2012 Awards discussion

http://thecelebritycafe.com/feature/michael-fassbender-wins-best-actor-shame-2011-british-independent-film-awards-12-04-2011

Michael Fassbender Wins 'Best Actor' for 'Shame' At 2011 British Independent Film Awards
12/5/2011

Michael Fassbender won "Best Actor" for his role as Brandon Sullivan, a New York sex addict, in the NC-17 rated Shame at the 2011 British Independent Film Awards on December 4. Fassbender beat out the likes of Gary Oldman to capture his latest thespian trophy for the film festival favorite this year from Director Steve McQueen. There is already Oscar buzz surrounding Fassbender for the same role and the opening weekend box office sales for Shame were anything but shameful.

If Fassbender gets an Oscar nomination for Shame it could firmly establish him as an A-list talent. The actor is known for his intense discipline and willpower in delivering convincing performances but it took over 15 years for Hollywood to notice. It appears that being GQ’s "Breakout Star of the Year" for 2011 is not the only accolade for Fassbender so far. The actor is routinely mentioned as the next James Bond and his upcoming film, Prometheus, is already generating blockbuster predictions.

McQueen and Fassbender are being hailed as the new Scorsese and De Niro duo for modern cinema. The pair will reunite a third time for 12 Years a Slave with Brad Pitt. One thing seems certain: Hollywood’s new Brando is also the male Meryl Streep for his shape shifting skills from role to role. Perhaps an Oscar is in his future soon.

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/12/06/oscar-predictions-national-board-of-review-dc-critics/

Dec 6 2011 01:33 PM ET

Oscar predictions: Post National Board of Review and Washington D.C. critics
by Dave Karger

The Washington, D.C. Film Critics Association has now chimed in with its annual winners, including The Artist for Best Picture and Hugo‘s Martin Scorsese for Best Director. Its acting prizes, meanwhile, went to George Clooney (The Descendants), Michelle Williams (My Week With Marilyn), Octavia Spencer (The Help), and Albert Brooks (Drive). Here’s how the six main Oscar races stand, after the D.C. critics and last week’s National Board of Review announcement.

BEST PICTURE
1. The Artist (last week: 1)
2. The Descendants (last week: 2)
3. War Horse (last week: 3)
4. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (last week: 4)
5. Midnight in Paris (last week: 5)
6. The Help (last week: 6)
7. Hugo (last week: 9)
8. Moneyball (last week: 7)
9. The Ides of March (last week: 8 )
10. The Tree of Life (last week: 10)
11. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (last week: 11)
12. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2 (last week: 13)
13. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (last week: 12)
14. Drive (last week: –)
15. J. Edgar (last week: 15)

(Falling off: Young Adult)

BEST DIRECTOR
1. Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist (last week: 1)
2. Alexander Payne, The Descendants (last week: 2)
3. Steven Spielberg, War Horse (last week: 3)
4. Stephen Daldry, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (last week: 4)
5. Martin Scorsese, Hugo (last week: 9)
6. Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris (last week: 5)
7. Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life (last week: 7)
8. David Fincher, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (last week: 6)
9. Bennett Miller, Moneyball (last week: 8 )
10. Tate Taylor, The Help (last week: 10)
11. George Clooney, The Ides of March (last week: 11)
12. Nicolas Winding Refn, Drive (last week: –)

(Falling off: Steve McQueen, Shame)

BEST ACTOR
1. George Clooney, The Descendants (last week: 1)
2. Jean Dujardin, The Artist (last week: 2)
3. Brad Pitt, Moneyball (last week: 3)
4. Michael Fassbender, Shame (last week: 4)
5. Leonardo DiCaprio, J. Edgar (last week: 5)
6. Gary Oldman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (last week: 6)
7. Woody Harrelson, Rampart (last week: 7)
8. Ryan Gosling, The Ides of March (last week: 8 )
9. Ryan Gosling, Drive (last week: 9)
10. Michael Shannon, Take Shelter (last week: 10)
11. Demián Bichir, A Better Life (last week: 11)
12. Matt Damon, We Bought A Zoo (last week: 12)

BEST ACTRESS
1. Viola Davis, The Help (last week: 1)
2. Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady (last week: 2)
3. Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn (last week: 3)
4. Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs (last week: 4)
5. Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About Kevin (last week: 7)
6. Charlize Theron, Young Adult (last week: 5)
7. Rooney Mara, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (last week: 6)
8. Elizabeth Olsen, Martha Marcy May Marlene (last week: 8 )
9. Keira Knightley, A Dangerous Method (last week: 9)
10. Kirsten Dunst, Melancholia (last week: 10)
11. Felicity Jones, Like Crazy (last week: 11)
12. Ellen Barkin, Another Happy Day (last week: 12)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
1. Christopher Plummer, Beginners (last week: 1)
2. Max Von Sydow, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (last week: 2)
3. Kenneth Branagh, My Week With Marilyn (last week: 3)
4. Albert Brooks, Drive (last week: 5)
5. Jonah Hill, Moneyball (last week: 4)
6. George Clooney, The Ides of March (last week: 6)
7. Christoph Waltz, Carnage (last week: 7)
8. Armie Hammer, J. Edgar (last week: 8 )
9. Robert Forster, The Descendants (last week: 10)
10. Nick Nolte, Warrior (last week: 11)
11. John Hawkes, Martha Marcy May Marlene (last week: –)
12. Andy Serkis, Rise of the Planet of the Apes (last week: –)

(Falling off: Tom Hanks, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close; Stellan Skarsgard, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
1. Octavia Spencer, The Help (last week: 1)
2. Shailene Woodley, The Descendants (last week: 2)
3. Vanessa Redgrave, Coriolanus (last week: 4)
4. Bérénice Bejo, The Artist (last week: 5)
5. Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs (last week: 3)
6. Melissa McCarthy, Bridesmaids (last week: 6)
7. Sandra Bullock, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (last week: 8 )
8. Jessica Chastain, The Help (last week: 7)
9. Judy Greer, The Descendants (last week: 9)
10. Carey Mulligan, Shame (last week: 12)
11. Jessica Chastain, The Tree of Life (last week: 10)
12. Kate Winslet, Carnage (last week: 11)

http://www.nbrmp.org/awards/2011NBRAwardsAnnounced.cfm

HUGO

NAMED 2011 BEST FILM OF THE YEAR BY THE
NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW


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2011 Gala to be held on

Tuesday, January 10, 2011
hosted by Natalie Morales


New York, NY – December 1, 2011 – The National Board of Review has named HUGO the 2011 Best Film of the Year. Directed by Martin Scorsese, the film was released on November 23rd by Paramount Pictures.

Below is a full list of the awards given by the National Board of Review:



Best Film: Hugo

Best Director: Martin Scorsese, Hugo

Best Actor: George Clooney, The Descendants
Best Actress: Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About Kevin
Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer, Beginners
Best Supporting Actress: Shailene Woodley, The Descendants
Best Original Screenplay: Will Reiser, 50/50
Best Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
Best Animated Feature: Rango
Breakthrough Performance: Felicity Jones, Like Crazy
Breakthrough Performance: Rooney Mara, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Debut Director: J.C. Chandor, Margin Call
Best Ensemble: The Help
Spotlight Award: Michael Fassbender (A Dangerous Method, Jane Eyre, Shame, X-Men: First Class)
NBR Freedom of Expression: Crime After Crime
NBR Freedom of Expression: Pariah
Best Foreign Language Film: A Separation
Best Documentary: Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Special Achievement in Filmmaking: The Harry Potter Franchise - A Distinguished Translation from Book to Film

Ten Best Films

(in alphabetical order)

The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
The Ides of March
J. Edgar
Tree of Life
War Horse

Five Best Foreign-Language Films

(in alphabetical order)

13 Assassins
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
Footnote
Le Havre
Point Blank

Five Best Documentaries

(in alphabetical order)

Born to be Wild
Buck
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Project Nim
Senna

Top Ten Independent Films

(in alphabetical order)

50/50
Another Earth
Beginners
A Better Life
Cedar Rapids
Margin Call
Shame
Take Shelter
We Need To Talk About Kevin
Win Win

"HUGO is such a personal film by Martin Scorsese,” said Annie Schulhof, NBR President. “It is a tribute to the early years of cinema that uses today's cutting edge technology to bring the audience into a completely unique and magical world. It is visually stunning and emotionally engaging.”


A select group of knowledgeable film enthusiasts and professionals, academics, young filmmakers and students, the National Board of Review viewed over 250 films this year including studio, independent, foreign-language, animated and documentary selections. These screenings were frequently followed by in-depth discussions with filmmakers, directors, actors, producers, and screenwriters. Voting ballots were tabulated by the accounting firm of Lutz & Carr, LLP.


The National Board of Review honors diverse members of the film community at their annual Awards Gala, which also acts as a fundraiser for student grant philanthropy. Hosted by Natalie Morales, this year’s Gala will take place on January 10, 2012 at Cipriani’s 42nd St. in New York City.

http://www.goldderby.com/cms/view/117#

National Board of Review 2011: Complete List of Winners

The National Board of Review announced winners in a wide range of categories on Dec. 1. Read the analysis of these awards on the Oscars here.

BEST PICTURE
"Hugo"

BEST DIRECTOR
Martin Scorsese ("Hugo")

BEST ACTOR
George Clooney ("The Descendants")

BEST ACTRESS
Tilda Swinton ("We Need to Talk About Kevin")

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christopher Plummer ("Beginners")

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Shailene Woodley ("The Descendants")

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Will Reiser ("50/50")

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash ("The Descendants")

BEST ENSEMBLE
"The Help"

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
"Rango"

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
"A Separation"

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory

SPOTLIGHT AWARD
Michael Fassbender

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCES
Felicity Jones ("Like Crazy")
Rooney Mara ("The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo")

DEBUT DIRECTOR
J.C. Chandor, Margin Call

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT
The "Harry Potter" franchise

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
"Crime After Crime"
"Pariah"

BEST PICTURE NOMINEES (alphabetical)
"The Artist"
"The Descendants"
"Drive"
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2"
"The Ides of March"
"J. Edgar"
"The Tree of Life"
"War Horse"

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE NOMINEES (alphabetical)
"13 Assassins"
"Elite Squad: The Enemy Within"
"Footnote"
"Le Havre"
"Point Blank"

BEST DOCUMENTARY NOMINEES (alphabetical)
"Born to be Wild"
"Buck"
"George Harrison: Living in the Material World"
"Project Nim"
"Senna"

BEST INDEPENDENT FILMS (alphabetical)
"50/50"
"Another Earth"
"Beginners"
"A Better Life"
"Cedar Rapids"
"Margin Call"
"Shame"
"Take Shelter"
"We Need To Talk About Kevin"
"Win Win"

http://www.irishcentral.com/ent/Glenn-Closes-Albert-Nobbs-and-Michael-Fassbenders-Shame-tipped-for-Oscar-recognition-135317183.html

Glenn Close’s ‘Albert Nobbs’ and Michael Fassbender’s ‘Shame’ tipped for Oscar recognition
Irish themes making themselves apparent for this year’s Academy Awards
By
KERRY O’SHEA,
IrishCentral Intern

Published Friday, December 9, 2011, 9:37 AM
Updated Friday, December 9, 2011, 10:24 AM

Gossip about front-runners for the Oscars is already flying despite the ceremony not being held until February. The Huffington Post reports that this year the golden statutes are truly up for grabs, unlike in previous years when clear-cut victors emerged early.

Among those being spoken about for nominations is Glenn Close, for her work in the 19th century era piece about a woman posing as a man in Dublin, Ireland, as well as Kerry native Michael Fassbender for his work in the film ‘Shame.’ Similarly, Meryl Streep for her role as Margaret Thatcher in ‘The Iron Lady’ is also gaining steam.

Close refuses to jump to any conclusions when it comes to talk of nominations and awards. "I've gone through my whole career not believing anything's going to happen until it happens," Close said. "I don't expect anything. I think, just do your work, and that's what you've got."

And Close certainly did do her work for ‘Albert Nobbs.’ Having been involved in the 1982 off-Broadway production of the story, she’s been working since then to bring it to the big screen. Irishwoman Sinead O’Connor is also attached to the film and gaining some Oscar buzz also for singing the theme to the film.

In the film, Close stars as a woman posing as a man, in hopes of attaining a better life for herself. The Huffington Post points out that Hilary Swank claimed the Oscar for ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ in 1999 in a role that required her to cross-dress, similar to Close’s role in ‘Albert Nobbs.’
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Read More:
Glenn Closes’ transformation into Mr. Albert Nobbs on the streets of Dublin - trailer released - VIDEO

Michael Fassbender gives deeply unsettling performance as a sex-addict in 'Shame' - VIDEO

Meryl Streep’s ‘The Iron Lady’ insulting to Margaret Thatcher - VIDEO
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Michael Fassbender is also gaining more Oscar steam with the release of his latest film ‘Shame.’ In the movie, Fassbender stars as sex-addicted businessman who lives in New York City, after emigrating to the US from Ireland as a teenager.

The film, slapped with an NC-17 rating due in part to Fassbender’s full-frontal nudity, is undoubtedly explicit, but Fassbender gives the performance of his career. While doubts are high that Fassbender will actually win the Oscar for Best Actor, he’s practically a shoe-in for a nomination.

The Oscars without an appearance from acting great Meryl Streep is nearly unheard of today, as the actress holds the record for most nominations. Her role as Margaret Thatcher in ‘The Iron Lady,’ deemed controversial by some, is gaining Streep Oscar buzz as well.

Who do you think will be taking home an Oscar in February? Check out some of trailers below:

The trailer for Glenn Close in ‘Albert Nobbs’:

http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/awards-campaign/posts/thor-x-men-transformers-and-tree-of-life-among-15-official-oscar-visual-effects-contenders

'Thor,' 'X-Men,' 'Transformers' and 'Tree of Life' among 15 official Oscar Visual Effects contenders

If it was a summer blockbuster it's on the list

By Gregory Ellwood Friday, Dec 9, 2011 7:24 PM

'Thor,' 'X-Men,' 'Transformers' and 'Tree of Life' among 15 official Oscar Visual Effects contenders

The "Transformers" franchise is once more in the running for a VFX Oscar nomination.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed the top 15 films in contention for the 2012 Visual Effects Oscar today and there were hardly any surprises.

