The Fortnightly Flag
#15 Extra
23.01.2018
OSCAR NOMINATIONS
The 90th Oscar Nominations were announced today ready for the presentation of the Academy Awards on Sunday 4th March which will be hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.
This year the Academy was allowed to nominate up to ten films and have nominated nine giving a much wider range of genres than in previous years.
Best films: 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 Director: Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk): Jordan Peele (Get Out); Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird); Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread); Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water)
Leading Actress: Sally Hawkins, Frances McDormand; Margot Robbie; Saoirse Ronan; Meryl Streep
Leading Actor: Timothee Chalamet; Daniel Day-Lewis; Daniel Kaluuya; Gary Oldman; Denzel Washington
Original Screenplay: The Big Sick(Emily V Gordon & Kumail Nanjani); Get Out (Jordan Peele); Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig); The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro & Vanessa Taylor - story by Guillermo del Toro); Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh)
Adapted Screenplay: Call me by your name (James Ivory); The Disaster Artist (Scott Neustadter & Michael H Weber); Logan (Scott Frank, James Mangold and Michael Green - story by James Mangold); Molly's Game (Aaron Sorkin); Mudbound(Virgil Williams and Dee Rees)
Best animated feature: The Boss Baby; The Breadwinner; Coco; Ferdinand; Loving Vincent
Original Song: Mighty River; Mystery of Love; Remember me; Stand up for something; This is me
Best documentary feature: Abacus; Faces and Places; Icarus; Last men in Aleppo; Strong Island
Best documentary short: Edith-Eddie;Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405; Heroin(e); Knife Skills; Traffic Stop
Best foreign language film : A fantastic woman(Chile); The Insult (Lebanon); Loveless (Russia); On body and soul (Hungary); The Square (Sweden)
Best Supporting Actor: Willem Dafoe; Woody Harrelson; Richard Jenkins; Christopher Plummer; Sam Rockwell
Best Supporting Actress: Mary J Blige; Allison Janney; Lesley Manville; Laurie Metcalf; Octavia Spencer
Make-up and Hairstyling: Darkest Hour; Victoria and Abdul; Wonder
Film-Editing: Baby Driver; Dunkirk; I, Tonya; The Shape of Water; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Visual Effect: Blade Runner 2049; Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2; Kong: Skull Island; Star Wars: The Last Jedi; War for the Planet of the Apes
Original Score: Dunkirk ; Phantom Thread; The Shape of Water; Star wars: The Last Jedi; Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Live Action Short Film: Diklab Elementary; The 11 o'clock; My nephew Emmet; The Silent Child; WATU/WATE All of us
Best Animation Short Film: Dear Basketball; Garden Party; Lou; Negative Space; Revolting Rhymes
Sound Mixing: Blade Runner 2049; Baby Driver; Dunkirk; The Shape of Water; Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Sound Editing: Baby Driver; Blade Runner 2049; Dunkirk; The Shape of Water; Star Wars:The Last Jedi
Costume Design: Beauty and the Beast; Darkest Hour; Phantom Thread; The Shape of Water; Victoria and Abdul
Cinematography: Blade Runner 2049; Darkest Hour; Dunkirk; Mudbound; The Shape of Water
Production Design: Beauty and the Beast; Blade Runner 2049; Darkest Hour; Dunkirk; The Shape of Water
Tuesday 23 January 2018
Monday 22 January 2018
BAFTA 2018 Nominations
The Fortnightly Flag
Issue #15
23 January 2018
This is the backdrop to the film Darkest Hour because it's
that time of year again when the principal awards in literature, film and television are dished out. The BAFTA Film Awards have a new host in Joanna Lumley and will be held at London's Royal Albert Hall on 18 February.
The nominations and awards in January are seen as pointers to the Oscars so the results are hot gossip. Gary Oldman is tipped to win for his performance as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour and he was voted best actor in the Screen Actors Guild awards last Sunday but it is by no means a one horse race.
The front runner is Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri which has picked up eight BAFTA nominations for Best Film, Outstanding British Film, Director, Leading Actress, Supporting Actor, Original Screenplay, Cinematography and Editing. In the Screen Actors Guild Awards presented last Sunday, 21st, the film, a black comedy about a small town murder, picked up the prestigious award for Outstanding Cast in a Film as well as acting honours for Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell.
Hot on its heels comes Blade Runner 2049 also with eight nominations from BAFTA for Director, Original Music, Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Make Up and Hair, Sound and Special Visual Effects.
They should win a slew of awards between them.
