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'We Showed You' - The Oscars' Official Classic Movies Poster Series

"We showed you how to be a winner." The Oscars are trying to boost their promotion and they've kicked off a series of posters, not regular size, featuring classic movies that have won various Oscars. Yahoo has been premiering a couple of them, but the full gallery (with 31 of these) can be found on the official Oscars bsite. The series takes off from the idea originally seen on the official poster for the 84th Academy Awards by "Celebrating the Movies". They all feature the tagline "There's a Little Bit of the Movies in All of Us", which is charming, along with a photo and "We Showed You" quote. There's a bunch of these, our favorites below.

› Posted February 7 in Artwork, Awards News, Cool Stuff, Posters | 5 Comments

Watch: Wonderful Extended 'The Magic of Hugo' Featurette Unveiled

By Alex Billington

"If you've ever wondered where your dreams come from..." Paramount has posted an extended 6-minute featurette, certainly in promotion of the Oscars, for Martin Scorsese's Hugo, with eleven Oscar nominations. Many people love the film and have been calling out praise recently (hence my recent discussion on Best Picture), speaking about the film's "magic" and charm, and incredible use of 3D, which enhances those two aspects. This featurette is called The Magic of Hugo and focuses on exactly that, with interviews from many of the nominated crew, including Martin Scorsese. This is a wonderful reminder of how great it is!

› Posted February 6 in Awards News, Featurettes, Hype, To Watch | 2 Comments

Gore Verbinski's 'Rango', Bill Nighy Top 39th Annual Annie Awards

By Alex Billington

"The highest honor given for excellence in animation." Each year, Annie Award trophies are awarded for the year's best feature film, video, TV and more, and they've just announced the 2012 winners. Topping the charts is Gore Verbinski's charming western Rango winning Best Animated Feature as well as Best Writing. The winners include a large number of other categories (full list via ComingSoon), but other nominees for the top prize included A Cat in Paris, Arthur Christmas, Pixar's Cars 2, Chico & Rita, Kung Fu Panda 2, Puss in Boots, Rio and Tintin. Bill Nighy also won an award, but not for playing Rattlesnake Jake in Rango.

› Posted February 5 in Awards News, Discussion, Movie News | 3 Comments

Check Out the 2012 BAFTA Five Best Film Poster Brochure Covers

By Alex Billington

Unlike The Academy, BAFTA knows what they're doing! Not only did they nominate five of the truly Best Films of 2011 (including the best of them all, Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive) but every year they whip up custom posters for their awards brochure and they're always outstanding. HeyUGuys recently posted all five of the new posters, designed by Eda Akaltun & StudioSmall (studiosmall.com), online and you've got to see them, especially the one for Drive. The other Best Film nominees and posters include: The Descendants, The Artist, The Help and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Winners will be announced on Feb. 12 in a few weeks.

› Posted February 2 in Artwork, Awards News, Posters | 3 Comments

New 'Tree of Life' Featurette on Emmanuel Lubezki's Cinematography

By Alex Billington

"What he's after is capturing a moment." Though this is a bit late to the game, Fox Searchlight posted a new featurette online (on YouTube via Thompson on Hollywood) that focuses on Director of Photography Emmanuel Lubezki and his beautiful cinematography. The Tree of Life has three Oscar noms this year, including Best Picture, Best Director and of course Best Cinematography. This features a few talking heads with producers and otherwise, but it's mostly lots of Lubezki's gorgeous cinematography from the film (but why isn't it in HD, Searchlight?!). It's a great refresher on some amazing cinematography from last year.

› Posted February 1 in Awards News, Featurettes, To Watch | 6 Comments

SAG Awards Winners 2012 - 'The Help', Viola Davis & Jean Dujardin

By Alex Billington

The Artist is on a roll with awards this weekend, next comes Oscar glory. The 2012 Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony was broadcast live from Los Angeles tonight. What separates the annual 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. The winners of the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards have been announced, and we have the official list of all the motion picture winners (for everything else, head to Deadline). It was a big night for The Help, and Jean Dujardin.

› Posted January 29 in Awards News, Movie News | 6 Comments

'The Artist', 'Project Nim' Directors Win 2011 Directors Guild Awards

By Alex Billington

Will the old Hollywood silent B&W film go all the way and sweep the awards season? It's look like that might be the case. French director Michel Hazanavicius has won the 2011 DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for The Artist. Only six times since the DGA Award's inception in 1948 has the winner not gone on to receive the Academy Award for Best Director. Last year Tom Hooper won as well. The Artist is a fantastic film and Hazanavicius is a wonderful guy (watch my interview with him here) and I'm not surprised he won, as this film is winning pretty much every award Hollywood can give out.

