Jan
05
Here’s a quick awards season update for you. Stuart Craig has received a nomination in the Fantasy Film category for his brilliant production design work on Deathly Hallows Part 2, at the prestigious Art Directors Guild awards.
Also, Deathly Hallows Part 2 has gone one step closer to Oscar glory in the Visual Effects category, becoming one of the ten films shortlisted for the award. This is the current list of films, which will be cut down to five final nominees at a later date:
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Jan
04
Warner Brothers has released another two videos promoting Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 for the 2011/12 awards race.
Both have clips from the film, with text giving some critics’ comments and stating which awards it has been nominated for so far. The first video has background music from the chilling ‘Lily’s Theme’ from DH2, while the second has a voiceover reading out the critcs’ comments and award nominations.
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Dec
14
The 2011/12 awards season is now in full swing, with nominations and winners being announced in the run up to the Oscar climax.
After this year’s mega-earning, critically acclaimed, grand finale, Deathly Hallows Part 2, Potter fans were hoping the series would finally get the recognition it deserves and pick up a few big Academy Awards, and distributor Warner Bros. has been putting on a big campaign to try and help it along.
And while you will find Harry Potter scattered through the nomination lists released thus far, it’s mainly in the usual second tier technical categories. Of course everyone would be very grateful for recognition in these areas (art direction, visual effects, sound, etc), but many people, including surely the critics who gave it 96% positive reviews, thought this year we could break into the big ones – directing, writing, best picture.
We’ve also heard people crying out that the likes of Alan Rickman, Ralph Fiennes, Maggie Smith and Dan Radcliffe deserve to take home acting awards.
But those names are all absent so far, and these early awards are usually a good indication of where Oscar votes will go too.
Anyway, here are the nominations we have at this moment in time:
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