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My name is Shawn and I’m a typical 17 year old girl from a small…

My name is Shawn and I’m a typical 17 year old girl from a small town in West Michigan. Wow, I can’t believe I’m finally writing an MBE. This is CRAZY! I used to be the girl that sat behind her computer screen and read these Bieber experiences, wondering if it would ever be my turn to meet Justin. I have to admit, reading these always depressed me because I would get so jealous and frustrated. I thought my day would never come around. But it finally did on November 21st 2012 in Detroit, Michigan!     My story started back in May 2012 when I bought Believe tour tickets through the BieberFever pre-sale.   I found out Justin would be here in 6 months on my best friend Raina’s birthday! She literally cried when I told her about it at school. I bought the yearly membership so I would be able to keep an eye out for any meet & greet contests. Around September, they announced the BieberFever Best Collection contest. I got super excited/anxious because I knew all about disappointment and I hated the thought of getting my hopes up only to be let down. I figured that I couldn’t win if I never took a shot.  My friend and I spent about an hour setting up all my Bieber stuff so we could take a pic and send it in. I prayed every single night that I could be one of the lucky ten winners. I became so obsessed with this contest and thinking about the concert that my grades started to drop. I couldn’t focus in school. Basically, my life was falling apart. I cried, then prayed, then cried and prayed and hoped some more. On November 20th, the day before the concert, was the most nerve wracking day of my life. I continually checked my email every 5 minutes and when it got around 5:00 p.m., I got nervous. No email yet. I was tweeting everyone and checking in with my Michigan Beliebers in our Facebook group to see if anyone had received an email. I was trying to prepare myself for tomorrow, whether I won or not. At 6:30 p.m. a girl in our FB group posted that she had won. I went straight to my email, refreshed the page, and right before my very eyes, I saw a reply from BieberFever . I clicked on it and screamed so loud that I scared my entire family. I bawled for at least a half hour. Once I could finally compose myself, I called my best friend and told her the best news that any girl wants to hear the day before their birthday. Not only were we seeing Justin the next day, but we were gonna meet him too! So of course, I got zero sleep that night. My friend came over in the morning and we got ourselves ready for a 2 hour drive to Detroit. My mom and her boyfriend drove us down there. It ended up turning into a 4 hour drive because we were stuck in a traffic jam for 30 minutes. Those were the scariest 30 minutes of my life. I felt all my hopes and dreams slipping away as I sobbed in the backseat. I couldn’t bear the thought of missing the meet & greet.    Fast forward to when we finally got to the arena. My friend and I jumped out of the car and ran to the box office to pick up our meet & greets. It was past 4:30 which is when we were told the meet & greet was gonna start. I was flipping out, thinking I had missed it. As soon as we got in line, we ended up waiting an hour and a half because Justin was running late. We met these two other 8 th  graders in line and decided to group up with them. When we were in line, we saw Alfredo and all these girls swarmed him so I couldn’t get a pic with him. Finally, the line started moving and my heart was pounding with excitement. It felt like they led us through a maze. We went down at least 3 flights of stairs. I saw Alfredo again as he was coming down the stairs. I yelled “I love you, Fredo!” and he waved to me! It made my night. They kept leading us through all these back hallways and shit. My mind kept screaming, WHERE’S JUSTIN?! Finally, we got to a door and this guy stopped us, saying groups of six but since we were towards the back of the line, he let us in with just us four. Once they pulled back the infamous black curtain, there are no words to describe how I felt.  I could hardly catch my breath. It was as if the light from heaven was shining down on Justin. His face was flawless like porcelain, so clean and beautiful and his hair looked amazing.   He said hi and moved us all in for a picture. Alfredo was standing next to the photographer and he watched us get our pic taken and he smiled straight at me. He is the cutest (Love you, Fredo!). Justin and I touched arms as he had his arm around my friend.    After our pic, he told my friend “happy birthday,” then security basically pushed us out as I was still shouting “I love you, Justin!” to him.    I don’t even know if he saw me or heard me, but still. Once we got out, I started shaking and sobbing because everything was so perfect. It was absolutely a dream come true.    I never got to thank him in person, but I’m gonna take this moment to do that. Justin, if you ever read this, thank you so much for that night. My life is absolutely made. You were right, Justin. Never give up on your dreams. They really do come true. See the original post: My name is Shawn and I’m a typical 17 year old girl from a small…

