Awards

Oscar Battles Fatigue Season

Awards Roundup: That's a Wrap

With the 81st Academy Awards only a memory now, this year's award season is officially over. "Slumdog Millionaire" won eight awards, Sean Penn beat Mickey Rourke, and we can no longer say Kate Winslet needs an Oscar.

"Slumdog" celebrations fill Mumbai's crowded slums

Preliminary ratings show Oscar numbers up

Spirit Awards '09: Minute By Minute

4:00 pm PST: I guess Mickey isn't coming. The show's over, and I need to pee. Check out the whole list of winners here, and come back tomorrow when we do this all again for the Oscars.

"The Wrestler" Leads 2009 Spirit Award Winners

Darren Aronofsky's "The Wrestler" led a fairly evenly split Film Independent's Spirit Awards this afternoon in Santa Monica, taking awards for best feature, best actor Mickey Rourke, and best cinematography. The film joined other multiply honored films like "Milk," "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" and "F...

Spirit Awards '09: Who Will Win and Who Should Win

indieWIRE conducted a poll of some our writers, bloggers and friends, asking the two questions this year's Film Independent's Spirit Awards: Who will win, and who should win? In thirteen categories, our insiders suggested who might take home an award Saturday afternoon in Santa Monica.

Oscar '09: Who Will Win and Who Should Win

indieWIRE conducted a poll of some our writers, bloggers and friends, asking the two questions most often asked come Academy Award time: Who will win, and who should win? In thirteen categories, our insiders suggested who might take home some gold Sunday evening, with "Slumdog Millionaire" expectedl...

Oscar '09: "In Bruges"'s Martin McDonagh

Talk to Martin McDonagh and the phrase he keeps returning to is "dark and dangerous." Certainly those words -- along with hilarious, twisted, fresh -- capture the "In-Yer-Face Theatre" of this Anglo-Irish writer. He crashed onto the scene at age twenty-three with "The Beauty Queen of Leenane" (which...