MPSE GOLDEN REEL AWARDS
- final ballots distributed. Ballots due by February 22. The MPSE Awards will be presented March 4 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.2nd Annual WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY AWARDS, Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood. Nominees were announced 1/3/06. Visit February 2006 calendar to learn about the winner of this award.
12th Annual
SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS, Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles. SAG nominations announced 1/5/06. Shirley Temple Black, who captivated the world as a child star, then served her country as an eminent diplomat over more than three decades, will receive SAG's most prestigious honor - the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment. The award will be presented to her by Jamie Lee Curtis. The roster of actors who will honor their colleagues at the 2006 Screen Actors Guild Awards® also includes Naveen Andrews, Amy Adams, Patricia Arquette, Barbara Bain, Angela Bassett, Benjamin Bratt, Pierce Brosnan, Sandra Bullock, Chris Cooper, Ted Danson, Peter Graves Jake Gyllenhaal, Sean Hayes, Marg Helgenberger, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Terrence Howard, Felicity Huffman, Samuel L. Jackson, Catherine Keener, Heath Ledger, Eva Longoria, William H. Macy, Christopher Meloni, Jeremy Piven, Ellen Pompeo, William Shatner, David Strathairn, Hilary Swank and Ziyi Zhang. Isaiah Washington will open the Red Carpet with a Champagne Taittinger toast that will air live on E! Entertainment Television's Live from the Red Carpet: Screen Actors Guild Awards® pre-awards special. The SAG Awards will be simulcast live on both the TNT and TBS networks at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT, 7:00 p.m. Central and 6:00 p.m. MT. SAG Awards official website. BE SURE TO WATCH FOR OUR UPCOMING SPECIAL FEATURE ON THE 2006 SCREEN ACTORS GUILD GIFT BASKETS AND EXCLUSIVE VIP LOUNGE!!ACADEMY AWARDS
- Oscar nominations announced at 5:30 a.m. PT from the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The 78th Annual Academy Awards will be presented 3/5/06.CINEMA AUDIO SOCIETY AWARDS
- final ballots mailed.RAZZIE AWARDS - nominations announced. Razzie awards presented 3/4/06.
WRITERS GUILD AWARDS -
deadline to return final WGA awards ballots.12th Annual SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS
, Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles. See above post for further details.20th Annual GOYA AWARDS, Municipal Palace of Congresses, Madrid, Spain. Presented by Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España (Spanish Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences) Producer/director/screenwriter Pedro Maso will receive an honorary Goya for Lifetime Achievement. los Premios Goya official website.
ACADEMY AWARDS - MakeUp Bake Off.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the seven films in consideration for Achievement in Makeup for the 78th Academy Awards: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Cinderella Man, A History of Violence, The Libertine, Mrs. Henderson Presents, The New World and Stars Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith. Ten-minute clip reels from each film will be screened for nominating committee then members will vote to nominate three of the seven films for Oscar® consideration. All nominations for the 78th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, January 31, 2006.ACE EDDIE AWARDS - blue ribbon screenings (through 1/29)
DIRECTORS GUILD AWARDS
- DGA Meet the Nominees: Feature Films58th Annual DIRECTORS GUILD AWARDS
, Hyatt Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles. Hosted by Carl Reiner. Presenters include Peter Bergman, Eric Braeden, Patricia Clarkson, Matt Dillon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Patricia Heaton, Cheryl Hines, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ron Howard, Angelica Huston, Catherine Keener, Heath Ledger, John Leguizamo, S. Epatha Merkerson, Thandie Newton, Jaime Pressly, Randy Quaid, Emmy Rossum, Geoffrey Rush, David Strathairn and Ziyi Zhang. Clint Eastwood will receive the Directors Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his distinguished career in motion picture directing. Donald Jacob will receive the Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award for an Associate Director or Stage Manager and Jerry H. Ziesmer will receive the Frank Capra Achievement Award which is given to an Assistant Director or Unit Production Manager, both in recognition of career achievement in the industry and service to the Directors Guild of America, while Joseph R. Aceti will receive the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award in Sports Direction.DIRECTORS GUILD AWARDS
- today is the deadline for returning all feature film final ballots.SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS - final SAG ballots are due at the elections firm today by 12 Noon PT
A visit to the set of Desperate Housewives, Shannon's last shirt from Lost and autographed collectibles from the SAG Awards™ nominated casts of Boston Legal, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Everybody Loves Raymond, Good Night, And Good Luck, My Name Is Earl, Six Feet Under, The Closer and The West Wing have been added to the eBay auctions to benefit the Screen Actors Guild Foundation at
sagawards.org/auction! Bidding on these and more rare items opens today and ends next Thursday, February 2.The Screen Actors Guild Awards online benefit auctions have now kicked into high gear! The weekly auctions traditionally feature SAG Awards luxury gift collections, one-of-a-kind autographed show memorabilia and red-carpet bleacher seats for the ceremonies. The proceeds from these auctions benefit two great causes: the SAG Foundation and BookPALS.
