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'Hurt Locker's Nicolas Chartier Will Have Private Oscar Party Thrown In His Honor

By MIKE FLEMING | Category: Awards | Tuesday March 2, 2010 @ 8:47pm PST

Osc2EXCLUSIVE: Just because he's been banished from Sunday's Academy Awards doesn't mean Hurt Locker producer Nicolas Chartier won't have any place to watch. Instead. I've learned he'll be with a crowd of people who'll make him feel like a winner. The Voltage Pictures chief and his family will be the guests of honor at a viewing party that is being put together by WME Global chief Graham Taylor and Blue Valentine producer Lynnette Howell, who is Graham's wife. Taylor wasn’t involved with the film, but I understand he hated the prospect of an indie filmmaker getting ostracized for being overly enthusiastic about his film.

At a recent lunch, Taylor promised Chartier to provide the fallback plan should the Academy take back Chartier’s 5 Oscar tickets, one of whose recipients were to include the producer's mother whom he had flown in from France for the big night. Once today's Academy announcement came down barring Chartier, he e-mailed Taylor and the party was on.

Taylor and Howell will host the bash in their Venice home. They’ve hired a bartender, they're ordering French food, they're renting a red carpet for their entryway, and they’re putting together a guest list of 100 who’ll dress casually so Chartier will shine in his tux. Taylor is even looking for a beret for the dog.

It will be interesting to see if others rally around Chartier. Several Oscar vets have told me in recent weeks of others' lobbying transgressions that seemed worse than Chartier’s overheated memo. So perhaps he deserves ... Read More »

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Academy Bars 'Hurt Locker' Producer Nicolas Chartier From Oscars For "Violating Campaigning Standards"

By Nikki Finke | Category: Awards | Tuesday March 2, 2010 @ 5:15pm PST

Osc2Beverly Hills, CA — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that, should “The Hurt Locker” be announced as the recipient of the Best Picture award at Sunday’s ceremonies, only three of the picture’s producers will be present for the celebration. The fourth of the film’s credited producers, Nicolas Chartier, has been denied attendance at the 82nd Academy Awards® as a penalty for violating Academy campaigning standards.

Chartier had recently disseminated an email to certain Academy voters and other film industry figures in which he solicited votes for his own picture and disparaged one of the other contending films. Academy rules prohibit “casting a negative or derogatory light on a competing film.” The executive committee of the Academy’s Producers Branch, at a special session late Monday, ruled that the ethical lapse merited the revocation of Chartier’s invitation to the Awards.

The group stopped short of recommending that the Academy governors rescind Chartier’s nomination. If “The Hurt Locker” were to be selected as Best Picture, Chartier would receive his Oscar® statuette at some point subsequent to the March 7 ceremonies.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2009 will be presented on Sunday, March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network beginning at 5 p.m. PT/ 8 p.m. ET. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.

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UPDATE: OSCAR SPOILERS, PART 4?

By MIKE FLEMING | Category: Actors, Awards | Tuesday March 2, 2010 @ 10:29am PST

Osc2UPDATE: Neil Patrick Harris tweets, “I will not be performing a duet with Martin Short to open the Oscars. Misinformation, I’m afraid. Should I maybe pull a Kanye, mid-show?”

EXCLUSIVE: Stop reading if you want to be surprised, but I know how the Oscarcast will get underway Sunday night. (That is, if Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman don't change their minds because of this spoiler.)  The first 2 men on stage won’t be hosts Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin. Instead, the show will open with a silhouette of a pair of guys only … wait for it ... they're Neil Patrick Harris and Martin Short. Anything can change, but that unlikely duo has been rehearsing an original opening song and dance routine that is one of 2 big production numbers choreographed by executive producer Adam Shankman. (The other involves extreme street dancers who’ve performed on So You Think You Can Dance where Shankman is a judge and who’ll hoof to samplings from the Best Original Score nominees.) Though Harris is predominantly a TV star, he's an awards show regular. Short also is a TV regular these days, but he has a long relationship with the broadcast’s musical director Marc Shaiman, who put together the opening number. In fact, Shaiman/Short collaborations go back to Saturday Night Live, and include The Martin Short Show and the one-man stage show Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. I heard the producers had approached Robin Williams, but he declined.

