{"id":19023,"date":"2012-02-04T19:17:19","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T03:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=19023"},"modified":"2012-02-04T23:12:56","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T07:12:56","slug":"virtuosos-awards-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=19023","title":{"rendered":"Virtuosos Awards Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Linda Lopez<\/a>.\u00a0 Virtuosos Awards\u00a0Ceremony at the Arlington Theater.<\/p>\n

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Outside the Arlington Theater,\u00a0spotlights\u00a0and cameras were\u00a0popping at the\u00a0upcoming stars on the red carpet.\u00a0 Inside the theater, the audience was waiting in high anticipation for the ceremony to begin.\u00a0 Finally, SBIFF Executive Director Roger Durley opened the festivity by introducing the emcee for the Virtuosos Awards TV\u2019s well-known Dave Karger of EW. \u00a0After welcoming the audience, Karger announced the winners of the award: \u00a0Demian Birchir, Rooney Mara, Melissa McCarthy, Patton Oswalt and Shailene Woodley.\u00a0 Regrettably, and displayed with dismayed murmors from the audience,\u00a0Melissa McCarthy was unable to attend because of laryngitis.<\/p>\n

Before the awards were presented, film clips were shown followed by one-on-one interviews with Dave Karger and each of the winners.<\/p>\n

Demian Bichir<\/strong> for portraying Carlos Galindo, a gardener in East L.A., in \u201cA Better Life.\u201d\u00a0 Bichir said that when he got this role from the producer Chris Weitz, he thought he was being summoned to be a vampire in the movie \u201cFull Moon,\u201d because he met with Weitz when Full Moon was being filmed.\u00a0 Weitz then divulged to Bichir that he wanted him to play the gardener in \u201cA Better Life.\u201d\u00a0 To prepare for the role, Bichir gained 20 pounds and studied with real-life gardeners, among whom he already knew, fondly called his \u201cpaisonos.\u201d\u00a0 He also said that he learned how to operate gardening equipment and did his own stunts, i.e., climbing palm trees.\u00a0 Bichir said that the movie is dedicated to the 11 million human beings in this country who are helping everyone to make this a better country.\u00a0 Bichir has been nominated for an Oscar for best actor in a leading role.<\/p>\n

Rooney Mara<\/strong> for her role of Lisbeth Salander, an anti-social computer hacker, in \u201cThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.\u201d \u00a0In real life, there is little resemblance between Rooney and Lisbeth, which attests to Rooney\u2019s acting abilities.\u00a0 Her first major motion picture was \u201cThe Social Network,\u201d directed by David Fincher, who then later picked Rooney to portray Lisbeth in his movie \u201cThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.\u201d<\/p>\n

Patton Oswalt<\/strong> in \u201cYoung Adult\u201d in playing Matt Freehauf, a permanently-crippled victim of teen violence.\u00a0 Oswalt said that his relationship and connection with co-star Charlize Theron provided the perfect chemistry in making \u201cYoung Adult\u201d click.<\/p>\n

Andy Serkis<\/strong> for \u201cRise of the Planet of the Apes,\u201d in his performance-capture role of Caesar, a chimpanzee.\u00a0 Serkis surprised the audience by walking out onto the stage with no shirt, exposing his already hairy chest.\u00a0 Quite appropriate considering he played an ape.\u00a0 Serkis explained the technical aspects of performance-capture in film, and may become a standard in the film industry.<\/p>\n

Shailene Woodley\u2019s<\/strong> portrayal of Alexandra King, the teen-aged daughter in \u201cThe Descendents.\u201d\u00a0 Woodley portrayed a typical \u201cI hate the world\u201d teenager in this film.\u00a0 In real life, Woodley divulged that she is nothing like the character Alexandra.\u00a0 Woodley said that she is optimistic and surrounds herself with upbeat people.\u00a0 However, she is attracted to playing in opposite roles to her real self, i.e., she\u2019s the \u201cyin\u201d and the other is her “yang.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although absent, a film clip of Melissa McCarthy<\/strong> in her role as Megan in \u201cBridesmaids.\u201d\u00a0 McCarthy has been nominated for an Oscar\u00a0in the\u00a0best supporting actress category.<\/p>\n

Following the one-on-ones, the momentum of the ceremony started to wane, when all the winners were brought back on stage to sit in fixed chairs lined up in a row and awkwardly exposed to the audience.\u00a0 When Karger asked if they had the chance to act in a performance-captured role, who would they want to play. \u00a0Simultaneously, a hushed silence descended on stage as if everyone suddenly became tongue-tied. \u00a0Oswalt broke the awkwardness with some jokes.\u00a0 Serkis spoke the most because he\u2019s an expert in performance-captured roles.\u00a0 Overall, it was as if Karger was pulling teeth to get responses from the rest of the actors.<\/p>\n

It was a relief when Karger introduced director Chris Weitz to present the awards.\u00a0 But when each winner received their award, the awards were presented too far back in the shadows of the stage.\u00a0 At the end, Karger announced that it was time to take a group photo shot of the winners.\u00a0 But at the end, the energy of the audience had been depleted and everyone was hurrying out of the theater.<\/p>\n

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