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A recent Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants game featured a surprise shoutout to JoJos Bizarre Adventure as MLB star Shohei Ohtani walked up to the plate, courtesy of Ohtani's wife Mamiko Tanaka in celebration of "Womens Night" at LA's Dodger Stadium.

Via Yahoo News (Jp), The latest Dodgers game saw star hitter and designated pitcher Shohei Ohtani walk up the plate to "Il vento doro," a song from the fourth season of JoJos Bizarre Adventure's "Golden Wind" arc. Chosen by the player's wife, Mamiko Tanaka, for "Womens Night," which saw the players enter to songs chosen by their partners. Ohtanis usual walk-up music of "The Show Goes On" by rapper Lupe Fiasco was swapped out for the Yugo Kanno piece, usually played when the heroes figure out the best trick or strategy to beat their adversarial stand users.

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They've done what they've had to do to survive on AMC's The Walking Dead, brining hope and despair to palpable life on the small screen with gritty realism every week. Covered in grime, splattered in blood, and trudging down the sun-baked backroads and brush-bordered trails this season, the stellar cast and crew of The Walking Dead have paid their dues and then some, and now they're getting a tip of the cap in return with seven nominations for the 41st Annual Saturn Awards.

Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Emily Kinney, Melissa McBride, Chandler Riggs, and Andrew J. West have all earned nominations, with the TV series itself receiving one as well. Also recognized in this year's nominations is Scream Factory's Nightbreed: The Director's Cut Blu-ray, NBC's Hannibal TV series, Only Lovers Left Alive, and many more.

Press Release - "The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films announces the...

This weekend is a box office wild card.

Liam Neeson is an earnings force unto himself, and his latest turn as an air marshal on a hijacked transatlantic flight in Non-Stop should evict The Lego Movie from its three-weekend stronghold on the No. 1 spot. But the big, looming unknown is Mark Burnett and Roma Downey’s Son of God. Its weekend prospects have analysts stumped, with estimates ranging anywhere from $12 million to $30 million. And even the high end of that could be wildly off.

With that said, here’s how things might play out. And, to change things up a bit,...

I had a great time at last night's Critics' Choice Movie Awards at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. I'm a proud voting member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association and I always look forward to our Movie Awards!

It was a great night with an equally great party vibe, and all the stars were relaxed as they imbibe on cocktails and eat fantastic food.

But the best part of the evening was the awards show itself (I always feel that the Critics' Choice is a much better Oscar predictor than the Golden Globes) where Alfonso Cuaron's "Gravity" triumphed in all the technical categories including Best Director and "12 Years a Slave" received the top honor of Best Picture with Lupita Nyong'o beating "American Hustle's" Jennifer Lawrence for the Best Supporting Actress trophy.

My favorite part of the awards show? The love given to Matthew McConaughey for Best Actor...

They've geared up for one of the biggest night Hollywood has to offer, and the stars were ready for the 2014 Critics' Choice Movie Awards on Thursday (January 16).

The most popular and idolized names in the business strolled down the red carpet at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, CA before swaggering in, seeing their peers accept and take home the most highly sought-after awards.

The greatest wins of the night went to "Dallas Buyers Club" stud Matthew McConaughey for Best Actor and "Blue Jasmin" babe Cate Blanchett for Best Actress.

The Best Movie Award went to "12 Years a Slave," and check down below out the full list of 2014 Critics' Choice Movie Awards!

Best Picture

American Hustle

Captain Phillips

Dallas Buyers Club

Gravity

Her

Inside Llewyn Davis

Nebraska

Saving Mr. Banks

Winner: 12 Years a Slave

The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Actor

Christian Bale – American Hustle

Bruce Dern – Nebraska

Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years...

The critics have spoken, and 12 Years a Slave has been named Best Picture of the Year at the 19th Annual Critics' Choice Awards.

Slave beat out American Hustle, Her, Gravity, Captain Phillips, Nebraska, The Wolf of Wall Street, Saving Mr. Banks, Inside Llewyn Davis and Dallas Buyers Club at a ceremony that came just hours after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences named their nominations for this year's Oscars.

Getting off on a comedic foot, Anchorman 2 stars Christina Applegate and James Marsden presented the award for Best Actor in a Comedy Movie to Leonardo DiCaprio for The Wolf Of Wall Street, while Amy Adams was named Best Actress in a Comedy for American Hustle, which also won the award for Best Comedy Movie.

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DiCaprio was all smiles as he accepted his award and thanked everyone involved with making the movie. He ended on...

Digital Spy presents the major winners and nominees at the 19th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards, held on Thursday, January 16 at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California. Eligible films were released in 2013.

Best Picture

American Hustle

Captain Phillips

Dallas Buyers Club

Gravity

Her

Inside Llewyn Davis

Nebraska

Saving Mr Banks

12 Years a Slave - Winner

The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Actor

Christian Bale - American Hustle

Bruce Dern - Nebraska

Chiwetel Ejiofor - 12 Years a Slave

Tom Hanks - Captain Phillips

Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club - Winner

Robert Redford - All Is Lost

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine - Winner

Sandra Bullock - Gravity

Judi Dench - Philomena

Brie Larson - Short Term 12

Meryl Streep - August: Osage County

Emma Thompson - Saving Mr Banks

Best Supporting Actor

Barkhad Abdi - Captain Phillips

Daniel Bruhl - Rush

Bradley Cooper - American Hustle

Michael Fassbender...

