22nd Annual Art Directors Guild Awards Winners

Two nights ago the guild announced the winners for the 2018 edition of these annual awards that honor production design in 11 categories of film television, commercials, music videos and, for the first time, animation features.

ADG President Nelson Coates and Art Directors Council Chair Mark Worthington presided over the awards ceremony with comedian Jonathan Fernandez serving as host.

Winners are in *BLUE.  To check winners in all categories check press release at official site here (pdf file).

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1/5/18
Yesterday the Art Directors Guild (ADG, IATSE Local 800) announced the nominations for the 22nd edition of their Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards in theatrical motion pictures, television, commercials, music videos and, for the first time, animation features.  The announcement was made by Art Directors Guild President Nelson Coates and Awards Producers Thomas Walsh and Thomas Wilkins.

As previously announced, ADG Awards will honor eight-time Academy Award Nominee Katheleen Kenedy with the Cinematic Imagery Award. The “William Cameron Menzies Award” will honor Disney’s Oscar nominated animation filmmakers Ron Clements and John Musker. A special Leadership Award will be bestowed upon International IATSE President Matthew D. Loeb. The Outstanding Creative Achievement Award will be given to Production Designer Michael Baugh. Lifetime Achievement Awards will be presented to Production Designer Norm Newberry Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated Production Designer/Set Designer James Murakami, Scenic Artist John Moffitt, and Senior Illustrator/Art Director Martin Kline. The late Oscar-winning Production Designer Sir Ken Adam (Dr. Strangelove, James Bond) Senior Illustrator and Bambi’s Concept Designer Tyrus Wong will be inducted into the ADG Hall of Fame.

ADG Awards are open only to productions when made within the U.S. by producers signatory to the IATSE agreement. Foreign entries are acceptable without restrictions.

Not easy to guess which film could win the Oscar in the production design category and neither to guess the Oscar nominees but in the past five years, the winner of period film went to win the Oscar twice, once was fantasy category winner and once was contemporary category winner.  So our best guess will come when we learn the Oscar nominees and learn ADG winners as of now it's hard to do estimates.  For me, production design award-deserving movies are Blade Runner 2049 and Wonder Woman, then perhaps Logan; the other nominees have good production design but nothing that could be out-of-the-ordinary.

These are the Nominees

Period Film
Sarah Greenwood for Darkest Hour
Nathan Crowley for Dunkirk
Jim Clay for Murder on the Orient Express
Rick Carter for The Post
*Paul Denham Austerberry for The Shape of Water

Fantasy Film
Sarah Greenwood for Beauty and The Beast
*Dennis Gassner for Blade Runner 2049
Rick Heinrichs for Star Wars: The Last Jedi
James Chinlund for War of the Planet of the Apes
Aline Bonetto for Wonder Woman

Contemporary Film
Stefania Cella for Downsizing
Rusty Smith for Get Out
Chris Jones for Lady Bird
*Francois Audouy for Logan
Inbal Weinberg for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Animated Film
William Cone and Jay Shuster for Cars 3
*Harley Jessup for Coco
Olivier Adam for Despicable Me 3
Grant Freckelton for The Lego Batman Movie
Matthew Button for Loving Vincent

To check nominees for other categories go official site here (pdf file) or here for press release and options to open file. Winners will be honored at the Awards Gala on Saturday, January 27 in the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood and Highland.

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68th Annual ACE EDDIE Awards Winners

A couple of days ago the ACE society had their awards ceremony and perhaps the biggest surprise is to have I, Tonya winning an editing award as believe there was nothing outstanding in film when it came to editing, sigh.

More expected Dunkirk collected the Dramatic award which paves a road to an Oscar win in the editing category.

Winners are in *BLUE.  To check winners in all categories, go official site here.

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1/3/18
A few moments ago the American Cinema Editors Society announced the nominations for the 2018 EDDIE Awards which recognizes outstanding editing in film, television and documentaries.

Noteworthy are the changes organizers did to television and documentary categories where in general there is a clear category simplification and if you wish to learn changes go official site here.

Know is the first industry tech group to announce nominations but the biggest surprise is that there is NO surprise! (lol)  Just check the list of 10 films divided in Dramatic and Comedy categories and will notice that are the same films everybody have been talking about since the start of current awards season.  Perhaps the only dark horses are Molly's Game, Baby Driver and Blade Runner 2049; the rest are the films many are betting will get an Oscar Best Film nomination.

Again this year there will be discussions about what is a Comedy and what's not; so, to not spoil the habit here are my two-cents:  NONE of the five films nominated in the Comedy category are comedies.  Four are (strong) dramas and one is an action film.  Know don't really understand or like American humor, but yes, I did not laugh at all when watching any of those five movies.  Sigh.

By-the-way EDDIE Dramatic winner tends to become the Oscar winner, but somehow feel that this year winner could come from more from what group calls comedy.

Best Edited Feature Film Dramatic
Joe Walker for Blade Runner 2049
*Lee Smith for Dunkirk
Alan Baumgarten, Josh Schaeffer and Elliot Graham for Molly's Game
Michael Kahn and Sarah Broshar for The Post
Sidney Wolinsky for The Shape of Water

Best Edited Feature Film Comedy
Jonathan Amos and Paul Machliss for Baby Driver
Gregory Plotkin for Get Out
*Tatiana S. Riegel for I, Tonya
Nick Houy for Lady Bird
Jon Gregory for Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Edited Animated Feature Film
*Steve Bloom for Coco
Clair Dodgson for Despicable Me 3
David Burrows, Matt Villa and John Venzon for The Lego Batman Movie

Best Edited Feature Documentary
Aaron I. Butler for Cries from Syria
*Joe Beshenkovsky, Will Snidaric and Brett Morgen for Jane
Ann Collins for Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
TJ Martin, Scott Stevenson and Dan Lindsay for LA92

To check nominees at official site plus all television categories go here.  Awards ceremony will be on January 26 at the Beverly Hilton International Ballroom.

