Roasting is best when you “roast the ones you love”. That is clearly evident in Screen Junkies’ Honest Trailer of the Wes Anderson filmography, making it one of their loveliest episodes yet.
Watch it here.
If you were to imagine the perfect Oscar bait movie, it would probably involve some sort historical tragedy played by the best thespians of our time from all over the world, directed by the most revered helmers in this generation, and based on either a true story or a book that was based in a true story.
The two big winners at this year’s Oscars couldn’t be further from that stereotype. Birdman of (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) and The Grand Budapest Hotel, together, took home 8 Oscars, and are both comedies that are shot from original screenplays set in fictional worlds both satirical and exquisitely delightful. Both do have fantastic writer/directors in Wes Anderson and Alejandro González iñárritu as well as fantastic casts led by Ralph Fiennes and Michael Keaton.
So, it’s an atypical year for comedy at The Oscars in that the genre was actually shown some appreciation rather than being relegated to the Best Writing sometimes.
In the end:
Birdman won Best Picture, Best Directing, Best Cinematography, and Best Writing-Original Screenplay.
The Grand Budapest Hotel won Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Music-Original Score, and Best Production Design
See the rest of the Oscars winners here.
Last year saw a big win for diversity and this year was for genre and hopefully the two will continue make headway at The Academy in the years to come.
The 2015 WGA Awards were handed out last night and the field of winners seems to be raising the least amount of snub talk this awards season. This might have something to do with critical powerhouses like Grand Budapest Hotel and Louie won as well as well-received upstarts like Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and High Maintenance on Vimeo winning statues.
Here’s all the comedy winners for this year’s WGA Awards:
–The Grand Budapest Hotel, Screenplay by Wes Anderson; Story by Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness-Original Screenplay
–Louie, Written by Pamela Adlon, Louis C.K.-Comedy Series, Episodic Comedy
–High Maintenance, Written by Katja Blichfeld & Ben Sinclair-Short Form New Media
–The Simpsons, “Brick Like Me”, Written by Brian Kelley-Animated
–Last Week Tonight, Writers: Kevin Avery, Tim Carvell, Dan Gurewitch, Geoff Haggerty, Jeff Maurer, John Oliver, Scott Sherman, Will Tracy, Jill Twiss, Juli Weiner-Comedy/Variety (Including Talk)-Series
–71st Annual Golden Globes Awards, Written by Barry Adelman; Special Material by Alex Baze, Dave Boone, Robert Carlock, Tina Fey, Jon Macks, Sam Means, Seth Meyers, Amy Poehler, Mike Shoemaker-Comedy/Variety-Music, Awards, Tributes-Specials
–How I Met Your Mother, Written by Dan Greenberger-On-Air Promotion (TV, New Media, or Radio)
See the full list of winners here.
In the gigantic crowd of Grammy nominees, finding the comedy winners might be a little difficult, especially since they’re never all announced during the telecast.
So, we’ve hunted through all them and found 2015 Grammy winners in or somehow connected to comedy.
Best Comedy Album-Weird Al Yankovic “Mandatory Fun”
Best Spoken Word Album-Joan Rivers “Diary of a Mad Diva”
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media-Alexandre Desplat “The Grand Budapest Hotel”
Best Metal Performance-Tenacious D-“The Last In Line”
Honestly, there are no surprises here and we’re glad to see Yankovic cap off his 2014 Billboard #1 album with a Grammy win.
Now you can go enjoy the rest of your evening with Better Call Saul and Last Week Tonight.
The dominance of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) and The Grand Budapest Hotel this awards season has thankfully encouraged Fox Searchlight to push the two critical powerhouse films into more theaters.
Grand Budapest Hotel already had a great run in its limited theatrical run becoming the highest grossing film for Wes Anderson. With all the notoriety it has gotten over the last few weeks, it has just been rereleased into theaters in select cities including here in LA.
Birdman has just expanded to play in 450 theaters across the country and will double that on Jan. 23rd.
So, if you haven’t seen either in theaters, you’ll definitely have a chance to catch them now. Even if you’ve already caught a screening, go ahead and watch them again. They’re that good.
While some are still focusing extensively on the movies that got snubbed at The Oscars, The Critics’ Choice Awards definitely gave honors to some of those in that are making that snubbed list.
Birdman did take Best, Actor, Best Score, Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Acting Ensemble, and Best Original Screenplay and Grand Budapest Hotel took Best Comedy, Best Art Direction, and Best Costume Design as the frontrunners.
However, Jenny Slate took home the trophy for Best Actress for her performance in Obvious Child.
