While the bulk of the awards were presented to TV series, those winners and nominees in the movie categories are as given below :-
* Awarded to 'TO ALL THE BOYS : ALWAYS AND FOREVER', beating out 'Borat Subsequent Moviefilm', 'Judas and the Black Messiah', 'Promising Young Woman' and 'Soul'.
Best Performance in a Movie
* Awarded to CHADWICK BOSEMAN for 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom', beating out Sacha Baron Cohen for 'The Trial of the Chicago 7', Daniel Kaluuya for 'Judas and the Black Messiah', Carey Mulligan for 'Promising Young Woman' and Zendaya for 'Malcolm & Marie'.
* Awarded to LESLIE JONES for 'Coming 2 America', beating out Eric Andre for 'Bad Trip', Annie Murphy for 'Schitt's Creek', Issa Rae for 'Insecure' and Jason Sudeikis for 'Ted Lasoo'.
Best Music Documentary
* Awarded to 'BTS – BREAK THE SILENCE : THE MOVIE', beating out 'Ariana Grande : Excuse Me, I Love You', 'Framing Britney Spears', 'The Bee Gees : How Can You Mend a Broken Heart', 'Biggie : I Got a Story to Tell', 'Billie Eilish : The World's a Little Blurry', 'Demi Lovato : Dancing with the Devil', 'Tina', 'Shawn Mendes : In Wonder' and 'Taylor Swift : Miss Americana'.
Of the TV awards 'WANDA VISION' won four for Best Show, Best Performance in a Show going to Elizabeth Olson, Best Villain going to Kathryn Hahn and Best Fight going to 'Wanda vs. Agatha'. 'THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER' picked up two awards for Best Hero going to Anthony Mackie and Best Duo going to Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Best Breakthrough Performance was awarded to REGE-JEAN PAGE for 'Bridgerton' and Most Frightened Performance went to VICTORIA PEDRETTI for 'The Haunting of Bly Manor'.
The Comedic Genius Award was presented to SASHA BARON COHEN and the MTV Generation Award was presented to SCARLETT JOHANSSON.
For the complete low down on all the glitz and glamour, the winners and the also rans across all categories, you can go to the official website at : https://www.mtv.com/movie-and-tv-awards
'A QUIET PLACE : PART II' (Rated M) - is an eagerly anticipated long awaited American horror follow-up to 2018's 'A Quiet Place' which grossed US$341M off the back of a US$20M production budget, and was Co-Written, Directed and starred John Krasinski. For this sequel John Krasinski returns to the Directors chair and he also wrote, Co-Produced and once again has a small role in this film, even though his character was killed off in the first film. This film saw its World Premier screening in New York City back on 8th March 2020, with a worldwide release set from 20th March 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic it was rescheduled to 4th September 2020. It was then changed to 23rd April 2021 and then changed again to 17th September 2021. After three postponements, it was moved earlier in the year to this week.
Following the deadly events at home in which Lee Abbott (John Krasinski) was killed by the blind monsters with an acute sense of hearing, the Abbott family now headed up by mother Evelyn (Emily Blunt), with her three children, the deaf Regan (Millicent Simmonds), Marcus (Noah Jupe) and their new born baby must now face the terrors of the outside world as they continue their fight for survival in silence. Forced to venture into the unknown, they quickly realise that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path. Also starring Cillian Murphy, Djimon Hounsou and John Krasinski in newly filmed flashback sequences set before the events of the first film.
'CRUELLA' (Rated PG) - this American crime comedy-drama film is Directed by Craig Gillespie whose previous film making outings include 'Lars and the Real Girl', 'Million Dollar Arm', 'The Finest Hours' and 'I, Tonya' most recently in 2017. This film is based on the character Cruella de Vil, introduced in Dodie Smith's 1956 novel 'The Hundred and One Dalmatians' and specifically on the version from the Walt Disney 1961 animated film 'One Hundred and One Dalmatians'. It is the third live-action film in the '101 Dalmatians' franchise which were '101 Dalmatians' released in 1996 and '102 Dalmatians' released in 2000 both with Glenn Close playing Cruella de Vil. Those first two instalments grossed a total US$505M off the back of production budgets amounting to a combined US$160M. Set in 1970's London during the punk rock movement, we here follow Estella de Vil (Emma Stone), an ambitious and aspiring fashion designer, and explores the path that will lead her to become a notorious and dangerous criminal, with a penchant for Dalmatian fur, known as Cruella de Vil. Also starring Emma Thompson, Mark Strong, Paul Walter Hauser, Emily Beecham, Joel Fry and Kirby Howell-Baptiste. The film is scheduled to be released theatrically and simultaneously available on Disney+ with Premier Access this week too in the US.
