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Uncle Frank (2020, Alan Ball)

22/02/2024

Uncle Frank is a 2020 film written and directed by Alan Ball.

Beth Bledsoe is a teenager who lives in South Carolina, very close to her uncle Frank, as he is more refined and caring than the rest of her family; the girl notices that her other relatives, especially her grandfather Mac, are hostile towards Frank, but she doesn't understand why.

The film was presented at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival on January 25 and distributed on Prime Video starting November 26, 2020.

The dubbing was performed at the Dream&Dream studio in Milan, under the direction of Marcello Cortese.

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San Diego Film Critics Society (SDFCS) Nominations

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Awards Season 2023-24: Awards Round-Up 1/6

This is going up a little sooner than I expected, since the awards groups are coming on thick and fast in the new year. (According to Awards Daily, my go-to source for awards news, five groups are announcing their awards on the 6th alone.) This time around, we’ve got 13 groups to cover: Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ) Black Film Critics Circle (BFCC) Critics Association of Central…

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#Glispiritidellisola ha vinto 5 San Diego Film Critics Society Awards (#SDFCS): miglior film, miglior attore #ColinFarrell, supporter maschile #BrendanGleeson, supporter femminile #KerryCondon, miglior script. Ecco la lista di tutti I vincitori di quest'anno: Best Picture THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Best Director Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Best Actor Colin Farrell, THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Best Actress Danielle Deadwyler, TILL Best Supporting Actor Brendan Gleeson, THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Best Supporting Actress Kerry Condon, THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Best Original Screenplay Martin McDonagh, THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Best Adapted Screenplay Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, Ian Stokell, ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Best Documentary WILDCAT – Winner Best Animated Film GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO Best Foreign Language Film ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT Best Editing Paul Rogers, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE Best Cinematography Linus Sandgren, BABYLON Best Production Design Florencia Martin, BABYLON Best Visual Effects AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER Best Costume Design Catherine Martin, Rachelle Mejia, ELVIS Best Sound Design TOP GUN: MAVERICK Breakthrough Artist Austin Butler, ELVIS Best Ensemble EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE https://www.instagram.com/p/CnF91wHIXBa/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Remember when she tied for Best Actress in San Diego… and Brian jumped the gun and posted without the wee lad?

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2019 San Diego Film Critics Society Awards - WINNERS

Best Picture 1917 THE IRISHMAN — WINNER JOKER MARRIAGE STORY — RUNNER-UP ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD

Best Director Noah Baumbach, MARRIAGE STORY — RUNNER-UP Sam Mendes, 1917 Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie, UNCUT GEMS — WINNER Martin Scorsese, THE IRISHMAN Quentin Tarantino, ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD

Best Actor Christian Bale, FORD V FERRARI Adam Driver, MARRIAGE STORY — WINNER (TIE) Eddie Murphy, DOLEMITE IS MY NAME Joaquin Phoenix, JOKER — WINNER (TIE) Adam Sandler, UNCUT GEMS

Best Actress Awkwafina, THE FAREWELL Scarlett Johansson, MARRIAGE STORY Lupita Nyong’o, US — WINNER Saoirse Ronan, LITTLE WOMEN Renée Zellweger, JUDY — RUNNER-UP

Best Supporting Actor Willem Dafoe, THE LIGHTHOUSE Al Pacino, THE IRISHMAN Joe Pesci, THE IRISHMAN — WINNER (TIE) Brad Pitt, ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD — WINNER (TIE) Wesley Snipes, DOLEMITE IS MY NAME

Best Supporting Actress Laura Dern, MARRIAGE STORY — RUNNER-UP Thomasin McKenzie, JOJO RABBIT Florence Pugh, LITTLE WOMEN Zhao Shuzhen, THE FAREWELL — WINNER Octavia Spencer, LUCE

Best Comedic Performance Daniel Craig, KNIVES OUT Eddie Murphy, DOLEMITE IS MY NAME Sam Rockwell, JOJO RABBIT Wesley Snipes, DOLEMITE IS MY NAME — WINNER Taika Waititi, JOJO RABBIT — RUNNER-UP

Best Original Screenplay Noah Baumbach, MARRIAGE STORY — WINNER Bong Joon Ho, Jin Won Han, PARASITE Rian Johnson, KNIVES OUT Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie, UNCUT GEMS — RUNNER-UP Quentin Tarantino, ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD

Best Adapted Screenplay Greta Gerwig, LITTLE WOMEN J.C. Lee, Julius Onah, LUCE — WINNER Todd Phillips, Scott Silver, JOKER Taika Waititi, Christine Leunens, JOJO RABBIT Steven Zaillian, THE IRISHMAN — RUNNER-UP

Best Documentary APOLLO 11 THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM LOVE, ANTOSHA — RUNNER-UP ONE CHILD NATION — WINNER THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD

Best Animated Film ABOMINABLE HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD I LOST MY BODY — WINNER MISSING LINK TOY STORY 4 — RUNNER-UP

Best Foreign-language Film THE FAREWELL PAIN & GLORY PARASITE — WINNER PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE TRANSIT — RUNNER-UP

Best Costume Design Ruth E. Carter, DOLEMITE IS MY NAME — WINNER Julian Day, ROCKETMAN Jacqueline Durran, LITTLE WOMEN Arianne Phillips, ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD Anna Robbins, DOWNTON ABBEY — RUNNER-UP

Best Editing Andrew Buckland, Michael McCusker & Dirk Westervelt, FORD V FERRARI — WINNER Jennifer Lame, MARRIAGE STORY Fred Raskin, ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD Benny Safdie, Ronald Bronstein, UNCUT GEMS — RUNNER-UP Thelma Schoonmaker, THE IRISHMAN

Best Cinematography Jarin Blaschke, THE LIGHTHOUSE — WINNER Roger Deakins, 1917 — RUNNER-UP Hoyte Van Hoytema, AD ASTRA Rodrigo Prieto, THE IRISHMAN Phedon Papamichael, FORD V FERRARI

Best Production Design Dennis Gassner, 1917 — WINNER Jess Gonchor, LITTLE WOMEN — RUNNER-UP Clay A. Griffith, DOLEMITE IS MY NAME Barbara Ling, ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD Bob Shaw, THE IRISHMAN Donal Woods, DOWNTON ABBEY        

Best Visual Effects 1917 — RUNNER-UP AD ASTRA — WINNER THE AERONAUTS AVENGERS: ENDGAME THE IRISHMAN

Best Use of Music JOJO RABBIT — RUNNER-UP JOKER ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD — WINNER ROCKETMAN YESTERDAY

Best Ensemble DOWNTON ABBEY THE IRISHMAN — RUNNER-UP KNIVES OUT — WINNER MARRIAGE STORY ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD

Breakthrough Artist Jessie Buckley, JUDY, WILD ROSE Julia Butters, ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD Roman Griffin Davis, JOJO RABBIT Kelvin Harrison Jr., LUCE, WAVES — RUNNER-UP Florence Pugh, LITTLE WOMEN, MIDSOMMAR — WINNER

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And another... :-)

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The Lost City of Z Premiär 13 November, 2020 The Lost City of Z berättar den häpnadsväckande sanna historien om den brittiska utforskaren Percy Fawcett, som under hans expeditioner in i Amazonas i början av 1900-talet upptäckte bevis på en tidigare okänd, avancerad civilisation som kan ha bebott området.

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Maya Angelou

Let me tell you one of the most soulful people I've learned about, Maya Angelou. She's an absolute queen with so much perseverance and wisdom. I don't think I've learned about someone with so many quirks in numerous areas from writing to dancing, to directing, to singing; she's amazing so please give this a read.

First, who is Maya Angelou? A brief preview.

An African-American author, a poet, a singer, an activist, a scholar, a scriptwriter, an actress, and a dancer

Best known for her unique and pioneering autobiographical style

Born on April 4th, 1928 and died on May 28th, 2014

She was born in St. Louis, Missouri

Maya's Traumatic Early Life

At an early age, Maya was sent to live at her grandmother’s place in Stamps, Arkansas because of her parents tumultuous marriage and eventual divorce

It was her older brother, Bailey, who gave her the nickname “Maya”

Living with her grandmother helped her develop pride and self-confidence

When she returned to her mother’s care briefly at the age of 7, she was raped by her mother’s boyfriend

When he was jailed and released not a day later, he was killed

Traumatized by his death, she later said, “I thought my voice killed him; I killed that man because I told his name. And then I thought I would never speak again because my voice would kill anyone …”

