Honoring independent films, the Gotham Awards are the first major awards of the film awards season. This year, the 2014 edition kicks off the 2014-15 season. The Gotham Awards ceremony was held on Monday, December 1, 2014 at Cipriani Wall Street.
The 2014/24th Annual Gotham Independent Film Award winners are:
Best Feature
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Alejandro G. Iñárritu, director; Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, Arnon Milchan, James W. Skotchdopole, producers (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Best Documentary
CITIZENFOUR
Laura Poitras, director; Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy, Dirk Wilutzky, producers (RADiUS, Participant Media, and HBO Documentary Films)
Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award
Ana Lily Amirpour for A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (Kino Lorber)
Best Actor*
Michael Keaton in Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
* The 2014 Best Actor nominating panel also voted to award a special Gotham Jury Award jointly to Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo, and Channing Tatum for their ensemble performance in Foxcatcher (Sony Pictures Classics).
Best Actress
Julianne Moore in Still Alice (Sony Pictures Classics)
Breakthrough Actor
Tessa Thompson in Dear White People (Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions)
Spotlight on Women Filmmakers ‘Live the Dream’ Grant:
For the fourth consecutive year, IFP is proud present the euphoria Calvin Klein Spotlight on Women Filmmakers ‘Live the Dream’ grant, a $25,000 cash award for an alumna of IFP’s Independent Filmmaker Labs. This grant aims to further the careers of emerging women directors by supporting the completion, distribution and audience engagement strategies of their first feature film.
WINNER: Chloé Zhao, director, Songs My Brothers Taught Me
The nominees are:
Garrett Bradley, director, Below Dreams
Claire Carré, director, Embers
Gotham Independent Film Audience Award: Boyhood
New this year, IFP members had a voice in determining the 5th Annual Gotham Independent Film Audience Award with nominees comprised of the 15 nominated films in the Best Feature, Best Documentary, and Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award categories. All IFP current, active members at the Individual Level and above will be eligible to vote. Voting took place online from November 19th at 12:01 AM EST and concluded on November 26th at 5:00 PM EST. The winner of the Audience Award was announced at the Gotham Awards Ceremony on December 1, 2014.
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Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Monday, December 1, 2014
New York Film Critics Cricle Chooses "Boyhood" as Best Picture of 2014
Founded in 1935, the New York Film Critics Circle is, according to their website, “an organization of film reviewers from New York-based publications that exists to honor excellence in U.S. and world cinema.” Members are critics from daily newspapers, weekly newspapers, magazines, and online general-interest publications (that meet certain qualifications). Every year in December, Circle members meet in New York to vote on awards for the year's films. The Circle also puts on an awards presentation, which will be held in January 2015 to honor 2014 winners.
The Circle was the first film critics organization that I encountered as a budding, young movie lover. The Circle's awards have been predictors of the Oscar nominations. However, The Circle sees it awards “as a principled alternative to the Oscars, honoring esthetic merit in a forum that is immune to commercial and political pressures,” according to their website.
2014 NYFCC Awards:
Best Picture: Boyhood
Best Director: Richard Linklater – Boyhood
Best Screenplay: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Best Actress: Marion Cotillard - “The Immigrant,” and also “Two Days, One Night”
Best Actor: Timothy Spall - Mr. Turner
Best Supporting Actress: Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
Best Supporting Actor: J.K. Simmons – Whiplash
Best Cinematographer: Darius Khondji - The Immigrant
Best Animated Film: The LEGO Movie
Best Non-Fiction Film (Documentary): Citizenfour
Best Foreign Film: Ida (Poland)
Best First Film: Jennifer Kent - The Babadook
Special Award: Adrienne Mancia
The Circle was the first film critics organization that I encountered as a budding, young movie lover. The Circle's awards have been predictors of the Oscar nominations. However, The Circle sees it awards “as a principled alternative to the Oscars, honoring esthetic merit in a forum that is immune to commercial and political pressures,” according to their website.
