Oscars Vs. MTV Movie Awards
This isn't the first time we have heard the argument that the MTV Movie Awards are more relevant that the Oscars. This time it is MTV Movie Awards producer Mark Burnett who is making the argument.
"I'm looking forward to incorporating the viewers more than ever before because I consider the MTV Movie Awards to be the most relevant movie award show in America today," Burnett said. "This show honors the movies that millions of young Americans go to see. We will again highlight the interactive culture that is young America."The MTV Movie Awards do focus on films that many more people went to see last year but you still can't beat the Oscars in importance, viewership and integrity.
Posted on March 25, 2008
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The Oscars Winners 2008
The Oscars winners are in. It was a smooth night without many surprises. Four awards went to No Country For Old Men including Best Picture. Marion Cotillard was surprise winner in the Best Actress category. Daniel Day-Lewis, Javier Bardem and Tilda Swinton were also winners of acting awards. Here's a list of this year's winners.
You can see a complete list of all the nominees here. You can find lots of Oscars links and scoop here.
Photo source: A.M.P.A.S.
Posted on February 25, 2008
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A-list on the Oscar Red Carper
The A-list arrive for this year's Oscar ceremony. In this video clip from the AP you will see Javier Bardem, George Clooney, Cate Blanchette, Jessica Alba, Katherine Heigl and others as they arrive at the Kodak Theater for the 80th annual Academy Awards. For more coverage of the hot dresses worn by the actresses this year check out ShoppingBlog.com's Oscar section.Posted on February 24, 2008
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Lindsay Lohan, Eddie Murphy Dominate Razzies
Lindsay Lohan would like to undo her disastrous motion picture: I Know Who Killed Me but the Razzies just won't let it go away. Lohan and her film took home a record 8 Razzie awards out of eleven categories. She even won for Worst Actress twice - for playing both Aubrey and Dakota.Another actor that won dreaded Razzie awards was Eddie Murphy. He won three awards for his performances in Norbit. Thanks to his film Norbit Eddie Murphy won Razzies for Worst Supporting Actor, Worst Supporting Actress and Worst Actor). You can see a complete list of the Razzie winners here.
This is what the Razzies said about Lindsay Lohan's film, "Topping the field with 9 nominations is I Know Who Killed Me, a Lindsay Lohan 'vehicle' that proved as dangerous for its star as any car she ever ran off the road. An oddball cross-breeding of the Hostel/Saw genre of 'teen torture porn' with elements of the old Old Patty Duke Show, I Know stars Lohan as psychically connected twins."
Posted on February 23, 2008
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Razzie Nominees Announced
The Razzies are awarded to the worst films of the year and for the worst acting of the year. This year the nominees are dominated by two films: Eddie Murphy's Norbit and Lindsay Lohan's I Know Who Killed Me. These two films helped these actors get nominated multiple times. Murphy is up for a record five Razzies and the Norbit film is up for still more. Here are Worst Picture, Worst Actor and Worst Actress awards. You can see the complete list of Razzie nominees here.Worst Picture
Worst Actor
Worst Actress
Posted on February 1, 2008
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Screen Actors Guild Award Winners Named
Here is a list of the 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) award winners.Theatrical Motion Pictures
Primetime Television
(via Watchers Watch)
Posted on January 31, 2008
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80th Academy Award Nominations Announced
The 80th Academy Award nominees have been named. No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood led the nominees with eight nominations each. The Michael Clayton film written and directed by Tony Gilroy garnered seven nominations including Best Picture and Best Director. Atonement is also up for seven awards. Miramax led all studios with 13 nominations. Here are the nominees for Best Picture, Best Director and the actor and actress categories. You can see the complete list here.Best Picture:
Actor:
Actress:
Supporting Actor:
Supporting Actress:
Director:
You can see the original score and original song nominations here including some of the music videos for the original song nominations. Three of the songs are from Disney's Enchanted.
Posted on January 22, 2008
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No Globes, No Grammys and No Oscars?
