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Tuesday 8 December 2015

Star reactions to nominations
for the 2016 Grammy Awards

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Stars react to the 2016 Grammy This photo shows the cast of “Spotlight” at Cipriani Wall Street, in New York.
Award nominations, announced Monday: (Photo by Amy Sussman/AP Images)
— “Up for a Grammy with these guys thanks to every-
one who has been a part of this amazing musical tran- LA Film Critics pick ‘Spotlight’ as best film
sition,” best dance recording nominee Justin Bieber,
via Instagram, along with a photo of himself with Diplo LINDSEY BAHR This photo shows, Rooney Mara, left, as Therese Belivet, and
and Skrillex, who all worked on the hit song, “Where AP Film Writer Cate Blanchett, as Carol Aird, in a scene from the film, “Carol.”
Are U Now.” LOS ANGELES (AP) — The
— “You always want to believe that songs like ‘Girl high-octane “Mad Max: (Wilson Webb/The Weinstein Company via AP)
Crush’ are going to rise to the top and be heard, but Fury Road” might have
it doesn’t always happen. It says a lot about the com- driven off with the most Johnson’s dark animated late pop star Amy Wine-
munity here in Nashville and the way artists, instead of awards on Sunday, but the film “Anomalisa” also got house, won best docu-
being competitive, often are cheering each other on.” Los Angeles Film Critics As- multiple awards, includ- mentary, and “Son of Saul”
— Little Big Town’s Karen Fairchild said in an interview sociation had another in ing best animated film and picked up best foreign film.
with the Associated Press on Monday. The songwriters mind for its top film of the best music/score for com- Director Ryan Coogler also
of “Girl Crush” are nominated for two awards, includ- year: “Spotlight,” the com- poser Carter Burwell, who won the LAFCA new gener-
ing song of the year, and the band is nominated for paratively subdued drama was also recognized for ation award for “Creed,” a
two awards. about the Pulitzer Prize- “Carol.” continuation of the Rocky
— “We put all our love for jazz and the songs of Jerome winning investigation into Acting awards were giv- Balboa saga.
Kern — that are such a testament to the Great Ameri- sex abuses in the Catholic en similarly out of the box “Carol,” Todd Haynes’
can Songbook — into this recording. It is always an Church. choices. Michael Fass- 1950s-set romance, which
honor to be nominated for a Grammy.” — Tony Ben- LAFCA is one of the high- bender won best actor for dominated the New York
nett, nominated with Bill Charlap for traditional pop vo- est-profile regional critics portraying the tech titan in Film Critics Circle Awards
cal album, in a statement. groups, but often strays “Steve Jobs,” while Char- this past week was practi-
— “I am so grateful to the fans, the Nashville music from the mainstream in its lotte Rampling picked up cally shut out, aside from
community and the Recording Academy for their ap- annual awards choices. the award for best actress Burwell’s co-win for score
preciation and recognition. This has been just the most Only once in the past 20 for her role in the marital and a host of runner-up
amazing year.” — Sam Hunt, nominated for country al- years has the LAFCA Best drama “45 Years.” awards, including director
bum and new artist, in a statement. Film winner gone on to win Michael Shannon won best and production design.q
— “We are incredibly grateful that our music is able to the Best Picture Oscar. supporting actor for play- The awards-friendly “Joy,”
do exactly what we intended . free people from them- There was no clear favorite ing the predatory real es- ‘’The Revenant,” ‘’The
selves and their struggles. On the road our fans dance, this year, and LAFCA hon- tate broker in the housing Danish Girl” and “Room”
cry, sing, laugh and get into a vibe that transcends ored a vast variety of some bubble film “99 Homes,” were nowhere to be found
outside obstacles like race, language and social sta- of the year’s best films fur- and Alicia Vikander won in LAFCA’s choices. Quen-
tus. Thank you to The Recording Academy for notic- ther reinforcing the narra- best supporting actress for tin Tarantino’s “The Hateful
ing and again believing in The Mavericks.” — Maver- tive that the Oscar race is her performance as the be- Eight” was recognized only
icks’ lead singer Raul Malo, in a statement about the still fairly undefined. guiling Artificial Intelligence for Ennio Morricone’s score
band’s nominations for Americana album and Ameri- “Mad Max: Fury Road,” creation in “Ex Machina.” as the runner-up to Bur-
can Roots song. picked up three honors — “Amy,” about the life of well’s compositions.q
— “Crying all day... what an honor it is to be next to the most for any film — in-
such incredible artists like @torikelly @jamesbaymusic cluding best director for
@samhuntmusic and #CourtneyBarnett ..thank you George Miller, best cin-
to the @thegrammys for this amazing nomination!!” ematography, and best
Meghan Trainor, celebrating her new artist nod, via In- production design. But the
stagram. dystopian rager, which the
— “We are at a loss for words. We are so proud of this National Board of Review
album and to see it recognized in this way means the chose as their best film ear-
world to us.” — Alabama Shakes, which collected four lier this week, got second
nods for its album “Sound & Color,” via Instagram. place to Tom McCarthy’s
— “I wasn’t expecting the Grammy noms, thank you” “Spotlight,” which also won
— Ed Sheeran, up for song and record of the year for for its screenplay.
“Thinking Out Loud,” via Twitter. Charlie Kaufman and Duke
— “I am so ... humbly elated to be listed among the
other performers I look up to... This is a dream come
true. But the real question is, what the hell am I going to
wear?” — Elle King, double-nominee for her hit single
“Ex’s & Oh’s,” in a statement.
— “i’m nominated for a Grammy. my heart is heavy &
i am just speechless” — New artist nominee Tori Kelly,
via Instagram.
— “Woke up 2 Grammy nominations!! :) Thanks ev-
erybody who nominated me and congrats to all the
other nominees!” — Kelly Clarkson, nominated for pop
solo performance and pop vocal album for “Piece by
Piece,” via Twitter.
— “4 Grammy nominations! Thank you!” — John Leg-
end, who has three bids for his song with Common,
“Glory,” and a fourth for his track with Kanye West,
“One Man Can Change the World,” via Twitter.q