Short Film Saturday – Looney Lens Pas de Deux
https://archive.org/embed/silent-looney-lens-pas-de-deux
Cinematographer Al Brick had quite a few of these Looney Lens shorts it seems. This one I found by chance on the Internet Archive. Enjoy!
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Short Film Saturday: The Heart of the World
Guy Maddin makes his shorts as memorable as his features, both have his unmistakeable style.
Mini-Review: Malandro (A Opera do Malandro)
I first wrote about this movie for a version of the Underrated Dramas series that Rupert Pupkin Speaks started that I spun-off on my page:
When playing national word-association most will mention football (soccer) when it comes to Brazil. I would hope they would also mention music at some point if pressed for more words. Chico Buarque is among Brazilian music’s legendary names. Here you have a film that’s a dramatization of songs he wrote, but also quite a telling and compelling drama. The images I always associated with these songs in my mind here are given form and context in a great way, incorporating period and obfuscated commentary.
This is one that I know definitely qualifies for the underrated simply because of how overlooked it is. Firstly, there is the fact of the pure lack of unavailability with regards to the title. With a surge in interest in works from Brazil in the 1980s with some of its successful films like Pixote, the rise of Sonia Braga in Hollywood and Marîlia Pera in indies here, the film came here and even had a VHS release.
That’s how I saw it as a rental from Movies Unlimited. All the historical and social context about Brazil in 1941 aligning itself with the Nazi Germany against popular sentiment, is conveyed through the tale. The word malandro is a very specifically Brazilian describing a sort of wiseguy, a guy on the wrong side of the law and tracks whose not a hardened criminal and looking to have good time. It also helps that he’s often referred to that way so it becomes almost like a common noun rather than an adjective.
Not speaking Portuguese really only robs you some of the lyrics, but the music and singing are great and the meaning of the songs are well portrayed in subtitles if not poetic any longer.
It’s a wonder this film has not been restored and repacked on Blu-ray from some repertory label. If you can track it down it’s well worth it.
The 94th Annual Academy Awards
This will be a live blog. I will be updating all night.
Red Carpet
So, I can’t quit the Oscars and this was breaking the Interwebs so I tuned in slightly early.
Many of the Awards the Academy deemed unfit for broacast went to Dune. My rant on that can be found here and a running list can be found here.
The Show
There are five nominated songs, and one extra musical performance. All will be introduced. This is time the produers will gladly use up and not truncate.
Yes, DJ Khaled randomly walking on stage to introduce the hosts is a great time-saver.
Samuel L. Jackson has a Lifetime Achievement from the Oscars and the BAMs (shameless plug).
No massive opener with a produced video lampooning the year in film is kind of missed.
18 minutes and we’re starting a category, so that’s a positive.
Ariana DeBose is a very deserving winner.
The Regina Hall COVID is very good.
Wow, this pre-corded shit isn’t awkward at all.
Greig Fraser winning is no surprise and well deserved. I agree with this choice as evidenced here.
So Best Documentary Short Subject doesn’t even get a presenter on stage introducing the film. Fun. This is an asinine decision.
I’m getting the feeling Dune will win everything except Best Director and Best Picture.
All these measures to cut time and you still play off the award winning VFX team.
I had completely forgotten about the stupid fan votes.
Yes, let’s have an unadverstised appearance by a K-Pop band. That’ll increase viewership and decrease running time.
Yay, more dumb ass fan moments.
One of the most unimpressive Bond songs ever for your listening pleasure.
All these cuts and its still going to aroud 11 or 11:15. Great job.
So did Will Smith actually hit Chris Rock or was that staged?
OK, P. Diddy answered that question.
So now there’s a Pulp Fiction reunion coming up. This is the 80th anniversary of Citizen Kane anyone alive from that still and up for a reunion?
The Oscar voters really know that they they’re standing in the way of Lin Manuel Miranda’s EGOT, jeez.
Will Smith apologized, as expected. I’m not here to be an arbiter of apologies. As a show it’s been frustrating, yet again, to not see any real surprises.
Also of note: all those cuts to the ceremony and here we are at 3h20 minutes with Best Actress and Best Picture to come and yet another commercial break underway.
