Terrence Malik’s Tree of Life won Best Picture – and Malik was named Best Director – as the Toronto Film Critics Association announced the selections for their annual awards, further muddying the waters as to who/what might conceivably be forerunners for the Oscars®. Muddying the waters even more, the TFCA named Michael Shannon Best Actor […]
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18th Annual SAG Awards: Movies: The Help Scores Four Nominations; Modern Family Leads TV With Five!
The Artist may have continued to build credibility as a genuine Oscar® candidate as it scored nominations for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role and Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, but The Help took the most nomination by a single film with four [Viola Davis nominated for […]
Hugo and The Artist Lead The Way With 11 Critics Choice Award Nominations!
Hugo and The Artist were at the head of the class as the Broadcast Film Critics Association announced the nominations for the 17th annual Critics choice Awards. Each received 11 nominations including Best Picture and Best Director. The Best Picture category also included previous award winners The Descendants and The Tree of Life. Summer smash […]
Awards Season Confusion V: San Francisco Critics Circle Names Tree of Life Best Film, Terrence Malik Best Director!
Another day, another choice. The San Francisco Critics Circle have announced their awards for excellence in film for 2011. Terrence Malik’s Tree of Life took Best Film while Malik claimed the award for Best Director. Further adding to awards season confusion, the SFCC named Gary Oldman Best Actor for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and We […]
Awards Season Confusion IV: New York Film Critics Online Hail The Artist and Its Director!
After being named the New York Film Critics Online choice for best film of 2011, the silent movie The Artist is the only film to take home more than one Best Picture title from the various awards given out thus far this awards season. The NYFCO also named The Artist director Michael Hazanavicius Best Director. […]
Awards Season Confusion III: Los Angeles Film Critics Association Names The Descendants Best Picture!
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association today named Alexander Payne’s The Descendants 2011’s Best Picture and Terrence Malik [Tree of Life] Best Director. The LAFCA Awards added to the stunning lack of consensus as to the possibilities for both Oscar nominations and award winners. Follow the jump for the complete list of LAFCA Award winners.
Awards Season Confusion Continues: American Film Institute Names Top 10 Films of 2011!
The American Film Institute named its top ten films and TV series of 2011 today. Since they release their top ten list in alphabetical order, their list doesn’t point to any one film as a frontrunner for other awards – like the Oscars® – and possible major award winners from outside the U.S. are not […]
CONTEST: Body of Lies Washington, DC Screening Announcement!
Spend the night with Leonardo and Russell Crowe as EclipseMagazine.com and Warner Brothers team up to bring you the Washington, DC Screening of Body of Lies. The Screening will be held Tuesday, October 7, 2008 (that’s tomorrow night!) at Gallery Place in DC. I’m working with Warners on automating our contests, so we’re testing out […]
No Country for Old Men selected Best Picture by Washington, DC Area Film Critics Association!
39 Washington, DC area Film Critics (WAFCA – of which I’m one) huddled together in a small broom closet this weekend to do our annual duty of selected the best of the year. In the last three weeks we were hit with an avalanche of DVD Screeners (about 50) and had a bunch of screenings […]
Atonement fails on almost every level. Michelle Alexandria’s EclipseMagazine.com Movie Review
The trailer for Atonement had me giddy with excitement I thought I was going to be in for a truly epic love story that spanned time, distance, war, betrayal, but what I got was this anemic, pretentious, non-epic turd. I love Keira Knightley (Cecilia Tallis) but frankly she can’t act and it’s proven once again […]