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"Milk" don't need no stinking Golden Globes! Not with these noms!

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snicks

Last week we were disappointed that Milk only received a single Golden Globe nod (for Sean Penn's performance), but the nominations announced this morning more than make up for it.

The Screen Actors Guild announced the nominations for their 15th annual awards, and Milk received three; lead actor Penn, supporting actor Josh Brolin, and one for "outstanding performance by a cast". The SAG awards will be presented live January 25th on TNT and TBS.

Even better, The Broadcast Film Critics Association has announced the nominees and presenters for the 14th Annual Critics Choice Awards, and Milk is tied for the most noms (eight) with The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttons (which to me just sounds like a high falutin' ripoff of Stephen King's Golden Years).

Milk is up for best picture, actor, two for supporting actor (Brolin and James Franco), best acting ensemble, director (the out Gus Van Sant), writer (the out Dustin Lance Black), and composer (the ubiquitous Danny Elfman).

The Critics Choice Awards will be presented live on VH-1 January 8th, and hopefully this roll that Milk is on will continue when the Oscar nominations are announced January 22nd!

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    Submitted by
    snicks
    on Thu, 2008-12-18 16:03.
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    Dane Hill's picture

    Milk

    Submitted by
    Dane Hill (887 points) (209 posts)
    on Thu, 2008-12-18 18:36.

    I hope this gains momentum and sweeps its way into the Oscars.  Frankly, I'm still bitter over BBM's loss to Crash a couple years ago.  And I've boycotted the Oscars since then.  But this would go a long way towards me forgiving the Academy if they recognize Milk this year.

    Btw, Snicks!  Is THAT what you look like???  Aren't you a total cutie!  lol  Here I always pictured you as a scary teddy bear....

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    seanID22's picture

    rip off of "golden years"?

    Submitted by
    seanID22 (285 points) (57 posts)
    on Thu, 2008-12-18 19:43.

    Benjamin Button is adapted from an F Scott Fitzgerald story from the 1920s. There was also a novel by a gay novelist called Max Tivoli that follows the same story as the Fitzgerald story. Stephen King likely got his Golden Years idea from the same source.

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    snicks's picture

    well, obviously...

    Submitted by
    snicks (14304 points) (5831 posts)
    on Thu, 2008-12-18 22:47.
    That Fitzgerald dude went forward in time ala ...time machine movies...and read the King book. trust me.
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    seanID22's picture

    I should have known

    Submitted by
    seanID22 (285 points) (57 posts)
    on Fri, 2008-12-19 18:07.

    snicks wrote:
    That Fitzgerald dude went forward in time ala ...time machine movies...and read the King book. trust me.

     

    That Fitzgerald was tricky... I think you're right...

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    virgo108's picture

    Piers Anthony

    Submitted by
    virgo108 (746 points) (158 posts)
    on Fri, 2008-12-19 10:35.
    Piers Anthony did a take on living backwards in his Incarnations of Immortality series called Bearing an Hourglass in which Time was a series of individuals who lived their own lives backward at whatever point they gained the office. In other words, an eighty-year-old would have eighty years in the office, a twenty-year-old would have twenty years. I think I remember that at one point a child of 7-10 years had the office (for obviously a very short time).
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    Defft's picture

    More on Piers (Moron Piers?)

    Submitted by
    Defft (1480 points) (306 posts)
    on Fri, 2008-12-19 11:53.

    I loved the idea of the Incarnations of Immortality, but found them so poorly written that I could barely get through them.  Like Stephen King, and many other successful genre writers, it appears that the publishers gave him carte blanche and no editor.  It's for this type of work that the term "potboiler" was coined.

    I only made it through because of his journal in the back that described his writing process--far more interesting and better written than the books themselves.

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    GaySpouseDotCom's picture

    Ultimate Rip-Off from Eros who was Patron God of Gay Warriors

    Submitted by
    GaySpouseDotCom (1241 points) (422 posts)
    on Fri, 2008-12-19 04:49.
    I think Fitzgerald, et al. ripped it off from an ancient source - from Eros, the God of Love, who happened to be the Patron God of Gay Warriors from Greek mythology. Artists started off depicting the deity as a strong male adult warrior, an archer, and then over time they kept reducing his age until he was at last depicted as the Roman god Cupid, the bowhunting cherub with wings - the ultimate de-aging tale shown through artistry.
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    Mike's picture

    another sad situation in the "Bible Belt"

    Submitted by
    Mike (25 points) (4 posts)
    on Fri, 2008-12-19 07:57.
    Imagine my surprise, no, my lack of surprise, when I kept looking for the opening of 'Milk' in Jackson, MS. When finally told of the movie making it here, within the day, I learned that Malco was not showing the movie after all. Their excuse? 'Milk' has a limited opening in major cities, concentrating on the likes of NYC, San Francisco, and ... drumroll please ... Memphis. "A matter of demand" was their official explanation. So, for us here in the backwoods, redneck, stuck in the 1960's racial and discriminatory Mississippi, it's a 3 hour drive to see such a nominated film or wait for the DVD. Kudo's to Gus Van Sant, Sean Penn, and the other brave cast and crew to step out on a limb and produce a movie which rivals Brokeback Mountain (which did show in Jackson ... but with 1/2 of the audience walking out when the first sex scene began ... omg! what a shock) and the others that have paved the way.
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    seanID22's picture

    platform release

    Submitted by
    seanID22 (285 points) (57 posts)
    on Fri, 2008-12-19 18:12.

    These "art" movies open in "select cities." I've never understood this platform strategy. I think that they should put in as many theaters as possible and just get what money they can. I don't think it's a conspiracy of anti gay people. You probably won't get "Wendy and Lucy" and other small movies either.

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