By Erin V. With the 84th Academy Awards being announced tonight, I wanted to give my brief thoughts on the two categories I’m always watching. Best Original Song and Best Original Score. Enjoy! ___________________________________________ The nominees for Best Original Score are: The Adventures of Tintin – John Williams The Artist – Ludovic Bource Hugo… Read More The 84th Academy Awards: A Look at the Song & Score Nominees
Today, at noon EST, the International Film Music Critics Association announced their 8th annual awards for excellence in musical scoring. John Williams, who led the pack of nominations with a total of seven, wins five awards, including Film Score of the Year, and Film Composer of the Year. But the remarkable thing is that the… Read More 8th Annual IFMCA Award Winners Announced Today!
By John C. At this point in time, what more can we say about the forthcoming Oscars that hasn’t already been said? The simple truth is, there isn’t all that much commentary to add with the Academy Awards just under a week away and most predicting a clean sweep from the wonderful silent film, The Artist. … Read More Turning the Last Page on This Year’s Awards Season, Before the Oscars on Sunday
By John C. With the Academy Awards just under two weeks away, there is surprisingly little commentary or opinion to add at this point in the race. As many of the top categories appear easy to predict, all that we can really do is wait it out until we see who takes home the gold… Read More The Five Directors who will be Competing at the Oscars
At noon EST today, the International Film Music Critics Association (of which I am a member) announced its list of nominees for excellence in musical scoring in 2011. Leading the pack this year is veteran composer John Williams with 7 noms, including three each for War Horse and The Adventures of Tintin, as well as… Read More IFMCA Awards Nominations Announced Today
By John C. When you look at the box office numbers for the nine Best Picture nominees, The Help made the most money by a large margin, and The Artist is second only to The Tree of Life as the least profitable of the films. Compare this to last year when Best Picture winner The King’s… Read More For “The Artist,” Silence is Golden
The highest honour in the world of both film and television animation, the winners of the 39th annual Annie Awards were announced last night in Los Angeles. Gore Verbinski’s animated Oscar frontrunner Rango was the big winner, taking home five awards including Best Picture and Best Writing. Best Director went to Jennifer Yuh Nelson for Kung… Read More Winners of the 39th Annual Annie Awards
By John C. Last night, the Screen Actor’s Guild Awards seemed to be indicative of what we might end up seeing come Oscar night on February 26th. Christopher Plummer was once again confirmed as the frontrunner when he took home Best Supporting Actor for Beginners. Jean Dujardin shot to the front of the race when… Read More The Best Performances of the Year: Will the Screen Actors Guild Influence the Oscars?
As the nominations for the 84th annual Academy Awards were announced this past Tuesday, here are our brief thoughts on all nine of the nominees in the running for Best Picture. For future reference throughout the Oscar season, links to our full thoughts on each of these films are included in the titles, as well… Read More Reviews of the Best Picture Nominees
Presented by actress Jennifer Lawrence and Academy president Tom Sherak, the nominations for the 84th Annual Academy Awards were announced this morning. The nine films competing for the top prize of Best Picture are The Artist, The Descendants, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, The Help, Hugo, Midnight in Paris, Moneyball, The Tree of Life and… Read More Nominations for the 84th Annual Academy Awards
By John C. With the nominations for the 84th annual Academy Awards set to come bright and early tomorrow morning, it might be the only time throughout this awards season that we get a proper surprise. I expect to see several nominations for The Artist, The Descendants and Hugo, which are the films that make… Read More Predictions and Dreams for Tomorrow’s Oscar Nominations
The nominations for the 32nd Annual Genie Awards were announced today in Toronto, by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. Honouring the best of 2011 in Canadian film, the five films nominated for Best Picture were A Dangerous Method, Café de Flore, Monsieur Lazhar, Starbuck and The Whistlebower. Café de Flore leads the pack… Read More Nominations for the 32nd Annual Genie Awards
By John C. Hosting the Golden Globes for the third year in a row, Ricky Gervais opened last night’s telecast by saying to the room full of nominees “nervous? Don’t be. This isn’t about you.” Despite the usual sort of snarky comments from the British comedian, the show was less cynical and in better taste… Read More Oscar Frontrunners are Crowned at the 69th Annual Golden Globes
Hosted by Ricky Gervais for the third year in a row, the 69th Annual Golden Globes took place tonight at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, with numerous celebrities in attendance to present and accept the many awards. Honouring the best movies and TV shows of 2011, The Artist deservingly took home the gold… Read More Winners of the 69th Annual Golden Globes
The nominations for the 69th annual Golden Globes were announced this morning, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Acssociation has gotten some things wrong and others very right. Surprisingly, the Best Picture categories actually offer a pretty strong line-up of films. The Descendants, The Help, Hugo, The Ides of March, Moneyball and War Horse are all… Read More Nominations for the 69th Annual Golden Globes
Today the Toronto Film Critics Association has announced the winners for their 15th annual awards honouring the year in film. Terrence Malick’s masterful The Tree of Life dominated in several of the top categories, including Best Picture and Best Director. Overall, this is an absolutely great line-up of worthy winners and honourable mentions, that offers… Read More Winners of the 2011 TFCA Awards
The winners of the 31st Annual Genie Awards were announced today in Ottawa. Honouring the best of 2010 in Canadian film, Quebec’s Incendies swept the awards with 8 wins, including Best Picture. Secondary frontrunner Barney’s Version picked up 7 awards. It was particularly nice to see recognition in some of the other categories for underappreciated… Read More Winners of the 31st Annual Genie Awards
By John C. For me, this year’s awards season started the moment I left a packed TIFF screening of the endlessly moving and inspirational The King’s Speech. And now the film has gone on to win Hollywood’s highest honour – being named Best Picture at the Oscars. The only surprise is that the odds-on favourite… Read More Final Thoughts on the 83rd Annual Academy Awards
It’s been a long awards season, that has just come to a close with the 83rd Annual Academy Awards. Frontrunner The King’s Speech ultimately took home four awards, including Best Picture, as well as Best Director for Tom Hooper. The other Oscar-season favourite, The Social Network, picked up three awards. Colin Firth (The King’s… Read More Winners of the 83rd Annual Academy Awards
As we all know, Oscar day is finally upon us. We’ve spent this past week offering more in-depth commentary on who should and will win in ten of the main categories, and below are two of our writers last-minute predictions for who will win in all 24 categories come this evening. Final Predictions for the… Read More Last Minute Predictions for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards
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