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Drive, Fassbender, Serkis Honored at the 2nd Annual YouReviewers Awards

The 2nd Annual YouReviewers Movie Awards aired on YouTube this past weekend, and we’ve got to say, it was quite a show! This year, our friends at ENTV played host as YouTube heavy hitters Jeremy Jahns, The Schmoes, and a host of other notables from the ever-opinionated YouTube film community presented their favorite films, performances and trailers (because, after all, this is YouTube) of 2011. If you haven’t yet, be sure to check out the full show below – we think it’s safe to say that in the never-ending glut of awards shows this time of year, there’s nothing else like it. Or you can skip to the full winners list below to see what the small-screen scene picked as the best of the big screen. 2012 YouReviewer Awards Winners List: BEST PICTURE Drive 50/50 The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes The Artist Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Pt. 2 Hugo The Descendants Midnight in Paris Warrior BEST DIRECTOR Nicolas Winding Refn ( Drive ) David Fincher ( The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo ) Martin Scorsese ( Hugo ) Steven Spielberg ( War Horse ) Michel Hazanavicius ( The Artist ) BEST ACTOR George Clooney ( The Descendants ) Ryan Gosling ( Drive ) Joseph Gordon-Levitt ( 50/50 ) Michael Fassbender ( Shame ) Brad Pitt ( Moneyball ) BEST ACTRESS Rooney Mara ( The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo ) Viola Davis ( The Help ) Emma Stone ( The Help ) Charlize Theron ( Young Adult ) Michelle Williams ( My Week with Marilyn ) BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Nick Nolte ( Warrior ) Christopher Plummer ( Beginners ) Albert Brooks ( Drive ) Jonah Hill ( Moneyball ) Andy Serkis ( Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes ) BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Octavia Spencer ( The Help ) Shailene Woodley ( The Descendants ) Elle Fanning ( Super 8 ) Melissa McCarthy ( Bridesmaids ) Carey Mulligan ( Shame ) BREAKTHROUGH ACTOR Joel Courtney Michael Fassbender Ryan Gosling Jean Dujardin John Boyega BREAKTHROUGH ACTRESS Rooney Mara Shailene Woodley Berenice Bejo Jessica Chastain Brit Marling BEST ANIMATED FEATURE The Adventures of Tin Tin Arthur Christmas Rango Puss in Boots Kung Fu Panda BEST VILLAIN Albert Brooks ( Drive ) Voldemort ( Harry Potter ) Kevin Bacon ( X-Men: First Class ) Loki ( Thor ) Bryce Dallas Howard ( The Help ) BEST HERO Rooney Mara ( The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo ) Gosling ( Drive ) Harry Potter (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2) Moses ( Attack the Block ) Caesar ( Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes ) BEST SCORE Drive The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo War Horse The Muppets Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 BEST VISUAL EFFECTS Super 8 Hugo Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 Rise of the Planet of the Apes Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon BEST TRAILER The Dark Knight Rises Trailer 2 The Hobbit The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo The Avengers Prometheus MOST UNDERRATED FILM Warrior The Adjustment Bureau Win Win Hanna Attack the Block THE I’M SHOCKED IT DIDN’T SUCK AWARD Real Steel Fast Five (tie) Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes (tie) MI:4: Ghost Protocol

