Additionally, there will not be News and Awards Round-Ups March 1-7 due to Oscar overload. News Round-Ups will be back March 8-14; Awards Round-Ups, due to the end of awards season, won't return until sometime in late fall or early winter.
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Sunday, February 28, 2010
Weekly News & Awards Round-Ups - Feb. 22-28, 2010
Due to a trip out of town, there will not be round-ups this week.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Weekly News Round-Up - Feb. 15-21, 2010
*Headline Only Edition - I was short on time this week, so I will only be posting headlines and links to the stories as opposed to blurbs.*
Owen Wilson to star in new Woody Allen film [The Hollywood Reporter]
Gwyneth Paltrow joins Steven Soderbergh, all-star cast for Contagion [Deadline Hollywood]
Ben Stiller to star in Brett Ratner's Tower Heist [The Hollywood Reporter]
Al Pacino to star in police thriller Son of No One [The Hollywood Reporter]
Natalie Portman to star in stoner comedy Best Buds [Pajiba]
James Cameron looks ahead to Avatar 2 [MTV]
Tom McCarthy to direct Paul Giamatti, Amy Ryan in Win Win [New York Magazine]
Ethan Hawke, Kristin Scott Thomas to star in indie thriller The Woman in the Fifth [Cinematical]
Julie Delpy to direct, star in 2 Days in New York, follow-up to 2 Days in Paris [Screen Daily]
Christoph Waltz to play brutal animal trainer in Water for Elephants [The Guardian]
Andy Serkis, Nick Cave collaborate on motion-capture version of The Threepenny Opera [Empire]
Michael Haneke abandons project on aging to develop screenplay "about the Internet" [The Playlist]
Noel Clarke to co-write, possibly direct film following athletes' countdown to 2012 Olympics [Empire]
Ecosse Films developing new Treasure Island [Coming Soon]
Industry News
Financier looking to prevent Lionsgate from buying Miramax, MGM [Yahoo]
Summit Entertainment won't buy Miramax [Yahoo]
Business bad for Blockbuster [Yahoo]
Film Festivals
Award-winners at 2010 Berlinale announced; Roman Polanski named top director [The Guardian]
Film Comment Selects lineup announced [The New York Times]
Full lineup for South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival announced
Deaths
Singer-actress Kathryn Grayson dies [The Guardian]
British character actor Lionel Jeffries dies [The New York Times]
In Other News
Musical version of Pedro Almodóvar film comes to Lincoln Center Theater [The New York Times]
Quentin Tarantino saves New Beverly Cinema in L.A. [The Hollywood Reporter]
Oscar-nominated German cinematographer subject of retrospective at Cinémathèque française [The Criterion Current]
Roger Ebert regains voice after 2007 surgery [The Guardian]
AMC chain considers protest of Alice in Wonderland following news of early DVD release [The Los Angeles Times]
Anthony Hopkins painting exhibit goes on display in London [The Guardian]
Sean Penn charged with battery and vandalism in L.A. [Yahoo]
Play centered on Tallulah Bankhead hits Broadway [The New York Times]
Barbara Walters announces last Oscar interview special [Yahoo]
Weekly Awards Round-Up - Feb. 15-21, 2010
The Writers Guild of America announced the winners of their awards on Feb. 20. Mark Boal won Best Original Screenplay for The Hurt Locker, while Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner won Best Adapted Screenplay for Up in the Air. Best Documentary Screenplay went to Mark Monrow for The Cove. More information can be found here.
The winners of the London Critics Circle Awards were announced on Feb. 18, and they include A Prophet for Best Film and Fish Tank for Best British Film. [The Guardian]
A Serious Man was named Best Film of 2009 by the International Cinephile Society on Feb. 17. Indiewire has the complete list of winners.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences held its Scientific and Technical Awards on Feb. 20. [Yahoo]
At the Academy Award nominees luncheon on Feb. 15, Oscar telecast producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic suggested that the nominees have two acceptance speeches prepared for March 7 - the first being something fun and/or inspirational, about what winning the award means personally and leaves out the "boring" laundry list of thank-yous; the second being said laundry list, which the nominees can read off into a "Thank You Cam" as they exit the stage at the Kodak Theater.
