Even if I promise to NOT get upset, I am very upset. So will not comment today. Most of you know how much I dislike French comedies, so no surprise if I say that top winner is okay but not much else.
Winners are in
*BLUE. If you wish to read winners at official site go
here.
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1/31/14
A few minutes ago at Fouqet's restaurant on Champs Elysees (ahh!), the French Academy announced the nominations for this year edition and fear no more, Abdellatif Kechiche master opus has many (8) nominations along with some excellent movies that were released in France during 2013 and yes, 2013 was another extraordinary year for French Cinema.
When we consider all nominations there are 47 that come from Cannes films and most were honored at the festival with award(s). That's another reason why these nominations show incredible high cinema-quality. Nevertheless
La Vie d'Adèle is not the film with more nominations (8) but is the film where most nods come from "main" categories; Cannes honored and box office success,
Me, Myself and Mum leads the tight pack with 10 nods, and
L'inconnu du Lac also got 8 nods as
La Vie d'Adèle. These three films are the top contenders. Still remember that more nominations doesn't necessarily mean more awards, at least in this award as just have to check last year where the most nominated film got no awards at all.
Perhaps the major snubs for me are the few nominations for
Jeune & Jolie and
Grand Central plus some surprises like
Jimmy P nominated for Best Film, but most complex -at least for me because who are nominated- are categories like actress in a lead role, female newcomer, and actor in a lead role as there are some excellent performances being honored. Still have my favorites and -of course- hope Léa Seydoux gets the honor, as well as Adèle Exarchopoulos and Mads Mikkelsen.
Can't help but to share that most social media (and now general news!) is talking about one peculiar issue that obviously is NOT related to cinema, Julie Gayet nomination! Well, is great to have a good laugh so early in my morning.
Awards ceremony will be on February 28 at Châtelet, with François Cluzet acting as President and my favorite Cécile de France as Maîtresse de Cérémonie. Ceremony is stream live by Canal + and as every year will be and odyssey to find a stream available worldwide, sigh.
These are the nominations for the twenty-two (22) categories.
Best Film9 mois ferme (9 Month Strech) by Albert Duponel
*Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table! (Me, Myself and Mum) by Guillaume GallienneL'inconnu du Lac (Stranger by the Lake) by Alain Guiraudie
Jimmy P. (Psychothérapie d'un Indien des Plaines) (Jimmy P.) by Arnaud Desplechin
Le Passé (The Past) by Asghar Farhadi
La Vénus à la Foururre (Venus in Fur) by Roman Polanski
La Vie d'Adèle - Chapitres 1 et 2 (Blue is the Warmest Color) by Abdellatif Kechiche
Best First FilmLa Bataille de Solférino (Age of Panic) by Justine Triet
La Cage dorée (The Gilded Cage) by Ruben Alves
En solitaire (Turning Tide) by Christophe Offenstein
La fille du 14 juillet (The Rendez-Vous of Déjà-Vu) by Antonin Peretjatko
*Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table! (Me, Myself and Mum) by Guillaume GallienneBest Animated FilmAya de Yopougon (Aya of Yop City) by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie
*Loulou l'Incroyable Secret by Eric OmondMa maman est en Amérique, elle a rencontré Buffalo Bill (My Mummy is in America and She Met Buffalo Bill) by Marc Boreal and Thibaut Chatel
Best Foreign Film*The Broken Circle Breakdown by Felix Van GroeningenBlancanieves by Pablo Berger
Blue Jasmine by Woody Allen
Dead Man Talking by Patrick Ridremont
Django Unchained by Quentin Tarantino
La Grande Bellezza by Paolo Sorrentino
Gravity by Alfonso Cuarón
Best DirectorAlbert Dupontel for
9 mois ferme (9 Month Strech)
Guillaume Gallienne for
Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table! (Me, Myself and Mum)
Alain Guiraudie for
L'inconnu du Lac (Stranger by the Lake)
Arnaud Desplechin for
Jimmy P. (Psychothérapie d'un Indien des Plaines) (Jimmy P.)
