February 25, 2014

Let's Meet the Nominees - 2014 Oscars (Part 3)

Every year, multiple foreigners are honored with a nomination at the Oscars. Here's a look at this year's lot.


Cate Blanchett
Best Actress Nominee: "Blue Jasmine"
Nationality: Australian

Judi Dench
Best Actress Nominee: "Philomena"
Nationality: English

Chiwetel Ejoifor
Best Actor Nominee: "12 Years a Slave"
Nationality: English

Christian Bale
Best Actor Nominee: "American Hustle"
Nationality: Welsh

Lupita Nyong'o
Best Supporting Actress Nominee: "12 Years a Slave"
Nationality: Kenyan

Sally Hawkins
Best Supporting Actress Nominee: "Blue Jasmine"
Nationality: English

Barkhad Abdi
Best Supporting Actor Nominee: "Captain Phillips"
Nationality: Somalian

Michael Fassbender
Best Supporting Actor Nominee: "12 Years a Slave"
Nationality: Irish and German

February 18, 2014

Oscar Winners - Consecutive Wins

With Jennifer Lawrence being a favorite to win the 2014 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for "American Hustle", after her 2013 Best Actress win for "Silver Linings Playbook", we decided to take a look at the extremely rare few who have won consecutive Academy Awards.


Tom Hanks

1994 - Best Actor, "Philadelphia"

 
1995 - Best Actor, "Forrest Gump"

(other nominations: 1989 - Best Actor Nominee, "Big"; 1999 - Best Actor Nominee, "Saving Private Ryan"; 2001 - Best Actor Nominee, "Cast Away")

Spencer Tracy

1938 - Best Actor, "Captains Courageous"
not present at Academy Awards

1939 - Best Actor, "Boys Town"

(other nominations: 1937 - Best Actor Nominee, "San Francisco"; 1951 - Best Actor Nominee, "Father of the Bride"; 1956 - Best Actor Nominee, "Bad Day at Black Rock"; 1959 - Best Actor Nominee, "The Old Man and the Sea"; 1961 - Best Actor Nominee, "Inherit the Wind"; 1962 - Best Actor Nominee, "Judgement at Nuremberg"; 1968 - Best Actor Nominee, "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner")

Luise Rainer

1937 - Best Actress, "The Great Ziegfeld"

1938 - Best Actress, "The Good Earth"

February 17, 2014

Let's Meet the Nominees - 2014 Oscars (Part 2)

Always a bridesmaid... Never a bride. This year there are two actors who have been nominated for several acting Oscars and have yet to win. Will this be their year?


Amy Adams

2014 - Best Actress, "American Hustle"

2013 - Best Supporting Actress, "The Master"

2011 - Best Supporting Actress, "The Fighter"

2009 - Best Supporting Actress, "Doubt"

2006 - Best Supporting Actress, "Junebug"


Leonardo DiCaprio

2014 - Best Actor, "The Wolf of Wall Street"

2007 - Best Actor, "Blood Diamond"

2005 - Best Actor, "The Aviator"

1994 - Best Supporting Actor, "What's Eating Gilbert Grape"

February 16, 2014

BAFTA WINNERS (2013 films)



BEST FILM

12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Philomena

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

Gravity
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Philomena
Rush
Saving Mr. Banks
The Selfish Giant

DIRECTOR
Steve McQueen - "12 Years a Slave"

David O. Russell - "American Hustle"
Paul Greengrass
 - "Captain Phillips"

Alfonso Cuaron - "Gravity"
Martin Scorsese - "The Wolf of Wall Street"

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Eric Warren Singer, David O. Russell -- "American Hustle"

Woody Allen – “Blue Jasmine”
Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón -- "Gravity"
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen – “Inside Llewyn Davis”

Bob Nelson – “Nebraska”  

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

John Ridley -- "12 Years a Slave"
Richard LaGravenese – “Behind the Candelabra”
Billy Ray – “Captain Phillips”
Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope – “Philomena”
Terence Winter -- "The Wolf of Wall Street"

LEADING ACTOR
Bruce Dern – Nebraska
Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave
Christian Bale – American Hustle
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf of Wall Street
Tom Hanks – Captain Phillips

LEADING ACTRESS

Amy Adams – American Hustle
Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine
Emma Thompson – Saving Mr. Banks
Judi Dench – Philomena
Sandra Bullock – Gravity

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips
Bradley Cooper – American Hustle
Daniel Bruhl – Rush
Matt Damon – Behind the Candelabra
Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle
Julia Roberts – August: Osage County
Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave
Oprah Winfrey – The Butler
Sally Hawkins – Blue Jasmine

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH 
WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER

Colin Carberry (writer), Glenn Patterson (writer) -- "Good Vibrations"

Kelly Marcel (writer) -- "Saving Mr. Banks"

Kieran Evans (director/writer) -- "Kelly + Victor"

Paul Wright (director/writer), 
Polly Stokes (producer) -- "For Those in Peril"

Scott Graham (director/writer) -- "Shell"

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
The Act of Killing
Blue is the Warmest Color
Metro Manila
The Great Beauty
Wadjda

