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 two phases.
The [...]
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 work [...]
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’ [...]