Thursday, January 16, 2014

American Hustle and Gravity Lead Oscar Nominations




Best motion picture of the year
  • “American Hustle” Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison and Jonathan Gordon, Producers
  • “Captain Phillips” Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti and Michael De Luca, Producers
  • “Dallas Buyers Club” Robbie Brenner and Rachel Winter, Producers
  • “Gravity” Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman, Producers
  • “Her” Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze and Vincent Landay, Producers
  • “Nebraska” Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa, Producers
  • “Philomena” Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan and Tracey Seaward, Producers
  • “12 Years a Slave” Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen and Anthony Katagas, Producers
  • “The Wolf of Wall Street” Nominees to be determined

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Motion Picture Sound Editor Nominees



The 61st MPSE Golden Reel Awards Nominees
BEST SOUND EDITING: SOUND EFFECTS AND FOLEY IN AN ENGLISH LANGUAGE FEATURE
12 Years a Slave
All Is Lost
Captain Phillips
Fast & Furious 6
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Iron Man 3
Lone Survivor

Dorian Film of the Year Nominees

Film of the Year
  • American Hustle (Sony)
  • Blue is the Warmest Color (Sundance Selects)
  • Dallas Buyers Club (Focus)
  • Gravity (WB)
  • Her (WB)
  • Laurence Anyways (Breaking Glass)
  • 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight)
Film Performance of the Year – Actor
  • Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street (Paramount)
  • Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight)
  • James Franco, Spring Breakers (A24)
  • Jared Leto, Dallas Buyer Club (Focus)
  • Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club (Focus)
Film Performance of the Year – Actress
  • Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine (Sony Classics)
  • Sandra Bullock, Gravity (WB)
  • Judi Dench, Philomena (Weinstein)
  • Adele Exarchopoulos, Blue is the Warmest Color (Sundance Selects)
  • Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight)
LGBT Film of the Year
  • Blue is the Warmest Color (Sundance Selects)
  • Dallas Buyers Club (Focus)
  • Kill Your Darlings (Sony Classics)
  • Laurence Anyways (Breaking Glass)
  • Philomena (Weinstein)
Foreign Language Film of the Year
  • Blue is the Warmest Color (Sundance Selects)
  • The Great Beauty (Janus)
  • The Hunt (Magnolia)
  • I’m So Excited! (Sony Classics)
  • Laurence Anyways (Breaking Glass)
  • Out in the Dark (Breaking Glass)
Documentary of the Year
(theatrical release, TV airing or DVD release)
  • The Act of Killing (Drafthouse)
  • Blackfish (Magnolia, CNN)
  • Bridegroom (Own, Virgil Films)
  • I Am Divine (Automat, Wolfe)
  • 20 Feet from Stardom (Radius-TWC)
Campy Flick of the Year
  • August: Osage County (Weinstein)
  • The Canyons (Sundance Selects)
  • Carrie (Screen Gems)
  • The Great Gatsby (WB)
  • I’m So Excited! (Sony Classics)
Unsung Film of the Year
  • Frances Ha (Sundance Selects)
  • In A World . . . (Roadside Attractions)
  • Kill Your Darlings (Sony Classics)
  • Short Term 12 (Cinedigm)
  • The Spectacular Now (A24)