At the luncheon, Shankman and Mechanic also announced that the five nominees for the Best Original Song Academy Award will not be performed at this year's ceremony. [Deadline Hollywood]
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Weekly News Round-Up - Feb. 8-14, 2010
Films in the Works
Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Watchmen, P.S. I Love You) will star in the psychological thriller The Unblinking Eye as a retired detective who was nearly murdered by a serial killer. [Hollywood Reporter]
Penelope Cruz is in talks to join Johnny Depp for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides for Nine director Rob Marshall. [Yahoo] Multiple sources are also reporting that Cruz will star in the psychological drama Melancholia for filmmaker Lars von Trier (Dancer in the Dark, Antichrist). [The Playlist]
Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law and Marion Cotillard will star in the action-thriller Contagion for director Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Che). [The Playlist]
Warner Bros. is using filmmaker Christopher Nolan (Memento, The Dark Knight) as a "mentor" for the latest Superman film. He has also started preliminary work on his highly-anticipated third Batman film. [Deadline Hollywood]
New Line Cinema is looking to restart its Vacation franchise, starting with a film that puts Clark Griswold's son, Rusty, at the center of the story. Chevy Chase is expected to reprise his role, now as a grandfather, in some capacity. [Coming Soon] New Line is also moving forward with its remake of the 1981 action film Escape From New York. [New York Magazine]
Cate Blanchett is joining Eric Bana and Saoirse Ronan for director Joe Wright's Hanna; Katherine Heigl will star in the adaptation of the Janet Evanovich novel One for the Money; Amber Tamblyn will co-star with James Franco in director Danny Boyle's 127 Hours. [Coming Soon] Kate Mara is also in talks to co-star in 127 Hours. [Hollywood Reporter]
Glenn Close will star in, co-produce and has co-written an adaptation of the play The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs, a drama about a woman (Close) in 19th-century Ireland who disguises herself as a man to survive. Rodrigo Garcia will direct the film, with Orlando Bloom, Michael Gambon and Janet McTeer co-starring. [Screen Daily]
Alicia Silverstone is reuniting with Clueless writer-director Amy Heckerling for Vamps, about two female vampires who must make immortality-jeopardizing decisions when love enters the picture. [Coming Soon]
Kevin Costner will direct and star in a World War II action-adventure film based on the novel A Little War of Our Own by Dan Gordon. [Cinematical]
Tom Cruise will return to the role of Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible 4. [Deadline Hollywood]
Madonna will direct W.E., which centers on King Edward VIII's affair with Wallis Simpson, who may be portrayed by Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air, The Departed). [Empire]
The next Spider-Man film can be added to the list of upcoming movies that will be released in 3D. [Hollywood Reporter]
Tim Robbins will play the father of the villainous Dr. Hector Hammond (Peter Sarsgaard) in the upcoming adaptation of Green Lantern. Ryan Reynolds has filled the titular role. [Hollywood Reporter]
Susan Sarandon is in talks to star in the feature film adaptation of the 1960s TV show "The Big Valley" as the matriarch of a ranching family in the 1870s, a role that was originally filled by Barbara Stanwyck. [Hollywood Reporter]
Rachel Weisz is joining Daniel Craig and Naomi Watts for director Jim Sheridan's thriller Dream House. [Empire]
Colin Firth and Matthew Macfadyen are joining Jim Sturgess in director Michael Winterbottom's drama The Promised Land. [Yahoo]
Jamie Bell, Judi Dench, Sally Hawkins and Imogen Poots are in talks to co-star in the latest adaptation of the Charlotte Bronte classic Jane Eyre. Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland) and Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds, Hunger) have already signed on as the leads. [Yahoo]
Pierce Brosnan, Ed Harris and Jim Gaffigan will star in the independent comedic thriller Salvation Boulevard, about a born-again Christian who finds himself on the run from fundamentalist members of his church that will do anything to protect their pastor. [Coming Soon]
Writer-director Bill Condon (Dreamgirls, Gods and Monsters) is adapting the novel The Song Is You into a music-infused film. [Deadline Hollywood]
Peter Bogdonavich will co-write and direct the film adaptation of the novel Turn of the Century, which follows a couple with three kids dealing with marriage issues in an alternate reality-based world. [Hollywood Reporter]
Bob Balaban, Catherine O'Hara, Vanessa Paradis, Adam Goldberg, Danny Huston and Jay Harrington will all lend their voices to the animated film A Monster in Paris, which follows a group of unlikely characters who team up to save the city from said monster. [Hollywood Reporter]
Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films) will co-star in the supernatural horror thriller The Apparition. [Shock Till You Drop]
Hugh Laurie (TV's "House") is in talks to star in the indie dramedy Oranges, about an older man who has an affair with a friend's daughter. [The Los Angeles Times]
Plans to develop a feature film based on Fox's hit TV show "24" are moving forward. [Coming Soon]
Mike Newell (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Donnie Brasco) will write and direct an as-yet-untitled film about the mysterious death of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko for Warner Bros. [Coming Soon]
Sean Bean, Dougray Scott and Robert Vaughan will star in The Magnificent Eleven, a modern update on the classic western The Magnificent Seven (which in turn is a remake of Akira Kurosawa's classic Seven Samurai). [Screen Daily]
