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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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Avatar Receives CDG Nomination

January 26th, 2010

The Costume Designers Guild has released the list of nominees for this year’s award ceremony, and despite the controversy over whether or not Avatar should receive certain nominations because of its using of CGI, it managed to get a nomination for Excellence in Fantasy Film.

The CDG Awards will be presented on February 25th in Los Angeles.

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Avatar Grabs 3 MPSE Nominations

January 23rd, 2010

Today the Motion Picture Sound Editors announced their nominees for their annual Golden Reel Awards. Avatar tied with Star Trek to have the most nominations, each film getting three.

The Golden Reels will be presented on February 20th in Los Angeles, CA. To see Avatar‘s three nominations, look below the cut.

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Nominated at ACE’s Eddie Awards

January 12th, 2010

The American Cinema Editors announced their nominations for this year’s Eddie Awards earlier today. Avatar and its editors (Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua, and James Cameron) are nominated in the Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic) category where they’re competing against the editors for District 9, The Hurt Locker, Star Trek, and Up in the Air.

ACE’s Eddie Awards will be presented on February 14th at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

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Feature Film Nomination from ASC

January 12th, 2010

The American Society of Cinematographers released their list of nominees in the feature film category today. Mauro Fiore was among them for his work on Avatar. He will be competing against Barry Ackroyd (The Hurt Locker), Dion Beebe (Nine), Christian Berger (The White Ribbon), and Robert Richardson (Inglorious Basterds).

The awards will be given out at the ASC Awards ceremony on February 27 in the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel.

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Nominated as WGA Original Screenplay

January 11th, 2010

Many critics haven’t been pleased with the subpar script in Avatar, but that didn’t stop the Writers Guild of America from nominating James Cameron for its original screenplay award. Cameron will be competing against Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber ((500) Days of Summer); John Lucas and Scott More (The Hangover); Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker); and Joel and Ethan Coen (A Serious Man).

The WGA’s original screenplay award is seen to predict who will win the Oscar in the corresponding category. The winners will be presented their honors on February 20th in untelevised ceremonies in New York and Los Angeles.

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11 Nominations on BAFTA Awards Longlist

January 9th, 2010

The British Academy of Film and Telvision Arts has released its Longlist of nominations for this year’s award ceremony. Avatar has been nominated in 11 categories on the Longlist: Best Film, Director, Original Screenplay, Make Up & Hair, Special Visual Effects, Sound, Editing, Costume Design, Production Design, Cinematography, and Music.

The Longlist includes 15 nominations per category, and these will be reduced to 5 nominations during the next round of voting. The final list of nominees will be announced on January 21st.

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Fantasy Film Nomination at ADG Awards

January 9th, 2010

The Art Director’s Guild has released their list of nominees for this year’s Excellence in Production Design Awards. Avatar has been nominated in the category of Fantasy Film and will be competing against District 9, Star Trek, Harry Potter & the Half-Blood Prince, and Where the Wild Things Are.

The winners will given their awards on February 13th at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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James Cameron Nominated for DGA Award

January 8th, 2010

The Director’s Guild of America have announced the five nominees for their main prize, and James Cameron is among them. His competition includes his ex-wife Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker), Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds), Lee Daniels (Precious), and Jason Reitman (Up in the Air).

Cameron won the award once before in 1998 for Titanic. The DGA award is seen as an indicator of who will win the Best Director award at the Oscars, and since 1948 they’ve only been wrong 6 times.

Source: BBC News

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