Oscar Nominees: 2016

Well, the Oscar nominations were announced yesterday morning (at the time I am writing this.)

There were a lot of surprises, so let's not waste any more time and get right to it.

Let's start with Best Animated Feature. Now, when I was predicting it, I thought that the nominees would be Inside Out, Shawn the Sheep, Peanuts, The Good Dinosaur, and Anamolisa. But, I only ended up being right on three of them. Inside Out, Shawn the Sheep and Anamolisa. The other nominations, I did not think were going to make it. Boy & the World and When Marnie Was There I did not think were going to make it. I guess I couldn't be too surprised on Marnie because it is Studio Gibli and the Academy loves them. They even gave the award to them for Spirited Away in 2003. As for who is going to win, it's easily going to be Inside Out.

Best Director: I am surprised that Ridley Scott was not nominated for The Martian. When it won Best Picture Musical or Comedy at the Golden Globes last Sunday, I thought it was a shoe-in to win Best Picture. Now it looks like it's not, because usually when the director is not nominated, the film usually does not win Best Picture. It could happen, and it has happened...but only 4 times in history. The most recent to do so were Driving Miss Daisy (1990) and Argo (2013) respectively. So I predict that we will have to wait at least another 23 years before we see it happen again. So, in short, The Martian is probably not going to win Best Picture. As for who is going to win Best Director, I predict Alejandro G. Iñárritu but Tom McCarthey being a possible upset, because the academy might have a problem with giving it to the same person two years in a row.

Best Picture: There are 8 nominations this year. As you may know, the nominations for Best Picture can range anywhere from 5-10 movies. There are a couple of movies that got left out due to there being only 8. The movies that could have made the list but did not are include but is not limited to: Star Wars, even though it got several technical award nominations and best score for John Williams, Carol, even though it managed to get two acting nominations for Cate Blanchett and Ronney Mara, Straight Outta Compton even though it did get a best original screen play nomination, and Inside Out (I am disappointed on this one) but as mentioned earlier it did get a best Animated Feature nomination and a best Original Screen Play nomination. As for who is going to win best picture I predict The Revenant. As for best actor it's Leo's year finally! With Matt Damon being a possible upset.

Goodnight and Bee Happy!™ 

By Mr. Bee

For a complete list of all the Oscar nominations please visit http://oscar.go.com/nominees?ref=ampas 

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The 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards and BAFTA Nominees

I know I'm a little late getting this posted but unfortunately I couldn't post it because I was offline for about a day . ENJOY !

Mr Bee

Well, welcome! The 73^rd Annual Golden Globes just wrapped up last night in Beverly Hills. So, let's begin.

The show was hosted by Ricky Gervais for the forth time. He did a really good job! If you have been reading my blog for a year, you will know from last year's show, I said “somebody get back Ricky Gervias!” Low and behold, they did. The presenters tended to be hit or miss in my opinion. Now let's get to the winners.

Best Picture (drama) went to The Revenant. And, I know I predicted Spotlight to win that award, but The Revenant was my number 2 prediction. Best Picture (musical or comedy) went to The Martian (as I predicted).

Best Actor in a drama went to Leonardo DiCaprio for The Revenant as well. Best Actress in a drama went to Brie Larson for Room I know I predicted Cate Blanchett for Carol but I wasn't sure who was going to win so Larson winning was not a surprise. Best Actor in a musical or comedy went to Matt Damon just as I had predicted. Best Actress in a musical or Comedy went to Jennifer Lawrence in Joy . I could have sworn Amy Shumer was going to win. For best supporting Actor Sylvester Styllone for Creed . Best supporting Actress went to Kate Winslet for her role in Steve Jobs . For Best Director Alejandro González Iñárritu for The Revenent. I thought Tom McCarthy was going to win but this award to Iñárritu is probably a makeup for not giving him the award last year for Birdman. And FINALLY the best animated feature award went to Inside Out ( no surprise there). And now before I end this blog I am going to take a quick look at the BAFTA nominees ( I am adding the BAFTAS to my award season coverage for 2 reasons 1. It's a very good predictor for the Oscars and 2. It a European Award Show and most of my audience is in Europe ). For Best Picture I am predicting The Revenant just to be on the safe side. For Best Animated Feature , it is really surprising that Minions is nominated ( maybe it played better to European audiences - everyone reading in Europe can you please confirm that ? ) But Inside Out is clearly the frontrunner.