At Thursday’s Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, Gravity grabbed the most awards — seven in total — but 12 Years a Slave dominated the major categories, winning Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Lupita Nyong’o), and Best Adapted Screenplay. There were a few Golden Globe repeats, including acting wins for Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street), Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine), and Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club).

See the full winners list below:

Best Picture

American Hustle

Captain Phillips

Dallas Buyers Club

Gravity

Her

Inside Llewyn Davis

Nebraska

Saving Mr. Banks

Winner: 12 Years a Slave

The Wolf of Wall Street...

The 2014 Critics' Choice Awards were awarded on Thursday, Jan. 16. As one of the big predictors of the Oscars, some of the best films get honored at this event. Who were the big winners? Check out this list to find out.

Winning nominees are highlighted in bold.

Best picture

"American Hustle"

"Captain Phillips"

"Dallas Buyers Club"

"Gravity"

"Her"

"Inside Llewyn Davis"

"Nebraska"

"Saving Mr. Banks"

"12 Years a Slave"

"The Wolf of Wall Street"

Best actor

Christian Bale -- "American Hustle"

Bruce Dern -- "Nebraska"

Chiwetel Ejiofor -- "12 Years a Slave"

Tom Hanks -- "Captain Phillips"

Matthew McConaughey -- "Dallas Buyers Club"

Robert Redford -- "All Is Lost"

Best actress

Cate Blanchett -- "Blue Jasmine"

Sandra Bullock -- "Gravity"

Judi Dench -- "Philomena"

Brie Larson -- "Short Term 12"

Meryl Streep -- "August: Osage County"

Emma Thompson -- "Saving Mr. Banks"

Best supporting actor

Barkhad Abdi -- "Captain Phillips"

Daniel Bruhl --...

Oscar nominations 2014: Quite a few surprises (photo: Best Actress Oscar nominee Amy Adams in ‘American Hustle’) The Oscar 2014 nominations were announced early on Thursday morning, January 16, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Was Amy Adams shortlisted for American Hustle? Did Meryl Streep break another Oscar record? Did Robert Redford nearly break the record for longest gap between nominations in the acting categories? Was Jennifer Lawrence snubbed? Did Scarlett Johansson make Oscar history for her voice performance as Joaquin Phoenix’s love interest in Her? Was Peter Jackson-Ian McKellen’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug shortlisted in the technical categories? Well, below you’ll find the answers to all these questions. Be prepared: as usual, there were quite a few surprises. (You can compare the Academy’s choices to our Oscar 2014 predictions.) Full list of Oscar 2014 nominations Best Picture: American Hustle,...

The 2014 Oscar nominations were announced this morning and I have already made note of some of the "surprise" omissions in my post with the complete list of nominees, but it's always better to open up a new thread to look at little closer and see what surprises the Academy had to offer. Now I know the headline uses the word "snub", but that's just more out of familiarity since there really isn't anything such as a snub as there are only so many slots to be filled, which is why when making predictions for the nominees if the films and performances you predicted would be nominated didn't get in, they were probably replaced by those films you almost predicted would be nominated. That said, let's go down the line shall wec Best Picture No big surprises here unless you look at the nominations as a whole, which would be to...

Watch Oscar 2014 nominations announcement live streaming online (photo: shirtless Leonardo DiCaprio seducing/seduced by Margot Robbie in ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’) You can watch the Oscar 2014 nominations announcement live streaming online in the embedded video link below. According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences countdown clock, we’re 2 hours 16 minutes and 50 seconds, 42 seconds, 34 seconds … from the time of the announcement of those in the running for the 86th Academy Awards. Will Golden Globe winners American Hustle, 12 Years a Slave, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Amy Adams, Matthew McConaughey, Alfonso Cuarón, Spike Jonze, and The Great Beauty be included? Check out the 2014 Oscar nominations announcement below (once it goes live, of course). Oscar 2014 predictions "Oscar 2014 Predictions: Best Picture, Best Director." "Oscar 2014 Predictions: Best Actor." "Oscar 2014 Predictions: Best Actress." "Oscar 2014 Predictions: Best Supporting Actress." "Oscar 2014 Predictions: Best Supporting Actor". Once made available, the full list of Oscar 2014 nominations will be posted here.

Oscar 2014 predictions: From ‘Gravity’ to ‘The Great Gatsby’ (photo: George Clooney in ‘Gravity’) See previous post: "Oscar 2014 Predictions: From ‘American Hustle’ to ‘The Hunt.’" Among those listed are Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Julia Roberts, Jennifer Lawrence, David O. Russell, Jared Leto, Matthew McConaughey, Cate Blanchett, Sally Hawkins, Judi Dench, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Lupita Nyong’o, Michael Fassbender, Steve McQueen, Bruce Dern, June Squibb, James Gandolfini, Alfonso Cuarón, Sandra Bullock, Tom Hanks, and Emma Thompson. Below is the follow up list to our last-minute Oscar 2014 predictions. All lists are in alphabetical order. The only categories that feature runners-up and long shots are the two screenplay categories. Curiously, several major movies and/or widely touted potential Oscar contenders have been completely shut out of our Oscar 2014 predictions (top five films). Among these are Zack Snyder-Henry Cavill’s Man of Steel; Lee Daniels-Forest Whitaker’s The Butler; Denis Villeneuve-...

