The Artist and Tintin win the PGA

Today "The Artist" has proven to be the front runner for the OSCAR after scoring a victory at the Producers Guild of America. "Tintin" won the Best Animated Film besting "Rango", a film that had won most of the Critics awards. In the surprise of the night "Beats, Rhymes and Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest" won the documentary award beating front runners Senna and Project Nim. Last year The King's Speech won the PGA making it the eventual Oscar winner.



Best Motion Picture: The Artist
Best Animated film: The Adventures of Tintin
Best Documentary: Beats, Rhymes and Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest

Super 8 leads the Sound editors Guild Nominations

FEATURE FILMS CATEGORY

BEST SOUND EDITING: SOUND EFFECTS AND FOLEY IN A FEATURE FILM

• Drive
• Fast Five
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes
• Super 8
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon
• War Horse

BEST SOUND EDITING: MUSIC IN A FEATURE FILM

• Drive
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• Hop
• Hugo
• Priest
• Super 8
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon
• The Tree of Life

BEST SOUND EDITING: DIALOGUE AND ADR IN A FEATURE FILM

• Abduction
• The Help
• Moneyball
• Quarantine II: Terminal
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes
• Super 8
• War Horse
• The Way

BEST SOUND EDITING: MUSIC IN A MUSICAL FEATURE FILM

• Footloose
• The Muppets
• Perfect Age of Rock ‘n’ Roll
• Pina

BEST SOUND EDITING: SOUND EFFECTS, FOLEY, DIALOGUE, AND ADR IN AN ANIMATION FEATURE FILM

• The Adventures of Tintin
• Cars 2
• Kung Fu Panda 2
• Puss in Boots
• Rango
• Rio
• The Smurfs

BEST SOUND EDITING: SOUND EFFECTS, FOLEY, DIALOGUE, ADR AND MUSIC IN A FEATURE DOCUMENTARY

• Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey
• Cave of the Forgotten Dreams
• George Harrison: Living in the Material World
• Lemmy
• Pearl Jam Twenty

BEST SOUND EDITING: SOUND EFFECTS, FOLEY, DIALOGUE AND ADR IN A FEATURE FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

• 1920. The World’s Most Important Battle
• Circumstance
• Tropa de Elite 2 (Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within)
• The Flowers of War
• In the Land of Blood and Honey
• Sarah’s Key
• The Skin I Live In

The Artist wins the London Film Critics

Best Picture – The Artist
Best Actor – Jean Dujardin, The Artist
Actress – Anna Paquin and Meryl Streep  
Director – Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist
Best British Film – We Need to Talk About Kevin
Technical Achievement Award: production designer Maria Djurkovic, Tinker Tailor Soldier Soy
Best Foreign Language Film: A Separation
Best British Actress: Olivia Colman
Best British Actor: Michael Fassbender
Best Screenplay: A Separation
Young British Performer: Craig Roberts, Submarine
Best Documentary: Senna
Breakthrough British Filmmaker: Andrew Haigh, Weekend
Best Supporting Actress: Sareh Bayat, A Separation
Best Supporting Actor: Kenneth Branagh

The Costume Designers unveil their nominees

Excellence in Period Film:

“The Artist” (Mark Bridges)  “Jane Eyre” (Michael O’Connor)“The Help” (Sharen Davis)
“Hugo” (Sandy Powell)
“W.E.” (Arianne Phillips)

Excellence in Fantasy Film:
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2″ (Jany Temime)
“Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” (Penny Rose)
“Red Riding Hood” (Cindy Evans)
“Thor” (Alexandra Byrne)
“X-Men: First Class” (Sammy Sheldon)

Excellence in Contemporary Film:

“Bridesmaids” (Leesa Evans & Christine Wada)
“The Descendants (Wendy Chuck)
“Drive” (Erin Benach)
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” (Trish Summerville)
“Melancholia” (Manon Rasmussen)

The Descendants wins the Iowa Film Critics

Best Picture: The Descendants
Best Director: Alexander Payne-The Descendants
Best Actor: Brad Pitt-Moneyball
Best Actress: Viola Davis-The Help
Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer-Beginners
Best Supporting Actress: Melissa McCarthy-Bridesmaids
Best Animated Film: Rango
Best Film That Has Yet to Open in Iowa: We Need to Talk about Kevin/ Project Nim

The Cinema Audio Society announce nominees

The Cinema Audio Society announces the nominees for the 48th Annual CAS Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for 2011 in four categories.

Motion Pictures:

• Hanna
• Hugo
• Moneyball
• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tide
• Super 8

Nine Foreign Films fight for a spot at the Oscars

• Belgium, “Bullhead,” Michael R. Roskam, director;
• Canada, “Monsieur Lazhar,” Philippe Falardeau, director;
• Denmark, “Superclásico,” Ole Christian Madsen, director;
• Germany, “Pina,” Wim Wenders, director;
• Iran, “A Separation,” Asghar Farhadi, director;
• Israel, “Footnote,” Joseph Cedar, director;
• Morocco, “Omar Killed Me,” Roschdy Zem, director;
• Poland, “In Darkness,” Agnieszka Holland, director;
• Taiwan, “Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale,” Wei Te-sheng, director