Dominated by summer blockbusters, the Academy's Visual Effects Branch Executive Committee will narrow the list down to 10 in early January. At that time, all members of the Visual Effects Branch will be invited to view 10-minute excerpts of the shortlisted films on Thursday, January 19. At that point, the branch members will vote to nominate five films for Oscar consideration.

The 15 films announced today are as follows:

"Captain America: The First Avenger"
"Cowboys & Aliens"
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2"
"Hugo"
"Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol"
"Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides"
"Real Steel"
"Rise of the Planet of the Apes"
"Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows"
"Sucker Punch"
"Super 8"
"Thor"
"Transformers: Dark of the Moon"
"The Tree of Life"
"X-Men: First Class"

The 84th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

http://www.goldderby.com/films/news/2272/los-angeles-film-critics-association-awards-winners-movie-news.html

What do the Los Angeles film critics' awards mean for the Oscars?
By Adam Waldowski
Dec 11 2011 | 15:06 pm

Awards momentum behind "The Descendants" sagged when it was shut out at the New York Critics Circle Awards, but it picked up steam today by winning the Best Picture honors from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. That doesn't necessarily portend good Oscar news ahead. Over the past 25 years, only "Schindler's List" (1993) and "The Hurt Locker" (2009) lined up with both groups. However, LAFCA has a history of pushing ponies into the derby that ultimately went the distance, dating back to "Rocky" (1976) and "Unforgiven" (1992).

"The Tree of Life" came in second place for Best Picture, but received the consolation prize for Best Director Terrence Malick, thus bolstering his hopes for an Oscar bid. Every director who has won at LA has gone on to reap an Academy Award bid from 1990 onward. An asterisk must be disclosed for last year, which featured a tie between David Fincher ("The Social Network") and the non-nominated Olivier Assayas. His "Carlos" was ineligible at the Oscars because it originally screened as a television miniseries.

"Descendants" writer/director Alexander Payne's script was overlooked in favor of Asghar Farhadi's "A Separation." Payne had won a breakthrough honor previously for his "Election" (1999) plus script laurels for two of his flicks that won Best Picture at LAFCA: "About Schmidt" (2002) and "Sideways" (2004).

Best Actor was L.A.'s key race to watch. Whoever won would follow a hot streak of six men who became eventual Oscar winners: Philip Seymour Hoffman ("Capote"), Forest Whitaker ("The Last King of Scotland"), Daniel Day-Lewis ("There Will Be Blood"), Sean Penn ("Milk"), Jeff Bridges ("Crazy Heart"), and Colin Firth ("The King's Speech"). This year's trophy went to Michael Fassbender, who was cited for his work on "Shame," "Jane Eyre," "A Dangerous Method" and "X-Men: First Class."

As is typical for the group, they honored an off-the-wall choice in Yun Jung-hee as Best Actress for "Poetry." Their previous two selections -- Kim Hye-ja ("Mother") and Yolande Moreau ("Seraphine") -- never picked up a modicum of Oscar buzz.

Read Gold Derby editor Paul Sheenan's summary of the winners here. You can also check out the full slate of winners.

http://www.thewrap.com/awards/column-post/artist-hugo-top-critics-choice-movie-awards-nominations-33548

'The Artist,' 'Hugo' Top Critics Choice Movie Awards Nominations
Published: December 13, 2011 @ 3:00 am
By Steve Pond

"The Artist" and "Hugo," two films about the early days of cinema that have been winning awards and nominations all season, have each received 11 nominations to lead the field at the Critics Choice Movie Awards, which announced its nominees early Tuesday morning.

But if it's no surprise that those films garnered the most noms from the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the two films with the next-highest number might come as a shock.

The HelpOne is "The Help" (left), Tate Taylor's Civil Rights-era drama considered far more of an audience favorite than a critics' choice. The other is "Drive" (below), Nicolas Winding Refn's dark and unconventional action/art movie, which sits well outside the Top 10 in most pundits' polls.

Also read: After a Day of Critics Honors, the Awards Race Is Still a Confusing Mess

Rounding out the CCMA Best Picture category, which generally coincides almost exactly with the Academy's, are "The Descendants," "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," "Midnight in Paris," "Moneyball," "The Tree of Life" and "War Horse."

DriveBest Director candidates are Stephen Daldry for "Incredibly Loud," Michel Hazanavicius for "The Artist," Alexander Payne for "The Descendants," Refn for "Drive," Martin Scorsese for "Hugo" and Steven Spielberg for "War Horse."

The acting categories, each of which contained six nominees, include most of the top Oscar contenders: George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jean Dujardin, Michael Fassbender, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt in the Best Actor category, Viola Davis, Elizabeth Olsen, Meryl Streep, Tilda Swinton, Charlize Theron and Michelle Williams for Best Actress.

Conspicuously missing in the acting races: Best Actress contenders Glenn Close ("Albert Nobbs"), Rooney Mara ("The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo") and Kirsten Dunst ("Melancholia"), and Best Actor hopefuls Woody Harrelson ("Rampart") and Gary Oldman ("Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy").

In fact, "Tinker, Tailor" might have been the most conspicuously absent film of all, as it failed to land a single nomination. Other films missing from the list of nominees include "Margin Call," "Contagion," "Take Shelter," "A Dangerous Method" and "Melancholia."

In the Best Animated Feature category, Pixar's "Cars 2" was not nominated, ending a string of category wins for the company.

Andy Serkis (strangely called "Andrew" in the BFCA press release) received a Supporting Actor nomination for his motion-capture performance as the chimpanzee Caesar in "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," while Shailene Woodley was honored twice for "The Descendants" – once in the Supporting Actress category, and again in the Best Young Actor/Actress category.

Her co-star George Clooney received three nods – one as Best Actor, and two others as part of Best Ensemble nominees "The Descendants" and "The Ides of March." Clooney now holds the CCMA record with 13 nominations.

In the Best Documentary Feature race, Steve James's "The Interrupters" was once again overlooked in favor of a lineup that includes "Project Nim," "Buck" and Scorsese's two part made-for-HBO George Harrison doc, "Living in the Material World."

"The Muppets" dominated the Best Song category with three of the five nominations, while Sony Pictures Classics enjoyed a stranglehold on Best Foreign-Language Film, with four of the five nominees. Only "Le Havre" cracked the SPC lineup of "In Darkness," "A Separation," "The Skin I Live In" and "Where Do We Go Now."

The 11 nominations received by "The Artist" and "Hugo" were one shy of the record set last year by "Black Swan" – though to be fair, the number of CCMA categories increased dramatically two years ago to more closely mirror the Academy Awards.

NomsByFilmThe Broadcast Film Critics Association is the largest film critics' organization in the United States, with about 250 television, radio and online critics in its ranks. The CCMA is typically a far strong predictor of Oscar success than the Golden Globes; last year all four acting winners went on to receive Academy Awards, although the CCMA Best Picture winner "The Social Network" did not.

The Critics Choice Movie Awards will be presented on Thursday, January 12 at the Hollywood Palladium.

The nominees:

BEST PICTURE
"The Artist"
"The Descendants"
"Drive"
"Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close"
"The Help"
"Hugo"
"Midnight in Paris"
"Moneyball"
"The Tree of Life"
"War Horse"

BEST ACTOR
George Clooney – “The Descendants”
Leonardo DiCaprio – “J. Edgar”
Jean Dujardin – “The Artist”
Michael Fassbender – “Shame”
Ryan Gosling – “Drive”
Brad Pitt – “Moneyball”

BEST ACTRESS
Viola Davis – “The Help”
Elizabeth Olsen – “Martha Marcy May Marlene”
Meryl Streep – “The Iron Lady”
Tilda Swinton – “We Need to Talk About Kevin”
Charlize Theron – “Young Adult”
Michelle Williams – “My Week With Marilyn”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Kenneth Branagh – “My Week With Marilyn”
Albert Brooks – “Drive”
Nick Nolte – “Warrior”
Patton Oswalt – “Young Adult”
Christopher Plummer – “Beginners”
Andrew Serkis – “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Berenice Bejo – “The Artist”
Jessica Chastain – “The Help”
Melissa McCarthy – “Bridesmaids”
Carey Mulligan – “Shame”
Octavia Spencer – “The Help”
Shailene Woodley – “The Descendants”

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Asa Butterfield – “Hugo”
Elle Fanning – “Super 8”
Thomas Horn – “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”
Ezra Miller – “We Need to Talk About Kevin”
Saoirse Ronan – “Hanna”
Shailene Woodley – “The Descendants”

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
"The Artist"
"Bridesmaids"
"The Descendants"
"The Help"
"The Ides of March"

BEST DIRECTOR
Stephen Daldry – “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”
Michel Hazanavicius – “The Artist”
Alexander Payne – “The Descendants”
Nicolas Winding Refn – “Drive”
Martin Scorsese – “Hugo”
Steven Spielberg – “War Horse”

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
“The Artist” – Michel Hazanavicius
“50/50” – Will Reiser
“Midnight in Paris” – Woody Allen
“Win Win” – Screenplay by Tom McCarthy, Story by Tom McCarthy & Joe Tiboni
“Young Adult” – Diablo Cody

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
“The Descendants” – Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
“Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” – Eric Roth
“The Help” – Tate Taylor
“Hugo” – John Logan
“Moneyball” – Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, Story by Stan Chervin

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
“The Artist” – Guillaume Schiffman
“Drive” – Newton Thomas Sigel
“Hugo” – Robert Richardson
“The Tree of Life” – Emmanuel Lubezki
“War Horse” – Janusz Kaminski

BEST ART DIRECTION
“The Artist” – Production Designer: Laurence Bennett, Art Director: Gregory S.

Hooper
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2” – Production Designer: Stuart Craig, Set Decorator: Stephenie McMillan
“Hugo” – Production Designer: Dante Ferretti, Set Decorator: Francesca Lo Schiavo
“The Tree of Life” – Production Designer: Jack Fisk, Art Director: David Crank
“War Horse” – Production Designer: Rick Carter, Set Decorator: Lee Sandales

BEST EDITING
“The Artist” – Michel Hazanavicius and Anne-Sophie Bion
“Drive” – Matthew Newman
“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” – Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
“Hugo” – Thelma Schoonmaker
“War Horse” – Michael Kahn

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
“The Artist” – Mark Bridges
“The Help” – Sharen Davis
“Hugo” – Sandy Powell
“Jane Eyre” – Michael O’Connor
“My Week With Marilyn” – Jill Taylor

BEST MAKEUP
"Albert Nobbs"
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2"
"The Iron Lady"
"J. Edgar"
"My Week With Marilyn"

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2"
"Hugo"
"Rise of the Planet of the Apes"
"Super 8"
"The Tree of Life"

BEST SOUND
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2"
"Hugo"
"Super 8"
"The Tree of Life"
"War Horse"

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
"The Adventures of Tintin"
"Arthur Christmas"
"Kung Fu Panda 2"
"Puss in Boots"
"Rango"

BEST ACTION MOVIE
"Drive"
"Fast Five"
"Hanna"
"Rise of the Planet of the Apes"
"Super 8"

BEST COMEDY
"Bridesmaids"
"Crazy, Stupid, Love"
"Horrible Bosses"
"Midnight in Paris"
"The Muppets"

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
"In Darkness"
"Le Havre"
"A Separation"
"The Skin I Live In"
"Where Do We Go Now"

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
"Buck"
"Cave of Forgotten Dreams"
"George Harrison: Living in the Material World"
"Page One: Inside the New York Times"
"Project Nim"
"Undefeated"

BEST SONG
“Hello Hello” – performed by Elton John and Lady Gaga/written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin – "Gnomeo & Juliet"
“Life’s a Happy Song” – performed by Jason Segel, Amy Adams and Walter/written by Bret McKenzie – "The Muppets"
“The Living Proof” – performed by Mary J.

Blige/written by Mary J. Blige, Thomas Newman and Harvey Mason, Jr. – "The Help"
“Man or Muppet” – performed by Jason Segel and Walter/written by Bret McKenzie – "The Muppets"
“Pictures in My Head” – performed by Kermit and the Muppets/written by Jeannie Lurie, Aris Archontis and Chen Neeman – "The Muppets"

BEST SCORE
“The Artist” – Ludovic Bource
“Drive” – Cliff Martinez
“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
“Hugo” – Howard Shore
“War Horse” – John Williams

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Golden Globes: A hunk of hot men for dramatic actor [poll]
December 15, 2011 | 8:45 am

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The 81 voters in the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. may work for obscure publications and make any number of bizarre Golden Globe picks, but they seem united in their selections for best dramatic actor -- the hotter the better.

In a field that will have women and any number of gay men swooning along the red carpet, the HFPA's picks for the 69th annual awards were more than a little hunky-dory: George Clooney ("The Descendants"), Leonardo DiCaprio ("J. Edgar"), Michael Fassbender ("Shame"), Ryan Gosling ("The Ides of March") and Brad Pitt ("Moneyball").

Gosling also was nominated in the comedy or musical lead actor contest for "Crazy, Stupid, Love" in a category that isn't nearly as easy on the eyes (sorry, Brendan Gleeson, who was nominated for "The Guard") but does include Jean Dujardin from "The Artist."

Clooney was nominated three times -- for starring in "The Descendants," and directing and co-writing "The Ides of March." So expect the NBC cameras to be trained on the actor/filmmaker for much of the ceremony on Jan. 15.
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Film Feature: The Best Lead Performances of 2011
Submitted by BrianTT on December 15, 2011 - 10:39am.

CHICAGO – Yesterday, we brought you some of the most engaging and memorable supporting performances of 2011. As much as I love some of the acting work in that feature, it’s nothing compared to the talent on display below. The fact is that the Best Actor and Best Actress categories this year are arguably more crowded than ever, with an amazing number of performances that will be remembered for years to come. My runner-ups, in both categories, could have easily beaten most other years’ top five lead nominees. It actually pains me to list some of them outside this year’s top five, but we’ve had an embarrassment of riches in 2011. What an amazing year for acting.

