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The 34th Annual Saturn Award Nominations have been announced. This year, the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films has decided to present Tim Lucas, who authored the book Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark, with the Special Achievement Award, while director Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy II: The Golden Army) will get the George Pal Memorial Award. The 2008 nominees are: Best Science Fiction Film Cloverfield Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer I [Read more...]

The 58th annual Berlin Film Festival closed yesterday. Here is the list of all the winners: Golden Bear for Best Film Trope de Elite (The Elite Squad), directed by José Padilha Silver Bear Standard Operating Procedure, directed by Errol Morris Silver Bear for Best Director Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood Silver Bear - Best Actress Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky Silver Bear - Best Actor Reza Najie, Avaze Gonjeshk-ha Silver Bear - Outstanding Artistic [Read more...]

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has presented the annual BAFTA Awards. Here are this year's winners: BEST FILM Atonement BEST BRITISH FILM This Is England THE CARL FOREMAN AWARD for Special Achievement by a British Director, Writer or Producer for their First Feature Film Matt Greenhalgh (Writer) - Control DIRECTOR Joel Coen, Ethan Coen - No Country For Old Men ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Diablo Cody – Juno ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Ronald Harwood - The Diving Bell And [Read more...]

Ethan and Joel Coen won this year's Directors Guild of America award for their Oscar and Golden Globe nominated film No Country for Old Men. Their competition included Sean Penn (Into the Wild), Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton), Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood) and Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly). No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood are the leading contenders in the race for Best Picture this year, with eight Oscar nominations each. Here is the [Read more...]