This is the thread where we discuss matters pertaining to the detrius that accompanies the "End of the Year in Cinema" -- 2024

Apologies to Eric H. for starting this thread without him, but he hasn't posted in a while. And today kicks off detrius season with the Gotham Awards nominations.

ANORA ANORA ANORA

Full Gothams lineup:

Best Feature

Anora
Babygirl
Challengers
A Different Man
Nickel Boys

Best International Feature

All We Imagine as Light
Green Border
Hard Truths
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
Vermiglio

Best Documentary Feature

Dahomey
Intercepted
No Other Land
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Sugarcane
Union

Best Director

Payal Kapadia, All We Imagine as Light
Sean Baker, Anora
Guan Hu, Black Dog
Jane Schoenbrun, I Saw the TV Glow
RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys

Best Screenplay

Between the Temples
Evil Does Not Exist
Femme
His Three Daughters
Janet Planet

Breakthrough Director

Shuchi Talati, Girls Will Be Girls
India Donaldson, Good One
Alessandra Lacorazza, In the Summers
Vera Drew, The People’s Joker
Mahdi Fleifel, To a Land Unknown

Outstanding Lead Performance

Pamela Anderson, The Last Showgirl
Adrien Brody, The Brutalist
Colman Domingo, Sing Sing
Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths
Nicole Kidman, Babygirl
Keith Kupferer, Ghostlight
Mikey Madison, Anora
Demi Moore, The Substance
Saoirse Ronan, Outrun
Justice Smith, I Saw the TV Glow

Outstanding Supporting Performance

Yura Borisov, Anora
Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Danielle Deadwyler, The Piano Lesson
Brigette Lundy-Paine, I Saw the TV Glow
Natasha Lyonne, His Three Daughters
Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing
Katy O’Brian, Love Lies Bleeding
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Adam Pearson, A Different Man
Brian Tyree Henry, The Fire Inside

Breakthrough Performer

Lily Collias, Good One
Ryan Destiny, The Fire Inside
Maisy Stella, My Old Ass
Izaac Wang, Dìdi
Brandon Wilson, Nickel Boys

Conan hosting the Oscars:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/business/media/conan-obrien-oscars-host.html

Don't think I'm going to do as well in Movie Fantasy League as I did last year, so now I'm just hoping that my team, Saoirse and Destroy, beats the team Saoirse and Rescue.

Cahiers du Cinema top 10:

1) Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie)
2) May December (Todd Haynes)
3) In Water (Hong Sang Soo)
4) The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer)
5) All We Imagine As Light (Kayal Kapadia)
6) The Delinquents (Rodrigo Moreno)
7) Evil Does Not Exist (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
8) Ma Vie Ma Gueule (Sophie Fillieres)
9) Trap (M. Night Shyamalan)
10) The Other Way Around (Jonas Trueba)

https://www.worldofreel.com/blog/2024/11/28/cahiers-du-cinmas-top-10-of-2024-topped-by-alain-guiraudies-misericordia-includes-shyamalan-glazer-and-haynes

[9) Trap (M. Night Shyamalan)

Da fuck?

2023 releases and shyamalan. good start to the season

I didn't know about the new Guiraudie. Yah on the Hamaguchi, possibly his best.

I'm just hoping that my team, Saoirse and Destroy, beats the team Saoirse and Rescue.

Well you’re ahead of me (I’m Tom Holland Drive).

Follow along as NYFCC announces awards:

https://bsky.app/profile/nyfcc.bsky.social

https://bsky.app/profile/nyfcc.bsky.social/post/3lcfxdocia22q

BEST ACTRESS: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Jomo Fray, Nickel Boys

BEST FIRST FILM: Janet Planet

BEST ACTRESS: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths

yesss

Forgot to post the Gotham Award winners yesterday. Full list here, but notable winners were A Different Man for feature, RaMell Ross (Nickel Boys) for director, Colman Domingo (Sing Sing) for lead performance, and Clarence Maclin (Sing Sing) for supporting performance.

Back to NYFCC:

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Carol Kane, Between the Temples

oh god more fucking category fraud. Kane is a LEAD. Like Culkin.

Kane's my vote for Best Actress actually.

BEST ACTOR: Adrien Brody, The Brutalist

BEST SCREENPLAY: Sean Baker, Anora

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM: All We Imagine as Light

BEST DIRECTOR: RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys

BEST FILM: The Brutalist

xxpost Cahiers has a weird thing for Shyamalan and Eastwood. They tie themselves into knots describing the auteurist marvels those two create (in their eyes).

I watched Trap last night, inspired by this post and uhh

I am a Trap apologist. It's ridiculous fun.

