DONLOE'S LOWDOWN'S TOP 10 FILMS OF 2012

2012 turned out to be a great year for films.  Here is Donloes Lowdown’s pick for best pix of 2012. 

1.     ZERO DARK THIRTY – A drama about the hunt for Bin Laden. Jessica Chastain stars as Amy, the woman behind the hunt for the most hated man in the world.

2.     FLIGHT – Denzel Washington stars as an alcoholic, junkie pilot who pulls off an impossible maneuver that saves the majority of the people on a doomed flight.

3.     DJANGO UNCHAINED – Quentin Tarantino flexes his muscle again in a movie about a slave turned bounty hunter.  The film stars Jamie Foxx in the title role. He is joined by an all-star cast that includes Samuel L Jackson, Kerry Washington, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christoph Waltz and Don Johnson.

JOHN GOODMAN, ALAN ARKIN and BEN AFFLECK
in ARGO

4.     ARGO – Ben Affleck is really making his mark on the film industry as a really good director.  This is a fabulous movie full of suspense, intrigue and history

5.     BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD – Benh Zeitlin proves to be an extraordinary director, while Quvenzhane Wallis proves to be a capable little actress.  Excellent debut effort by Zeitlin.

DANIEL DAY LEWIS is LINCOLN

6.     LINCOLN – Daniel Day Lewis will prove to be Denzel Washington’s competition in this year’s best actor race. Lewis is incredible as Lincoln.  Steven Spielberg does it once again. Kudos to James Spader and Sally Field.

7.     LES MISERABLES – This is a classic. Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway will be the recipients of many acting awards. Kudos to Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech)

8.     SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK – This is a quirky, thought-provoking film. Bradley Cooper, who plays a bipolar man who was recently released, does some of his best work, as does Robert Dinero and Chris Tucker.

9.     MIDDLE OF NOWHERE – Ava Duvernay’s second feature film about a woman trying to figure out her life proves to be a winner.  Duvernay was the first African American woman to win the Sundance Film Festival.

10.   SKYFALL and THINK LIKE A MAN – These two films tied for tenth place.  Skyfall is James Bond’s latest flick, directed by Sam Mendes and starring Daniel Craig and Javier Bardem. It feels real and authentic. The best James Bond movie to date.   Steve Harvey’s Think Like a Man is a drop-dead funny look at male/female relationships.  The result is HIGH-LARIOUS!!!!

“RISE OF THE GUARDIANS” wins for best-animated feature. 

Honorable Mentions

LIFE OF PI

THE MASTER

CELEBS TALK ABOUT HOLIDAY TRADITIONS

Donloes Lowdown asked celebrities: What do you look forward to the most during the holiday season? Any family traditions? 

 SMOKEY ROBINSON

SMOKEY ROBINSON: I think what I look forward to the most is the feeling of the Christmas season. There is another kind of feeling in the air when Christmas is approaching. There is a festive kind of feeling. When in lived in Detroit, I had the snow and it felt like it, in L.A. you don’t get that.

GARCELLE BEAUVAIS (Flight): For me it’s about being with the family, not rushing around getting to school, karate or meetings. It’s about eating. During the holidays, no one cares about diets.

DAVID ST LOUIS (Intimate Apparel):  All I want to do is eat. I’ll do Christmas at home in D.C.   I love my family.  

TICHINA ARNOLD

TICHINA ARNOLD (Everybody Hates Chris/Martin): I look forward to sleeping during holiday time because I get a chance to sit my behind down and be still. My family on my mom’s side, we always have the tradition of meeting at grandma’s house. Last year it was at my uncle’s house. It’s always a wonderful time. One year we made it a wedding reception for all of the family who couldn’t come to the wedding. I like shopping and sleeping.  I usually do a lot of appearances – internationally, like Africa, Brazil, China and Korea.  I have friends who sing around the world.

 DANE COOK

DANE COOK:  Quite simply I love being home for the holidays. I like to have people over. A lot of love and laughs. In the kitchen, I like to help. I’ll pass you the spatula.

SIEDAH GARRETT: – I look forward to work slowing down so I can exhale. We don’t have family traditions. I’m often out of the country around the holidays.

