2014 Tuorhoth Awards Winners

You can find the BAFTA winners here and the Oscar announcements aren’t too far away but here the only ceremony that matters is the Tuorhoth Awards. The nominations were announced last week but last night’s winners can be found below. Remember our aim is to blend the awards favourites with the best blockbusters around for an honest awards.

Best Movie:

12 Years a Slave

Captain Phillips

Cloud Atlas

Gravity

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

The Kings of Summer

Much Ado About Nothing

Rush

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Thor: The Dark World

Best Leading Actress:

Carey Mulligan – The Great Gatsby

Amy Acker – Much Ado About Nothing

Rinko Kikuchi – Pacific Rim

Sandra Bullock – Gravity

Amy Adams – American Hustle

Best Leading Actor:

Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave

Idris Elba – Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Martin Freeman – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Tom Hanks – Captain Phillips

Zachary Quinto – Star Trek Into Darkness

Best Director:

Justin Chadwick – Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity

Ron Howard – Rush

Peter Jackson – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Baz Luhrmann – The Great Gatsby

Best Supporting Actress:

Doona Bae – Cloud Atlas

Naomi Harris – Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle

Evangeline Lilly – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave

Best Supporting Actor:

Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips

Moises Arias – The Kings of Summer

Daniel Bruhl – Rush

Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave

Tom Hiddleston – Thor: The Dark World

Best Comedy:

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa

The Kings of Summer

Much Ado About Nothing

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Wreck-It Ralph

Best Sci-Fi:

Cloud Atlas

Ender’s Game

Man of Steel

Pacific Rim

Star Trek Into Darkness

Best Fantasy:

47 Ronin

Cloud Atlas

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Thor: The Dark World

The Wolverine

Best Animated Film:

Despicable Me 2

Monsters University

Wreck-It Ralph

Best Drama:

12 Years a Slave

The Great Gatsby

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Rush

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Best Thriller:

Captain Phillps

Gravity

The Lone Ranger

Now You See Me

World War Z

Kermode Award for Best Newcomer:

Barkhad Abdi

Moises Arias

Doona Bae

Luke Evans

Lupita Nyong’o

Best Original Song:

Atlas – Coldplay – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Young and Beautiful – Lana Del Rey – The Great Gatsby

I See Fire – Ed Sheeran – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Ordinary Love – U2 – Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Happy – Pharrell Williams – Despicable Me 2

Best Musical Score:

Oz: The Great and Powerful – Danny Elfman

Gravity – Steven Price

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – Howard Shore

Cloud Atlas – Tom Tykwer

Man of Steel – Hans Zimmer

Harreyhausen Award for Best Special Effects:

Ender’s Game

Gravity

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Pacific RIm

Star Trek Into Darkness

Best Original Screenplay:

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa – Armando Iancucci, Steve Coogan

American Hustle – Eric Warren Singer, David O’Russell

Gravity – Jonas Cuaron, Alfonso Cuaron

The Kings of Summer – Chris Galletta

Wreck-It Ralph – Jennifer Lee

Best Adapted Screenplay:

12 Years a Slave – John Ridley

Captain Phillips – Billy Ray

Cloud Atlas – Andy Wachowksi, Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer

The Great Gatsby – Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty – Steve Conrad

Captain Phillips comes away with a six-win sweep, The Hobbit and Gravity won three and Alpha Papa tails the leaders with two triumphs. Well, that was our Tuorhoth Awards but we want to here which releases from the last year you loved the most. Please tell us in the comments.

Results for Eddies and ADGAs and Ed Skrein is the new Transporter

It was recently reported that Jason Statham’s The Mechanic was to be issued a sequel with he as the main star once more. Now, another confirmation has come in stating that another Statham franchise was to be rebooted with a new star!

