85th Annual Academy Awards (2013)

[Pink Ranger]

Hooper is a mediocre director who goes after safe Oscar-bait movies. His win on King's Speech was an undeserved fluke.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Him winning best director over Fincher I thought was a bigger fluke, and I was the one who had no issues with him getting nominated that year.

Because I had the same mentality that FNJ was talking about with the DGA's. Hooper got nominated but he won't win.

 

[flickchick85]

I feel the same way as Spidey about Tom Hooper's directorial style, even though I liked Les Mis. I just find many of his choices to be puzzling and distracting to the point that they actually take me out of the movie.

I'm just happy to see Life of Pi still getting love. I was sure that was gonna be the gem that got lost in the shuffle this season.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Him winning best director over Fincher I thought was a bigger fluke, and I was the one who had no issues with him getting nominated that year.

Because I had the same mentality that FNJ was talking about with the DGA's. Hooper got nominated but he won't win.

I agree, I meant both his Best Director win and the Best Picture win as well.

 

[FilmNerdJamie]

Direction didn't bother me. It was his choices (like the usage of the close-ups) that made it unique and nontraditional for musicals. That's also why something like "I Dreamed the Dream" worked out so well.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

The idea that Hooper has no chance of winning the DGA and Oscar is baffling to me. Very few thought he'd win for The King's Speech and he did, why say he has no chance now?

And answer me this, does anybody think he deserves near back to back wins for best director? Is he really one of the greatest directors of all time? Because that's what the Oscars will be saying if he wins again. And make no mistake, he does have a shot because the Oscars love baity films.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Wait, people doubted he'd win for King's Speech? That seemed it was just as possible as that French director for The Artist.

I'm rooting for Affleck personally. Though I will see Zero Dark Thirty soon. If Spielberg wins, I won't complain but Argo was pretty kick ass and the man deserves it.

 

[CapedCrusader14]

I see the first scene in the movie, where we set down and see the prisoners pulling the ship. Why couldnt we see more shots like that.

When I saw that opening shot I thought the complaints about the way the film was shot were stupid at first. I thought it was a breathtaking opening shot that pulled me right it in.

Just had to wait a scene or two till that opinion immediately changed

 

[jacobed]

The idea that Hooper has no chance of winning the DGA and Oscar is baffling to me. Very few thought he'd win for The King's Speech and he did, why say he has no chance now?

And answer me this, does anybody think he deserves near back to back wins for best director? Is he really one of the greatest directors of all time? Because that's what the Oscars will be saying if he wins again. And make no mistake, he does have a shot because the Oscars love baity films.

This year his competition is much more than it was his last time. Last time he had David Fincher. This time he has Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee, and Ben Affleck.

 

[danoyse]

Whether you're a fan of Hooper or not (and there's much to be said for both), this article and the corresponding poll at the moment his hilarious.

While the article rips the movie, the fans of the musical, and is basically throwing their hands in the air that anyone liked this thing, the poll at the top asks readers to vote whether or not that loved or hated Les Mis.

The current results? 96% loved it, 4% hated it.

 

[Evil Twin]

This year his competition is much more than it was his last time. Last time he had David Fincher. This time he has Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee, and Ben Affleck.

And possibly one of David O. Russell, Kathryn Bigelow, or Quentin Tarantino. The heavy hitters are out this year.

 

[Showtime]

With all the material at my disposal, it was relatively easy. But basically because it was more of a personal tale along with everything else at my disposal - the music videos I used for a lot of inspiration as well.

I've always seen black box as theater without props really are very minimalistic. For example the bus in Holiday was more of a box rather than a bus. Also whereas all the musicals I've seen the location props change to establish setting, here it always remained the same except for a mattress and sofa.

I really can't say a lot other than I headed in to not only make it the best film version, but an ultimate Green Day experience as well.

So they went from Dustin Lance Black...to you?

 

[DACrowe]

Whether you're a fan of Hooper or not (and there's much to be said for both), this article and the corresponding poll at the moment his hilarious.

While the article rips the movie, the fans of the musical, and is basically throwing their hands in the air that anyone liked this thing, the poll at the top asks readers to vote whether or not that loved or hated Les Mis.

The current results? 96% loved it, 4% hated it.