Warner Bros. is planning the latest adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel The Three Musketeers. [Coming Soon]
Regency Enterprises is putting a "reboot" of the Brad Pitt-Angelina Jolie Mr. and Mrs. Smith into development. [New York Magazine]
Universal is remaking the 1982 comedy The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, which starred Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton. [Coming Soon]
Russell Brand will star as a millionaire soccer player who gets arrested and sentenced to community service in Texas in an untitled project for Warner Bros. [Deadline Hollywood]
Taylor Lautner will star in the drama Abduction, about a teen who feels disconnected from his parents and discovers why. [Deadline Hollywood]
Breaking Dawn, the last part of the Twilight saga, will be split into two films. [Deadline Hollywood]
Industry News
Lionsgate and The Weinstein Co. have been revealed as two of the bidders for Disney's Miramax Studios, which recently closed its offices. Lionsgate is also one of the potential buyers of fledgling studio MGM. [Yahoo]
New Yorker Films, the 44-year-old independent film distribution company that previously announced plans to close up shop, will go on after Aladdin Distribution LLC bought its extensive library, which includes Jean Luc Godard's classic Breathless in addition to films by Bernardo Bertolucci, Federico Fellini and Akira Kurosawa. [The New York Times]
Hong Kong company Imagi International Holdings Ltd. has announced that it has shut down its computer animation studio, Imagi Studios, which helped produce the films TMNT and Astro Boy. [Yahoo]
Film Festivals
Directors Quentin Tarantino and Michel Gondry will each be part of one of over 80 panels at the upcoming South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival. [The New York Times]
The Berlin Film Festival started on Feb. 11 and will run through the 21st. The festival included the first screening of the restored full-length director's cut of Fritz Lang's 1927 classic Metropolis. [The Guardian]
Deaths
Stuntman and actor Bobby Hoy (Spartacus, The Defiant Ones) died on Feb. 8 from cancer. He was 82. [The Los Angeles Times]
Texas congressman Charles Wilson, who was portrayed by Tom Hanks in the 2007 film Charlie Wilson's War, died on Feb. 10 from a heart attack. He was 76. [The Guardian]
In Other News
Conservationists in Los Angeles are trying to raise $5.5 million by April to ensure that the land around the historic Hollywood sign becomes a park. [The New York Times]
Entertainers Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin will receive stars on the Las Vegas Walk of Stars in a ceremony on Feb. 22. [Yahoo]
The annual Toy Fair was held in New York on Feb. 14, and included new toys from major film releases such as Toy Story 3, Iron Man 2, Shrek Forever After and The Last Airbender. [Yahoo]
The French band Phoenix will provide the soundtrack to filmmaker Sofia Coppola's upcoming movie Sometime. [Prefix]
Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch (Dead Man, Coffee and Cigarettes) will curate the Sunday lineup of the music festival All Tomorrow's Parties in New York. [Stereogum]
Non Plus One, a six-minute short film for clothing brand Opening Ceremony starring Jason Schwartzman and Kirsten Dunst, and directed by Gia Coppola (Francis Ford Coppola's granddaughter) and Tracy Antonopoulos, has been released online. The short also features a song by Schwartzman's Coconut Records. [Style.com]
Oscar-winning actor Louis Gossett Jr. (An Officer and a Gentleman) has announced that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. He says he is expected to fully recover. [Yahoo]
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are suing the British tabloid News of the World for claiming that they are looking into a multi-million dollar split. [Yahoo]
A play centering on the life of legendary film producer Robert Evans (The Godfather, Rosemary's Baby) is in the works. [The New York Times]
Film blogs, including Speaking of Cinema, are uniting Feb. 14-21 as part of "For the Love of Film: The Film Preservation Blogathon," which will help raise awareness and money for the National Film Preservation Foundation. More information can be found at the blogathon's main page and Facebook page.
Weekly Awards Round-Up - Feb. 8-14, 2010
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will broadcast a live stream of its Oscar nominees luncheon on Feb. 15 on its Facebook page, Oscars.org and Livestream.com. The stream will start at 11:30 a.m. Pacific time. More information can be found here.
Actress Elizabeth Banks (Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Definitely Maybe) will host the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Scientific and Technical Awards on Feb. 20. More information can be found here.
Penelope Cruz, Sean Penn and Kate Winslet, who all won acting Oscars last year, will be presenters at the Academy Awards on March 7. More information can be found here.
To increase its Best Adapted Oscar chances and generally promote the film, IFC has released the full screenplay for In the Loop on its website, along with a note from co-writer/director Armando Iannucci.
British actress Vanessa Redgrave will receive an Academy Fellowship from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts on Feb. 21, as part of the annual BAFTA Awards. [Yahoo]
The thriller Cell 211 won eight trophies - including Best Film - at the Goya Awards, Spain's equivalent of the Oscars, on Feb. 14. The historical drama Agora won seven awards, including Best Original Screenplay. [Yahoo]
The Art Directors Guild announced the winners of its annual awards on Feb. 13. Best Period Film Art Direction went to Sarah Greenwood for Sherlock Holmes; Best Fantasy Film Art Direction went to Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg for Avatar; and Best Contemporary Film Art Direction went to Karl Juliusson for The Hurt Locker. More information can be found here.