The drama of the pre-recorded awards sucks anyway, but cutting to Jessica Chastain kind of gave it away.
Seat-fillers got mentioned. Cue Kramer GIF.
An Oscar for Jessica Chastain feels so overdue.
Whoa, there’s a surprise. Finally!
3h41m – so it wasn’t so much about shortening the show as getting “things no one cares about” less time.
Peace out and fix all this shit for next year Oscars.
2021 BAM Award Honorees
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Jason Reitman Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Peter Sciberras The Power of the Dog
Psycho Goreman
Best Performance by a Young Actor in a Leading Role
Woody Norman C’mon c’mon
Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Leading Role
McKenna Grace Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Best Performance by a Young Actor in a Supporting Role
Logan Kim Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Supporting Role
McKenna Grace Malignant
Kevin Vechiatto, Gabriel Moreira, Laura Roseo, and Giulia Benite Turma da Mônica Laços
Nicolas Cage Pig
Peri Baumeister Blood Red Sky
Kodi Smit-McPhee The Power of the Dog
Dianne Wiest I Care a Lot.
Benedict Cumberbatch, Jesse Plemons, Kirsten Dunst, Kodi Smit-McPhee The Power of the Dog
Vanessa Block and Michael Sanorski Pig
Claudia Llosa and Samanta Schweblin Fever Dream
“White Woman’s Instagram” Bo Burnham Bo Burnham: Inside
Dascha Dauenhauer Blood Red Sky
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Greig Fraser Dune
Turma da Mônica Laços
Turma da Mônica Laços
Malignant
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
The Ingmar Bergman Lifetime Achievement Award
Eddie Murphy and Steve Martin
Lotte Reiniger and Vittorio de Seta
Robert Downey, Jr. Award for Entertainer of the Year
Bo Burnham
Special Jury Award
The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
31 Days of Oscar – 2022
It’s late to be getting this post up, but I have been getting some Oscar nominated, so here’s the rundown. I will keep it update throughout the month. One my aims annually is to see 31 films and 100 nominations I had yet to see.
Most of the viewings so far have animated shorts on The Criterion Channel, they total four nominations (naturally) and one win. The win was Neighbours and very well deserved.
Windy Day (1968)
Hunger (1974)
Neighbours (1952)
The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (1959)
The feature viewing so far was
West Side Story (2021) and it’s absolutely spectacular from start to finish.
Nominations: 7
Wins: ?
Total nominations: 11
Total wins: 1
More to follow.
The 93rd Academy Awards
Well, it’s been a long-ass year, and though I’ve not seen many of tonight’s nominees…let’s do this anyway!
Gotta say I’m loving skipping the 8:00-8:30 bloc of fluff interviews.
What Regina King said is very true about film helping me through the pandemic, mostly in older things. To see what I’ve been watching follow me on Letterboxd.
Promising Young Woman I did see and this screenplay award is well deserved.
Seeing this set-up for the awards makes me think of the photos of the first ever ceremony I’ve seen.
The Father is at or near the top of my must-see list.
Weird that Best International Film had decontextualized images without dialogue for three of the five films. Vinterberg being nominated as Best Director gave away who the winner would be.
His speech was the most moving part of the show so far.
Not adhering to Oscar traditions will make this show memorable.
Kaluuya’s win is very pleasing. If you want to see where I first saw him watch The Fades.
Saw Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom liking this hair and make-up win.
Best Director went out early in the night!
Nothing diminishes cinematography more than hearing approaches described while seeing zero footage.
This will forever be the Oscars Glenn Close did “the butt.”
However, what was the deal with the audio in that segment and through most of the night.
Then, on my ABC affiliate anyway, the commercial break went on too long and cut-in to Angela Bassett’s speech midway through.
Am I missing something, why is Best Picture announced before Best Actor and Best Actress?
Wow, so the acting winners are clearly always-deserving actors but not who you would have believed would win based on the run-up.
…And the 2020 BAM Award goes to…
Winners are in BOLD some explication can be found below the categories.
I’m keeping my comments sparse, as per usual, picking nominations is the longest process and all are most worthy to have been chosen.
