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LOOKS LIKE 2003 WILL BE A BANNER YEAR FOR DENNIS
We will keep you up to date as we get the info on Dennis as it comes in. Please come back and often to check for updates.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!
The DQC Webmasters:
Lizzy, Cupid, Gale, Penn, Hollie, Clyde, Kap
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
Hey Gang,
DQ and the Sharks now have an "official" site, check it out http://www.dqandthesharks.com
Thanks to Penn for this info...
What would I do without you guys. You guys are the greatest! Thanks! Lizzy
DQ BREAKING NEWS!
On Monday, February 24th, 2003 at 8 P.M. Dennis and The Sharks have a gig scheduled at the Cine-Space Club on Hollywood Blvd.
Thanks to Rosie for this update! Lizzy
Congratulations to Dennis for being nominated for the SAG(Screen Actors Guild) Award for Best Supporting Actor for FFH. It is especially nice because they are his peers, and as Dennis himself has said, it is always nice to be recognized. We at DQC have always known Dennis was a wonderful actor, and hope this is another step toward the Oscar. Lots of luck. Thanks Cupid for this great info!
Lizzy
DENNIS WINS AN AWARD... hopefully one of many to come in 2003!
Jan. 07,
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
NY Film Critics Circle includes:
BEST DIRECTOR - Todd Haynes, Far From Heaven
BEST PICTURE
"Far From Heaven"
BEST ACTOR
Daniel Day-Lewis, "Gangs of New York"
BEST ACTRESS
Diane Lane, "Unfaithful"
****BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Dennis Quaid, "Far From Heaven"
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Patricia Clarkson, "Far From Heaven"
Dec. 14, Hey gang, great news so listen up...Dennis is assembling a celebrity golf tournament for charity along with about 40 stars to Austin, TX, along with The Sharks. It will be called The Dennis Quaid Charity Classic on June 19-22
Play begins June 19 with a corporate challenge of sponsoring companies. June 20 will be celebrity/amateur rounds, with teams of four amateurs and a celebrity captain. The first two days of the tournament won't be open to spectators, but the next two days will.
Dennis Quaid and his band the Sharks are schedulled to perform June 20th in a benefit concert at Antone's and at a gala and auction the following evening the bank will play along with other top acts.
June 21 and 22 will feature celebrity play.
Quaid came up with the idea about 3 months ago and the program is coming
together quickly.
For more info check out News/Articles/Interviews section
Dec. 11, 2002
Dennis Quaid has just been nominated for The Independent Spirit Award for his roll in Far From Heaven. The award show will be the day before the
Oscars.
I can't wait to see Dennis stroll down the red carpet... it's going to be one interesting night.
Thanks to Rosie for this little tidbit. Lizzy
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New at Dennis Quaid Central:
Dennis has his work cut out for him...
Jack Mathews/NEW York Daily News columnist
Martin Scorsese's epic "Gangs of New York," starring Daniel Day Lewis, is
likely to wind up on the Best Picture ballot.
Chicago, the early front-runner, will likely end up with 10 to 13 Oscar
nominations.
Nicole Kidman should be on the Best Actress nominee list for "The Hours."
With all but one of the nation's critical precincts reporting, we can now
declare that the Best Picture of 2002 was Todd Haynes' "Far From Heaven."
Come on up, Todd.
Whoops, wait a second. No, the winner is Roman Polanski's "The Pianist."
Sorry, that's wrong, too.
It's either Spike Jonze's "Adaptation" or Stephen Daldry's "The Hours."
That is, if it isn't Rob Marshall's "Chicago," Alexander Payne's "About
Schmidt" or George Clooney's "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind."
And this just in from Washington: The winner is Sam Mendes' "Road to
Perdition."
All eight of the above movies were named Best Picture by at least one organized
body of film critics, and a new one could be added tomorrow, when the National
Society of Film Critics weighs in. If this group can find a film the others
have overlooked, it will.
Ah, for the good old day (it was May 16, 1928) when the Academy Awards show was
all there was, and its Best Picture - the silent World War I aerial combat
movie "Wings" - reigned. The very next year, the National Board of Review
released its favorites, and in 1935, the nascent New York Film Critics Circle
said, "Here's ours!"
