The London Film Festival 2014 Part 3: The Documentary Is Alive And Well…

mr-turnerDVDfever AWARDS 2014

Without further ado, YES, THEY’RE HERE, THE ANNUAL DVDfever AWARDS… AND THE AWARD GOES TO… (cue: dramatic pause, cutaways of the contenders, rustling and sigh of disbelief while virtual envelope is opened)…

We’ve re-examined our notes and re-evaluated our favourites, and can now bring you our much coveted and entirely virtual awards. The films, the stars, the emerging names, the lifetime bests… and the simply unmissable cheatsheet to carry with you at all times, so you can bluff your way into making the correct decisions at your multiplex or arthouse box office. But don’t thank us, we’re just doing our job. Thankfully there are no long, blubbing acceptance speeches here, just the 2014 DVDfever Awards.

BEST FILM, FULL STOP:

    Dead heat between: WHIPLASH (Damien Chavelle) and MR TURNER (Mike Leigh)
    Runner-up: DUKE OF BURGUNDY (Peter Strickland)

dear-white-peopleBEST COMEDY:

    DEAR WHITE PEOPLE, directed by Justin Simien
    Runners-up: SPANISH AFFAIR (Emilio Martinez-Lazaro), PING PONG SUMMER (Michael Tully), LAND HO! (Martha Stephens & Aaron Katz)

BEST THRILLER:

    HARD DAY, from Korea, directed by Kim Seong-Hun
    Runners-up: THE DROP (US, Michael R Roskam), BLACK SOULS (Italy, Francesco Munzi)

BEST DRAMA:

    MEN WOMEN & CHILDREN (Jason Reitman)
    Runners-up: MY OLD LADY (Israel Horowitz), THE DINNER (Ivan de Matteo), SECOND CHANCE (Susanne Bier), TIMBUKTU (Abderrahmane Sissako)

BEST DOCUMENTARIES:

    NATIONAL GALLERY, from Frederick Wiseman
    Runners-up: GREEN PRINCE (Nadav Schirmann), TENDER (Lynette Wallworth), ELECTRIC BOOGALOO (Mark Hartley), SILVERED WATER (Ossama Mohammed & Wiam Simav Bedirxan)


jk-simmons-miles-tellerBEST ADAPTATION FROM PLAY OR BOOK:

    TESTAMENT OF YOUTH from Vera Brittain’s memoir.
    Runners-up: BLACK SOULS; MEN WOMEN & CHILDREN

BEST ACTOR:

    TIMOTHY SPALL for Mr Turner
    JK SIMMONS and MILES TELLER for Whiplash (right, together)

BEST ACTRESS:

    SIDSE BABETT KNUDSEN and CHIARA D’ANNA in Duke of Burgundy

damien-chazelleRISING TALENT (MOST PROMISING DIRECTORS):

    DAMIEN CHAZELLE (rght) for Whiplash
    JULIUS AVERY for Son of a Gun
    ISRAEL HOROWITZ for My Old Lady
    JUSTIN SIMIEN for Dear White People
    DANIEL & MATTHEW WOLFE for Catch Me Daddy
    MORGAN MATTHEWS for X+Y
    DEBBIE TUCKER GREEN for Second Coming
    FELLIPE BARBOSA for Casa Grande
    DANIEL RIBEIRO for The Way He Looks
    ALONSO RUIZ PALACIOS for Gueros
    SUHA ARRAF for Villa Touma
    ADITYA VIKRAM SENGUPTA for Labour of Love
    AFIA NATHANIEL for Dukhtar

kai-francis-lewisRISING TALENT (MOST PROMISING STARS):

    SAMEENA JABEEN AHMED in Catch Me Daddy
    ALICE WIKANDER in Testament of Youth, Son of a Gun
    KAI FRANCIS-LEWIS in Second Coming
    ABDIKANI MUKTAR in Fishing Without Nets
    KARIDJA TOURE in Girlhood
    GULAGI MALANDA and NADIA MOUSSA in My Friend Victoria
    KALKI KOECHLIN in Margarita with a Straw


steve-carell-channing-tatum

    CAREER BESTS:STEVE CARELL in Foxcatcher
    CHANNING TATUM in Foxcatcher
    NIKOLAJ COSTER-WALDAU in A Second Chance
    TIMOTHY SPALL in Mr Turner
    NINA HOSS in Phoenix
    ANGELIKI PAPOULIA in A Blast

THE THIRD KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS/GEORGE CLOONEY AWARD FOR FESTIVAL UBIQUITY ABOVE AND BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY:

    ALICE WIKANDER for Testament of Youth, Son of a Gun
    MATTHIAS SCHOENHAERTS for The Drop, A Little Chaos
    ALEX LAWTHER as young Turing in The Imitation Game, X+Y
    DOMINIQUE PINON for My Old Lady, OXI

hard-dayAND FINALLY… THE 15 MUST-SEES:

    WHIPLASH
    MR TURNER
    DUKE OF BURGUNDY
    HARD DAY
    (right)
    THE DROP
    MY OLD LADY
    IMITATION GAME
    MEN WOMEN & CHILDREN
    PING PONG SUMMER
    DEAR WHITE PEOPLE
    SECOND CHANCE
    GIRLHOOD
    THE DINNER
    TIMBUKTU
    SPANISH AFFAIR

Check out the BFI London Film Festival 2014 website here.



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