Awards

MTV Movie Awards Nominations Announced

All the big, serious movie awards come at the end of the year/beginning of the year, which leaves us with all the fun awards for the fun time of year: summer. Here is the press release and nominations for this year’s MTV Movie Awards : The nominees are in for the “2012 MTV Movie Awards,”...
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Tribeca Audience Award Winners: “Any Day Now,” “Burn”

The Tribeca Film  Festival is winding down, with the audience award winners being announced last night. Nice to see Alan Cumming star in the narrative winner, “Any Day Now,” and good for Denis Leary, one of the producers of “Burn.” He seems to really cares about his subjects. Here is the press release: Any Day...
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SXSW Announces Audience Awards

Festival awards! Earlier this week, SXSW gave its jury award for top narrative feature to Adam Leon’s “Gimme the Loot.” Today we have the fun Audience Awards. Note that the remake rights to “Brooklyn Castle,” about an impoverished Brooklyn high school with a killer chess team, have already been bought up by the sharp Scott...
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Oscar Predictions: Upset Edition

I usually do an Oscar prediction post, but almost didn’t this year because everything seems so locked up. So you know what? Here are some predictions for what might happen if everything does NOT go chalk. Best Picture Moneyball At last, the Oakland As win something!! Votes split between “The Artist,” “The Descendants,” and “The...
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Razzie Awards Dominated by Adam Sandler

Yesterday the Indie Spirit Awards, tonight the Oscars, and in between, the Razzie Award nominations. The Razzies used to list their nominations the day before the Oscar nominations were announced and the winners the day before the Oscars. This year they announced the nominations yesterday and will announce the actual awards on April 1st. April...
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Oscar Update: Presenter List

Now that we have the whole Sacha Baron Cohen/Dictator Oscar mess cleared up (yes, he’s been re-invited…and was the whole thing a publicity stunt?), let’s take a quick look at the rest of the ceremony. Here’s the most recent list of the presenters, including justification for why they are presenting so you don’t say, “Who...
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Sacha Baron Cohen Banned From Oscars

UPDATE: You can see the Dictator’s response here. Remember the other day when we heard that the Academy was all freaked out about Sacha Baron Cohen’s rumored plan to come to the Oscars dressed as his character from his next film, “The Dictator?” Well, now they’ve completely overreacted by revoking Cohen’s tickets. He had been...
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Best Best Picture Lineups?

The Playlist put together an interesting list of the five best years of Best Picture nominees. In other words, the five years where the Academy nominated a group of movies that were really deserving. That’s rarely the case–Most years there is at least one, probably two nominees for Best Picture where you say, “What…?!” To...
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Sacha Baron Cohen to Attend Oscars…As “The Dictator?”

Sacha Baron Cohen is a movie star. Movie stars attend the Oscars. Therefore, it seems like it would be no big deal for Sacha Baron Cohen to attend the Oscars, right? His lovely wife Isla Fisher can show up in a gorgeous gown, Cohen will stand next to her in a tux–oh. Wait. That’s the...
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WGA Awards: “Descendants” Ascendant

The last of the major specialty awards took place over the weekend, with next weekend bringing us the Big Gold One. The Writers Guild of America handed out their prizes and for once “The Artist” did not send a group of joyful folk up on the stage. Yes, that’s right, “The Artist” didn’t win an...
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BAFTA Rising Star Award: There Aren’t Any Female Rising Stars?

The BAFTAs include a special “Rising Star” award that’s been given out for the past six years to acknowledge, well, someone who seems to be on the rise. As with all the BAFTA categories, there was a long list of nominees that was then cut down to a final five, and this year the final...
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And Now, the BAFTA Winners!

The UK just weighed in with their feelings about 2011′s movies, with plenty of stars in attendance. No fears anymore about Hollywood bigwigs passing up the chance to come to London to sit in the audience and smile graciously when they lose, just two weeks before the Oscars. Instead, the BAFTAs have become a must...
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Annie Awards! “Rango” Rules

Yesterday they handed out the Annie Awards, the prizes for the best in animated film and television. The film competition was really just between “Rango,” “Kung Fu Panda 2,” and “Rio”; Pixar had a total miss with “Cars 2″ as its only contribution. “The Adventures of Tintin” only picked up one two awards, for score...
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SAG Awards!

The Screen Actors Guild Awards were handed out on Sunday night, and did they serve a warning that all is not as locked for Oscar as they may have seemed? It’s hard to dismiss the impressive showing by “The Help,” with its wins for Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Ensemble. Meryl Streep has...
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Directors Guild Awards!!

The awards season is winding down, but as the statues are given out for various groups, the importance of those statues grows. Last night we had the Directors Guild Awards, with Michael Hazanavicius winning the “Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures” award for “The Artist.” This win makes Hazanavicius a heavy favorite for the Best...
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