THE SOCIAL NETWORK tops DFW Film Critics Picks
December 17, 2010 by Rubin Safaya · Leave a Comment
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 [...]
AMPAS Narrows Foreign Language Contenders for Oscars
January 20, 2010 by Rubin Safaya · Leave a Comment
Out of the sixty-five foreign language films originally selected for consideration by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences®, nine have been selected to move forward in the next round of voting for the 82nd Academy Awards®. Notes from the Academy press release: Foreign Language Film nominations for 2009 are again being determined in [...]
AMPAS Announces Scientific and Technical Awards
January 7, 2010 by Rubin Safaya · Leave a Comment
Today, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS®) announced the fifteen scientific and technical achievement awards to be received by forty-six recipients at the Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation, Saturday, February 20, 2010, at the Beverly Wilshire hotel. In contrast to other Academy Awards to be distributed in other categories, a body of [...]
AMPAS Selects Best Visual Effects Candidates
January 6, 2010 by Rubin Safaya · Leave a Comment
Today, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS®) announced the seven contenders for Best Visual Effects in the 82nd Academy Awards®: Twentieth Century-Fox’s $400 million gamble, Avatar, Tri-Star’s alien allegory to Apartheid, District 9, Warner Bros. Pictures’ releases Terminator Salvation andHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Paramount Pictures’ rebooted Star Trek, DreamWorks’ Transformers: [...]