GREGORY PORTER - I look forward to dinners. I love to cook. Holiday dinner as a family is what I look forward to. Being with my brother and people in the neighborhood. As soon as you put on Nat King Cole, it’s Christmas time. My mother taught me cooking. So I’ll do a leg of lamb, turkey, sweet potato pies and garlic mashed potatoes.

LUENELL

LUENELL - My mother and father are deceased, so I have my holiday with my friends. I want a big spread at my house. On Christmas Eve, I have eggnog, cookies, cakes and pies.  I always play the movie, This Christmas with Chris Brown and Loretta Devine. That’s my tradition. 

 REGINALD HUDLIN

REGINALD HUDLIN (Producer “Django”): Holiday traditions – I have new holiday traditions through wife and kids.  My kids love having a real tree. We grew up with trees we got out of the attic and assembled. It was silver. I miss ghetto Christmas.

Reginald Hudlin Talks About 'Django Unchained'

 

REGINALD HUDLIN

Django Unchained has to be one of the most talked about and highly-anticipated movies of 2012. 

Directed by Quentin Tarantino and featuring a star-studded cast that includes, Academy Award® winner Jamie Foxx (Ray) in the title role and featuring Samuel L. Jackson, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington and Don Johnson.  There are cameos by Bruce Dern, Lee Horsley and Jonah Hill.   

Django Unchained, which recently received four Golden Globe nominations, is an enlightening, controversial and entertaining film that is not for the faint of heart when it comes to extreme amounts violence.  

 

CHRISTOPH WALTZ and JAMIE FOXX

Set for a Christmas (Dec. 25) release, the racially-charged Django Unchained is set in the South two years before the Civil War. Foxx plays Django (the “D” is silent), a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Academy Award®-winner Christoph Waltz). Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers. He enlists the help of Django is finding the brothers, bringing them to justice and splitting the bounty. Schultz and Django form a partnership that eventually leads to them hunting down Django’s wife, Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), who has been sold to the Calvin Candie (DiCaprio), who is the owner of the infamous ‘Candyland’ plantation. The brutality of slavery is coupled with a tinge of humor – Quentin Tarantino style!

DIRECTOR QUENTIN TARANTINO

Tarantino’s direction is epic and intimate, squeezing a full range of emotions and drama from his A-list thespians.

The controversy, if there really is one, surrounds the excessive use of the word nigger. It’s been rumored to have been uttered some 110 times.

I recently caught up with Reginald Hudlin, one of the producers of the film.

DD: How and why did you become involved in Django?

RH: Well, inadvertently 15 years ago, Quentin and I have been friends for a long time. We got into a passionate conversation about slavery films and how they fall short. I said, Spartacus, until we made a movie like that, I wasn’t interested. Little did I know he carried that thought for quite some time. He called me last year and said he was ready.

DD: What is the criteria for producing a movie?

RH: Is it a movie I want to see? With Django I couldn’t wait to see it. I was super excited.  The movie is dealing with a painful part of our American history. It’s dealing with us as a hero, not a victim. Django goes to hell to save his wife. I can’t name another movie with that as a topic. 

LEONARDO DICAPRIO

DD: As the producer what, specifically, did you do?

RH: I did whatever needed to be done at any given time. We talked about actors. We went location scouting together. I did research on different historical aspects of the film. I was dealing with logistics, our internship program and marketing. When you’re doing a movie this big, it’s an endless task.

DD: A movie about slavery in 2012 – does it lighten the blow because there are some light-hearted moments?

RH:  Well, I think a movie can be serious and not have to be solemn. In life, you know there are all kinds of things that happen. Some things that happen are humorous in horror. The most important thing is that the movie has catharsis. We’re not victims. 

JAMIE FOXX is DJANGO and LEONARDO DICAPRIO is CALVIN CANDIE, 

the heartless slave owner of the infamous CANDYLAND plantation

 

DD: The word Nigger. I stopped counting at 75. I know it’s the times, but did you have a problem with it?

RH: I know that’s become controversial. That’s an extraordinary waste of time. People get hung up on linguistic violence. This is a movie about black love. It’s a movie about the relationship between blacks and whites. I can think of 15 other important things more important.  It’s a controversy out of ignorance.

