2010 Webby Award Winners Announced

Viral Video
The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgbNymZ7vqY (Webby and People's Voice)

Video Remixes/Mashups
Auto-Tune the News - http://www.barelypolitical.com/remix/episode/BP_20090903/auto-tune-the-news-8-with-t-pain (Webby and People's Voice)

Individual Performance
Isabella Rossellini in Green Porno - http://www.sundancechannel.com/greenporno (Webby)
Amir Blumenfeld - http://www.collegehumor.com/jakeandamir (People's Voice)

Celebrity/Fan
Jim Carrey Official Site http://www.jimcarrey.com (Webby and People's Voice)

Documentary Series
Davidlynch.Com Presents Interview Project http://interviewproject.davidlynch.com (Webby and People's Voice)

Variety Video
Live From Daryl's House http://www.livefromdarylshouse.com/ (Webby)
Reel Good Show http://www.indymogul.com/reelgood (People's Voice)

Comedy: Individual Short or Episode
The Onion - http://www.theonion.com/content/video/sony_releases_new_stupid_piece_of (Webby)
Web Site Story - http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1913584 (People's Voice)

Comedy: Long Form or Series
Web Therapy II - http://www.lstudio.com (Webby)
Jake and Amir - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQcVllWpwGs (Webby)
Axe "Clean Your Balls" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bevJr3Ra84Q (People's Voice)

Activism
Make it Right - http://makeitrightnola.org/ (Webby)
Renew the world - http://www.stemcellfoundation.ca (People's Voice)

Best Practices
Twitter - http://twitter.com (Webby)
NPR - http://www.npr.org (People's Voice)

Mobile Social Networking
Foursquare - http://foursquare.com (Webby and People's Voice)

Mobile Application
Evernote - http://www.evernote.com (Webby and People's Voice)

Weird
Selleck Waterfall Sandwich - http://www.selleckwaterfallsandwich.tumblr.com (Webby)
FAIL Blog - http://www.failblog.org (People's Voice)

Personal Blog/Website
Indexed - http://www.thisisindexed.com (Webby)
Broken Secrets http://brokensecrets.com/ (People's Voice)

Humor
The Onion - http://www.theonion.com (Webby and People's Voice)

Broadband
Hulu - http://www.hulu.com (Webby and People's Voice)

Television
Colbert Nation - http://www.colbertnation.com (Webby and People's Voice)

Best Web Service and Application
Tumblr - http://tumblr.com (Webby)
99designs.com - http://99designs.com (People's Voice)

Posted on May 30, 2010
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Literary Pulitzer Prize Winners

The literary Pulitzer Prize awards were recently announced. Paul Harding won the top Fiction prize for his novel, Tinkers. You can see a complete list of the finalists here. Here is a list of the finalists.

• Fiction: Tinkers by Paul Harding
• General Nonfiction: The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman
• History: Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
• Biography: The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles
• Poetry: Versed by Rae Armantrout
• Drama: Next to Normal by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey

Photo: Paul Harding

Posted on April 25, 2010
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2010 Kids Choice Awards Winners

Here is a list of the winners of Nickelodeon's 23rd Annual Kids' Choice Awards. You can find coverage of the awards and the Orange Carpet here.

Movies

• Favorite Movie: Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
• Favorite Animated Movie: Up
• Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie: Jim Carrey (A Christmas Carol)
• Favorite Movie Actor: Taylor Lautner (The Twilight Saga: New Moon)
• Favorite Movie Actress: Miley Cyrus (Hannah Montana: The Movie)

Music:

• Favorite Song: You Belong With Me (Taylor Swift)
• Favorite Music Group: Black Eyed Peas
• Favorite Male Singer: Jay-Z
• Favorite Female Singer: Taylor Swift

Television

• Favorite TV Show: iCarly
• Favorite Television Actress: Selena Gomez
• Favorite Cartoon: SpongeBob SquarePants
• Favorite Reality TV Show: American Idol
• Favorite Television Actor: Dylan Sprouse

Other Categories:

• Favorite Male Athlete: Ryan Sheckler
• Favorite Female Athlete: Misty May Treanor
• The Big Help Award: First Lady Michelle Obama
• Favorite Video Game: Mario Kart
• Favorite Book: Diary of a Wimpy Kid series
• Cutest Couple: Jacob & Bella (Taylor Lautner & Kristen Stewart) from The Twilight Saga: New Moon
• Ultimate Dance Smack-Down: Noah Munck, Matt Shively and Fanboy and Chum Chum

Posted on March 28, 2010
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Hurt Locker Wins Most Oscars, Including Best Picture

The Hurt Locker dominated the Oscars last night. The film took home six awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Avatar won three awards but was beaten by the Hurt Locker in the main categories. Precious, Up and Crazy heart won two awards each. Here is a list of this year's winners.