The Transporter trilogy is probably the Stath’s most iconic and well known performance, alongside Crank, Switch and Lock Stock, and is probably his best selling, with the blockbusting third instalment boosting the series total to about $220 million, but he’s not to be included in the new prequel/reboot. Variety has confirmed that Ed Skrein will be replacing Statham as the younger Frank Martin in an origin tale. The London born Skrein is notably fastened into the hard-edged, gangster role after his work on Ill Manors and The Sweeney as well as playing Daar Naharis in Game of Thrones. The producers’, among them Luc Besson, next stop will be hiring a director.

A win in Best Editing can always be a sign for a Best Picture winner at the Academy Awards. Nearly all of the awards focus this year has been on visually stunning, space-set epic Gravity and period drama of struggle and injustice 12 Years a Slave. However, the American Cinema Editing Awards (or Eddies) have announced three surprising winners. Best Editing in Drama was received by Paul Greengrass’ electrifying hostage thriller Captain Phillips and Best Editing in Comedy was won by David O’Russell’s star studded gangster tale American Hustle. Best Editing in Animation went to Disney’s family fantasy adventure Frozen, directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee. Meanwhile at the Art Directors Guild for Excellence in Production Design awards went to cyber love story Her and Baz Luhrmann’s exuberant, jazz-age drama The Great Gatsby.

Transporter/The Transporter/Transporter 4 – 2017?

Oldman wanted for Star Wars, Evangeline Lilly in negotiations for Ant-Man and Seth Gordon confirmed for Sony’s Uncharted

The Uncharted gaming saga has a pretty huge fanbase in the gaming world. The trilogy, made up by the original, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, and it’s sequels, Among Thieves and Drake’s Deception, has sold a brilliant 17 million copies. In 2011, director David O’Russell (Three Kings, The Fighter, American Hustle, Silver Linings Playbook) put an adaptation into development in 2011. He got as far as nailing Mark Wahlberg, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci into the cast but frustration at lack of development took over and the five time Oscar nominee.

Since, Neil Burger (The Illusionist, Limitless, The Lucky Ones) joined and then departed to make Divergent. Sony have confirmed that Seth Gordon, seasoned in documentary and comedy, will be tackling this as director, with Safe House’s David Guggenheim rewriting the script. Gordon, who’s also set to direct Queen of Hearts (a Lewis Carroll biopic) and a new remake of War Games, came to initial success with documentary The King of Kong. He then settled into comedy with Four Christmases, Horrible Bosses and Identity Thief as well as episodes of The Office, Community and Parks and Recreation. Uncharted tells the story of Nathan Drake, a man in pursuit of the lost treasure of El Dorado.

Any fan of The Hobbit or Lost will know of Evangeline Lilly. Tauriel the Elf, who’s also in The Hurt Locker and Real Steel, is in talks for a role in Marvel’s superhero adventure Ant-Man. We’re still not sure how she’ll fit into Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish’s plot but we can pose two main guesses. One is that Lilly will play Hank Pym’s (Michael Douglas) daughter while the other suggests that she’ll play the hugely important role of Janet Van Dyne, aka the superpowered Wasp. The latter would be much more promising and hints at a multi-picture deal for Lilly. Paul Rudd leads the cast Scott Lang while Michael Douglas and Michael Pena are set to make up the supporting cast.

Star Wars: Episode VII is making some huge casting developments. With the script finished, JJ Abrams is letting us into who may be into the sequel. Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Zac Efron and Daniel Day Lewis are among the more far fetched rumours while more likely castings are Michael Fassbender, Adam Driver, Michael B Jordan, Hugo Weaving, Jack O’Connell, Saorise Ronan and Sullivan Stapleton. Another venerable star could be heading to a galaxy far far away now too. While promoting RoboCop, Oscar nominee Gary Oldman let slip that Star Wars talks have taken place.

