Sunday 16 December 2012

HOUSTON FILM CRITICS SOCIETY NOMINATIONS



Best Picture
·          Argo
·          Beasts of the Southern Wild
·          Cloud Atlas
·          Django Unchained
·          Lincoln
·          The Master
·          Les Misérables
·          Moonrise Kingdom
·          Silver Linings Playbook
·          Zero Dark Thirty
Best Director
·          Ben Affleck (Argo)
·          Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty)
·          Tom Hooper (Les Misérables)
·          Steven Spielberg (Lincoln)
·          Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)
Best Actor
·          Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)
·          John Hawkes (The Sessions)
·          Hugh Jackman (Les Misérables)
·          Joaquin Phoenix (The Master)
·          Denzel Washington (Flight)
Best Actress
·          Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)
·          Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook)
·          Emmanuelle Riva (Amour)
·          Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
·          Naomi Watts (The Impossible)
Best Supporting Actor
·          Alan Arkin (Argo)
·          Javier Bardem (Skyfall)
·          Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master)
·          Tommy Lee Jones (Lincoln)
·          Matthew McConaughey (Magic Mike)
Best Supporting Actress
·          Amy Adams (The Master)
·          Judi Dench (Skyfall)
·          Sally Field (Lincoln)
·          Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables)
·          Helen Hunt (The Sessions)
Best Screenplay
·          Mark Boal (Zero Dark Thirty)
·          Rian Johnson (Looper)
·          Tony Kushner (Lincoln)
·          David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook)
·          Chris Terrio (Argo)

Best Cinematography
·          Danny Cohen (Les Misérables)
·          Roger Deakins (Skyfall)
·          Janusz Kaminski (Lincoln)
·          Mihai Malaimare Jr. (The Master)
·          Claudio Miranda (Life of Pi)
Best Original Score
·          Mychael Danna (Life of Pi)
·          Danny Elfman (Hitchcock)
·          Jonny Greenwood (The Master)
·          Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek and Tom Tykwer (Cloud Atlas)
·          Thomas Newman (Skyfall)
·          Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
·          John Williams (Lincoln)
Best Original Song
·          Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth – ‘Skyfall’ (Skyfall)
·          Mark Andrews and Alex Mandel – ‘Touch the Sky’ (Brave)
·          Alain Boublil, Herbert Kretzmer and Claude-Michael Schönberg – ‘Suddenly’ (Les Misérables)
·          Ted Dwane, Ben Lovett, Winston Marshall, Marcus Mumford and Jasmine van den Bogaerde – ‘Learn Me Right’ (Brave)
·          Neil Finn – ‘Song of the Lonely Mountain’ (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey)
Best Animated Film
·          Brave
·          Frankenweenie
·          ParaNorman
·          Rise of the Guardians
·          Wreck-It Ralph
Best Documentary
·          Bully
·          The Central Park Five
·          The House I Live In
·          The Imposter
·          The Queen of Versailles
·          Searching for Sugar Man
Best Foreign Language Film
·          Amour
·          Holy Motors
·          The Intouchables
·          A Royal Affair
·          Rust and Bone
Texas Independent Film Award
·          Bernie
·          Incendiary: The Willingham Case
·          Kid-Thing
·          Sushi: The Global Catch
·          Trash Dance
Technical Achievement
·          Cloud Atlas
·          The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
·          Life of Pi
Worst Film
·          Anna Karenina
·          Battleship
·          Prometheus
·          That’s My Boy
·          The Three Stooges

How silly to have a Worst Film category. Are these awards intended to promote and reward deserving works of art, or are they intended to satisfy the HFCS alone and boost their self-importance? Silly choices in that category, too. Elsewhere, little that's especially remarkable: Life of Pi shut out of the major categories, and Cloud Atlas in for Best Picture. And, of course, because the HFCS represents the very zenith of critical opinion in the US, they're gonna make us sweat - winners will be announced on the 5th of January! 20 sleeps to go!

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