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24th Annual Cinematographers Awards

By Nikki Finke | Category: Awards, Guilds | Saturday February 27, 2010 @ 11:12pm PST

ASCLOS ANGELES, February 27, 2010--Christian Berger, AAC, Alar Kivilo, ASC, CSC and Eagle Egilsson claimed top honors in the three competitive categories at the 24th Annual American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Outstanding Achievement Awards celebration here tonight at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel.

Berger won the feature film competition for The White Ribbon. Egilsson earned top accolades in the episodic category for Dark Blue ("Venice Kings"). Kivilo was the recipient of the television movie/miniseries award for Taking Chance.

Actor Timothy Dalton espoused some poetic insights about the diverse range of films that were nominated for top honors in the feature film category when presenting the award to Berger. "Movies are amazing," he said. "You walk into a darkened theater and are swept up in a story steeped in fact or built on fantasy and everything in-between. You can fall in love with characters or the story can break your heart."

The other nominees in the feature film category were Barry Ackroyd, BSC for The Hurt Locker, Dion Beebe, ASC, ACS for Nine, Mauro Fiore, ASC for Avatar and Robert Richardson, ASC for Inglourious Basterds.

Amanda Righetti, who plays a featured role in The Mentalist, also commented on the diversity of the films nominated for the cinematography award in the episodic television category during her presentation to Egilsson. "The stories range from undercover cops in Los Angeles to forensic specialists in Las Vegas, a New Yorker struggling to be fashionable to a would-be super

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41st NAACP Image Award Winners

By Nikki Finke | Category: Actors, Awards, Books | Friday February 26, 2010 @ 10:05pm PST

Anika Noni Rose and Hill Harper hosted the 41ST NAACP IMAGE AWARDS, which was broadcast live from Los Angeles’ historic Shrine Auditorium tonight on FOX. The star-studded event was executive-produced by Vicangelo Bulluck. Celebrated were the accomplishments of people of color working in the fields of literature, music, television and film. Special honors were presented to Tyler Perry who received the NAACP Chairman’s Award, Wyclef Jean who received the NAACP Vanguard Award, Clarence Avant who was inducted into the NAACP Hall of Fame, and Van Jones who received the NAACP President’s Award.

The 41ST NAACP IMAGE AWARDS winners are:

Outstanding Comedy Series
§ “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne” (TBS)

Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series
§ Daryl “Chill” Mitchell – “Brothers” (FOX)

Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series
§ Cassi Davis – “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne” (TBS)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
§ Lance Gross – “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne” (TBS)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
§ Keshia Knight Pulliam – “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne” (TBS)

Outstanding Drama Series
§ “Lincoln Heights” (ABC Family)

Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series
§ Hill Harper – “CSI: NY” (CBS)

Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series
§ Jada Pinkett Smith – “HawthoRNe” (TNT)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
§ Delroy Lindo – “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” (NBC)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
§ S. Epatha Merkerson – “Law & Order” (NBC)

Outstanding Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special
§ “Gifted Hands” (TNT)

Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special
§ Cuba Gooding Jr. – “Gifted Hands” (TNT)

Outstanding Actress in a Television

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Our Man In London Reviews BAFTA Awards

By TIM ADLER | Category: Awards, Foreign | Sunday February 21, 2010 @ 7:05pm PST

From Deadline|London editor Tim Adler: No matter how banal you imagine the Red Carpet presenters at an award ceremony are going to be, it’s never quite banal enough. Here in Britain, we had a former member of a boy band doing the interviewing live on TV. Like the Oscars which the UK film awards are supposed to portend, the BAFTAs have become half-awards ceremony, half-awards show. The screaming from behind the crush barriers has ratcheted up a notch because HRH Prince William, the newly appointed president of BAFTA has arrived. Inside the venerable Royal Opera House, HRH segues first on stage and gets into the spirit of the show, quipping that he’d been told to keep his speech short unless he wants Mickey Rourke wrestling him off it. Jonathan Ross, the bad boy of British TV, is our rather unfunny host. But instead of focusing on Ross, the broadcast keeps cutting to Robert Pattinson in a play for all those Twihard viewers.

