shows like for example, the Good Wife. Get Out got the most nominations ...

A few hours ago the NBR announced their awards winners and its choices gives us a possible trend into the Awards Season than will not be surprising but predictable, as their top award went to big -really big- The Post plus the top acting awards to film leads, Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks.  Of course I'm looking forward to see film, but with all the available options was hoping for more "exciting" results. On the plus side, Greta Gerwig winning Best Director is exciting and let's hope winning strike continues with other groups. NBR President Annie Schulhof said, “ The Post is a beautifully crafted film that deeply resonates at this moment in time. We are so thrilled to award it our best film as well as to honor the wonderfully talented Greta Gerwig as our Best Director. ” These awards are the latest citation of excellence by the National Board of Review, a tradition going back 108 years. This year 265 films were viewed by this select group of film enthusiasts, ...

Yesterday tried to watch the awards ceremony live stream but was not interesting at all especially because it took too long to get to honoring winners and when finally -after a long piano break- started with the first award the sound went off.  So gave up. Nevertheless checked winners and today its time to do the post.  According to official press release there are some milestones like it's the first ever APSA win for Georgia; Georgia and Russia Federation have top winner tally with three wins each, and most interesting, majority of Best Feautre awards go to female-directed films. Notable is Warwick Thornton who became the first director to have two films win APSA Best Feature Film and to be the only Australian director to have a film win in this category.  Will say does not surprise me his top award win which believe is a major honor as was competing against extraordinary films by Samuel Maoz and Sergei Loznitsa. The Winners Best Feature Film : Sweet Country , Warwick Th...

Recently organizers announced the nominations and perhaps the most interesting situation is what is written in the first paragraph of the official nominations press release which reads as follows: The past couple months of entertainment news have not been the cheeriest, to say the least. But as the necessary work of righting longstanding injustices continues, the importance of elevating new and diverse voices inside the film industry remains. And while awards shows may seem like small potatoes in the face of larger global events, the fact remains: championing creative independence and supporting a diverse community of unique, innovative artists remains vitally important—sowing the seeds via pop culture of a better, more equitable future. Yes we are in turbulent times as finally rocks are being turned and the dirtiest dirt is being exposed, no doubt what's going on affects all kind of occupations in all kind of industries, but no doubt that the one that's being hit the hardest i...

Last Saturday, November 4, at the Seville European Film Festival the nominations for the major categories were announced and my spontaneous reaction when watching live the press conference was that nominees are extraordinary films and Academy members will have a difficult task deciding their votes, as for example in the top category, voting between Cannes Golden Palm, Grand Prix and Jury Award is not easy but then you have to add Berlin Golden Bear and on top a movie by master filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki. Very difficult decision, not easy at all. But the category that blew my mind is European Actress were you have Juliette Binoche and Isabelle Huppert, then Paula Beer and Alexandra Borbély, and finish with almost newcomer Florence Pugh!  What an eclectic combination of talent!  To be honest, have skipped Lady Macbeth but after BIFA and now this, imagine will have to "unskip" film (lol). My biggest shock is the absence of Michael Haneke in major categories, only his main actors g...