Photo: AMPAS Tomorrow morning, Thursday, January 16, Chris Hemsworth and Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs will announce the nominations for the 2014 Oscar Awards at 5:30 a.m. Pt and I will be here with the list of nominees and commentary just as I am every year. However, before we get to the actual nominees, let's take a look at each of the categories and offer up some predictions and explore the scenarios that may play out tomorrow morning. As for the nomination totals, should things work out exactly as I've listed them below (and they won't) here's how the nomination tally would break down for the top seven: 12 Years a Slave - 11 nominations Gravity - 9 nominations American Hustle - 8 nominations Captain Phillips - 7 nominations Her - 6 nominations Dallas Buyers Club - 6 nominations Nebraska - 5 nominations Let's see how I got those numbers and please feel free to agree, disagree and offer...

The International Cinephile Society has announced the nominees for the 11th Ics Awards. Abdellatif Kechiche's "Blue is the Warmest Color," the Coen Brothers' "Inside Llewyn Davis," Spike Jonze's "Her," and Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave" dominated the nominations with 7 nods each.

Winners of the 11th Ics Awards will be announced on February 23, 2014.

Here's the complete list of nominees:

Picture

. 12 Years a Slave

. Before Midnight

. Blue is the Warmest Color

. Frances Ha

. Gravity

. The Great Beauty

. Her

. Inside Llewyn Davis

. Laurence Anyways

. Spring Breakers

. The Wolf of Wall Street

Director

. Ethan Coen & Joel Coen - Inside Llewyn Davis

. Alfonso Cuarón - Gravity

. Xavier Dolan - Laurence Anyways

. Spike Jonze - Her

. Abdellatif Kechiche - Blue is the Warmest Color

. Paolo Sorrentino - The Great Beauty

Film Not In The English Language

. Beyond the Hills

. Blancanieves

. Blue is the Warmest Color

. Faust

. The Great Beauty

. The Hunt

. In the...

And the Golden Globe Awards winners are… “12 Years a Slave,” “American Hustle,” “Breaking Bad,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” and “Behind the Candelabra” were the big winners at the Golden Globe Awards. Best Motion Picture, Drama Winner: 12 Years a Slave Captain Phillips Gravity Philomena Rush Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama Winner:Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave Idris Elba, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips Robert Redford, All Is Lost Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama Winner: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine Sandra Bullock, Gravity Judi Dench, Philomena Emma Thompson, Saving Mr. Banks Kate Winslet, Labor Day Best Director – Motion Picture Winner: Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity Paul Greengrass, Captain Phillips Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave Alexander Payne, Nebraska David O. Russell, American Hustle Photos: Golden Globes Red Carpet Arrivals Best Screenplay – Motion Picture Winner: Spike Jonze, Her Bob Nelson, Nebraska Jeff Pope and Steve Coogan,...

I'll be honest, I didn't even watch the Golden Globes last night. I heard it was actually entertaining though, and I'm ok with the list of winners. I'm especially happy to see Leonardo DiCaprio win for Wolf of Wall Street, and Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Adams win for American Hustle. I hope that's how it goes down at the Oscars later this year. Anyway, check out the full list of nominees below. I've bolded the winners for you.

Best Motion Picture – Drama

“12 Years a Slave”

“Captain Phillips”

“Gravity”

“Philomena”

“Rush”

Best Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture – Drama

Chiwetel Ejiofor, “12 Years a Slave”

Idris Elba, “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom”

Tom Hanks, “Captain Phillips”

Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club”

Robert Redford, “All Is Lost”

Best Performance By An Actress In A Motion Picture – Drama

Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine”

Sandra Bullock, “Gravity”

Judi Dench, “Philomena”

Emma Thompson, “Saving Mr. Banks”

Kate Winslet,...

As the night comes to an end, GossipCenter brings you the complete list of the 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards winners.

Scoring big prizes tonight (January 12) are stars including Jennifer Lawrence for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Comedy and Matthew McConaughey for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama.

As for the films as a whole, "American Hustle" scored Best Motion Picture - Comedy, while "12 Years a Slave" scored the trophy for Best Motion Picture - Drama.

Andy Samberg and the cast of "Brooklyn Nine Nine" surprised themselves with a win for Best Actor in a Television - Comedy and the Best Overall Television Comedy, while host Amy Poehler took home Best Actress in a Television Comedy for her work in NBC's "Parks and Recreation."

Check out an updated list of winners below!

Best Motion Picture – Drama

Winner 12 Years a Slave

Captain Phillips

Gravity

Philomena

Rush

Best Performance...

The 71st annual Golden Globe Awards just wrapped with "12 Years a Slave" taking the trophy for Best Film - Drama, while "American Hustle" won for Best Film - Comedy or Musical. "12 Years a Slave" didn't win any other awards. "American Hustle," however, also won in the Best Actress (Amy Adams) and Best Supporting Actress (Jennifer Lawrence) categories. Alfonso Cuaron won in the Best Director category for his "Gravity" film. And Spike Jonze won a Best Screenplay award for "Her." Check out the full list of nominees and winners (in red) in both film and television categories below. And let us know what you thought of the awards show. Best Film . Drama * 12 Years a Slave * Captain Phillips * Gravity * Philomena * Rush Best Actress In A Film . Drama * Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine * Sandra Bullock - Gravity * Judi Dench - Philomena * Emma Thompson - Saving Mr. Banks * Kate Winslet - Labor Day Best...