DOCUMENTARY
The Act of Killing
The Armstrong Lie
Blackfish
Tim's Vermeer
We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks

ANIMATED FILM
Despicable Me 2
Frozen
Monster’s University

ORIGINAL MUSIC
Hans Zimmer – “12 Years a Slave”
John Williams -- "The Book Thief"

Henry Jackman -- "Captain Phillips"

Steven Price -- "Gravity"
Thomas Newman – “Saving Mr. Banks”

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Sean Bobbitt -- "12 Years a Slave"

Barry Ackroyd -- "Captain Phillips"

Emmanuel Lubezki -- "Gravity"

Bruno Delbonnel -- "Inside Llewyn Davis"

Phedon Papamichel – “Nebraska”

EDITING

Joe Walker -- "12 Years a Slave"

Christopher Rouse -- "Captain Phillips"

Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Sanger -- "Gravity"

Dan Hanley, Mike Hill -- "Rush"

Thelma Schoonmaker -- "The Wolf of Wall Street"

PRODUCTION DESIGN

"12 Years a Slave" -- Adam Stockhausen, Alice Baker

"American Hustle" -- Judy Becker, Heather Loeffler

"Behind the Candelabra" -- Howard Cummings

"Gravity" -- Andy Nicholson, Rosie Goodwin, Joanne Woodlard 

“The Great Gatsby” – Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn

COSTUME DESIGN

"American Hustle" -- Michael Wilkinson

"Behind the Candelabra" -- Ellen Mirojnick

"The Great Gatsby" -- Catherine Martin

"The Invisible Woman"  -- Michael O'Connor

"Saving Mr. Banks" -- Daniel Orlandi

MAKE UP & HAIR

'American Hustle' -- Evelyne Noraz, Lori McCoy-Bell 

'Behind the Candelabra' -- Kate Biscoe, Marie Larkin

'The Butler' -- Debra Denson, Beverly Jo Pryor, Candace Neal

'The Great Gatsby' -- Maurizio Silvi, Kerry Warn

‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’ – Peter Swords King, Richard Taylor, Rick Findlater

SOUND

"All Is Lost" -- Richard Hymns, Steve Boeddeker,
Brandon Proctor, Micah Bloomberg, Gillian Arthur

"Captain Phillips" -- Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor,
Mike Prestwood Smith, Chris Munro, Oliver Tarney

"Gravity" -- Glenn Freemantle, Skip Lievsay, 
Christopher Benstead, Niv Adiri, Chris Munro

"Inside Llewyn Davis" -- Peter F. Kurland, Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff

"Rush" -- Danny Hambrook, Martin Steyer,
Stefan Korte, Markus Stemler, Frank Kruse

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

"Gravity" -- Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, 
David Shirk, Neil Corbould, Nikki Penny 
"The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" -- Joe Letteri,
Eric Saindon, David Clayton, Eric Reynolds 

“Iron Man 3” – Bryan Grill, Christopher Townsend,
Guy Williams, Dan Sudick
"Pacific Rim" -- Hal Hickel, John Knoll,
Lindy De Quattro, Nigel Sumner
“Star Trek Into Darkness” – Ben Grossmann, Burt Dalton,
Patrick Tubach, Roger Guyett

BRITISH SHORT ANIMATION

"Everything I Can See From Here" -- Bjorn-Erik Aschim,
Friederike Nicolaus, Sam Taylor

"I Am Tom Moody" -- Ainslie Henderson

"Sleeping with the Fishes" -- James Walker, 
Sarah Woolner, Yousif Al-Khalifa

BRITISH SHORT FILM

"Island Queen" -- Ben Mallaby, Nat Luurtsema

"Keeping Up with the Joneses" -- Megan Rubens,
Michael Pearce, Selina Lim

"Orbit Ever After" -- Chee-Lan Chan, Jamie Stone, Len Rowles

"Room 8" -- James W. Griffiths, Sophie Venner

"Sea View" -- Anna Duffield, Jane Linfoot

THE EE RISING STAR AWARD (voted for by the public)

Dane DeHaan

George MacKay

Lupita Nyong'o

Will Poulter

Léa Seydoux

Let's Meet the Nominees - 2014 Oscars (Part 1)

Every year, the Academy changes the lives of several actors... bestowing upon them, a coveted Oscar nomination. This year the Oscar newbies are:



Chiwetel Ejiofor - Best Actor Nominee
"12 Years a Slave"


Matthew McConaughey - Best Actor Nominee
"Dallas Buyers Club"


Lupita Nyong'o - Best Supporting Actress Nominee
"12 Years a Slave"



June Squibb - Best Supporting Actress Nominee
"Nebraska"


Sally Hawkins - Best Supporting Actress Nominee
"Blue Jasmine"


Barkhad Abdi - Best Supporting Actor Nominee
"Captain Phillips"


Jared Leto - Best Supporting Actor Nominee
"Dallas Buyers Club"


Michael Fassbender - Best Supporting Actor Nominee
"12 Years a Slave"


*** we think Matthew McConaughey, Lupita Nyong'o, and Jared Leto will take home the golden guy
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