Should We Just Give the Oscar to Spielberg's 'Lincoln' Now?
It may have taken a long time for Steven Spielberg to finally begin work on his biopic of the 16th President of the United States, but in a pres release just sent out it would appear Lincoln is full steam ahead and it has landed a whopper of a cast.
Previously it was announced Daniel Day-Lewis would play Abraham Lincoln and Sally Field would play his wife Mary Todd, in the film based on "Team of Rivals" by Doris Kearns with a screenplay adapted by Pulitzer Prize-winner Tony Kushner ("Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes"). The story will focus on the political collision of Lincoln and the powerful men of his cabinet on the road to abolition and the end of the Civil War. And today the cast really filled out in a big way.
Joining Day-Lewis and Field you can add the likes of Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus Stevens, a Republican leader and congressman from Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Robert Todd Lincoln, eldest son of President Lincoln and the only one to live past his teenage years.
Add to that Hal Holbrook, James Spader, John Hawkes, Tim Blake Nelson, Bruce McGill, Joseph Cross, David Costabile, Byron Jennings, Dakin Matthews, Boris McGiver, Gloria Reuben, Jeremy Strong, and David Warshofsky all of which will make up as yet, unannounced supporting roles in the feature.
Filming is expected to begin in the fall of 2011 for release in the fourth quarter of 2012 through Disney's Touchstone distribution label and based on the names alone I think we can safely assume there will be a big Oscar push for this one. Don't you?
Spielberg has been particularly busy as of late as he will have two films hitting theaters this December with War Horse and The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn.
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So that will be Oscar number three for both Day-Lewis and Spielberg then?
This strikes me similar to the acting power that drove Amistad for Spielburg, but for reasons I can't fully explain, that movie was snubbed in many categories in the Oscars. So as excited as I am for this movie, I have a bit of skepticism that the movie will overwhelm the voters, especially when Munich was skipped over by what I consider to be inferior films, Brokeback Mountain and Crash. That being said, I believe this will be a better movie than Amistad, but I think that in retrospect, the staying power of Amistad is not indicative of how good of a movie it is.
going to be epic, and an epic fight at the oscars in 2012
The cast and source material is so good only Spielberg can ruin the movie, and I like Spielberg.
Thank god there's no chance of that happening.
All the elements are in place. Major, major potential. I'm just so thrilled about this movie, and I've been waiting and waiting for it.
Is it too early to guarantee an Oscar nomination for Janusz Kaminski?
Yeah, this is pretty much the Oscar frontrunner for 2012 (assuming it comes out that year). I'm really excited, even though I haven't liked a Spielberg film since "Catch Me If You Can."
Can't wait for Tintin!
Hurray for James Spader! i have been missing seeing him on anything since Boston Legal!
Random Batman connection – Old Two Face and John Blake together on screen.
Oscar #3 not just for Day Lewis and Spielberg…also for Sally Field. :-)
There's clearly going to be a huge Oscar push when this rolls around but Spielberg can be hit and miss when it comes to baiting the Academy ('The Colour Purple' anyone?) so intentionally there's no slam dunk to be had here……………yet.
And IF War Horse becomes a contender for the next Oscars, that could also affect his chances with Lincoln the year after.
IF War Horse becomes a contender this year.
Which just goes to show how ridiculous and meaningless the oscars are.
Well, this film definitely looks like a contender; however, so did Munich back in 2005. That film was nominated for 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Director and a slew of others – the end result at the Oscars? It went 0-10
So while I fully expect this film to be nominated for numerous awards – let's not count our chickens before they hatch.
Thems the facts
So basically 2012 will be an all-out battle between Blood Meridian, Lincoln, The Dark Knight Rises, and Django Unchained? See you then
Munich only nominated for 5 oscars
Yeah and got shut out. Many rekon that Ang Lee screwed Steven Spielberg that year.