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90th Academy Awards Nominations

Recently AMPAS announced the nominations for the 2018 edition of the Oscars honoring films released in 2017.  The announcement was made by Tiffany Haddish and Andy Serkis; Haddish performance was not really adequate to be reading the most famous, most expected award nominations where names mean everything for those being honored with an Oscar nomination.

Nevertheless, Haddish and Serkis announced online the nominees in 11 categories at 5:22am PT, with pre-taped category introductions by Academy members Priyanka Chopra, Rosario Dawson, Gal Gadot, Salma Hayek, Michelle Rodriguez, Zoe Saldana, Molly Shannon, Rebel Wilson and Michelle Yeoh. Haddish and Serkis announced online and live TV in many countries of the world, the remaining 13 categories at 5:38 a.m. PT.

Will not deny that highly enjoyed the format of the first part where categories were introduced with a short video exemplifying what the category was all about and starring female actors.  Perhaps because was the first video or maybe because I like Gal Gadot but for me her video was the best category presentation.



As the nominees were announced had some gasps with unexpected nominees but before the second part started already knew (and confirmed what everyone was expecting) The Shape of Water was going to have the most nominations as was collecting noms in almost all craft/tech categories.  So, nope, no surprise when film was named leader of the pack and perhaps was a bit surprised of the 13 nominations and the distance to number 2, Dunkirk which collected 8.

There are so much to say about the nominations as there are many notable issues, so will have to order my thoughts to be able to mention a few.  Believe none is more notorious than having a female cinematographer nominated for the first time ever!  Which means that in the past 89 years of Academy Awards there was NO female cinematographer nominated!!!  As her work in Mudbound is remarkable, Rachel Morrison absolutely deserved this and more honors that no doubt will come her way.   Then there is also very-well-deserved nomination to Greta Gerwig, who becomes the 5th female director to be nominated in 90 years of AMPAS history and the first female director to land a nomination with her directorial debut.  Most remarkable are Mary J. Blige who becomes the first woman to be nominated for Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Song in the same year.

This edition has also a remarkable milestone as is the first time the Academy honors a trans director, Yance Ford with his documentary Strong Island and there is a film starring a trans actress with a nomination, Daniela Vega in The Fantastic Woman. So, not only in gender there were broken barriers but also in a LGBT minority.

Even if I question the reason why Christopher Nolan got a nomination for Dunkirk, will not deny the fact that is about time Nolan gets a nomination!  Yes, it's the first he ever gets.  Unbelievable, isn't?  There are a couple of his films that deserved his nomination as more clearly showcased his directorial outstanding skills, but well, the Academy is famous for doing this kind of honor for the wrong film. Sigh.  Yes, Meryl Streep becomes the actor with the most nominations breaking once again her own Oscar record; it's her 21st Academy Award nomination.  But as much nods Streep has she's not the top individual with Oscar nominations, the title belongs to composer John Williams who just got his 51st nomination.

If we go on with people records there is one that's notable as no one doubts the outstanding cinematography by Roger Deakins -in so many films- who just earned his 14th nomination and has won NO Oscar.  That's odd, isn't? One of the biggest surprises was Paul Thomas Anderson nomination, who now becomes the most nominated non-tech filmmaker without an Oscar as there is no writer, director or actor who has more nominations (8) without a win.

On top, age had a milestone as none other that Christopher Plummer (88) becomes the oldest Oscar acting nominee in history.  Also 22-years-old Timothee Chalamet is the youngest Best Actor nominee in almost 80 years as record-holder 19-years-old Mickey Rooney got a nomination in 1944.

There are more first-ever like Logan being the first live-action superhero movie nominated for its screenplay, Lebanon gets it's first-ever nomination, Octavia Spencer became the only black actress to follow up an Oscar victory with two nominations, and more, but will stop here.

The major snub for me is in the documentary category as is hard to understand why Jane was not nominated after getting so-many honors in current awards season -still I'm hopeful now Faces Places could win and Agnes Varda will become the first person to win an Honorary and a Competitive Oscar in the same year.  Fatih Akin's In The Fade got snubbed after collecting some honors, sigh.  Alright there was no spot left but yes, agree with those who say Florence Pugh's powerhouse performance in Lady Macbeth deserved a Best Actress spot.

Will not get into who will win as hope to do traditional Oscar predictions,  but we all know there are some categories that have to be locked and we all know the winner.  The only disruption to  sure-things is the inclusion of Phantom Thread, which have to figure out how could influence Academy voters decision.

The Nominations

Best Motion Picture of the Year
Call Me by Your Name
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
Get Out
Lady Bird
Phantom Thread
The Post
The Shape of Water
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
Coco
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
Una Mujer Fantástica (A Fantastic Woman), Sebastián Lelio, Chile
قضية رقم ٢٣ (aka قضية رقم 23) L'Insulte (The Insult), Ziad Doueiri, Lebanon
Нелюбовь Nelyubov (Loveless), Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russia
Testről és lélekről (On Body and Soul), Ildikó Enyedi, Hungary
The Square, Ruben Östlund, Sweden

Best Documentary Feature
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail, Steve James, USA
Visages, Villages (Faces Places), JR and Agnes Varda, France
Icarus, Bryan Fogel, USA
Last Men in Aleppo, Firas Fayyad, Steen Johannessen and Hasan Kattan, Denmark and Syria
Strong Island, Yance Ford, USA

Achievement in directing
Christopher Nolan for Dunkirk
Jordan Peele for Get Out
Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird
Paul Thomas Anderson for Phantom Thread
Guillermo del Toro for The Shape of Water

Performance by an actress in a leading role
Sally Hawkins in The Shape of Water
Frances McDormand in Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Margot Robbie in I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan in Lady Bird
Meryl Streep in The Post

Performance by an actress in supporting role
Mary J. Blige in Mudbound
Allison Janey in I, Tonya
Lesley Manville in Phantom Thread
Laurie Metcalf in Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer in The Shape of Water

Performance by an actor in a leading role
Timothee Chalamet in Call Me by Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis in Phantom Thread
Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out
Gary Oldman in Darkest Hour
Denzel Washington in Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Willem Dafoe in The Florida Project
Woody Harrelson in Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Richard Jenkins in The Shape of Water
Christopher Plummer in All the Money in the World
Sam Rockwell in Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