Asghar Farhadi for
Le Passé (The Past)
*Roman Polanski for La Vénus à la Foururre (Venus in Fur)Abdellatif Kechiche for
La Vie d'Adèle - Chapitres 1 et 2 (Blue is the Warmest Color)
Best ActressFanny Ardant in
Les Beaux Jours (Bright Days Ahead)
Bérénice Béjo in
Le Passé (The Past)
Catherine Deneuve in
Elle s'En Va (On My Way)
Sara Forestier in
Suzanne*Sandrine Kiberlain in 9 mois ferme (9 Month Strech)Emmanuelle Seigner in
La Vénus à la Foururre (Venus in Fur)
Léa Seydoux in
La Vie d'Adèle - Chapitres 1 et 2 (Blue is the Warmest Color)
Best Supporting ActressMarisa Borini in
Un Château en ItalieFrançoise Fabian in
Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table! (Me, Myself and Mum)
Julie Gayet in
Quai d'Orsay*Adèle Haenel in SuzanneGéraldine Pailhas in
Jeune & JolieBest Female NewcomerLou de Laâge in
JappeloupPauline Etienne in
La Religieuse (The Nun)
*Adèle Exarchopoulos in La Vie d'Adèle - Chapitres 1 et 2 (Blue is the Warmest Color)Golshifteh Farahani in
Syngué sabour - Pierre de patience (The Patience Stone)
Marine Vacth in
Jeune & JolieBest ActorMathieu Amalric in
La Vénus à la Foururre (Venus in Fur)
Michel Bouquet in
RenoirAlbert Dupontel in
9 mois ferme (9 Month Strech)
Grégory Gadebois in
Mon âme par toi guérie (One of a Kind)
*Guillaume Gallienne in Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table! (Me, Myself and Mum)Fabrice Luchini in
Alceste à bicyclette (Cycling with Moliere)
Mads Mikkelsen in
Michael Kohlhaas (Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas)
Best Supporting Actor*Niels Arestrup in Quai d'OrsayPatrick Chesnais in
Les Beaux Jours (Bright Days Ahead)
Patrick d'Assumçao in
L'inconnu du Lac (Stranger by the Lake)
François Damiens in
SuzanneOlivier Gourmet in
Grand CentralBest Male NewcomerPaul Bartel in
Les Petits Princes*Pierre Deladonchamps in L'inconnu du Lac (Stranger by the Lake)Paul Hamy in
SuzanneVincent Macaigne in
La fille du 14 juillet (The Rendez-Vous of Déjà-Vu)
Nemo Schiffman in
Elle s'en va (On My Way)
Best Original ScreenplayMariette Désert and Katell Quillévéré for
Suzanne*Albert Dupontel for 9 mois ferme (9 Month Strech)Asghar Farhadi for
Le Passé (The Past)
Philippe Le Guay for
Alceste à bicyclette (Cycling with Moliere)
Alain Guiraudie for
L'inconnu du Lac (Stranger by the Lake)
Best Adapted ScreenplayAntonin Baudry, Christophe Blain and Bertrand Tavernier for
Quai d'OrsayArnaud Desplechin, Julie Peyr and Kent Jones for
Jimmy P. (Psychothérapie d'un Indien des Plaines) (Jimmy P.)