We already saw the Globes announced in a boring press conference. The Grammys are likely to be denied a waiver so that isn't going to be the spectacle it normally would is. Variety has an article floating the idea that there could be two differents Oscars shows.Amid the pervasive uncertainty created by the WGA strike, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences is forging ahead with plans for the Feb. 24 Oscar ceremony. But the Academy is also planning two different shows -- the usual kudocast and an alternative event if the scribes are still out.It isn't clear how there could be an Oscars without writers or actors which is what is likely to happen if the strike continues.
Oscarcast producer Gil Cates supplied few details as to what form the alternative show would take, simply saying at a meeting at Acad headquarters that they'd have to "play it by ear," according to one attendee.
But it's likely that the alternative show would rely on industry heavyweights penning their own speeches and presenting the awards.
Posted on January 17, 2008
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Golden Globe Winners Announced
This year's Golden Globe award winners have been announced. It wasn't nearly as exciting as previous because of the ongoing writers strike. No film dominated. Atonement won two awards including Best Picture and Original Score. Best Actress, Drama went to Julie Christie for Away From Her and Best Actor, Drama was awarded to Daniel Day-Lewis, the star of There Will Be Blood. Julian Schnabel won Best Director for the film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.The television awards were dominated by cable. HBO won several of the tv awards for their shows including Extras, Longford and Entourage. Tina Fey won the only broadcast tv award of the night. She won Best Actress, Comedy for 30 Rock.
You can see a complete list of the awards here. Singers Sing also has a blog post about this year's Best Original Song winner: "Guaranteed" from Into the Wild.
Posted on January 14, 2008
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People's Choice Award Winners Announced
The 2008 People's Choice award winners have been announced. The awards cover a myriad of entertainment categories. Here is a sample of some of the winners.
You can see the complete list including acceptance speech videos here on the official website.
Posted on January 9, 2008
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2007 Hugo Award Winners
The winners of the Hugo Awards have been announced by the World Science Fiction Society. Here is a list of the winners.You can see a list of all the nominees with links here. (via Fantasy SF Blog)
Posted on September 26, 2007
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Writers Write, Inc. Launches Fantasy and Science Fiction Blog
Writers Write, Inc. has added a new blog to its blog network called FantasySFBlog.com. Fantasy/SF Blog is a daily blog covering what's new and interesting in the worlds of fantasy, SF, and horror, including books, movies, TV and gaming.
Recent posts include:
RSS subscription informaton for the Fantasy/SF Blog can be found here.
Posted on August 15, 2007
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Hudson and Beyonce Star at BET Awards
People reports that Jennifer Hudson and Beyonce each won two awards at this year's BET awards show. Hudson won best actress and best new artist award. Beyonce took home awards for best female R&B artist and video of the year.Hudson, 25, kicked off the three-hour ceremony with a duet of "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" with Jennifer Holliday, who made the song famous on Broadway almost three decades ago.The official BET awards website can be found here.
The Oscar winner snagged the best actress trophy ("I can't believe I'm still winning awards!" she said) and best new artist award.
Beyonce, 25, who led the nominees with six nods, picked up awards for best female R&B artist and video of the year for "Irreplaceable."
She also performed a show-stopping rendition of her dance anthem "Get Me Bodied" - followed by her Destiny's Child bandmate Kelly Rowland singing "Like This" with cameos from Eve, Michelle Williams and Beyonce's sister Solange Knowles.
Posted on June 27, 2007
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2007 MTV Movie Award Winners
The 2007 MTV Movie Awards was hosted by comic Sarah Silverman. The show parodied several films including Babel, Dreamgirls, The Departed, 300, The Pursuit of Happyness, The Devil Wears Prada and Transformers. Here is a list of this year's winners.
MTV has some highlights, red carpet photos and videos from the 2007 MTV Movie Awards on its website.
Posted on June 17, 2007
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2007 Nebula Awards Announced
The winners of the 2007 Nebula Awards have been announced by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).Also recognized were James Gunn as Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master, D.G. Compton as Author Emeritus, and Brook & Julia West for Service to SFWA. Locus and the SFWA have more information about this year's Nebula awards. Some photographs from the awards banquet can be found here.