Ross begins his lame patter – “Watching The Hangover made me wonder if anybody’s ever woken up with a tiger in their room – apart from half the cocktail waitresses in Las Vegas, that is” – and then starts having to explain his punchlines. Always a bad sign. James Corden, a British TV comedy actor, gets a big laugh when he says that it may be the BAFTA awards but “backstage it looks like the MILF awards. That Kate Winslet, she’s got to be a front runner”.

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Kathryn Bigelow On Winning Top BAFTAS

By TIM ADLER | Category: Awards, Directors, Foreign | Sunday February 21, 2010 @ 3:59pm PST
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BAFTA Awards: 'The Hurt Locker' Wins Best Picture; Bigelow Wins Best Director

By TIM ADLER | Category: Awards, Foreign | Sunday February 21, 2010 @ 12:19pm PST

baftalogoFrom Deadline|London editor Tim Adler: The 2010 Orange British Academy Film Awards were announced at the Royal Opera House. Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker blasted James Cameron's 3D technopic out of the BAFTAs by winning 6 awards including Best Film and Best Director, while Avatar had to make do with 2 technical awards. Leading Actor categories both stayed close to home, with Carey Mulligan winning for An Education, and Colin Firth for A Single Man.

Ever since the BAFTAs were moved up in 2000 to take place while Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences members are still voting for the Oscars, these awards have seen as a preview of the Avademy Award winners especially in the actor category. The BAFTAs kicked off with the announcement that Prince William will suceed Lord Attenborough as the British Academy's new president, its 5th. The BAFTAs also honored Vanessa Redgrave with the Academy Fellowship and paid a tribute to outgoing Academy president Richard Attenborough.

Winners as they're announced:

BEST FILM
THE HURT LOCKER (Summit Entertainment) -- Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Greg Shapiro THE HURT LOCKER (Summit Entertainment) -- Kathryn Bigelow

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DIRECTOR

LEADING ACTOR
COLIN FIRTH A Single Man (The Weinstein Company)

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LEADING ACTRESS
CAREY MULLIGAN An Education (Sony Pictures Classics)

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SUPPORTING ACTOR
CHRISTOPH WALTZ -- Inglourious Basterds (The Weinstein Company)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
MO’NIQUE -- Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (Lionsgate)

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
THE HURT LOCKER (Summit Entertainment) -- Mark Boal

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ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
UP IN THE AIR (Paramount) -- Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
FISH TANK (IFC Films) -- Kees Kasander, Nick Laws, Andrea Arnold

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
DUNCAN JONES Director -- Moon
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Oh, Those Wicked And Whiny Writers

By Nikki Finke | Category: Awards | Sunday February 21, 2010 @ 12:04pm PST

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WGAW And WGAE 2010 Award Winners
-- WGA East opened their awards show pretending it was the "end" of last year's ceremony, focusing on two horn players from Conan O'Brien's band. The duo talked about moving to Los Angeles for The Tonight Show and how great NBC was treating them. Then they came out, heads hung in defeat, and took their place with the house band playing the WGAE gig.
-- Host Susie Essman asked the audience to come up with a name for the award. Someone in the audience called it "a flying vajajay," and she agreed that it indeed looks like a vagina. So "every winner goes home with some pussy," she joked.
-- Essman got off a zinger about James Cameron's Avatar "managing to be 3-dimensional and one-dimensional at the same time."
-- When The Hunter Award for Lifetime Achievement in Writing went to Alan Zweibel, Seth Meyers said one of the two good things about the writers strike was having Zweibel tell stories from the early days of SNL. "The other being all that Internet money." Which got a big laugh.
-- Host Family Guy's Seth MacFarlane opened the WGAW awards show noting that "acceptance speeches won't be long since writers have only themselves to thank.
-- He sang a song with lyrics that included: "Without writers we got trouble, That starts with T, which rhymes with C, and that stands for crap!"
-- Because all 5 animation nominees were from The Simpsons this year, McFarlane said he told ... Read More »

