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Spike TV Has Its Own Crazy Movie Awards!
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Well, this is weird. For the bulk of my 30+ years on this planet, there's been no such thing as a "televised horror awards" presentation, and now, not 15 minutes removed from geeking out over the newly-announced Fangoria Chainsaw Awards nominations -- I come across the Spike TV Scream Awards nominations! Cool!Now, with all due respect to Spike TV and their cool new concept, I gotta say the Fango Chainsaw noms are just a little bit cooler. But hey, there's no law that says the horror freaks can't hang their hat on TWO new awards presentations. Frankly I think we could use a few more enthusiastic celebrations of juicy genre filmmaking.
Anyway, the Screams seem to run a lot like the Chainsaws do: Check out all the categories and nominees (after the jump) and then head on over to SpikeTV.com and cast your own votes! This is particularly amusing for the horror nuts -- because we're nothing if not passionately opinionated on which horror flicks rock and which ones suck the proverbial egg. Spike TV broadcasts their Scream Awards on the evening of October 10th.
Cronenberg Talks
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Dark Horizons this morning offers us all a concise
wrap-up of an extensive interview that David
Cronenberg recently did with a Canadian newspaper. Though the interview was conducted ostensibly the promote the DVD
release of A History of Violence, the
director also shared a lot of details about upcoming and derailed projects (one of which, Red Cars, sounds so fantastic that I wish I'd never heard about
it).Among other things, Cronenberg confirmed that Maps to the Stars, his first film to be made on American soil, is up next, assuming financing and a cast can be secured. The earliest the production could begin, though, is September, so we shouldn't expect anything soon. Also in the works for the director is Eastern Promises, the sex-trafficking, dead prostitute thriller he's making with Focus Features. The script is currently being rewritten and, though Cronenberg assumes he's still in line to direct, this film is definitely taking a back seat to Stars. Additionally, London Fields - based on Martin Amis' screenplay of his own novel - is "still a possibility," though it's now only the director's third priority.
Many more details are available here.
More on the National Society of Film Critics Awards
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On the Los Angeles Times website, Tom O'Neil offers a fascinating look at
the voting behind the National Society of Film Critics Awards. As I reported in yesterday's
post on the group's honorees, it took six ballots for Capote
to be chosen as best picture - the details of the voting, however, are fascinating. The first ballot is conducted either
in person or by proxy, so the vote of each member, whether they're at the meeting or not (this year's was held in New
York, at Sardi's restaurant). After those 55 votes were counted, A
History of Violence was in first place, but its lead over Brokeback Mountain was not substantial enough to give it an outright victory. As a result,
a second vote was taken, but this time only the 26 critics at the meet were allowed to vote. In round two, those present
listed their three favorites (awarding three points to the one at the top of their personal list) of the five films that
received the most votes in round one: Violence, Brokeback, 2046,
Capote, and The
World. Still with me?After the second round, A History of Violence had taken a substantial lead over Brokeback Mountain, but it still didn't have enough points to win (a winner must have the most points and be listed on the majority of ballots). If no winner has been chosen by the fifth round, the rules stipulate that only the top thee vote-getters - in this case, A History of Violence, 2046, and Capote - compete; after that vote, 2046 had the fewest points and was dropped. So, in round six, the remaining voters simply chose between the works of Bennett Miller and David Cronenberg. As we know, Capote won - but the victory was by a single vote.
O'Neil's article also lists the vote totals (and number of ballot) for the other major categories and is worth a read - it's not often we're allowed a behind-the-scenes look at how the winners of major awards are selected.
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