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British Academy Announces Nominees–King’s (14!), Social, Grit, Inception, Swan

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British Academy Announces Nominees–King’s (14!), Social, Grit, Inception, Swan

BAFTA, the British Academy Awards, have announced their nominees for their annual awards. “The King’s Speech” got 14 nominations–staggering.

Here’s the list. Some films that we’ll have in our Academy Awards, like actors from “Rabbit Hole” and “Blue Valentine,” havent’ been released in the UK yet so they’re not eligible. An interesting note: the Coen Brothers were not nominated in the Best Director category even though “True Grit” made the Best Film list. Danny Boyle, of “127 Hours,” took their slot. Who knows what that’s about?

BEST FILM 
BLACK SWAN – Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver, Scott Franklin
 
INCEPTION – Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan
 
THE KING’S SPEECH – Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin
 
THE SOCIAL NETWORK – Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Céan Chaffin
 

TRUE GRIT – Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
 

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
127 HOURS – Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy, Christian Colson, John Smithson
 
ANOTHER YEAR – Mike Leigh, Georgina Lowe
 
FOUR LIONS – Chris Morris, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, Mark Herbert, Derrin Schlesinger
 
THE KING’S SPEECH – Tom Hooper, David Seidler, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin
 

MADE IN DAGENHAM – Nigel Cole, William Ivory, Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley
 

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER
THE ARBOR – Director, Producer – Clio Barnard, Tracy O’Riordan
 
EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP – Director, Producer – Banksy, Jaimie D’Cruz
 
FOUR LIONS – Director/Writer – Chris Morris
 
MONSTERS – Director/Writer – Gareth Edwards
 
SKELETONS – Director/Writer – Nick Whitfield
 

BEST DIRECTOR
127 HOURS – Danny Boyle
 
BLACK SWAN – Darren Aronofsky
 
INCEPTION – Christopher Nolan
 
THE KING’S SPEECH – Tom Hooper
 
THE SOCIAL NETWORK – David Fincher

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
BLACK SWAN – Mark Heyman, Andrés Heinz, John McLaughlin
 
THE FIGHTER – Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson
 
INCEPTION – Christopher Nolan
 
THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT – Lisa Cholodenko, Stuart Blumberg
 
THE KING’S SPEECH – David Seidler
 

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
127 HOURS – Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy
 
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO – Rasmus Heisterberg, Nikolaj Arcel
 
THE SOCIAL NETWORK – Aaron Sorkin
 
TOY STORY 3 – Michael Arndt
 
TRUE GRIT – Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
 

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
BIUTIFUL – Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik, Fernando Bovaira
 
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO – Søren Stærmose, Niels Arden Oplev
 
I AM LOVE – Luca Guadagnino, Francesco Melzi D’Eril, Marco Morabito, Massimiliano Violante
 
OF GODS AND MEN – Xavier Beauvois
 
THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES – Mariela Besuievsky, Juan José Campanella
 
ANIMATED FILM
DESPICABLE ME – Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin
 
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON – Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois
 