“They’ve called, yeah,” Oldman tells Sky Movies. “I’m more cynical about it now, I believe it when I’m on the plane home. You know, the deal isn’t done. But yeah, they’ve inquired.” Oldman is a veteran to more than one franchise. Most notably, he’s Comissioner Jim Gordon in The Dark Knight trilogy but is also Sirius Black in Harry Potter and Lord Shen in Kung-Fu Panda as well as star of Leon,Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, True Romance, The Fifth Element and JFK. Sadly, there’s now information about who he could be playing but, if you can’t wait to see Oldman on screen, you can catch Jose Padhila’s RoboCop in theatres this weekend before Matt Reeves’ Dawn of the Planet of the Apes on July 17th.

Star Wars: Episode VII – December 18th 2015

Ant-Man – July 17th 2015

RoboCop – February 7th

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – July 17th

Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune/Uncharted – 2017?

Queen of Hearts – 2017?

Neeson in talks for Scorsese’s Silence and Her and Captain Phillips triumph at Writer’s Guild Awards

In loving memory of Phillip Seymour Hoffman, an Oscar winning legend and star of The Master, Capote, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Mission: Impossible 3, who died today aged 46. July 23rd 1967 – January 2nd 2014

Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity) picked up the Director’s Guild; American Hustle, Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine), Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years a Slave), Matthew MacConaughey and Jared Leto (both Dallas Buyers Club) swept up at the Screen Actor’s Guild; Gravity and 12 Years a Slave tied and Producer’s Guild. The Guild Awards now conclude with the Writer’s Guild Awards.

Best Original Screenplay:

Her – Spike Jonze

American Hustle – Eric Warren Singer, David O’Russell

Blue Jasmine – Woody Allen

Dallas Buyers Club – Craig Borten, Melissa Wallack

Nebraska – Bob Nelson

Best Adapted Screenplay:

Captain Phillips – Billy Ray

August: Osage County – Tracy Letts

Before Midnight – Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy

Lone Survivor – Peter Berg

The Wolf of Wall Street – Terence Winter

Best Documentary Screenplay:

Stories We Tell – Sarah Polley

Dirty Wars – Jeremy Scahill, David Riker

Herblock: The Black and the White – Sara Lukinson, Michael Stevens

No Place on Earth – Janet Tobais, Paul Laikin

We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks – Alex Gibney

In TV, Breaking Bad, Veep, Days of Our Lives, House of Lies and The Colbert Report won one award each.

Just a quick snippet of news to say that two Oscar nominated legends will be teaming up for an upcoming project. Director Martin Scrosese (The Departed, Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Shutter Island, Hugo, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Aviator, Casino, Cape Fear, The Age of Innocence, The Last Temptation of Christ, After Hours, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy and Mean Streets) has just added Liam Neeson (Taken, Schindler’s List, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight Rises, Star Wars, The Chronicles of Narnia) to the cast of the upcoming drama Silence alongside Andrew Garfield, Ken Watanabe and Adam Driver. The pair will be reuniting for the first time twelve years, the last being when the acclaimed Gangs of New York was released.

Silence – 2015

Weekend box-office – 28th of January to 3rd February 2014 – Can I, Frankenstein cause a scare for Ride Along?

It’s fair to say that Stuart Beattie’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel and Jevin Grevioux’s comic book has received an appalling reception from all. However, the film, which stars Aaron Eckhart, Miranda Otto and Bill Nighy, could have redeemed itself with a box office surpassing its $65 million budget but, to do that, I’d have to reach around the top three. Last week, we predicted it’d come first but what really counts is the results themselves. Find out how I, Frankenstein did at the box-office:

US:

1. Ride Along – Director:  Tim Story – $21.2 million
2. Lone Survivor – Peter Berg – $12.6 million
3. The Nut Job – Peter Lepeniotis – $12.3 million
4. Frozen – Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee – $9 million
5. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit – Kenneth Branagh – $8.8 million

UK:

1. The Wolf of Wall Street – Martin Scorsese – £3.6 million
2. 12 Years a Slave – Steve McQueen – £2.3 million
3. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit – Kenneth Branagh – £1.3 million
4. Frozen – Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee – £1.1 million
5. American Hustle – David O’Russell – £1 million