The Guardians of the Galaxy and The LEGO Movie also got the awards for Best Action Movie and Best Animated Movie respectively.
So, we’re glad that The Critics’ Choice Movie Awards gave some distinction to folks that otherwise would be ignored by a certain Academy.
Get the full list of winners here.
The nominations for both The Oscars and The DGA Awards were just recently released and while it isn’t coming as much of a surprise, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) and The Grand Budapest Hotel have kept on sweeping up honors left and right this awards season.
Already, both films have scored wins at The Golden Globes and have garnered nominations at The SAG Awards.
For The Oscars, Birdman is nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Best Cinematography, Best Directing, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Best Original Screenplay.
The Grand Budapest Hotel racked up Best Picture, Best Score, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Production Design, Best Cinematography, Best Directing, and Best Original Screenplay.
On top of that, Wes Anderson and Alejandro González Iñáritu both were nominated by The DGA Awards for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film.
That’s 9 Oscar nominations each for the pair, which, above all else, should be noteworthy because they both are comedies, especially in contrast to the rest of the nominated fare. Traditionally, comedy goes generally overlooked during awards season unless it’s in its own category, especially at The Oscars.
Maybe this genre glass ceiling has been broken with two comedy powerhouse frontrunners? We certainly hope so.
This year’s winners at The Golden Globes Awards were equally surprising and expected as awards season front runners Grand Budapest Hotel and Birdman took home trophies, but freshman TV series Transparent and Jane The Virgin also nabbed prizes in their categories.
The comedy winners of this year’s Golden Globes are:
Grand Budapest Hotel-Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Michael Keaton (Birdman)-Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Amy Adams (Big Eyes)-Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Birdman-Best Screenplay
Transparent-Best TV Series, Musical or Comedy
Jeffrey Tambor (Transparent)-Best Actor in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy
Gina Rodriguez (Jane The Virgin)-Best Actress in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy
Get the full list of winners here.
(via Deadline)
Of all the nominations that have been announced in this current awards season, it seems the Writers Guild Awards has gone a somewhat different and refreshing direction. Already, they have Transparent, Last Week Tonight, and Inside Amy Schumer nominated for TV.
Grand Budapest Hotel is an awards front runner and gets a nod here, but Guardians of The Galaxy, a big budget studio comic book space adventure with plenty of comedy injected throughout, also gained a nomination from the WGA for Adapted Screenplay today.
Guardians of The Galaxy isn’t nominated in such a category in any other awards so far. Maybe, that will change now and other movies that are more readily described as “fun” will be taken more seriously by various academies and associations?
(via Variety)
Birdman and Grand Budapest Hotel have already been gathering up a lot of nominations at The Golden Globes and The SAG Awards and the 20th Annual Critics Choice Awards are no different. Between the two, they stacked 24 nominations in various categories, Birdman with 13 and Grand Budapest Hotel with 11.
There’s a weird genre fragmentation at The Critics’ Choice Awards that has gotten both films nominated for Best Picture and Best Comedy. Top Five, 22 Jump Street, St. Vincent, Chef, Neighbors, Obvious Child, The Skeleton Twins, Edge of Tomorrow, Inherent Vice, Guardians of the Galaxy, and The Lego Movie also all got nominations in Comedy and Action categories.
Despite how continually odd it is that awards put drama above everything, Birdman and Grand Budapest Hotel give some hope that there might be happening less and less in the future.
The Critics Choice Awards will be televised live at A&E 6PM PST on Jan. 15th and hosted by Michael Strahan.
As we said earlier today, we’re in the thick of awards seasons with nominations rolling in from all sides. The SAG Awards nominees were announced this week and just this morning, the announcement for the nominees of The 2015 Golden Globes was made.
Looking over the HFPA’s list of their favorites this year, It seems as if The Grand Budapest Hotel was straddling a lot of awards deadlines getting nominated in several awards last year and still gaining a lot of attention this year with four Golden Globe nominations. Birdman continues to get its due as comedy’s frontrunner for awards this season with 7 nominations and Transparent is starting its inevitable run for getting honors on the TV side with two.
