2013 Satellite Awards Nominations (Film)

The 2013 Satellite Award Nominations, this marks the first set of nominees for the year.  The nominees for this award are determined by the International Press Academy.  These awards used to look more like the Golden Globes, but in 2011 they mixed the drama and comedy categories, and look more like the Oscars.  All I have to say is lemmings.  This award typically has zero to no impact on Oscar season, but this is a good barometer for the award season.

Motion Picture

• 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight)
• All Is Lost (Lionsgate/Roadside Attractions)
• American Hustle (Sony)
• Blue Jasmine (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Captain Phillips (Sony)
• Gravity (Warner Bros.)
• Inside Llewyn Davis (CBS Films)
• Philomena (The Weinstein Company)
• Saving Mr. Banks (Disney)
• The Wolf of Wall Street (Paramount)

Director

• Woody Allen Blue Jasmine (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Ethan Coen, Joel Coen Inside Llewyn Davis (CBS Films)
• Alfonso Cuaron Gravity (Warner Bros.)
• Paul Greengrass Captain Phillips (Sony)
• Ron Howard Rush (Universal)
• Steve McQueen 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight)
• David O. Russell American Hustle (Sony)
• Martin Scorsese The Wolf of Wall Street (Paramount)

Actress in a Motion Picture

• Amy Adams – American Hustle (Sony)
• Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Sandra Bullock – Gravity (Warner Bros.)
• Judi Dench – Philomena (The Weinstein Company)
• Adèle Exarchopoulos – Blue Is the Warmest Color (Sundance)
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Enough Said (Fox Searchlight)
• Meryl Streep – August: Osage County (The Weinstein Company)
• Emma Thompson – Saving Mr. Banks (Disney)

Actor in a Motion Picture

• Christian Bale – American Hustle (Sony)
• Bruce Dern – Nebraska (Paramount)
• Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf of Wall Street (Paramount)
• Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight)
• Tom Hanks – Captain Phillips (Sony)
• Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club (Focus Features)
• Robert Redford – All Is Lost (Lionsgate/Roadside Attractions)
• Forest Whitaker – Lee Daniels’ The Butler (The Weinstein Company)

Actress in a Supporting Role

• Sally Hawkins – Blue Jasmine (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle (Sony)
• Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight)
• Julia Roberts – August: Osage County (The Weinstein Company)
• Léa Seydoux – Blue Is the Warmest Color (Sundance)
• June Squibb – Nebraska (Paramount)
• Emily Watson – The Book Thief (20th Century Fox)
• Oprah Winfrey – Lee Daniels’ The Butler (The Weinstein Company)

Actor in a Supporting Role

• Bradley Cooper – American Hustle (Sony)
• Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight)
• Harrison Ford – 42 (Warner Bros.)
• Ryan Gosling – The Place Beyond the Pines (Focus Features)
• Jake Gyllenhaal – Prisoners (Warner Bros.)
• Tom Hanks – Saving Mr. Banks (Disney)
• Casey Affleck – Out of the Furnace (Relativity Media)
• Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club (Focus Features)

Motion Picture, International Film

• Bethlehem, Israel
• Blue Is the Warmest Color, France
• The Broken Circle Breakdown, Belgium
• Circles, Serbia
• Four Corners, South Africa
• The Great Beauty, Italy
• The Hunt, Denmark
• Metro Manila, United Kingdom
• The Past, Iran
• Wadjda, Saudia Arabia

Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media

• Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (Sony)
• The Croods (DreamWorks)
• Epic (20th Century Fox)
• Ernest & Celestine (GKIDS)
• Frozen (Disney)
• Monsters University (Disney-Pixar)
• Turbo (DreamWorks)
• The Wind Rises (Studio Ghibli)

Motion Picture, Documentary

• 20 Feet from Stardom (Radius-TWC)
• The Act of Killing (Drafthouse Films)
• After Tiller (Oscilloscope)
• American Promise (Rada Film Group)
• Blackfish (Magnolia Pictures)
• Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie (Ironbound Films)
• Sound City (Roswell Films)
• The Square (City Drive Entertainment Group)
• Stories We Tell (Roadside Attractions)
• Tim’s Vermeer (Sony Pictures Classics)

