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> <channel><title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Kathryn Bigelow</title> <atom:link href="http://www.altfg.com/blog/tag/kathryn-bigelow/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog</link> <description>The Oscars, film awards, new releases, Los Angeles screenings, movie classics, gay movies, film festivals, box office, foreign and independent films</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:29:41 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <item><title>THE HURT LOCKER Lawsuit Dismissed</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-hurt-locker-lawsuit-jeffrey-sarver-dismissed/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-hurt-locker-lawsuit-jeffrey-sarver-dismissed/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:28:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=35470</guid> <description><![CDATA[Kathryn Bigelow thanked a whole array of uniformed U.S. personnel when she accepted her Academy Award statuettes for Best Director and Best Picture for the Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker back in early 2010. Now, I can't recall her thanking Sgt. Jeffrey Sarver (photo). Shortly before the 2010 Oscar ceremony, Sarver sued the Hurt Locker producers, including Bigelow and Oscar-winning screenwriter Mark Boal, claiming [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/the-hurt-locker-lawsuit-jeffrey-sarver-dismissed/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Obama Administration-Kathryn Bigelow&#039;s KILLING BIN LADEN Connection: Republican Congressman Wants Investigation</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/obama-administration-kathryn-bigelow-killing-bin-laden-investigation/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/obama-administration-kathryn-bigelow-killing-bin-laden-investigation/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 01:13:33 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=27559</guid> <description><![CDATA[Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker The Hurt Locker's Academy Award winners Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal have been receiving assistance from the Barack Obama Administration for their project about the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan earlier this year, according to a Maureen Dowd report in the New York Times. In her article, Dowd affirms that &#34;the moviemakers are getting top-level [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/obama-administration-kathryn-bigelow-killing-bin-laden-investigation/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Tom Hooper&#039;s Oscar Acceptance Speech: &quot;Triangle of Man Love&quot; and &quot;Listen to Your Mother&quot;</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/tom-hooper-oscar-acceptance-speech/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/tom-hooper-oscar-acceptance-speech/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 02:54:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Zac Gille</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26557</guid> <description><![CDATA[Tom Hooper, Kathryn Bigelow Tom Hooper was the Best Direction winner at the 2011 Academy Awards ceremony held in Hollywood on Sunday evening. Hooper's film, the British period drama The King's Speech, was also voted the Best Picture of the year. Below is a transcription of Hooper's Oscar acceptance speech. His fellow nominees were Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (True Grit), [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/tom-hooper-oscar-acceptance-speech/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal Oscar 2011 Red Carpet Photo</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kathryn-bigelow-mark-boal-oscar-2011-red-carpet-photo/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kathryn-bigelow-mark-boal-oscar-2011-red-carpet-photo/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 23:27:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>D. Zhea</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=26547</guid> <description><![CDATA[Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal arrive at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Kathryn Bigelow won last year's Best Direction Oscar for the Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker, which starred one of this year's Best Supporting Actor nominees, Jeremy Renner (The Town). Boal was The Hurt Locker's screenwriter. After being introduced by Hilary Swank, Bigelow presented this year's Best [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/kathryn-bigelow-mark-boal-oscar-2011-red-carpet-photo/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>James Cameron, Sigourney Weaver Plant Tree in Brazil</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/james-cameron-sigourney-weaver-earth-day-network/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/james-cameron-sigourney-weaver-earth-day-network/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:45:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23922</guid> <description><![CDATA[Avatar's Sigourney Weaver and James Cameron are in Brazil promoting both the release of the sci-fi blockbuster on DVD and Blu-ray in that country, and the Earth Day Network/Fox Home Entertainment effort to have 1 million trees planted around the world. In this photo, Weaver and Cameron can be seen planting &#8212; or at least posing as if they're planting &#8212; a pau-brasil tree in [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movie/james-cameron-sigourney-weaver-earth-day-network/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>International Box Office: The Oscars &amp; CRAZY HEART, THE BLIND SIDE, THE HURT LOCKER</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/box-office-crazy-heart-the-blind-side/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/box-office-crazy-heart-the-blind-side/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:45:34 