QPORIT

BEST PICTURE
"Amour"
"Argo"
"Beasts Of The Southern Wild"
"Django Unchained"
"Les Misérables"
"Life Of Pi"
"Lincoln"
"Silver Linings Playbook"
"Zero Dark Thirty"

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
"Amour" (Austria)
"Kon-tiki" (Norway)
"No" (Chile)
"A Royal Affair" (Denmark)
"War Witch" (Canada)

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
"Brave"
"Frankenweenie"
"ParaNorman"
"The Pirates! Band Of Misfits"
"Wreck-It Ralph"

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
"5 Broken Cameras"
"The Gatekeepers"
"How To Survive A Plague"
"The Invisible War"
"Searching For Sugar Man"

DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
"Inocente"
"Kings Point"
"Mondays At Racine"
"Open Heart"
"Redemption"

ANIMATED SHORT FILM
"Adam And Dog"
"Fresh Guacamole"
"Head Over Heels"
"Maggie Simpson In 'The Longest Daycare'"
"Paperman"

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
"Asad"
"Buzkashi Boys"
"Curfew"
"Death Of A Shadow" ("Dood Van Een Schaduw")
"Henry"




DIRECTING
Michael Haneke, "Amour"
Benh Zeitlin, "Beasts Of The Southern Wild"
Ang Lee, "Life Of Pi"
Steven Spielberg, "Lincoln"
David O. Russell, "Silver Linings Playbook"

WRITING - ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Chris Terrio, "Argo"
Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin, "Beasts Of The Southern Wild"
David Magee, "Life Of Pi"
Tony Kushner, "Lincoln"
David O. Russell, "Silver Linings Playbook"

WRITING - ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Michael Haneke, "Amour"
Quentin Tarantino, "Django Unchained"
John Gatins, "Flight"
Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola, "Moonrise Kingdom"
Mark Boal, "Zero Dark Thirty"

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Seamus McGarvey, "Anna Karenina"
Robert Richardson, "Django Unchained"
Claudio Miranda, "Life Of Pi"
Janusz Kaminski, "Lincoln"
Roger Deakins, "Skyfall"

FILM EDITING
William Goldenberg, "Argo"
Tim Squyres, "Life Of Pi"
Michael Kahn, "Lincoln"
Jay Cassidy And Crispin Struthers, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Dylan Tichenor And William Goldenberg, "Zero Dark Thirty"




ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Bradley Cooper, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Daniel Day-Lewis, "Lincoln"
Hugh Jackman, "Les Misérables"
Joaquin Phoenix, "The Master"
Denzel Washington, "Flight"

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Jessica Chastain, "Zero Dark Thirty"
Jennifer Lawrence, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Emmanuelle Riva, "Amour"
Quvenzhané Wallis, "Beasts Of The Southern Wild"
Naomi Watts, "The Impossible"

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Alan Arkin, "Argo"
Robert De Niro, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Philip Seymour Hoffman, "The Master
Tommy Lee Jones, "Lincoln"
Christoph Waltz, "Django Unchained"

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Amy Adams, "The Master
Sally Field, "Lincoln"
Anne Hathaway, "Les Misérables"
Helen Hunt, "The Sessions"
Jacki Weaver, "Silver Linings Playbook"




MUSIC - ORIGINAL SCORE
Dario Marianelli, "Anna Karenina"
Alexandre Desplat, "Argo"
Mychael Danna, "Life Of Pi"
John Williams, "Lincoln"
Thomas Newman, "Skyfall"

MUSIC - ORIGINAL SONG

"Before My Time" From "Chasing Ice"

(Music and Lyrics: J. Ralph)

"Everybody Needs A Best Friend" From "Ted"
(Music: Walter Murphy; Lyrics: Seth Macfarlane)

"Pi's Lullaby" From "Life Of Pi"
(Music: Mychael Danna; Lyrics: Bombay Jayashri)

"Skyfall" From "Skyfall"
(Music and Lyrics: Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth)

"Suddenly" From "Les Misérables"
(Music: Claude-Michel Schönberg; Lyrics: Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil)



COSTUME DESIGN
Jacqueline Durran, "Anna Karenina"
Paco Delgado, "Les Misérables"
Joanna Johnston, "Lincoln"
Eiko Ishioka, "Mirror Mirror"
Colleen Atwood, "Snow White And The Huntsman"

MAKEUP
Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel, "Hitchcock"
Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane, "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell, "Les Misérables"

PRODUCTION DESIGN
Sarah Greenwood (Production Design); Katie Spencer (Set Decoration)
 - "Anna Karenina"
Dan Hennah (Production Design); Ra Vincent and Simon Bright (Set Decoration)
 - "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
Eve Stewart (Production Design); Anna Lynch-Robinson (Set Decoration)
 - "Les Misérables"
David Gropman (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration)
 - "Life Of Pi"
Rick Carter (Production Design); Jim Erickson (Set Decoration)
 - "Lincoln"

