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2013 Oscar Nominations: See the Full List of Nominees Here!
By: Lindsey DiMattina January 10, 2013 2:47am EST

While the Golden Globes may be the best party in town, there's no denying that the Academy Awards ceremony is the biggest event in Hollywood. And on Thursday morning, Seth MacFarlane and Emma Stone announced the 2013 Oscar nominations, celebrating the greatest works and performances on screen from the past year. Lincoln leads the pack with 12 nods, while Life of Pi followed right behind with 11 nominations. But other greats are also in the running. Check out the list of the nominees for the 85th annual Academy Awards below. The 2013 Academy Award Nominations: Best Picture: Beasts of Southern Wild Silver Linings Playbook Zero Dark Thirty Lincoln Les Miserables Life of Pi Amour Django Unchained Argo Best Actor: Daniel Day Lewis, Lincoln Denzel Washington, Flight Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook Joaquin Phoenix, The Master Best Actress: Naomi Watts, The Impossible Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook Emmanuelle Riva, Amour Quvenzhane Wallis, Beasts of the Southern Wild Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained Phillip Seymour Hoffman, The Master Robert De Niro, Silver Linings Playbook Alan Arkin, Argo Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln Best Supporting Actress: Sally Field, Lincoln Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables Jacki Weaver, Silver Linings Playbook Helen Hunt, The Sessions Amy Adams, The Master Read: Oscar Nominees 101: Everything You Need to Know About the Stars and Their Movies Best Director: David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook Ang Lee, Life of Pi Steven Spielberg, Lincoln Michael Haneke, Amour Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild Best Writing, Original Screenplay: Flight, Written by John Gatins Zero Dark Thirty, Written by Mark Boal Django Unchained, Written by Quintin Tarantino Amour, Written by Michael Haneke Moonrise Kingdom, Written by West Anderson & Roman Coppola Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay: Beasts of the Southern Wild, Screenplay by Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin Argo, Written by Chris Terrio Lincoln, Written by Tony Kushner Silver Linings Playbook, Written by David O. Russell Life of Pi, Written by David Magee Best Animated Feature: Frankenweenie The Pirates! Band of Misfits Wreck It Ralph ParaNorman Brave Best Foreign Language Film of the Year: Amour, Austria No, Chile War Witch, Canada A Royal Affair, Denmark Kon-Tiki, Norway Read: Kathryn Bigelow and Ben Affleck Lead This Year's Oscar Snubs. Who Else Was Ignored? Best Original Score: Anna Karenina, Dario Marianelli Argo, Alexandre Desplat Life of Pi, Mychael Danna Lincoln, John Williams Skyfall, Thomas Newman Best Original Song: "Before My Time," Chasing Ice, Music and Lyric from J. Ralph "Pi Lullaby," Life of Pi, Music by Mychael Danna; Lyric by Bombay Jayashri "Suddenly," Les Miserables, Music by Claude-Michel Schonberg; Lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boubill "Everybody Needs a Best Friend," Ted, Music by Walter Murphy; Lyric by Seth MacFarlane "Skyfall," Skyfall, Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth Best Achievement in Cinematography: Anna Karenina, Seamus McGarvey Django Unchained, Robert Richardson Life of Pi, Claudio Miranda Lincoln, Janusz Kaminski Skyfall, Roger Deakins Best Achievement in Costume Design: Anna Karenina, Jacqueline Durran Les Miserables, Paco Delgado Lincoln, Joanna Johnston Mirror Mirror, Eiko Ishioka Snow White and the Huntsman, Colleen Atwood Best Documentary Feature: 5 Broken Cameras, Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi The Gatekeepers How to Survive a Plague The Invisible War Searching for Sugar Man Best Documentary Short: Inocente, Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine Kings Point, Sari Gilman and Jedd Wider Mondays at Racine, Cynthia Wade and Robin Honan Open Heart, Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern Redemption, Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill Best Achievement in Film Editing: Argo, William Goldenberg Life of Pi, Tim Squyres Lincoln, Michael Kahn Silver Linings Playbook, Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers Zero Dark Thirty, Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling: Hitchcock, Howard Berger, Peter Montagna, and Martin Samuel The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater, and