The American Cinema Editors announced the winners of their annual Eddie Awards on Feb. 14. Best Drama Film Editing went to Bob Murawski and Chris Innis for The Hurt Locker; Best Comedy Film Editing went to Debra Neil-Fisher for The Hangover; Best Animated Film Editing went to Kevin Nolting for Up; and Best Documentary Editing went to Geoffrey Richman for The Cove. More information and the complete list of nominees can be found here.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Weekly Awards Round-Up - Feb. 1-7, 2010
The nominees for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards were announced on Feb. 2. View the complete list here.
The nominations for this year's Razzies, which honor the worst in film, have also been announced. All About Steve, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Land of the Lost, Old Dogs and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen were nominated for Worst Picture.
Worst Director: Michael Bay (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen), Walt Becker (Old Dogs), Brad Silberling (Land of the Lost), Stephen Sommers (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra), Phil Traill (All About Steve)
Worst Screenplay: Kim Barker (All About Steve); Stuart Beattie, David Elliot & Paul Lovett (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra); Chris Henchy & Dennis McNicholas (Land of the Lost); Ehren Kruger, Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen); Melissa Rosenberg (Twilight Saga: New Moon)
Worst Actor: Will Ferrell (Land of the Lost), The Jonas Brothers (Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience), Steve Martin (Pink Panther 2), Eddie Murphy (Imagine That), John Travolta (Old Dogs)
Worst Actress: Sandra Bullock (All About Steve), Miley Cyrus (Hannah Montana: The Movie), Megan Fox (Jennifer's Body and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen), Beyonce Knowles (Obsessed), Sarah Jessica Parker (Did You Hear About the Morgans?)
Worst Supporting Actor: Billy Ray Cyrus (Hannah Montana: The Movie), Hugh Hefner (Miss March), Robert Pattinson (Twilight Saga: New Moon), Jorma Taccone (Land of the Lost), Marlon Wayans (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra)
Worst Supporting Actress: Candice Bergen (Bride Wars), Ali Larter (Obsessed), Sienna Miller (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra), Kelly Preston (Old Dogs), Julie White (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen)
Worst Screen Couple: Sandra Bullock & Bradley Cooper (All About Steve); Will Ferrell & any co-star, creature or "comic riff" (Land of the Lost); any two (or more) Jonas Brothers (Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience); Shia LaBeouf & either Megan Fox or any Transformer (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen); Kristin Stewart & Robert Pattinson or Taylor Lautner (Twilight Saga: New Moon)
Worst Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Land of the Lost, Pink Panther 2, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Twilight Saga: New Moon
They also announced the nominees for the Worst in Film for the 2000s. The Worst Picture of the Decade Razzie nominees are Battlefield Earth, Freddy Got Fingered, Gigli, I Know Who Killed Me and Swept Away.
Worst Actor of the Decade: Ben Affleck (Daredevil, Gigli, Jersey Girl, Paycheck, Pearl Harbor, Surviving Christmas), Eddie Murphy (Adventures of Pluto Nash, I Spy, Imagine That, Meet Dave, Norbit, Showtime), Mike Myers (Cat in the Hat, The Love Guru), Rob Schneider (The Animal, Benchwarmers, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, Grandma's Boy, The Hot Chick, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, Little Man, Little Nicky), John Travolta (Battlefield Earth, Domestic Disturbance, Lucky Numbers, Old Dogs, Swordfish)
Worst Actress of the Decade: Mariah Carey (Glitter), Paris Hilton (The Hottie & the Nottie, House of Wax, Repo: The Genetic Opera), Lindsay Lohan (Herbie Fully Loaded, I Know Who Killed Me, Just My Luck), Jennifer Lopez (Angel Eyes, Enough, Gigli, Jersey Girl, Maid in Manhattan, Monster-in-Law, The Wedding Planner), Madonna (Die Another Day, The Next Best Thing, Swept Away)
The "winners" will be announced in March, and more information can be found here.
The winners of this year's Annie Awards, which honor the best in animation, have been announced and include Up, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Coraline and The Princess and the Frog. The complete list of winners can be found here.