Yep, Frankenstein hasn’t scratched the Top 5 with a dismal $8.3 million opening. The Wolf of Wall Street seems to be a huge hit in the UK, despite some of the gross-out features – take note of it thrashing Oscar favourite 12 Years for a second week running. Jack Ryan’s UK opening was less than stellar and it isn’t really hanging on at all in the US. Sadly, last weeks predictions were terrible, scoring me 1/5 in both US and UK and taking my running total to 68/130. Here’s my predictions for next week:

US:

1. That Awkward Moment – Tom Gormican
2. Ride Along – Tim Story
3. Lone Survivor – Peter Berg
4. The Nut Job – Peter Lepeniotis
5. Labor Day – Jason Reitman

UK:

1. That Awkward Moment – Tom Gormican
2. The Wolf of Wall Street – Martin Scorsese
3. 12 Years a Slave – Steve McQueen
4. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit – Kenneth Branagh
5. I, Frankenstein – Stuart Beattie

Jonah Hill in The Wolf of Wall Street, this week’s UK box-office number one.

Kevin Hart in Ride Along, this week’s US box-office number one.

Grace of Monaco to open Cannes, Ant-Man’s release brought forward and Cuaron victorious at Directors Guild Awards

Ant-Man will possibly be one of the biggest hits of next year but one of the potential problems of it would be it getting swamped by the other, more well known, superhero releases of 2015, e.g Avengers: Age of Ultron, The Fantastic Four and Batman vs. Superman. B vs S flicked Ant-Man from June to August but you’ve probably picked up that the former project was delayed into 2016. With producers comfortable that director Edgar Wright (Scott Pilgrim vs The World, Hot Fuzz, The World’s End, Shaun of the Dead) and stars Paul Rudd (Anchorman’s Brian Fantana) and Michael Douglas (Wall Street’s Gordon Gecko) are ready to go ahead, Marvel’s Ant-Man has scurried in for the June release.

Above is one of the the stills from Grace of Monaco, a film that’s now been confirmed to be opening the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, following in the footsteps of Up, The Great Gatsby and The Da Vinci Code. The biopic of Oscar winning, 1950s Hollywood star Grace Kelly stars Nicole Kidman and Tim Roth and is directed by Oliver Dahan (La Vie en Rose, a film that won Marion Cottilard an Oscar). We can expect the rest of the line up to be announced soon.

Finally, the results of the Directors Guild Awards have been announced and are as follows:

Best Directorial Effort in a Motion Picture:

Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity

Paul Greengrass – Captain Phillips

Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave

David O’Russell – American Hustle

Martin Scorsese – The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Directorial Effort in a Documentary:

Jehanne Noujaim – The Square

Zachary Heinzerling – Cutie and the Boxer

Joshua Oppenheimer – The Act of Killing

Sarah Polley – Stories We Tell

Lucy Walker – The Crash Reel

In TV, Breaking Bad, Behind the Candelabra, 30 Rock and Saturday Night Live all won one award each.

Grace of Monaco – May 14th at Cannes Film Festival, France

Ant-Man – July 17th 2015

Batman vs. Superman – May 6th 2016

Weekend box-office – 20th to 27th of January 2014 – will Ride Along speed past Jack Ryan?

Lots of bug budget, action movies aim their releases for Oscar season, hoping to bring in the mainstream market who don’t won’t to see the year’s more critically appealing hits, such as The Wolf of Wall Street, American Hustle or 12 Years a Slave. This year’s January/February action hopefuls included The Legend of Hercules, a huge flop which doesn’t bode well for the upcoming I Frankenstein, RoboCop and this week’s Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit and Ride Along. Last week’s predictions aren’t as accurate as we’d hoped, however.