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

VES Nominations



Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Feature Motion Picture
“Gravity”: 
Tim Webber, Nikki Penny, Chris Lawrence, Richard Mcbride
“Iron Man 3”: 
Christopher Townsend, Mark Soper, Guy Williams, Bryan Grill
“Pacific Rim”:
 John Knoll, Susan Greenhow, Chris Raimo, Hal Hickel
“Star Trek: Into Darkness”:
 Roger Guyett, Luke O’Byrne, Ron Ames, Ben Grossman
“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug”: Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, Kevin Sherwood, David Clayton
Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Feature Motion Picture
“Rush”:
 Jody Johnson, Moriah Etherington-Sparks, Mark Hodgkins, Antoine Moulineau
“The Great Gatsby”: Chris Godfrey, Prue Fletcher, Joyce Cox
“The Lone Ranger”: Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Shari Hanson, Kevin Martel
“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”: Guillaume Rocheron, Kurt Williams, Monette Dubin, Ivan Moran
“The Wolf of Wall Street”: Robert Legato, Mark Russell, Joseph Farrell, Lisa Spence
“White House Down”:  Marc Weigert, Volker Engel, Julia Frey, Ollie Rankin
Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
“Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2”:
 Peter Nash, Michael Ford, Chris Juen, Mandy Tankenson
“Despicable Me 2”: Chris Meledandri, Janet Healy, Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin
“Frozen”: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho, Lino Di Salvo
“Monsters University”: Kori Rae, Sanjay Bakshi, Jon Reisch, Scott Clark
“The Croods”: Jane Hartwell, Chris Sanders, Kirk Demicco, Markus Manninen
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Broadcast Program
“Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” – Pilot: 
Mark Kolpack, Sabrina Arnold, David Altenau, H Haden Hammond
“Almost Human”: Jay Worth, Robert Habros, Michael Cliett, David Beedon
“Battlestar Galactica” – “Blood & Chrome”:  Gary Hutzel, Michael Gibson, Derek Ledbetter, Heather Mcauliff
“Game of Thrones” – “Valar Dohaeris”:  Steve Kullback, Joe Bauer, Jörn Großhans, Sven Martin
“Inseparable” – “Chernobyl”: Egor Olesov, Egor Borschevsky, Dmitry Ovcharenko, Mykhailo Datsyk
Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Broadcast Program
“Banshee” – Pilot:
 Armen Kevorkian, Mark Skowronski, Jeremy Jozwik, Ricardo Ramirez
“Da Vinci’s Demons” – “The Lovers”: Kevin Blank, Simon Frame, Ante Dekovic, Oliver Arnold
“Hawaii 5-0” – “Ho’onani Makuakane“: Armen Kevorkian, Alexander Soltes, Jane Sharvina, Andranik Taranyan
“Mob City” – “A Guy Walks in to A Bar”: Jason Sperling, Michael Morreale, Valeri Pfahning, Mike Enriquez
“Moonfleet” – “Episode 2”: Ed Bruce, Alan Collins, John O’Connell, Joe Courtis
“The Borgias” – “Relics”: Wojciech Zielinski, Neishaw Ali, Bill Halliday, Jp Giamos
Outstanding Real-Time Visuals in a Video Game
“Call of Duty” – “Ghosts”:
 Mark Rubin, Richard Kriegler, David Johnson, Alessandro Nardini
“Crysis 3”: Magnus Larbrant, Tiago Sousa, Steven Bender, Cevat Yerli
“Killzone Shadow Fall”: Marijn Giesbertz, Jan-Bart Van Beek, Angie Smets
“NBA 2K14”: Heather Marshall, Joseph Clark, Jeff Thomas, Anton Dawson
“Ryse: Son of Rome”: Cevat Yerli, Peter Gornstein, Chris Evans, Brian Chambers
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Commercial
“Call of Duty: Epic Night Out”:
 Leighton Greer, Robert Sethi, Felix Urquiza, Chris Knight
“Galaxy Chauffeur”: Helen Hughes, Simon French, William Bartlett, Stephen Cullingford
“Liberty Group Limited: Answer”: James Atkinson, Rachel Mariscal, Scott Meadows, David Liu
“PETA: 98% Human”: Angus Kneale, Vince Baertsoen, Colin Blaney, Kyle Cody
“Sony PlayStation: Perfect Day”: Charlotte Arnold, Joji Tsuruga, Gavin Wellsman, Olivier Mitonneau
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Special Venue Project
“Hayden Planetarium’s Dark Universe”:
 Vivian Trakinski, Jon Parker, Carter Emmart, Andreas Wetteborn
“Mysteries of the Unseen World”: Sean Phillips, Andy Yamada, Fred Pienkos, Matthew Sugars
“Mystic Manor”: Tim Landry, John Guerra, Mark Schirmer, Ken Horii
“Space Shuttle Atlantis”: Daren Ulmer, John Gross, Cedar Connor, Christian Bloch
“SpongeBob SquarePants 4D: The Great Jelly Rescue!”: Kate Crandall, Brent Young, Michael “Oz” Smith, Andrei Brovcenco
Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture
“Gravity” – Ryan: 
Max Solomon, Mathieu Vig, Michael Brunet, David Shirk
“Oz the Great and Powerful” – China Girl: Troy Saliba, In-Ah Roediger, Carolyn Vale, Kevin Souls
“Pacific Rim” – 
Kaiju – Leatherback: Jakub Pistecky, Frank Gravatt, Cyrus Jam, Chris Havreberg
“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” – Smaug
: Eric Reynolds, David Clayton, Myriam Catrin,Guillaume Francois
Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
“Epic” – Bomba
: Thom Roberts, Haven Gordon Cousins, Tim Bower, Daniel Lima
“Epic” – Mary Katherine: Jeff Gabor, Dylan C. Maxwell, Sang Jun Lee, Chris Pagoria
“Frozen” – Bringing the Snow Queen to Life: Alexander Alvarado, Joy Johnson, Chad Stubblefield, Wayne Unten
“The Croods” – Eep: Line Andersen, Won Young Byun, Koji Morihiro, Chris De St. Jeor
Outstanding Animated Character in a Commercial or Broadcast Program
“Game of Thrones” – Raising the Dragons
: Philip Meyer, Ingo Schachner, Travis Nobles, Florian Friedmann
“PETA — 98% Human”: Vince Baertsoen, Alex Allain, Henning Koczy
“Smithwick’s” – Squirrel: Tom Bussell, Jorge Montiel, Tom Raynor, Leonardo Costa
“Three, The Pony”: Carsten Keller, Jake Mengers, Tim Van Hussen
“Toy Story of Terror”: Paul Aichele, Kiki Mei Kee Poh, Andrew Coats
