Awards Season

The King’s Speech cleans house at BAFTA awards

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts displayed their unabashed favoritism toward British films this Sunday by showering The King’s Speech with seven awards, including Best Picture and

Inception and The Social Network get WGA love

Christopher Nolan and Aaron Sorkin were the big winners at Saturday night’s Writers Guild of America awards. Nolan grabbed the Original Screenplay prize, finally receiving recognition for his

The King’s Speech solidifies front-runner status at SAG awards

The King’s Speech took home the biggest award at the SAG awards last night, receiving the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture award, the SAG’s equivalent to Best Picture. The

The DGA gets on The King’s Speech bandwagon

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Since its inception in 1948 the Directors Guild of America has only disagreed with the Academy six times regarding the best director of the year. Hence, if you’re going to place bets on the Best

Oscar nomination analysis

Nothing is set in stone. Those are words to live by when it comes to awards season predictions.  Early on it may have looked like The Social Network was going to steamroll the Academy Awards and walk

83rd Annual Academy Award Nominations

Academy voters have spoken and The King's Speech leads the race with 12 nominations. True Grit received 10, with The Social Network and Inception tied for 8 nominations each. No love for Christopher

BAFTAs shake things up

It is as though the British Academy of Film and Television Arts heard my cry.  Just as I was beginning to get bored with the awards season, the BAFTA nominations show up and rattle the crowd a bit.

And the Critics Choice Movie Awards winners are…

In what has been a mostly predictable awards season the Critics Choice Movie Awards maintained the status quo, handing all the expected winners their expected awards.

Colin Firth keeps it real, doesn’t think acting is that important

Colin Firth has just been awarded a shiny new star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and will probably be awarded a lot more shiny things over the next two months as he enters yet another awards season.

BAFTAs release long list

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has released their long list of nominations for their February 13th awards ceremony. Since they are generally considered the British Oscars, they are