US

1. Ride Along – Director: Tim Story – $41.2 million
2. Lone Survivor – Peter Berg – $23.2 million
3. The Nut Job – Peter Lepeniotis – $20.6 million
4. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit – Kenneth Branagh – $17.2 million
5. Frozen – Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee – $12 million

UK

1. The Wolf of Wall Street – Martin Scorsese – £4.7 million
2. 12 Years a Slave – Steve McQueen – £3.1 million
3. American Hustle – David O’Russell – £1.5 million
4. Frozen – Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee – £1.2 million
5. Devil’s Due – Matt Bettinelli-Oplin, Tyler Gillet – £1 million

Well, Ride Along and The Nut Job’s takings from this week have led to the confirmation of sequels for the both of them. Jack Ryan has a different story however. It’s low takings aren’t as shocking as say The Legend of Hercules but fans and studios alike would’ve hoped for better. The film may yet make back its $60 million budget but a sequel may be out of reach. Comparatively, Scorsese’s Wolf of Wall Street has been a huge success in the UK, topping the chart despite the 18 certificate and multiple controversial topics. A 4/10 this week takes the running total to 64/120.

US

1. I, Frankenstein – Stuart Beattie
2. The Nut Job – Peter Lepeniotis
3. Ride Along – Tim Story
4. Lone Survivor – Peter Berg
5. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit – Kenneth Branagh

UK

1. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit – Kenneth Branagh
2. The Wolf of Wall Street – Martin Scorsese
3. 12 Years a Slave – Steve McQueen
4. August: Osage County – John Wells
5. American Hustle – David O’Russell

Leonardo Di Caprio in The Wolf of Wall Street, this week’s UK box-office number one.

Ice Cube and Kevin Hart in Ride Along, this week’s US box-office number one.

Weekend box office – 12th to 19th of January 2014 – will 12 Years be the Lone Survivor or will it get (American) Hustled?

Oscar season is in full swing and that’s had an effect on the box office. Some of the blockbuster action movies try to launch this time of year, hoping to lure the more mainstream watchers to the cinema, but they usually get swamped. New star lacking but $70 million adventure Hercules: The Legend Begins is no different with Oscar tipped 12 Years a Slave, The Wolf of Wall Street and American Hustle plus harrowing action film Lone Survivor dominating.

US

1. Lone Survivor – Director: Peter Berg – $37.8 million
2. Frozen – Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee – $14.7 million
3. The Legend of Hercules – Renny Harlin – $8.9 million
4. The Wolf of Wall Street – Martin Scorsese – $8.8 million
5. American Hustle – David O’Russell – $8.3 million

UK

1. 12 Years a Slave – Steve McQueen – £2.5 million
2. American Hustle – David O’Russell – £1.9 million
3. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – Peter Jackson – £1.5 million
4. Frozen – Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee – £1.3 million
5. Last Vegas – Jon Turteltaub – £1.3 million

A disappointing 2/5 in both US and UK takes my running total to 60/110. Delivery Man made a very underwhelming seventh place entry in the UK while brand new The Railway Man debuted at sixth. The Hobbit 2 has definitely proved it’s got more legs, and perhaps more of a fanbase, in the UK than in the US as it’s stayed at three while, in America, it sank to sixth.

US

1. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit – Kenneth Branagh
2. Lone Survivor – Peter Berg
3. The Nut Job – Peter Lepeniotis
4. Ride Along – Tim Story
5. The Wolf of Wall Street – Martin Scorsese

UK

1. The Wolf of Wall Street – Martin Scorsese
2. 12 Years a Slave – Steve McQueen
3. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – Peter Jackson
4. American Hustle – David O’Russell
5. Frozen – Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee

The UK seems to be a bit more award season giddy than the US at the moment so I bet Scorsese’s star studded Wolf of Wall Street will enter at the top. Branagh’s new Jack Ryan should hopefully prove to be a better success than the flop of Hercules.

Benedict Cumberbatch and Chiwetel Ejiofor in 12 Years a Slave, this week’s UK box office number one.

Taylor Kitsch, Mark Wahlberg, Ben Foster and Emile Hirsch in Lone Survivor, this week’s US box office number one.

