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January 20, 2012

Best Picture – The Artist
Best Actor – Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Actress – Anna Paquin and Meryl Streep
Director – Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Best British Film – We Need to Talk About Kevin
Technical Achievement Award: production designer Maria Djurkovic, Tinker Tailor Soldier Soy
Read more on London Film Critics Go for ‘The Artist’ and Anna Paquin…

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January 20, 2012

Best Picture: The Descendants
Best Director: Alexander Payne (The Descendants)
Best Actor: Brad Pitt (Moneyball)
Best Actress: Viola Davis (The Help)
Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer (Beginners)
Best Supporting Actress: Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids)
Best Animated Film: Rango
Best Film Yet to Open in Iowa: We Need to Talk About Kevin AND Project Nim

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January 20, 2012

Thanks to Sasha Stone @ Awards Daily

FEATURE FILMS CATEGORY

BEST SOUND EDITING: SOUND EFFECTS AND FOLEY IN A FEATURE FILM

  • Drive
  • Fast Five
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  • Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

Read more on MPSE Sound Editors Nominees…

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January 20, 2012

Read the Official Press Release:

AWARDS TO BE PRESENTED AT THE 62nd ANNUAL ACE EDDIE AWARDS ON FEBRUARY 18, 2012

Universal City, January 20, 2012 – American Cinema Editors (ACE) will honor veteran editors Joel Cox, A.C.E. and Doug Ibold, A.C.E. with the organization’s prestigious Lifetime Career Achievement Award at the 62nd Annual ACE Eddie Awards on February 18, 2012 in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel.  The Lifetime Career Achievement Award honors veteran editors whose body of work and reputation within the industry is outstanding.  Clint Eastwood will present to Cox and Dick Wolf will present to Ibold.  As previously announced, Patton Oswalt will serve as the evening’s MC and winners of the ACE Eddie Awards will be announced that evening in nine categories of film, television and documentaries.  Nominees were announced January 16th – A full list of nominees is online at AMERICANCINEMAEDITORS.COM.

Read more on American Cinema Editors Honors Veteran Editors JOEL COX & DOUG IBOLD…

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January 20, 2012

We’re fast approaching the Academy Award nominations.  It’s just a matter of days now, if you can believe it. As always, one can’t help but imagine what the snubs and surprises might be.  Oscar nomination morning never quite goes as you expect it to, that’s for sure. I fully expect there to be both surprises and snubs, as that’s the nature of the beast. I’m all but set on my final predictions, so I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about what might surprisingly be excluded or included. Below you’ll find one potential snub and one potential surprise for each of the major categories. Am I banking on any of them happening? No, but don’t completely discount them either.  This is the type of thing that you never can be sure of when it comes to the specifics, but in terms of broad strokes…you just know something is going to go down.  There’s an exciting aspect to not knowing, but I make my bones trying to deduce the method to the Academy’s madness, so here goes nothing!

Read more on Snubs and Surprises – What Can We Expect on Oscar Nomination Morning?…

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Author: Robert Hamer
January 20, 2012

Now that we’re just one week away from the Academy Award nominee announcements, some categories are becoming narrowed down in a more literal sense. Best Makeup and Visual Effects have a “Bake-Off,” where only a few eligible contenders are squeezed into a small group until being squeezed further into the final set of nominees. It’s one of those arbitrarily weird competition rules that strikes me as unnecessary and even a little douchey, especially in Visual Effects, since inspired and creative minimal uses of special effects are grouped in with films that are crammed with varying qualities of CGI and are almost always the ones that suffer (see: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World for last year’s ceremony). “Hey guys, good job making the finali-oops, you didn’t get nominated LOL!” Luckily, Makeup’s Bake-Off had many sighing a breath of relief with their choices, or, more perhaps more accurately, omissions… Read more on Sizing Up the “Bake-Off” Fields…

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January 20, 2012

Picking The Top 5 Contestants to Watch from Savannah and Pittsburgh

This is…American Idol! Oh man, I’ve always wanted to say that. Welcome readers to the brand new season of American Idol. This year at the Awards Circuit, we will do our very best to give you the most in-depth coverage of the #1 Television Show in America. It needs no introductions, so let’s get right down to it! This is Season 11, and after an amazing season last year, I can only hope the judges continue to exude amazing chemistry amongst themselves while still finding the best vocal talent America has to offer. After The Voice and The X-Factor, it is good to be back in familiar territory. I’m not knocking the other two shows, but this is what started the fad for singing competition shows, and still remains the best of the bunch. The ratings don’t lie nor do Scotty McCreery’s platinum hit sales numbers. The best part of Idol is discovering a new chart-topper, which is why it remains the best and most legitimate show on television for discovering the next great artist. Read more on American Idol Audition Week One Wrap Up…

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January 20, 2012

Welcome to another January weekend at the movies. This week, we have three new major releases, and two Oscar buzzed films expanding wide. Underworld: Awakening, Red Tails, and Haywire are the new releases which are hitting nearly 3,000 theaters across the nation. Oscar frontrunner, The Artist, is expanding to 637 theaters while the 9/11 film that has all but lost its Oscar steam, Extremely Loud and Incredible Close, expands from 12 to 2360 theater locations.

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January 20, 2012

Albert Brooks AlbertBrooks

@awardscircuit Thanks! Very cool.

The “Drive” co-star thanks all of our faithful readers for his Supporting Actor nomination in our annual Community Awards. Congratulations!

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January 20, 2012

With the announcement of the Producers’ Guild nominations for Best Picture, Terence Malick’s The Tree of Life is not among the nominees, it’s Oscar chances look fairly dim. Bear in mind Malick was snubbed for a DGA nomination earlier this month, so this film that so enchanted some critics, (not all) is not looking like it is going to compete for the Academy Awards. Of course, it still could because nobody knows anything until Tuesday morning when the nominees are announced, but considering everything that has or has not happened with The Tree of Life, I would say it is our of the race.

Read more on Is ‘The Tree of Life’ done Oscar-wise?…

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