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Awards Mania: Spirits, SAGs Get Waivers, Announce Nominations; Uncertainty Surrounds Golden Globes
So many statuettes, so little time.
by Jeff Giles | December 21, 2007
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Just when you think awards season can't get any awards-ier, here come two more sets of nominations!

First up, we have Film Independent's Spirit Awards, which have earned the distinction of being granted a strike waiver from the Writers Guild of America. Rainn Wilson -- otherwise known as Dwight Schrute on NBC's The Office -- will host and help write the ceremony, which airs on IFC February 23. As The Hollywood Reporter notes, this "raises the possibility that the informal Spirit ceremony, which takes place in a tent on the beach in Santa Monica, could upstage the 80th annual Academy Awards." A partial list of the Spirit nominees follows, with Tomatometers in parentheses:

Best Feature:
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (95 percent)
I'm Not There (81 percent)
Juno (94 percent)
A Mighty Heart (77 percent)
Paranoid Park (62 percent)

Best Director:
Todd Haynes, I'm Not There (81 percent)
Tamara Jenkins, The Savages (89 percent)
Jason Reitman, Juno
Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Gus Van Sant, Paranoid Park

Best Screenplay:
Ronald Harwood, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Tamara Jenkins, The Savages
Fred Parnes & Andrew Wagner, Starting Out in the Evening (82 percent)
Adrienne Shelly, Waitress (89 percent)
Mike White, Year of the Dog (70 percent)

Best Female Lead:
Angelina Jolie, A Mighty Heart
Sienna Miller, Interview (57 percent)
Ellen Page, Juno
Parker Posey, Broken English (63 percent)
Wei Tang, Lust, Caution (64 percent)

Best Supporting Female:
Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There
Anna Kendrick, Rocket Science (85 percent)
Jennifer Jason Leigh, Margot at the Wedding (56 percent)
Tamara Podemski, Four Sheets to the Wind (100 percent)
Marisa Tomei, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (88 percent)

Best Male Lead:
Pedro Castaneda, August Evening
Don Cheadle, Talk to Me (81 percent)
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Savages
Tony Leung, Lust, Caution
Frank Langella, Starting Out in the Evening

Best Supporting Male:
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Talk to Me
Marcus Carl Franklin, I'm Not There
Kene Holliday, Great World of Sound (86 percent)
Irrfan Khan, The Namesake (85 percent)
Steve Zahn, Rescue Dawn (91 percent)

Best Cinematography:
Mott Hupfel, The Savages
Janusz Kaminski, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Milton Kam, Vanaja (81 percent)
Mihai Malaimare, Jr., Youth Without Youth (33 percent)
Rodrigo Prieto, Lust, Caution

Best Documentary:
Crazy Love (78 percent)
Lake of Fire (94 percent)
Manufactured Landscapes (83 percent)
The Monastery
The Prisoner Or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair (86 percent)

Best Foreign Film:
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (93 percent)
The Band's Visit (100 percent)
Lady Chatterly (74 percent)
Once (98 percent)
Persepolis (97 percent)

Meanwhile, the nominees for the 14th annual SAG Awards -- also granted a WGA waiver for its ceremony, set to take place January 27 at the Shrine Expo in Los Angeles -- have been announced. Film nominees follow below, with Tomatometers in parentheses:

Male Actor in a Leading Role:
George Clooney, Michael Clayton (90 percent)
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood (93 percent)
Ryan Gosling, Lars and the Real Girl (78 percent)
Emile Hirsch, Into The Wild (82 percent)
Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises (88 percent)

Female Actor in a Leading Role:
Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth: The Golden Age (34 percent)
Julie Christie, Away From Her (94 percent)
Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose (74 percent)
Angelina Jolie, A Mighty Heart
Ellen Page, Juno

Male Actor in a Supporting Role:
Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (75 percent)
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men (95 percent)
Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild
Tommy Lee Jones, No Country for Old Men
Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton

Female Actor in a Supprting Role:
Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There
Ruby Dee, American Gangster (79 percent)
Catherine Keener, Into the Wild
Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone (93 percent)
Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton

Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture:
3:10 to Yuma (87 percent): Christian Bale, Russell Crowe, Peter Fonda, Gretchen Mol, Dallas Roberts, Vinessa Shaw, Ben Foster, Alan Tudyk, Logan Lerman

