ACE Eddie Awards: 'Boyhood' Wins Best Edited Dramatic Feature

The awards have a strong track record for predicting the Oscar in the editing category. In nine of the past 12 years, the best edited dramatic feature winner has gone on to win the Oscar in editing. One time in that period, the winner for the comedy or musical category (Chicago) took the prize at the Oscars.

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SAG Awards: 'Birdman' Spreads Its Wings as Eddie Redmayne, Julianne Moore Continue on Their Winning Path

"Birdman" and its ensemble cast took top acting honors at the 21st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, held Sunday night at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, while the winning ensembles in TV were "Downton Abbey," a repeat winner for drama, and "Orange Is the New Black," for comedy.

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PGA Awards: 'Birdman' Wins Top Film Prize

"The Lego Movie" won the award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures following its snub for the corresponding Academy Award. That fact was alluded to by producer Dan Lin, who noted in his acceptance speech that the film has had “its share of wins and losses.” But, he continued, “the real win has been the friends I’ve made along the way… so I thank my friends.” Deadline’s Pete Hammond will post an analysis of the awards later tonight.

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GLAAD Media Awards Nominees Announced

The 26th Annual GLAAD Media Awards nominees have been announced. ABC tops the broadcast networks with six nominations while HBO takes the most noms for a cable network with five nominations.

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'Boyhood' Wins London Critics Circle Film Of The Year

"Boyhood" continued its strong awards-season showing, picking up Film of the Year, Best Director for Richard Linklater and Best Supporting Actress for Patricia Arquette at the London Critics Circle Film Awards.

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Critics' Choice Awards: The Winners

"Boyhood" took best picture, "Birdman"'s Michael Keaton won Best Actor and Julianne Moore took home Best Actress at the Critics Choice Awards for her work as a woman suffering from Alzheimer's in "Still Alice."

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'Under The Skin' Among Cinematographers Spotlight Award Nominees

The cinematographers of Concrete Night, The Immigrant and Under the Skin are nominated for the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Spotlight Award, an honor that debuted a year ago to recognize cinematography in features and documentaries that are typically screened at film festivals, internationally or in limited release.

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Oscar nominations 2015: Complete list of nominees

"American Sniper," "Birdman," "Boyhood," "The Grand Budapest Hotel," "The Imitation Game," "Selma," "The Theory of Everything" and "Whiplash" were nominated for best picture when the 87th Academy Award nominations were announced Thursday morning.

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DGA Unveils TV and Documentary Award Nominations

The Directors Guild of America on Wednesday announced its nominees in the TV, documentary and commercial categories — and one director managed to score mentions in both the comedy and drama categories.

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Razzie Nominations: 'Transformers' Leads With Seven Noms

The action sequel starring Mark Wahlberg alongside morphing robots led all films Tuesday with seven nominations, including worst picture, worst sequel, worst screenplay and worst screen combo.

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DGA Awards Unveils Feature Film Nominations

"The Grand Budapest"'s Wes Anderson, "Boyhood"'s Richard Linklater and "The Imitation Game"'s Morten Tyldum all received their first nominations from the Directors Guild of America as the guild announced its nominees for outstanding feature film directing on Tuesday. Also joining the select circle were "Birdman"'s Alejandro G. Inarritu, a previous nominee, and "American Sniper"'s Clint Eastwood, a previous winner.

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'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' Leads VFX Feature Nominations

"Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" earned five nominations, including in the top category of outstanding visual effects in a VFX-driven feature, leading the field in the feature competition of the 13th annual Visual Effects Society Awards, which will be presented Feb. 4 at the Beverly HIlton.

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Golden Globes: The Complete Winners List

Richard Linklater's "Boyhood" won for best motion picture drama, "The Grand Budapest Hotel" claimed the win for best comedy, Eddie Redmayne won best actor in a drama for "The Theory of Everything," Amy Adams won best actress, comedy or musical, for "Big Eyes," Patricia Arquette won best supporting actress for her role in "Boyhood" and J.K. Simmons claimed a win for "Whiplash" for best supporting actor.