The Screen Actors Guild Foundation provides a meaningful way for SAG members to contribute to the literacy of children in their communities through
BookPALS (Performing Artists for Literacy in Schools) and its online component, Storyline. The SAG Foundation programs provide emergency relief to actors in economic distress, video and audio preservation of the creative legacy of industry members, scholarships for performers and their children and emergency funds for members with catastrophic illnesses.The SAG Awards Celebrity Gift and Memorabilia auctions began Thursday, January 5, with the SAG Awards Nominee Gift Collection (presented to the actors nominated for this year's SAG Awards in the individual and ensemble categories) and red carpet bleacher seats at this year's SAG Awards.
The eBay bidding will culminate today, January 26 and run through February 2nd with the Presenter and Talent Retreat Gift Collections. These luxury gifts and services are given as a thank you to the presenters at the 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®. Among them are resort getaways to the Adara Hotel in Whistler, B.C.; South Carolina's Inn at Palmetto Bluff and the Salish Lodge & Spa in Washington State. Also available is jewelry from AireHart by Sidney, Berchet, Tateossian and the Natural Color Diamond Association; a Swarovski crystal-coated electronic sudoku from Techno Source; an IOGEAR Bluetooth Wireless Headset; timepieces from Youngblood and EnterTrainer; menswear from Ike Behar; Fendi scarves; White + Warren sweaters; eyewear by Michael Kors; fragrances from Amouvage and 06130; gourmet dining and confections from davidburke & donatella, Debauve et Gallais and Sing Praises; a keepsake box from the Silver Gallery; and for the presenters' families, a children's teepee from Jen Klair Kids and a pet bed from Le Pettee Settee. You can go to
sagawards.org/auction to place your bid on these fantastics items today!The Talent Retreat Collection features the getaways and gifts that celebrities will personally select in the SAG Awards uniquely furnished backstage talent oasis. Karen Wood's
Backstage Creations has obtained sponsor participation for the SAG Awards Gift Collections for the fifth year in a row and is creating the Talent Retreat for the sixth consecutive year.The 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® will be simulcast live nationally from the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center by TNT and TBS this Sunday, January 29, at 8 p.m. ET/ PT, 7 p.m. CT and 6 p.m. MT.
CINEMA AUDIO SOCIETY AWARDS
- final five nominees announced. The CAS awards will be presented 2/25/06.DIRECTORS GUILD AWARDS
- Meet the Nominees: Commercials.Luke Wilson
joins his brother, Owen Wilson, in the Oscar presenter line up. Jennifer Aniston will also be making her first Oscar appearance as a presenter.The official Academy red carpet arrivals show preceding the annual Academy Award® telecast will be expanded this year to a full hour, starting at 4:00 p.m. PST, 7:00 p.m. EST, according to Academy President Sid Ganis.
"We're starting the Oscar telecast this year straight up at 5:00 p.m. on the west coast," Ganis said, "and that gives us an opportunity to expand the pre-show to an hour. Right now we're in the design phase, with Dennis Doty producing."
Doty produced the first official pre-show in 1999 and has produced three additional shows, in 2001, 2003 and 2005.
"We want to make it different from the half-hour shows we've had over the past seven years," Ganis said, "but we won't lose sight of the fact that people want to see the glitz and glamour - they want to see fashions on the red carpet!
"But an hour also will give us time to acquaint our viewers with some of the films and nominees they may not know so well. There will be terrific little stories to tell here, and we'll use this extra time to tell them."
Doty agreed. "The show has evolved to a full hour and this gives us the opportunity to do it bigger and better," he said. "The heart of this show is all about the stars, the fashion, the emotions and the films. That's the core of the story we are there to cover. This hour format will give us the ability to provide a greater insight and feeling about the motion pictures and the stars and the filmmakers who have made this all possible."
"It's our show," Ganis added. "We can go where we want to go ... take the cameras into places other lead-up shows don't go."
"Absolutely right!" Doty said. "Our audience will have the best seat in the stands and the best place on the red carpet to experience all of it. And we'll bring in some exciting new elements this year that will give the audience of the official Oscar pre-show an exclusive up-close-and-personal look at all of the excitement of the Oscars®."
The Oscar telecast was moved up half-an-hour so that it would start on the hour, the start time most familiar to viewers. "That will make it easier for viewers to find the show, get tuned in and get settled so they'll be more likely to stick with it," Ganis said. "It also has the additional attraction of guaranteeing that the Oscar telecast will end before midnight on the east coast.
"This change has significant advantages on both ends for us and our viewers."
No word yet on who will host the official pre-show - we'll let you know!