American Gangster: Armand Assante, Josh Brolin, Russell Crowe, Ruby Dee, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Idris Elba, Cuba Gooding Jr., Carla Gugino, John Hawkes, Ted Levine, Joe Morton, Lymari Nadal, John Ortiz, RZA, Yul Vasquez, Denzel Washington

Hairspray (92 percent): Nikki Blonsky, Amanda Bynes, Paul Dooley, Zac Efron, Allison Janney, Elijah Kelley, James Marsden, Michelle Pfeiffer, Queen Latifah, Brittany Snow, Jerry Stiller, John Travolta, Christopher Walken

Into the Wild: Brian Dierker, Marcia Gay Harden, Emile Hirsch, Hal Holbrook, William Hurt, Catherine Keener, Jena Malone, Kristen Stewart, Vince Vaughn

No Country for Old Men: Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Garrett Dillahunt, Tess Harper, Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Kelly MacDonald

Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture:
300 (60 percent)
The Bourne Ultimatum (93 percent)
I Am Legend (63 percent)
The Kingdom (52 percent)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (45 percent)

All the happy waiver vibes at the Spirits and SAGs stands in marked contrast to the budding panic surrounding the Golden Globes, where confusion over whether the ceremony will be attended by any stars -- or whether it'll even go on -- is wreaking havoc on party planners' year-end schedules.

As Variety reports, the growing consensus is that the ceremony won't happen, but -- in the words of an unnamed studio executive -- "Nobody wants to be the first person to drop out." From the article:

"Everyone is calling around trying to find out what everyone is doing," one planner said.

"It's all going to come down to: Can the Globes come up with a feasible plan that the talent is comfortable with and don't have to cross a picket line?" another planner said. "And I don't know what that is."


Source: Spirit Awards
Source: Hollywood Reporter (Spirits waiver story)
Source: Hollywood Reporter (SAG Awards)
Source: Variety (Globes story)

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225468
baufan2005 writes:
on Dec 21 2007 10:10 AM

Oh no, no writers for the golden globes? Doe s that mean we don't get to hear horrible Britney Spears and Paris Hilton jokes? Say it isn't so.

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dahluzz writes:
on Dec 21 2007 10:17 AM

well, this one hits the suits right where it counts. since the writers gave SAG a waiver, you know those actors are gonna show some solidarity and not attend (right?). no clips, no patter and no stars means no point in having the show (and dick clark pooping in his pants). if the globes and (dare i say it) the oscars don't happen, you can bet an end to the strike will. these execs refuse to bite the bullet, and it's about to start biting back.

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A Lapse In Reason writes:
on Dec 21 2007 10:37 AM

that golden globes suck anyway. Good for WGA keep it don't give in!!!!

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sunsaz writes:
on Dec 21 2007 11:24 AM

Just end this d*mn strike already. I don't care who's right or wrong. We're going to have to deal with enough political crap this coming year as it is.

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BatsInTheBelfry writes:
on Dec 21 2007 12:26 PM

Strike needs to end now. It's not like the writer's aren't being jerks about this whole thing too. They seemingly don't care out all about the thousands of people they've caused to lose there jobs, as long as they get a little more money. Here's hoping the much more sensible DGA undercuts them soon.

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BrokebackYoda writes:
on Dec 21 2007 09:39 PM

no love for sweeney todd in the SAGs?

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harrismonkey writes:
on Dec 22 2007 12:10 AM

The strike is fine. They've got a point to make.

The awards issues I'm not so sure about. Somehow seems less like taking care of business and more like ****ing in your neighbors yard.

We'll see how this all goes. Dahluzz could be right, this could really shake some people.

Or, it could really sour the public opinion against WGA (not that it neccesarily matters).


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homeimp writes:
on Dec 22 2007 03:01 PM

Despite what those who loudly proclaim they know who gave the best performance in which film, there is no accurate way of judging. It just comes down to either personal preference or a popularity contest. I used to love the awards shows. Now I wonder if we shouldn't just do without. There's never a year where people don't go around angrily declaring that their favourite was robbed and they know better than all the Oscar voters. Maybe enough is enough.

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rattus_norwegicus writes:
on Dec 22 2007 10:25 PM

It's ridiculous that Eastern Promises wasn't nominated in the 'best ensemble cast' category...

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bookworm1994 writes:
on Dec 23 2007 06:24 PM

No Golden Globes? Writers: You've made your point. Go bathe in your already millions of dollars and stop whining over who got the quarter glued to the floor.

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