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Thursday, December 18, 2008
Reel Projections, Thursday December 18
Posted by Anthony Salveggi on Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:00 AM
Austin Film Critics have picked their best of 2008, and guess who cleaned up in the Best Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay and Supporting Actor categories? JUST TAKE A WILD GUESS. That's right. The Dark Knight. Fellow Texans the Dallas-Ft. Worth Film Critics Association gave Best Picture to Slumdog Millionaire, as well as Best Director to Danny Boyle for the same flick. Oh, and they also rewarded Heath Ledger with Best Supporting Actor. Read the rest of the winners here.
Meanwhile, the Toronto Film Critics Association, in an obvious cry for attention, have bestowed their Best Picture honor on Wendy and Lucy, which I wrote about in the Dec. 16 Reel Projections. They also gave that film's Michelle Williams the nod for Best Actress and rewarded Jonathan Demme with Best Director for Rachel Getting Married. And Best Supporting Actor went to Williams' former boyfriend, and father of her daughter, Heath Ledger. Here's the rest of the TFCA winners.
Disney has released the first photo of an upcoming Bruce Willis sci-fi film. Behold this mysterious production still from Surrogates. What's he looking at so intensely off-screen? Could it be one of the surrogate robots? A couch where he can sit down and watch those monitors in comfort? HANS FUCKING GRUBER???!!!
It's the "I don't care but somebody out there must" link of the day: Twilight sequel New Moon has a release date. Hoo. Rah.
SPOILER ALERT! Some guy at Chud.com saw the first 22 minutes of Watchmen in Austin, and now he's spilling his guts all over the interwebs. You've been warned. And remember that lawsuit Fox brought against Warner Bros.? An L.A. federal judge has set a Watchmen trial date of January 20, 2009.
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Anthony - you should be ashamed of yourself trying to make some sort attention wanting correlation between Williams and Ledgers wins here. Everyone has known Heath was pretty much a lock (and has been so far) and Michelle has won several critics awards before this one – so has the movie for that matter. Maybe it’s time to hang up the “critic” badge since you seem to be a better wanna-be conspiracy theorist.
AmPage: I've re-read my entry on Ledger/Williams several times and fail to see where I was attempting to convey even the vaguest sense of a conspiracy theory. If you're referring to my "obvious cry for attention" line, there are two things to note: 1.) Toronto's film critics did distinguish themselves from a host of other critics' boards by bestowing best picture upon "Wendy and Lucy." 2.) I often take a light-hearted, irreverent tone in my Reel Projections blog in order to distinguish it from the mass of dry, just-the-facts movie news and aggregators. I was merely pointing out the relative uniqueness of the TFCA's choice in a humorous light, and I'm sure loyal readers of my blog would immediately recognize my tone. In no way was I suggesting that the TFCA recognized Williams or her film in order to piggy-back on the attention given to Ledger. In fact, I find it a rather momentous occasion that both Ledger and the mother of his child were both recognized in the same year.
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