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Michelle Hutton</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23349</guid> <description><![CDATA[Scott Cooper, Jeff Bridges on the Crazy Heart set (top); Nick Saban, Tim McGraw, Lily Collins, Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side (middle); Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker (bottom) Crazy Heart, The Blind Side, and The Hurt Locker have all been helped at the domestic box office following their Oscar victories on March 7. Crazy Heart earned Jeff Bridges a Best Actor Oscar; The Blind [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/box-office-crazy-heart-the-blind-side/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar Box Office Effect: CRAZY HEART, THE BLIND SIDE, THE HURT LOCKER Benefit</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/crazy-heart-the-blind-side-the-hurt-locker-benefit/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/crazy-heart-the-blind-side-the-hurt-locker-benefit/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:11:43 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Michelle Hutton</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23303</guid> <description><![CDATA[At the North American box office, Crazy Heart (above), The Blind Side, and The Hurt Locker were the only three movies that benefited from their Oscar victories last Sunday. Starring Jeff Bridges as a down-and-out country singer who strikes up a relationship with a younger woman (Maggie Gyllenhaal), Crazy Heart earned Bridges the Best Actor Oscar, in addition to another statuette for Best Original Song [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/movies-431/crazy-heart-the-blind-side-the-hurt-locker-benefit/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Barbra Streisand, Kathryn Bigelow and Gender Politics: Oscar 2010</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/barbra-streisand-kathryn-bigelow-oscar-198/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/barbra-streisand-kathryn-bigelow-oscar-198/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:28:33 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23076</guid> <description><![CDATA[Kathryn Bigelow, Barbra Streisand Barbra Streisand, who was almost nominated for a Best Director Oscar a couple of times in the past, was chosen to present the 2010 Best Director Oscar at Sunday's ceremony. &#34;From among the five gifted nominees tonight, the winner could be, for the first time, a woman,&#34; Streisand told the audience at the Kodak Theatre. And just in time, too: Monday, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/barbra-streisand-kathryn-bigelow-oscar-198/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE HURT LOCKER at the Oscars: Iraq War Drama Wins; Iraqis Ignored</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-iraq-war-oscar-393/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-iraq-war-oscar-393/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:33:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23070</guid> <description><![CDATA[I can't say if the Oscar 2010 ceremony was dull or deadly because I didn't watch most of it. In fact, I watched maybe a total of fifteen minutes overall &#8212; thirty seconds here; 45 seconds there; a couple of minutes further down the line. Come to think of it, I wonder how many of the 43.1 million who supposedly watched this year's Oscarcast actually [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-iraq-war-oscar-393/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar 2010 Ratings Up: Why?</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-ratings-up-412/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-ratings-up-412/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:31:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23066</guid> <description><![CDATA[Kathryn Bigelow, Barbra Streisand The 2010 Academy Awards ceremony were watched by an estimated 41.3 million people in the United States, up 14 percent from last year according to the Nielsen Co. The Hurt Locker's victory over Avatar was seen by more people &#8212; in case there were 41.3 million still up by then &#8212; than any other Oscarcast since Million Dollar Baby took the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-ratings-up-412/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Kathryn Bigelow, Meryl Streep Photo: Governors Ball 2010</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/kathryn-bigelow-meryl-streep-governors-ball-812/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/kathryn-bigelow-meryl-streep-governors-ball-812/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:44:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23032</guid> <description><![CDATA[Meryl Streep, Kathryn Bigelow Photos: Richard Harbaugh / ©A.M.P.A.S. Click on the photo to enlarge it.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/kathryn-bigelow-meryl-streep-governors-ball-812/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Kathryn Bigelow, Geoffrey Fletcher Photo: Governors Ball 2010</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/kathryn-bigelow-geoffrey-fletcher-governors-ball-1894/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/kathryn-bigelow-geoffrey-fletcher-governors-ball-1894/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:43:51 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23031</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Hurt Locker's director Kathryn Bigelow, Precious' screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher Photos: Richard Harbaugh / ©A.M.P.A.S. Click on the photo to enlarge it.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/kathryn-bigelow-geoffrey-fletcher-governors-ball-1894/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal Photo: Governors Ball 2010</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/kathryn-bigelow-mark-boal-governors-ball-424/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/kathryn-bigelow-mark-boal-governors-ball-424/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:43:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23030</guid> <description><![CDATA[Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal Photos: Richard Harbaugh / ©A.M.P.A.S. Click on the photo to enlarge it.