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January 4, 2012

Read the Press Release:

Beverly Hills, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 films remain in the running in the Visual Effects category for the 84th Academy Awards®.

The films are listed below in alphabetical order:

  • “Captain America: The First Avenger”
  • “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2″
  • “Hugo”
  • “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol”
  • “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides”
  • “Real Steel”
  • “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”
  • “Transformers: Dark of the Moon”
  • “The Tree of Life”
  • “X-Men: First Class”

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January 4, 2012

Scott Feinberg has astutely pointed out that Steven Spielberg’s War Horse has galloped into the lead for the Oscar as Best Picture, easing past The Artist and The Descendants, with its old fashioned emotion and sentiment set against the horrors of war. Is anyone really surprised? Spielberg evokes the great works of John Ford and David Lean in his new film, which works its magic on the audience throughout, drawing tears here and there through the film until sob fest that is greeting the ending in some theatres. I watched more than a few grown men and women dabbing at their eyes as they left the theatre, warm smiles on their faces, fathers with one arm on their children, wives holding the arm of their husbands. The movie impacts people in that way, and the Academy likes that sort of movie, they always have.

The question of course is whether or not they will like it enough to honor it with a Best Picture award? They certainly might, and at this writing I am leaning to the fact that indeed they will.

Read more on War Horse for Picture, Scorsese for Director?…

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January 4, 2012

Behold what our neighbors to the north have chosen as their nominees:

BEST FILM
The Artist
The Descendants
The Tree of Life

BEST ACTOR
Michael Fassbender, Shame 
Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Michael Shannon, Take Shelter

Read more on Vancouver Film Critics Nominations!…

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January 4, 2012

Behold the nominees for this tech precursor below:

NOMINEES FOR EXCELLENCE IN PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR A FEATURE FILM IN 2011:

Period Film
THE ARTIST Production Designer: Laurence Bennett
HUGO, Production Designer: Dante Ferretti
THE HELP, Production Designer: Mark Ricker
ANONYMOUS, Production Designer: Sebastian Krawinkel
TINKER TAYLOR SOLDIER SPY, Production Designer: Maria Djurkovic

Fantasy Film
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2, Production Designer: Stuart Craig
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER, Production Designer: Rick Heinrichs
THE ADVENTURES OF TIN TIN: THE SECRET UNICORN, Production Designer: TBD
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES, Production Designer: John Myhre
COWBOYS & ALIENS, Production Designer: Scott Chambliss

Contemporary Film
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO Production Designer: Donald Graham Burt
THE DESCENDANTS, Production Designer: Jane Anne Stewart
EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE, Production Designer: K.K. Barrett
DRIVE, Production Designer: Beth Mickle
BRIDESMAIDS, Production Designer: Jefferson Sage

Read more on Here are the nominations for the 16th annual Art Directors Awards!…

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