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Having had eight nominations I was expecting True Grit to scoop more than one award at tonight’s BAFTA awards. Leave it to the ever brilliant Roger Deakins to represent! He won the award for Best Cinematography.
The ceremony literally just ended and, as expected, The King’s Speech dominated with seven awards.
The 2011 Oscar nominations have just been announced and the Coen brothers’ latest, True Grit is nominated in a whopping TEN categories including best film and director! It is nominated for;
Best Picture
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King’s Speech
127 Hours
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter’s Bone
Best Director
David O. Russell – The Fighter
Tom Hooper – The King’s Speech
David Fincher – The Social Network
Joel And Ethan Coen – True Grit
Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan
Best Actor
Javier Bardem – Biutiful
Jeff Bridges – True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg – The Social Network
Colin Firth – The King’s Speech
James Franco – 127 Hours
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams – The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter – The King’s Speech
Melissa Leo – The Fighter
Hailee Steinfeld – True Grit
Jacki Weaver – Animal Kingdom
Best Adapted Screenplay
127 Hours
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter’s Bone
Best Cinematography
Black Swan – Matthew Libatique
Inception – Wally Pfister
The King’s Speech – Danny Cohen
The Social Network – Jeff Cronenweth
True Grit – Roger Deakins
Best Costume Design
Alice in Wonderland – Colleen Atwood
I Am Love – Antonella Cannarozzi
The King’s Speech – Jenny Beavan
The Tempest – Sandy Powell
True Grit – Mary Zophres
Best Art Direction
Alice in Wonderland – Robert Stromberg, Karen O’Hara
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 – Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan
Inception – Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias and Doug Mowat
The King’s Speech – Eve Stewart , Judy Farr
True Grit – Jess Gonchor, Nancy Haigh
Best Sound Editing
Inception – Richard King
Toy Story 3 – Tom Myers and Michael Silvers
Tron: Legacy – Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague
True Grit – Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey
Unstoppable – Mark P. Stoeckinger
Best Sound Mixing
Inception – Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick
The King’s Speech – Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen and John Midgley
Salt – Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan and William Sarokin
The Social Network – Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick and Mark Weingarten
True Grit – Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland
The awards ceremony takes place on February 27th! Good luck to all!
The Coen brothers’ latest masterpiece (is it too soon to use that tag? I don’t think so!), True Grit, has been nominated for 8 BAFTAs having been snubbed in at the Golden Globes clearly we Brits have more taste 
The movie has been nommed in the following categories and is up against some stiff cometition;
BEST FILM
BLACK SWAN
INCEPTION
THE KING’S SPEECH
THE SOCIAL NETWORK
TRUE GRIT
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
127 HOURS Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO Rasmus Heisterberg, Nikolaj Arcel
THE SOCIAL NETWORK Aaron Sorkin
TOY STORY 3 Michael Arndt
TRUE GRIT Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
LEADING ACTOR
JAVIER BARDEM Biutiful
JEFF BRIDGES True Grit
JESSE EISENBERG The Social Network
COLIN FIRTH The King’s Speech
JAMES FRANCO 127 Hours
LEADING ACTRESS
ANNETTE BENING The Kids Are All Right
JULIANNE MOORE The Kids Are All Right
NATALIE PORTMAN Black Swan
NOOMI RAPACE The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
HAILEE STEINFELD True Grit
CINEMATOGRAPHY
127 HOURS Anthony Dod Mantle, Enrique Chediak
BLACK SWAN Matthew Libatique
INCEPTION Wally Pfister
THE KING’S SPEECH Danny Cohen
TRUE GRIT Roger Deakins
PRODUCTION DESIGN
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Robert Stromberg, Karen O’Hara
BLACK SWAN Thérèse DePrez, Tora Peterson
INCEPTION Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias, Doug Mowat
THE KING’S SPEECH Eve Stewart, Judy Farr
TRUE GRIT Jess Gonchor, Nancy Haigh
COSTUME DESIGN
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Colleen Atwood
BLACK SWAN Amy Westcott
THE KING’S SPEECH Jenny Beavan
MADE IN DAGENHAM Louise Stjernsward
TRUE GRIT Mary Zophres
SOUND
127 HOURS Glenn Freemantle, Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Steven C Laneri, Douglas Cameron
BLACK SWAN Ken Ishii, Craig Henighan, Dominick Tavella
INCEPTION Richard King, Lora Hirschberg, Gary A Rizzo, Ed Novick
THE KING’S SPEECH John Midgley, Lee Walpole, Paul Hamblin
TRUE GRIT Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff, Peter F Kurland, Douglas Axtell
So, so great to see Hailee Steinfeld up for Best Actress, she is amazing in the movie. The usual nod to Mr. Deakins who really has to be among the very best cinematographers working today. The Coens themselves snag their usual writing nod. Also it’s great to see long-time Coen collaborators Jess Gonchor, Mary Zophres and Skip Lievsay (and his team) get their deserved recognition.