That about wraps up my coverage of the Golden Globes and the BAFTA nominations . There is more award season coverage heading your way including my thoughts on the Oscar nominations and The Critic Choice Awards Ceremony . So check back for both of those! And remember there is still time to submit a movie for my end of the year poll. You can find the rules in my events section of my blog. Goodnight and Bee Happy!™

By Mr Bee

For a complete list of all the BAFTA nominees , please visit http://awards.bafta.org/award/2016/film

For a complete list of all the Golden Globe winners and nominees please visit http://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees

 

                                                         

 

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Mr Bee's end of 2015 poll (rules)

Hello, happy New Year everyone!

Well, with 2015 ending, 2016 brings with it a lot of things like “Batman V. Superman” and the presidential elections and finally the end of the year poll. Now, let's get onto the rules.

• No NC17 Movies.
• Made for TV movies are acceptable, but not part of a series.
• Please state the year of the movie on your submission.
• Only one vote per person.

All you have to do in order to submit a movie is to comment on any of my blogs or e-mail me at thatbradley@gmail.com you have until February 29 to make a submission. With the posting of this blog, the polls are now officially open.

By Mr. Bee  

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Award Season Nominations 2016

Warning: The awards in the above pictures I may or may not be covering and the dates are not current.

Well, what an amazing month it has been. Now, we have got nominations for four big award shows this month. The first of which was the Annies (which I covered in my last blog). But we are here to cover the SAG's, The Golden Globes, and The Critics Choice. I am doing this in the order they were announced. Well, let's begin!

The SAG Awards:

For Best Performance by a Cast for a Motion Picture (A.K.A. Best Picture): Spotlight will most certainly win here. I predict Bryan Cranston in Trumbo for Best Actor. For Best Actress, it's a toss-up. I'm not sure who is going to win so I'm going to go with Kate Blanchett for Carol.

The Golden Globes:

For Best Picture Drama, I predict Spotlight. For Best Picture Musical or Comedy, I predict The Martian (although it was not really a comedy). I predict Bryan Cranston for Best Actor in a Drama for Trumbo. I predict Blanchett again for Carol as Best Actress in a Drama. For Best Actor in a Comedy, I predict Matt Damon for The Martian. I predict Amy Schumer for Trainwreck and Best Actress in a Comedy. For Best Director, I predict Tom McCarthy for Spotlight. For best animated feature, I predict Inside Out.

The Critics' Choice Awards

Now this is kind of momentous because, since I wrote my predictions for the other award shows on this blog, the Broadcast Film Critics Association (which run The Critics' Choice Awards) added Star Wars the Force Awakens to the nominations list for best picture. If you want to know more about this I will post a link to a you-tube video about it. Will Star Wars win, no, I don't think so, but what I predict will win is Spotlight (Spotlight won all of the other critics awards so it will probably win here as well.) For Best Actor, I predict Matt Damon in The Martian. For Best Actress, I predict Cate Blanchett for Carol. For Best Director, I predict Tom McCarthy in Spotlight. For Best Animated Feature, my prediction is Inside Out (again).

As to the answer for my quiz, the answer is How to Train Your Dragon. There is no quiz this week due to the fact that I am getting ready for my end of the year poll (check back for the rules.)