Justin Timberlake received his "Man of the Year" pudding pot from Harvard's Hasty Pudding theatrical troupe on Feb. 5. [Yahoo]
Weekly News Round-Up - Feb. 1-7, 2010
*Headline Only Edition - I was short on time this week, so I will only be posting headlines and links to the stories as opposed to blurbs.*
Johnny Depp to direct Keith Richards doc [Coming Soon]
Russell Crowe and Beyonce linked to latest incarnation of A Star Is Born [Empire]
Terrence Malick to direct all-star romance [Empire]
Hugh Jackman to co-star in Chinese film [Empire]
Next Bourne = prequel? [Empire]
Daredevil reboot is a go [Deadline Hollywood]
Watchmen 2 in the works [Empire]
Colin Firth would do Bridget Jones 3 [Empire]
Enchanted 2 is a go [Empire]
More Burke & Hare cast revealed [Empire]
Orlando Bloom is the Good Doctor [Hollywood Reporter]
Eric Bana in Hanna [Hollywood Reporter]
Danny Glover in Dragon Fire [Empire]
Taylor Lautner = Stretch Armstrong [Hollywood Reporter]
Another Nicholas Sparks novel-based movie in the works [The Los Angeles Times]
Sam Worthington to star in The Fields [Coming Soon]
Whoopi Goldberg & Kathy Bates are Earthbound [Empire]
Another take on The Thing [Hollywood Reporter]
Cast for the upcoming Soul Surfers announced [Empire]
Paranormal Activity and Saw creators team up for Insidious [Cinematical]
Olivia Wilde will co-star in Cowboys & Aliens [Hollywood Reporter]
Greg Kinnear, Alan Arkin & Billy Crudup to co-star in crime drama The Convincer [Coming Soon]
Ginnifer Goodwin to star in Something Borrowed [Coming Soon]
McG to direct This Means War [Cinematical]
Danny McBride will star in L.A.P.I. [Empire]
Industry News
Sony Pictures laying off 450 employees [Yahoo]
Fox files lawsuits against several DVD pirates [The New York Times]
Film Festivals
Rotterdam International Film Festival announces award-winners [Indiewire]
South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival reveals its lineup [The New York Times]
True/False Film Festival reveals its lineup [Columbia Missourian]
Deaths
Producer David Brown died on Feb. 1 [The New York Times]
Actor Ian Carmichael died on Feb. 5 [The Guardian]
In Other News
Vacation series' Griswolds return as part of super bowl promotion [Entertainment Weekly]
Batman & Robin tops list of Worst Movies of All Time [Hollywood Reporter]
Rare Marilyn Monroe photos auctioned [Yahoo]
Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor granted knighthood in France [Yahoo]
Actors Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard engaged [Yahoo]
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
82nd Annual Academy Award Nominations
Actress Anne Hathaway (Rachel Got Married, The Princess Diaries) and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak announced the nominees for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards this morning (Feb. 2).Here they are:
Best Picture: Avatar, The Blind Side, District 9, An Education, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, Precious, A Serious Man, Up, Up in the Air
Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker), James Cameron (Avatar), Lee Daniels (Precious), Jason Reitman (Up in the Air), Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
Best Original Screenplay: Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker), Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman (The Messenger), Joel & Ethan Coen (A Serious Man), Pete Docter, Bob Peterson & Tom McCarthy (Up), Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)
Best 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)
Best Actor: Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart), George Clooney (Up in the Air), Colin Firth (A Single Man), Morgan Freeman (Invictus), Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker)
Best Actress: Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side), Helen Mirren (The Last Station), Carey Mulligan (An Education), Gabourey Sidibe (Precious), Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia)
Best Supporting Actor: Matt Damon (Invictus), Woody Harrelson (The Messenger), Christopher Plummer (The Last Station), Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones), Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)
Best Supporting Actress: Penélope Cruz (Nine), Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air), Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart), Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air), Mo'Nique (Precious)
Best Foreign Film: Ajami, The Milk of Sorrow, A Prophet, The Secret in Their Eyes, The White Ribbon
Best Documentary: Burma VJ, The Cove, Food, Inc., The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, Which Way Home
Best Animated Feature: Coraline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Princess and the Frog, The Secret of Kells, Up
Best Animated Short: French Roast, Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty, The Lady and the Reaper, Logorama, A Matter of Loaf and Death
Best Live-Action Short: The Door, Instead of Abracadabra, Kavi, Miracle Fish, The New Tenants
Best Documentary Short: China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province, The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner, The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant, Music by Prudence, Rabbit a la Berlin
