awards 2009/10 Archive

  • Academy Award Winners

    Academy Award Winners

    What an amazing and surprising night. 6000 members of the Academy, I take everything back, it ain’t all about the Benjamins for y’all. The Hurt Locker deservedly swept the awards for best picture, best director, screenplay, editing, sound and sound mixing.  My interview with Kathryn...

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  • Paul Ottosson

    Paul Ottosson Interview

    Great interview with The Hurt Locker sound designer Paul Ottosson up at the ever-brilliant Making Of site, love that his BAFTA is up on the mantelpiece. Been back and forth with Paul a few times, but hoping to have my own interview with him up...

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  • MarcoBeltrami

    Academy Awards: Best Original Score

    Excellent piece over at Vanity Fair, with clips from all of the scores nominated for the Oscars this year. Here’s some samples, Beltrami and Sanders score for Hurt Locker recently released on CD… Mr. Fox in the Fields – Alexan… Discombobulate – Hans Zimmer Carl...

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  • BAFTA Winners 2010

    BAFTA Winners 2010

    Great that The Hurt Locker swept the BAFTAs, here’s the full list…my interviews with Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal here, interviews with Beckett (sound recordist), Beltrami (composer) and Ottosson (sound designer) to follow. Contacted Chris Innis (one of the two editors on the production), Paul...

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  • Berlinale Awards

    Berlinale Awards

    Here’s the full list of winners from the Berlin Film Festival. As ever with the Berlinale, we won’t see these films for some time – historically I’ve only reviewed them once they’ve hit DVD much later in the year – so can’t offer any comment,...

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  • Academy Awards: Deconstructed Predictions [updated]

    Academy Awards: Deconstructed Predictions [updated]

    Here’s those predictions from 2 February after the nominations were, announced – the cooler is stacked, and the snacks are in…after spending a few more days with the sniper sequence as part of a long term research project, I’m hoping The Hurt Locker scoop some...

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  • Academy Award Nominations

    Academy Award Nominations

    Nominations are out. Marvin Hamlisch robbed for not including his brilliant score to The Informant! (Zimmer’s score for Sherlock Holmes in it’s place? Are you kidding me? Do the Academy have cloth ears?), a real shame, but pleased Marco Beltrami’s in there, and that The...

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  • Costume Designers Guild Nominations

    Costume Designers Guild Nominations

    The Costumer Designers Guild have announced their nominations, to be selected 25 February. Excellence in Contemporary Film: “(500) Days of Summer” – Hope Hanafin “Brüno” – Jason Alper “Crazy Heart” – Doug Hall “Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire” – Marina Draghici “Up...

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  • Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards Announced

    Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards Announced

    Few surprises here, all sterling performances… Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Inglourious Basterds (2009) Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart (2009) Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Sandra...

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  • Few surprises at Golden Globes

    Few surprises at Golden Globes

    Very disappointed with the Golden Globes drama results, nothing for The Hurt Locker and an unsurprising sweep for Avatar (Best Drama and Best Director) here is a real shame for me – in years to come we will recognise Avatar is a mediocre action film...

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