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Beasts: Awards and Nominations
When Beasts of the Southern Wild premiered at the Sundance Film Festival back in January 2012, it was a little known indie, very much under the film industry's radar. Just one year later, we have throngs of supporters across the globe, and are emerging as a true award season contender.
Thank you for embracing Beasts of the Southern Wild in the way that you have. We wouldn't be here without you.
Beasts of the Southern Wild's nominations and awards are:
Best Picture
Best Director, Benh Zeitlin
Best Actress, Quvenzhané Wallis
Best Adapted Screenplay, Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin
Best Young Actor / Actress, Quvenzhané Wallis
Nominated:
Best Picture
Best Actress, Quvenzhané Wallis
Nominated:
Best Adapted Screenplay, Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin
UNION OF BELGIAN FILM CRITICS
Winner:
Grand Prix 2013, Awarded to the film which has contributed the most to the enrichment of cinemagraphic art
DENVER FILM CRITICS SOCIETY AWARDS
Nominated:
Best Actress, Quvenzhané Wallis
Winners announced Jan 8.
CAPRI, HOLLYWOOD FESTIVAL AWARDS
Winner:
Best Surprise Film of the Year
Best Actress, Quvenzhané Wallis
Nominated:
The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures, Michael Gottwald, Dan Janvey, Josh Penn
Winners to be announced Jan 26.
CENTRAL OHIO FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION AWARDS
Nominated:
Best Film
Best Actress, Quvenzhané Wallis
Breakthrough Film Artist, Quvenzhané Wallis for acting
Breakthrough Film Artist, Benh Zeitlin for composing, directing and screenwriting
Winners to be announced Jan 5.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION AWARDS
Winner:
Breakthrough Performance, Quvenzhané Wallis
Top 10 Films of 2012 (#8)
UTAH FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION AWARDS
Nominated:
Best Actress in a Lead Role, Quvenzhané Wallis
Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Dwight Henry
Winners to be announced TBC.
LONDON CRITICS' CIRCLE FILM AWARDS
Nominated:
The Sky Movies Award: FILM OF THE YEAR
The Sky 3D Award: TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD, Ben Richardson
Winners announced on Jan 20.
WOMEN'S FILM CRITICS AWARDS
Best Young Actress, Quvenzhané Wallis
AUSTIN FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION AWARDS
Winner:
Best First Film, Benh Zeitlin
Breakthrough Artist, Quvenzhané Wallis
FLORIDA FILM CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS
Winner:
Breakout Performance, Quvenzhané Wallis
TORONTO FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION AWARDS
Winner:
Best First Feature (Tie), Benh Zeitlin
DALLAS FORT WORTH FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION AWARDS
Winner:
Top Ten Films of 2012 (#10)
Top Five Actresses of 2012 (#5), Quvenzhané Wallis
SOUTHEASTERN FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION AWARDS
Winner:
Gene Wyatt Award for film that best evokes the spirit of the South
Top 10 Film of 2012
Winner:
Most Promising Performer, Quvenzhané Wallis
Most Promising Filmmaker, Benh Zeitlin
Nominated:
Best Picture
Best Director, Benh Zeitlin
Best Actress, Quvenzhané Wallis
Best Supporting Actor, Dwight Henry
Best Adapted Screenplay, Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin
Best Original Score, Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin
Most Promising Performer, Dwight Henry
LAS VEGAS FILM CRITICS SOCIETY SIERRA AWARDS
Winner:
Top Ten Film of 2012
Breakout Filmmaker of the Year, Benh Zeitlin
Nominated:
Beast Motion Picture
Best Independent Motion Picture
Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Quvenzhané Wallis
Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture, Dwight Henry
Winners announced live on Feb 1.
PHOENIX FILM CRITICS SOCIETY AWARDS
Winner:
Top Ten Film of 2012
Nominated:
Best Actress in a Leading Role, Quvenzhané Wallis
Breakthrough Performance on Camera, Quvenzhané Wallis & Dwight Henry
Breakthrough Performance Behind the Camera, Benh Zeitlin
Best Performance by a Youth in a Lead or Supporting Role - Female, Quvenzhané Wallis
Winners announced on Dec 18.