With the awards season very much in full swing, the 2014 Golden Globes were held out in Beverly Hills last night, with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosting the event once more.

The awards are noted for being one of the few major prizes to divide the categories by genre – i.e. giving one for Drama and one for Musical or Comedy in the Motion Picture Categories. So using them to predict what comes next in the likes of the BAFTAs and the Oscars can naturally be difficult. Regardless, it’s clear that Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave and David O. Russell’s American Hustle were big winners last night, and both continue to build momentum towards the awards still to come.

As we eagerly await the Oscar nominations announcement later this week, here’s the full list of winners from last night’s 2014 Golden Globes. A great way to start the week.

Full list of winners for the 2014 Golden Globes Awards as voted for by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.Film AWARDSBest motion picture - drama

Winner: 12 Years A Slave

Captain Phillips

Gravity

Philomena

Rush

Best motion picture - musical or comedy

Winner: American Hustle

Her

Inside Llewyn Davis

Nebraska

The Wolf Of Wall Street

Best director

Winner: Alfonso Cuaron - Gravity

Paul Greengrass - Captain Phillips

Steve McQueen - 12 Years a Slave

Alexander Payne - Nebraska

David O Russell - American Hustle

Best actor - drama

Winner: Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club

Chiwetel Ejiofor - 12 Years a Slave

Idris Elba - Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Tom Hanks - Captain Phillips

Robert Redford - All is Lost

Best actor - musical or comedy

Winner: Leonardo DiCaprio - The Wolf Of Wall Street

Christian Bale - American Hustle

Bruce Dern - Nebraska

Oscar Isaac - Inside Llewyn Davis

Joaquin Phoenix - Her

Best actress - drama

Winner: [link=nm...

Golden Globes 2014 winners (photo: 2014 Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe winner Jennifer Lawrence in ‘American Hustle’) Scroll down to check out the full list of Golden Globes 2014 winners. This year’s Golden Globes ceremony took place earlier this evening, January 12, with Amy Poehler and Tina Fey back as hosts. (Here are our fearless — and somewhat accurate — Golden Globes 2014 Predictions and our equally fearless — and mostly accurate — 2014 Golden Globes Predictions - The Nominations.) The 2014 Golden Globe nominations were announced by Aziz Ansari, Zoe Saldana, and Olivia Wilde exactly one month ago. Among the surprises was the inclusion in the Best Picture - Drama category of Ron Howard’s domestic box office disappointment Rush, starring Chris Hemsworth and Best Supporting Golden Globe nominee Daniel Brühl, and the exclusion of The Wolf of Wall Street‘s Martin Scorsese from the Best Director roster. Also, Julie Delpy and Greta Gerwig were both in the running...

The 71st Annual Golden Globes were announced tonight with hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler being amazing again. 12 Years a Slave and American Hustle took home best motion pictures, Drama and Comedy/Musical, respectively. Breaking Bad earned its due sand said farewell once and for all with Best Drama Series; the full list of winners is below for you to check out. The road to The Oscars begins now!

Best Motion Picture, Drama

Winner: 12 Years a Slave

Captain Phillips

Gravity

Philomena

Rush

Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama

Winner: Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club

Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave

Idris Elba, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips

Robert Redford, All Is Lost

Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama

Winner: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine

Sandra Bullock, Gravity

Judi Dench, Philomena

Emma Thompson, Saving Mr. Banks

Kate Winslet, Labor Day

Best Director – Motion Picture

Winner: Alfonso Cuaron,...

In case you missed the 71st Golden Globes on NBC, Et has the winners!

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Read on to see if your favorite stars are took home Golden Globe gold. (Winners underlined below).

Best Motion Picture, Drama:

12 Years a Slave

Captain Phillips

Gravity

Philomena

Rush

Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama:

Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 years a Slave

Idris Elba, Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom

Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips

Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club

Robert Redford, All is Lost

Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama:

Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine

Sandra Bullock, Gravity

Judi Dench, Philomena

Emma Thompson, Saving Mr. Banks

Kate Winslet, Labor Day

Best Director - Motion Picture:

Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity

Paul Greengrass, Captain Phillips

Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave

Alexander Payne, Nebraska

David O. Russell, American Hustle

Related: Stars React to Golden Globe Nominations

Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy:

American Hustle

Her

Inside Llewyn Davis

[link...

12 Years a Slave, nominated for seven Golden Globe Awards, narrowly avoided getting shut out when it took home the night’s final and biggest prize for Best Drama. Steve McQueen’s period slave drama looked to be out of favor with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, with Gravity’s Alfonso Cuaron winning for Best Director, Her’s Spike Jonze winning for Best Screenplay, and the Dallas Buyers Club duo of Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto winning the acting awards. But when Johnny Depp announced the big prize, 12 Years a Slave came out on top.

In the Comedy category, American Hustle won Best Picture,...