12 Years triumphs at People’s Choice Awards and new Amazing Spider-Man 2 posters

After director Steve McQueen and star Michael Fassbender were snubbed for both Hunger and Shame, they’re finally getting award recognition for 12 Years a Slave, which won Best Film at the Golden Globes and People’s Choice and shone out at the Academy Award nominations. Here’s the full list

Best Picture

12 Years a Slave

American Hustle

Captain Phillips

Dallas Buyers Club

Gravity

Her

Inside Llewyn Davis

Nebraska

Saving Mr Banks

Best Actor

Matthew MacConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club

Christian Bale – American Hustle

Bruce Dern – Nebraska

Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave

Tom Hanks – Captain Phillips

Robert Redford – All is Lost

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine

Sandra Bullock – Gravity

Judi Dench – Philomena

Brie Larson – Short Term 12

Meryl Streep – August: Osage County

Emma Thompson – Saving Mr Banks

Best Supporting Actor

Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club

Barkhad Abdi – Captain Philllips

Daniel Bruhl – Rush

Bradley Cooper – American Hustle

Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave

James Gandolfini – Enough Said

Best Supporting Actress

Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave

Scarlett Johansson – Her

Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle

Julia Roberts – August: Osage County

June Squibb – Blue Jasmine

Oprah Winfrey – The Butler

Best Young Actor/Actress

Adele Exarchopoulos – Blue is the Warmest Colour

Asa Butterfield – Ender’s Game

Liam James – The Way Way Back

Sophie Nelisse – The Book Thief

Tye Sheridan – Mud

Best Acting Ensemble

American Hustle

August: Osage County

The Butler

Nebraska

12 Years a Slave

The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Director

Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity

Paul Greengrass – Captain Phillips

Spike Jonze – Her

Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave

David O’Russell – American Hustle

Martin Scorsese – The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Original Screenplay

Spike Jonze – Her

Eric Warren Singer, David O’Russell – American Hustle

Woody Allen – Blue Jasmine

Joel and Ethan Coen – Inside Llewyn Davis

Bob Nelson – Nebraska

Best Adapted Screenplay

John Ridley – 12 Years a Slave

Tracy Letts – August: Osage County

Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke – Before Midnight

Billy Ray – Captain Phillips

Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope – Philomena

Terence Winter – The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Cinematography

Emmannuel Lubezki – Gravity

Bruno Delbonnel – Inside Llewyn Davis

Phedon Papamichael – Nebraska

Roger Deakins – Prisoners

Sean Bobbit – 12 Years a Slave

Best Art Direction

The Great Gatsby

Gravity

Her

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

12 Years a Slave

Best Editing

Gravity

American Hustle

Captain Phillips

Rush

12 Years a Slave

The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Costume Design

The Great Gatsby

American Hustle

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Saving Mr Banks

12 Years a Slave

Best Hair and Make-up

American Hustle

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

The Butler

Rush

12 Years a Slave

Best Visual Effects

Gravity

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Iron Man 3

Pacific Rim

Star Trek Into Darkness

Best Animated Feature

Frozen

The Croods

Despicable Me 2

Monsters University

The Wind Rises

Best Action Movie

Lone Survivor

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Iron Man 3

Rush

Star Trek Into Darkness

Best Actor in an Action Movie

Mark Wahlberg – Lone Survivor

Henry Cavill – Man of Steel

Robert Downey Jr – Iron Man 3

Brad Pitt – World War Z

Best Comedy

American Hustle

Enough Said

The Heat

This is the End

The Way Way Back

The World’s End

Best Actor in a Comedy

Leonardo Di Caprio – The Wolf of Wall Street

Christian Bale – American Hustle

James Gandolfini – Enough Said

Simon Pegg – The World’s End

Sam Rockwell – The Way Way Back

Best Actress in a Comedy

Amy Adams – American Hustle

Sandra Bullock – The Heat

Greta Gerwig – Frances Ha

Julia Louis Dreyfus – Enough Said

Melissa McCarthy – The Heat

Best Sci-fi Horror Movie

Gravity

The Conjuring

Star Trek Into Darkness

Iron Man 3

Best Foreign Language Film

Blue is the Warmest Colour

The Great Beauty

The Hunt

The Past

Best Documentary Feature

20 Feet From Stardom

The Act of Killing

Blackfish

Stories We Tell

Tim’s Vermeer

Best Song

Let it Go – Frozen

Atlas – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Happy – Despicable Me 2

