(Updated to amend tally error on my part.)
I know I declared a moratorium on these until the dust settles, but I stumbled onto the list of winners for the Detroit Film Critics Society while compiling the master list and didn’t see them reported elsehwere yet, so here you go. This list is significant to me, though, because Marisa Tomei has officially pulled up right along side of Penelope Cruz, winning her sixth critical kudo. SAG sure is looking silly for that slight.
The winners, via the DFCS website (nominees were announced Tuesday):
Best Picture: “Slumdog Millionaire”
Best Director: Danny Boyle, “Slumdog Millionaire”
Best Actor: Mickey Rourke, “The Wrestler”
Best Actress: Kate Winslet, “Revolutionary Road”
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, “The Dark Knight”
Best Supporting Actress: Marisa Tomei, “The Wrestler”
Best Ensemble: “Frost/Nixon”
Best Newcomer: Martin McDonough, writer/director, “In Bruges”
Comments
15 responses to “Detroit critics go for ‘Slumdog,’ Tomei neck-and-neck with Cruz with sixth win”
Yay Marisa! Personally I wouldn’t mind a 2nd oscar win from her (even though that’s highly unlikely) because she was amazing in the Wrestler. Amy Adams didn’t deserve her SAG nod!
im actually surprised Frost/Nixon is winning Ensemble Awards and Nominations over Dark Knight and the horribly over-looked Synecdoche New York. I mean the cast of Frost/Nixon is extremely solid, i just figured it would be the only area Synecdoche is gonna win anything.
Choo… Choo… and the ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ bullet train makes a pit stop in Detroit.
nice! hope Marisa wins the oscar!
SAG is looking pretty silly all round. So they’ve now ignored the most critically awarded ladies in lead AND support… well done, guys.
And the “Frost/Nixon” ensemble love is weird to me too, since Langella stomps all over everyone else there.
i feel adams is out,dewitt and winger split and tomei is in.
Umm Kristopher, the only way Tomei is ahead of Cruz is if you pick and choose certain critics awards. Penelope Cruz if far and away ahead of Tomei in both buzz and awards so far. You cant knock the frontrunner because she’s the frontrunner and because you like Tomei better
LOL. Tomei will not win the Oscar. Also, if I’m not mistaken, both Cruz and Tomei have six awards.
Cruz:
BSFC
LAFCA
NBR
NYFCC
NYFCO
SEFCA
Tomei:
DFCS
FFCC
LVFCS
SDFCS
SFFCC
PFCS
Also, I think it’s quite misleading to simply declare Tomei in the lead. When you look at the quality of the awards that each has actually won, it tells quite a different story.
The Utah Critics’ Association gave out awards also:
Best Picture: The Dark Knight
Runner-up: Rachel Getting Married
Best Non-English Language Feature: Let the Right One In
Runner-up: Waltz With Bashir
Best Documentary Feature: Man on Wire
Runners-up: Encounters at the End of the World; Waltz With Bashir
Best Animated Feature: WALL-E
Runner-up: Kung Fu Panda
Best Director: Andrew Stanton, WALL-E
Runner-up: Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight
Best Actor: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Runners-up: Richard Jenkins, The Visitor; Sean Penn, Milk
Best Actress: Melissa Leo, Frozen River
Runner-up: Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight (no runner-up)
Best Supporting Actress: Rosemarie DeWitt, Rachel Getting Married
Runners-up: Frances McDormand, Burn After Reading; Misty Upham, Frozen River; Evan Rachel Wood, The Wrestler
Best Screenplay: Jenny Lumet, Rachel Getting Married
Runner-up: Robert Siegel, The Wrestler
J.S.: You’re right. I was going by the MCN chart which had six wins listed for Tomei before this one. It has since been amended, it seems.
As for your other comment, no one is jumping to the conclusion that Tomei is “in the lead” for an Oscar win, so don’t go putting words into anyone’s mouth. She’s still at #5 for me because the SAG left her off and that’s big. Now, feel free to LOL in peace, but jumping to conclusions like that is a bit unnecessary.
Your initial post said something like “Tomei takes the lead,” and I guess I just interpreted that to mean the general Oscar race, as opposed to the critics awards. Also, what effect (if any?) do you think these minor wins have for Tomei? It seems to me that voters do not pay attention to the Detroit or Phoenix film critics. Cruz has received so much press for her NYFCC/LAFCA/NBR trifecta, but Tomei has received basically nothing for her 6 critics’ wins.
Again, I never said she was going to win the award. In fact, all I said was that SAG looks silly for dissing her and that she is, nevertheless, still in my #5 spot as a result.
I just don’t understand why the Screen Actors Guild look “silly” for ignoring someone. Perhaps the voting body actually prefered other work. I really dislike the notion that awards groups exist to ‘predict the oscars’ rather than exist in their own right, and vote for the performances and films which they have enjoyed.
Of course it goes on (its the only reason the Globes and Critics Choice Awards can keep themselves on air), but it all seems a little daft to me.
Fair enough, Rob. However, in my opinion, anyone who actually prefers Amy Adams’ performance to Marisa Tomei’s (or Rosemarie DeWitt’s, for that matter) looks pretty silly too.