The full list of winners and nominees in the movie categories at the 71st Golden Globes, hosted by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler on Sunday, January 12, 2014, is as follows:

Best Motion Picture (Drama)

12 Years A Slave - Winner

Captain Phillips

Gravity

Philomena

Rush

Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy)

American Hustle - Winner

Her

Inside Llewyn Davis

Nebraska

The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Actor (Drama)

Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave

Idris Elba, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Tom Hanks, Captain Phillips

Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club - Winner

Robert Redford, All Is Lost

Best Actor (Musical or Comedy)

Christian Bale, American Hustle

Bruce Dern, Nebraska

Leonardo DiCaprio, The Wolf of Wall Street - Winner

Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis

Joaquin Phoenix, Her

Best Actress (Drama)

Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine - Winner

Sandra Bullock, Gravity

Judi Dench, Philomena

Emma Thompson, Saving Mr Banks

Kate Winslet, Labor Day

Best Actress (Musical or Comedy)

Amy Adams,...

The 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards took place tonight at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles today, with Tina Fey (30 Rock) and Golden Globe nominee Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation) serving as hosts for the second year in a row. Take a look at the full list of Golden Globes winners below.

Best Motion Picture - Drama

- 12 Years a Slave - Plan B Entertainment, New Regency Productions and River Road Entertainment; Fox Searchlight PicturesCaptain Phillips - Columbia Pictures; Sony Pictures ReleasingGravity - Warner Bros. Pictures / Esperanto Filmoj / Heyday Films; Warner Bros. PicturesPhilomena - Pathe, BBC Films, BFI, Canal+, Cine+, Baby Cow/Magnolia Mae; The Weinstein CompanyRush - Universal Pictures, Cross Creek Pictures, Exclusive Media, Imagine Entertainment, Working Title, Revolution Films; Universal Pictures

Best Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture - Drama

Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club

Chiwetel Ejiofor - 12 Years a Slave

Idris Elba -...

The 2014 Golden Globes have (finally) arrived, and we can't wait to see what happens.

With big names, like Meryl Streep, Sandra Bullock, Julia Roberts, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, and Matthew McConaughey up for awards, and some big movies, like "Gravity," "12 Years a Slave," "Captain Phillips," "Philomena," and "Rush," vying for the top prize, this year's ceremony is as competitive as ever.

We'll be watching and updating the list below, so come back to see who won (and who didn't) as the night progresses.

Best Motion Picture - Drama

"12 Years a Slave" (Winner)

"Captain Phillips"

"Gravity"

"Philomena"

"Rush"

Best Performance By An Actress In A Motion Picture - Drama

Cate Blanchett, "Blue Jasmine" (Winner)

Sandra Bullock, "Gravity"

Judi Dench, "Philomena"

Emma Thompson, "Saving Mr. Banks"

Kate Winslet, "Labor Day"

Best Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture - Drama

Matthew McConaughey, "Dallas Buyers Club" (Winner)

Chiwetel Ejiofor, "12 Years a Slave"

Idris Elba,...

Golden Globes 2014 predictions: ‘American Hustle’ tops? (photo: Amy Adams in ‘American Hustle’) The winners of the 2014 Golden Globes will be announced on Sunday, January 12, 2014 — the same day that two-time Oscar winner Luise Rainer (The Great Ziegfeld, The Good Earth) turns 104 years old. (I’d have said "cosmic," except that Luise Rainer has never won or been nominated for a Golden Globe.) Now, who’s going to take home the dozen or so Golden Globes in the Motion Picture categories? Curiously, there’s no absolute, clear-cut favorite in any of them, except perhaps for David O. Russell’s American Hustle in the Best Comedy or Musical category, even though (or perhaps because) Russell’s ’70s throwback film is not exactly a comedy — and it’s certainly not a musical. (See full list of 2014 Golden Globes nominees.) But who cares about the Golden Globes, anyway? They’re not important. Well, whether or not you find them important,...

By Terence Johnson

Managing Editor

This Sunday the first major award show, The Golden Globes, is set to air and will give us our first true look at what the awards season might bare out. With Oscar nomination being announced on Thursday, the Globes might be the first place to convince people to put you down to win the big prize. So who will win at the Globes? I took a look at the nominations and offered some predictions and analysis.

Motion Pictures

Best Drama

12 Years a Slave

Captain Phillips

Gravity

Philomena

Rush

Analysis: 12 Years a Slave should have this in the bag But the HFPA has shown willingness to award big films (they gave the prize to Avatar in 2009) so don’t count out a Gravity win here.

Best Musical/Comedy

American Hustle

Her

Inside Lleweyn Davis

Nebraska

The Wolf of Wall Street

Analysis: American Hustle has 7 nominations, the most of any comedy.

The 2014 Golden Globe Awards will take place this Sunday, January 12 and we will be live-blogging and announcing the winners as they happen, but I felt before we do that we may as well revisit the nominees and attempt to do a little predicting. I should warn you, predicting the Golden Globes is something I find near impossible so if you're the betting type I'm not sure I would look at these predictions as anything more than a bit of fun to ponder and debate in the comments below. It's not like predicting the Oscars, where you know the people deciding the awards. Who exactly is the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA)c In fact, when I mention the HFPA did you even know they were the ones that put on the Golden Globes or did you think it was something more prestigiousc Truth of the matter is, as far as I know,...

Odd List Ivan Radford 7 Jan 2014 - 06:37

Last year may only be a memory, but its film themes linger in the mind. Here's Ivan's pick of 2013's best soundtracks...

Just a quick scan down the list below reveals an extraordinary breadth of genres and subject matters, from imposing, expensive science fiction films to quiet, intimate stories about men at sea on boats or outlaws breaking out of prison to be with their wives. Disparate though the films are, they're all linked by at least one common motif: their music is utterly brilliant.

