Booo! that Jessica Hynes and Stephen Mangan did not win the Tony's that they were nominated for :( but yay! for The Norman Conquests winning Best Play Revival. :)

Billy Elliot swept the boards - it really isn't the best musical I've seen IMO but meh each to their own. My opinion is probably an unpopular one (I prefer the movie).

Beautiful weather this weekend. Kinda wasted it on Saturday but today took a trip to south east London to visit Crossness Pumping Station at the suggestion of missy_manic It has beautiful iron work, and is being carefully restored. I will post pictures so you can see what I mean another time.

TV - yay! Spandau on Jonathan Ross didn't let me down, good performance. Looking forward to the tour now :) Love the 'true'/false quiz Ross did. Pegg's interview was a bit short :( But I LOL'd when he beamed down with Lady Ga Ga's tea cup (only makes sense if you saw the previous week's show). It sounds like Scotty Pegg has a scene with Spock Nimoy - now that *is* exciting, and I hadn't seen the clip of Star Trek they showed (being trying to avoid overkill on trailers/clips) :D

Non UK Pegg fans hope this works for you if you haven't found it online already:




And the BAFTA TV Awards tonight - YAY! for I.T. Crowd winning - so much for Graeham Lineham twittering that he wouldn't win! But boo for Peter Serafinowicz, and Doctor Who missing out :( (side note - David Tennant's sparkly Darth Vader t shirt worn tonight was really rather awesome) French & Saunders - I hope you never retire from parodies - they are the best.

The Oscars Meme currently doing the round on my f-list....

Films I've seen that were nominated for Best Picture Oscar (in bold):

1980 Ordinary People, Coal Miner's Daughter, The Elephant Man, Raging Bull, Tess

1981 Chariots of Fire, Reds, Atlantic City, On Golden Pond, Raiders of the Lost Ark

1982 Gandhi, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial*, Missing, Tootsie, The Verdict

1983 Terms of Endearment, The Big Chill, The Dresser, The Right Stuff, Tender Mercies

1984 Amadeus, The Killing Fields, A Passage to India, Places in the Heart, A Soldier's Story

1985 Out of Africa, The Color Purple*, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Prizzi's Honor, Witness

1986 Platoon, Children of a Lesser God, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Mission, A Room with a View

1987 The Last Emperor, Broadcast News, Fatal Attraction, Hope and Glory, Moonstruck

1988 Rain Man, The Accidental Tourist, Dangerous Liaisons, Mississippi Burning, Working Girl*

1989 Driving Miss Daisy, Born on the Fourth of July, Dead Poets Society*, Field of Dreams, My Left Foot

1990 Dances with Wolves, Awakenings, Ghost, The Godfather Part III

1991 The Silence of the Lambs, Beauty and the Beast, Bugsy, JFK, The Prince of Tides

1992 Unforgiven, The Crying Game, A Few Good Men, Howards End, Scent of a Woman

1993 Schindler's List, The Fugitive, In the Name of the Father, The Piano, The Remains of the Day*

1994 Forrest Gump, Four Weddings and a Funeral*, Pulp Fiction, Quiz Show, The Shawshank Redemption*

1995 Braveheart, Apollo 13, Babe, Il Postino (The Postman), Sense and Sensibility

1996 The English Patient, Fargo, Jerry Maguire*, Secrets & Lies, Shine

1997 Titanic, As Good as It Gets, The Full Monty*, Good Will Hunting*, L.A. Confidential*

1998 Shakespeare in Love, Elizabeth, Life Is Beautiful (La vita è bella), Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line

1999 American Beauty*, The Cider House Rules, The Green Mile, The Insider, The Sixth Sense

2000 Gladiator, Chocolat, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Erin Brockovich, Traffic

2001 A Beautiful Mind, Gosford Park, In the Bedroom, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Moulin Rouge!*

2002 Chicago, Gangs of New York, The Hours, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Pianist

2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Lost in Translation, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Mystic River*, Seabiscuit

2004 Million Dollar Baby, The Aviator, Finding Neverland, Ray, Sideways

2005 Crash*, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Good Night and Good Luck*, Munich

2006 The Departed*, Babel, Letters from Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine*, The Queen

2007 No Country for Old Men, Atonement, Juno, Michael Clayton*, There Will Be Blood

2008 Slumdog Millionaire, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Frost/Nixon*, Milk*, The Reader

* = films I especially loved/love.

