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Newsweek's Oscar Roundtable with Six of 2009's Best Actors
Back in December, THR hosted a roundtable interview with the six soon-to-be-nominated Best Directors of 2009 (sadly, Peter Jackson was the one who didn't make the Oscar cut). Following in suit, Newsweek put together their own big roundtable interview after the Academy Awards nominations were announced. Their new series, called simply Oscar Roundtable 2010, includes one big roundtable interview with these six great actors: Jeff Bridges, Morgan Freeman, Carey Mulligan, Sandra Bullock, Gabourey Sidibe and Woody Harrelson. You can check out one of the video clips below or head over to their site for more. Check 'em out!
AMC's Best Picture Showcase is Back, Split Between Two Days
Every year, AMC hosts the Best Picture Showcase, showing all of the Best Picture nominees in one day so that film fans can get a refresher before the Oscars. Since we now have 10 Best Pictures nominees, AMC has decided to split their showcase into two days - the first one is on February 27th, the second one on March 6th (the day before the Oscars). They will show five films on each day back-to-back, starting with Avatar in 3D on Saturday, February 27th. Their exact line-up hasn't been announced yet (more on that below) but we already know what they'll be showing. 10 Best Picture Nominees. 2 Saturdays. 1 Unforgettable Experience.
82nd Academy Awards Nominees Are Officially Announced
The complete list of nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards, the most prestigious award in Hollywood, have been announced today (via Oscars.com). The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed the nominees this morning live from the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. No need to spend any more time introducing this, let's just get right down to it! This is the first year that 10 movies are nominated for Best Picture (since 1943) and the 10 they chose are exciting, including Pixar's Up and District 9! But there are more surprises hidden within, so without further ado, take a look at the full list of nominees below.
Hurt Locker's Kathryn Bigelow Wins Directors Guild Award!
The Hurt Locker and director Kathryn Bigelow have finally won their first major award at the Directors Guild of America Awards held yesterday at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza. Bigelow won the award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film over her fellow nominees including: James Cameron for Avatar, Lee Daniels for Precious, Jason Reitman for Up in the Air, & Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds. Louie Psihoyos also won the documentary award for The Cove. Could this be an early sign that The Hurt Locker and/or Kathryn Bigelow might end up wining some Oscars in March? What do you think?
Sundance Film Festival 2010 Awards Officially Announced
The official awards for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival were announced tonight at a ceremony in Park City. The big winner this year is HappyThankYouMorePlease, taking home the coveted Audience Award, but there are plenty of other big winners as well. As expected, the juries made some odd choices, and this year no one thought Sympathy for Delicious or Obselidia should've won anything (but they did). Anyway, these awards always start to put the finishing touches on yet another Sundance, which means things are winding down. You can see the full list of winners below. Audience Award winners can be found at the bottom.
Check These Out: EW's Nifty Oscar Trends Countdown Charts
Even though the Oscars nominees will be officially announced on Tuesday next week, there's still lots of last minute discussion and buzz surrounding what will be nominated and what will win. Over on Entertainment Weekly (via Awards Daily) they've put together multiple Oscar Countdown Charts that combine various predictions from multiple sources. The charts are superbly designed to help regular moviegoers track trends in this year's Oscar race. You can click over to EW to check out more Oscar charts and interact with them, since you can click on them and do all kinds of fun stuff. As expected, The Hurt Locker looks like it will win.
2010 Screen Actors Guild Awards Winners, Basterds Wins Big
Earlier tonight the star-studded 2010 Screen Actors Guild Awards were broadcast live on TBS and TNT. What separates the SAG awards from the Golden Globes and the Oscars is not only its exclusivity to honoring only performers, but it's the only award show where the best performances are chosen by their fellow acting peers. And if any of you are still reeling from James Cameron's Avatar getting supreme awards action at the Golden Globes, then its exclusion from any of the SAG Awards nominations should make this the awards show for you. After the break, check out the full list of film actors who were honored tonight.
