Showing posts with label West Side Story. Show all posts
Showing posts with label West Side Story. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

The 94th Annual Academy Award Nominations


The full list of Academy Award nominations for 2021.

Best Picture
Belfast
CODA
Don't Look Up
Drive My Car
Dune
King Richard
Licorice Pizza
Nightmare Alley
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story

Best Directing
Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza)
Kenneth Branagh (Belfast)
Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog)
Steven Spielberg (West Side Story)
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car)

Actor in a Leading Role
Javier Bardem (Being the Ricardos)
Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog)
Andrew Garfield (Tick, Tick … Boom!)
Will Smith (King Richard)
Denzel Washington (The Tragedy of Macbeth)

Actress in a Leading Role
Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)
Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter)
Penélope Cruz (Parallel Mothers)
Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos)
Kristen Stewart (Spencer)

Actor in a Supporting Role
Ciarán Hinds (Belfast)
Troy Kotsur (CODA)
Jesse Plemons (The Power of the Dog)
J.K. Simmons (Being the Ricardos)
Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog)

Actress in a Supporting Role
Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter)
Ariana DeBose (West Side Story)
Judi Dench (Belfast)
Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog)
Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard)

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
CODA (Sian Heder)
Drive My Car (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe)
Dune (Eric Roth, Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve)
The Lost Daughter (Maggie Gyllenhaal)
The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)

Writing (Original Screenplay)
Belfast (Kenneth Branagh)
Don't Look Up (Adam McKay and David Sirota)
Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson)
King Richard (Zach Baylin)
The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier)

Animated Feature Film
Encanto
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Raya and the Last Dragon

Animated Short Film
Affairs of the Art
Bestia
Boxballet
Robin Robin
The Windshield Wiper

Costume Design
Cruella (Jenny Beavan)
Cyrano (Massimo Cantini Parrini)
Dune (Jacqueline West)
Nightmare Alley (Luis Sequeira)
West Side Story (Paul Tazewell)

Live Action Short Film
Ala Kachuu - Take and Run
The Dress
The Long Goodbye
On My Mind
Please Hold

Music (Original Score)
Don't Look Up (Nicholas Britell)
Dune (Hans Zimmer)
Encanto (Germaine Franco)
Parallel Mothers (Alberto Iglesias)
The Power of the Dog (Jonny Greenwood)

Sound
Belfast
Dune
No Time to Die
The Power of the Dog
West Side Story

Cinematography
Dune (Greig Fraser)
Nightmare Alley (Dan Lausten)
The Power of the Dog (Ari Wegner)
The Tragedy of Macbeth (Bruno Delbonnel)
West Side Story (Janusz Kaminski)

Documentary Feature
Ascension
Attica
Flee
Summer of Soul
Writing With Fire

Documentary Short Subject
Audible
Lead Me Home
The Queen of Basketball
Three Songs for Benazir
When We Were Bullies

Film Editing
Don't Look Up (Hank Corwin)
Dune (Joe Walker)
King Richard (Pamela Martin)
The Power of the Dog (Peter Sciberras)
Tick, Tick... Boom! (Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum)

International Feature Film
Drive My Car (Japan)
Flee (Denmark)
The Hand of God (Italy)
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (Bhutan)
The Worst Person in the World (Norway)

Makeup and Hairstyling
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
House of Gucci
Coming 2 America
Cruella
Dune

Music (Original Song)
Be Alive -- Beyoncé Knowles-Carter and Darius Scott (King Richard)
Dos Oruguitas -- Lin-Manuel Miranda (Encanto)
Down to Joy -- Van Morrison (Belfast)
No Time to Die -- Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell (No Time to Die)
Somehow You Do -- Diane Warren (Four Good Days)

Production Design
Dune (Zsuzsanna Sipos and Patrice Vermette)
Nightmare Alley (Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau)
The Power of the Dog (Grant Major and Amber Richards)
The Tragedy of Macbeth (Stefan Dechant and Nancy Haigh)
West Side Story (Rena DeAngelo and Adam Stockhausen)

Visual Effects
Dune
Free Guy
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
No Time to Die
Spider-Man: No Way Home

Monday, December 20, 2021

Spider-Man No Way Home 2nd highest opening ever


For the weekend of December 17-19, 2021, Spider-Man: No Way Home had the second-highest opening in box-office history, behind only Marvel's Avengers: Endgame. Theaters have been struggling ever since COVID, but if the title is big enough, and enough people feel good about being safe to go, whether it's third booster shots or COVID's a hoax, they went, and Disney has to be thrilled.

Spidey's success left no room for anything else. Nightmare Alley might have done better with a limited-release slow-rollout. Good cast, good reviews, but people would rather see Spider-Man. Its been a rough season for adult-oriented fare. Nightmare Alley, Last Night in Soho, The Last Duel, etc., all fell on their face despite their pedigrees.

In fact, when you look at how titles 2-10, there's still cause for concern. The blockbusters float all boats, but the midrange titles, the movies with $60 million budgets as opposed to $200 million budgets, those things are becoming a dying breed. West Side Story's hope of being a word-of-mouth Greatest Showman style hit are dead.

When I look at the highest opening weekends of all time, if you remove the movies that are sequels, comics, Disney live-action remakes, you have to go down to #23 to find The Hunger Games. In fact, of the 61 movies that have ever opened to $100+ million domestic, there are only 3 that weren't sequels/comics/Disney live-action remakes: The Hunger Games, It, and The Secret Life of Pets.




Opens This Week
THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS with Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss.
THE KING'S MAN with Ralph Fiennes, Harrison Dickerson and Rhys Ifans.
SING 2 with the voices of Matthew McConaughey and Reese Witherspoon.
A JOURNAL FOR JORDAN with Michael B. Jordan and Chante Adams.
AMERICAN UNDERDOG with Zachary Levi, Anna Paquin and Dennis Quaid.