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When Worlds Collide: The Science of Movies

Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (top); Tobey Maguire in Spider Man 3 (bottom)

"When Worlds Collide: The Science of Movies" is the title of the Academy’s Science and Technology Council’s program about the physics behind some of Hollywood’s best-known action and science-fiction scenes. "When Worlds Collide" will be presented on Thursday, August 6, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The evening will be hosted by author Adam Weiner (Don’t Try This at Home! The Physics of Hollywood Movies) and will feature film clips and a panel discussion with Oscar-winning visual effects artists Robert Legato (Titanic) and Scott Stokdyk (Spider-Man 2), Oscar-nominated visual effects artists [...]

Saturn Awards 2009

2009 Saturn Awards
The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films’ 2009 Saturn Award winners: June 25, 2009
(”*” denotes the winner in each category)
 

Iron Man (top); Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2nd from top); Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2nd from bottom); Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (bottom)
 

FEATURE FILMS
Best Science Fiction Film
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Eagle Eye
The Incredible Hulk
Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
* Iron Man
Jumper
Best Fantasy Film
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Hancock
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Twilight [...]

Empire Awards 2009

2009 Empire Awards
2009 Empire Award winners: March 29, 2009
 

The Jameson Empire Award winners are chosen by Empire magazine readers.

 
Best Film: The Dark Knight
Best British Film: RocknRolla
Best Director: Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight
Best Actor: Christian Bale, The Dark Knight
Best Actress: Helena Bonham Carter, Sweeney Todd
Best Newcomer: Gemma Arterton, Quantum of Solace
Best Comedy: Son of Rambow
Best Horror: Eden Lake
Best Thriller: Quantum of Solace
Best Sci-Fi / Superhero: Wanted
Best Soundtrack: Mamma Mia!
Done in 60 Seconds Award: Jerry Maguire
Actor of Our Lifetime: Russell Crowe
Outstanding Contribution to British Film: Danny Boyle
Empire Icon: Viggo Mortensen
 
Empire Awards Site
Empire Awards: 2008
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
 
Tiburon Film Festival Awards 2009
Boston Underground Film Festival Awards 2009
Canadian Walk of Fame Nominations Contest
Oscar 2010 Dates
SXSW Film Festival Awards 2009

DGA Awards 2009

2009 Directors Guild Awards
2009 DGA feature film nominations: January 8, 2009. Documentary and television nominations: January 9, 2009
2009 DGA award winners: Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, January 31, 2009
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Following his DGA win, Danny Boyle is the odds-on favorite to win the best director Academy Award. In fact, Boyle has been the odds-on favorite for quite some time. In any case, since the DGA Awards’ inception in 1949 only eight times has the DGA winner failed to win the best director Oscar. (Actually, more like six times as there was some overlapping in the 1948-49 selections. Check out the DGA Awards/the Oscars.) Slumdog Millionaire has also won the Producers Guild Award.
 

FEATURE [...]

Oscar 2009: Makeup Artist and Hairstylist Symposium

The Makeup Artist and Hairstylist Symposium, focusing on the achievements of the 2009 Oscar nominees in the makeup category, will be presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Saturday, February 21, at 2:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Moderated by Academy governor Leonard Engelman, the symposium will include a discussion of the nominees’ creative process and the presentation of film clips, photographs, and models of their work.
The 2009 Academy Award makeup nominees are:

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Greg Cannom, special makeup creator and applicator
The Dark Knight, John Caglione Jr., Heath Ledger’s makeup artist; Conor O’Sullivan, prosthetic supervisor
Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Mike Elizalde, [...]

Richard Attenborough Film Awards 2009

2009 Richard Attenborough Film Awards
2009 regional British film critics’ Richard Attenborough Film Award winners: Jan. 29, 2009
 

Freida Pinto in Slumdog Millionaire
 

Film of the Year: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Director: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Actress: Kate Winslet, The Reader
Best Actor: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Best Screenwriter: Martin McDonagh, In Bruges
Rising Star Award: Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire
 
People’s Choice Awards
Film of the Year: The Dark Knight
Best British Film: Mamma Mia!
British Breakthrough Star: Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Film Score: The Dark Knight
 
Richard Attenborough Film Awards: 2007 2008
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Producers Guild Awards 2009

2009 Producers Guild of America’s Golden Laurel Awards
2009 Producers Guild of America feature-film and long-form TV nominations: January 5, 2009
2009 Producers Guild of America winners: Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Jan. 24, 2009
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Dev Patel in Slumdog Millionaire
 

The Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award
in Theatrical Motion Pictures
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
Kathleen Kennedy & Frank Marshall
Ceán Chaffin
THE DARK KNIGHT
Christopher Nolan
Charles Roven
Emma Thomas
FROST/NIXON
Brian Grazer
Ron Howard
Eric Fellner
MILK
Dan Jinks
Bruce Cohen
* SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Christian Colson
The Producers Guild of America Producer of the Year Award in Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures
* MAN ON WIRE
Simon Chinn
STANDARD [...]

Oscar 2009 Nominations

OSCAR NOMINATIONS 2009

Richard Harbaugh / ©A.M.P.A.S.

