Golden Globe Nominations, Film Critics Awards Announced
Published December 14, 2004
:: The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has announced its 2005 Golden Globe nominations. Leading the pack are Sideways with 7, The Aviator with 6, and three films with 5 nominations: Closer, Finding Neverland, and Million Dollar Baby. Overlooked in the Emmy Awards, Deadwood is nominated for Best Television Series - Drama, and Ian McShane is nominated for Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Drama; he should be a lock in this category. The big winner in nominations is Jamie Foxx, with three acting nods for Ray, Collateral, and Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story. What's odd is that his nomination for Ray is in the category Best Performance by an Actor in Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy. There was music in Ray, of course, but the movie wasn't a musical. That said, the criteria for that category must be, well, very liberal (or bizarre), because the other nominees include Jim Carrey for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Paul Giamatti for Sideways, two films I would call dramas rather than comedies.
:: Other awards have been announced, and Sideways is on a roll. Six The San Francisco Film Critics Circle awards went to Sideways. Sideways also took (at least) three of the NY Film Critics Circle Awards - not all have been announced as of this posting, with live voting still in progress. Sideways (surprise!) won Best Picture from the Boston Film Critics. The American Film Institute announced its official selections for Movies of the Year and TV Programs of the Year. The British Independent Film Awards saw Vera Drake sweep the awards for Actress, Actor, Supporting Actor/Actress, Film and Director.
Complete awards information is available at The Awards Scoreboard at Movie City News, with even more information available at Awards Watch 2005. According to the scoreboard, with numbers from seven film critics groups, as of today, 14 December 2004, Sideways has won 21 awards, and the remaining 13 movies have won 23 awards between them. I saw Sideways last week- I liked it a lot, but is it really that good?
It's a fun time of the year to get caught up in analysis of the movie industry if you are a film addict like me. A good read is William Goldman's annual Oscar column from the Dec 12, 2004 issue of Variety.
Missing from all the lists - The Passion of the Christ - intentional, or backlash?
- Golden Globe Nominations, Film Critics Awards Announced
- Published: December 14, 2004
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I am no holy roller, but The Passion is one of the best made movies this year. Period. It deserves to be honored.
I should add the following: in mentioning that The Passion of the Christ has received no award nominations or wins so far, I wasn't suggesting the film deserved being passed over. I am curious to know if critics are snubbing it intentionally, but how could we tell, unless the critics themselves admit it?
I thought the film was very well made, if excessive in parts, and I'm no holy roller either, despite being Catholic. I thought the flogging scene was way over the top. However, Jim Caveziel delivered an award-worthy performance, and I expected he would receive some acknowledgement at awards time, but so far, he hasn't.
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excellent job Randy, we really needed this - I am slow to the news lately - thanks!
Oh, and I vote backlash - critics hate this shit, and foreign critics perhaps more than American