National Board of Review

Best Film: “Wicked”

Best Director: Jon M. Chu, “Wicked”

Best Actor: Daniel Craig, “Queer”

Best Actress: Nicole Kidman, “Babygirl”

Best Supporting Actor: Kieran Culkin, “A Real Pain”

Best Supporting Actress: Elle Fanning, “A Complete Unknown”

Best Ensemble: “Conclave”

Breakthrough Performance: Mikey Madison, “Anora”

Best Directorial Debut: India Donaldson, “Good One”

Best Original Screenplay: Mike Leigh, “Hard Truths”

Best Adapted Screenplay: Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar, “Sing Sing”

NBR Spotlight Award: Creative Collaboration of Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande

NBR Freedom of Expression Award: “No Other Land”

Best Animated Feature: “Flow”

Best International Film: “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”

Best Documentary: “Sugarcane”

Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography: Jarin Blaschke, “Nosferatu”

Outstanding Achievement in Stunt Artistry: “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga”

Oh no the Wicked train begins

John Waters' Top 10

Over the paywall: https://web.archive.org/web/20241206153936/https://www.vulture.com/article/john-waters-best-movies-of-2024.html

Golden Globe nominations!
https://variety.com/2024/film/awards/golden-globes-nominations-2025-full-list-1236236911/

Nice to see Challengers and Zendaya show up.

Also, my initial positive reaction to Emilia Perez has soured somewhat, but I'm happy for the sake of my fantasy league team that it scored 10 noms.

How are these two different people?

https://i.imgur.com/jXV0iGq.png

Emilia Perez is just loathsome as a queer film and as musical.

I like the idea of it being a musical, but no, the songs are not very good. Some of the things about the movie that didn't work made more sense when I learned it was originally written as an opera libretto.

LA Film Critics:

Best Picture
Winner: Anora
Runner-up: The Brutalist

Best Director
Winner: Mohammad Rasoulof, The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Runner-up: Sean Baker, Anora

Best Lead Performance
Winners: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hard Truths, and Mikey Madison, Anora
Runners-up: Demi Moore, The Substance, and Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here

Best Supporting Performance
Winners: Yura Borisov, Anora, and Kieran Culkin, A Real Pain
Runners-up: Clarence Maclin, Sing Sing, and Adam Pearson, A Different Man

Best Screenplay
Winner: Jesse Eisenberg, A Real Pain
Runner-up: Sean Baker, Anora

Best Documentary/Nonfiction
Winner: No Other Land
Runner-up: Dahomey

Best Cinematography
Winner: Jomo Fray, Nickel Boys
Runner-up: Lol Crawley, The Brutalist

Best Music/Score
Winner: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Challengers
Runner-up: Eiko Ishibashi, Evil Does Not Exist

Best Production Design
Winner: Judy Becker, The Brutalist
Runner-up: Adam Stockhausen, Blitz

Best Editing
Tie: Nicholas Monsour, Nickel Boys, and Hansjörg Weissbrich, September 5

Best Animation
Winner: Flow
Runner-up: Chicken for Linda

Best Film Not in the English Language
Winner: All We Imagine as Light
Runner-up: The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Douglas Edwards Experimental Film Prize
Eduardo Williams’ The Human Surge 3

New Generation
Vera Drew, The People’s Joker

I thought RaMell Ross's documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018) was an incredible film, abstract but totally accessible. I also loved Colson Whitehead's book Nickel Boys, so am looking forward to Ross's interpretation of it

I've been meaning to watch Hale County. Thought it was on Criterion, but it's not (or at least not now).

Way better than Nickel Boys

Florida Film Critics Circle ballots due tomorrow.

I highly recommend All We Imagine as Light and the documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat.

what didn't you like about Nickel Boys, Alfred?

The subjectivity of the POV cramped the movie's resonances imo. For a limited intelligence the subjectivity works, but Elwood's so smart that I wanted the film to honor his empathy and observational powers. Let him access the full range of his responses. It worked a couple places: the laundry room, the elder Elwood's bar chat with a fellow inmate.

Sight and Sound Top 50:

https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/polls/best-films-2024-all-votes

Oscar shortlists for international, documentary, shorts, score, song, sound, VFX, and makeup:
https://press.oscars.org/news/97th-oscarsr-shortlists-10-award-categories-announced

from ScreenSlate's 'favourite first viewings' megapoll, Vera Drew on Unfrosted:

One of the most perverted films I have ever seen. The Right Stuff parody fair-use boomer fetish art. The cinematic equivalent of a sociopath. Sarah Cooper and a Cereal Mascot January 6 sequence. Grandma’s Holes, frooty goopy fetishy marshmallow fluff “what’s the first thing a baby tastes” “applesauce.” “Milk.” Watching Jerry lip sync the end credits song by Jimmy Fallon and Meghan Trainor is like staring into Azathoth.

Our winners: https://x.com/FLFilmCritics

And we did Best Actor right, dammit.

The Guardian’s 50 best films in the UK #1 - All Of Us Strangers

The Guardian’s 50 best movies in the US #1 -The Brutalist