2005 AWARD'S SCHEDULE

(Alphabetical by Organization, and ongoing . . .)

THE AWARDS ARE ALL IN FOR 2005!

ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES (AMPAS®) ("Oscars"®)

Sunday, February 27, 2005 - WINNERS ANNOUNCED for the Seventy-Seventh Annual Academy Awards®! The awards were broadcast live from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood (ABC, 5:00 p.m., PST), with Chris Rock as host.

For full list of nominees and the winners, go to the Official Academy Site. To see Mimi's hits and misses concerning winners, see Mimi at the Movies.

February 2 - Final ballots for the 77th Academy Awards for outstanding achievements in film, 2004, were mailed to the 5,808 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Listed on the ballots were the nominees in 19 Oscar® categories. Completed ballots were required to be in the hands of PricewaterhouseCoopers by 5 p.m., Tuesday, February 22. Any ballot received after that deadline was ineligible. More >> blog, <http://www.oscars.com/>, and <http://www.oscars.org/77academyawards/index.html>

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BRITISH ACADEMY of FILM and TELEVISION ARTS (BAFTA) (ORANGE AWARDS)

Saturday, February 12, 2005 - WINNERS ANNOUNCED <http://www.bafta.org/>

Best Film: The Aviator; Achievement in Directing: Mike Leigh, Vera Drake; Foreign-Language Film: The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de Motocicleta, USA / Germany / UK / Argentina / Chile / Peru); Lead Actor: Jamie Foxx (Ray); Lead Actress: Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake); Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett (The Aviator); Best Supporting Actor: Clive Owen (Closer); Best Original Screenplay: Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind); Best Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (Sideways); Film Music: Gustavo Santaolalla (The Motorcycle Diaries, Diarios de motocicleta); Outstanding British Film: My Summer of Love - - Pawel Pawliowski, Director; The Orange Film of the Year prize — decided by the public — Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban;

The BAFTA Orange Awards are considered another indicator of the way the Academy Awards may go. Members cannot vote for a film unless they are certified as having seen it.

Monday, January 17, 2005 - BAFTA nominations were announced. See Mimi's Nominations Page for short list.

Also, for all nominations see: <http://www.bafta.org/film/announce.htm>

"CRITICS' CHOICE AWARDS" - Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) Composed of 194 film critics from around the U.S.A.

Monday, January 10, 2005 - Ceremony at the Wiltern Theatre, LA. (The WB, 8 p.m. EST/PST) - WINNERS ANNOUNCED! Here's the short list with Sideways the big winner (for full list see link below):

Picture: Sideways.
Actor: Jamie Foxx, Ray.
Actress: Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby.
Supporting Actor: Thomas Haden Church, Sideways.
Supporting Actress: Virginia Madsen, Sideways.
Acting Ensemble: Sideways.
Director: Martin Scorsese, The Aviator.
Writer: Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Sideways.
Documentary Feature: Fahrenheit 9/11.
Foreign Language Film: The Sea Inside.

Full list of this year's nominees and winners: <http://www.bfca.org/criticschoiceawards.asp>

DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA (DGA)

Saturday, January 29, 2005 - WINNERS ANNOUNCED!

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2004 - Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby.

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary for 2004 -
Byambasuren Davva & Luigi Falorni, The Story of the Weeping Camel
(Die Geschichte vom weinenden Kamel).

Gilbert "Gil" Cates, director of the 77th Academy Awards (2005) received the DGA President's Award.

For television and other awards <http://www.dga.org/index2.php3>.

For information on the nominees, etc. [MORE INFO]

EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS - European Film Academy (EFA) Berlin, Germany

December 3, 2005 - WINNERS ANNOUNCED! Cache ("Hidden"), featuring videotapes, obsession and the pain of facing up to one's past, swept the 18th European Film Awards Saturday. Directed by Michael Haneke, the film won six awards, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor.

Many critics felt Cache, starring Daniel Auteuil as a TV presenter and Juliette Binoche as his wife, should have won the prestigious Palme d'Or it was nominated for at this year's Cannes Film Festival, but the prize eventually went to the Dardenne brothers' L'Enfant.

The EFA have yet to gain the prestige of high-profile European film festivals like Cannes, Venice and Berlin, but the awards are widely respected in the film industry and sometimes seen as Europe's equivalent to the Oscars®. Forty-seven films were judged by 1,600 European Film Academy (EFA) members representing a broad spectrum of the industry, but the highlight may have been Scottish actor Sean Connery, receiving a lifetime achievement award.

