The 2011 Golden Globes Winners List

The 2011 Golden Globes Awards took place in Hollywood last night and there was a few surprises with the winners list, mainly The Social Network taking the award for Best Motion Picture instead of Black Swan. You can see the full winners list after jump because I don’t really want to talk about. Here is what I want to talk about:

Yes, Ricky Gervais‘s opening monologue which he pretty much went in on everyone in Hollywood and I loved every second of it. I’m sure there is probably a number of hits out on his head today.

The best one for me is when he decided to crack a joke at Tom Cruise and John Travolta, after saying Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor played two gay characters in “I Love You Philip Morris”, he then said “the complete opposite of some famous Scientologists, then.”

It was a good start to the show and really the only bit that I cared about, if these celebrities can’t take being made fun of then they are definitely in the wrong business.

The full list of winners after the jump!!!

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The 2011 Golden Globe Nominations

The 2011 Golden Globe Nominations were announced earlier today during a ceremony at the Beverly Hilton that seen Katie Holmes, Blair Underwood and Josh Duhamel announce the nominations.

Colin Firth‘s drama, The King’s Speech, leads the way with 7 nominations while The Social Network and The Fighter come second with a cool six nominations. Perhaps a huge shock for people is Christina Aguilera and Cher‘s movie, Burlesque, receiving 3 nominations.

The 2011 Golden Globes will take place on January 16 and will air live on NBC.

See the nominations after the jump!!!

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The 2010 BAFTA Winners List

The 2010 BAFTA awards took place in London last night and finally, in my opinion, The Hurt Locker swept the evening by taking six awards (including Best Picture) while Avatar walked away with two of them.

Avatar taking two awards wasn’t the only surprise of the night, Carey Mulligan took home the award for Best Actress beating out Meryl Streep. But I wonder if she would have won had Sandra Bullock be eligible, the reasons he wasn’t nominated for The Blind Side is because the release date was too late for the UK.

Over the past 10 years the BAFTA award for Best Picture has matched the Oscar’s Best Picture five times which makes me wonder and hope that The Hurt Locker takes the award.

Full list of winners after the jump!!!

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The Top 10 Oscar-Nomination Snubs

The 2010 Academy Awards take place next month but Time Magazine have gone ahead and put up a list of the biggest 10 Oscar nomination snubs.

Best Actor: Fred Astaire, Top Hat (1935)

The Academy has traditionally thought of movie acting as dramatic acting: tearing a passion to tatters, preferably while speaking in an accent and wearing eccentric makeup. That excluded the swellegant, elegant Mr. Fred Astaire; all he did was sing and dance with greater craft and feeling than anybody in movie history. His duets with Ginger Rogers — “Isn’t This a Lovely Day” and “Cheek to Cheek” in Top Hat and “Never Gonna Dance” in Swing Time — are not just superb examples of Terpsichore’s art but among the most powerful expressions of courtship, love and loss in screen history. Astaire was never nominated for these musicals, or for any other — though the Academy did insult his dance legacy by nominating him for Best Supporting Actor for a nothing role, played long past his prime, in the 1974 disaster pic The Towering Inferno.

Best Actor: Cary Grant, His Girl Friday (1940)

Golden-age Hollywood promoted glamour all year long and then, when it came to the Oscars, rewarded anti-glamour. To understand the Academy’s prejudice against its richest resource, consider that by 1941 Walter Brennan — who specialized in playing cunning, toothless galoots — had won three Oscars, while Cary Grant had not even been nominated. By then Grant had starred in The Awful Truth, Topper, Holiday, Bringing Up Baby, Gunga Din, Only Angels Have Wings and The Philadelphia Story — fashioning the indelible template of the attractive, self-deprecating movie male, and doing it with superb comic timing or action-adventure gruffness, as the role demanded. In His Girl Friday he’s a ruthless newspaper editor who browbeats his writer-wife (Rosalind Russell), all other journalists, the city’s mayor and cops and a condemned killer, just because … he’s Cary Grant. It’s a fast, gorgeous comic turn, for which Grant got no nomination. He would be cited for two dramatic performances, in Penny Serenade and None but the Lonely Heart, yet Hollywood’s greatest comic actor was never nominated for a comedy role.

Best Actor: Bill Murray, Groundhog Day (1993)

Selfish and snarky, Bill Murray’s Phil Connors is a Pittsburgh weatherman who plans to be in Punxsutawney, Pa., for just one day: Feb. 2, Groundhog Day. Except that the day repeats itself, with infinitely minute variations, until Phil gets it right. In a minor scandal, the film got no nominations. An Oscar should have gone to Harold Ramis and Danny Rubin for the script, which deftly balances comedy and philosophy (Is God a groundhog? Discuss), and another to Bill Murray for acting. From Caddyshack to What About Bob?, Murray had refined his amiable doofus into the minimalist modern man: his posture a question mark, his face a concrete poem of anticipated disappointment. In Groundhog Day he rises to romance and sinks to despair — and is wonderfully funny — all in the same day after day after day.

