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Don’t Look Up (2021)
dir. Adam McKay

Official poster for Don’t Look Up (2021), dir. Adam McKay

First look at Don’t Look Up (2021), dir. Adam McKay

• Jennifer Lawrence as ‘Kate Dibiasky’
• Meryl Streep as ‘President Janie Orlean’
• Leonardo DiCaprio as ‘Dr. Randall Mindy’
• Cate Blanchett as ‘Brie Evantee’
• Kid Cudi as ‘DJ Cello’
• Ariana Grande as ‘Riley Bina’
• Timothée Chalamet as ‘Yule’
• Rob Morgan as ‘Dr. Cleyton “Teddy” Oglethrope’
• Ron Perlman as ‘Colonel Drask’
• Himesh Patel as ‘Phillip’
• Jonah Hill as ‘Jason Orlean’

The Big Short : le Casse du siècle / The Big Short (2015)

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‘Vice’ Traces Dick Cheney’s Ascent From Yale Dropout To D.C. Power Player

Former Vice President Dick Cheney was the quintessential behind-the-scenes political power player. “He really has no signature speech — there’s no great Dick Cheney moment where he was in front of a pulpit delivering a great line,” says filmmaker Adam McKay. “He’s always kind of just been in the background.”

McKay aims to bring the powerful former vice president into the foreground in his new film, Vice, a dark comedy starring Christian Bale. The movie combines the work of investigative journalists with some speculation and comedy (McKay also directed AnchormanandThe Big Short) to tell the story of Cheney’s ascent from Yale dropout, to West Wing operative under president George W. Bush.

“I think a lot of the ways that people like Cheney have gained power is that they rely on us being bored. They rely on us looking at what they do and assuming that it’s just bureaucracy and who cares?” McKay says. But, “when you really dig into it, it’s very exciting stuff. And it’s major stuff that changes the world.”

Your weekend listen. -Emily

91st ACADEMY AWARDS NOMINEES

BEST PICTURE

• Black Panther
• BlackKklansman
• Bohemian Rhapsody
• The Favourite
• Green Book
• Roma
• A Star Is Born
• Vice

BEST DIRECTOR

• Spike Lee – BlackKklansman
• Pawel Pawlikowski – Cold War
• Yorgos Lanthimos – The Favourite
• Alfonso Cuarón – Roma
• Adam McKay – Vice

BEST ACTOR

• Christian Bale – Vice as Dick Cheney
• Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born as Jackson “Jack” Maine
• Willem Dafoe – At Eternity’s Gate as Vincent Van Gogh
• Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody as Freddie Mercury
• Viggo Mortensen – Green Book as Frank “Tony Lip” Vallelonga

BEST ACTRESS

• Yalitza Aparicio – Roma as Cleodegaria “Cleo” Gutiérrez
• Glenn Close – The Wife as Joan Castleman
• Olivia Colman – The Favourite as Anne, Queen of Great Britain
• Lady Gaga – A Star Is Born as Ally Maine
• Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me? as Lee Israel

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Mahershala Ali – Green Book as Don Shirley
• Adam Driver – BlacKkKlansman as Philip “Flip” Zimmerman
• Sam Elliott – A Star Is Born as Bobby Maine
• Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me? as Jack Hock
• Sam Rockwell – Vice as George W. Bush

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Amy Adams – Vice as Lynne Cheney
• Marina de Tavira – Roma as Sofía
• Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk as Sharon Rivers
• Emma Stone – The Favourite as Abigail Masham
• Rachel Weisz – The Favourite as Sarah Churchill

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• The Favourite – Written by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara
• First Reformed – Written by Paul Schrader
• Green Book – Written by Nick Vallelonga & Brian Currie & Peter Farrelly
• Roma – Written by Alfonso Cuarón
• Vice – Written by Adam McKay

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – Screenplay by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen; based on the short stories All Gold Canyon by Jack London, The Gal Who Got Rattled by Stewart Edward White, and short stories by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
• BlacKkKlansman – Screenplay by Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee; based on the book by Ron Stallworth
• Can You Ever Forgive Me? – Screenplay by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty; based on the book by Lee Israel
• If Beale Street Could Talk – Screenplay by Barry Jenkins; based on the book by James Baldwin
• A Star Is Born – Screenplay by Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper & Will Fetters; based on the 1954 screenplay by Moss Hart and the 1976 screenplay by Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne & Frank Pierson; based on a story by Robert Carson & William A. Wellman

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

• Capernaum – Nadine Labaki – Lebanon
• Cold War – Paweł Pawlikowski – Poland
• Never Look Away –Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck – Germany
• Roma – Alfonso Cuarón – Mexico
• Shoplifters – Hirokazu Kore-eda - Japan

