10 February 2012

Skandies: #9

Picture: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (129/15)
Director: Kelly Reichardt, Meek's Cutoff (133/11)
Actress: Ellen Barkin, Shit Year (123/10)
Actor: George Clooney, The Descendants (92/9)
S. Actor: Bruce Greenwood, Meek's Cutoff (117/12)
S. Actress: Alice Barnole, House of Pleasures (124/11)
Screenplay: Bertrand Bonello, House of Pleasures (78/7)
Scene: Creation montage, The Tree of Life (85/8)

First half already on YouTube? Close enough.

HISTORY:

Reichardt finished 14th in 2006 for Old Joy.

Clooney makes his seventh appearance in the top 20, having previously placed 15th for Out of Sight (1998), 5th for O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), 8th for Intolerable Cruelty (2003), 10th for Michael Clayton (2007), 18th (in Supporting) for Burn After Reading (2008), and 13th for Up in the Air (2009). (We didn't love his Oscar-winning performance in Syriana, however.) Greenwood has two prior Supporting nods, at #3 (The Sweet Hereafter, 1997) and #10 (Thirteen Days, 2000). The women are new.

House of Pleasures is Bonello's first Skandie-eligible film.

8 comments:

Jeff said...

And the Bonello love starts rolling in. Bodes well for that #5 Ryan predicted on Twatter.

So it looks like Vincent Gallo's PROMISES WRITTEN IN WATER is getting a week run at the Whitney this year. Skandie eligible next year if that pans out?

md'a said...

No reason it wouldn't be.

Jeff said...

Oh, I am just worried the "week run" is in some small black box in the back of the museum with bean bags on the floor rather than a presentation in the theater. Hasn't been spelled out on Whitney site.

Also, good job Skandie voters recognizing Ellen Barkin. She was aces in another film that woulda probably been top 10 for me in any other year (this is a mantra at this point).

md'a said...

Venue is irrelevant. If it's shown to the public for a week and didn't premiere prior to 2010, it's in. They could project it on a wall.

Top ten was better than I expected for Barkin, given how few people saw the film. She would have placed 12th even without my 30-bomb. Sadly, another of my favorites in Actress, Kseniya Rappoport, starred in a film that was even less widely seen (The Double Hour—really worth checking out, guys) and wound up on the bubble, to borrow a poker term.

Alex said...

The Double Hour—really worth checking out, guys

U.S. remake in the works, apparently. Filippo Timi was pretty good in this as well imo.

Blake said...

The irony of PROMISE's week-long run is that it probably would've fared much better in the Undies than it will in next year's Skandies. Way to spoil Gallo's awards chances, Whitney!

md'a said...

U.S. remake in the works, apparently.

That makes sense. It's certainly high-concept enough, though I suspect the aspect that most impressed me won't survive. (Can't elaborate without ruining it for folks.)

I just said:

[Barkin] would have placed 12th even without my 30-bomb.

Which is true, but there's still, I concede, some significant D'Angelo Effect here, since I was the only person really stumping for Shit Year and a lot of voters likely watched it on my recommendation. (Thankfully only a couple wound up holding their noses.)

md'a said...

The irony of PROMISE's week-long run is that it probably would've fared much better in the Undies than it will in next year's Skandies. Way to spoil Gallo's awards chances, Whitney!

However, now it has a good shot of placing in Best Scene. That said, it has a good shot of placing in Best Scene now. A lot of people really... However, now it has a decent shot at placing in the Best Scene category.