Pretty harsh. I actually agree that Hooper should not get a nomination. Then again, I thought he did not deserve it, much less the win, for 2010. His style is bland and at times distracting. However, the condescension in that piece is ripe. Not unlike the kind in Denby's New Yorker piece. Les Mis is still a good movie, no matter how much snobbery you throw at it.

Still a funny read. I do agree that some apologize for the direction too much because they love the music, acting and/or story. But then again, Hooper helped make that still tangible in the movie.

 

[danoyse]

Pretty harsh. I actually agree that Hooper should not get a nomination. Then again, I thought he did not deserve it, much less the win, for 2010. His style is bland and at times distracting. However, the condescension in that piece is ripe. Not unlike the kind in Denby's New Yorker piece. Les Mis is still a good movie, no matter how much snobbery you throw at it.

Still a funny read. I do agree that some apologize for the direction too much because they love the music, acting and/or story. But then again, Hooper helped make that still tangible in the movie.

I don't even agree with the apologist argument. Denby and the twit who wrote this article seems to think every Les Miz fan is some sobbing sap who can't see how bad the show always was and just blindly love the movie. I'm finding the harshest critics of the movie are the fans of the show who didn't get the movie they wanted. And most of those wanted an exact replica of the stage musical with the songs sung to the rafters, but plenty have gone on about the same things the critics have regarding the direction, the closeups, etc.

I've seen Les Mis on stage 9 times. One of those times was on a school field trip - I wasn't even in that class. The teacher invited me because they had an extra ticket and she knew that I liked it. I have six different Les Mis recordings on my iPod, and I know the whole score by heart. I don't think there's been a time in the last 23 years of my life where I haven't owned a Les Mis t-shirt.

So, if I thought they had screwed up my favorite musical with this movie, I would sure as hell say so. But I really loved it. Sure, I thought there were some strange edits in a few places and I can definitely see where the criticism of Hooper's direction comes from, but overall, I was thrilled with it. This was a piece I knew so well for so long, and the way he directed it with the live singing and even with the closeups (which I didn't have a problem with, and I thought I would), and just some soul-shattering performances he got out that cast...it almost felt like I was watching something new. And I give props to Hooper for that, because this is definitely the movie version I wanted after all of these years.

But I love how Denby and now this one are acting like this is the Rock of Ages movie, which nobody saw. Les Mis has made over $100 million domestically already, it's been sold out all 3 times I've seen it. Obviously, people are liking it. A lot. Not just the saps.

 

[Earthland]

How is the direction bad? Curious.

It was Hooper's direction that gave us this movie. The actors doing all the singing on set, performing as if its a "normal" acting performance only singing with all the ticks, subtitles, looks, etc. one associates with acting. All him. He directed Hathaway to her (soon to be) Oscar-winning performance. Can't say, "Oh... that was just her!" No, she couldn't have gotten to what she achieved in that film without him.

DGAs were announced today. Heard nothing but ******** Tarantino fanboys whining about his being "snubbed" for Django Unchained over Hooper and Lee for Life of Pi. But those were frankly better directed and showed more directorial restraint (i.e. the pointless, final 20 minutes of Django). I don't see a problem with the 5 directors nominated.

Feel like people are taking issue with Hooper just because its trendy (Remaining resentment of King's Speech beating Social Network? If so, GET OVER IT!) and "everyone else does it."

Exactly. And bear in mind that if you think Hooper's oscar was unfair, it is Academy's fault, not Hooper's. But then you're still being ridiculous, wishing that Academy would award your favorites while you think it makes all the wrong choices.

 

[dark_b]

i dont care for the oscars and i think Leo was in a lot of oscar bait movies. lost a lot respect for him in those years.

but for the love of god give him the oscar for Calvin Candie. he acted how i hope he would in the last 10 years. do you know the story behind the blood on his hand?

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I'm only blaming Hooper for his awful directorial abilities. Of course I blame only the voters for his wins. That was a silly post Earthland.

I have not once blamed Hooper for his win.

 

[jmc]

Man this year is gonna be tough to pic. So far Argo is the only film I've seen from the DGA nominated directors and it's a very good film. Lincoln and ZD30 haven't opened here yet, whilst Life of Pi I'm still meaning to see. Les Mis is still on my maybe list of things to see, though I'm really not too keen to sit through 3 hours of singing. Given everyone else nominated has won a DGA I'll go with Afleck simply because of that.

