Festivals & Awards

by / on January 14, 2012 at 7:51 am / in Editorials, Festivals & Awards

DIRECTORS DENIED

The Directors Guild of America awards have long gone hand in hand with the Academy Awards.  In the 64 years of the award, the DGA winner has been the same Oscar winner 58 times.  Not many people would argue that [...]

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by / on January 13, 2012 at 1:47 pm / in Festivals & Awards, News

2012 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CINEMATOGRAPHERS AWARDS NOMINEES ANNOUNCED

The Award nominations list keep coming in.  After the Directors Guild, the Writers Guild, the Producers Guild we have this week the American Society of Cinematographers.  They have revealed their nominations for best cinematography from the last year and the [...]

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by / on January 9, 2012 at 1:35 pm / in Festivals & Awards, News

2012 DIRECTORS GUILD AWARDS NOMS ANNOUNCED

Of all the Guild awards that come out every year the Directors Guild Awards usually guide the way most accurately to some Oscars.  They honor the best director for feature narratives in the year and only 6 times since 1948 has [...]

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by / on January 6, 2012 at 10:13 am / in Festivals & Awards, News

2012 WRITER’S GUILD AWARDS NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED, NO SURPRISES HERE

File this under another nominations list before the Oscars.  The Writers Guild of America has announced their nominations for the best screenplays of 2011 and have posted their list on their web site (see full list below).  Winners will be [...]

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by / on January 5, 2012 at 8:17 pm / in Festivals & Awards, News

JOB OPENING: AWARD SHOW WRITER

That is what should be posted on Craig’s List right about now… because the Academy Awards are in dire need of some new ones. Click on Josh Duhamel’s mustache to check out the newly released trailer for the 84th Academy [...]

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by / on January 4, 2012 at 8:58 am / in Festivals & Awards, News

2012 PRODUCER’S GUILD AWARDS NOMINEES ANNOUNCED

As the Oscar race heats up the various awards outlets are trying to get their nominees out as quickly as possible.  In a press release today the Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced their nominees.  While not as long as [...]

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by / on December 15, 2011 at 7:08 am / in Festivals & Awards

GOLDEN GLOBE NOMS SHUN CRITICS CIRCLES, STICK TO MAINSTREAM

This is going to be a little more opinion-oriented than a traditional news story, but what can I say, that’s the only real angle at which to tackle the extremely predictable and utterly middle-of-the-road nominations that the Hollywood Foreign Press [...]

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by / on December 14, 2011 at 8:31 am / in Festivals & Awards, News

2012 SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS NOMINATIONS ARE OUT

The 2012 Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations were announced this morning and they are an interesting bunch.  Overall it has some shockers in it.  The Help gets a lot a more love than I would have expected for a movie [...]

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by / on November 29, 2011 at 10:57 am / in Festivals & Awards, News

NYFCC AWARDS ANNOUNCED

Yesterday I promised (threatened?) that the award season was about to kick into high gear. Well, following the Gotham Awards last night we now have the New York Film Critics Circle handing out awards. So, I am sure you all [...]

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by / on November 28, 2011 at 8:09 pm / in Festivals & Awards, News

THE TREE OF LIFE AND BEGINNERS TIE FOR BEST PICTURE AT GOTHAMS

Awards season approaches with the rapidity and inevitability of a freight train filled with statuettes of various shapes and sizes. Sooner or later we will all get exhausted by the endless stream of awards coverage, but for now let’s bask [...]

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