Sunday, January 24, 2010

Weekly Awards Round-Up - Jan. 18-24, 2010

The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards took place on Jan. 23. The cast of Inglourious Basterds won Best Ensemble, and Christoph Waltz won Best Supporting Actor for his work in the film. Jeff Bridges won Best Actor for Crazy Heart, and Mo'Nique won Best Supporting Actress for Precious. Best Actress winner Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side) presented Betty White with the SAG Lifetime Achievement Award. The stunt performers from Star Trek won Best Stunt Ensemble. Drew Barrymore won Best Actress in a Made-for-TV Movie for Grey Gardens, and Kevin Bacon won Best Actor in Made-for-TV Movie for Taking Chance. The full list of nominees can be found here.

The Producers Guild of America's Awards took place on Jan. 24. The Hurt Locker won Best Picture, Up won Best Animated Film and The Cove won Best Documentary. Precious was honored with the Stanley Kramer Award, while Pixar's John Lasseter was given a Career Achievement Award. Grey Gardens was named Best Made-for-TV Movie. More information can be found here.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has announced the nominees for its annual film awards, commonly known as the BAFTAs - the British equivalent of the Oscars. The Best Picture nominees are: Avatar, An Education, The Hurt Locker, Precious and Up in the Air. British Film: An Education, Fish Tank, In the Loop, Moon, Nowhere Boy
British Debut: Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson, Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock & David Pearson (Mugabe and the White African); Eran Creevy (Shifty); Stuart Hazeldine (Exam); Duncan Jones (Moon); Sam Taylor-Wood (Nowhere Boy)
Director: Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker), Neill Blomkamp (District 9), James Cameron (Avatar), Lone Scherfig (An Education), Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
Original Screenplay: Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker), Joel & Ethan Coen (A Serious Man), Pete Docter & Bob Peterson (Up), Jon Lucas & Scott Moore (The Hangover), Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
Adapted Screenplay: Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci & Tony Roche (In the Loop); Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell (District 9); Geoffrey Fletcher (Precious); Nick Hornby (An Education); Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner (Up in the Air)
Actor: Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart), George Clooney (Up in the Air), Colin Firth (A Single Man), Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker), Andy Serkis (Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll)
Actress: Carey Mulligan (An Education), Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones), Gabourey Sidibe (Precious), Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia), Audrey Tautou (Coco Before Chanel)
Supporting Actor: Alec Baldwin (It's Complicated), Christian McKay (Me and Orson Welles), Alfred Molina (An Education), Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones), Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)
Supporting Actress: Anne-Marie Duff (Nowhere Boy), Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air), Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air), Mo'Nique (Precious), Kristin Scott Thomas (Nowhere Boy)
Film Not in the English Language: Broken Embraces, Coco Before Chanel, Let the Right One In, A Prophet, The White Ribbon
Animated Film: Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Up
Animated Short: The Gruffalo, The Happy Duckling, Mother of Many
Short Film: 14, I Do Air, Jade, Mixtape, Off Season
Cinematography: Barry Ackroyd (The Hurt Locker), Javier Aguirresarobe (The Road), Mauro Fiore (Avatar), Trent Opaloch (District 9), Robert Richardson (Inglourious Basterds)
Editing: James Cameron, John Refoua & Stephen Rivkin (Avatar); Julian Clarke (District 9); Dana E. Glauberman (Up in the Air); Chris Innis & Bob Murawski (The Hurt Locker); Sally Menke (Inglourious Basterds)
Production Design: Rick Carter, Kim Sinclair & Robert Stromberg (Avatar); Stuart Craig & Stephenie McMillan (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), Philip Ivey & Guy Poltgieter (District 9), Anastasia Masaro (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus), David Wasco & Sandy Reynolds Wasco (Inglourious Basterds)
Costume Design: Odile Dicks-Mireaux (An Education), Catherine Leterrier (Coco Before Chanel), Janet Patterson (Bright Star), Arianne Phillips (A Single Man), Sandy Powell (The Young Victoria)
Make Up & Hair: Peter King (Nine), Sarah Monzani (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus), Thi Thanh Tu Nguyen & Jane Milon (Coco Before Chanel), Jenny Shircore (The Young Victoria), Lizzie Yianni Georgiou (An Education)
Visual Effects: Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh & Burt Dalton (Star Trek); Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros & Matt Aitken (District 9); Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham & Andrew R. Jones (Avatar); John Richardson, Tim Burke, Tim Alexander & Nicolas Aithadi (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince); Richard Stutsman (The Hurt Locker)
Sound: Ray Beckett, Paul N.J. Ottosson & Craig Stauffer (The Hurt Locker); Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson, Tony Johnson and Addison Teague (Avatar); Brent Burge, Chris Ward, Dave Whitehead, Michael Hedges and Ken Saville (District 9); Peter J. Devlin, Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Mark Stoeckinger & Ben Burtt (Star Trek); Tom Myers, Michael Silvers & Michael Semanick (Up)
The winners will be announced at a ceremony on Feb. 21. More information can be found here.

