Hollywood Blogslap - Award Season

Chicks, Flicks, and Tittie Picks: 2005 Edition

nospam@example.com (William Goss) — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:31:09 -0700

2005 has come and gone, as have we. With this entry, we commemorate the finest of the female form on film in the past year. After all, you can't spell 'matinee' without T & A.

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Globetrottin' With The Hollywood Whorin' Press Association

nospam@example.com (Erik Childress) — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 21:19:03 -0700

The Golden Globes announced their 63rd annual nominations this morning and provided about 63 years worth of confusion into this year's Oscar race. Giving life to film's that were dying a slow death in the race and ignoring others probably cause they didn't see them until late or their brains couldn't process everything in time to make their pencils work.

They have continued to give strength to Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, again leading the pack with 7 nominations after taking top prize from the LA & NY critics.

Two of this year's expected front runners, Munich and King Kong, both failed to receive Best Picture nominations yet Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson each received a nod for Best Director. Munich's screenplay was nominated as was James Newton Howard's rush-job score for Kong, an odd choice considering it may be the most unnoticeable aspect of the film.

If you want some statistics or just a fan of the show Numbers (as I am), this doesn't necessarily bode well for both films to come away with a Best Picture nod at the Oscars.

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Golden Globe nominations announced. Hollywood Foreign Press remains weird.

nospam@example.com (Oz) — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:39:46 -0700

The Golden Globe nominations for 2005 are out, and the list is, how we say in French, le fucked up. In the Best Drama category, there's no sign of Syriana, Munich, North Country, King Kong, Capote or Memoirs of a Geisha. The Constant Gardener, which is good but not great, gets a nod, as does the largely floppish A History of Violence. Brokeback Mountain, Good Night and Good Luck and Matchpoint round out the category.

Despite Brokeback Mountain scooping much of the pool on nominations this year, Jake Gyllenhaal has been overlooked in the Best Supporting Actor category (George Clooney, Matt Dillon, Will Ferrell, Paul Giamatti and Bob Hoskins took the five available spots), and also disappointing is the fact that, apparently, the Hollywood Foreign Press don't watch Arrested Development. Bastards.

The full list of nominations follows the fold.

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More gay love for the gayest film critics group on the planet

nospam@example.com (Erik Childress) — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:47:20 -0700

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.
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LA Film Critics Dig Gay Cowboys

nospam@example.com (Erik Childress) — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:44:51 -0700

For the first time in God knows when, the credibility-challenged National Board of Review were not first out of the gate with their annual "awards". This year the honor goes to the Los Angeles Film Critics. (Actually, it was the Washington Area Film Critics - but no one was looking in their area.) This year, L.A. went with the gay cowboy epic, Brokeback Mountain, producing good news and bad news if statistics are your bread-and-butter.

The Good News: 14 of their last 20 picks for the top prize wound up with an Oscar nomination, including last year's Sideways.

The Bad: Only twice have their pick won in that time - and only 5 times since 1979.

Ang Lee's star-crossed romance also picked up a win for Best Director and a runner-up for Heath Ledger as Best Actor.
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You know how I know you're gay? You win awards.

nospam@example.com (David Cornelius) — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:34:20 -0700

The American Film Institute announced their picks for the best films of 2005, and guess who was right there with the big boys? Andy Stitzer, that's who.

Yup, The 40-Year-Old Virgin made the organization's annual year-end ten-best list, alongside such award-bait as Brokeback Mountain, Good Night, and Good Luck, and Munich. The news comes at the perfect time: not only does the film arrive on DVD Tuesday, but it's the beginning of Oscar season. Academy voters are hitting that time where they take note of the early awards. And with the AFI nod following Catherine Keener's win for Best Supporting Actress in the Los Angeles Film Critics Awards (it's a multi-film award, with Keener also being hailed for all her work this year), chances are looking for the Bitchslappers' favorite. Here's hoping we'll get to see an Original Screenplay nomination for Steve Carrell and Judd Apatow.

The complete list of AFI Movies of the Year: Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Crash, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Good Night, and Good Luck, A History of Violence, King Kong, Munich, The Squid and the Whale, and Syriana. For more, check out the AFI website.