DD: So, what have you heard about the controversy?

RH: Matt Drudge, he’s a right wing guy. I presume he hasn’t seen the film. He’s trying to use a race thing as a wedge to say black folks don’t support this movie, they use the word nigga a lot. This is a movie about our people. There was a lot of pain put upon us at that time. We were denied the right to love. Django and Broomhilda loved each other. 

CHRISTOPH WALTZ and JAMIE FOXX

DD: Talk about working with Quentin and this all-star cast.

RH: It was incredible. It was the all-star team of all- star teams. Two Oscar winners and then you’ve got people who have been nominated.  Kerry Washington will clearly get an Oscar of her own one day. They all worked well together. It was wonderful.

Django Unchained is written and directed by Academy Award®-winner Quentin Tarantino, produced by Stacey Sher, Hudlin and Pilar Savone. The executive producers are Harvey and Bob Weinstein, Michael Shamberg, Shannon McIntosh and James Skotchdopole.

Running time: 165 minutes.

Zero Dark Thirty Reveals Osama bin Laden Search

 

Zero Dark Thirty is a disturbing and enlightening film. It’s disturbing because it shows the lengths the U.S. goes to in order to hunt down its enemies. It’s enlightening because it shows the lengths the U.S. goes to in order to hunt down its enemies.

The opening sequence of the film sets the tone for the film. It opens with a water- boarding sequence that is so emotional the audience will feel like it’s drowning.

Dan (Jason Clarke) is the person inflicting pain on the starved and naked captive in order to get information.  He’s truly scary when he says, “When you lie to me, I hurt you.” 

YIKES!!!!!

Actually the character of Dan is both menacing and kind – offering food when he’s not torturing his prisoner.  The scenes between the two are incredibly intense because you never know when Dan is going to turn.

Zero Dark Thirty is Kathryn Bigelow’s (The Hurt Locker) re-creation of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. It’s so well done and in your face with reality – that it’s frighteningly authentic and revealing.

JESSICA CHASTAIN is Maya

Who knew there was a woman in charge of the hunt for the most hated man in the world. Maya played impressively by Jessica Chastain is the young CIA analyst put in charge of an impossible task. The movie is told through the eyes of Maya, who, up until recently, was a little-known participant in the intel hunt.

Eventually the captive gives up a name: Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, whom he claims works as a courier for bin Laden.

The search begins. Maya takes the name and literally runs with hit. She is a dogged advocate for capturing bin Laden. She becomes quite obsessive and focused on figuring out just where he could be hiding. 

 JESSICA CHASTAIN is Maya in Zero Dark Thirty

Of course, things don’t go as expected. Information keeps changing, which throws a wrench or two or three into Maya’s efforts.  But that does not deter her. Au contraire.  It makes her more focused and determined. If Chastain is truly playing Maya, this woman is incredibly impressive and deserves every honor the government can and should give her.

“I had three months to get ready for the film before shooting,” said Chastain regarding preparing for the movie. “I went to school, asked questions and read books. I was never able to meet the real undercover agent. I had to fill in the blanks.”

Bigelow was intrigued when she found out there was a woman at the helm of the investigation of and search for bin Laden.

"If the character at the center of that hunt had been a man, I would have been interested as well," said Bigelow. "She is defined by her actions. It was an exciting time. I was thrilled and excited about it being a woman." 

While it is a movie and, of course, some creative license was taken, Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal say all the characters are authentic.

“All the characters are based on real people, but the people are restructured,” said Boal.

 JOEL EDGERTON

In discussing the film’s reality, Bigelow said: “The Department of Defense didn’t vet the screenplay. Had we gone down that road, we would have.”

Bigelow wanted to do the film because she thought the story was “riveting.”

“The story gave us a glimpse of the intelligence on the ground and hunting the most wanted man in the world,” said Bigelow. “The price they paid and some of the colleagues who didn’t survive.”

Bigelow knows how to capture intensity on film. In fact, it’s so palpable, you can feel your heartbeat coming out of your chest.

Her staging of the deadly raid on the compound is edge-of-your-seat drama.

