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Producers Guild of America Announces Nominees
The Producers Guild of America is the latest to reveal its nominees for the best movie of the year and like we’ve seen many times already this awards season, there are a few motion pictures that stood head and shoulders above the crowd. Among them, five are nominated for the PGA’s top prize: Motion Picture Producer of the Year award. Among the contenders vying for the prize are The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, Frost/Nixon, Milk and Slumdog Millionaire.
January 6th, 2009 | Category: Awards Watch | By Mallory Potosky
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' . $phpAds_raw['html'] . ''; } ?>Golden Globe Nominations Announced
The Golden Globe nominations have just been released and this year’s list is full of surprises and upsets, standout performances and indie comebacks. In the category of Best Motion Picture—Drama, David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon, Sam Mendes’ Revolutionary Road, Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire and Stephen Daldry’s The Reader all picked up nods with each director also picking up nominations for Best Director—Motion Picture.
December 11th, 2008 | Category: Awards Watch | By Douglas Polisin
National Board of Review Awards Previews the 2009 Oscars
If the National Board of Review awards are a hint of what’s to be expected at this year’s Academy Awards, then we’re all in for one hell of an Oscar night. Independent movies upset the studio features, with late entrant Slumdog Millionaire leading the pack as Best Film, relegating popular favorites like The Dark Knight and WALL-E to be among the Top Ten.
December 9th, 2008 | Category: Awards Watch, News/Commentary | By Douglas Polisin
Broadcast Film Critics 2009 Award Nominations Announced
“At the Movies” co-hosts Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz announced the 14th annual Broadcast Film Critics Association’s Critics Choice Awards in Gotham’s Time Square. The proceedings were aired live on VH1, which will broadcast the ceremony January 8th from the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.
Milk and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button received the most critical love, tied with eight nominations apiece.
December 9th, 2008 | Category: Awards Watch, News/Commentary | By Kyle Rupprecht
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' . $phpAds_raw['html'] . ''; } ?>Film Independent Announces the 2009 Spirit Award Nominees
Ballast, Frozen River and Rachel Getting Married lead the pack
Awards season has officially begun, with studios heavily campaigning for end-of-year success stories and the first of the year's award nominations announced. The 24th annual Spirit Awards will take place on February 21, 2009 and honor, among others, Charlie Kaufman's Syndecdoche, New York, which is receiving the Robert Altman Award. Nominated movies include Lance Hammer’s Ballast, Courtney Hunt’s Frozen River, Jonathan Demme’s Rachel Getting Married, Kelly Reichardt’s Wendy and Lucy and Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler.
December 3rd, 2008 | Category: Awards Watch, News/Commentary | By Kyle Rupprecht
Steven Spielberg to Receive Visual Effects Society Lifetime Achievement Award
Director-producer Steven Spielberg, whose Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull hits theaters in May, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Visual Effects Society Awards show on February 10. Each year, this award recognizes one moviemaker who has had a tremendous impact on the art and science of visual effects. Throughout his career, Spielberg has consistently been at the forefront of visual innovation.
January 24th, 2008 | Category: Awards Watch | By Melissa Rose Kimbler
DGA Reveals Host, Presenters for 60th Annual DGA Awards
Beloved comic Carl Reiner will host the Directors Guild of America Awards for the 21st time, returning for the 60th Annual DGA Awards to be held this Saturday, January 26th at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles.
January 23rd, 2008 | Category: Awards Watch | By Carla Pisarro
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' . $phpAds_raw['html'] . ''; } ?>2008 Oscar Nominations Announced
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 80th annual Academy Awards, which will be presented on Sunday, February 24, 2008, at Hollywood's Kodak Theatre.
January 22nd, 2008 | Category: Awards Watch | By Jennifer M. Wood
2008 Award Nominees from the Producers Guild
The Producers Guild of America announced the 2008 contenders for its Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award, leaving out the top Golden Globe winners Atonement and Sweeney Todd. While the PGA revealed the nominated films, it did not yet reveal the names of the nominated producers. Those names will be announced shortly before the February 2, 2008 awards reception.
January 16th, 2008 | Category: Awards Watch, News/Commentary | By Carla Pisarro
American Cinema Editors (ACE) Announces 58th Annual Eddie Award Nominations
American Cinema Editors (ACE) has released the nominees for its 2008 Eddie Awards, honoring superior editing in feature films and television. Nominees for Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic) are Christopher Rouse, A.C.E., for The Bourne Ultimatum, Jay Cassidy, A.C.E., for Into the Wild, John Gilroy, A.C.E., for Michael Clayton, Roderick Jaynes for No Country for Old Men and Dylan Tichenor, A.C.E., for There Will Be Blood.
January 15th, 2008 | Category: Awards Watch | By Carla Pisarro
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' . $phpAds_raw['html'] . ''; } ?>Writers Guild of America Announces 2008 Award Nominees
The Golden Globes ceremony might be cancelled, but it’s still full steam ahead for the 2008 Awards Season. Today, despite the six-month turmoil, the Writers Guild of America announced their picks for the best screenplays of 2007.
January 10th, 2008 | Category: Awards Watch, News/Commentary | By Mallory Potosky
DGA Announces Outstanding Directorial Achievement Nominees
The Directors Guild of America announced the 2007 nominees for its annual award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film Directing. This year’s nominees are Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood), Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men), Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton), Sean Penn (Into the Wild) and Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly). Anderson, Ethan Coen, Gilroy, Penn and Schnabel are first-time nominees; Joel Coen previously garnered a nomination for Fargo in 1996. This year’s winner will be announced at the 60th Annual DGA Awards Dinner on January 26th.