1917
32 Malasaña Street
Abe
Color Out of Space
Come Play
The Lodge
Team Marco
Vampires vs. the Bronx
We Can Be Heroes
The Wretched
This was the most satisfying film of the year for me. To be able to end a review with the words I do in the one I paste below, the choice was clear.
Being Brazilian-American myself this was a movie I would have to see. While the overarching premise and conflict is clear, well done, and wonderfully performed; how a third culture played into this story would matter quite a bit to me. It adds a bright counterpoint in musical terms as well as some added humor; aside from the necessary and useful analogy of fusion from the culinary world that any bicultural can relate to.
There are some editorial touches that are creative and deft also.
My heart is full.
It a year that was so different than any the world has seen in a century it was impossible to decide some film was overlooked and another was not.
Julio Vincent Gambuto Team Marco
Fernando Grostein Andrade Abe
Sam Mendes 1917
Albert Pintó 32 Malasaña Street
Richard Stanley Color Out of Space
The conception and staging of this film is just marvelous.
Maria Bakalova Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm
Viola Davis Troop Zero
Julia Louis-Dreyfus Downhill
Riley Keough The Lodge
Joely Richardson Color Out of Space
It’s no small task to play foil to Sacha Baron Cohen’s most iconic character and Bakalova knocked it out of the park.
Nicolas Cage Color Out of Space
Sacha Baron Cohen Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm
Robert De Niro The War with Grandpa
Will Ferrell Downhill
Tom Hanks Greyhound
If ever a performance and a film were tailored for a given year it’s Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm this year.
Madeline Arthur Color Out of Space
Dagmara Dominzyck Abe
Anastasia Ganias Team Marco
Allison Janney Troop Zero
Alice Krige Gretel & Hansel
One of myriad things I loved about The OA was it was the first time I’d seen Alice Krige in anything in a while. Seeing here back in a horror film, and excelling so as she does here, was even more satisfying.
Jim Carrey Sonic the Hedgehog
Dean-Charles Chapman 1917
Walton Goggins Fatman
Anthony Patellis Team Marco
Seu Jorge Abe
Supporting roles come in many shapes and sizes. When a character has a smaller role and still has an impact it’s due to an incredible performance such as we have here.
Begoña Vargas, Iván Marcos, Bea Segura, Sergio Castellanos, José Luis de Madariaga, Iván Renedo, Concha Velasco, and Javier Botet 32 Malasaña Street
Noah Schnapp, Seu Jorge, Dagmara Dominzyck, Arian Moayed, Mark Margolis, Tom Madirosian, Salem Murphy, Daniel Oreskes, and Gero Camilo in Abe
Lewis Cancelmi, Greg Rikaart, Thomas Kopache, Anastasia Ganias, Antoinette LaVecchia, Anthony Patellis, Bobby Guarino, Joseph Callari, Owen Vaccaro, Jacob Laval, Jake Katzman, Ethan Coskay, and Skylar Lipkin Team Marco
Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Rob Riggle, Oakes Fegley, Laura Marano, Cheech Marin, Jayne Seymour, Christopher Walken, Juliocesar Chavez, Isaac Kragten, T.J. McGibbon, Poppy Gagnon and Colin Ford in The War with Grandpa
Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Pedro Pascal, Adriana Berrazza, Boyd Holbrook, Christian Slater, Taylor Dooley, Sung Kang, Hailey Reinhart, Christopher McDonald, Jill Blackwood, John Valley, YaYa Gosselin, Lyon Daniels, Andy Walken, Hala Finley, Lotus Blosson, Dylan Henry Lau, Andrew Diaz, Isaiah Russell-Bailey, Akira Akbar, Nathan Blair, and Vivien Lyra Blair in We Can Be Heroes
Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Leading Role
Alivia Clark 18 to Party
Chloe Coleman My Spy
Sophia Giannamore The True Adventures of Wolfboy
McKenna Grace Troop Zero
Sophia Lillis Gretel & Hansel
Madalen Mills Jingle Jangle
It’s not easy to play a quirky, oddball and still make them a real person as opposed to a caricature. For McKenna Grace to do that at a young age with such ease is impressive.
