Awards Blog
Streep for the win
Meryl Streep is always outstanding — but that doesn’t mean that BAFTA and Oscar voters should take her for granted this year.
Studying the Snubs
What can you do in a year of such strong movies? There are bound to be casualties. Besides, what is a snub?
This year's contenders: Mike Goodridge speculates about likely nominees
In a year when voters will be divided among many good movies, Screen looks at the likely nominees for Oscars and Baftas; plus 30 contenders who have everything to play for.
In the mix for Best Picture
A loose consensus is forming around a core of titles in the Best Picture race.
Which Sundance breakouts have awards chances?
Screen analyses the awards chances of Sundance 2011 hits including Like Crazy, Martha Marcy May Marlene and Tyrannosaur.
Toronto Download #2: Moneyball, Machine Gun Preacher, Anonymous
A look at the awards chances of more Toronto titles, plus the 10 must-see films that have yet to be screened by critics this year.
Toronto download #1: The Descendants, Albert Nobbs
Now that the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is over (just), distributors everywhere can take a deep breath and gauge which world premieres from TIFF will play a major role in the awards season.
Acting notables: Smiley and sexy
More insights into awards-friendly titles at Venice including Tinker Tailor, Shame and Contagion.
New Awards Season Blog: Tracking early contenders from Venice
Welcome to Open Season, Screen’s new blog on the awards race, an on- the-ground account of the movies and performances in contention for this year’s awards, giving first reaction, word of mouth and plenty of opinion about the avalanche of films that will start falling onto our screens over the next four months.
People
Gore Verbinski
The American director reflects on the making of Rango, which recently won top honours at the Annie Awards and is up for an Academy Award.
Woody Harrelson
Woody Harrelson tells Jeremy Kay how he prepared to play the policeman at the centre of Rampart.
Thomas McCarthy
Thomas McCarthy tells Jeremy Kay about using wrestling to explore middle-class life in Win Win.
Academy Awards
Academy committee allows four producers on Tree Of Life
The producers branch executive committee of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has ruled that the official producers are Sarah Green, Bill Pohlad, Dede Gardner and Grant Hill.
Academy signs deal with electronic vote service Everyone Counts
The announcement comes at the end of an 18-month search for a service to work alongside the Academy’s ongoing accounting firm of record PwC, starting in 2013.
Hugo leads Oscar nominations, followed closely by The Artist
Surprise nominations include Extremely Loud for Best Picture; JC Chandor’s Margin Call for Best Original Screenplay; and A Cat In Paris for Animated Film.
Awards Features
Gore Verbinski
The American director reflects on the making of Rango, which recently won top honours at the Annie Awards and is up for an Academy Award.
Exploring their world
Highlights of the HFPA foreign-language film symposium featuring Pedro Almodovar, the Dardenne brothers, Asghar Farhadi and Angelina Jolie.
Coming up shorts
The shortlists for the live-action and animated shorts categories at the Oscars include a diverse mix of styles and subject matters from around the world. Laurence Boyce previews the titles in the running for the final nominations
BAFTAS
John Hurt to receive BAFTA Outstanding Contribution Award
The legendary British actor will receive his award at the BAFTAs on Feb 12.
Golden Globes
The Artist, Descendants triumph at 2012 Golden Globes
The stage is set for an Oscar showdown after The Artist and The Descendants emerged as the big film and lead actor winners at the 69th annual Golden Globes ceremony, presented by a declawed Ricky Gervais at the Beverly Hilton on Sunday night (15).
Other Awards
Indonesia’s Edwin to receive New Talent Award at AFAs
Indonesian director Edwin will receive the Edward Yang New Talent Award at the upcoming Asian Film Awards (AFAs) in Hong Kong.
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Vision 3 wins 3D Lumiere Award for The Foundling
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French Critics Union honours The Minister
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Alexander Payne to get Golden Eddie award from ACE
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Melancholia wins big at Denmark's Robert Awards
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Hugo, Potter, Dragon Tattoo triumph at Art Directors Guild Awards
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Rango wins top honours at Annie Awards
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Sky 1 named Broadcast channel of the year
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Tinker Tailor, The Artist triumph at Richard Attenborough Awards
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RedDog, Snowtown honoured at Australian Academy awards
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Harrison Ford to receive ASC Board of Governors Award
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Tate Taylor to receive 2012 WGA Paul Selvin Award
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The Five Parts Of The World wins Grand Prize at FIPAs
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Kaurismaki's Le Havre lands top Jussi awards
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Dujardin, Davis, The Help among big SAG winners
