31 January

Oscar Nominees

The Oscar nominees have been announced. The full list is here. Some of the Leading movies: Brokeback Mountain 8 Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Writing, Cinematography, Score Good Night, and Good Luck 6 Picture, Director, Actor, Writing, Cinematography, Art Direction Crash 6 Picture, Director, Supporting Actor, Writing, Editing, Song Memoirs of a Geisha 6 Score, Cinematography, Editing, Sound Mixing, Art Direction, Costume Design Capote 5 Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Writing Walk the Line 5 Actor, Actress, Costume Design, Editing, Sound Mixing Munich 5 Picture, Director, Writing, Score, Editing The Constant Gardener 4 Supporting Actress, Writing, Score, Editing Pride & Prejudice 4 Actress, Score, Art Direction, Costume Design King Kong 4 Visual Effects, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Art Direction Cinderella Man 3 Supporting Actor, Editing, Makeup War of the Worlds 3 Visual Effects, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing North Country 2 Actress, Supporting Actress Mrs. Henderson Presents 2 Actress, Costume Design A History of Violence 2 Supporting Actor, Writing Syriana 2 Supporting Actor, Writing Transamerica 2 Actress, Song Hustle & Flow 2 Actor, Song

Razzie Nominees Announced

The Nominees for the 26th Annual Razzie Awards have been announced. Here are the "leading" movies: Son of the Mask (8), The Dukes of Hazzard (7), Dirty Love (6), Bewitched (5), Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (5), House of Wax (3). This contest, unfortunately, has become almost as silly as the movies it parodises.

Screen Actors Guild Awards

Some links on IMDB for yesterday's Screen Actors Guild Awards: List of Winners Photos - Arrivals Photos - Show and Press Photos - Backstage and Audience

25 January

Actor Chris Penn Dead at 40

Actor Chris Penn, younger brother of Sean Penn and star of such films as Reservoir Dogs and Mulholland Falls, was found dead Tuesday at a condominium in Santa Monica. He was 40. Penn also appeared in such movies as Rumble Fish, All the Right Moves, Footloose and Short Cuts.

17 January

Golden Globes

Some links on IMDB for yesterday's Golden Globes: List of Winners Photos - Arrivals Photos - Press Room Photos - After-Parties

15 January

Actress Shelley Winters Dies at 85

Actress Shelley Winters, died Saturday in Beverly Hills at age 85 of heart failure following hospitalization at the Rehabilitation Center in Beverly Hills after suffering a heart attack in October. Winters, one of only two women to win two Best Supporting Actress Oscars (the other one is Dianne Wiest), got the award for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch of Blue (1965). She was also nominated for A Place in the Sun (1951) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972) (whose remake will be released in 4 months, and for which Winters gained 35 pounds). She donated her first Oscar to the Anne Frank museum in Amsterdam. She also appeared in such movies as Lolita, Alfie, Harper, A House is Not a Home and Next Stop Greenwich Village.

1 January 2006 - Happy New Year

Golden Globes Predictions and Wish List

Category Nominees All 2005 Movies Who will Win? 1 DK's Wish List 2 Picture Drama Brokeback Mountain None None Musical/Comedy Walk the Line None None Actor Drama Philip Seymour Hoffman Philip Seymour Hoffman Philip Seymour Hoffman Actress Felicity Huffman Felicity Huffman None Actor Musical/Comedy Joaquin Phoenix None None Actress Reese Witherspoon None None Director Ang Lee None None 1 Based on OddsChecker, Best Betting, Bodog and Sportingbet Australia. 2 DK's wish list is currently based on 98 movies.

Tim Burton and Jim Carrey are Teaming up

According to the The Hollywood Reporter, Tim Burton and Jim Carrey are in early negotiations for Believe it or not! - an action-adventure loosely based on Robert Ripley. The movie will follow the exploits of Ripley, a sport cartoonist who ran out of ideas and turned to the world of the strange and unusual. Ripley became a larger-than-life personality in the '30s and '40s, well-known for going around the world looking for oddities and getting into adventures while doing so. The script, by writers Larry Karaszewski and Scott Alexander (Ed Wood, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Man on the Moon) picks up with Ripley already well-established and searching globally for oddities with his friends, each of whom has a special ability. The movie is currently scheduled for a late-2006 or an early-2007 release.