WASHINGTON DC AREA FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION AWARDS
Winner:
Best Youth Performance, Quvenzhané Wallis
ST. LOUIS FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION AWARDS
Nominated:
Best Director, Benh Zeitlin
Best Actress, Quvenzhané Wallis
Best Adapted Screenplay, Benh Zeitlin & Lucy Alibar
Best Cinematography, Ben Richardson
Best Music/Score, Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin
Best Scene, The Hurricane with Wink shooting at the storm
SAN DIEGO FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION AWARDS
Nominated:
Best Cinematography, Ben Richardson
Best Music/Score, Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin
LOS ANGELES FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION AWARDS
Winner:
Best Supporting Actor, Dwight Henry
Best Score, Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin
Next Generation Award, Benh Zeitlin
NEW YORK FILM CRITICS ONLINE AWARDS
Winner:
Breakthrough Performance, Quvenzhané Wallis
Debut Director, Benh Zeitlin
Winner:
Top Films
Best Directorial Debut, Benh Zeitlin
Breakthrough Performance, Quvenzhané Wallis
Winner:
Newcomer Award, Quvenzhané Wallis
Humanitarian Award, Benh Zeitlin
Nominated:
Best Motion Picture
Best Original Score, Dan Romer and Benh Zeitlin
Best Cinematography, Ben Richardson
Breakthrough Actress, Quvenzhané Wallis
Winner:
Top Ten Movie of 2012
SMITHSONIAN'S AMERICAN INGENUITY AWARDS
Visual Arts, Benh Zeitlin
Nominated:
Best Feature
Best Director, Benh Zeitlin
Best Female Lead, Quvenzhané Wallis
Best Cinematography, Ben Richardson
Winners announced on Feb 23.
Winner:
Breakthrough Director, Benh Zeitlin
Bingham Ray Award, Benh Zeitlin
Nominated:
Breakthrough Actor, Quvenzhané Wallis
Audience Award
Winner:
New Hollywood Awards, Quvenzhané Wallis
Winner:
Best Actress, Quvenzhané Wallis
Best Breakthrough Performance, Quvenzhané Wallis
Best Film, Josh Penn, Michael Gottwald, Dan Janvey (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Best Original Score, Benh Zeitlin, Dan Romer
Nominated:
Best Breakthrough Performance, Dwight Henry
Best Supporting Actor, Dwight Henry
ACADEMY OF SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY & HORROR FILMS, USA
Nominated:
Best Performance by a Younger Actor/Actress, Quvenzhané Wallis
BOSTON SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS AWARDS
2nd Place:
Best New Filmmaker, Benh Zeitlin
Winner:
Sutherland Trophy, Benh Zeitlin
BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS
Nominated:
2012 Best International Independent Film
BROADCAST FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION AWARDS
Winner:
Best Young Actor/Actress, Quvenzhané Wallis
Nominated:
Best Actress, Quvenzhané Wallis
Best Picture, Beasts of the Southern Wild
Nominated:
Best Cinematography, Ben Richardson
Winner:
Best Production Design, Alex DiGerlando
Nominated:
Best Actress, Quvenzhané Wallis
Best Adapted Screenplay, Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin
Best Cinematography, Ben Richardson
Best Director, Benh Zeitlin
Best Movie
Best Supporting Actor, Dwight Henry
COSTUME DESIGNERS GUILD AWARDS
Nominated:
Excellence in Contemporary Film, Stephani Lewis
Nominated:
Best Female Newcomer, Quvenzhané Wallis
EVENING STANDARD BRITISH FILM AWARDS
Nominated:
Best Technical Achievement,
Ben Richardson (cinematography)
Nominated:
Best Independent Poster (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Best Independent TV Spot (Mark Woolen & Associates and Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Best Independent Trailer (Mark Woolen & Associates and Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Winner:
Humanitas Prize,
Lucy Alibar (Writer) Benh Zeitlin (Writer)
Winner:
Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture (Theatrical or Television),
Benh Zeitlin
Outstanding Independent Motion Picture
Nominated:
Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture, Quvenzhané
Wallis
Outstanding Motion Picture
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture,
Dwight Henry
Nominated:
Breakthrough Performance, Quvenzhané
Wallis
MOTION PICTURE SOUND EDITORS, USA
Nominated:
Best Sound Editing - Dialogue and ADR in a Feature Film Bob Edwards (supervising sound editor) Michael Silvers (dialogue/adr editor) Chris Gridley (supervising dialogue/adr editor) Kim Foscato (dialogue/adr editor)
NEW YORK FILM CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS
2nd Place:
Best First Film,
Benh Zeitlin
ONLINE FILM CRITICS SOCIETY AWARDS
Nominated:
Best Actress, Quvenzhané
Wallis
Best Adapted Screenplay,
Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin
Best Supporting Actor,
Dwight Henry
Nominated:
Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures,
Michael Gottwald, Josh Penn, Dan Janvey
Nominated:
Lucy Alibar
(playwright and screenwriter)
Benh Zeitlin
(screenwriter)
Nominated:
Best Performance in a Feature Film - Leading Young Actress, Quvenzhané
Wallis
Lucy Alibar Interview with Popsugar
Lucy Beasts PopSugar
Entertainment and culture blog Popsugar sat down with writer Lucy Alibar to find out more about the real life story that inspired Beasts.