DGA President Michael Apted said that the DGA Award is especially significant for those recognized since fellow directors determine the nominees. “What makes this award truly meaningful to directors is the knowledge that only this one is decided by their peers—the men and women who know firsthand the passion, sweat and fear that go into each production,” said Apted.
The DGA Award has long been an accurate bellwether for the Best Director Academy Award. Since the DGA Award’s inception in 1948, all but six winners of the DGA Award also received that year’s Oscar.
Visit www.dga.org for more information.
January 9th, 2008 | Category: Awards Watch | By Carla Pisarro
ASC Names Feature Film Nominees
Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and No Country for Old Men), Robert Elswit, ASC (There Will Be Blood), Janusz Kaminski (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) and Seamus McGarvey, BSC (AtonementAt) are the nominees for top honors in the Feature Film category in the 22nd Annual American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Outstanding Achievement Awards competition. The winner will be announced in Los Angeles during the awards celebration on January 26, at the
Hollywood and Highland Grand Ballroom. Deakins is the first cinematographer to claim two nominations in one year in the ASC Feature Film category. He has been nominated five times previously and won twice, for both The Shawshank Redemption and The Man Who Wasn’t There. This is the fourth ASC nomination for Kaminski, the second for Elswit, and the first for McGarvey.
“In the opinion of their peers, these four talented individuals have set the contemporary standard for artful cinematography in a very competitive field,” says Russ Alsobrook, ASC who chairs the organization’s Awards Committee. “They were nominated for distinctly different genre films. The common denominator is that they all succeeded in helping to create a sense of time and place while evoking emotional responses that were in tune with the intentions of the actors and directors.”
For more information about the 22nd Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement awards, visit www.theasc.com or call 323-969-4333.
January 7th, 2008 | Category: Awards Watch | By Jennifer M. Wood
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' . $phpAds_raw['html'] . ''; } ?>20th Annual European Film Awards Announced
On December 1, 2007 the European Film Academy doled out their 20th annual European Film Awards in Berlin. The ceremony’s two biggest awards, European Film 2007 and European Director 2007, went to 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, a Romanian film directed by Cristian Mungiu.
European Actor 2007 went to Sasson Gabai for his work in The Band’s Visit, an Israeli film directed by Eran Kolirin that also won the European Discovery 2007 award. The Last King of Scotland was nominated for five awards but won none, as critical darling Helen Mirren received yet another prize (European Actress 2007) for her turn as Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen.
Also given out at the ceremony were several special awards including the People’s Choice Award 2007 (La Sconosciuta by Giuseppe Tornatore) and the European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award (Jean-Luc Godard).
For the complete list of winners visit http://www.europeanfilmacademy.org.
December 6th, 2007 | Category: Awards Watch | By Andrew Gnerre
ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards Nominees Announced
Nominees in the two television categories of the American Society of Cinematographers’ (ASC) 22nd aAnnual Outstanding Achievement Awards competition, to be held in Los Angeles on January 26, 2008, were announced Friday November 30, 2007. Chairman of the ASC Awards Committee, Russ Alsobrook, ASC hopes that “this annual celebration,” which honors one cinematographer each year in two categories, “inspires other talented cinematographers to pursue their dreams.”
Nominees in the TV movie/miniseries/pilot category include Oliver Bokelberg for the “Raines” pilot (NBC); David Franko for the teleseries “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee” (HBO); Ben Knott, ASC for the miniseries “The Compan"y (TNT); Rene Ohashi, ASC, CSC for the telefilm “Jesse Stone: Sea Change” (CBS); and Michael Weaver for the “Pushing Daisies” pilot (ABC).
Nominees in the episodic television category, chosen for one episode of a regular series, include James L. Carter, ASC for “Ending Happy"/CSI (CBS); Eagle Egilsson for “Inside Out"/CSI: Miami (CBS); Russell Lee Fine for “All of Us Are in the Gutter"/The Black Donnellys (NBC); John Fleckenstein for “Welcome to the Club"/Women’s Murder Club (ABC) and Glen Winter, CSC for “Noir"/Smallville (CW).
Since its founding in January 1919, the ASC has grown to an active membership of 290 and an additional 150 associate members.
Visit www.theasc.com for more information.
December 3rd, 2007 | Category: Awards Watch | By Daniel Fritz
Winners Announced for the 10th Annual British Independent Film Awards
Winners of the 10th annual British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) were announced on Wednesday November 28, 2007. Newcomer director Anton Corbijn’s Control won big with the now decade-old BIFAs. Control won Best British Independent Film and Corbijn won both Best Director and The Douglas Hickox Award, given to the year’s best debut director. Toby Kebbell won Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Control and Sam Riley, Control’s lead actor, won for Most Promising Newcomer.
BIFA also acknowledged a wide scope of other deserving projects, as BIFA co-directors Johanna von Fischer and Tessa Collinson say, to “celebrate the increasingly diverse range of talent out there.” Such diversity ranged from psychodrama Notes on a Scandal, which won both for Best Screenplay (Patrick Marber) and Best Actress (Judi Dench), to historical drama The Lives of Others (Best Foreign Independent Feature) to sci-fi disaster film Sunshine (Best Technical Acheivement—Mark Tildesley, Production Design).
For the full list of winners, visit http://www.bifa.org.uk.
November 30th, 2007 | Category: Awards Watch | By Daniel Fritz
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