Tami Lane Les Miserables, Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell Best Production Design: Anna Karenina, Sarah Greenwood (Production Design); Katie Spencer (Set Decoration) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Dan Hennah (Production Design); Ra Vincent and Simon Bright (Set Decoration) Les Miserables, Eve Stewart (Production Design); Anna Lynch-Robinson (Set Design) Life of Pi, David Gropman (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration) Lincoln, Rick Carter (Production Design); Jim Erickson (Set Decoration) Best Animated Short Film: Adam and Dog, Minkyu Lee Fresh Guacamole, PES Head over Heels, Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare," David Silverman Paperman, John Kahrs Best Live Action Short Film: Asad, Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura Buzkashi Boys, Sam French and Ariel Nasr Curfew, Shawn Christensen Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schadow), Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele Henry, Yan England Best Achievement in Sound Editing: Argo, Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn Django Unchained, Wylie Stateman Life of Pi, Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton Skyfall, Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers Zero Dark Thirty, Paul N.J. Ottosson Best Achievement in Sound Mixing: Argo, John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff, and Jose Antonio Garcia Les Miserables, Andy Nelson, Mark Peterson, and Simon Hayes Life of Pi, Rob Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin Lincoln, Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom, and Ronald Judkins Skyfall, Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell, and Stuart Wilson Best Achievement in Visual Effects: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, and R. Christopher White Life of Pi, Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott Marvel's The Avengers, Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick Prometheus, Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill Snow White and the Huntsman, Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson Make sure to check out our predictions piece to see how our call-outs measured up. And watch the live stream of the nominations announcement below! Follow Lindsey on Twitter @LDiMat. 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Oscars 2013: Let's Predict the Nominations (and Call the Upsets)
By: Matt Patches January 09, 2013 8:45am EST

In the early hours of Thursday, Jan. 10, Seth MacFarlane and Emma Stone will take a stage to announce the nominees for the 85th Academy Awards. Most years, the process is the cap to a long season with the same three titles dominating every category, the final choices rarely surprises. This year is a bit different. Sure, there are frontrunners, but more so than in the last decade, most categories are anyone's to win — or even pop into at the last minute with a surprise nomination. With the amount of Best Picture nominees in flux, no clear leader to any acting pack, and a bevy of technical awards that could go to any of the prestigious films to roll out over the year, the 2012 Oscar nomination line-up is one big question mark. To test our powers of prediction, we weighed the odds and ran down every category with our picks for who may walk away with a nomination at the end of tomorrow. If they do, we'll still be up for one of the toughest Oscar pool years in a long, long time…. Best Picture Argo Beasts of the Southern Wild Django Unchained Les Misérables Lincoln Life of Pi Moonrise Kingdom Silver Linings Playbook Zero Dark Thirty Who Could Break In? In 2009, the Academy opened up the Best Picture race from five to 10 nominees. In 2011, they changed the rules again to allow the potential number of nominees to change based on the vote (with a minimum of five and a maximum of 10). So we're going with nine movies from 2012 for Best Picture. What could sneak in? Thanks to the BAFTAs, it seems more possible that Skyfall could be James Bond's first time in the Best Picture ring. There's also the French drama Amour, which could transcend the Foreign Film confines to nab the 10th slot. Best Actress Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty Marion Cotillard – Rust and Bone Helen Mirren – Hitchcock Emmanuelle Riva – Amour Who Could Break In? Naomi Watts was a longtime favorite for her physically demanding work in The Impossible, but quiet buzz has us swapping her out for Hitchcock's Mirren. Foreign language