'Slumdog' leads field for British Academy awards - Yahoo! News
AP – In this image released by Paramount Pictures, Brad Pitt is shown in a scene from, 'The Curious Case of … LONDON – Underdog-turned-favorite " Slumdog Millionaire " picked

'Slumdog Millionaire And 'Benjamin Button' Lead The British BAFTAs With 11 Nominations Each
The BAFTAnominations are in. They're obviously the equivalent of the British Oscars, if you happen to be living under a rock. Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire" and David Fincher's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" lead the nominees with eleven nods each. The British love their own, expect Boyle to sweep, but as one astute commenter reminds us, "If the British love their own, where is Sally Hawkins?" Hmm, indeed. Consider her a major snub. "The Dark Knight" was also snubbed in the major categories outs

British Academy Award Nominations Couldn't Care Less About The British [Awards]
As we navigate the jaded doldrums of mid-awards season, let's pause a moment to give the BAFTAs some credit for spiking its 2008 awards nominations with some counterintuitive, even self-loathing surprise.Sure, Slumdog Millionairecoasted to 11 nods, sharing the lead with fellow Best Picture and Director nominee Benjamin Button, and sure, The Reader is shockingly well-represented with nominations for Picture, Actress and Director. (Kate Winslet is also nominated for Revolutionary Road.) But the trade-off is t

Kate Winslet's BAFTA double
Kate Winslet, 'Slumdog Millionaire' and 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' lead the 2009 BAFTA Award nominations. The actress follows her double Golden Globe win with two nominations in the Leading Actress category for 'Revolutionary Road' and 'The Reader' - in which she plays a Nazi prison guard. Thanks for BAFTA suggestions. Will whittle them down to a top three then slip one in. 'Slumdog Millionaire' and 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' are the films with the most nominati

BAFTA Nominations Announced
The BAFTA Awards, the British equivalent of the Oscars, announced this years’ nominees and our fave, Slumdog Millionaire, got mad love with eleven nominations including one for our boy Dev Patel as Best Actor. Kate Winslet was bestowed a double nomination once again for The Reader and Revolutionary Road, and so was Brad Pitt who got the nod for both The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Burn After Reading. A complete list of BAFTA nominees is below:read more

Kate Winslet Is No Movie Star
Don't get mad at us. She said it. In her interview with InStyle magazine , double Golden Globe winner Kate Winslet made a curious request. "Please don't call me [a movie star]. I don't feel like a movie star in my life at all, and I don't particularly think I behave like one," the Revolutionary Road actress told the mag. Winslet explains, "I don't have my own plane. I don't have a chef or a trainer," adding that she treats her on-screen life as a job and nothing more. Just another re

Winslet's double Globes win raises questions
Actress Kate Winslet holds her awards for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama for 'Revolutionary Road' and Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for 'The Reader'' at the 66th annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California January 11, 2009. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) Reuters

BAFTA 2009 Full List Of Nominees
The BAFTA longlists included 15 contenders in each category, from which the five nominees were chosen in the second round of voting. “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and “Frost/Nixon” led in the British Academy Film Awards’ longlists revealed last week, with 14 mentions each. But the full list of nominees announced and Danny Boyle’s [...]

News Bites: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Nominated for British Oscars
have both been nominated for the British equivalent of Oscars. The nominations for the British Academy Awards were announced yesterday, and Pitt's performance in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Angelina's in Changeling were both recognized, according to Us . Other nominees included Kate Winslet for Revolutionary Road and The Reader , Meryl Streep for Doubt , Sean Penn for Milk and Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler. Gossip Girl creators and producers Josh Schwart

Brendan Gleeson named on BAFTA shortlist
Irish actor Brendan Gleeson has been nominated for a BAFTA in the Best Supporting Actor category, for his role in 'In Bruges'. 'Slumdog Millionaire' and 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' lead this year's BAFTA shortlist with 11 nominations each. Actress Kate Winslet received two nominations in the Best Actress category, for 'The Reader' and 'Revolutionary Road'.

Bafta Noms Are In
And Kate Winslet might want to start preparing her speech this time, as she's notched up two nods in the best actress category - for The Reader and Revolutionary Road. Angelina Jolie has also done well for herself, with a best actress nomination for The Changeling. But her other half, Mr Brad Pitt, has stolen her limelight with a best actor (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) and a best supporting actor gong for Burn After Reading. The ceremony will be held on February 8th.

