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January 2012
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Awards Daily Readers’ Poll Best Films of 2011 →
Choose your 10 favorite films of 2011, after the cut.
(Select up to 10 titles)
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December 2011
16 posts
Oscars 2012 – For Your Consideration and Happy... →
As we ease into Christmas weekend several dates you should be aware of. In many ways, the whole Oscar race is being decided in the next two weeks.
Noms – Winners (key dates)
12/14 -…
The Descendants, Drive, Tree of Life win Satellite... →
BEST PICTURE
The Descendants
BEST DIRECTOR
Nicolas Winding Refn – Drive
BEST ACTOR
Ryan Gosling – Drive
BEST ACTRESS
Viola Davis – The Help BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Albert Brooks –…
BAFTA Eligible Films List →
The BAFTA list of films entered for this year’s awards has only two notable omissions that I can spot, Albert Nobbs and Le Havre.
Significant contenders categorized as British films: Arthur…
The Artist Takes the Lead in Oscar’s Best Picture... →
If there were any doubts before, there are no doubts now. The black and white silent French film, The Artist, has taken the lead in this year’s Best Picture race, according to we Gurus…
Carey Mulligan on the Cover of W →
Source: Justjared
Mulligan on Shame:
When I read the script, I found it terrifying. My English agents sent it to me and said, “There’s this amazing part.” For me, as an actor, it…
Oscar Watch – The SAG Rule →
Right after the SAG noms, EW’s Dave Karger, who has been predicting The Artist to win since very early in the season, tweeted out “bad news for Hugo – no film in 15 years has won Best…
Indiana Film Critics Choose The Artist →
The Indiana Film Journalists Association has named The Artist best picture of 2011, also awarding it best director for Michel Hazanavicius and best score for Ludovic Bource.
Best Film of the Year
Winner: The Artist
15 Films to Compete for Visual Effects, The Apes... →
“Captain America: The First Avenger”
“Cowboys & Aliens”
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2″
“Hugo”
“Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol”
“Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides”
Oscarwatch: Andy Serkis – A Motion Capture Ape is... →
We’re counting down the best performances of the year here at Awards Daily (we’ll also do that with Picture and Director, hopefully). We’re starting with number 5 of our top five and it…
Meryl Streep in a new trailer for The Iron Lady →
(Thanks, Arnian.)
The State of the Race — Now is the Winter of Our... →
Every year, hope springs eternal until the awards actually start being handed out. The disappointment of not seeing your favorite film remembered and awarded is probably the worst part of the…
Cahiers du Cinéma’s Top Ten list for 2011 →
Now for something completely different. We’re nothing if not completionists.
1. Habemus Papam (We Have a Pope), Nanni Moretti
2. L’Etrange affaire Angélica (The Strange Case of Angelica), Manoel…
BFCA Scores: Artist, Hugo, Shame, War Horse →
More scores have come in at BFCA in the past two weeks. They’re still missing two major players: Extremely Loud and Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Apart from those, we now have a fairly comprehensive…
The State of the Race: First out of the Gate →
The decision to move the New York Film Critics up to be announced before the National Board of Review was an interesting experiment. I don’t know if it will prove worthwhile when all is said…
National Board of Review Preview (and No Guts, No... →
Tomorrow, the National Board of Review announces its top ten. Although the New York Film Critics stole their thunder, and many of my colleagues write them off as being irrelevant, it’s…
November 2011
25 posts
Woman On Top: Streep Triumphs, Spirit Awards Shuts... →
Meryl Streep apparently won the New York Film Critics with no contest. Some rumblings that Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams were close, Viola Davis in the mix as well….
NYFCC Preview →
The New York Film critics will announce their awards tomorrow. The last film to screen for them was The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close was not…
Best Picture: And Along Came War Horse and Other... →
You know you’re in a very strange Oscar year when Martin Scorsese has delivered one of the sweetest films of the year. But it isn’t alone in its sentimentality.
Maybe blame it on the…
Best Actress Roundtable →
Glenn Close, Charlize Theron, Carey Mulligan, Michelle Williams, Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer.
(from THR. thanks phantom!)
