So The Artist did it: five Oscars – Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Score and Best Costumes.
But its haul only matched that of Hugo, which cleaned up in the technical categories: Art Direction, Cinematography, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing, and Visual Effects.
However Hugo did not secure the Best Editing award: that went to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
Predictably, Woody Allen won Best Original Screenplay for Midnight In Paris, while The Descendants secured its only Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
The Supporting Actor categories went to the unbeatable Christopher Plummer and Octavia Spencer. Rango picked up Best Animated Film.
Shocks? Meryl Streep securing her third Oscar for a performance that many did not rate in The Iron Lady (which also won Best Make-up), and the Academy not going mad (like it usually does) with the Best Foreign Film by rightly placing A Separation at the top of the heap.
Sunday 26 February 2012
The Artist: more wins en route to Oscar
The Artist’s winning run continued at the Cesars and the Independent Spirit Awards, securing another 10 gongs.
In France, The Artist picked up six on Friday at its native Cesars: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design and Best Score. But Jean Dujardin didn’t win Best Actor!
Then on Saturday at the Spirit Awards, it secured: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Cinematography.
Were The Artist to beaten at the Oscars would be the biggest awards upset in many years. According to Wikipedia, it’s won 25 Best Film awards
Also faring well at the Spirits: Christopher Plummer (Best Supporting Actor for Beginners); Shailene Woodley (Best Supporting Actress for The Descendants); and Michelle Williams (Best Actress for My Week With Marilyn).
In France, The Artist picked up six on Friday at its native Cesars: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design and Best Score. But Jean Dujardin didn’t win Best Actor!
Then on Saturday at the Spirit Awards, it secured: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Cinematography.
Were The Artist to beaten at the Oscars would be the biggest awards upset in many years. According to Wikipedia, it’s won 25 Best Film awards
Also faring well at the Spirits: Christopher Plummer (Best Supporting Actor for Beginners); Shailene Woodley (Best Supporting Actress for The Descendants); and Michelle Williams (Best Actress for My Week With Marilyn).
Sunday 12 February 2012
BAFTA 2012: The Artist prevails
There is awards momentum… and then there is a steamroller. The Artist simply and silently steamrollered the opposition at the 2012 BAFTAs, snaring 7 gongs in the process, including Best Film, Director and Actor.
The Artist is the first truly foreign film to win the top BAFTA since Jean de Florette in 1988 (although I concede that Polanski’s The Pianist won in 2003, but that’s shot in English with a mainstream English-speaking lead). Jean Dujardin becomes the first foreign (ie English is not his first language) winner of the Best Actor gong since Roberto Benigni, and the first French winner since Philippe Noiret in 1990 (for Cinema Paradiso).
With £5.3m at the UK box office (already more than Hugo), it’s unclear how much further a black and white, silent French film can go. With two weeks to go until the Oscars, my estimate is that The Artist will cross the £10m barrier, but I can’t see it matching erstwhile BAFTA rival TTSS’s £14.1m.
The British spy story joined Hugo, and The Iron Lady on two gongs apiece. The latter meant Meryl Streep’s first BAFTA since 1981.
Also picking up two awards was Senna: not only did it win Best Documentary but also Best Editing. Given it’s rather skewed look at F1 history, I’m surprised it qualified as a documentary!
Christopher Plummer predictably secured the Best Supporting Actor award for his role in Beginners, taking the number of awards he has won from that film to 14, with two more possible wins to come before awards season ends. It means Plummer has a 100% BAFTA record: he’s only been nominated once, and he’s converted that to the win.
Shock of the night? The Skin I Live In beating A Separation. That's just bizarre.
The Artist: Film, Actor, Director, Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Costume, Original Score
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: Adapted Screenplay, British Film
The Iron Lady: Actress, Make-up & Hair
Senna: Documentary, Editing
Hugo: Production Design, Sound
Beginners: Supporting Actor
The Help: Supporting Actress
Rango: Animated Film
The Skin I Live In: Foreign Film
Harry Potter 8: Visual Effects
The Artist is the first truly foreign film to win the top BAFTA since Jean de Florette in 1988 (although I concede that Polanski’s The Pianist won in 2003, but that’s shot in English with a mainstream English-speaking lead). Jean Dujardin becomes the first foreign (ie English is not his first language) winner of the Best Actor gong since Roberto Benigni, and the first French winner since Philippe Noiret in 1990 (for Cinema Paradiso).
With £5.3m at the UK box office (already more than Hugo), it’s unclear how much further a black and white, silent French film can go. With two weeks to go until the Oscars, my estimate is that The Artist will cross the £10m barrier, but I can’t see it matching erstwhile BAFTA rival TTSS’s £14.1m.
The British spy story joined Hugo, and The Iron Lady on two gongs apiece. The latter meant Meryl Streep’s first BAFTA since 1981.
Also picking up two awards was Senna: not only did it win Best Documentary but also Best Editing. Given it’s rather skewed look at F1 history, I’m surprised it qualified as a documentary!
Christopher Plummer predictably secured the Best Supporting Actor award for his role in Beginners, taking the number of awards he has won from that film to 14, with two more possible wins to come before awards season ends. It means Plummer has a 100% BAFTA record: he’s only been nominated once, and he’s converted that to the win.
Shock of the night? The Skin I Live In beating A Separation. That's just bizarre.
The Artist: Film, Actor, Director, Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Costume, Original Score
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: Adapted Screenplay, British Film
The Iron Lady: Actress, Make-up & Hair
Senna: Documentary, Editing
Hugo: Production Design, Sound
Beginners: Supporting Actor
The Help: Supporting Actress
Rango: Animated Film
The Skin I Live In: Foreign Film
Harry Potter 8: Visual Effects
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