Gay Drama ‘Call Me By Your Name’ Leads Independent Spirit Award Nominations: FULL LIST

The gay drama Call Me By Your Name starring Armie Hammer and Timothee Chalamet leads this year’s Independent Spirit Award nominations with six including Best Feature, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Male Lead (for Timothee Chalamet), and Best Supporting Male (for Armie Hammer).

Also nominated, the French AIDS/ACT UP drama BPM (Beats Per Minute) for Best International Film (watch a clip HERE), along with A Fantastic Woman from Chile, in which trans actress Daniela Vega plays a transgender singer faced with discrimination and loss when her lover dies.

Here’s the full list of nominees:

Best Feature
“Call Me by Your Name”
“The Florida Project”
“Get Out”
“Lady Bird”
“The Rider”

Best First Feature
“Columbus”
“Ingrid Goes West”
“Menashe”
“Oh Lucy!”
“Patti Cake$”

Best Director
Sean Baker, “The Florida Project”
Jonas Carpignano, “A Ciambra”
Luca Guadagnino, “Call Me by Your Name”
Jordan Peele, “Get Out”
Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie, “Good Time”
Chloé Zhao, “The Rider”

Best Screenplay
Greta Gerwig, “Lady Bird”
Azazel Jacobs, “The Lovers”
Martin McDonagh, “Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri”
Jordan Peele, “Get Out”
Mike White, “Beatriz at Dinner”

Best First Screenplay
Kris Avedisian, Story By: Kyle Espeleta, Jesse Wakeman, “Donald Cried”
Emily V. Gordon, Kumail Nanjiani, “The Big Sick”
Ingrid Jungermann, “Women Who Kill”
Kogonada, “Columbus”
David Branson Smith, Matt Spicer, “Ingrid Goes West”

Best Cinematography
Thimios Bakatakis, “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”
Elisha Christian, “Columbus”
Hélène Louvart, “Beach Rats”
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, “Call Me by Your Name”
Joshua James Richards, “The Rider”

Best Editing
Ronald Bronstein, Benny Safdie, “Good Time”
Walter Fasano, “Call Me by Your Name”
Alex O’Flinn, “The Rider”
Gregory Plotkin, “Get Out”
Tatiana S. Riegel, “I, Tonya”

Best Female Lead
Salma Hayek, “Beatriz at Dinner”
Frances McDormand, “Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri”
Margot Robbie, “I, Tonya”
Saoirse Ronan, “Lady Bird”
Shinobu Terajima, “Oh Lucy!”
Regina Williams, “Life and nothing more”

Best Male Lead
Timothée Chalamet, “Call Me by Your Name”
Harris Dickinson, “Beach Rats”
James Franco, “The Disaster Artist”
Daniel Kaluuya, “Get Out”
Robert Pattinson, “Good Time”

Best Supporting Female
Holly Hunter, “The Big Sick”
Allison Janney, “I, Tonya”
Laurie Metcalf, “Lady Bird”
Lois Smith, “Marjorie Prime”
Taliah Lennice Webster, “Good Time”

Best Supporting Male
Nnamdi Asomugha, “Crown Heights”
Armie Hammer, “Call Me by Your Name”
Barry Keoghan, “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”
Sam Rockwell, “Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri”
Benny Safdie, “Good Time”

Robert Altman Award
“Mudbound”

Best Documentary
“The Departure”
“Faces Places”
“Last Men in Aleppo”
“Motherland”
“Quest”

Best International Film
“BPM (Beats Per Minute)” (France)
“A Fantastic Woman,” (Chile)
“I Am Not a Witch,” (Zambia)
“Lady Macbeth,” (U.K.)
“Loveless,” (Russia)

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Toothpaste Ad Featuring ‘Naked’ Model Banned For ‘Objectifying Women’
A toothpaste ad has been banned for its inclusion of a naked woman after members of the public complained that it “objectified women”.

The ad, for BOCA organic toothpaste, appeared in a supplement magazine that came with The Times newspaper in July and featured a woman who appeared to be wearing only a pair of heels.

In response to complaints, BOCA denied that the woman in the ad was naked, stating there is a fine line “between sexual objectification and the expression of sensuality”.

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) banned the ad from appearing again in its current form, ruling it “objectified women” and stating it was “likely to cause serious or widespread offence”. 

The ASA received two complaints about the ad, which appeared in The Time’s Raconteur supplement on July 28 2017.

A spokesperson from Croftscope Ltd, which owns BOCA, told ASA they belived the ad reflected the “sensual and organic nature of their product”.

“BOCA also stated their target audience was predominantly female, with an aspirational lifestyle characterised by luxury and self-indulgence,” the ASA ruling states.