Ordinary Love – Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Please Mr Kennedy – Inside Llewyn Davis

Young and Beautiful – The Great Gatsby

Best Score

Stephen Price – Gravity

William Butler, Owen Pallett – Her

Thomas Newman – Saving Mr Banks

Hans Zimmer – 12 Years a Slave

Gravity has won the most awards with an impressive six wins but it’s 12 Years a Slave’s day as it picked up Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay. American Hustle gained four wins while Frozen, The Great Gatsby, Blue is the Warmest Colour and Lone Survivor got two. I’m not going to do in depth analysis but I’m stilled surprised Her is being praised as an “original” and “fresh” premise as it has exactly the same plot as a Big Bang Theory episode where a lonely Raj (Kunal Nayyar) falls in love with his I-Phone’s Siri. I’m probably not the first to say it but I haven’t heard anyone else pick up on it.

The only other major piece of news is the stunning new poster for Marvel and Sony’s superhero sequel The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Marc Webb directs and Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Paul Giamatti, Sally Field, Dane DeHaan and Chris Cooper star but today’s focus is the hopefully terrifying new villain Electro, played by Ray, Collateral and Django Unchained’s Jamie Foxx.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – April 18th

The 2014 Academy Awards nominations are in!

After the tense but unfocused Argo triumphed over the brilliant Les Miserables, Lincoln and Beasts of the Southern Wild at the last Oscars, I’m not sure that the Academy Award Best Picture is the best judge of what really is the best film of the year but it’s certainly the most prestigious honour any movie can receive. This year features plenty of strong contenders but some stars have seen some shocking snubs.

Best Picture

12 Years a Slave

American Hustle

Captain Phillips

Dallas Buyers Club

Gravity

Her

Nebraska

Philomena

The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Director

Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave

David O’Russell – American Hustle

Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity

Alexander Payne – Nebraska

Martin Scorsese – The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Original Screenplay

Eric Warren Singer, David O’Russell – American Hustle

Woody Allen – Blue Jasmine

Bob Nelson – Nebraska

Craig Borten, Melisa Wallack – Dallas Buyers Club

Spike Jonze – Her

Best Adapted Screenplay

John Ridley – 12 Years a Slave

Billy Ray – Captain Phillips

Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope – Philomena

Terence Winter – The Wolf of Wall Street

Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater – Before Midnight

Best Actor

Bruce Dern – Nebraska

Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave

Christian Bale – American Hustle

Leonardo Di Caprio – The Wolf of Wall Street

Matthew MacConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club

Best Actress

Amy Adams – American Hustle

Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine

Meryl Streep – August: Osage County

Judi Dench – Philomena

Sandra Bullock – Gravity

Best Supporting Actor

Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips

Bradley Cooper – American Hustle

Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave

Jonah Hill – The Wolf of Wall Street

Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club

Best Supporting Actress

Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle

Julia Roberts – August: Osage County

Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave

Sally Hawkins – Blue Jasmine

June Squibb – Nebraska

Best Animated Film

The Croods

Despicable Me 2

Ernest & Celestine

Frozen

The Wind Rises

Best Original Score

Philomena – Alexander Desplat

The Book Thief – John Williams

Gravity – Stephen Price

Saving Mr Banks – Thomas Newman

Her – William Butler, Owen Pallett

Best Original Song

Alone Yet Not Alone – Alone Yet Not Alone

Happy – Despicable Me 2

Let it Go – Frozen

The Moon Song – Her

Ordinary Love – Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Best Cinematography

