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Call Me By Your Name Picks Up A BAFTA, But Three Billboards Is The Big Winner

February 18, 2018 By Tim Isaac 2 Comments

Although Call Me By Your Name went into the award season as one of the top contenders, at the larger ceremonies it’s tended to be muscled out by other movies. However, at the BAFTAs it did at least pick up one award, with James Ivory nabbing Best Adapted Screenplay. It’s the veteran gay filmmaker’s first competitive BAFTA since winning Best Film for Howards End back in 1992.

The big winner of the night was Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which was named Best Film and Outstanding British Film (despite being set in the US, it was made with largely British and Irish money and expertise), with Martin McDonagh winning Original Screenplay, Sam Rockwell taking Supporting Actor, and Frances McDormand receiving the BAFTA for Leading Actress. It cements its position as the frontrunner for the Oscars.

However, while it will probably do well at the Academy Awards and seems an increasingly strong contender for the Best Picture Oscar, it is unusual for getting fairly little love for McDonagh as the Director (he wasn’t even Oscar nominated in that category). As at several other ceremonies, Best Director went elsewhere, with Guillermo Del Toro picking up the gong for The Shape Of Water. That film also saw Alexandre Desplat collect the Original Music award, and it picked up Best Production Design.

Gary Oldman won Leading Actor for Darkest Hour; the film also won the award for Make Up & Hair, while Supporting Actress went to Allison Janney for her role as Tonya Harding’s mother in I, Tonya. Roger Deakins won his fourth BAFTA for Cinematography for Blade Runner 2049, which also won for Special Visual Effects.

Sadly, of the other LGBT nominations, God’s Own Country failed to win Best British Film, and the movie’s star, Josh O’Connor, lost out to Get Out’s Daniel Kaluuya for the EE Rising Star award. On the plus side, I Am Not Your Negro, about gay activist and writer, James Baldwin, won Best Documntary.

Take a look below for the full list of winners. [Read more…]

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FILMS: Call Me By Your Name, The Shape Of Water, The Darkest Hour, Three Billboards Outside Ebbings Missouri  

The Shape Of Water Scores 13 Oscar Nominations, While Call Me By Your Name Gets Four

January 23, 2018 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has announced this year’s Oscar nominees. In most years that would help solidify which films were the absolute frontrunners, but this remains one of the most open Oscar races for years. Guillermo Del Toro’s excellent The Shape Of Water leads the pack with an impressive 13 nominations (one short of the record of 14 nominations shared by Titanic, All About Eve and La La Land). However, that doesn’t mean it’s a shoo-in for the big awards, as many feel the likes of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay and the acting category are likely to go to other movies.

Just to show how open a race it is, the second highest number of nominations went to Dunkirk, with eight, but few expect that film to pick up anything outsie the technical categories. More likely to be picking up some of the big gongs is Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which scored seven nominations, including Best Film, Best Actress for Frances McDormand and Best Supporting Actor for Sam Rockwell (many feel Rockwell is the most likely to win of all the acting nominess, but even with him there’s controversy over his character’s racism). However, despite many feeling Three Billboards has an extremely good shot at winning Best Picture, Martin McDonagh failed to get a Best Director nomination.

After several years of criticism for its lack of diversity, this year’s nominations did make some small steps towards sexual and racial equality, particularly in the Best Director category. McDonagh may have missed out on a Best Director nomination, but so did Steven Spielberg and several other major contenders. Instead, Jordan Peele is now the fifth African-American director to ever score a Best Director nomination for Get Out (none has ever won), while Greta Gerwig is the fifth woman in the same category (only Kathryn Bigelow has won). And following anger at how few black actors scored nominations in the last few years, this year Denzel Washington (Roman J. Israel, Esq.) and Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out) were nominated for Best Actor, while Mary J. Blige (Mudbound) and Octavia Spencer (The Shape Of Water) are included in the Best Supporting Actress category.