The Best Actor Performances of 2011

There is a staggering level of variety and depth on display in this list of performances from some of the best working actors today. I loved the sheer range we saw this year - the willingness to push audience expectations or the willingness to dig deeper and offer new shades, new kinds of performances that we hadn’t seen before. Great actors like George Clooneyz and Brad Pitt didn’t exactly break away from their audience expectations in 2011, but rather used them to give arguably the most complex performances of their career. There were also a number of extremely strong lead actor performances this year that were clearly the work of men inspired by some of our best directors, whether it was Banderas returning to Almodovar, Wilson finally returning from comedy hell to work with Woody, Damon vibing with Crowe, Craig proving perfect casting for Fincher, or DiCaprio proving skeptics wrong for Eastwood. But they were all runner-ups. Like I said, it was an amazing year.

Before we get to the best of the best, a wide array of notable runner-ups deserve mention, including Antonio Banderasz in “The Skin I Live In,” Bradley Cooperz in “Limitless,” Brendan Gleesonz in “The Guard,” Christoph Waltzz in “Carnage,” Clive Owenz in “Trust,” Daniel Craigz in “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” Hunter McCracken in “The Tree of Life,” J.K. Simmons in “The Music Never Stopped,” Jake Gyllenhaalz in “Source Code,” Joel Courteney in “Super 8,” Joel Edgertonz in “Warrior,” Lambert Wilsonz in “Of Gods and Men,” Leonardo DiCaprio in “J. Edgar,” Matt Damonz in “We Bought a Zoo,” Mel Gibsonz in “The Beaver,” Michael Fassbenderz in “Jane Eyre” & “X-Men: First Class,” Owen Wilsonz in “Midnight in Paris,” Paul Giamattiz in “Win Win,” Peter Mullanz in “Tyrannosaur,” Ryan Goslingz in “The Ides of March,” and Woody Harrelsonz in “Rampart.”

Runner-Ups (#6-10; in alphabetical order): Demian Bichir in “A Better Life”; Jean Dujardinz in “The Artist”; Joseph Gordon-Levittz in “50/50”; Ryan Gosling in “Drive”; and Tom Hardyz in “Warrior.”

MY FIVE NOMINEES FOR BEST LEAD ACTOR:

George Clooney as Matt Kingz in “The Descendants”

George Clooney
George Clooney
Photo credit: Fox Searchlight

Can cynical critics stop pretending that Mr. Clooney isn’t one of our best working actors? There seems to be a bias against people who started on TV, which makes their mountain path to critical recognition much harder to climb and, when I tell people that the star of “Michael Claytonz,” “Syriana,” “Solaris,” and “The American” would easily make my list of today’s best actors, I often get a raised eyebrow. There’s also a sense that dashing leading men never get the recognition they deserve, and Clooney certainly reminds me of Cary Grant in that regard, an actor often seen as a marquee topper but not the versatile genius that he actually was. With all that in mind, I think this may be Clooney’s best work to date. Emotionally deep but not clichéd, realistic at every turn, Clooney perfectly sells Matt King as someone in the moment. You can see him listening, thinking, and responding in ways that actors often don’t do. He’s always completely in the moment. He may win another Oscar for this one and, if he does, I won’t be upset.

Gary Oldmanz as George Smiley in “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”

Gary Oldman
Gary Oldman
Photo credit: Focus

One of our best living actors has been undeniably typecast in the last few years due to his larger-than-life personality and so it makes it somewhat more special that the performance he considers the best of his career is so understated and refined. George Smiley is the kind of character that an actor dreams of playing – but that doesn’t necessarily mean that anyone but Oldman could have delivered. Perhaps the greatest actor to never have been nominated for an Oscar takes the subtle road with Smiley, perfectly portraying a man dedicated to his country and his craft. Oldman’s work here is so subdued that people might mistake it for less than his typical output. It’s not until the days and weeks after, when you can’t shake Oldman’s face or the saga of George Smiley, that one realizes that the small decisions he made here lasted long beyond the film’s running time.

Brad Pittz as Billy Beanez in “Moneyball”

Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt
Photo credit: Sony

Speaking of internal monologue, few actors were required to play one as completely as Pitt in “Moneyball,” his dream project realized. I joked with Jonah Hillz that there probably wasn’t another script in 2011 that featured as many pages with shots describing different ways to present a protagonist thinking. The daring thing about Bennett Miller’sz film (and Pitt deserves credit for guiding and supporting the decision as a producer as well) is the director’s refusal to externalize what is basically a very cerebral film. So many actors and directors would have given Billy Beane a few monologues about what he was thinking as he took massive risks to make his team competitive, but Brad Pitt was willing to do what so many other actors refuse to do — play a complex, realistic man through subtle decisions instead of broad dialogue. This character is full, well-rounded, and completely believable, not just another notch in Pitt’s resume, but arguably the best performance of his career.

Michael Shannonz as Curtis in “Take Shelter”

Michael Shannon
Michael Shannon
Photo credit: Sony Pictures Classics

Michael Shannon playing another crazy guy. Surprise, surprise. Seriously, I kind of avoided the buzz for Shannon’s work in this Sundance darling because it felt too familiar. We’ve seen this unusual actor play slightly demented before. But never like this. In, what is actually, one of Shannon’s most restrained performances to date, the actor easily delivers the best work of his career, playing the humanity instead of the potential insanity. There’s a delicate balance in this character as he’s keenly aware that he’s facing only two awful possibilities in his life — either the visions he’s been having are prophetic and the world will soon end or he’s just going crazy. Shannon plays the sadness of a family man caught in a situation that has no easy conclusion and gives one of the most memorable performances of 2011, second only to…

THE WINNER

Michael Fassbender as Brandon in “Shame”

Michael Fassbender
Michael Fassbender
Photo credit: Fox Searchlight

Fearless. It’s the word I keep thinking of it when it comes to Fassbender’s work in “Shame.” Totally f**king fearless. And it’s not just the well-publicized nudity, although baring yourself so completely certainly takes a level of confidence that would have killed this project in pre-production for most actors. It’s the emotional rawness of Fassbender’s work that makes it the best of the year, without question. Brandon is a complex guy. He’s not the traditional sex addict as the role is often portrayed. There are no clammy hands or tattered raincoats. He not only passes at work, but he’s the guy at the bar that most women want to go home with. How do you play that? How do you play the confident addict when you don’t have the tricks of addiction, the broad behavior on which to fall back? Fassbender is devastating in the third act collapse of this character, but he’s almost more remarkable before that, as just an average guy with a serious addiction but one that has yet to really derail him from anything he’s desired. In a year filled with stunningly subtle performances, it’s the minor beats and the small choices that this incredible actor made during the production of “Shame” that earned him the title of Best Actor of 2011. As noted, this category is insanely crowded this year. If the Academy follows suit with SAG and doesn’t recognize this performance, you can probably predict what will top my Oscar Snubs piece in a few weeks’ time.

Click on to the second page for the Best Actress performances of 2011…

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Annual Critics Survey 2011

For the sixth year, Indiewire has polled critics, bloggers and other tastemakers from around the world on the best of the year in film with the categories: Best Film, Best Lead Performance, Best Supporting Performance, Best Director, Best Documentary, Best Screenplay, Best First Feature, Best Ensemble, Best Cinematography, and Best Undistributed Film.

Last year, “The Social Network” topped our survey, while in 2009, “Summer Hours” was the pick for Best Film.

This year, “The Tree of Life” topped the poll for Best Film with 63 votes from a total of 168 ballots.

Read about the results of this Indiewire’s year-end poll here and leave comments at the bottom of the page.
Participating Critics
Erica Abeel
Simon Abrams
Sam Adams
Thelma Adams
Ryland Aldrich
Jason Anderson
John Anderson
Melissa Anderson
David Ansen
Mark Asch
Raffi Asdourian
Michael Atkinson
Saul Austerlitz
Miriam Bale
Monika Bartyzel
Livia Bloom
Richard Brody
Brian Brooks
Dwight Brown
Paul Brunick
Joshua Brunsting
Ty Burr
Christopher Campbell
Daniel Carlson
Tom Charity
Godfrey Cheshire
Daryl Chin
Jaime N. Christley
Edward Copeland
Aaron Cutler
Mike D'Angelo
Austin Dale
Steve Dollar
Edward Douglas
A.A. Dowd
Roger Ebert
Bilge Ebiri
Cheryl Eddy
Gregory Ellwood
Jim Emerson
Cory Everett
David Fear
Marshall Fine
Jon Frosch
Cynthia Fuchs
Clementine Gallot
Stephen Garrett
Susan Gerhard
Leo Goldsmith
Ed Gonzalez
William Goss
Tim Grierson
David Gritten
Tom Hall
Melissa Hanson
Brandon Harris
Eugene Hernandez
Aaron Hillis
J Hoberman
Jordan Hoffman
Robert Horton
Eric Hynes
Jake Jacobson
Caryn James
Mark Jenkins
J.R. Jones
Danny Kasman
Anthony Kaufman
Christopher Kelly
Ben Kenigsberg
Peter Keough
Laura Kern
Gabe Klinger
Peter Knegt
Ryland Walker Knight
Robert Koehler
Eric Kohn
Dan Kois
Michael Koresky
Gary M. Kramer
Kevin B. Lee
Robert Levin
Don R. Lewis
Dennis Lim
Guy Lodge
Karina Longworth
Daniel Loria
Justin Lowe
Moira Macdonald
Peter Martin
Patrick Z. McGavin
Sean Means
Jennifer Merin
Kristi Mitsuda
Kristi Mitsuda
Wesley Morris
Noel Murray
Adam Nayman
Farran Smith Nehme
Rob Nelson
Michael Nordine
Mark Olsen
Matt Patches
Gerald Peary
David Phelps
Keith Phipps
David Poland
Jonathan Poritsky
Richard Porton
Ray Pride
Kristy Puchko
James Quandt
Mark Rabinowitz
Nicolas Rapold
Jordan Raup
Rex Reed
Jeff Reichert
Bryce J Renninger
B Ruby Rich
Katey Rich
Rania Richardson
Vadim Rizov
James Rocchi
Nathaniel Rogers
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Lisa Rosman
Joshua Rothkopf
Michael Joshua Rowin
Dan Sallitt
Mike Sampson
Nick Schager
Andrew Schenker
Jason Shawhan
Michael Sicinski
Matt Singer
Nigel M. Smith
Chuck Stephens
David Sterritt
Sasha Stone
Cédric Succivalli
R. Emmet Sweeney
Kristopher Tapley
Amy Taubin
Charles Taylor
Drew Taylor
Ella Taylor
Gina Telaroli
Anne Thompson
Scott Tobias
Gabe Toro
Peter Travers
Michael Tully
Kenneth Turan
Boyd van Hoeij
Elbert Ventura
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
David Walsh
Scott Weinberg
Elizabeth Weitzman
Chase Whale
Alison Willmore
Chris Wisniewski

Jump to: Best Film, Best Lead Performance, Best Supporting Performance, Best Director, Best Documentary, Best Screenplay, Best First Feature, Best Ensemble, Best Cinematography, Best Undistributed Film

Best Film »
# Film Title Score Mentions
1 The Tree of Life 439 63
2 Melancholia 373 52
3 A Separation 353 59
4 Drive 325 47
5 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 324 52

The Complete Best Film List »

Best Lead Performance »
# Film Title Score Mentions
1 Michael Fassbender, Shame 161 45
Michael Shannon, Take Shelter 161 44
2 Anna Paquin, Margaret 125 31
3 Juliette Binoche, Certified Copy 115 32
4 Yun Jung-hee, Poetry 99 28
5 Kirsten Dunst, Melancholia 92 33

The Complete Best Lead Performance List »

Best Supporting Performance »
# Film Title Score Mentions
1 Christopher Plummer, Beginners 171 44
2 Albert Brooks, Drive 148 41
3 Jeannie Berlin, Margaret 100 27
4 Jessica Chastain, Take Shelter 85 23
5 Viggo Mortensen, A Dangerous Method 78 21

The Complete Best Supporting Performance List »

Best Director »
# Film Title Score Mentions
1 Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life 18 18
2 Lars von Trier, Melancholia 11 11
Martin Scorsese, Hugo 11 11
3 Nicolas Winding Refn, Drive 10 10
4 Raul Ruiz, Mysteries of Lisbon 9 9
5 Kelly Reichart, Meek's Cutoff 7 7

The Complete Best Director List »

Best Documentary »
# Film Title Score Mentions
1 The Interrupters 17 17
2 Nostalgia for the Light 15 15
3 The Arbor 13 13
4 The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu 11 11
5 Project Nim 10 10

The Complete Best Documentary List »

Best Screenplay »
# Film Title Score Mentions
1 A Separation 23 23
2 Margaret 16 16
3 Moneyball 10 10
4 Young Adult 9 9
5 A Dangerous Method 7 7
Certified Copy 7 7
Mysteries of Lisbon 7 7

The Complete Best Screenplay List »

Best First Feature »
# Film Title Score Mentions
1 Martha Marcy May Marlene 48 49
2 Margin Call 13 13
3 Attack the Block 12 12
4 Bellflower 10 10
5 Pariah 8 8

The Complete Best First Feature List »

Best Ensemble »
# Film Title Score Mentions
1 Margaret 25 25
2 Bridesmaids 13 13
3 A Separation 12 12
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy 12 12
4 Margin Call 8 8
5 House of Pleasures 5 5
Melancholia 5 5
Midnight in Paris 5 5
The Descendants 5 5

The Complete Best Ensemble List »

Best Cinematography »
# Film Title Score Mentions
1 The Tree of Life 62 62
2 Hugo 10 10
3 Drive 8 8
Melancholia 8 8
4 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy 6 6
5 Meek's Cutoff 5 5

The Complete Best Cinematography List »

Best Undistributed Film »
# Film Title Score Mentions
1 The Color Wheel 15 15
2 Green 12 12
3 Oslo, August 31st 11 11
Sleeping Sickness 11 11
4 Policeman 10 10
Without 10 10
5 Two Years at Sea 9 9

The Complete Best Undistributed Film List »

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32nd London Critics' Circle Film Awards nominations announced
Awards to be presented Thursday, 19th January, at BFI Southbank

Rich Cline

Published: 20/12/2011

London, Tuesday 20 December: The London Critics’ Circle is delighted to announce the nominations today for its 32nd annual Film Awards in partnership with Virgin Atlantic.



