WITNESS MAD MAX BEING NAMED 2015’s BEST FILM
Genre movies historically have a hard time getting recognition when award season rolls around. One might expect that an action movie with a flaming guitar in it might have an even harder time getting that recognition that most, but that isn’t true in the case of the National Board of Review, which named Mad Max: Fury Road as the best film of 2015, beating out the likes of Spotlight, Carol and Brooklyn. It’s gratifying to see Fury Road get this kind of recognition, but as far as anyone thinking this could lead to a Best Picture nod for the film at the Oscars, do not, my friends, become addicted to awards. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence.
Also worth noting is Sylvester Stallone being named Best Supporting Actor in Creed for his seventh go-around with the character, and Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight picking up awards despite not even being fully released yet. Here’s a full list of the winners:
Best Film: Mad Max: Fury Road
Best Director: Ridley Scott, The Martian
Best Actor: Matt Damon, The Martian
Best Actress: Brie Larson, Room
Best Supporting Actor: Sylvester Stallone, Creed
Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hateful Eight
Best Original Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino, The Hateful Eight
Best Adapted Screenplay: Drew Goddard, The Martian
Best Animated Feature: Inside Out
Breakthrough Performance: Abraham Attah, “Beasts of No Nation” and Jacob Tremblay, Room
Best Directorial Debut: Jonas Carpignano, Mediterranea
Best Foreign Language Film: Son of Saul
Best Documentary: Amy
William K. Everson Film History Award: Cecilia De Mille Presley
Best Ensemble: The Big Short
Spotlight Award: Sicario for outstanding collaborative vision
NBR Freedom of Expression Award: Beasts of No Nation and Mustang
FOX REBUKE UNBEARABLY STUPID RUMOUR
In absolutely stupid news, Fox have had to clarify that there are no scenes in the upcoming Alejandro González Iñárritu film The Revenant wherein Leonardo DiCaprio gets sexually assaulted by a bear. Yes, this was a thing that somebody had to clarify.
With images of Leo being attacked by a bear clearly seen in trailers, it’s obvious that bears are not going to be cuddly and friendly characters in The Revenant (didn’t you ever see Grizzly Man? Bears are not your friends!). But rumour mongering started spinning yesterday from the appropriately titled Drudge Report, which claimed that the film “features a shocking scene of a wild bear raping Leo DiCaprio!” We know that DiCaprio would do anything for an Oscar, but he wouldn’t do that, apparently. As a Fox representative wants to make clear, “There is clearly no rape scene with a bear”. So uh, you know. Good.