In just three weeks we’ve gone from zero to a hundred on the circuit as the film awards landscape has been sculpted into a bit of a consensus in these waning moments of 2011. Let’s see what that consensus appears to be.
Off the Carpet: Setting the field with the precursors so far
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:41 am · December 19th, 2011
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'The Artist' wins five from St. Louis critics
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:04 am · December 19th, 2011
After submitting nominees last week, the St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association has picked “The Artist” as this year’s Best Picture winner. Michel Hazanavicius won Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for the film, while Rooney Mara was singled out for her performance in “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.”
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Southeastern film critics go for 'Descendants,' Scorsese, Clooney, Streep
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:47 am · December 19th, 2011
The Southeastern Film Critics Association has crowned “The Descendants” the year’s best film, but with no awards for “The Artist,” one wonders if the high on that film is subsiding.
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'Tree of Life' wins four awards from Chicago critics, including Best Picture
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:03 am · December 19th, 2011
After Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life” led with seven nominations from the Chicago Film Critics Association, it seemed obvious the film was likely to win the group’s Best Picture award. But the film ended up walking away with four big wins in total.
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'Descendants,' 'Drive' win big at Satellite Awards
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:52 am · December 19th, 2011
After nominating any and everything under the sun, the International Press Academy (Satellite Awards) has tapped “The Descendants” as this year’s Best Picture of the year. The group, however, gave “Drive” a field-leading four wins, and overall, it’s a unique set of superlatives.
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Round-up: 2011's composers score the body electric
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:00 am · December 19th, 2011
Also: Jolie talks politics on ‘Blood and Honey’ and the year in dogs
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2011: the year in superlatives
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 10:11 am · December 16th, 2011
Who am I to complain about the amount of year-end kudos announcements when I had this post coming all along? I know. I’m so hypocritical.
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'Tree of Life' leads Chicago film critics nods
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:56 am · December 16th, 2011
The Chicago Film Critics Association has announced its list of nominees this year, and it’s full of the usual. But most interesting is that “The Tree of Life” star Hunter McCracken has finally received some attention.
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Dallas-Fort Worth critics REALLY like 'The Descendants'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:28 am · December 16th, 2011
The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association has picked its jumped into the fray with a list of winners and it’s rather clear they kind of had a thing for Alexander Payne’s “The Descendants.” The film won awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Screenplay. Check out the full list below.
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Detroit critics go with 'The Artist,' Fassbender
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 7:47 am · December 16th, 2011
The Detroit Film Critics Society has joined the chorus of superlatives for “The Artist,” giving the film Best Picture and Best Director after it racked up five nominations from the group. “Take Shelter,” which led the nominees, only won as part of Jessica Chastain’s Breakthrough Artist award.
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'The Artist' leads with six Golden Globe nods, Spielberg snubbed
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:27 am · December 15th, 2011
‘The Descendants’ and ‘The Help’ followed with five nominations apiece, but it’s George Clooney’s “The Ides of March,” with four, that is the morning’s big comeback kid.
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Oscarweb Round-up: Why Carla Bruni is a SAG nominee, while Corey Stoll is not
Posted by Guy Lodge · 3:45 am · December 15th, 2011
Also: Armond attacks the embargo and a wordsmith admires the silence of ‘The Artist’
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San Diego critics pick 'Artist,' Refn
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 5:04 pm · December 14th, 2011
The San Diego Film Critics Society has chosen “The Artist” as Best Picture for 2011 and Nicolas Winding Refn as Best Director for “Drive,” among other honors.
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Guessing the Globes
Posted by Guy Lodge · 11:54 am · December 14th, 2011
Here’s another chance for you to spitball the Golden Globes nominee list: we’re expecting a leading haul for “The Artist,” but what annual oddities will surface in the comedy/musical categories?
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The 2011 Longlists
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:19 am · December 14th, 2011
The Longlists are just that: a series of lists in various categories featuring what I thought was the top echelon of each. I trotted out 10, rather than the Oscar-centric five, throughout.
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'The Help' leads SAG nominations, Demián Bichir surprises in Best Actor
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:51 am · December 14th, 2011
The SAG Awards tend to hew closely to Oscar prognosticators’ lists, but they handed us a few wild cards this morning — not just in terms of who they nominated, but who they left out.
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'The Artist' dominates Phoenix film critics nods
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:14 am · December 14th, 2011
The Phoenix Film Critics Society has announced a massive list of nominations in various categories, and as has become the trend, Michel Hazanavicius’s “The Artist” led the way with 11 mentions. Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo” wasn’t far behind with 10.
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'The Descendants' takes Best Picture from Houston critics
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 9:00 pm · December 13th, 2011
“The Descendants” has been crowned Best Picture with the Houston Film Critics Society. Nicholas Winding Refn received his second Best Director prize of the day and Michael Fassbender was recognized for “Shame.” Check out the full list of winners below.
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