Best Editing: James Cameron, John Refoua & Stephen Rivkin (Avatar); Julian Clarke (District 9); Chris Innis & Bob Murawski (The Hurt Locker); Joe Klotz (Precious); Sally Menke (Inglourious Basterds)
Best Cinematography: Barry Ackroyd (The Hurt Locker), Christian Berger (The White Ribbon), Bruno Delbonnel (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), Mauro Fiore (Avatar), Robert Richardson (Inglourious Basterds)
Best Art Direction: Rick Carter, Kim Sinclair & Robert Stromberg (Avatar); Maggie Gray & Patrice Vermette (The Young Victoria); Sarah Greenwood & Katie Spencer (Sherlock Holmes); Anastasia Masaro, Caroline Smith & Dave Warren (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus); John Myhre & Gordon Sim (Nine)
Best Costume Design: Colleen Atwood (Nine), Catherine Leterrier (Coco Before Chanel), Janet Patterson (Bright Star), Sandy Powell (The Young Victoria), Monique Prudhomme (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus)
Best Makeup: Barney Burman, Mindy Hall & Joel Harlow (Star Trek); Jon Henry Gordon & Jenny Shircore (The Young Victoria); Aldo Signoretti & Vittorio Sodano (Il Divo)
Best 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)
Best Sound Mixing: Ray Beckett & Paul N.J. Ottosson (The Hurt Locker); Anna Behlmer, Peter J. Devlin & Andy Nelson (Star Trek); Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson & Tony Johnson (Avatar); Tony Lamberti, Michael Minkler & Mark Ulano (Inglourious Basterds); Geoffrey Patterson, Greg P. Russell & Gary Summers (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen)
Best Sound Editing: Christopher Boyes & Gwendolyn Yates Whittle (Avatar), Tom Myers & Michael Silvers (Up), Paul N.J. Ottosson (The Hurt Locker), Alan Rankin & Mark Stoeckinger (Star Trek), Wylie Stateman (Inglourious Basterds)
Best Score: Marco Beltrami & Buck Sanders (The Hurt Locker), Alexandre Desplat (Fantastic Mr. Fox), Michael Giacchino (Up), James Horner (Avatar), Hans Zimmer (Sherlock Holmes)
Best Song: "Almost There" (The Princess and the Frog), "Down in New Orleans" (The Princess and the Frog), "Loin de Paname" (Paris 36), "Take It All" (Nine), "The Weary Kind" (Crazy Heart)
We will post our choices for the winners closer to March 7, when the Oscars will take place and air live on ABC. More information can be found here.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Weekly News Round-Up - Jan. 25-31, 2010
Films in the Works
The final two Harry Potter films will be released in theaters in 3D. [Hollywood Reporter]
Robert De Niro will play Alabama Governor George Wallace in director Lee Daniels' (Precious) upcoming Civil Rights drama Selma. [Deadline Hollywood via Coming Soon]
Zachary Quinto (Star Trek, TV's "Heroes") is likely to play composer George Gershwin in an upcoming biopic for director Steven Spielberg. [Deadline Hollywood]
Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige has revealed that the Hulk will be a part of the upcoming big screen version of The Avengers. He said they would attempt to get Edward Norton to return to the role that he played in The Incredible Hulk. As previously announced, he would be joining Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Thor (Chris Hemsworth - the film will be released in 2011), Captain America and Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson, who has appeared in Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk). [Superhero Hype]
James Bobin (co-creator of TV's "Flight of the Conchords") has signed on to direct the latest Muppet movie, written by Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller. [Hollywood Reporter]
Mel Gibson is in talks to star in the thriller Cold Warrior, which tells the story of a Cold War era spy and a younger spy teaming up to address a Russian terrorism threat. [Coming Soon]
Olivia Newton-John will play a hockey mom in Score: A Hockey Musical. She will also co-write a new song for the film's closing credits. [Yahoo]
Lucasfilm's next project will be a CGI-animated musical about fairies, written by David Berenbaum (Elf, The Spiderwick Chronicles) and directed by Kevin Munroe (TMNT, the upcoming Dead of Night). [Hollywood Reporter]
Will Ferrell is developing an American remake of the French romantic comedy I Do: How to Get Married and Stay Single. [Pajiba]
Instead of directing the comic book adaptation Lobo, Guy Ritchie's next project will be Sherlock Holmes 2, according to producer Joel Silver. [The Los Angeles Times]
Seth Rogen (Knocked Up) and Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain) will co-star in writer-director Sarah Polley's Take This Waltz, which is described as a film about a romantic triangle. [Deadline Hollywood]
James Marsden (27 Dresses, the X-Men films) and Russell Brand (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) will co-star in the part live-action, part CG-animated comedy I Hop, which tells the story of an unemployed slacker (Marsden) who injures the Easter Bunny (voiced by Brand). [Hollywood Reporter]
A new still from Disney-Pixar's Toy Story 3 has been released, in addition to some concept art from Cars 2. [Coming Soon] Coming Soon also has a new still from Iron Man 2.
