Awards Season '09

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed their list of the final group of 15 films that will contend for the Best Documentary Feature award this week, and with said announcement comes a twinge of bittersweetness.

First we rock, then we go out and get those Oscar votes, then we rock Michel Gondry’s Green Hornet movie so hard that it explodes! That’s the plan for the aging rockers of Anvil…

The wait is finally over. The anticipation all year long, the bittersweet uncertainty, the constant flaming of people that don’t like Twilight and Transformers 2 on the Internet, and having to actually sit through Spike TV programming have once again come to fanboy fruition.

It’s been over two weeks since the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced their best of 2008, thus it’s time for the Academy of Science Fiction Fantasy & Horror Films to take center stage to announce its Saturn Award nominations.

Paul Sileo’s coverage of the 29th Annual Golden Raspberry Awards will likely make your bowels explode.

Once again, we use an exclamation point, so you know it’s important. Below you will find the complete list of nominees for the 81st Academy Awards. We will be updating the list of winners as the show rolls along.

By now you’ve heard — perhaps via our indisputably successful live-blog of yesterday’s Independent Spirit Awards — that Mickey Rourke’s acceptance speech for his Best Male Lead award was mildly entertaining.

his announcement comes with its own exclamation point, therefore it must be important. Tomorrow night at 5PT/8ET we will be live-blogging the biggest night in show business thanks to the technological brilliance of both Cover It Live and Twitter.

We have been lazy this week, leading to a lack of a Saturday ‘Shouting Match.’ And we need to cover these Independent Spirit Awards at some point. So screw it, we’ll do them together, live.

Everyone else is predicting who will win the Oscar. Which is boring. So we’re taking a look at who will definitely, definitely lose.

Last year we used Twitter to post instant reactions to the Academy Awards. This year, we are going to do something very similar…

For those of you not paying attention, there appears to be one little film that is tearing its way through awards season — and it isn’t that big Batman movie or that curious case. It is this little rags-to-riches tale from the slums of Mumbai in India, envisioned by a brilliant British director and adapted by a now red hot screenwriter.

Need a little film history and culture in your life? Of course you do. We all do. And who doesn’t love the opportunity to watch classic films non-stop for an entire month. Enter Turner Classic Movies’ (TCM) “31 Days of Oscar,” a month-long marathont that celebrates some of the greatest films of all-time, uncut and commercial free.

Despite the popular notion that all things Pixar must win all awards animation, the 36th Annual Annie Awards were dominated this year by Dreamworks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda, leaving cute little robot Wall-E out in the cold.

The SAG Awards took place last night and gave us a few things to think about as we enter the home stretch for the Oscars.