Boston Society of Film Critics tally
The Boston Society of Film Critics tally (keep updating this post): Best Picture -- No Country For Old Men...no Diving Bell after alll! Best Director -- Julian Schnabel for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly...holy crap, they're going to give Diving Bell their Best Picture award! Best Actor -- Frank Langella for Starting Out in the Evening... shocker! Best Actress -- Marion Cotillard for La Vie en Rose. Best Supporting Actor -- Javier Bardem for No Country for Old Men. Best Supporting Actress -- Amy Ryan for Gone Baby Gone. Best Original Screenplay -- Brad Bird for Ratatouille. Best Cinematography -- Janusz Kaminski for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Best New Filmmaker -- Ben Affleck for Gone Baby Gone. (Gone is a good film with a great ending, but the Beantowners should have stayed away from the hometown loyalty factor.) Best Documentary -- Dan Klores' Crazy Love. Best Ensemble Acting -- Before The Devil Knows You're Dead.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on December 9, 2007 at 10:46 AM
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Unison
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Gone Baby Gone is superb and deserves the honor... it's certainly a more worthy choice than the runner-up Michael Clayton.
Besides, the BSFC has never been shy to award Boston-set films... Mystic River and The Departed both got Best Picture from them recently. They could do worse than giving that to Gone Baby Gone this year, that's for sure.
Posted by Unison
at December 9, 2007 11:00 AM
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Craig Kennedy
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Any point to me saying I was going to say what Unison just said? No, I didn't think so.
Posted by Craig Kennedy
at December 9, 2007 11:05 AM
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Esme
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They gave supporting actor to Javier Bardem which surprises me since I thought they'll give it to Casey Affleck. Although I guess I shouldn't be counting him out for best actor.
Posted by Esme
at December 9, 2007 11:06 AM
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thatmovieguy
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Langella is certainly very good in STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING, but I wonder if the performance might be a bit too subtle (and the movie too low-key) to attract Academy attention. Nice to see him recognized, though.
Posted by thatmovieguy
at December 9, 2007 11:30 AM
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BNick
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Wow, the Best Actor race is really wide open. Anyone else think the Best Ensemble Cast award will come for a film that hasn't won for anything else so far? Just a hunch. I hope I'm wrong and NCFOM gets it.
Posted by BNick
at December 9, 2007 11:31 AM
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Unison
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NCFOM is definitely the front-runner for ANY critics' award this year, so I wouldn't count it out at all.
Langella didn't especially impress me in Starting Out, even if he's the best thing about the movie. I'd hate to see Daniel Day-Lewis go unrewarded just because he's playing a character that makes some people uncomfortable.
Posted by Unison
at December 9, 2007 11:35 AM
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BNick
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Ah, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead....getting some love from the Boston Critics for Best Cast. Well-deserved.
Posted by BNick
at December 9, 2007 11:43 AM
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p.Vice
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And Schnabel takes director... paving the way for the Coens for Best Pic. I wouldn't be surprised if NY fell the same way.
Posted by p.Vice
at December 9, 2007 12:02 PM
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BNick
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They have a Foreign Language category, so I'd be surprised if they don't give Diving Bell that award and give another film their Best Picture slot. Might as well spread the love.
Posted by BNick
at December 9, 2007 12:14 PM
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p.Vice
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Ta dum.
When does L.A. start voting?
Posted by p.Vice
at December 9, 2007 12:21 PM
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cinemascopian
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Remember me from the other day? I said: The Diving Bell and Ratatouille are going to be bigger this season then most prognosticators give them credit - meaning they'll perform outside their designated slots - foreign film and animation. Well, it's happening.
And actually, I'm happy. Diving Bell is both a superb art-house almost abstract meditation AND a crushingly beautiful and emotional story, perfectly shot, cast and performed. And Ratatouille is the best written commercial-big budget-Hollywood movie made this year.
Posted by cinemascopian
at December 9, 2007 12:33 PM