The Best Non-European film category was won by "Good Night, And Good Luck" directed by George Clooney, and Best Composer went to Rupert Gregson-Williams and Andrea Guerra for "Hotel Rwanda."

French composer Maurice Jarre received the European Achievement in World Cinema prize from the EFA. The father of French pop musician Jean-Michel Jarre wrote music for more than 170 films, amid them David Lean's epic sagas including "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Doctor Zhivago," and has won three Oscars® for his work.

[European Film Academy]

"GOLDEN GLOBES" - HOLLYWOOD FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION

Sunday, January 16, 2005 - 62nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (NBC, 8:00 p.m., EST) - WINNERS ANNOUNCED! Here's the short list for film: DRAMATIC FILMS: Picture - The Aviator. Actor - Leonardo DiCaprio, The Aviator. Actress- Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby.

MUSICAL OR COMEDY: Picture - Sideways. Actor - Jamie Foxx, Ray. Actress - Annette Bening, Being Julia.

OTHER: Foreign Language Film - The Sea Inside, Spain. Supporting Actor- Clive Owen, Closer. Supporting Actress - Natalie Portman, Closer. Director - Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby. Screenplay - Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Sideways. Original Score - Howard Shore, The Aviator. Original Song - "Old Habits Die Hard" from Alfie, by Mick Jagger and David A. Stewart.

Complete list of winners and nominees, including TV: <http://www.thegoldenglobes.com/>

"GOLDEN RASPBERRY AWARDS FOUNDATION" (RAZZIES)

(For the worst in various movie award categories.)

Saturday, February 26, 2005 - WINNERS ANNOUNCED! The Gala 25th Annual RAZZIE Awards (dishonors) were announced in ceremonies at The Ivar Theatre in Hollywood.

Halle’s Feline Fiasco Catwoman and President’s Fahrenheit Blunders Tie for 25th RAZZIE® Dis-Honors. This year's show was a 90-minute parody of award shows in general and the Academy Awards® in particular.

“WINS” per PICTURE:
Catwoman = 4 Worst Picture, Actress, Director & Screenplay
Fahrenheit 9/11 = 4 Worst Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress & Screen Couple.
Battlefield Earth, From Justin to Kelley, Gigli, Scooby Doo 2 = 1 Each

FULL LIST OF WINNERS, AND MORE

List of Nominations, and visit the official site for more laughs: [http://www.razzies.com/]

"GOYA AWARDS" (SPAIN)

XIX Premios Goya 2005

(The Goyas have been the main National Film Awards in Spain since 1987.)

30 January 2005 - WINNERS ANNOUNCED!

Mar adentro, THE SEA INSIDE, directed by Alejandro Amenábar, and a nominee in the Best Foreign Language category in the upcoming Academy Awards, swept the Goya Awards, winning in 14 categories. [UPDATE: The Sea Inside won the Best Foreign Language Oscar®, Sunday February 27, 2005.]

It was not only selected best picture of 2004 at the Goya Awards, but Alejandro Amenábar received the Golden Goya for directing, original screenplay, and original musical score. It won for art direction, makeup and sound. All three acting categories both male and female, or six awards, went to the film, including Javier Bardem in the leading male role.

For those of you who know your Spanish film, you will be pleased to know that an honorary Goya went to José Luis López Vázquez (Plácido and El Verdugo, both directed by Berlanga; Peppermint frappé, El jardín de las delicias, La prima Angélica, directed by Carlos Saura; and many, many more films, and directors. His Web site <http://jllv.galeon.com/biografia.html> (in Spanish).

For Nominations and and all winners: <http://www.goya.ws/> (in Spanish)

NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW OF MOTION PICTURES (NBRMP)

Their 2004 picks have already been named, but the Annual NBRMP Gala will be held Tuesday, January 11, 2005. See the full WINNERS LIST: <http://www.nbrmp.org/awards/past.cfm?year=2004>

Here's the Short List of Top Films:

Best Picture of 2004: Finding Neverland (U.S.A.).

Top Ten Films of 2004: Finding Neverland, The Aviator, Closer, Million Dollar Baby, Sideways, Kinsey, Vera Drake, Ray, Collateral, Hotel Rwanda.