2014 NYFCC Awards:
Best Picture: Boyhood
Best Director: Richard Linklater – Boyhood
Best Screenplay: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Best Actress: Marion Cotillard - “The Immigrant,” and also “Two Days, One Night”
Best Actor: Timothy Spall - Mr. Turner
Best Supporting Actress: Patricia Arquette – Boyhood
Best Supporting Actor: J.K. Simmons – Whiplash
Best Cinematographer: Darius Khondji - The Immigrant
Best Animated Film: The LEGO Movie
Best Non-Fiction Film (Documentary): Citizenfour
Best Foreign Film: Ida (Poland)
Best First Film: Jennifer Kent - The Babadook
Special Award: Adrienne Mancia
Merry Negromancer December 2014
Sunday, November 30, 2014
134 Documentary Films Vie for 15 Spots on 87th Academy Awards Shortlist
134 Documentary Features Submitted For 2014 Oscar® Race
One hundred thirty-four features have been submitted for consideration in the Documentary Feature category for the 87th Academy Awards®.
The submitted features, listed in alphabetical order, are:
“Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq”
“Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case”
“Algorithms”
“Alive Inside”
“All You Need Is Love”
“Altina”
“America: Imagine the World without Her”
“American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs”
“Anita”
“Antarctica: A Year on Ice”
“Art and Craft”
“Awake: The Life of Yogananda”
“The Barefoot Artist”
“The Battered Bastards of Baseball”
“Before You Know It”
“Bitter Honey”
“Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity”
“Botso The Teacher from Tbilisi”
“Captivated The Trials of Pamela Smart”
“The Case against 8”
“Cesar’s Last Fast”
“Citizen Koch”
“CitizenFour”
“Code Black”
“Concerning Violence”
“The Culture High”
“Cyber-Seniors”
“DamNation”
“Dancing in Jaffa”
“Death Metal Angola”
“The Decent One”
“Dinosaur 13”
“Do You Know What My Name Is?”
“Documented”
“The Dog”
“E-Team”
“Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me”
“Elena”
“Evolution of a Criminal”
“Fed Up”
“Finding Fela”
“Finding Vivian Maier”
“Food Chains”
“The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden”
“Getting to the Nutcracker”
“Glen Campbell…I’ll Be Me”
“Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia”
“The Great Flood”
“The Great Invisible”
“The Green Prince”
“The Hacker Wars”
“The Hadza: Last of the First”
“Hanna Ranch”
“Happy Valley”
“The Hornet’s Nest”
“I Am Ali”
“If You Build It”
“The Immortalists”
“The Internet’s Own Boy”
“Ivory Tower”
“James Cameron’s Deepsea Challenge”
“Jodorowsky’s Dune”
“Journey of a Female Comic”
“Keep On Keepin’ On”
“Kids for Cash”
“The Kill Team”
“Korengal”
“La Bare”
“Last Days in Vietnam”
“Last Hijack”
“The Last Patrol”
“Levitated Mass”
“Life Itself”
“Little White Lie”
“Llyn Foulkes One Man Band”
“Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles”
“Manakamana”
“Merchants of Doubt”
“Mission Blue”
“Mistaken for Strangers”
“Mitt”
“Monk with a Camera”
“Nas: Time Is Illmatic”
“National Gallery”
“Next Goal Wins”
“Next Year Jerusalem”
“Night Will Fall”
“No Cameras Allowed”
“Now: In the Wings on a World Stage”
“Occupy the Farm”
“The Only Real Game”
“The Overnighters”
“Particle Fever”
“Pay 2 Play: Democracy’s High Stakes”
“Pelican Dreams”
“The Pleasures of Being Out of Step”
“Plot for Peace”
“Point and Shoot”
“Poverty Inc.”
“Print the Legend”
“Private Violence”
“Pump”
“Rabindranath Tagore – The Poet of Eternity”
“Red Army”
“Remote Area Medical”
“Rich Hill”
“The Rule”
“The Salt of the Earth”
“Shadows from My Past”
“She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry”
“A Small Section of the World”
“Smiling through the Apocalypse – Esquire in the 60s”
“Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon”
“The Supreme Price”
“Tales of the Grim Sleeper”
“Tanzania: A Journey Within”
“This Is Not a Ball”
“Thomas Keating: A Rising Tide of Silence”
“Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People”
“True Son”
“20,000 Days on Earth”
“Unclaimed”
“Under the Electric Sky”
“Underwater Dreams”
“Virunga”
“Waiting for August”
“Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago”
“Warsaw Uprising”
“Watchers of the Sky”
“Watermark”
“We Are the Giant”
“We Could Be King”
“Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger”
“A World Not Ours”
Several of the films have not yet had their required Los Angeles and New York qualifying releases. Submitted features must fulfill the theatrical release requirements and comply with all of the category’s other qualifying rules in order to advance in the voting process. A shortlist of 15 films will be announced in December.
