Online Film Critics Need To Talk About Terrence
Monday, January 2, 2012 at 8:00PM You may have heard that the Online Film Critics Society unleashed their press release on the world today. It rained Manna Malick from Heaven as The Tree of Life won 5 of their 13 gongs. Their winners...
Picture The Tree of Life
Director Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life
Actress Tilda Swinton, We Need To Talk About Kevin
Actor Michael Fassbender, Shame
They go against the grain frequently with Best Actress. Aside from obvious sweepers like Natalie Portman or Helen Mirren in their years, winners have included Melanie Laurent from Basterds, Michelle Williams from Wendy & Lucy, Reese Witherspoon in Election and more. Like the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, who are even more adventurous in Best Actress citations, the OFCS is much more traditional / conservative when it comes to Best Actor almost always going with a major future Oscar nominee or frontrunner. The only exception in their entire history is Billy Bob Thornton who won for the Coen Bros picture The Man Who Wasn't There (2001). Funny how critics groups, even large ones, have such obvious personalities.
Actor Michael Fassbender, Shame
Supporting Actress Jessica Chastain, The Tree of Life
Supporting Actor Christopher Plummer, Beginners
Adapted Screenplay Bridget O'Connor, Peter Straughan for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Original Screenplay Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris
Editing Hank Corwin, Jay Rabinowitz, Daniel Rezende, Billy Weber, Mark Yoshikawa for The Tree of Life
Cinematography Emmanuel Lubezki for The Tree of Life
Animated Feature Gore Verbinksi's Rango
Film Not in the English Language Asgar Farhadi's A Separation
Documentary Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams
As previously noted the OFCS will also be handing special prizes to Jessica Chastain and Martin Scorsese in addition to these prizes. Jessica Chastain, very recently interviewed right here, was so busy this year they must have figured that one prize wasn't enough.
Reader Comments (7)
Hot damn! These are by far the richest overall selections from any critics group yet…
Switch out Chastain for Redgrave, TINKER / MIDNIGHT’s scripts for MONEYBALL / WEEKEND and that’s probably my exact same list for the finest cinematic achievements of 2011. Well done, OFCS!
... the OFCS is much more traditional / conservative when it comes to Best Actor almost always going with a major future Oscar nominee or frontrunner. The only exception in their entire history is Billy Bob Thornton who won for the Coen Bros picture The Man Who Wasn't There (2001).
Wow, interesting in what this means for Fassbender.
I love that they gave TTSS a screenplay award.
Michael Fassbender had such an awesome year he got two citations!
Arkaan -- LOL. I love Fassy too two much.
Hmm with all of The Tree Of Life love lately, will Chastain get nominated for it at the Oscars instead of The Help I wonder? Her citations for The Help seem more of a reward for her very productive year as a whole rather than love for that particular performance.
How the hell did Jessica Chastain win best supporting actress for Tree of Life when she didn't do much in that movie but stand around and look pretty? I feel like Octavia Spencer and Melissa McCarthy are being shut out by the girl of the hour and it's pretty ridiculous.