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

• Incredibles 2 – Brad Bird, John Walker and Nicole Paradis Grindle
• Isle of Dogs – Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales and Jeremy Dawson
• Mirai – Mamoru Hosoda and Yūichirō Saitō
• Ralph Breaks the Internet – Rich Moore, Phil Johnston and Clark Spencer
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

• Free Solo – Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Evan Hayes and Shannon Dill
• Hale County This Morning, This Evening – RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes and Su Kim
• Minding the Gap – Bing Liu and Diane Quon
• Of Fathers and Sons – Talal Derki, Ansgar Frerich, Eva Kemme and Tobias N. Siebert
• RBG – Betsy West and Julie Cohen

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

• Cold War – Łukasz Żal
• The Favourite – Robbie Ryan
• Never Look Away – Caleb Deschanel
• Roma – Alfonso Cuarón
• A Star Is Born – Matthew Libatique

BEST EDITING

• Cold War – Łukasz Żal
• The Favourite – Robbie Ryan
• Never Look Away – Caleb Deschanel
• Roma – Alfonso Cuarón
• A Star Is Born – Matthew Libatique

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

• Black Panther – Production Design: Hannah Beachler; Set Decoration: Jay Hart
• The Favourite – Production Design: Fiona Crombie; Set Decoration: Alice Felton
• First Man – Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Kathy Lucas
• Mary Poppins Returns – Production Design: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gordon Sim
• Roma – Production Design: Eugenio Caballero; Set Decoration: Bárbara Enríquez

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – Mary Zophres
• Black Panther – Ruth E. Carter
• The Favourite – Sandy Powell
• Mary Poppins Returns – Sandy Powell
• Mary Queen of Scots – Alexandra Byrne

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

• Border – Göran Lundström and Pamela Goldammer
• Mary Queen of Scots – Jenny Shircore, Marc Pilcher and Jessica Brooks
• Vice – Greg Cannom, Kate Biscoe and Patricia Dehaney

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

• Avengers: Infinity War – Dan DeLeeuw, Kelly Port, Russell Earl and Dan Sudick
• Christopher Robin – Christopher Lawrence, Michael Eames, Theo Jones and Chris Corbould
• First Man – Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles and J. D. Schwalm
• Ready Player One – Roger Guyett, Grady Cofer, Matthew E. Butler and David Shirk
• Solo: A Star Wars Story – Rob Bredow, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Dominic Tuohy

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

• Black Panther – Ludwig Göransson
• BlacKkKlansman – Terence Blanchard
• If Beale Street Could Talk – Nicholas Britell
• Isle of Dogs – Alexandre Desplat
• Mary Poppins Returns – Marc Shaiman

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

• “All the Stars” from Black Panther – Music by Mark Spears, Kendrick Lamar Duckworth and Anthony Tiffith; Lyrics by Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, Anthony Tiffith and Solána Rowe
• “I’ll Fight” from RBG – Music and Lyrics by Diane Warren
• “The Place Where Lost Things Go” from Mary Poppins Returns – Music by Marc Shaiman; Lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman
• “Shallow” from A Star Is Born – Music and Lyrics by Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt
• “When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings” from The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – Music and Lyrics by David Rawlings and Gillian Welch

BEST SOUND EDITING

• Black Panther – Benjamin A. Burtt and Steve Boeddeker
• Bohemian Rhapsody – John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone
• First Man – Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan
• A Quiet Place – Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl
• Roma – Sergio Díaz and Skip Lievsay

BEST SOUND MIXING

• Black Panther – Steve Boeddeker, Brandon Proctor and Peter J. Devlin
• Bohemian Rhapsody – Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin and John Casali
• First Man – Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Ai-Ling Lee and Mary H. Ellis
• Roma – Skip Lievsay, Craig Henighan and José Antonio Garcia
• A Star Is Born – Tom Ozanich, Dean Zupancic, Jason Ruder and Steve A. Morrow

BEST DOCUMENTARY – SHORT

• Black Sheep – Ed Perkins and Jonathan Chinn
• End Game – Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman
• Lifeboat – Skye Fitzgerald and Bryn Mooser
• A Night at the Garden – Marshall Curry
• Period. End of Sentence. – Rayka Zehtabchi and Melissa Berton

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM

• Detainment – Vincent Lambe and Darren Mahon
• Fauve – Jérémy Comte and Maria Gracia Turgeon
• Marguerite – Marianne Farley and Marie-Hélène Panisset
• Mother – Rodrigo Sorogoyen and María del Puy Alvarado
• Skin – Guy Nattiv and Jaime Ray Newman

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM

• Animal Behaviour – Alison Snowden and David Fine
• Bao – Domee Shi and Becky Neiman-Cobb
• Late Afternoon – Louise Bagnall and Nuria González Blanco
• One Small Step – Andrew Chesworth and Bobby Pontillas
• Weekends – Trevor Jimenez