Posted on June 3, 2007
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Entertainment Twitters
Here are several entertainment-related Twitter news accounts that are available. They provide frequently updated news about books, games, music, movies and other entertainment categories.- Book news microblog
- Celebrity gossip news microblog
- Gaming news microblog
- Movie news microblog
- Music news microblog
- TV and Movies microblog
- Toy news microblog
- Videos microblog
Posted on May 25, 2007
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2007 Film Independent Spirit Award Winners Announced
This year's Film Independent Spirt Awards have been announced. Little Miss Sunshine took home the award for Best Feature as well as three other awards. Here is a list of the winners.Posted on March 2, 2007
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79th Academy Awards Winners List
Here are the winnners of the 79th Academy Awards.Posted on February 26, 2007
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Razzie Winners Announced
Basic Instict 2 has dominated this year's Razzie Awards, the awards given for the worst film making and the worst acting. Basic Instinct 2 took home four $4.97 trophies, among them Worst Picture, Worst Screenplay and Worst Prequel or Sequel. The fourth award was the 2006 Worst Actress trophy that went to Sharon Stone. The Golden Raspberry Award Foundation members like to call the movie Basically, it Stinks, Too.Posted on February 25, 2007
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79th Academy Award Presenters
79th Academy Awards, telecast producer Laura Ziskin announced today that Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep, who each hold the record for most Academy Award nominations by actors, in their respective categories will join Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman as presenters. They will be joined by Oscar nominees Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Downey, Jr., Greg Kinnear, Helen Mirren, Clive Owen, Ken Watanabe and Naomi Watts. Ziskin also announced that Gael Garcia Bernal, Emily Blunt, Catherine Deneuve, former Vice President Al Gore, James McAvoy and Jerry Seinfeld will be presenting.These presenters will join Ben Affleck, Jessica Biel, Jack Black, Cate Blanchett, Abigail Breslin, Steve Carell, George Clooney, Daniel Craig, Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Kirsten Dunst, Will Ferrell, Jodie Foster, Eva Green, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Tom Hanks, Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Diane Keaton, Nicole Kidman, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Lopez, Tobey Maguire, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jaden Christopher Syre Smith, John Travolta, Rachel Weisz, Kate Winslet and Reese Witherspoon on the telecast.
Posted on February 23, 2007
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The 2006 Razzies Nominations
The Razzies are film awards that go to the very worst films and the very worst actors. Here is a list of the nominations in Worst Picture, Worst Actor and Worst Actress.Worst Picture Nominees:
Worst Actor:
Worst Actress:
Here is a list of films receiving multiple nominations. Basic Instinct 2 has the most nomination. It's up for seven Razzies.
The Razzies ceremonies will be held at 7:30pm/PST on Oscar eve, Saturday, February 24 at Hollywood's Ivar Theatre.
Posted on February 16, 2007
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Award News Roundup 2-11-07
Here are some recent happenings in book, games and movie awards.Posted on February 11, 2007
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Ben Stiller, Scarlett Johansson Win Hasty Pudding Awards
The AP reports that Ben Stiller and Scarlett Johansson have won this year's Hasty Pudding awards.
The awards, announced Monday, are given to performers who have made a "lasting and impressive contribution to the world of entertainment" by Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the nation's oldest undergraduate drama troupe.The Hasty Pudding awards are presented each year by Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals. They are technical the Man and Woman of the Year awards. You can read more about the awards here on the official website.
Johansson, 22, will lead a parade through Cambridge on Feb. 15, then attend a roast in her honor and receive the "Pudding Pot." The ceremony for Stiller, 41, is Feb. 23.
Posted on February 7, 2007
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SAG Award Winners Announced
The Screen Actors Guild presented its coveted Actor statuette for the outstanding motion picture and primetime television performances of 2006 at the 13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards inceremonies attended by film and television's leading actors, held Sunday, Jan. 28 at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center. Here is a list of this year's winners:TV Awards
Posted on January 30, 2007
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Nominations for the 79th Annual Academy Awards Announced
The nominations for the 79th annual Academy Awards have been announced. Dreamgirls picked up the most nominations with eight but did not get a Best Picture nomination. Three of Dreamgirls nominations all came in one category -- Original Song. Other films with four or more nominations include Babel (7), The Queen (6), Pan's Labyrinth (6), Blood Diamond (5) The Departed (5), Letters from Iwo Jima (4) and Little Miss Sunshine (4). Here is a list of this year's Oscar nominees.Best Picture:
Actor:
Actress:
Supporting Actor:
Supporting Actress:
Director:
Best Adapted Screenplay:
Best Original Screenplay:
Best Animated Feature Film:
Foreign Language Film:
Art Direction:
Cinematography:
Sound Mixing:
Sound Editing:
Original Score:
Original Song:
Costume:
Animated Short Film:
Live Action Short Film:
Documentary Feature:
Documentary (short subject):
Film Editing:
Makeup:
Visual Effects:
You can also see the list here on the Oscars.org website.
