This year is shaping up to be a battlefield between Lucas Hedges and Timothée Chalamet on their way to the Oscars next year as these two previously Academy Award-nominated Hollywood It-boys are both headlining two major dramas based on real life.
In “Boy Erased,” Hedges will be playing the son of a Baptist pastor who has been pressured to attend a conversion therapy program after being outed to his parents played by Oscar winners Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman.
The drama is based on Garrard Conley’s memoir of the same name is directed by Joel Edgerton who will also be in the film as the main antagonist. Focus Features will be releasing the film on September 28.
“Beautiful Boy”meanwhile is already gaining some Oscar buzz right after the awards season this year due to Chalamet charming the socks out of everyone during the year-long campaign for his breakout role in Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name.
Beautiful Boy follows the story of a father, played by Oscar-nominated Steve Carell who watches his son played by Chalamet struggles with meth addiction. It’s an equally serious and controversial topic as Boy Erased and it’s based on David Sheff’s Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction and Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff. Beautiful Boy is slated for an October release by the Amazon Studios.
It’s also possible that in Beautiful Boy, Carell will be push for the leading category while Amazon will campaign for a supporting role for Timmy. If this would be the case, it could be a win-win situation for both young stars as they won’t have to compete against each other.I loved them both and I am super-excited to watch both films. I’d definitely be rooting for them to get their golden statuette early in their respective careers! ❤
Yay! It’s finally here! After his breakthrough performances via Call Me By Your Name and Lady Bird last year, Timmy’s upcoming movies are very much anticipated by fans and critics alike (including moi). One of them is Hot Summer Nightsthat premiered earlier last year at the South by Southwest (SXSW) and will be the first film by Timothée to come out this year. The coming of age film was directed by Elijah Bynum and also stars Maika Munroe (The Guest), Alex Roe (The 5th Wave) and Thomas Jane.
It will have it commercial release in the US on July 27, 2018!
It’s that time of the year again to give out the film industry’s highest honors in Hollywood, and I have a feeling that there’ll be a bit of a surprise in what most assumed were already ‘locked’ categories.
Best Picture: This is going to be an easy pick for me. As much as I’d love for The Shape of Water to win this award, I have to give it to Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. From a technical perspective and in terms of the story, The Shape of Water hands down wins this one, but it feels like, based on the most recent winners from this category, the voters tend to lean towards something that has a stronger and more in-your-face social impact. Three Billboards doesn’t have the subtlety that Del Toro’s film has, so that alone hurts The Shape of Water’s chances.
Most Likely to Upset: The Shape of Water
Best Director: This should go to Guillermo Del Toro. He may not win Best Picture, but The Shape of Water is arguably his best work to date, and it would be an injustice not to give him this nod.
Most Likely to Upset: I want to say that this is already locked for him, but for shock value, I’m going to say Greta Gerwig for her directorial debut in Lady Bird. This scenario is highly unlikely, but I won’t be that mad if she steals this one from Del Toro.
Best Actress: (Locked) I’ve seen all of the films of the actresses nominated in this category, so it’s kind of difficult for me to regard anyone as THE BEST. With that being said, I feel like Frances McDormand is already locked in to win this. Sally Hawkins is a good second choice, but McDormand just happened to sweep all of the precursor awards, so there’s that.
Best Actor: I’d be in the minority right here predicting an upset by Timothée Chalamet over the season’s frontrunner Gary Oldman. I initially pegged Oldman as locked to win this, but I have this nagging feeling that this would be the biggest upset of the night. Chalamet’s performance in Call Me By Your Name does seem like a once-in-a-blue-moon performance from such a very young and promising actor. In comparison to Oldman’s stunning portrayal of Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour, Chalamet didn’t need the help of prosthetics to actually translate something extraordinary onto the screen.
Most Likely to Upset: Timothee Chalamet to Gary Oldman’s frontrunner position.
Best Supporting Actress: (Locked) I don’t even know what to say about Allison Janney. She’s just simply sublime in I, Tonya.
Best Supporting Actor: (Locked) Sam Rockwell’s portrayal of a racist police officer is entirely believable; it’s so easy to get angry at both the actor and the character he’s playing. That’s how effective he was. This is a solid performance, and no one even comes close.
Best Original Screenplay: The Shape of Water – Guillermo Del Toro & Vanessa Taylor
Best Adapted Screenplay: Call Me By Your Name – James Ivory
Best Animated Feature Film: Coco – Lee Unkrich & Darla K. Anderson
Best Original Score: Star Wars: The Last Jedi – John Williams
Best Original Song: Remember Me from Coco by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
Best Cinematography: Blade Runner 2049 – Roger Deakins
Best Makeup and Hairstyling: Victoria & Abdul – Lou Sheppard
Best Production Design: Blade Runner 2049 – Dennis Gassner, Alessandra Querzola
Most Likely to Upset: Victoria & Abdul
Best Costume Design: For something about Costume, this should be locked for Phantom Thread.
Most Likely to Upset: Victoria & Abdul
Best Film Editing: Dunkirk – Lee Smith (Locked)
Best Sound Editing: (Locked) Dunkirk
Best Sound Mixing: (Locked) Dunkirk
Best Foreign Language Film: Una Mujer Fantastic a (A Fantastic Woman) from Chile by Sebastian Lelio
Most Likely To Upset: Sweden’s The Square by Ruben Ostlund.
Beat Visual Effects: Blade Runner 2049
I don’t have any basis for the documentary features, so I won’t make any predictions for those categories.