• Best Picture: The Hurt Locker
• Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
• Best Actress in a Leading Role: Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
• Best Actor in a Leading Role: Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
• Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Mo'Nique, Precious
• Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
• Film Editing: The Hurt Locker, Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
• Original Screenplay: The Hurt Locker, Mark Boal
• Adapted Screenplay: Precious, Geoffrey Fletcher
• Documentary Feature: The Cove
• Animated Film: Up
• Original Song: "The Weary Kind," Music and Lyrics by Ryan Bingham and T-Bone Burnett (Crazy Heart)
• Visual Effects: Avatar
• Original Score: Michael Giacchino, Up
• Cinematography: Avatar, Mauro Fiore
• Sound Mixing: The Hurt Locker
• Sound Editing: The Hurt Locker
• Costume Design: The Young Victoria, Sandy Powell
• Art Direction: Avatar
• Makeup: Star Trek
• Live Action Short Film: The New Tenants
• Documentary Short Subject: Music by Prudence
• Animated Short Film: Logorama
• Foreign Language Film: The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos, Argentina)

You can find ongoing coverage of the Oscars, including fashion coverage, here on ShoppingBlog.com's Oscars' section.

Photo: Erik Ovanespour / © A.M.P.A.S.

Posted on March 8, 2010
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25th Spirit Award Winners Announced

Precious dominated the 25th annual Spirit Awards. The film won five awards including Best Feature, Best Director and Best Female Lead. Here is the list of winners:

• Best Feature: Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' By Sapphire
• Best Director: Lee Daniels Precious
• Best Screenplay: Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber (500) Days of Summer
• Best First Feature: Crazy Heart
• Best First Screenplay: Geoffrey Fletcher Precious
• Best Male Lead: Jeff Bridges Crazy Heart
• Best Female Lead: Gabourey Sidibe Precious
• Best Supporting Male: Woody Harrelson The Messenger
• Best Supporting Female: Mo'Nique Precious
• Best Cinematography: Roger Deakins A Serious Man
• Best Documentary: Anvil!: The Story of Anvil
• BEST FOREIGN FILM: An Education
• John Cassavetes Award: Humpday
• Robert Altman Award: A Serious Man
• Someone to Watch Award: Kyle Alvarez Easier With Practice
• Truer Than Fiction Award: Bill Ross, Turner Ross 45365"
• Producers Award: Karin Chien The Exploding Girl

Posted on March 6, 2010
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67th Annual Golden Globes Award Winners List

The winners of the 67th annual Golden Globes were announced last night at an award's show hosted by Ricky Gervais. The wins were spread around but Avatar, Up and Crazy Heart each won two awards in film. In television, Dexter and Grey Gardens each won two awards. You can find highlights here and a list of the winners below.

MOVIES

• Best Drama: Avatar
• Best Comedy/Musical: The Hangover
• Best Director: James Cameron, Avatar
• Best Animated film: Up
• Best Original Song: "The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart)" by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett
• Best Original Score: Michael Giacchino. Up
• Best Actress, Drama: Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
• Best Actor, Drama: Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
• Best Actor, comedy/musical: Robert Downey Jr., Sherlock Holmes
• Best Actress, Comedy/Musical: Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia
• Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
• Best Supporting Actress, Drama: Mo'nique, Precious
• Best Screenplay: Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner, Up In The Air
• Foreign language film: The White Ribbon (Germany)

TV

• Best Actress, Comedy: Toni Collette, United States Of Tara (Showtime)
• Best Supporting Actor, Mini-Series or TV Movie: John Lithgow, Dexter (Showtime)
• Best Actor, Drama: Michael C. Hall, Dexter (Showtime)
• Best Actress, Drama: Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife (CBS)
• Best Mini-series or TV movie: Grey Gardens (HBO)
• Best Actor, mini-series or TV movie: Kevin Bacon, Taking Chance (HBO)
• Best Actress, Mini-series or TV Movie: Drew Barrymore, Grey Gardens (HBO)
• Best Actor, Comedy/musical Series: Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock (NBC)
• Best Drama Series: Mad Men (AMC)
• Best Supporting actress, mini-series or TV movie: Chloe Sevigny, Big Love (HBO)
• Best Comedy/musical: Glee (FOX)

Posted on January 18, 2010
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2009 Annie Award Nominees Announces

The nominations for the Annie Awards have been announced. The awards are for animated motion pictures and television productions. There are several strong nominees here from Sony, Laika, Disney and Pixar.

Best Animated Feature:

• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Sony Pictures Animation
• Coraline, Laika
• Fantastic Mr. Fox, 20th Century Fox
• The Princess and the Frog, Walt Disney Animation Studios
• The Secret of the Kells, Cartoon Saloon
• Up, Pixar Animation Studios

You can see the nominations in all the categories here on annieawards.org.