favorites Cotillard and Riva also look like solid picks, but raves for Quvenzhané Wallis in Beasts of the Southern Wild could bump the young actress into the top five. Best Actor Denzel Washington – Flight John Hawkes – The Sessions Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln Hugh Jackman– Les Misérables Bradley Cooper – Silver Linings Playbook Who Could Break In? This is one of the only categories that looks locked, but voters may have erased Joaquin Phoenix's anti-Oscar rant from memory long enough to move him into Hawkes or Washington's slots. The dark horse is Jack Black, who has been garnering more and more love in the awards season push for his performance in Bernie. Best Supporting Actress Helen Hunt – The Sessions Sally Field – Lincoln Anne Hathaway – Les Misérables Maggie Smith – The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Nicole Kidman – The Paperboy Who Could Break In? Best Exotic Marigold Hotel could take a second slot in this race, with Dame Judi Dench bouncing Kidman from the ring (or even replacing her costar Smith). Amy Adams also looks like a major contender, but the favorite from The Master has lost traction since the movie debuted in September. Best Supporting Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master Leonardo Dicaprio – Django Unchained Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln Alan Arkin – Argo Javier Bardem – Skyfall Who Could Break In? Robert De Niro is still a major player for the Supporting Actor category, but he's more of a legend worth nodding to than a stand out in Silver Linings Playbook. With unexpected love from both the Golden Globes and the BAFTAs going to Javier Bardem for his villainy in Skyfall, he stands a good chance of taking the fifth spot. Or maybe the voters will realize the greatness of Matthew McConaughey in Magic Mike…. Best Director Ben Affleck – Argo Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty Steven Spielberg – Lincoln Ang Lee – Life of Pi Quentin Tarantino – Django Unchained Who Could Break In? Tom Hooper (Les Misérables) earned the fifth slot in the Director's Guild award nominations earlier in the race, but the stylish magic of Tarantino may outnumber him when it comes to the Oscars. Close-ups and canted angles versus zooms and whip pans to bloodshed — which does the Academy favor? Best Original Screenplay Quentin Tarantino – Django Unchained Rian Johnson – Looper Paul Thomas Anderson – The Master Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola – Moonrise Kingdom Mark Boal - Zero Dark Thirty Who Could Break In? The Writer's Guild honored Flight writer John Gatins for his work on the alcoholism drama, but with Tarantino (who is not a WGA member and was ineligible for their nom) in the mix, his weaker work looks to be ousted. Writer/Director Michael Haneke's elegant work on Amour could also be honored if the Academy feels bad for not stepping up and giving it a Best Picture nomination. Best Adapted Screenplay Chris Terrio – Argo Stephen Chbosky – Perks of Being a Wallflower Tony Kushner – Lincoln David Magee – Life of Pi David O. Russell – Silver Linings Playbook Who Could Break In? If too few members of the Academy caught Chbosky's touching translation of his own novel, love for Beasts of the Southern Wild may be strong enough to bump it into this category (it was based on a short play called "Juicy and Delicious"). Enough Les Misérables support could also bump the musical into the category, replacing either Perks or The Master. Best Animated Feature Brave Frankenweenie ParaNorman The Rabbi's Cat Wreck-It Ralph Who Could Break In? Sorry, Rise of the Guardians. Although you're a technical marvel, your holiday magic just didn't impact enough people this holiday season to make you an Oscar contender. We'll go with the relatively unknown (but highly-praised by those who have seen it) Rabbi's Cat. Best Documentary Feature The Gatekeepers How to Survive a Plague The Invisible War Mea Maxima Culpa Searching for Sugarman Who Could Break In? Jafar Panahi's astounding self-portrait This Is Not a Film is a whirlwind of emotion — that's also shot mostly on an iPhone. The low-tech feel puts it under the flashy documentaries above, but one hopes the Academy could see beyond the cinematography. Best Foreign Language Film Amour No The Intouchables A Royal Affair Beyond the Hills Who Could Break In? Amour is the one to beat, but watch out for Norawy's Kon-Tiki, which could rise all the way to the top if voters feel split over giving Amour Best Picture and Best Foreign Language love.
