Guild Awards

Bohemian Rhapsody (20th Century Fox)Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Sony) Bohemian Rhapsody and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse each took home two top MPSE Golden Reel Awards tonight, further boosting their guild totals for the season. Bohemian Rhapsody won the Feature Film categories of Dialogue/ADR and Musical while Spider-Man won Animated and Music Underscore for a Feature Film. A Quiet Place won …

Vice (Annapurna)Mary Queen of Scots (Focus Features) A pair of Oscar nominees triumphed at the 6th annual Makeup and Hair Stylists Guild Awards (MUAH) last night as Vice and Mary Queen of Scots both took home wins. Vice won both awards it was up for: Best Period and/or Character Makeup and Best Special Makeup Effects, largely for Christian Bale’s extensive …

The musical biopic of rock band queen and its frontman Freddie Mercury, Bohemian Rhapsody, the death defying documentary Free Solo and the stop-motion Isle of Dogs were the big winners from last night’s 55th Cinema Audio Society awards, the guild which honors the best in sound mixing for film, animation and television. This win gives Bohemian Rhapsody another edge in …

A Star Is Born (Warner Bros) The 9th Annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards announced their winner on Wednesday evening in a ceremony that took place at the Theatre at Ace Hotel in Los Angeles.    A Star Is Born was a double winner, taking the awards for best music supervision for a film budgeted over $25 million, and for …

Cold War (Amazon) In a bit of an upset (or was it?), Łukasz Żal has won the feature film prize from the American Society of Cinematographers for his black and white lensing of Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cold War. The 33rd American Society of Cinematographers Outstanding Achievement Awards were held Saturday night at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland. Żal …

Avengers: Infinity War and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse were the big winners at last night’s 17th Visual Effects Society (VES) awards, each winning four trophies. Avengers took the top award, Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature. The event was hosted by Patton Oswalt, his eighth go round. That win puts Avengers in clear frontrunner status for the Visual Effects …

The Favourite won the Production Design for a Feature Film – Period. Four of the last 7 Oscar winners have first won this category first (Hugo, The Great Gatsby, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Shape of Water). Black Panther’s Hannah Bleacher won for Fantasy Film and Nelson Coates took home the Contemporary win for Crazy Rich Asians. The Favourite and …

Incredibles 2 and Ralph Breaks the Internet led the 46th Annie Awards, celebrating animation in feature film and television but it was Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse swooped in with a huge victory, snatching up seven wins – clean sweep – including Best Animated Feature. The film also won for direction (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman); writing (Phil Lord …

Alfonso Cuarón, ROMA Alfonso Cuarón has won his second Directors Guild of America (DGA) award for Feature Film. His sweeping personal epic Roma won him the guild’s top prize. He previously won for 2013’s Gravity, which also won him the Best Director Oscar. With BAFTA next weekend, Cuarón is ready to make a clean sweep. 89% of DGA winners go …

Bohemian Rhapsody (edited by John Ottman, ACE) and The Favourite (edited by Yorgos Mavropsaridis, ACE) won Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic) and Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy) respectively at the 69th Annual ACE Eddie Awards last night where trophies were handed out recognizing the best editing of 2018 in 11 categories of film, television and documentaries.  The black-tie ceremony was held in …