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/kathryn-bigelow-mark-boal-governors-ball-424/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Kathryn Bigelow Photo: Governors Ball 2010</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/kathryn-bigelow-governors-ball-435/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/kathryn-bigelow-governors-ball-435/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:43:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23029</guid> <description><![CDATA[Kathryn Bigelow Photos: Matt Petit / ©A.M.P.A.S. Click on the photo to enlarge it.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/kathryn-bigelow-governors-ball-435/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Best Picture THE HURT LOCKER: Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal&#039;s Oscar Acceptance Speeches</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-kathryn-bigelow-mark-boal-494/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-kathryn-bigelow-mark-boal-494/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:59:10 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22984</guid> <description><![CDATA[Best Picture: The Hurt Locker. Oscar acceptance speeches: Mark Boal: Thank you so much. This has been such a dream. Beyond a dream for all of us who have lived for so long with this story. And, you know, we had this fantasy of making our film our way with the talent that we hoped to have. And hopefully, we would find a distributor and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-kathryn-bigelow-mark-boal-494/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Kathryn Bigelow&#039;s 2010 Oscar Acceptance Speech</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/kathryn-bigelow-oscar-acceptance-speech-494/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/kathryn-bigelow-oscar-acceptance-speech-494/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:39:50 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22982</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Hurt Locker's Best Director Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar acceptance speech: &#34;This really is&#8230; There's no other way to describe it, it's the moment of a lifetime. First of all, this is so extraordinary to be in the company of such powerful, my fellow nominees, such powerful filmmakers who have inspired me and I have admired for, some of whom, for decades. And thank you to [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/kathryn-bigelow-oscar-acceptance-speech-494/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>2010 Oscar Predictions</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-predictions-bullock-bridges-the-hurt-locker-88019/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-predictions-bullock-bridges-the-hurt-locker-88019/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:00:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22540</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jeremy Renner in Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker (top); Zoe Saldana in James Cameron's Avatar (upper middle); Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal in Crazy Heart (lower middle); Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side Below is our complete 2010 Oscar Predictions list. If we're correct, The Hurt Locker will win a total of six Oscars, followed by Avatar with three (Titanic won 11 back in 1998), and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-predictions-bullock-bridges-the-hurt-locker-88019/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>6</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE HURT LOCKER, THE DEER HUNTER, PLATOON, BRAVEHEART: The Oscars &amp; War Movie Controversies</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-deer-hunter-platoon-braveheart-659/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-deer-hunter-platoon-braveheart-659/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:21:59 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22877</guid> <description><![CDATA[THE HURT LOCKER: Controversy Hasn't Harmed Oscar-Nominated War Movies Julie Christie in Variety, discussing The Deer Hunter (1978, right, with Robert De Niro): &#34;The film presents the Vietcong as subhuman and sadistic, though they effectively resisted both France and the United States, which possessed enormous means of warfare.&#34; Jane Fonda, the star of the post-Vietnam-syndrome Coming Home, later took it upon herself to campaign against [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-deer-hunter-platoon-braveheart-659/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE HURT LOCKER: Controversy Has Not Harmed Oscar-Nominated War Movies</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-controversy-oscar-190/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-controversy-oscar-190/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:20:37 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22874</guid> <description><![CDATA[Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce in The Hurt Locker (top); Lew Ayres in All Quiet on the Western Front (bottom) The Hurt Locker, an Iraq War drama that follows a US military bomb disposal unit, has been harshly criticized by some Iraq War veterans. Some have called the movie inaccurate and its depiction of soldiers in a war zone laughable. Others have gone as far as [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-controversy-oscar-190/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Betting Oscar Odds for THE HURT LOCKER, AVATAR, Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/odds-the-hurt-locker-avatar-bullock-81817/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/odds-the-hurt-locker-avatar-bullock-81817/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:36:50 