GOLDEN GLOBES NOMINEES 2013

GOLDEN GLOBES NOMINEES 2013

Nominations for the 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards have just been announced in Beverly Hills. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will co-host the Golden Globes awards on January 13, 2013 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, LA.

The Golden Globes are voted on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

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The Location, The Beverly Hilton

Best Motion Picture, Drama

Argo
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty

Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Les Misérables
Moonrise Kingdom
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Silver Linings Playbook

Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama

Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Richard Gere, Arbitrage
John Hawkes, The Sessions
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Denzel Washington, Flight

Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy

Jack Black, Bernie
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Hugh Jackman, Les Misérables
Ewan McGregor, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Bill Murray, Hyde Park on the Hudson

Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama

Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Marion Cotillard, Rust and Bone
Helen Mirren, Hitchcock
Naomi Watts, The Impossible
Rachel Weisz, The Deep Blue Sea

Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy

Emily Blunt, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Judi Dench, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Maggie Smith, Quartet
Meryl Streep, Hope Springs

Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture

Alan Arkin, Argo
Leonardo DiCaprio, Django Unchained
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained

Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture

Amy Adams, The Master
Sally Field, Lincoln
Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables
Helen Hunt, The Sessions
Nicole Kidman, The Paperboy

Best Director

Ben Affleck, Argo
Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
Ang Lee, Life of Pi
Steven Spielberg, Lincoln
Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained

Best Screenplay, Motion Picture

Mark Boal, Zero Dark Thirty
Tony Kushner, Lincoln
David O. Russell, Silver Linings Playbook
Quentin Taratino, Django Unchained
Chris Terrio, Argo

Best Foreign-Language Film

Amour (Austria)
A Royal Affair (Denmark)
The Intouchables (France
Kon-Tiki (Norway)
Rust and Bone  (France)

Best Animated Feature Film

Brave
Frankenweenie
Hotel Transylvania
Rise of the Guardians
Wreck-It Ralph

Best Original Song, Motion Picture

"For You," Act of Valor, Monty Powell & Keith Urban
"Not Running Anymore," Stand Up Guys, Jon Bon Jovi
"Safe and Sound," The Hunger Games, Taylor Swift. John Paul White, Joy Williams & T Bone Burnett
"Skyfall," Skyfall, Adele & Paul Epworth
"Suddenly," Les Misérables, Claude-Michel Schonberg & Alain Boublil

Best Original Score, Motion Picture

Mychael Danna, Life of Pi
Alexandre Desplat, Argo
Dario Marianelli, Anna Karenina
Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil, Cloud Atlas
John Williams, Lincoln

Best TV Movie or Miniseries

Game Change
The Girl
Hatfields & McCoys
The Hour
Political Animals

Best TV Series, Drama

Boardwalk Empire
Breaking Bad
Downton Abbey
Homeland
The Newsroom

Best TV Series, Comedy

The Big Bang Theory
Episodes
Girls
Modern Family
Smash

Best Actor in a TV Series, Drama

Steve Buscemi, Boardwalk Empire
Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad
Jeff Daniels, The Newsroom
Jon Hamm, Mad Men
Damian Lewis, Homeland

Best Actor, TV Series Comedy

Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
Don Cheadle, House of Lies
Louis C.K., Louie
Matt LeBlanc, Episodes
Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory

Best Actress in a TV Series, Drama

Connie Britton, Nashville
Glenn Close, Damages
Claire Danes, Homeland
Michelle Dockery, Downton Abbey
Julianna Marguiles, The Good Wife

Best Actress in a TV Series, Comedy

Zooey Deschanel, New Girl
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Lena Dunham, Girls
Tina Fey, 30 Rock
Amy Poehler, Parks and Recreation

Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie

Kevin Costner, Hatfields & McCoys
Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock
Woody Harrelson, Game Change
Toby Jones, The Girl
Clive Owen, Hemingway & Gellhorn

Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie

Julianne Moore, Game Change
Nicole Kidman, Hemingway & Gellhorn
Jessica Lange, American Horror Story: Asylum
Sienna Miller, The Girl
Sigourney Weaver, Political Animals

Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series or TV Movie

Max Greenfield, New Girl
Ed Harris, Game Change
Danny Huston, Magic City
Mandy Patinkin, Homeland
Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family

Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries, or TV Movie

Hayden Panettiere, Nashville
Archie Panjabi, The Good Wife
Sarah Paulson, Game Change
Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey
Sofia Vergara, Modern Family

Cecile B. DeMille Award

Jodie Foster

Disney inside Disney

 Disney inside Disney

The third Episode of The Silly Symphonies, Springtime, was released on October 24, 1929 and animated by Ub Iwerks, co-creator of Mickey Mouse together with Walt Disney.