'Lincoln' Tops BAFTA Nominations — Say Hello to the Oscar Frontrunner
By: Michael Arbeiter January 09, 2013 4:37am EST

Those keeping up with the continuous roll out of awards circuit nominations have, by now, come to notice a trend. Despite the wide variety of organizations offering recognition of film achievement, each year there are bound to be some mainstays: specific movies that top every venue's list. So far, 2012's nomination championship falls in the lap of Lincoln, Steven Spielberg's beloved biopic about America's 16th president. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has revealed its nominations, cementing Lincoln as the past year's most impressive spectacle. The historical drama earns 10 nods from BAFTA, including the top honor of Best Film. In Lincoln's company are other unsurprising entries: Les Miserables and Life of Pi each take in nine nominations (both Best Film candidates as well), and Argo ropes in seven (another top honor hopeful). Check out the full list of nominees below. BEST FILM ARGO LES MISÉRABLES LIFE OF PI LINCOLN ZERO DARK THIRTY OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM ANNA KARENINA THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL LES MISÉRABLES SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS SKYFALL OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER BART LAYTON (Director), DIMITRI DOGANIS (Producer) — The Imposter DAVID MORRIS (Director), JACQUI MORRIS (Director/Producer) — McCullin DEXTER FLETCHER (Director/Writer), DANNY KING (Writer) — Wild Bill JAMES BOBIN (Director) — The Muppets TINA GHARAVI (Director/Writer) — I Am Nasrine FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AMOUR HEADHUNTERS THE HUNT RUST AND BONE UNTOUCHABLE DOCUMENTARY THE IMPOSTER MARLEY McCULLIN SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN WEST OF MEMPHIS ANIMATED FILM BRAVE FRANKENWEENIE PARANORMAN DIRECTOR MICHAEL HANEKE — Amour BEN AFFLECK — Argo QUENTIN TARANTINO — Django Unchained ANG LEE — Life of Pi KATHRYN BIGELOW — Zero Dark Thirty ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY AMOUR (Writer: Michael Haneke) DJANGO UNCHAINED (Writer: Quentin Tarantino) THE MASTER (Writer: Paul Thomas Anderson) MOONRISE KINGDOM (Writers: Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola) ZERO DARK THIRTY (Writer: Mark Boal) ADAPTED SCREENPLAY ARGO (Writer: Chris Terrio) BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (Writers: Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin) LIFE OF PI (Writer: David Magee) LINCOLN (Writer: Tony Kushner) SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK (Writer: David O. Russell) LEADING ACTOR BEN AFFLECK — Argo BRADLEY COOPER — Silver Linings Playbook DANIEL DAY-LEWIS — Lincoln HUGH JACKMAN — Les Misérables JOAQUIN PHOENIX — The Master LEADING ACTRESS EMMANUELLE RIVA — Amour HELEN MIRREN — Hitchcock JENNIFER LAWRENCE — Silver Linings Playbook JESSICA CHASTAIN — Zero Dark Thirty MARION COTILLARD — Rust and Bone SUPPORTING ACTOR ALAN ARKIN — Argo CHRISTOPH WALTZ — Django Unchained JAVIER BARDEM — Skyfall PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN — The Master TOMMY LEE JONES — Lincoln SUPPORTING ACTRESS AMY ADAMS — The Master ANNE HATHAWAY — Les Misérables HELEN HUNT — The Sessions JUDI DENCH — Skyfall SALLY FIELD — Lincoln ORIGINAL MUSIC ANNA KARENINA (Dario Marianelli) ARGO (Alexandre Desplat) LIFE OF PI (Mychael Danna) LINCOLN (John Williams) SKYFALL (Thomas Newman) CINEMATOGRAPHY ANNA KARENINA (Seamus McGarvey) LES MISÉRABLES (Danny Cohen) LIFE OF PI (Claudio Miranda) LINCOLN (Janusz Kaminski) SKYFALL (Roger Deakins) EDITING ARGO (William Goldenberg) DJANGO UNCHAINED (Fred Raskin) LIFE OF PI (Tim Squyres) SKYFALL (Stuart Baird) ZERO DARK THIRTY (Dylan Tichenor, William Goldenberg) PRODUCTION DESIGN ANNA KARENINA (Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer) LES MISÉRABLES (Eve Stewart, Anna Lynch-Robinson) LIFE OF PI (David Gropman, Anna Pinnock) LINCOLN (Rick Carter, Jim Erickson) SKYFALL (Dennis Gassner, Anna Pinnock) COSTUME DESIGN ANNA KARENINA (Jacqueline Durran) GREAT EXPECTATIONS (Beatrix Aruna Pasztor) LES MISÉRABLES (Paco Delgado) LINCOLN (Joanna Johnston) SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN (Colleen Atwood) MAKE UP & HAIR ANNA KARENINA (Ivana Primorac) HITCHCOCK (Julie Hewett, Martin Samuel, Howard Berger) THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (Peter