Ben Affleck – shunned for a Best Director nomination at the Oscars – has continued to pick up every other award in his path, being named the Best Director by BAFTA. At the star-studded ceremony at London’s Royal Opera House, Affleck’s Iran hostage thriller, Argo, also collected the Best Film honours, at the last major […]
Tom Hooper’s screen adaptation of the Les Miserables musical has secured its third successive top spot in the UK & Ireland box office chart, with more than £4 million in its third weekend. It’s total to date, £24.6 million, make it the second most successful musical at the UK box office, after Mamma Mia! All […]
Working Title’s big screen adaptation of Cameron Mackintosh’s musical Les Miserables won the most Golden Globes at what career achievement honouree Jodie Foster called “the most fun party of the year.” At the seventieth annual ceremony, at the Beverly Hilton hotel, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association picked Les Mis over The Weinstein Company’s Silver Linings […]
“I’d like to thank the Academy,” joked Ben Affleck as he collected his Critics Choice Award for Best Director for Argo, on the same day that he was unexpectedly snubbed for a nomination at the Oscars. His Iranian hostage crisis thriller was the big winner of the night, also taking Best Picture. The film missed out […]
A day after the British Film Academy surprised the film world by putting Lincoln at the top of its list but snubbing the director Steven Spielberg himself, its American counterpart – the awards giving body that everyone is most eager to please – has included Spielberg on its shortlist for Best Director - an award he’s won twice […]
Steven Spielberg’s biopic of America’s much-loved president Abraham Lincoln has secured ten nominations for next month’s BAFTA awards, putting it one up on both Tom Hooper’s musical Les Miserables and Ang Lee’s Life of Pi. But the British Academy of Film and Television Arts failed to include Spielberg himself on his film’s extensive nominations list. Among others, Lincoln is up for Best Film, Best […]
Facing competition from five new major US releases, Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey held on to its number one spot on the US charts with $36.7 million for the weekend as well as the international charts with $91 million, bringing its domestic total to $149.9 million and its worldwide to $433.9 million. Despite […]
David O Russell’s romantic comedy about two oddballs struggling with mental illness has surprised some industry observers by taking the top honours at the 2012 Satellite Awards, handed out by The International Press Academy – as its name suggests, a group of international entertainment journalists. Silver Linings Playbook won Best Motion Picture, Best Director, Best […]
British pictures and talent dominated the 70th Golden Globe Award nominations, which were announced this morning at The Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles. Comedies The Best Exotic Hotel and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and Tom Hooper’s musical Les Miserables each gained a nomination in Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. They will […]
British comedy The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which tells the story of a group of elderly Brits who retire to a ramshackle Indian Hotel, won two nominations at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) on Wednesday: best ensemble and best supporting actress for Dame Maggie Smith. Dame Maggie was also nominated in SAG’s best actress on […]