Saturday
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First Poster: The Danish Girl
Saturday, August 1, 2015 at 2:40PM [UPDATE: We have been asked to remove the posters]
I currently have the film predicted in all five top categories (Picture, Director, Screenplay, Actor, Actress) as well as three more craft categories. Is this putting too much faith in it, too little or just right? How bullish are you feeling about this one? It's certainly timely in the year of Caitlin's coming out party.
Can Eddie Redmayne can be the first actor to pull off consecutive wins since Tom Hanks 21 years ago?
Reader Comments (13)
Gorgeous specially the first poster. Love the old timey photo look. I wasn't anticipating this movie with any urgency but this is a game changer.
Do we know if Vikander will be campaigned lead or supporting?
I'm having an Amber Waves moment while looking at these posters ("Too many things. Too many things."). The posters look gorgeously art directed, but every reference to "the director of The King's Speech and Les Misérables" (give or take an "Academy Award-winning" tag) just makes me cringe; (a) because those films aren't the masterpieces the posters imply, and (b) because Tom Hooper has the Oscar that should've gone to David Fincher.
I'm also kind of vindictively begrudging this movie's existence without Nicole Kidman in the leas role, since she so valiantly and doggedly tried to shepherd it to the screen FOR YEARS. Nicole Kidman > Eddie Redmayne (no offense to Redmayne). As a fellow Swede, yay for Alicia Vikander though!
Also, if Redmayne wins AGAIN next year, that will make me so-o-o sad all over for Michael Keaton, who was phenomenal in Birdman in a *very* tricky role. He should've won in a cake walk in my opinion. (P.S. How amazing would it be if Redmayne *and* Julianne Moore [Freeheld] won consecutive Oscars? It would blow my mind.)
summer: If I WERE predicting this in the top 5, that tagline alone would make me push it down to the eleven to fifteen area. It's just so tone-deaf.
Mareko: The main tagline makes me gag, though. Don't draw attention to "being yourself" in a movie nakedly designed to engender awards buzz and attention to the actor's skill. I get that, because of that, a trans related movie is really hard to write a tag for, but either DON'T use a tagline or come up with one that's not nakedly contradicted by the purpose of the movie.
I'm curious about Matthias Shoenaerts. Any idea who he's playing in this?
It would be a shame if Redmaybe won again cos Keaton should have last year.
Ooh! Redmayne looks really good as does Vikander. Very much looking foward to this one.
It looks a lesbian romance
Vikander should be campaigned in supporting
Jaragon... do you *know* what it's about?
Oh look, close-ups again.
(This joke is bought to you by the fact that I forgot Tom Hooper was the director of Les Miz.)
Hooper is a believer in Norma D!
So what did they look like?
I just watched the advance screening of the film The second mother( Brazil) and it blows me away. i believe this movie will be on the top list of Best Foreign Films 2015.