Thursday, March 28, 2024

National Board of Review, er, Fans Names “The Post” Best Film, Gives Every Movie Something to Ensure Dinner Tables Are Paid For

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The absolutely ridiculous National Board of Review just announced its awards for this year. They gave every movie and every studio something to ensure their dinner tables are paid for (it’s thousands of dollars).

“The Post” won Best Picture, Actor, and Actress– Spielberg, Hanks and Streep means 20th Century Fox will have to go all out. These are also the biggest stars Annie Schulhof could think of.

But…

She gave Angelina Jolie their let’s get another celeb in here Freedom of Expression Award for “First They Killed My Father” because you’ve got to have Angie and some of her kids.

“Get Out” won Best Ensemble, Best Breakthrough Director which is great because the NBR traditionally ignores black people.

With the retirement of Warner Bros’ Dan Fellman, Schulhof breaks from her usual WB slavishness. There’a  nod to “Dunkirk” and a nod to “Wonder Woman” but it’s a sop. Schulhof has moved on to Universal (Get Out) and Fox (The Post) to butter her bread.

NBR is a group of layabouts who pay top dollar to belong to the group and more to attend the dinner. There are no film people, but some dentists and so on. Also, this year, they’ve made their dinner for Tuesday, January 9th in New York– two days after the Golden Globes in LA. and two days before the televised Critics Choice Awards in LA. This means huge travel expenses for the studios and a lot of exhaustion. Since the NBR is unimportant and not televised, these winners would do well to Skype in their speeches from the West Coast.

BEST FILM

The Post, directed by Steven Spielberg

BEST DIRECTOR
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird

BEST CAST ENSEMBLE
Get Out

BEST ACTOR

Tom Hanks

BEST ACTRESS

Meryl Streep

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Coco (Disney/Pixar)

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE MALE
Timothée Chalamet,  Call Me By Your Name

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE FEMALE

They skipped this, don’t know why since there were plenty of choices.

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Phantom Thread

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

The Disaster Artist

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Foxtrot (Sony Classics, Israel)

SPOTLIGHT AWARD
Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins and actress Gal Gadot

BEST DOCUMENTARY

Jane

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION (tie)
John Ridley’s Let it Fall: Los Angeles, 1982-1992
Angelina Jolie’s First They Killed My Father

 

TOP TEN FILMS

BABY DRIVER, CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, THE DISASTER ARTIST, DOWNSIZING, DUNKIRK, THE FLORIDA PROJECT, GET OUT, LADY BIRD, LOGAN, PHANTOM THREAD

BEST INDEPENDENT FILMS

BEATRIZ AT DINNER
BRIGSBY BEAR
A GHOST STORY
LADY MACBETH
LOGAN LUCKY
LOVING VINCENT
MENASHE,
NORMAN: THE MODERATE RISE AND TRAGIC FALL OF A NEW YORK FIXER,
PATTI CAKE$
WIND RIVER

Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column. His movie reviews are carried by Rotten Tomatoes, and he is a member of both the movie and TV branches of the Critics Choice Awards. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. He is also the writer and co-producer of "Only the Strong Survive," a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals, directed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.
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