THE SOCIAL NETWORK Dominates CFCA Awards

Today, Peter Sobczynski of the Chicago Film Critics Association announced that THE SOCIAL NETWORK won for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay (Aaron Sorkin). Nominations were announced Friday, alongside the Dallas-Ft. Worth Film Critics Association’s award winners. It was followed by two wins for INCEPTION in the categories of Best Original Screenplay and [...]

THE SOCIAL NETWORK tops DFW Film Critics Picks

The Dallas-Ft. Worth Film Critics Association, of which I must disclose I am a voting member, announced the results of its 17th annual awards today. The Association’s selection for Best Picture is THE SOCIAL NETWORK, for which director David Fincher also won Best Director. Rounding out the Top Ten: THE KING’S SPEECH, BLACK SWAN, 127 [...]

Chicago Film Critics Announce 2010 Nominations

David Fincher’s THE SOCIAL NETWORK received a total of eight nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. The drama about the ubiquitous social web site, Facebook, is followed by the British drama of King George VI’s struggle with stuttering in THE KING’S SPEECH, Darren Aronofsky’s schizophrenic twist on ballet in BLACK SWAN, Debra [...]

THE KING’S SPEECH leads 68th HFPA Golden Globes Nominations

The Weinstein Company’s drama bout King George VI, THE KING’S SPEECH, starring Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush, leads the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Golden Globe nominations with a total of seven in the drama category, including Best Motion Picture, Best Actor (Colin Firth), Best Supporting Actor (Geoffrey Rush), Best Supporting Actress (Helena Bonham Carter), Best [...]

2010 NYFCC Awards Announced

Today, the New York Film Critics Circle announced its 2010 award winners. Along with the Boston Society of Film Critics, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the National Board of Review, the awards season for 2010 is dominated largely by Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher’s collaboration, THE SOCIAL NETWORK. The Dallas-Ft. Worth Film Critics Association [...]

LAFCA & BSFC 2010 Awards Announced

Both the Boston Society of Film Critics and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association recognized David Fincher’s THE SOCIAL NETWORK for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay (Aaron Sorkin). LAFCA: Best Actor was awarded to Colin Firth for THE KING’S SPEECH, and Best Actress to Kim Hye-Ja for MOTHER. Best Supporting Actor/Actress went to [...]

NBR Selects THE SOCIAL NETWORK for Best Picture

Opening the 2010 motion picture awards season, the National Board of Review has named David Fincher’s The Social Network Best Picture for 2010. Formed in 1909 to protest the revocation of motion picture exhibition licenses by New York Mayor George McClennan on grounds of immorality, it represented some of the oldest-existing independent distributors including Loews, [...]

New Clips from BLACK SWAN

Here are three excerpts from Fox Searchlight Pictures’ BLACK SWAN. Darren Aronofsky’s latest film is receiving a considerable amount of buzz, having just been tapped for a Spirit Award nomination, along with noteworthy contender, Danny Boyle’s 127 HOURS. The clips showcase, in order, Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) rehearsing the part of the White Swan in [...]

2010 Dallas International Film Festival Winners

DALLAS – APRIL 16, 2010 — The Dallas Film Society Honors presented Ryan Piers Williams’ The Dry Land with the Jury award for Narrative Feature, sponsored by Target Corporation, accompanied with a $25,000 cash prize. Lucy Walker’s Waste Land won the Target Documentary Feature award, with a Special Jury Prize awarded to Michael Pertnoy and [...]

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