Demi Moore and Miley Cyrus are in talks to star in a remake of the French film L.O.L.: Laughing Out Loud. Lisa Azuelos-Alessandrin, who directed the original, will also direct the remake. [Coming Soon]
Zac Efron will executive produce and star in the graphic novel adaptation Fire, a spy thriller. He is also attached to star in a "Back to the Future-like film." [Deadline Hollywood]
Playtone (Tom Hanks' production company) is developing a project about L.A.'s Comedy Store, a legendary comedy club where Eddie Murphy, David Letterman, Chevy Chase and Jim Carrey (just to name a few) performed stand-up early in their careers. The film would focus on Comedy Store founder Mitzi Shore (who is also Pauly Shore's mother). [Pajiba]
John C. Reilly and Tilda Swinton will co-star in the film adaptation of the novel We Need to Talk About Kevin, which centers on an estranged couple whose son has committed a mass murder. [Movieline]
Guy Pearce (Memento) and Mary-Louise Parker (TV's "Weeds") will star in the psychological drama The Well, which is actor Tim Guinee's directorial debut. [Empire]
Nicholas Hoult (About a Boy, A Single Man) is in negotiations to join Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Zoe Kravitz, Teresa Palmer and Adelaide Clemens in Fury Road, the latest installment of the Mad Max series. [Hollywood Reporter]
Paz Vega (Spanglish, Talk to Her) and Daniel Bruhl (Inglourious Basterds, The Edukators) will co-star in Castro's Daughter, based on the memoir Exile's Memoir of Cuba by Alina Fernandez, an illegitimate daughter of Fidel Castro and one of his critics. [Empire]
Kyra Sedgwick and Vincent D'Onofrio will co-star in the indie dramedy Chlorine, about a New England family struggling to keep up their well-off lifestyle. [Yahoo]
Gavin Hood (Tsotsi, X-Men Origins: Wolverine) is in talks to direct an untitled Alaskan adventure film based on the novel The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic, which tells the true story behind a group of 20 men and 200 dogs that delivered a diphtheria antidote to Nome, Alaska, in 1952. [Hollywood Reporter]
Last week, Lionsgate announced that they would be adapting the parenting book What to Expect When You're Expecting into a film. This week, DreamWorks announced that they're doing the same with Eat, Sleep, Poop: A Common Sense Guide to Your Baby's First Year. [Hollywood Reporter]
Industry News
Legendary arthouse movie studio Miramax closed its doors on Jan. 28, but it looks as though Disney will be selling off what's left of the company. We have more information here.
Warner Bros. is looking to buy Leavesden Studios in England (where its Harry Potter films along with parts of The Dark Knight and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory were shot) in order to create a European production hub. [Empire]
Overture Films (The Visitor, Capitalism: A Love Story) has announced a 90-day hold on development that will allow for its parent companies, Liberty Media and Starz, to review the independent film studio's finances and practices. [Yahoo]
The British Film Institute (BFI) and the UK Film Council are planning a merger. [The Guardian]
Film Festivals
The award winners at this year's Sundance Film Festival were announced on Jan. 30. The jury winners are Winter's Bone (U.S. Dramatic Competition), Restrepo (U.S. Documentary Competition), Animal Kingdom (World Cinema Dramatic Competition) and The Red Chapel (World Cinema Documentary Competition). The audience winners are HappyThankYouMorePlease (U.S. Dramatic), Waiting for Superman (U.S. Documentary), Undertow (World Dramatic) and Wasteland (World Documentary). More information and the complete list of winners can be found at Indiewire.
Organizers have announced that director Tim Burton will be president of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival this May. [The Guardian]
German filmmaker Werner Herzog (Fitzcarraldo, Rescue Dawn) will preside over the International Jury at the 2010 Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival). The other jury members are Italian filmmaker Francesca Comencini, Somalian author Nuruddin Farah, German actress Cornelia Froboess, Spanish producer José Maria Morales, Chinese actress Yu Nan and American actress Renee Zellweger. German filmmaker Michael Verhoeven will be the head of the Best First Feature Jury. The other members are American actor Ben Foster and Malaysian producer Lorna Tee. More information can be found here.
Deaths
Author J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey), whose short story "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" was turned into the film My Foolish Heart, died of natural causes on Jan. 27. He was 91. [The New York Times]
Actress Zelda Rubinstein (Poltergeist, Sixteen Candles) also died of natural causes on Jan. 27. She was 76. [The Los Angeles Times]
Award-winning film editor Karen Schmeer (Sergio, The Fog of War, Sketches of Frank Gehry) died on Jan. 29 after being hit by a car that was fleeing a burglary in Manhattan. She was 39. [Indiewire]
In Other News
Turner Classic Movies (TCM) has come up with a list of the "15 Most Influential Film Soundtracks" - King Kong (1933), Alexander Nevsky (1938), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Blackboard Jungle (1955), The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), Psycho (1960), A Hard Day's Night (1964), Goldfinger (1964), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), The Graduate (1967), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Shaft (1971), American Graffiti (1973), Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Star Wars (1977). More information about the soundtracks can be found here.
In an annual Harris Poll, Clint Eastwood has been named "America's Favorite Movie Star," just ahead of Johnny Depp, Denzel Washington, Sandra Bullock, Tom Hanks, George Clooney, John Wayne, Meryl Streep, Morgan Freeman and Julia Roberts. More information can be found here.