Get Out has three nominations. Daniel Kaluuya bagged two of them both as Leading Actor and EE Rising Star so must have a good chance of one of them and Jordan Peele, the writer, is up for Original Screenplay. (Writers are shamelessly under-mentioned).
Also with three nominations is the charming Paddington 2 as Outstanding British Film, Supporting Actor (Hugh Grant) and Adapted Screenplay.
Trailing with two nominations apiece come Star Wars: The Last Jedi for Special Visual Effects and Sound and Beauty and the Beast for its lovely costumes and production design.
So, good luck to everybody and congratulations to those who have already won.
Issue #15
23 January 2018
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| St Brides Church in Fleet Street during the Blitz |
that time of year again when the principal awards in literature, film and television are dished out. The BAFTA Film Awards have a new host in Joanna Lumley and will be held at London's Royal Albert Hall on 18 February.
The nominations and awards in January are seen as pointers to the Oscars so the results are hot gossip. Gary Oldman is tipped to win for his performance as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour and he was voted best actor in the Screen Actors Guild awards last Sunday but it is by no means a one horse race.
The front runner is Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri which has picked up eight BAFTA nominations for Best Film, Outstanding British Film, Director, Leading Actress, Supporting Actor, Original Screenplay, Cinematography and Editing. In the Screen Actors Guild Awards presented last Sunday, 21st, the film, a black comedy about a small town murder, picked up the prestigious award for Outstanding Cast in a Film as well as acting honours for Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell.
Hot on its heels comes Blade Runner 2049 also with eight nominations from BAFTA for Director, Original Music, Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Make Up and Hair, Sound and Special Visual Effects.
They should win a slew of awards between them.
Get Out has three nominations. Daniel Kaluuya bagged two of them both as Leading Actor and EE Rising Star so must have a good chance of one of them and Jordan Peele, the writer, is up for Original Screenplay. (Writers are shamelessly under-mentioned).
Also with three nominations is the charming Paddington 2 as Outstanding British Film, Supporting Actor (Hugh Grant) and Adapted Screenplay.
Trailing with two nominations apiece come Star Wars: The Last Jedi for Special Visual Effects and Sound and Beauty and the Beast for its lovely costumes and production design.
So, good luck to everybody and congratulations to those who have already won.
Tuesday 9 January 2018
The Fortnightly Flag - Costa Book Awards
The Fortnightly Flag
9th January 2018
Happy New Year
COSTA BOOK AWARDS
The first big literary event in London in 2018 will be the Costa Book of the Year Award. Tuesday 30th January is earmarked for the evening on which the Book of the Year will be unveiled. This is one of the UK's biggest book prizes.
The category winners have already been announced and the Book of the Year winner will be one of these.
Poetry - Helen Dunmore Inside the Wave (Bloodaxe Books) -
Helen passed away last year so this will be a posthumous award for her final poetry collection.
Novel - Jon McGregor. Reservoir 13 (Fourth Estate)
Now I have read this one and can thoroughly recommend it. Although I am not a fan of first person narratives in this case it is entirely justified as Eleanor gradually reveals not only her present loneliness but also her troubled past chapter by chapter. She is by turns vulnerable, difficult and infuriating while her observations on modern city life - Eleanor doesn't know how to be tactful - will make you laugh. At the same time, as we gradually learn why she is the way she is - the whole truth is not revealed until the very end - we admire her enormous strength of character and I defy anyone not to be rooting for her at the end. It's a remarkable book and I loved it.
I have also bought Helen Dunmore's book and Jon McGregor's but not had time to read them yet as I have to get on with a bit of writing of my own.
Biography - Rebecca Stott. In the days of Rain
Children's - Katherine Rundell. The Explorer.
Best of luck to all.
9th January 2018
Happy New Year
COSTA BOOK AWARDS
The first big literary event in London in 2018 will be the Costa Book of the Year Award. Tuesday 30th January is earmarked for the evening on which the Book of the Year will be unveiled. This is one of the UK's biggest book prizes.
The category winners have already been announced and the Book of the Year winner will be one of these.
Poetry - Helen Dunmore Inside the Wave (Bloodaxe Books) -
Helen passed away last year so this will be a posthumous award for her final poetry collection.
Novel - Jon McGregor. Reservoir 13 (Fourth Estate)
First Novel - Gail Honeyman. Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine
I have also bought Helen Dunmore's book and Jon McGregor's but not had time to read them yet as I have to get on with a bit of writing of my own.
Biography - Rebecca Stott. In the days of Rain
Children's - Katherine Rundell. The Explorer.
Best of luck to all.
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