Awards
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* OSCAR coverage here
'04 FiLM BiTCH
Awards
by
Nathaniel
R
Gold,
Silver, and Bronze Medals
Honoring favorite achievements of 2004.
Contenders I only think it's fair to show what I've seen. You can't
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Traditional
Oscar categories: Majors
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Technicals
/ Technicals 2 (Tally of Noms)
Special Categories: Extras
/ Extras 2 / Scenes
1 / Scenes 2
(Tally of Noms)
Best Cinematography
the
visual storytellers are
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The
Aviator (& Kill Bill, Volume 2) Robert Richardson Gleaming, gorgeous. Perfectly attuned to it's protagonists obsessive neatness and its glamour setting. |
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BIRTH Harris Savides Savides camerwork creates a trancelike beauty. Perfect for a film with a central unbroken spell. |
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COLLATERAL Paul Cameron & Dion Beebe Beautiful interesting compositions combined with technical (digital) leap forward. |
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ETERNAL
SUNSHINE Ellen Kuras A difficult task; keep a busy frame & outlandish setpieces visually coherent and intimate. |
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HERO Christopher Doyle Colorology. Everyone knows by now that Doyle is a genius DP. So there's no need to explain. |
Finalists:
Bad
Education -Jose Luis Alcaine. Pedro always switches
DPs but he gets stellar work each time * The
Motorcycle Diaries -Eric Gautier. It's beautiful emotionally
poignant work * House
of Flying Daggers -Xiaoding Zhao.
Why are Asian films so much prettier than American
films * Spring,
Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring -Baek
Dong-Hyeon. Why are Asian films ...? Semi
Finalists: *
Closer -Stephen
Goldblatt *
Vera Drake - Dick
Pope * Young Adam -Gilles Nuttgens |
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Best
Costume Design
the
fashionistas are
Costume Design (Contemporary) on Page
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The
Aviator Sandy
Powell |
Being
Julia John Bloomfeld |
De-Lovely
Janty Yates |
House
of Flying Daggers (&
Hero) Emi Wada |
Vera
Drake Jacqueline Durran |
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glamourous old Hollywood style (plus casual wear) |
Like
The Aviator, it marvels with 30s fashions. It helps
to have a clothes-horse diva as your lead. Bonus Points: Bening hasn't looked this sensational since Bugsy. |
Broadway
theatrics, night-club sophistication, and Hollywood glamour.
Bonus Points: Those natty suits on Kline. He's never looked so "swell-egant" |
Two
eye-candy films with yummy design. Bonus Points: Monochromatic splendor without tedium or all the colors of the rainbow without muddying the color palette. |
Accurate
renditions of 50s London on a rich array of characters types Bonus Points: Superbly realized costumes define socio-economics and characters as well. |
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Lemony Snicket Colleen
Atwood -richly detailed Gothic. Atwood's been here before
but she's terrific at it * Semi Finalists:
Dogville Manon Rasmussen -Love Kidman's
rapidly disintegrating glamour * The Dreamers
-Louise Stjernsward -Helping to make
the leads 'dreamy' and invoke nostalgia for the period
* Spider-Man 2 -James Acheson -Much
improved. Spidey's costume is more finely detailed and Doctor
Octopus stepped from the comic pages without looking foolish
on film (like the first film's gawdy villian) * Bad
Education |
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Best
Editing
the
sharp cutters are
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The
Aviator Thelma Schoonmaker |
Collateral
Jim Miller & Paul Rubell |
Eternal
Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Valdis Oskarsdottir |
House
of Flying Daggers Long Cheng |
Spider-Man
2 Bob Murawski |
Muscular
and electric cutting. The running time flies. |
Builds
tension uniquely. Graceful yet dangerous. |
Tonally
complex, tricky timing/loops with nary a misstep. |
Lyrical
yet quick. Almost a musical in its set-pieces. |
Whiz
bang action and beautiful pacing and overall flow. |
Finalists:
Bad
Education -José Salcedo * Sideways
-Kevin Tent * Semi Finalists:
Hero
-Angie Lam,Vincent
Lee, and Ru Zhai * The
Bourne Supremacy Richard
Pearson & Christopher Rouse
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Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ...and Spring
-Kim Ki-Duk * Vera Drake -Jim Clark
* Dawn
of the Dead -Niven Howie * Harry
Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Steven
Weisberg * |
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Best Art Direction / Production Design
the
well apointed films are
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The
Aviator Dante Ferretti Bold interior color schemes and dazzling recreation of Old Hollywood are both eye-popping |
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Hero (& House of Flying Daggers) Tingxiao Huo From the first film's grand color palette and formalism to the second film's brothel; stunning work. |
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The
Incredibles Lou Romano Cohesive, detailed, funny, and all around brilliant in conception and execution. |
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The
Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Mark Friedberg Anderson's films can sometimes feel like an excuse for inspired production design. But what an excuse! |
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Vera
Drake Eve Stewart Production choices and set designs so rich in authenticity, you feel you're in the room with the Drakes. |
Finalists:
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring Stefan
Schönberg -that amazing floating home...and the
ever shifting seasons beautifully personified in the overall
design * Bad Education Antxon Gomez -bright
Almodovarian colors through boys schools, theaters, and cluttered
offices. Memorable. * Dogville Peter Grant
-doing much, brilliantly, with little * Semi
Finalists: The Dreamers -Jean
Rabesse -the labyrinthine apartment where our trio holes up
* The Motorcycle Diaries Carlos Vonti &
Graciela Oderigo -memorably places and moods along the journey
The Terminal -Alex McDowell -recreating, beautifully,
an 'whole' looking terminal * Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind -Dan Leigh inventive work on special
effects rigged homes, offices and all exteriors as interior.
It somehow all holds together * Lemony
Snicket -Rick Heinrichs storybook grandeur *
Spider-Man 2 -Neil Spisak -Comic
book aesthetics writ large. It's a fantasy Manhattan. |
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Race |
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Traditional
Oscar categories:
Majors
/
Technicals
/ Technicals 2 (Tally of Noms)
Special Categories: Extras
/ Extras 2 / Scenes
1 / Scenes
2 (Tally of Noms)