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Oscar Index: Ladies First

You know that when two of the most respected pundits in all of Oscardom argue (within days of each other!) for curtailing both the epic Academy Awards season race and the ceremony in which it culminates, patience for all this crap is wearing thin. With that in mind — and also considering that the “race” for most of these categories ended weeks or months ago — who’s up for an Oscar Index lightning round? (The entire staff at Movieline’s Institute for the Advanced Study of Kudos Forensics raises its hands.) OK, then — to the Index! The Final 9: 1. The Artist 2. The Help 3. The Descendants 4. Hugo 5. Moneyball 6. The Tree of Life 7. Midnight in Paris 8. The Daldry 9. War Horse Though we cannot rule out any of these underdogs’ mounting a behind-the-scenes charm blitz before Academy polls close next Tuesday, or the implications of the reminder that no movie about movies has ever won Best Picture , The Artist ‘s triumph at last weekend’s BAFTA Awards only tightened its seeming lock on the Best Picture Oscar. Still, let’s hear it for The Descendants , blazing the media afterburners for a desperately needed uptick. ( The Help , by comparison, got a forlorn-looking electronic billboard .) Also, don’t look now, but somebody actually dared to write thoughtfully about The Daldry . Not a minute too soon! Anyway, yes, Steve Pond , we’re all with you: Let’s just end this farce already. The Final 5: 1. Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist 2. Alexander Payne, The Descendants 3. Martin Scorsese, Hugo 4. Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life 5. Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris While the BAFTAs nudged Hazanavicius ever closer to Oscar glory and Sasha Stone contemplated the beneficiaries of a potential split vote — which is really the most that the pundits and campaigners engineering an anti- Artist backlash can hope for at this point — only Allen received a truly needle-moving endorsement this week. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Nick Jonas : “[F]or directing, I chose Midnight in Paris because Woody Allen is my favorite. He’s awesome.[… T]here would be a Woody Allen film on the tour bus every now and again. There’s always a Woody Allen movie on.” Now you know. The Final 5: 1. [tie] Viola Davis, The Help 1. [tie] Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady 3. Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn 4. Rooney Mara, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo 5. Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs “I hope we can all agree that when the Oscar conversation involves actresses as massively gifted as Meryl and Viola we all win,” wrote Nathaniel Rogers of the juiciest race going. “If only we could have a tie!” Haha, fine for now, but NO . Don’t give the Academy any ideas; it’ll totally screw up my Oscar-party ballot. That said, it’s quite a conversation, with the BAFTAs and the Berlinale’s gala tribute tilting momentum back Streep’s way. But if we’re to believe that the continued dissemination and discussion of these events among awards observers and the media cognoscenti are really the factors that persuade Oscar voters (and I guess we are to believe that, rightly or not — otherwise, what are we doing here?), then wouldn’t it follow that the continued dissemination of Davis’s boundless class, intellect and talent on the campaign trail would either match or supersede Streep’s own carefully cultivated hype? Take this incredible appearance that Davis and Help co-star Octavia Spencer recently made on Tavis Smiley’s show, an interview that’s been covered here , there and everywhere [transcript via The Carpetbagger ]: “I want you to win,” Mr. Smiley said, “but I’m ambivalent about what you’re winning for.” Ms. Davis was direct. “That very mind-set that you have and that a lot of African-Americans have is absolutely destroying the black artist,” she said. “The black artist cannot live in a revisionist place,” she added. “The black artist can only tell the truth about humanity, and humanity is messy. People are messy. Caucasian actors know that. We as African-American artists are more concerned with image and message and not execution,” she said, “which is why every time you see your images they’ve been watered down to the point where they are not realistic at all.” “My whole thing is, do I always have be noble?” she continued. “As an artist, you’ve got to see the mess.” The Academy has never really given any indication of having taste that would or could be moved by a case like that. But if its members in the actors branch in particular do have that taste, and they can hear her voice above the noise, then Davis may yet be the actress to beat. For now, meanwhile, it’s just too close to call. In other brief news, Mara got another profile-boosting close-up while Close — who’s facing such delightful headlines as ” Glenn Close: Next Queen of Oscar losers? may as well ask to just be awoken when it’s Feb. 27. Tough world. The Leading 5: 1. Jean Dujardin, The Artist 2. George Clooney, The Descendants 3. Brad Pitt, Moneyball 4. Demi

Patton Oswalt Rounds Up Academy Snubculture For the Only Oscar Party Worth Attending

Thanks to the wonders of Twitter, we already know how Albert Brooks feels about this morning’s brutal Oscar-nomination snub. But how is the rest of the Academy’s snubculture faring? We may never know entirely, but at least their unofficial ambassador Patton Oswalt has the fan-fiction angle covered — and it sounds like this group has the Governors Ball beat. Join me for a drink at The Drawing Room, @AlbertBrooks ? Me and Serkis have been here since 6am. Tue Jan 24 15:22:50 via Twitter for iPhone Patton Oswalt pattonoswalt @AlbertBrooks See you later tonight. Might be out of booze — Serkis has Pogues on the jukebox & Fassbender just showed up in a pirate hat. Tue Jan 24 16:22:01 via Twitter for iPhone Patton Oswalt pattonoswalt @AlbertBrooks Oh shit — we’re DEFINITELY going to run out of booze. Charlize & Tilda just pulled up in a stolen police car. Tue Jan 24 16:30:59 via Twitter for iPhone Patton Oswalt pattonoswalt @AlbertBrooks Dude, GET DOWN HERE. Gosling is doing keg stands and Olsen & Dunst LITERALLY just emerged from a shower of rose petals. Tue Jan 24 16:41:17 via Twitter for iPhone Patton Oswalt pattonoswalt @AlbertBrooks Nolte & Plummer just drove past, mooning us. Serkis & Tilda are signing “Is There Life on Mars?” Tue Jan 24 16:44:21 via Twitter for iPhone Patton Oswalt pattonoswalt @AlbertBrooks Oops — Von Trier just pulled up in a pass van dressed as Goering. “Let’s go to Legoland!” With a boozy hurrah, we’re out! Tue Jan 24 16:46:44 via Twitter for iPhone Patton Oswalt pattonoswalt

