The Oscar race is over, thank merciful Jared Leto. We’re all still trying to get over it, and hopefully will soon. I just want to give a shout out to those who made this year so much better. In truth, you readers have always been the real reason this site endures, for better or worse. Your enthusiasm for the writing here and our efforts, the letters we receive, the engagement in our ideas is just exceptional. So first, thanks you regulars like Al and Bryce and Wayman and Bob, Claudiu, steve50 and daveinprogress … too many to mention.
To Marshall for bringing back Statsgasm, building the prediction charts when we were down to the wire and for having AwardsDaily’s back when we were unfairly maligned.
To Dora who once again flew in and saved our ass in the FYC gallery, putting it back together again each and every time we change servers. What a mensch.
To Rob Y for the great tweets that help to salve the wounds on occasion but also for the site’s most requested feature, the simulated ballot.
To our writers new and old Jazz Tangcay, Ryan C. Showers, Jordan Ruimy, Brian Whisenant. The awesome Paddy Mulholland who shares our pain.
To the Academy for extending a ticket to the big show for the first time.
To Ginsberg/Libby for the Spirit Awards invites.
To all of the great publicists we’ve worked with all year long for whom these Oscars should be partly shared. Trust me on this. No winner you saw up there on stage was there by accident. Each win represents the hard work all season long by publicists who have to deal with assholes on a regular basis, who fight hard for each of their contenders, who make sure those names show up where they’re supposed to.
To Craig Kennedy and Ryan Adams for participating in the podcast as often as possible and for being great friends all around.
To Ryan again for being the main reason AwardsDaily runs smoothly – the best proofreader, the best advocate, the kindest person in the world.
The new season starts way too soon.
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Chris Price & Ryan, I’ve been maintaining a list of my anticipated for the year and have some additions/comments to what’s been listed:
4. Spielberg/Coen Bros/Hanks Cold War Movie // I believe this is called “St. James Place,” perhaps tentatively
20. Jobs (2016?) // I believe this is called “Steve Jobs” and is official for 2015 (October 9, 2015)
25. Untitled Woody Allen/Joaquin Phoenix Movie // Titled “Irrational Man,” out July
28. Whitey Bulger Biopic // I think the working title on this, if not official, is “Black Mass”
42. Untitled Denis Villeneuve Drug Cartel Movie // Titled “Sicario” and it’s been set for September
43. Untitled Warren Beatty/Howard Hughes Movie
57. Assassin’s Creed (2016?) // I think this is “Creed” and is official for late November
68. The Jungle Book // This was officially delayed to at least 2016
116. Untitled Cameron Crowe Film // This is “Aloha” and set for May
I’d like to add/call attention to (sorry if they’ve been mentioned and I missed it):
– 45 Years
– Galveston
– A Bigger Splash
– Suffragette
– Room
– Untitled John Wells film
– The Danish Girl
– Every Thing Will Be Fine
– The Last Face
– Dope
– Freeheld
– Manchester-by-the-Sea
– The Secret in Their Eyes
– Snowden
– Z for Zachariah
– The Dressmaker
– Tulip Fever
– The D-Train
– Three Generations
– American Ultra
– The Stanford Prison Experiment
– Our Kind of Traitor
– Stockholm, Pennsylvania
– Strangerland
– High-Rise
– Queen of Earth
– A Tale of Love and Darkness
– Lion
– Queen of the Desert
Bryce, I’m on Letterboxd and I absolutely love the site. I use it mostly for personal reasons, to keep track of the films I see all year and to keep a running list of how I rank them against each other. It’s also a useful way of connecting your profile to your friends and seeing what they see and when and what they thought of it. Some great critics also post excerpts and links to full versions of their reviews.
It’s a fantastic, clean interface. Highly, highly rec.