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With the Oscars now a distant memory, Comedy Central has filled the award show void with the nominees for the Second Annual Comedy Awards.  The Steve Carell/Ryan Reynolds romantic comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love and Oscar nominee Bridesmaids lead the film categories with five nominations each, including nods for Comedy Screenplay, Comedy Director and Comedy Film.  Rounding out the top nominees in the film categories are Horrible Bosses and Midnight In Paris with four nominations each and Oscar Best Picture winner The Artist with three nominations.

The annual event dedicated to honoring and celebrating the world of comedy will be taped at New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom on Saturday, April 28 and will premiere on Comedy Central on Sunday, May 6, 2012.

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Two of the film industries biggest awards shows were held over the weekend and wins from The Help and The Artist have placed the two films as front-runners to take home some of the Oscars biggest awards.  The Help dominated the 18th Screen Actors Guild Awards taking home three of the top movie awards, including Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role for Viola Davis, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for Octavia Spencer and the biggest award of the evening Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

Prior to the show, Meryl Streep and Michelle Williams were expected to be the front-runners to take the Best Actress award for their portrayals …

There was plenty to celebrate with the announcement of the nominees for the 84th Academy Awards this morning and some films will ultimately benefit from the news more than others.  One of the biggest winners of the morning was Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.  The Tom Hanks/Sandra Bullock film had a limited run at the end of the year in order to be considered for this year’s awards season, but despite being a hit among critics, it failed to garner a single nomination.  The film opened this past weekend to a fourth place finish with a less than stellar $10 million.  Fast forward to this morning and the film is looking at potential box office gold.  No doubt the odds …

Nominees for the 2012 Orange British Academy Film Awards have been revealed with The Artist leading the pack with 12 nominations.  The cold-war era spy thriller Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy which as been largely ignored during this year’s awards season came in second with 11 nominations.  Other frontrunners include My Week with Marilyn with six nominations and The Help and War Horse each picking up 5 nominations.

The awards show will be handed out on Sunday, February 12th at the Royal Opera House in London and will be hosted by actor Stephen Fry.

Best Film

The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
The Help
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Outstanding British Film

My Week With Marilyn
Senna
Shame
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
We Need To Talk About Kevin

Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director Or Producer

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Yesterday we gave you our predictions on the movies we thought will get nominated for Best Picture and Best Animated Feature and today we’re focusing our attention on the coveted acting categories. First up, we’re breaking down which actresses from the throng of 2011 movies we think will have their name called come January 24th. We think Glenn Close for her role as a woman disguised as a man in Albert Nobbs, Meryl Streep as controversial UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe in My Week with Marilyn, Tilda Swinton in We Need To Talk About Kevin and Viola Davis in The Help are the most likely to get nominated.  This was a …

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 …

Nominees for the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards for outstanding performances in 2011 in five film and eight primetime television categories and for the SAG honors for outstanding action performances by film and television stunt ensembles were announced this morning in Los Angeles at the Pacific Design Center’s SilverScreen Theater in West Hollywood.  The Help lead the list with four nominations including a lead actress nom for Viola Davis, supporting actress noms for Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer and a nomination for Oustanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

Other nominees included The Artist, The Descendants, Midnight in Paris and Bridesmaids.  The awards will be handed out on Sunday, January 29th, 2012 with a live broadcast on TNT …

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 …