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Pride Picks Up A BAFTA, But Imitation Game Loses Out

February 9, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

EE BAFTA Rising Star winner Jack O'Connell

EE BAFTA Rising Star winner Jack O’Connell

It was a big night at the EE British Academy Film Awards, where Boyhood was named Best Film with Richard Linklater winning Director and Patricia Arquette receiving the award for Supporting Actress. The Awards were hosted for a tenth year by Stephen Fry and held at London’s Royal Opera House.

While Pride lost out on Best Supporting Actress for Imelda Staunton and Best British Film, Writer Stephen Beresford and Producer David Livingstone received the award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer for the movie.

However the big loser on the gay-themed front was The Imitation Game, which had high hopes due to its 10 nominations, but walked away with absolutely nothing. To be honest that won’t be surprising to many, as few thought it was likely to do particularly well, but there was hope it would pick up a couple.

The Grand Budapest Hotel won five awards: Costume Design, Production Design, Make Up & Hair and Original Music, with Wes Anderson winning his first BAFTA for Original Screenplay.

Leading Actor was presented to Eddie Redmayne for his portrayal of Professor Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything, which also received the awards for Outstanding British Film and Adapted Screenplay.

Whiplash received three BAFTAs: Supporting Actor for J. K. Simmons, Editing and Sound. Leading Actress was presented to Julianne Moore for her role in Still Alice, meaning all four of this year’s performance awards went to first-time BAFTA winners.

Writer Stephen Beresford and Producer David Livingstone received the award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer for their first feature film Pride. Previous Outstanding Debut winner Pawel Pawlikowski picked up the award for Film Not in the English Language for Ida.

Emmanuel Lubezki received the BAFTA for Cinematography for Birdman, having won this category twice previously, most recently in 2014.

The Lego Movie received the BAFTA for Animated Film, and Special Visual Effects was presented to Interstellar. The award for Documentary was won by Citizenfour.

Boogaloo and Graham won the British Short Film award and the British Short Animation award was presented to The Bigger Picture; both shorts are nominated for this year’s international short film and animation categories at the Oscars later this month.

The EE Rising Star Award, voted for by the public, was presented to Jack O’Connell.

The special award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema was presented to BBC Films in their 25th year. Mike Leigh, whose films include Naked, Secrets & Lies, Vera Drake and Mr. Turner, received the Fellowship, the highest honour the Academy can bestow.

You can take a look at the full list of winners below:

[Read more…]

CHECK OUT THESE RELATED ARCHIVES:
ACTORS: Jack O'Connell, Julianne Moore, Patricia Arquette, Eddie Redmayne  FILMS: Pride, The Imitation Game, Boyhood, The Grand Budapest Hotel  

Gay & Lesbian Entertainment Critics’ Dorian Awards Go To Transparent, Pride & More

January 20, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

dorian2015-nomineesIf most awards are a bit too straight for you, then GALECA – the Gay & Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association – and their Dorian Awards are for you. They had out gongs for both mainstream and gay-themed films, as well as in more unusual categories such as Campy Film Of The Year, and Wilde Wit Of The Year.

Now this year’s winner’s have been announced, with Boyhood getting Best Film Of The Year. It’s a good omen as for the past two years GALECA has chosen the movie in that category that went on to win the Best Picture Oscar. Eddie Redmayne and Julianne Moore took the film Film Performance gongs, while Ava DuVernay got Best Director Selma.

On the gay front, there was an extremely strong field of contenders for LGBTQ Film Of The Year, including Stranger By The Lake, Love Is Strange and the multi-Oscar nominated The Imitation Game, but in the end it went to the excellent Pride, which also picked up Unsung Film Of The Year.

In the TV categories, Transparent was by far the biggest winner, scoring TV Comedy of the Year, TV Director of the Year for Jill Soloway, TV Performance of the Year – Actor for Jeffrey Tambor and LGBTQ TV Show of the Year. The Normal Heart also stood out, taking TV Drama Of The Year.

Take a look below for the full list of this year’s Dorian Award winners.

Film of the Year
Boyhood – Sundance Selects/IFC

Birdman – Fox Searchlight
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Fox Searchlight
The Imitation Game – The Weinstein Company
Pride – CBS Films

Film Performance of the Year – Actor
Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything – Universal

Steve Carell, Foxcatcher – Sony Pictures Classics
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game – The Weinstein Company
Jake Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler – Open Road
Michael Keaton, Birdman – Fox Searchlight

Film Performance of the Year – Actress
Julianne Moore, Still Alice – Sony Pictures Classics

Essie Davis, The Babadook – Sundance Selects/IFC
Anne Dorval, Mommy – Lionsgate
Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl – 20th Century Fox
Reese Witherspoon, Wild – Fox Searchlight

Film Director of the Year
Ava DuVernay, Selma – Paramount

Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel – Fox Searchlight
David Fincher, Gone Girl – 20th Century Fox
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Birdman – Fox Searchight
Richard Linklater, Boyhood – Sundance Selects/IFC

LGBTQ Film of the Year
Pride – CBS Films

The Imitation Game – The Weinstein Company
Love is Strange – Sony Pictures Classics
Stranger by the Lake – Strand Releasing
The Way He Looks – Strand Releasing

