Climate Change Trailer Competition For Earth Hour
WWF-UK is calling on budding filmmakers to enter a competition and win £1000 cash by making a short video about Earth Hour, a global call for action against climate change.
It's Hurt Locker's Night At the Oscars
The Hurt Locker was expected to fare well at the Oscars, but even the team behind the Afghanistan-set feature looked like they never dreamed of doing quite as well as this. In the end, they took six Oscars, including the big two - Best Picture and Best Director, for Kathryn Bigelow (as I predicted in my Oscars preview).Amazingly, this was the first time a woman has ever won a Best Director award. The Hurt Locker also won Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Film Editing, and Best Original Screenplay.
Hurt Locker: 6, Avatar: 2
If the BAFTAs are any indication of how the Oscars will go then it looks like it will be Kathyrn Bigelow's night.
Oscars Crapshoot: Who Will Win?
“After you're nominated, it's like a crapshoot, it's like throwing dice.” Morgan Freeman
Freeman was talking about the Oscars, of course. If I was a betting man I'd put money on him for his performance as Nelson Mandela in Clint Eastwood's Invinctus. I like a long shot every now and then and with William Hill putting Freeman at 26 to 1 he has the longest odds of the group of five leading actors.
BAFTA Awards
The British version of the Oscars doesn't create quite the same media frenzy as the Oscars, but still attracts many of our home-grown glitterati to its red carpet, and there's usually a very similar line-up of films in the final competition.
Golden Globes Awards Night
Hollywood's other big awards race, the Oscars, may be more avidly followed, but the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's annual awards nevertheless carry some clout in the biz.
The event is always well attended, with plenty of familiar Hollywood faces gracing the red carpet to warrant television coverage in 160 countries worldwide. The Golden Globes includes gongs for television as well as film.
Bradford International Film Festival
Eleven days of films at the National Media Museum, a complex which houses three cinemas, including an IMAX.
One of the highlights of BIFF is the widescreen cinema weekend where popular and classic wide guage films are screened.
South By Southwest Conferences and Festivals
Convergence is the watchword at this series of festivals that draws large numbers from the music, movie, and interactive media worlds.
Film panels, film screenings, a film title sequence design competition, and general schmoozing are all part of the South by Southwest Film event (12-20) which first launched in Austin in 1994.