The Los Angeles Film Critics Association awards dinner at the InterContinental Hotel in Century City is the final pre-Oscar noms event of the season, and this year’s event had no shortage of pizazz and emotion.
First and foremost: Jennifer Lopez, who arrived in a dazzling blue dress of the kind that motivate event photographers to get up each morning. She was on-hand to accept the august group’s best supporting actress award for her turn in Lorene Scafaria’s Hustlers.
While her outfit dropped jaws, her speech motivated the assembled guests. Regarding the challenges to get the female-led project off the ground, she said “we women banded together and every time we heard no — which was often — we pushed even harder.”
“We are only as big as we allow ourselves to dream, and the possibilities are limitless,” she added.
Other winners this year included Noah Baumbach who threw a little lighthearted jest 3000 miles away to LAFCA’s colleagues in New York. “I've made no secret [between New York & L.A.] where my heart resides but after the New York Film Critics Circle chose Quentin Tarantino for this very award, I’ve had to do some soul searching,” the writer-director of Marriage Story zinged. Speaking to the crowd of film critics, he added “whenever I get a bad review it feels like my parents criticizing me.” (Baumbach’s parents, Jonathan Baumbach and Georgia Brown, both wrote about cinema.)
Keeping it in the family, Baumbach’s partner Greta Gerwig had the distinction of accepting the lifetime achievement award on behalf of Elaine May. “Thank you for my lifetime achievement award,” the playwright, actress, script doctor, improv comic and director of A New Leaf and Mikey and Nicky said. “I look forward to many more.” While Gerwig’s outstanding in-the-Oscars-mix Little Women did not pick up any LAFCA awards, delivering a zinger from half of Nichols & May is a hell of a consolation prize.
Another long-deserved recognition came to Mary Kay Place for her star turn in the low budget drama Diane directed by Kent Jones. The film, which made Barack Obama’s best of the year list, is tough and realistic (though gorgeously rendered) look at regret, aging, troubled relationships, addiction and blue collar hardship in a cold New England community.
To laughs, Place read an online review from a ticket buyer: “most depressing movie ever. I want my money back.” Best known as a character actress (with credits back to the 1970s) she remarked “let’s face it, I’m not a bankable star.” A good-natured heckler shouted back “now you are!” (Place’s turn in Diane also won the top award from the National Society of Film Critics.)
A touching highlight of the evening came with the “New Generation” award given to Joe Talbot, Jimmie Fails, and Jonathan Majors for their extraordinary independent film The Last Black Man in San Francisco. Mike Marshall aka Mike Meezy took to the podium to recreate one of the movie’s best moments.
You can check out the complete list of LAFCA's winners, which includes Bong Joon-ho and Parasite for best director and best picture, here.
"style" - Google News
January 12, 2020 at 11:24PM
https://ift.tt/39YJcTr
Jennifer Lopez Accepts Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award in Style - Vanity Fair
"style" - Google News
https://ift.tt/2Mvyfz3
Shoes Man Tutorial
Pos News Update
Meme Update
Korean Entertainment News
Japan News Update
No comments:
Post a Comment