Screenplay, Original

• David O. Russell, Eric Singer – American Hustle (Sony)
• Woody Allen – Blue Jasmine (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Nicole Holofcener – Enough Said (Fox Searchlight)
• Spike Jonze – Her (Warner Bros.)
• Ethan Coen, Joel Coen – Inside Llewyn Davis (CBS Films)
• Kelly Mareel, Sue Smith – Saving Mr. Banks (Disney)

Screenplay, Adapted

• John Ridley – 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight)
• Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater – Before Midnight (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Billy Ray – Captain Phillips (Sony)
• Peter Berg – Lone Survivor (Universal)
• Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope – Philomena (The Weinstein Company)
• Terence Winter – The Wolf of Wall Street (Paramount)

Original Score

• Hans Zimmer – 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight)
• John Williams – The Book Thief (20th Century Fox)
• Steven Price – Gravity (Warner Bros.)
• Arcade Fire – Her (Warner Bros.)
• Alexandre Desplat – Philomena (The Weinstein Company)
• Theodore Shapiro – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (20th Century Fox)

Original Song

• Happy, Despicable Me 2 (Universal)
• Let It Go, Frozen (Disney)
• Young and Beautiful, The Great Gatsby (Warner Bros.)
• I See Fire, The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug (Warner Bros)
• Please Mr. Kennedy, Inside Llewyn Davis (CBS Films)
• So You Know What It’s Like, Short Term 12 (Cinedigm)

Cinematography

• Sean Bobbitt 12 – Years A Slave (Fox Searchlight)
• Emmanuel Lubezki – Gravity (Warner Bros.)
• Bruno Delbonnel – Inside Llewyn Davis (CBS Films)
• Roger Deakins – Prisoners (Warner Bros.)
• Anthony Dod – Mantle Rush (Universal)
• Stuart Dryburgh – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (20th Century Fox)

Visual Effects

• Robert Munroe, Colin Davies, Brendon O’Dell – All Is Lost (Lionsgate/Roadside Attractions)
• Markus Manninen, Matt Baer – The Croods (DreamWorks)
• Tim Webber, Charles Howell, Chris Lawrence – Gravity (Warner Bros.)
• Scott Stokdyk, Troy Saliba, James Schwalm – Oz the Great and Powerful (Disney)
• Jody Johnson, Mark Hodgkins, Antoine Moulineau – Rush (Universal)
• Scott Farrar, Andrew R. Jones, Jessica Norman, and Matt Johnson – World War Z (Paramount)

Film Editing

• Joe Walker – 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight)
• Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers – American Hustle
• Alfonso Cuaron, Mark Sanger – Gravity (Warner Bros)
• Joel Cox, Gary D. Roach – Prisoners (Warner Bros.)
• Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill – Rush (Universal)
• Thelma Schoonmaker – The Wolf of Wall Street (Paramount)

Sound (Editing and Mixing)

• Steve Boeddeker, Richard Hymns, Brandon Proctor – All Is Lost (Lionsgate)
• Oliver Tarney, Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor – Captain Phillips (Sony)
• Craig Berkey, Dave Whitehead, David Husby, and Christopher Scarabosio – Elysium (Sony)
• Glenn Freemantle, Niv Adiri, Skip Lievsey – Gravity (Warner Bros)
• Skip Lievsay, Paul Urmson, Igor Nikolic – Inside Llewyn Davis (CBS Films)
• Danny Hambrook, Frank Kruse, Markus Stemler – Rush (Universal)

Art Direction & Production Design

• Catherine Martin, Beverly Dunn – The Great Gatsby (Warner Bros.)
• Maria Djurkovic, Tatiana Macdonald – The Invisible Woman (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Tim Galvin, Diane Lederman – Lee Daniels’ The Butler (The Weinstein Company)
• Robert Stromberg, Nancy Haigh – Oz the Great and Powerful (Disney)
• Mark Digby, Patrick Rolfe – Rush (Universal)
• Michael Corenblith, Lauren E. Polizzi – Saving Mr. Banks (Disney)

Costume Design

• Patricia Norris – 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight)
• Catherine Martin – The Great Gatsby (Warner Bros.)
• Michael O’Connor – The Invisible Woman (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Gary Jones – Oz the Great and Powerful (Disney)
• Julian Day – Rush (Universal)
• Daniel Orlandi – Saving Mr. Banks (Disney)

December Movies to See and Skip!

