Best of 2006: Best Supporting Actor
Why beat around the bush? Here they are, along with seven worthy runners-up.
Labels: Best 2006, Best Supporting Actor
posted by NicksFlickPicks at 12:34 AM
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Why beat around the bush? Here they are, along with seven worthy runners-up.
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The Desiring-Image: Gilles Deleuze and Contemporary Queer Cinema ($30/pbk). By Nick Davis. Oxford University Press, 2013.
The book that earned me tenure at Northwestern. Offers a new theoretical model of queer film, born from Gilles Deleuze's rarely-integrated notions of cinema and desire. Chapter-length readings of
Dead Ringers,
Naked Lunch, Shortbus, The Watermelon Woman, Brother to Brother, Beau travail, and
Velvet Goldmine, plus other films along the way! Written for a scholarly audience but hopefully interesting to anyone curious about recent cinema, ideas about desire, or LGBT aesthetics and politics. "Important and needed work...Deeply original." —D.N. Rodowick, "Seductive in its intellect and humbling in its prose." —Michele Aaron
Reading the Bromance: Homosocial Relationships in Film and Television ($32/pbk). Ed. Michael DeAngelis. Wayne State University Press, 2014.
Academic pieces that dig into recent portraits in popular media, comic and dramatic, of intimacies between straight(ish) men. Includes the essay
"'I Love You, Hombre': Y tu mamá también as Border-Crossing Bromance" by Nick Davis, as well as chapters on Superbad, Humpday, Jackass, The Wire, and other texts. Written for a mixed audience of scholars, students, and non-campus readers. Forthcoming in June 2014. "Remarkably sophisticated essays." —Janet Staiger, "Essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary models of gender and sexuality." —Harry Benshoff
Fifty Key American Films ($31/pbk). Ed. Sabine Haenni, John White. Routledge, 2009. Includes my essays on
The Wild Party,
The Incredibles, and
Brokeback Mountain. Intended as both a newcomer's guide to the terrain
and a series of short, exploratory essays about such influential works as The Birth of a Nation, His Girl Friday, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song,
Taxi Driver, Blade Runner, Daughters of the Dust, and Se7en.
The Cinema of Todd Haynes: All That Heaven
Allows ($25/pbk). Ed. James Morrison. Wallflower Press, via Columbia University Press, 2007. Includes the essay
"'The Invention of a People': Velvet Goldmine and the Unburying of Queer Desire" by Nick Davis, later expanded and revised in The Desiring-Image.
More, too, on Poison, Safe, Far From Heaven, and Haynes's other films by Alexandra Juhasz, Marcia Landy,
Todd McGowan, James Morrison, Anat Pick, and other scholars. "A collection as intellectually and emotionally
generous as Haynes' films" —Patricia White, Swarthmore College
Film Studies:
The Basics ($23/pbk). By Amy Villarejo. Routledge, 2006, 2013. Award-winning
film scholar and teacher Amy Villarejo finally gives us the quick, smart, reader-friendly guide to film vocabulary that every
teacher, student, and movie enthusiast has been waiting for, as well as a one-stop primer in the past, present, and future of film production, exhibition,
circulation, and theory. Great glossary, wide-ranging examples, and utterly unpretentious prose that remains rigorous in its analysis;
the book commits itself at every turn to the artistry, politics, and accessibility of cinema.
- Picture Noms % Seen:
- 97%
- Dead End
- A
- Friendly Persuasion
- C+
- Gandhi
- C+
- Director Noms % Seen:
- 96%
- The Crowd
- A
- Sabrina
- B–
- I Want to Live!
- C
- Actress Noms % Seen:
- 100%
- A Star Is Born ('54)
- A
- The Country Girl
- B–
- The Letter ('29)
- B
- Actor Noms % Seen:
- 91%
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- A–
- Champion
- B
- The Affairs of Cellini
- C
- Sup Actress Noms % Seen:
- 100%
- Broken Lance
- C+
- The Bachelor Party
- B
- Paper Moon
- B+
- Sup Actor Noms % Seen:
- 91%
- The Day of the Locust
- C
- Juarez
- C+
- The Paper Chase
- D
- Cinematography Noms % Seen:
- 69%
- King Kong ('76)
- C–
- Shanghai Triad
- B
- Earthquake
- D+
- Screenplay Noms % Seen:
- 76%
- The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer*
- Boomerang!
Most recent screenings in each race;
multiple nominees appear wherever they scored their most prestigious nod... and yes, that means Actress trumps Actor!
* Denotes a recent reappraisal
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5 Comments:
Glad Kinnear is getting some attention from bloggers, at least. I think he had Sunshine's most difficult role (certainly Richard is the hardest role to make believable and/or likable, and Kinnear managed to do both with nuance and skill). Without him adding so much dimension and heart to his rich portrayal, I'm not sure if the film would have worked half as well.
I found it curious Kinnear was overlooked when the critics awards were passed out, as I can't think of another actor who topped him last year.
Great nominees! My own list is more mainstream than yours, but I'm thrilled someone finally recognized Baldwin, as he makes my own list:
- Alec Baldwin (The Departed)
- Steve Carell (Little Miss Sunshine)
- Jackie Earle Haley (Little Children)
- Michael Sheen (The Queen)
- Mark Wahlberg (The Departed)
I'm excited to see your nominees for Supporting Actress, as that's the category that's giving me the most trouble at the moment. My four set-in-stone nominees are:
- Adriana Barazza (Babel)
- Emily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada)
- Shareeka Epps (Half Nelson)
- Meryl Streep (A Prairie Home Companion)
For that fifth slot I've been switching in and out Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine), Vera Farmiga (The Departed), Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls), Ashley Johnson (Fast Food Nation), and Fiona Shaw (The Black Dahlia).
It's been a wild ride for these actresses, I'm sure.
No match-up with my own picks, although Nolte would probably have made my list last year. He was an extremely sympathetic character in Clean, and his scenes opposite Cheung were moving and tender. Fantastic.
Psycho, Kinnear isn't nominated for Little Miss Sunshine, but for Fast Food Nation.
Supporting Actor is always the most boring category and this year was no different.
I understand the Kinnear nod was for Nation, but I thought it was okay to mention his work in Sunshine in my comment, as it's also a 2006 release, and Kinnear was fantastic in it.
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