Posted on December 11, 2009
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Early Oscars Presented: Governors Awards

Steven Spielberg speaks as part of the award presentation to Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipient John Calley during the 2009 Governors Awards. The 2009 Governors Awards were given to actress Lauren Bacall, 85; producer-director-writer Roger Corman, 83; and cinematographer Gordon Willis, 78.

Photo: Todd Wawrychuk, © A.M.P.A.S.

Posted on November 15, 2009
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2009 CMA Award Winners

Taylor Swift dominated the Country Music Awards (CMAs) this year taking home four awards including Entertainer of the Year. You can watch her acceptance speech here. Here is a list of this year's winners.

• Entertainer of the Year: Taylor Swift
• Male Vocalist of the Year: Brad Paisley
• Female Vocalist of the Year: Taylor Swift
• Vocal Group of the Year: Lady Antebellum
• Vocal Duo of the Year: Sugarland
• New Artist of the Year: Darius Rucker
• Album of the Year: Fearless, Taylor Swift (Big Machine Records)
• Single of the Year: "I Run To You" by Lady Antebellum (Capitol Records Nashville)
• Song of the Year: "In Color" Written by Jamey Johnson, Lee Thomas Miller and James Otto
• Musical Event of the Year: "Start A Band" Brad Paisley (duet with Keith Urban)
• Music Video of the Year: "Love Story" by Taylor Swift, Directed by Trey Fanjoy
• Musician of the Year: Mac McAnally - Guitar

Posted on November 12, 2009
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Early Buzz on Best Picture

The L.A. Times Gold Derby blog has listed some of the possibilities for Best Picture this year. Remember, the changes to the category mean ten films will be nominated this year. Gold Derby says these 12 films are the favorites to be nominated.

• Avatar
• An Education
• The Hurt Locker
• Inglourious Basterds
• Invictus
• The Lovely Bones
• Nine
• Precious
• The Road
• A Serious Man
• Up
• Up in the Air

It would be good to see District 9 and Star Trek nominated. Science fiction fans will feel snubbed if Avatar gets in but one or both of these films does not. Gold Derby does have them as "possibilities."

Posted on October 25, 2009
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Wolf Hall Wins Man Booker Prize

Hilary Mandel has won the Man Booker Prize for her book, Wolf Hall. This is the book the bookies predicted would win.

Posted on October 9, 2009
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2009 Primetime Emmy Award Winners

Here is a short list of this year's Primetime Emmy award winners.

• Best Comedy Series: 30 Rock
• Best Drama Series: Mad Men
• Best Actor in a Comedy Series: Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
• Best Actress in a Comedy Series: Toni Collette, The United States of Tara
• Best Actor in a Drama Series: Byan Cranston, Breaking Bad
• Best Actress in a Drama Series: Glenn Close, Damages
• Best Reality Competition, The Amazing Race
• Best Supporting Actor, Drama Series: Michael Emerson, Lost
• Best Supporting Actress, Drama Series: Cherry Jones, 24
• Best Supporting Actor, Comedy Series: Jon Cryer, Two and a Half Men
• Best Supporting Actress, Comedy Series: Kristin Chenoweth, Pushing Daisies
• Best Miniseries: Little Dorrit
• Best Made-for-TV Movie: Grey Gardens

You can see a longer list of winners here. You can find information about some of the hottest red carpet looks here. Maggie Rodriguez from CBS spoke briefly with the casts of Emmy award-winning series Mad Men and 30 Rock backstage. The shows also won Emmys in 2008.



Posted on September 23, 2009
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2009 MTV Video Music Award Winners

Kanye West stole the show this year at the VMAs with his rude interruption of Taylor Swift's Best Female Video acceptance speech. Coverage of the Kanye incident overshadowed a moving tribute to Michael Jackson from Madonna and Janet Jackson's awesome dance performance. Here is a list of the winners with links to the music videos.

• Video of the Year: Beyonce, "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"
• Best Female Video: Taylor Swift, "You Belong With Me"
• Best Male Video: T.I. featuring Rihanna, "Live Your Life"
• Best New Artist: Lady Gaga, "Poker Face"
• Best Hip-Hop video: Eminem, "We Made You"
• Best Pop Video: Britney Spears, "Womanizer"
• Best Rock Video: Green Day, "21 Guns"
• Best Video (That Should Have Won A Moonman): Beastie Boys, "Sabotage"
• Breakthrough Video: Matt and Kim, "Lessons Learned"
• Best Art Direction: Lady Gaga, "Paparazzi"
• Best Choreography: Beyonce, "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"
• Best Cinematography: Green Day, "21 Guns"
• Best Direction: Green Day, "21 Guns"
• Best Editing: Beyonce, "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"
• Best Special Effects: Lady Gaga, "Paparazzi"

Posted on September 14, 2009
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