Today in awards shows too numerous to keep track of, Argo wrapped up the last of the guild awards, taking home a WGA for screenwriting, after previously taking top honors in the PGA, DGA, and SAG, which all sound like complex euphemisms for handjobs to me. In a symbolic way, I suppose they are. I don’t like to brag, but the first line of the second paragraph of my Argo review was “this movie is going to clean up come awards season,” and I had Oscar in the headline. Basically, I’m the odds-on favorite to take home a Golden Toldja at this year’s bloggies, held in Harry Knowles’ boat shed.
Original Screenplay
Flight – John Gatins (Paramount Pictures)
Looper – Rian Johnson (TriStar Pictures)
The Master – Paul Thomas Anderson (The Weinstein Company)
Moonrise Kingdom – Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola (Focus Features)
Zero Dark Thirty – Mark Boal (Columbia Pictures) – WINNERAdapted Screenplay
Argo – Chris Terrio (Warner Bros. Pictures) – WINNER
Life of Pi – David Magee (20th Century Fox)
Lincoln – Tony Kushner (DreamWorks Pictures)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky (Summit Entertainment)
Silver Linings Playbook – David O Russell (The Weinstein Company)Documentary
The Central Park Five – Sarah Burns, David McMahon and Ken Burns (Sundance Selects)
The Invisible War – Kirby Dick (Cinedigm Entertainment Group)
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God – Alex Gibney (HBO Films)
Searching for Sugar Man – Malik Bendejelloul (Sony Pictures Classics) – WINNER
We Are Legion – Brian Knappenberger (Cinetic Media)
West of Memphis – Amy J. Berg and Billy McMillin (Sony Pictures Classics)
Searching for Sugar Man is similarly dominating the documentary category, adding a WGA to its Critic’s Choice Award, BAFTA, and Golden Globe.
But to be fair, you have to question the judgment of any organization that nominated Flight and Perks of Being a Wallflower for writing awards. Denzel’s already-cheesy, you-knew-this-was-coming turning point relied on his hardly believable and never-before-referenced need to honor a dead chick, and the way the film communicated to the audience that its protagonist had learned a lesson was to have him give a big speech about the lesson he learned. A lesson that could’ve been any speech at an AA meeting. It was one of the more clumsily-written movies of the year. Even Argo, which I mostly liked, had a tacked-on, overly dramatic ending that felt like someone taking a real, already-compelling story and trying to Hollywood-ify it. And no nominations for Tarantino or Magic Mike or The Sessions? Ar-go f*ck yourself.
TV awards below:
Drama Series
Boardwalk Empire
Breaking Bad – WINNER
Game of Thrones
Homeland
Mad MenDrama (Episodic)
Breaking Bad – ‘Buyout’
Breaking Bad – ‘Dead Freight’
Breaking Bad – ‘Fifty-One’
Breaking Bad – ‘Say My Name’
Homeland – ‘New Car Smell’
Mad Men – ‘The Other Woman’ – WINNERComedy Series
30 Rock
Girls
Louie – WINNER
Modern Family
Parks and RecreationComedy (Episodic)
Parks and Recreation – ‘The Debate’
Episodes – ‘Episode 9′
30 Rock – ‘Leap Day’
Modern Family – ‘Little Bo Bleep’
Modern Family – ‘Mistery Date’
Modern Family – ‘Virgin Territory’ – WINNERNew Series
Girls – WINNER
The Mindy Project
Nashville
The Newsroom
Veep
Thank goodness Modern Family won something, that poor show hardly gets any recognition.
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I already know that most award ceremonies are not going to let Tarantino win because they’re terrified he’ll drop the n-bomb while accepting his award, so I’m find with Argo winning everything.
Moonrise Kingdom was nominated for best original screenplay over Django? Does Wes Anderson send out cashmere argyle scarves and Dunhill cologne with his screenplays?
Oooh, Argo is totally pissing on the Les Mis/Lincoln parade. I love it.
Hans, Bubby
The Leap Day episode of 30 Rock was total genius, buried in the next-to-last season of a consistently great show.
I know, I know, tell it to Warming Glow. Back to the Argo-pooping-on.
WGA WGA WGA – Fozzie Bear
(I’m sorry)
I’ve decided that I’m not actually getting stupider but instead am a slave to the pace. Argo to win everything.
cool storywhatever works, ShopBut “Modern Family” didn’t win best series. Yeehaw!
I enjoyed Argo but that ending was so Hollywood. What an unfortunate situation where a real-life, high stakes story wasn’t good enough because in real life the people go to the airport with little incident and leave. I know other “based on actual events” movies overdramatize certain aspects, but Argo had my friend and I leaving saying, “OK there’s no way [certain part of the movie] happened”
That’s exactly it – it kills all the drama you think you’re adding if people are watching it thinking about whether it happened or not.
Yep, and it’s especially terrible because these unbelievable incidents happen one after the other at the airport. From “Sir the tickets aren’t here, let me check aga—OH there they are” to “Chase down that plane in our cars!”
the World Canadian Bureau