So with 2014 already well underway, and an entire new wave of films with great music in them beckoning, join us as we look back to the movies of last year, their finest soundtracks, and the must-listen pieces of music you can dig out on each one.

1. Gravity (Steven Price)

Must-listen track: Don't Let Go

When does sound...

The Golden Globe nominations were announced in December, kicking off the 2013-2014 awards season and setting the tone to this year’s Hollywood celebrations.

As with any award show, the Golden Globe nominations were immediately dissected to determine who was snubbed, who surprised, and who was over praised. Below is a complete list of nominees, so you can make your own analysis.

TV:

Best TV Movie or Miniseries:

American Horror Story: Coven

Behind the Candlabra

Dancing on the Edge

Top of the Lake

The White Queen

Best TV Series – Drama:

Breaking Bad

Downton Abbey

The Good Wife

House of Cards

Masters of Sex

Best TV Series – Comedy or Musical:

The Big Bang Theory

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Girls

Modern Family

Parks and Recreation

Best Actor in a TV Series – Drama:

Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad)

Liev Schreiber (Ray Donovan)

Michael Sheen (Masters of Sex)

Kevin Spacey (House of Cards)

James Spader (The Blacklist...

My 2013 retrospective is dominated by strong character pieces, where an individual rises or falls due to the extraordinary circumstances of their surroundings. No other film encapsulates this philosophy more than Steve McQueen's brilliant adaptation of 12 Years a Slave, which kicks off my 10 Ten Movies of 2013. Without further ado, here is the rest of my list.

Top Ten Films of 2013

112 Years a Slave

Steve McQueen's adaptation of Solomon Northup's 12 Years a Slave is the best film of 2013 and the best movie ever made about slavery in the United States. Chiwetel Ejiofor wins the Best Actor Oscar as Northup in this true story of an upstate New York musician who is lured, drugged, and sold into slavery. A harrowing story, 12 Years a Slave is not a brow beating epic with grand visuals and lengthy monologues. It looks at the small story of a free man's brutal incarceration of servitude in the antebellum south.

’12 Years a Slave’: 2013 movie about slavery in the American South is Best Film of the year for some U.S. critics’ groups (photo: Chiwetel Ejiofor in ’12 Years a Slave’) Directed by Steve McQueen and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave remains one of the favorites — perhaps the favorite 2013 release — among U.S.-based critics’ groups. Below is the list of winners from four of those: the Austin Film Critics Association, the Southeastern Film Critics Association, the Florida Film Critics Circle, and the Las Vegas Film Critics Society. Their winners were announced within the last week or so. McQueen’s slavery drama was the top choice of three of the aforementioned groups. The one exception was the Austin Film Critics, who went for Spike Jonze’s Her, in which Joaquin Phoenix falls in love with a computer with Scarlett Johansson’s voice. In the acting categories, 12 Years a Slave‘s...

The Alliance of Women Film Journalists has announced the winners for the 2013 Eda (Excellent Dynamic Activism) Awards! And predictably, by now, Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave" took the top honors with McQueen taking home the best director trophy, and Lupita Nyong'o the best supporting actress honor.

The great team of Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto for "Dallas Buyers Club" emerged victorious with their wins for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor respectively.

Nicole Holofcener's "Enough Said" won two for best woman director and woman screenwriter for Holofcener.

Ridley Scott's "The Counselor," on the other hand, did not get love...at all! It won the Hall of Shame and The Movie You Wanted to Love But Just Couldn't awards. Its star, Cameron Diaz took home the Actress Most in Need of a New Agent award. Yikes! But they're true though!

Here are the nominees and winners (bolded) of...

Steve McQueen and David O Russell's movies each land 13 nominations, while Gravity takes 10 and four other key contenders make do with six

Two of the key bruisers of contemporary cinema are to square up against each other at this year's Critics Circle awards. In the red corner: Steve McQueen, whose 12 Years a Slave – a devastating drama about deep south slavery – has landed 13 nominations. And in the blue: David O Russell with American Hustle, an exuberant comedy drama about the FBI Abscam con of the 1970s, which has taken the same number.

This leaves Gravity trailing with 10 nominations, while Captain Phillips, Her, Nebraska and The Wolf of Wall Street all take six. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug came in with five, while August: Osage County, Enough Said, Iron Man 3 and Rush took three.

Some performers earned multiple nods – Sandra Bullock's performance in Gravity means she's in the running...

Kicking off the week with some exciting news, the 2014 Critics’ Choice Movie Awards announced the new batch of nominees.

And as could be expected, “American Hustle,” “12 Years A Slave,” “Nebraska,” “Her,” and “Dallas Buyers Club” were among the hopefuls for Best Picture.

As for the Best Actor contenders, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Christian Bale, Bruce Dern and Matthew McConaughey all have a shot at taking home some hardware.

Meanwhile, Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Emma Thompson, and Sandra Bullock were named among the Best Actress nods.

The 2014 Critics’ Choice Movie Awards will hit the CW airwaves on January 16th. And the nominees are:

Best Picture

American Hustle

Captain Phillips

Dallas Buyers Club

Gravity

Her

Inside Llewyn Davis

Nebraska

Saving Mr. Banks

12 Years a Slave

The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Actor

Christian Bale – American Hustle

Bruce Dern – Nebraska

Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave

Tom Hanks – Captain Phillips

Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club

Robert Redford...