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22667</guid> <description><![CDATA[At easyodds.com you can bet on who will win the 2010 Oscar. Things look good for Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Kathryn Bigelow, Christoph Waltz (1-20), Mo'Nique, and The Hurt Locker. Meryl Streep and Avatar come in second place, not far behind the top choices in their respective categories. At the other end, things don't look all that good for Morgan Freeman (25-1), Jeremy Renner (28-1), [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/odds-the-hurt-locker-avatar-bullock-81817/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Nicolas Chartier&#039;s THE HURT LOCKER Lawsuit Email</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/nicolas-chartier-hurt-locker-lawsuit-email-34985/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/nicolas-chartier-hurt-locker-lawsuit-email-34985/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:05:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22630</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker The Hurt Locker producer Nicolas Chartier's e-mails keep popping up online. The latest sample was posted by Steven Zeitchik of the Los Angeles Times blog 24 Frames. This time around, Chartier's e-mail has nothing to do with either Oscar vote-soliciting or his film's chief Best Picture competitor, Avatar. An army sergeant, Jeffrey Sarver, has sued the Hurt Locker producers [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/nicolas-chartier-hurt-locker-lawsuit-email-34985/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE HURT LOCKER Producers Sued</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/the-hurt-locker-producers-sued-44998/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/the-hurt-locker-producers-sued-44998/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:44:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22628</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Academy opted to postpone the 2010 Academy Awards ceremony a week so as not compete with the Winter Olympics held in Vancouver. Instead, the Oscars will be competing with the Iraqi parliamentary elections. Not that the Academy has anything to fear from the competition in terms of television ratings, but it's ironic that the Iraqi elections will be taking place on the same day [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/the-hurt-locker-producers-sued-44998/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE HURT LOCKER Producer Nicolas Chartier Barred from Oscar Ceremony</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/nicolas-chartier-punished-oscar-ceremony-59192/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/nicolas-chartier-punished-oscar-ceremony-59192/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:43:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22556</guid> <description><![CDATA[Oscar-nominated The Hurt Locker producer Nicolas Chartier will be denied attendance at the 2010 Academy Awards ceremony. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that &#34;should The Hurt Locker be announced as the recipient of the Best Picture award at Sunday’s ceremonies, only three of the picture’s producers will be present for the celebration.&#34; The Iraq War drama's other nominated producers are [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/nicolas-chartier-punished-oscar-ceremony-59192/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>2010 Oscar Predictions: Best Picture, THE HURT LOCKER</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/best-picture-the-hurt-locker-oscar-predictions-990099/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/best-picture-the-hurt-locker-oscar-predictions-990099/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:18:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22537</guid> <description><![CDATA[Best Picture, The Hurt Locker Also in the running: Avatar, District 9, The Blind Side, A Serious Man, Precious, Inglourious Basterds, An Education, Up, Up in the Air. Having won most guild awards, The Hurt Locker is the favorite to take home the 2010 Academy Award for Best Picture. Even so, the Iraq war drama isn't a lock (no pun intended) in that category. That [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/best-picture-the-hurt-locker-oscar-predictions-990099/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Nicolas Chartier, THE HURT LOCKER, the Oscars, the E-mails, the Punishment (If Any)</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/nicolas-chartier-the-hurt-locker-emails-punishment-55982/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/nicolas-chartier-the-hurt-locker-emails-punishment-55982/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:55:11 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22431</guid> <description><![CDATA[Anthony Mackie, Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker The Hurt Locker producer Nicolas Chartier will be facing some sort of punishment from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences following multiple e-mails he sent out asking Academy members to vote for the Kathryn Bigelow-directed Iraq War drama and not an unnamed &#34;$500 million film&#34; widely known as Avatar as the Best Picture of 2009. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/nicolas-chartier-the-hurt-locker-emails-punishment-55982/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE HURT LOCKER&#039;s Oscar No-No: Producer Nicolas Chartier&#039;s Vote-Soliciting E-mail</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-nicolas-chartier-email-48898/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-nicolas-chartier-email-48898/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:59:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22337</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker Remember the backlash following former Academy president and two-time Best Director Oscar winner Robert Wise's ad asking Academy members to vote for Martin Scorsese's Miramax release Gangs of New York back in early 2003? You don't? Well, apparently neither does Voltage Pictures producer Nicolas Chartier, whose The Hurt Locker is the favorite to win this year's Best Picture Academy [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-nicolas-chartier-email-48898/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>5</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Jeremy Renner, Kathryn Bigelow: BAFTA After-Party Photo</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/jeremy-renner-kathryn-bigelow-34876/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/jeremy-renner-kathryn-bigelow-34876/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:11:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22327</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jeremy Renner and BAFTA winner Kathryn Bigelow at the BAFTA Soho House Grey Goose after party held at the Grosvenor House Hotel on February 21 in London. Jeremy Renner was in the running in the Best Actor category for Bigelow's Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker, but he lost to Colin Firth's grieving gay college professor in A Single Man. Kathryn Bigelow became the first [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/jeremy-renner-kathryn-bigelow-34876/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE HURT LOCKER: BAFTA&#039;s Big Winner</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-bafta-kathryn-bigelow-87192/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-bafta-kathryn-bigelow-87192/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:13:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22227</guid> <description><![CDATA[Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow, Colin Firth, Carey Mulligan. Surprises and non-surprises at the BAFTAs, held Sunday evening at London's Royal Opera House. Mostly non-surprises. The fact that The Hurt Locker beat Avatar wasn't really a surprise. The Iraq War drama about a team of bomb disposal experts is also the odds-on favorite to win the Best Picture and [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-bafta-kathryn-bigelow-87192/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Colin Firth, Carey Mulligan, Mo&#039;Nique, Christoph Waltz: 2010 London Film Critics&#039; Awards</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/colin-firth-carey-mulligan-christoph-waltz-31908/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/colin-firth-carey-mulligan-christoph-waltz-31908/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:14:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22110</guid> <description><![CDATA[Katie Jarvis, Michael Fassbender in Fish Tank A PROPHET Beats AVATAR Curiously, even though A Prophet was also in the running in the London Film Critics' Foreign Language Film of the Year category, it lost to Tomas Alfredson's vampire drama Let the One Right In, which received a whole array of US critics' awards early last year. (The film opened in the US in 2008.) [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/colin-firth-carey-mulligan-christoph-waltz-31908/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>London Film Critics Awards 2010</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/london-film-critics-awards-2010/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/london-film-critics-awards-2010/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:21:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=19880</guid> <description><![CDATA[2010 London Film Critics' Circle Awards 2010 London Film Critics' nominations: Dec. 21, 2009 2010 London Film Critics' winners: Feb. 18, 2010 (&#34;*&#34; denotes the winner in each category) &#160; Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce in The Hurt Locker (Jonathan Olley / Summit Entertainment) &#160; FILM OF THE YEAR Avatar The Hurt Locker * A Prophet The White Ribbon Up in the Air THE ATTENBOROUGH AWARD: [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/london-film-critics-awards-2010/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Kathryn Bigelow, James Cameron, Richard Edlund: Oscar Nominees Luncheon Photo</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/kathryn-bigelow-james-cameron-richard-edlund-90912/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/kathryn-bigelow-james-cameron-richard-edlund-90912/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:48:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22075</guid> <description><![CDATA[Visual effects supervisor Richard Edlund, James Cameron, and Kathryn Bigelow at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Oscar Nominees Luncheon at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on Monday, February 15, 2010. Richard Edlund has won two competitive Academy Awards &#8212; for Star Wars (1977) and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) &#8212; in addition to two Special Achievement Awards, for The [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/kathryn-bigelow-james-cameron-richard-edlund-90912/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Anna Kendrick, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan, Gabourey Sidibe: Oscar Nominees Luncheon Photo</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/maggie-gyllenhaal-carey-mulligan-gabourey-sidibe-49494/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/maggie-gyllenhaal-carey-mulligan-gabourey-sidibe-49494/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:48:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22074</guid> <description><![CDATA[Front row (from left) Paul N.J. Ottosson, Anna Kendrick, Vera Farmiga, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan and Gabourey Sidibe. Second row (from left) Jason Reitman, Ivan Reitman, Morgan Freeman, Kathryn Bigelow, Jeremy Renner, and Sarah Siegel-Magness. Third row (from left) Geoffrey Patterson, Sandy Powell, Greg Shapiro, Daniel Dubiecki and Joachim Back at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Oscar