Outstanding Created Environment in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture
“Elysium” – Torus: 
Votch Levi, Joshua Ong, Barry Poon
“Gravity” – Interior
: Harry Bardak, Nathan Walster, Jonathan Fawkner, Claire Michaud
“Gravity” – Exterior
: Paul Beilby, Kyle Mcculloch, Stuart Penn, Ian Comley
“Iron Man 3” – Shipyard
: John Stevenson-Galvin, Greg Notzelman, Paul Harris, Justin Stockton
“Pacific Rim” – Virtual Hong Kong: Johan Thorngren, Jeremy Bloch, David Meny, Polly Ing
Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
“Epic” – Pod Patch
: Aaron Ross, Travis Price, Jake Panian, Antelmo Villarreal
“Frozen” – Elsa’s Ice Palace: Virgilio John Aquino, Alessandro Jacomini, Lance Summers, David Womersley
“Monsters University” – Campus: Robert Kondo, Eric Andraos, Dale Ruffolo, Peter Sumanaseni
“The Croods” – The Maze: Jonathan Harman, Violette Sacre-Shaik, Benjamin Venancie, Philippe Brochu
Outstanding Created Environment in a Commercial or Broadcast Program
“Game of Thrones” – The Climb
: Patrick Zentis, Mayur Patel, Nitin Singh, Tim Alexander
“Hell On Wheels” – “Big Bad Wolf”: Steve Meyer, Matt Von Brock, Mitch Gates, Antonio Chang
“Inseparable” – “Chernobyl”: Dmitry Ovcharenko, Igor Chopenko, Dmitry Eremenko, Andrey Bogdanov
Liberty Group Limited — “Answer”: Greg Teegarden, Kevin Bouchez, Brian Creasey, Kurt Lawson
Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture
“Gravity”: 
Tim Webber, Emmanuel Lubezki, Richard Mcbride, Dale Newton
“Iron Man 3”: Mark Smith, Aaron Gilman, Thelvin Cabezas, Gerardo Ramirez
“Man of Steel”: Daniel Paulsson, Edmund Kolloen, Joel Prager, David Stripinis
“Pacific Rim” – Hong Kong Ocean Brawl: Colin Benoit, Nick Walker, Adam Schnitzer, Victor Schutz
“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug”: Christian Rivers, Phil Barrenger, Mark Gee, Thelvin Tico Cabezas
Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Live Action Commercial or Broadcast Program
“Mad Max” – “Ethos”:
 Aladino Debert, Neil Huxley, David Liu, Michael Harbour
“Murdered” – “Soul Suspect”: Vernon Wilbert, Tim Jones, Rafael Colon, April Warren
Qualcomm Snapdragon – “A Dragon is Coming”: Joshua Wassung, Shannon Justison, Shayne Ryan, Seth Gollub
“The Crew”: Dominique Boidin, Rémi Kozyra, Léon Bérelle, Maxime Luère
Outstanding Models in a Feature Motion Picture
“Gravity” – ISS Exterior: 
Ben Lambert, Paul Beilby, Chris Lawrence, Andy Nicholson
“Pacific Rim”: David Fogler, Alex Jaeger, Aaron Wilson, David Behrens
“Star Trek: Into Darkness”:  Bruce Holcomb, Ron Woodall, John Goodson, Thomas Fejes
“The Lone Ranger” – Colby Locomotive: Rene Garcia, Steve Walton, Brian Paik, Gerald Gutschmidt
Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture
“Gravity” – Parachute and ISS Destruction
: Alexis Wajsbrot, Sylvain Degrotte, Horacio Mendoza, Juan-Luis Sanchez
“Man of Steel”: Brian Goodwin, Gray Horsfield, Mathieu Chardonnet, Adrien Toupet
“Pacific Rim” – Fluid Simulation & Destruction: Ryan Hopkins, Michael Balog, Patrick Conran, Rick Hankins
“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug”: Areito Echevarria, Andreas Soderstrom, Ronnie Menahem, Christoph Sprenger
Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture
“Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2”:
 Andrew Hofman, Alex Moaveni
“Epic” – Boggan Crowds: Thierry Dervieux-Lecocq, David Gatenby, Mark Adams, Matthew D. Simmons
“Frozen” – Elsa’s Blizzard: Eric W. Araujo, Marc Bryant, Dong Joo Byun, Tim Molinder
“The Croods”: Jeff Budsberg, Andre Le Blanc, Jason Mayer, Michael Losure
Outstanding FX and Simulation Animation in a Commercial or Broadcast Program
“PETA: 98% Human”:
 Vince Baertsoen, Jimmy Gass, Dave Barosin
Sony PlayStation – “Perfect Day”: Joji Tsuruga, Gavin Wellsman, Nick Couret, Hassan Taimur
Toyota Avalon – “Formula”: Ed Laag, Eugene Gauran, Josh Hatton
“Toy Story of Terror”: Jane Yen, Rogan Griffin, Amit Baadkar, Keith Daniel Klohn
Outstanding Compositing in a Feature Motion Picture
“Elysium”:
 Jean Lapointe, Jordan Benwick, Robin Hackl, Janeen Elliott
“Gravity”: Mark Bakowski, Anthony Smith, Theodor Groeneboom, Adrian Metzelaar
“Iron Man 3” – Barrel of Monkeys: Michael Maloney, Francis Puthanangadi, Justin Van Der Lek, Howard Cabalfin
“Iron Man 3” – House Attack: Darren Poe, Stefano Trivelli, Josiah Howison, Zach Zaubi
“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug”: Charles Tait, Robin Hollander, Giuseppe Tagliavini, Sean Heuston
Outstanding Compositing in a Broadcast Program
“Banshee” – Pilot
: Gevork Babityan, Andranik Taranyan, Matt Kelly, Matthieu Perin
“Game of Thrones” – The Climb: Kirk Brillon, Steve Gordon, Geoff Sayer, Winston Lee
“The Conquering of Yunkai”: Sean Faden, Greg Szafranski, Florian Friedmann, Travis Nobles
“Vikings” – “Dispossessed”: Ovidiu Cinazan, Gary Couto, Marco Lee, Maria Gordon
Outstanding Compositing in a Commercial
“Call of Duty”— “Epic Night Out”
: Chris Knight, Daniel Thuresson, Nick Tayler, Dag Ivarsory
Jean-Paul Gaultier – “The Sailor”: Jerome Billet, Arnaud Leviez
“Mercedes Sensations”: Laurent Creusot, Pierre Emmanuel Genin, David Roubah, Damien Canameras
“Sony PlayStation — Greatness Awaits”: Kyle Cody, Dan Difelice
“Sony PlayStation — Perfect Day”: Gavin Wellsman, John Mangia, Leonardo Costa, Kristen Johnson
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project
“Initium”:
 Alexandre Dechel, Adrien Lambert, Larochette Emeric, James Ross-Greetham
“Morphium”: Linus Stetter
“Rugbybugs”: Alexandra Stautmeister
“Runaway”: Ludovic Fregé, Quentin Medda, Romain Chauliac, Yoann Gouraud
“Where the Dream Begins”: Dun Ma, Dan Wen Lei, Xuan Xia

