Below are the winners for the Directors Guild of America Awards. Film Director: Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker TV Movie Director: Taking Chance Drama Series Director: Mad Men (Leslie Linka Glatter) Comedy Series Director: Modern Family Variety/Musical Director: The Inauguration of the President of the United States Documentary Director: The Cove Daytime Television Director:
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Below are the Sundance Film Festival prizes. I’ve tried to break them into categories, but some of the breaks don’t feel right, but I’m not certain how else to break them up. Grand Jury Awards Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic: Winter’s Bone Grand Jury Prize, Documentary: Restrepo Audience Awards Dramatic Audience Award: happythankyoumoreplease Documentary Audience Award:
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As we head into the final stretch of our 7 Days to Oscar Morning coverage in anticipation of the Tuesday, February 2, 2010 morning announcements of the 82nd nominations, we’re getting into some of the most important categories. We start off today looking at Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress and follow that up with Original
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Tomorrow evening, the DGA will announce its winner for 2009. Below are our fearless predictions on who’s going to win. Directors Guild of America Best Director Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker (Unanimous) Analysis Wesley Lovell: I have a hard time fathoming any other result, but if there is, you can exopect tongues to be
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We are now at the half-way point for our 7 Days to Oscar Morning coverage. We take a glimpse today at Oscar’s newest category, Best Animated Feature as well as Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design. As a reminder, the 82nd nominations will be announced on Tuesday morning, February 2, 2010. When we get
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As is my annual custom, I create an article to try and help people sort out how things will go down on Oscar Nominations Morning. Below is that article, but you can also reach it at this link. FOR AN OSCAR MORNING TRACKING SHEET, CLICK HERE (Updated 1/29/10, missing hopeful added). My predictions are in
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In our third day of presenting our predictions for all of the categories for the 82nd Oscar nominations on Tuesday morning, February 2, 2010, we are taking a look at the Best Director category along with the two sound awards (Sound Mixing and Sound Editing). Our next edition, releasing tomorrow, will feature Best Animated Film,
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We’re taking a look today at the screenwriting awards (Adapted Screenplay & Original Screenplay) plus the races for Makeup and Visual Effects. This is our second day of seven covering all the categories leading up to the 82nd nominations on Tuesday morning, February 2, 2010. Tomorrow, the Best Director category gets a work out along
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It’s been over a month since I posted Part I of my year-end Oscar reviews round-up (plus a few other films that aren’t really contenders, but which get updated at the same time). Below are seven film reviews that I have finished and posted. The Blind Side It’s hard to imagine a film critic celebrating
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The nominees for the 12th Annual Costume Designers Guild awards have been announced. Below are the results. And with the DGA announcing this Saturday and the OFTA announcing on Sunday, we’re almost to the end of our Pre-Nominations rush. The Nominations Period Costume Design Coco Before Chanel Julie & Julia Nine Sherlock Holmes The Young
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Today, we begin our look at the Oscar Nominations race that will be winding down this week as the Academy prepares to announce its 82nd Annual Oscar nominations on Tuesday morning, February 2, 2010. We will be looking at a handful of categories each day and our contributors will be sharing their thoughts on the
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Films set outside the U.S. dominate this week’s new releases. An overwhelming sadness permeates Jane Campion’s Bright Star, the story of the brief, doomed romance of 19th Century British seamstress Fanny Brawne and dying poet John Keats. Abbie Cornish, who appears in almost every scene, received the lion’s share of the notices for her portrayal
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In just over a week (February 2, 2010), the Academy will announce its nominees for Best Picture of the year. To celebrate this event, and to present our contributors’ predictions, we have split them across the seven days prior to the event. We will present our predictions for every category we can, so stay tuned
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Below are the winners of the 2009 Producers Guild Awards. The Winners Picture: The Hurt Locker Animated Film: Up Documentary: The Cove Prediction Comparisons Peter J. Patrick – 3/3 (only person to predict The Hurt Locker) Wesley Lovell – 2/3 Tripp Burton – 2/3 Wes Huizar – 2/3
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Below are the winners for the 2009 Screen Actors Guild Awards Winner Tallies (2) 30 Rock (2) Inglourious Basterds The Winners Ensemble: Inglourious Basterds Actor: Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart Actress: Sandra Bullock – The Blind Side Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz – Inglourious Basterds Supporting Actress: Mo’Nique – Precious
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