The New York Film Critics Circle has kicked the awards race off in earnest, and the love was spread primarily between Zero Dark Thirty and Lincoln. The drama about the hunt for Osama bin Laden took home Best Picture, Best Director for Kathryn Bigelow, and Best Cinematographer, while Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln was awarded Best Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actress. The group also had a couple of left field choices with the Best Supporting Actor award going to Matthew McConaughey for Magic Mike (alright, alright, alright) and Best Actress going to Rachel Weisz for The Deep Blue Sea. McConaughey winning the trophy was a pleasant surprise, but Weisz’s win is a tad baffling.
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Best Film:
Zero Dark Thirty
Best Director:
Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty
Best Screenplay:
Tony Kushner – Lincoln
Best Actor:
Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln
Best Actress:
Rachel Weisz – The Deep Blue Sea
Best Foreign Language Film:
Amour
Best Animated Film:
Frankenweenie
Best Supporting Actor:
Matthew McConaughey – Magic Mike
Best Supporting Actress:
Sally Field – Lincoln
Best Cinematographer:
Greig Fraser – Zero Dark Thirty
Best Non-Fiction Film (Documentary):
The Central Park Five
Best First Film:
David France – How to Survive a Plague
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doesn’t surprise me that a ultra left wing radical news media would praise bigelow
and her ode to obama film. i hope this movie tanks. she and boal deserve it.
an ode to Obama? i believe the movie is “an ode” to seal team six. they killed Bin Landen. Not Barack. No matter how often he says he did. We know it was the military.
@Nitsuj.
Ask yourself this question; if that mission went awry, who would YOU blame?
The military or Obama?
TJ – nice!
as an active member or the military i know for a fact where the blame would fall. The public may blame the Government but that doesn’t change the truth that it would be those involved’s fault, and we would be the ones to make it right.
Let me guess, jw: you haven’t seen it?
nope. i didn’t build it either. only read matty b’s book- no easy day. would rather
get the facts from one of the boys not a liberal puppet. i did see hurt locker and bigelow/boal
did a disservice to all eod’s- former and currently deployed. imo- hollywood should stay away
from war movies- they always seem to think they know more than the guys in the sandbox.
… oh God, this is just intolerable. Between AS on RopeofSilicon bitching about this film’s conservative bias, and jw now complaining about the liberal bias, I am officially sick of message boards posted by people who … haven’t even seen the films they are complaining about and assign motives to the filmmakers based on their own respective ideologies, not the films themselves.
alan,
in hollywood there is no such thing as “ideologies” for filmakers.
they are told by the higher ups – this is the product “we want” and this is “how we want it”.
plain and simple.
also- remember how this movie was to come about before the election…..
and how bigelow and boal got total access at c.i.a. to look at all the documents re the raid……
fuck- bigelow even got and called the home # of the commander of the seal team who was on the ground for the raid. wonder how that call went and ended?????
this film is no way an homage to devgru but a puff piece for obama and his admin. pure and simple.
But Alan your’e right – “no motives here, nothing to see, squirrel”
Whoa, now you’re just making shit up?
“in hollywood there is no such thing as “ideologies” for filmakers.
they are told by the higher ups – this is the product “we want” and this is “how we want it”.”
Yeah, every single film in Hollywood is made in the EXACT SAME WAY. No variation or shit like that, it’s all exactly the same. Right?
Actually no. Boal and Bigelow initially worked on a film that focused on 2001, and then changed the project when Bin Laden died. Sony changed the schedule when there was a political shitstorm: no secret studio conspriracy or anything like that. They felt that an earlier date would have cost them money, so they changed the date to make more money. But go on: continue making up about the film, but don’t expect anyone else to eat it up and call it sugar.
Easy does it jw – Obama is not even in the film (although he probably should be since it was not a clear cut decision and his advisers disagreed strongly on if to take action, and what action to take – Obama does deserve some credit, it was a ballsy decision to do the raid)
Now, my problem with the film is it’s historical accuracy. I’ve read a number of books on the subject and there was not “one woman” who never stopped looking for UBN. There were many, many woman and men who never stopped looking for him and lots of different pieces of info stitched together to find the courier. Hope I’m proven wrong, but right now it seems a bit exaggerated on the single hero side.
there is one woman that did for 10 years. she actually exists.
Rachel Weisz’s win was well deserved. Loved her performance.
that picture just reminds me of linda hamilton from terminator 2
McConaughey is a pleasant surprise and Rachel Weisz is baffling. I hope I don’t have to explain what’s wrong.
Explain. An opinion – in and of itself – isn’t sufficient. What is your insight?
With Jessica Chastain involved, I highly don’t think so.
Reply to junierizzle below, my apologies.
Oh god, already. This better not suck balls like The Hurt Locker.
How was Rachel Weisz’s win baffling? It’s a great performance that’s been praised in plenty of reviews.
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