![]() Barrett, production designer of “Her,” and “Omar” director Hany Abu-Assad. The round tables are arranged in the Hilton ballroom so that one member of the press and one Academy governor (at table 30, production designer Rick Carter plays host) sit with a range of nominees, in our case, K.K. I’ve always thought “Captain Phillips” was a strong stealth candidate, well-liked– especially by Academy steakeaters– for its craft as well as its acting.īarkhad Abdi did land a supporting actor nod–and is moving to Los Angeles, he said, to look for another acting job. This is a year, they agreed, like “Driving Miss Daisy” or “Crash” or “Chariots of Fire,” when there are so many close competitors that anything can happen. Two Academy governors, Lionsgate’s Rob Friedman and director Michael Mann, and I discussed whether the directors branch not nominating Paul Greengrass or the actors not anointing Tom Hanks meant that “Captain Phillips” was out of the Best Picture running. Governor Robin Swicord (“Little Women”) escorted young author Sam Wasson (the well-reviewed Bob Fosse biography) who has sold his first screenplay. “20 Feet from Stardom” director Morgan Neville is prepping another music doc on cellist Yoyo Ma, who is an even bigger star in China and abroad than he is here, he said. Oscars 2023: Best Original Score Predictionsĭanish director Thomas Vinterberg (“The Hunt”), who has wrapped Thomas Hardy’s “Far from the Madding Crowd” starring Carey Mulligan (my video with him here) was nervous about attending his first Oscar lunch, as was his main rival, Italian director Paolo Sorrentino (“The Great Beauty”), as a group of us debated whether Oscar voters would vote every category without seeing all five foreign films, docs and doc shorts as well as five animation and five live action shorts, which the Academy just sent out. They’re on the honor system. Quentin Tarantino's Favorite Movies: 40 Films the Director Wants You to See Richard Linklater's 'Apollo 10 ½' Rejected as Animation by Oscar Committee as Filmmaker Speaks Out Oscars 2023: Best Original Song Predictions “If Chivo tells you to get in the light box you get in the box” Sandra Bullock said to a circle of admirers, just before Illumination Entertainment chief Chris Meledandri, who harbors high hopes for Pharrell Williams’ smash hit single “Happy” from “Despicable Me 2” beating “Frozen” song “Let it Go” on Oscar night, brought Williams (complete with high hat) over to meet her. ![]() June Squibb suggested he was the kind of person who is comfortable being himself and doesn’t care what people think. I thanked “Nebraska” writer Bob Nelson for being so funny on my panel. ![]() ![]() Many of them have come to know each other on the awards promo circuit, such as my Santa Barbara writer panelists, who greeted each other like old friends, as did WGA winners Spike Jonze (“Her”) and Billy Ray (“Captain Phillips”) and directors Alfonso Cuaron (“Gravity”) and Alexander Payne (“Nebraska”). ![]()
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