Best Foreign-Language Film of 2004: The Sea Inside (Spain).

Top Foreign Films of 2004: The Sea Inside, Bad Education, Maria Full of Grace, The Chorus (Les Choristes), The Motorcycle Diaries. Hey, I've already told you that four of these will be in the Top Five Foreign Films for 2004. <http://www.nbrmp.org/>

PRODUCERS GUILD OF AMERICA (PGA)

Saturday, January 22, 2005 ~~ WINNERS ANNOUNCED!

Darryl F. Zanuck producer of the year award went to THE AVIATOR!

NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED:

THE AVIATOR, over FINDING NEVERLAND, THE INCREDIBLES, MILLION DOLLAR BABY, and SIDEWAYS, - - Darryl F. Zanuck producer of the year award, meaning best produced films of the year.

Hotel Rwanda and Innocent Voices - - The Stanley Kramer award, named for the producer who often tackled social issues, both of which these films do. The first is the real-life tale of an innkeeper sheltering refugees from genocide, and the second is a fictionalized version of one boy's experience during the Salvadoran civil war. [MORE AWARDS] <http://www.producersguild.org/>

SCREEN ACTORS GUILD (SAG)

Saturday, February 5, 2005 - WINNERS ANNOUNCED!

Male Actor in a Leading Role - Jamie Foxx / RAY; Female Actor in a Leading Role - Hilary Swank / MILLION DOLLAR BABY; Male Actor in a Supporting Role - Morgan Freeman / MILLION DOLLAR BABY; Female Actor in a Supporting Role; Cate Blanchett / THE AVIATOR; Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture (equivalent to Best Picture Oscar) - SIDEWAYS. For full list of winners, including TV: http://www.sagawards.org/PR_050205.htm

Main Page <http://www.sagawards.org/>

WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA (WGA)

Saturday, February 19, 2005 - WINNERS ANNOUNCED! <http://www.wga.org/>

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Sideways won the screenplay awards.

Eternal Sunshine (Charlie Kaufman), a quirky love story about two people trying to erase their memories of each other, won best original screenplay. Sideways (Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, based on the Rex Pickett novel), the road trip romp through Southern California's wine country that charmed critics and audiences alike, won best adapted screenplay.

Tony Kushner's "Angels in America" won long-form adapted writing for television for Kushner's HBO teleplay, which was based on his play. The long-form original writing award went to Peter Silverman and Robert Caswell for HBO's "Something the Lord Made."

It complicates handicapping the Academy Awards when a movie wins a WGA's screenplay award, and that movie is not nominated for Best Picture. Usually, a movie doesn't win an Oscar unless it wins for screenplay and/or director. This win for Sideways, and none for The Aviator, lessens the chances for The Aviator to win Best Picture.

Thursday, January 13, 2005 - SCREENPLAY NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED.

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAYS: John Logan - The Aviator; Charlie Kaufman - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Zach Braff - Garden State; Keir Pearson and Terry George - Hotel Rwanda; and Bill Condon - Kinsey.

ADAPTED SCREENPLAYS: Paul Haggis - Million Dollar Baby (F.X. Toole's collection Rope Burns); Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor - Sideways (Rex Pickett's novel); Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, and Ethan Hawke - Before Sunset (based on characters Linklater and Kim Krizan created for their film Before Sunrise); Tina Fey - Mean Girls (Rosalind Wiseman's book Queen Bees and Wannabes); and Jose Rivera for the Che Guevara road-trip adventure The Motorcycle Diaries (based on memoirs by Guevara and traveling companion Alberto Granado).

Finding Neverland is ineligible. Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, will compete in a separate documentary category, and the prize will be awarded in a separate guild ceremony. Moore's "Bowling for Columbine" won the guild's 2002 original screenplay honor. See links below for more.

Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - 57th Annual Writers Guild Awards - Television and Radio Nominees Announced. See http://www.wgaeast.org/awards/2004/12/15/tv_radio_nominees/

The Writers Guild of America, west has announced it will move the location of its upcoming 57th Annual Writers Guild Awards, Saturday, February 19, from the Century Plaza Hotel to the Palladium Hollywood, in support of local union hotel workers repped by Unite Here.

WGA East, <http://www.wgaeast.org/> WGA West, <http://www.wga.org/>

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