18 February 2011

Skandies: #2



Picture: Winter's Bone (219/16)
Director: Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan (224/17)
Actress: Natalie Portman, Black Swan (279/27)
Actor: Édgar Ramírez, Carlos (324/24)
S. Actor: Christian Bale, The Fighter (212/15)
S. Actress: Aggeliki Papoulia, Dogtooth (179/16)
Screenplay: Yorgos Lanthimos & Efthymis Filippou, Dogtooth (289/21)
Scene: Facemash.com, The Social Network (153/11)



HISTORY:

Aronofsky previously placed 6th for Requiem for a Dream (1999), 18th for The Fountain (2006), and 16th for The Wrestler (2008).

This is Portman's second time as runner-up, as she placed 2nd in Supporting for Beautiful Girls (1996). She also finished 6th in Supporting for Closer (2004). In addition to his two previous "nominations" (listed below), Bale has also placed 18th, 7th and 17th in the lead category for Batman Begins (2005), The Prestige (2006) and Rescue Dawn (2007), respectively. Ramírez and Papoulia are new, as are Lanthimos & Filippou.

2 comments:

Nictate said...

What #2's Best Picture (and, I'm betting, Best Scene) means for #1 is a glorious thing. To quote Irene Cara, what a feeling.

Anonymous said...

Man, this scene is Black Swan's.