
For those of you who don't know who the Broadcast Film Critics Association are - lucky you! Shawn Edwards, Mark S. Allen, Bill Bregoli, Jim Ferguson, Andy Jones, Jeffrey Lyons, Michael Medved, Mose Persico, Tony Toscano, Jim Svejda and Clay Smith are just are a few of the names on their roster. With apologies to critics like James Rocchi, Paul Zimmerman and David Poland - this is a group that should be at the top as a toilet paper substitute. They love to brag about their ability to be a forecaster of the Oscars, which is pretty easy when you nominate TEN films for Best Picture and more than five actors and actresses. I once knocked the crap out of member Leo "The Film Freak" Quinones on the radio in 1998 in movie theme trivia and called him on the carpet for praising the sci-fi epic, Soldier, while having all sorts of hats to giveaway. That has nothing to do with their award announcement. It's just a fun story.
Like the Los Angeles Film Critics, the BFCA gave some appropriate backdoor love to Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain with 8 nominations. Other big vote getters were Crash (6), Good Night, and Good Luck (5) and 4 nominations each to Capote, Cinderella Man and Walk the Line. Also grabbing Best Film nods, but only 2 nominations each, were The Constant Gardener, King Kong and Munich.
Blah Blah Blah. So hip are the BFCA that they forgo traditional category titles like Screenplay and Original Score and substitute Best Writer and Best Composer.
Ooooh. They also vote on the best young actor and actresses, where
Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson have inaugural placement -- and
apparently they want to be forecasters of the original "forecasters" of
the Oscars (The Golden Globes) with a Best Comedy Movie category. Not
Best Comedy or Best Comedic Film - Best Comedy Movie! How much you want
to bet that with the exception of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The 40 Year-Old Virgin, Mrs. Henderson Presents, The Producers and Wedding Crashers get Globe nominations this week in the same category?
I
could rail about the Best Soundtrack category being a rather pointless
exercise considering they already have a Composer and Song category.
Yes, Cameron Crowe (Elizabethtown) puts together a great mix CD for his films and of course, Walk the Line would have one of the great soundtracks in any year - but Memoirs of a Geisha?
You've already got that in the Composer category and the John Williams
score is what is present on the CD - so why are you nominating it? Brokeback Mountain had music and songs. Good Night, and Good Luck
had great classic jazz by Dianne Reeves. Where are your heads? If you
can't do the category justice, lose it and then lose yourselves. But
let's look at that song category, where the BFCA has nominated "Seasons
of Love" from Rent.
Granted, the category does not contain the adjective "original" - but
are these moronic fucktard whorecocks serious??? Why not nominate "Walk
the Line" from Walk the Line or Asia's "Heat of the Moment" from The 40 Year-Old Virgin?
Shit, how 'bout "Happy Birthday to You"? I'm sure that popped up in a
film sometime this year or is that just too public domain for you? God
knows sloppy seconds ain't yo thang.
http://www.moviecitynews.com/awards/2006/cirtics_awards/bfca.html
BEST PICTUREBrokeback Mountain
Capote
Cinderella Man
The Constant Gardener
Crash
Good Night, and Good Luck.
King Kong
Memoirs of a Geisha
Munich
Walk the Line
BEST ACTOR
Russell Crowe Cinderella Man
Philip Seymour Hoffman Capote
Terrence Howard Hustle & Flow
Heath Ledger Brokeback Mountain
Joaquin Phoenix Walk the Line
David Strathairn Good Night, and Good Luck
BEST ACTRESS
Joan Allen The Upside of Anger
Judi Dench - Mrs. Henderson Presents
Felicity Huffman Transamerica
Keira Knightley Pride & Prejudice
Charlize Theron North Country
Reese Witherspoon Walk the Line
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
George Clooney Syriana
Kevin Costner The Upside of Anger
Matt Dillon Crash
Paul Giamatti Cinderella Man
Jake Gyllenhaal Brokeback Mountain
Terrence Howard Crash
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams Junebug
Maria Bello A History of Violence
Catherine Keener Capote
Frances McDormand North Country
Rachel Weisz The Constant Gardener
Michelle Williams Brokeback Mountain
BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
Crash
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Rent
Syriana
Sin City
BEST DIRECTOR
George Clooney Good Night, and Good Luck
Paul Haggis Crash
Ron Howard Cinderella Man
Peter Jackson King Kong
Ang Lee Brokeback Mountain
Steven Spielberg Munich
BEST WRITER
Noah Baumbach The Squid and the Whale
George Clooney and Grant Heslov Good Night, and Good Luck
Dan Futterman Capote
Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco Crash
Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana Brokeback Mountain
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Chicken Little
Corpse Bride
Howls Moving Castle
Madagascar
Wallace & Gromit The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
BEST YOUNG ACTOR
Jesse Eisenberg The Squid and the Whale
Alex Etel Millions
Freddie Highmore Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Owen Kline The Squid and the Whale
Daniel Radcliffe Harry Potter and Goblet of Fire
BEST YOUNG ACTRESS
Flora Cross Bee Season
Dakota Fanning War of the Worlds
Georgie Henley The Chronicles of Narnia The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
Q'Orianka Kilcher The New World
Emily Watson Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
BEST COMEDY MOVIE
The 40 Year-Old Virgin
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Mrs. Henderson Presents
The Producers
The Wedding Crashers
BEST FAMILY FILM (LIVE ACTION)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Dreamer
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The Chronicles of Narnia The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
Into the West
No Direction Home
Rome
Warm Springs
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Cache
Kung Fu Hustle
Oldboy
Paradise Now
2046
BEST SONG
Hustle & Flow Terrence Howard Hustle & Flow
A Love That Will Never Grow Old Emmylou Harris Brokeback Mountain
Same in Any Language I Nine Elizabethtown
Seasons of Love Tracie Thoms, Jesse L. Martin and Cast Rent
Travelin Thru Dolly Parton Transamerica
BEST SOUNDTRACK
Elizabethtown
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Producers
Rent
Walk the Line
BEST COMPOSER
James Horner The New World
Gustavo Santaolalla Brokeback Mountain
John Williams Memoirs of a Geisha
Nancy Wilson Elizabethtown
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Enron The Smartest Guys in the Room
Grizzly Man
Mad Hot Ballroom
March of the Penguins
Murderball
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