Nominees Luncheon at the Beverly [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/maggie-gyllenhaal-carey-mulligan-gabourey-sidibe-49494/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Kathryn Bigelow, THE BLIND SIDE Producer Broderick Johnson: Oscar Nominees Luncheon Photo</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/kathryn-bigelow-oscar-nominees-luncheon-photo-44112/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/kathryn-bigelow-oscar-nominees-luncheon-photo-44112/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:10:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22058</guid> <description><![CDATA[Kathryn Bigelow laughs with Broderick Johnson at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Oscar Nominees Luncheon at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on Monday, February 15, 2010. Kathryn Bigelow is only the fourth woman to be nominated in the Best Director category. She's also the expected winner &#8212; if so, she'll be making Oscar history. Broderick Johnson is one of the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/kathryn-bigelow-oscar-nominees-luncheon-photo-44112/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Kathryn Bigelow, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Vera Farmiga: Oscar Nominees Luncheon Photo</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/kathryn-bigelow-maggie-gyllenhaal-vera-farmiga-87219/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/kathryn-bigelow-maggie-gyllenhaal-vera-farmiga-87219/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:34:59 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22050</guid> <description><![CDATA[Front row (from left) Mark Boal, Fisher Stevens, Paul N.J. Ottosson, Anna Kendrick, Vera Farmiga, and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Middle row (from left) Luke Doolan, Jason Reitman, Ivan Reitman, Morgan Freeman, and Kathryn Bigelow. Back row (from left) Tom Myers, Geoffrey Patterson, Sandy Powell, and Greg Shapiro at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Oscar Nominees Luncheon at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/kathryn-bigelow-maggie-gyllenhaal-vera-farmiga-87219/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Meryl Streep, Sandra Bullock, Colin Firth: Oscar Nominees Luncheon Group Photo</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/meryl-streep-bullock-firth-nominees-luncheon-91276/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/meryl-streep-bullock-firth-nominees-luncheon-91276/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:19:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21984</guid> <description><![CDATA[Meryl Streep, Colin Firth, Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Jeremy Renner, Kathryn Bigelow, Carey Mulligan, Gabourey Sidibe,Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Jeff Bridges were among the nearly 120 Oscar nominees gathered at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills this afternoon for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Oscar Nominees Luncheon. The Luncheon was in honor of all 2009 Oscar nominees and special award winners. Academy [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/meryl-streep-bullock-firth-nominees-luncheon-91276/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Kathryn Bigelow, Quentin Tarantino, James Cameron: Oscar Nominees Luncheon Photo</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/kathryn-bigelow-tarantino-cameron-nominees-luncheon-53901/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/kathryn-bigelow-tarantino-cameron-nominees-luncheon-53901/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:26:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21976</guid> <description><![CDATA[Quentin Tarantino, Kathryn Bigelow, James Cameron, Lee Daniels, and Jason Reitman at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ annual Oscar Nominees Luncheon held earlier today at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. This year's five Oscar-nominated directors are in the running for the following movies: Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino), The Hurt Locker (Bigelow), Avatar (Cameron), Precious (Daniels), and Up in the Air (Reitman). [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/kathryn-bigelow-tarantino-cameron-nominees-luncheon-53901/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>2010 Oscar Predictions: Best Director Kathryn Bigelow</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/best-director-kathryn-bigelow-oscar-56044/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/best-director-kathryn-bigelow-oscar-56044/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:08:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21910</guid> <description><![CDATA[Best Director Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker Other nominees: James Cameron, Avatar; Lee Daniels, Precious; Jason Reitman, Up in the Air; Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds. Kathryn Bigelow is about to become the first woman to win the Best Director Academy Award. She has already won the Directors Guild Award, while The Hurt Locker has won the Producers Guild Award. The Iraq War drama has also [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/best-director-kathryn-bigelow-oscar-56044/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE BLIND SIDE, THE HURT LOCKER Producer Credits</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-blind-side-the-hurt-locker-oscar-producers-5501/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-blind-side-the-hurt-locker-oscar-producers-5501/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:39:17 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21698</guid> <description><![CDATA[Quinton Aaron, Sandra Bullock in John Lee Hancock's The Blind Side (top); Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie in Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker (bottom) Producer credits for 82nd Academy Awards Best