She became mute for 5 years, her usual lustrous personality crushed

She returned to live with her grandma through her teens and during the times she was mute, she holed herself in libraries, memorizing all books line by line like Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets, and Poe’s poetry; thought to be the beginning to her love for literature and writing

Her Literary Career/Famous Works

“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” (1969)

Her most critically acclaimed book, spanning her childhood as she and her brother bounced back and forth from her mother's place to her grandmother's

She wrote this during her time with the Harlem Writers Guild, a safe community that supported African writers, in NYC

It narrated her experiences with racism, molestation, rape, and her chronic displacement

“Gather Together In My Name” (1974)

follows after "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" when Angelou was 17-19 years old

the book depicts a single mother's slide down the social ladder into poverty and crime

the title was from the Bible but it also conveyed how a Black female lived in the white dominated society of the US after WWII

its themes were motherhood and family, racism and identity, education and literacy

“Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘fore I Diiie” (1971)

Angelou's first collection of poetry

many of the poems were song lyrics, inspired at Angelou's time in her life when she was nightclub singer in her 20s

it was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1972

“Mom & Me & Mom” (2013)

her final book and 7 book memoir series that focused on her relationship with her mother

it covered her budding relationship with her mother when she was young with themes of reconciliation and reunion

Interesting Trivia

She was the first Black female street car conductor when she persisted for work at San Francisco in high school; “I loved the uniforms”, she had explained.

She was a civil activist, advocating for African-American rights as the northern coordinator of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

After working as a dancer a club in San Diego, she had a short lived personal sex history but quit after she bought her first car, a 1939 pale-green Chrysler convertible

In 1972, she was the first African American to have her screenplay turned into a film, “Georgia, Georgia”; she’s also had a wide variety of singing, dancing, acting, and directing and producing shows and movies

She was besties with Martin Luther King Jr. and after his death, she sent flowers to his wife for more than 30 years until her death

She’s also very close friends with Oprah Winfrey, appearing on her show twice, and giving her life-changing advice during her hardships

Reflection

I had the chance to read Angelou's final book "Mom & Me & Mom" and I think it really showed a lot of how Angelou was the person she was today. Her mother, like her, was a very strong willed woman who had taught her how to be independent, to be courageous, and proud in such oppressive society. They were like two peas in a pod, two women who came together with their stories of experience, and teaching one another how to love themselves, to be empowered, and courageous. I related to the story with my own close relationship with my mother. Like Angelou and her mother, my mother and I were like a student and mentor and best friends all while still being parent and daughter. It made me appreciate and love my mother, and really keep the things she taught me close to my heart. This book was so monumentally relatable, I had to order my own copy to annotate it with my own experiences.

Angelou was a woman who wanted others to be strong, to be courageous, to love themselves, and see their misery and hard times as new opportunities that would being them happiness. Her personality was bright even when she was quite old, and she was so animated and influential, it's hard to be distracted if you watch her interviews. Like many female authors, Angelou's experiences have impacted the way she wrote her books; but her soulful autobiographical style makes her books unique; it doesn't seem like it's about the author, but a character who the reader can relate to and follow along her joys and miseries.

Thank you for reading this far and please give Maya Angelou's books a read. She has wisdom that society needs during these times of turmoil.

References:

A. Spring, Kelley. “Maya Angelou.” National Women’s History Museum, 2017, www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/maya-angelou.

Edmund, Aiyana. “10 Fascinating Facts About Maya Angelou.” Literary Ladies Guide, 22 Feb. 2018, www.literaryladiesguide.com/literary-musings/10-fascinating-facts-maya-angelou.

“Maya Angelou.” Biography, A&E Television Networks, www.biography.com/writer/maya-angelou.

Gibson, Megan. “A Guide to Maya Angelou’s Most Beloved Books.” Time, TIME USA, LLC, 28 May 2014, time.com/123030/maya-angelou-best-books.

“Maya Angelou Biography - Life, Children, Parents, Name, Story, Death, School, Mother, Young.” Encyclopedia of World Biography, Advameg, Inc, www.notablebiographies.com/An-Ba/Angelou-Maya.html.

