Picture: The Hurt Locker (127/14)
Director: Lucrecia Martel, The Headless Woman (110/10)
Actress: Alison Lohman, Drag Me to Hell (141/17)
Actor: Stephen McHattie, Pontypool (132/12)
S. Actor: Bob Peterson, Up (113/9)
S. Actress: Gwyneth Paltrow, Two Lovers (109/14)
Screenplay: Scott Z. Burns, The Informant! (116/16)
Scene: Opening title sequence, Watchmen (83/10)
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HISTORY:
Martel finished 19th in 2005 for The Holy Girl. This year she's the highest-ranked director whose film failed to place.
Paltrow makes her 7th appearance in the top 20, tied with several others as the third-most-cited actor in Skandie history. The rundown:
19s. Hard Eight (1997)
7. Shakespeare in Love (1998)
16. Shallow Hal (2001)
10s. The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
14. Proof (2005).
15s. Iron Man (2008)
(Amusingly, Paltrow and Vinessa Shaw finished in consecutive spots with only one point separating them; we were as Torn Between as Joaquin.)
Lohman gets her first nod since placing 5th in the Supporting category for Matchstick Men six years ago. Both men debut. (Peterson was the voice of Dug and Alpha.)
Burns' only previous eligible screenplay was The Bourne Ultimatum, which didn't make the cut. This year he's the highest-ranked screenwriter whose film failed to place.
6 comments:
The opening sequence of Watchmen is when I knew I would hate the movie.
You knew you'd hate it during the actual opening sequence (Blake's murder) or during the title sequence?
I voted for the title sequence to Watchmen -- great use of Bob Dylan, and wonderfully edited all around. Handed it 12 points too, the fourth most on my ballot.
Then promptly after it finished, the film turned into dogshit and I hated every minute until I walked out after suffering through over 2 hours of that crap.
"You knew you'd hate it during the actual opening sequence (Blake's murder) or during the title sequence?"
Sorry, I meant the title sequence.
"Then promptly after it finished, the film turned into dogshit and I hated every minute until I walked out after suffering through over 2 hours of that crap."
See, I don't get that. For me, it was simply a preview of the dogshit to come. It just reeks of smug condescension (and the Dylan song was way too cute and on-the-nose, like every other musical cue in the movie).
Martel and McHattie in the same breath. Damn cool.
Interesting that Martel and Burns placed in the same Skandies "pod," as her directing and his voiceover script were the two shining examples in '09 of how to get an audience into a lead character's head space rapidly and seamlessly.
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