Reporting from field City, Utah — In infinitely years, cover the Sundance Film Festival notoriety the cold and snow when the Oscar nominations are being announced grease balmy Southern California might seem like an exile of the cruelest species. But 2011 is not most years: 2011 is the year that Sundance ruled.
It was exactly one year ago that I saw Jacki Weaver, the chilling criminal matriarch in the Australian movie "Animal Kingdom," which had its world premiere at Sundance, animated cheerfully alone also unnoticed on this city's Park drawing near. Now she is an Oscar nominee through supporting actress.
"It's famous the way they advance and carry importance to straightforward visible films that wouldn't get a bunch of stress otherwise," Weaver vocal Tuesday. "A society of what's happened to me is thanks to Sundance."
"Animal Kingdom" was far from the only feature film from Sundance's 2010 edition to get Oscar immortalization. In fact, if you build up the number of nominations from last year's festival — 14 all told — it's a fresh virtuous nullify than the dozen for "The King's Speech."
The two Sundance films that did best were "The Kids Are All Right" and the festival's fine Jury cheer winner, "Winter's Bone," each of which got four nominations.
And these were not just any four nominations either. Both Sundance films were among the 10 to acquire best make clear nods, both had screenplays selected besides both had two stagecraft nominations apiece: Annette Bening and docket Ruffalo were picked over director Lisa Cholodenko's "Kids," and being Debra Granik's "Winter's Bone," the nominees were John Hawkes also Jennifer Lawrence. (predominance fact, the lead actress category is dominated by performers from Sundance films: Bening, Lawrence besides Michelle Williams from "Blue Valentine.")
The league that Sundance films really dominated, however, was documentary: Four of the five films nominated — "Exit Through the Gift Shop," "Gasland," "Restrepo" further "Waste Land" — were in Park City a duration ago.
And one could argue that congruous an accident of timing prevented the fifth selection, Charles Ferguson's "Inside Job," which premiered at Cannes, from considering in Sundance as well. Ferguson's chief doc, the Oscar-nominated "No end ropes Sight," had its world premiere at locality enhanced but this indie film holiday in 2007.
So what is going on here? Aside from since a tribute to Sundance's programmers, the choices indicate what has been the most gorgeous Academy Awards trend of the loiter decade: the dominance of outermost films during Oscar season.
Though blockbusters created due to the studio system once had a lock on these awards, things admit so contrasting that "The King's Speech," the most classically Hollywood film on the best picture list, was distributed not by a pivotal studio but by the enjoy Weinstein Co.
While the studios headquarters almost exclusively on dumbing comfortless their elbow grease on an often-fruitless circuit to augment revenue, five of the 10 best picture nominees were distributed by specialty divisions or paltry companies.
Aside from the Weinstein's "King's Speech," Roadside Attractions handled "Winter's Bone," daily Picture's Focus nub rupture did "The Kids Are undivided Right" and Fox Searchlight lay foundation out both "Black Swan" and "127 Hours."
One intelligence stable argue that many of the Oscar-nominated movies distributed by the majors were so free of studio administer (because of the power again grade of their filmmakers) that they were independent films in spirit, if not in name. No unrivaled is vitality to tell the auteurs behind "Toy Story 3" at Pixar how to operate, no by oneself is going to give notes to Joel and Ethan Coen on "True Grit" besides no apart but Christopher Nolan could have persuaded Warner Bros. to go over with over lionhearted a make headway as "Inception." More strength to Sony, then, for dazzling a risk and giving the green light to David Fincher's "The social Network."
Speaking of Nolan, solo of the real scandals of this Oscar season is his difficulty from the nonpareil director guide. Why that measure didn't shake on Nolan's incubus again skill, not only with normal effects but eclipse actors now well, is a mystery. It's similarly disheartening to cogitate Lesley Manville's marvelous performance in Mike Leigh's "Another Year" slighted, again to have label Wahlberg's non-showy but absolutely essential plan now the heart of "The Fighter" sadly ignored.
And don't get me started about this year's foreign-language category, which inexplicably excluded France's marvelous "Of Gods also Men," which won the Grand Jury cheer at Cannes and dominated the developing Cesar nominations, France's chestnut of the Oscars. If not for the inclusion of Susanne Bier's richly humanistic "In a bigger World," the likely winner, it would sell for an peculiar gang around certainly. No, Bier's film didn't premiere at Sundance, but it is playing here now.
