Birdman won the latest face-off with its main Oscar rival Boyhood – this time in the world America’s independent cinema. Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu’s satire on the world of entertainment took the prizes for Best Feature, Best Actor for Michael Keaton and Best Cinematography at the Spirit Awards in Santa Monica. The director himself missed out […]
Boyhood has come away from the 35th annual London Film Critics Circle Awards as the biggest winner of the night, with three prizes; best film, best director for Richard Linklater and Patricia Arquette as the best supporting actress of the year. The other three main acting awards also went to American actors who triumphed at […]
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced this year’s Oscar nominations at a pre-dawn ceremony, here in Los Angeles. Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel top the list, each receiving nine nods, with The Imitation Game close behind them on eight. Academy members have narrowed down their Best Picture list to eight, […]
A day after the Screen Actors Guild announced its nominations, the Golden Globes have confirmed the media satire Birdman as the front-runner for this year’s awards season, with seven nominations, including Best Comedy, Best Actor for Michael Keaton, Edward Norton for Best Supporting Actor and Alejandro González Iñárritu for both directing and writing. But much of […]
British stars are well represented among the nominations for the awards which best predict the acting Oscars, the Screen Actors Guild. Benedict Cumberbatch will be in the running for the best actor prize for his portrayal of the Enigma code-breaker Alan Turing in The Imitation Game. He’ll be up against Eddie Redmayne, who plays the […]
Anyone who thinks covering film awards is glamorous clearly doesn’t realise that standing outside for hours, penned in by barriers like cattle, waiting to steal a quick word from ‘the talent’ as they fly past can actually be rather humiliating. Then, herded into a remote press room, we watch the