It’s enlightening to witness how the Navy SEALS go about their work, doing their duty with such prowess, expertise and bravery.

Kudos to everyone involved in this film.

Zero Dark Thirty is thrilling, overwhelming and tensely action-packed.

Zero Dark Thirty, directed by Oscar® winning director Kathryn Bigelow and written by her creative partner Mark Boal, stars Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton, Mark Strong, Jennifer Ehle, Kyle Chandler, Edgar Ramirez.

Zero Dark Thirty (Columbia) is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for Strong Violence including brutal disturbing images, and for language.

On the Donloe Scale: D (don’t know), O (oh, no), N (needs work), L (likeable), O (ok, outstanding) and E (excellent), Zero Dark Thirty gets an E (excellent).

CTG Announces Writer Workshop Participants

Eight Local Playwrights Have Been Chosen For Annual Nine-Month Workshop

Center Theatre Group has announced the participants for the 2012-2013 Writers’ Workshop.  Administered by CTG’s Literary Department, the Writers’ Workshop consists of eight Los Angeles playwrights who meet once a month over nine months to share their work and assist one another in the creative process of developing a play.

This year’s playwrights are Zakiyyah Alexander, Sheila Callaghan, Jonathan Ceniceroz, a musical composing team of Matt Gould and Griffin Matthews, Meg Miroshnik, Tanya Saracho and John Sinner.

The Writers’ Workshop provides an opportunity for CTG to foster relationships with local playwrights, to facilitate progress by providing resources and to bring together the local playwright community. The writers are welcome to work on plays commissioned by or scheduled for production at other theatres.

Literary Manager and Resident Dramaturg Pier Carlo Talenti and Literary Associate Joy Meads follow numerous local playwrights and invite approximately seven to participate each year. All writers must reside in Los Angeles and be either starting or interested in starting work on a new play. Talenti and Meads look for local writers from diverse backgrounds with varied writing styles who are challenging themselves and their audiences, and this year’s writers are no exception. 

 “What’s exciting about these writers is that they all write extremely differently, and that they all write especially theatrically,” said Talenti of this year’s writers. From playwright John Sinner who writes “very expressionist pieces” to Meg Miroshnik who “recently wrote a hybridized contemporary Russian fairytale.”

Of Sheila Callaghan, Meads said, “She’s a bold writer who creates these images that just explode in your mind.  She dreams up idiosyncratic characters and drops them into strange theatrical worlds with the highest possible stakes.” Talenti explained that this is the first year that the Writers’ Workshop has taken on a musical composing team.  “Matt Gould is the composer and Griffin Matthews is the lyricist.  I got to know their work through a piece called ‘Witness Uganda’ that was workshopped at Boston Court last year.  It was a beautiful piece, and I think that Matt’s songs are incredibly theatrical and lush and big and powerful.”

 Tanya Saracho, unlike most of the other playwrights, is new to L.A. “She had founded a company in Chicago called Teatro Luna,” said Talenti. Meads added, “It was a Latina female ensemble and she wrote with them for a long time.  She writes people that you feel like you know intimately and that have depth and complication.” Zakiyyah Alexander “writes deeply human work with grand imagination. She takes an unflinching look at vitally important social questions,” and of Jonathan Ceniceroz’s most recent play, Talenti said that “it’s got these wonderful, grand emotional gestures; it’s full of delicious, old-fashioned pathos.” 

Meg Miroshnik is a recent winner of the $50,000 Whiting Writers’ Award, which recognizes exceptional writers who have yet to achieve national prominence.

The Writers’ Workshop began with a weekend-long salon in October. Each playwright identified local experts on the subject of his/her play and invited these experts to join the group for a discussion during the salon. Past guest experts have included an LAPD homicide detective, the creator of Kwanzaa, a Cal Tech seismologist and a Los Angeles Times writer.  Guests for the most recent salon included sculptor Alison Saar, thanatologist David Kessler, Assistant Professor of Cinematic Arts at USC Laura Isabel Serna, divorce attorney Daniel Jaffe, founder of the Vet Hunters Project Joe Leal and USC assistant professor of American Studies Shana Redmond. 