Adapted screenplay
James Ivory for Call Me by Your Name
Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber for The Disaster Artist
Scott Frank, James Mangold, and Mike Green for Logan
Aaron Sorkin for Molly's Game
Virgil Williams and Dee Rees for Mudbound

Original screenplay
Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani for The Big Sick
Jordan Peele for Get Out
Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird
Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor for The Shape of Water
Martin McDonagh for Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

Achievement in cinematography
Roger A. Deakins for Blade Runner 2049
Bruno Delbonnel for Darkest Hour
Hoyte van Hoytema for Dunkirk
Rachel Morrison for Mudbound
Dan Laustsen for The Shape of Water

Achievement in visual effects
John Nelson, Gerd Nefzer, Paul Lambert and Richard R. Hoover for Blade Runner 2049
Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Jonathan Fawkner and Dan Sudick for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza and Mike Meinardus for Kong: Skull Island
Ben Morris, Mike Mulholland, Neal Scanian and Chris Corbould for Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Jon Letteri, Daniel Barrett, Dan Lemmon and Joel Whist for War for the Planet of the Apes

Achievement in film editing
Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos for Baby Driver
Lee Smith for Dunkirk
Tatiana S. Riegel for I, Tonya
Sidney Wolinsky for The Shape of Water
Jon Gregory for Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

Achievement in production design
Beauty and the Beast
Blade Runner 2049
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water

Achievement in costume design
Jaqueline Durran for Beauty and the Beast
Jaqueline Durran for Darkest Hour
Mark Bridges for Phantom Thread
Luis Sequeira for The Shape of Water
Consolata Boyle for Victoria & Abdul

Achievement in makeup and hairstyling
Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick for Darkest Hour
Daniel Phillips and Lou Sheppard for Victoria & Abdul
Arjen Tuiten for Wonder

Achievement in sound editing
Julian Slater for Baby Driver
Mark Mangini and Theo Green for Blade Runner 2049
Richard King and Alex Gibson for Dunkirk
Nathan Robitaille and Nelson Ferreira for The Shape of Water
Matthew Wood and Ren Klyce for Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Achievement in sound mixing
Julian Slater, Tim Cavagin and Mary H. Ellis for Baby Driver
Ron Bartlett, Doug Hemphill and Mac Ruth for Blade Runner 2049
Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker and Gary A. Rizzo for Dunkirk
Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern and Glen Gauthier for The Shape of Water
David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Stuart Wilson for Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original Score)
Hans Zimmer for Dunkirk
Jonny Greenwood for Phantom Thread
Alexandre Desplat for The Shape of Water
John Williams for Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Carter Burwell for Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original Song)
Mighty River from Mudboud
Mystery of Love from Call Me by Your Name
Remember Me from Coco
Stand Up for Something from Marshall
This is Me from The Greatest Showman

Short Films

Best live action short film
DeKalb Elementary,  Reed Van Dyk, USA
The Eleven O'Clock, Derin Seale, Australia
My Nephew Emmett, Kevin Wilson Jr., USA
The Silent Child, Chris Overton, UK
Watu Wote: All of Us, Katja Benrath, Germany and Kenya

Best animated short film
Dear Basketball, Glen Keane, USA
Garden Party, Victor Caire, Gabriel Grapperon, Florian Babikian, Vincent Bayoux, Theophile Dufresne and Lucas Navarro, France
Lou, Dave Mullins, USA
Negative Space, Max Porter and Ru Kuwahata, France
Revolting Rhymes, Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer, UK

Best documentary short subject
Edith+Eddie, Laura Checkoway, USA
Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405, Frank Stiefel, USA
Heroin(e), Elaine McMillion Sheldon, USA
Knife Skills, Thomas Lennon, USA
Traffic Stop, Gina Kamentsky and Julie Zammarchi, USA

To check nominations at official site go here (pdf file) or here. Active members of the Academy (7,258 as of 12/21/17) are eligible to vote for the winners in all 24 categories beginning Tuesday, February 20 through Tuesday, February 27.

The Oscars hosted by Jimmy Kimmel will be held on Sunday, March 4, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood and will be televised on ABC at 6:30pm ET/3:30pm PT.  The awards show will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.

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#Oscars2018 LIVE Nominations

In about 5 hours, at 5:20am PST or 8:20am ET, the first part of the Oscars nominations will start.  The first part is available only via live stream as second part is when announcement go live in all USA network channels morning shows, after the 8:30am break.

Live network morning shows announce top categories while previous announcement has tech, craft categories.

At 5:22 a.m. PST, the nominees will be announced in the following categories (listed here in no particular order): Cinematography, Costume Design, Film Editing, Makeup and Hairstyling, Original Score, Production Design, Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing and Visual Effects.

At 5:38:30 a.m. PST, the nominees will be announced in the following categories (listed here in no particular order): Actor in a Leading Role, Actor in a Supporting Role, Actress in a Leading Role, Actress in a Supporting Role, Animated Feature Film, Directing, Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, Foreign Language Film, Original Song, Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay and Original Screenplay.

There have been too-many changes in my life, so this year there are no Oscars nominations predictions but perhaps later on there will be Oscars winners predictions as there are many categories that seem to be very-easy to guess while there are a few that will be quite hard.  

Enjoy!!!

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24th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Winners

Yesterday evening the guild had their awards ceremony and for the first time ever had a host and was female as well as all award presenters.  So was a night of female actors, which I suppose goes well with all the demonstrations happening during the day all over the good old USA.

Obviously this female thing does not reflect the industry, which is still male dominated; but, it's time the country has a strong shift toward better equality as if trend goes there, then the rest of the world will follow sooner than later.  Sigh.

All right, enough of non-cinema related comments.  We know Actors guild is the largest of all and the one that has more Academy voters, so all eyes were fixed into what guild members will do and seems Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri as well as Frances McDormand have increased their chances to win top AMPAS awards.  As a matter of fact and according to what we have learn with PGA and SAG winners, it seems like Oscars male actor is lock while best picture could be a race between The Shape of Water and Three Billboards outside Ebbing and best actress a close race between Sally Hawkins and Frances McDormand.  Still coming are DGA awards and then we will get an idea of what could happen with the best director category.

