Posted on February 15th, 2010 by Craig Kennedy
I was digging under the cushions of my couch and I found some awards that went down over the weekend! Imagine that.
Art Director’s Guild
Period Film: Sherlock Holmes
Fantasy: Avatar
Contemporary: The Hurt Locker
American Cinema Editors
Drama: The Hurt Locker
Comedy: The Hangover
Documentary: The Cove
The Muriels:
Best Web-Based Criticism (Muriel voters ineligible): Glenn Kenny, Some Came Running
Best Body of Work 2009: [...]
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Posted on January 30th, 2010 by Craig Kennedy
Well, I guess the headline says it all, doesn’t it? But I’ll say it again.
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Feature Film: Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Documentary: Louie Psihoyos – The Cove
via: Steve Pond
For the TV awards and whatnot: Awards Daily
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Posted on January 24th, 2010 by Craig Kennedy
Here are your somewhat surprising PGA awards:
Best Picture: The Hurt Locker
Animated Feature: Up
Documentary: The Cove
I think it’s fair to say the Oscar best picture race is wide open leaning in favor of The Hurt Locker. I think this is the first bit of awards news I’ve been genuinely thrilled about. I’m not as crazy about [...]
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Posted on January 16th, 2010 by Craig Kennedy
The anti-dolphin slaughter docutainment The Cove swam away with the Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking, the Outstanding Achievement in Production and the Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography awards from the Cinema Eye Honors. I thought this group was organized to right the yearly wrongs of the Oscars, yet the populist pandering of The Cove is [...]
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Posted on January 12th, 2010 by Craig Kennedy
The Directors Guild of America’s documentary nominees:
Agnes Varda – The Beaches of Agnes
Sacha Gervaisi – Anvil! The Story of Anvil
Mai Iskander – Garbage Dreams
Robert Kenner – Food, Inc.
Louie Psihoyos – The Cove
Geoffrey Smith – The English Surgeon
Of the above, only Anvil! The Story of Anvil and The English Surgeon failed to make the Oscar short [...]
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Posted on December 5th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
We all love the creatures, but this expose of dolphin slaughter in Japan is little more than a grisly bit of rabble rousing.
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Posted on November 9th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
Is The Cove documentary or propaganda? Does it really matter either way?
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Posted on November 7th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
Louie Psihoyos’ button-pushing anti-dolphin slaughter documentary The Cove walked away with 7 nominations for the Cinema Eye Honors Thursday afternoon including the top award, Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking.
Burma VJ and Food, Inc. received 5 nominations each also including the top prize.
Outstanding Achievement In Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking
Burma VJ, Anders Ostergaard
The Cove, Louie Psihoyos
Food, [...]
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Posted on October 26th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
South Park takes on The Cove
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Posted on September 16th, 2009 by Craig Kennedy
The Cove, the well-intentioned but wildly overpraised button-pusher exposing dolphin slaughter in Japan was announced today as part of the lineup for the 22nd annual Tokyo Film Festival. It had been widely speculated the controversial film would not be shown to the very audience who should see it, which is particularly ironic considering the festival [...]
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