Films submitted in the Documentary Feature category also may qualify for Academy Awards in other categories, including Best Picture, provided they meet the requirements for those categories.
The 87th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 15, 2015, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
The Oscars® will be held on Sunday, February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.
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One hundred thirty-four features have been submitted for consideration in the Documentary Feature category for the 87th Academy Awards®.
The submitted features, listed in alphabetical order, are:
“Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq”
“Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case”
“Algorithms”
“Alive Inside”
“All You Need Is Love”
“Altina”
“America: Imagine the World without Her”
“American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs”
“Anita”
“Antarctica: A Year on Ice”
“Art and Craft”
“Awake: The Life of Yogananda”
“The Barefoot Artist”
“The Battered Bastards of Baseball”
“Before You Know It”
“Bitter Honey”
“Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity”
“Botso The Teacher from Tbilisi”
“Captivated The Trials of Pamela Smart”
“The Case against 8”
“Cesar’s Last Fast”
“Citizen Koch”
“CitizenFour”
“Code Black”
“Concerning Violence”
“The Culture High”
“Cyber-Seniors”
“DamNation”
“Dancing in Jaffa”
“Death Metal Angola”
“The Decent One”
“Dinosaur 13”
“Do You Know What My Name Is?”
“Documented”
“The Dog”
“E-Team”
“Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me”
“Elena”
“Evolution of a Criminal”
“Fed Up”
“Finding Fela”
“Finding Vivian Maier”
“Food Chains”
“The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden”
“Getting to the Nutcracker”
“Glen Campbell…I’ll Be Me”
“Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia”
“The Great Flood”
“The Great Invisible”
“The Green Prince”
“The Hacker Wars”
“The Hadza: Last of the First”
“Hanna Ranch”
“Happy Valley”
“The Hornet’s Nest”
“I Am Ali”
“If You Build It”
“The Immortalists”
“The Internet’s Own Boy”
“Ivory Tower”
“James Cameron’s Deepsea Challenge”
“Jodorowsky’s Dune”
“Journey of a Female Comic”
“Keep On Keepin’ On”
“Kids for Cash”
“The Kill Team”
“Korengal”
“La Bare”
“Last Days in Vietnam”
“Last Hijack”
“The Last Patrol”
“Levitated Mass”
“Life Itself”
“Little White Lie”
“Llyn Foulkes One Man Band”
“Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles”
“Manakamana”
“Merchants of Doubt”
“Mission Blue”
“Mistaken for Strangers”
“Mitt”
“Monk with a Camera”
“Nas: Time Is Illmatic”
“National Gallery”
“Next Goal Wins”
“Next Year Jerusalem”
“Night Will Fall”
“No Cameras Allowed”
“Now: In the Wings on a World Stage”
“Occupy the Farm”
“The Only Real Game”
“The Overnighters”
“Particle Fever”
“Pay 2 Play: Democracy’s High Stakes”
“Pelican Dreams”
“The Pleasures of Being Out of Step”
“Plot for Peace”
“Point and Shoot”
“Poverty Inc.”
“Print the Legend”
“Private Violence”
“Pump”
“Rabindranath Tagore – The Poet of Eternity”
“Red Army”
“Remote Area Medical”
“Rich Hill”
“The Rule”
“The Salt of the Earth”
“Shadows from My Past”
“She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry”
“A Small Section of the World”
“Smiling through the Apocalypse – Esquire in the 60s”
“Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon”
“The Supreme Price”
“Tales of the Grim Sleeper”
“Tanzania: A Journey Within”
“This Is Not a Ball”
“Thomas Keating: A Rising Tide of Silence”
“Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People”
“True Son”
“20,000 Days on Earth”
“Unclaimed”
“Under the Electric Sky”
“Underwater Dreams”
“Virunga”
“Waiting for August”
“Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago”
“Warsaw Uprising”
“Watchers of the Sky”
“Watermark”
“We Are the Giant”
“We Could Be King”
“Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger”
“A World Not Ours”
Several of the films have not yet had their required Los Angeles and New York qualifying releases. Submitted features must fulfill the theatrical release requirements and comply with all of the category’s other qualifying rules in order to advance in the voting process. A shortlist of 15 films will be announced in December.
