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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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Avatar Won’t Win At Oscars: Cameron

February 2nd, 2010

Since the Oscar nominations were announced this morning, James Cameron weighed in on Avatar‘s chances, and when it comes to the two big awards he doesn’t think they’re very good.

Cameron thinks he won’t be given the award because of his “king of the world” speech when Titanic won, but says some people may be curious about what he’d do this time around. He says he’d be happy if Kathryn Bigelow won for The Hurt Locker, but would be angry if anyone else did.

To see exactly what he said, look below the cut.

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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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Cameron Loses to Bigelow at DGAs

January 31st, 2010

The Directors Guild of America presented their awards a few hours ago, and Kathryn Bigelow beat James Cameron for the top prize. Bigelow, who directed The Hurt Locker, is the first female director to win the award and was once married to Cameron.

The Hurt Locker is proving to be tough competition for Avatar, especially in the director category. Cameron also lost the director award to Bigelow at the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards.

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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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Avatar Takes Golden Globes’ Top Prize!

January 18th, 2010

The Golden Globe Awards took place earlier tonight, and the results for Avatar were the best we could imagine. Although it lost in the Best Score and Best Original Song categories, it won in those where it really counts.

James Cameron took home the award for Best Director (Motion Picture), and Avatar won the top award: Best Motion Picture (Drama). Cameron, Jon Landau, Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, and Sigourney Weaver all went up on stage to accept the Best Motion Picture award, where Cameron said that everyone there had the best job ever, and that they should applaud themselves. He ended by giving the true message of the movie in saying, “Avatar asks us to see that everything is connected. All human beings to each other, and us to the earth. And, y’know, if you have to go four and a half lightyears to another, made-up planet to appreciate this miracle of a world that we have right here, well y’know what: that’s the power of cinema right there. That’s the magic.”

It was a truly great night for Avatar, its cast, and the crew. Oscar speculation is already raging, and we’ll see if they get nominated when the list gets released on February 2nd.

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Worthington Named Golden Globe Presenter

January 2nd, 2010

Sam Worthington has been chosen as one of the presenters at this year’s Golden Globe Awards, although we don’t know which he’ll be presenting. Avatar is nominated for four awards at the event, which are listed below. The Golden Globe Awards will air on NBC on January 17th, 2010.

  • Best Motion Picture – Drama
  • Best Director – Motion Picture (James Cameron)
  • Best Original Score – Motion Picture (James Horner)
  • Best Original Song – Motion Picture (“I See You”)

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