Johnny Depp and his partner, singer-actress Vanessa Paradis, will be part of a charity cover of "I Put a Spell on You" for earthquake relief in Haiti led by The Pogues' frontman Shane MacGowan. The musician Nick Cave, who has co-written scores for films including The Proposition and The Road, will also participate. [The Guardian]
John Travolta flew his Boeing 707 from Florida to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to deliver six tons of relief supplies, doctors and ministers from the Church of Scientology to help victims of the Jan. 12 earthquake. [Yahoo]
Actor Rip Torn (Men in Black, Cross Creek) was arrested after allegedly breaking into a Connecticut bank with a loaded gun while intoxicated. [Yahoo]
The Iron Man 2 soundtrack will solely feature 15 songs by AC/DC. [Spinner]
Without adjusting for inflation, Avatar has become the highest-grossing film worldwide of all time, surpassing Titanic. [Hollywood.com]
Actor James McAvoy and his wife, actress Anne-Marie Duff (The Last Station), are expecting their first child. [UK Press Association]
Director Spike Jonze's (Being John Malkovich, Where the Wild Things Are) short film I'm Here, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, will air on IFC sometime later this year. [Entertainment Weekly]
Actress Ashley Judd (Kiss the Girls, Double Jeopardy) is writing her first memoir, which details how some of her childhood experiences led her to become an advocate for abandoned women and children in poor countries. [Yahoo]
The Criterion Collection has launched a YouTube channel, which features trailers for many of its films.
Weekly Awards Round-Up - Jan. 25-31, 2010
The Directors Guild of America held its awards ceremony on Jan. 30. Kathryn Bigelow won Best Feature Film Director (the first woman to do so) for The Hurt Locker. Louie Psihoyos won the award for Best Documentary Direction for The Cove. Norman Jewison was given the Lifetime Achievement Award. More information can be found here.
The Grammy winners were announced on Jan. 31. In the film-related categories, the winners are "Jai Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Michael Giacchino for Best Score for Up, and Slumdog Millionaire again for Best Soundtrack. More information can be found here.
Anne Hathaway received her pudding pot and was honored with a parade on Jan. 28 for being named Woman of the Year by Hasty Pudding Theatricals, Harvard's undergraduate theatre troupe. Justin Timberlake has been named Man of the Year, and will receive his honor on Feb. 5. More information can be found here. Hathaway will also announce the nominees for this year's Academy Awards alongside Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak on Feb. 2. The winners will be announced at the 82nd annual ceremony on March 7, which will air live on ABC. More information can be found here.
Friday, January 29, 2010
R.I.P. Miramax Films, 1979-2010?
The offices of legendary arthouse movie studio Miramax closed their doors on Jan. 28. Founders Harvey and Bob Weinstein, who left the studio in 2005 and formed The Weinstein Company, recently expressed interest in buying their former company back from Disney, but Disney chief Bob Iger set a price of $1.5 billion, which is probably too high, considering the issues the Weinsteins have been having at their own company.
However, the Weinstein bros. might have been motivated enough to find the funds to get back their old name through sheer nostalgia and force of will. They started Miramax in 1979 and named it after their parents, Miriam and Max. They sold the studio to Disney in 1993. Due to budget restraints and disagreements with Michael Eisner, who was then the head of Disney, the Weinsteins left in 2005 and haven't really looked back until now. When they left the studio they left the name and the studio's film library behind.
Throughout the years, Miramax has produced and distributed such critically acclaimed films as Sex, Lies and Videotape, The Crying Game, The Piano, Clerks, Pulp Fiction, The English Patient, Sling Blade, Trainspotting, Good Will Hunting, Life Is Beautiful, The Cider House Rules, Shakespeare in Love, Chocolat, Bridget Jones's Diary, Amelie, City of God, Chicago, The Aviator and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. The Weinsteins and Miramax are at least partly responsible for launching the careers of filmmakers Steven Soderbergh, Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith, and have been an important force in bringing foreign films to American filmgoers. The face of independent cinema, and cinema as a whole, over the last 20 years would not be the same without Miramax's contributions. The legacy of the studio will not be forgotten.
Here's a highlight reel, circa 2003:
Miramax's six current projects, which include the romantic drama Last Night (starring Keira Knightley) and director Julie Taymor's take on William Shakespeare's The Tempest with Helen Mirren, will either be scrapped, get a very limited release in theaters or head straight to DVD. More information about projects they had in the works can be found on their website, and you can scroll through their impressive list of "Signature Films" at the bottom of the page.
*Update, Jan. 31* According to the latest news report, Disney is looking to sell off what's left of Miramax for around $700 million, attracting "seven to 10 bidders." Hopefully one of those bidders (and the winning one) is the Weinsteins.
Sources
On Miramax closing: The Wrap
On The Weinstein Co.'s financial issues: Deadline Hollywood
On the Weinstein bros.' desire to buy back Miramax: Deadline Hollywood
List of films released by Miramax: WikipediaSunday, 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.
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.
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