This month there will be a selection of awards season nominees at the cinema.
Olivia Colman (Broadchurch) received the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 75th Venice International Film Festival in August for her performance as Anne, Queen of Great Britain in ‘The Favourite’, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, which also won the Grand Jury Prize.
Colman and Lanthimos, along with Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener) and Emma Stone (La La Land) have also all been nominated for Golden Globes while the film is in contention for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. Depicting the backstage politics of 18th century monarchy and released on New Year’s Day, it has already won 10 British Independent Film Awards and received 14 Critics Choice Awards nominations this month.
Also nominated at the Golden Globes in January is John C. Reilly (Chicago) for ‘Stan & Ollie’ as Oliver Hardy, released on 11 January; Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name) for ‘Beautiful Boy’ as Nicholas “Nic” Sheff, opening on 18 January; and Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge!) for ‘Destroyer’ as Erin Bell, released on 25 January.
Despite being largely absent from awards recognition so far but by no means less artistically promising is ‘The Front Runner’, with Hugh Jackman (Les Misérables) as Gary Hart, opening on 11 January along with ‘Welcome to Marwen’, with Steve Carell (Foxcatcher) as Mark Hogancamp, on the same day; ‘Colette’, with Keira Knightley (Atonement) as the eponymous character, to open on 25 January; and ‘Mary Queen of Scots’, with Saorse Ronan (Brooklyn) in the title role and Margot Robbie (I, Tonya) as Queen Elizabeth I, to be released on 18 January. Robbie has, however, been nominated for her supporting role at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Watch this space for film reviews!
In Scotland I attended Dunfermline High School from 2010 to 2016 and Edinburgh Napier University from 2016 to 2020, emerging with two Advanced Higher and five Higher qualifications from the former and graduating with an undergraduate bachelor of arts honours degree in journalism from the latter. After two years away from further education due to the coronavirus pandemic, I'm going to be studying the MFA Photography course at York St John University in England from 2022 to 2024. I've achieved The Duke of Edinburgh’s (Bronze) Award and received grade five level certification for electronic keyboard from Trinity College London. In my spare time, I enjoy reading, writing, watching television series, listening to music and going to the cinema as well as catching up with friends, travelling by railway and hostelling overnight and overindulging in food and drinks in a pub or restaurant then having to go to the gym to burn it all off again.
By studying journalism and photography, my aim of practicing photojournalism professionally will hopefully be once step closer. Both are partial artforms requiring the rest of the work to be undertaken by the audience, the specialism of photojournalism, however, providing each of its two parts with greater context. Exploring photographic techniques (aerial, timelapse, editing) through a variety of journalistic styles (features, poetry, songwriting) will allow me to develop my portfolio, hone my camera skillset and narrow my focus further in anticipation of working life. Without a global pandemic to deal with this time. Fingers crossed.