› Posted January 29 in Awards News, Hype, Movie News | 2 Comments

Sundance 2012 Awards Revealed - 'Beasts' & 'Surrogate' Top Winners

By Alex Billington

Sundance Film Festival - Beasts of the Southern Wild

The official awards for the 2012 Sundance Film Festival were announced tonight at a ceremony in Park City. The Sundance awards are always very interesting to follow each year, because the winners are either entirely unexpected or totally deserving, and we've certainly got plenty of both again this year. However, the biggest winner and my own top favorite film of the festival was Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild, a tremendous piece of cinema (read my review) which is one of the best discoveries of this year's fest. The full list of winners, including the five Audience Award winners (to also keep an eye on), can be found below.

› Posted January 29 in Awards News, Indies, Movie News, Sundance 12 | 2 Comments

Animation Oscar Nom 'Rango' Getting Small Los Angeles Re-Release

By Alex Billington

In light of the Best Animated Film Academy Awards nomination it just received this morning, Paramount Pictures is re-releasing Gore Verbinski's Rango in just one theater in Los Angeles starting this weekend. Unfortunately for those not in L.A., this just seems like a bit of an industry pick-up and chance for people to catch Rango in theaters again. Rango, starring Johnny Depp as the voice of the chameleon Rango, will play for a one week limited engagement at the Arclight Hollywood beginning this Friday, January 27th. Since Pixar's film this year wasn't that great, other animated flicks like this are getting time in the spotlight.

› Posted January 24 in Awards News, Events, Movie News | 7 Comments

84th Academy Awards Nominations Announced - Full List for 2011

By Alex Billington

The complete list of nominees for the 84th 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. There's no need to spend any more time introducing this, so let's get right down to it! The rules changed this year and we're just now finding out there are a total of nine Best Picture nominees this year, including The Tree of Life, The Help, Moneyball, Hugo and of course The Artist. Without further ado, check out the list of 2012 nominees below.

› Posted January 24 in Awards News, Discussion, Movie News | 117 Comments

2012 PGA Awards Winners Announced, But Who Took the Top Prize?

By Ethan Anderton

Earlier this month the nominations were announced for 21st annual Producer Guild of America Awards honoring outstanding producers for their achievement in feature films and television. Obviously we won't run through the winners for TV series awards (see those at the PGA website) but we have the winners for the three motion picture categories for feature films, animation and documentaries. Remember, since the nominations were a good indicator of who might get an Oscar nomination (they'll be announced on January 24th) these could also be our Oscar winners in February. See the winners below!

› Posted January 22 in Awards News, Movie News | 1 Comment

'The Artist' Leads Nominations for The 65th Annual BAFTA Awards

By Ethan Anderton

After the Golden Globes were handed out over the weekend, the next big awards show we're looking forward to is the 84th Academy Awards with Billy Crystal as master of ceremonies. However, across the pond, the UK is having their big night to celebrate cinema a bit earlier, so the nominations for the 65th Annual BAFTAs (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) were announced today, with winners coming February 12th. Unsurprisingly, The Artist leads the pack with 12 nominations, but Hugo and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy came away with a whole slew of solid noms, too. Check out all the nominees below!

› Posted January 17 in Awards News, Movie News | 10 Comments

Highlights from The 69th Annual Golden Globes with Ricky Gervais

By Ethan Anderton

Last night, one of Hollywood's biggest nights unfolded with the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards honoring some of the best work on film and television in the year 2011. While both stars of the big and small screen were present, our focus was zeroed in on those who made a splash in cinema and of course, the skewering of stars by host and comedian Ricky Gervais who was just as bored as audiences and attendees. With more great digs at Johnny Depp, who even got in on some of the humor himself, Gervais killed again and despite a bland show there were some highlights, especially from those accepting the awards. Watch!

› Posted January 15 in Awards News, Featured, Opinions | 11 Comments

Golden Globe Awards 2012 Winners - Clooney & 'The Descendants' Win

By Alex Billington

The winners of the HFPA's 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards, the precursor to the Academy Awards, were announced tonight at a ceremony held at The Beverly Hilton hotel, hosted again by Ricky Gervais. The list below will be updated with all the film-related winners once they're announced during the ceremony's live broadcast. This year's nominees were worthy, but still included some odd picks all around, even driving Ethan to write a rant about them. Hopefully the winners turn out better, but you can always expect at least one or two surprises from the HFPA, so be ready. Bring it on, Gervais! Full list of winners updated below.

› Posted January 15 in Awards News, Discussion, Featured, Movie News | 26 Comments

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