THE 24th ANNUAL CRITICS’ CHOICE AWARDS

BEST PICTURE

• Black Panther
  
• BlacKkKlansman
  
• The Favourite
  
• First Man
  
• Green Book
  
• If Beale Street Could Talk
  
• Mary Poppins Returns
  
• Roma
  
• A Star Is Born
  
• Vice
  

BEST DIRECTOR

• Damien Chazelle – First Man
  
• Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born
  
• Alfonso Cuarón – Roma
  
• Peter Farrelly – Green Book
  
• Yorgos Lanthimos – The Favourite
  
• Spike Lee – BlacKkKlansman
  
• Adam McKay – Vice
  

BEST ACTOR

• Christian Bale – Vice as Dick Cheney
  
• Bradley Cooper – A Star Is Born as Jackson Maine
  
• Willem Dafoe – At Eternity’s Gate as Vincent van Gogh
  
• Ryan Gosling – First Man as Neil Armstrong
  
• Ethan Hawke – First Reformed as Reverend Ernst Toller
  
• Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody as Freddie Mercury
  
• Viggo Mortensen – Green Book as Frank “Tony Lip” Vallelonga
  

BEST ACTRESS

• Yalitza Aparicio – Roma as Cleodegaria “Cleo” Gutiérrez
  
• Emily Blunt – Mary Poppins Returns as Mary Poppins
  
• Glenn Close – The Wife as Joan Castleman
  
• Toni Collette – Hereditary as Annie Graham
  
• Olivia Colman – The Favourite as Queen Anne
  
• Lady Gaga – A Star Is Born as Ally Maine
  
• Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me? as Lee Israel
  

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Mahershala Ali – Green Book as Don Shirley
  
• Timothée Chalamet – Beautiful Boy as Nic Sheff
  
• Adam Driver – BlacKkKlansman as Flip Zimmerman
  
• Sam Elliott – A Star Is Born as Bobby Maine
  
• Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me? as Jack Hock
  
• Michael B. Jordan – Black Panther as N'Jadaka / Erik “Killmonger” Stevens
  

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Amy Adams – Vice as Lynne Cheney
  
• Claire Foy – First Man as Janet Shearon Armstrong
  
• Nicole Kidman – Boy Erased as Nancy Eamons
  
• Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk as Sharon Rivers
  
• Emma Stone – The Favourite as Abigail Hill
  
• Rachel Weisz – The Favourite as Sarah Churchill
  

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS

• Elsie Fisher – Eighth Grade as Kayla Day
  
• Thomasin McKenzie – Leave No Trace as Tom
  
• Ed Oxenbould – Wildlife as Joe Brinson
  
• Millicent Simmonds – A Quiet Place as Regan Abbott
  
• Amandla Stenberg – The Hate U Give as Starr Carter
  
• Sunny Suljic – Mid90s as Stevie
  

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE

• Black Panther
  
• Crazy Rich Asians
  
• The Favourite
  
• Vice
  
• Widows
  

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade
  
• Alfonso Cuarón – Roma
  
• Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara – The Favourite
  
• Adam McKay – Vice
  
• Paul Schrader – First Reformed
  
• Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie, and Peter Farrelly – Green Book
  
• Bryan Woods, Scott Beck, and John Krasinski – A Quiet Place
  

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• Ryan Coogler and Joe Robert Cole – Black Panther
  
• Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
  
• Barry Jenkins – If Beale Street Could Talk
  
• Eric Roth, Bradley Cooper, and Will Fetters – A Star Is Born
  
• Josh Singer – First Man
  
• Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott, and Spike Lee – BlacKkKlansman
  

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

• Alfonso Cuarón – Roma
  
• James Laxton – If Beale Street Could Talk
  
• Matthew Libatique – A Star Is Born
  
• Rachel Morrison – Black Panther
  
• Robbie Ryan – The Favourite
  
• Linus Sandgren – First Man
  

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

• Hannah Beachler and Jay Hart – Black Panther
  
• Eugenio Caballero and Barbara Enriquez – Roma
  
• Nelson Coates and Andrew Baseman – Crazy Rich Asians
  
• Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton – The Favourite
  
• Nathan Crowley and Kathy Lucas – First Man
  
• John Myhre and Gordon Sim – Mary Poppins Returns
  

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

• Alexandra Byrne – Mary Queen of Scots
  
• Ruth E. Carter – Black Panther
  
• Julian Day – Bohemian Rhapsody
  
• Sandy Powell – The Favourite
  
• Sandy Powell – Mary Poppins Returns
  

BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP

• Black Panther
  
• Bohemian Rhapsody
  
• The Favourite
  
• Mary Queen of Scots
  
• Suspiria
  
• Vice
  

BEST EDITING

• Jay Cassidy – A Star Is Born
  
• Hank Corwin – Vice
  
• Tom Cross – First Man
  
• Alfonso Cuarón and Adam Gough – Roma
  
• Yorgos Mavropsaridis – The Favourite
  
• Joe Walker – Widows
  

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

• Avengers: Infinity War
  
• Black Panther
  
• First Man
  
• Mary Poppins Returns
  
• Mission: Impossible – Fallout
  
• Ready Player One
  

BEST SONG

• “All the Stars” – Black Panther
  
• “Girl in the Movies” – Dumplin’
  