Actor Christopher Penn, Sean Penn's younger brother, was found dead in a Los Angeles condominium yesterday. During his long career,
Penn appeared in over 70 movies and television programs. His latest movie was Finn Taylor's The Darwin Awards, which debuts at this year's Sundance Film Festival. He played Kevin Bacon's best friend and Sarah Jessica Parker's boyfriend in Footloose and was most recently seen in the remake of Starsky and Hutch with Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller. No cause of death was immediately determined but there were no signs of foul play, according to police sources. Penn was only 40 years old.ACADEMY AWARDS - Visual Effects Bake Off.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on 12/16/05 the seven films in consideration for Achievement in Visual Effects for the 78th Academy Awards: Batman Begins, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, King Kong, Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith and War of the Worlds. Fifteen-minute clips from each film will be screened for the nominating committee tonight, then members will vote to nominate three of the seven films for Oscar consideration. All Academy Award nominations will be announced Tuesday, January 31, 2006.DIRECTORS GUILD AWARDS
- Meet the Nominees: Movies for Television, Los Angeles. Directors Guild of America President Michael Apted announced the DGA nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television for the year 2005 on January 9, 2006. The winner will be announced at the 58th Annual DGA Awards Dinner on Saturday, January 28, 2006 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. The nominees in this category are: Darnell Martin for Their Eyes Were Watching God, James Sadwith for Elvis, Joseph Sargent for Warm Springs, Fred Schepisi for Empire Falls, and George C. Wolfe for Lackawanna Blues.VES AWARDS - online voting opens (through 2/10/06). Visit the
Visual Effects Society website for details. The 4th Annual VES Awards will be presented 2/15/06 in Hollywood.Carl Reiner will return to host the 58th Annual Directors Guild of America Awards, DGA President Michael Apted announced today. This will be the twentieth time Reiner has hosted the DGA Awards, which take place on Saturday,
January 28 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles. Apted also announced the slate of presenters for the DGA Awards: Peter Bergman, Eric Braeden, Patricia Clarkson, Matt Dillon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Patricia Heaton, Cheryl Hines, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ron Howard, Angelica Huston, Catherine Keener, Heath Ledger, John Leguizamo, S. Epatha Merkerson, Thandie Newton, Jaime Pressly, Randy Quaid, Emmy Rossum, Geoffrey Rush, David Strathairn and Ziyi Zhang.MPSE GOLDEN REEL AWARDS
- according to the MPSE calendar, nominees would be published at or by 9:00 a.m. January 24. Fortunately, this group is ahead of their game and the noms were posted on the org's website by 9:00 pm. January 23. Visit MPSE to check out all the nominees. The Motion Picture Sound Editors will present their awards on March 4, 2006.ACADEMY AWARDS Sound Editing Bake Off
- Seven films made the Oscar short list for Best Achievement in Sound Editing for the 78th Academy Awards: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, King Kong, Memoirs of a Geisha, Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith, Walk the Line and War of the Worlds. Ten-minute clips from each film will be screened for the nominating committee tonight, then members will vote to nominate three of the seven films for Oscar® consideration. All nominations for the 78th Academy Awards will be announced Tuesday, January 31, 2006.AMPAS announced this morning that Owen Wilson, star of Wedding Crashers and the upcoming Cars, has been invited to present at the 78th Annual Academy Awards. He joins Jessica Alba and last year's Best Actress Hilary Swank, Best Actor Jamie Foxx, and Best Supporting Actor Morgan Freeman, as well as host Jon Stewart, on the Oscar stage. Additional celebrity presenters will be added here and on our
March 2006 calendar as they are announced.Oscar Statuettes for the 78th Academy Awards® to be Displayed in Hollywood February 10 - March 3, 2006.
Prior to being placed in the excited hands of Oscar winners at the 78th Academy Awards, this year's crop of coveted Oscar statuettes will be showcased in a public display at the Hollywood & Highland Center® beginning on Friday, February 10.
The exhibition, "Meet the Oscars: The 50 Golden Statuettes," will be free and open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and noon to 8 p.m. Sunday through Thursday on the third level of Hollywood & Highland.
Featuring 50 statuettes as well as other Academy Award-related displays, guests will have the opportunity to hold an Oscar as well as visit a gallery of photographs featuring winners from previous ceremonies. This year's limited edition, vintage commemorative posters, "Black Tuxedo," and "White Gloves," also will be available for purchase.
After the close of the exhibition on March 3, the Oscars, under heavy security, will march down the red carpet on Hollywood Boulevard to the Kodak Theatre where they will be handed out during the Awards Presentation on Sunday, March 5.
The Academy will not know how many statuettes will be awarded until the envelopes are opened on Oscar Night® because there can be ties as well as variable numbers of winners in some categories.
Weighing in at eight-and-a-half pounds, each statuette is thirteen-and-a-half inches tall and is made of gold-plated britannium, a metal alloy. The statuettes, a new crop handmade each year by R.S. Owens and Company in Chicago, will arrive in Los Angeles on Thursday, February 2, on "Oscar 1," the special United Airlines "Flight of the Oscars."
"Meet the Oscars," will be presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in cooperation with Hollywood & Highland Center, home of the Kodak Theatre. For more information about the exhibition, call 310-247-3600.
Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements for 2005 will be presented on March 5, 2006, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center, and televised live by the ABC Television Network beginning at 5 p.m. PST.
GLAAD MEDIA AWARDS - nominations announced. GLAAD Awards ceremonies will be held 3/27/06 in New York, 4/8/06 in Los Angeles, 5/25/06 in Miami, and 6/10/06 in San Francisco.