Most nominated films
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (13 nods)
Slumdog Millionaire (10)
Milk and The Dark Knight (8)
 

The Oscar record-tier
Meryl Streep, nominated for Doubt, ties Katharine Hepburn’s 12 best actress nominations.
Streep has been the overall Oscar record-holder for acting since 2002, when she received her 13th nomination (for best supporting actress in Adaptation). She currently has 15 Oscar nominations — including two wins — under her belt.
 
Posthumous Oscar nomination
Heath Ledger for his Joker in The Dark Knight, exactly one year after his death.
 
Double Oscar nominations
Not Kate Winslet — but Doubt, with two performers competing against one another in the best supporting actress category: Amy Adams (right) and Viola Davis.
 
The big comeback
Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler.
 
The [...]

2009 Critics Choice Winners

The biggest Critics’ Choice 2009 winner was Slumdog Millionaire, which received five awards: best film, best director (Danny Boyle), best young actor (Dev Patel), best writer (Simon Beaufoy), and best composer (A. R. Rahman). As for the biggest loser, that was The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which lost every single one of its eight nominations.
Milk fared a little better, with two wins — best actor for Sean Penn and best ensemble — out of eight nods.
Expect the Academy’s choices to be quite similar — perhaps even identical — to the Broadcast Critics’ choices in just about every category, from best film to best song. Do not, however, expect a tie for the two The Devil Wears Prada co-stars. [...]

Oscar 2009 Predictions: Best Song, Visual Effects

BEST SONG
"Another Way to Die" from Quantum of Solace
"Down to Earth" from WALL-E
"Jai Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire
"Once in a Lifetime" from Cadillac Records
"The Wrestler" from The Wrestler

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Journey to the Center of the Earth

BEST SOUND
Australia
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Quantum of Solace
WALL-E

BEST SOUND EFFECTS
The Dark Knight
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Iron Man

BEST MAKEUP
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
The Incredible Hulk

Oscar 2009 Predictions: Best Film, Foreign Film
Oscar 2009 Predictions: Best Director, Screenplay
Oscar 2009 Predictions: Best Documentary, Animated Film
Oscar 2009 Predictions: Best Actor, Actress
Oscar 2009 Predictions: Best Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress
Oscar 2009 Predictions: Best Cinematography, Editing, Music

Oscar 2009 Predictions: Best Cinematography, Editing, Music

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Australia
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire

BEST EDITING
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E

BEST ART DIRECTION
Australia
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Duchess

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Changeling
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Duchess

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Australia
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire

Oscar 2009 Predictions: Best Film, Foreign Film
Oscar 2009 Predictions: Best Director, Screenplay
Oscar 2009 Predictions: Best Documentary, Animated Film
Oscar 2009 Predictions: Best Actor, Actress
Oscar 2009 Predictions: Best Supporting Actor, Supporting [...]

Oscar 2009 Predictions: Best Film, Foreign Film

Oscar 2009 Predictions
 

Michael Sheen, Frank Langella in Frost/Nixon

BEST FILM
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire has to be there. It’s been winning nearly every film critics’ award in the United States and it has received two SAG Award nominations: best ensemble and a surprising best supporting actor nod for Dev Patel (who, ahem, happens to be the film’s lead).
Frost/Nixon is a prestige production based on a prestige play. The sort of stuff prestige-hungry Academy members tend to go for even when reviewers haven’t been all that kind. Also, Frost/Nixon is an actors’ showcase, and actors comprise the — by far — largest contingent among Academy members. (Note: Initially, I had [...]

Oklahoma Film Critics Awards 2008

2008 Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards
2008 Oklahoma Film Critics winners: December 23, 2008
 

Dev Patel in Slumdog Millionaire
 

Best Film of 2008: Slumdog Millionaire dir. Danny Boyle
Top Ten Films (listed alphabetically):
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Happy-Go-Lucky
Milk
Rachel Getting Married
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
The Wrestler
Best Foreign Film: Let the Right One In, dir. Tomas Alfredson
Best First Feature: Synecdoche, New York, dir. Charlie Kaufman
Best Documentary: Man on Wire, dir. James Marsh
Best Animated Film: WALL-E dir. Andrew Stanton
Best Director: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Actress: Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Best Actor: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Best Supporting Actress: Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Best Original Screenplay: [...]

African-American Film Critics Awards 2008

2008 African-American Film Critics Association Awards
2008 African-American Film Critics winners: Dec. 19, 2008
 

 

Best Film: The Dark Knight
Runners-up:
2. Slumdog Millionaire
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
4. (tie) The Secret Life of Bees and Cadillac Records
6. Miracle at St. Anna
7. Milk
8. Seven Pounds
9. Doubt
10. Iron Man
Best Director: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Lead Actor: Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
Best Lead Actress: Angelina Jolie, Changeling
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Best Supporting Actress: Viola Davis, Doubt
Special Achievement Award: Melvin Van Pebbles
 
African-American Film Critics Association site
African-American Film Critics Association Awards: 2008
Film Awards: [...]