In the monthly meetings, the playwrights can hear their pages read aloud by colleagues, invite additional experts, discuss relevant issues, or work with other members on improvisation exercises to further scene development.

In June 2013, members will gather for a three-day retreat during which they hear all seven plays that were written over the course of the workshop.  CTG hires professional actors to do cold readings throughout the retreat.

Several of the plays written and developed in the Writers’ Workshop have been produced around the country, including Lisa Loomer’s “Distracted,” which had its world premiere at CTG/Mark Taper Forum, Julie Marie Myatt’s “My Wandering Boy” (South Coast Repertory), Adriana Sevahn Nichols’ “Night Over Erzinga” (Golden Thread/Silk Road Rising co-production) and Brett Neveu’s “The Opponent” (A Red Orchid Theatre).  Julie Hébert’s dance-theater piece “Night Falls” was performed in San Francisco this fall and Lila Rose Kaplan’s “Entangled” premiered at UC Santa Barbara’s Launch Pad in 2012.

In addition, CTG is also producing the world premieres of Jennifer Haley’s “The Nether” and Marco Ramirez’s “The Royale” in its current Kirk Douglas Theatre season.  Haley was a member of the 2011- 2012 Writer’s Workshop, and Ramirez was in the 2010-2011 workshop. 

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December 19, 2012

Celebrity Pressure On United Nations Leads To Haiti Anti-Cholera Initiative

DUE TO GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGN

AND PRESSURE FROM CELEBRITIES  

OLIVIA WILDE, BEN STILLER, PATRICIA ARQUETTE, RAIN WILSON, OLIVER STONE, DANNY GLOVER, MARIA BELLO, ELON MUSK, INCUBUS' BRANDON BOYD 

 AND DOZENS MORE!

 

Los Angeles, CA (13 December 2012) – Pressure on the United Nations to take action to fight cholera in Haiti reached a tipping point today thanks to a grassroots activism campaign lead by the U.S.-based organization RYOT and the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti. The #UNDENY campaign shed light, gathered momentum and gained celebrity support pushing the United Nations to take responsibility for an epidemic raging out of control. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today an anti-cholera initiative aimed at raising money to eliminate the disease in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Initially, $215 million in existing funds from bilateral and multilateral donors will be used to support the initiative.

Celebrities and high-profile individuals who viewed the film, such as Olivia Wilde and Elon Musk (producers of the film Baseball in the Time of Cholera), Ben Stiller, Maria Bello, Patricia Arquette, Oliver Stone, Rainn Wilson, Danny Glover and Incubus lead singer Brandon Boyd along with dozens of others, helped create a social media maelstrom that launched #UNDENY to the Top 5 Twitter trending hashtags in July and garnered the film nearly 300,000 views online.

Cholera arrived in Haiti just a few months after the earthquake in 2010, and strong evidence shows that U.N. peacekeepers brought the disease to the island. President Bill Clinton acknowledged that U.N. soldiers were the "proximate cause" of the cholera, major publications such as The Economist, New York Times, BBC News, USA Today, Huffington Post and dozens of celebrities and cause experts have laid the blame on the U.N., however, U.N. officials have yet to take any blame or issue an apology.

The World Premiere of the RYOT film Baseball in the Time of Cholera at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival in July, 2012 was the first major step in the grassroots advocacy campaign “UNDENY” that exposed the U.N.’s role in the cholera epidemic and led to the announcement today. The film follows the cholera outbreak through the lives of Haiti’s first Little League baseball team, portraying the disaster as a major U.N. scandal. Baseball in the Time of Cholera and UNDENY gained further traction after screenings on Capitol Hill and in London at the Olympic games: 104 members of Congress signed an official letter to Ambassador Susan Rice, urging the U.N. to take responsibility and take action to prevent further damage, and Esquire Magazine featured the film and RYOT co-founders Bryn Mooser and David Darg as 2012 Americans of the Year.

“It is great to see the power of the people at work, with the power of social media the world is watching much closer and speaking louder” Said Bryn Mooser, one of RYOT’s co-founders. “The UNDENY project of RYOT’s is a true indicator of the power of a grassroots, social media movement to drive change and force the writers of history to address — if not take full responsibility for — their actions.”

