'Social Network' and 'Scott Pilgrim' Top 2010 Satellite Awards
Outside of 'Pilgrim' and the Actress race this is the same old story
This evening the International Press Academy announced the winners of the 15th Satellite Awards and The Social Network took home six wins including Best Picture (Drama), Director (David Fincher) and Adapted Screenplay (Aaron Sorkin). Additionally, Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World took home the award for Best Picture (Comedy or Musical) and star Michael Cera won for Best Actor (Comedy or Musical), which makes for two awards giving the awards circuit a bit of a different flavor.
Anne Hathaway taking Best Actress in Comedy/Musical is a bit of a surprise over the ladies of The Kids are All Right and Noomi Rapace besting Natalie Portman, Jennifer Lawrence and Nicole Kidman in the Drama category is also a shift from the norm. It's almost as if they couldn't decide on any of the better performances and settled with the lesser ones. Rapace's performance, especially, is by no means Best Actress material. Her character stands around and glares for most of the Dragon Tattoo franchise. How that's award worthy is beyond me.
Please Give winning Editing isn't as much as a surprise as it may seem if you have seen the movie, but considering it was up against Inception and other faster paced features I'm sure it will surprise most. Other than that, same old story.
Inception led the list of nominees with eleven nominations and came away with three technical awards for Cinematography, Score and Art Direction and Production Design.
Tomorrow the Chicago Film Critics will be weighing in with their 2010 winners and that will be just about it for the award notifications until January 15, 2011 when the Broadcast Film Critics Association hold their Critics Choice Awards kicking off the start of the major award season kudos. The following day the Golden Globes will be held and from then on out it will be consistent updates until the Oscars at the end of February.
You can check the complete award schedule in my "Oscar Overture" section where I've already added posters for The Social Network and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World for a complete snapshot of what's to come and what has already passed.
Other than that, directly below is the complete list of Satellite Award winners.
Motion Picture (Drama)
- The Social Network
Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical)
- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Director
- David Fincher (The Social Network)
Original Screenplay
- David Seidler (The King's Speech)
Adapted Screenplay
- Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network)
Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama)
- Noomi Rapace (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
Actor in a Motion Picture (Drama)
- Colin Firth (The King's Speech)
Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical)
- Anne Hathaway (Love and Other Drugs)
Actor in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical)
- Michael Cera (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World)
Actress in a Supporting Role
- Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom)
Actor in a Supporting Role
- Christian Bale (The Fighter)
Foreign Language Film
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Sweden)
Best Animated or Mixed Media
- Toy Story 3
Best Documentary
- Restrepo
Cinematography
- Wally Pfister (Inception)
Film Editing
- Robert Frazen (Please Give)
Original Score
- Hans Zimmer (Inception)
Art Direction & Production Design
- Guy Hendrix Dyas, Luke Freeborn, Brad Ricker and Dean Wolcott (Inception)
Costume Design
- Colleen Atwood (Alice in Wonderland)
Original Song
- "You Haven't Seen the Last of Me" Cher, Diane Warren (Burlesque)
Sound (Editing and Mixing)
- Mark P. Stoekinger, Kevin O'Connell, Beau Borders and William B. Kaplan (Unstoppable)
Visual Effects
- Ken Ralston, Dave Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips (Alice in Wonderland)
Links from Other Sites You May Like
Showing 21 Comments
~ PLEASE NOTE ~
If, in any way, your comment is an attack on the author of this post or a previous commenter, your comment will be deleted without question.
Add a New Comment |
Click to Read Our Commenting Rules & Guidelines
By no means is this a same old list. Anne Hathaway? Please Give for editing? Unstoppable for sound?
Yeah, hit publish a bit too quickly. Updated the article a bit, but I don't think Unstoppable is a surprise by any means and Please Give isn't too surprising either although I can see where it can catch you off guard.
I loved Please Give. I don't know why you didn't review it.
black swan and natalie portman deserve it all!!!
And Social Network takes the crown. Could this be a Slumdog like sweep. I know that's one of the most overrated best picture winners because it beat Dark Knight at everything. But it could happen.
The most overrated best picture win was The Hurt Locker.
Really? How was that? Overrated? Hardly anyone saw that nicley non-political and exceptionally gritty piece of soldier POV to have much of any say on it what so ever to make it overrated at the time of it's release. What is it that bothers people about the movie. Lack of realism? Pfft, I've seen it with dozens of of friends who served in infantry in both the army and the marine corps, overseas and have said that it is one of the more accurate portrayals of the Iraq conflict thus far. While a character like the Renner character may not have been tolerated in every unit, it doesn't mean that someone like him does not exitst within the armed forces. The scene when he returns home has resonated with virutally every service member I know who has seen it.
Why is it overrated? It didn't have a conventional villain to follow aongside the antagonist. If you think a film needs one, then you really need to reconsider what makes a great film. A relativley unsympathetic lead? Not liberal enough? Not conservative enough? Please, tell me.
For me the film goes nowhere and is mostly devoid of the tension for which it has been given so much credit. There are no characters with any real depth beyond the lead, and we know the lead isn't going to die in the first or second act, so after the first defusing scene the movie quickly becomes repetitive. He's an adrenaline junkie that defuses bombs… That's where things start and end. It's a character sketch stretched out for full film length. A nice showcase for an actor, but not very satisfying as a full narrative.
No tension? Please, every scene had enormnous tension during it. The death of the first eod defuser, the scene we're introduced to Renner's characters style of defusing bombs, while being uncertain as to who or what is more dangerous, the explosive or the guy disarming it. The scene where he has to remove explosives from the body of a boy who he thinks he knows.
As for lack of depth, between a scared soldier to a conflicted commanding officer and then a complex protagonist who is the embodiement of the films thesis, I think that there's plenty of depth, dimension and structure to those characters.
As for it starting and ending in that world of comabt addiction, where else would you have liked it to go? By the very end it's obvious that the lead can't go back home, war is the only place he knows, and the only thing he can do. Which is why the film is so focused on that principal.
Better Slumdog Millionaire over The Dark Knight than The Curious Case of Benjamin Button over it. And seriously, if Slumdog Millionaire wasn't going to win, either WALL-E or Frost/Nixon should have.
Critising The Hurt Locker for lacking tension is like criticising Avatar for bad CGI.
Of course taste in films are subjective but saying The Hurt Locker lacked tension is ridiculous!!!
"[Rapace's] character stands around and glares for most of the Dragon Tattoo franchise. How that's award worthy is beyond me."
Brad, usually I see where you're coming from, but I think you're being totally unreasonable here. Noomi Rapace gives a tour-de-force performance in Girl Who Played with Fire and Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. Sure, there were better female performances this year (Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Natalie Portman), but Rapace didn't just "stand around and glare."
I agree. I wasn't as keen of her performances in Played with Fire and Hornet's Nest, but I thought her performance in Dragon Tattoo was exceptional.
I don't feel very good about this list of winners.
Really? Michael Cera? Really?
Do awards like "Best Sound Editing" or "Best Sounds Mixing" always just go to the best reviewed action film of the year? Or is there more to it than that?
Those categories always confuse me. Personally I thought the sound editing and design in The Social Network was one of the best aspects of that film, but I have a hard time believing it will be recognized.
Thank you Brad! Someone agrees with me about the sound work of The Social Network.
Natalie should win. She truly gave the best performance and she transformed herself. She is the definition of perfection. She needs to win the Oscar.
nice to see GOOD comedy/musical's getting the recognition. maybe this will give it some oscar buzz? probably not. but im happy to see scott pilgrim and the kids are alright getting their due.
especially after the 500 days of summer snub last year. still not over that.