Best Actress: Barbara Stanwyck, The Lady Eve (1941)

The Hollywood screen’s all-time toughest, smartest dame, Barbara Stanwyck played comedy and pathos with equal agility, yet she never won a competitive Oscar. Her scheming adulteress-murderess in Double Indemnity, for example, lost out to the harried wife played by Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight, as Hollywood chose to reward the noble victim rather than the brilliant predator. Some of her tangiest roles flew right under the Academy’s radar, like the career gal who literally screws her way up the corporate ladder in Baby Face. Her sharpest comedy performance, no question, was playing the cruise-ship con artist who seduces a hapless Henry Fonda in Preston Sturges’ The Lady Eve, probably the all-time top screwball comedy. She is the devil every man would gladly play the sucker for; but neither she nor Sturges got a nomination. The movie’s only reward was immortality.

Best Director: John Ford, The Searchers (1956)

It is now widely regarded as the greatest western of the 1950s, the genre’s greatest decade. The tale of a loner searching for a missing daughter has been remade scores of times (most recently in Mel Gibson’s Edge of Darkness). But John Ford’s darkly profound study of obsession, racism and heroic solitude was shrugged off when it first appeared. Though Ford was Hollywood’s most honored auteur, with four Oscars as Best Director, he got nothing when he made his masterpiece. The Academy also ignored the towering performance of John Wayne as the scarred Civil War veteran Ethan Edwards, who either exorcises his demons or surrenders to them in violent revenge. Wayne would finally get an Oscar for his assured but much less complex performance as Rooster Cogburn in True Grit. But reward his most powerful role? That’ll be the day.

Best Director: Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver (1976)

The movie got a Best Picture nomination (losing to Rocky) — as well as nominations for Robert De Niro and Jodie Foster (Best Actor and Supporting Actress) and for Bernard Herrmann’s creepy score — but its gifted director was ignored. Like Hieronymus Bosch working with spray paint, Martin Scorsese visualized a Manhattan hellscape with steam, blood and vomit everywhere, and in the center a crazed cabbie who literally gets away with murder. By rights, Scorsese could have been nominated three times in the ’70s: for Mean Streets and Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore as well as Taxi Driver. But America’s most astute and passionate picture maker had to wait until 2007, and The Departed, to get a Best Director statuette. By then it might as well have been a lifetime achievement award — or the Academy’s public apology for more than 30 years of myopic calls against him.

Best Director: Steven Spielberg, Jaws (1975)

The opposite of Sally Field’s gushing “You like me, you really like me” upon winning an Oscar was Steven Spielberg’s response when his first big movie, Jaws, was nominated for Best Picture but stiffed in the Best Director category. Jaws had only become the top-grossing film since The Sound of Music a decade before, and Spielberg had managed to wrangle Bruce — the production’s balky mechanical shark — into a creature of demonic intent and satanic power. The tarring of Spielberg as a maker of “just movies” would continue through Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, for which he was nominated but lost. The year of E.T., the Academy gave the Best Picture and Director prizes to Richard Attenborough’s worthy but plodding Gandhi. Spielberg had to make his only true-life epic, Schindler’s List, before he finally won an Oscar.

Best Picture: King Kong (1933)

In 1934, for the first time, the Academy allowed 10 Best Picture nominations. All those slots, and not one of them could be filled by the greatest fantasy in Hollywood history? Cavalcade, the stately, starchy filming of a Noel Coward play, took the Best Picture award, and King Kong received no nominations at all, not even in the technical and engineering categories. So much for Willis O’Brien’s construction and stop-motion animation of the 18-in.-tall ape, which gave Kong gravitas as he battled dinosaurs on a jungle island and soul as he wooed Fay Wray and took her to the top of the Empire State Building. King Kong inspired generations of boy geniuses, from Steven Spielberg to Peter Jackson (who did a loving though oversize remake in 2005), while Cavalcade slipped into oblivion.

Best Picture: Some Like It Hot (1959)

Voted the best American comedy of all time in an American Film Institute survey 10 years ago, Billy Wilder’s fizzy farce earned nominations for screenplay, direction and Jack Lemmon’s performance as a Prohibition musician who goes on the lam disguised as a woman. (Tony Curtis, Lemmon’s partner in drag, deserved a nod too.) But the movie was denied one of the Best Picture slots, which were filled by two religious epics (Ben-Hur and The Nun’s Story), two “daring” melodramas (Anatomy of a Murder and Room at the Top) and The Diary of Anne Frank. Back then, elevated sentiments and hot-button social issues seemed so much more important than an ephemeral comedy starring Marilyn Monroe and two guys in dresses. Today, it’s the ephemeral that has lasted.