Posted on January 23, 2007
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64th Annual Golden Globes Winners
The winners of the 64th annual Golden Globes have been announced. Dreamgirls won the most film awards with three. Martin Scorsese won Best Director. In television Elizabeth I won three awards and Gideon's Daughter and Ugly Betty won two awards each. Grey's Anatomy won for best drama. ShoppingBlog.com has coverage of the Golden Globes Dresses and of Brad and Angelina's notable Golden Globes appearance. Here is a list of this year's winners.Motion Pictures
Television:
More Globes coverage can be found at Watchers Watch, Glitterati, Empire Online, Gold Derby, MeeVee, Film School Rejects, Glowy Box, Idol Chatter, Risky Biz Blog, Reuters Blog, Film Junk, Radosh and Brilliant But Cancelled.
Posted on January 18, 2007
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2006 Golden Tomato Awards
Rotten Tomatoes, a Fox Interactive Media website for movie fans, has announced the recipients of the 8th Annual Golden Tomato Awards. The awards pay tribute to the best-reviewed films of 2006 in 14 categories. Here is a list of the 2006 winners.Posted on January 17, 2007
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Scorsese Wins Best Director at Critics' Choice Awards
Martin Scorsese's film The Departed has won Best Film at the Critics' Choice Awards. Scorsese also won Best Director. Fox News calls the win a "slight dent" in Dreamgirls shot at an Oscar.His movie, "The Departed," won Best Film and he took home honors as Best Director. It was Scorsese’s best showing ever at an awards show and a legitimate one at that. He joked to the crowd: "It's the first I tried to make that has a plot."The L.A. Times reports that Dreamgirls and Little Miss Sunshine each won four awards.
This big win for "The Departed" puts a slight dent in what looked like a sure Oscar win for "Dreamgirls," which received four awards last night including Jennifer Hudson and Eddie Murphy in the supporting actors categories and two music awards.
The lavish musical "Dreamgirls" took home four awards: best supporting actor for Eddie Murphy, best supporting actress for Jennifer Hudson, best song for "Listen," performed by Beyonce Knowles, and best soundtrack.Other award winners included Helen Mirren (Best Actress), Forest Whitaker (Best Actor), Borat (Best Comedy), Cars (Best Animated), Charlotte's Web (Best Family) and An Inconvenient Truth (Best Documentary). The Critics' Choice Awards ceremony will be broadcast on E! on January 20th, 2007.
The comedy "Little Miss Sunshine" also received four awards: best acting ensemble, best writer for Michael Arndt, best young actor for Paul Dano and best young actress for Abigail Breslin.
Posted on January 14, 2007
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People's Choice Awards 2006
The winners of the People's Choice Awards have been announced. Here is a list of the People's Choice winners.Movies
Music
Television
Other Categories
Posted on January 10, 2007
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Babel Leads Globes With 7 Nominations
ABC News reports that Babel is leading the Golden Globes awards with a total of seven nominations.Helen Mirren, Leonardo DiCaprio and Clint Eastwood were among the multiple Golden Globe nominees Thursday, while the multinational ensemble drama "Babel" led contenders with seven nominations, including best dramatic picture.The Orlando Sentinel film blog notes that double Clint and Leo nominations.
Also nominated for best dramatic picture: the Robert Kennedy story "Bobby," the mob tale "The Departed," the suburban drama "Little Children" and the royalty-in-crisis "The Queen."
A few surprises cropped up among nominees for the 64th annual Globes, Hollywood's second-biggest film honors after the Academy Awards and traditionally a solid forecast for how the Oscars might play out.