Best Performance by a Young Actor in a Leading Role
Oakes Fegley The War with Grandpa
Winslow Fegley Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
Jaeden Martell The Lodge
Noah Schnapp Abe
Azhy Robertson Come Play
Owen Vaccaro Team Marco
All these performances need to be seen, Robertson’s work without dialogue is spectacular and deserves mention despite the indication of sparsity above. However, the most soaring of these performances is the nuanced, multicultural, turn by Noah Schnapp.
Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Supporting Role
Lotus Blossom We Can Be Heroes
Cree Cicchino The Sleepover
Johanna Colón Troop Zero
Hala Finley We Can Be Heroes
Milan Ray Troop Zero
Cree Cicchino has great comic timing and it’s on full display here.
Best Performance by a Young Actor in a Supporting Role
Harry Collett Doolittle
Gregory Diaz IV Vampires vs. The Bronx
Winslow Fegley Come Play
James Freedson-Jackson 18 to Party
Charlie Shotwell Troop Zero
In an ensemble piece, when all your scenes are of import, and make an impact that’s saying something and Freedson-Jackson delivers memorably in every single one.
Alivia Clark, Ashling Doyle, Tanner Flood, James Freedson-Jackson, Oliver Gifford, Nolan Lyons, Sam McCathy, Ivy Mille, Taylor Richardson, and Eric Schuett 18 to Party
YaYa Gosselin, Lyon Daniels, Andy Walken, Hala Finley, Lotus Blosson, Dylan Henry Lau, Andrew Diaz, Isaiah Russell-Bailey, Akira Akbar, Nathan Blair, and Vivien Lyra Blair We Can Be Heroes
Sadie Stanley, Maxwell Simkins, Cree Cicchino, Lucas Jaye and Calidore Robinson The Sleepover
Owen Vaccaro, Jacob Laval, Jake Katzman, Ethan Coskay, and Skylar Lipkin Team Marco
Jaden Michael, Gerald Jones III, Gregory Diaz IV, Coco Jones Vampires vs. The Bronx
Just impeccable work here from top to bottom of a deep cast.
Lucy Alibar Troop Zero
Jacob Chase Come Play
Fernando Grostein Andrade, Lameece Isaaq, Jacob Kader, and Christopher Vogler Abe
Sam Mendes & Krysty Wilson-Cairns 1917
Jeffrey Roda 18 to Party
C.S. Forester, Tom Hanks Greyhound
Pat Casey, Josh Miller Sonic the Hedgehog
Rob Hayes Gretel & Hansel
H.P. Lovecraft, Richard Stanley and Scarlett Amaris Color Out of Space
Stephan Pastis and Tom McCarthy Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
This is some of Lovecraft’s best fodder for film, definitely his most flexible work and this is the best rendition of it so far.
Danny Bensi, Saunder Jurriaans The Lodge
Thomas Newman 1917
Blake Neely Greyhound
Colin Stetson Color Out of Space
Rebel Rodriguez We Can Be Heroes
This was a year I went for more ambient selections than thundering booming score, but Color Out of Space takes that ambience from grating to melodic, from subconscious to immersive and is an aural accompaniment to the visual madness of the film.
Brett W. Bachman Color Out of Space
Claudia Castello, Bruno Lasevicius, and Suzanne Spangler Abe
Andrés Federico González 32 Malasaña Street
Robert Rodriguez We Can Be Heroes
Terry Yates The Wretched
This film balances some quick-cut research sequences and conventional invisible editing to heighten dramatic and comedic sequences alike.
1917
Color Out of Space
Come Play
Extraction
Greyhound
Steve Annis Color Out of Space
Thimios Bakatakis The Lodge
Roger Deakins 1917
Blake McClure Vampires vs. The Bronx
Daniel Sosa 32 Malasaña
This isn’t just about what Deakins and Mendes did on a technical level, but it also looked spectacular.
TROOP ZERO 
David Crossman, Jacqueline Durran 1917
Pierre-Yves Gayraud The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two
Caroline Eselin Troop Zero
Sammy Sheldon Differ Artemis Fowl
Michael Wilkinson Jingle Jangle
There was the period piece element, sure, but also scout regalia, and a Bowie performance.
1917
32 Malasaña Street
Artemis Fowl
Gretel & Hansel
Jingle Jangle
Not many aspects of this film worked, this one definitely did.