Three Billboards outside Ebbing became the big winner among actors as got three awards but believe that in general and including TV categories the guild behaved in such a conservative way that doesn't speak well about whoever voted as honors went to "expected" individuals in traditional movies and shows. Sigh.  Fortunately other awards are recognizing newer trends both in films and TV.

Winners are in *BLUE. To check winners in all categories go official site here.

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Adeel Akhtar, Holly Hunter, Zoe Kazan, Anupam Kher, Kumail Nanjiani, Ray Romano, and Zenobia Shroff in The Big Sick
Caleb Landry Jones, Daniel Kaluuya, Catherine Keener, Stephen Root, Lakeith Stanfield, Bradley Whitford and Allison Williams in Get Out
Timothee Chalamet, Beanie Feldstein, Lucas Hedges, Tracy Letts, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Laurie Metcalf, Jordan Rodrigues, Saoirse Ronan, Odeya Rush, Marielle Scott and Lois Smith in Lady Bird
Jonathan Banks, Mary J. Blige, Jason Clarke, Garrett Hedlund, Jason Mitchell, Rob Morgan and Carey Mulligan in Mudbound
*Abbie Cornish, Peter Dinklage, Woody Harrelson, John Hawkes, Lucas Hedges, Zeliko Ivanek, Caleb Landry Jones, Frances McDormand, Clarke Peters, Sam Rockwell, and Samara Weaving in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri



Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Judi Dench in Victoria and Abdul
Sally Hawkins in The Shape of Water
*Frances McDormand in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Margot Robbie in I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan in Lady Bird

Oustanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Mary J. Blige in Mudbound
Hong Chau in Downsizing
Holly Hunter in The Big Sick
*Allison Janney in I, Tonya
Laurie Metcalf in Lady Bird

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Thimothee Chalamet in Call Me by Your Name
James Franco in The Disaster Artist
Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out
*Gary Oldman in Darkest Hour
Denzel Washington in Roman J. Israel, Esq

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Steve Carell in Battle of the Sexes
Willem Dafoe in The Florida Project
Woody Harrelson in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Richard Jenkins in The Shape of Water
*Sam Rockwell in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture
Baby Driver
Dunkirk
Logan
War for the Planet of the Apes
*Wonder Woman

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12/13/17
A few minutes ago Olivia Munn and Niecy Nash revealed the nominees from the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood.  The nominations for the 2018 edition of these awards are given to performances in films released in 2017.  Two nominating panels -one for television and one for film- each composed of 2,500 randomly selected union members from across the United States, chose this year's nominees.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri leads the pack with four (4) nominations followed by Lady Bird (3), and with two each, The Big Sick, Get Out, I, Tonya, and Mudboud.

As Scott Feinberg from THR notes in a tweet, "It has been 22 years since a film won the best picture Oscar without being nominated for this SAG award, so one of these five is almost certainly your eventual winner", he's referring to the top award, Cast in a Motion Picture.  I tend to agree with him but there are a few movies that not many have seen and could stop the trend, The Post, Phantom Thread, and All the Money in the World; another batch of independent movies that could upset the trend are The Florida Project and Call Me by Your Name and last, but not least, there is The Shape of Water that I'm certain will get a nomination and in my book still has high chances to win top Oscar.

There are some major surprises but not one more shocking than honoring Judi Dench with a nomination when the spot should have been given to Meryl Streep for example.  Admit that I did not enjoy much the film, Victoria and Abdul nor Dench performance so definitively that's the spot that should go to Streep or even Michelle Williams but surely these two were overlooked because members haven't seen the films. Then no one will ever convince me that James Franco performance in The Disaster Artist is "better" than Daniel Day-Lewis in Phantom Thread. Sigh.

On the not so-serious side, my biggest surprise is to find Thimotee Chalamet was nominated before in 2013 for the drama ensemble in Homeland and besides being in Call Me by Your name, he also performs in Lady Bird!  -and me believing he was a newcomer (lol).

This year the Life Achievement goes to none other than Morgan Freeman and if you wish to read about his impressive career and long list of achievements and honors go to SAG official site here.

Now final voting information will be sent to the 121,544 SAG-AFTRA members in good standing across the country, who may vote on all categories.  Kristen Bell to host the awards ceremony on Sunday, January 21, 2018, an event which is simulcast live on TNT and TBS.  She breaks new ground as the SAG Awards first-ever host.

To check film and television nominations at the official site go here (pdf file).

Not often talk about television but there are some nominations that called my attention, most remarkable is the nomination of Millie Bobby Brown in Stranger Things which I find extremely well-deserved.  Then was a huge positive surprise to find Glow nominated as when watching felt I was doing something "bad" for my viewing-reputation but uff!, am I so glad that even when I feel I'm having a "guilty-pleasure" moment, my good-cinema intuition still works (lol!). Yes, I devoured Glow in one long binge moment.

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29th Producers Guild of America Awards Winners

Last night the guild had their awards ceremony and as expected (by me) The Shape of Water won top award to absolutely improve its chances to get AMPAS maximum honor.

Same happens to Coco in animation and Jane in documentary; but still hope Oscar documentary category will include that French doc everyone is talking about.  Sigh.

Biggest surprises came in the TV categories as even when honors were given to great shows (ones that behave like long-form-films) like The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and The Handmaid's Tale, will not deny my surprise with the winner of the Non-Fiction category, Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath. Sigh.

Winners are in *BLUE.  To check winners in all categories go official site here.

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1/5/18
Today the Producers Guild of America announced the nominations for their annual Awards and no doubt that from all guilds announcements these are the nominees most film pundits anxiously await as is directly related to the 10 possible Oscar nominees and of course, PGA winner frequently becomes Academy Best Film winner.