Did your favorites make the cut? See the full list of Critics’ Choice Movie Award nominees and weigh in!

The critics have spoken! The 2014 Critics’ Choice Movie Awards nominations were announced Dec. 16, and some of HollywoodLife.com‘s favorites — including Jennifer Lawrence and Gravity – are up for major accolades. Browse the full list of nominees, then tell us who you’ll be rooting for when the big show airs Jan. 16 on The CW.

Critics’ Choice Movie Award Nominations — Full List Of Nominees

Best Picture

American Hustle

Captain Phillips

Dallas Buyers Club

Gravity

Her

Inside Llewyn Davis

Nebraska

Saving Mr. Banks

12 Years a Slave

The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Actor

Christian Bale – American Hustle

Bruce Dern – Nebraska

Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave

Tom Hanks – Captain Phillips

Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club

Robert Redford – All Is Lost

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine

Sandra Bullock – Gravity

Judi Dench – Philomena

Brie Larson...

The Broadcast Film Critics Association (Bfca) has announced the nominees for The 19th Annual Critics. Choice Movie Awards. Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave" and David O. Russell's "American Hustle" led the pack with thirteen nominations each including Best Picture.

.Gravity. also impressed with ten nominations for Best Picture, Best Actress for Sandra Bullock, Best Director for Alfonso Cuarón, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Editing, Best Visual Effects, Best Actress in An Action Movie for Sandra Bullock, Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie and Best Score.

The winners will be announced live at the Critics. Choice Movie Awards ceremony on Thursday, January 16, 2014 from the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. The show will be broadcast live on The CW Network at 8:00 Pm Et/Pt. Two hour pre-show coverage will also air in various local markets before the awards ceremony. Aisha Tyler will grace the show as this year.s host.

With 13 nods each, 12 Years A Slave and American Hustle led nominations for the 19th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards. 12 Years received nods for Best Picture, Best Actor for Chiwetel Ejiofor, Best Supporting Actor for Michael Fassbender, Best Supporting Actress for Lupita Nyong’o, Best Acting Ensemble, Best Director for Steve McQueen, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Editing, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Best Score for Hans Zimmer.

American Hustle’s nominations include Best Picture, Best Actor for Christian Bale, Best Supporting Actor for Bradley Cooper, Best Supporting Actress for Jennifer Lawrence, Best Acting Ensemble, Best Director for David O. Russell,...

The International Press Academy has announced its nominations for the 18th annual Satellite Awards and Alfonso Cuaron's "Gravity," David O. Russell's "American Hustle," and Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave" led the pack.

Winners will be announced on March 9, 2014 at a ceremony in Los Angeles. Here's the complete nominations:

Motion Pictures

Actress in a Motion Picture

Amy Adams American Hustle (Sony)

Cate Blanchett Blue Jasmine (Sony Pictures Classics)

Sandra Bullock Gravity (Warner Bros.)

Judi Dench Philomena (The Weinstein Company)

Adèle Exarchopoulos Blue Is the Warmest Color (Sundance)

Julia Louis-Dreyfus Enough Said (Fox Searchlight)

Meryl Streep August: Osage County (The Weinstein Company)

Emma Thompson Saving Mr. Banks (Disney)

Actor in a Motion Picture

Christian Bale American Hustle (Sony)

Bruce Dern Nebraska (Paramount)

Leonardo DiCaprio The Wolf of Wall Street (Paramount)

Chiwetel Ejiofor 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight)

Tom Hanks Captain Phillips (Sony)

Matthew McConaughey Dallas Buyers Club (Focus Features...

The Alliance of Women Film Journalists has announced the nominees for the 2013 Eda (Excellent Dynamic Activism) Awards! The nominees are in line with the current favorites but I love their Special Mention section with categories like Actress Most In Need Of A New Agent -- we're looking at you Cameron Diaz!

Winners will be announced next week, but for now, here's the full list of nominees of the 2013 Eda Awards from the Alliance of Women Film Journalists:

Awfj Best Of Awards

Best Film

12 Years a Slave

American Hustle

Gravity

Her

Inside Llewyn Davis

Nebraska

Best Director (Female or Male)

Joel and Ethan Coen . Inside Llewyn Davis

Alfonso Cuaron . Gravity

Spike Jonze - Her

Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave

Alexander Payne . Nebraska

David O. Russell . American Hustle

Best Screenplay, Original

American Hustle . Eric Singer and David O. Russell

Enough Said . Nicole Holofcener

Her . Spike Jonze

Inside Llewyn Davis . Joel and Ethan Cohen...

‘Her’ movie tops 2013 San Diego Film Critics Awards (Joaquin Phoenix in ‘Her’) The San Diego Film Critics Society has released its list of 2013 nominees and winners. The nominations themselves were quite eclectic, ranging from Best Actress nominee Brie Larson for Short Term 12 to Best Film nominee Gravity. The list of winners, however, tended to be more mainstream. For instance, Warner Bros.’ Spike Jonze-directed Her, starring Joaquin Phoenix as a man who falls in love with a Scarlett Johansson-voiced computer, was chosen as the Best Film of 2013, in addition to receiving honors for Best Original Screenplay (also Spike Jonze) and Best Score (Arcade Fire). Alfonso Cuarón was the Best Director for another Warner Bros. release, Gravity, a 3D space action melodrama about an astronaut and bereaved Mom (Sandra Bullock) who learns that, no matter what, Life Is Worth Living. George Clooney co-stars. Among the other San Diego Film...