Utah Film Critics Awards 2008

2008 Utah Film Critics Association Awards
2008 Utah Film Critics winners: December 19, 2008
 

Christian Bale, Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight

 
Best Picture: The Dark Knight
Runner-up: Rachel Getting Married
Best Non-English Language Feature: Let the Right One In
Runner-up: Waltz With Bashir
Best Documentary Feature: Man on Wire
Runners-up: Encounters at the End of the World; Waltz With Bashir
Best Animated Feature: WALL-E
Runner-up: Kung Fu Panda
Best Director: Andrew Stanton, WALL-E
Runner-up: Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight
Best Actor: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Runners-up: Richard Jenkins, The Visitor; Sean Penn, Milk
Best Actress: Melissa Leo, Frozen River
Runner-up: Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight (no runner-up)
Best Supporting Actress: Rosemarie DeWitt, Rachel Getting Married
Runners-up: Frances McDormand, Burn After Reading; Misty Upham, Frozen River; [...]

Florida Film Critics Awards 2008

2008 Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
2008 Florida Film Critics Circle Award winners: December 18, 2008
 

Dev Patel, Freida Pinto in Slumdog Millionaire

 
Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Foreign Language: Let The Right One In
Best Documentary: Man On Wire
Best Animated Feature: WALL-E
Best Director: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Actor: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Best Actress: Melissa Leo, Frozen River
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Best Supporting Actress: Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Best Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Cinematography: Wally Pfister, The Dark Knight
Pauline Kael Breakout Award: Martin McDonagh, writer/director of In Bruges
Golden Orange Award: Dick Morris of the Sarasota Film Society
 
Florida Film Critics Circle Site
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Austin Film Critics Awards 2009

2008 Austin Film Critics Association Awards
2008 Austin Film Critics Association award winners: December 16, 2008
 

Christian Bale in The Dark Knight
 

Best Picture: The Dark Knight
Top 10 Films:

Slumdog Millionaire
Milk
Synecdoche, New York
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Wrestler
WALL-E
Frost/Nixon
Let the Right One In

Gran Torino

Best Foreign Language Film: Let the Right One In
Best Documentary Film: Man on Wire
Best Animated Feature: WALL-E
Best Director: Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight
Best Actor: Sean Penn, Milk
Best Actress: Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Best Supporting Actress: Taraji P. Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Original Screenplay: Synecdoche, New York, Charlie Kaufman
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Dark Knight, Jonathan Nolan & Christopher Nolan
Best Cinematography: The Fall, Colin Watkinson
Best Original Score: The Dark Knight, James [...]

AFI Awards 2008

2008 AFI Awards
2008 AFI Awards: Dec. 14, 2008
 

Christian Bale in The Dark Knight
 

FILM
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
THE DARK KNIGHT
FROST/NIXON
FROZEN RIVER
GRAN TORINO
IRON MAN
MILK
WALL•E
WENDY AND LUCY
THE WRESTLER
 
TELEVISION
BREAKING BAD
IN TREATMENT
JOHN ADAMS
LIFE
LOST
MAD MEN
THE OFFICE
RECOUNT
THE SHIELD
THE WIRE
 
AFI AWARDS 2008 JURORS
AFI JURY FOR MOTION PICTURES
Leonard Maltin
Chair, AFI Jury for Motion Pictures
ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT
Jeanine Basinger
Wesleyan University
Mary Corey
University of California, Los Angeles
Mark Harris
Author
Entertainment Weekly
Jim Hosney
American Film Institute
Rick Jewell
University of Southern California
Elvis Mitchell
THE TREATMENT
Daniel Petrie, Jr.
Writer/Producer/Director
Tom Pollock
Producer
Vice Chair and Chair Emeritus, AFI Board of Trustees
Richard Schickel
Time
Vivian Sobchack
University of California, Los Angeles
[...]

The LONDON TIMES’ Top 100 Films of 2008

Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (top); Time and Winds by Reha Erdem (bottom)

The London and the Sunday Times critics are apparently quite easy to please. They’ve come up with a list of no less than 100 Best Films for one single year: 2008.
Among the best of the best found in the Times list are masterpieces such as:

Cloverfield ("An hour in I started to sweat. And I nearly threw up trying to make sense of the increasingly chaotic and frightening scenes of the gripping climax" – James Christopher);
Definitely, Maybe ("A romantic comedy with a refreshingly adult sensibility and plot that doesn’t feel that it has been recycled and regurgitated by innumerable Cameron Diaz movies" [...]

Heath Ledger

Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain (top); in Casanova (middle); with Matt Damon in The Brothers Grimm (bottom)

A few hours ago, Heath Ledger was found dead at his home in New York City, possibly from an overdose of sleeping pills. He was 28.
I’m not a fan of Brokeback Mountain, but the film, though only a couple of years old, has undeniably become one of cinema’s cultural landmarks. In large part, the tragic love story turned into a worldwide sensation because of Ledger’s performance as the uptight Ennis Del Mar, a gay ranch hand who lets life pass him by without ever daring to live it.
Among Ledger’s other films are Roland Emmerich’s The Patriot (2000), with Mel Gibson; Marc [...]

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