Before the announcement there were too-many speculations, predictions, guessing-games and crystal-ball visions.  But most expect Get Out, Lady Bird, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri, Call Me by Your Name, The Shape of Water and Dunkirk are to be nominated.  Then the second group of probable nominees are The Florida Project, The Post, Darkest Hour, I Tonya and some even mention one film that could be a BIG push for Netflix if gets a PGA nomination: Mudbound.

Then reality struck.  The biggest positive surprise is Wonder Woman getting a nomination which undoubtedly opens a huge door for an Oscar nom.  There is no doubt that Molly's Game just upped its game in current awards season as seems critics overlooked film but industry is not forgetting about Aaron Sorkin directorial debut. Perhaps the biggest snub is Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film, Phantom Thread, a film that possibly will end its run in current awards season; also surprising is the absence of Darkest Hour but believe film Oscar chances are more in the Best Actor category than in any other.

Then, for the first time there are 11 PGA nominees in top category, instead of the usual 10 as there was a tie in voting.  So if Oscar noms go up to 10 (which is still Best Film Oscar maximum nominations -read the rule again today as there are many industry articles claiming Oscar has only 5 nominations and it's not what the Academy says in its current rules and eligibility), then there will be at least one film out; but more realistically, top category at the Academy Awards usually gets around 8 nominations, therefore there are more films that could disappear and there are chances that at least one film not nominated by PGA could make it to Oscars nominations.  By-the-way today started the Oscar voting, so those Academy Members that follow industry news will get their usual doses of influence with all the buzz and fuzz around what the guilds do.

The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Picture
The Big Sick
Call Me by Your Name
Dunkirk
Get Out
I, Tonya
Lady Bird
Molly's Game
The Post
*The Shape of Water
Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
Wonder Woman

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Picture
The Boss Baby
*Coco
Despicable Me 3
Ferdinand
The Lego Batman Movie

The Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures
Chasing Coral
City of Ghosts
Cries From Syria
Earth: One Amazing Day
*Jane
Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower
The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee

To check nominees for Television categories go official site here.  All Producers Guild Awards will be announced on Saturday, January 20, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.

The Guild bestows several annual honors and as previously announced here are current edition honorees.

Stanley Kramer Award: Get Out
Visionary Award: Ava DuVernay
David O. Selznick Achievement Award: Charles Roven
Milestone Award: Donna Langley
Norman Lear Achievement Award in Television:  Ryan Murphy

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23rd Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards Winners

Last night the film critic's group had their awards ceremony and no, wasn't able to watch live but seems ceremony was business as usual with nothing relevant happening.

As expected The Shape of Water won top award and the most of the night, four; perhaps what was unexpected is Sally Hawkins not winning in the actress category.

As was announced before, Gal Gadot received the #SeeHer Award presented by the Association of National Advertisers in conjunction with the CW Network.  Gadot accepted the award from her Wonder Woman director, Patty Jenkins. 

Winners are in *BLUE.  To check winners in all categories go official site here.

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12/7/17

The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) announced today the nominees for the 2018 edition with The Shape of Water leading the pack with 14 nominations followed a bit far by Call Me by Your Name, Dunkirk, Lady Bird and The Post with 8 nominations each.

Blade Runner 2049 collected 7 nominations followed by The Big Sick and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri each with 6, and Get Out and I, Tonya with 5.  Group has a clear leader but as what is happening this year, there are several movies with multiple nominations and no mater how large the amount of films with nominations remarkable is that group adds no new film to the race of major categories as all have been already honored by other film critics groups.

“2017 has proved to be an incredibly exciting year in movies – and one of the most wide-open in terms of awards possibilities,” said BFCA President Joey Berlin. “The mix of legendary filmmakers and performers along with vibrant new voices representing fresh and varied styles and perspectives has entertained and challenged critics and audiences alike. It’s been a joy to experience these films and we can’t wait to celebrate them all on January 11th.”

The awards show will return to the CW Network and will be broadcast LIVE on January 11, 2018 from 8:00 to 10:00pm ET.  As we all know the television branch also announced the TV nominations and if you wish to learn them go to official site here.

The nominations

Best Picture
The Big Sick
Call Me by Your Name
Darkest Hour
Dunkirk
The Florida Project
Get Out
Lady Bird
The Post
*The Shape of Water
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Animated Feature
The Breadwinner
*Coco
Despicable Me 3
The LEGO Batman Movie
Loving Vincent

Best Foreign Language Film
BPM (Beats Per Minute)
A Fantastic Woman
First They Killed My Father
*In the Fade
The Square
Thelma

Best Director
*Guillermo del Toro for The Shape of Water
Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird
Martin McDonagh for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Christopher Nolan for Dunkirk
Luca Guadagnino for Call Me by Your Name
Jordan Peele for Get Out
Steve Spielberg for The Post

Best Actress
Jessica Chastain in Molly's Game
Sally Hawkins in The Shape of Water
*Frances McDormand in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Margot Robbie in I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan in Lady Bird
Meryl Streep in The Post

Best Supporting Actress
Mary J. Blige in Mudbound
Hong Chau in Downsizing
Tiffany Haddish in Girls Trip
Holly Hunter in The Big Sick
*Allison Janney in I, Tonya
Laurie Metcalf in Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer in The Shape of Water

Best Actor
Timothee Chalamet in Call Me by Your Name
James Franco in The Disaster Artist
Jake Gyllenhall in Stronger
Tom Hanks in The Post
Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out
Daniel Day-Lewis in Phantom Thread
*Gary Oldman in Darkest Hour

Best Supporting Actor
Willem Dafoe in The Florida Project
Armie Hammer in Call Me by Your Name
Richard Jenkins in The Shape of Water
*Sam Rockwell in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Patrick Stewart in Logan
Michael Stunlbarg in Call Me by Your Name

Best Young Actor/Actress
Mckenna Grace in Gifted
Dafne Keen in Logan
*Brooklyn Prince in The Florida Project
Millicent Simmonds in Wonderstruck
Jacob Tremblay in Wonder

Best Acting Ensemble
Dunkirk
Lady Bird
Mudbound
The Post
*Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Original Screenplay
Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor for The Shape of Water
Great Gerwig for Lady Bird
Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani for The Big Sick
Luz Hannah and Josh Singer for The Post
Martin McDonagh for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
*Jordan Peele for Get Out

