Thankfully for Oscar Show ratings, while many races are seemingly locked in, the Best Actor and Best Actress race are not. This opens up an opportunity for each viral video clip, awards win, or high-profile in-depth interview to make a difference with Academy voters. Thus Meryl Streep and Jean Dujar...
Read More »I am a fan of the British Academy Awards show, or BAFTAs, which took place Sunday night in London, later edited and broadcast on BBC America. UPDATE: The full list of winners is below.
Read More »John Hurt will receive the Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award at this year's BAFTAs, to be held on February 12 at London's Royal Opera House.
Read More »The 2012 BAFTA nominations are led by "The Artist" (twelve nominations), "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (eleven), "Hugo" (nine), "My Week With Marilyn" (six), "The Help" and "War Horse" (five each), "Drive," "The Iron Lady...
Read More »The Golden Globes weekend is well under way. I love roaming a crowded party packed with Hollywood powerbrokers and talent to watch how they interact with one another. I am the ultimate voyeur. Of course I do talk to some of them occasionally.
Read More »It's a busy awards weekend in Hollywood. It all starts off with Thursday night's Critics Choice Movie Awards, which happens to air live on VH1 the night before Oscar ballots are due--at 5 PM Friday. Last year the CCMA chose 18 Oscar winners out of its 20 awards. (My winners' predictions ...
Read More »BAFTA today announced the five all male nominees for the Orange Wednesdays Rising Star Award 2012.
Read More »The race for Oscar nominations is well on its way. Thus the long list of Orange British Academy Film Awards selections--from which 6000 BAFTA members will choose their five nominations per category and finally, the winners--won't have much impact.
Read More »Martin Scorsese -- fresh of directing the critical hit "Hugo" and the release of Edward Yang's 4 hour epic "Brighter Summer Day," which he helped preserve -- will be honored with the British Academy of Film and Television Arts' highest honor, the BAFTA fellowship on February 12.
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