Since then, awards have multiplied in biblical proportions - through critics
groups, guilds and entities like the American Film Institute, MTV and the
British Academy of Film and Television Arts that have latched onto the Academy
Awards like leeches on a hippo's belly.
During this long spawning cycle, the original principle of the New York Film
Critics Circle - to correct Hollywood's self-serving judgments about the best
work in movies - was lost, as the film world coopted, seduced and otherwise
turned all other awards into Oscar clarions. You can spend millions on an ad
campaign, and take a thousand voters out to dinner, but a month's worth of
publicity from critics: Priceless.
It's a two-way street. For their efforts, critics get the exposure from ads
hawking their opinions as endorsements in the Oscar race. And getting into
those ads has become a hot competition itself, the only reason eight different
groups came up with eight best pictures.
For people interested in a purer reading of critical opinion, you might check
the individual top 10 lists collected at David Poland's Web site,
www.moviecitynews.com. There, you'll find more than 100 lists, plus a running
tally of a cumulative top 10.
"Far From Heaven" ranks first on this list, followed by the Spanish-language
films "Y Tu Mama Tambien" and "Talk to Her," then "About Schmidt,"
"Adaptation," "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers," "The Pianist,"
"Chicago," "Spirited Away" and "Gangs of New York."
If December belonged to the critics, January belongs to the Hollywood Foreign
Press Association, whose Golden Globes provide both a dress rehearsal for Oscar
contenders and a marketing bonanza for their promoters. Like them or not, and
most critics hate them, the nationally televised Globes are more important to
the Oscar process than all the critics awards combined.
That spells trouble for "Far From Heaven," which was overlooked by the foreign
press for Best Picture, and offers a ray of hope to "My Big Fat Greek Wedding,"
the populist blockbuster that made no major critic's top 10 list. The Globes
will be presented Jan. 19. The Oscar race then moves into its own world, with
guild nominations and awards from writers, directors, actors, film editors,
producers and so on, right up to the deadline for Oscar ballots. (Oscar
nominations will be announced Feb. 11, the awards on March 23.)
In the meantime, we can't declare a winner, but we have a fairly clear picture
of the likeliest contenders. Here's how I think they stand at the moment.
BEST PICTURE
Favorites:
1. "Chicago." The early front-runner, it will end up with 10 to 13 Oscar
nominations.
2. "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers." The second leg of Peter Jackson's
masterful adaptation is a lock.
3. "The Hours." It's an actors showcase, and actors account for nearly a fourth
of voters.
4. "The Pianist." The most compelling Holocaust drama since "Schindler's List,"
and they loved "Schindler's List."
5. "Gangs of New York." Martin Scorsese's wounded epic divided critics, but
could win enough votes from Scorsese fans to make the show.
In contention:
"Adaptation": Charlie Kaufman's inside-Hollywood script is irresistibly clever
to some and intolerably selfindulgent to others. "About Schmidt": It's a Jack
Nicholson show, and voters may think an acting nomination will take care of it.
"Antwone Fisher": Denzel Washington does an able job as a first-time director
and the movie's inspirational story was well-timed for the holidays. "Catch Me
If You Can": DreamWorks will go all-out for boss Steven Spielberg's year-end
crowd-pleaser, but light comedies rarely make the grade. "Far From Heaven":
Older Academy voters - that is, most of them - remember the films of Douglas
Sirk, and don't appreciate the reminder.
Long shot:
"My Big Fat Greek Wedding." A People's Choice Award to go with its
quarter-billion-dollar payoff should be enough for America's favorite trifle.
BEST DIRECTOR
Favorites:
1. Peter Jackson. His "Rings" series is still a work in progress, but it's
clear to all he's making an adventure masterpiece.
2. Rob Marshall ("Chicago"). Some critics dismiss him; fellow directors will
not.
3. Stephen Daldry ("The Hours"). He made it onto this ballot with his first
film, "Billy Elliot," and his second is the greater achievement.
4. Todd Haynes ("Far From Heaven"). The directors branch won't make the same
mistake Golden Globes voters did.
5. Martin Scorsese ("Gangs of New York"). Flaws and all, it's epic filmmaking,
and he'll get sympathy votes as the year's most visible VOH (victim of Harvey).
