
As spotted by an eagle-eyed Twitter user, here’s David O. Russell reacting hilariously to his Silver Linings Playbook actress Jennifer Lawrence losing her BAFTA Best Actress bid to Emmanuelle Riva in Amour. That’s the thing about David O. Russell, he might scream and call you a c*nt on set, but when push comes to shove, he’s got your back. I heard he once tried to knife fight a biker who pinched Amy Adams’ ass outside a bowling alley once. Heart of a lion, that guy. He also directed a movie that feels like a collection of bad indie rom-com tropes and was somehow still good. Silver Linings Playbook is like a damned magic trick.
You can see the full list of BAFTA winners and nominees below. No real surprises, other than Zero Dark Thirty getting shut out. Argo picked up another best picture win on the way to the Oscar every assumes it’s going to get. Ben Affleck won best director, which is fair, because why would a guy who directed the best picture not be the best director? That makes no sense.
I also enjoy that a movie about French poverty called “The Wretched” won an award for best hair and make-up. That really says it all. Derelicte is real, you guys.
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BEST FILM
X – “Argo”
“Life of Pi”
“Lincoln”
“Les Misérables”
“Zero Dark Thirty”
BEST BRITISH FILM
“Anna Karenina”
“The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel”
“Les Misérables”
“Seven Psychopaths”
X – “Skyfall”
BEST DIRECTOR
Michael Haneke, “Amour”
X – Ben Affleck, “Argo”
Quentin Tarantino, “Django Unchained”
Ang Lee, “Life of Pi”
Kathryn Bigelow, “Zero Dark Thirty”
BEST ACTOR
Ben Affleck, “Argo”
Bradley Cooper, “Silver Linings Playbook”
X – Daniel Day-Lewis, “Lincoln”
Joaquin Phoenix, “The Master”
Hugh Jackman, “Les Misérables”
BEST ACTRESS
Jessica Chastain, “Zero Dark Thirty”
Marion Cotillard, “Rust and Bone”
Jennifer Lawrence, “Silver Linings Playbook”
Helen Mirren, “Hitchcock”
X – Emmanuelle Riva, “Amour”
Bummer for Jennifer Lawrence, but I can’t imagine her not getting nominated for at least five more of these.
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Alan Arkin, “Argo”
Javier Bardem, “Skyfall”
Philip Seymour Hoffman, “The Master”
Tommy Lee Jones, “Lincoln”
X – Christoph Waltz, “Django Unchained”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams, “The Master”
Judi Dench, “Skyfall”
Sally Field, “Lincoln”
X – Anne Hathaway, “Les Misérables”
Helen Hunt, “The Sessions”
I’m torn. Anne Hathaway was great, but she was in that movie for like five minutes.
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
“Amour”
X – “Django Unchained”
“The Master”
“Moonrise Kingdom”
“Zero Dark Thirty”
Tarantino getting a writing award as a consolation for not getting a directing or best picture award is pretty much standard practice at this point.
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
“Argo”
“Beasts of the Southern Wild”
“Life of Pi”
“Lincoln”
X – “Silver Linings Playbook“
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
X – “Amour”
“Headhunters”
“The Hunt”
“The Intouchables”
“Rust and Bone”
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
“The Imposter”
“Marley”
“McCullin”
“Searching for Sugar Man”
“West of Memphis”
BEST ANIMATED FILM
X – “Brave”
“Frankenweenie”
“ParaNorman”
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
“Anna Karenina”
“Life of Pi”
“Lincoln”
X – “Les Misérables”
“Skyfall”
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
“Anna Karenina”
X – “Life of Pi”
“Lincoln”
“Les Misérables”
“Skyfall”
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
X – “Anna Karenina”
“Great Expectations”
“Les Misérables”
“Lincoln”
“Snow White and the Huntsman”
BEST EDITING
X – “Argo”
“Django Unchained”
“Life of Pi”
“Skyfall”
“Zero Dark Thirty”
BEST MAKEUP & HAIR
“Anna Karenina”
“Hitchcock”
“The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”
“Lincoln”
X – “Les Misérables”
BEST SCORE
“Anna Karenina”
“Argo”
“Life of Pi”
“Lincoln”
X – “Skyfall”
BEST SOUND
“Django Unchained”
“The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”
“Life of Pi”
X – “Les Misérables”
“Skyfall”
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
“The Avengers”
“The Dark Knight Rises”
“The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”
X – “Life of Pi”
“Prometheus”
BEST DEBUT BY BRITISH WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER
Thina Garavi (writer/director), “I Am Nasrine”
X – Bart Layton (writer) and Dimitri Doganis (producer), “The Imposter”
David Morris (director) and Jacqui Morris (director/producer), “McCullin”
James Bobin (director), “The Muppets”
Dexter Fletcher (writer/director) and Danny King (writer), “Wild Bill”
RISING STAR AWARD
Elizabeth Olsen
Andrea Riseborough
Suraj Sharma
X – Juno Temple
Alicia Vikander
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I like that Skyfall, an American film produced by an American company (MGM), directed by an American director (Sam Mendes) gets best British film. Because Daniel Craig, obviously.
