If Beale Street Could Talk Archives - OMG Check It Out ! Sun, 24 Feb 2019 07:30:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 “Beale Street” Tops List of 2019 Indie Spirit Awards Winners https://omgcheckitout.com/beale-street-tops-list-of-2019-indie-spirit-awards-winners/ Sun, 24 Feb 2019 07:30:38 +0000 https://omgcheckitout.com/?p=30056 Trophies were handed out at the latest Independent Spirit Awards just ahead of the Oscars, and If Beale Street Could Talk came out swinging. The moving drama won several major awards, including the biggest honor of the night – best feature. Barry Jenkins, who helmed this adaptation of James Baldwin’s classic novel, walked away with […]

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]]> Trophies were handed out at the latest Independent Spirit Awards just ahead of the Oscars, and If Beale Street Could Talk came out swinging. The moving drama won several major awards, including the biggest honor of the night – best feature.

Barry Jenkins, who helmed this adaptation of James Baldwin’s classic novel, walked away with the best director award. Regina King collected a trophy for the best-supporting actress after a huge awards sweep at several major ceremonies that made her the Oscar favorite.

Jenkins used his acceptance speech to thank all the women who worked on this project, and who forced him to check his directorial ego and learn that he could not make a movie about women without women’s voices at the forefront. He also made a vow that each project he produces in the future will be “50% women”.

Full List of Winners – 2019 Indie Spirit Awards

Best Feature
If Beale Street Could Talk

Best Director
Barry Jenkins, If Beale Street Could Talk

Best Screenplay
Nicole Holofcener & Jeff Whitty, Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Best Female Lead
Glenn Close, The Wife

Best Male Lead
Ethan Hawke, First Reformed

Best Supporting Female
Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk

Best Supporting Male
Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Producers Award
Shrihari Sathe

Best Cinematography
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Suspiria

Best Documentary
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Robert Altm Award
Suspiria

Best First Feature
Sorry to Bother You
Best Editing
Joe Bini, You Were Never Really Here

Truer Than Fiction Award
Bing Liu, Director of Minding the Gap

Best International Film
Roma (Mexico)

Bonnie Award
Debra Granik

John Cassavetes Award
En El Septimo Dia

Best First Screenplay
Bo Burnham, Eighth Grade

Someone To Watch Award
Alex Moratto, Director of Sócrates

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]]> “Roma” Wins Big with Online Film Critics Society https://omgcheckitout.com/roma-wins-big-with-online-film-critics-society/ Thu, 03 Jan 2019 07:20:55 +0000 https://omgcheckitout.com/?p=28715 Alfonso Cuarón gave us one of the most powerfully personal stories of his career with Roma, and Online Film Critics recognized his efforts. This black and white, semi-autobiographical drama took home four awards at this ceremony. In addition the best picture, Roma also walked away with honors in additional three categories – best director, best […]

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]]> Alfonso Cuarón gave us one of the most powerfully personal stories of his career with Roma, and Online Film Critics recognized his efforts. This black and white, semi-autobiographical drama took home four awards at this ceremony.

In addition the best picture, Roma also walked away with honors in additional three categories – best director, best cinematography and best non-English speaking film. It was closely followed by the adaptation to James Baldwin’s classic If Beale Street Could Talk, which received a total of three awards.

The list of honorees features several Oscar hopefuls, but the online film critics made a couple of pretty unconventional and refreshing choices. Toni Collette has beaten the likes of Olivia Colman and Lady Gaga to be named best actress, while Michael B. Jordan walked away with best-supporting actor award for Black Panther!

Full list of winners at 2019 Online Film Critics Society Awards:

Best Picture – Roma

Best Animated Feature – Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Best Director – Alfonso Cuarón (Roma)

Best Actor – Ethan Hawke (First Reformed)

Best Actress – Toni Collette (Hereditary)

Best Supporting Actor – Michael B. Jordan (Black Panther)

Best Supporting Actress– Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk)

Best Original Screenplay – Paul Schrader (First Reformed)

Best Adapted Screenplay – Barry Jenkins (If Beale Street Could Talk)

Best Editing– Eddie Hamilton (Mission: Impossible – Fallout)

Best Cinematography – Alfonso Cuarón (Roma)

Best Original Score – Nicholas Britell (If Beale Street Could Talk)

Best Debut Feature – Ari Aster (Hereditary)

Best Film Not in the English Language – Roma

Best Documentary – Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Technical Achievement Awards:

Annihilation – Best Visual Effects

Black Panther – Best Costume Design

Mission: Impossible – Fallout – Best Stunt Coordination

A Quiet Place – Best Sound Design

A Star Is Born – Best Original Songs

Lifetime Achievement Awards:

Roger Deakins

Spike Lee

Rita Moreno

Robert Redford

 Agnès Varda

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]]> The Full List of Nominees for the 2019 Independent Spirit Awards is Here https://omgcheckitout.com/2019-independent-spirit-awards-nominations/ Sat, 17 Nov 2018 13:04:40 +0000 https://omgcheckitout.com/?p=27436 Film Independent just released the full list of nominees for the latest edition of the Indie Spirit Awards – and it’s their most diverse group to date. We the Animals led the way with five nominations, thanks to nods in several technical categories, but failed to score one for the best feature. Critically acclaimed dramas […]

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]]> Film Independent just released the full list of nominees for the latest edition of the Indie Spirit Awards – and it’s their most diverse group to date. We the Animals led the way with five nominations, thanks to nods in several technical categories, but failed to score one for the best feature.

Critically acclaimed dramas Eighth Grade, First Reformed and You Were Never Really Here received four nominations each. They’ll compete against If Beale Street Could Talk and Leave No Trace for the coveted best feature award.

Acting nods went to several Oscar contenders, including Regina King (Beale Street), Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) and Adam Driver (BlacKkKlansman) and a couple of more long shots. Many of the Oscar-contending films do not qualify for the Spirit Awards, but this ceremony has been a very good indicator of Academy Award success in the past.

The Independent Spirit Awards will air on February 23, 2019, with Nick Kroll and John Mulaney taking on hosting duty for the third time.

Full List Of 2019 Independent Spirit Awards Nominations

Best Feature
If Beale Street Could Talk
Eighth Grade
First Reformed
You Were Never Really Here
Leave No Trace

Best Director
Debra Granik (Leave No Trace)
Barry Jenkins (If Beale Street Could Talk)
Tamara Jenkins (Private Life)
Lynne Ramsay (You Were Never Really Here)
Paul Schrader (First Reformed)

Best First Feature
Hereditary
Sorry to Bother You
The Tale
We the Animals
Wildlife

Best Female Lead
Glenn Close (The Wife)
Toni Collette (Hereditary)
Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade)
Regina Hall (Support the Girls)
Helena Howard (Madeline’s Madeline)
Carey Mulligan (Wildlife)

Best Male Lead
John Cho (Searching)
Daveed Diggs (Blindspotting)
Ethan Hawke (First Reformed)
Christian Malheiros (Sócrates)
Joaquin Phoenix (You Were Never Really Here)

Best Supporting Female
Kayli Carter (Private Life)
Tyne Daly (A Bread Factory)
Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk)
Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie (Leave No Trace)
J. Smith-Cameron (Nancy)

Best Supporting Male
Raúl Castillo (We the Animals)
Adam Driver (BlackKklansman)
Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
Josh Hamilton (Eighth Grade)
John David Washington (Monsters and Men)

Best Screenplay
Collete (Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Wash Westmoreland; Story By: Richard Glatzer)
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty)
Private Life (Tamara Jenkins)
Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley)
First Reformed (Paul Schrader)

Best First Screenplay
Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham)
Nancy (Christina Choe)
Thoroughbreds (Cory Finley)
The Tale (Jennifer Fox)
Blame (Writer and Story By: Quinn Shephard; Story By: Laurie Shephard)

Best Cinematography
Madeline’s Madeline (Ashley Connor)
Wildlife (Diego Garcia)
Mandy (Benjamin Loeb)
Suspiria (Sayombhu Mukdeeprom)
We the Animals (Zak Mulligan)

Best Editing
You Were Never Really Here (Joe Bini)
We the Animals (Keiko Deguchi, Brian A. Kates, and Jeremiah Zagar)
American Animals (Luke Dunkley, Nick Fenton, Chris Gill, and Julian Hart)
The Tale (Anne Fabini, Alex Hall, and Gary Levy)
Mid90s (Nick Houy)

John Cassavetes Award
A Bread Factory
En El Séptimo Día
Never Goin’ Back
Sócrates
Thunder Road

Robert Altman Award
The director and cast of Suspiria

Best Documentary
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Minding the Gap
Of Fathers and Sons
On Her Shoulders
Shirkers
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Best International Film
Burning (South Korea)
The Favourite (United Kingdom)
Happy As Lazarro (Italy)
Roma (Mexico)
Shoplifters (Japan)

Piaget Producers Award
Jonathan Duffy and Kelly Williams
Gabrielle Nadig
Shrihari Sathe

Annual Kiehl’s Someone to Watch Award
Alex Moratto (Sócrates)
Ioana Uricaru (Lemonade)
Jeremiah Zagar (We the Animals)

Truer Than Fiction Award
On Her Shoulders (Alexandria Bombach)
Minding the Gap (Bing Liu)
Hale Country This Morning, This Evening (RaMell Ross)