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I Don’t Feel Good! Brian Grazer Says James Brown Biopic Is Ready To Start Casting

To paraphrase James Brown , I don’t feel good after reading Rolling Stone magazine’s interview with producer Brian Grazer about the status of the biopic that he and Mick Jagger are producing on the late soul singer. Now that the Hardest Working Man in Show Business’ estate has been put in order, Grazer says the picture is moving forward again after being in limbo for some time. Jagger has come on board as producer, which is a smart move given that he’s a student of Brown, but Grazer’s explanation of director Spike Lee’s departure from the project last fall and the subsequent hiring of The Help helmsman Tate Taylor doesn’t exactly boost my confidence level. Here’s what Grazer says: What happened with Spike Lee, who was said to be directing the original movie project before Brown’s death? He was the choice when I had the rights. I had just produced Inside Man with him. When the rights left me, I didn’t have any control, and I couldn’t make director choices. So when it came later with new people and new rights holders, we weren’t doing it with Spike Lee anymore. The world was different then. Now you have to make movies for less money. When it was announced that Lee was no longer involved and that a white director, Tate Taylor, was on board, the blogosphere went nuts. How do you respond to those comments? What would I say? I view that a bunch of different ways. Mick and I don’t see the world that way. I started my career making Boomerang and CB4 . I’ve made so many movies where I’ve supported black artists. Tate made The Help, and that had almost an entirely black population. I just want to try to make the best movie. Were you surprised by those reactions? Well, I didn’t read them! I can’t make movies like that, where I’m going to look at some blog and change the course of the whole movie. I also think Mick is so amazing. For him to decide he’s going to participate and split half the money – he’s a man of integrity, and I feel pretty good about that. I get that Grazer and Jagger want to make this an Important picture, which Brown most certainly deserves, but I fear that, given the creative path they’ve chosen, the grit of Brown’s life, which is so key to his portrayal, will be sacrificed for something more sanitized.  I hope Spike tweets his thoughts on this. Then again, as the saying goes, “shoulda, coulda, woulda” — the project is moving ahead with Taylor and Fair Game   screenwriters  John-Henry and Jez Butterworth, and Grazer says casting is about to begin: Do you think you’d cast a pop star or an actor who can sing or dance? We haven’t made any decisions yet. We’re going to start casting and we’re going to have to test lots of actors and be determined to pick the right one. No movie starts in a day. I’ve never loved a subject and not made the movie.  Friday Night Lights  took 13 years.  American Gangster  took seven or eight. Who do you think should play Brown? Put your picks in the comments section. ( Jamie Foxx , you can stop raising your hand now.)  Whoever it is, I hope Grazer and Jagger hire Prince to consult on this picture because he’s the only contemporary artist I can think of whose performances match the intensity, complexity and virtuosity of the ones Brown gave in his prime. [ Rolling Stone ]  Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter.  Follow Movieline on Twitter. 