Goodnight and Happy New Year,

By Mr Bee

For the announcements of the more technical SAG categories please visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jquAIyuupuk

For the announcements of the major SAG categories please visit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KmOVyyS-3k

For the complete list of the Golden Globes nominations please visit http://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees

For a complete list of the Critics Choice movie categories please visit

http://www.criticschoice.com/movie-awards/

For a complete list of the Critics Choice TV categories please visit

http://www.criticschoice.com/television-awards/

For Collider movie talk covering Star Wars being added into The Critics Choice Awards please visit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYpTUOpHJ8E 
 

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 image courtesy of NYMag

Annie Awards (Official) Nomination Results

                                        

Well, I did my predictions for the nominations, now it's time to give you my predictions for the winners...

The same rules apply to this one; I am not going to focus on the TV categories. What I will say about the TV stuff is how many nominations Buddy's Musical Christmas got! I would also like to point out a mistake I made. In my earlier blog about this, Studio Ghibli's last movie was When Marnie was There and not The Boy and the Beast. The Boy and the Beast is a movie that came out this year but WAS NOT made by Studio Ghibli. So on to new business.

Overall, I did fairly well on my predictions. All of the movies for Best Animated Feature I predicted to be in there. But, as always, there are a couple of surprises. Like Minions is not on the list. I did give it an 85% chance of making the cut, so I really thought that it was going to be in there. Part of the reason is that there were only 5 nominations instead of 8. Granted, I have a hunch that Minions will get nominated at the Oscars. As to which movie will be eliminated to make room for Minions, it will probably be The Good Dinosaur. And When Marnie was There did not get nominated. However, they did make a new category this year called Best Animated Feature: Independent, and it is nominated there (but I don't what movie will win that category...I would probably pick When Marnie was There just to play it safe).

As to what movie will win? Didn't I already tell you this in my last blog? Inside Out!

As for Best Animated Short Film? I am really surprised that Frozen Fever is not in there. But, it is not really the greatest animated short. But, if I had to predict a winner, It would be Sanjay's Super Team. But, I have not seen it yet (it's Pixar, so it's a safe bet).

Now for best director? No surprises here. My prediction is Pete Docter for Inside Out. Inside Out will also take the best music category as well.

Moving on to voice acting: One surprise was that Louis Black was not nominated for voicing Anger in Inside Out (I'm sure he's ANGY about it). The winner will Amy Poehler.

And now for writing: I predict Inside Out (noticing a trend?).

So those are my predictions...Whether I am right or wrong, we will have to find out on February 6, 2016. What are your predictions? Comment or e-mail me (thatbradley@gmail.com) your predictions.

And as for the answers to my quiz in the last blog, the answer is C. Okay, and as for this week's question, What movie won 10 awards at the Annies in 2011? Goodnight, and Bee Happy!™

For the complete list of all the Annie nominees, please visit http://annieawards.org/nominees#28

By Mr. Bee 

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"Pan"

Welcome! I hope everybody had a wonderful Thanksgiving. My Thanksgiving weekend, I got the “privilege” of going to see Pan. So, this is what I am here to review. So, let's begin my review of one of the biggest bombs of 2015.

Background:

I regret to inform you that I didn't have time to do any research on this movie. So, I guess you can hit me with a frying “Pan”.

Plot:

Now, as you know, this is a prequel. It is about Peter Pan first going to Neverland and, for whatever reason, befriending Captain Hook and trying to find who his mother is (it's as predictable as it gets).

Opinion:

Now for my opinion; This movie suffers the terrible curse of being a prequel! And, personally, I don't really understand the point in prequels. Did anybody finish watching “Peter Pan Live!” last year and say; “Gee, that was good...I wonder what happened before.”? Well, apparently WB did because we got this movie. Now, don't get me wrong – I don't hate ALL prequels. Some prequels are good like “Oz: The Great and Powerful”. Of course, there are other prequels that are pretty bad like the “Star Wars” ones. Now, I know you are waited with baited breath to find out what category this falls into...Well, unfortunately it falls into “Star Wars” category.

