67th Annual Golden Globes: The Winners – AVATAR takes Drama Picture, Director
After the Critics’ Choice Awards and the Globes, it looks like the Best Picture race is down to Avatar and The Hurt Locker. Here are tonight’s Golden Globe winners. Motion Picture winners… Best Motion Picture, Drama – AVATAR Best Motion Picture, Comedy/Musical – The Hangover Best Director – James Cameron, Avatar Best Actress, Drama – Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side Best Actor, Drama – Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart Best Actress, Comedy/Musical — Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia Best Actor, Comedy/Musical – Robert Downey, Jr., Sherlock Holmes Best Supporting Actress — Mo’Nique, Precious Best Supporting Actor – Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds Best Foreign Language Film – The White Ribbon Best Animated Feature — Up Best Screenplay – Up in the Air Best Original Score — Michael Giacchino, Up Best Original Song — “The Weary Kind,” Crazy Heart Not Motion Picture...
Read MoreBFCA 2010 Critics’ Choice Movie Awards winners – AVATAR takes 6, Picture & Director for HURT LOCKER
There was only one instance in the past 10 years when the BFCA’s Critics’ Choice Awards Best Picture winner didn’t go home with the Best Picture trophy at the Oscars. That was in 2004 when Sideways beat the eventual Best Picture Oscar winner Million Dollar Baby. Now that The Hurt Locker has won the Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Best Picture, do we finally have a frontrunner for the Best Picture Oscar? Or is this another critics’ darling that won the award during a foggy season? We’re all pretty certain that Kathryn Bigelow is going to walk away with the Best Director Oscar already. Best Picture may not be that far out of reach. Full list of winners after the jump… BEST PICTURE The Hurt Locker BEST ACTOR Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart BEST ACTRESS Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia...
Read MoreAVATAR weekend bigger than estimates, $50 million fourth weekend
James Comeron’s Avatar easily beat Titanic‘s fourth weekend record with an estimated $48 million this past weekend. When the final tally came in today, Avatar cleared $50 million. Yeah, I know. Holy cow. That brings Avatar to $430 million here in North America, with another $910 million in the bank from overseas. It’s already the second highest grossing film worldwide, standing at $1.34 billion. Now, it’s within spitting distance of that $1.84 billion record that James Cameron’s last movie made more than a decade...
Read MoreDirectors Guild announces 2010 DGA Award nominees
From the DGA, the 2010 Director’s Guild of America Award nominees: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker James Cameron, Avatar Lee Daniels, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire Jason Reitman, Up in the Air Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds Yeah… thanks for clearing things up,...
Read MoreAVATAR joins the $1 billion club after just 17 days
On Sunday, James Cameron’s Avatar became just the fifth movie in history to gross over $1 billion, and it did it in just two weeks and three days. Avatar took in $68 million at the domestic box office this weekend, bringing its total gross in North America to $352.1 million. Overseas the picture grossed another $133.5 million for a total of $670.2. What’s $352.1 million + $670.2 million kids? $1.02 billion, that’s right! Avatar will likely become the second-highest grossing film worldwide next weekend, if not sooner. Even if Avatar can’t pass Titanic at the domestic box office, now is when we can seriously start talking about it sinking Titanic‘s long-standing worldwide record as the highest grossing film of all-time. Billion dollar club (via Box Office Mojo): 1 Titanic $1.8 billion 2 The Lord of the Rings:...
Read MoreYear in Review – Best Films of 2009
I saw fewer new movies this year than in any other since I started putting together my top ten lists. That’s not bad news. I just cut out a lot of… well… crap. No, I didn’t see Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and no, I didn’t see Sherlock Holmes. I love movies, but what’s the point in watching all the bad when there’s so much good out there. (That doesn’t explain how I ended up seeing Nine, though. Ugh.) The good, in fact, was so good that I could have chosen any one of the 11 pictures on my top 10 list to be the best movie of the year. That’s a testament to the quality of all the pictures listed below. All the films on my list, from Tarantino, Reitman, the Coen brothers, Bigelow and more, may very...
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