“This is the reason we founded RYOT,” added co-founder David Darg. “Martin Luther King said, ’A riot is the language of the unheard,’ and it is our goal through RYOT to give a voice to the voiceless.”

Although there is no explicit mention of the cause of the cholera outbreak in the U.N. press announcement, by launching this cholera initiative, they are implicitly noting their responsibility in the epidemic. RYOT’s Baseball in the Time of Cholera and UNDENY campaign palyed a vital role in forcing the U.N.’s hand.

RYOT

Everyday we turn to news outlets to get reports of recent events or learn previously unknown information. Up until now, news has been all about "What's going on in the world?" RYOT lets you know "What's going on in the world and how YOU can be a part of it." RYOT is the only news outlet bringing you updates as they happen and letting you become part of the story. With RYOT, you Become the News. The RYOT Foundation also exists to elevate at risk children to a place of safety in the developing world. Through innovative projects and strategic partnerships, RYOT foundation focuses on sustainable ways to foster hope in the midst of despair. We believe children everywhere should not only have access to basic needs such as food, water and shelter but that they also have the right to joy and fun. The RYOT Foundation not only focuses on essential relief but also funds programs that allow kids to be kids, no matter what their surroundings dictate. The key to a better world isn’t just keeping the next generation alive, it’s about allowing the next generation to be creative, to love and appreciate life and ultimately, to dream. Visit RYOT.org

BASEBALL IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA

As a Cholera epidemic rages in Haiti, the United Nations denies it is responsible for introducing the disease despite glaring evidence suggesting Nepalese peacekeepers are to blame. Baseball in the Time of Cholera is the story of a young Haitian boy who plays in Haiti's first little league baseball team and the Haitian Lawyer seeking justice against the UN. As the epidemic spreads, the two stories intersect in the struggle for survival and justice. The film Baseball In The Time of Cholera has over 250,000 views on Youtube, watch it here

 

Golden Globe Nominations Announced Today

   

The 2013 Golden Globe nominations were announced today. The 70th annual awards ceremony will air on Sun., Jan. 13, 2013. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association surprised with some nods that were given, as well as nods that were not given. Of course, movies like "Zero Dark Thirty," "Argo" and "Lincoln" were all selected for Best Picture. And, as expected Daniel Day-Lewis got a Best Acting nod for "Lincoln," as did Denzel Washington for "Flight."  Quentin Tarantino's latest film, Django, starring Jamie Foxx as a slave, grabbed several nominations. The complete list is below. 

1.    BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
a.    ARGO 
Warner Bros. Pictures, GK Films, Smokehouse Pictures; Warner Bros. Pictures
b.    DJANGO UNCHAINED 
The Weinstein Company, Columbia Pictures; The Weinstein Company/Sony Pictures Releasing
c.    LIFE OF PI 
Fox 2000 Pictures; Twentieth Century Fox
d.    LINCOLN 
DreamWorks Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox; Touchstone Pictures
e.    ZERO DARK THIRTY 
Columbia Pictures and Annapurna Pictures; Sony Pictures Releasing

2.    BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
a.    Jessica Chastain     ZERO DARK THIRTY
b.    Marion Cotillard    RUST AND BONE
c.    Helen Mirren    HITCHCOCK
d.    NAOMI WATTS     THE IMPOSSIBLE
e.    Rachel Weisz     THE DEEP BLUE SEA

3. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
a.    Daniel Day-Lewis     LINCOLN
b.    Richard Gere         ARBITRAGE
c.    JOHN HAWKES         THE SESSIONS
d.    Joaquin Phoenix     THE MASTER
e.    Denzel Washington FLIGHT

4.    BEST MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
a.    THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL 
Blueprint Pictures/Participant Media; Fox Searchlight Pictures
b.    LES MISERABLES 
Universal Pictures, A Working Title Films/Cameron Mackintosh Productions; Universal Pictures
c.    MOONRISE KINGDOM 
Indian Paintbrush; Focus Features
d.    SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN 
CBS Films; CBS Films
e.    SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK 
The Weinstein Company; The Weinstein Company

