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Results For Avatar After the Oscars!

March 10th, 2010

The 82nd Academy Awards took place on Sunday, and Avatar won three of the awards it was nominated for: Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, and Best Visual Effects. Unfortunately, it lost both of the biggest awards, Best Director and Best Picture, to its toughest award competitor The Hurt Locker.

Aside from the award presentations, there was some humour pushed into the show using Avatar. While presenting Best Makeup, Ben Stiller dressed as a Na’vi and spoke the language. To watch the video, look below the break.

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Avatar Awards Round-Up

March 2nd, 2010

A quick round-up of recent award news. Enjoy!

  • On February 23, the month-old International 3D Society honoured Avatar with three of its Lumiere Awards for Best Live-Action 3D Feature, Best 3D Character (Neytiri), and for marketing 3D content.
  • Avatar cleaned up at the Visual Effects Society Awards, where it lost only one of its seven nominations. It won the awards for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Feature Motion Picture, Best Single Visual Effect of the Year (Neytiri drinking), Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture (Neytiri), Outstanding Matte Paintings in a Feature Motion Picture (Pandora), Outstanding Models & Miniatures in a Feature Motion Picture, and Outstanding Created Environment in a Feature Motion Picture. It lost the award for Outstanding Compositing in a Feature Motion Picture to District 9.
  • Tied with Inglourious Basterds, Avatar received 5 nominations for this year’s Empire Awards, which are voted on by the readers of Empire magazine. The nominations include Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor, and Best Sci-fi/Fantasy.
  • Suzy Amis Cameron, the wife of James Cameron, held a contest to find a beautiful “green” dress to wear at the Oscars, and it seems she’s chosen the winner. Entries were submitted from all over the world, but the winner was Jillian Granz of Michigan State University. Granz will walk to red carpet with Amis and her husband when the host the Global Green Pre-Oscar party. The Academy Awards are this Sunday, March 7, 2010.

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Tied for Lead With 9 Oscar Nominations

February 2nd, 2010

The nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards were announced this morning, and Avatar lead the nominations with The Hurt Locker, each film receiving 9 nominations.

It did get the two top nominations, Best Picture and Best Director, as expected, but the competition is tough. It also got nominations for many of the technical awards, and for Original Song.

Many award season veterans believe Avatar will sweep the tech awards, but its wins for Best Picture and Director are uncertain. Kathryn Bigelow is the favourite for Best Director, but Best Picture seems to be between Avatar and The Hurt Locker.

Either way, it won’t top Titanic‘s Academy Awards performance, which got 14 nominations and 11 wins.

The full list of Avatar‘s nominations are below the cut.

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Golden Globe Wins Creating False Oscar Hope?

January 25th, 2010

Entertainment Weekly is suggesting that Avatar‘s Best Picture and Best Director wins at the Golden Globe Awards last weekend have created a false hope about its Oscar potential.

This weekend both the Screen Actors Guild and the Producers Guild of America held their awards ceremonies, and Avatar came away with nothing. It had no nominations from the SAG, but was nominated to be the PGA’s Best Picture, which was awarded to The Hurt Locker.

The voters for the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards are completely different groups, with none of the same people in either one. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which presents the Golden Globes, have about 100 journalists that vote on winners, while the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who award the Oscars, is made up of about 6000 industry professionals as their voters.

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Shortlist for Visual Effects Oscar Down to 7

January 6th, 2010

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that seven movies are still in the run for the Visual Effects award, and Avatar is among them. The other six are District 9, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Star Trek, Termination Salvation, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and 2012, although some media sources don’t believe they have a chance against Avatar.

The final three films will be chosen on January 21 when all members of the Academy’s Visual Effects branch will be invited to watch 15-clips of the 7 films above, and then to vote for their three nominees.

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