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12 The Awards Edition 2011-2012 Issue 07Continued from p10of the old silents vs. Robert Richardson’s challengingwork on Hugo, which also required him to match andrecreate images of some of the earliest movies in existence.Wow. This is tough.The winner: Hugo, Robert RichardsonThe competition: The Artist, Guillaume Schiffman; TheGirl With the Dragon Tattoo, Jeff Cronenweth; The Treeof Life, Emmanuel Lubezki, and War Horse, JanuszKaminski.BEST COSTUMEDESIGNAnother sterling collection of worthy nominees but thistime in the battle between Hugo and The Artist, give the edgeto Mark Bridges’ cheeky recreations of the silent movieera, a wonder in black and white. Anonymous is exactlythe kind of period piece that almost always wins herebut did anyone actually see it? Madonna’s combinationperiod and modern film, W.E., gave designer AriannePhillips some real challenges and is probably the mostfashion-conscious film in the bunch. Still…..The winner: The Artist, Mark BridgesThe competition: Anonymous, Lisy Christl, Hugo, SandyPowell, Jane Eyre, Michael O’Connor, and W.E.,Arrianne Phillips.BEST FILM EDITINGThis category also seems to come down to a battle betweenThe Artist and Hugo but the unique challenges that MartinScorsese threw at his longtime collaborator ThelmaSchoonmaker, particularly in piecing together newversions of Georges Méliès early films, dictate the prizeshall go to her as she made the director’s first foray into3D pure cinema gold.The winner: Hugo, Thelma SchoonmakerThe competition: The Artist, Hazanavicius and Anne-SophieBion; The Descendants, Kevin Tent; The Girl With theDragon Tattoo, Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall, andMoneyball, Christopher Tellefsen.BEST MAKEUPThis usually goes to the most obvious. Last year’s winner,The Wolfman, over more subtle entries, is proof of that.The seamless work on both Glenn Close and JanetMcTeer in Albert Nobbs and Meryl Streep miraculouslyturned into Margaret Thatcher, younger and older, inThe Iron Lady could split the vote giving the prize to themore pronounced makeup wonders of the final HarryPotter, earning that phenomenon its first Oscar ® ever.The winner: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk andYolanda ToussiengThe competition: Albert Nobbs, Martial Corneville, LynnJohnston and Matthew W. Mungle; The Iron Lady,Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland.BEST ORIGINALMUSIC SCOREIt is a given that if John Williams has done a score itwill likely get nominated. He is revered by his peers inthe music branch and this year he did two scores, WarHorse and The Adventures of Tintin, and both areup. Hell, if he had scored Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Starthat would have gotten nominated too. However, the lovefor Williams will stop with the nominations (his 46th and47th). Howard Shore’s Hugo might have a shot but in itscontinuing battle with The Artist it seems highly likely thislively score for the silent homage by Ludovic Bourcewill prevail. Take that, Kim Novak!The winner: The Artist, Ludovic BourceThe competition: The Adventures of Tintin, John Williams; Hugo,Howard Shore; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Alberto Iglesias,and War Horse, John Williams.BEST SONGIn a really good year for movie songs, the music branch inits infinite wisdom saw fit to nominate only two of them(the lowest total of nominees ever in the category thanksto a complicated scoring system that seems destined todestroy the best song competition altogether). With MaryJ. Blige, Madonna, Elton John, Sinead O’Connor andother high profile singers not being invited to perform theirnon-nominated tunes on the Oscars ® this year, you have a50 percent chance of getting this one right in your officepool. I’m going with Kermit.The winner: “Man or Muppet,” The Muppets (Music andlyrics by Bret McKenzie)The competition: “Real in Rio,” Rio (Music by SergioMendes, Carlinhos Brown, Lyrics by SiedahGarrett)BEST SOUNDEDITINGSince the entire Academy votes on sound awards eventhough most of them don’t have a clue what goes intosound design, the winners are often war films or musicalsfor whatever reason. This category has no discerniblefavorite so it’s possible they will go with an overall favorite,Hugo. But this could be a category where some love isfinally delivered to the unfairly neglected War Horse, asterling sound achievement if ever there was one.The winner: War