Many have also noted there seems to have been swift professional retribution for James Franco, who emerged as one of the Best Actor frontrunners following his Golden Globe win for The Disaster Artist. However, he’s since been embroiled in allegations of harrassment and innapropriate behaviour, and has now failed to score a Best Actor Oscar nomination.

LGBT hopes were always going to be led by Call Me By Your Name. While it’s not been quite the awards powerhouse it looked like it might be early in the season, the gay romance nevertheless scored four nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Original Song and Best Screenplay. While many feel its best chance of a gong is for gay elder statesman James Ivory’s masterful screenplay, the Best Actor nomination for Timothee Chalamet is notable for another reason. At just 22 he’s the youngest Best Actor nominee since Mickey Rooney in 1939, and third youngest ever.

Many will be disappointed that there was no nomination for Armie Hammer. However, while he was the early frontrunner in the Best Supporting Actor category, others have since crowded him out – despite the fact in many other years there’s a good chance he’d have won.

Elsewhere the wonderful Chilean trans-themed film, A Fantastic Woman was nominated in the Best Foreign Language film category, while Richard Jenkins was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for playing a gay character in The Shape Of Water.

Take a look at the full list of nominations below. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Timothee Chalamet, Sam Rockwell, Frances McDormand  DIRECTORS: Jordan Peele, Greta Gerwig  FILMS: Call Me By Your Name, The Shape Of Water, Three Billboards Outside Ebbings Missouri, Get Out  

LGBTQ Film & TV Critics Group GALECA Announces Its Dorian Awards Nominations

January 10, 2018 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

The Golden Globes were handed out last week and the Oscars and still to come, but sandwiched between them is the Dorian Film and TV Awards, given out by GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (of which yours truly is a member).

The nominations for this year’s gongs have been announced, which were unsurprisingly led by Call Me by Your Name, which scored nine nominations. That includes nods for both the film’s lead actors, Timothee Chalamet and Armie Hammer, as well as for Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Director and more.

While other film awards have treated Call Me By You Name as the ony great gay-themed movie of the year, GALECA has highlighted others, most notably the excellent French movie, BPM (Beat Per Minute), about members of the activist AIDS organisation ACT UP Paris in the late 1980s and early 1990s. As well as expected nominations in the Best Foreign Language Film and LGBTQ Film Of The Year categories, it also scored nominations for Best Film, Best Actor (for Nahuel Perez Biscayart) and Unsung Film Of The Year.

It may also not be a coincidence that the other nominees for Best Film also had stories that focussed on outsiders – Lady Bird (which also features a prominent gay subplot), Get Out and The Shape of Water. Nods for LGBTQ Film Of The Year went to Battle of the Sexes, the excellent trans-themed Chilean drama A Fantastic Woman, and Britain’s gay farming flick, God’s Own Country, along with Call Me By Your Name and BPM.

Other than Call Me By Your Name, the most nominations in the film categories overall went to The Shape of Water with seven nominations, and Get Out, which scored six.

There’s also the Dorian’s more unusual categories, including Campy Film Of The Year, where Baywatch, The Disaster Artist, The Greatest Showman, I, Tonya and mother! will compete for being the most over the top. You can take a look at the nominees for all the categories across film and TV below. The winners will be announced on January 31st, ahead of the winner’s toast in LA on February 24th. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Armie Hammer, Timothee Chalamet, Nahuel Perez Biscayart  FILMS: Call Me By Your Name, 120 Beats Per Minute (BPM) Get Out, Lady Bird, The Shape Of Water  

The Shape Of Water Tops BAFTA Nominations, While Call Me By Your Name Leads LGBT Nominees

January 9, 2018 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Today the nominations for the BAFTA Film Awards were announced, with Guillermo Del Toro’s grown-up fantasy The Shape Of Water leading the pack with 12 nods. It scored nominations for Best Film, Original Music, Cinematography, Production Design, Costume Design, Sound, Editing and Special Visual Effects. Guillermo del Toro is nominated for both Director and Original Screenplay, Sally Hawkins for Leading Actress and Octavia Spencer for Supporting Actress.