The nominees for the Cesar Awards, the French equivalent of the Oscars, have been announced. The prison drama A Prophet, which is in contention for the Best Foreign Film Oscar, received 13 nominations, and In the Beginning received 11. Coco Before Chanel received three nominations, including one for Best Actress Audrey Tautou. The Best Film nominees are The Concert, In the Beginning, A Prophet, Rapt, Welcome and Wild Grass. The Best Foreign Film nominees are Avatar, Gran Torino, I Killed My Mother, Milk, Slumdog Millionaire, A Town Called Panic and The White Ribbon. The complete list of nominees and more information can be found here; the winners will be announced on Feb. 27.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the short list for the Oscar for Best Foreign Film: Ajami (Israel), Kelin (Kazakhstan), The Milk of Sorrow (Peru), A Prophet (France), Samson & Delilah (Australia), The Secret in Their Eyes (Argentina), The White Ribbon (Germany), Winter in Wartime (Netherlands) and The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner (Bulgaria). The final five nominees will be announced on Feb. 2, and the winner will be announced at the Academy Awards ceremony on March 7. More information can be found here.

PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) have named Avatar as their recipient of the 2010 Proggy Award for Outstanding Feature Film. More information can be found here.

The International Cinephile Society has named the nominees for its film awards for 2009. The Best Picture nominees are 35 Shots of Rum, Bright Star, District 9, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, A Serious Man, Tokyo Sonata, Up in the Air and The White Ribbon.
Film Not in the English Language: 35 Shots of Rum, The Beaches of Agnes, Broken Embraces, The Headless Woman, Lorna's Silence, O'Horten, Ponyo, Still Waking, Summer Hours, Tokyo Sonata, The White Ribbon
Director: Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker), Neill Blomkamp (District 9), Joel & Ethan Coen (A Serious Man), Michael Haneke (The White Ribbon), Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
Original Screenplay: Olivier Assayas (Summer Hours), Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker), Joel & Ethan Coen (A Serious Man), Claire Denis & Jean-Pol Fargeau (35 Shots of Rum), Michael Haneke (The White Ribbon), Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
Adapted Screenplay: Wes Anderson & Noah Baumbach (Fantastic Mr. Fox); Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci & Tony Roche (In the Loop); Neill Blomkamp & Terri Tatchell (District 9); Tom Ford & David Scearce (A Single Man); Spike Jonze & Dave Eggers (Where the Wild Things Are); Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner (Up in the Air)
Actor: Sharlto Copley (District 9), Colin Firth (A Single Man), Joaquin Phoenix (Two Lovers), Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker), Michael Stuhlbarg (A Serious Man)
Actress: Abbie Cornish (Bright Star), Catalina Saavedra (The Maid), Gabourey Sidibe (Precious), Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia), Tilda Swinton (Julia)
Supporting Actor: Peter Capaldi (In the Loop), Anthony Mackie (The Hurt Locker), Christian McKay (Me and Orson Welles), Jérémie Renier (Lorna's Silence), Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)
Supporting Actress: Penélope Cruz (Broken Embraces), Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air), Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds), Melanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds), Mo'Nique (Precious)
Ensemble: In the Loop, Inglourious Basterds, A Serious Man, Summer Hours, The White Ribbon
Animated Film: Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Mary and Max, Ponyo, Up
Documentary: Anvil! The Story of Anvil, The Beaches of Agnes, The Cove, Of Time and the City, The September Issue
Cinematography: Christian Berger (The White Ribbon), Roger Deakins (A Serious Man), Anthony Dod Mantle (Antichrist), Greig Fraser (Bright Star), Robert Richardson (Inglourious Basterds)
Editing: Julian Clarke (District 9), Chris Innis & Bob Murawski (The Hurt Locker), Roderick Jaynes (A Serious Man), Sally Menke (Inglourious Basterds), José Salcedo (Broken Embraces)
Production Design: Dan Bishop (A Single Man), Rick Carter & Robert Stromberg (Avatar), Jess Gonchor (A Serious Man), Nelson Lowry (Fantastic Mr. Fox), David Wasco (Inglourious Basterds)
Original Score: Alexandre Desplat (Fantastic Mr. Fox), Michael Giacchino (Star Trek), Michael Giacchino (Up), Joe Hisaishi (Ponyo), Abel Korzeniowski (A Single Man)
The winners will be announced on Feb. 17, and more information can be found here.

The Visual Effects Society (VES) has announced the nominations for its annual awards.
Outstanding Visual Effects in an Effects-Driven Film: 2012, Avatar, District 9, Star Trek, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Supporting Visual Effects: Angels & Demons, The Box, Invictus, The Road, Sherlock Holmes
Animation: 9, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Coraline, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Up
Animation Effects: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Coraline, Monsters vs. Aliens, Up
Single Visual Effect of the Year: 2012 (Escape from L.A.), Avatar (Neytiri Drinking), Avatar (Quarich's Escape), Knowing (Plane Crash), Terminator Salvation (VLA Escape)
Animated Character in a Live Action Film: Avatar (Neytiri), District 9 (Christopher Johnson), G-Force (Bucky), Watchmen (Doctor Manhattan)
Animated Character in an Animated Film: Coraline (Coraline), Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (Buck), Monsters vs. Aliens (B.O.B.), Up (Carl)
Matte Paintings: Avatar, Franklyn, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Star Trek
Models and Miniatures: Avatar, Coraline, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Terminator Salvation
Created Environment: 2012 (Los Angeles Destruction), Avatar (Floating Mountains), Avatar (Jungle/Biolume), Avatar (Willow Glade)
James Cameron will receive the VES Lifetime Achievement Award and Dr. Ed Catmull will receive the Georges Méliès Award at the ceremony on Feb. 28. More information can be found here.

0 comments:

Post a Comment