5.    BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
a.    Emily Blunt         SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN
b.    Judi Dench             THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL
c.    Jennifer Lawrence  SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
d.    Maggie Smith         QUARTET
e.    Meryl Streep         HOPE SPRINGS

6. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
a.    Jack Black             BERNIE
b.    BRADLEY COOPER     SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
c.    Hugh Jackman         LES MISERABLES
d.    Ewan McGregor     SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN
e.    Bill Murray         HYDE PARK ON HUDSON

7.    BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
a.    BRAVE 
Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios; Walt Disney Pictures
b.    FRANKENWEENIE 
Walt Disney Pictures; Walt Disney Pictures
c.    HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 
Columbia Pictures / Sony Pictures Animation; Sony Pictures Releasing
d.    RISE OF THE GUARDIANS 
DreamWorks Animation LLC; Paramount Pictures
e.    WRECK-IT RALPH 
Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios; Walt Disney Pictures

8.    BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
a.    AMOUR (AUSTRIA) 
Les Films Du Losange, X Filme Creative Pool, Wega Film; Sony Pictures Classics
b.    A ROYAL AFFAIR (DENMARK) 
(En kongelig affære) 
Zentropa Entertainment; Magnolia Pictures
c.    THE INTOUCHABLES (FRANCE) 
(Les Intouchables) 
The WeinstenCompany, Quad Productions, Gaumont, TF1 Films Production, Ten Films, Chaocorp; The Weinstein Company
d.    KON-TIKI (NORWAY/UK/DENMARK) 
Nordisk Film Production, Recorded Picture Company
e.    RUST AND BONE (FRANCE) 
(De rouille et d’os) 
Page 114, Why Not Productions; Sony Pictures Classics

9. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
a.    Amy Adams             THE MASTER
b.    Sally Field             LINCOLN
c.    Anne Hathaway     LES MISERABLES
d.    Helen Hunt         THE SESSIONS
e.    Nicole Kidman         THE PAPERBOY

10. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE
a.    Alan Arkin                 ARGO
b.    Leonardo DiCaprio         DJANGO UNCHAINED
c.    Philip Seymour Hoffman  THE MASTER
d.    Tommy Lee Jones          LINCOLN
e.    Christoph Waltz         DJANGO UNCHAINED

11. BEST DIRECTOR – MOTION PICTURE
a.    Ben Affleck             ARGO
b.    Kathryn Bigelow         ZERO DARK THIRTY
c.    Ang Lee                 LIFE OF PI
d.    Steven Spielberg         LINCOLN
e.    Quentin Tarantino         DJANGO UNCHAINED

12. BEST SCREENPLAY – MOTION PICTURE
a.    Mark Boal                 ZERO DARK THIRTY
b.    Tony Kushner             LINCOLN
c.    David O. Russell         SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
d.    Quentin Tarantino         DJANGO UNCHAINED
e.    CHRIS TERRIO             ARGO

13. BEST ORIGINAL SCORE – MOTION PICTURE
a.    MYCHAEL DANNA         LIFE OF PI
b.    Alexandre Desplat     ARGO
c.    Dario Marianelli         ANNA KARENINA
d.    TOM TYKWER,            CLOUD ATLAS
e.     JOHNNY KLIMEK,
f.    REINHOLD HEIL
g.    John Williams             LINCOLN

14. BEST ORIGINAL SONG – MOTION PICTURE
a.    ”FOR YOU” — ACT OF VALOR 
Music by: Monty Powell, Keith Urban Lyrics by: Monty Powell, Keith Urban
b.    ”NOT RUNNING ANYMORE”—STAND UP GUYS 
Music by: Jon Bon Jovi Lyrics by: Jon Bon Jovi
c.    ”SAFE & SOUND” — THE HUNGER GAMES 
Music by: Taylor Swift, John Paul White, Joy Williams, T Bone Burnett Lyrics by: Taylor Swift, John Paul White, Joy Williams, T Bone Burnett
d.    ”SKYFALL”—SKYFALL 
Music by: Adele, Paul Epworth Lyrics by: Adele, Paul Epworth
e.    ”SUDDENLY” — LES MISERABLES 
Music by: Claude-Michel Schonberg
Lyrics by: Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schonberg