November was about two films at the box office Thor: The Dark World, and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Thor started strong, and will do better than the original already besting it with 186 million domestic, and 404 million foreign.  By the end Thor will do about 200 million domestic, which is half of Iron Man 3, but still decent.  The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has made 296 million domestic, and 276 in foreign markets, look for this film to give Iron Man 3 a run for its money as the number one film of the year.

While the God of Thunder and the "Girl on Fire" were the epic films of the month there were two other note able films released in November, Frozen and The Best Man Holiday.  Frozen has grossed 93 million domestic in just five days, looks for families to eat this film up, and push it past 200 million easily.  Holiday has grossed 63 million, and by the end of its run could keep climbing adding on another 15-20 million.  Frozen is proof that classic Disney animation has strong legging, and Holiday is proof in the power of good black cinema.

I will also add that I was correct about last months must-see movie, look for Nebraska at a theatre near you within the next few weeks it was a great film.  What does December have in store?

December 6th 

A few years back Crazy Heart was a sleeper hit with Jeff Bridges (although I hated it).  Out of the Furnace looks more like last years Rampart, and ironically both star Woody Harrelson.  Bale and Harrelson are said to be strong.  Furnace has lots of potential.

The Coen Brothers have a magical power with their films, a unique nature, which captivates audiences and their fans time and time again.  Inside Llewyn Davis is said to be another great film from the duo, with a great cast, music  T-Bone Burnett, how can you go wrong?

Must See of the Month: Inside Llewyn Davis

December 13th 

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was one of the most disappointing films from last year, Peter Jackson and his team seemed to lost their magic.  I believe splitting this film into three films was the real mistake, but anything to make money.  The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug could redeem the first, but I fear will also just be mediocre.

What can I say, another film with Tyler Perry, and Madea, this one entitled, Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas.  I honestly do not have any words, this film looks terrible.

Must Skip of the Week and Month: Tyler perry's A Madea Christmas 

December 20th 

Anchorman became a thing of legends, Will Ferrell may not be the most liked out there, but the first film has been quoted more than any in recent history.  Will a sequel ruin the greatness of the first?  It could. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues has potential, but be wary.

I will be getting to see American Hustle at a screening this week, and will be able to speak to the film further.  David O. Russell has had his two most recent films (The Fighter, and Silver Linings Playbook) get Best Picture nominations.  Will this film succeed? Looks good.

Mary Poppins is my favorite Disney film of all time.  Will Saving Mr. Banks do the behind the scenes magic justice?  With another great ensemble and the director which added the heart to The Blind Side on board with Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson this will be a magical experience.

The film I am most excited for (personally) is the Spike Jonez film Her starring Joaquin Phoenix as a man who fall in love with an operating system while trying to get over an ex-girlfriend. This may leave you a little cold, but watch the trailer below.

Must See of the Week: Her

December 27th 

Ben Stiller has never been one of my favorite actors, but his work behind the scenes is always pretty solid.  The Secret Life of Walter Mitty looks to be his most large scale endeavor, but this looks to be too grand of an attempt, that may may not be worth the adventure.

Martin Scorsese is a genius, and The Wolf of Wall Street could be one proof this man know how to make great cinema with its blended dark humor, and intense realism of the modern day economic greed.  This weekends screening proves the film has ambition, and will most likely be that film people flock to the way they went to see Django last year.

Turning a play into a film can be tricky, Doubt, Frost/Nixon, Gods of Carnage, The History Boys, the list could go on and on.  I imagine August: Osage County will have fans of the play a little less pleased, but audiences will eat this film up.  My thought before its release is that I have hope for it to be good, but am keeping my expectations low.

47 Ronin is bringing Keanu Reeves back to the big screen, but with an inflated production budget, and move able release date this film is already trouble in the making.  

I think Grudge Match may get old school fans of Stallone and DeNiro to show, but I will forewarn you this movie is going to be terrible.

Must See of the Week: The Wolf of Wall Street

Must Skip of the Week: Grudge Match