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WGAW And WGAE 2010 Award Winners

By Nikki Finke | Category: Awards | Saturday February 20, 2010 @ 7:24pm PST

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Tonight's embargo was broken, so here goes:

New York and Los Angeles – The Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) and the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) tonight announced the winners of the 2010 Writers Guild Awards for outstanding achievement in writing for screen, television, radio, news, promotional, and videogame writing at simultaneous ceremonies at the Hudson Theatre at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York City and the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles. Susie Essman of Curb Your Enthusiasm hosted the East Coast show, which was executive produced by Craig Shemin, who was also the head writer. Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy) hosted the West Coast show, which was executive produced by Spike Jones, Jr.

The Writers Guild of America, East presented special honors to: Alan Zweibel - Ian McLellan Hunter Lifetime Achievement Award; Gary David Goldberg – Herb Sargent Award for Comedy Excellence; Edward Albee – Evelyn F. Burkey Award for contributions bringing honor and dignity to writers everywhere; David Steven Cohen - Jablow Award for devoted service to the Guild, and Philippa Leverman - John Merriman Award for Study of Broadcast Journalism at American University. In addition, the Writers Guild of America, East Foundation presented the Michael Collyer Memorial Fellowship in Screenwriting to Antal Zambo of Wayne State University.

The Writers Guild of America, West presented special honors to: Larry David – Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television for lifetime achievement; Barry Levinson – Screen Laurel Award for lifetime

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OSCAR SPOILERS, Part 3: Oscar Producers May Play "Six Degrees Of Meryl Streep"

By NIKKI FINKE AND MIKE FLEMING | Category: Actors, Awards, Breaking News | Friday February 19, 2010 @ 9:43am PST

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UPDATE: The producers are even warmer to this idea than we previously thought, thinking this would give "added resonance" if the presenter actually had a personal/professional connection to the nominee. And no, no one would “announce” the connection: the fun supposedly would be letting the viewers connect the dots for themselves.

EXCLUSIVE: Among the ideas that the producers of the Oscarcast are tossing around is a unique variation on last year's innovation when elite cliques of past actor category winners of all ages showed up to announce the winners. I’m told that this time around exec producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic are leaning towards keeping the multiple presenters concept. But, instead of bringing onstage talent who in most cases didn't personally know last year's nominees, the producers are seeking multiple presenters who have a direct connection to each of this year's actor nominees. In other words, it's the Oscar version of the popular trivia game, "Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon".

No doubt this opens the opportunity to pack the stage with even more starpower, which is the oscarcast's top priority this year. With tenured talent like Jeff Bridges, George Clooney, Colin Firth, Morgan Freeman, Sandra Bullock, Helen Mirren, and Meryl Streep in the Best Actor/Actress mix this year, the roster of presenters would consist of a Hollywood “Who’s Who.” Take just Meryl Streep, for instance; the pool of her many co-stars includes Robert De Niro (Deer Hunter, Falling In Love, Marvin's Room) Leonardo DiCaprio (Marvin's Room), Jack Nicholson ... Read More »

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GLAAD To Honor Wanda And Drew

By Nikki Finke | Category: Actors, Awards, Gays | Thursday February 18, 2010 @ 1:40am PST

GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) announced that Drew Barrymore will receive the Vanguard Award, and Wanda Sykes will receive the Stephen F. Kolzak Award, at the 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles on April 17th.