Cinema Audio Society Nominees

MOTION PICTURE – LIVE ACTION
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Inside Llewyn Davis
Iron Man 3
Lone Survivor

Monday, January 13, 2014

Gravity Wins the Denver Film Critics

BEST PICTURE: “Gravity”
BEST DIRECTOR: Alfonso Cuaron, “Gravity”
BEST ACTOR: Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club”
BEST ACTRESS: Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Jennifer Lawrence, “American Hustle”
BEST ANIMATED FILM: “Frozen”
BEST SCI-FI/HORROR FILM: “Gravity”
BEST COMEDY: “This Is the End”
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: David O. Russell and Eric Singer, “American Hustle”
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Terence Winter, “The Wolf of Wall Street”
BEST DOCUMENTARY: “The Act of Killing”
BEST SONG: “Let It Go,” Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, “Frozen”
BEST SCORE: “Gravity,” Steven Price
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM: “The Grandmaster”

Sunday, January 12, 2014

12 Years a Slave Wins the Golden Globe



Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Lawrence: "American Hustle"
Best Score: Alex Ebert: "All is Lost"
Best Song: Ordinary Love: "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom"
Best Actress in A Comedy/Musical: Amy Adams: "American Hustle"
Best Supporting Actor Jared Leto: "Dallas Buyers Club"
Best Screenplay: Spike Jonze: "Her" 
Best Foreign Film: "The Great Beauty"
Best Animated Film: "Frozen"
Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron: "Gravity"
Best Actor in A Comedy/Musical: "The Wolf of Wall Street"
Best Picture Musical/Comedy: "American Hustle"
Best Actress Drama: Cate Blanchett: "Blue Jasmine"
Best Actor Drama: Matthew McConaughey: "Dallas Buyers Club"
Best Picture Drama: "12 Years a Slave"