 Disney and Iwerks in early 20's

Iwerks and Disney met in 1919 and after a while they started working together, Ub joined Walt in 1922 when he started the Laugh-O-Gram cartoon series, and Ub was the chief animator of the studio. After a while the Studio went bankrupt, Disney moved to LA and Iwerks followed him, and they started creating, redesigning, animating new characters, including Mickey Mouse and Clarabelle Cow. The very first Silly Symphonies and Mickey Mouse cartoons were entirely animated by Iwerks and Disney together.

 Ub Iwerks sketching Mickey

Before leaving Disney, in 1930, Iwerks directed Five Silly Symphonies:

October 24, 1929 SPRINGTIME

October 30, 1929 HELL'S BELLS

January 6, 1930 SUMMER

February 13, 1930 AUTUMN

June 5, 1930 ARCTIC ANTICS 

The Silly Symphonies, Springtime

Click the link below to see Springtime

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJQJzsJvpIw 

In one of the most famous Disney's Classics, One Hundred and One Dalmatian, 1961, the dalmatian puppies watch Springtime while trapped in Cruella De Vil' Hell Hall with Jasper and Horace.

 

The Silly Symphonies, Springtime seen in One Hundred and One Dalmatians 

Stay tuned Uncleoscar ...

Parade of the Award Nominees 1932...who were they?

Parade of the Award Nominees... who were they?

 The Grey Pluto

Starring Mickey Mouse, with his assistants Minnie Mouse, Clarabelle Cow and a strange "grey Pluto" at the end, the  Parade of the Award Nominees was only shown at the Awards Banquet in 1932.

Co-created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, Mickey, who was wearing green instead of his famous red shorts, was sorrounded by several animals and insects as musicians and pages. 

Caricature of the nominees were created by Joe Grant, a real Disney Legend, who was hired to give birth those particular drawings. He worked for the Walt Disney Company until 2005.  He helped the storyboard for the Academy Award Nominated Short Lorenzo in 2005, but the last film he worked for was Chicken Little, and the movie was dedicated to him when he died at 97 while working at his drawing board.

He created the Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, co-wroted Dumbo, worked on Fantasia and Pinocchio, but also Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Pocahontas, Fantasia 2000, Monsters, Inc., Mulan and many others. 

These are the Nominees in Order of appearance:

 

Wallace Beery and lil' Jackie Cooper 

"The Champ"

Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontaine 

"The Guardsman"

 

 

Helen Hayes 

"The Sin of Madelon Claudet"

Fredric March  

"Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde"

Marie Dressler 

"Emma"

Stay tuned ... Uncleoscar

Mickey in Technicolor: Walt Disney's 1st Academy Award... SEE THE VIDEO... IT'S A REAL MILESTONE

Mickey in Technicolor

Walt Disney's 1st Academy Award... 

SEE THE VIDEO... IT'S A REAL MILESTONE

 Walt with his best friend Mickey

At the 5th Academy Awards Ceremony in 1932, Walt Disney received his first Academy Award for the "creation of Mickey Mouse" and, for that night he produced a short animated film  especially created to be shown at the Academy Award Banquet, never ment to be seen by the general public. Parade of the Award Nominees, that was the title of the short film, become a real milestone and  Mickey Mouse become one of the most important cartoon characters ever created, and also the first glimpse of Mickey and the gang in Technicolor. The short film is a small parade of the nominees for best actor and actress.

Mickey Mouse - Parade of the Award Nominees - 1932

CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO SEE THE SHORT ANIMATED FILM 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVOOIITxZMk

Walt Disney also won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film with "Flowers and Trees" included in the Silly Symphonies.

 Walt Disney with his first Oscar

Flowers and Trees

Walt Disney and his wife Lillian, receiving the Oscar for the creation of Mickey Mouse

Disney @ the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Walt has two stars in two categories, TV and Film, respectively 6747 Hollywood Blvd. and 7021 Hollywood Blvd.
Mickey has one star at 6925 Hollywood Blvd.

 Stay tuned... Uncleoscar

The 5th Academy Award…1932

The 5^th Academy Award…1932

Hosted by Conrad Nagel almost eighty years ago, on november 18th 1932 at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, the 5th Academy Awards night was about to start.