Swords King, Richard Taylor, Rick Findlater) LES MISÉRABLES (Lisa Westcott) LINCOLN (Lois Burwell, Kay Georgiou) SOUND DJANGO UNCHAINED (Mark Ulano, Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti, Wylie Stateman) THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (Tony Johnson, Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick, Brent Burge, Chris Ward) LES MISÉRABLES (Simon Hayes, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, Jonathan Allen, Lee Walpole, John Warhurst) LIFE OF PI (Drew Kunin, Eugene Gearty, Philip Stockton, Ron Bartlett, D. M. Hemphill) SKYFALL (Stuart Wilson, Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell, Per Hallberg, Karen Baker Landers) SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Peter Bebb, Andrew Lockley) THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, R. Christopher White) LIFE OF PI (Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer) MARVEL AVENGERS ASSEMBLE (Nominees TBC) PROMETHEUS (Richard Stammers, Charley Henley, Trevor Wood, Paul Butterworth) SHORT ANIMATION HERE TO FALL I’M FINE THANKS THE MAKING OF LONGBIRD SHORT FILM THE CURSE GOOD NIGHT SWIMMER TUMULT THE VOORMAN PROBLEM Click here to read about BAFTA's Rising Star Award nominations, which include Elizabeth Olsen and Juno Temple. [Photo Credit: David James/20th Century Fox] More: Next Up, Oscars? 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Lincoln leads BAFTA Film Awards nominations
By: WENN.com Source January 09, 2013 4:00am EST

The film, which is hotly tipped for glory at the upcoming Academy Awards, was unveiled as the favourite when the BAFTA nominations were announced by actors Alice Eve and Jeremy Irvine in London on Wednesday morning (09Jan13). The haul of 10 nominations puts Lincoln ahead of Les Miserables and Life of Pi, which both scored nine nods from the British Academy. All three will compete for the coveted Best Film prize, along with Ben Affleck's Argo and Kathryn Bigelow's gritty drama Zero Dark Thirty, while Day-Lewis heads up the Leading Actor category along with Affleck, Hugh Jackman (Les Miserables), Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook) and Joaquin Phoenix (The Master). In the Leading Actress category, Zero Dark Thirty's star Jessica Chastain will go up against Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook) and Oscar winners Marion Cotillard (Rust And Bone) and Dame Helen Mirren (Hitchcock). The best director award will be a tough race between Affleck, Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained), Michael Haneke (Amour), Ang Lee (Life Of Pi) and Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty). Another hotly-tipped contender at the upcoming prizegiving is Bond blockbuster Skyfall, which has secured nominations for Dame Judi Dench (Supporting Actress) and Javier Bardem (Supporting Actor), while the movie is also nominated in categories for Original Music, Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Sound and Outstanding British Film. The nominations top a stellar year for 007 after Skyfall became the first ever Bond movie to break the billion dollar mark at the global box office. The trophies will be handed out during a ceremony at London's Royal Opera House on 10 February (13). The show will be hosted by actor/funnyman Stephen Fry. The nominees are as follows: Best Film: Argo Les Miserables Life Of Pi Lincoln Zero Dark Thirty Outstanding British Film: Anna Karenina The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Les Miserables Seven Psychopaths Skyfall Director: Michael Haneke - Amour Ben Affleck - Argo Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained Ang Lee - Life Of Pi Kathryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty Leading Actor: Ben Affleck - Argo Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln Hugh Jackman - Les Miserables Joaquin Phoenix - The Master Leading Actress: Emmanuelle Riva - Amour Dame Helen Mirren - Hitchcock Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty Marion Cotillard - Rust And Bone Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin - Argo Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained Javier Bardem - Skyfall Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln Supporting Actress: Amy Adams - The Master Anne Hathaway - Les Miserables Helen Hunt - The Sessions Judi Dench - Skyfall Sally Field - Lincoln Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer: Bart Layton, Dimitri Doganis - The Imposter David Morris, Jacqui Morris - McCullin Dexter Fletcher, Danny King - Wild Bill James Bobin - The Muppets Tina Gharavi - I Am Nasrine Documentary: The Imposter Marley McCullin Searching For Sugar Man West Of Memphis Original Screenplay: Amour - Michael Haneke Django Unchained - Quentin Tarantino The Master - Paul Thomas Anderson Moonrise Kingdom - Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola Zero Dark Thirty - Mark Boal Adapted Screenplay: Argo Beasts Of The Southern Wild Life Of Pi Lincoln Silver Linings Playbook Film Not In The English Language: Amour Headhunters The Hunt Rust And Bone Untouchable Animated Film: Brave Frankenweenie Paranorman Original Music: Anna Karenina Argo Life Of Pi Lincoln Skyfall Cinematography: Anna Karenina Les Miserables Life Of Pi Lincoln Skyfall Editing: Argo Django Unchained Life Of Pi Skyfall Zero Dark Thirty Production Design: Anna Karenina Les Miserables Life Of Pi Lincoln Skyfall Costume Design: Anna Karenina Great Expectations Les Miserables Lincoln Snow White And The Huntsman Sound: Django Unchained The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Les Miserables Life Of Pi Skyfall Special Visual Effects: The Dark Knight Rises The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Life Of Pi Avengers Assemble (The Avengers) Prometheus Make-up & Hair: Anna Karenina Hitchcock The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Les Miserables Lincoln Short Animation: Here To Fall I’m Fine Thanks The Making Of Longbird Short Film: The Curse Good Night Swimmer Tumult The Voorman Problem Orange Rising Star Award: Elizabeth Olsen Andrea Riseborough Juno Temple Alicia Vikander Suraj Sharma.
Zero Dark Thirty dominates Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards
By: WENN.com Source January 08, 2013 4:00am EST

The drama, based on the real life hunt for terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, landed prizes for Best Film and Best Screenplay, while Bigelow was named Best Director and the film's star Jessica Chastain took the Best Actress honour. Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master was also a big winner - Joaquin Phoenix was hailed as Best Actor, Philip Seymour Hoffman picked up the Best Supporting Actor trophy and Best Supporting Actress went to Amy Adams. Both films are expected to be among big Oscar contenders when the nominations are announced on Thursday (10Jan13). Other winners in Vancouver included Beyond The Black Rainbow, which scooped three awards (Best British Columbia Film/best Canadian Director/best Actor in a Canadian Film), Leos Carax's Holy Motors (Best Foreign Language Film) and Malik Bendjelloul's Searching For Sugar Man (Best Documentary).
Amour dominates National Society of Film Critics awards
By: WENN.com Source January 06, 2013 4:30am EST

The film, which tells the story of an elderly couple struggling to cope after one of them suffers a stroke, won Best Picture, Best Director for Michael Haneke and Best Actress for 85-year-old Emmanuelle Riva. Oscar front-runner Daniel Day-Lewis took home Best Actor at the annual prizegiving in New York for his portrayal of former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln, while the film's writer, Tony Kushner, won Best Screenplay. The Best Supporting Actress award went to Amy Adams for her performance in The Master, while Matthew McConaughey earned the Best Supporting Actor award for Magic Mike. The list of main winners is as follows: Best Picture: Amour Best Director: Michael Haneke (Amour) Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln) Best Actress: Emmanuelle Riva (Amour) Best Supporting Actor: Matthew McConaughey (Magic Mike) Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams (The Master) Best Screenplay: Tony Kushner (Lincoln) Best Nonfiction Film: The Gatekeepers Best Cinematography: Mihai Malaimare, Jr. (The Master)
'Amour' Named Best Picture By National Society of Film Critics
By: Aly Semigran January 05, 2013 12:44pm EST

