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With the last of the Oscar contenders hitting the big screen over the holiday weekend, we thought we would break down our predictions for the 2012 Academy Awards.  Today, we’re focusing on two of the most important categories of them all – Best Picture and Best Animated Feature.

For Best Picture, we’re thinking The Artist will be making this year’s list.  The silent film is making a lot of noise in Hollywood and if it actually won the award, it would be the first time a silent film took home Best Picture since the first Academy Awards in which Wings took home the golden statue back in 1928.  The other spots will most likely go to The Descendants, the story of …

The Hollywood Foreign Press this morning announced nominees for the 69th annual Golden Globes.  Critical fave The Artist led with six nominations, including best motion picture, comedy or musical.  George Clooney starrer The Descendants and the female heavy ensemble The Help both followed with five nominations each.  Moneyball, Ides of March and Midnight in Paris earned four nomination each.

The awards will be handed out on Sunday, January 15th during a live broadcast hosted once again by Ricky Gervais.

BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA

The Descendants
The Help
Hugo
The Ides of March
Moneyball
War Horse

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA

Glenn Close “Albert Nobbs”
Viola Davis “The Help”
Rooney Mara “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
Meryl Streep “The Iron Lady”
Tilda Swinton “We Need To Talk …

The Broadcast Film Critics Association has revealed their nominees for the 17th annual Critics Choice Movie Awards.  The BFCA is comprised of over 250 TV, radio and online critics and their nominees are typically a good indication of the films that will be nominated for this year’s Academy Awards.  The Artist and Hugo lead this year’s nominations with eleven total, followed by The Help and Drive each with eight nominations.  The Critics Choice Awards will be handed out January 12th at the Hollywood Palladium with a live broadcast on VH1.

BEST PICTURE

The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
The Help
Hugo
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
The Tree of Life
War Horse

BEST ACTOR

George Clooney – “The Descendants”
Leonardo DiCaprio – “J. Edgar”
Jean Dujardin – “The Artist”
Michael Fassbender – “Shame”
Ryan …

The holiday movie season continues with two new movie opening in wide release today – New Year’s Eve and The Sitter.  The question is, can one of these new releases take down the reigning champion that is The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1?

You may have barely gotten that Christmas tree up, but New Year’s Eve is just around the corner and we’re expecting the ensemble rom com, New Year’s Eve to bring home the big bucks at the box office.  With an all-star cast behind it and strong female audience appeal, we estimate it should take the top spot with $25 million.

The other wide opener this weekend, The Sitter, should take the second spot with an estimated $12 million.  …

Summit Entertainment’s The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn–Part 1 had no trouble retaining the number one crown for the third weekend in a row, grossing $16.9 million for a domestic cume of $247.3 million.  The fourth installment is still pacing slightly behind The Twilight Saga: New Moon, which opened over Thanksgiving in 2009.  At the same point in its run, New Moon had earned $255.4 million domestically.

Coming in at number two was The Muppets with $11.2 million with a solid domestic cume of $56.1 million!  Overseas, the pic grossed $1.8 million from three markets for an early international total of $4 million and world cume of $60.1 million.

Hugo came in third with $7.6 million for a cume of $25.2 million.  Martin …

It may not look like your typical Martin Scorcese film, but Hugo is getting a lot of buzz.   Based on Brian Selznick’s New York Times bestseller, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, the film stars Chloe Moretz, Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jude Law and tells the story of an orphan boy living a secret life in the walls of a Paris train station, who, with the help of an eccentric girl, searches for the answer to a mystery linking the father he recently lost, the ill-tempered toy shop owner living below him and a heart shaped lock, seemingly without a key.