First off, let's get the good stuff out of the way. The visual effects were really good. Some of the acting was good. The music was pretty good (I wouldn't be surprised if the music gets nominated for best score at the Oscars). Otherwise, the credits were a relief to see! That's about it!

Okay, now we are getting into the worst of the worst (like the Batman movies I have made). First off, you may be wondering; “How is Hugh Jackman in this?”. This is Jackman's WORST performance yet. Now, I really like Hugh Jackman. But here, I didn't like him. He was not playing Blackbeard! He was playing Johnny Depp playing Blackbeard, and I don't like Depp that much (although I did like him in Ed Wood – he was bad in the last 15 movies he's made though). Garrett Hedlund did a pretty decent job as Hook minus the fact that his voice sounded like a mix between the Crocodile Hunter and Jack Nicholson. And there was no inkling of Captain Hook in his performance. And Levi Miller's performance was good besides the fact that Peter Pan had zero personality (not a very good thing for your lead character). And Rooney Mara was datisfactory despite the fact that she is a white actress playing an African American character.

I said earlier that the effects were good. Let me rephrase that; the effects were good...but misused in a couple of places. They were just playing up some parts to the 3-D audience. And the writing is pretty bad, but there was a little plot twist that I didn't expect. But, everything else in the movie is just plain predictable! (Spoiler Alert) We find out the Peter Pan's mom was a fairy princess, but at the beginning of the movie they made her out to be a total idiot. She dropped Pan off as a baby on the doorstep of an orphanage run by a total witch. She's a fairy princess!!! Couldn't she have done her research to find a suitable place for her child to grow up?!? The time period is a bit skewed as well. The time period in all the previous versions of Peter Pan is set in the early 1900s. But, in this one, it is set during World War II (the 1940s). And, that would mean that when Wendy went to Neverland was in the 1950s...But that is the least of my problems with this movie. I never got emotionally invested in the story. So, I think I even dozed off at one point (but only for a moment or two). (spoiler alert) Peter Pan and Captain Hook never became enemies in this movie. I assume that they were saving that for a sequel that will never get made...So, overall, I give Pan one and a half stars (it's below MEH).

And now the answer to the quiz in my last blog. The answer is TRUE. Beauty and the Beast won Best Picture Musical or Comedy in 1992. And now this week's question; What was J.M. Berry's (the creator of Peter Pan) career?

A. Author
B. Playwright
C. Both A and B
D. Homemaker
E. A Representative of the mud people

You can comment or e-mail me (thatbradley@gmail.com) the answer. Goodnight, and Bee Happy!™And Jackman, I love you, but stick to playing Wolverine, bub!

By Mr. Bee 

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The Annie Awards 2016 Pre - Nominations

We are about 2 weeks away from the nominations for the 43^rd annual Annie Awards. I thought that this blog would be as good as any to give you my predictions. Before I get into my predictions, I would like to tell you that I will only be giving my predictions for the movie categories. Not that I don't like tv or video games, they would just seem out-of-place on my blog. And, since they are not my forte, I would probably get a majority of them wrong. I have only seen two of the movies that we are talking about here. I will tell you what they are later in this blog. Let's begin.

Let's start with the biggest award of the night! Best animated feature. Let's start with the films that I don't think will be on the list. Home: now, it did well in the box office, but it bombed critically. Now, granted, those critics are not the people that nominate Annie Awards – that is done by the professional animators in the industry. Now, I have not seen it (yet), but judging from what I have heard (and seen), it is not the greatest animated movie of the year. But the Annie voters could feel sorry for Dreamworks financial state right now, and throw them a bone. I would estimate Home having a 10% chance of getting in there. The film will get a couple nominations elsewhere in the awards. Steve Martin and Jim Parsons' performances will probably get in there. In addition, it will probably get nominated in several technical categories. The next one that will not get in there is The Spongebob movie The Sponge out of Water. Now this one I have seen. And if you read my blog about it, I enjoyed it. Now, why don't I think it will be in there? Well, judging by what a couple of other critics are saying about the movie, it is far from the best this year. Now, as I've mentioned before, critics are not the best predictors for nominations for awards though. Another thing that hurts its chances is that it was released back in February. The excitement surrounding the movie has died down. So, maybe if it was released this month, it might have a better chance. And, another thing, because it's based on a Nickelodeon show, the Annie voters might look at it as an extension of the show (which I can't argue). But, like I said with Home, it will get nominations elsewhere in the ceremony. Any performance by Tom Kenny will get in there. He will probably get a nomination for the same character in the series. Overall, I think the Spongebob Movie has a 5% chance of getting in.

