Festivals & Awards

HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE THE OSCARS?6
by / on February 18, 2012 at 3:00 am / in Editorials, Festivals & Awards

HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE THE OSCARS?

Perhaps it’s because I’ve watched the Academy Awards for as long as I can remember,perhaps it comes from working in television and being in the center of Hollywood or it could just be that I’m a liberal elitist from California, but I […]

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2012 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS ARE…2
by / on January 24, 2012 at 9:43 am / in Festivals & Awards, News

2012 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS ARE…

Here are the 2012 Academy Award Nominations in all their glory.  Read ’em and weep:  The year’s most nominated film is Martin Scorsese’s Hugo with 11 nominations, followed closely by Michel Hazanavicius’ The Artist with 10.  The Oscars will be […]

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2012 PGA AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED, THE ARTIST WINS BIG0
by / on January 23, 2012 at 10:33 am / in Festivals & Awards, News

2012 PGA AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED, THE ARTIST WINS BIG

The 21st Annual Producers Guild of America Awards were announced not too long ago and the awards were handed out this weekend.  You can take a look at the complete winners and nominations on PGA’s website, but the main ones […]

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A CRITICAL LOOK AT THE GOLDEN GLOBES9
by / on January 17, 2012 at 3:00 am / in Editorials, Everything Else, Festivals & Awards

A CRITICAL LOOK AT THE GOLDEN GLOBES

If you’re like me, you spent Sunday night glued to the TV watching the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards, sipping beer, and yelling out your predictions as each category was announced.  The show went pretty much as anticipated: those we […]

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GOLDEN GLOBES TREND TOWARD THE INDIE7
by / on January 15, 2012 at 7:29 pm / in Festivals & Awards

GOLDEN GLOBES TREND TOWARD THE INDIE

Are you watching the Golden Globes? Even though the last quarter of 2011 and first quarter of 2012 are filled with awards (Critic’s Circles, Guilds, etc.) this is really the first big show that will give us a chance to […]

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DIRECTORS DENIED7
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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2012 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CINEMATOGRAPHERS AWARDS NOMINEES ANNOUNCED1
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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2012 DIRECTORS GUILD AWARDS NOMS ANNOUNCED4
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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2012 WRITER’S GUILD AWARDS NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED, NO SURPRISES HERE0
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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JOB OPENING: AWARD SHOW WRITER5
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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