TOY STORY 3 – Lee Unkrich
 

LEADING ACTOR
JAVIER BARDEM – Biutiful
 
JEFF BRIDGES – True Grit
 
JESSE EISENBERG – The Social Network
 
COLIN FIRTH – The King’s Speech
 
JAMES FRANCO – 127 Hours
 

LEADING ACTRESS
ANNETTE BENING – The Kids Are All Right
 
JULIANNE MOORE – The Kids Are All Right
 
NATALIE PORTMAN – Black Swan
 
NOOMI RAPACE – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
 
HAILEE STEINFELD – True Grit
 

SUPPORTING ACTOR
CHRISTIAN BALE – The Fighter
 
ANDREW GARFIELD – The Social Network
 
PETE POSTLETHWAITE – The Town
 
MARK RUFFALO – The Kids Are All Right
 
GEOFFREY RUSH – The King’s Speech
 

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
AMY ADAMS – The Fighter
 
HELENA BONHAM CARTER – The King’s Speech
 
BARBARA HERSHEY – Black Swan
 
LESLEY MANVILLE – Another Year
 
MIRANDA RICHARDSON – Made in Dagenham
 

ORIGINAL MUSIC
127 HOURS – AR Rahman
 
ALICE IN WONDERLAND – Danny Elfman
 
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON – John Powell
 
INCEPTION – Hans Zimmer
 
THE KING’S SPEECH – Alexandre Desplat
 

CINEMATOGRAPHY
127 HOURS – Anthony Dod Mantle, Enrique Chediak
 
BLACK SWAN – Matthew Libatique
 
INCEPTION – Wally Pfister
 
THE KING’S SPEECH – Danny Cohen
 
TRUE GRIT – Roger Deakins
 

EDITING
127 HOURS – Jon Harris
 
BLACK SWAN – Andrew Weisblum
 
INCEPTION – Lee Smith
 
THE KING’S SPEECH – Tariq Anwar
 
THE SOCIAL NETWORK – Angus Wall, Kirk Baxter
 

PRODUCTION DESIGN
ALICE IN WONDERLAND – Robert Stromberg, Karen O’Hara
 
BLACK SWAN – Thérèse DePrez, Tora Peterson
 
INCEPTION – Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias, Doug Mowat
 
THE KING’S SPEECH – Eve Stewart, Judy Farr
 
TRUE GRIT – Jess Gonchor, Nancy Haigh
 

COSTUME DESIGN
ALICE IN WONDERLAND – Colleen Atwood
 
BLACK SWAN – Amy Westcott
 
THE KING’S SPEECH – Jenny Beavan
 
MADE IN DAGENHAM – Louise Stjernsward
 
TRUE GRIT – Mary Zophres
 

SOUND
127 HOURS – Glenn Freemantle, Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Steven C Laneri, Douglas Cameron
 
BLACK SWAN – Ken Ishii, Craig Henighan, Dominick Tavella
 
INCEPTION – Richard King, Lora Hirschberg, Gary A Rizzo, Ed Novick
 
THE KING’S SPEECH – John Midgley, Lee Walpole, Paul Hamblin
 
TRUE GRIT – Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff, Peter F Kurland, Douglas Axtell
 

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS
ALICE IN WONDERLAND – Nominees TBC
 
BLACK SWAN – Dan Schrecker
 
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1 – _Tim Burke, John Richardson, Nicolas Ait’Hadi, Christian

Manz_
 
INCEPTION – Chris Corbould, Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Peter Bebb
 
TOY STORY 3 – Nominees TBC
 

MAKE UP & HAIR
ALICE IN WONDERLAND – Nominees TBC
 
BLACK SWAN – Judy Chin, Geordie Sheffer
 
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1 – Amanda Knight, Lisa Tomblin
 
THE KING’S SPEECH – Frances Hannon
 
MADE IN DAGENHAM – Lizzie Yianni Georgiou
 

SHORT ANIMATION
THE EAGLEMAN STAG – Michael Please
 
MATTER FISHER – David Prosser
 
THURSDAY – Matthias Hoegg
 

SHORT FILM
CONNECT – Samuel Abrahams, Beau Gordon
 
LIN – Piers Thompson, Simon Hessel
 
RITE – Michael Pearce, Ross McKenzie
 
TURNING – Karni Arieli, Saul Freed, Alison Sterling, Kat Armour-Brown
 
UNTIL THE RIVER RUNS RED – Paul Wright, Poss Kondeatis
 

ORANGE WEDNESDAYS RISING AWARD 
GEMMA ARTERTON
 
ANDREW GARFIELD
 
TOM HARDY
 
AARON JOHNSON
 
EMMA STONE

Paul Allen Cancer-Free; Facebook Founder’s Star Sister

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Paul Allen Cancer-Free; Facebook Founder’s Star Sister

Paul Allen made a surprise appearance on Saturday night at the Paramount Pictures party at the Chateau Marmont. Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, has suffered from non-Hodgkins lymphoma for the last several years, resulting in changes to his several businesses and charities. What a pleasure, though: the amateur musician, owner of the world’s largest yacht, told me he just had a very positive doctor’s visit and is basically cancer free. Congratulations, Paul! The news comes just as Apple’s Steve Jobs announced a new medical leave from that company. He’s been battling pancreatic cancer. Last year Jobs had a liver transplant…

…Meanwhile, the Golden Globes red carpet had an unusual guest: Randi Zuckerberg, older sister (by two years of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. A cheerful and cherubic young woman, Randi is also pregnant. The Harvard grad works for Facebook as marketing director, and did a taped interview with one of the red carpet hostesses about Facebook. I just happened to catch it on the closed circuit TV system in the Beverly Hilton. No mention was made of her relationship to Mark, or of “The Social Network”…

Golden Globes, Ricky Gervais: What’s Really Going On?

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The entertainment biz is a buzz tonight about Sunday’s Golden Globes, the scandals, and Ricky Gervais. There are so many different versions of the story by now, who knows what’s going on?

I had two interactions with HFPA president Phil Berk last night. Before the show started, he came out in the lobby of the Beverly Hilton and asked me rhetorically, “Why don’t the people come in and eat the food? No one is eating!” After the show he came up to me and said, “Great show! We put on a great show!” It’s as if he’s Martin Landau playing Ed Wood playing Phil Berk. He loves being famous even if it means he’s a joke.

