Best Picture tie surprise: Gravity was one of the winners. Producers Guild of America Awards: ‘Gravity’ & ’12 Years a Slave’ tie for Best Picture Earlier this evening, Jan. 19, the Alfonso Cuarón-directed Gravity and the Steve McQueen-directed 12 Years a Slave shared the Producers…
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Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street. Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese nominated as ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ producers: Oscar nominations According to a press release from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the producers nominated for the Martin Scorsese-directed satire-drama…
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Sarah Polley [with camera] directing ‘Stories We Tell’ ‘Stories We Tell’ & Blackfish’ out of Oscar race: Academy’s Documentary Branch ‘anti-female’? Besides Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson, among the other glaring Oscar 2014 absentees were Robert Redford and Golden Globe-winning composer Alex Ebert for All…
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Joel and Ethan Coen Movie Inside Llewyn Davis with Oscar Isaac. Joel and Ethan Coen movie ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ tops National Society of Film Critics Awards The National Society of Film Critics is the last major U.S.-based critic’s group to announce their annual winners. This…
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Meryl Streep Oscar nominations record: Smirky mother in August: Osage County. Meryl Streep Oscar nominations record The 2014 Oscar nominations were announced earlier today at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs and…
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Amy Adams’ Oscar nominations: Best Actress win for American Hustle? Adams is seen here with Christian Bale. Oscar predictions Below are our last-minute Oscar 2014 predictions. The 86th Academy Award nominations are going to be announced on Thursday, January 16, at 5:30 a.m. Pacific Time…
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Golden Globes’ hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler (photo © HFPA). Tina Fey and Amy Poehler funny & daring enough at the 2014 Golden Globes telecast? Acting as a lighter version of Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler took a series of (mostly) mild…
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Golden Globes: Amy Adams & Jennifer Lawrence are ‘American Hustle’ winners Scroll down to check out the full list of Golden Globes 2014 winners. This year’s Golden Globes ceremony took place earlier this evening, January 12, with Amy Poehler and Tina Fey back as hosts.…
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Cate Blanchett and Woody Allen on the Blue Jasmine set. WGA Awards nominations: Woody Allen & ‘American Hustle’ in; ’12 Years a Slave’ & ‘Blue Is the Warmest Color’ ineligible The Writers Guild of America has announced the nominees for the 2014 WGA Awards. The…
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Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2014: Two Lives with Liv Ullmann and Julia Bache-Wiig. Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2014 semifinalists: Liv Ullmann potential Academy Awards comeback Out of 76 submissions, nine movies have been selected as semifinalists for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar…
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Stranger by the Lake: Sexually explicit gay thriller with Pierre Deladonchamps and Christophe Paou. Winner of a Cannes side award regrettably named Queer Palm, Alain Guiraudie’s erotic thriller Stranger by the Lake / L’inconnu du lac landed the no. 1 spot on Cahiers du Cinéma‘s…
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The Emigrants with Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow. From the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, the New York Film Critics Circle handed out top awards to a couple of dozen non-mainstream releases. Jan Troell’s 1971 Swedish drama The Emigrants / Utvandrarna, starring Liv Ullmann…
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James Franco tattoos in Spring Breakers. The 2013 LAFCA has named two Best Supporting Actor winners: James Franco for his portrayal of a Florida rapper and drugs & arms trafficker in Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers and Jared Leto for his performance as a fictional HIV-positive…
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Jennifer Lawrence: Hot and unbalanced con artist’s wife Rosalyn Rosenfeld in American Hustle. Best known as the fearless Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games and its sequels, Jennifer Lawrence, unlike most other blockbuster-franchise stars, has also acquired the reputation of being a “prestige actress.” Earlier…
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Ziyi Zhang: Actress seen in The Grandmaster. Golden Horse Awards: Singapore’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar submission wins Best Picture Surprisingly, the 2013 Golden Horse Award for Best Picture was given to 29-year-old Singaporean director Anthony Chen’s feature film debut Ilo Ilo at a ceremony…
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Dame Judi Dench. Dame Judi Dench & Scarlett Johansson among British Independent Film Award nominees Since the likes of Judi Dench, Scarlett Johansson, James McAvoy, and Tom Hardy are in the running for the 2013 British Independent Film Awards, expect at least a little overlapping…