Two of the Guilds whose memberships overlap with the Motion Picture Academy issued their nominations yesterday. The first and by far more important (and most eager–they accelerated their announcement by 24 hours, apparently in an effort to influence the tail-end of Oscar nomination voting) was the Producers Guild, whose award winner has coincided with the Best Picture Oscar winner for the past 5 years. The PGA nominees are:
ARGO
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD
DJANGO UNCHAINED
LES MISERABLES
LIFE OF PI
LINCOLN
MOONRISE KINGDOM
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
SKYFALL
ZERO DARK THIRTY
No huge surprises there, although it was good news for the on-the-bubble Skyfall and Moonrise, and consequently not so good for The Master, The Impossible and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, among other hopefuls. The PGA Award winners are presented on January 26.
The Art Directors Guild is a more specialized group with its own interests (a naturalistic film like Silver Linings Playbook wouldn’t do much for them), but its members still form a branch of the Academy, so they’re worth noting. Here, again, Skyfall is showing perhaps unexpected strength (but the omission of Moonrise Kingdom, a film art directed to its very roots, is perplexing). Their choices are grouped in a particularized way:
PERIOD FILM
ANNA KARENINA
ARGO
DJANGO UNCHAINED
LES MISERABLES
LINCOLN
CONTEMPORARY FILM
THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL
FLIGHT
THE IMPOSSIBLE
SKYFALL
ZERO DARK THIRTY
FANTASY FILM
CLOUD ATLAS
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
LIFE OF PI
PROMETHEUS
The Art Directors present their awards on February 2.
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MITCH SALEM has worked on the business side of the entertainment industry for 20 years, as a senior business affairs executive and attorney for such companies as NBC, ABC, USA, Syfy, Bravo, and BermanBraun Productions, and before that, at the NY law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. During all that, he has more or less constantly been going to the movies and watching TV, and writing about both since the 1980s. His film reviews also currently appear on screened.com and the-burg.com. In addition, he is co-writer of an episode of the television series "Felicity."
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