This past weekend, Gravity claimed the Live Action Film award for sound mixing from the Cinema Audio Society, one more precursor voting body whose results could prove prescient when it comes to Oscar’s March 2nd endgame.
An award for makeup may be just the thing with which to bless Peter Jackson’s return to Middle-earth.
The tone of Jackson’s latest is, appropriately, much more jovial than that of Rings, which unfolds in an era far more stricken with despair.
Each of these moments illustrates a slightly different shade of the films’ fluid realization of a complex visual, thematic, and emotional spectrum.
So it is that the one year we didn’t stick to our frilliest-always-wins guns here, we came up short.
The boy wizard’s last hurrah still, however, has a better shot in this category than Midnight in Paris.
Here’s a list of 15 memorable movie ledges, from cliffs to rooftops to ominous subway platforms.
Here’s one of those categories where the spoils usually go to whoever shows us the “most” of whatever it is they’re nominated for.