MPSE winners. It looks like Avatar has, at the very least, got Visual Effects, Art Direction and Sound Effects Editing walking in the door. They get a tiny bit of push from Inglourious Basterds. Best Sound Editing: Sound Effects and Foley in a Feature Film 2012 Avatar The Hurt Locker Inglorious Basterds Push Star Trek Transformers – Revenge of the Fallen Watchmen Best...
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Reader David Hanks sent in this bit of detective work, from davidhanks.com/dhformula.html History will be made regardless of who wins – but here is another group of stats to consider. The big change this year is the preferential ballot and the ten nominees for Best Picture. Nonetheless– When the Director’s Guild (DG) winner AND one of the American Cinema...
Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner for Up in the Air Long form original – Georgia O’Keefe Long form adapted – Taking Chance Documentary – The Cove Comedy Series – 30 Rock Episodic Comedy – 30 Rock and Modern Family Comedy Variety – The Daily Show, Saturday Night Live Full list of winners after the cut. ...
Both Jim Cameron and Harvey Weinstein are putting it out there how they’d like to see the the awards turn out – they are both saying, “give the award to Kathryn Bigelow but save the big award for us.” This is what is called in polite company, cock-blocking. What’s interesting here is that both Avatar and Inglourious Basterds are original...
The WGAs will start around 5pm, California time and go until 7pm. That is just a couple of hours from now. As we already wrote in our preview, the general consensus appears to be that Mark Boal’s The Hurt Locker will win Original Screenplay, and Up in the Air will win Adapted. This is how it is expected to go. If it doesn’t go this way, the race will shift....
From the BBC: The Turkish film, Bal (Honey), was the surprise winner of the coveted Golden Bear for best picture at the festival. Directed by Semih Kaplanoglu, it tells the story of a six-year-old boy who ventures into the woods to find his missing father, a beekeeper. The runner-up prize was awarded to the Romanian entry, Eu Cand Vreau Sa Fluier, Fluier (If I Want To...