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Doctor Who Hiatusbreaker Update 2

Although the premiere of Doctor Who Series 13 is still a while off, let alone the announcement of a premiere date, there are a few things I’d like to talk about before that time comes. Let’s get right into it.

Filler series plans to talk about Series 1-10

Some time ago, I had plans to make a ten-part series talking about Series 1-10 in detail, but because I had a lot of stuff going on, those plans were reduced to something I call Doctor Who 10 for 10 - 10 Things for 10 Series, which was to state ten things about each series with at least 4 to 6 of these things being my opinions on each series. This was intended to be a filler series to bide the time before Series 13 comes out, but that may have to come at another time. I’m also continuing with Kisekae Insights if anyone wants to check it out.

The post-Series 13 forecast

Since Series 13 would be Jodie Whittaker’s third series as the Doctor, signs are pointing to this being her final series. There are also rumours stating that there will be two specials in 2022 that would serve as her final episodes. If this is the case, then it means that Jodie Whittaker would have been the Doctor for five years; a five-year-long ordeal of pain because series seem to be released pretty much every other year as a result of the almost-year-long gaps between them, not to mention the fact that less episodes are being produced as time goes on. Whether Chris Chibnall will be remaining on is still unknown at this time. Frankly, I’ll be glad when this is all over because I (and many other fans) have been kept hanging for so long. I just hope the Timeless Child payoff will be worth it.

At this point, the only reason why I’m still watching the series is mainly because I want to know how the Timeless Child arc plays out. The initial shocks have come and gone, but now this is where we wait and see if the aftershocks are as worse.

When I started my Thirteenth Doctor Reviews, I made a pact that I would cut off all ties with the series going forward if the Fourteenth Doctor was another female. Given the Timeless Child arc and the rumours that Olly Alexander would replace Jodie Whittaker (which would make him the first gay actor to play the Doctor) that came and went because his agent stated that he was focusing on music for the time being, I’ve honestly stopped giving a shit at this point. I’ll probably continue being a casual fan of Doctor Who, watching episodes as they come out, but regardless, all that this series will be to me is like what the Koei Warriors series has degraded itself to over the past decade. I’ll still be grateful for all the inspiration and opportunities it has provided me with over the years, but I’ll probably accept that the series has gone on a downward spiral with seemingly no way of coming back up. But hey, all will be revealed in due time, so the forecast isn’t that bleak for now.

The first look into Series 13 (added 26 July 2021)

So just today, two days after I originally published this post, the teaser trailer for Doctor Who Series 13 was released following the 2021 San Diego Comic Con@Home. Aside from the Doctor, Yaz and Dan, the only other character we see is Vinder, a recurring character throughout the series who will be played by Jacob Anderson. Recurring character, you say, and that’s because Series 13 will apparently be a single serialised story. This brings callbacks to The Trial of a Time Lord or more loosely, the multiple two-parters of Series 9. We still don’t get an exact premiere date, only that it will premiere “later this year”, but given that Series 11 and 12 took about 10 months to film, we can predict that filming of Series 13 will likely be wrapping up in the next month. Whether there will be a shorter run of five or six episodes (thereby reserving two of those episodes for the 2022 specials, assuming they won’t be filmed separately to Series 13) is unknown, but regardless, I’m looking forward to watching and reviewing the series for myself.

Jodie Whittaker and Chris Chibnall leave Doctor Who (added 30 July 2021) 

In news that will surprise no one, Jodie Whittaker and Chris Chibnall have announced that they will be leaving the series in 2022. Technically, the news isn’t much of a surprise in terms of Whittaker than it is for Chibnall, as Russell T Davies and Steven Moffat have been showrunner for two Doctors each. But hey, with this, it means that my Thirteenth Doctor Reviews will also be a review of Chibnall’s run as showrunner.

My initial thoughts on this, which may or may not change coming up to Whittaker’s final episode - it was an okay run while it lasted, but honestly, good riddance. How’s that five year plan of yours going, Chibnall? If your plan was to divide the fanbase and leave them hanging with gaps between series, then you’ve really done it.