One Hollywood blog, called thewrap.com, is gung ho about the scandals of the Globes and the Hollywood Foreign Press. They’re writing about it constantly. Another, Deadline.com, has turned into such a suck up machine that they’ve abandoned the subject entirely. They’ve never reported on the lawsuit filed by Michael Russell against the HFPA. They do lob ad hominem, personal attacks against everyone else (so and so is an a-hole, etc).

Then there’s the new HFPA press rep, Ken Sunshine Associates. No one is better at spinning a story than Ken Sunshine, who I count as a friend. Thanks to Ken and his office, any of the following things are possible: the HFPA loved Ricky’s monologue or hated it. the dreadfully boring Phil Berk loved or hated it. Ricky will or will not be invited back. Ricky does or doesn”t care what people think. All of these things exist as true simultaneously now in reports. Ken is brilliant.

Also: does anyone aside from the real press care about the HFPA scandals? Conflict of interest? Bribery? Under the table deals? Fraud? In Hollywood, these things are considered admirable! Just the fact that the HFPA has gotten away with it all has made them seem cooler to this lunatic town.

For example: I found out that one of the more miserable members of the group went to Vegas an on all expense paid trip over New Year’s. Who paid? Possibly someone from a nominated film. When I asked Berk about it, he was eager to rat out the member. There’s no honor among thieves! As Robert DeNiro noted, they fight among themselves!

See the video of Ricky Gervais’s monologue below.

Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban: Reason for New Baby Daughter’s Name–Exclusive

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Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have a new baby daughter.

Faith Margaret was born to a surrogate on December 28th at Nashville’s Centennial Women’s Hospital.

I can tell you this exclusively: according to a friend, they chose the name Faith “for what they needed to have during this process.” And Margaret: “was the name of Nicole’s grandmother, who had her last child at age 49. As an older mother, Nic wanted it to be  a tribute to her.”

But I am told the parents will not–absolutely not–be selling pictures or doing interviews about Faith Margaret. Unlike some recent pr stunts (hello John Travolta) the Urbans are staying private and classy.

The proud parents issued the following statement: “Our family is truly blessed, and just so thankful, to have been given the gift of baby Faith Margaret. No words can adequately convey the incredible gratitude that we
feel for everyone who was so supportive throughout this process, in particular our gestational carrier.”

We’re pretty sure gestational carrier was a female human and not a kangaroo!

Kidman has two children from her marriage to Tom Cruise, Isabella and Conor. She and Urban, of course, are the parents of Sunday Rose, age 2.

So much for reports from a few weeks ago that Nicole had a “baby bump!”

Congratulations to this exceptionally nice, loving couple on rounding out their happy family.

Leo, Julianne, Jake Make the Late Night Golden Globe Parties

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Leo, Julianne, Jake Make the Late Night Golden Globe Parties

So who had the latest of the late night Golden Globe party?

If you were at the Chateau Marmont around 4am, the answer was easy. The legendary Hollywood celeb hotel was literally ablaze with lights in all the windows. The restaurant and outdoor patio were buzzing, and outside there were lines of limos and livery cars, as well as the token autograph hounds and paparazzi.

Inside, a big group ordered a marathon dinner of spaghetti bolognese–maybe 18 in total including the “Blue Valentine” gang of Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, director Derek Cianfance, producer Jamie Patricof, as well as Harvey Weinstein, Jake Gyllenhaal, and John Corbett. Out on the patio, “Chuck” and “Tangled” star Zack Levi dined with some pals. There were rumors of private parties in all the bungalows. It was a confluence of events–Golden Globe night and the Martin Luther King holiday.

Many of the revelers had arrived from the CAA agency party down the street at the Sunset Towers Hotel. Guests like Leonardo Di Caprio, Julianne Moore and Bart Freundlich, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban chowed down on sliders and reviewed the evening’s events. Quentin Tarantino was involved in a long director’s discourse with Chris Evans, while “Entourage” star Kevin Connolly and his own entourage formed a posse on the terrace.  With Michelle Williams, Emma Stone, Jake Gyllenhaal, Andrew Garfield, it was certainly the hot spot for the cool kids.

Ricky Gervais Hints “Office” Appearance, Suggests Steve Carell Replacement

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Ricky Gervais is my hero.

His running of the Golden Globes was superb; his jokes were biting and welcomed. Nasty? He didn’t say anything that people in the audience last night weren’t thinking. The Globes are a joke, run by crazy people who fight among themselves in front of the actors during press conferences, and insist on having their pictures taken with the stars.

Ricky’s best jabs, though, were at gay scientologists and Mel Gibson. Wow.

