Coming to a cinema near you this February is a selection of awards season favourites.
Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) and Richard E Grant (Gosford Park) have both received BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for their performances in biographical drama ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’ Based on the memoirs of Lee Israel, it will open on 1 February.
It faces competition from ‘How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World’, the third and final instalment of the excellent animated film series whose first two entries have already received three Oscar nominations. Watch out for its appearance during awards season next year.
Exactly one week later ‘Boy Erased’, directed by Joel Edgerton (Loving), features another Golden Globe nominated performance, this time by Lucas Hedges (Manchester by the Sea), with Nicole Kidman (Rabbit Hole) and Russell Crowe (Gladiator) in supporting roles.
It will be directly pitched against ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’, written and directed by Barry Jenkins (Moonlight), which was nominated for three Golden Globes including Best Motion Picture – Drama. Regina King (Ray) won Best Supporting Actress for her role there and at the National Board of Review Awards where Jenkins also won for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) scored her second Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama as journalist Marie Colvin in ‘A Private War’ while Annie Lennox also received her second nomination, with one previous win, in the Best Original Song category.
Expect recognition for Melissa McCarthy, Richard E Grant, Barry Jenkins and Regina King when the 91st Academy Awards nominations are announced later this month.
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.