Best Adapted Screenplay
*James Ivory for Call Me by Your Name
Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber for The Disaster Artist
Dee Rees and Virgil Williams for Mudbound
Aaron Sorkin for Molly's Game
Jack Thorne, Steve Conrad and Stephen Chbosky for Wonder

Best Cinematography
*Roger Deakins for Blade Runner 2049
Hoyte van Hoytema for Dunkirk
Dan Laustsen for The Shape of Water
Rachel Morrison for Mudbound
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom for Call Me by Your Name

Best Production Design
*Paul Denham Austerberry, Shane Vieau and Jeff Melvin for The Shape of Water
Jim Clay and Rebecca Alleway for Murder on the Orient Express
Natham Crowley and Gary Fettis for Dunkirk
Dennis Gassner and Alessandra Querzola for Blade Runner 2049
Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spender for Beauty and the Beast
Mark Tildesley and Veronique Melery for Phantom Thread

Best Editing (tie)
Michael Kahn and Sarah Broshar for The Post
*Paul Machliss and Jonathan Amos for Baby Driver
*Lee Smith for Dunkirk
Joe Walker for Blade Runner 2049
Sidney Wolinsky for The Shape of Water

Best Costume Design
Renee April for Blade Runner 2049
*Mark Bridges for Phantom Thread
Jaqueline Durran for Beauty and the Beast
Lindy Hemming for Wonder Woman
Luis Sequeira for The Shape of Water

Best Hair and Makeup
Beauty and the Beast
*Darkest Hour
I, Tonya
The Shape of Water
Wonder

Best Visual Effects
Blade Runner 2049
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Thor: Ragnarok
*War for the Planet of the Apes
Wonder Woman

Best Song
Evermore in Beauty and the Beast
Mystery of Love in Call Me by Your Name
*Remember Me in Coco
Stand Up in Something in Marshall
This is Me in The Greatest Showman

Best Score
*Alexandre Desplat for The Shape of Water
Jonny Greenwood for Phantom Thread
Dario Marianelli for Darkest Hour
Benjamin Wallfisch and Hans Zimmer for Blade Runner 2049
John Williams for The Post
Hans Zimmer for Dunkirk

Best Action Movie
Baby Driver
Logan
Thor: Ragnarok
War for the Planet of the Apes
*Wonder Woman

Best Comedy
*The Big Sick
The Disaster Artist
Girls Trip
I, Tonya
Lady Bird

Best Actress in a Comedy
Tiffani Haddish in Girls Trip
Zoe Kazan in The Big Sick
*Margot Robbie in I, Tonya
Saoirse Ronan in Lady Bird
Emma Stone in Battle of the Sexes

Best Actor in a Comedy
Steve Carell in Battle of the Sexes
*James Franco in The Disaster Artist
Chris Hemsworth in Thor: Ragnarok
Kumall Nanjiani in The Big Sick
Adam Sandler in The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

Best Sci-fi or Horror Movie
Blade Runner 2049
*Get Out
It
The Shape of Water

Nominees by Picture

BABY DRIVER (2)
Best Editing – Paul Machliss, Jonathan Amos
Best Action Movie

BATTLE OF THE SEXES (2)
Best Actor in a Comedy – Steve Carell
Best Actress in a Comedy – Emma Stone

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (4)
Best Production Design – Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer
Best Costume Design – Jacqueline Durran
Best Hair and Makeup
Best Song – “Evermore”

THE BIG SICK (6)
Best Picture
Best Supporting Actress – Holly Hunter
Best Original Screenplay – Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani
Best Comedy
Best Actor in a Comedy – Kumail Nanjiani
Best Actress in a Comedy – Zoe Kazan

BLADE RUNNER 2049 (7)
Best Cinematography – Roger Deakins
Best Production Design – Dennis Gassner, Alessandra Querzola
Best Editing – Joe Walker
Best Costume Design – Renee April
Best Visual Effects
Best Sci-Fi or Horror Movie
Best Score – Benjamin Wallfisch and Hans Zimmer

BPM (BEATS PER MINUTE) (1)
Best Foreign Language Film

THE BREADWINNER (1)
Best Animated Feature

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (8)
Best Picture
Best Actor – Timothée Chalamet
Best Supporting Actor – Armie Hammer
Best Supporting Actor – Michael Stuhlbarg
Best Director – Luca Guadagnino
Best Adapted Screenplay – James Ivory
Best Cinematography – Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
Best Song – “Mystery of Love”

COCO (2)
Best Animated Feature
Best Song – “Remember Me”

DARKEST HOUR (4)
Best Picture
Best Actor – Gary Oldman
Best Hair and Makeup
Best Score – Dario Marianelli

DESPICABLE ME 3 (1)
Best Animated Feature

THE DISASTER ARTIST (4)
Best Actor – James Franco
Best Adapted Screenplay – Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber
Best Comedy
Best Actor in a Comedy – James Franco

DOWNSIZING (1)
Best Supporting Actress – Hong Chau

DUNKIRK (8)
Best Picture
Best Acting Ensemble
Best Director – Christopher Nolan
Best Cinematography – Hoyte van Hoytema
Best Production Design – Nathan Crowley, Gary Fettis
Best Editing – Lee Smith
Best Visual Effects
Best Score – Hans Zimmer

A FANTASTIC WOMAN (1)
Best Foreign Language Film

FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER (1)
Best Foreign Language Film

THE FLORIDA PROJECT (3)
Best Picture
Best Supporting Actor – Willem Dafoe
Best Young Actor/Actress – Brooklynn Prince

GET OUT (5)
Best Picture
Best Actor – Daniel Kaluuya
Best Director – Jordan Peele
Best Original Screenplay – Jordan Peele
Best Sci-Fi or Horror Movie

GIFTED (1)
Best Young Actor/Actress – Mckenna Grace

GIRLS TRIP (3)
Best Supporting Actress – Tiffany Haddish
Best Comedy
Best Actress in a Comedy – Tiffany Haddish