The Dixie Chicks once asked the questions – who’s never left home? Who’s never struck out? I think that most of the time, it’ll come to a point in our lives that we are ‘Lady Bird.’ I said that because when we’re young, there’s always this feeling that our world is too small for us, that we wanted to explore what life has to offer, what this world is waiting to show us. We want something so much that we persevere to get them. Sometimes doing things that we didn’t think was wrong when we did it and ended up regretting but at the end of the day, we have this sense of fulfilment.
Lady Bird are those feelings so cleverly translated by Greta Gerwig into a film. This coming of age film so brilliantly led by Saoirse Ronan is a tale as old as time that just works in so many ways because that is basically everyone of us when we’re at the cusps of adulthood.
Ronan playing the eponymous role was as usual terrifically sublime as the rebellious daughter who won’t let anyone hinder her aspirations – not by her friends, her school advisors and definitely not by her mother played by the equally wonderful Laurie Metcalf. Sometimes, it’s almost painful to watch their interactions or more of altercations because there’s vulnerability in both of their characters that everyone would relate to. You’d probably point out, hey! That’s me with my daughter – ouch! or that is me and my mom/dad sometimes! Ronan and Metcalf made their chemistry as mother and daughter so palpable that it resonated so much with so many people.
Gerwig tried to snatch a lot of wigs for this film and she did so fabulously! Lady Bird is a cult classic waiting to happen. I wouldn’t even be mad for a sequel!
At the 90th Academy Awards, Lady Bird has received five nominations that includes Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress in a Leading and Supporting Roles and Best Original Screenplay.
Timothée is totally taking over the world with his new cover for GQ, this time for the 17th Anniversary Issue of the magazine’s South Korean market. The cover was a reuse from his last year’s British GQ Style’s cover!
Chalamet is nominated for his role in Call Me By Your Name at thia weekend’s Academy Awards and Is also the youngest Best Actor nominee in 74 years!
Coincidentally, he’s also on the March cover of the American GQ! 💕 Yasss!!! Get it, Sweet Tea!
If you’re like super rich, you still have a chance to travel to Los Angeles, party and meet Timothée Chalamet & Armie Hammer by donating to wo incredible causes, bye entering HERE: http://bit.ly/Timothée-Armie-YOU
You could win a trip to celebrate with the Call Me By Your Name cast at their pre-Oscar party! Deadline is until February 25!
Speaking of Call Me By Your Name – James Ivory just snagged the Best Adapted Screenplay at the recently concluded BAFTA Awards! Congratulations!
Here’s Hollywood newest darling and Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet gracing the cover of GQ Magazine for the month of March.
Chalamet is nominated for Oscar’s Best Actor in a Leading Role for his breakout role as the 17-year old Italian boy Elio Perlman in the film adaptation of Andre Aciman’s book Call Me By Your Name co-starring Armie Hammer. He is up against heavyweights Daniel Day Lewis, Gary Oldman and Denzel Washington Get Out star Daniel Kaluuya.
Twice I’ve seen the film on the big screen since its commercial release in the country on January 31st, and twice I’ve been affected by it in such a way that no other films I’ve seen in a while have made such a strong impact. If you’ve not read the book of the same name where the film was so brilliantly adapted by James Ivory, you won’t miss out that much. There are a few deviations from it, but overall, it was an almost faithful retelling of Oliver and Elio’s story—a summer love affair between a seventeen-year-old Italian boy, Elio Perlman, and an American university professor, Oliver, who has been selected to live in Elio’s parents’ home as a guest “resident” while finishing a manuscript for publication.
The number one thing that I’ve noticed while watching the film is how sedate it was. There’s the beautiful landscape of a northern Italian countryside that transports you to its 1983 time period. The relaxed vibe of the film juxtaposed with the heaviness of its plot, mainly Elio’s struggle to understand and accept what he feels towards Oliver.
Timothée Chalamet truly and utterly made me feel what Elio felt. He totally owned Elio’s character—every roll and flick of his eyes, every nuances in his voice, especially when he asked Oliver not to go. I am in so much awe of his brilliance—so young and yet with so much potential.
Chalamet and Armie Hammer had an incredible chemistry here that makes you root for them. The compatibility was there, and all throughout the film, you can feel their characters’ connections.
I’d also like to praise Michael Stuhlbarg’s portrayal of Elio’s father. Mr. Stuhlbarg is beautiful, and his performance is simply sublime. I’m very surprised that Hammer got more acting nominations than him for this film. He was simply delightful to watch.
This adaptation actually made me appreciate the book a little more. I wasn’t that fond of it, mainly because of Oliver, but this version right here made me like him. Hammer made me appreciate his character.
Overall, I believe that this film does not need many dialogues or any major special effects. It’s wonderful as it is. Luca Guadagnino so brilliantly captured the beauty of human emotions in Elio, Oliver, and the rest of its casts. It’s quiet, but it’s so full of life. It prompts introspection and gratitude for our own support systems, mirroring the unwavering support Elio receives. It goes beyond the headline-grabbing love story between two guys, and delves deeper into the profound love present in familial bonds. The film truly deserves all of the accolades it has received.
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Director: Luca Guadagnino Cast: Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, Victoire Du Bois
The film was nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor (Chalamet), Best Adapted Screenplay (Ivory), and Best Original Song (“Mystery of Love”) at the 90th Academy Awards.
Hollywood’s next big thing Timothée Chalamet is on his way to possibly becoming the youngest winner of the Oscars’ Lead Actor category this year given that he was able to sway the voters away from perennial favorite Gary Oldman.
As the youngest Oscar nominee for Best Actor in nearly 80 years, our cover star Timothée Chalamet is redefining the role of the leading man. Photographed by Collier Schorr, styled by Robbie Spencer, and interviewed by both Frank Ocean and Xavier Dolan, Chalamet details his upbringing in New York, working with Luca Guadagnino, his relationship with Armie Hammer, and the realities of love and pain. (s)
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