Best Picture: The Dark Knight (2008)

Why did the Academy decide to reinstate the 10-film field for Best Picture in 2010? Because the year before, The Dark Knight wasn’t voted into the top five. At the time the second biggest dollar earner in movie history (now passed by Avatar), Christopher Nolan’s saturnine fantasy was a film that kids and critics alike appreciated, less as a live-action comic book than as a triangular battle of stern Good, giggling Evil and two faces in between. The Academy members didn’t go bats for this Batman; instead, they filled out their Best Picture cards with their favorite fallen President (Frost/Nixon), a Nazi warden (The Reader), a civil rights martyr (Milk), an old guy who gets younger (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) and the eventual winner, Slumdog Millionaire. Except for a Heath Ledger memorial citation (Best Supporting Actor), The Dark Knight was ignored in all major award categories, earning only doorstop prizes like Best Sound Editing and Sound Mixing. Safe to say that the Academy won’t shut out the big action-adventure movie of 2009. Avatar is a sure nominee for Best Picture, and a likely winner.

I agree with the majority of these, I enjoyed The Dark Knight but I really don’t the movie should have gotten a nomination so I would take that off the list. Instead I would put on Alfred Hitchcock, it’s a disgrace he never got an Oscar. What do you think? Any movies or people who should have received nominations?

source: Top 10 Oscar-Nomination Snubs [Time]

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The 2010 Academy Awards Nominations

The nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards were announced early this morning at 5:38 am in Los Angeles by Anne Hathaway and Academy President Tom Sherak.

There was no big surprises, in fact all the previous award nominations for the Golden Globes, SAGs etc are pretty much the same as the Oscar nominations.

Avatar and The Hurt Locker both lead the pack with nine nominations each, which also sees directors (and ex-husband/wife) James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow going up against each other.

Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin will each co-host the ceremony which airs live March 7 on ABC. What are your picks to win the awards?

Nominations after the jump!!!

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2010 BAFTA Film Awards Nominations

The 2010 BAFTA nominations have been released and they are dominated by Avatar, The Hurt Locker, and An Education which all have eight nominations.

You may notice that Sandra Bullock isn’t nominated for Leading Actress for her role in The Blind Side, this is because she is ineligible as the movie hasn’t opened in the UK yet.

The ceremony will be held in London on February 21, for the full list of nominations click the jump below.

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The 2010 Golden Globes Winners List

So did you all watch the 67th Golden Glove Awards last night? I did and surprisingly I actually thought it was pretty good. Ricky Gervais did a great job at hosting the ceremony.

Let’s take a look at the list of winners shall we? ….

Best Actor Television, Drama- Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Best Supporting Actor Television, Drama- John Lithgow, Dexter
Best Supporting Actress Motion Picture- Mo’nique, Precious
Best Animated Feature Film- Up
Best Original Song, Motion Picture- Crazy Heart, “The Weary Kind”
Best Original Score, Motion Picture- Up, Michael Giacchino
Best Actress Television, Drama- Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Best Actress Television Series, Comedy- Toni Collette- United States of Tara
Best Actress Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical- Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia
Best Actor Mini-series, Drama- Kevin Bacon, Taking Chance
Best Actress Mini-series- Drew Barrymore, Grey Gardens
Best Screenplay, Motion Picture- Up in the Air, Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner
Best Actor Television, Comedy- Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television- Grey Gardens
Best Foreign Language Film- The White Ribbon
Best Television Series Drama- Mad Men
Best Supporting Actress Mini-series- Chloe Sevigny, Big Love
Best Supporting Actor Motion Picture- Christoph Waltz, Inglorious Bastards
Best Director Motion Picture- James Cameron, Avatar
Best Television Series, Comedy or Musical- Glee
Best Actor Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical- Robert Downey Jr., Sherlock Holmes
Best Actor Motion Picture, Drama- Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
Best Actress Motion Picture, Drama- Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Best Motion Picture, Cmomedy or Musical- The Hangover
Best Motion Picture, Drama- Avatar

None of these really surprise me but I don’t think Avatar is the best drama movie, my vote would have been for Up In The Air or The Hurt Locker. Then again these ceremonies are usually all about money. What are your thoughts on the winners?

source: 2010 Golden Globes Full Winners List & Photos [Allie Is Wired]

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Jennifer Lopez Thinks She Deserves An Oscar

Did you see Jennifer Lopez in her film El Cantante? No? Me either, in fact I had never even heard of the movie until I came across her whining about how she deserves an award for the movie.