Foreign Language Film of the Year
Mommy – Lionsgate

Force Majeure – Magnolia Pictures
Ida – Music Box Films
Stranger by the Lake – Strand Releasing
Two Days, One Night – Sundance Selects/IFC

Unsung Film of the Year
Pride – CBS Films

Obvious Child – A24
Love is Strange – Sony Pictures Classics
The Skeleton Twins – Roadside Attractions
Snowpiercer – Radius/TWC

Documentary of the Year
(theatrical release, TV airing or DVD release)
The Case Against 8 – HBO

CitizenFour – Radius/TWC
Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me – Sundance Selects
Life Itself – Magnolia Pictures
Regarding Susan Sontag – HBO

Visually Striking Film of the Year
(honoring a production of stunning beauty, from art direction to cinematography)
The Grand Budapest Hotel – Fox Searchlight

Birdman – Fox Searchlight
Interstellar – Paramount
Snowpiercer – Radius/TWC
Under the Skin – A24

Campy Flick of the Year
Into the Woods

Annie
Gone Girl
Maleficent
Tammy

TV Drama of the Year
The Normal Heart – HBO

Fargo – FX
The Good Wife – CBS
How To Get Away with Murder – ABC
Mad Men – AMC

TV Comedy of the Year
Transparent – Amazon

The Comeback – HBO
Modern Family – ABC
Orange is the New Black – Netflix
Veep – HBO

TV Director of the Year
Jill Soloway, Transparent – Amazon

Lisa Cholodenko, Olive Kitteridge – HBO
Jodie Foster, Orange is the New Black -Netflix
Andrew Haigh, Looking – HBO
Ryan Murphy, The Normal Heart – HBO

TV Performance of the Year – Actor
Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent – Amazon

Matthew Bomer, The Normal Heart – HBO
Matthew McConaughey, True Detective – HBO
Mark Ruffalo, The Normal Heart – HBO
Kevin Spacey, House of Cards – Netflix

TV Performance of the Year – Actress
Lisa Kudrow, The Comeback – HBO

Viola Davis, How to Get Away with Murder – ABC
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife – CBS
Tatiana Maslany, Orphan Black – BBC America
Frances McDormand, Olive Kitteridge – HBO

TV Musical Performance of the Year
Neil Patrick Harris, “Sugar Daddy,” The Tony Awards – CBS

Beyonce, MTV Video Music Awards – MTV
Jessica Lange, “Life on Mars,” American Horror Story: Freak Show – FX
Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, Madonna, et al., “Same Love,” The Grammys – CBS
Prince, Saturday Night Live – NBC

LGBTQ TV Show of the Year
Transparent – Amazon

Looking – HBO
Modern Family – ABC
Orange is the New Black – Netflix
Please Like Me – Pivot

Unsung TV Show of the Year
Getting On – HBO

Looking – HBO
Orphan Black – BBC America
Please Like Me – Pivot
Transparent – Amazon

TV Current Affairs Show of the Year
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart – Comedy Central

Anderson Cooper 360 – CNN
The Colbert Report – Comedy Central
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver – HBO
The Rachel Maddow Show – MSNBC

Campy TV Show of the Year
Jane the Virgin

American Horror Story: Freak Show
How to Get Away with Murder
Peter Pan Live!
Penny Dreadful

Music Video of the Year
Sia, “Chandelier”

Nicki Minaj, “Anaconda”
Perfume Genius, “Queen”
Taylor Swift, “Blank Space”
Meghan Trainor, “All About That Bass”

The “We’re Wilde About You!” Rising Star Award
Gina Rodriguez

Ansel Elgort
Jack Falahee
Ellar Coltrane
Jack O’Connell
Finn Wittrock

Wilde Wit of the Year
(honoring a performer, writer or commentator whose observations both challenge and amuse)
John Oliver

Stephen Colbert
Rachel Maddow
Bill Maher
Jon Stewart

Wilde Artist of the Year
(honoring a truly groundbreaking force in the fields of film, theater and/or television)
Jill Solloway

Xavier Dolan
Neil Patrick Harris
Richard Linklater
Tilda Swinton

Timeless Award
(to an actor or performer whose exemplary career is marked by character, wisdom and wit)
George Takei

CHECK OUT THESE RELATED ARCHIVES:
ACTORS: Eddie Redmayne, Julianne Moore  FILMS: Transparent, Pride, The Normal Heart, The Theory Of Everything, Boyhood  

The Oscar Nominations Are Here, With Imitation Game Leading The LGBT Charge!

January 15, 2015 By Tim Isaac 1 Comment

oscars-neil-patrick-harrisThe race is on! The Oscar nominations have been announced, so we now know the people and movies that will be vying for a win when the gongs are handed out February 22nd at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.

As expected it’s a relatively open field, with no films looking like it’s going to sweep the board, but quite a few now teed up to go for Oscar glory. As expected there was a good showing for both Birdman and Boyhood. However there are others who’ve done well too, including The Imitation Game, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Theory Of Everything and American Sniper.