Picture nominees The Blind Side and The Hurt Locker have been determined by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Producers Branch Executive Committee. Credits are as follows: The Blind Side – Gil Netter, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-blind-side-the-hurt-locker-oscar-producers-5501/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>AVATAR Box Office: TITANIC&#039;s Domestic Record Broken</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/avatar-box-office-titanic-record-broken-119/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/avatar-box-office-titanic-record-broken-119/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:21:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Michelle Hutton</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21618</guid> <description><![CDATA[On Monday (Feb 2), Avatar earned $2.7 million at the North American box office, falling below the $900 per screen mark ($879 to be exact), according to Box Office Mojo. That represents a relatively small 14.3 percent drop from the previous Monday. After 46 days out, Avatar’s domestic total is $598.4m. Once Tuesday figures are tallied, Avatar will have passed James Cameron’s own Titanic at [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/hollywood/avatar-box-office-titanic-record-broken-119/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar 2010: Kathryn Bigelow vs. James Cameron</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-kathryn-bigelow-vs-james-cameron-776/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-kathryn-bigelow-vs-james-cameron-776/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:31:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21564</guid> <description><![CDATA[Among the Oscar 2010 curiosities are the following: Ex Husbands and Wives James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow (above) are both competing in the best director category. About two decades ago, they were married for a couple of years. Cameron's Avatar cost one trillion dollars to make and has earned about two trillion dollars at the box office. It's now the biggest, all-time, for all eternity [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-kathryn-bigelow-vs-james-cameron-776/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Oscar 2010: AVATAR, THE HURT LOCKER Lead the Pack</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-avatar-the-hurt-locker-908/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-avatar-the-hurt-locker-908/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:15:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21542</guid> <description><![CDATA[Avatar (top) and The Hurt Locker (above, lower photo, with Jeremy Renner and Anthony Mackie) are the leaders at the 2010 Academy Awards. James Cameron's sci-fi adventure and Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq War drama received nine nominations apiece, including best picture, best director, and best original screenplay. Curiously, Cameron and Bigelow were married for a couple of years about two decades ago. The other best picture [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/oscar-2010-avatar-the-hurt-locker-908/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>AVATAR Crosses $2 Billion Mark; Tops 7th Weekend</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-crosses-2-billion-mark-mel-gibson-902/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-crosses-2-billion-mark-mel-gibson-902/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:21:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Michelle Hutton</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21492</guid> <description><![CDATA[Zoe Saldana in Avatar (top); Mel Gibson in Edge of Darkness (bottom); Josh Duhamel, Kristen Bell in When in Rome (bottom) Avatar's estimated weekend (Jan. 29-31) gross was at the higher end of expectations: $30 million, according to Box Office Mojo. That represents a relatively small 14.1 percent drop from last week. After 45 days in release, Avatar’s domestic total is $594.4m. If weekend estimates [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/avatar-crosses-2-billion-mark-mel-gibson-902/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>DGA Awards: Focus on Kathryn Bigelow&#039;s Gender</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/dga-awards-kathryn-bigelow-gender-133/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/dga-awards-kathryn-bigelow-gender-133/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:09:11 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21483</guid> <description><![CDATA[Perhaps it's a good thing that the Directors Guild Award ceremony wasn't televised. TV audiences were spared having to listen to Quentin Tarantino say &#34;both my testicles were totally tingling through the whole thing,&#34; following Brad Pitt's introduction to his Inglourious Basterds director. Or The Hurt Locker's Jeremy Renner saying &#8212; and I'm partly quoting The Wrap's Steve Pond's tweet here &#8212; that &#34;the only [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/dga-awards-kathryn-bigelow-gender-133/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>6</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Kathryn Bigelow: First Woman DGA Winner (Narrative Feature)</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/kathryn-bigelow-first-woman-dga-winner-881/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/kathryn-bigelow-first-woman-dga-winner-881/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:04:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21481</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Hurt Locker's Kathryn Bigelow is the first woman to win the Directors Guild Award for narrative feature. The Iraq War drama can now be officially be considered the front runner in the Oscar race: last week, it won the Producers Guild Award as well. It has also won most film critics' awards to date. Bigelow's fellow nominees were Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds, Lee [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/kathryn-bigelow-first-woman-dga-winner-881/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>DGA Awards: First Female Best Director?