On top of this, Series 13 will be six episodes long, with the remaining two episodes to be broadcast as specials in 2022. The first of them will be a New Year’s Special (surprise surprise) and the second will follow in Spring 2022 (Northern Hemisphere). The Thirteenth Doctor’s final episode will premiere in Autumn 2022 (Northern Hemisphere) as part of the BBC’s Centenary celebrations. Some tentative dates I’m predicting are 18 October 2022, the 100th anniversary of the BBC, 23 November 2022, the 59th anniversary of Doctor Who, or 1 January 2023, which would make it another New Year’s Special (I’m not discounting 25 December 2022, I just think it’s less likely given how this era has been).

With this, the Fourteenth Doctor is expected to debut in 2023, the 60th anniversary year of Doctor Who. I just hope the new production team doesn’t disappoint the fans with that.

In terms of statistics, Jodie Whittaker has played the Doctor for 31 episodes, making her run the second shortest behind Christopher Eccleston. Peter Capaldi played the Doctor for 40 episodes, Matt Smith for 44 episodes and David Tennant for 47.

My hopes for Whittaker and Chibnall’s final episodes haven’t changed; I want to see what happens with the Timeless Child arc (and also Ruth). Whether the Fourteenth Doctor will be male or female (or played by a non-binary or trans actor), I have a few basic preliminary hopes for the next run; make each series 13 episodes again with a Christmas Special each year and put the series back on Saturday nights, like it was before Whittaker and Chibnall. Also, can we go back to filming in the 16:9 ratio? I can never get over how weird it looks on my screen (at full screen, it doesn’t look so weird when I have it playing on half screen, which is what I usually do when I write my reviews).

Jay Exci - The Fall of Doctor Who

Yes, it has been a while and I know I could have told everyone about this earlier, but better late than never I suppose. A couple of months ago, Jay Exci did a 5-hour long critique of the Chibnall era in his video, The Fall of Doctor Who. For some reason, there are those who see it as controversial because they’re NPCs who don’t want to hear criticism of the Chibnall era or they’re spergs who aren’t mature enough to sit through a 5-hour video they can watch in chunks, but hey, it’s pretty good. This is more in-depth than the reviews that people like Bowlestrek or Nerdrotic make, which essentially put Jay on their level in the eyes of the NPCs despite denying that they are on their level and being a sperg about how they’re better than them. Welcome to the party, Jay, you can check out anytime but you can never leave. 

Anyway, you can check out the video below. Even if you don’t feel like watching the whole video, I highly suggest that you watch section 4.2 onwards (timestamped link here) as it does resonate with my feelings on the Timeless Child arc. I swear, this is just like Dynasty Warriors 9 all over again. I know the feeling.

Cancel culture comes for Noel Clarke and John Barrowman

The thing about cancel culture is that people can be petty about things other people have done or said years ago and they can justify it with the excuse that they’re doing it to hold those people accountable. Depending on the context, it can expose the fact that that person is a major piece of shit or it can be an overreaction to something, which in the minds of today’s society is normally the latter.

Around the time that Noel Clarke was nominated for a Bafta at the end of March, allegations emerged of abuse and sexual misconduct against him. 20 women came forward with their stories and as a result, the final episode of Viewpoint was pulled from broadcast (but still released on Blu-ray and DVD) and Bulletproof was cancelled before filming on the fourth series would begin.

In May, video emerged of Clarke at Chicago TARDIS in 2014 talking about how John Barrowman would expose his genitals and slap it on people and things. This led to allegations about Barrowman surfacing, resulting in him apologising for his actions even though he had already been reprimanded for them over a decade ago and apologised in November 2008. Despite this, his contribution to the immersive theatrical event Doctor Who: Time Fracture was pulled and Big Finish have decided to shelf the release of Torchwood: Absent Friends, which would have featured David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor.

Now, I don’t care about Noel Clarke by any means, but this situation is honestly sad for John Barrowman because it shows that cancel culture spares no victims and leaves no fossil undiscovered. These PR stunts have clearly shown that the spineless people involved with those productions are so concerned with saving face that they are unable to just overlook these transgressions for the sake of fans who actually wanted to see him reprise his role as Captain Jack Harkness. But hey, what do I know? I don’t really care for anything other than the TV series, but it really shows how shameless corporations can be.

Once again, we don’t exactly know when Doctor Who Series 13 will premiere, but if you ask me, I predict that it will premiere in October or November. I’ll see you all again around that time.