SOUND EDITING
Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van Der Ryn, "Argo"
Wylie Stateman, "Django Unchained"
Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton, "Life Of Pi"
Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers, "Skyfall"
Paul N.J. Ottosson, "Zero Dark Thirty"

SOUND MIXING
John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia, "Argo"
Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes, "Les Misérables"
Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin, "Life Of Pi"
Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Ronald Judkins, "Lincoln"
Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson, "Skyfall"

VISUAL EFFECTS
Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White, 
- "Life Of Pi"
Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott, 
- "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick, 
- "Marvel's The Avengers"
Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill, 
- "Prometheus"
Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson, 
- "Snow White And The Huntsman"


Here are a few selected stories from QPORIT about people and films that are up for awards!

JESSICA CHASTAIN (up for Best Actress)
http://qporit.blogspot.com/2011/05/jessica-chastain.html

FLIGHT (Denzel Washington up for Best Actor)
http://qporit.blogspot.com/2012/10/only-when-you-win-flight-at-nyff-50.html

AMOUR (up for several awards)
http://qporit.blogspot.com/2012/10/only-when-you-win-flight-at-nyff-50.html

LIFE OF PI (up for Best Picture and other awards)
http://qporit.blogspot.com/2012/10/amour.html

A ROYAL AFFAIR (up for Best Foreign Film)
http://qporit.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-royal-affair.html

ANNA KARENINA (up for several awards)
http://qporit.blogspot.com/2012/11/gleeson-and-vikander-from-anna-karenina.html

Labels: A ROYAL AFFAIR, Academy Argo, AMOUR, Ang Lee, Awards, Daniel Day Lewis, Denzel Washington, FLIGHT, Jennifer Lawrence, Jessica Chastain, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Oscars, Silver Linings Playbook

Ang Lee's LIFE OF PI, which was the Opening Night selection for the 50th Anniversary New York Film Festival (NYFF 50) contains a great action/fantasy philosophical film, the story of a young man and a tiger adrift at sea alone, together on a lifeboat.

LIFE OF PI OPENING NIGHT
NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL 2012

For the story of the boy and the tiger, this film is entertaining... indeed, amazing and worth seeing.


As a film, however, there is a problem...Ang Lee puts LIFE OF PI's central story, this great action/fantasy philosophical film, inside a frame that diminishes the brilliance of the conceit by saying too much and saying it unconvincingly.

The frame sets the story in a spiritual patina that does not ring true either as philosophy or as character, then goes on to further weaken the story by undermining the suspension of disbelief that gives every story its essential truth, without replacing it with a higher truth. (The spirituality may work well and be an essential part of the best-selling book LIFE OF PI, by Yann Martel, from which the film derives, but it does not, IMHO, work in this film as it was done.)

Alas! That's too bad. Because the inside, the story of the tiger and the man on the boat, is brilliantly conceived, brilliantly told, and brilliantly executed.

The film is beautifully shot in a "gentle" 3D that enhances the image without calling attention to itself.  It simply makes everything seem just a little more real.

The Indian actor (Suraj Sharma, in his only film role) who plays Pi (the name is explained near the beginning of the film)  is terrific.  The (real!) tigers that play The Tiger are terrific (as are the digital effects that also contribute to The Tiger). The story of how the film was put together would be a great addition to the Blu-Ray disc or the Official Website.

Ang Lee
Director LIFE OF PI
Talking with the press
On the plaza outside Walter Reade Theater
At Lincoln Center
Photo By Eric Roffman
Ang Lee, the director has had quite an interesting career.  His films range from Crouching Tiger  Hidden Dragon, to Brokeback Mountain (for which he won the Oscar for Best Director), to Sense and Sensibility.  Eat Drink Man Woman was perhaps the first film that brought him to the attention of the American critics.

He was born in Taiwan about 58 years ago and went to college there, and then studied theater and film at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NYU.

This is a film I can highly recommend! Just (don't take the beginning too seriously,  ignore the end, and) enjoy the middle! 



FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER
www.filmlinc.com

LIFE OF PI - OFFICIAL FILM SITE
http://www.lifeofpimovie.com/

LIFE OF PI - THE FILM - WIKIPEDIA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Pi_(film)

LIFE OF PI - THE BOOK - WIKIPEDIA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Pi

ANG LEE - WIKIPEDIA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang_Lee

ANG LEE - IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000487

ANG LEE ON AMAZON

 



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Labels: Ang Lee, Life of Pi, New York Film Festival, NYFF, Suraj Sharma, Tigers, Yann Martel