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CONTENDERS IN VISUAL EFFECTS (VFX)
     The top 10 films in the running in the Visual Effects category for the 85th Academy Awards®. Films are listed below in alphabetical order:

     “The Amazing Spider-Man”
     “Cloud Atlas”
     “The Dark Knight Rises”
     “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”
     “John Carter”
     “Life of Pi”
     “Marvel’s The Avengers”
     “Prometheus”
     “Skyfall”
     “Snow White and the Huntsman”

All members of the Visual Effects Branch will be invited to view 10-minute excerpts from each of the 10 shortlisted films on Thursday, January 3.  Following the screenings, the members will vote to nominate five films for final Oscar® consideration.

LIVE ACTION SHORTS

Here is the list of 11 live action short films advancing in the voting process for the 85th Academy Awards®.  A tie in the nominations balloting resulted in 11 films being shortlisted.  One hundred twenty-five pictures had originally qualified in the category.

The 11 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production companies:

 “A Fábrica (The Factory)” - (Grafo Audiovisual)
 “Asad” - (Hungry Man)
 “Buzkashi Boys” -  (Afghan Film Project)
 “Curfew” - (Fuzzy Logic Pictures)
 “Death of a Shadow (Dood van eenSchaduw)”        - (Serendipity Films)
 “Henry” - (Yan England)
 “Kiruna-Kigali” - (Hepp Film AB)
 “The Night Shift Belongs to the Stars” 
     - (Oh! pen LLC)
“9meter” - (M and M Productions A/S)
“Salar” - (Nicholas Greene)
“when you find me"
     - (Freestyle Picture Company)

The Short Films and Feature Animation Branch Reviewing Committee viewed all the eligible entries for the preliminary round of voting at screenings held in Los Angeles. 

Short Films and Feature Animation Branch members will now select three to five nominees from among the 11 titles on the shortlist.  Branch screenings will be held in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco in December.

The 85th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 10, 2013, 5:30 a.m. PT, in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2012 will be presented  Sunday, February 24, 2013, at the Dolby Theatre™ at Hollywood and Highland Center®, and televised live on the ABC Television Network.  The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries worldwide.

Thirty-nine Original Songs Compete For Oscar Nominations

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced yesterday that 39 songs from eligible feature-length motion pictures will vie for nominations in the Original Song category for the 84th Academy Awards in February. The original songs, along with the motion picture in which each song is featured, the list below is in alphabetical order of film titles - on the right:

"Lay Your Head Down" from Albert Nobbs

"Star Spangled Man" from Captain America: The First Avenger

"Collision of Worlds" from Cars 2 

"Dakkanaga Dugu Dugu" from DAM999

"DAM999 Theme Song" from DAM999

"Mujhe Chod Ke" from DAM999

"Rainbird" from Dirty Girl

"Keep On Walking" from The First Grader

"Where the River Goes" from Footloose

"Hello Hello" from Gnomeo and Juliet

"Love Builds a Garden" from Gnomeo and Juliet

"Bridge of Light" from Happy Feet Two

"The Mighty Sven" from Happy Feet Two

"Never Be Daunted" from happythankyoumoreplease

"Hell and Back" from Hell and Back Again

"The Living Proof" from The Help

"Coeur Volant" from Hugo

"It's How We Play" from I Don't Know How She Does It

"When the Heart Dies" from In the Land of Blood and Honey

"Ja Nao Estar" from José and Pilar

"The Keeper" from Machine Gun Preacher

"Life's a Happy Song" from The Muppets

"Man or Muppet" from The Muppets

"Pictures in My Head" from The Muppets

"Summer Song" from The Music Never Stopped

"Imaginary Friends" from Olive

"Sparkling Day" from One Day

"Taking You with Me" from Our Idiot Brother

"The Greatest Song I Ever Heard" from POM Wonderful

            Presents The Greatest Movie Ever Sold

"Hot Wings" from Rio

"Let Me Take You to Rio" from Rio 

"Real in Rio" from Rio

"Shelter" from Take Shelter

"Gathering Stories" from We Bought a Zoo

"Pop" from White Irish Drinkers

"Think You Can Wait" from Win Win

"The Backson Song" from Winnie the Pooh

 "So Long" from Winnie the Pooh

On Thursday, January 5th, the Academy will screen clips featuring each song, in random order, for voting members of the Music Branch in Los Angeles. Following the screenings, members will determine the nominees by an averaged point system of voting.

If no song receives an average score of 8.25 or more, there will be no nominees in the category.  If only one song achieves that score, it and the song receiving the next highest score shall be the two nominees.  If two or more songs (up to five) achieve that score, they shall be the nominees.

A DVD copy of the song clips will be made available to those branch members who are unable to attend the screening and who request it for home viewing.  A mail-in ballot will be provided.

Under Academy rules, a maximum of two songs may be nominated from any one film.  If more than two songs from a film achieve a score of 8.25 or more, the two songs with the highest scores will be the nominees.

To be eligible, a song must consist of words and music, both of which are original and written specifically for the film.  A clearly audible, intelligible, substantive rendition of both lyric and melody must be used in the body of the film or as the first music cue in the end credits.>/div>

According to IndiWire, viewers may expect, depending upon songs ultimately nominated, to hear either Elton John or Lady Gaga or both (Gnomeo and Juliet), Luciano Pavarotti (In the Land of Blood and Honey), Pink (Happy Feet Two), Chris Cornell (Machine Gun Preacher), Brad Paisley (Cars 2), Sinead O'Connor (Albert Nobbs), or The Muppets. For more from IndiWire, click title of this post.

