AwardsWatch - oscars

12 Years a Slave, McConaughey, Blanchett Win Spirit Awards

Erik Anderson March 1, 2014

The Film Independent Spirit Awards, famous for giving out their trophies the day before the Oscars, looked an awful lot like an Oscar preview today.... Read More

Captain Phillips, Gravity Share MPSE Honors

Erik Anderson February 17, 2014

Captain Phillips and Gravity shared the two major awards from the Motion Picture Sound Editors last night, with the former taking Dialogue and ADR and... Read More

12 Years a Slave Wins BAFTA’s Best Film (and Not Much Else)

Erik Anderson February 16, 2014

It’s another awards show, which means 12 Years a Slave won the top prize but still managed to stumble, hard. After losing category after category... Read More

Visual Effects Society Awards: Gravity and Frozen Sweep

Erik Anderson February 13, 2014

Adding one more lock to its inevitable Oscar win, Gravity dominated the Visual Effects Society’s (VES) awards, winning six of its seven nominations, including the... Read More

BAFTA : How It Could Influence the Oscar Race

Erik Anderson February 3, 2014

By Alex K Kay For all intents and purposes, the British Academy Of Film and Television Arts (popularly acronym’d as BAFTA) is the penultimate bellwether... Read More

WGA Winners: Her and Captain Phillips Win as Hustle and Wolf Tumble

Erik Anderson February 1, 2014

Spike Jonze’s Her beat out David O. Russell’s American Hustle for the Writers Guild’s highest honor for original screenplays and set itself up for a... Read More

Producers Guild Winner(s): Things Just Got a Whole Lot Harder

Erik Anderson January 20, 2014

A tie. A statistical tie. Both Gravity and 12 Years a Slave were announced the winners last night, to the shock of everyone. A first... Read More

Megan Ellison: From Heiress to Oscar Winner (Well, in March)

Erik Anderson January 16, 2014

Double Oscar nominee Megan Ellison. Following up her Oscar nomination last year for producing Zero Dark Thirty, that’s how she can be referred to as... Read More

86th Academy Award Nominations: Dallas Overperforms, 12 Years Underperforms and N’Oprah Strikes Again

Erik Anderson January 16, 2014

The nominations for the 86th Academy Awards were announced this morning to a chorus of shocks and awes with American Hustle and Gravity leading the... Read More