• “I’ll Fight” – RBG
  
• “The Place Where Lost Things Go” – Mary Poppins Returns
  
• “Shallow” – A Star Is Born
  
• “Trip a Little Light Fantastic” – Mary Poppins Returns
  

BEST SCORE

• Kris Bowers – Green Book
  
• Nicholas Britell – If Beale Street Could Talk
  
• Alexandre Desplat – Isle of Dogs
  
• Ludwig Göransson – Black Panther
  
• Justin Hurwitz – First Man
  
• Marc Shaiman – Mary Poppins Returns
  

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

• The Grinch
  
• Incredibles 2
  
• Isle of Dogs
  
• Mirai
  
• Ralph Breaks the Internet
  
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

• Burning • South Korea
  
• Capernaum • Lebanon
  
• Cold War • Poland
  
• Roma • Mexico
  
• Shoplifters • Japan
  

BEST SCI-FI OR HORROR MOVIE

• Annihilation
  
• Halloween
  
• Hereditary
  
• A Quiet Place
  
• Suspiria
  

BEST ACTION MOVIE

• Avengers: Infinity War
  
• Black Panther
  
• Deadpool 2
  
• Mission: Impossible – Fallout
  
• Ready Player One
  
• Widows
  

BEST COMEDY

• Crazy Rich Asians
  
• Deadpool 2
  
• The Death of Stalin
  
• The Favourite
  
• Game Night
  
• Sorry to Bother You
  

BEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY

• Christian Bale – Vice as Dick Cheney
  
• Jason Bateman – Game Night as Max Davis
  
• Viggo Mortensen – Green Book as Frank “Tony Lip” Vallelonga
  
• John C. Reilly – Stan & Ollie as Oliver “Ollie” Hardy
  
• Ryan Reynolds – Deadpool 2 as Wade Wilson / Deadpool
  
• Lakeith Stanfield – Sorry to Bother You as Cassius “Cash” Green
  

BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY

• Emily Blunt – Mary Poppins Returns as Mary Poppins
  
• Olivia Colman – The Favourite as Queen Anne
  
• Elsie Fisher – Eighth Grade as Kayla Day
  
• Rachel McAdams – Game Night as Annie Davis
  
• Charlize Theron – Tully as Marlo Moreau
  
• Constance Wu – Crazy Rich Asians as Rachel Chu
  

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Don’t Look Up (2021) dir. by Adam McKay

Don’t Look Up (2021) dir. by Adam McKay

The Big Short (2015).

TheteasersforAnchorman: The Legend Continues gave so little away. The first full-length trailer promised so much but posed so many questions.

Will it be as impressive as tiny dog that can eat a whole wheel of cheese or could it just be plain bad, like warm milk on a hot day?

Until now, it’s been the scorpian woman plaguing all our dreams. A constant nightmare of someone else reading our news.

Released 20 December

Fear no more. This trailer confirms it’s going to be as amazing as a squirrell that can waterski. Ridiculous but amazing. Just what we want.

There have been teasers but as yet, the man who wore suits so fine he made Sinatra look like a hobo hasn’t given us any full-length, clip-based love for Anchorman: The Legend Continues…. until now.

Released 20 December

Thank great Odin’s raven, it’s good!

Dare I say it’s not that good though? No, no. Enough of this nay saying. For the time being, let’s just assume Ferrell, McKay, Apatow and co are not falling into the trap of putting all the funniest moments in the trailer and that it’ll be brilliant.

Please be brilliant….

WithAnchorman: The Legend Continues well into its shooting schedule, they’re still not giving much away and to be honest, I don’t think I’d be alone in thinking it’s getting to be ri-goddam-diculous!

Thankfully though, Ferrell, McKay and co know we’re hungry, so, much like the first, they’ve provided us with another teaser to wrap our pleats around.

Released 20 December

Is anyone else petrified that this won’t live up to the original? Will Baxter save the day again? It certainly looks like they’re not holding back on big name cameos if a cast list including Jim Carey, Harrison Ford, Kirsten Dunst, Liam Neeson, Nicole Kidman, Tina Fey, Kirsten Wiig, John C. Reilly, Sacha Baron Cohen, James Marsden, Amy Poehler and Kanye West is anything to go by…

Don’t act like you’re not impressed.

The Big Short

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Director: Adam McKay

Director of Photography: Barry Ackroyd