PopSugar: Being from Florida, how did your own Southern upbringing impact the movie?
Lucy: The reason I even wrote the play to begin with, and where it all started was, my dad was really sick and I was up in New York. I think it was trying to explain his parenting or our relationship. It might even be a rural thing vs. an urban thing, I don't know, but Southern men yell. They break sh*t when they're angry — you know, sh*t gets broke! And I think a lot of people just didn't get that about my dad, and they were like, "Well, he shouldn't yell, he shouldn't have hit you." I think maybe it started from me defending my dad a lot to people who didn't even realize they were criticizing him, but were maybe criticizing his way of parenting. Then, growing up in the South, you have this real ear for other peoples' stories. People talk in stories and you just find out a lot about other peoples' business.
Read the full interview here.
And the Nominees are...
Beasts Oscars
It's a happy day for the Court 13 and Cinereach team, here at Beasts HQ.
This morning, the nominees for the 85th Annual Academy Awards were announced and we are thrilled and honored to have been included amongst a field of such amazing films and filmmakers.
Beasts of the Southern Wild has been nominated for:
Best Picture
Best Director, Behn Zeitlin
Best Actress, Quvenzhané Wallis
Best Adapted Screenplay, Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin
This recognition would truly not have been possible withoutthe incredible support of our Beasts family. You heeded our call, you told your friends and family about the film; you watched it in cinemas again and again; you facebooked, tweeted, tumbled and shouted about it to anyone who would listen. You showed the world how to Beast it and we can't thank you enough for that. Congratulations to you and to all the nominees.
The awards show will be broadcast live on Sunday, Feb 24th on ABC.
The 2013 Oscar nominees are:
Best Picture "Argo" "Django Unchained" "Les Miserables" "Life of Pi" "Amour" "Lincoln" "Silver Linings Playbook" "Zero Dark Thirty" "Beasts of the Southern Wild"
Actor in a Leading Role Bradley Cooper - "Silver Linings Playbook" Daniel Day-Lewis - "Lincoln" Hugh Jackman - "Les Miserables" Joaquin Phoenix - "The Master" Denzel Washington - "Flight"
Actress in a Leading Role Jessica Chastain - "Zero Dark Thirty" Jennifer Lawrence - "Silver Linings Playbook" Emmanuelle Riva - "Amour" Quvenzhané Wallis - "Beasts of Southern Wild" Naomi Watts - "The Impossible"
Actor in a Supporting Role Alan Arkin - "Argo" Robert De Niro - "Silver Linings Playbook" Philip Seymour Hoffman - "The Master" Tommy Lee Jones - "Lincoln" Christoph Waltz - "Django Unchained"
Actress in a Supporting Role Amy Adams - "The Master" Sally Field - "Lincoln" Anne Hathaway - "Les Miserables" Helen Hunt - "The Sessions" Jackie Weaver - "Silver Linings Playbook"
Animated Feature Film "Brave" "Frankenweenie" "ParaNorman" "The Pirates! Band of Misfits" "Wreck-It Ralph"
Directing "Amour" - Michael Haneke "Beasts of the Southern Wild" - Benh Zeitlin "Life of Pi" - Ang Lee "Lincoln" - Steven Spielberg "Silver Linings Playbook" - David O. Russell
Writing - Original Screenplay "Amour" - Michael Haneke "Django Unchained" - Quentin Tarantino "Flight" - John Gatins "Moonrise Kingdom" - Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola "Zero Dark Thirty" - Mark Boal
Writing - Adapted Screenplay "Argo" - Chris Terrio "Beasts of the Southern Wild" - Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin "Life of Pi" - David Magee "Lincoln" - Tony Kushner "Silver Linings Playbook" - David O. Russell
Music - Original Song "Before My Time" from "Chasing Ice," music and lyrics by J. Ralph "Everybody Needs a Best Friend" from "Ted," music by Walter Murphy, lyrics by Seth MacFarlane "Pi's Lullaby" from "Life of Pi," music by Mychael Danna, lyrics by Bombay Jayashri "Skyfall" from "Skyfall," music and lyrics by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth "Suddenly" from "Les Miserables," music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil
Foreign Language Film "Amour" (Austria) "Kon-Tiki" (Norway) "No" (Chile) "A Royal Affair" (Denmark) "War Witch" (Canada)
Cinematography "Anna Karenina" "Django Unchained" "Life of Pi" "Lincoln" "Skyfall"
Costume Design "Anna Karenina" "Les Miserables" "Lincoln" "Mirror Mirror" "Snow White and the Huntsman"
Documentary - Feature "5 Broken Cameras" "The Gatekeepers" "How to Survive a Plague" "The Invisible War" "Searching for Sugar Man"
Documentary - Short "Inocente" "Kings Point" "Mondays at Racine" "Open Heart" "Redemption"
Film Editing "Argo" "Life of Pi" "Lincoln" "Silver Linings Playbook" "Zero Dark Thirty"
Makeup And Hairstyling "Hitchcock" "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" "Les Miserables"
Music - Original Score "Anna Karenina" "Argo" "Life of Pi" "Lincoln" "Skyfall"
Production Design "Anna Karenina" "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" "Les Miserables" "Life of Pi" "Lincoln"
Short Film - Animated "Adam and Dog" "Fresh Guacamole" "Head over Heels" "Maggie Simpson in 'The Longest Daycare'" "Paperman"
Short Film - Live Action "Asad" "Buzkashi Boys" "Curfew" "Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)" "Henry"
Sound Editing "Argo" "Django Unchained" "Life of Pi" "Skyfall" "Zero Dark Thirty"
Sound Mixing "Argo" "Les Miserables" "Life of Pi" "Lincoln" "Skyfall"
Visual Effects "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" "Life of Pi" "Marvel's The Avengers" "Prometheus" "Snow White and the Huntsman"
Buttermilk Drops come to NYC!
By now, many of you are familiar with the story of how Dwight Henry was cast as Wink in Beasts of the Southern Wild. A baker by profession, Mr. Henry, owned a dessert cafe, The Buttermilk Drop, across the street from the Court 13 production office where Beasts producers would often meet for coffee. After months went by searching for the perfect Wink (which included hundreds of auditions with local and professional actors), producer Michael Gottwald realized that the man they were hoping to discover may have been someone a little closer to home. He convinced Mr. Henry to come in and read for the role of Wink and the rest, as they say, is casting history.
Since then, Mr. Henry has already completed another film with director Steve McQueen, starring Brad Pitt. He was honored by the Los Angeles Film Critics as the Best Supporting Actor of 2012 and continues to be recognized by audiences around the world as a true star and artist. Despite all the Hollywood hoopla, Mr. Henry's most beloved stage is still in the kitchen.
The cast and crew traveled across country for the Beasts Sundance premiere, bringing along over 1000 of Mr. Henry's famed Buttermilk Drops to pass out to festival goers. Word of his delectable delights eventually landed in the ear of restaurateur Richie Notar of Nobu, who had just recently purchased a space in Harlem, New York City and was looking for his next culinary endeavor.
New York Magazine's Grubstreet recounts:
After buying the Lenox, Notar was brainstorming uses for an adjacent space when he happened to talk to a film-industry friend. The friend had recently returned from Sundance Film Festival where he’d tasted one of the 1,200 buttermilk drops Henry handed out during the Beasts Park City premiere, and encouraged Notar to investigate. (Henry landed his role in Beasts after Buttermilk Drop partial producers encouraged him to audition.) “I fell in love with the story,” Notar says. “Here’s a guy that’s a nonactor that takes his product that he’s proud of and went over to Sundance with it and gave it away. I liked that about him, that’s my entrepreneurial gene as well. And then when I sent Mike down there, he said, ‘Yeah, it’s the real deal. It’s good, and it’s perfect fit for what we are doing.’”
This spring, Dwight Henry and Richie Notar will bring a little New Orleans love to New York City "in the form of buttermilk drops, king cakes, and beignets, plus savory staples like Henry’s gumbo."
We wish Mr. Henry the best on his newest endeavor! Our taste buds can't wait for springtime!
Source: Grub Street