After the awards show I caught up with Ricky at the HBO party on the lower level of the Beverly Hilton. He was having a drink with friends, quietly, coming down from the adrenaline rush of the show.Around him the room buzzed with HBO’s winners and players from Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson to Steve Buscemi and the gang from “Boardwalk Empire,” and Richard Kind, Robert Wuhl, Mark Wahlberg, and even Sean Diddy Combs.

Gervais told me a couple of important things about “The Office.” Of course, he’d introduced Steve Carell by crying that the American actor was leaving their “cash cow.”

Who would Ricky like to see replace Carell? “Will Arnett,” he said. “I always thought so. No one’s asked me but that’s what I think. He’s perfect.”

Ricky also gave Showbiz411 a couple of clues–hints–about what’s to come. He may yet appear on the Anerican show, and soon. “Watch on the 27th,” he said, “and you’ll get an idea of who’s going to be running The Office.” Will he be on that episode? “Just watch,” he reassured me.

Meanwhile, Ricky’s new HBO show starts this week. And he’s getting ready to film a new series for the BBC and HBO called “Life’s Too Short.”

As for the Golden Globe gig: it was rehearsed. The people he poked fun at knew what was coming, In a perverse way, HFPA president Phil Berk somehow enjoys the negative attention. Go figure.

Golden Globe Wrap: Social, Colin, Natalie, Annette, Paul–Will the Oscars Be Different?

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Golden Globe Wrap: Social, Colin, Natalie, Annette, Paul–Will the Oscars Be Different?

The Golden Globe for Best Picture went to “The Social Network.”

Now what will the Academy do? Last year, after the Globe went to “Avatar,” the Academy chose “The Hurt Locker” for Best Picture.

This could happen again. The Globes have been so discredited in the last few weeks it’s entirely possible the Oscar will go to another film.

For now, though, the people behind “The Social Network” can enjoy their tremendous success. David Fincher won Best Director also for “The Social Network.”

Best Actor went to Colin Firth, Best Actress to Natalie Portman. In the comedy/musical, the acting awards went to Annette Bening and Paul Giamatti.

Robert DeNiro Gets Lifetime Achievement Award, Gets Bleeped

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Robert DeNiro, who doesn’t like to speak in public, had a rough time tonight on the Golden Globes.

DeNiro — a little looser than usual– mocked the Hollywood Foreign Press Association ruthlessly, made some jokes that weren’t too funny and lamented the fact that his clip reel always contains scenes from the same movies. He chided the group for not showing bits of about a dozen movies no one’s seen– or ever wanted to.

DeNiro also made fun of the HFPA for just wanting to take pictures with celebrities. He’s right; that’s what they’re known for.

But the DeNiro canon is safe. He’s got a long list of classics that no one can knock or take away from him. But someone should have taken away his drinks at the dinner table–no matter how nervous he was. NBC at least saved him with a little well placed bleeping.

Laura Linney: Bittersweet Globes Win; Annette Bening Finally!

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Golden Globes update:

Laura Linney just won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in “The Big C.” But it’s a bittersweet victory since Linney’s beloved playwright dad, Romulus Linney, died yesterday. Life is full of these ironies. Laura is so good in “The Big C,” she deserves to enjoy her success. Condolences.

Annette Bening, meanwhile, won Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical for “The Kids Are All Right,” which is neither a comedy or a musical. Natalie Portman will win Best Actress in a Drama later tonight. Then the two will go head to head in the Oscar race.

So far who looks great: Jane Fonda, spectacular.  Melissa Leo, who rocks.

Odd stuff: so many of the TV nominees, and all the “Glee” winners. HBO has raked in the awards tonight, for Steve Buscemi, “Boardwalk Empire,” and Al Pacino as Jack Kevorkian. If it weren’t for HBO there would be no dramatic TV. The networks should be ashamed of themselves. Strange juxtaposition: Claire Danes and Jennifer Love Hewitt in the same category. Hmmm….

Exclusive: Michael Douglas to Present Best Picture at Globes

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Michael Douglas–fresh from his spectacular recovery from throat cancer–is set to present the Best Picture award tonight at the Golden Globes.

This will make for good, emotional live television. Watch for a thunderous standing ovation as Douglas takes the stage at the end of the show.

Douglas may also be on stage at the beginning of the show too. Scarlett Johansson is presenting Best Supporting Actor. And although Christian Bale and Geoffrey Rush–who flew in from Australia–are more likely winners, Douglas could nab the prize for his work on “Wall Street 2.”

Douglas and dad Kirk Douglas have long been Golden Globe favorites. A few years ago, the Hollywood Foreign Press even made a cash donation to the Douglas Family Foundation to ensure their presence for Michael’s lifetime achievement award.

Either way, it will be great to see Michael on stage, victorious and healthy, iwth beautiful Oscar winning wife Catherine Zeta Jones by his side.

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