THE GREATEST SHOWMAN (1)
Best Song – “This Is Me”

I, TONYA (5)
Best Actress – Margot Robbie
Best Supporting Actress – Allison Janney
Best Hair and Makeup
Best Comedy
Best Actress in a Comedy – Margot Robbie

IN THE FADE (1)
Best Foreign Language Film

IT (1)
Best Sci-Fi or Horror Movie

LADY BIRD (8)
Best Picture
Best Actress – Saoirse Ronan
Best Supporting Actress – Laurie Metcalf
Best Acting Ensemble
Best Director – Greta Gerwig
Best Original Screenplay – Greta Gerwig
Best Comedy
Best Actress in a Comedy – Saoirse Ronan

THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE (1)
Best Animated Feature

LOGAN (3)
Best Supporting Actor – Patrick Stewart
Best Young Actor/Actress – Dafne Keen
Best Action Movie

LOVING VINCENT (1)
Best Animated Feature

MARSHALL (1)
Best Song – “Stand Up for Something”

THE MEYEROWITZ STORIES (NEW AND SELECTED) (1)
Best Actor in a Comedy – Adam Sandler

MOLLY’S GAME (2)
Best Actress – Jessica Chastain
Best Adapted Screenplay – Aaron Sorkin

MUDBOUND (4)
Best Supporting Actress – Mary J. Blige
Best Acting Ensemble
Best Adapted Screenplay – Dee Rees and Virgil Williams
Best Cinematography – Rachel Morrison

MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (1)
Best Production Design – Jim Clay, Rebecca Alleway

PHANTOM THREAD (4)
Best Actor – Daniel Day-Lewis
Best Production Design – Mark Tildesley, Veronique Melery
Best Costume Design – Mark Bridges
Best Score – Jonny Greenwood

THE POST (8)
Best Picture
Best Actor – Tom Hanks
Best Actress – Meryl Streep
Best Acting Ensemble
Best Director – Steven Spielberg
Best Original Screenplay – Liz Hannah and Josh Singer
Best Editing – Michael Kahn, Sarah Broshar
Best Score – John Williams

THE SHAPE OF WATER (14)
Best Picture
Best Actress – Sally Hawkins
Best Supporting Actor – Richard Jenkins
Best Supporting Actress – Octavia Spencer
Best Director – Guillermo del Toro
Best Original Screenplay – Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor
Best Cinematography – Dan Laustsen
Best Production Design – Paul Denham Austerberry, Shane Vieau, Jeff Melvin
Best Editing – Sidney Wolinsky
Best Costume Design – Luis Sequeira
Best Hair and Makeup
Best Visual Effects
Best Sci-Fi or Horror Movie
Best Score – Alexandre Desplat

THE SQUARE (1)
Best Foreign Language Film

STRONGER (1)
Best Actor – Jake Gyllenhaal

THELMA (1)
Best Foreign Language Film

THOR: RAGNAROK (3)
Best Visual Effects
Best Action Movie
Best Actor in a Comedy – Chris Hemsworth

THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI (6)
Best Picture
Best Actress – Frances McDormand
Best Supporting Actor – Sam Rockwell
Best Acting Ensemble
Best Director – Martin McDonagh
Best Original Screenplay – Martin McDonagh

WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES (2)
Best Visual Effects
Best Action Movie

WONDER (3)
Best Young Actor/Actress – Jacob Tremblay
Best Adapted Screenplay – Jack Thorne, Steve Conrad, Stephen Chbosky
Best Hair and Makeup

WONDER WOMAN (3)
Best Costume Design – Lindy Hemming
Best Visual Effects
Best Action Movie

WONDERSTRUCK (1)
Best Young Actor/Actress – Millicent Simmonds

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75th Annual Golden Globe Awards Winners

Ceremony was too-rush for my taste as in the beginning winners could do long acceptance speeches but as show went on jokes/funny-moments started to disappear and long-faced presenters just read nominees and called the winner. Then, the all-black red carpet plus black ballroom look felt in two extreme senses, one: very-elegant and two: a funeral. Viewers decided which side suited best their feelings. Me saw elegance.

Many tend to forget the Globes are given by journalists and NOT by movie makers, the greatest thing HFPA has is that used to give a very-entertaining, fun-to-watch show that many enjoyed for the entertainment value and not for who won the infamous awards which throughout the years have more scandals than "credibility". Nevertheless, as many winners mentioned in their acceptance speech, the group managed to elect a female president and believe that's their greatest achievement in current anniversary edition.

Winners do not surprised me and was in the television categories where I was pleasantly surprised as my favorite shows got honors; but in film categories what called most the attention were the snubs, especially the movie that film critics are placing in their #1 spot, Get Out.

The night's big winner is Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri as is the film with most awards, four.   So here are the winners in *BLUE. To check winners in all categories go official site here.

Motion Picture Nominees

Best Motion Picture - Drama
Call Me by Your Name
Dunkirk
The Post
The Shape of Water
*Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
The Disaster Artist
Get Out
The Greatest Showman
I, Tonya
*Lady Bird

Best Animated Feature Film
The Boss Baby
The Breadwinner
*Coco
Ferdinand
Loving Vincent

Best Foreign Language Film
A Fantastic Woman
First They Killed My Father
*In The Fade
Loveless
The Square

Best Director
*Guillermo del Toro for The Shape of Water
Martin McDonagh for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Christopher Nolan for Dunkirk
Ridley Scott for All the Money in the World
Steven Spielberg for The Post

Best Actress - Drama
Jessica Chastain in Molly's Game
Sally Hawkins in The Shape of Water
*Frances McDormand in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Meryl Streep in The Post
Mihelle Williams in All the Money in the World

Best Actress - Comedy or Musical
Judi Dench in Victoria & Abdul
Helen Mirren in The Leisure Seeker
Margot Robbie in I, Tonya
*Saoirse Ronan in Lady Bird
Emma Stone in Battle of the Sexes

Best Supporting Actress
Mary J. Blige in Mudbound
Hong Chau in Downsizing
*Allison Janney in I, Tonya
Laurie Metcalf in Lady Bird
Octavia Spencer in The Shape of Water