Films submitted in the Documentary Feature category also may qualify for Academy Awards in other categories, including Best Picture, provided they meet the requirements for those categories.
The 87th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 15, 2015, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
The Oscars® will be held on Sunday, February 22, 2015, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.
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Negromancer's Fave Poli-Reads - November 2014 Edition - Update #17
From YahooNews: Republican bitch gets out of hand with President Obama's daughters about something that is really not important at all.
From RollingStone: The 15 worst owners in sports.
From RollingStone: Rape... at a college founded by a slave owner that raped his female slaves... No way...
From the GuardianUK: Angela Davis on Mike Brown.
From the GuardianUK: You've got to be kidding me. Masai homeland to be turned into hunting ground for Dubai royalty... Off with their heads.
From FirstLook: Glenn Greenwald's sarcastic piece about the people most excited about a Hilary Clinton presidency.
From Politico: Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) on why the Republicans want to impeach President Obama.
From TIME: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says that American politicians are a bigger threat to democracy than ISIS. Yes.
From Vocativ: Be a cop in Oakley Michigan for $1200.
From RSN: How to scrap the two-party system...
From BBCNews: J. Edgar Hoover used Nazis as Cold War spies. Why am I not surprised.
From TheDailyBeast: Jonathan Alter, one of my favorite writers about politics and society, talks about what the day after the Republican takeover of Congress will be like.
From Newsweek: When Google met Wikileaks.
From WashingtonPost: Senator Mark Warner's middle of the road fantasy almost cost him his seat on Tuesday, November 4, 2014
From YahooNews: President Obama not mopey about 2014 midterms.
From TheWashingtonPost: Rachel Maddow on the GOP banking on fear.
From RawStory: North Carolina voting machines acting kinda shady. I have been hearing similar stories for years.
From ThinkProgress: A secretive voter purge in 27 states, largely unknown and aimed at suspected members of minorities.
From Truthout: The origins, history, and more about GamerGate.
Negromancer News Bits and Bites for the Week of November 23 to 30, 2014 - Update #11
NEWS:
From Billboard: She has an Oscar, and Jennifer Lawrence may very well have a Top 40 hit on the Billboard charts by next week. It's "The Hanging Tree" from the album featuring James Newton Howard's score for Mockingjay Part 1.
From Playlist: 5 Things to Know about Beetlejuice on its 25th anniversary.
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From Variety: Amy Berg, Nate Parker, and Matthew Cooke crowd fund for Ferguson-related doc.
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From THR: Universal releases "Jurassic World" teaser trailer.
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From Variety: The #1 movie at the box office for the weekend of Friday, November 21st to 23rd, 2014 is The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 with an estimated take of $123 million, the biggest weekend opening of the year, thus far.
STAR WARS:
From YahooMovies: John Boyega answers haters of the "Black stormtrooper."
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From YahooTV: Apparently, Andy Serkis is the narrator or provides the voice over for the Episode 7 teaser.
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From TechCrunch and iTunes: The first trailer for "The Force Awakens."
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Star Wars News Dump:
YahooMovies: Joe Johnston, a special effect pioneer, is selling some of his Star Wars items.
YahooMovies: JJ Abrams teases Star Wars teaser.
YahooMovies: A list of theaters showing the Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer.
From io9: Rumors about first Star Wars spin-off film.
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From FlickeringMyth: "Star Wars The Force Awakens" trailer will premiere Friday, November 28, 2017...
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From EntertainmentIE: A possible two-second clip from the first Episode 7 trailer.
TRAILERS:
From 20th Century Fox, new trailer for Unfinished Business.
The Killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson - November 2014 Edition - Update #26
From AddictingInfo: Bob McCulloch connected to organization that did fundraising for Darren Wilson. Special prosecutor, bee-yuch.
From RSN: Benjamin Watson is angry. Join the crowd.