( February 24th 2009 )

^ I didn't win the Oscars sweepstake :( But guessed best Director, Best Editing, Best Actress correctly amongst others. Go Brits! We did well this year :D And those of you who read Edgar or Simon's blogs will know that the editor who one the Oscar for Editing Slumdog Millionaire, also edited Spaced, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and more recently Free Agents. As I said, yay for British talent! :)

( February 18th 2009 )

^ Rubbish photo, I apologise. Sat watching the Brit Awards and realised I'd not take a photo today.

Coldplay - great performance but eeee! Take That's outfit and stage design @ Brits - hope they do that on tour. :) Loved the Kraftwerk-ish look, especially the geeky Clark Kent-ish glasses :D

But pooey for neither Coldplay or Take That winning Best British Group :( Hope Coldplay win best song for Viva La Vida...

Oh and Simon and Nick presenting appearances = bonus! :)

ETA: Here's a better video of crap screenshot above:

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Bafta honour for Pinewood studios

^ Awesome :) Home of the Fortress of Solitude sound stage amongst many other sets for the Reeve Superman movies. Amongst many many many other movies of course.

Much better video (and song) from Take That than the last one Greatest Day that looked too much like an unimaginative Westlife video (sorry Westlife fans) for my liking. I think Up All Night will a great song live on tour :)

Also, Take That are up for a Brit Award again this year but they are up against Coldplay which makes me completely torn. :-/ As long as one of 'em wins it!

x-posted to sandfordpolice.

That's what I'm talking about!



Edgar and Simon picked up an award at BAFTA/LA for Hot Fuzz winning Best British Comedy Film :D

Simon also picked up the award for Best Comedy Film Performer :D

Yay! Congrats to both.

SOURCE: BAFTA LA.

Been feeling pretty lethargic this weekend but I did go with Rach and missy_manic to Ashes to Ashes club event as posted in a2ashes community. It was fun but I gotta admit after around 11:30pm I didn't recognise much of the music. What I did recognise was great though especially Human League, Duran Duran and of course Spandau Ballet of which I listened to too much of at uni! They played 'Musclebound' when they should have played:



I just loved the singing down a tunnel sound of Tony Hadley on this song :P Anyone else on f-list a Spandau Ballet fan. No? Oh well.

Also, ItsJustSomeRandomGuy is back and season 2 of his genius "Happy Hour" has started on you tube \O/



Just finished watching BAFTA TV Awards, its pants that Life on Mars didn't win :( Oh well at least I could enjoy watching a bearded John Simm and Simon Pegg present awards.

If you don't want to know the winners don't click the cut. The awards are being televised on ITV2 tomorrow (Monday) @ 9pm.

( Empire Awards 2008 )

I know it was also theatre awards this weekend but I'm not sure if I've even seen anything that was nominated this year...

Go Simon! Go Edgar! Shame on BAFTA for not recognising Hot Fuzz this year but thankfully Empire magazine readers have got them nominated, That's what I'm talking about!

Best Comedy:
Superbad
Hot Fuzz
Knocked Up
Ratatouille
Run Fat Boy Run

^ 2 Pegg movies!

Best British Film:
Atonement
Hot Fuzz
Sunshine
Control
This Is England

Best Actor
Matt Damon (The Bourne Ultimatum)
Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix)
James McAvoy (Atonement)
Simon Pegg (Hot Fuzz)
Gerard Butler (300)

Best Director:
Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Ultimatum)
Joe Wright (Atonement)
David Yates (Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix)
Edgar Wright (Hot Fuzz)
David Fincher (Zodiac)

( click for full list of nominations )

SOURCE: Digital Spy

x-posted to sandfordpolice

were announced today! Pleased George Clooney got an actor nomination as I think its a better performance than Syriana and as good as Solaris which never got nominated anyway.

bold = one I'm rooting for to win
* = haven't seen, want to see, may end up rooting for to win.