“They also stated that their products uniquely featured day and overnight formulations, and the latter promoted relaxation prior to retiring. They said the image demonstrated the model in a relaxed pose that was commensurate with the product.”

A spokesperson from Raconteur Media Ltd, who oversee the supplement mag, also stated they “did not believe that the image of the woman in the ad was overtly sexual” as she was “mostly obscured by the chair in the image, with only one leg being visible”. (HuffPost UK notes there are two legs…)

They added they did not believe that the image objectified women as the ad was “demure in its setting”.

Despite these protestations, ASA still ruled the ad was “sexually provocative”, stating although the model’s upper torso (including her nipples) were out of shot, the implication was that she was nude.

“Furthermore, because the model’s face was not shown, we considered that the visible parts of her torso, including her lower portion of her breasts, and the lower half of her body became the visual emphasis of the ad, which was likely to draw readers’ attention,” the ruling said.

“We also considered that the nudity and the pose of the model, and the provocative nature of the ad, bore no relevance to the product.”

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/toothpaste-ad-banned-for-objectifying-women_uk_5a1421a0e4b0c335e9973e60

Study: Straight Women/Gay Men Thirst for Wealthy, White, Worked-Out

An analysis of submissions to TubeCrush.net shows a problematic “post-feminist” attraction to the patriarchy on the London Underground.

www.advocate.com/people/2017/11/21/study-straight-womengay-men-thirst-wealthy-white-worked-out

Barbra Streisand, David LaChapelle, Sanctuary Cities, Jeanine Pirro, Grindr, Brandon Flynn, Net Neutrality: HOT LINKS

SANCTUARY CITIES. Federal judge blocks Trump order, permanently: “In a summary judgment ruling, U.S. District Judge William Orrick III found Trump’s Jan. 25 executive order violated the Constitution in multiple ways: by invoking spending powers that belong exclusively to Congress, and by placing unrelated conditions on federal grants in violation of the Tenth Amendment.”

JEANINE PIRRO. FOX News host and judge busted driving 119 mph in a 65 mph zone.

AUSTRALIA. Prime Minister cancels week of parliament, says it will help legalize same-sex marriage: ‘The lower house will return on 4 December, not 27 November, and not break for the year until the marriage bill is passed, the government said. It gives the Senate time to finish debating the bill before it moves to the lower house, a minister said.The opposition accused the government of acting like a “dictatorship”.’

RIP. Shannon Michael Cane: “He was an open, generous enthusiast for artists and the printed material they produced, and he believed passionately that the world of books was large enough to have everyone in the house,” said Philip Aarons, the board chair of Printed Matter, the nonprofit Chelsea bookstore, distributor and publisher. “He made it his, with his own curatorial style, and I think it’s one of the reasons it too

RIP. Ben Dillingham. ‘Ben Dillingham, a retired Marine who became a political power broker clearing a path for pioneering gay office holders in Southern California, has died at his home in San Diego. He was 72. “He was the lodestar for those of us aspiring to serve in politics,” said state Sen. Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), who in 2014 became the first lesbian speaker of the state Assembly.’

NET NEUTRALITY. It’s time to save it again.

TOXIC MASCULINITY. Has it slowed Australia’s march to equality? ‘We think of Australia as a sort of frontier country. It’s one of those places like the U.S., and in a way more than the U.S., where people have gone to remake themselves, to invent themselves. And you would think that would go hand-in-hand with a celebration of personal freedom. But Australia is also a place with toxic masculinity, and Australia is probably a place that has a more potent strain of toxic masculinity than America. That’s not something that works in favor of getting people to rally around same-sex marriage.’

GRINDR. Gay social app updated to be more inclusive of transgender and nonbinary users: “Grindr said changes will include new profile fields for gender identity and the use of gender-neutral language throughout its app and website. While planning the updates, Grindr surveyed transgender users and consulted with the National Center for Transgender Equality, an advocacy group. The app currently claims three million daily active users, which it says makes it the most popular mobile queer social network.”

BRANDON FLYNN. The 13 Reasons Why actor is shirtless for the cover of The Hero Annual.

MITT ROMNEY. He’s back?

DAVID LACHAPELLE. On where he’s been, where he’s at now: “It’s a paradoxical place to be, working for magazines that push the idea that happiness is going to come with the next purchase and new season of merchandise. I love glamour and fashion and beauty – that has been with civilisations for ever, but I needed to get away from the propaganda of that. When I quit everything, I never wanted to shoot another pop star as long as I lived, I was tortured by them.”

DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIP ACT. A warning to Bermuda. ‘In a statement released this morning, the Human Rights Commission said that while the proposed Act makes a “sincere effort” to recognise same-sex unions, it was disappointed that the Act was introduced after case law had already legalised same-sex marriage. It added: “This means that the proposed legislation is a de facto removal of rights from same-sex couples by relegating their unions to a separate category which may not be recognised abroad.’

BARBRA, CAN YOU ANSWER? Ellen grills Streisand.

ALONG CAME A SPIDER OF THE DAY. Trapped: “Bianca Merrick of Coffs Harbour, Australia, was driving home from work on Friday when she spotted a large spider hanging out on her visor. She decided the best choice was to keep driving for fear of a spider attack. ”

FLY-BY OF THE DAY. The solar system’s largest planet: “NASA’s Juno spacecraft has successfully completed its 8th science flyby of Jupiter, passing over the gas giant’s swirling cloud tops once again as it continues to unravel the mysteries of the largest planet in the solar system. The $1.1 billion Juno mission launched in August 2011 and arrived in orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016. Since then, the spacecraft has been studying the giant planet’s structure, composition, and magnetic and gravitational fields, gathering data that mission scientists say should shed light on Jupiter’s formation and evolution. Juno is in a highly elliptical orbit that brings it close to the planet once every 53.5 Earth days. The spacecraft collects most of its data during these close passes; it has now completed eight of them. Juno is scheduled to keep studying Jupiter through July 2018, though the probe won’t necessarily cease operations then; NASA could end up granting an extending mission.”

TOO HOT FOR TUESDAY. Bent Bear.

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EU Withdrawal Bill: Tory Rebels Behave Like ‘Grand Old Duke Of York’ After Last Minute Climbdown
Tory Remainer rebels were compared to the “Grand Old Duke of York” after backing down from an EU Withdrawal Bill revolt on human rights at the very last minute.

Conservative MPs led by Dominic Grieve were preparing to join forces with their opponents to inflict defeat on the Government’s Brexit legislation over its potential impact on human rights.

Grieve had tabled an amendment calling for the full protection of the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights in post-Brexit domestic law, but withdrew it at the final hour and refused to back a similar motion by Labour.

Fellow would-be rebels Anna Soubry and Nicky Morgan were among 15 expected to defy the Government, but the sole Tory to step out of line was arch-europhile Ken Clarke.

It is understood ministers will work with Grieve to make changes to the Bill at a later change, but SNP said the Tory rebels have capitulated for “precious little”.

SNP MP Joanna Cherry said: “The process of leaving the European Union is already extremely complex and unpredictable, and the removal of the charter of fundamental rights simply risks creating an additional level of legal uncertainty and instability. So why do it? Why not reconsider?

“Just like the Grand Old Duke of York, the much-lauded Rebel Tories have marched their troops up to the top of the hill and then down again after precious little by way of concession.”

On Northern Ireland, all we hear are platitudes and assurances from the UK Gov. and a shocking lack of detail #EUWithdrawalBill #EURights pic.twitter.com/pN4fiPiwU7

November 21, 2017
Britain is currently a member of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, which covers many civil, political and social rights for EU and UK citizens.

Until the UK formally leaves the European Union, EU law applies in the UK either directly in some instances, or when it is written into UK law, such as when an Act of Parliament is passed to apply an EU directive.

 But its jurisdiction will no longer apply after the country leaves the EU in March 2019 and the EU Withdrawal Bill in its current form states: “The charter of fundamental rights is not part of domestic law on or after exit day.”

Cherry added: “The UK government must listen to the overwhelming legal advice which has warned against failing to incorporate the Charter with the rest of retained EU law, and warned that the repeated reluctance of successive UK governments to fully incorporate UN human rights treaties, such as the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into domestic law, show that the UK government cannot be trusted to protect citizens’ rights.

“The UK government must not resort to a race to the bottom by abandoning rights that have played a central role in our day to day lives.”

Liberal Democrat Brexit Spokesperson Tom Brake added: “The Government squeaked home, but we will not give up the fight to protect fundamental rights from an extreme Brexit.

“Ministers won’t be permitted to weaken vital protections to appease their own Brexiteer backbenchers and ram through a Tory Brexit.

“The vast majority of people do not want to see a Brexit that undermines our freedoms, equality and privacy.”

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/brexit-joanna-cherry_uk_5a149f76e4b09650540e0d96

Female SNL Staffers Defend Al Franken. Why?

The senator’s former colleagues seem to believe that if Franken did not personally harass or grope them, he must be a good guy.

www.advocate.com/commentary/2017/11/21/female-snl-staffers-defend-al-franken-why