Horse, Richard Hymns and GaryRydstromThe competition: Drive, Lou Bender and Victor RayEnnis; The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Ren Klyce;Hugo, Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty, andTransformers: Dark of the Moon, Ethan Van derRyn and Erik Aadahl.BEST SOUND MIXINGSince we aren’t sure of the difference ourselves and thenominees are virtually the same why change it up?The winner: War Horse, Rydstrom, Tom Johnson, AndyNelson, Stuart WilsonThe competition: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyceand Bo Persson; Hugo, Tom Fleischman and JohnMidgley; Moneyball, Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, DaveGiammarco and Ed Novick, and Transformers: Dark ofthe Moon, Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J.Haboush and Peter J. Devlin.BEST VISUALEFFECTSWith the category now expanded to five nominees, itbecomes a little more competitive, but it is likely to comedown to a photo finish between Harry Potter and the Apes.Both were critically acclaimed and used effects to tell thestory, not be overwhelmed by them as fellow nomineeTransformers: Dark of the Moon did in a 40 minute finalassault on our senses. Hugo’s re-creation of early cinemaas well as a thrilling train crash deserves the prize too.the muppetsThe winner: Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Joe Letteri, DanLemmon, R. Christopher White and DanielBarrett.The competition: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and JohnRichardson; Hugo, Rob Legato, Joss Williams, BenGrossman and Alex Hanning; Real Steel, ErikNash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and SwenGillberg; Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Scott Farrar,Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier.BEST DOCUMENTARYSHORT SUBJECTAt press time we had seen none of these, so it’s just aguess, but Lucy Walker is a rather well-known name indoc circles so her entry, The Tsunami and the CherryBlossom, certainly could be considered a contender andnot just for the nifty name. But with The Help making sucha splash in the grown up best picture race this year, thetime may be right for The Barber of Birmingham.But it is just a hunch at this point.The winner: The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the CivilRights Movement.The competition: God Is the Bigger Elvis, Incident inNew Baghdad, Saving Face, and The Tsunami andthe Cherry Blossom.BEST ANIMATEDSHORT FILMThe National Film Board of Canada has won a boatload ofOscars ® and they have two entries here with Dimanche/Sunday and Wild Life. But with Pixar’s first-ever shutoutin the big animated feature category, voters may want tothrow them a bone and go for the beautiful La Luna.The winner: La LunaThe competition: Dimanche/Sunday, The Fantastic FlyingBooks of Mr. Morris Lessmore, A Morning Strolland Wild Life.BEST LIVE ACTIONSHORT FILMFeature filmmaker Terry George, a past two-timewriting nominee for Hotel Rwanda and In The Name of theFather, is slumming in the short category this year with TheShore, but the material set around the Northern Irelandconflict is familiar turf. He’s the biggest name here but Ihave a hunch the winner might be the nutty and cleverTime Freak, about a guy who invents a time machine andgets stuck travelling around yesterday.The winner: Time Freak.The competition: Pentecost, Raju, The Shore and TubaAtlantic. •
BAFTA Voters Pick Rising Stars ofActing and Directing, and HollywoodBy Tim AdlerIs Paying Close AttentionIt was an overcast morning in London last October, when, in the magisterialheadquarters of BAFTA, upstairs at 195 Piccadilly, 11 people were seated aroundthe heavy wooden boardroom table, getting ready to make a decision that could havea profound impact on some young actors’ future.Black and white photographs of previous BAFTA awardsceremonies – Britain’s closest equivalent to the Oscars ® –hung on the high-ceilinged walls. Sienna Miller, SimonPegg and Harry Potter director David Yates were amongthose deciding who should make it onto the shortlistof eight names being proposed for this year’s OrangeWednesdays Rising Star award. (It would be down tocustomers of UK telco Orange to decide on the final fiveyoung stars being groomed for stardom.) The public getsto vote for the winner, which will be announced with allBritish Academy of Film and Television Arts winners onFeb. 