From YahooNews: No severance package for Darren Wilson... or so Ferguson's mayor says.
From YahooNews: Darren Wilson resigns.
From ThinkProgress: Compare Justice Scalia's writings on what a grand jury is supposed to do.
From HuffingtonPost: McCulloch manipulated grand jury process to shield a killer police officer.
From Variety: Oscar-nominee Amy Berg, actor Nate Parker, and writer/director Matthew Cooke launch an Indiegogo campaign for their film, "Black Male Crisis," in wake of Ferguson non-indictment.
From Esquire: Charles Pierce mocks Darren Wilson's ridiculous story as given to the ridiculous George Clinton-connection-oulos interview on FOX News lite... err ABC.
From YahooTV: Garth Brooks cancels promotional appearances for his new album as distasteful while Mike Brown protests are occuring.
From ABCNews: Celebs react to injustice of no indictment.
From TheVox: Why Killer Darren's story is unbelievable.
From TheVox: Why President Obama can't give the Ferguson speech his supporters want.
From YahooNews: George Stephanopoulos interviews Darren Wilson.
From InTheseTimes: A short history of killer cops.
From RSN: No indictment.
From YouTube: Reporter Larry Everest confronts Missouri Governor Jay Nixon at Ferguson press conference.
From StLouisDisptach: Darren Wilson married his girlfriend. His wedding gift to her was the carcass of a "buck" he killed just a few months ago.
From FirstLook: A complete guide to the shooting of Mike Brown.
From YahooNews: Mike Brown's killer does not expect to be charged with killing Mike Brown, according to the St. Louis Police Officer's Association.
From RSN: Pre-emptive state of emergency means that the grand jury decision is rigged, indeed.
From RSN: Read Missouri Governor Jay Nixon's declaration of a state of emergency.
From the DailyBeast: Dread in America, following Ferguson.
From Esquire: They're right: What is going on in Ferguson is not going to end well.
From YahooNews: The Associated Press answers questions about the Ferguson grand jury on the Michael Brown killing.
From YahooNews: Reportedly, Officer Shooter... err... I mean Wilson could return to the Ferguson police department if he is not indicted. Sounds like a winner!
From YahooNews: Where're the injuries, Officer Wilson? Video footage of Darren Wilson in the hours after his killed Michael Brown are released under state open records laws.
From the AP via RSN: Ferguson no-fly zone was aimed at media.
From YahooNews: Missouri governor, Jay Nixon, prepared for war, but not to prosecute a murdering cop.
From the GuardianUK: Ferguson police ready for war. Gonna kill us some more Niggers!
From RSN: 18-year-old Black male (what else) shot from behind by St. Louis (where else) cop.
From the WashingtonPost: There will likely be no federal charges against Darren Wilson, the man who killed Mike Brown. They're too busy bringing charges against anti-war and environmental activists.
From YahooNews: Attorney General Holder: Ferguson police need "wholesale" change. D'uh, General Holder, d'uh
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THE BASICS:
From TheIntercept via RSN: Klan jury... I mean grand jury in Mike Brown's shooting began Wednesday, August 20th, 2014.
Michael Brown, 18, was shot to death, reportedly by police officer Darren Wilson, on Saturday, August 9th, 2014 at approximately 2:15 pm on Canfield Drive in Ferguson, Missouri. Ferguson is a small city in St. Louis County. The shooting of the unarmed Brown sparked a furious backlash and days of protests, some violent and involving looting. What follows is a list of links to news articles about the shooting and related matters:
From the StLouisPostDispatch: An early article about the Michael Brown shooting
From the LosAngelesTimes: This is the earliest (or oldest) article that I could find about the Michael Brown shooting.
From HuffingtonPost: Another early article about the local African-American community's reaction to the shooting of Brown
From PrisonCulture: A searing image of Michael Brown's father
From the WashingtonPost via RSN: More of Darren Wilson's history and background emerges; it seems that he was previously associated with another police department that had a bad relationship with the local black folks.
From Al Jazeera via RSN: Darren Wilson: Judge, jury, and executioner.
From YahooNews via CSM and the AP: Shooter a.k.a. Darren Wilson tells his "side" of the story about how he shot an unarmed black man to death.
Updated Shooting Timeline: The AP via YahooNews.
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