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From the San Diego Film Critics Society:

Best Actor Winner: Riz Ahmed, SOUND OF METAL-  Runner-Up: Anthony Hopkins, THE FATHER

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San Diego Film Critics Society (SDFCS) Awards: Kelly Fremon Craig's 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.' Named Best Picture

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Awards Season 2022-23: Awards Round-Up 1/8

Awards Season 2022-23: Awards Round-Up 1/8

Looking for a few awards in a world of banshees and butt plugs. Putting this up Sunday because this week and next week will be pretty packed. All the guilds and the BAFTAs will announce their nominees by the 19th, and the Oscar nominations are just five days later. So get ready for that Greatest Beer Run surge. You know it’s coming. Anyway, got a motley bunch of awards groups to talk about…

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Why did EW get nominated/win a couple of Film circle critics choice awards? How prestigious are they? Did she pay for them too?

Why did EW get nominated/win a couple of Film circle critics choice awards? How prestigious are they? Did she pay for them too?

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She won only one Critics award, I think. Best Supporting actress at the San Diego Film Critics Society Awards. The other awards were for the entire cast. I don’t think she bought that critic award. It didn’t make it into mainstream media at all. We only know that she won because it’s on her wiki page.

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Jamie Dornan (left) stars as “Pa” and Caitriona Balfe (right) stars as “Ma” in director Kenneth Branagh’s ‘Belfast’ (Photo Credit : Rob Youngson / Focus Features)

The San Diego Film Critics Society usually marches to a beat of its own and doesn’t necessarily fall in line with other groups during awards season. The 2021 San Diego Film Critics Society nominations are a mixed bag of both the usual suspects – Belfast, Dune, and The Power of the Dog – and films that weren’t mentioned quite as often on other lists – Mass, CODA, and In the Heights.

If my math’s correct, the group (of which I’m a current member and past president) spread our nominations out to include 46 different films, with Belfast topping the list with 12 nominations. Dune picked up nine, The Power of the Dog scored eight, and Nightmare Alley and Mass tied with seven nominations each. CODA was nominated in six categories and In the Heights earned five nominations.

Winners will be announced on January 10, 2022.

2021 SAN DIEGO FILM CRITICS SOCIETY NOMINEES:

Best Picture:

BELFAST

CODA

DUNE

MASS

THE POWER OF THE DOG

Best Director:

Kenneth Branagh, BELFAST

Jane Campion, THE POWER OF THE DOG

Guillermo del Toro, NIGHTMARE ALLEY

Maggie Gyllenhaal, THE LOST DAUGHTER

Denis Villeneuve, DUNE

Best Actor:

Nicolas Cage, PIG

Benedict Cumberbatch, THE POWER OF THE DOG

Peter Dinklage, CYRANO

Andrew Garfield, TICK, TICK…BOOM!

Jude Hill, BELFAST

Best Actress:

Caitriona Balfe, BELFAST

Olivia Colman, THE LOST DAUGHTER

Penelope Cruz, PARALLEL MOTHERS

Emilia Jones, CODA

Kristen Stewart, SPENCER

Best Supporting Actor:

Ben Affleck, THE TENDER BAR

Ciaran Hinds, BELFAST

Jason Isaacs, MASS

Troy Kotsur, CODA

Kodi Smit-McPhee, THE POWER OF THE DOG

Best Supporting Actress:

Cate Blanchett, NIGHTMARE ALLEY

Arian DeBose, WEST SIDE STORY

Ann Dowd, MASS

Ruth Negga, PASSING

Martha Plimpton, MASS

Best Comedic Performance:*

Bradley Cooper, LICORICE PIZZA

Leonardo DiCaprio, DON’T LOOK UP

Jamie Dornan, BARB AND STAR GO TO VISTA DEL MAR* 😎

David Harbour, BLACK WIDOW

Simon Rex, RED ROCKET

Best Youth Performance (Performers under the age of 16):

Mckenna Grace, GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE

Jude Hill, BELFAST

Daniel Ranieri, THE TENDER BAR

Saniyya Sidney, KING RICHARD

Demi Singleton, KING RICHARD

Best Original Screenplay:

Pedro Almodovar, PARALLEL MOTHERS

Kenneth Branagh, BELFAST

Fran Kranz, MASS

Adam McKay, DON’T LOOK UP

Michael Sarnoski, PIG

Best Adapted Screenplay:

Jane Campion, THE POWER OF THE DOG

Joel Coen, THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH

Guillermo del Toro, Kim Morgan, NIGHTMARE ALLEY

Rebecca Hall, PASSING

Sian Heder, CODA

Best Documentary:

FLEE

MY NAME IS PAULI MURRAY

SUMMER OF SOUL

VAL

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

Best Animated Film:

ENCANTO

FLEE

LUCA

THE MITCHELLS VS. THE MACHINES

RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON

Best Foreign Language Film:

DRIVE MY CAR

I’M YOUR MAN

LAMB

PARALLEL MOTHERS

THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD

Best Editing:

Úna Ní Dhonghalle, BELFAST

Paula Huidobro, CODA

Myron Kerstein, IN THE HEIGHTS

Joshua L. Pearson, SUMMER OF SOUL

Joe Walker, DUNE

Best Cinematography:

Alice Brooks, IN THE HEIGHTS

Bruno Delbonnel, THE TRAGEDY OF MACBETH

Greig Fraser, DUNE

Dan Laustsen, NIGHTMARE ALLEY

Ari Wegner, THE POWER OF THE DOG

Best Production Design:

Jim Clay, BELFAST

Tamara Deverell, NIGHTMARE ALLEY

Grant Major, THE POWER OF THE DOG

Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo, THE FRENCH DISPATCH

Patrice Vermette, Richard Roberts, Zsuzsanna Sipos, DUNE

Best Visual Effects:

DUNE

THE GREEN KNIGHT

NIGHTMARE ALLEY

SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS

SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME

Best Costumes:

Jenny Beavan, CRUELLA

Odile Dicks-Mireaux, LAST NIGHT IN SOHO

Antionette Messam, THE HARDER THEY FALL

Jacqueline West, Bob Morgan, DUNE

Janty Yates, HOUSE OF GUCCI

Best Sound Design:

Malte Bieler, Brandon Jones, A QUIET PLACE PART II

Simon Chase, James Mather, BELFAST

Theo Green, Dave Whitehead, DUNE

Nathan Robitaille, NIGHTMARE ALLEY

Dave Whitehead, THE POWER OF THE DOG

Best Use of Music:

BELFAST

CRUELLA

IN THE HEIGHTS

LAST NIGHT IN SOHO

WEST SIDE STORY

Breakthrough Artist:

Alana Haim, LICORICE PIZZA

Jude Hill, BELFAST

Emilia Jones, CODA

Fran Kranz, MASS

Anthony Ramos, IN THE HEIGHTS

Best Ensemble:

DON’T LOOK UP

DUNE

THE HARDER THEY FALL

IN THE HEIGHTS

MASS

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Remember… going once, going twice, going three nominations for wee Jude.

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It’s been nearly 25 years since the death of Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, but the memory of the Grammy-winning, Mexican American singer is pervasive in popular culture. Musicians of all genres — from Bruno Mars to Kacey Musgraves — cover her songs. Companies have released Selena makeup and clothing collections. This year, Netflix is releasing a much-anticipated series about her life.

Quintanilla was known as the Queen of Tejano music. Tejano refers to the blend of sounds and cultures along the Mexico and Texas border. It's a generally male-dominated musical genre and mixes traditional music from Mexico with sounds from the US Southwest.

This spring, San Diego State University is offering a first-ever class exploring historical and modern Latinx media representation through Quintanilla’s enduring music and legacy.

Nathian Rodriguez, a professor specializing in critical-cultural and digital media studies, created the class, "Selena and Latinx Media Representation," for the university’s journalism and media studies department.

Rodriguez said discussions about Latinx media representation are especially relevant today. Hollywood faces persistent criticism over its inability to be more inclusive. A 2019 report found Latino actors represented only 3% of lead or co-lead roles in movies.

Meanwhile, controversy erupted over the novel “American Dirt,” which critics blasted for its stereotypical or erroneous depictions of Mexican migrants and life in Mexico. The debate highlighted the lack of diversity in the book publishing industry.

“There's so many things about [Selena] that speak to the sociopolitical atmosphere, that speaks to pop culture, that speaks to identity formation, that speaks to the need for Latinx representation across all media platforms,” Rodriguez said. “Selena is that perfect iconic figure that we can use as a lens to be able to investigate the history of Latinx representation in media, its current status and where it's going in the future.”