Voted for by over 120 UK film critics, broadcasters and writers, the nominations are lead by TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY and DRIVE, which both receive 6 nominations each. British film TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY directed by Tomas Alfredson is nominated for Film of the Year, British Film of the Year, Screenwriter of the Year, Actor of the Year, British Actor of the Year and The Sky 3D Award for Technical Achievement, whilst DRIVE – directed by fellow Scandinavian Nicolas Winding Refn - is nominated for Film of the Year, Director of the Year, Actor of the Year, Supporting Actor of the Year, The Moët & Chandon Award for British Actress of the Year and The Sky 3D Award for Technical Achievement.



Asghar Farhadi’s Golden Bear (Berlin) winner A SEPARATION and Lynne Ramsay’s WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN have received 5 nominations each whilst Michel Hazanavicius’ THE ARTIST and Steve McQueen’s SHAME have received 4 apiece.



Chairman of the London Critics’ Circle, Jason Solomons, commented:

"I am proud of the breadth, intelligence and style of the choices the London critics have made, honouring the richness of world cinema and the fresh, cool takes on classic movie genres seen in films such as TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY, DRIVE and THE ARTIST. This is the surely classiest set of nominations around this year, with truly superb work reflected in the directing and foreign language categories.”


"I'm also thrilled that a London movie such as TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY and the magnetism of its central performance by London icon Gary Oldman has been rightfully recognised with so many nominations across different categories, a reminder of its all-round qualities as a British and international film. It's also gratifying that our new categories of documentary and technical awards have been able to increase our critical appreciation for the outstanding work we've witnessed in this vintage year for quality cinema."



The London Critics' Circle Film Awards in partnership with Virgin Atlantic will reveal its full list of annual award winners at the glittering ceremony on Thursday 19 January at BFI Southbank. The 32nd annual edition of the London Critics' Circle Film Awards will again be in aid of their charity partner, the BFI, to help with the preservation and restoration of British film, in particular Hitchcock's nine silent features, as part of the BFI's landmark 'Rescue the Hitchcock 9’ campaign.



The 32nd London Critics’ Circle Film Awards nominations are as follows:


FILM OF THE YEAR

The Artist (Entertainment)

Drive (Icon)

A Separation (Artificial Eye)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (StudioCanal)

The Tree of Life (Fox)



The Attenborough Award:

BRITISH FILM OF THE YEAR

The Guard (StudioCanal)

Kill List (StudioCanal)

Shame (Momentum)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (StudioCanal)

We Need to Talk About Kevin (Artificial Eye)



FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR

Mysteries of Lisbon (New Wave)

Poetry (Arrow)

Le Quattro Volte (New Wave)

A Separation (Artificial Eye)

The Skin I Live In (Fox/Pathé)



DOCUMENTARY OF THE YEAR

Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Picturehouse)

Dreams of a Life (Dogwoof)

Pina (Artificial Eye)

Project Nim (Icon)

Senna (Universal)



DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR

Asghar Farhadi - A Separation (Artificial Eye)

Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist (Entertainment)

Terrence Malick - The Tree of Life (Fox)

Lynne Ramsay - We Need to Talk About Kevin (Artificial Eye)

Nicolas Winding Refn - Drive (Icon)



SCREENWRITER OF THE YEAR

Asghar Farhadi - A Separation (Artificial Eye)

Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist (Entertainment)

Kenneth Lonergan - Margaret (Fox)

Bridget O'Connor & Peter Straughan - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (StudioCanal)

Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon & Jim Rash - The Descendants (Fox)



The Virgin Atlantic Award:

BREAKTHROUGH BRITISH FILM-MAKER

Richard Ayoade - Submarine (StudioCanal)

Paddy Considine - Tyrannosaur (StudioCanal)

Joe Cornish - Attack the Block (StudioCanal)

Andrew Haigh - Weekend (Peccadillo)

John Michael McDonagh - The Guard (StudioCanal)



ACTOR OF THE YEAR

George Clooney - The Descendants (Fox)

Jean Dujardin - The Artist (Entertainment)

Michael Fassbender - Shame (Momentum)

Ryan Gosling - Drive (Icon)

Gary Oldman - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (StudioCanal)



ACTRESS OF THE YEAR

Kirsten Dunst - Melancholia (Artificial Eye)

Anna Paquin - Margaret (Fox)

Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady (Fox/Pathé)

Tilda Swinton - We Need to Talk About Kevin (Artificial Eye)

Michelle Williams - My Week With Marilyn (Entertainment)



SUPPORTING ACTOR OF THE YEAR

Simon Russell Beale - The Deep Blue Sea (Artificial Eye)

Kenneth Branagh - My Week With Marilyn (Entertainment)

Albert Brooks - Drive (Icon)

Christopher Plummer - Beginners (Universal)

Michael Smiley - Kill List (StudioCanal)



SUPPORTING ACTRESS OF THE YEAR

Sareh Bayat - A Separation (Artificial Eye)

Jessica Chastain - The Help (Disney)

Vanessa Redgrave - Coriolanus (Lionsgate)

Octavia Spencer - The Help (Disney)

Jacki Weaver - Animal Kingdom (StudioCanal)



BRITISH ACTOR OF THE YEAR

Tom Cullen - Weekend (Peccadillo)

Michael Fassbender - A Dangerous Method (Lionsgate), Shame (Momentum)

Brendan Gleeson - The Guard (StudioCanal)

Peter Mullan - Tyrannosaur (StudioCanal), War Horse (Disney)

Gary Oldman - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (StudioCanal)



The Moët & Chandon Award:

BRITISH ACTRESS OF THE YEAR

Olivia Colman - The Iron Lady (Fox/Pathé), Tyrannosaur (StudioCanal)

Carey Mulligan - Drive (Icon), Shame (Momentum)

Vanessa Redgrave - Anonymous (Sony), Coriolanus (Lionsgate)

Tilda Swinton - We Need to Talk About Kevin (Artificial Eye)

Rachel Weisz - The Deep Blue Sea (Artificial Eye)



YOUNG BRITISH PERFORMER OF THE YEAR

John Boyega - Attack the Block (StudioCanal)

Jeremy Irvine - War Horse (Disney)

Yasmin Paige - Submarine (StudioCanal)

Craig Roberts - Submarine (StudioCanal)

Saoirse Ronan - Hanna (Universal)



The Sky 3D Award:

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT

Manuel Alberto Claro, cinematography - Melancholia (Artificial Eye)

Paul Davies, sound design - We Need to Talk About Kevin (Artificial Eye)

Maria Djurkovic, production design - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (StudioCanal)

Dante Ferretti, production design - Hugo (Entertainment)

Alberto Iglesias, original score - The Skin I Live In (Fox/Pathé)

Chris King & Gregers Sall, editing - Senna (Universal)

Joe Letteri, visual effects - Rise of the Planet of the Apes (Fox)

Cliff Martinez, original score - Drive (Icon)

Robert Richardson, cinematography - Hugo (Entertainment)

Robbie Ryan, cinematography - Wuthering Heights (Artificial Eye)



The Dilys Powell Award:

EXCELLENCE IN FILM

Nicolas Roeg

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Awards 2012: If We Chose the Winners

Matt Patches
Hollywood.com Staff

Every year, a slew of ambiguous critics groups and Hollywood types vote to award various actors, actresses, directors and producers accolades for a job well done. The SAG Awards, the Golden Globes, the Academy Awards�and those are just the top dogs, with seemingly everyone and anyone throwing in their two cents on who was the year's best of the best.

So why not us? Having seen most of the good, the bad and the ugly from 2011, we feel sufficiently qualified to give nods of our own. Prepare the drum roll! There's a drum roll, right?

Here are our picks for the standouts of the year, filling in all the usual categories you might find at an awards show. Top performances, directors, screenplays, scores and more. Then, later this week, we'll unleash our Top Films of 2011 (so keep your eyes peeled)!

Best Actor: Michael Fassbender, Shame

The early buzz was all about George Clooney in The Descendants, but at the end of the day, it was Michael Fassbender, who dominated Hollywood with four roles this year (Jane Eyre, X-Men: First Class, A Dangerous Method and Shame) who takes our top honors. In Shame, Fassbender wows with a Jekyl/Hyde-type role, a delicate balance between restrained New York everyman and the carnal beast that he attempts to control. The man doesn't mind baring all for his turn as a sex addict and the result is terrifying and powerful.

Runners-Up: Brad Pitt, Moneyball, Michael Shannon, Take Shelter, Steve Coogan, The Trip

Best Actress: Charlize Theron, Young Adult

Great female performances aren't uncommon, but it's a rarity to see Hollywood give an actress the chance to tackle someone so despicable, yet, at the same time, undeniably sympathetic. Charlize Theron riffs on her own good looks to play former-prom-queen-turned-Young-Adult-Fiction-writer Mavis, who travels back to her small hometown to hopes of winning back her ex-boyfriend. Her characterization is impeccable�Mavis is a familiar type of monster, and as Theron proves, one that may have a more complex dimension then we see on the surface.

Runners-Up: Viola Davis, The Help, Kirsten Dunst, Melancholia, Michelle Williams, My Week with Marilyn

Best Supporting Actor: Bobby Cannavale, Win Win

Win Win may have slipped under the radar back in March, but you owe it to yourself to check out the movie�at least for one of the funniest, sharpest performances of the year. The under-appreciated character actor Bobby Cannavale plays Paul Giammati's best friend in the family dramedy, a loud-mouthed bird on his shoulder always ready to throw in his two sense. Whereas most Supporting Actor awards go to performances that showcase one killer scene or a devastating dramatic archetype, Cannavale shows up in Win Win to pepper every scene with laughs and hard knock truths. He doesn't steal every scene. He makes them better.

Runners-Up: Sir Ben Kingsley, Hugo, Brad Pitt, The Tree of Life, Christopher Plummer, Beginners

Best Supporting Actress: Jessica Chastain, Take Shelter

Her co-star Michael Shannon spends the duration of Take Shelter battling mental breakdown and suffering from apocalyptic visions, but Jessica Chastain's even more spectacular, as a wife who must witness her husband's destruction. Chastain is another actress having a amazing year, with The Help, The Debt, Tree of Life, Take Shelter and Coriolanus all dropping in 2011. But it's Take Shelter where she really shines, matching Shannon's intensity with the naturalistic fervor of her farm town surroundings. After a few seconds locked up in a fall out shelter with Chastain, you'll understand why her work is the best of the year.

Runners-Up: Shailene Woodley, The Descendants, Melissa McCarthy, Bridesmaids, Carey Mulligan, Shame

Best Director: Steve McQueen, Shame

While we've seen directors paint everything from the creation of the universe to the claustrophobic interiors of a Paris train station this year, nothing stood out as much as Steve McQueen's (Hunger) calculated, expressive and nuanced portrait of one man's raw addiction. McQueen works in perfect tandem with Michael Fassbender, ignoring convention and Hollywood rules (the movie has an NC-17 rating) in an effort of capturing truth. McQueen employs long takes as Fassbender jogs New York streets, uncomfortable close ups on familiar subways and uses light to depict a gloomier side of the city. Easily one of the scariest movies of the year, Shame drips with cinema, without McQueen showing off.

Runners-Up: Terrance Malick, The Tree of Life, Martin Scorsese, Hugo, Lynne Ramsay, We Need to Talk About Kevin

Best Animated Film: Rango

We dug deep into Rango for our ""Making the Case"" feature, but the gist of the movie's greatness comes down to his creativity. Bizarre, hilarious and beautiful, Gore Verbinski's imaginative Western is high on an entire century of cinema, but still manages to pack in colorful characters and exciting action for the young ones. The perfect mix.

Runners-Up: The Adventures of Tintin, Arthur Christmas, Happy Feet 2

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Best Original Screenplay: Diablo Cody, Young Adult

Diablo Cody struck back against her Juno naysayers with a script that drops the intentionally-cheeky dialogue in favor of a biting lead character and a series of I-can't-believe-this-is-really-happening scenarios. The script is the perfect summation of suburbia, a playground for Cody's characters to run amok. Young Adult feels like a chance and one that pays off brilliantly.

Runners-Up: Will Reiser, 50/50, Abbas Kiarostami, Certified Copy, Andrew Haigh, Weekend

Best Adapted Screenplay: Steven Zaillian & Aaron Sorkin, Moneyball

After last year's The Social Network it should be no surprise that Aaron Sorkin and Schindler's List/Mission: Impossible screenwriter Steven Zaillian were able to mine an emotion out of a story driven by baseball statistics. They're main character Billy Beane (Pitt), strives to leave ""feelings"" at the door, sticking to number crunching and analysis. But through this exploration, the writers discover what a love for baseball is really about, making for a journey that's riveting, heartwarming and a lot of fun.

Runners-Up: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon & Jim Rash, The Descendants, Christopher Hampton, A Dangerous Method, John Logan, Hugo

Best Documentary: The Arbor

Clio Barnard's staged/documentary hybrid, a look in to the life of playwright Andrea Dunbar, uniquely takes the audio from friend and family interviews and couples it with lip-syncing actors. The result is a harrowing tale, the life of a young woman, her tragic death and the children she left behind to live equally difficult lives. The subject alone is intense and fascinating. With actors ""performing"" those words, it's even more of a punch to the gut. You can currently watch The Arbor on Netflix Instant.

Runners-Up: Page One: Inside the New York Times, Project Nim, How to Die in Oregon

Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, The Tree of Life

The Tree of Life jumps from grand depictions of the Big Bang to ten-year-olds running around a 1950's neighborhood to dinosaurs roaming the planet to a butterfly gracefully flying in the sky�and it does so with ease. Director Terrance Malick's poetic cinema experience wouldn't have the emotional impact it does without Emmanuel Lubezki's wondrous cinematography, a flowing picture book of an entire planet's history. Discovery Channel documentaries better step it up in 2012.

Runners-Up: Robert Richardson, Manuel Alberto Claro, Hugo, Melancholia, Eduardo Serra, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2

Best Foreign Language Film: The Skin I Live In

With so many movies coming out of every country on the globe, it's hard to settle on one Foreign Language movie in a given year (even Angelina Jolie managed to make a great one), but for top honors it's hard to deny the terrifying adrenaline rush of master Pedro Almodovar's The Skin I Live In. A body horror, a character drama, a disturbing look into today's obsession with beauty, the film is an haunting, operatic experience, and features two of the best performances of the year: Elena Anaya as a kidnapped beauty, and Antonio Banderas, who has never been better.