The awards ceremony takes place on Sunday February 13 at the Royal Opera House in London. Fingers crossed!!!
In the least surprising bit of news you’ll read today, the brothers Coen have been nominated for a Writer’s Guild of America award in the Adapted Screenplay category for True Grit. It has some stiff competition though, in the form of 127 Hours, The Social Network, I Love You Phillip Morris and The Town.
Good luck to them! I, personally, cannot wait to see the movie. It’s out over here in the UK on 14th January!
PS: Sorry for the lack of updates over the last few weeks…
Last night’s Oscars ended with Katherine Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker being the big winner with six. Indeed that film beat the Coen brothers’ A Serious Man in both of the categories it was nominated in – Best Film and Best Original Screenplay.
Better luck next year with True Grit which stars brand new Oscar winner, Jeff Bridges!
Full list of winners here – http://www.empireonline.com/oscars2010/winners/
A Serious Man was up for two Film Independent Spirit Awards and has won one of them. Joel and Ethan Coen were nominated in the Best Director category but ultimately lost out to Lee Daniels for Precious. However, long time Coen cinematographer, Roger Deakins scooped the Best Cinematography award for his usual stellar work on A Serious Man. In addition the movie has been awarded their Robert Altman Award which is a special one awarded to just one film’s the director, casting director and its ensemble cast.
Also, The Dude himself, Jeff Bridges scooped the Best Male Lead award for his role in Crazy Heart.
The complete list of nominees and winners can be seen here.
Oh and don’t forget the Oscars this weekend! A Serious Man is up for TWO awards – Best Original Screenplay and, the big on- Best Picture!
This year’s Oscar nominations have just been announced by Anne Hathaway and A Serious Man is up for two awards! Along with the predictable nod for Best Original Screenplay the movie is also up for the big one- Best Picture!
No Best Actor nom for Michael Stuhlbarg though. Real shame!
A full list of nominations can be seen here – http://oscar.go.com/nominations/nominees
A Serious Man’s one and only Golden Globe nominee, Michael Stuhlbarg, missed out in the Best Performance by an Actor Comedy or Musical category to Robert Downey Jr for his stint as Sherlock Holmes.
It’s not all bad news for the Coen brothers fraternity though, The Dude himself, Jeff Bridges, won in the category Best Performance by an Actor Drama for his role in Crazy Heart and T. Bone Burnett won for Best Original Song in a Motion Picture for this theme for the same movie. Burnett, for those that don’t know, has collaborated with the Coen brothers in the past most notably on O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Ladykillers and The Big Lebowski in the role of musical archivist / music producer.
A Serious Man has been nominated in two categories for this year’s Critic’s Choice Movie Awards. It has been nominated for Best Picture and Joel and Ethan Coen have been nominated for the Best Original Screenplay gong.
Leading the charge with the most nominations with 10 apiece are Quentin Tarantino’s awesome Inglourious Basterds and Rob Marshall’s Nine. King of the World, James Cameron’s Avatar has 9 noms with The Hurt Locker and Up In The Air having 8.
I sometimes wonder if the Coens are bored with Best Screenplay nominations and awards…
The American Film Institute has listed the Coen brothers’ latest movie, A Serious Man, as one of 10 movies of the year. The AFI’s intent is to generate a sort of visual history of American cinema by adding movies and TV shows of worth to the collection every year. Here is their explanation of what they do;
“AFI was created to protect and preserve the legacy of the moving image art form so that future generations will have a greater understanding and appreciation for the proud heritage reflected in the realities of a new modern day.
Each year, AFI AWARDS honors excellence in the moving image arts within the context of a Year in Review. One of AFI’s national mandates is the creation of an annual almanac that records and preserves the evolution of the moving image arts in the 21st century.”
Anyway, A Serious Man was joined by Coraline, The Hangover, The Hurt Locker, The Messanger, Precious, A Single Man, Sugar, Up and Up In The Air. Additionally, No Country For Old Men made the cut in 2007’s awards and Roger Deakins was awarded their Cinematographer of the Year award for The Man Who Wasn’t There back in 2001.