The 84th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live Tuesday, January 24, 2012, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2011 will be presented on Sunday, February 26, 2012, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood and Highland Center, and televised live by the ABC Television Network.  The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries worldwide.

15 Documentaries Still in the Run for Oscar

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that 15 films in the Documentary Feature category will advance in the voting process for the 84th Academy Awards. One hundred twenty-four pictures originally qualified in the category.

The Documentary Branch Screening Committee viewed all the eligible documentaries for the preliminary round of voting. Documentary Branch members will now select the five nominees from among the 15 titles on this shortlist.

   

 Harry Belafonte, subject of Sing Your Song

The 15 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with the production company:

    Battle for Brooklyn (RUMER Inc.)
    Bill Cunningham New York (First Thought Films)
    Buck (Cedar Creek Productions)
    Hell and Back Again (Roast Beef Productions Limited)
    If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (Marshall Curry Productions, LLC)
    Jane's Journey (NEOS Film GmbH & Co. KG)
    The Loving Story (Augusta Films)
    Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (@radical.media)
    Pina (Neue Road Movies GmbH)
    Project Nim (Red Box Films)
    Semper Fi: Always Faithful (Tied to the Tracks Films, Inc.)
    Sing Your Song (S2BN Belafonte Productions, LLC)
    Undefeated (Spitfire Pictures)
    Under Fire: Journalists in Combat (JUF Pictures, Inc.)
    We Were Here (Weissman Projects, LLC)

The 84th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, at 5:30 a.m. PT, in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2011 will be presented on Sunday, February 26, 2012, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood and Highland Center, and televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.

Nine Foreign Language Films Still Alive

Nine films will advance to the next round of voting in the Foreign Language Film category (BFLF) for the 82nd Academy Awards®. Sixty-five films originally qualified in the category.

The films, listed in alphabetical order by country with director, are:

Argentina - EL SECRETO DO SUS OJOS (The Secret of Your Eyes), Juan Jose Campanella;

Australia - SAMSON & DELILAH, Warwick Thornton;

Bulgaria - THE WORLD IS BIG AND SALVATION LURKS AROUND THE CORNER, Stephan Komandarev;

France - UN PROPHÈTE (A Prophet), Jacques Audiard;

** Germany - THE WHITE RIBBON (Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte), Michael Haneke;

Israel - AJAMI, Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani;

Kazakhstan - KELIN, Ermek Tursunov;

The Netherlands - WINTER IN WARTIME, Martin Koolhoven;

Peru - THE MILK OF SORROW, Claudia Llosa.

** Winner this year of the Golden Globes® for Best Foreign Language Film, and won Best Film last May in Cannes.

Foreign Language Film nominations for 2009 are again being determined in two phases.

The Phase I committee, consisting of several hundred Los Angeles-based members, screened the 65 eligible films between mid-October and January 16. The group’s top six choices, augmented by three additional selections voted by the Academy’s Foreign Language Film Award Executive Committee, constitute the shortlist.

The above shortlist will be winnowed down to the five nominees by specially invited committees in New York and Los Angeles. Those committees will spend Friday, 29 January, through Sunday, 31 January, viewing three films each day and then casting their ballots. From those ballots will come the final five nominees.

The 82nd Academy Awards nominations will be announced on Tuesday, 2 February, 2010, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater, and Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2009 will be presented on Sunday, 7 March 7.

Shortlist for Visual Effects Oscar Nominations

Yesterday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that seven films remain in the running in the Visual Effects category (VFX) for the 82nd Academy Awards®.

The films are listed below in alphabetical order:

AVATAR
DISTRICT 9
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE
STAR TREK
TERMINATOR SALVATION
TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN
2012

All members of the Academy’s Visual Effects Branch will be invited to view 15-minute excerpts from each of the seven shortlisted films on Thursday, 21 January. Following the screenings, the members will vote to nominate three films for final Oscar consideration. There were not enough qualifying films to have more than three nominees in the category this year.

The 82nd Academy Awards nominations will be announced Tuesday, 2 February 2010, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2009 will be presented Sunday, 7 March 2010, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.

10 Live Action Short Films Advance in Oscar® Race

10 out of the 71 originally qualifying live action short films have advanced in the voting process in the Live Action Shorts category for the 82nd Academy Awards®.

The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their director:

The Door by Juanita Wilson.
The Ground Beneath by Rene Hernandez.
Hotel by Tim Conrad.
Instead of Abracadabra by Patrik Eklund.
Kavi by Gregg Helvey.
Miracle Fish by Luke Doolan.
The New Tenants by Joachim Back.
The Response by Adam Rodgers.
Short Term 12 by Destin Daniel Cretton.
Sidney Turtlebaum by Tristram Shapeero.

The Short Films and Feature Animation Branch Reviewing Committee viewed all the eligible entries for the preliminary round of voting in screenings held in New York and Los Angeles.

Short Films and Feature Animation Branch members will now select three to five nominees from among the 10 titles on this shortlist. Branch screenings will be held in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco in January 2010.

The 82nd Academy Awards nominations will be announced on Tuesday, 2 February 2010, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2009 will be presented on Sunday, 7 March 2010, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network.