Runners-Up: Miss Bala, In the Land of Blood and Honey, Poetry

Best Original Score: Howard Shore, Hugo

Considering individual parts, Scorsese's Hugo may fall to the wayside in 2011, but as a whole film, it's perfection. If there's one cog that truly stands out, it's Howard Shore's delightful French soundtrack. Whimsical and rousing, it's the composers best work since The Lord of the Rings and easily the most inventive of the year. A portal to a classic era of cinema.

Runners-Up: Alexandre Desplat, The Tree of Life, Ludovic Bource, The Artist, Alberto Iglesias, The Skin I Live In

Best Original Song: ""Star Spangled Man,"" Captain America: The First Avenger

This category is generally dedicated to animated or kid-centric films, and once again, that's where many of the top tunes of 2011 (The Muppets may have 7 or . But the real winner of the year came out of nowhere: a Marvel comic book movie. ""Star Spangled Man"" was penned by Alan Menken, the showtune wizard behind The Little Mermaid and Newsies. The song's a hilarious interlude in the action�and one that doesn't settle for being a joke. It's not just good, it's toe-tapping good.

Runners-Up: ""Life's a Happy Song,"" The Muppets, ""Coeur Volant,"" Hugo, ""Let Me Take You to Rio,"" Rio

You can contact Matt Patches directly on Twitter @misterpatches and remember to follow @Hollywood_com!

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My Week With Marilyn, Tinker Tailor lead BAFTA longlist

6 January, 2012 | By Wendy Mitchell

After the first round of voting, BAFTA has unveiled its longlist for the 2012 Film Awards.

Leading the pack are My Week With Marilyn and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with 16 mentions each, followed by The Iron Lady with 14, and The Artist, Midnight In Paris, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and War Horse with 13 each.

Following are The Help and Hugo with 12 each; Drive, The Ides of March and Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows - Part 2 with 11 each. We Need To Talk About Kevin earned 10.

Palme d’Or winner The Tree of Life by Terence Malick only got one mention on the longlist, in the cinematography category. And David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method was only nominated for costume design.

Notable snubs include Madonna’s W.E., Terrence Davies’ The Deep Blue Sea, Stephen Daldry’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Nick Murphy’s The Awakening, James Watkins’ The Woman In Black and Andrea Arnold’s Wuthering Heights for all categories; Vanessa Redgrave not making the longlist for supporting actress for her role in Coriolanus; Cannes best actress winner Kirsten Dunst not being longlisted for Melancholia nor Michelle Yeoh for The Lady; and Las Acacias and Miss Bala not making the cut for foreign-language film.

More low-budget but critically acclaimed films including Weekend and Kill List aren’t on the longlist.

This marks the first year BAFTA has a documentary category, and the five films on that longlist are: George Harrison: Living in the Material World, Life in a Day, Pina, Project Nim, and Senna. Notable omissions from that list include Cave of Forgotten Dreams, TT3D: Closer To The Edge and The Interrupters.

Individuals with multiple mentions on the longlist include George Clooney for both The Descendants and The Ides of March, Ryan Gosling for Drive and The Ides of March, Carey Mulligan for Shame and Drive, and Olivia Colman for Tyrannosaur and The Iron Lady.

BAFTA voters will now cast their second votes by Jan 12. BAFTA nominations are out Jan 17 and the awards ceremony will be held Feb 12.

BAFTA 2012 longlist

Best Film
The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Help
Hugo
The Ides of March
The Iron Lady
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
My Week with Marilyn
Senna
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
War Horse
We Need to Talk About Kevin

Outstanding British Film (chapter votes for rounds one and two)
Arthur Christmas
Attack the Block
Coriolanus
The Guard
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2
The Iron Lady
Jane Eyre
My Week with Marilyn
Senna
Shame
Submarine
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Tyrannosaur
War Horse
We Need to Talk About Kevin

Director
The Artist*
The Descendants
Drive*
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Help
Hugo*
The Ides of March
The Iron Lady
J. Edgar
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
My Week with Marilyn
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy*
War Horse
We Need to Talk About Kevin*

Film Not in the English Language
Abel
As If I Am Not There
The Boy Mir - Ten Years in Afghanistan
Calvet
Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries)
Incendies
Little White Lies
Pina
Post Mortem
Potiche
Le Quattro Volte
A Separation
The Skin I Live In
Tomboy
The Troll Hunter

Documentary
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Life in a Day
Pina
Project Nim
Senna

Animated Film
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn*
Arthur Christmas*
Gnomeo and Juliet
Puss in Boots
Rango*

Original Screenplay
50/50
Anonymous
Arthur Christmas
The Artist*
Beginners
Bridesmaids*
The Guard*
The Iron Lady
J. Edgar
Midnight in Paris*
Senna
Shame
Super 8
Tyrannosaur
Young Adult*

Adapted Screenplay
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
Coriolanus
The Descendants*
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2
The Help*
Hugo
The Ides of March*
Jane Eyre
Moneyball*
My Week with Marilyn
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy*
War Horse
We Need to Talk About Kevin

Leading Actor
Antonio Banderas (Robert Ledgard) - The Skin I Live In
Brad Pitt (Billy Beane) - Moneyball*
Brendan Gleeson (Gerry Boyle) - The Guard
Daniel Craig (Mikael Blomkvist) - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Eddie Redmayne (Colin Clark) - My Week with Marilyn
Gary Oldman (George Smiley) - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy*
George Clooney (Matt King) - The Descendants*
Jean Dujardin (George Valentin) - The Artist*
Leonardo DiCaprio (J. Edgar Hoover) - J. Edgar
Michael Fassbender (Brandon) - Shame*
Owen Wilson (Gil) - Midnight in Paris
Peter Mullan (Joseph) - Tyrannosaur
Ralph Fiennes (Caius Martius Coriolanus) - Coriolanus
Ryan Gosling (Driver) - Drive
Ryan Gosling (Stephen Meyers) - The Ides of March

Leading Actress
Bérénice Bejo (Peppy Miller) - The Artist*
Carey Mulligan (Sissy) - Shame
Charlize Theron (Mavis Gary) - Young Adult
Emma Stone (Skeeter Phelan) - The Help
Helen Mirren (Rachel Singer) - The Debt
Jodie Foster (Penelope Longstreet) - Carnage
Kate Winslet (Nancy Cowan) - Carnage
Kristen Wiig (Annie) - Bridesmaids
Meryl Streep (Margaret Thatcher) - The Iron Lady*
Mia Wasikowska (Jane Eyre) - Jane Eyre
Michelle Williams (Marilyn Monroe) - My Week with Marilyn*
Olivia Colman (Hannah) - Tyrannosaur
Rooney Mara (Lisbeth Salander) - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Tilda Swinton (Eva) - We Need to Talk About Kevin*
Viola Davis (Aibileen Clark) - The Help*

Supporting Actor
Alan Rickman (Prof. Severus Snape) - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2
Albert Brooks (Bernie Rose) - Drive
Ben Kingsley (George Méliès) - Hugo
Benedict Cumberbatch (Peter Guillam) - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Christopher Plummer (Hal) - Beginners*
Colin Firth (Bill Haydon) - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Eddie Marsan (James) - Tyrannosaur*
Ezra Miller (Kevin - Teenager) - We Need to Talk About Kevin
George Clooney (Mike Morris) - The Ides of March
Jim Broadbent (Denis Thatcher) - The Iron Lady
John Hurt (Control) - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Jonah Hill (Peter Brand) - Moneyball*
Kenneth Branagh (Sir Laurence Olivier) - My Week with Marilyn*
Paul Giamatti (Tom Duffy) - The Ides of March
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Paul Zara) - The Ides of March*

Supporting Actress †
Alexandra Roach (Young Margaret Thatcher) - The Iron Lady
Bryce Dallas Howard (Hilly Holbrook) - The Help*
Carey Mulligan (Irene) - Drive
Emily Watson (Rosie Narracott) - War Horse
Evan Rachel Wood (Molly Steams) - The Ides of March
Jessica Chastain (Celia Foote) - The Help*
Judi Dench (Dame Sybil Thorndike) - My Week with Marilyn*
Kathy Bates (Gertrude Stein) - Midnight in Paris
Kathy Burke (Connie Sachs) - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Marion Cotillard (Adriana) - Midnight in Paris
Melissa McCarthy (Megan) - Bridesmaids*
Octavia Spencer (Minny Jackson) - The Help*
Olivia Colman (Carol Thatcher) - The Iron Lady
Shailene Woodley (Alexandra King) - The Descendants
Zoe Wanamaker (Paula Strasberg) - My Week with Marilyn*

Editing
The Artist*
The Descendants
Drive*
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2
Hugo*
The Ides of March
The Iron Lady
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
My Week with Marilyn
Senna*
Tinker Tailor Solider Spy*
War Horse
We Need to Talk About Kevin

Production Design
Anonymous
The Artist*
Coriolanus
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2*
The Help
Hugo*
The Iron Lady
J. Edgar
Jane Eyre
Midnight in Paris
My Week with Marilyn
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy*
War Horse*

Cinematography
The Artist*
The Descendants
Drive*
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo*
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2
Hugo*
The Ides of March
J. Edgar
Jane Eyre
Midnight in Paris
My Week with Marilyn
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy*
The Tree of Life
War Horse
We Need to Talk About Kevin

Make Up & Hair
Anonymous
The Artist*
Bridesmaids
Coriolanus
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2*
The Help
Hugo*
The Iron Lady*
J. Edgar
Jane Eyre
Midnight in Paris
My Week with Marilyn*
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
War Horse

Costume Design
Anonymous*
The Artist*
Coriolanus
A Dangerous Method
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2
The Help
Hugo*
The Iron Lady
J. Edgar
Jane Eyre*
Midnight in Paris
My Week with Marilyn*
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
War Horse

Sound
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn*
The Artist
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2*
Hugo*
The Iron Lady
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
My Week with Marilyn
Senna
Super 8
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy*
War Horse*
We Need to Talk About Kevin

Special Visual Effects
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn*
The Artist
Captain America: The First Avenger
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2*
Hugo*
Midnight in Paris
Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Rise of the Planet of the Apes*
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Super 8
Transformers: Dark of the Moon*
War Horse
X-Men: First Class

Original Music
The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn*
The Artist*
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2
The Help
Hugo*
The Ides of March
The Iron Lady
Jane Eyre
Moneyball
My Week with Marilyn
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy*
War Horse*
We Need to Talk About Kevin

* Denotes Chapter selection from Round One

http://www.rte.ie/ten/2012/0117/baftas.html

Fassbender, McDonagh on BAFTAs list
Tuesday 17 January 2012
The nominations for the British Academy Film Awards have been announced, with Michael Fassbender, The Guard director John Michael McDonagh and Chris O'Dowd among the nominees.
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Fassbender is nominated in the Best Actor category for his performance in Shame; George Clooney (The Descendants), Jean Dujardin (The Artist), Gary Oldman (Tinker Tailor Solider Spy) and Brad Pitt (Moneyball) complete the shortlist.

McDonagh is nominated in the Best Original Screenplay category for The Guard alongside Woody Allen (Midnight in Paris), Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist), Abi Morgan (The Iron Lady) and Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig (Bridesmaids).

O'Dowd is nominated for the previously announced Orange Rising Star Award, which is voted for by the public, alongside Adam Deacon, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston and Eddie Redmayne.

The nominees for Best Actress are: Bérénice Bejo (The Artist), Viola Davis (The Help), Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady), Tilda Swinton (We Need to Talk About Kevin) and Michelle Williams (My Week with Marilyn).

The Artist, The Descendants, Drive, The Help and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy are nominated for Best Film, with Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy also nominated for Outstanding British Film alongside My Week with Marilyn, Senna, Shame and We Need to Talk About Kevin.

Tomas Alfredson (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist), Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin), Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive) and Martin Scorsese (Hugo) are the nominees for Best Director.

The Artist has the most nominations this year, 12.

Belfast-born Kenneth Branagh (My Week with Marilyn), Jim Broadbent (The Iron Lady), Jonah Hill (Moneyball), Christopher Plummer (Beginners) and Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Ides of March) are the nominees for Best Supporting Actor.

Jessica Chastain (The Help), Judi Dench (My Week with Marilyn), Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids), Carey Mulligan (Drive) and Octavia Spencer (The Help) are the nominees for Best Supporting Actress.

Incendies, Pina, Potiche, A Separation and The Skin I Live In are the nominees for Best Foreign Film, with George Harrison: Living in the Material World, Project Nim and Senna the nominees for Best Documentary.

Arthur Christmas, The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn and Rango are nominated for Best Animated Film.

The awards take place on Sunday February 12 in London.

http://www.genieawards.ca/genie32/press/G32_Nominees.pdf

Genie awards listing

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/feinberg-forecast-academy-award-nominations-hugo-artist-dragon-tattoo-283762

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THR's awards analyst believes the nominations leaderboard will be topped by 'Hugo' (11), 'The Artist' (10), 'Dragon Tattoo' (6), 'The Help' (6), and 'War Horse' (6).
12:34 PM PST 1/22/2012 by Scott Feinberg
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Hugo Chloe Moretz
Courtesy of Paramount

On Tuesday morning, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will put an end to months of speculation -- including plenty by me, as reflected in charts posted on this blog every weekend since September -- by announcing its nominees for the 84th Academy Awards. That means that it is now time, for better or worse, for me to man up and lock in my final predictions of what/who those nominees will be.

I urge you to keep in mind that what follows is not necessarily what I feel should happen -- that can be better gleaned from reading my year-end top 10 list -- but rather what I think will happen, based on months of screenings (I’ve seen all of the likely nominees, many multiple times), observations (of critics, guilds, and other awards-bestowers), and conversations (with pundits and voters).

I have historically done quite well when it comes to forecasting Oscar nominations -- for instance, I projected best picture noms for The Reader (2008) and for The Blind Side (2009) when virtually no one else did -- but you have to prove yourself anew each year, and I hope to do just that.

Regardless of how things pan out, thank you for taking the time to read and consider what I have to say, and please consider sharing your own forecasts in the comments section of this post!