Among them: Sacha Baron Cohen's unexpected $100 million hit "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan." The satire of American culture was nominated for best musical or comedy film, while Cohen got a bid for best actor in a musical or comedy.
Clint Eastwood was nominated for both WWII Iwo Jima films he directed this past year, Flags of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima.The complete list of the award nominees can be found here.
Leo DiCaprio was nominated for both Blood Diamond and The Departed. Which means some other great performance was ignored in the Globes' grasp at "star power" for their annual pre-Oscars party.
Posted on December 15, 2006
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Song from Borat Among List of 56 Oscar Eligible Songs
The Envelope reports that a list of 56 Oscar eligible songs has been released. One of the songs on the list is "O Kazakhstan" from the Borat film.Among the songs eligible for nomination are "The Book I Write" from "Stranger Than Fiction," "Dreamz With A Z" from "American Dreamz," "I Need To Wake Up" from "An Inconvenient Truth," "It's A Fight," from "Rocky Balboa," "Never Gonna Break My Faith" from "Bobby," "O Kazakhstan" from "Borat," "Til The End of Time" from "Little Miss Sunshine," "Try Not To Remember" from "Home Of The Brave," and "You Know My Name," from Casino Royale."The L.A. Times says members of the Academy's music branch will meet on January 16 to select the "final 3-5 nominees in the category."
Some films had multiple songs declared eligible. "Family of Me," "Heist," and "Still" all come from "Over The Hedge." "Cars" was home to "Our Town" and "Real Gone." "Dreamgirls," a presumed Oscar favorite, included the eligible songs "Listen," "Love You I Do," and "Patience."
Posted on December 8, 2006
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Cars Has Most Annie Award Nominations
L.A. Times' The Envelope reports that the Cars film is leading the pack at the Annie Awards with a total of nine nominations. Other films with multiple nomations include Flushed Away and Over the Hedge.Leading the pack for the Annie Awards for film, television and home video animation was DreamWorks Animation SKG, with 17 nods for two features, "Flushed Away" and "Over the Hedge."The Envelope also said that the winner of the best animated film award at the Annie Awards has gone on to win the animaton Oscar every since the animation film Oscar was added in 2002. Here is a list of films up for the Best Animated Feature award.
But Disney-Pixar's "Cars" was the biggest film nominee. The sentimental story of a cocky race car who winds up stuck in a Route 66 town filled with eccentric individuals garnered nine nominations, including best animated feature and best director for John Lasseter, who helped put Pixar on the map when he directed "Toy Story."
"Flushed Away," the story of an uptown rat who gets flushed down the toilet from his penthouse apartment, ending in the sewers of London, earned eight film nominations, including voice acting for Ian McKellen. It also got a nomination as best animated video game, a category unrelated to the movie.
You can see a complete list of the nominations here on the Annie Awards website.
Posted on December 4, 2006
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Winners of Scream Awards 2006 Announced
The winners of Spike TV's Scream Awards 2006 have been announced. The awards ceremony featured flying bats, roaming zombies, and My Chemical
Romance's elaborate performance of "Welcome to the Black Parade." Here is a list of the winners.
Posted on November 6, 2006
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Big Night for Akeelah & the Bee
Akeelah & the Bee won four of the seven awards at the 2006 Black Movie Awards including supporting actor, actress in a leading role, supporting actress and outstanding motion picture. Spike Lee won the directing award for his terrific film, Inside Man. Tsotsi and Something New also each won an award.
BV Entertainment Newswire Blog has a good recap of the 2006 Black Movie Awards.
Posted on October 30, 2006
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Nominees for 2006 Black Movie Awards Announced
The nominees for the 2006 Black Movie Awards have been announced. Akeelah & the Bee is up for four awards including Best Motion Picture. ATL is also nominated for four awards including Best Motion Picture. Tyler Perry will be hosting the awards according to Blackfilm.com. The awards will be televised on the TNT network on October 18th.Here are the nominees for Best Motion Picture.
A full list of the nominees can be found here on the BV Entertainment Newswire Blog.
Posted on October 2, 2006
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2006 Hugo Award Winners Announced
The winners of the 2006 Hugo Awards were announced recently at L.A. Con IV.
