A little story at The Hollywood Reporter about the contenders for Best Animated Feature at this year’s Academy Awards.
Unreleased W.W. Anderson interview
From Fox Searchlight:
FANTASTIC MR. FOX director/co-writer/producer Wes Anderson sat down with Fox Searchlight’s own lovely Stephanie Allen, the basis of a video series in which Wes discusses various aspects of how FANTASTIC MR. FOX came to fruition. And the film’s now been nominated for two Academy Awards! Watch all eight videos here.
Wes On Author Roald Dahld (1/8)
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Fantastic Mr. Fox soundtrack is today’s Amazon “Deal of the Day”
Download it today only for $3.99. Thanks to ABKCO for the tip.
Fantastic Mr. Fox nominated for a Golden Globe
Here are the nominees for Best Animated Film:
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
The Princess and the Frog
Up
Let’s show some hustle, Hollywood Foreign Press Association!
Halloween Costume Contest Winners
We finally have the prize packages from Fox Searchlight and are ready to dispense some prizes! Sorry for the delay, and thanks to all who participated. A special thanks to Fox Searchlight and Sneak Attack Media for their sponsorship. Be sure to go see Fantastic Mr. Fox this weekend!
We have quite a few extra prizes to give away, so the honorable mentions (2nd and 3rd place in each category) will receive something for their efforts. And, we will be sending some holiday gifts out over the coming weeks.
The grand prize packages include:
- Fantastic Mr. Fox soundtrack
- Fantastic Mr. Fox folder (with Mr. Fox business card) and recipe cards
- Small Fantastic Mr. Fox poster
- Mr. Fox tail tie
- Noah and the Whale’s latest album/film The First Days of Spring
If you are a winner, we will be in touch soon.
Best Fantastic Mr. Fox costume
116 votes (46%)
Best Costume (Individual)
135 votes (65%)
Best costume (couple or group)
110 votes (35%)
Variety: “Directors as Wild Cards”
Award season speculation from Variety (full story):
As has become the custom, there are still a few bad boys this awards season whose creations cannot be ignored, including the Coens (“A Serious Man”), Quentin Tarantino (“Inglourious Basterds”), Michael Haneke (“The White Ribbon”), Spike Jonze (“Where the Wild Things Are”) and Wes Anderson (“Fantastic Mr. Fox”). There’s also genre specialist Guy Ritchie, whose revisionist “Sherlock Holmes” is sure to raise a few eyebrows even as the director goes highbrow…
“The whole somewhat misbegotten notion of the auteur theory is that the director’s personality is itself an aspect of the movie,” says Christian Science Monitor critic Peter Rainer. “Most films from Hollywood, particularly these days, seem to be anonymously directed. And then you have Wes Anderson. Whatever one thinks of his movies, they definitely reveal the person behind the camera and a particular point of view — a way of seeing, a type of humor that is highly distinctive to him.”
“Wes Anderson sometimes seems to me the wise guy in your history class in high school,” adds author and Time magazine film critic Richard Schickel. “He’s articulate, he’s ambitious. And somehow most of his movies don’t seem to be quite up to his own expectations of them.”
Wes wins Special Filmmaking Achievement Award from the National Board of Review
Spinner Interviews Anderson & Poster
NPR: Wes’ Influences and Jason on Wait, Wait…
NPR Weekend Edition did a little piece on Wes Anderson’s influences in Fantastic Mr. Fox:
“Eric says he thinks that it’s based on my relationship with my older brother,” says Anderson. “He was always taller, and he’s very intelligent, and he was always better adjusted than I was. He’s also very well-mannered and just always had it together. Now he’s a doctor. … I was a kind of grouchier, less well-adjusted child, so I think that might’ve been an inspiration without me ever thinking of it.”
Jason Schwartzman is going to be the guest for the “Not My Job” segment on Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me (“the NPR news quiz”) this weekend. Here is Jason’s apperance.
The Music of Mr. Fox (video)
Wes, Alexandre Desplat, Jarvis Cocker, and the London Oratory School Schola