BEST PICTURE
1. The Artist (The Weinstein Company, 11/23, PG-13, trailer)
2. Hugo (Paramount, 11/23, PG, trailer)
3. The Descendants (Fox Searchlight, 11/23, R, trailer)
4. Midnight in Paris (Sony Pictures Classics, 5/20, PG-13, trailer)
5. The Help (Disney, 8/12, PG-13, trailer)
6. Moneyball (Columbia, 9/23, PG-13, trailer)
7. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Sony, 12/21, R, trailer)
8. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Warner Bros., 12/25, PG-13, trailer)
Alternate War Horse (Disney, 12/25, PG-13, trailer)
Potential Surprise Bridesmaids (Universal, 5/13, R, trailer)
Shoulda Been a Contender Margin Call (Roadside Attractions, 10/21, R, trailer)

BEST DIRECTOR
1. Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist)
2. Martin Scorsese (Hugo)
3. Alexander Payne (The Descendants)
4. Woody Allen (Midnight in Paris)
5. Steven Spielberg (War Horse)
Alternate David Fincher (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
Potential Surprise Tate Taylor (The Help)
Shoulda Been a Contender Bennett Miller (Moneyball)

BEST ACTOR
1. George Clooney (The Descendants)
2. Jean Dujardin (The Artist)
3. Brad Pitt (Moneyball)
4. Michael Fassbender (Shame)
5. Leonardo DiCaprio (J. Edgar)
Alternate Gary Oldman (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy)
Potential Surprise Demian Bichir (A Better Life)
Shoulda Been a Contender Martin Sheen (The Way)

BEST ACTRESS
1. Viola Davis (The Help)
2. Meryl Streep (The Iron Lady)
3. Michelle Williams (My Week with Marilyn)
4. Tilda Swinton (We Need to Talk About Kevin)
5. Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs)
Alternate Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
Potential Surprise Kristen Wiig (Bridesmaids)
Shoulda Been a Contender Adepero Oduye (Pariah)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
1. Christopher Plummer (Beginners)
2. Kenneth Branagh (My Week with Marilyn)
3. Jonah Hill (Moneyball)
4. Nick Nolte (Warrior)
5. Albert Brooks (Drive)
Alternate Max von Sydow (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
Potential Surprise Ben Kingsley (Hugo)
Shoulda Been a Contender Ryan Gosling (Crazy, Stupid, Love)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
1. Octavia Spencer (The Help)
2. Berenice Bejo (The Artist)
3. Jessica Chastain (The Help)
4. Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids)
5. Carey Mulligan (Shame)
Alternate Janet McTeer (Albert Nobbs)
Potential Surprise Shailene Woodley (The Descendants)
Shoulda Been a Contender Evan Rachel Wood (The Ides of March)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
1. Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash (The Descendants)
2. Stan Chervin, Aaron Sorkin, Steven Zaillian (Moneyball)
3. John Logan (Hugo)
4. Tate Taylor (The Help)
5. Steven Zaillian (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
Alternate Eric Roth (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
Potential Surprise Bridget O'Connor, Peter Straughan (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy)
Shoulda Been a Contender Pedro Almodovar (The Skin I Live In)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
1. Woody Allen (Midnight in Paris)
2. Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist)
3. Annie Mumolo, Kristen Wiig (Bridesmaids)
4. Will Reiser (50/50)
5. Mike Mills (Beginners)
Alternate Tom McCarthy, Joe Tiboni (Win Win)
Potential Surprise Diablo Cody (Young Adult)
Shoulda Been a Contender Drake Doremus, Ben York Jones (Like Crazy)

BEST ANIMATED FILM (FEATURE)
1. Rango (Paramount, 3/4, PG, trailer)
2. Puss in Boots (DreamWorks, 11/4, PG, trailer)
3. The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret Unicorn (Paramount, 12/21, PG, trailer)
4. Kung Fu Panda 2 (DreamWorks, 5/26, PG, trailer)
5. Arthur Christmas (Sony, 11/23, PG, trailer)
Alternate Cars 2 (Disney, 6/24, G, trailer)
Potential Surprise Happy Feet 2 (Warner Bros., 11/18, PG, trailer)
Shoulda Been a Contender Rio (20th Century Fox, 4/15, G, trailer)

BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM (FEATURE)
1. Project Nim (Roadside Attractions, 7/8, PG-13, trailer)
2. Bill Cunningham New York (Zeitgeist Films, 3/16, TBA, trailer)
3. Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (HBO Documentary Films, TBA, R, trailer)
4. If a Tree Falls (Oscilloscope, 6/22, TBA, trailer)
5. Buck (IFC Films, 6/17, PG, trailer)
Alternate Undefeated (The Weinstein Company, 2/10, TBA, TBA)
Potential Surprise Battle for Brooklyn (TBA, 6/17, TBA, trailer)
Shoulda Been a Contender Semper Fi: Always Faithful (TBA, TBA, TBA, trailer)

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
1. Iran (A Separation)
2. Israel (Footnote)
3. Poland (In Darkness)
4. Canada (Monsieur Lazhar)
5. Denmark (Superclasico)
Alternate Belgium (Bullhead)
Potential Surprise Germany (Pina)
Shoulda Been a Contender Finland (Le Havre)

BEST ART DIRECTION
1. Hugo (Dante Ferretti)
2. The Artist (Laurence Bennett)
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Stuart Craig)
4. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Maria Djurkovic)
5. War Horse (Rick Carter)
Alternate The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Donald Graham Burt)
Potential Surprise Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (K.K. Barrett)
Shoulda Been a Contender Limitless (Patrizia von Brandenstein)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
1. The Tree of Life (Emmanuel Lubezki)
2. Hugo (Robert Richardson)
3. The Artist (Guillaume Schiffman)
4. War Horse (Janusz Kaminski)
5. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Jeff Cronenweth)
Alternate Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Hoyte Van Hoytema)
Potential Surprise Drive (Newton Thomas Sigel)
Shoulda Been a Contender Take Shelter (Adam Stone)

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
1. The Artist (Mark Bridges)
2. Hugo (Sandy Powell)
3. Jane Eyre (Michael O'Connor)
4. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Jacqueline Durran)
5. W.E (Arianne Phillips)
Alternate The Help (Sharen Davis)
Potential Surprise My Week with Marilyn (Jill Taylor)
Shoulda Been a Contender Captain America (Anna B. Sheppard)

BEST FILM EDITING
1. The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius, Anne-Sophie Bion)
2. Hugo (Thelma Schoonmaker)
3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall)
4. War Horse (Michael Kahn)
5. Drive (Matthew Newman)
Alternate Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (Dino Jonsater)
Potential Surprise Midnight in Paris (Alisa Lepselter)
Shoulda Been a Contender Contagion (Stephen Mirrione)

BEST MAKEUP
1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Nick Dudman, Amanda Knight)
2. The Iron Lady (Marese Langan, Mark Coulier, J. Roy Helland)
3. Albert Nobbs (Matthew W. Mungle, Lynn Johnston, Martial Corneville)
Alternate Hugo (Morag Roth, Jan Archibald, Anni Buchanan)
Potential Surprise The Artist (Julie Hewitt, Cydney Cornell)
Shoulda Been a Contender The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Torsten Witte, Eva von Bahr)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
1. The Artist (Ludovic Bource)
2. Hugo (Howard Shore)
3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross)
4. War Horse (John Williams)
5. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Alexandre Desplat)
Alternate Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Alberto Iglesias)
Potential Surprise The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret Unicorn (John Williams)
Shoulda Been a Contender Jane Eyre (Dario Marianelli)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
1. "Star Spangled Man" (Captain America)
2. "Life's a Happy Song" (The Muppets)
3. "The Living Proof" (The Help)
4. "Lay Your Head Down" (Albert Nobbs)
5. "Hello Hello" (Gnomeo & Juliet)
Alternate "Man or Muppet" (The Muppets)
Potential Surprise "Coeur Volant" (Hugo)
Shoulda Been a Contender "Think You Can Wait" (Win Win)

BEST SOUND EDITING
1. Super 8
2. Hugo
3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
4. The Adventures of Tintin
5. War Horse
Alternate Drive
Potential Surprise Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Shoulda Been a Contender In the Land of Blood and Honey

BEST SOUND MIXING
1. Super 8
2. Hugo
3. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
4. Moneyball
5. Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Alternate The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret Unicorn
Potential Surprise War Horse
Shoulda Been a Contender Source Code

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
1. Rise of the Planet of the Apes (Justin Cornish, Dan Lemmon, Joe Letteri, Brooke Lyndon-Stanford, R. Christopher White, Erik Winquist)
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (Tim Burke, Greg Butler, Dadi Einarsson, Adam Gascoyne, Rudi Holzapfel, Matt Jacobs, Seth Mathiesen, John Moffatt, Clark Parkhurst, Chris Shaw, Ulcun Tan, David Vickery)
3. Hugo (David Burton, Matthew Gratzner, John Knoll, Robert Legato, Mark Weigert, Edson Williams)
4. Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Brennan Doyle, Scott Farrar, Samir Hoon, Reupal D. Rawal, Scott Squires)
5. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Gary Brozenich, Tony Clark, Charles Gibson, Ian Hunter, Charlie Iturriaga, Gregory Oehler, Christian Pokorny, David Sanger, Ben Snow, Simon Stanley-Clamp, Greg Strause)
Alternate The Tree of Life (Tom Debenham, Olivier Dumont, Dan Glass, Bryan Hirota, Matt McDonald, Dominic Parker, Daniel P. Rosen, Michael Shand)
Potential Surprise Captain America: The First Avenger (Craig Barron, Stephane Ceretti, Vincent Cirelli, Sean Andrew Faden, Florian Gellinger, Jonathan Harb, Richard Higham, Dave Morley, Charlie Noble, Daniel P. Rosen, Kathy Siegel, Stephen Swanson, Christopher Townsend, Edson Williams)
Shoulda Been a Contender Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol (John Knoll, Dave Morley)

NOTE: During phase 1, I do not forecast the shorts — animated, documentary, or live action — because I do not have sufficient access to see the films myself. During phase 2, I will be provided with copies of each film, screen them, and then project winners.

http://www.awardsdaily.com/2012/01/the-skin-i-live-in-earns-16-goya-nominations/#more-48080

The Skin I Live In earns 16 Goya Nominations
January 10, 2012 by Ryan Adams in AWARDS CHATTER | 20 Comments

Mejor Película europea
Jane Eyre (Reino Unido)
Melancolía (Dinamarca)
The Artist (Francia)
Carnage (Un dios salvaje)) (Francia)

Mejor Dirección
Mateo Gil por Blackthorn (Sin destino)
Pedro Almodóvar por La piel que habito
Benito Zambrano por La voz dormida
Enrique Urbizu por No habrá paz para los malvados

Mejor Actriz
Verónica Echegui por Katmandú. Un espejo en el cielo
Salma Hayek por La chispa de la vida
Elena Anaya por La piel que habito
Inma Cuesta por La voz dormida

Mejor Actor
Daniel Brühl por Eva
Antonio Banderas por La piel que habito
Luis Tosar por Mientras duermes
José Coronado por No habrá paz para los malvados

Mejor Actriz de reparto
Maribel Verdú por De tu ventana a la mía
Pilar López de Ayala por Intruders
Ana Wagener por La voz dormida
Goya Toledo por Maktub

Mejor Actor de reparto
Lluís Homar por Eva
Juanjo Artero por No habrá paz para los malvados
Raúl Arévalo por Primos
Juan Diego por 23-F: la película

Mejor Dirección novel
Paula Ortiz por De tu ventana a la mía
Kike Maíllo por Eva
Paco Arango por Maktub
Eduardo Chapero-Jackson por Verbo

Mejor Actriz revelación
Blanca Suárez por La piel que habito
María León por La voz dormida
Michelle Jenner por No tengas miedo
Alba García por Verbo

Mejor Actor revelación
José Mota por La chispa de la vida
Jan Cornet por La piel que habito
Marc Clotet por La voz dormida
Adrián Lastra por Primos

Mejor Guión original
Miguel Barros por Blackthorn (Sin destino)
Sergi Belbel , Martí Roca , Aintza Serra y Cristina Clemente por Eva
Woody Allen por Midnight in Paris
Michel Gaztambide y Enrique Urbizu por No habrá paz para los malvados

Mejor Guión adaptado
Ángel de la Cruz , Ignacio Ferreras , Paco Roca y Rosanna Cecchini por Arrugas
Iciar Bollaín por Katmandú. Un espejo en el cielo
Pedro Almodóvar por La piel que habito
Benito Zambrano , Carmen López-Areal y Ignacio del Moral por La voz dormida

Mejor Música original
Lucio Godoy por Blackthorn (Sin destino)
Evgueni Galperine por Eva
Alberto Iglesias por La piel que habito
Mario de Benito por No habrá paz para los malvados

Mejor Canción
De tu ventana a la mía (“Debajo del limón”)
La voz dormida (“Nana de la hierbabuena”)
Maktub (“Nuestra playa eres tú”)
Verbo (“Verbo”)

Mejor Fotografía
Juan Antonio Ruiz Anchia por Blackthorn (Sin destino)
Arnau Valls por Eva
José Luis Alcaine por La piel que habito
Unax Mendía por No habrá paz para los malvados

Mejor Montaje
David Gallart por Blackthorn (Sin destino)
Elena Ruiz por Eva
José Salcedo por La piel que habito
Pablo Blanco por No habrá paz para los malvados

Mejor Sonido
Blackthorn (Sin destino)
Eva
La piel que habito
No habrá paz para los malvados

Mejor Efectos especiales
Eva
Intruders
La piel que habito
No habrá paz para los malvados

Mejor Dirección artística
Blackthorn (Sin destino)
Eva
La piel que habito
No habrá paz para los malvados

Mejor Diseño de Vestuario
Blackthorn (Sin destino)
La piel que habito
La voz dormida
No habrá paz para los malvados

Mejor Maquillaje y Peluquería
Blackthorn (Sin destino)
Eva
La piel que habito
No habrá paz para los malvados

Mejor Dirección de producción
Blackthorn (Sin destino)
Eva
La piel que habito
No habrá paz para los malvados
Mejor Película de animación

Mejor Película de animación
Arrugas
Carthago Nova
Papá, soy una zombie
The Little Wizard. O mago Dubidoso

Mejor Largometraje documental
El cuaderno de barro
Escuchando al Juez Garzón
Morente
Treinta años de oscuridad

Mejor Película extranjera de habla hispana
Boleto al paraíso (Cuba)
Miss Bala (México)
Un cuento chino (Argentina)
Violeta se fue a los cielos (Chile)

http://www.ifta.ie/nominees/actorleadfilm.html

ACTOR IN A LEAD ROLE FILM
9th annual irish film & television awards nominees

MFMichael Fassbender
Shame, Momentum Pictures

Shame is Michael's second collaboration with director Steve McQueen after Hunger for which he won the Best Actor IFTA in 2009. Michael Fassender has also featured in 300, Band of Brothers, Trial and Retribution, and Murphy’s Law before taking on leading film roles in Hunger, The Devil's Whore, Angel, and Town Creek. He will soon be seen in Steven Soderberg's Haywire.
BGBrendan Gleeson
The Guard, Reprisal Films / Element Pictures

Brendan Gleeson’s credits include Harry Potter, In Bruges, and Gangs of New York. In 2009 Brendan won an Emmy and IFTA Award for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in Into the Storm. This year Gleeson appeared in The Guard and his forthcoming releases include Albert Nobbs, Safehouse, The Raven and The Company You Keep.