All of those movie showed up in the Best Picture race, which also includes Selma and Whiplash. Likewise they dominated the Best Director race, with only Theory Of Everything’s James Marsh and Oscar fave Clint Eastwood (American Sniper) missing out on nominations.

In the Best Actor race there were no surprises – indeed it was exactly as most predicted – with Steve Carell (Foxcatcher), Bradley Cooper (American Sniper), Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game), Michael Keaton (Birdman) and Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything). It’s a slightly more unpredictable race in the Best Actress race, with Marion Cotillard (Two Days, One Night), Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything), Julianne Moore (Still Alice), Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl), and Reese Witherspoon (Wild).

It’s a rather mixed picture for LGBT movies, as while The Imitation Game’s eight nominations is undoubtedly good, that’s pretty much it, especially amongst the major categories. There had previously been high hopes for some gay-themed movies in both the Best Documentary and Best Foreign Language Film categories, but in the end none of them made the cut. And with Imitation Game not expected to win any major awards, it could be a bit of a gay drought. Well, sort of, as with Neil Patrick Harris presenting, we won’t be completely forgotten.

It’s a particular shame that Pride got nothing, as with the right marketing the movie should have had a good showing amongst the nominations, as it’s undoubtedly one of the best movies released in the past 12 months. Unfortunately it got absolutely nothing.

But then, it wasn’t the only way the Academy showed they were morons this morning, as they missed the awesome Lego Movie off the Best Animated Movie list, while including the far inferior (but still decent) Big Hero Six. If that wasn’t evidence they’re not very good at this nominating business, I don’t know what is.

You can take a look at the full list of nominees below: [Read more…]

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FILMS: The Imitation Game, Boyhood, American Sniper, The Theory Of Everything, The Grand Budapest Hotel  

Imitation Game, Pride & Normal Heart Lead A Great Year For LGBT Entertainment In The Golden Globe Nominations

December 11, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

pride-better-slideIt seems far too early for the Awards Season to have started, but with the Oscars recently moving earlier in the year it’s pushed all the other shows up as well. That means that while 2013 hasn’t ended yet and several of the big award contenders are yet to be released, the Golden Globe nominations are already out, ahead of the ceremony on January 11th, 2015 (which is deliberately timed to be handed out just a few days before Oscar nomination ballots are due).

Often seen as the biggest (or at least noisiest) bellweather for the Academy Awards, this year Birdman led the movie list with seven nominations, while Boyhood and The Imitation Game got five each.

On the TV side Fargo led the way with five nominations, while True Detective scored four.

There were some surprises, with Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken being completely shut out, while Pride getting a Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical nomination was impressive for a film that had little awards buzz and which scored just $1.4 million on its US release (despite near universal rave reviews). The hope is that the Golden Globe buzz may encourage a few more Oscar voters to check out the British film about a group of gay men and lesbians who form a bond with the small Welsh villagers during the 1980s miners’ strike.

Imitation Game and Pride led a great year for LGBT entertainment at the Globes, which also included Transparent scoring a nomination for Best Television Series – Comedy or Musical, and the series’ star, Jeffrey Tambor, being acknowledged in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Comedy or Musical category.

The Normal Heart was also included with a Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television nomination, while both Mark Ruffalo and Matt Bomer amongst the acting nominees. Similarly Orange Is The New Black is up for Best Television Series – Comedy or Musical, with acting noms for Taylor Schilling and Uzo Aduba.

You can take a look at the full list of nominations below: [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Matt Bomer, Mark Ruffalo, Taylor Schilling, Uzo Aduba, Jeffrey Tambor  FILMS: Pride, The Imitation Game, Boyhood, Birdman, The Normal Heart, Orange Is The New Black  

Boyhood Trailer – Richard Linklater’s coming of age drama filmed over 12 years

April 26, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


We’ve been waiting a long time for Boyhood – 12 years to be precise. Director Richard Linklater has been shooting a few scenes a year of the movie over more than a decade, which has allowed him to work with the same boy from his childhood and follow him through his adolescence.

The resulting film has already premiered to much acclaim at film festivals, and now we get to take our first look with a trailer.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘The film tracks 6 year-old Mason (Ellar Coltrane) over life’s most radically fluctuating decade, through a familiar whirl of family moves, family controversies, faltering marriages, re-marriages, new schools, first loves, lost loves, good times, scary times and a constantly unfolding mix of heartbreak and wonder. But the results are unpredictable, as one moment braids into the next, entwining into a deeply personal experience of the incidents that shape us as we grow up and the ever-changing nature of our lives.

‘As the story begins, dreamy-eyed grade-schooler Mason faces upheaval: his devoted, struggling single mom Olivia (Patricia Arquette) has decided to move him and older sister Samantha (Lorelei Linklater) to Houston – just as their long-absent father Mason Sr. (Ethan Hawke) returns from Alaska to re-enter their world. Thus begins life’s non-stop flux. Yet through a tide of parents and stepparents, girls, teachers and bosses, dangers, yearnings and creative passions, Mason emerges to head down his own road.’

The film’s due out July 11th. [Read more…]

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DIRECTORS: Richard Linklater  FILMS: Boyhood  

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