15. BEST TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA
a.    BREAKING BAD                 AMC 
Sony Pictures Television
b.    BOARDWALK EMPIRE    HBO 
Leverage, Closest to the Hole Productions, Sikelia Productions and Cold Front Productions in association with HBO Entertainment
c.    DOWNTON ABBEY: SEASON 2     PBS 
A Carnival / Masterpiece Co-Production
d.    HOMELAND                     SHOWTIME 
SHOWTIME, Teakwood Lane Productions, Cherry Pie Productions, Keshet, Fox 21
e.    THE NEWSROOM                 HBO 
HBO Entertainment

16. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA
a.    CONNIE BRITTON                 NASHVILLE
b.    Glenn Close                 DAMAGES
c.    Claire Danes                 HOMELAND
d.    MICHELLE DOCKERY             DOWNTON ABBEY: SEASON 2
e.    Julianna Margulies          THE GOOD WIFE

17. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA
a.    Steve Buscemi                 BOARDWALK EMPIRE
b.    Bryan Cranston              BREAKING BAD
c.    Jeff Daniels                 THE NEWSROOM
d.    Jon Hamm                      MAD MEN
e.    Damian Lewis                 HOMELAND

18. BEST TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
a.    THE BIG BANG THEORY                 CBS 
Chuck Lorre Productions, Inc. in association with Warner Bros. Television
b.    EPISODES                             SHOWTIME 
SHOWTIME, Hat Trick Productions, Crane Klarik Productions
c.    GIRLS                                 HBO 
Apatow Productions and I am Jenni Konner Productions in association with HBO Entertainment
d.    MODERN FAMILY                         ABC 
Levitan-Lloyd Productions in association with Twentieth Century Fox Television
e.    SMASH                                 NBC

19. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
a.    Zooey Deschanel                     NEW GIRL
b.    Julia Louis-Dreyfus                 VEEP
c.    LENA DUNHAM                         GIRLS
d.    Tina Fey                             30 ROCK
e.    Amy Poehler                         PARKS AND RECREATION

20. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY OR MUSICAL
a.    Alec Baldwin                         30 ROCK
b.    Don Cheadle                         HOUSE OF LIES
c.    LOUIS C.K.                             LOUIE
d.    Matt LeBlanc                         EPISODES
e.    Jim Parsons                             THE BIG BANG THEORY

21. BEST MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
a.    GAME CHANGE                         HBO 
Playtone and Everyman Pictures in association with HBO Films
b.    THE GIRL                             HBO 
A Wall to Wall, Warner Bros Entertainment GmbH, Moonlighting and BBC Production in association with HBO Films
c. HATFIELDS & MCCOYS                    HISTORY Thinkfactory Media in association with History
d.    THE HOUR                                        BBC AMERICA 
Kudos Film and Television/BBC America co-production
e.    POLITICAL ANIMALS                     USA NETWORK
Berlanti Productions and Laurence Mark Productions in association with Warner Horizon Television

22. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
a.    Nicole Kidman                     HEMINGWAY & GELLHORN
b.    Jessica Lange                     AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM
c.    SIENNA MILLER                     THE GIRL
d.    Julianne Moore                 GAME CHANGE
e.    Sigourney Weaver                  POLITICAL ANIMALS

23. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
a.    Kevin Costner                     HATFIELDS & MCCOYS
b.    BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH              SHERLOCK (MASTERPIECE)
c.    Woody Harrelson                 GAME CHANGE
d.    TOBY JONES                         THE GIRL
e.    Clive Owen                         HEMINGWAY & GELLHORN

24. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
a.    HAYDEN PANETTIERE                 NASHVILLE
b.    ARCHIE PANJABI                     THE GOOD WIFE
c.    Sarah Paulson                     GAME CHANGE
d.    Maggie Smith                     DOWNTON ABBEY: SEASON 2
e.    Sofia Vergara                      MODERN FAMILY

25. BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES, MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION
a.    MAX GREENFIELD                 NEW GIRL
b.    Ed Harris                         GAME CHANGE
c.    DANNY HUSTON                     MAGIC CITY
d.    Mandy Patinkin                 HOMELAND
e.    Eric Stonestreet                 MODERN FAMILY