Tom Hardy: HUGO, Martin Scorsese, Tom Hardy, Jessica Chastain: Nevada Film Critics Winners (Alt Film Guide)

Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton, Warrior

Steve Montgomery | Jan 14, 2012

The Nevada Film Critics Society, not to be confused with the Las Vegas Film Critics Society, has announced its Best of 2011 list. Martin Scorsese's period adventure fantasy Hugo was voted Best Picture. Scorsese was the Best Director and Asa Butterfield the Best Child Actor.

The Best Actor and Best Actress choices were the Nevada Critics' biggest surprises: the upcoming The Dark Knight Rises' Tom Hardy was selected as the Best Actor for his performance as a boxer in the little-seen Warrior. Jessica Chastain has been winning awards everywhere, but in the Best Supporting Actress category. The Nevada Critics chose her as the year's Best Actress "for her outstanding work in several films of 2011 including The Debt, The Help, The Tree of Life, Take Shelter."

With Chastain out of the way, the Best Supporting Actress Award went to Janet McTeer for her butch lesbian in Albert Nobbs. Albert Brooks was cited for his work as a mean gangster in Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive.

Tate Taylor's sleeper hit The Help won for Best Ensemble (in addition to Chastain, the film's cast includes Viola Davis, Emma Stone, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sissy Spacek, Octavia Spencer, Mary Steenburgen, and Cicely Tyson). Rooney Mara (for her Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and Elizabeth Olsen (for her problematic character in Sean Durkin's Martha Marcy May Marlene) tied for the Best Breakthrough Performance of 2011. Chris Miller's Puss in Boots, featuring the voices of Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek, was the Best Animated Feature. Curiously, the Nevada Critics don't hand out award for Best Foreign Language Film.

If you hadn't heard of the Nevada Film Critics Society, don't despair. They're a brand new (and apparently quite small) group, founded last year. Below is the full list of the Nevada Critics' choices.

Best Film - Hugo
Best Director - Martin Scorsese (Hugo)
Best Actor - Tom Hardy (Warrior)
Best Actress - Jessica Chastain (The Debt, The Help, The Tree of Life, Take Shelter)
Best Supporting Actor - Albert Brooks (Drive)
Best Supporting Actress - Janet McTeer (Albert Nobbs)
Best Ensemble Cast - The Help
Best Child Actor - Asa Butterfield (Hugo)
Best Breakthrough Performance (tie) – Elizabeth Olsen (Martha Marcy Mae Marlene) and Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
Best Animated Film - Puss in Boots

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The Immortals now at $170 million worldwide - Weekend Box Office Wrap Up: December 4th, 2011

Dec 4, 2011 by Niall Browne

Here’s our box office report for the weekend of December 2, 2011 featuring the performances of holdover films ‘Breaking Dawn-Part 1′, ‘The Muppets’ and ‘Hugo’ – as well as updates on the rest of the box office top ten.

This week:

Twilight‘s Breaking Dawn tops the box office-again; The Muppets score the runner-up spot and Hugo fails to light up the chart on its second week of release.

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No major releases were unleashed by studios over the weekend, meaning that movie-goers had to make do with Thanksgiving leftovers. This meant that Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn-Part 1 ruled the roost for the third week in a row. The vampire romance banked $16.9 million over the weekend and upped its cume to a powerful $247.3 million. The Bill Condon directed film has now brought in over $500 globally – a great number, especially after only three weeks on release, and one that will continue to climb.

The Muppets held onto the number two spot, bringing in $11.2 million worth of green. The much loved characters dipped around 62% from last weekend giving them a total of $56.1 million – about $10 million more than the film’s production cost.

Hugo was third, after scoring another $7.6 million. The Martin Scorsese picture has now grossed $25.2 million, a far cry from its reported $150 million budget. Time will tell if it was a solid bet by Paramount.

Arthur Christmas grabbed fourth place, grossing $7.3 million over the weekend, for a $25 million total cume. It has about three more weeks to make money and then this Christmas themed ‘toon will melt like the winter snow.

Happy Feet 2 continues to underperform. The animated sequel brought in $6 million for $51.7 million total. Maybe they should re-title it Unhappy Feet for the DVD release.

Adam Sandler’s Jack & Jill laughed up another $5.5 million, upping its cume to $64.3 million. A so-so number for Sandler, whose movies routinely gross $100 million.




George Clooney starrer The Descendants was in seventh place after grossing an additional $5.2 million. The Alexander Payne directed film has a total gross currently standing at a smidgen over $18 million. These are good numbers when you consider that the film is playing in less than 600 theaters.

Sword and sandal pic Immortals sliced up another $4.3 million, bringing its total to $75.5 million – the same number as its production budget. The Henry Cavill film has now banked over $170 million worldwide.

Tower Heist swiped another $4.1 million over the last three days upping its cumulative gross to $70 million. This is a solid number, but one that should have been much, much higher.

Puss in Boots rounded out the top ten. The Antonio Banderas voiced animated film grossed an additional $3 million, giving it a total of $139.5 million, a great number considering that it had a lacklustre debut. The ‘toon had a production budget of $130 million, but it has now grossed over $200 million worldwide.

That’s it for now. See you at the movies.

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Source: Box Office Mojo

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