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Oscar Index Special Edition: Predicting the 84th Academy Award Nominations

We’re a little more than half a day away from learning who and what will compete for the 84th annual Academy Awards — an elite class through which Movieline’s Institute for the Advanced Study of Kudos Forensics had combed for four months in its fail-safe, fool-proof and bracingly handsome Oscar Index . This calls for one last sweep through each of the Academy’s categories (with the exception of live-action, animated and documentary short, about which even our pointiest-headed Oscar wonk cannot speak yet with authority); check our team’s work against your own, and drop back by Movieline tomorrow morning at 8:30 a.m. ET/5:30 a.m. PT as we deliver nominations, reactions, analysis and more. [Nominees listed alphabetically by film] BEST PICTURE The Artist The Descendants The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo The Help Hugo Midnight in Paris Moneyball War Horse BEST DIRECTOR Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist Alexander Payne The Descendants David Fincher, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Martin Scorsese Hugo Woody Allen Midnight in Paris BEST ACTRESS Rooney Mara, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Viola Davis, The Help Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About Kevin BEST ACTOR Jean Dujardin, The Artist George Clooney, The Descendants Brad Pitt, Moneyball Michael Fassbender, Shame Gary Oldman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Berenice Bejo, The Artist Shailene Woodley, The Descendants Jessica Chastain, The Help Octavia Spencer, The Help Melissa McCarthy, Bridesmaids BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Christopher Plummer, Beginners Albert Brooks, Drive Jonah Hill, Moneyball Kenneth Branagh, My Week with Marilyn Nick Nolte, Warrior BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Will Reiser, 50/50 Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig, Bridesmaids Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris Tom McCarthy and Joe Tiboni, Win Win BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, The Descendants Steven Zaillian, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Tate Taylor, The Help John Logan, Hugo Stan Chervin, Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian, Moneyball BEST ART DIRECTION Laurence Bennett, The Artist Donald Graham Burt, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stuart Craig, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Dante Ferretti, Hugo Maria Djurkovic, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Guillaume Schiffman, The Artist Jeff Cronenweth, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Robert Richardson, Hugo Emmanuel Lubezki, The Tree of Life Janusz Kaminski, War Horse BEST COSTUME DESIGN Mark Bridges, The Artist Michael O’Connor, Jane Eyre Sandy Powell, Hugo Jill Taylor, My Week with Marilyn Jacqueline Durran, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy BEST FILM EDITING Michel Hazanavicius and Anne-Sophie Bion, The Artist Thelma Schoonmaker, Hugo Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Christopher Tellefsen, Moneyball Michael Kahn, War Horse BEST MAKEUP Albert Nobbs Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 The Iron Lady BEST ORIGINAL SCORE The Artist The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Hugo Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy War Horse BEST ORIGINAL SONG “Lay Your Head Down,” Albert Nobbs “Hello Hello” Gnomeo & Juliet “The Living Proof,” The Help “Life’s a Happy Song,” The Muppets “Man or Muppet,” The Muppets BEST SOUND EDITING The Adventures of Tintin The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Hugo Transformers: Dark of the Moon BEST SOUND MIXING Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Hugo Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Transformers: Dark of the Moon War Horse BEST VISUAL EFFECTS Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Hugo Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Rise of the Planet of the Apes Transformers: Dark of the Moon BEST ANIMATED FILM FEATURE Rango Puss in Boots The Adventures of Tintin Kung Fu Panda 2 Rio BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Bill Cunningham New York Buck If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory Project Nim BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FEATURE Bullhead , Belgium Footnote , Israel In Darkness , Poland Monsieur Lazhar , Canada A Separation , Iran [Top photo via Shutterstock ] Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .

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Finding Nemo Trailer: Just Keep Swimming in 3D!

Finding Nemo, the undersea classic from Disney and Pixar, returns to theaters in 3D this September. The 2003 hit won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Albert Brooks stars as Marlin, a maligned clownfish determined to rescue son Nemo, who was scooped up by an Aussie diver and placed in a tank with other captives. Ellen DeGeneres is Dory, Marlin’s lovable, memory-challenged sidekick. Visually stunning then, and even now in standard definition, it should look even more so in three dimensions. Watch the trailer for the film’s 3-D re-release here! Finding Nemo 3D Trailer

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Rejoice: Melancholia Finally Wins Something