32 Malasaña Street
Artemis Fowl
Gretel & Hansel
The True Adventures of Wolfboy
The Wretched
To share the best bits here would be a spoiler.
1917
Color Out of Space
Greyhound
We Can Be Heroes
Wonder Woman 1984
To make this Lovecraft tale work the effects have to come through and they did big time.
“Getting Better (otherwise)” The Aubreys & The Turning The Turning
“Mother” Courtney Love & The Turning The Turning
“The Spirit of Christmas” Kurt Russell & Darlene Love The Christmas Chronicles 2
“I Still Believe” Cast of I Still Believe, KJ Apa
“Rock You Like A Hurricane” Rachel Bloom Trolls: World Tour
There was a lot of ’90s grunge influence on this album, some of it sounded like Courtney, band this one was and it’s epic.
I Still Believe
Jingle Jangle
Hubie Halloween
My Spy
The Turning
This was one of the few highlights of this otherwise dismal film.
Robert Downey, Jr. Entertainer(s) of the Year Award(s)
Jaeden Martell
The cast of It continues to go places. Aside from all the movies I saw Jaeden in this year, one of which was a delayed viewing of Knives Out, he was also in Defending Jacob on AppleTV+. His films also ran the gamut of genre and were seen throughout the year.
Ingmar Bergman Lifetime Achievement Award(s)
Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Tom Hanks, Goldie Hawn, and Kurt Russell.
Rather than overthinking this one I chose a handful of actors I’ve loved for a long time.
Agnès Varda
For whatever reason I saw exactly two of her films while she was alive. Even though I loved it I never managed to see others. This box has helped with that.
Kino Lorber
For Kino Maquee a virtual cinema platform that has helped 150 arthouses during the pandemic.
2020 BAM Award Nominations
So this past year was…something. I’m almost entirely convinced it really happened. For more on my year of being mostly-absent from my blog read this. Commentary on the smattering of films I saw will accompany my post next week.
These nominations will be posted by live blog until the categories are complete.
1917
32 Malasaña Street
Abe
Color Out of Space
Come Play
The Lodge
Team Marco
Vampires vs. the Bronx
We Can Be Heroes
The Wretched
Not awarded. Explanation to follow.
Julio Vincent Gambuto Team Marco
Fernando Grostein Andrade Abe
Sam Mendes 1917
Albert Pintó 32 Malasaña Street
Richard Stanley Color Out of Space
Maria Bakalova Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm
Viola Davis Troop Zero
Julia Louis-Dreyfus Downhill
Riley Keough The Lodge
Joely Richardson Color Out of Space
Nicolas Cage Color Out of Space
Sacha Baron Cohen Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm
Robert DeNiro The War with Grandpa
Will Ferrell Downhill
Tom Hanks Greyhound
Madeline Arthur Color Out of Space
Dagmara Dominzyck Abe
Anastasia Ganias Team Marco
Allison Janney Troop Zero
Alice Krige Gretel & Hansel
Jim Carrey Sonic the Hedgehog
Dean-Charles Chapman 1917
Walton Goggins Fatman
Anthony Patellis Team Marco
Seu Jorge Abe
Begoña Vargas, Iván Marcos, Bea Segura, Sergio Castellanos, José Luis de Madariaga, Iván Renedo, Concha Velasco, and Javier Botet 32 Malasaña Street
Noah Schnapp, Seu Jorge, Dagmara Dominzyck, Arian Moayed, Mark Margolis, Tom Madirosian, Salem Murphy, Daniel Oreskes, and Gero Camilo in Abe
Lewis Cancelmi, Greg Rikaart, Thomas Kopache, Anastasia Ganias, Antoinette LaVecchia, Anthony Patellis, Bobby Guarino, Joseph Callari, Owen Vaccaro, Jacob Laval, Jake Katzman, Ethan Coskay, and Skylar Lipkin Team Marco
Robert DeNiro, Uma Thurman, Rob Riggle, Oakes Fegley, Laura Marano, Cheech Marin, Jayne Seymour, Christopher Walken, Juliocesar Chavez, Isaac Kragten, T.J. McGibbon, Poppy Gagnon and Colin Ford in The War with Grandpa
Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Pedro Pascal, Adriana Berrazza, Boyd Holbrook, Christian Slater, Taylor Dooley, Sung Kang, Hailey Reinhart, Christopher McDonald, Jill Blackwood, John Valley, YaYa Gosselin, Lyon Daniels, Andy Walken, Hala Finley, Lotus Blosson, Dylan Henry Lau, Andrew Diaz, Isaiah Russell-Bailey, Akira Akbar, Nathan Blair, and Vivien Lyra Blair in We Can Be Heroes
Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Leading Role
Alivia Clark 18 to Party
Chloe Coleman My Spy
Sophia Giannamore The True Adventures of Wolfboy
McKenna Grace Troop Zero
Sophia Lillis Gretel & Hansel
Madalen Mills Jingle Jangle
Best Performance by a Young Actor in a Leading Role
Oakes Fegley The War with Grandpa
Winslow Fegley Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
Jaeden Martell The Lodge
Noah Schnapp Abe
Azhy Robertson Come Play
Owen Vaccaro Team Marco
Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Supporting Role
Lotus Blossom We Can Be Heroes
Cree Cicchino The Sleepover
Johanna Colón Troop Zero
Hala Finley We Can Be Heroes
Milan Ray Troop Zero
Best Performance by a Young Actor in a Supporting Role
Harry Collett Doolittle
Gregory Diaz IV Vampires vs. The Bronx
Winslow Fegley Come Play
James Freedson-Jackson 18 to Party
Charlie Shotwell Troop Zero
Alivia Clark, Ashling Doyle, Tanner Flood, James Freedson-Jackson, Oliver Gifford, Nolan Lyons, Sam McCathy, Ivy Mille, Taylor Richardson, and Eric Schuett 18 to Party
YaYa Gosselin, Lyon Daniels, Andy Walken, Hala Finley, Lotus Blosson, Dylan Henry Lau, Andrew Diaz, Isaiah Russell-Bailey, Akira Akbar, Nathan Blair, Vivien Lyra Blair We Can Be Heroes
Sadie Stanley, Maxwell Simkins, Cree Cicchino, Lucas Jaye and Calidore Robinson The Sleepover
Owen Vaccaro, Jacob Laval, Jake Katzman, Ethan Coskay, and Skylar Lipkin Team Marco
Jaden Michael, Gerald Jones III, Gregory Diaz IV, Coco Jones Vampires vs. The Bronx
Lucy Alibar Troop Zero
Jacob Chase Come Play
Fernando Grostein Andrade, Lameece Isaaq, Jacob Kader, and Christopher Vogler Abe
Sam Mendes & Krysty Wilson-Cairns 1917
Jeffrey Roda 18 to Party
C.S. Forester, Tom Hanks Greyhound
Pat Casey, Josh Miller Sonic the Hedgehog
Rob Hayes Gretel & Hansel
H.P. Lovecraft, Richard Stanley and Scarlett Amaris Color Out of Space
Stephan Pastis and Tom McCarthy Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
Danny Bensi, Saunder Jurriaans The Lodge
Thomas Newman 1917
Blake Neely Greyhound
Colin Stetson Color Out of Space
Rebel Rodriguez We Can Be Heroes
Brett W. Bachman Color Out of Space
Claudia Castello, Bruno Lasevicius, and Suzanne Spangler Abe
Andrés Federico González 32 Malasaña Street
Robert Rodriguez We Can Be Heroes
Terry Yates The Wretched
1917
Color Out of Space
Come Play
Extraction
Greyhound
Steve Annis Color Out of Space
Thimios Bakatakis The Lodge
Roger Deakins 1917
Blake McClure Vampires vs. The Bronx
Daniel Sosa 32 Malasaña
David Crossman, Jacqueline Durran 1917
Pierre-Yves Gayraud The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two
Caroline Eselin Troop Zero
Sammy Sheldon Differ Artemis Fowl
Michael Wilkinson Jingle Jangle
1917
32 Malasaña Street
Artemis Fowl
Gretel & Hansel
Jingle Jangle
32 Malasaña Street
Artemis Fowl
Gretel & Hansel
The True Adventures of Wolfboy
The Wretched
1917
Color Out of Space
Greyhound
We Can Be Heroes
Wonder Woman 1984
“Getting Better (otherwise)” The Aubreys & The Turning The Turning
“Mother” Courtney Love & The Turning The Turning
“The Spirit of Christmas” Kurt Russell & Darlene Love The Christmas Chronicles 2
“I Still Believe” Cast of I Still Believe, KJ Apa
“Rock You Like A Hurricane” Rachel Bloom Trolls: World Tour
I Still Believe
Jingle Jangle
Hubie Halloween
My Spy
The Turning
Robert Downey, Jr. Entertainer(s) of the Year Award(s)
To be announced January 11th.