BEST PICTURE:
Atonement
Juno*
Michael Clayton
No Country for Old Men*
There Will Be Blood

BEST DIRECTOR:
Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jason Reitman, Juno
Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men*
Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood

BEST ACTOR:
George Clooney, Michael Clayton
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd
Tommy Lee Jones, In the Valley of Elah*
Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises

BEST ACTRESS:
Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie, Away from Her
Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose
Laura Linney, The Savages
Ellen Page, Juno*

^ not seen any of these performances, undecided.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Cate Blanchett, I'm Not There
Ruby Dee, American Gangster
Saoirse Ronan, Atonement
Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton

^what no third nomination for Cate for the role of Janine in Hot Fuzz ?! Shame!

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James...*
Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson's War
Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild
Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Beaufort, Israel
The Counterfeiters, Austria
Katyn, Poland
Mongol, Kazakhstan
12, Russia

^ not seen any of these, undecided.

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Persepolis
Ratatouille
Surf's Up

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Atonement
Away from Her
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men*
There Will Be Blood

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Juno *
Lars and the Real Girl
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
The Savages

^has a comedy screenplay ever won an Oscar? Hot Fuzz should be in this catagory :(

BEST MUSIC (score)
Atonement
The Kite Runner
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma

^ No preference.

BEST MUSIC (song)
Falling Slowly - Once (performed by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova)
Happy Working Song - Enchanted (performed by Amy Adams)
Raise It Up - August Rush (performed by Jamia Simone Nash and Impact Repertory Theatre)
So Close - Enchanted (performed by Jon McLaughlin)
That's How You Know - Enchanted (performed by Amy Adams)

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:
No End in Sight
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Sicko
Taxi to the Dark Side
War/Dance

^ that said, I'd like to watch the other nominees,but Sicko is a return to form after Farenheit 9/11 IMO for Moore.

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT:
Freeheld
La Corona (The Crown)
Salim Baba
Sari's Mother

^ not seen any of these, undecided.

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:
The Golden Compass
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Transformers

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford*
Atonement
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men *
There Will Be Blood

^ undecided.

BEST ART DIRECTION:

American Gangster
Atonement
The Golden Compass
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street*
There Will Be Blood

^ undecided.

BEST ANIMATED SHORT:
I Met the Walrus
Madame Tutli-Putli
Meme Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)
My Love (Moya Lyubov)
Peter & the Wolf

^ not seen any of these, undecided.

BEST SHORT FILM:
At Night
Il Supplente
Le Mozart des Pickpockets
Tanghi Argentini
The Tonto Woman

^ not seen any of these, undecided.

BEST COSTUME DESIGN:
Across the Universe
Atonement
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
La Vie en Rose
Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

^ undecided.

BEST MAKE UP
La Vie en Rose
Norbit
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

^ Undecided, but Norbit - its got far more Raspberry nominations!

BEST SOUND MIXING:
The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma
Transformers

BEST SOUND EDITING:
The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country for Old Men
Ratatouille
There Will Be Blood
Transformers

^ undecided.

BEST FILM EDITING:
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into the Wild
No Country for Old Men *
There Will Be Blood

stolen from take_that

Just because this must be the first time a boyband has got so many nominations for something that isn't the Smash Hit's Poll Winner's Party

The 2008 Brit Awards Nominations are...

