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Academy announces twenty films vying for Best Visual Effects Oscar nomination

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With a little over a month to go until the announcement of the Oscar nominations, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences have revealed the shortlist of twenty films vying for a nod in the category of Best Visual Effects at the 88th Academy Awards. “Ant-Man” “Avengers: Age of Ultron” “Bridge of Spies” “Chappie” […]

2015 Visual Effects Academy Award shortlist revealed

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced a shortlist of films for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the Oscars, with the 10 contenders set to be whittled down to five for the final nomination…. Captain America: The Winter Soldier Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Godzilla Guardians of […]

Shortlist for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film revealed

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has revealed that there are now just nine films vying for a nomination for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the upcoming 87th Academy Awards. The shortlist of films, by country, is as follows: Argentina, “Wild Tales,” Damián Szifrón, director; Estonia, “Tangerines,” Zaza Urushadze, director; […]

And the winners of the 2014 Gotham Awards are…

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The 2014 Gotham Awards took place in New York City last night, with director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s acclaimed drama Birdman scooping Best Feature, along with Best Actor for Michael Keaton. Julianne Moore claimed Best Actress for Still Alice, while Richard Linklater’s Boyhood claimed the Audience Award.   Check out the full list of nominations here, […]

The Boxtrolls leads Annie Award nominations with 13 nods

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The Annie Awards have announced their choices for the top 8 animated features of 2014 as well as nominations in over 20 other animation categories. The Hollywood Reporter reports that The Boxtrolls received the most nominations (13) of any film followed by How to Train Your Dragon 2 (10), Big Hero 6 (7), Song of […]

New York Film Circle Critics award Boyhood Best Film of 2014

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The New York Film Circle Critics just announced their 2014 winners and they are crazy about Richard Linklater’s passion project Boyhood. Who are these critics? Here is an excerpt from the NYFCC webpage: “Founded in 1935, the Circle’s membership includes critics from daily newspapers, weekly newspapers, magazines, and qualifying on-line general-interest publications. Every year in […]

Winners of the 20th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards announced

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Coming hot on the heels of the Academy Award nominations, the winners of the 20th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards were announced last night, with Birdman taking seven gongs including Best Actor, Best Comedy Actor and Best Acting Ensemble, while Richard Linklater’s Boyhood ended the night with Best Picture and Best Director. Here’s a full […]

The Grand Budapest Hotel leads the 2015 EE BAFTA Film Nominations

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This morning at BAFTA HQ in Piccadilly, the Nominations for this year’s BAFTAS were announced by Stephen Fry and The Hunger Games star Sam Clafin. No huge surprises in many of the nominations, as many of the big hitters throughout this year’s award season are present and correct, with The Grand Budapest Hotel receiving the […]

Lady Bird takes home Chicago Film Critics Association’s top prizes

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Although Call Me by Your Name and The Shape of Water dominated the Chicago Film Critics Association in nominations, Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut Lady Bird walked away with the highest honors. The circa-2001 Catholic highschool-set coming of age comedy was awarded Best Picture while stars Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf emerged victorious from their respective, fiercely […]