Best Actor - Drama
Thimothee Chalamet in Call Me by Your Name
Daniel Day-Lewis in Phantom Thread
Tom Hanks in The Post
*Gary Oldman in Darkest Hour
Denzel Washington in Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Best Actor - Comedy or Musical
Steve Carell in Battle of the Sexes
Ansel Elgort in Baby Driver
*James Franco in The Disaster Artist
Hugh Jackman in The Greatest Showman
Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out

Best Supporting Actor
Willem Dafoe in The Florida Project
Armie Hamer in Call Me by Your Name
Richard Jenkins in The Shape of Water
Christopher Plummer in All The Money in the World
*Sam Rockwell in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Screenplay
Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor for The Shape of Water
Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird
Liz Hannah and Josh Singer for The Post
*Martin McDonagh for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Aaron Sorkin for Molly's Game

Best Original Score
Carter Burwell for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
*Alexandre Desplat for The Shape of Water
Jonny Greenwood for Phantom Thread
John Williams for The Post
Hans Zimmer for Dunkirk

Best Original Song
Home from Ferdinand
Mighty River from Mudbound
Remember Me from Coco
The Star from The Star
*This is Me from The Greatest Showman

To check motion picture and television nominations go official site here.  Know always talk about movies but fell like sharing that many of the nominated shows look/feel like "long movies" (which I simply LOVE!!) and the best TV category no doubt is Best Performance by an actress in a Television Series - Drama where actresses performances are truly outstanding in great-to-binge-watching like a "long movie".

By the way on December 13 at 8:00pm ET on NBC the Golden Globes 75th Anniversary Special will air.  The star-studded show is part of the 75^th Anniversary celebrations and will be a funny, poignant and celebratory walk down memory lane featuring clips, exclusive behind-the-scenes goodies, original interviews and the special memories of those who, through the years, have become part of our Golden Globe family. Produced by dick clark productions (dcp) in association with the HFPA, the two-hour special will be hosted by Eric McCormack and Debra Messing.

Nominations by Motion Picture
The Shape of Water 7
The Post 6
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 6
Lady Bird 4
All the Money in the World  3
Call Me By Your Name 3
Dunkirk 3
The Greatest Showman 3
I, Tonya 3
Battle of the Sexes 2
Coco 2
The Disaster Artist 2
Ferdinand 2
Get Out 2
Molly's Game 2
Mudbound 2
Phantom Thread 2
A Fantastic Woman 1
Baby Driver 1
The Boss Baby 1
The Breadwinner 1
Darkest Hour 1
Downsizing 1
First They Killed My Father  1
The Florida Project 1
In the Fade 1
The Leisure Seeker 1
Loveless 1
Loving Vincent 1
Roman J. Israel , Esq. 1
The Square 1
The Star 1
Victoria & Abdul 1



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12/12/17
Yes, was able to watch the live streams with all the nominations as there was a first batch -where the most expected foreign film nominations were announced- and a second batch broadcasted along American TV morning shows, where major categories were announced. Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) president, Meher Tatna, introduced presenters Alfre Woodard, Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Bell and Sharon Stone who announced the nominations.

In general, there are some surprises but the biggest for me is finding that this group of journalists already watched the much-buzzed film All The Money in the World and they even gave a nomination to Christopher Plummer for a role he filmed in a rush (!!!) not long ago. Sigh. Well, let's hope film is as interesting as many are hoping, including me. They also seem to be the only ones that have seen Denzel Washington movie, sigh.

Then there is that noise that's really bothering me as buzz went loud to say there were no female directors nominated. Enough. No director should be nominated because of their gender or to fill a quota. Directors are and should be nominated for their work and any film related event should consider ONLY their work and stop trying to be politically correct. Even Women Film Directors are commenting on this and this copy and paste of their tweet.

Women Film Directors‏ @women_direct
14h14 hours ago
Also re: #GoldenGlobes2018 snubs Patty Jenkins, Kathryn Bigelow, Sofia Coppola and Dee Rees aren't snubs. They're all talented women, but none except Rees had the critical support needed to get a directing nom and Rees was hampered by Netflix's inexpert campaigning.

Enough is enough. Stop this as will eventually create more damage than benefit female filmmakers and this goes especially to a new film critics group in Los Angeles that decided to split the Director category into Female and Male directors (????!!!!). All the pressure makes people to do "stupid" things. Sigh.

Not a flattery statement but somehow article reminds us that the Golden Globes are FUN (nominations are fun-to-read and show is fun-to-watch), this is an excerpt from a New York Times article that you could read here. So my best suggestion is to have FUN with the GG and forget about how does or does not reflect/predict the Oscars or any other "more serious" awards season event or if they do whatever is necessary to assure BIG STARS will make it to the show or if films are not really comedy or musical or whatever else you are tempted to criticize. Last, do not forget that this is a successful show as nominees attend the event and audiences from around the world watch the TV show.

Long seen as the most unserious stop on Hollywood’s awards circuit, the Golden Globes are handed out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a group of mostly freelance journalists, only 89 of whom vote. Studios see members as easy to manipulate, a reputation the group contends is long outdated.

New this year is the name change from "Miss Golden Globes" to "Globes Ambassador" and the first one to inaugurate the renamed role is Dwayne Johnson daughter Simone Garcia Johnson.

Well, let's go back to the nominations. The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro leads the pack with seven (7) nominations followed closely by The Post and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri with six (6) each. Lady Bird has four (4) and there are five films with three (3) nominations each: I, Tonya, The Greatest Showman, All the Money in the World, Call Me by Your Name and Dunkirk.

The biggest surprise perhaps is (as noted by critic Guy Lodge on Twitter) The Greatest Showman scored more nominations than (awards season favorite) Get Out. We know Hugh Jackman is more TV show friendly that lesser known actors, so then perhaps is no surprise (lol!).

Seth Meyers will host the 2018 awards ceremony from the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton on January 7th; show will be broadcast live at 8:pm ET/ 5:00pm PT on NBC.

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