*Guillaume Gallienne for Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table! (Me, Myself and Mum)David Ives and Roman Polanski for
La Vénus à la Fourrure (Venus in Fur)
Abdellatif Kechiche and Ghalya Lacroix for
La Vie d'Adèle - Chapitres 1 et 2 (Blue is the Warmest Color)
Best Cinematography*Thomas Harmeier for L'extravagant voyage du jeune et prodigieux T.S. Spivet (The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet)Claire Mathon for
L'inconnu du Lac (Stranger by the Lake)
Jeanne Lapoirie for
Michael Kohlhaas (Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas)
Mark Ping Bing Lee for
RenoirSofian El Fani for
La Vie d'Adèle - Chapitres 1 et 2 (Blue is the Warmest Color)
Best Editing*Valèrie Deseine for Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table! (Me, Myself and Mum)Jean-Christophe Hym for
L'Inconnu du lac (Stranger by the Lake)
Christophe Pinel for
9 mois ferme (9 Month Strech)
Camille Toubkis, Albertine Lastera and Jean-Marie Lengellè for
La Vie d'Adèle - Chapitres 1 et 2 (Blue is the Warmest Color)
Juliette Welfling for
Le Passé (The Past)
Best Original SoundtrackJorge Arriagada for
Alceste à bicyclette (Cycling with Moliere)
Loïk Dury and Christophe "Disco" Minck for
Casse-tête chinois (Chinese Puzzle)
Etienne Charry for
L'Ecume des Jours (Mood Indigo)
*Martin Wheeler for Michael Kohlhaas (Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas)Alexandre Desplat for
La Vénus à la Fourrure (Venus in Fur)
Best SoundMarc-Antoine Beldent, Loïc Prian, Olivier Dô Hùu for
Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table! (Me, Myself and Mum)
Philippe Grivel and Nathalie Vidal for
L'inconnu du lac (Stranger by the Lake)
*Jean-Pierre Duret, Jean Mallet and Mélissa Petitjean for Michael Kohlhaas (Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas)Lucien Balibar, Nadine Muse and Cyril Holtz for
La Vénus à la fourrure (Venus in Fur)
Jérôme Chenevoy, Fabien Pochet and Jean-Paul Hurier for
La Vie d'Adèle - Chapitres 1 et 2 (Blue is the Warmest Color)
Best CostumesOlivier Bériot for
Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table! (Me, Myself and Mum)
*Pascaline Chavanne for RenoirAnina Diener for
Michael Kohlhaas (Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas)
Florence Fointaine for
L'Ecume des Jours (Mood Indigo)
Florence Fontaine for
L'extravagant voyage du jeune et prodigieux T.S. Spivet (The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet)
Best Set DesignYan Arlaud for
Michael Kohlhaas (Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas)
Benoit Barough for
RenoirAline Bonetto for
L'extravagant voyage du jeune et prodigieux T.S. Spivet (The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet)
Sylvie Olivé for
Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table! (Me, Myself and Mum)
*Stéphane Rozenbaum for L'Ecume des Jours (Mood Indigo)Best DocumentaryComment j'ai détesté les maths by Olivier Peyon
Le dernier des injustes (The Last of the Unjust) by Claude Lanzmann
Il était une forêt by Luc Jacquet
La maison de la radio by Nicolas Philibert
*Sur le chemin de l'école by Pascal PlissonBest Short Film*Avant que de tout perdre (Just Before Losing Everything) by Xavier Legrand, 29'Bambi by Sebastien Lifshitz, 58' (this is not a short film! - is a documentary)
La fugue by Jean-Bernard Marlin, 23'
Les Lézards by Vincent Mariette, 14'
Marseille la nuit by Marien Monge, 40'
Best Animated Short FilmLettres des Femmes by Augusto Zanovello
*Mademoiselle Kiki et les Montparnos (Kiki of Montparnasse) by Amélie HarraultIf you wish to check nominations at official site go
here but have to downlowad a pdf file.
Most surprising nomination is for
Bambi by Sebastien Lifshitz not because is not good, as a matter of fact is an excellent must be seen documentary (!), but because is nominated as a short film (!) with 58 minutes! Go figure, hope they fix this.
There are a few films that I have not seen, some because decided not to see and now maybe will, others because escaped my radar and one/two that I'm dying to see and haven't seen them yet. Still the "important" (lol) ones have seen them and yes, they're fantastic films! Most interesting, from those that escaped my radar, is the second film by Katell Quillévéré (remember
Un Poison Violent?)
Suzanne that not only has a very interesting story but also Adèle Haenel performs.
I suppose that this will be the only -non LGBT- major award where a lesbian interest movie will be competing with a gay interest movie for the top award! Doubt we will soon see this milestone again and -obviously- believe that the lesbian interest movie is highly superior to the gay interest film and to the others in the race for best film.
Yesterday was the Spirits Awards ceremony and somehow surprisingly top categories winners are the 'expected' Oscar winners which is highly unusual when the Indie world collides with the Studio world (aka Hollywood).
23rd Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards Winners
British Independent Film Awards
Film Independent Spirit Awards