Ingmar Bergman Lifetime Achievement Award(s)
To be announced January 11th.
To be announced January 11th.
To be announced January 11th.
2017 BAM Award Nominations
Here are the nominees for the 2017 BAM Awards. Winners will be announced on January 9th. Some films did qualify after 12/24. Some gross omissions, as speculated in the shortlists were corrected. Collages that may feature in the honoree post will feature on my Instagram page over the course of the next week. Without any further ado … enjoy!
The Big Sick
Blade Runner 2049
Coco
Get Out
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2
It
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Split
Wind River
Wonderstruck
Few qualifiers. Jury prize may be announced on January 9th.
1922
All Saints
Columbus
The Dark Tower
The Glass Castle
The Space Between Us
Rico, Oskar und der Diebstahlstein
Wind River
Wonderstruck
XX
Few qualifiers. Jury prize may be announced on January 9th.
Andy Muschietti It
Jordan Peele Get Out
Michael Showalter The Big Sick
M. Night Shyamalan Split
Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina Coco
Carla Gugino Gerald’s Game
Sally Hawkins The Shape of Water
Haley Lu Richardson Columbus
Aubrey Plaza Ingrid Goes West
Frances McDormand Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Saoirse Ronan Lady Bird
James Franco The Disaster Artist
Ryan Gosling Blade Runner 2049
Daniel Kaluuya Get Out
James McAvoy Split
Kumail Nanjiani The Big Sick
Denzel Washington Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Betty Buckley Split
Carrie Fisher Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Holly Hunter The Big Sick
Catherine Keener Get Out
Laurie Metcalf Lady Bird
Carla Juri Blade Runner 2049
Sterling K. Brown Marshall
Dave Franco The Disaster Artist
Richard Jenkins The Shape of Water
Christopher Plummer All the Money in the World
Sam Rockwell Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Bill Skarsgård It
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Laura Dern, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Lupita Nyong’o, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Gwendoline Christie, Kelly Marie Tran, Benicio Del Toro, Frank Oz, Warwick Davis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Gareth Edwards
The Big Sick
Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Bo Burnham, Aidy Bryant, Holly Hunter, Ray Romano, Anupam Kher, Zenobia Shroff, Adeel Akhtar, Kurt Braunohler, Vella Lovell, David Alan Grier, Ed Herbstman, Shenaz Treasury, Kuhoo Verma, Mitra Jouhari, Myra Lucretia Taylor
Get Out
Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, Marcus Henderson, Betty Gabriel, Lakeith Stanfield, Stephen Root, LilRel Howert, Erika Alexander
The Disaster Artist
James Franco, Dave Franco, Seth Rogen, Melanie Griffith, Sharon Stone, Josh Hutcherson, Zac Efron, Paul Scheer, Ari Graynor, Jacki WeaverMegan Mullally, Jason Mantzoukas, Nathan Fielder, Hannibal Buress, Bob Odenkirk, Ike Batinholtz, Kevin Smith, Keegan-Michael Key, Adam Scott, Danny McBride, Kristen Bell, J.J. Abrams, Lizzy Caplan, Judd Apatow, Zach Braff, Bryan Cranston, Christopher Mintz-Plasse
It
Jaeden Lieberher, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Jackson Robert Scott, Chosen Jacobs, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Wyatt Oleff, Jack Dylan Grazer, Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hamilton, Jake Sim, Logan Thompson, Owen Teague, Stephen Bogaert, Stuart Hughes, Geoffrey Pounsett, Molly Jane Atkinson
Wind River
Kelsey Asbille, Jeremy Renner, Julia Jones, Teo Briones, Apesanahkwat, Graham Greene, Elizabeth Olsen, Tantoo Cardinal, Eric Lange, Gil Birmingham, Althea Sam, Tokala Clifford, Jon Bernthal
Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Leading Role