CHCiarán Hinds
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Ciarán Hinds’ film and theatre credits include Excalibur, Lara Croft Tomb Raider, Veronica Guerin, The Phantom of the Opera, Munich, Miami Vice, Rome and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I and II. In 2010 Ciarán won the IFTA for Actor in a Supporting Role Film for his performance in The Eclipse. This year he also appeared in The Debt and will soon be seen in The Woman in Black.

ESMartin Sheen
Stella Days, Newgrange Pictures

Martin Sheen has starred in more than 65 feature films to include Apocalypse Now, Badlands, Wall Street, Gandhi, Catch Me if you Can, The Departed, Bobby and The Way. His most recent film is Stella Days. In recent years Sheen has convinced television audiences that he is the man most people would like to see as President of the United States, Josiah Bartlet in The West Wing.

http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2012/01/the-artist-leads-the-field-at-the-2012-bafta-film-awards/

‘The Artist’ Leads The Field At The 2012 BAFTA Film Awards
By Fraser McAlpine | Posted on Monday, January 16th, 2012

This year’s BAFTA Film Awards nominations are out, and for once, the biggest film of the year appears to be French, and in black and white…and silent. The Artist is very well represented indeed, being up for awards in the big four categories – Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor AND Best Actress.

Other notable award magnets include Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, We Need To Talk About Kevin, and The Iron Lady, which can boast a Best Actress/Best Supporting Actor nominations double whammy.

And let’s not forget, where BAFTA goes, Oscar often follows. So here’s a rundown of the most notable awards categories (you can compare with EW.com’s own longlist of Academy Awards predictions), with a look at the likelihood that the winner will end up having to find shelf-space for a tall gold man next to the winkyface man.

Best Film

Of the past five winners of the Best Film Academy Award, three have also been BAFTA winners, the exceptions being The Queen in 2007 (the Oscar went to The Departed), and Atonement in 2008 (beating No Country For Old Men). The nominees are:

The Artist
The Descendents
Drive
The Help
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Best Actor

Again, three out of the past five winners have been a direct match, Mickey Rourke’s astonishing work in The Wrester took BAFTA gold over the Academy-preferred Sean Penn in 2009, and Colin Firth getting his BAFTAs in early for A Single Man in 2010. He won both the following year for The King’s Speech. The BAFTA nominations are:

Brad Pitt – Moneyball
Gary Oldman – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
George Clooney – The Descendents
Jean Dujardin – The Artist
Michael Fassbender – Shame

Best Actress
Here we’re on even safer ground, with four of the past five winners being a direct match. The sole exception being Carey Mulligan, who won the BAFTA for her role in An Education, where Sandra Bullock won the Oscar for The Blind Side.

Bérénice Bejo – The Artist
Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady
Michelle Williams – My Week With Marilyn
Tilda Swinton – We Need To Talk About Kevin
Viola Davis – The Help

Best Supporting Actor

And once again the two academies are in almost total accord, with Geoffrey Rush’s win last year for The King’s Speech being the sole exception over the past five years. Christian Bale won the Oscar for The Fighter.

Christopher Plummer – Beginners
Jim Broadbent – The Iron Lady
Jonah Hill – Moneyball
Kenneth Branagh – My Week With Marilyn
Philip Seymour Hoffman – The Ides of March

Best Supporting Actress

Had Melissa Leo not won the Academy Award last year, and allowed Helena Bonham Carter to sweep in regally and swipe it for her performance as The Queen Mother in The King’s Speech, there would be a clean sweep of accord between our two nations. So close, and yet…

Carey Mulligan – Drive
Jessica Chastain – The Help
Judi Dench – My Week With Marilyn
Melissa McCarthy – Bridesmaids
Octavia Spencer – The Help

Best Director

Here, we’re on shakier ground again, with only three out of five shared winners. Last year, David Fincher won the BAFTA for The Social Network, whereas the Oscar went to Tom Hooper for The King’s Speech. And back in 2007, Paul Greengrass won the BAFTA while Martin Scorsese took the Academy Award.

Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist
Nicolas Winding Refn – Drive
Martin Scorsese – Hugo
Tomas Alfredson – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Lynne Ramsay – We Need To Talk About Kevin

Elsewhere in the BAFTA nominations sheet, there are a couple of noteworthy categories that have no equal at the Oscars:

Outstanding British Film
My Week With Marilyn
Senna
Shame
Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy
We Need To Talk About Kevin

Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director or Producer
Attack The Block – Joe Cornish (Director/Writer)
Black Pond – Will Sharpe (Director/Writer), Tom Kingsley (Director), Sarah Brocklehurst (Producer)
Coriolanus – Ralph Fiennes (Director)
Submarine – Richard Ayoade (Director/Writer)
Tyrannosaur – Paddy Considine (Director), Diarmid Scrimshaw (Producer)

Some critics have already noted that Olivia Colman has been cruelly snubbed for her astonishing performance in Tyrannosaur, either as Best Supporting Actress or even Best Actress. So if you want our tip for a future awards dead cert, it is her.

The full list of nominees is here.

The BAFTA Film Awards will air on BBC America, Sunday, February 12 at 8 pm ET, followed by the second Absolutely Fabulous special at 11 pm ET.

http://www.bafta.org/film/awards/public-information,2348,BA.html#jump01

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Public information about the BAFTA Film Awards on 12 February 2012.

The Orange British Academy Film Awards rewards the best work of any nationality seen on British cinema screens during the preceding year.

The awards in 2012 will take place on Sunday 12 February at the Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden. Key dates can be found on the 2012 Film Awards timetable page.
For more information about the Orange British Academy Film Awards please contact Freud Communications or email info@bafta.org

Watch the Awards on TV

The ceremony will be broadcast on BBC1 on 12 February 2012. After the television broadcast, the BBC show will be available to watch on iPlayer.

For viewers outside of the UK, the programme can be seen internationally in a number of countries. In 2011, the Awards were screened in over 75 territories, including:
BROADCASTER

TERRITORY
Movie Network


Australia
HBO Central Europe


Czech, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Poland
HBO


Netherlands
Orange France


France, Monaco and all French territories
Pix India


India
Direct TV


Argentina, Caribbean (Anguilla, Antigua and
Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda,
the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands,
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Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Martinique, Netherlands
Antilles, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Marteen,
St Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago,
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Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela
Non Stop Television


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Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands,
Flemish Belgium & Luxembourg
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Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Russia (Sakhalin
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only), Taiwan, Thailand, Vanuatu and Vietnam
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America
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The complete list of 2012 Genie nominations
Published Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012 10:59AM EST
BEST PICTURE

A Dangerous Method

Café De Flore

Monsieur Lazhar

Starbuck

The Whistleblower

ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN

Jean Bécotte, Funkytown

Aidan Leroux, Rob Hepburn, Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster

James Mcateer, A Dangerous Method

Patrice Vermette, Café De Flore

Emelia Weavind, The Bang Bang Club
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‘Café de Flore,’ ‘Dangerous Method’ dominate Genies

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Miroslaw Baszak, The Bang Bang Club

Pierre Cottereau, Café De Flore

Jon Joffin, Daydream Nation

Jean-François Lord, Snow & Ashes

Ronald Plante, Monsieur Lazhar

COSTUME DESIGN

Denise Cronenberg, A Dangerous Method

Farnaz Khaki-Sadigh, Afghan Luke

Ginette Magny, Emmanuelle Youchnovski, Café De Flore

Heather Neale, Keyhole

Marie-Chantale Vaillancourt, Funkytown

DIRECTION

David Cronenberg, A Dangerous Method

Steven Silver, The Bang Bang Club

Jean-Marc Vallée, Café De Flore

Philippe Falardeau, Monsieur Lazhar

Larysa Kondracki, The Whistleblower

EDITING

Jean-François Bergeron, The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom

Michael Czarnecki, In Darkness

Patrick Demers, Jaloux

Stéphane Lafleur, Monsieur Lazhar

Ronald Sanders, A Dangerous Method

MAKE-UP

Christiane Fattori, Frédéric Marin, Café De Flore

Amber Makar, Amazon Falls

Virginie Paré, Bumrush

Tammy Lou Pate, Snow & Ashes

Leslie Ann Sebert, David R. Beecroft, Take This Waltz

ORIGINAL SCORE

Ramachandra Borcar, Jaloux

Mychael Danna, The Whistleblower

Martin Léon, Monsieur Lazhar

Philip Miller, The Bang Bang Club

Howard Shore, A Dangerous Method

ORIGINAL SONG

Jay Brannan, Cloudburst, My Love My Love

Carole Facal, Starbuck, Quelque Part

Malajube, Good Neighbours, Oeil Pour Oeil

Steven Page, French Immersion, A Different Sort Of Solitude

Jean Robitaille, Steve Galluccio, Funkytown, Waiting For Your Touch

LEAD ACTOR

Mohamed Fellag, Monsieur Lazhar

Garret Dillahunt, Oliver Sherman

Michael Fassbender, A Dangerous Method

Patrick Huard, Starbuck

Scott Speedman, Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Antoine Bertrand, Starbuck

Kevin Durand, Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster

Marin Gerrier, Café De Flore

Taylor Kitsch, The Bang Bang Club

Viggo Mortensen, A Dangerous Method

LEAD ACTRESS

Catherine De Léan, Nuit #1

Pascale Montpetit, The Girl In The White Coat

Vanessa Paradis, Café De Flore

Rachel Weisz, The Whistleblower

Michelle Williams, Take This Waltz

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Roxana Condurache, The Whistleblower

Hélène Florent, Café De Flore

Julie Lebreton, Starbuck

Sophie Nélisse, Monsieur Lazhar

Charlotte Sullivan, Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster

OVERALL SOUND

Stéphane Bergeron, Yann Cleary, Lise Wedlock, Marécages / Wetlands

Pierre Bertrand, Shaun Nicholas Gallagher, Bernard Gariépy Strobl, Monsieur Lazhar

Jean Minondo, Jocelyn Caron, Gavin Fernandes, Louis Gignac, Café De Flore

Lou Solakofski, Stephan Carrier, Kirk Lynds, The Bang Bang Club

Orest Sushko, Christian Cooke, A Dangerous Method

SOUND EDITING

Fred Brennan, James Bastable, Gabe Knox, John Sievert, You Are Here

Claude Beaugrand, Olivier Calvert, Natalie Fleurant, Francine Poirier, Marécages / Wetlands

Wayne Griffin, Rob Bertola, Tony Currie, Andy Malcolm, Michael O'farrell, A Dangerous Method

Martin Pinsonnault, Blaise Blanchier, Simon Meilleur, Mireille Morin, Luc Raymond, Café De Flore

Jeremy Maclaverty, Daniel Pellerin, Geoff Raffan, Jan Rudy, John Sievert, James Mark Stewart, In Darkness

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Anne Émond, Nuit #1

Eilis Kirwan, Larysa Kondracki, The Whistleblower

Ken Scott, Martin Petit, Starbuck

Jean-Marc Vallée, Café De Flore

Ryan Ward, Matthew Heiti, Son Of The Sunshine

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Philippe Falardeau, Monsieur Lazhar

Ryan Redford, Oliver Sherman

David Shamoon, In Darkness

Steven Silver, The Bang Bang Club

VISUAL EFFECTS

Dennis Berardi, Mathew Bornett, Mike Borrett, Wilson Cameron, Ovi Cinazin, Jason Edwardh, Oliver Hearsey, Jim Price, Milan Schere, Wolciech Zielinski, A Dangerous Method

Éve Brunet, Jacques Lévesque, Philippe Roberge, Snow & Ashes

Marc Côté, Stéphanie Broussaud, Gary Chuntz, Vincent Dudouet, Cynthia Mourou, Eric Normandin, Martin Pensa, Luc Sanfaçon, Sylvain Théroux, Nathalie Tremblay, Café De Flore

Geoffroy Lauzon, Bumrush

Tom Turnbull, Ian Britton, Robert Crowther, Tony Cybulski, Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster

BEST FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY

Beauty Day, Jay Cheel, Kristina Mclaughlin, Kevin Mcmahon, Roman Pizzacalla

Family Portrait In Black And White, Julia Ivanova, Boris Ivanov

The Guantanamo Trap, Thomas Wallner, Amit Breuer, Patrick Crowe

La Nuit, Elles Dansent / At Night, They Dance, Isabelle Lavigne, Stéphane Thibault, Lucie Lambert

Wiebo's War, David York, Nick Hector, C.C.E., Bryn Hughes, Bonnie Thompson

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY

75 Watts, John Cullen

Derailments, Chelsea Mcmullan

Sirmilik, Zacharias Kunuk, Joel Mcconvey, Kristina Mclaughlin, Kevin Mcmahon, Michael Mcmahon, Geoff Morrison, Ryan J. Noth

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT DRAMA

Doubles With Slight Pepper, Ian Harnarine

Hope, Pedro Pires, Phoebe Greenberg, Penny Mancuso

Ora, René Chénier, Philippe Baylaucq

La Ronde, Élaine Hébert, Sophie Goyette

BEST ANIMATED SHORT

Choke, Michelle Latimer

La Cité Entre Les Murs / Inner City, Alain Fournier

Muybridge's Strings, Koji Yamamura, Michael Fukushima, Shuzo John Shiota, Keisuke Tsuchihashi

Romance, Georges Schwizgebel, René Chénier, Marc Bertrand

Wild Life, Amanda Forbis, Wendy Tilby, Marcy Page, Bonnie Thompson

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16595381

17 January 2012 Last updated at 09:12 ET

Shame leads Evening Standard film award nominations
Michael Fassbender Fassbender has been tipped for awards success for his role as a sex addict in Shame

Steve McQueen's controversial film Shame and Paddy Considine's Tyrannosaur are leading the field for the Evening Standard British Film Awards.