And, another movie I feel will not be getting in, is Hotel Transylvania 2. Now, why don't I think it will be getting in? The first movie didn't get a nomination. This is based on what I have heard; it is not better than the first. It will be getting nominations elsewhere in the show in some of the technical categories and best story boarding. And now the final movie that I don't think will be getting in, is Regular Show the movie. The big question is where would you nominate it - Because it is a direct-to-DVD movie from the Cartoon Network. It is eligible to get in that category. It did have a very limited release in select categories in Los Angeles in order to be eligible for the category. The question is, will it be nominated. Will they put it with the TV stuff or the movie stuff. Overall, I think that they will probably put it with the TV stuff because it is meant for TV and most likely has low-budget animation. I give it a 3% chance of getting nominated.

Now, for the movies that I do feel will get nominated. Inside Out. This is a movie that I have seen, and it's brilliant. I feel it will not only be getting in but I think it will hands-down win and sweep the awards. There is a 100% for this movie to get nominated. Anomalisa is another movie that I think will be getting in. It “WOWed” critics at several film festivals. Also, it's the kind of artsy material that the Annie voters tend to like. So, I think it will get nominated in several categories an has a 90% chance overall of getting in. The other one is Minions. Minions is the highest-grossing animated movie of the year. But, granted, that does not assure that it gets in, but based on the ticket sales, we do know that it is on the Annie voters' radar. So, it will probably get in in several other categories. So, overall, I say it has an 85% chance of getting in.

Shaun the Sheep movie is probably guaranteed of getting in there as well. Aardman Animation makes Shaun the Sheep, and they have a tendency to get into this category (maybe because they make great movies). In fact, interesting tid-bit here, the academy introduced best animated feature category because of their film Chicken Run. Overall, it has a 100% chance of getting in.

The Boy and the Beast is supposed to be the last Studio Ghibli movie which means it is automatically a shoe-in because the Annie voters can't resist giving them one more nomination. Overall, I feel that it has a 90% chance of getting in.

The Good Dinosaur...well, this is the second Pixar movie released this year. And even though Inside Out has this in the bag (as mentioned), The Good Dinosaur will probably get a nomination here. Overall, I feel that it has a 75% chance of getting in.

And, now my final movie that will get in is the Peanuts Movie. Now, from what I have heard, it is supposed to be the best movie that Blue Sky has made yet. So, hands-down, it will get in there. And the Peanuts are supposed to be going back to their roots in this movie. Overall, I feel that the Peanuts movie has a 95% chance of getting in.

And the nominees are...

• Inside Out
• Peanuts
• Shaun the Sheep
• Anomalisa
• The Boy and the Beast
• The Good Dinosaur
• Minions
• And the last one...to be determined

But, whether or not my predictions are correct, we will have to wait until December 1, 2015 to find out the answer...

And now for the answer to my quiz from my last blog, the answer is TRUE! Steve Martin did get an honorary Oscar in 2013.

And for today's quiz: True or False: Beauty and the Beast won for Best Picture at the Golden Globes?

From all of us here at Mr. Bee's Brilliant Movie Buzz, have a very Happy Thanksgiving and Bee Happy (and enjoy the turkey).

By Mr. Bee  

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