The American drama film Grand Hotel, starring Greta Garbo, Lionel and John Barrymore and Joan Crawford, remained the only Best Picture Academy Award winner in history, to be nominated just in one category.

Wallace Beery (“The Champ”) and Fredric March (“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”) shared the recognition for Best Actor.

Wallace Beery and Fredric March, with 1931 Oscar winner Lionel Barrymore and 1932 Academy President Conrad Nagel

The Academy Award for Best Actress went to Helen Hayes for her important role in The Sin of Madelon Claudet, an American drama film adapted from the play The Lullaby by Edward Knoblock.

 Director Frank Borzage, Helen Hayes, and Fredric Marc 

Here is the complete list of 1932’ Nominees and Winners:

Bold indicates Winner

Actor

• Wallace Beery in "The Champ"
• Alfred Lunt in "The Guardsman"
• Fredric March in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"

Actress

• Marie Dressler in "Emma"
• Lynn Fontanne in "The Guardsman"
• Helen Hayes in "The Sin of Madelon Claudet"

Art Direction

• "À Nous la Liberté" Lazare Meerson
• "Arrowsmith" Richard Day
• "Transatlantic" Gordon Wiles

Cinematography

• "Arrowsmith" Ray June
• "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" Karl Struss
• "Shanghai Express" Lee Garmes

Directing

• "Bad Girl" Frank Borzage
• "The Champ" King Vidor
• "Shanghai Express" Josef Von Sternberg

Outstanding Production

• "Arrowsmith" Samuel Goldwyn Productions
• "Bad Girl" Fox
• "The Champ" Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• "Five Star Final" First National
• "Grand Hotel" Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• "One Hour with You" Paramount Publix
• "Shanghai Express" Paramount Publix
• "The Smiling Lieutenant" Paramount Publix

Short Subject (Cartoon)

• "Flowers and Trees" Walt Disney, Producer
• "It's Got Me Again" Leon Schlesinger, Producer
• "Mickey's Orphans" Walt Disney, Producer

Short Subject (Comedy)

• "The Loud Mouth" Mack Sennett, Producer
• "The Music Box" Hal Roach, Producer
• "Scratch-As-Catch-Can" RKO Radio

Short Subject (Novelty)

• "Screen Souvenirs" Paramount Publix
• "Swing High" Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• "Wrestling Swordfish" Mack Sennett, Producer

Sound Recording

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Sound Department
• Paramount Publix Studio Sound Department
• RKO Radio Studio Sound Department
• Warner Bros.-First National Studio Sound Department

Writing (Adaptation)

• "Arrowsmith" Sidney Howard
• "Bad Girl" Edwin Burke
• "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" Percy Heath, Samuel Hoffenstein

Writing (Original Story)

• "The Champ" Frances Marion
• "Lady and Gent" Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt
• "The Star Witness" Lucien Hubbard
• "What Price Hollywood?" Adela Rogers St. Johns, Jane Murfin

One of the most remarkable Awards given during that night has been the Special Award or Honorary Award to Walt Disney.

The Honorary Award was created to honor actors, producers, directors and other important personalities for their significant achievements and contributions to the motion picture industry. After Warner Bros and Charlie Chaplin, respectively in 1927 and 1928, Walt Disney received the award "for the creation of Mickey Mouse."

That year Disney won for Short Subject (Cartoon) with "Flowers and Trees" , the very first commercially released film to be produced in the full-color three-strip Technicolor process.

Silly Symphony 1932 - Walt Disney

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Uncle Oscar

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Google celebrating Stoker

 

 

Dracula' first edition

Celebrating today Mr Stoker's birthday, november 8 1847.

We remember the great novelist with his most famous gothic novel, Dracula.

In 1922, Murnau, the amazing german director, brought to the big screen the novel without permission naming it Nosferatu.

In 1931 Ted Browning directed Bela Lugosi in the first version of "Dracula", based again on Stoker's novel.

In 1992, 70 years after Browning's movie, Francis Ford Coppola directed "Bram Stoker's Dracula", and the movie had a huge success, also thanks to the amazing cast, including Gary Oldman, Antony Hopkins, Monica Bellucci, Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves. The movie won three Oscars: 

Best Makeup (Greg Cannom, Michèle Burke, Matthew W. Mungle) , Best Costume Design (Eiko Ishioka) and Best Sound Effects Editing (Tom C. McCarthy, David E. Stone). The movie was nominated for four  Academy Awards, including Best Art Direction/Set Decoration. 

 Gary Oldman as Dracula

The Poster in 1992