If you wish to meet some film stars, it’s simple. Simply pop an indication in your window that claims “Awards handed out here!”
As a result of from now till the Oscars on March 2, actors will attend just about something to safe some elusive buzz within the lead-up to Hollywood’s largest night time.
The season’s first A-Record fete was held right here in New York this week — the Gotham Impartial Movie Awards downtown at Cipriani Wall Avenue on Monday.
Celebs got here out in droves. Nicole Kidman, Demi Moore, Kieran Culkin, Pamela Anderson, Adrien Brody and Saoirse Ronan had been there, dressed to the nines.
I, in the meantime, stood again on the bar, dressed like a liberal arts school TA.
However what myself and the aforementioned nominees did have in frequent is that none of us gained a rattling factor.
The Gothams are determined by small juries of trade insiders, who are likely to favor their notion of artistry over star energy.
So, Colman Domingo, Academy Award-nominated final yr for his title flip in “Rustin,” gained Greatest Efficiency for enjoying a prisoner who joins a theater troupe in “Sing Sing.”
Smooshed classes are the Gothams’ different uphill battle. In 2020, the ceremony made them genderless, offering half as many alternatives for victory. The opposite performing honor, Supporting Efficiency, was given to Clarence Maclin, additionally of “Sing Sing.”
VIPs walked in figuring out their possibilities had been small. However nonetheless they got here. For a bit anyway.
I watched Anderson, fantastic in “The Last Showgirl,” scurry out of the banquet corridor together with her staff shortly after she misplaced. Carrying a cream frock in a sea of darkish garments, you couldn’t miss her. No dessert and low for Pam.
And I spoke to “Babygirl” director Halina Reijn about how scintillating Kidman and Harris Dickinson are in her steamy workplace affair movie. Kidman went house empty-handed, however will construct momentum as soon as the movie hits theaters Dec. 25.
Whereas most attendees hunkered down of their seats for the standard awards pablum, “Anora” stars Mikey Madison (a Greatest Efficiency nominee) and Mark Eydelshteyn saved hurriedly buzzing again to the bar space.
For the leads of a (excellent) movie that begins in a Manhattan strip membership, that simply felt proper.
Useless ringers Eydelshteyn and Timothée Chalamet took an image collectively, offering one other, albeit smaller, Timothée Chalamet lookalike contest.
Chalamet was not readily available due to his ardour for the nebulous saucer of molten cheese that’s served to all people, prefer it or not. He was there as a result of he was certainly one of three actors to obtain Tribute awards — the Gothams’ ploy to make sure marquee names on the pink carpet. The opposite prime honorees had been Zendaya and Angelina Jolie.
The night time gave Chalamet, who performs Bob Dylan within the upcoming biopic “A Complete Unknown,” and Jolie, opera singer Maria Callas in “Maria,” some podium observe. Each have sturdy pictures of being nominated for and successful Oscars this yr.
Nevertheless it’s too early (and presumptuous) for anyone to activate the waterworks onstage and crank up the quantity. The duo stayed even-keeled and saved their speeches to capital-A Artwork.
“Part of what drew me to Maria is how hard she worked to master her craft,” stated Jolie earlier than including an amusing line for the star of “Girl Interrupted.”
“She called it straitjacketing herself.”
And humble-pie Chalamet bowed to the “Like A Rolling Stone” genius.
“Getting to study and immerse myself in the world of Bob Dylan has been the greatest education a young artist could receive,” the 28-year-old politely stated.
Within the ultimate moments of the night time, the darkish comedy “A Different Man,” starring Sebastian Stan, shocked attendees when it gained Greatest Function.
Come March, I assure you that the Oscar for Greatest Image can be gained by … a unique film.