You can see the rest of the comedy nominees below (Note: due to the HFPA’s insistence on genre category juxtaposition-i.e. “Musical or Comedy”-as well as the overall lack of comedy in general categories, we omitted listing certain nominees as they aren’t comedies)
Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
St. Vincent
Pride
Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Julianne Moore-Maps To The Stars
Amy Adams-Big Eyes
Helen Mirren-100 Foot Journey
Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Michael Keaton-Birdman
Bill Murray-St. Vincent
Ralph Fiennes-The Grand Budapest Hotel
Cristoph Waltz-Big Eyes
Joaquin Phoenix-Inherent Vice
Best Animated Feature Film
The LEGO Movie
How To Train Your Dragon 2
Big Hero 6
The Book of Life
The Boxtrolls
Best Foreign Language Film
Force Majeure (Turist)
Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Emma Stone-Birdman
Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
Edward Norton-Birdman
Best Director-Motion Picture
Alejandro González Iñárritu-Birdman
Wes Anderson-The Grand Budapest Hotel
Best Screenplay-Motion Picture
Wes Anderson-The Grand Budapest Hotel
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo-Birdman
Best Original Score
Antonio Sanchez-Birdman
Best TV Series, Musical or Comedy
Orange Is The New Black
Girls
Jane The Virgin
Transparent
Silicon Valley
Best Actress in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy
Julia Louis-Dreyfus-Veep
Edie Falco-Nurse Jackie
Gina Rodriguez-Jane The Virgin
Lena Dunham-Girls
Taylor Schilling-Orange Is The New Black
Best Actor in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy
Don Cheadle-House of Lies
William H. Macy-Shameless
Ricky Gervais-Derek
Jeffrey Tambor-Transparent
Louis C.K.-Louie
You can see the full list of 2015 Golden Globes nominees here and watch the ceremony on Jan. 11th, 2015 on NBC.
‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ Touring on Queen Mary 2 with Stars and Wes Anderson
An exclusive, one-off tour of The Grand Budapest Hotel will be taking place on Cunard Line’s Queen Mary 2 next month. Wes Anderson as well as Tilda Swinton and Jason Schwartzman will be joining in a Q&A session after a screening of the film.
As they sail across the Atlantic from NYC to London, we’re curious if this specific cruise will be promoted as going to Zubrowka.
Grand Budapest Hotel Becomes Wes Anderson’s Highest-Grossing Movie Surpassing $100 Million Mark
Seemingly across the board, everyone loves Grand Budapest Hotel and the numbers are showing it. As a movie that started in limited release and expanded to a modest number of theaters compared to usual multiplex fare, it’s wonderful to see Grand Budapest Hotel make it past $100 million in gross ticket sales.
Even more fascinating is the fact that the majority of that $100 million came from overseas and Moonrise Kingdom and Royal Tenenbaums still made more money, for now, than Grand Budapest Hotel domestically. We can only wonder what this means for Anderson’s next movie and how big it might be in scope, cast, and budget.
Both Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel and Jason Bateman’s Bad Words, in very different ways, are wonderful and really, very funny. They are so much so, that we don’t feel it necessary to further explain why.
Just trust us, they’re both worth your time and money for an afternoon/evening of hearty laughs and cinematic euphoria.
To save you a little time, here are LA showtimes for Grand Budapest Hotel and Bad Words.
Watch New Clips From Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel
It’s from Wes Anderson upcoming film Grand Budapest Hotel that you’re probably excited about and one of them has Bill Murray in it, so yeah go ahead and watch it.
Neighbors, Mike Judge’s Silicon Valley, and Grand Budapest Hotel All Playing at SXSW
You’ll probably want catch Neighbors with Seth Rogen, Mike Judge’s Silicon Valley premiering on HBO or Wes Anderson’s latest Grand Budapest Hotel or maybe all three of these if you happen to be at SXSW this year.
Delve Into the World of Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel at Akademie Zubrowka
In promotion of Wes Anderson’s latest Grand Budapest Hotel, there’s a whole interactive website AkademieZubrowka.com where you can basically get as Wes Anderson-y as you want with the world of this movie.
So, prepare to lose a few hours wandering around reading every wondrous little detail like you do for every Wes Anderson movie.
Here’s another fix if you’re jonesing for more from Wes Anderson’s upcoming film The Grand Budapest Hotel in a new trailer where we meet most of his routinely spectacular ensemble cast.
Wes Anderson’s latest film The Grand Budapest Hotel is upon us, specifically Mar. 7th 2014, and has a trailer with all the familiar trappings of a Wes Anderson movie with familiar players/stellar cast, exquisite costumes and production design juxtaposed with a good degree of quirkiness, which is probably set to be another really great movie.
Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel Acquired by Fox Searchlight
No release date has been set by Fox Searchlight yet. Let’s hope that Wes Anderson’s latest project Grand Budapest Hotel with a stellar ensemble cast, per usual, hits theaters soon and also that people don’t debate over how “Wes Anderson-y” this film will be instead of just enjoying it.