12, 2012 in London.The jurors spent the morning debating the merits of eachof the 20 young actors and actresses put forward. Manyof them had only appeared in a couple of movies, andthe jurors had spent the previous month watching theirperformances – sometimes at special screenings.James McAvoy, Tom Hardy and Noel Clarke have all wonthe Orange Rising Star in the past. That’s why the awardis important: It acts as a kind of early warning system forHollywood about talent coming its way. Hardy is now costarringin The Dark Knight Rises, while McAvoy was thelead in X-Men: First Class. Clarke will appear in the nextinstallment of Star Trek.“The Rising Star award is very useful in terms ofshining a light on actors who have done a couple ofroles but aren’t stars yet,” jury chairman Pippa Harris,producing partner of Sam Mendes, says. “Becauseit’s a public vote, it’s fantastic in terms of giving thema platform. The award is definitely something thatHollywood looks at for fresh talent.”Clarke is a case in point. WME picked him up, a multihyphenatewho got his first break in Doctor Who, for U.S.representation after he won the Rising Star in 2009.Kingsley, left, and sharpeconsidine, left, and olivia colemanOnly one of this year’s five Rising Star contenders,Adam Deacon, doesn’t already have U.S. representation.Deacon, who starred in urban dramas Adulthood andKidulthood, is repped by Troika in Britain. All the others –Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids),Eddie Redmayne (My Week With Marilyn) and TomHiddleston (War Horse) – have agents in the States. Theymay not be household names yet but Wilshire Boulevardknows who they are. Indeed, given that Hemsworth is costarringin Snow White and the Huntsman opposite KristenStewart before swinging his hammer again in Thor 2 --while Hiddleston co-stars with him in The Avengers -- andRedmayne starts filming Les Misérables opposite RussellCrowe and Hugh Jackman in March, you do wonderwhether any of them needs a push.It’s not only the Rising Star that is designed to promotenew talent. The Best Outstanding British Debut awardis also there to spotlight up-and-coming directors – andthis is the award whose previous contestants have includedwriter/director Steve McQueen (Shame), Duncan Jones(Source Code) and last year’s nominee Gareth Edwards(Monsters), now directing Godzilla for Warner Bros. Severalof those who have previously been up for this award suchas Sam Taylor-Wood (Nowhere Boy) and Lynne Ramsay(We Need to Talk About Kevin) have also been nominated forshort films. So there is a sense that BAFTA tracks talentright from the faintest blip on the radar. “For us, that’sincredibly satisfying,” Harris says.Again, out of this year’s five Outstanding BritishDebut nominees – Richard Ayoade (Submarine), PaddyConsidine (Tyrannosaur), Joe Cornish (Attack the Block),Ralph Fiennes (Coriolanus) and Will Sharpe/TomKingsley (Black Pond) – only one isn’t already repped byone of the big U.S. agencies.So, what are this year’s Outstanding British Debutcontenders working on next that will ping them onHollywood’s radar? Cornish, whose sci-fi comedy Attackthe Block won an audience award at SXSW, is decidingon a number of projects. Ayoade, star of cult UK TVsitcom The IT Crowd, plans to direct Jesse Eisenberg in anadaptation of Dostoyevsky’s The Double – a dark comedyabout a man whose life is taken over by his doppelganger.Fiennes is acting in the new James Bond movie Skyfall,after which he hopes to direct The Invisible Woman – thestory of Charles Dickens’ secret teenage mistress – in thespring. Abi Morgan is polishing the script while financingis still being closed. Felicity Jones (Like Crazy), one of threewomen who didn’t make it through to the final five for thisyear’s Rising Star, will play the lead.Considine is debating what to direct next. In the meantime,he recently wrapped starring in Honour, a thriller about thecontroversial issue of Muslim honour killings, currentlyin post. Its producer, CinemaNX, will show the film tointernational distributors in the spring while also releasingthe film in the UK. The dark horse here is the directingteam of Sharpe and Kingsley who, along with producerSarah Brocklehurst, have been nominated for Black Pond,a deadpan no-budget comedy about a family accusedof murder. Kingsley and Sharpe are now developing amodern-day version of the classic French novel Candide.To paraphrase Voltaire, Candide’s author, for Sharpe andKingsley winning outstanding debut really would be thebest of all possible worlds. •
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