Next up were Darkest Hour and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which both receives nine nominations; Blade Runner 2049 and Dunkirk with eight, and I, Tonya with five. Many were surprised that Blade Runner 2049 did so well, especially as it scored a coveted Best Director nomination, alongside nods in numerous technical category.

The gay-themed Call Me By Your Name picked up four nominations, including Best Film and Adapted Screenplay for gay writer James Ivory. Luca Guadagnino is nominated for Director, while Timothée Chalamet is nominated for Leading Actor. There was no nomination though in the Supporting Actor category for Armie Hammer, despite him going into awards season as one of the frontrunners for the equivalent Oscar.

Chalamet was also nominated in the previously announced EE Rising Star category, which is voted for by the public and goes to an up and coming actor. Also nominated in that category is Josh O’Connor, who starred in the gay Brit hit God’s Own Country. That movie was also nominated for Outstanding British Film, but unfortunately it wasn’t seen included in any other categories, despite being one of the most praised British movies of the past year.

Other LGBT nominations include I Am Not Your Negro in Best Documntary, which is about gay activist and writer, James Baldwin. Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool scored three nominations including Leading Actress for Annette Bening and Jamie Bell for Leading Actor. The characters they play are bisexual, although it’s treated a very minor point in the movie.

Take a look at the full list of nominees below? [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Timothee Chalamet, Josh O'Connor  FILMS: The Shape Of Water, Call Me By Your Name, Blade Runner 2049  

Call Me By Your Name Loses Out At The Golden Globes, While Three Billboards Picks Up Four

January 8, 2018 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

The headlines surrounding the Golden Globe Awards were understandably less about the movies and more about the statements against sexual harassment and gender inequality in the film industry made on the stage – and of course the almost all-black wardrobe choices. Although some had questioned whether there was any point to the black dresses while Hollywood was slapping itself on the back, the Globes turned out to be a good way of highlighting the issues – not least Best Director presenter Natalie Portman’s comment that it was an all-male shortlist.

Although the actual winners had to slightly take a backseat, it was Three Billboards Outside Ebbings, Missouri that was the biggest winner in the film categories, taking four awards. It picked up Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Screenplay, Best Actress for Frances McDormand and Best Supporting Actor for Sam Rockwell.

Lady Bird was named Best Picture Comedy or Musical, despite the fact its director, Greta Gerwig, wasn’t even nominated in the Best Director category. Lady Bird also saw Saoirse Ronan win Best Actress – Musical Or Comedy, while James Franco won Best Actor Comedy/Musical for The Disaster Artist. Best Actor – Drama went to Gary Oldman in The Darkest Hour.

It meant that one of the movies that’s been picking up numerous other awards this Oscar season – the gay-themed Call Me By Your Name – walked away with nothing. Indeed, it was a bit of a washout all round for LGBT-themed nominations, with Emma Stone losing out for playing Billie Jean King in Battle Of The Sexes, and Will & Grace missing out on its two nominations in the TV categories.

However, Call Me By Your Name wasn’t the only hotly tipped film to miss out, as Spielberg’s timely The Post all lost in all six categories it was nominated in.

Take a look at the full list of winners below. [Read more…]

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FILMS: Call Me By Your Name, The Post, The Shape Of Water, Battle Of The Sexes, Three Billboards Outside Ebbings Missouri  

Call Me By Your Name Picks Up Three Golden Globe Nominations – See The Full List

December 11, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

It still seems wrong that it’s not even the end of the year – with multiple major movies still to be released – but critics groups and awards ceremonies are already announcing their nominations and winners for the best films of the year. It’s largely due to the fact that a few years ago the Oscars decided to move closer to the start of the year, so all the other ceremonies and announcements also moved their dates up, many into early/mid-December.