</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/directors-guild-dga-awards-woman-director-449/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/directors-guild-dga-awards-woman-director-449/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:30:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21466</guid> <description><![CDATA[The five nominees for the 2010 Directors Guild Award are Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker, James Cameron for Avatar, Lee Daniels for Precious, Jason Reitman for Up in the Air, and Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds. The likely winner? Following the Producers Guild Award going to The Hurt Locker (box-office gross: less than $13 million) instead of Avatar (box-office gross: more than $560 million), [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/directors-guild-dga-awards-woman-director-449/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>2010 Oscar Predictions: Best Director</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/2010-oscar-predictions-best-director-759/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/2010-oscar-predictions-best-director-759/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:30:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21377</guid> <description><![CDATA[Oscar Predictions Best Director Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker James Cameron, Avatar (with Sam Worthington) Michael Haneke, The White Ribbon Jason Reitman, Up in the Air (with George Clooney) Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds (with Brad Pitt, Melanie Laurent, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Eli Roth, Christoph Waltz) Four of the directors above were nominated by the Directors Guild of America. European Film Award winner Michael Haneke [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/2010-oscar-predictions-best-director-759/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE HURT LOCKER&#039;s Upset Win Over AVATAR: PGA Awards 2010</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-avatar-pga-awards-114/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-avatar-pga-awards-114/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:44:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21275</guid> <description><![CDATA[Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker (Jonathan Olley / Summit Entertainment) Their film's Producers Guild win was great news for the Hurt Locker team. Just yesterday at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, Jeremy Renner lost the best actor award to Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart &#8212; admittedly, no big surprise &#8212; but much more damning, the film's cast lost SAG's ensemble award to Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-avatar-pga-awards-114/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>THE HURT LOCKER, THE COVE, UP: Producers Guild Awards 2010</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-the-cove-up-pga-awards-289/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-the-cove-up-pga-awards-289/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:11:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21272</guid> <description><![CDATA[Following James Cameron's best director upset at the Golden Globes, the Producers Guild of America one-upped the Hollywood Foreign Press Association by choosing not the blockbuster Avatar, but Kathryn Bigelow's independently made Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker (above, top photo) as the best film (or best producers) of the year. Bigelow, screenwriter Mark Boal, Nicholas Chartier, and Greg Shapiro are the film's credited producers. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/the-hurt-locker-the-cove-up-pga-awards-289/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>SAG Awards 2010 Prediction: THE HURT LOCKER, Best Cast</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/sag-awards-2010-the-hurt-locker-best-cast-998/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/sag-awards-2010-the-hurt-locker-best-cast-998/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:15:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=19965</guid> <description><![CDATA[2010 SAG Award Prediction Best Cast in a Motion Picture The Hurt Locker &#8212; Christian Camargo, Brian Geraghty, Evangeline Lilly, Anthony Mackie, Jeremy Renner Many consider the Screen Actors Guild's Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture Award as SAG' best film equivalent. Generally speaking, that ain't true. A &#34;cast,&#34; or &#34;ensemble,&#34; is exactly what the name implies: a group of performers interacting with one another [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/sag-awards-2010-the-hurt-locker-best-cast-998/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>AVATAR, THE HURT LOCKER, AN EDUCATION: BAFTA 2010 Nominees</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/avatar-an-education-bafta-2010-889/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/avatar-an-education-bafta-2010-889/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:10:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21136</guid> <description><![CDATA[Some people complain that the Hollywood Academy is enamored of British productions and talent. Well, then perhaps Hollywood and the United Kingdom should switch academies, for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts can't get enough of Hollywood fare. (See full list of BAFTA nominations here.) James Cameron's Hollywood blockbuster Avatar, Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker, and Lone Scherfig's British-made coming-of-age [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/avatar-an-education-bafta-2010-889/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