British Academy Award Nominations Announced
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has come out with his annual movie award nominations.Here's a look at the nominees in a few major categories:BEST FILMThe Curious Case of Benjamin ButtonFROST/NIXONMILKTHE READERSLUMDOG MILLIONAIREDIRECTORCHANGELING – Clint EastwoodThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button – David FincherFROST/NIXON – Ron HowardTHE READER – Stephen DaldrySLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE – Danny BoyleORIGINAL SCREENPLAYBURN AFTER READING – Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Kate Winslet's beautiful breasts
Kate Winslet's "real" breasts have been praised by Oprah Winfrey. The US talk show host applauded the 'Revolutionary Road' actress' natural figure, adding she loves seeing a woman with natural assets on the big screen. She revealed: That's so amazing Speaking to Kate, 33, on her show, Oprah said: "I love the fact that you have real breasts, because in all the breast scenes, your breasts do what real breasts do. There's that wonderful thing, you know, if you are a woman, you're lying

Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt Land BAFTA Nods
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have been nominated for major prizes at the British equivalent of the Oscars: the Orange British Academy Film Awards. Jolie has been nominated as best leading actress for her role in director Clint Eastwood's Changeling. She'll go up against Kate Winslet (Revolutionary Road and The Reader); Kristin Scott Thomas (I've Loved You Too Long); and Meryl Streep (Doubt).read more

Jennifer Lopez: With This Ring, I Thee Wed…Unless It Doesn’t Match The Dress
I’ve been married a long, long time, and I realize that there are times when one must take off one’s wedding band.

The BAFTA Nominations for 2008 and The Madhouse Act of 1828
Trivia Time! It's been 180 years since an Act of the British Parliament allowed for the building of mental asylums. The first ever built was the 1st Middlesex County Asylum in West London which opened its doors in 1831. The British invented insane asylums! Who knew? And yet it all makes sense...177 years later, ancestors of those first Middlesex patients voted on the nominations for the British Academy Film Awards (or BAFTA or "The Orange Film Awards" --make up your minds!) honoring the films of 2008. Gemma

The Top 10 Shots of 2008
(I posted the 2007 one last year :D)10. “MILK”Director of Photography: Harris Savides" It’s really simple and it wasn’t planned at all. We were shooting the scene and the last shot that night was a close-up of the whistle. Gus and I were talking and we thought it would be great if we saw the whole scene in this whistle, and Gus made it happen in post. They took one of the shots and put it in this shot, the close-up of the whistle we got. I was surprised that it happened at all. But that kind

BAFTA predictions
The BAFTA nominations drop tomorrow, and while I hardly covered myself in glory with my

Movie Review - “Revolutionary Road”
“Revolutionary Road” is one of the most intense and traumatizing films I have seen in a long time. After leaving the theater I felt completely drained and emotionally wrecked. This film is so good it is devastating. The subject matter of this film is not only compelling but it is exhaustingly all too real. If you go into this film looking for the romantic chemistry of “Titanic”, then you will be in for quite a shock.

Baftas 2009: Kate Winslet nominated for leading actress after Golden Globes movie success
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Two Bafta nods for Kate Winslet
Double Golden Globe winner Kate Winslet is up for two best actress prizes at the British Academy Film Awards. The British star, a previous Bafta winner for Sense and Sensibility, has been nominated for her performances in Revolutionary Road and The Reader. Slumdog Millionaire is up for a host of prizes, including best film, best British film and best director. Jonathan Ross will host this year's ceremony, to be held at the Royal Opera House in London on 8 February.

Kate Winslet's Oscar hopes in doubt after Hollywood backlash over Nazi role
Kate Winslet's hopes of replicating her Golden Globes success at the Oscars could be in doubt after a Hollywood backlash against her controversial role as a former Nazi in The Reader. " />

Gemma and Hayley's support for Kate
The double Golden Globe winner received the nominations for playing a former concentration camp guard in The Reader and her role in Revolutionary Road, which reunited her with Titanic co-star Leonardo DiCaprio. Speaking about Kate's success, Hayley - who announced the nominations with Gemma - said Kate's nods were "very well deserved, extraordinary performances and both very different films and this does feel like it's her year". Gemma added: "We're all rooting for you, Kate. Go on, Kate. She

BAFTA 2009 nominations
The nominations for the 2009 BAFTA's have been announced and there are some interesting selections in the full nominations listed in the main article. I am surprised by a few inclusions, and a few categories, Mamma Mia! for Outstanding British Film is perhaps a strange one, but then there are other great choices sitting alongside it. Kate Winslet is listed twice in the Leading Actress category for The Reader and Revolutionary Road, but not in Supporting Actress, so her double Golden Globes (insert pause) ca