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Cameron: Give Best Picture To My Team - But Give Best Director To Kathryn Because "I Don't Really Need Another One"

By Nikki Finke | Category: Awards, Directors | Wednesday February 17, 2010 @ 6:32pm PST

In a new interview with Charlie Rose, Jim Cameron said he wants Avatar to win Best Picture for his team and Academy voters to give Best Director to Kathryn Bigelow, his ex-wife and helmer of The Hurt Locker. I can't tell if this brazen campaigning hurts or helps his Oscar chances:

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Group Photograph of 2009 Oscar Nominees

By Nikki Finke | Category: Awards | Wednesday February 17, 2010 @ 12:23pm PST

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More than 120 Academy Award nominees gathered at the Beverly Hilton Hotel when the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences honored this year’s crop of contenders at its annual luncheon. Look at the image of Jon Landau: he wasn't there but someone held up his picture... For close-ups, Read More »

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Oscar Spoilers Part 2: John Hughes Tribute

By Nikki Finke | Category: Awards, Directors | Wednesday February 17, 2010 @ 9:52am PST

UPDATES Oscar Spoilers, Part 1

john-hughesThe death of John Hughes last year touched Hollywood in a way that only a very small number of talent can. In addition, Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Tom Sherak and Oscarcast producer Bill Mechanic both worked with Hughes. As did this year's hosts Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin. So there was no way because of these personal connections they'd relegate him to just a brief clip within the usual montage of people who've passed. (Not that the other dead people didn't deserve their own tributes, too.) Instead, the Oscars are planning a separate and special tribute to the writer-director-producer, complete with film and cast members. Steve Martin, of course, did the classic Planes Trains & Automobiles with Hughes, while Baldwin made the less well received She's Having A Baby. But I'm surprised that Alec has such fond memories. Years ago I did an interview with Baldwin, and he railed against Hughes for cutting most of his storyline from that pic. But time heals all wounds, I guess.

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Oscarcast Set Revealed By David Rockwell

By Nikki Finke | Category: Awards | Wednesday February 17, 2010 @ 9:38am PST

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Oscar 2010 Tight Shot Stage

Beverly Hills, CA — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and 82nd Academy Awards® production designer David Rockwell unveiled the set for the upcoming Oscar show today. This marks the 2nd consecutive year that Rockwell has designed the set for the Oscar telecast. Rockwell said all the producers had been "dreaming up sets that embrace all the reasons we love movies: the glamour, the lights, the colors, the technique and the emotion!” Light and movement, the most basic components of moviemaking, will be integrated into this year’s sets to create an immersive, transformative environment.

Rockwell Group has reprised one of the most dazzling elements of the 81st Academy Awards design – the Swarovski Crystal Curtain – but with new and unexpected features for an even greater theatrical effect. The overall design is intended to evoke a classic but modern glamour, with white, platinum, topaz and smoky bronze hues. This year’s set also features three circular, revolving platforms that work in combination with rotating LED panels and architectural metalwork screens for film projection. Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2009 will be presented on March 7 at the Kodak Theatre.

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Oscar Spoilers: Best Original Song Artists Not Performing; But Contestants Invited From 'So You Think You Can Dance?'

By MIKE FLEMING | Category: Awards | Tuesday February 16, 2010 @ 9:02am PST

Osc2EXCLUSIVE: Oscarcast executive producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic have dropped a bombshell, telling artists nominated for Best Original Song that they won’t be invited to perform the usual big production number. The decision has hit a sour note for the nominated performers. Instead of the Academy Awards' long-held tradition of staged musical performances of the five nominated songs, the music from those songs will be interspersed with footage from each movie to provide more context. I’m told that some of the nominees and filmmakers are outraged, feeling that the Oscar producers are tossing aside tradition and costing musical artists their well-deserved moment of global TV glory. What the Academy Awards telecast producers will certainly do is shave time that can be spent doting on twice as many Best Picture nominees as in years past. And this year in particular, that is a big priority. Never mind that the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences already decided this year to limit the number of Original Song nominees to speed up the Oscar broadcast. 
Mechanic's and Shankman's more recent decision appears equally pragmatic. Explanations include that the songs never delivered ratings, and that is what this Oscarcast is all about. That not having the big production numbers will move the show along. That it will save money for distributors, who eat most of the costs (up to 7 figures) of schlepping singers in. That unless a song by Bruce Springsteen, Celine Dion, Sting or U2 were nominated, most of the worldwide audience is hearing the tune for the ... Read More »

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'Hurt Locker' & 'Hangover' Win Ace Awards

By Nikki Finke | Category: Awards | Sunday February 14, 2010 @ 9:51pm PST

Here are the winners for the American Cinema Editors' 60th Annual ACE Eddie Awards announced Monday evening. They were announced tonight in a ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. This is funny -- these folks are so good at editing that the night ended much earlier than scheduled!

BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (DRAMATIC):
The Hurt Locker
Bob Murawski & Chris Innis

BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (COMEDY OR MUSICAL):
The Hangover
Debra Neil-Fisher, A.C.E.

BEST EDITED ANIMATED FEATURE FILM:
UP
Kevin Nolting

BEST EDITED HALF-HOUR SERIES FOR TELEVISION:
30 Rock: "Apollo Apollo"
Ken Eluto, A.C.E.

BEST EDITED ONE-HOUR SERIES FOR COMMERCIAL TELEVISION:
Breaking Bad: "ABQ"
Lynne Willingham, A.C.E.

BEST EDITED ONE-HOUR SERIES FOR NON-COMMERCIAL TELEVISION:
Dexter: "Remains to be Seen"
Louis Cioffi

BEST EDITED MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE FOR TELEVISION:
Grey Gardens
Alan Heim, A.C.E. & Lee Percy, A.C.E.

BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY:
The Cove
Geoffrey Richman

BEST EDITED REALITY SERIES:
The Deadliest Catch: "Stay Focused Ordie"
Kelly Coskran & Josh Earl

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What Production Designers Really Think...

By Nikki Finke | Category: Awards, Guilds | Sunday February 14, 2010 @ 2:14am PST

At the start of the Art Directors Guild awards last night, this short film by Cindy Peters titled The Case of the Bad Production Designer debuted:

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'Hurt Locker', 'Avatar', 'Sherlock Holmes' Win 14th Annual Art Director Awards

By Nikki Finke | Category: Awards, Guilds | Sunday February 14, 2010 @ 1:16am PST

BEVERLY HILLS, February 13 —The Art Directors Guild (ADG) tonight announced winners of its 14th Annual Excellence in 2009 Production Design Awards in nine categories of film, television, commercials and music videos during black-tie ceremonies at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. ADG Chairman Thomas A. Walsh presided over the awards ceremony with Paula Poundstone serving as host. Honorary awards were presented to Production Designer Terence Marsh for Lifetime Achievement and to iconic filmmaker Warren Beatty for Outstanding Contribution to Cinematic Imagery. Production Designer Michael Baugh also received a Creative Leadership Award.

During its ceremony tonight ADG inducted three additional legendary Production Designers into its Hall of Fame, bringing the roster to 30. The new inductees were Malcolm F. Brown, Bob Keene and Ferdinando Scarfiotti.

ADG awards recognition always goes to the Production Designer, Art Director and Assistant Art Director of each nominated and winning project.

WINNERS FOR EXCELLENCE IN PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR A FEATURE FILM IN 2009:
Period Film
“Sherlock Holmes” Production Designer: Sarah Greenwood

Fantasy Film
“Avatar” Production Designer: Rick Carter
Robert Stromberg

Contemporary Film
“The Hurt Locker” Production Designer: Karl Juliusson

WINNERS FOR EXCELLENCE IN PRODUCTION DESIGN IN TELEVISION FOR 2009:
Single-Camera Television Series
“Mad Men”

Episode: Souvenir Production Designer: Dan Bishop
Television Movie or Mini-Series
“Grey Gardens” Production Designer: Kalina Ivanov

Episode of a Half Hour Single-Camera Television Series
“Weeds”
Episode: Ducks and Tigers Production Designer: Joseph P. Lucky

Episode of a Multi-Camera, Variety or Unscripted Series
“Hell’s Kitchen”
Episode: 604 Production Designer: John Janavs

Awards, Music or Game Shows
51st Annual Grammy Awards Production Designer: Brian Stonestreet
Steve Bass

WINNER FOR EXCELLENCE IN PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR COMMERCIALS AND MUSIC VIDEOS ... Read More »

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