Movie City News’ Gurus o’ Gold are back and I’m thrilled to once again join the party. In the words of MCN, we’re offering a weekly take on the Hollywood horse race.
Here’s my picks for the week, with the full chart at Movie City News.
BEST PICTURE
1. The Hurt Locker
2. Precious
3. Up in The Air
4. A Serious Man
5. An Education
6. Up
7. Where the Wild Things Are
8. Bright Star
9. Inglorious Basterds
10. The Road
11. Julie and Julia
12. A Single Man
BEST ACTOR
1. George Clooney, Up in the Air
2. Colin Firth, A Single Man
3. Viggo Mortensen, The Road
4. Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker
5. Michael Stuhlbarg, A Serious Man
6. Matt Damon, The Informant
BEST ACTRESS
1. Carey Mulligan, An Education
2. Meryl Streep, Julie and Julia
3. Gabby Sibide, Precious
4. Helen Mirren, The Last Station
5. Abby Cornish, Bright Star
6. Penelope Cruz, Broken Embraces
BEST ANIMATED FILM
1. Up
2. Fantastic Mr. Fox
3. Ponyo
4. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
“I had nothing to do with this, I am only reading the nominations,” New York Times film critic A.O. Scott advised today, before reading the Gotham Award nominations live for about 200 people who logged online to hear the news live. “Chances are I probably hate most of the movies that are nominated,” he quipped curiously, stirring surprised laughter from my colleagues and I who were watching here at the indieWIRE office. That quote hit Twitter almost immediately.
I ran into Lance Black on Saturday evening at the IFC post-Spirits bash. He was standing in a very small group, and the iW crew spent some time chatting with him and congratulating him on how far he’d come. I wished him the best over the next 24 hours and said that I hoped he was able to enjoy the ride. He seemed to be taking it all in stride. And then I started thinking about a moment in Berlin the week before, when I ran into Lance at a bar. He made a good natured quip about all the attention he’d been getting, adding that soon enough people would move on and forget about him. And he seemed ok with that.
But then last night he made a speech that resonated with so many people. Numerous friends have mentioned it to me over the past 12 hours or so. It will not be quickly forgotten. (Transcript via AMPAS):
“Oh my God. This was, um, this was not an easy film to make. First off, I have to thank Cleve Jones and Anne Kronenberg and all the real-life people who shared their stories with me. And, um, Gus Van Sant, Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, James Franco and our entire cast, my producers Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen, everyone at Groundswell and Focus for taking on the challenge of telling this life-saving story.
When I was 13 years old, my beautiful mother and my father moved me from a conservative Mormon home in San Antonio, Texas to California, and I heard the story of Harvey Milk. And it gave me hope. It gave me the hope to live my life. It gave me the hope one day I could live my life openly as who I am and then maybe even I could even fall in love and one day get married.
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