Rodriguez spoke to The World’s host Marco Werman about how Quintanilla’s music and legacy are helping Latinx students come to terms with their own identity and to think critically about the lack of Latinx representation in the media.

Marco Werman: What effect did Selena have on you and your own understanding of Latinx culture? Were you a fan?

Nathian Rodriguez: I spent a lot of my early childhood in San Antonio, Texas, and I grew up listening to the Tejano radio stations. I was always listening to the radio trying to win stuff. But I grew up in a very patriarchal Mexican household, and I consider myself a son of an immigrant. My grandfather was like my father to me. He was from Mexico and he spoke Spanish. My grandmother spoke Spanish. My mother and her brother spoke Spanish. And growing up, they really wanted me to speak English first so that I would be successful in school. And so because of that, I grew up in a household hearing Spanish all around me. But I spoke English, so I didn't speak Spanish correctly. I was kind of pocho. So, I never really felt like I belonged. I was always in the middle. I wasn’t Mexican enough, American enough.

So, when Selena came along and I was able to hear her sing in Spanish, but speak in English and talk about her own identity and mispronounce words and fumble on some of the Spanish, it really helped me identify with a Latino person that I had never been able to comprehend. This person that was in the middle, that was living a bicultural life. I saw a lot of myself in Selena. She helped me negotiate my Tejano identity, knowing that there wasn't one correct way to be a Latinx individual. That's really how she resonated with me. And growing up, I just kind of always, you know, looked at Selena as a person that was just authentic.

Selena died in 1995. That was 25 years ago. In the years since, have you seen Latinx media representation change?

I think that we're going in a more positive direction. We're also going in a direction where Latinx identities are not monolithic. A lot of times everybody automatically thinks Mexico, but Latinx is so much more than just a country or a nation or a geographic space. So, I see the direction of the current landscape since Selena's passing really starting to encompass this kind of blending of sorts, of different types of sound and people to make what the Latinx representation a lot more intersectional. Now, that doesn't mean that it's portrayed more often. I think it's just the few portrayals that we do have are more intersectional, and we still have a far way to go.

Is there a song by Selena that you feel captures not just who she was, but also what she represented then?

The first one was “Como La Flor,” which was her first No. 1 hit in Mexico, but also in the United States. And I think that really speaks to her ability to cross borders, to cross genres, and also to cross generations that students now, who weren't alive when Selena was alive, are able to remember that song. And it means something to them. The song lyrics also talk about being given something and then it withers away and you're sad about it. I think that also speaks to this Latin mourning of all the different things that are happening in terms of the militarization of the border, in terms of [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival] students being scared, in terms of children being put into cages. It really speaks to this whole Latinx culture of wanting and belonging and not being able to have it. I think in a more literal way, it also speaks to the fact that we're still mourning Selena, and we're still looking for, you know, those positive Latinx role models that transcend barriers and genres and generations. We're still searching for that. So, I think of all the songs that students bring, “Como La Flor” speaks to that.

Students also bring up “Amor Prohibido.” The lyrics talk about how society doesn't want certain people to be together, parents don’t want them to be together. I think people can internalize that and transfer that to maybe being of two different religions, different political ideologies, to people who are also part of the LGBTQ community.

And then the third one is “Tu Solo Tu,” which is a very traditional mariachi song. It's a cover, it’s not a Selena original. She was able to give a new Tejano, modern mainstream pop culture sound to a traditional mariachi song. And I think that's what made her so popular with Mexicans in Mexico. Because they heard a song that was familiar to them, but it had a very new take on it.

What do you hope students take away from your course? Like what do you want them to do with this knowledge?

The first and foremost goal is that I want people to be able to identify with Latinx culture in the mediated landscape, to be more critical in terms of media consumption and be more media literate. For media and journalism students, specifically those who are going out into the world to create media, create advertisements and work in film, television and music, I hope that they become not just critical consumers, but also critical producers, knowing that there are multiple ways in which you can depict Latinx individuals in positive, nuanced ways, not stereotypical, monolithic ways.

I want to give students a sense that they can go out there and do this, that just because they don't see themselves represented in the media, that they can take control and make those representations, whether its starting at a low level with podcasts and YouTube videos to becoming a Gregory Nava and making films.