Nominees Announced For the 2009 People’s Choice Awards; Set to Air January 7th on CBS!

The nominees for the 35th Annual People’s Choice Awards were announced on Monday (11-10-08), providing their usual populist contrast to the Emmys, Oscars and Grammys.
This year’s ceremony will air on CBS on Wednesday, Jan. 7 and will, once again, be hosted by Queen Latifah.

Wrestler wins Golden Lion

Two years ago, Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain bombed miserably at the Venice Film Festival. Then it was unceremoniously dumped into theaters a few weeks after Casino Royale and Happy Feet.
Where most men would have cowered and never come back, Aronofsky picked himself up and directed The Wrestler, which, like his 2006 effort, had to deal [...]

Dates Set For Golden Globes

The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. has announced the key dates for the 66th Golden Globe awards.

2009 Oscar Dates On The Move

Oscar nominations will be unveiled Thursday, Jan. 22, with the ceremony Sunday, Feb. 22. Noms are traditionally announced on a Tuesday, but the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences pushed back the date due to the presidential inauguration Jan. 20.

Nolan to be knighted Director of the Year

Christopher Nolan, who rejuvenated the Batman movie franchise in 2005 with Batman Begins and its upcoming follow-up, The Dark Knight, will be honored as director of the year at ShoWest 2008, says The Hollywood Reporter.
Nolan made his feature directing debut with 1999’s Following and drew big notice with his second feature, 2001’s Memento. He will [...]

Oscars Has Smallest TV Audience Ever

In what could hardly be dubbed a surprise, Sunday’s Academy Awards telecast on ABC took a tumble in the ratings, logging the show’s smallest audience on record.
A batch of films with mostly grim themes, combined with an awards season that lacked any real momentum thanks to the writers strike, contributed to this year’s alarming 20% [...]

Academy Awards Results

Some surprises, mostly not…to me anyway. Everyone offer Cavanagh your condolences.

Oscar Coverage

Welcome to Popcorn Junkies’ annual live coverage of the Academy Awards ceremony. Coinciding with this event is my one year anniversary here at the Pulse, so I will be spending much of the evening pretending this is a celebration of me and my accomplishments as well of those actually in Hollywood. All signs [...]

Oscar Nominations Announced

Credit: CNN
The Oscars are scheduled to take place on February 24 from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood with Jon Stewart as the host. The broadcast will air on ABC.
Best Picture
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Juno
Michael Clayton
Atonement

Best Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp for Sweeny Todd
George Clooney for Michael Clayton
Viggo Mortensen for [...]

Nominees For The 80th Academy Awards Announced

No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood were the big winners at today’s announcements for the 80th Academy Awards nominations. The Coen Brothers’ crime saga about a drug deal gone bad and Paul Thomas Anderson’s meditation on greed led the way with 8 nods apiece, including Best Picture. Close behind [...]