December 9, 2008

LA Film Critics Give Out Their Awards!

By way of Variety:
Best Picture: “Wall-E”
Runner-up: “The Dark Knight”
Best Director: Danny Boyle, “Slumdog Millionaire”
Runner-up: Christopher Nolan, “The Dark Knight”
Best Actor: Sean Penn, “Milk”
Runner-up: Mickey Rourke, “The Wrestler”
Best Actress: Sally Hawkins, “Happy-Go-Lucky”
Runner-up: Melissa Leo, “Frozen River”
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, “The Dark Knight”
Runner-up: Eddie Marsan, “Happy-Go-Lucky”
Best Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” and “Elegy”
Runner-up: Viola Davis, “Doubt”
Best Screenplay: Mike Leigh, “Happy-Go-Lucky”
Runner-up: Charlie Kaufman, “Synecdoche, New York”
Best Foreign Language film: “Still Life”
Runner-up: “The Class”
Best Documentary: “Man on Wire”
Runner-up: “Waltz With Bashir”
Best Animation: “Waltz With Bashir”
Best Cinematography: Yu Lik Wai, “Still Life”
Runner-up: Anthony Dod Mantle, “Slumdog Millionaire”
Best Production Design: Mark Friedberg, “Synecdoche, New York”
Runner-up: Nathan Crowley, “The Dark Knight”
Best Music/Score: A.R. Rahman, “Slumdog Millionaire”
Runner-up: Alexandre Desplat, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
New Generation Award: Steve McQueen, “Hunger”
Douglas E. Edwards independent/experimental film/video: James Benning, “RR” and “Casting a Glance”
-Good for WALL-E mainly, though The Dark Knight got a boost as well, and the West Coasters sure seem to love their Happy-Go-Lucky...thoughts?
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11 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 9, 2008 at 5:24 PM

    wonder how this will match up to the NY critics...

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  2. Joey MagidsonDecember 9, 2008 at 5:26 PM

    time will certainly tell

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  3. Myles HughesDecember 9, 2008 at 5:33 PM

    I am pleased that Sally Hawkins hasn't completely disappeared, which had become a legitimate concern in the previous precursors. If there's proper justice, she'll squeeze into the final five.

    And since I know its hopes for deserved Oscar glory are dwindling outside of Screenplay, Song, maybe Makeup, I'm always pleased to see Synecdoche, New York get some recognition (favorite film of the year).

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  4. AnonymousDecember 9, 2008 at 8:22 PM

    Wall-E is a great movie! I´m very happy...

    WALL-E FOR BEST MOTION PICTURE!

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  5. AnonymousDecember 9, 2008 at 10:56 PM

    I'really REALLY excited for TDK and Wall-E. I mean, they were two of the 5 best films this year and LA sure knows that.

    Interesting choice to pick Sally Hawkins and Leo as runner up. I feel like Kate Winslet is going to be left out someway. But, anyway, you never know with Academy voters... They love Kate, isnt it ?

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  6. Matthew BarkerDecember 10, 2008 at 4:18 AM

    Any patterns yet people? Or too early to tell?

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  7. Joey MagidsonDecember 10, 2008 at 4:20 AM

    still too early...give me another week to wrap my head around it all

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  8. Matthew BarkerDecember 10, 2008 at 4:26 AM

    Goodo! Look forward to it. I am intrigued as to how exciting I find this. Must be my love of movies!

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  9. Joey MagidsonDecember 10, 2008 at 4:29 AM

    not alone my friend...here, shot in the dark, if i had to guess the best picture 5 as of the moment, it'd be:
    The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
    The Dark Knight
    Milk
    Slumdog Millionaire
    The Wrestler

    really a shot in the dark...have a good feeling about The Wrestler...Gran Torino, Rachel Getting Married, they're right there as well...something to chew on

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  10. Rich BradleyDecember 10, 2008 at 9:32 AM

    Happy-Go-Lucky finally getting some serious dues. Actress will be a fun category this year.

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  11. Myles HughesDecember 10, 2008 at 9:52 AM

    I think most prognosticators all over the web are in general agreement that Slumdog Millionaire, Milk, and Benjamin Button are in, and many people are confident in Dark Knight, so it's really just that fifth slot to which there's any real debate right now. Personally, I'm inclined to think it will be between Revolutionary Road and Frost/Nixon, though give the complete shutout of the former I'm currently going with the latter. Australia has an outside shot because of its rooting factor, with Rachel Getting Married and The Wrestler as dark horses (early reviews for The Reader and Defiance are meh, Doubt is good but probably not good enough, and I think that both Eastwood movies are going to be too divisive to land in the top five, though they could both be looking at respective leading actor nods, WALL-E is deserving but has its own category, Synecdoche New York is definitely deserving but not enough people will get it).

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