Happy Thanksgiving and Giving Thanks →
It is always this time of year when it occurs to me how many people there are in the world who make my life better, make the world better, and extend themselves beyond their daily routine to do…
Paramount links Howard Shore’s Hugo soundtrack →
Paramount has made available 20 tracks from Howard Shore’s score for Hugo. Links after the cut.
http://www.paramountguilds.com/music/hugo/1.mp3 http://www.paramountguilds.…
Michelle Williams Praised for Her Performance in... →
I’m guessing that the way to evaluate Michelle Williams in My Week with Marilyn is not so much to judge her on whether or not she lives up to the Monroe legend, but whether she delivers a…
“Hello, Dave” — Site Access Status Check →
HAL: It can only be attributable to human error.
This time of year Awards Daily readers are treated to a flood of trailers and clips, flashy FYC ads decorate the sidebars and banners,…
Predict the National Board of Review and New York... →
The New York Film Critics have decided to be first out of the gate (Nov. 28,29), just ahead of the National Board of Review (Dec 1).
We’re be doing a more in depth preview of the NBR and the…
TIME’s Richard Corliss on Hugo, “A Masterpiece” →
Richard Corliss’ review will appear in TIME’s Hollywood preview issue. I am transcribing it here.
Martin Scorsese made his rep as the fierce bard of American gangster machismo. From Mean…
Pixar’s first female lead in Brave, trailer →
More raves sweep ashore for The Descendants →
Already standing in strong position with the critics, The Descendants stock rises with raves today from A.O. Scott, Glenn Kenny and the rare 4-star review from Peter Travers.
The New York Times,…
Interview: Bridesmaids director Paul Feig sides... →
by Craig Kennedy, Living In Cinema
Up until this past summer, Paul Feig was probably best known for his work in television, either in front of the camera on such shows as Sabrina…
Harry Potter Campaign Full Steam Ahead – FYC Ad... →
Saw this one Santa Monica Boulevard.
Taking Yogi Berra to Moneyball →
From the Wall Street Journal’s Jason Gay:
Yogi Berra is here to see “Moneyball.”
Berra didn’t earn a ton of money playing baseball. The game was different then. When…
Steven Spielberg & John Williams: The Art of... →
AFI’s Master Class – The Art of Collaboration
Turner Classic Movies and the American Film Institute (AFI) are teaming up for an extraordinary series of quarterly specials exploring…
Hugo Enters the Best Picture Race →
Movieline’s Stu Van Airsdale has got his finger on the pulse of the race, or at least of our collective perceptions of the race. You know, Academy members simply fill the…
Brian Grazer Steps Up to Replace Brett Ratner as... →
[Breaking: The Academy has just announced that Brian Grazer has been chosen to produce the 84th Academy Awards with Don Mischer. This will be Grazer’s first outing as Oscar…
Academy Statement Regarding Brett Ratner →
Beverly Hills, CA – This morning, Brett Ratner submitted his resignation as a producer of the 84th annual Academy Awards to Academy President Tom Sherak. Ratner then issued an open…
The State of the Race – It isn’t the 1%, it’s the... →
My candle burns at both ends,
it will not last the night
But oh my foes, and oh my friends
it gives a lovely light
As we barrel towards the end of the year things start…
J Edgar is a Love Story with one of the Best... →
Eastwood’s movies weave a European mentality into our American mainstream. In Europe, in France especially, they are less anal about the three act structure, the protagonist’s…
European Film Awards Nominees →
EUROPEAN FILM 2011
THE ARTIST, France
LE GAMIN AU VELO (The Kid with a Bike), Belgium/France/Italy
HÆVNEN (In a Better World), Denmark
THE KING’S SPEECH, UK
LE HAVRE,…
18 Animated Films to Compete for Oscar →
And they are:
“The Adventures of Tintin”
“Alois Nebel”
“Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked”
“Arthur Christmas”
“Cars 2″
“A Cat in Paris”
“Chico & Rita”
“Gnomeo & Juliet” …
October 2011
12 posts
Ellen Barkin Steps Up as Producer, Star of Another... →
One of the best things about the Savannah Film Festival is that it can spotlight films that might not get attention at the bigger, more crowded film fests. One such film is…
LAFCA awards date & Doris Day Lifetime Acheivement →
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association announces it will vote to select its awards winners on Sunday December 11, and names Doris Day as this year’s career achievement honoree. Press…
Are You Ready to Go Back to Titanic? In 3-D Imax? →
Producer Jon Landau stood about five feet from me with writer/director Jim Cameron at Paramount this morning to show 18 minutes of footage from the newly revamped 3-D…