It seems once the voters in the National Society of Film Critics were able to dry their eyes after watching Michael Haneke's gut-wrenching tearjerker Amour, they could see a clear winner. The French drama about an elderly couple (played masterfully by Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant) coping with end-of-life struggles, was named Best Picture. Additionally, both Haneke and Riva earned accolades for Best Director and Best Actress, respectively. The foreign-language film has continued to both win over and depress critics and moviegoers alike since winning the prestigious Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. In other categories, Oscar frontrunner Daniel Day-Lewis was named Best Actor by the National Society of Film Critics for his performance in Lincoln (the film's scribe Tony Kushner won for Best Screenplay), Matthew McConaughey was named Best Supporting Actor for his work in both Magic Mike and Bernie, and Amy Adams earned Best Supporting Actress for her powerhouse turn in The Master. (That film was also heralded with Best Cinematography.) The National Society of Film Critics, which is composed of 60 of the nation's top critics, held their 47th annual awards meeting on Saturday, January 5 at Elinor Bunim Munroe Center at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City. Here is the complete list of winners, complete with the voting number results: Best Picture1. Amour – 282. The Master – 253. Zero Dark Thirty – 18 Best Actor 1. Daniel Day-Lewis – Lincoln – 59 2. Denis Lavant – Holy Motors – 493. Joaquin Phoenix – The Master – 49 Best Actress1. Emmanuelle Riva – Amour – 50 2. Jennifer Lawrence – Silver Linings Playbook –423. Jessica Chastain – Zero Dark Thirty – 32 Best Supporting Actor1. Matthew McConaughey – Magic Mike, Bernie – 272. Tommy Lee Jones – Lincoln – 223. Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Master– 19 Best Supporting Actress1. Amy Adams – The Master – 342. Sally Field – Lincoln – 233. Anne Hathaway – Les Miserables – 13 Best Director1. Michael Haneke – Amour – 272. Kathryn Bigelow – Zero Dark Thirty – 242. Paul Thomas Anderson – The Master – 24 Best Screenplay1. Lincoln – Tony Kushner – 592. The Master – Paul Thomas Anderson – 273. Silver Linings Playbook – David O. Russell – 19 Best Cinematography 1. The Master – 602. Skyfall – 303. Zero Dark Thirty – 21 Best Nonfiction1. The Gatekeepers - 532. This Is Not a Film – 453. Searching for Sugar Man - 23 Experimental: This Is Not a Film [Photo credit: Sony Pictures] More: 'Amour' Is a Touching Punch to the Gut for Viewers Young and Old 'Zero Dark Thirty', 'Lincoln', 'Argo', 'Looper' Among WGA Award Nominees 'Skyfall,' 'Lincoln,' 'Silver Linings Playbook' Among 2013 Producers Guild Award NomineesFrom Our Partners: ’Buckwild’ Stars Talk ‘Jersey Shore’ Comparisons: ‘I Ain’t Paying For No Tan’ (EXCLUSIVE VIDEO) (Celebuzz) Oscars 2013: Best Picture Race Is Down to ‘Lincoln’ Versus ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ (Moviefone)
Daniel Day-Lewis to be saluted at Santa Barbara Film Festival
By: WENN.com Source December 18, 2012 12:00pm EST

The actor, who is hotly-tipped to land a Best Actor nomination for the 2013 Academy Awards, will follow in the footsteps of previous honourees Geoffrey Rush, Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Kate Winslet and Javier Bardem when he accepts the top prize on 26 January (13). Roger Durling, the festival's executive director, says, "Daniel Day-Lewis continues to inspire the industry and the public by his approach to tackling the most complex of characters and delivering brilliant performances time after time." Amy Adams was recently announced as the winner of the Cinema Vanguard Award, while Ben Affleck will be presented with the Modern Master Award at the annual event, which will run from 24 January to 3 February (13).
Hollywood executive Gil Friesen dies
By: WENN.com Source December 14, 2012 4:00am EST

Friesen, who was the president of A&M Records and A&M Films, passed away at his home in Brentwood, Los Angeles on Thursday (13Dec12) following a battle with leukaemia. After beginning his career at Capitol Records, Friesen became the first general manager of A&M Records, a small privately owned music label, and he helped launch the careers of artists including Cat Stevens, Joe Cocker, Janet Jackson, Sting, Bryan Adams and Amy Grant. Friesen was named president of the company in 1977 and he went on to expand into the movie business by launching independent film company A&M Films in 1981. The company went on to make a number of hit movies including cult classic The Breakfast Club, Paul Newman's Blaze and The Mighty Quinn with Denzel Washington. Friesen also co-founded the Classic Sports Cable Network, which was sold to ESPN in 1997.