 

[kvz5]

BAFTA NOMINATIONS

BEST FILM
ARGO Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, George Clooney
LES MISÉRABLES Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh
LIFE OF PI Gil Netter, Ang Lee, David Womark
LINCOLN Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy
ZERO DARK THIRTY Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, Megan Ellison

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
ANNA KARENINA Joe Wright, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster, Tom Stoppard
THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL John Madden, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Ol Parker
LES MISÉRABLES Tom Hooper, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh, William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer
SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin
SKYFALL Sam Mendes, Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, John Logan

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
BART LAYTON (Director), DIMITRI DOGANIS (Producer) The Imposter
DAVID MORRIS (Director), JACQUI MORRIS (Director/Producer) McCullin
DEXTER FLETCHER (Director/Writer), DANNY KING (Writer) Wild Bill
JAMES BOBIN (Director) The Muppets
TINA GHARAVI (Director/Writer) I Am Nasrine

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
AMOUR Michael Haneke, Margaret Ménégoz
HEADHUNTERS Morten Tyldum, Marianne Gray, Asle Vatn
THE HUNT Thomas Vinterberg, Sisse Graum Jørgensen, Morten Kaufmann
RUST AND BONE Jacques Audiard, Pascal Caucheteux
UNTOUCHABLE Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache, Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Yann Zenou, Laurent Zeitoun

DOCUMENTARY
THE IMPOSTER Bart Layton, Dimitri Doganis
MARLEY Kevin Macdonald, Steve Bing, Charles Steel
McCULLIN David Morris, Jacqui Morris
SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN Malik Bendjelloul, Simon Chinn
WEST OF MEMPHIS Amy Berg

ANIMATED FILM
BRAVE Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman
FRANKENWEENIE Tim Burton
PARANORMAN Sam Fell, Chris Butler

DIRECTOR
AMOUR Michael Haneke
ARGO Ben Affleck
DJANGO UNCHAINED Quentin Tarantino
LIFE OF PI Ang Lee
ZERO DARK THIRTY Kathryn Bigelow

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
AMOUR Michael Haneke
DJANGO UNCHAINED Quentin Tarantino
THE MASTER Paul Thomas Anderson
MOONRISE KINGDOM Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola
ZERO DARK THIRTY Mark Boal

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
ARGO Chris Terrio
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin
LIFE OF PI David Magee
LINCOLN Tony Kushner
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK David O. Russell

LEADING ACTOR
BEN AFFLECK Argo
BRADLEY COOPER Silver Linings Playbook
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS Lincoln
HUGH JACKMAN Les Misérables
JOAQUIN PHOENIX The Master

LEADING ACTRESS
EMMANUELLE RIVA Amour
HELEN MIRREN Hitchcock
JENNIFER LAWRENCE Silver Linings Playbook
JESSICA CHASTAIN Zero Dark Thirty
MARION COTILLARD Rust and Bone

SUPPORTING ACTOR
ALAN ARKIN Argo
CHRISTOPH WALTZ Django Unchained
JAVIER BARDEM Skyfall
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN The Master
TOMMY LEE JONES Lincoln

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
AMY ADAMS The Master
ANNE HATHAWAY Les Misérables
HELEN HUNT The Sessions
JUDI DENCH Skyfall
SALLY FIELD Lincoln

ORIGINAL MUSIC
ANNA KARENINA Dario Marianelli
ARGO Alexandre Desplat
LIFE OF PI Mychael Danna
LINCOLN John Williams
SKYFALL Thomas Newman

CINEMATOGRAPHY
ANNA KARENINA Seamus McGarvey
LES MISÉRABLES Danny Cohen
LIFE OF PI Claudio Miranda
LINCOLN Janusz Kaminski
SKYFALL Roger Deakins

EDITING
ARGO William Goldenberg
DJANGO UNCHAINED Fred Raskin
LIFE OF PI Tim Squyres
SKYFALL Stuart Baird
ZERO DARK THIRTY Dylan Tichenor, William Goldenberg

PRODUCTION DESIGN
ANNA KARENINA Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
LES MISÉRABLES Eve Stewart, Anna Lynch-Robinson
LIFE OF PI David Gropman, Anna Pinnock
LINCOLN Rick Carter, Jim Erickson
SKYFALL Dennis Gassner, Anna Pinnock

