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Natalie Portman in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan The Spirit Awards aren't the Oscars, we're told. No, they aren't. But they share a lot more in common with one another than the free-spirited, it's-all-about-the-art crowd would have us believe. Held this afternoon at Santa Monica beach (I hope they had good heaters), the 2011 Spirit Award voters went for Oscar-nominated mainstream hits and near-hits in their [...]

Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor in writer-directors John Requa and Glenn Ficarra's I Love You Phillip Morris David Seidler's widely praised screenplay for The King's Speech was left out of the 2011 Writers Guild of America (WGA) nominations announced earlier today. Also missing from the WGA shortlist were Debra Granik for Winter's Bone and Mike Leigh for Another Year. What's up with that? [List of Writers [...]

Noomi Rapace, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo David Fincher's The Social Network won another bunch of trophies, courtesy of the International Press Academy. Satellite Awards were handed out at a luncheon held earlier today at the Intercontinental Hotel in the Los Angeles suburb of Century City. [List of Satellite Awards winners.] The Social Network won for Best Film (Drama), Best Director, and Best Adapted [...]

Rebecca Hall, Amanda Peet in Nicole Holofcener's Please Give Eligibility rules for the New York-based Gotham Awards and the Los Angeles-based Spirit Awards aren't the same. Voting committees — the people who select the nominees — aren't the same. Categories are different as well. All that helps to explain the discrepancies found among the nominations of those two award groups dedicated to promoting the cause [...]