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BAFTA Nominations: 'Grand Budapest Hotel' Leads With 11

In an announcement streamed live online from London on Friday morning (late Thursday in LA), BAFTA revealed the nominations for the 68th edition of its awards.

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Everything isn’t awesome: How rules ruin the Oscars’ Best Song category

While the Academy’s emphasis on in-context songs admirably attempts to keep the movie part of the award in play, the music division’s old-fashioned tastes combined with various rulings makes them seem vaguely hostile to any musical artists operating outside of a standard movie-score (or in the case of songs, Broadway-style) framework.

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Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Nominations

With three nominations each, Guardians of the Galaxy and Into The Woods lead the feature film categories of the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild's outstanding achievement awards, which will be presented Feb. 14 at Paramount Studios.

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ASC Award Nominations Go to ‘Birdman,’ ‘Unbroken’

While Roger Deakins is nominated for "Unbroken," there’s nothing for Robert Elswit, who shot "Inherent Vice" and "Nightcrawler."

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Cartoonists who mocked Islam were slaughtered where they stood for 'insulting Prophet'

The gunmen reportedly asked for the cartoonists by name before shooting them dead and yelling 'the Prophet has been avenged'.

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Casting Society Unveils Artios Awards Film Nominees

With new date changes for Artios eligibility, 2013 film titles like "12 Years a Slave," "Captain Phillips" and "American Hustle" will contend in the big-budget drama competition with "Foxcatcher," "Gone Girl" and "Selma."

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WGA Unveils Film Award Nominations

The Writers Guild of America on Wednesday morning announced its nominees for best theatrical and documentary screenplay.

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War Over Hollywood Sign Pits Wealthy Residents Against Urinating Tourists

In the not-so-distant past, only the bravest visitors trekked up through this devil's knot of dead ends, blind curves, narrow streets and treacherous inclines to get to the sign, just a few miles north of Sunset Boulevard. Then the Internet and navigation systems disrupted everything. "Before GPS, somebody from Omaha was afraid to head up here," says Tom LaBonge, the local city councilman. "Now they're not."

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'Birdman' Leads Australian Academy's International Awards Nominations

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s "Birdman" is leading the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) International Awards nominations with mentions in seven categories, ahead of "Boyhood" and "The Imitation Game," which received five nominations each.

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National Society of Film Critics names "Goodbye To Language" year’s best picture

The highly experimental 3-D film premiered last May at the Cannes Film Festival, ultimately earning Godard the Jury Prize (which Godard shared with Xavier Dolan and his Mommy, an amusing and progressive juxtaposition between the new and the old), along with a Palme d’Or nod.

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Producers Guild's Film Nominees Go Indie

The Producers Guild of America on Monday announced its nominees for best film, a list that was heavy on indie features like "Boyhood" and "Whiplash" along with a couple of studio entries like "American Sniper" and "Gone Girl" joining the mix.

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'Grand Budapest Hotel,' 'Into The Woods' Among Art Directors Guild Nominees

"Interstellar" also among the nominees for the Art Directors Guild's 19th annual Excellence in Production Design Awards, which will be handed out Jan. 31 at the Beverly Hilton.

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Film Critics Are "Celebrity-Worshipping Awards-Givers"

At last year's New York Film Critics Circle awards dinner, critic Armond White was reported to have heckled Steve McQueen, who was accepting a best director award for 12 Years a Slave, by calling out, "You're an embarrassing doorman and garbage man."

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Oscars: 4 Animated Movies That Could Make History

Though no animated feature ever has been nominated for the best production design Oscar, there's nothing in the rule book to prevent that from happening. Animation filmmakers argue it's time that their production design teams get their due. After all, everything they create is built entirely from scratch.

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DreamWorks Animation: Bonnie Arnold, Mireille Soria Co-Presidents of Feature Animation

"Mireille and Bonnie are two of the most accomplished and prolific filmmakers working in feature animation today," Katzenberg said in a statement. "I am confident in their ability to marshal the extensive creative resources available at our studio and lead DreamWorks' vast ranks of artists and filmmakers as they produce the highest quality entertainment."

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