'Rust and Bone' Globe Nominee Marion Cotillard: 'I Questioned Existence'
By: Aly Semigran December 13, 2012 9:48am EST

"It's one of the most powerful movies that I've ever seen, but I know I won't be able to watch it again because it's such a strong, emotional journey." Marion Cotillard could have very well said the same exact thing about her film Rust and Bone, the harrowing French drama which has earned her a Golden Globe nomination in the Best Actress in a Drama category (and will likely earn her another Oscar nod) about a woman whose life takes a sharp turn when a horrific accident leaves her a double amputee. Instead, Cotillard is talking about another kind of gut-wrenching tearjerker: David Lynch's 1980 classic The Elephant Man. "I remember seeing it and I cried so much I didn't want to go to school the next day because my eyes were so big from crying so much," the actress recalls. It's obvious within moments of meeting her that Cotillard is an actress who wears her heart on her sleeve both on the big screen and off. In fact, it's that very same sensitivity that provided to be her biggest challenge in the film. In Rust and Bone Cotillard's Stéphanie is an Orca whale trainer at Marineland. The actress says that while she felt a connection with the majestic creatures, their being attractions at a theme park proved to be too much for her. Cotillard — who once "had the opportunity once to swim with whales in the ocean and it's fascinating, it's totally amazing" — admits, "I'm very uncomfortable in a captivity [environment]. It's something that I don't really understand, how we can take these magnificent animals out of their environment and put them in swimming pools. That was my biggest challenge, was actually to be cool during those days." The stunningly beautiful 37-year-old star may have not been able to connect with Stéphanie's ability to work with whales in captivity, what she didn't have a hard time with was finding ways to connect to the spirit of her character and her many struggles. In addition to her injury, Stéphanie falls for a handsome, but troubled single father Ali (Matthias Schoenaerts) and their tumultuous relationship both burdens her and sets her free. Cotillard says that her Rust and Bone character is "much more violent than," than she is in real life, but she understands that through violence people can release themselves from pain. "I had a period of my life when I questioned existence. I had so many questions and there was no answer and I was kind of lost. I didn't know what to do with myself, I didn't know why I was alive." But those very questions of existence and the "Whys?", like the ones Stéphanie continually asks herself and others, can lead to something quite unexpected. "There's a process of self-destruction when you don't get those answers because you don't know if you'll ever get them," Cotillard says. "Before you find something that allows you not to worry anymore about those answers, that thing is most of the time, love," she says of her character's journey, both with herself and in her unique relationship with Ali. "When you hit the bottom and there's nothing left but yourself to face, you abandon a lot of bulls**t. You get straight to the point, you're up front, you have no time to lose with not saying things or saying things in a very complicated way. She tells what she feels because that's who she is now." But it's those very complications that draws the Oscar-winner — whose film credits in 2012 ranged from the small, intimate Rust and Bone to the blockbuster The Dark Knight Rises — to her projects. "I love complexity, that's really what I'm attracted to. With [Stéphanie] …she was such a mystery when I read the script for the first time. I thought, 'Well she could be a lot of people.' There's very little information about her, about where she comes from, about her family, about her past, there's almost nothing. So we really had to create almost everything about her and to find the authenticity, to find who she is and that was an amazing journey because when you do this with such a brilliant director [Jacques Audiard], it's very inspiring." Cotillard gives a lot of the credit to Audiard (whose brutal and brilliant A Prophet earned an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 2010) for making the heaviness of the film work. "Jacques is this mix of a very grounded person and at the same time, a great poet seeking authenticity in everything he does and I loved working with him." Cotillard has spoken before about the importance of a great director to a project, like she did during The Hollywood Reporter's recent actress' roundtable. ("I realized that if I don't trust the director, if I don't like him, I'm going to be bad.") At that same roundtable, Cotillard found herself surrounded by the very women who are earning accolades for their work in film this year. The very same women she'll face off with this awards season, including other Globes nominees Naomi Watts, Anne Hathaway, Sally Field, Amy Adams, Rachel Weisz, and Helen Hunt. But, that's not the way Cotillard sees it. "I'm the biggest actresses lover! I love actresses, I've always felt a connection [to them]. We share something in that we play our emotions and we tell women's stories." Rust and Bone is currently playing in limited release. [Photo credit: Roger Arpajou/Sony Pictures Classics] More: 2013 Golden Globes: 'Lincoln,' 'Argo' Lead Movie Nominations. See the Full List Here! 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