Some notable misses are: Jacob Tremblay, Alicia Vikander double nom (also she was a lead in Danish Girl don't even) and Amy Schumer/Trainwreck (in any capacity), but otherwise I think these are what we expected.
Some will say Carol is missing from Best Picture, but I don't think it was one of the best this year (although I didn't think Brooklyn or The Revenant were either). Mad Max got a lot of love, and I'm SO happy to see Rachel McAdams getting her chance at a win, because she was incredible in Spotlight. Room, The Big Short and Spotlight were my three favourite films this year, so I'm very happy to see them getting all the recognition they so deserve. Best motion picture of the year: “The Big Short” “Bridge of Spies” “Brooklyn” “Mad Max: Fury Road” “The Martian” “The Revenant” “Room” “Spotlight” Performance by an actor in a leading role: Bryan Cranston in “Trumbo” Matt Damon in “The Martian” Leonardo DiCaprio in “The Revenant” Michael Fassbender in “Steve Jobs” Eddie Redmayne in “The Danish Girl” Performance by an actress in a leading role: Cate Blanchett in “Carol” Brie Larson in “Room” Jennifer Lawrence in “Joy” Charlotte Rampling in “45 Years” Saoirse Ronan in “Brooklyn” Performance by an actor in a supporting role: Christian Bale in “The Big Short” Tom Hardy in “The Revenant” Mark Ruffalo in “Spotlight” Mark Rylance in “Bridge of Spies” Sylvester Stallone in “Creed” Performance by an actress in a supporting role: Jennifer Jason Leigh in “The Hateful Eight” Rooney Mara in “Carol” Rachel McAdams in “Spotlight” Alicia Vikander in “The Danish Girl” Kate Winslet in “Steve Jobs” Achievement in directing: “The Big Short” Adam McKay “Mad Max: Fury Road” George Miller “The Revenant” Alejandro G. Iñárritu “Room” Lenny Abrahamson “Spotlight” Tom McCarthy Adapted screenplay: “The Big Short” Screenplay by Charles Randolph and Adam McKay “Brooklyn” Screenplay by Nick Hornby “Carol” Screenplay by Phyllis Nagy “The Martian” Screenplay by Drew Goddard “Room” Screenplay by Emma Donoghue Original screenplay: “Bridge of Spies” Written by Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen “Ex Machina” Written by Alex Garland “Inside Out” Screenplay by Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley; Original story by Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen “Spotlight” Written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy “Straight Outta Compton” Screenplay by Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff; Story by S. Leigh Savidge & Alan Wenkus and Andrea Berloff Best animated feature film of the year: “Anomalisa” Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson and Rosa Tran “Boy and the World” Alê Abreu “Inside Out” Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera “Shaun the Sheep Movie” Mark Burton and Richard Starzak “When Marnie Was There” Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Yoshiaki Nishimura Achievement in cinematography: “Carol” Ed Lachman “The Hateful Eight” Robert Richardson “Mad Max: Fury Road” John Seale “The Revenant” Emmanuel Lubezki “Sicario” Roger Deakins Achievement in costume design: “Carol” Sandy Powell “Cinderella” Sandy Powell “The Danish Girl” Paco Delgado “Mad Max: Fury Road” Jenny Beavan “The Revenant” Jacqueline West Best documentary feature: “Amy” Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees “Cartel Land” Matthew Heineman and Tom Yellin “The Look of Silence” Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen “What Happened, Miss Simone?” Liz Garbus, Amy Hobby and Justin Wilkes “Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom” Evgeny Afineevsky and Den Tolmor Best documentary short subject: “Body Team 12” David Darg and Bryn Mooser “Chau, beyond the Lines” Courtney Marsh and Jerry Franck “Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah” Adam Benzine “A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness” Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy “Last Day of Freedom” Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman Achievement in film editing: “The Big Short” Hank Corwin “Mad Max: Fury Road” Margaret Sixel “The Revenant” Stephen Mirrione “Spotlight” Tom McArdle “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey Best foreign language film of the year: “Embrace of the Serpent” Colombia “Mustang” France “Son of Saul” Hungary “Theeb” Jordan “A War” Denmark Achievement in makeup and hairstyling: “Mad Max: Fury Road” Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damian Martin “The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared” Love Larson and Eva von Bahr “The Revenant” Siân Grigg, Duncan Jarman and Robert Pandini Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score): “Bridge of Spies” Thomas Newman “Carol” Carter Burwell “The Hateful Eight” Ennio Morricone “Sicario” Jóhann Jóhannsson “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” John Williams Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song): “Earned It” from “Fifty Shades of Grey” Music and Lyric by Abel Tesfaye, Ahmad Balshe, Jason Daheala Quenneville and Stephan Moccio “Manta Ray” from “Racing Extinction” Music by J. Ralph and Lyric by Antony Hegarty “Simple Song #3” from “Youth” Music and Lyric by David Lang “Til It Happens To You” from “The Hunting Ground” Music and Lyric by Diane Warren and Lady Gaga “Writing’s On The Wall” from “Spectre” Music and Lyric by Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith Achievement in production design: “Bridge of Spies” Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Rena DeAngelo and Bernhard Henrich “The Danish Girl” Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Michael Standish “Mad Max: Fury Road” Production Design: Colin Gibson; Set Decoration: Lisa Thompson “The Martian” Production Design: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Celia Bobak “The Revenant” Production Design: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Hamish Purdy Best animated short film: “Bear Story” Gabriel Osorio and Pato Escala “Prologue” Richard Williams and Imogen Sutton “Sanjay’s Super Team” Sanjay Patel and Nicole Grindle “We Can’t Live without Cosmos” Konstantin Bronzit “World of Tomorrow” Don Hertzfeldt Best live action short film: “Ave Maria” Basil Khalil and Eric Dupont “Day One” Henry Hughes “Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)” Patrick Vollrath “Shok” Jamie Donoughue “Stutterer” Benjamin Cleary and Serena Armitage
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Despite the dreary living conditions, the film is beautifully shot, and you feel like a fly on the wall of this tiny space, almost as if you're intruding on Ma and Jack.
Just like the book, the film will stay with you long after the credits roll. It's easy to make you cry with such heavy subject matter, but to also bring some laughs out, to see the light side of things, is an incredible feat by director Lenny Abrahamson and the young Tremblay. Larson gives a riveting performance, and the role couldn't have been cast better. While the story is dark, and there are so many hopeless moments in it, in the end it's a story about hope, and about how losing hope is never an option. Naturally, the film adaptation couldn't be entirely true to the book (as the book is written from Jack's perspective), but Abrahamson does well with what he has, making the audience feel claustrophobic with tight shots and his ability to make us feel as if we ourselves are in Room with them. Part of what makes the drama feel so real and gritty is knowing that this does happen in real life, and while this story is fiction, you can't help but have a pit in your stomach knowing that such evils could exist right in your own backyard. This is also due to the fact that it takes place in just that, a backyard like any other. Lend that to the stories you see on the news and you feel like you could be watching a true story. Overall, it's one of the best films of the year so far, and one that will leave you feeling shaken and wanting to call your mother afterwards. An absolute must-watch. 10/10 Room opens October 16th.
The New York Times piece finishes with an example of what they're texts are like, and it's exactly as you'd hope these two new besties would communicate.
“Let me just text Amy and tell her that I told you,” [Ms. Lawrence] said, beginning to type. Ms. Schumer responded immediately. Ms. Lawrence glanced at the message, and threw her head back in laughter. “I wrote, ‘I just spilled the beans to The New York Times. Is that O.K.?’” she said. “And Amy wrote back, ‘That you’re gay? Totally! It’s exciting!’" Images: https://instagram.com/jennishrader/
By now we know that Chris Pratt is a god amongst men. And that Jurassic World is simply massive. Variety was kind enough to rundown the various records that the smash hit Jurassic World has more than exceeded this week at the box office.
Stay tuned for a review from me soon!
Jurassic World hit big at the box office this weekend, with a dominating $204.6 million domestically.
This makes it the second-biggest opening in history. It has been more than a decade since Jurassic Park III hit theatres and the absence has clearly spiked interest in a new film. The domestic debut was on 4,273 screens, making it the widest release in Universal history. The numbers indicate many more instalments to come for the franchise, and we will NEVER say no to more Chris Pratt.
The new red band trailer for the upcoming Patrick Brice film, The Overnight, is here.
Adam Scott and Taylor Schilling star as a couple new to LA who try to make friends with Jason Schwartzman and Judith Godreche, but end up at a raunchy sleepover. It's awkward and amazing and just all-in-all fucking fantastic looking. We hope more than anything that this is our face for most of the movie. 
 The movie (based on the bestselling novel) will release later this year. Directed by Ridley Scott and adapted from Andy Weir's bestselling novel, The Martian follows Matt Damon as Mark Watney, an astronaut who is stranded on Mars. The star-studded cast includes Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Kate Mara, Michael Pena, Jeff Daniels, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Donald Glover. It is being considered one of the most highly anticipated films of the year (I personally can't wait to see it). Watch the full trailer here. |