Shame, about sex addiction, is up for four nominations including best film, best actor for Michael Fassbender and best actress for Carey Mulligan.

Fassbender picks up a second best actor nomination for his portrayal of Mr Rochester in Jane Eyre.

Tyrannosaur is also up for four awards, including best film.

The brutal drama lands Considine a best screenplay nomination, while its stars, Peter Mullan and Olivia Coleman, are up for best actor and actress respectively.

Archipelago, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and We Need to Talk About Kevin will also vie for best film.

Also in the running for best actor are Kenneth Branagh for My Week With Marilyn, Brendan Gleeson for The Guard, Tom Hiddleston for Archipelago, and Gary Oldman for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

Archipelago's third nomination comes for Joanna Hogg's screenplay.

The family drama stars Hiddleston as a city worker who quits to do voluntary work in Africa.

Also in the best actress category are Samantha Morton for The Messenger, Vanessa Redgrave for Coriolanus, Tilda Swinton for We Need To Talk About Kevin and Rachel Weisz for The Deep Blue Sea.

The Guard, Black Pond and The Inbetweeners will fight it out for the Peter Sellers comedy award.

The Evening Standard British film awards have been presented annually since 1973.

This year's awards will be hosted by actor Stephen Mangan at the London Film Museum on 6 February.

http://www.awardsdaily.com/2012/01/a-separation-lisbon-drive-tree-of-life-lead-ics-nominees/#more-48615

A Separation, Lisbon, Drive, Tree of Life lead ICS Nominees
January 22, 2012 by Beth Stevens in AWARDS CHATTER | 54 Comments

The International Cinephile Society has announced its nominees for the 9th Annual ICS Awards. A Separation leads the field with 10 nominations, followed by Mysteries of Lisbon with 9, and The Tree of Life and Drive with 7 each. The winners, along with ranked lists for Best Picture and Best Film Not in the English Language, will be announced on February 21, 2012.

PICTURE
• Certified Copy
• Drive
• Hugo
• Margaret
• Meek’s Cutoff
• Melancholia
• Mysteries of Lisbon
• A Separation
• The Tree of Life
• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
• Weekend

DIRECTOR
• Asghar Farhadi – A Separation
• Abbas Kiarostami – Certified Copy
• Terrence Malick – The Tree of Life
• Nicolas Winding Refn – Drive
• Raoul Ruiz – Mysteries of Lisbon

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
• Certified Copy
• House of Pleasures
• Le Havre
• Le Quattro Volte
• Mysteries of Lisbon
• Of Gods and Men
• Poetry
• A Separation
• The Skin I Live In
• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

ACTOR
• Tom Cullen – Weekend
• Michael Fassbender – Shame
• Peyman Moaadi – A Separation
• Chris New – Weekend
• Michael Shannon – Take Shelter

ACTRESS
• Sareh Bayat – A Separation
• Juliette Binoche – Certified Copy
• Elizabeth Olsen – Martha Marcy May Marlene
• Anna Paquin – Margaret
• Yun Jung-hee – Poetry

SUPPORTING ACTOR
• Albert Brooks – Drive
• Shahab Hosseini – A Separation
• Michael Lonsdale – Of Gods and Men
• Brad Pitt – The Tree of Life
• Christopher Plummer – Beginners

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
• Jessica Chastain – Take Shelter
• Jessica Chastain – The Tree of Life
• Leila Hatami – A Separation
• Carey Mulligan – Shame
• J. Smith-Cameron – Margaret

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
• Certified Copy – Abbas Kiarostami
• Margaret – Kenneth Lonergan
• Midnight in Paris – Woody Allen
• A Separation – Asghar Farhadi
• Weekend – Andrew Haigh

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
• Drive – Hossein Amini
• Moneyball – Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin
• Mysteries of Lisbon – Carlos Saboga
• The Skin I Live In – Agustín Almodóvar, Pedro Almodóvar
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Bridget O’Connor, Peter Straughan

CINEMATOGRAPHY
• Drive – Newton Thomas Sigel
• Melancholia – Manuel Alberto Claro
• The Mill and the Cross – Lech Majewski, Adam Sikora
• Mysteries of Lisbon – André Szankowski
• The Tree of Life – Emmanuel Lubezki

EDITING
• Drive – Matthew Newman
• Martha Marcy May Marlene – Zachary Stuart-Pontier
• Mysteries of Lisbon – Carlos Madaleno, Valeria Sarmiento
• A Separation – Hayedeh Safiyari
• The Tree of Life – Hank Corwin, Jay Rabinowitz, Daniel Rezende, Billy Weber, Mark Yoshikawa

PRODUCTION DESIGN
• Hugo – Dante Ferretti
• The Mill and the Cross – Marcel Slawinski, Katarzyna Sobanska-Strzalkowska
• Mysteries of Lisbon – Isabel Branco
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Maria Djurkovic
• The Tree of Life – Jack Fisk

ORIGINAL SCORE
• Drive – Cliff Martinez
• Hanna – Tom Rowlands, Ed Simons (as The Chemical Brothers)
• Mysteries of Lisbon – Jorge Arriagada
• The Skin I Live In – Alberto Iglesias
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Alberto Iglesias

ENSEMBLE
• Bridesmaids
• Margaret
• Midnight in Paris
• Mysteries of Lisbon
• A Separation
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

ANIMATED FILM
• The Adventures of Tintin
• Rango
• Winnie the Pooh

DOCUMENTARY
• The Arbor
• The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
• Nostalgia for the Light
• Pina
• Senna

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http://if.com.au/2012/01/15/article/AACTA-unveils-first-round-of-awards/QLKKBPOYAR.html

AACTA unveils first round of awards

[Sun 15/01/2012 07:12:25]

By Brendan Swift

The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) has unveiled the first round of its revamped awards at a Sydney luncheon.

Presenters at the event, which was hosted by actor Sigrid Thornton, included actors such as Radha Mitchell, Rebecca Gibney and Susie Porter, as well as directors Bruce Beresford, Fred Schepisi and Adam Elliot.

Australian cinematographer Donald McAlpine ACS ASC picked up the AACTA's highest accolade, the Raymond Longford Award, while filmmaker Ivan Sen received the Byron Kennedy Award, which recognises innovation and the pursuit of excellence.

Sen, whose latest film Toomelah screened at last year's Cannes Film Festival, was chosen for “his unique artistic vision and for showing, by his resourceful multidisciplinary filmmaking, that telling stories on screen is in reach of all who have something consequential to say”.

Meanwhile, production designer Herbert Pinter was awarded the AACTA Award for Outstanding Achievement In Television for his work on Tim Winton’s cloudstreet.

ABC programs dominated the TV awards with Chris Lilley recognised for Angry Boys (Best Performance in a Television Comedy), Laid winning Best Television Comedy Series, and My Place, Series 2 recognised as the Best Children’s Television Series.

Among the Australian feature film award winners were The Eye of the Storm, The Hunter and Snowtown, which each received two craft awards. Meanwhile, Legend Of The Guardians: The Owls Of Ga’Hoole was awarded Best Visual Effects.

The highest grossing Australian film at the box office in 2011, Red Dog, was awarded the AFI Members’ Choice Award.

Crowd-pleasing feature documentary Mrs Carey’s Concert led the documentary awards with awards for Best Feature Length Documentary and Best Direction in a Documentary. Other documentary winners included Jandamarra's War, SAS - The Search for Warriors, murundak - songs of freedom, Out of the Ashes, Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure.

The Palace, an Australian/Cypriot co-production, won Best Short Fiction Film and Best Screenplay in a Short Film, while Nullarbor picked up the Best Short Animation award.

Nominees were also announced for the new AACTA International Awards via a live cross to actor Jacki Weaver at the G’Day USA Black Tie Gala in Los Angeles.

The AACTA Awards are run by the Australian Film Institute and replace the AFI Awards, which were first launched in 1958.

The NSW government is spending $1.7 million a year on the AFIs – almost one-third of the $6.26 million in production financing it invested (via Screen NSW) across 41 film and TV projects in 2009-10.

“Today’s awards are the first of our two awards events and highlight the exceptional work of our craftspeople," AFI | AACTA chief executive, Damian Trewhella, said in a statement.

"We encourage all Australians to support our local screen industry by watching the Samsung AACTA Awards ceremony in two weeks’ time to see which films and television productions are awarded our nation’s best.”

The remaining AACTA Awards will be announced at the AACTA Awards ceremony at the Sydney Opera House on January 31, which will be broadcast on the Nine Network.

Contact this reporter at bswift@if.com.au or on Twitter at @bcswift.

Samsung AACTA Awards Luncheon Winners

AACTA RAYMOND LONGFORD AWARD
• Don McAlpine

BYRON KENNEDY AWARD
• Ivan Sen

AACTA AWARD FOR BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
• Legend Of The Guardians: The Owls Of Ga'Hoole. Grant Freckelton.

TELEVISION

AACTA AWARD FOR BEST TELEVISION COMEDY SERIES
• Laid. Liz Watts. ABC1

AACTA AWARD FOR BEST PERFORMANCE IN A TELEVISION COMEDY
• Chris Lilley. Angry Boys. ABC1

AACTA AWARD FOR BEST CHILDREN'S TELEVISION SERIES
• My Place, Series 2. Penny Chapman. ABC3

AACTA AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN TELEVISION SCREEN CRAFT
• Herbert Pinter - Production Design. Cloudstreet. FOXTEL - Showcase

SHORT FILM

AACTA AWARD FOR BEST SHORT ANIMATION
• Nullarbor. Alister Lockhart, Patrick Sarell, Katrina Mathers, Merrin Jensen, Daryl Munton.

AACTA AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FICTION FILM
• The Palace. Kate Croser, Anthony Maras, Andros Achilleos.

AACTA AWARD FOR BEST SCREENPLAY IN A SHORT FILM
• The Palace. Anthony Maras.

DOCUMENTARY

AACTA AWARD FOR BEST FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY
• Mrs Carey's Concert. Bob Connolly, Helen Panckhurst, Sophie Raymond. ABC1

AACTA AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY UNDER ONE HOUR
• Jandamarra's War. Andrew Ogilvie, Andrea Quesnelle, Eileen Torres. ABC1

AACTA AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY SERIES
• SAS - The Search for Warriors. Julia Redwood, Ed Punchard. SBS

AACTA AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTION IN A DOCUMENTARY
• Mrs Carey's Concert. Bob Connolly, Sophie Raymond. ABC1

AACTA AWARD FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY IN A DOCUMENTARY
• Out Of The Ashes. David Parer ACS. ABC1

AACTA AWARD FOR BEST EDITING IN A DOCUMENTARY
• Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure. Bryan Mason.

AACTA AWARD FOR BEST SOUND IN A DOCUMENTARY
• murundak - songs of freedom. Emma Bortignon, Michael Letho, Peter Smith, Christopher O'Young, Simon Walbrook. SBS

FEATURE FILM

AACTA AWARD FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
• The Hunter. Robert Humphreys ACS.

AACTA AWARD FOR BEST EDITING
• Snowtown. Veronika Jenet ASE.

AACTA AWARD FOR BEST SOUND
• Snowtown. Frank Lipson MPSE, Andrew McGrath, Des Kenneally, Michael Carden, John Simpson,
Erin McKimm.

AACTA AWARD FOR BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC SCORE
• The Hunter. Matteo Zingales, Michael Lira, Andrew Lancaster.

AACTA AWARD FOR BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
• The Eye Of The Storm. Melinda Doring.

AACTA AWARD FOR BEST COSTUME DESIGN
• The Eye Of The Storm. Terry Ryan.

AFI MEMBERS' CHOICE AWARD
• Red Dog. Nelson Woss, Julie Ryan.

AACTA INTERNATIONAL AWARDS NOMINEES

AACTA INTERNATIONAL AWARD FOR BEST SCREENPLAY

• The Artist. Michel Hazanavicius
• The Descendants. Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash
• The Ides Of March. George Clooney, Grant Heslov, Beau Willimon
• Margin Call J.C. Chandor
• Melancholia. Lars von Trier
• Midnight In Paris. Woody Allen
• Moneyball. Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, Stan Chervin
• We Need To Talk About Kevin. Lynne Ramsay, Rory Kinnear

AACTA INTERNATIONAL AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTION

• The Artist. Michel Hazanavicius
• Drive. Nicolas Winding Refn
• Hugo. Martin Scorsese
• Margin Call. J.C. Chandor
• Melancholia. Lars von Trier
• Midnight In Paris. Woody Allen
• The Tree Of Life. Terrence Malick
• We Need To Talk About Kevin. Lynne Ramsay

AACTA INTERNATIONAL AWARD FOR BEST ACTOR

• George Clooney. The Descendants
• Leonardo DiCaprio. J. Edgar
• Jean Dujardin. The Artist
• Michael Fassbender. Shame
• Ryan Gosling. The Ides Of March
• Brad Pitt. Moneyball

AACTA INTERNATIONAL AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS

• Glenn Close. Albert Nobbs
• Kirsten Dunst. Melancholia
• Meryl Streep. The Iron Lady
• Tilda Swinton. We Need To Talk About Kevin
• Mia Wasikowska. Jane Eyre
• Michelle Williams. My Week With Marilyn

AACTA INTERNATIONAL AWARD FOR BEST FILM

• The Artist
• The Descendants
• Hugo
• The Ides Of March
• Margin Call
• Melancholia
• Midnight In Paris
• Moneyball
• The Tree Of Life
• We Need To Talk About Kevin

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