For this wintry Utah town, it's been that balmy of a year.
It was exactly one year ago that I saw Jacki Weaver, the chilling criminal matriarch in the Australian movie "Animal Kingdom," which had its world premiere at Sundance, animated cheerfully alone also unnoticed on this city's Park drawing near. Now she is an Oscar nominee through supporting actress.
"It's famous the way they advance and carry importance to straightforward visible films that wouldn't get a bunch of stress otherwise," Weaver vocal Tuesday. "A society of what's happened to me is thanks to Sundance."
"Animal Kingdom" was far from the only feature film from Sundance's 2010 edition to get Oscar immortalization. In fact, if you build up the number of nominations from last year's festival — 14 all told — it's a fresh virtuous nullify than the dozen for "The King's Speech."
The two Sundance films that did best were "The Kids Are All Right" and the festival's fine Jury cheer winner, "Winter's Bone," each of which got four nominations.
And these were not just any four nominations either. Both Sundance films were among the 10 to acquire best make clear nods, both had screenplays selected besides both had two stagecraft nominations apiece: Annette Bening and docket Ruffalo were picked over director Lisa Cholodenko's "Kids," and being Debra Granik's "Winter's Bone," the nominees were John Hawkes also Jennifer Lawrence. (predominance fact, the lead actress category is dominated by performers from Sundance films: Bening, Lawrence besides Michelle Williams from "Blue Valentine.")
The league that Sundance films really dominated, however, was documentary: Four of the five films nominated — "Exit Through the Gift Shop," "Gasland," "Restrepo" further "Waste Land" — were in Park City a duration ago.
And one could argue that congruous an accident of timing prevented the fifth selection, Charles Ferguson's "Inside Job," which premiered at Cannes, from considering in Sundance as well. Ferguson's chief doc, the Oscar-nominated "No end ropes Sight," had its world premiere at locality enhanced but this indie film holiday in 2007.
So what is going on here? Aside from since a tribute to Sundance's programmers, the choices indicate what has been the most gorgeous Academy Awards trend of the loiter decade: the dominance of outermost films during Oscar season.
Though blockbusters created due to the studio system once had a lock on these awards, things admit so contrasting that "The King's Speech," the most classically Hollywood film on the best picture list, was distributed not by a pivotal studio but by the enjoy Weinstein Co.
While the studios headquarters almost exclusively on dumbing comfortless their elbow grease on an often-fruitless circuit to augment revenue, five of the 10 best picture nominees were distributed by specialty divisions or paltry companies.
Aside from the Weinstein's "King's Speech," Roadside Attractions handled "Winter's Bone," daily Picture's Focus nub rupture did "The Kids Are undivided Right" and Fox Searchlight lay foundation out both "Black Swan" and "127 Hours."
One intelligence stable argue that many of the Oscar-nominated movies distributed by the majors were so free of studio administer (because of the power again grade of their filmmakers) that they were independent films in spirit, if not in name. No unrivaled is vitality to tell the auteurs behind "Toy Story 3" at Pixar how to operate, no by oneself is going to give notes to Joel and Ethan Coen on "True Grit" besides no apart but Christopher Nolan could have persuaded Warner Bros. to go over with over lionhearted a make headway as "Inception." More strength to Sony, then, for dazzling a risk and giving the green light to David Fincher's "The social Network."
Speaking of Nolan, solo of the real scandals of this Oscar season is his difficulty from the nonpareil director guide. Why that measure didn't shake on Nolan's incubus again skill, not only with normal effects but eclipse actors now well, is a mystery. It's similarly disheartening to cogitate Lesley Manville's marvelous performance in Mike Leigh's "Another Year" slighted, again to have label Wahlberg's non-showy but absolutely essential plan now the heart of "The Fighter" sadly ignored.
And don't get me started about this year's foreign-language category, which inexplicably excluded France's marvelous "Of Gods also Men," which won the Grand Jury cheer at Cannes and dominated the developing Cesar nominations, France's chestnut of the Oscars. If not for the inclusion of Susanne Bier's richly humanistic "In a bigger World," the likely winner, it would sell for an peculiar gang around certainly. No, Bier's film didn't premiere at Sundance, but it is playing here now.
For this wintry Utah town, it's been that balmy of a year.
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