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Page 01 Jan 18.Indd SUNDAY 18 JANUARY 2015 • [email protected] • www.thepeninsulaqatar.com • 4455 7741 Toyota inside Camry 2015 COMMUNITY • Punjabi Association delivers celebrates Lohri • Nepal music show P | 4 P | 7 BOOKS • Haruki Murakami responds to readers’ questions online Birdman and Grand Budapest Hotel lead pack with nine nominations apiece P | 6 The Imitation Game in second place with eight Boyhood trails with six, alongside American Sniper Selma snubbed with two FILMS Surprise nominations for Marion Cotillard, • I: Vikram Laura Dern, Bradley Cooper and Robert Duvall makes it an exceptional film P | 8-9 HEALTH • Stressful jobs may increase stroke risk P | 11 TECHNOLOGY • YouTube: PewDiePie, DC Toys Collector and Katy Perry top 2014 STAGE SET FOR P | 12 LEARN ARABIC OSCARS • Learn commonly used Arabic words and their meanings P | 13 2 PLUS | SUNDAY 18 JANUARY 2015 COVER STORY The Grand Budapest Hotel and Birdman tie for top honours By Catherine Shoard and Eddie Redmayne - one for music and another for adapted screenplay. irdman and The Grand Eric Fellner, co-chairman of produc- Budapest Hotel scored nine ers Working Title, paid tribute to nominations at the 87th the film’s subject, Stephen Hawking: BAcademy Awards, announced “He’s won everything else already, in Los Angeles on Thursday. so it’d be gorgeous if he got close to Alejandro González Iñárritu’s experi- an Oscar.” mental satire about a fading movie Meanwhile the team behind Mr actor (played by Michael Keaton) Turner – which scored no Globes tied for top place going into the nominations and a disappointing awards with Wes Anderson’s whim- haul at the Baftas – will be cheered sical comedy. by its four Oscar nods, for music, That left Boyhood, Richard production design, costume design Linklater’s audacious 12-years-in- and cinematography. But there was the-making coming-of-age epic, nothing for Timothy Spall’s perform- trailing with just six nominations, ance, nor for Mike Leigh’s direction the same as Clint Eastwood’s Iraq or screenplay. war drama American Sniper, which Dick Pope, Leigh’s longtime cin- has recently picked up momentum. ematographer, reacted with elation Boyhood took top honours at the to his second Oscar nomination, and Golden Globes last Sunday, scoop- first for his work with Leigh. The ing gongs for best drama, best direc- lack of nominations in headline cat- tor and best supporting actress. egories was, he said, a happy change Birdman’s predicted win in the from the norm. “It would be churl- best comedy or musical category ish of me to whinge and nitpick. It’s was snatched instead by The Grand been many years that actors have Budapest Hotel. taken the front stage. It’s great that Selma, Ava DuVernay’s stirring we, Mike’s company of players, have civil rights drama about Martin finally taken one for the team.” Luther King’s 1965 campaign When Pope’s name was read out, to secure equal voting rights in Academy president Cheryl Boone Alabama, which had been seen as Isaacs managed an unfortunate a frontrunner, went home with just mispronunciation of Pope’s sur- two nominations, for best picture and name as “Poop”. Pope had not heard best song for Glory. Had its direc- the broadcast as he was otherwise tor been nominated, it would have engaged – revisiting the Late Turner made her the first black woman to show at Tate Britain. be so. The glaring lack of non-white Rosamund Pike was also nomi- faces across the board – especially nated for best actress for her role stark the year after the best picture in Gone Girl, alongside shock nomi- victory for 12 Years a Slave – was nee Marion Cotillard for Two Days, bemoaned on social media. British One Night. Jennifer Aniston failed actor David Oyelowo was also over- to make the cut, in the end, for her looked for his performance. anti-vanity project as a chronic pain There was good news for the Brits sufferer in Cake. But Julianne Moore elsewhere, however. The Imitation is seen as the clear favourite in this Game, about Alan Turing’s time as category for her role as a neurosci- a Bletchley Park codebreaker, scored entist with early-onset Alzheimer’s nods for Benedict Cumberbatch’s lead in Still Alice. performance and Keira Knightley’s Robert Duvall (in The Judge) and supporting, as well as best picture, Laura Dern (in Wild) were outsider best director, best adapted screen- shots in the best supporting catego- play, best editing, best production ries whose inclusion was met with design and best music. cheers as the nominees were read Rival scientist biopic The Theory out. The inclusion of Bradley Cooper of Everything took five nominations, in the best actor race was blindsiding including one for best picture, one for commentators who had reserved for each of its leads – Felicity Jones the space for Jake Gyllenhaal. PLUS | SUNDAY 18 JANUARY 2015 3 BEST PICTURE BEST DOCUMENTARY BEST MAKEUP AND HAIR • American Sniper • CitizenFour • Bill Corso and Dennis Liddiard • Birdman • Finding Vivian Maier – Foxcatcher • Boyhood • Last Days in Vietnam • Frances Hannon and Mark • The Grand Budapest Hotel • The Salt of the Earth Coulier – The Grand Budapest • The Imitation Game • Virunga Hotel • Selma BEST ANIMATION • Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou and • The Theory of Everything David White – Guardians of the • Whiplash • Big Hero 6 Galaxy • The Boxtrolls BEST DIRECTOR BEST ORIGINAL SCORE • How to Train Your Dragon 2 • Alejandro González Iñárritu • Song of the Sea • Alexandre Desplat – The Grand – Birdman • The Tale of Princess Kaguya Budapest Hotel • Richard Linklater – Boyhood BEST ORIGINAL SONG • Alexandre Desplat – The • Bennett Miller – Foxcatcher Imitation Game • Wes Anderson – The Grand • Everything Is Awesome (music • Hans Zimmer – Interstellar Budapest Hotel and lyric by Shawn Patterson, • Gary Yershon – Mr Turner The Grand Budapest Hotel • Morten Tyldum – The Imitation performed by Tegan & Sara • Jóhann Jóhannsson – The Game feat The Lonely Island) – The Theory of Everything Lego Movie BEST ACTOR BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN • Glory (music and lyric by John • Steve Carell – Foxcatcher Stephens and Lonnie Lynn, • Adam Stockhausen and Anna • Bradley Cooper – American performed by Common and Pinnock – The Grand Budapest Sniper John Legend) – Selma Hotel • Benedict Cumberbatch – The • Grateful (music and lyric by • Maria Djurkovic and Tatiana Imitation Game Diane Warren, performed by Macdonald – The Imitation • Michael Keaton – Birdman Rita Ora) – Beyond the Lights Game • Eddie Redmayne – The Theory • I’m Not Going to Miss You • Nathan Crowley and Gary of Everything (music, lyric and performance Fettis – Interstellar BEST ACTRESS by Glen Campbell) – Glen • Dennis Gassner and Anna Campbell ... I’ll Be Me Pinnock – Into the Woods • Marion Cotillard – Two Days, • Lost Stars (music and lyric by • Suzie Davies and Charlotte One Night Gregg Alexander and Danielle Watts – Mr Turner • Felicity Jones – The Theory of Brisebois, performed by Adam BEST VISUAL EFFECTS Everything Levine) – Begin Again • Julianne Moore – Still Alice • Dan Deleeuw, Russell Earl, BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT • Rosamund Pike – Gone Girl Bryan Grill and Dan Sudick – • Reese Witherspoon – Wild • Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 Captain America: The Winter • Joanna Soldier BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR • Our Curse • Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Birdman • Robert Duvall – The Judge • The Reaper Daniel Barrett and Erik • Ethan Hawke – Boyhood • White Earth Winquist – Dawn of the Planet • Edward Norton – Birdman BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY of the Apes • Mark Ruffalo – Foxcatcher • Stephane Ceretti, Nicolas • JK Simmons – Whiplash • Emmanuel Lubezki – Birdman Aithadi, Jonathan Fawkner and • Robert Yeoman – The Grand Foxcatcher, Interstellar and significant omissions: The Paul Corbould – Guardians of BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Budapest Hotel Whiplash all took five nomina- LEGO Movie missed out on an the Galaxy • Lukasz Zal and Ryszard tions, a better-than-expected expected nomination for best • Patricia Arquette – Boyhood • Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Lenczewski – Ida Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher result for all three films. A late animation, but picked one up • Laura Dern – Wild • Dick Pope – Mr Turner – Interstellar show of solidarity for Bennett in the best song category for • Keira Knightley – The Imitation • Roger Deakins – Unbroken • Richard Stammers, Lou Miller, who recently came ‘Everything is Awesome’. Life Game Pecora, Tim Crosbie and under fire from one of the men Itself, Steve James’s much-loved • Emma Stone – Birdman BEST EDITING • Meryl Streep – Into the Woods Cameron Waldbauer – X-Men: on whose story Foxcatcher is documentary about the late • Joel Cox and Gary D Roach – Days of Future Past based, may have helped pro- film critic Roger Ebert, failed BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY American Sniper pel him to a best director nod; to make the cut in best docu- • Sandra Adair – Boyhood BEST COSTUME DESIGN the film also picked up a best mentary contenders, although • Alejandro González Iñárritu, • Barney Pilling – The Grand • Milena Canonero – The Grand original screenplay nod, as well Citizenfour, Laura Poitras’s Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Budapest Hotel Budapest Hotel as acclaim for Steve Carell study of the week in which Dinelaris, Jr and Armando Bo • William Goldenberg – The • Mark Bridges – Inherent Vice – Birdman in the best actor category Edward Snowden’s NSA revela- Imitation Game • Colleen Atwood – Into the Woods • Richard Linklater – Boyhood and best supporting actor for tions – and identity – became • Tom Cross – Whiplash • Anna B Sheppard and Jane • E Max Frye and Dan Futterman Mark Ruffalo (although co-star public, did make the cut. BEST SOUND EDITING Clive – Maleficent – Foxcatcher • Jacqueline Durran – Mr Turner Channing Tatum missed out). Gillian Flynn’s failure to pick • Wes Anderson and Hugo • Alan Robert Murray and Bub Notably, though, it didn’t take up an adapted screenplay nod Guinness – The Grand Asman – American Sniper BEST SHORT FILM (ANIMATED) one of the eight best picture for her rewrite of novel Gone Budapest Hotel • Martin Hernández and Aaron • The Bigger Picture nomination spaces. Girl meant both screenplay cat- • Dan Gilroy – Nightcrawler Glascock – Birdman • The Dam Keeper Many had predicted rec- egories were solely men-only.
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