Past Hugo Award winners can be found here.Best Novel: Spin by Robert Charles Wilson (Tor) Best Novella: "Inside Job" by Connie Willis (Asimov's January 2005) Best Novelette: "Two Hearts" by Peter S. Beagle (Fantasy & Science Fiction October/November 2005) Best Short Story: "Tk'tk'tk" by David D. Levine (Asimov's March 2005) Available as an audio podcast download Best Related Book: Storyteller: Writing Lessons and More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers' Workshop by Kate Wilhelm (Small Beer Press) Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: Serenity Written & Directed, Joss Whedon. (Universal Pictures/Mutant Enemy, Inc.) Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: Doctor Who "The Empty Child" & "The Doctor Dances" Written, Steven Moffat. Directed, James Hawes. (BBC Wales/BBC1) Best Professional Editor: David G. Hartwell (Tor Books; Year's Best SF) Best Professional Artist: Donato Giancola Best Semiprozine: Locus edited by Charles N. Brown, Kirsten Gong-Wong, & Liza Groen Trombi Best Fanzine: Plokta edited, Alison Scott, Steve Davies & Mike Scott Best Fan Writer: Dave Langford Best Fan Artist: Frank Wu
Posted on September 15, 2006
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Taxable Emmy and Oscar Gift Bags
The IRS has ruined some of Hollywood's fun by declaring the gift bags celebrities receive at award shows are taxable income.The Internal Revenue Service and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences yesterday announced they have reached a settlement on undisclosed taxes owed to the government on the "gifts" received at the Oscars in the last several years, through 2005. The academy also announced it will no longer give out the bags, saying the board quietly voted last April to end the practice. In recent years, the academy has given the bags -- also known as gift bags or swag -- to as many as 200 hosts, performers and winners on Oscar night. "There's no special red-carpet tax loophole for the stars," IRS Commissioner Mark W. Everson said in a prepared statement. "Whether you're popping the popcorn, sitting in the audience or starring on the big screen, you need to respect the law and pay your taxes."The gifts bags did seem to be getting larger and more elaborate year after year. ShoppingBlog.com has more information about taxable swag bags.
Typically, if the IRS finds someone has failed to pay taxes but no fraud is involved, it assesses back taxes, interest and penalties for only the preceding three years. In this instance, if 200 people received $100,000 baskets in each of the three years through 2005, the taxable non-cash income would be $60 million. Neither IRS spokesmen nor Academy spokeswoman Leslie Unger would confirm or deny that number. Nor would they say whether, under the terms of the settlement, the IRS forgave back payment, interest and penalties. Nor would they say whether the Academy has paid a lump sum on behalf of past recipients.
Posted on August 23, 2006
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2006 Thriller Awards Announced
The 2006 Thriller Awards, known as the Thrillers, were announced at ThrillerFest. The awards debuted this year. They are a new annual award that will be provided by the International Thriller Writers (ITW). Here is a list of this year's winners.
The ITW's co-presidents, Gayle Lynds and David Morrell, also received Awards of Recognition for outstanding contribution and service to ITW in its founding year.
Posted on August 21, 2006
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Nominees Announced for 2006 Scream Awards
SpikeTV has opened up nominations for their annual Scream Awards. The awards feature categories for comics, movies and tv in the horror, fantasy and sf gernres. Some of the categories include best horror movie, best fantasy movie, best sequel, scream queen, most vile villain, best flesh scene and most schoking comic book twist. There does not appear to be a category for novels. You can vote for the winners here until October 6,th. The awards show will air oin SpikeTV on October 10th. Horror.com also has a list of the nominations for each category.Posted on August 17, 2006
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MTV Movie Award Winners Announced
The MTV Movie Award winners have been announced. This year's show was hosted by Jessica Alba. Here is a list of this year's golden popcorn winners.Posted on June 6, 2006
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Rihanna and Fall Out Boy to Hose MTV Movie Award's Pre-Show
Rihanna and Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz are going to be hosting the pre-show for the 2006 MTV Movie Awards.Rihanna and Wentz will join the MTV News team as celebrity guest hosts for this year's Movie Awards pre-show: Along with MTV News correspondents SuChin Pak and Sway Calloway, Rihanna and Wentz will be interviewing Hollywood's brightest st