Quentin Tarantino Adds Avatar to His Top 11 Films of 2009
Yes, this is a weird update, but I always love hearing what Quentin Tarantino has to say, even if it's sometimes quite crazy. So back in December, Tarantino unveiled his Top 8 movies of 2009. It was an odd list and actually incomplete, because Tarantino hadn't seen every movie from that year that he wanted to. Well, Tarantino has now seen everything and has quickly put together a final list. It showed up in British tabloid writer Baz Bamigboye's Daily Mail update (via The Playlist and contains most of those old films as well as some interesting new ones. "My movie aside, I cannot NOT list Avatar at the top," Tarantino said.
Ricky Gervais Slays the Golden Globes - Favorite Moments?
There's no doubt that awards shows are long-winded and usually boring. Every now and then, though, there comes a host who dares to lead an awards show with great humor, gravitas and yet, seemingly, without care. This year at the 67th Annual Golden Globes, comedian Ricky Gervais was that host. Along with all the traditional topical jokes at the industry's expense, Gervais slammed just about everyone from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to NBC to Mel Gibson and yes, even his own penis. Not an hour into the show, he quipped: "One thing that can't be bought is a Golden Globe. Officially." Discuss more highlights below.
2010 Golden Globe Awards Winners - Avatar Wins Best Drama
The winners of the 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards, the precursor to the Academy Awards, were announced tonight at an exciting ceremony held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills. We will be updating this list live below with all of the winners once they're announced during the ceremony tonight. I'm rooting for many of the great movies that got nominations this year (like 500 Days of Summer, District 9, Up in the Air) and I'm already excited to see who takes home the most Globes this time. I'm not expecting any major upsets, but you never know, Avatar could sweep this year if everything goes right. Read on for the results!
Watch Wes Anderson's Stop-Motion NBR Acceptance Speech
The National Board of Review held a ceremony last night for their annual awards (just like every group this time of the year). The winners were actually announced in December but the ceremony was only held just recently. Wes Anderson won a "Special Filmmaking Achievement" award for Fantastic Mr. Fox and instead of simply accepting and giving a normal speech, Anderson made a cute little stop-motion animated vignette as his acceptance speech. But of course, he actually took the stage after showing it at the ceremony to say thanks in person as well. His vignette has been posted online in full thanks to Fox Searchlight. Enjoy!
Rotten Tomatoes Reveals 2009's Golden Tomato Awards Films
While the film industry is all a-flutter with awards seasons, the online community has some awards of its own to hand out around this time too. Even FirstShowing has been nominated for Best News Blog in Total Film's 2010 Movie Blog Awards (you can still vote for us right here!). Now Rotten Tomatoes is the next to dole out some accolades as they've announced the winners of their 11th Annual Golden Tomato Awards which honor the best-reviewed movies of 2009 from all the big flashy blockbusters to powerful indies. Below you can see which films were the best reviewed of last year and if the critics loved the same ones you did!
2010 Writers Guild of America Awards Nominees Announced
In addition to the American Society of Cinematographers, the Writers Guild of America has announced their nominees for the 2010 Writers Guild Awards today. The winners will be announced on Saturday, February 20th, from a ceremony held in Los Angeles and New York. There are three separate categories of nominees - original, adapted, and documentary. Last year's big winners were Milk and Slumdog Millionaire, both of which later took home an Oscar, so this might be an early sign that this is what we could see in a few weeks when nominations for the Academy Awards are announced. Read on to see the full list of nominees!
2010 American Society of Cinematographers Awards Nominees
Cinematography is one of the many aspects of filmmaking that I hold in very high regard. For me especially, I'm affected more by extraordinary cinematography than almost anything else in movies. So I'm excited to announced the nominees for the 24th Annual American Society of Cinematographers Awards. Like every other guild in Hollywood, the ASC hosts its own awards to honor the very best cinematographers from this year. If you've been arguing with your friends over who did the best work, then look no further, because these 5 individuals deserve this distinction. Without further a do, let's take a look at this year's nominees.
Directors Guild of America Announces 2009 Award Nominations
This week the Producers Guild announced their nominees for their 2009 awards, and now the Director's Guild of America (DGA) is following suit with their nominations for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film in the year 2009. Once again, with these new nominations we are given a good indicator of the Academy Award nominations soon to come for Best Director. Throughout history only six winners of the DGA Award have not gone on to win the Academy Award for Best Director that year. And with so much praise getting thrown around fairly evenly, it should be an interesting race this year. See who made the cut!