COSTUME DESIGN
ANNA KARENINA Jacqueline Durran
GREAT EXPECTATIONS Beatrix Aruna Pasztor
LES MISÉRABLES Paco Delgado
LINCOLN Joanna Johnston
SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN Colleen Atwood

MAKE UP & HAIR
ANNA KARENINA Ivana Primorac
HITCHCOCK Julie Hewett, Martin Samuel, Howard Berger
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY Peter Swords King, Richard Taylor, Rick Findlater
LES MISÉRABLES Lisa Westcott
LINCOLN Lois Burwell, Kay Georgiou

SOUND
DJANGO UNCHAINED Mark Ulano, Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti, Wylie Stateman
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY Tony Johnson, Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick, Brent Burge, Chris Ward
LES MISÉRABLES Simon Hayes, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, Jonathan Allen, Lee Walpole, John Warhurst
LIFE OF PI Drew Kunin, Eugene Gearty, Philip Stockton, Ron Bartlett, D. M. Hemphill
SKYFALL Stuart Wilson, Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell, Per Hallberg, Karen Baker Landers

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Peter Bebb, Andrew Lockley
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, R. Christopher White
LIFE OF PI Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer
MARVEL AVENGERS ASSEMBLE Nominees TBC
PROMETHEUS Richard Stammers, Charley Henley, Trevor Wood, Paul Butterworth

SHORT ANIMATION
HERE TO FALL Kris Kelly, Evelyn McGrath
I’M FINE THANKS Eamonn O'Neill
THE MAKING OF LONGBIRD Will Anderson, Ainslie Henderson

SHORT FILM
THE CURSE Fyzal Boulifa, Gavin Humphries
GOOD NIGHT Muriel d'Ansembourg, Eva Sigurdardottir
SWIMMER Lynne Ramsay, Peter Carlton, Diarmid Scrimshaw
TUMULT Johnny Barrington, Rhianna Andrews
THE VOORMAN PROBLEM Mark Gill, Baldwin Li

THE EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)
ELIZABETH OLSEN
ANDREA RISEBOROUGH
SURAJ SHARMA
JUNO TEMPLE
ALICIA VIKANDER

 

[Kane52630]

Life of Pi, I can feel it. t:


Also nice to see Headhunters got a nod, I still need to finish that movie.

 

[Kansiov]

Lol at Spielberg getting snubbed. But Ben Affleck for Best Actor?

Also, I was expecting lots of love for Skyfall, but eh...

 

[Tacit Ronin]

i dont care for the oscars and i think Leo was in a lot of oscar bait movies. lost a lot respect for him in those years.

but for the love of god give him the oscar for Calvin Candie. he acted how i hope he would in the last 10 years. do you know the story behind the blood on his hand?

Leo was good as Candie no doubt, but there are many better this year. Tommy Lee Jones in Lincoln was better, Hoffman in the Master was better, heck, as far as villainy goes, even Javier Bardem in Skyfall was better. I also think he was bested in his own film by Waltz and Samuel Jackson.

 

[dark_b]

Leo was good as Candie no doubt, but there are many better this year. Tommy Lee Jones in Lincoln was better, Hoffman in the Master was better, heck, as far as villainy goes, even Javier Bardem in Skyfall was better. I also think he was bested in his own film by Waltz and Samuel Jackson.

i understand this. but leo took a bi chance for being in a Tarantino movie. give him the oscar and by that tell him that he will get awards for acting outside the box and not following the old rules.

i understand that he was not the best. but other actors are not in so many oscar bait movies. Leo is talented. we lost a lot years.....a lot years where he was acting the same and chasing the oscar.

 

[danoyse]

BAFTA NOMINATIONS

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
BART LAYTON (Director), DIMITRI DOGANIS (Producer) The Imposter
DAVID MORRIS (Director), JACQUI MORRIS (Director/Producer) McCullin
DEXTER FLETCHER (Director/Writer), DANNY KING (Writer) Wild Bill
JAMES BOBIN (Director) The Muppets
TINA GHARAVI (Director/Writer) I Am Nasrine

I think this is my favorite nomination ever.

 

[kvz5]

ASC Nominations

Anna Karenina, Seamus McGarvey, ASC, BSC
Les Miserables, Danny Cohen, BSC
Life of Pi, Claudio Miranda, ASC
Lincoln, Janusz Kaminski
Skyfall, Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC