Golden Globes 2014 Nominations

12 Years A Slave and American Hustle led the way in the 2014 Golden Globes nominees list, with each of the two dramas securing seven nominations that includes Best Picture, Director and Acting categories. Captain Phillips, Rush, Philomena, Gravity, Labor Day and Blue Jasmine also featured prominently across a competitive field.

Idris Elba and Chiwetel Ejiofor also made minor history by becoming the first actors to compete in both the Best Actor in a Motion Picture and Best Actor in a Mini-Series categories.

Full list of nominees awaits below.

Best Motion Picture, Drama
12 Years a Slave
Captain Phillips
Gravity
Philomena
Rush

Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
American Hustle
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama
Cate Blanchett Blue Jasmine
Sandra Bullock - Gravity
Judi Dench - Philomena
Emma Thompson - Saving Mr. Banks
Kate Winslet - Labor Day

Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
Chiwetel Ejiofor - 12 Years a Slave
Idris Elba - Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom
Tom Hanks - Captain Phillips
Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club
Robert Redford - All Is Lost

Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Amy Adams - American Hustle
Julie Delpy - Before Midnight
Greta Gerwig - Frances Ha
Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Enough Said
Meryl Streep - August: Osage County

Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Christian Bale - American Hustle
Bruce Dern - Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Wolf Of Wall Street
Oscar Isaac - Inside Llewyn Davis
Joaquin Phoenix - Her

Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Sally Hawkins - Blue Jasmine
Jennifer Lawrence - American Hustle
Lupita Nyong’o - 12 Years a Slave
Julia Roberts - August: Osage County
June Squibb - Nebraska

Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
Barkhad Abdi - Captain Phillips
Daniel Brühl - Rush
Bradley Cooper - American Hustle
Michael Fassbender - 12 Years a Slave
Jared Leto - Dallas Buyers Club

Best Director – Motion Picture
Alfonso Cuarón - Gravity
Paul Greengrass - Captain Phillips
Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave
Alexander Payne - Nebraska
David O. Russell - American Hustle

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
Spike Jonze - Her
Bob Nelson - Nebraska
Jeff Pope and Steve Coogan - Philomena
John Ridley - 12 Years a Slave
Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell - American Hustle

Best Foreign Language Film
Blue is the Warmest Color
The Great Beauty
The Hunt
The Past
The Wind Rises

Best Animated Feature Film
The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Frozen

Best TV Series, Drama
Breaking Bad
Downton Abbey
The Good Wife
House of Cards
Masters of Sex

Best TV Series, Comedy
The Big Bang Theory
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Girls
Modern Family
Parks and Recreation

Best TV Movie or Mini-Series
American Horror Story: Coven
Behind the Candelabra
Dancing on the Edge
Top of the Lake
The White Queen

Best Actress in a TV Series, Drama
Julianna Margulies - The Good Wife
Tatiana Maslany - Orphan Black
Taylor Schilling - Orange is the New Black
Kerry Washington - Scandal
Robin Wright - House of Cards

Best Actor in a TV Series, Drama
Bryan Cranston - Breaking Bad
Liev Schreiber - Ray Donovan
Michael Sheen - Masters of Sex
Kevin Spacey - House of Cards
James Spader - The Blacklist

Best Actress in a TV Series, Comedy
Zooey Deschanel - New Girl
Lena Dunham - Girls
Edie Falco - Nurse Jackie
Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Veep
Amy Poehler - Parks and Recreation

Best Actor, TV Series Comedy
Jason Bateman - Arrested Development
Don Cheadle - House of Lies
Michael J. Fox - The Michael J. Fox Show
Jim Parsons - The Big Bang Theory
Andy Samberg - Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Best Actress in a Mini-Series or TV movie
Helena Bonham Carter - Burton and Taylor
Rebecca Ferguson - White Queen
Jessica Lange - American Horror Story: Coven
Helen Mirren - Phil Spector
Elisabeth Moss - Top of the Lake

Best Actor in a Mini-Series or TV movie
Matt Damon - Behind the Candelabra
Michael Douglas - Behind the Candelabra
Chiwetel Ejiofor - Dancing on the Edge
Idris Elba - Luther
Al Pacino - Phil Spector

Amazing Spider-Man 2 Extended Trailer

Sony recently released the first trailer for Amazing Spider-Man 2, the sequel to Marc Webb’s successful franchise reboot. The new film sees Andrew Garfield reprise his role as web slinging hero Peter Parker alongside a beautifully blonde Emma Stone as Gwen Stacey. Predictably the trailer literally promises Spider-Man facing his ‘greatest battle yet’ and introduces a trio of new adversaries in the shape of Electro (Jamie Foxx), Rhino (Paul Giamatti) and the Green Goblin (Chris Cooper).

Check out the new international version of the trailer below which features a little extra footage designed to make your spidey senses tingle, with a bit more action and a lot more quips.

British Comedy Awards 2013 Winners Announced

This year’s British Comedy Awards, sponsored by Foster’s, were hosted live tonight by Jonathan Ross, celebrating an amazing year in British comedy.

This evening’s awards saw Fresh Meat’s Jack Whitehall win Best TV Comedy Actor and Miranda Hart reclaim the title of Best TV Comedy Actress which she last won in 2011. Chat show supremos Alan Carr and Graham Norton shared the spoils with Best New Comedy Entertainment Programme won by Norton while Chatty Man Carr won Best Comedy Entertainment Personality , an accolade which comes hot on the heels of the channel 4 show’s BAFTA win earlier this year.

Lee Mack celebrated a double win, taking home Best Male TV Comic for the second year running and seeing BBC One’s Would I Lie To You, which he co-hosts with David Mitchell, win Best Comedy Panel Show. Meanwhile, Nina Conti won her first British Comedy Award, taking home Best Female TV Comic for her performance on Live At The Apollo.

The Last Leg’s host Adam Hills won Best Comedy Breakthrough Artist while BBC Four’s Getting On, created by Jo Brand, Vicki Pepperdine and Joanna Scanlan won Best Sitcom. Paul Whitehouse also had a good night – not only awarded The Writer’s Guild of Great Britain Award but he and long-time collaborator Harry Enfield once again took home the prize for Best Sketch Show for Harry & Paul (an award they last won in 2009).

As previously announced, Will Ferrell was honoured with the British Comedy International Award as was Steve Coogan for the Outstanding Achievement award. As revealed at the Nominations show last week, ITV2’s Plebs won Best New Comedy Programme .

The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug Fun Facts

This week sees the long awaited release of the second chapter in Peter Jackson’s big screen adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkein’s fantasy epic The Hobbit. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug continues the adventures of Bilbo Baggins as he journeys with the Wizard Gandelf and thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield,  on an epic quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain and the lost dwarf kingdom of Erebor. 

The film features returning stars Sir Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage and Martin Freeman, alongside Evangeline Lilly, Lee Pace, Luke Evans and Orlando Bloom.  Benedict Cumberbatch also lends his unmistakable vocal menace to the terrifying Dragon Smaug. Check out below some interesting facts about exactly what else went into the production of the new film and check out our own exclusive interviews with Dwarves Adam Brown  and  William Kircher.

4 Tons of Silicon were used to make the facial prosthetics used in the film.

5 Hours spent applying hair, make-up, prosthetics and wardrobe for each of the 13 dwarves.  

6 Weeks taken to build Beorn’s house set.

7 km of toupe tape were used to apply all the film’s beards to people faces.

9 weeks were spent on location filming the trilogy.

10 kg of actual human hair was used for wig making.

14 Tons of silicon used to mold the armor and weapons used.

48 FPS the revolutionary higher frame rate used to film the trilogy.

91 Wigs created just for the dwarves.

95 Musicians in the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra that recorded the film’s score.

99 Studios sets built for the Trilogy.

100+ Hobbit feet were made just for Bilbo Baggins.

263 Beards used in the whole production.

400 Costumes created for the inhabitants of Lake-Town.

547 Traveling weapons made for the 13 Dwarves.

752 Wigs used in the whole production.

1200 Extras cast in the Hobbit trilogy.

2000 Hand-spun goblets created for Smaug’s Lair.

8900 hours of continuous work from the art department to build, decorate and tear down sets.

11,862 Prosthetics made for the entire Hobbit Trilogy

170,000 Aluminium gold plated coins trickled over Smaug’s Lair. 

 

 

James McAvoy Talks X-Men Sequels

Whilst collecting his well-deserved best actor prize at this year’s British Independent Film Awards for his bravely depraved turn in Filth, star James McAvoy talked to Red Carpet News about what fans can expect from X-Men First Class sequel X-Men Days of Future Past.

The next X-Men film unites the First Class stars including Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence with many of the stars of Director Bryan Singer’s previous X-Men franchise. James told us that fans will see a completely different side of Charles Xavier aka X-Men’s telepathic leader Professor X to anything they’ve seen from himself or Patrick Stewart before.

James also shared his excitement for the chance to go up against Patrick Stewart on screen, as well as working again with his ‘best pals’ Jennifer & Michael, who just happen to be some of the ‘very best actors in the world’ in his opinion.

Reacting to suggestions that director Bryan Singer may move away from the colourful costumes of First Class in favour of a return to the drab all-black outfits seen in his previous X-Men films, McAvoy reassures that armed with a pink psychedelic shirt at least his portrayal will be vibrantly colourful.

Finally James gleefully confirms that he is indeed contracted for a third instalment in the X-Men series and looks forward to returning, in what will almost certainly be the X-Men Apocalypse project announced recently by Bryan Singer.