Sorry, Mendes is actually and Englishman. My argument is less valid.
Sam Mendes is British, yo.
The most British movie is the one that has the most Benedict Cumberbatch in it. Which would have been Lord of the Rings but I guess Peter Jackson ruined the chances at that.
MGM/UA distribute, but the production company (Eon) is still based in the UK.
I like how Skyfall won Best British Picture over Les Mis.
Explosions and Shirtless Daniel Craig > Sad French People Singing
*Everything > Sad French People Singing
*fix’d
The Brits really loved Skyfall…
And shirtless Daniel Craig?
The Bond movies have been getting more and more British.
EVERYONE loves shirtless Daniel Craig.
Who would’ve ever thought? James Blond is the greatest Bond of all time.
Hitler would’ve thought it. That’s who.
I like to think of him as Double-O Blue Steel
I think I am the one person who is not into Daniel Craig. Meh.
Craig is a better Bond than he is an actor in other films. Like the anti Clive Owen.
I watched Casino Royale again a few months ago, so Skyfall wasn’t even the best *Bond* movie of 2012.
I assume Skyfall got all this British love as consolation for Home Alone’s snub 23 years ago
(INSERT OBLIGATORY MENTION OF SHIRTLESS DANIEL CRAIG HERE)
David O. Russell looks like he wandered in to the ceremy from the set of “Mad Men,” where he was playing nebbishy accountant Seymour Krelborn.
cereMONY
dagnabit
Does he also have a man eating plant? Cause that would be awesome.
I giggle every time someone who is not Jessica Chastain wins. I think she actually believed all the ass kissing and hype that surrounded her, and really thought it was hers. Every subsequent show, you see her insides die a little.
Les Miz can derelicte my balls.
So looking at that list there were five, six movies worth watching last year?
The party don’t stop until I walk in. I hope you all left some booze at the bottom of your glasses, I can’t afford drinks.
He’s making that face because Jennifer promised him a blowjob if she won. If the camera had stayed on him, you would have seen him burst into tears.
I know award shows are a circle jerk of old retards caking each others faces with their over flowing shit filled diapers, but for fucks sake will they ever acknowledge Tarantino as best director or does he have to die right after the release of his final film or retire or something? C’mon. He made a movie about Jews killing Nazis brutally, you’d think Hollywood would have given him a building made out of cocaine for that.
Yeah, and unlike that bastard Spielberg, he would thank Hilter.
Or Hitler, whichever.
Russel looks like he’s doing an impression of Geoffrey Rush’s vinegar strokes.
Saw Silver Linings Playbook and it’s fine. It’s just fine. I think so many romantic comedies suck nowadays that when one decent one comes out everyone wants to give it an award, but I mean, cmon, it was a RomCom.
Amour is going to shit all over every other non-English film from great height this year. Awards voters love old people dying – it’s so easy to relate to.
Agree. Haneke masterfully punches everyone in the heart-dick with “Amour.” Haven’t felt anything like it since “The Piano Teacher.” I so badly want this to win best picture and everything, but the Academy is usually bs, just voters who vote for friends and political reasons.
Did someone say shirtless Daniel Craig?
Hellllloooo Monday!
Louis Skolnick is not happy.
The thing about Zero Dark Thirty not getting a look in boils down a lot to us Brits not really being that invested in the narrative behind the war of terror and Bin Laden getting killed was just this thing that happened and not the historical/cultural event it was in the US. This leaves ZDT being just a long, kind of boring thriller/intelligence procedural.
Yeah, that’s what I thought it was. If you’re going to dramatize, add some drama.
You must admit, it’d be hard NOT to pinch Amy Adams’ butt. [deecrowseer.files.wordpress.com]
I think a bigger question is how did someone get nominated for The Muppets when it’s been out for over two years.
Wait, Vince, your stuff about Argo getting multiple nods, “and on the way to the Oscar every assumes it’s going to get…” You think Argo is getting the main nods? I am a longtime reader of the site (back when you were Lance), and err to your judgment, but I could have sworn you predicted the big time nods to go to Lincoln. (Not saying you thought Lincoln deserved it, but still, thought you gave the guesses accordingly.)
They’re the two frontrunners. I’d probably bet on Argo (I picked it for winning lots of awards in the first paragraph of my review, if I remember correctly, though I don’t believe I specified), but there was a time about a month ago when all the awards predictor people (sadly, there are people who do that) were picking Lincoln to clean up.
Remember a year ago when David O. Russell was arrested and admitted to groping his teenage transgender niece? How did he bounce back so quickly?
To get nominated for Best British Film do you just have to have had someone with a foreign/weird-sounding accent appear at some point on-screen or behind camera?
Maybe that old biddy will die before the big night! I just pray Jennifer gets it after she lost the Oscar fo Winters Bone. She’s such a talented young actress with so much ahead of her.
This review captured my thoughts on her flawless work perfectly: [www.mgregueiro.com]