Adele and The Artist have much to teach us about how to win big in awards season
There has, in the past few days, been substantial sweeping of "the board". First, almost-silent movie The Artist swept the board at the Baftas, prompting the winner of the best adapted screenplay award to thank it for not being based on an existing book. And then Adele swept the board at the Grammys a few hours later. Now, to the untrained eye, The Artist and Adele may not seem to have much in common – one is a film, the other is a person who probably won't be buying too many Karl Lagerfeld products any time soon. But there is much that can be learned from the twin successes of The Artist and Adele, and we fully intend to sweep the board at the "Telling You What That Is" awards right now …
It pays...
There has, in the past few days, been substantial sweeping of "the board". First, almost-silent movie The Artist swept the board at the Baftas, prompting the winner of the best adapted screenplay award to thank it for not being based on an existing book. And then Adele swept the board at the Grammys a few hours later. Now, to the untrained eye, The Artist and Adele may not seem to have much in common – one is a film, the other is a person who probably won't be buying too many Karl Lagerfeld products any time soon. But there is much that can be learned from the twin successes of The Artist and Adele, and we fully intend to sweep the board at the "Telling You What That Is" awards right now …
It pays...
- 2/14/2012
- by Pete Cashmore
- The Guardian - Film News
The 5th annual Sydney Underground Film Festival, which was held back on Sept. 8-11, has released their list of award winners.
Rather than the traditional types of awards given out to fests, Suff likes to give out more flamboyant accolades, such as the Unique Aesthetic Award, Most Provocative Film, the Clever Bastard Award, Bloody Good Filmmaking and Most Charming Protagonist. In addition, the fest hands out multiple Audience Choice Awards for films per each short film program.
The big winner this year was Last Days Here, directed by Don Argott and Demian Fenton. This documentary about the return of rock singer Bobby Liebling took home the Best of the Festival Award. Runner up, though, was Peter Sasowsky’s Heaven and Earth and Joe Davis, another documentary, this one profiling the titular scientist.
Some other notable award winners were: Tyler Baptist’s Mantis in Black Lace for Most Provocative Film, George Nagle...
Rather than the traditional types of awards given out to fests, Suff likes to give out more flamboyant accolades, such as the Unique Aesthetic Award, Most Provocative Film, the Clever Bastard Award, Bloody Good Filmmaking and Most Charming Protagonist. In addition, the fest hands out multiple Audience Choice Awards for films per each short film program.
The big winner this year was Last Days Here, directed by Don Argott and Demian Fenton. This documentary about the return of rock singer Bobby Liebling took home the Best of the Festival Award. Runner up, though, was Peter Sasowsky’s Heaven and Earth and Joe Davis, another documentary, this one profiling the titular scientist.
Some other notable award winners were: Tyler Baptist’s Mantis in Black Lace for Most Provocative Film, George Nagle...
- 9/23/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
For their 5th annual event, which is set to run Sept. 8-11, the Sydney Underground Film Festival is looking a little more demented than ever. And that’s saying a lot for this scrappy, still relatively young fest, which typically offers ample twisted cinematic offerings.
The fun kicks off with the Opening Night film, the demented superhero comedy Super, written and directed by former Troma go-to screenwriter James Gunn (Tromeo & Juliet); then ends with the Closing Night wallowing in Sydney’s seedy underbelly, X, by homegrown filmmaker Jon Hewitt.
Crammed between these two excursions into violence and depravity is a lineup filled with perverse visions, scandalous public figures, sickening horror, experimental pop culture remixes and more.
For Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film, the highlight of the fest is Usama Alshaibi‘s Profane, a complex psychological, psychosexual, spiritual morality play about a Muslim sex worker who endures a “reverse...
The fun kicks off with the Opening Night film, the demented superhero comedy Super, written and directed by former Troma go-to screenwriter James Gunn (Tromeo & Juliet); then ends with the Closing Night wallowing in Sydney’s seedy underbelly, X, by homegrown filmmaker Jon Hewitt.
Crammed between these two excursions into violence and depravity is a lineup filled with perverse visions, scandalous public figures, sickening horror, experimental pop culture remixes and more.
For Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film, the highlight of the fest is Usama Alshaibi‘s Profane, a complex psychological, psychosexual, spiritual morality play about a Muslim sex worker who endures a “reverse...
- 8/9/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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