Was 2013 a weak year for film scores? I feel like it was. At least in terms of the scores that Oscar's music branch would pay attention to. I mean, four of my favourite scores of the year aren't even eligible! They would be Great Expectations (Richard Hartley), A Touch of Sin (Giong Lim), Lore (Max Richter - my no. 1 from 2012, but not released in Us until this year), and Only God Forgives (Cliff Martinez). Also not eligible for whatever reasons are Lone Survivor (Stephen Jablonsky), Frozen, Inside Llewyn Davis (T-Bone Burnett), and Nebraska (Mark Orton) - sorry Anne Marie!

I'm sure there is plenty of excellent music featured amongst this year's 141 (the documentary win this year's bragging rights, then) eligible scores, but Oscar will only look at about 10 or 12. Sorry Joseph Bishara - your abrasive strings on Insidious: Chapter 2 and The Conjuring just won't factor despite their effectiveness. Sorry...

Steve McQueen’s harrowing “12 Years a Slave” leads the 2013 nominations from the Chicago Film Critics Association, announced this morning, with a stunning 11 nominations, including Best Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor, and Supporting Actress.

A diverse array of films rounded out Best Picture for 2013, including three that have yet to even open in the Windy City — “American Hustle,” “Her,” and “Inside Llewyn Davis,” joined by Alfonso Cuaron’s “Gravity.” “Her” and “Gravity” tied for second-most nominations with seven a piece while “Llewyn Davis” notched six nominations and “American Hustle” can boast five. Other multiple nominees include “Blue is the Warmest Color” (4), “The Act of Killing” (3), and “Nebraska” (3). “August: Osage County,” “Blue Jasmine,” “Captain Phillips,” “Dallas Buyers Club,” “Spring Breakers,” “The Wind Rises,” and “The Wolf of Wall Street” all netted a pair.

Notable individual nominees include double citations for Barkhad Abdi, Adele Exarchopoulos, and Lupita Nyong’o, all nominated in their...

On Thursday morning, the nominations for the 2014 Golden Globe awards were announced by Zoe Saldana, Olivia Wilde and Aziz Ansari.

With seven nominations each, 12 Years A Slave and American Hustle lead in Golden Globe Awards nominations.

Nebraska garnered five Golden Globes nominations (Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director and Best Screenplay), while Gravity received four Golden Globes nominations for Best Picture (Drama), Best Director, Best Actress (Drama) and Best Original Score (Steven Price).

Director Alfonso Cuarón said, “What a great year for cinema! I’d like to congratulate my fellow nominees and, of course, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for recognizing Gravity with four Golden Globe nominations. I had wonderful collaborators both in front of and behind the camera who took something of a leap of faith with me years ago when we set out to make this film. I share this honor with all of them. I’m...

One hundred fourteen scores from eligible feature-length motion pictures released in 2013 will be vying for nominations in the Original Score category for the 86th Oscars®, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today.

A Reminder List of works submitted in the Original Score category will be made available with a nominations ballot to all members of the Music Branch, who shall vote in the order of their preference for not more than five achievements. The five achievements receiving the highest number of votes will become the nominations for final voting for the award.

Nomination voting in all Oscar categories begins Friday, December 27 and ends Wednesday, January 8.

The eligible scores along with their composers are listed below, in alphabetical order by film title:

“Admission,” Stephen Trask, composer

“Ain’t Them Bodies Saints,” Daniel Hart, composer

“All Is Lost,” Alex Ebert, composer

“Alone Yet Not Alone,” William Ross, composer

“The Armstrong Lie,...

The nominations are out for the 2014 Golden Globe Awards! I'm not surprised by what was nominated. I will say however, having just seen Saving Mr. Banks, I'm a little disappointed it didn't get more nominations. It was just such a phenomenal film. I'm happy that that Emma Thompson got nominated for Best Actress, but the movie deserved a Best Picture nomination, and if I had to swap out one of the movies it would be Captain Phillips, which Tom Hanks was also nominated for. Then, as much as I enjoyed the film Rush, I'm not sure it is Best Picture material either. It will be interesting to see who wins, but I'd put my money on Gravity or 12 Years a Slave. As for the TV aspect of the awards, Showtime's Homeland got completely snubbed!

Check out the full list of nominations below! Who do you want to see win?

Best...

Waking up bright and early for an exciting announcement, Zoe Saldana, Olivia Wilde and Aziz Ansari gathered at the Beverly Hilton Hotel to read the 2014 Golden Globe Awards nominations.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association recognized television series including NBC's "Parks and Recreation" and Fox's "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" in the Best Comedy category, while AMC's "Breaking Bad" and Netflix Original "House of Cards" got a nod with the Dramas.

As for motion pictures, 2014 is sure to be a tight race between hopefuls including "12 Years a Slave" and "American Hustle," each earning 7 nominations, respectively.

And Best Actor nods went to stars including Kate Winslet and Cate Blanchett in the Motion Picture Drama category, along with Christian Bale and Leonardo DiCaprio in the Motion Picture Comedy/Musical category.

Finally, Jennifer Lawrence received a nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a motion picture Comedy/Musical for her role in "American Hustle." She received a Best...