For the duration of awards season, which lasts through March 7 (Oscar night), I will be posting weekly updates on nominations, winners and other honors.
The Producers Guild of America has announced its nominations. In competition for the Best Picture Award are Avatar, District 9, An Education, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, Invictus, Precious, Star Trek, Up and Up in the Air; Best Animated Feature: 9, Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Princess and the Frog and Up; Best Documentary: Burma VJ, The Cove, Sergio and Soundtrack for a Revolution. The awards will take place on Jan. 24. As previously announced, John Lasseter (of Pixar) will be receiving the David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictues, writer-director Joss Whedon will receive the Vanguard Award, and Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness will receive the Stanley Kramer Award for Precious. More information can be found here.
This year's nominees for the Art Directors Guild Awards are divided into three categories - Period Film, Fantasy Film and Contemporary Film. The nominated films in the Period category are Inglourious Basterds, Julie & Julia, Public Enemies, A Serious Man and Sherlock Holmes; Fantasy: Avatar, District 9, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Star Trek and Where the Wild Things Are; Contemporary: Angels & Demons, The Hangover, The Hurt Locker, The Lovely Bones and Up in the Air. The full list of nominees is here.
The nominations for the Directors Guild of America Awards have also been announced. The nominees for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2009 are Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker), James Cameron (Avatar), Lee Daniels (Precious), Jason Reitman (Up in the Air) and Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds). The 81st Academy Awards Ceremony was also nominated for an award. As previously announced, Norman Jewison will be receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Achievement in Motion Picture Direction. The awards will be given out on Jan. 30. More information and the complete list of nominees can be found here.
This week, it was discovered that a surprising number of front-runners in the screenwriting department, including Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds), Nick Hornby (An Education) and Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach (Fantastic Mr. Fox), are ineligible to receive awards from the Writers Guild of America. In Contention has more information.
A lot of notable people and films are ineligible for the Best Original Score Oscar, including Karen O (Where the Wild Things Are), Brian Eno (The Lovely Bones), T Bone Burnett (Crazy Heart) and Jason Schwartzman (Funny People). The Wrap has more information.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the short list for the visual effects Oscar: 2012, Avatar, District 9, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Star Trek, Terminator Salvation and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The three official nominees will be announced on Feb. 2, and the winner will be announced at the Academy Awards on March 7. More information can be found here. AMPAS has also announced 15 recipients of Scientific and Technical Academy Awards - the complete list can be found here.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has announced the long list of contenders for its film awards, the British equivalent of the Oscars, in all categories. Avatar, Bright Star, Broken Embraces, Coco Before Chanel, Coraline, Crazy Heart, The Damned United, District 9, An Education, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Fish Tank, Gran Torino, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, The Hurt Locker, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Inglourious Basterds, In the Loop, Invictus, It’s Complicated, Julie & Julia, The Lovely Bones, Me and Orson Welles, Moon, Nine, Nowhere Boy, Precious, A Prophet, The Road, A Serious Man, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll, Sherlock Holmes, A Single Man, Star Trek, Up, Up in the Air, Where the Wild Things Are and The Young Victoria all received multiple mentions. The complete list can be found here.
The nominations for the Goya Awards, the Spanish equivalent of the Oscars, have been announced. Cell 211, Agora, The Dancer and the Thief, The Secret in Their Eyes, Gordos, The Consul of Sodoma and Broken Embraces all received multiple nominations. The complete list of nominees can be found here. The winners will be announced during a ceremony on Feb. 14 in Madrid.
The University of Southern California (USC) Libraries have announced the nominees for their annual Scripter Award: screenwriter Scott Cooper and author Thomas Cobb for Crazy Heart; screenwriters Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell for District 9, adapted from Blomkamp’s screenplay for the short film Alive in Joburg; screenwriter Nick Hornby and author Lynn Barber for An Education; screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher and Sapphire, author of Push, the novel which served as the basis for the screenplay, for Precious; and screenwriters Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, and author Walter Kirn for Up in the Air. The winner will be announced at a ceremony on Feb. 6, which will be broadcast online. More information can be found here.
The nominations for the NAACP Image Awards have been announced. Precious, The Blind Side, Invictus, 2012, American Violet, I Can Do Bad All by Myself, Law Abiding Citizen, Notorious and The Princess and the Frog all received multiple nominations. The awards will be broadcast live on Fox on Feb. 26. The full list of nominees can be found here.
As announced on January 6, The Hurt Locker and Inglourious Basterds each took home four awards from the Online Film Critics Society. The Hurt Locker won Best Picture, Best Director (Kathryn Bigelow), Best Actor (Jeremy Renner) and Best Editing (Chris Innis and Bob Murawski); Inglourious Basterds won Best Original Screenplay (Quentin Tarantino), Best Actress (Melanie Laurent), Best Supporting Actor (Christoph Waltz) and Best Cinematography (Robert Richardson). The complete lists of winners and nominees can be found here.
The People's Choice Awards were broadcast live on Jan. 6. Winners included Inglourious Basterds for Best Independent Movie, Johnny Depp for Best Movie Actor and Up for Best Family Movie. The full list of nominees and winners can be found here.
The Critics' Choice Awards will air live on VH1 on Friday, Jan. 15, hosted by Kristin Chenoweth. The full list of nominees can be found here.
The Golden Globes will air live on NBC on Sunday, Jan. 17, hosted by Ricky Gervais. The full list of nominees can be found here.
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