BRITISH GROUP

ARCTIC MONKEYS
EDITORS
GIRLS ALOUD
KAISER CHIEFS
TAKE THAT

MASTERCARD BRITISH ALBUM

ARCTIC MONKEYS – FAVOURITE WORST NIGHTMARE
LEONA LEWIS - SPIRIT
MARK RONSON – VERSION
MIKA – LIFE IN CARTOON MOTION
TAKE THAT – BEAUTIFUL WORLD

BRITISH LIVE ACT

ARCTIC MONKEYS
KAISER CHIEFS
KLAXONS
MUSE
TAKE THAT

BRITISH SINGLE

LEONA LEWIS – Bleeding Love
MIKA – Grace Kelly
TAKE THAT – Shine
KAISER CHIEFS – Ruby
SUGABABES – About You Now
MARK RONSON Ft AMY WINEHOUSE – Valerie
KATE NASH – Foundations
THE HOOSIERS – Worried About Ray
JAMES BLUNT – 1973
MUTYA BUENA – Real Girl

That's pretty good going!

Who else remembers Smash Hits Poll Winner's Party 1994 when they won practically everything ;) I miss that awards show. So silly and yet so fun.

Edit: Maybe it was 1995? Found this clip. Wish I had it on vhs still because the co-host was only Clark Kent himself - Dean Cain! ;)

stolen from justtracy (who stole it from Edgar's facebook)




Just because \O/ it makes me smile :)

I need a new LJ layout with these three on it. Just haven't got time at the mo to make one :(

Just got back from Vodafone Live Music Awards. Once again I have missy_manic to thank for this one - she won a competition to get tickets \O/ . Got right in front of the barrier of one of the two stages and apparently on the TV broadcast right now is some audience shots that include the front row *hides* I daren't watch in case I see myself! :P Highlights were Manic Street Preachers (if I don't say that I may be killed in my sleep by missy_manic :P No, but seriously they were good and I *finallly* have seem them live!), Kate Nash, and Stereophonics. Fav guest presenters included "Guy" and "Mac" from Green Wing - actors names escape me at the mo, and Jimmy Carr. :)

Pics tomorrow if any of them have come out decent at all. Need to sleep now, mega busy at work way too much to catch up on.

:D Superman Returns and Smallville won awards at the 2007 Spacey Awards. Swell!

FAVOURITE CHARACTER YOU LOVE TO HATE
Nominees: Dr. Gaius Baltar (Battlestar Galactica), Caprica 6 (Battlestar Galactica), Vala Mal Doran (Stargate SG-1), James "Sawyer" Ford (Lost), Lex Luthor (Smallville)
Award Presenter: Jewel Staite and Joe Flanigan from Stargate Atlantis
Winner: Lex Luthor - Accepted by Michael Rosenbaum

BEST HEROIC PERFORMANCE
Nominees: Clark "Superman" Kent (Superman Returns), Ethan Hunt (Mission: Impossible III), Neville Flynn (Snakes on a Plane), Ofelia (Pan's Labyrinth), Theo Faron (Children of Men)
Award Presenter: Masi Oka from Heroes
Winner: Clark "Superman" Kent (Superman Returns) - Accepted by Brandon Routh

BEST COMIC BOOK MOVIE ADAPTATION
Nominees: Superman Returns, V for Vendetta and X-Men: The Last Stand
Award Presenter: Tyler Mane from X:Men
Winner: Superman Returns - Accepted by Bryan Singer

BEST MOVIE VILLAIN
Nominees: Owen Davian (Mission: Impossible III), Davy Jones (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest), Le Chiffre (Casino Royale), Lex Luthor (Superman Returns), Capitan Vidal (Pan's Labyrinth)
Award Presenter: Bryan Singer from Superman Returns
Winner: Lex Luthor - Accepted by Kevin Spacey

\O/ Not only were Brandon Routh, and Bryan Singer, and Kevin Spacey in attendance but so were Nick Frost, Edgar Wright, and Simon Pegg to present an award. Good job I was nowhere near the event, I'd of geeked out big time ;)

If there are any Canadians reading this, please vote for Brandon Routh (Superman Returns) in the catagory Best Male Performance in a 2006 Science Fiction Film, TV Movie, or Mini-Series. for The Constellation Awards

Thankyou kindly.