The Grandmaster – Phillipe Le Sourd

Gravity – Emmanuel Lubezki

Inside Llewyn Davis – Bruno Delbonnel

Nebraska – Phedon Papamichael

Prisoners – Roger Deakins

Best Editing

American Hustle

12 Years a Slave

Captain Phillips

Dallas Buyers Club

Gravity

Best Production Design

12 Years a Slave

American Hustle

Her

Gravity

The Great Gatsby

Best Costume Design

American Hustle – Michael Wilkinson

The Great Gatsby – Catherine Martin

The Invisible Woman – Michael O’Connor

The Grandmaster – William Chang Suk Ping

12 Years a Slave – Patricia Norris

Best Make-Up

Dallas Buyers Club

Jackass: Bad Grandpa

The Lone Ranger

Best Sound Editing

All is Lost

Captain Phillips

Gravity

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Lone Survivor

Best Sound Mixing

Captain Phillips

Gravity

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Inside Llewyn Davis

Lone Survivor

Best Visual Effects

Gravity

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Iron Man 3

Star Trek Into Darkness

The Lone Ranger

Best Foreign Language Film

Broken Circle Breakdown – Belgium

The Great Beauty – Italy

The Hunt – Denmark

The Missing Picture – Cambodia

Omar – Palestine

Best Animated Short

Feral

Get a Horse

Mr Hublot

Possessions

Room on the Broom

Best Documentary

The Act of Killing

Cutie and the Boxer

Dirty Wars

The Square

20 Feet From Stardom

Best Documentary Short

Cavedigger

Facing Fear

Karama Has No Walls

The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life

Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall

Best Live-Action Short

Aquel No Era Yo

Just Before Losing Everything

Helium

Do I Have to Take Care of Everything

The Voorman

The unsurprising leaders are 12 Years a Slave, eight nominations, Gravity, ten honours, and American Hustle, also ten nominations. Both Dallas Buyers Club and The Wolf of Wall Street gained five, Captain Phillips and Nebraska scored an impressive six while Her and Philomena followed up with four. Blue Jasmine got three while, with its two star actresses, August: Osage County scraped into the shortlists with two, as did animations Frozen and Despicable Me 2 and documentary The Act of Killing and martial-arts based The Grandmaster. In the more technical areas, Captain Phillips and Gravity made a big impact while The Great Gatsby, The Lone Ranger, Lone Survivor and Inside Llewyn Davis got two, The Hobbit:The Desolation of Smaug got three and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Jackass: Bad Grandpa, The Book Thief, All is Lost and The Invisible Woman pushed their way in with just one nomination each.

There are some shocking snubs. Blue is the Warmest Colour is the most obvious one. I thought that this Palme D’Or was bound to not only win Best Foreign Language Film but also pick up nominations for Best Leading Actress, Best Director and Best Picture but didn’t even get one honour. Captain Phillips’ Tom Hanks and Paul Greengrass were respectively left out of Best Actor and Best Director. Saving Mr Banks, All is Lost, Prisoners and Inside Llewyn Davis were left of some of the awards they were favoured for while the hugely popular The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Rush were completely bereft of recognition. Saving Mr Banks was one of the most loved efforts of the year and yet only finds itself with one nomination; Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Colin Farrel and director John Lee Hancock were all snubbed. I also think that Lone Survivor and The Book Thief will be disappointed with their small hoards.

In terms of potential winners, Gravity will no doubt win the most awards but 12 Years a Slave may just beat off the main competition from Gravity and American Hustle to win Best Picture. I think the winners of the “big five” will be Alfonso Cuaron (director of Gravity), Leonardo Di Caprio (actor of The Wolf of Wall Street), Cate Blanchett (actress of Blue Jasmine), Michael Fassbender (supporting actor of 12 Years a Slave) and Jennifer Lawrence (supporting actress of American Hustle).

The show itself will be on ABC in America or Sky Movies in the UK on March 2nd and will be hosted by Ellen Degeneres.

The 86th Academy Awards – March 2nd on ABC and Sky Movies