Aaron Sorkin & Kate Winslet pick up Golden Globes for roles in Steve Jobs biopic
The Danny Boyle biopic Steve Jobs picked up two awards during the Golden Globes on Sunday, including Best Screenplay for Aaron Sorkin, and Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for Kate Winslet.
Michael Fassbender, who played Jobs, lost the Best Performance by an Actor award to Leonardo DiCaprio, star of The Revenant. DiCaprio, coincidentally, was at one point tapped to play Jobs but instead reportedly declined it to take a hiatus from acting.
Daniel Pemberton missed out on Best Original Score, an award which was instead claimed by Ennio Morricone for Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight.
Steve Jobs did not receive any nominations for Best Director or Best Motion Picture.
The film infamously bombed at the box office during its main U.S. theatrical run, failing to make back even half of its production and marketing costs. International distribution and next month's impending online, Blu-ray, and DVD releases could help soften the blow.
The Golden Globes are often seen as a hint at prospects for the Academy Awards, which are scheduled for Feb. 28. A few wins there could potentially revive interest in Jobs.
Michael Fassbender, who played Jobs, lost the Best Performance by an Actor award to Leonardo DiCaprio, star of The Revenant. DiCaprio, coincidentally, was at one point tapped to play Jobs but instead reportedly declined it to take a hiatus from acting.
Daniel Pemberton missed out on Best Original Score, an award which was instead claimed by Ennio Morricone for Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight.
Steve Jobs did not receive any nominations for Best Director or Best Motion Picture.
The film infamously bombed at the box office during its main U.S. theatrical run, failing to make back even half of its production and marketing costs. International distribution and next month's impending online, Blu-ray, and DVD releases could help soften the blow.
The Golden Globes are often seen as a hint at prospects for the Academy Awards, which are scheduled for Feb. 28. A few wins there could potentially revive interest in Jobs.
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A pretty telling indictment of the state of the movie industry when something that is an open, bald-faced LIE wins an award.
Of course the irony is lost on nearly everyone, since they take what Hollywood shits out as gospel. And not just the documentary stuff.
And I guarantee you that Aaron Sorkin lost nothing. He got paid well and up-front. Only idiots take net points.
You may have hated the idea of the movie (I would say "hated the movie", but I doubt you saw it), but let's not make up crap just because that's the case (even if Sorkin did).
"To illustrate just how non-opportunistic a project Steve Jobs was, Sorkin indicated that he, and other key members of the behind-the-scenes creative team, though he didn’t specify exactly who, actually took pay cuts in order to ensure that the film got made."
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Aaron-Sorkin-Has-Brutal-Response-Apple-CEO-Steve-Jobs-Comments-84777.html
I watched and actually enjoyed the other Jobs "biopic" with Ashton Kutcher enough to watch that one twice, but this version, well, what I can say positive about this one is that I made it all the way through which is more than I can say for Pirates of Silicon Valley (which I would rate about as highly, or lowly as the case may be).
Strange, because I'm an Aaron Sorkin fan, huge fan of The West Wing and The Newsroom and I expected to be one of those people who loved this movie even after it was already a flop at the box office - but, in this case, the flopping at the box office is well deserved, this movie is a complete waste of time.
This is movie is NOT A BIOGRAPHY of Steve Jobs but an artistic poem to the creative and visionary Jobs was. This movie shows us how no man or woman in Silicon Valley could have created Apple for this reason.
Please see my comment above to see why the product launches were so fundamental to Apple's success and why Steve drove everyone crazy and to brilliant and industry changing products. The launches where "frames" used to address Jobs at different times in his career and Apple's history. The dialogue was astounding to listen to, and once you understand this is an abstraction of conversations and events all jammed into the three separate product launches the bigger picture become clear. No actor can be exactly like another human being so all actors create portrayals, Fassbinder's creation was his portrayal and it worked for me.