Today one of the main bellweathers for the Oscar race was announced, the Golden Globe nominations. They were led by The Shape Of Water, which picked up seven nominations. It was a stronger showing than many expected, especially as it was competing in the Drama section (rather than the usually less competitive Musical or Comedy categories), and will help ensure that eyes are on it as we enter Oscar season.

Spielberg’s timely journalistic drama, The Post, was next with six nominations, the same number as Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – a film few had heard of until recently, but which is now shaping up to be a major Oscar contender. However, it just goes to show what an open race it is, as Call Me By Your Name, which has picked up several of the earliest Best Film awards, got just three nominations. It even missed out on a Best Director nomination of Luca Guadagnino, which many think it has a good shot of winning the Oscar for. However, all its noms were in major drama categories – Best Film, Best Actor for Timothee Chalamet and Best Supporting Actor for Armie Hammer.

Other than Call Me By Your Name and a couple of nominations for the loosely LGBT-themed Battle Of The Sexes (Best Actor and Best Actress for Steve Carrell and Emma Stone), there wasn’t much gay love in the film nominations, although Will & Grace picked up two nominations in the TV awards. There was also a love for female drama (of a rather camp-nature, it must be said) in the TV nominations, as they were led by six nomination for Big Little Lies and four for Feud: Bette and Joan. Both of those came out ahead of what many thought would be the leader – The Handmaid’s Tale, which only scored three nominations.

However, the biggest surprise for gay film fans was BPM missing out on a Best Foreign Language Film nomination. Many Critics Groups are expected to choose it as their best non-English Language movie (the The New York Film Critics Circle and Los Angeles Film Critics Association have already done so), so the fact it’s not even on the noms list for the Globes is a big surprise.

Take a look at the full list of nominees below. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Timothee Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Emma Stone, Steve Carell  DIRECTORS: Luca Guadagnino  FILMS: Call Me By Your Name, The Post, The Shape Of Water, Battle Of The Sexes  

The Shape Of Water Red Band Trailer – Guillermo del Toro has a brand new fantasy

November 11, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

If Guillermo Del Toro directs something, you know it’s going to be unique. Although with The Shape Of Water he seems to have been taking in a few inspirations, from the likes of ET and Amelie to the character of Abe Spien in Hellboy. It certainly looks like it could be something special, and early feviews from film festivals suggest the Pan’s Labyrinth and Pacific Rim director hasn’t lost his touch..

Here’s the synopsis: ‘From master story teller, Guillermo del Toro, comes THE SHAPE OF WATER – an other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1963. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa (Sally Hawkins) is trapped in a life of silence and isolation. Elisa’s life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda (Octavia Spencer) discover a secret classified experiment. Rounding out the cast are Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Michael Stuhlbarg and Doug Jones.’

The movie is out in the US at the end of the year, with a February UK date set. Take a look at the new Red Band trailer below. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Michael Stuhlbarg, Doug Jones  DIRECTORS: Guillermo Del Toro  FILMS: The Shape Of Water  

The Shape of Water Trailer – Sally Hawkins meets an underwater creature in Guillermo Del Toro’s latest

July 19, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

If Guillermo Del Toro directs something, you know it’s going to be unique. Although with The Shape Of Water he seems to have been taking in a few inspirations, from the likes of ET and Amelie to the character of Abe Spien in Hellboy. It certainly looks like it could be something special.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘From master story teller, Guillermo del Toro, comes THE SHAPE OF WATER – an other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1963. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa (Sally Hawkins) is trapped in a life of silence and isolation. Elisa’s life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda (Octavia Spencer) discover a secret classified experiment. Rounding out the cast are Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Michael Stuhlbarg and Doug Jones.’

The movie should be in cinemas at the end of the year. Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Michael Stuhlbarg, Doug Jones  DIRECTORS: Guillermo Del Toro  FILMS: The Shape Of Water  

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