Awards season is in full bloom as the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards were handed out last weekend. The big winner of the evening was The Help, which picked up three awards.
Viola Davis, The Help, won best actress beating The Iron Lady Meryl Streep to the gong. While Best Actor favourite George Clooney, The Descendants, was piped to the post by The Artist’s Jean Dujardin.
Things are hotting up between this year’s contenders as each award ceremony throws a different film into the spot light. With The Artist, The Descendants, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Hugo, Midnight in Paris, The Help, Moneyball, War Horse and The Tree of Life all up for best picture the Oscar race is getting even more interesting.
The full list of SAG award nominees and winners can be found below.
Outstanding Performance By A Cast In A Motion Picture
The Help - Winner
Bridesmaids
The Artist
The Descendants
Midnight in Paris
Outstanding Performance By A Male Actor In A Leading Role
Jean Dujardin, The Artist - Winner
George Clooney, The Descendants
Demian Bichir, A Better Life
Leonardo DiCaprio, J. Edgar
Brad Pitt, Moneyball
Outstanding Performance By A Female Actor In A Leading Role
Viola Davis, The Help - Winner
Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn
Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs
Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady
Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About Kevin
Outstanding Performance By A Male Actor In A Supporting Role
Christopher Plummer, Beginners - Winner
Nick Nolte, Warrior
Kenneth Branagh, My Week With Marilyn
Armie Hammer, J. Edgar
Jonah Hill, Moneyball
Outstanding Performance By A Female Actor In A Supporting Role
Octavia Spencer, The Help - Winner
Berenice Bejo, The Artist
Jessica Chastain, The Help
Melissa McCarthy, Bridesmaids
Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs
Outstanding Performance By A Stunt Ensemble In A Motion Picture
Harry Potter and the Deahtly Hallows: Part II - Winner
The Adjustment Bureau
Cowboys & Aliens
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
X-Men: First Class
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The 2012 Oscar nominations were announced earlier this afternoon of which you can find the major categories below. Gary Oldman, Janet McTeer and Kenneth Brannagh are keeping the British end up in the acting nominations. Let us know what think about this years nominations via our facebook and twitter account.
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This weeks film schedule updates:
Beauty and the Beast 3D now opens 62 April 2012 Read more
The upcoming film Shame signals Michael Fassbender’s arrival as one of the world’s greatest actors, joining the likes of Daniel Day-Lewis and Philip Seymour Hoffman. In the film, out tomorrow, Fassbender plays Brandon, a seemingly normal man, who’s professionally successful, lives an ordered, structured life and has an addiction to sexual gratification. Read more
This weeks film schedule updates:
Like Crazy now opens 27 January 2012 Read more
With all the 2012 blockbuster trailers coming out this past week, (if you haven’t yet seen the Prometheus trailer, what have you been waiting for?!) it’s not difficult to get excited about next year’s film slate but at DCM we’ve paused for a minute to reflect on the last twelve months.
There’s been some spectacular cinematic highlights over the past year (has it really been twelve months since The King’s Speech made waves at the UK box office?), so we asked DCM staff to name their top three films of the year. The results have been processed through an extremely complex spread-sheet and collated into an exhaustive list for your reading pleasure. Read more
Meryl Streep was among the nominees when the 2012 Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations were announced last week.
Streep was nominated for her role in The Iron Lady, a biopic about British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Read more
The 2012 Awards season is well and truly here, as the 69th Annual Golden Globe awards nominations are announced.
Check out the full list below: Read more
DCM hit the red carpet with Tom Cruise and Simon Pegg on Tuesday for the London premiere of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol.
Tom Cruise, who turns 50 next year, plays secret agent Ethan Hunt in the fourth film in the franchise which he also produces. Speaking on the red carpet at London's IMAX cinema, Cruise claimed he had no intention of slowing down. "I'm just going to keep going, as long as I can do it. I love making action movies," he said. Read more
Around 10 years ago, the movie industry cottoned on to using viral marketing to create buzz amongst cinemagoers.
Fake websites, videos, pictures, teaser snippets of information let loose in web space created instant chatter and pre-release buzz. Read more
When you’ve remade a striking European hit thriller, itself an adaptation of one of the most popular novels of the new millennium and have already preceded it with arguably the best trailer of 2011, it’s fair to say there’s a bit of pressure and expectation. Last night at the world premiere for Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, David Fincher proved that he can more than handle it, delivering a taut and brilliant thriller that promises to be the start of a genuinely exciting franchise for adults.
With most of the cast and crew in attendance, including Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara and Fincher, the anticipation in Odeon Leicester Square was palpable and when the lights went down, you could hear a pin drop. For the next 157 minutes the audience were mesmerised as the dark and twisted world of the Vanger clan was detailed with precision and efficiency by a first rate cast and crew. Daniel Craig’s rock solid Mikael Blomqvist anchors the film but it’s Rooney Mara’s Lisbeth Salander who really stands out. Mara had a lot to live up to after Noomi Rapace’s star-making turn in the original version but she more than matches Rapace with a portrayal that strikes the perfect balance between vulnerability and dangerous unpredictability. Read more
Film of the year? Possibly. A genuinely brilliant cinematic experience? Without question. The Artist is a 100 minute French silent film, which may not sound like the most appealing proposition in 2011 but put aside any preconceptions and prepare yourself for one of the year’s real gems.
The immensely charismatic Jean Dujardin plays George Valentin, a silent movie star in Hollywood in the 1920s. With changing technology and films moving into the realm of the ‘talkies’, Valentin stubbornly refuses to move with the times and before long his audiences are dwindling and his career is in ruins. His fall from grace coincides with Peppy Miller’s rise to stardom (a wonderful Berenice Bejo), a rise Valentin helped instigate. Read more