In the new issue of Latina Magazine, Lopez opens up about being married to Marc Anthony, having children and past relationships. But of course she being who she is, has to talk about her fame and how she feels got robbed of an award.

Why El Cantante was Oscar Worthy: “I feel like I had that [Oscar worthy role] in El Cantante, but I don’t even think the academy members saw it. I feel like it’s their responsibility to do that, to see everything that’s out there, everything that could be great. Well, it is a little bit frustrating. It was funny; when the Oscars were on, I had just given birth on the 22nd, and the Oscars, I think, were a day or two later. I was sitting there with my twins—I couldn’t have been happier—but I was like, ‘How dope would it have been if I would’ve won the Oscar and been here in my hospital bed accepting the award?’ ‘Thank you so much! I just want to thank the academy!’ But we joked about it. It’s all good. Things will happen when they’re supposed to happen. I have the utmost faith and no doubt that it will one day, when and if it’s supposed to. You can’t get all crazy twisted over it.”

On Fame: “Your world becomes smaller, so yeah, it is a weird reality. You stop doing things like having a key in your pocket, opening the door for yourself because you become so busy. All of a sudden, somebody takes that over for you. You do lose touch a little bit; anybody who says they don’t is a liar. Your life is not like a person who goes to work, opens their door, goes to the grocery store. I lived that life for 20-something years, and now my life is different, but I have my foot in both worlds. I have found myself lately saying it needs to be more simple. I can’t have all these people around, especially once you have children. I’ve been able to always keep a good perspective. I’ve never, thank God, gone completely off into the stratosphere. I’m not saying I haven’t had my moments [laughs], but I’m always able to come back.”

Again, I’ve never seen the film nor did I know it existed. For some reason though I just don’t see Jennifer Lopez up on stage accepting an Oscar and I certainly don’t see her doing it from the hospital bed after having twins. As for her quote on how she still thinks she is normal .. no comment from me.

source: Jennifer Lopez Exclusive: “I Can’t Regret the Things I Did in the Past” [Latina Magazine]

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The 2010 Golden Globe Nominations

Well it’s that time of year again, no I don’t mean Christmas because it’s been that time of year since November, the time of year when all the Hollywood women start starving themselves and spending thousands of dollars on facials. Or as everyone else likes to call it .. Award Season.

Yep the 2010 awards season is now upon us and as always the Golden Globes are the first to release their nominations. Justin Timberlake, Diane Kruger and John Krasinski were there to announce the nominations this morning at the Beverly Hilton Hotel for the 67th Golden Globe Awards.

Up In The Air leads the movie pack by raking in 6 nominations, while Nine takes in 5. As for the television side of things Glee is ahead by taking in 4.

Meryl Streep is nominated two times in the same category for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy for It’s Complicated and Julie & Julia.

The Golden Globes will be hosted by Ricky Gervais on January 17th, 2 weeks before the nominations for the Oscars are announced on February 2.

The full list of nominations are after the jump!!!

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Leighton Meester Shows Her Assets at the MTV Movie Awards

The 2009 MTV Movie Awards may have resembled the Teen Choice Awards, but that doesn’t mean the show was any less entertaining.

Host Andy Samberg presided over a fast-paced evening filled with plenty of songs, surprises and salty language.

Let’s get to the highlights…

Twilighttastic: To the surprise of, well, no one, Twilight dominated the show with a whopping five Golden Popcorns, and Rob Pattinson popped up onstage throughout the festivities. Kristen Stewart was also a scene stealer—the actress took home the prize for Best Actress and proceeded to drop the trophy onstage, saying, “So I was just about as awkward as you thought I would be.”

Old Folks Steal the Show: Much of the night looked like a scene from one of the show’s most nominated flicks, High School Musical 3, but even the old folks had something to offer…

Jim Carrey popped up out of the crowd (vaguely resembling a trenchcoat flasher) and egged Samberg on, taunting him to show off those insanely successful Saturday Night Live Digital Shorts, which led into Forest Whitaker, Chris Isaak and LeAnn Rimes performing a rousing medley of “Jizz in My Pants,” “I’m on a Boat” and the classic “D–k in a Box.”

Ben Stiller was honored with the MTV Generation Award, but he was overshadowed by the presentation itself. A good sport and clearly in on the joke, Stiller sat back while Zac Efron, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog and Kiefer Sutherland “praised” the actor’s work.

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source: Twilight, Teens Dominate MTV Movie Awards [e online]

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