Ella Anderson The Glass Castle
Sophia Lillis It
Millicent Simmonds Wonderstruck
Izabela Vidovic Wonder
Lulu Wilson Annabelle: Creation
Maddie Ziegler The Book of Henry
Best Performance by a Young Actor in a Leading Role
Oakes Fegley Wonderstruck
Noah Jupe Suburbicon
Judah Lewis The Babysitter
Jaeden Lieberher It
Tom Taylor The Dark Tower
Jacob Tremblay Wonder
Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Supporting Role
Lilly Aspell Wonder Woman
Chiara Aurelia Gerald’s Game
Lola Flanery Home Again
Peyton Kennedy XX
Amiah Miller War for the Planet of the Apes
Olivia Kate Rice The Glass Castle
Best Performance by a Young Actor in a Supporting Role
Jack Dylan Grazer It
Wyatt Oleff It
Chosen Jacobs It
Noah Jupe Wonder
Jeremy Ray Taylor It
Finn Wolfhard It
The Glass Castle
Ella Anderson, Chandler Head, Charlie Shotwell, Iain Armitage, Sadie Sink, Olivia Kate Rice, Shree Grace Crooks, and Ellen Grace Redfield
It
Jaeden Lieberher, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff, Chosen Jacobs, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Jackson Robert Scott and Nicholas Hamilton
Wonder
Jacob Tremblay, Izabela Vidovic, Noah Jupe, Bryce Gheisar, Ty Consiglio, Kyle Breitkopf, James Hughes, Elle McKinnon, Millie Davis, et al.
Wonderstruck
Millicent Simmonds, Oakes Fegley, Jaden Michael, Sawyer Niehaus, et al.
Rico, Oskar und der Diebstahlstein
Anton Petzold, Juri Winkler, and Tristan Göbel
The Beguiled
Oona Laurence, Angourie Rice, Addison Riecke, and Emma Howard
Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani The Big Sick
Jordan Peele Get Out
Lee Unkrich & Jason Katz & Matthew Aldrich & Adrian Morris Coco
M. Night Shyamalan Split
Martin McDonagh Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Zak Hilditch and Stephen King 1922
Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, and Philip K. Dick Blade Runner 2049
Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber; Greg Sestero and Tom Bisse The Disaster Artist
Mike Flanagan & Jeff Howard, and Stephen King Gerald’s Game
Chase Palmer & Cary Fukunaga and Gary Dauberman, and Stephen King It
Carter Burwell Wonderstruck
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Wind River
John Williams Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Benjamin Walfisch It
Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch Blade Runner 2049
Jonathan Amos and Paul Machliss Baby Driver
Jason Ballantine It
Jon Gregory Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Gregory Plotkin Get Out
Joe Walker Blade Runner 2049
Baby Driver
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
It
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Roger A. Deakins Blade Runner 2049
Hoyte Van Hoytema Dunkirk
Ben Richardson Wind River
Edward Lachman Wonderstruck
Chung-hoon Chung It
1922
Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner 2049
It
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
The Dark Tower
The Greatest Show
It
Wonderstruck
Victoria & Abdul
1922
Gerald’s Game
It
The Shape of Water
Wonder
Bladerunner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
War for the Planet of the Apes
Baby Driver
Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 2
Ingrid Goes West
The Disaster Artist
The Shape of Water
“This Is Me” Keala Settle and The Greatest Show Ensemble The Greatest Showman
“Remember Me” (Reunion) Anthony Gonzalez, Ana Ofelia Murguía Coco
“Un Poco Loco” Anthony Gonzalez, Gael Garcia Bernal Coco
“La Llorona” Alanna Ubach, Antonio Sol Coco
“Proud Corazón” Anthony Gonzalez Coco
Robert Downey, Jr. Entertainer(s) of the Year Award(s)
To be announced.
Ingmar Bergman Lifetime Achievement Award(s)
To be announced.
To be announced.
To be announced.
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