When Lars von Trier’s latest masterpiece Melancholia last had any real time in the awards spotlight, Kirsten Dunst was accepting the Best Actress hardware at Cannes . News came over the weekend that their drought is over: The National Society of Film Critics voted Melancholia its Best Picture of 2011, with Dunst again earning Best Actress for her role as a depressed bride coming to grips with the end of the world. Other honorees included Terrence Malick, Brad Pitt, Albert Brooks and Jessica Chastain; read on for the full list of winners, runners-up and voting totals. BEST PICTURE *1. Melancholia – 29 (Lars von Trier) 2. The Tree of Life – 28 (Terrence Malick) 3. A Separation – 20 (Asghar Farhadi) BEST DIRECTOR *1. Terrence Malick – 31 ( The Tree of Life ) 2. Martin Scorsese – 29 ( Hugo ) 3. Lars von Trier – 23 ( Melancholia ) BEST ACTOR *1. Brad Pitt – 35 ( Moneyball, The Tree of Life ) 2. Gary Oldman – 22 ( Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy ) 3. Jean Dujardin – 19 ( The Artist ) BEST ACTRESS *1. Kirsten Dunst – 39 ( Melancholia ) 2. Yun Jung-hee – 25 ( Poetry ) 3. Meryl Streep – 20 ( The Iron Lady ) BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR *1. Albert Brooks – 38 ( Drive ) 2. Christopher Plummer – 24 ( Beginners ) 3. Patton Oswalt – 19 ( Young Adult ) BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS *1. Jessica Chastain – 30 ( The Tree of Life, Take Shelter, The Help ) 2. Jeannie Berlin – 19 ( Margaret ) 3. Shailene Woodley – 17 ( The Descendants ) BEST NONFICTION *1. Cave of Forgotten Dreams – 35 (Werner Herzog) 2. The Interrupters – 26 (Steve James) 3. Into the Abyss – 18 (Werner Herzog) BEST SCREENPLAY *1. A Separation – 39 (Asghar Farhadi) 2. Moneyball – 22 (Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin) 3. Midnight in Paris – 16 (Woody Allen) BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM *1. A Separation – 67 (Asghar Farhadi) 2. Mysteries of Lisbon – 28 (Raoul Ruiz) 3. Le Havre – 22 (Aki Kaurismäki) BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY *1. The Tree of Life – 76 ( Emanuel Lubezki ) 2. Melancholia – 41 ( Manuel Alberto Claro ) 3. Hugo – 33 ( Robert Richardson ) EXPERIMENTAL Ken Jacobs, for Seeking the Monkey King . FILM HERITAGE 1. BAM Cinématek for its complete Vincente Minnelli retrospective with all titles shown on 16 mm. or 35 mm. film. 2. Lobster Films, Groupama Gan Foundation for Cinema and the Technicolor Foundation for Cinema for the restoration of the color version of George Méliès’s A Trip to the Moon . 3. New York’s Museum of Modern Art for its extensive retrospective of Weimar Cinema. 4. Flicker Alley for their box set Landmarks of Early Soviet Film . 5. Criterion Collecton for its 2-disc DVD package The Complete Jean Vigo .

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Oscar Index: Draggin’ Tattoo? Don’t Bet on It

The first Oscar Index entry of 2012 finds Movieline’s Institute for the Advanced Study of Kudos Forensics a little hungover from the holidays and lot bored from the protracted inertia of awards season. Not even this week’s Producers Guild Award nominations could do much to shake up a contest that appears to be both wide open and solidifying into place at the same time. Let’s investigate… The Leading 10: 1. The Artist 2. War Horse 3. The Help 4. The Descendants 5. Hugo 6. Midnight in Paris 7. Moneyball 8. The Tree of Life 9. Bridesmaids 10. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Outsiders: The Ides of March ; Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close ; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy ; Drive The awards cognoscenti weighed in where they could after Tuesday’s PGA nomination announcement, but on the whole it came down to a few routine observations:

Nick Swardson to Work Again, and 5 Other Stories You’ll Be Talking About Today

Happy Wednesday! Also in today’s edition of The Broadsheet: The man who helped make cinema safe for the counterculture has died… Kenneth Branagh’s back-up plan… Apologies worth considering… and more.

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SAG Award Nominations: Help Soars; Michael Fassbender, Albert Brooks Snubbed

The nominations for the 18th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards are out, and whoa : Presumed competitors Michael Fassbender, Albert Brooks, Shailene Woodley and the ensemble cast of Margin Call are nowhere to be found, while dark horse Demi

It’s Official: Ricky Gervais Is Hosting the Golden Globes Again

Well now: Despite legendarily roasting all of Hollywood last year during his hosting gig at the Golden Globes (and the resulting grumblings among celebs and media alike) Ricky Gervais will be back to host the 69th Golden Globes Awards. See what the Hollywood Foreign Press Association had to say about the surprise confirmation, and the kind of jokes Gervais is already threatening to drop all over the telecast come January.

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