In contention:
Spike Jonze ("Adaptation"), Alexander Payne ("About Schmidt"), Roman Polanski
("The Pianist"), Steven Spielberg ("Catch Me If You Can").
Long shot:
Hayao Miyazaki ("Spirited Away").
BEST ACTOR
Favorites:
1. Jack Nicholson ("About Schmidt"). His record 12th nomination is dead
certain.
2. Daniel Day-Lewis ("Gangs of New York"). Proving that if you can make a
better villain, awards will follow.
3. Adrien Brody ("The Pianist"). Out of nowhere, one of the year's most
captivating performances.
4. Michael Caine ("The Quiet American"). The oft-nominated Brit gives one of
his best performances as a London reporter in prewar Saigon.
5. Nicolas Cage ("Adaptation"). As Woody Allen might say, playing a dual role
gives him twice the chance.
In contention:
Richard Gere ("Chicago"), Sam Rockwell ("Confessions of a Dangerous Mind"),
Derek Luke ("Antwone Fisher").
Long shot:
Ralph Fiennes ("Spider").
BEST ACTRESS
Favorites:
1. Diane Lane ("Unfaithful"). The movie opened in May, and people are still
talking about her performance as a happily married Westchester mother
catapulted by chance and desire into a tragic affair.
2. Nicole Kidman ("The Hours"). As a dressed-down and suicidal Virginia Woolf,
she both shatters her glamour-girl image and a few hearts.
3. Julianne Moore ("Far From Heaven"). The leading winner among critics groups
is the one sure nominee from the film.
4. Renee Zellweger ("Chicago"). Playing lethally ambitious Roxie Hart, she's
the linchpin of the year's sassiest ensemble.
5. Salma Hayek ("Frida"). The movie about Mexican painter Frida Kahlo has as
many detractors as fans, but Hayek's pains to get it made will not be lost on
voters.
In contention:
Meryl Streep ("The Hours"), Isabelle Huppert ("The Piano Teacher"), Jennifer
Aniston ("The Good Girl").
Long shot:
Samantha Morton ("Morvern Callar")
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Favorites:
1. Paul Newman ("Road to Perdition"). A perennial favorite, in the showcase
role of a brutal mob boss.
2. Chris Cooper ("Adaptation"). His work as a toothless orchid thief nearly
swept the critics awards.
3. Christopher Walken ("Catch Me If You Can"). Playing a loser living
vicariously through his son, he gives the movie needed gravity.
4. John C. Reilly ("Chicago"). He plays the same doofus husband in "The Good
Girl" and "The Hours," but he gets to sing here.
5. Ed Harris ("The Hours"). Appearing as gaunt as his dying character, he gives
the film what Virginia Woolf called "dramatic contrast."
In contention:
Ray Liotta ("Narc"), Dennis Quaid ("Far From Heaven"), Alfred Molina ("Frida").
Long shot:
Andy Serkis (the actor modeling Gollum's computer-generated performance in "The
Two Towers").
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Favorites:
1. Catherine Zeta-Jones ("Chicago"). The "It" girl of the season's "It" film.
2. Kathy Bates ("About Schmidt"). Gives her all (and for the hot tub scene, we
mean all) as a middle-age hippie.
3. Meryl Streep ("Adaptation"). Her most broadly comic role is likely to give
her a record 13th nomination.
4. Julianne Moore ("The Hours"). Showing the dark side of her upbeat '50s mom
in "Far From Heaven."
5. Miranda Richardson ("Spider"). A great performance as both the mother and
the fantasized mother of a schizophrenic.
In contention:
Queen Latifah ("Chicago"), Emily Mortimer ("Lovely & Amazing"), Michelle
Pfeiffer ("White Oleander"), Kim Basinger ("8 Mile").
Long shot:
Edie Falco ("Sunshine State").
ANIMATED FEATURE
Favorites:
1. "Spirited Away." Should win by acclamation, forcing Disney to give it a wide
release.
2. "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron." From the detail of its illustrations,
maybe the best-looking of all animated features.
3. "Lilo & Stitch." Sublimely entertaining boy-and-his-dog story (only it's a
little girl and an alien).
In contention:
"Ice Age," "The Wild Thornberrys."
Long shot:
"Metropolis."
Thanks to Kap and Rosie for this wonderful news!
Thanks, Lizzy
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