'MY NAME IS GULPILIL' (Rated M) - this Australian documentary film is Directed and Co-Produced by Molly Reynolds whose prior film making credits take in 'Twelve Canoes', 'Still Our Country', 'Another Country', and 'ShoPaapaa' most recently in 2020. David Gulpilil is an iconic figure of Australian cinema and has been for fifty years, since his breakout role in Nicolas Roeg's 'Walkabout' in 1971. His mesmerising, electrifying presence has leapt off the big screen and changed Australian screen representation forever. The only Actor to appear in both of the two highest-grossing Australian films of all time, 'Crocodile Dundee' and 'Australia'. Gulpilil is known throughout the world for his unforgettable performances - from his breakthrough 'Walkabout' to films including 'Storm Boy', 'Mad Dog Morgan', Peter Weir’s 'The Last Wave', 'The Tracker', 'Rabbit-Proof Fence', 'The Proposition' and his Cannes Best Actor award-winning role in Rolf de Heer’s 'Charlie’s Country'. Integral to the telling of so many legendary screen stories, Gulpilil, now nearing the end of his life having been diagnosed with lung cancer in early 2017, to which his Doctors gave him six months to live. Now four years later, he generously shares his own story with us as the Actor, dancer, singer and painter takes us boldly on the journey that is his most extraordinary, culture-clashing life.
'KING OTTO' (Rated G) - this sports documentary film is Directed and Co-Produced by Christopher Andre Marks in his full length doco debut having Directed two short films previously - the seven minute documentary 'Tiger Hood' in 2015 and the fifteen minute comedy 'Being Richard Kensington' in 2013 - both of which he also Produced and wrote. This documentary charts how in the summer of 2004, audiences looked on in disbelief as the Greek National Football Team, a country that had never previously won a single match in a major tournament, took down the giants of world football to become the unlikeliest of European Champions. The architect behind this unprecedented triumph was legendary German football coach 'King' Otto Rehhagel. After accomplishing every major success in Germany, he made the bold decision to leave all he knew behind and work in a foreign country with the underachieving Greek National Team. This is the story of how these two contrasting cultures came together to speak the same language and write a new chapter of Greek mythology.
'FINAL ACCOUNT' (Rated M) - is a German-language British-American documentary film Directed Produced and lensed by Luke Holland, who died shortly after filming completed on June 10, 2020. Holland's previous film making credits were two TV movie doco's only - 1993's forty-six minute 'Good Morning, Mr. Hitler' and 2000's one hour long 'I Was a Slave Labourer'. This film follows the last living generation of German participants in Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. Over a decade in the making, it raises vital, timely questions about authority, conformity, complicity and perpetration, national identity, and responsibility, as men and women ranging from former SS members to civilians in never-before-seen interviews reckon with – in very different ways – their memories, perceptions and personal appraisals of their own roles in the greatest human crimes in history. The film saw its World Premier screening at the Venice International Film Festival in September last year, and has garnered generally favourable Reviews.
This week we have five latest release new films coming to your local Odeon, and we launch with a sequel to a critical and commercial horror film success from 2018 that leaves a mother and her three children to venture forth beyond their farmhouse and into an unknown world, where blind monsters with an acute sense of hearing are not the only terrors that lie in wait on unsuspecting prey - there are other humans too! Next up we have the origin story of teenaged Estella who has a dream of becoming a fashion designer, having been gifted with talent, innovation, and ambition all in equal measures, but, life seems intent on making sure her dreams never come true, leading her down a life of crime with a particular liking for Dalmatian fur. And we close out the week with three documentary films - the first is an up close and personal look at the life and times of one of Australia's most famed indigenous Actors as he approaches the end of his life. This is followed by the exploits of a true underdog of the European soccer scene who in 2004 upset the status quo by winning the European Championship against all the odds; and we close out the week with an in-depth account of the last survivors of those who participated in Hitler's Third Reich and the impact of what they left behind.
Whatever your taste in big screen film entertainment is this week - be it any of the five latest release new movies as Previewed below, or those doing the rounds currently on general release or as Reviewed and Previewed in previous Blog Posts here at Odeon Online, you are most welcome to share your movie going thoughts, opinions and observations by leaving your relevant, succinct and appropriate views in the Comments section below this or any other Post. We'd love to hear from you, and in the meantime, enjoy your big screen Odeon outing during the week ahead.
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