Welcome back to For Your Consideration with Reuben Schwartz! In this post, I will recap the nominations for the latest Golden Reel Awards, the various storylines going into the ceremony and look back to locate its place within LRF's history.
Storylines:
Across the board, this ceremony appears to be largely a two-horse race: Escape vs. The Vintner. The two films stand head-and-shoulders above the rest of the field in nominations, with eight and nine respectively. It is two of the studio’s longest-tenured and most-respected writers in Lon Charles and Dwight Gallo. Charles won Best Picture for Solution back in Season 2 but it has eluded him ever since, notching an astonishing 15 Best Picture noms since that ceremony. Solution beat Blackwater that season, one of his 10 Best Picture nominations. He has won the award three times (Born in Brooklyn, Territory, AKA Billy the Kid).
The Avengers will continue the fight of superhero movies trying to break through in the Best Picture category. A comic book film has been nominated in the category in seven of the last eight seasons, including two Justice League films in a row recently. Now Marvel will get its shot, although that is admittedly a long one. Perhaps Gareth Edwards could score a win in the Best Director category like Michael Bay last season. Edwards has quietly been one of the steadiest workers throughout LRF’s history, his films having earned the studio a whopping $3.4 billion in profits alone. More on him later.
There has also been talk around town about the show’s producers pulling out all the stops for this ceremony, with a biger-than-usual audience tuning in due to the devoted fanbase of Best Actress nominee Taylor Swift. A Swift performance to open the show perhaps? Joni Mitchell isn’t known for making show-stopping hits, exactly, but I’m sure they can figure something out.
Returning Winners:
Margaret Qualley - Don’t look now but Margaret Qualley is on a bit of a hot streak at the moment. While her roles are few and far between, she has won a Golden Reel Award in hr last two performances at the studio: Best Actress for Observance in Season 20 and Supporting Actress for Miracles in Season 26.
Sam Mendes - Mendes is a sole Best Director nominee to have previously won the award, which he nabbed for Season 17’s The Glass Menagerie. This is his fourth time being nominated for the prestigious award.
Viggo Mortensen, Jesse Plemons, and Nick Robinson - This trio all have won one Golden Reel Award in the past: Best Villain. They will now all be striving for their first award in one of the main acting categories. Mortensen won for Batman: In the Shadows and was nominated for Best Actor once before for Berserker. Plemons was nominated for Best Villain and Actor for his memorable turn in The Tower, but only won Villain. Robinson, meanwhile, could join the rare likes of Leonardo DiCaprio and Sydney Sweeney for winning GRAs across different seasons for playing the same character, as his Best Villain win came for Amityville in Season 28.
Returning Nominees:
David Fincher - The Best Director nominee has been nominated four times before (Cold, Survivor, Heights, The Dogs of Winter) but has yet to win the award.
Reese Witherspoon - This is the star’s third time in the Best Actress category, having previously been nominated for Kylie Dates New York City and Nevada, Iowa.
Harrison Ford - Witherspoon’s Escape co-star was a first-time GRA nominee last season for Willamette and now returns a season later to try and claim victory.
Alice Eve - It has been a longer wait for Eve, who was last nominated for a GRA back in Season 12 for her supporting role in Doctor Love.
Barry Keoghan - The “Ballad of Dwight Frye” nominee returns to the Best Actor category after his nomination for The Terminal Spy in Season 26.
Rosamund Pike - This is now two Best Supporting Actress nominations for Pike in a row, having been nominated two seasons back for her turn as Emma Frost in X-Men: Hellfire.
Al Pacino - It is great to see the legendary Al Pacino back at the Golden Reel Awards. He has been nominated for an individual award just once before, way back in Season 10 for Haute Couture.
First-Time Nominees:
I’m going to try something a little different this year and break down this category based on how many films they have made for the studio. First up…
Walton Goggins - This is Walton’s first individual acting nomination for his eleventh film at LRF, debuting back in Season 2 in Blood Meridian. Over that time, he has been in five films nominated for Best Ensemble.
Joshua Collins - The writer made his LRF debut back in Season 21 with Gigantor and has maintained a steady presence ever since. His Best Original Story nomination for Orange Blossom marks his first writing nomination.
Jamie Bell - The On Life and Living actor is also making his LRF debut in his tenth film for the studio, having debuted in Season 4.
Gareth Edwards - A worthy nomination for the Avengers director after a long and storied career at LRF. The Marvel extravaganza is his ninth film for the studio, putting him in the upper echelon of prolific directors. He started back in Season 1 with Halo, a franchise whose five films marked the first half of his LRF career, before pivoting to The Fantastic Four and co. in Season 16.
Ann Dowd - Like Walton Goggins, this respected character actress has been a mainstay in the Best Ensemble category but is receiving her first individual acting nomination in her fifth role at the studio.
Jade Pettyjohn - The young star catapulted into the spotlight with her supporting turn in Escape, but this is actually been a slow ascent as it is her fifth role at the studio.
Pablo Larrain - The stylish Chilean director only made his debut a few seasons back (The Last Days of the American Cowboy) and is now nominated for his second LRF film.
Berenice Bejo - Bejo is another representative of The Vintner who has been nominated for their second film, having debuted in Season 24 in Akin.
Nic Suzuki - The writer’s LRF career is off to a promising start after writing two smashing box office successes in Gamera and Monopoly, and now a Best Adaptation nomination to boot.
Taylor Swift - And finally, the pop superstar making her LRF and GRA debut simultaneously with her portrayal of Joni Mitchell in Songbird.
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