The Golden Globes may have dominated the weekend with their frizz-inflicting red carpet and drunken celebrities, but there were other important awards-season developments as well. Take the Critics Choice Awards -- where a surprise tie and a Hurt Locker surge both foreshadowed and defied the Globes' own tastes -- and the Cinema Eye Honors, which nudged the year's documentary front-runner ever closer to Oscar glory.
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Join us now as Movieline kicks off the official start of the 2010 awards season with our live blog of this evening's 67th annual Golden Globe Awards -- one of the most glamorous and unpredictable evenings of the year, where you might easily spot Hollywood royalty like Spohia Loren clinking champagne glasses with an equally beloved star of a younger generation, or Jeremy Piven. The whole Movieline gang will be contributing to the conversation via Twitter, and we welcome your comments or questions, which you can submit in the field below. Simply click on the play button in the window after the jump to start the fun!
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The omission of Outrage from the GLAAD Media Awards nominations list announced on Wednesday was a high-profile snub that earned the ire of many, Movieline included. (Director Kirby Dick will be on Mike Signorile's Sirius/XM show this afternoon to discuss it; you can listen to the conversation free here.) Meanwhile, BlogActive.com was sent this statement from GLAAD addressing the matter (bolding ours):
The GLAAD Media Awards are about elevating and promoting the fair, accurate and inclusive stories of LGBT issues, people and allies that have increased awareness, understanding and respect for our lives and our pursuit of equality.
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Oscars co-producer Adam Shankman's ongoing Twitter dispatches may have some purists worried -- Adam Lambert? SYTYCD regulars? Marlon Wayans-produced John Hughes tributes? -- but today's tweet should put them all at ease. In all the excitement, we almost completely lost sight of the fact that the Oscars are bigger than President Magneto-Dicks B. Carry on, Adam! [@adammshankman via Vulture]
Somewhere along the line, Outrage -- Oscar-nominated Kirby Dick's very brave, very necessary indictment of politicians like Larry Craig and Charlie Crist, among other GOP who support anti-gay legislation while flippantly chasing same-sex encounters behind closed doors -- has gotten the shaft. Its subject matter managed to spook even NPR, who censored its review (which prompted us to point out the hypocrisy of their own policies, which deign speculating about American Idol contestants' sexuality to be fair game). And its 17-week run produced only $287,198 at the box office -- less even than his previous film of arguably far narrower appeal, the MPAA-skewering This Film is Not Yet Rated. And here's yet one more reason for some real outrage:
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Not long ago, the PGA nominations included well-regarded sci-fi blockbusters like Star Trek and District 9, and both films made the shortlist again today for the American Cinema Editors' annual ACE Eddie awards. Edged out of the dramatic category in favor of the duo were films like Inglourious Basterds (Sally!) and Precious. Not enough aliens is the take-away here. [IndieWire]
The cheeky, do-it-yourself awards-campaign engineers behind Moon have come up with their latest strategem in the long war to earn Sam Rockwell an Oscar nomination. And as with all overearnest TV appeals involving the humanitarian aid of disadvantaged children, it's kind of hilarious. But! Is it persuasive?
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Another pair of Hollywood trade organizations today announced nominations for their best of 2009, with the Writers Guild of America and the American Society of Cinematographers spicing up awards season with an intriguing balance of Oscar favorites and out-of-nowhere dark horses. And once again, we still can't find a nominating body that would dare shut Avatar out.
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As foreseen back when this year's Golden Globe nominations were announced, the Awards Season Battle of the Exes will carry over into at least one more ceremony. This time it's the Director's Guild of America Awards, which announced Kathryn Bigelow and James Cameron as two of its five nominees for its top prize for 2009. Read on for the remaining three (whom you can probably guess, alas -- it's that kind of year).
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The good news about last night's People's Choice Awards was that Hollywood finally gave us an awards show without the yawning inevitability of a Hurt Locker sweep. The downside was the piercing wail that accompanied Twilight's own multitude of honors, including Favorite Movie, Favorite Franchise, Favorite Breakout Movie Actor and "Favorite Onscreen Team," lest anyone from the swoony, misty community of Forks feel snubbed. Democracy lives! In a coma and on a ventilator, of course, but it's better than nothing. Brief observations and a full list of winners -- lots and lots of winners -- follow the jump.
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It's been an interesting ride for Keisha Castle-Hughes since she was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar for the performance she gave in Whale Rider at age 11: She made a Star Wars cameo and toplined Catherine Hardwicke's middling The Nativity Story, then gave it her best shot with the sexy gay angel drama The Vintner's Luck, which had no luck winning fans at the Toronto Film Festival last fall. Still, the press release I received today announcing her guest-starring stint on the syndicated Hercules wannabe Legend of the Seeker...well, it's quite the cautionary tale, isn't it?
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Having once attended the very ceremony at which Mariah Carey delivered this -- not speech, per se, so much as a series of incredulous moans -- I can hereby testify that the only way to survive the Palm Springs Film Festival opening gala is to drink yourself under a table. (It dulls the sounds of Mary Hart shooshing a crowd of 80-year-old plastic-surgeried socialites for three-and-a-half hours.) So this one's for you, Mariah. And congrats! [via PopEater]
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The short list of prospective nominees for this year's Visual Effects Oscar was shortened even further today, when the Academy announced the six candidates in the running to lose to Avatar. Which isn't especially newsy in itself, though a browse of the remaining candidates does yield some fairly heavy hitters who will walk away empty-handed before the ceremony even begins. Now we just have to figure out who they'll be. Read on for the list and a some quick hunches.
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In a mighty blow to the wave of goodwill and positive buzz backing Avatar on its way to the Oscars comes news that James Cameron's groundbreaking film -- a sci-fi allegory about blue people voiced by black people representing red people -- has been nearly shut out of the 41st annual NAACP Image Awards. It earned one nomination: for best supporting actress, no less, for Zoe Saldana. So what did earn the accolades of the ceremony billing itself as "the multi-cultural awards show, from an African Amercian [sic] point of view?" Confirm your suspicions after the jump.
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Last week while Hollywood slept, Moon director Duncan Jones expressed his displeasure with Sony over its lack of support for his "little film" in the run up the Oscars. Jones's Twitter barrage sparked a momentary burst of outrage and grass-roots momentum for recognition of Sam Rockwell's extraordinary one-man show as a marooned astronaut, and now, Movieline has learned why the studio put the kibosh to distributing DVD screeners to the Academy -- or its official reasoning, anyway.
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