Annual Bonnie Award
Debra Granik
Tamara Jenkins
Karyn Kusama

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]]> ersion="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> If Beale Street Could Talk Archives - OMG Check It Out ! Sun, 24 Feb 2019 07:30:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 “Beale Street” Tops List of 2019 Indie Spirit Awards Winners https://omgcheckitout.com/beale-street-tops-list-of-2019-indie-spirit-awards-winners/ Sun, 24 Feb 2019 07:30:38 +0000 https://omgcheckitout.com/?p=30056 Trophies were handed out at the latest Independent Spirit Awards just ahead of the Oscars, and If Beale Street Could Talk came out swinging. The moving drama won several major awards, including the biggest honor of the night – best feature. Barry Jenkins, who helmed this adaptation of James Baldwin’s classic novel, walked away with […]

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]]> Trophies were handed out at the latest Independent Spirit Awards just ahead of the Oscars, and If Beale Street Could Talk came out swinging. The moving drama won several major awards, including the biggest honor of the night – best feature.

Barry Jenkins, who helmed this adaptation of James Baldwin’s classic novel, walked away with the best director award. Regina King collected a trophy for the best-supporting actress after a huge awards sweep at several major ceremonies that made her the Oscar favorite.

Jenkins used his acceptance speech to thank all the women who worked on this project, and who forced him to check his directorial ego and learn that he could not make a movie about women without women’s voices at the forefront. He also made a vow that each project he produces in the future will be “50% women”.

Full List of Winners – 2019 Indie Spirit Awards

Best Feature
If Beale Street Could Talk

Best Director
Barry Jenkins, If Beale Street Could Talk

Best Screenplay
Nicole Holofcener & Jeff Whitty, Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Best Female Lead
Glenn Close, The Wife

Best Male Lead
Ethan Hawke, First Reformed

Best Supporting Female
Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk

Best Supporting Male
Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Producers Award
Shrihari Sathe

Best Cinematography
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Suspiria

Best Documentary
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Robert Altm Award
Suspiria

Best First Feature
Sorry to Bother You
Best Editing
Joe Bini, You Were Never Really Here

Truer Than Fiction Award
Bing Liu, Director of Minding the Gap

Best International Film
Roma (Mexico)

Bonnie Award
Debra Granik

John Cassavetes Award
En El Septimo Dia

Best First Screenplay
Bo Burnham, Eighth Grade

Someone To Watch Award
Alex Moratto, Director of Sócrates

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]]> “Roma” Wins Big with Online Film Critics Society https://omgcheckitout.com/roma-wins-big-with-online-film-critics-society/ Thu, 03 Jan 2019 07:20:55 +0000 https://omgcheckitout.com/?p=28715 Alfonso Cuarón gave us one of the most powerfully personal stories of his career with Roma, and Online Film Critics recognized his efforts. This black and white, semi-autobiographical drama took home four awards at this ceremony. In addition the best picture, Roma also walked away with honors in additional three categories – best director, best […]

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]]> Alfonso Cuarón gave us one of the most powerfully personal stories of his career with Roma, and Online Film Critics recognized his efforts. This black and white, semi-autobiographical drama took home four awards at this ceremony.

In addition the best picture, Roma also walked away with honors in additional three categories – best director, best cinematography and best non-English speaking film. It was closely followed by the adaptation to James Baldwin’s classic If Beale Street Could Talk, which received a total of three awards.

The list of honorees features several Oscar hopefuls, but the online film critics made a couple of pretty unconventional and refreshing choices. Toni Collette has beaten the likes of Olivia Colman and Lady Gaga to be named best actress, while Michael B. Jordan walked away with best-supporting actor award for Black Panther!

Full list of winners at 2019 Online Film Critics Society Awards:

Best Picture – Roma

Best Animated Feature – Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Best Director – Alfonso Cuarón (Roma)

Best Actor – Ethan Hawke (First Reformed)

Best Actress – Toni Collette (Hereditary)

Best Supporting Actor – Michael B. Jordan (Black Panther)

Best Supporting Actress– Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk)

Best Original Screenplay – Paul Schrader (First Reformed)

Best Adapted Screenplay – Barry Jenkins (If Beale Street Could Talk)

Best Editing– Eddie Hamilton (Mission: Impossible – Fallout)

Best Cinematography – Alfonso Cuarón (Roma)

Best Original Score – Nicholas Britell (If Beale Street Could Talk)

Best Debut Feature – Ari Aster (Hereditary)

Best Film Not in the English Language – Roma

Best Documentary – Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Technical Achievement Awards:

Annihilation – Best Visual Effects

Black Panther – Best Costume Design

Mission: Impossible – Fallout – Best Stunt Coordination

A Quiet Place – Best Sound Design

A Star Is Born – Best Original Songs

Lifetime Achievement Awards:

Roger Deakins

Spike Lee

Rita Moreno

Robert Redford

 Agnès Varda

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]]> The Full List of Nominees for the 2019 Independent Spirit Awards is Here https://omgcheckitout.com/2019-independent-spirit-awards-nominations/ Sat, 17 Nov 2018 13:04:40 +0000 https://omgcheckitout.com/?p=27436 Film Independent just released the full list of nominees for the latest edition of the Indie Spirit Awards – and it’s their most diverse group to date. We the Animals led the way with five nominations, thanks to nods in several technical categories, but failed to score one for the best feature. Critically acclaimed dramas […]

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]]> Film Independent just released the full list of nominees for the latest edition of the Indie Spirit Awards – and it’s their most diverse group to date. We the Animals led the way with five nominations, thanks to nods in several technical categories, but failed to score one for the best feature.

Critically acclaimed dramas Eighth Grade, First Reformed and You Were Never Really Here received four nominations each. They’ll compete against If Beale Street Could Talk and Leave No Trace for the coveted best feature award.

Acting nods went to several Oscar contenders, including Regina King (Beale Street), Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) and Adam Driver (BlacKkKlansman) and a couple of more long shots. Many of the Oscar-contending films do not qualify for the Spirit Awards, but this ceremony has been a very good indicator of Academy Award success in the past.

The Independent Spirit Awards will air on February 23, 2019, with Nick Kroll and John Mulaney taking on hosting duty for the third time.

Full List Of 2019 Independent Spirit Awards Nominations

Best Feature
If Beale Street Could Talk
Eighth Grade
First Reformed
You Were Never Really Here
Leave No Trace

Best Director
Debra Granik (Leave No Trace)
Barry Jenkins (If Beale Street Could Talk)
Tamara Jenkins (Private Life)
Lynne Ramsay (You Were Never Really Here)
Paul Schrader (First Reformed)

Best First Feature
Hereditary
Sorry to Bother You
The Tale
We the Animals
Wildlife

Best Female Lead
Glenn Close (The Wife)
Toni Collette (Hereditary)
Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade)
Regina Hall (Support the Girls)
Helena Howard (Madeline’s Madeline)
Carey Mulligan (Wildlife)

Best Male Lead
John Cho (Searching)
Daveed Diggs (Blindspotting)
Ethan Hawke (First Reformed)
Christian Malheiros (Sócrates)
Joaquin Phoenix (You Were Never Really Here)

Best Supporting Female
Kayli Carter (Private Life)
Tyne Daly (A Bread Factory)
Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk)
Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie (Leave No Trace)
J. Smith-Cameron (Nancy)

Best Supporting Male
Raúl Castillo (We the Animals)
Adam Driver (BlackKklansman)
Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?)
Josh Hamilton (Eighth Grade)
John David Washington (Monsters and Men)

Best Screenplay
Collete (Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Wash Westmoreland; Story By: Richard Glatzer)
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty)
Private Life (Tamara Jenkins)
Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley)
First Reformed (Paul Schrader)

Best First Screenplay
Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham)
Nancy (Christina Choe)
Thoroughbreds (Cory Finley)
The Tale (Jennifer Fox)
Blame (Writer and Story By: Quinn Shephard; Story By: Laurie Shephard)

Best Cinematography
Madeline’s Madeline (Ashley Connor)
Wildlife (Diego Garcia)
Mandy (Benjamin Loeb)
Suspiria (Sayombhu Mukdeeprom)
We the Animals (Zak Mulligan)

Best Editing
You Were Never Really Here (Joe Bini)
We the Animals (Keiko Deguchi, Brian A. Kates, and Jeremiah Zagar)
American Animals (Luke Dunkley, Nick Fenton, Chris Gill, and Julian Hart)
The Tale (Anne Fabini, Alex Hall, and Gary Levy)
Mid90s (Nick Houy)

John Cassavetes Award
A Bread Factory
En El Séptimo Día
Never Goin’ Back
Sócrates
Thunder Road

Robert Altman Award
The director and cast of Suspiria

Best Documentary
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Minding the Gap
Of Fathers and Sons
On Her Shoulders
Shirkers
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Best International Film
Burning (South Korea)
The Favourite (United Kingdom)
Happy As Lazarro (Italy)
Roma (Mexico)
Shoplifters (Japan)

Piaget Producers Award
Jonathan Duffy and Kelly Williams
Gabrielle Nadig
Shrihari Sathe

Annual Kiehl’s Someone to Watch Award
Alex Moratto (Sócrates)
Ioana Uricaru (Lemonade)
Jeremiah Zagar (We the Animals)

Truer Than Fiction Award
On Her Shoulders (Alexandria Bombach)
Minding the Gap (Bing Liu)
Hale Country This Morning, This Evening (RaMell Ross)

Annual Bonnie Award
Debra Granik
Tamara Jenkins
Karyn Kusama

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