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Golden Globes 2013 Recap of the Day

Miranda Kerr was the only girl worth paying attnetion to at the Golden Globes I watched the Golden Globes…because I wasn’t invited again this year…thank god….in fact I live tweeted them while forcing myself to stay awake for boring staged speeches, staged nominess, an overall event that doesn’t matter….where people with the silliest of jobs, part of an old boys club, who produce relative uncreative bullshit to make stupid fucking money, tell each other how good and how brace and how amazing they are…when movies don’t fucking matter….it was on some masturbatory kick…they only funny thing was Sasha Baron Cohen…because he’s a genius….the frat boys would have probably liked Will Ferrell’s bit….and the tits were really few and far between…. I tweeted so hard, twitter turned off my account and said “come back tomorrow”…. Jodie Foster had a long winded lesbian speech about being a lesbian with obvious mental issues that therapy hasn’t hashed out but has made worse….not to mention her kids look like creepy lesbian raised horror movie creatures… Highlights include: Mel Gibson looking like a stroked out jew hater… Glenn Close pretending to be drunk…the theme of the night…like a shitty high school party… Tommy Lee Jones not laughing at Will Ferrell cuz it wasn’t funny and there was no end in sight for a joke that just kept repeating itself… Quentin Tarantino and P.T. Anderson – two greats from the 90s who do this shit for a living lost to the guy from Mallrats….and although I never saw Argo…I can say that would make me angry, you know showing the world just how easy a gig directing a hit is… Jessica Alba looked skinny, Megan Fox had a new face, Adele remained fat…Anne Hathaway won for playing a character her mom played in the 80s…Hayden Panetierre didn’t show off her implants…I still want to fuck Amanda Seyfried…and I like Julianne Moore’s orange pubic hair….which I assume match Jessica Chastain’s pubic hair…in what become the year of the ginger The girls didn’t look hot…I see better pussy at the strip club or any regular club…. Claire Danes talking about making babies…that was vile…or the fact that J.Lo was the old lady dressed the hottest…even if it looked like she was on her way to Puerto Rican prom…the other girl just didn’t bring it… I’m not a hater…shit’s just boring….even when they threw some mystery my way with that Lena Dunham chick….who won twice and who has absolutely no business being on TV, but who clearly wanted to make herself famous and do whatever it takes to be on TV….she is built like Rosie O’Donnell, her show is apparently about anal sex, and the idea of her having anal sex makes me fucking sick….she is someone I wouldn’t want to even think about fucking, but yet she has a show about her fucking….like that would ever happen in any situation that didn’t involve her being the writer/producer and star of her own show….cuz girls like that…usually are forever alone…. It’s just another example that the world is turning into a bad SNL skit….The hosts putting fake nominees in different categories offended me….. Old Hollywood Glam has became a flash in a pan viral video…staring freaks and fucking geeks…who should be working the check out line….not getting 4,000,000 dollar book deals, movie deals and now Award Winning TV Shows… We’re all fucking doomed…. HERE ARE THE PICS OF EVERYONE AT THE GOLDEN GLOBES AND THE AFTERPARTIES FOLLOW THIS LINK

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Palm Springs International Film Festival Unveils 2013 Winners

The 24th Palm Springs International Film Festival capped off its 12-day event Sunday at a local restaurant naming this year’s winners. The occasion celebrated some of the fest’s 182 films in a setting that contrasts from its glittering awards show that the festival bills as a launching point to Awards Season. That event saw the likes of Ben Affleck , Sally Field , Jessica Chastain , Richard Gere , Naomi Watts , Bradley Cooper , Helen Mirren and more being honored by some of the festival’s well-heeled members. [ Related: ‘Les Misérables”s Tom Hooper Talks Anne Hathaway’s ‘Dark Place’ In Palm Springs ] But film prizes were handed out as the festival closed out its final weekend, with Wayne Blair’s The Sapphires taking the Best Narrative Feature award among Audience winners. Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey by Ramona Diaz won the Audience nod in the Documentary category. The film centers on “the dilemma the rock band Journey faces to replace their lead singer Steve Perry after he quits the band. They eventually find the perfect solution via YouTube: a street kid who fronted a Filipino cover band.” In other wins, Israeli feature Fill the Void won the critic-centered FIPRESCI Prize for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year. In the film, an “18-year-old in Tel Aviv’s Hassidic community must choose between her heart’s desire and familial duty in a drama that make the conventions of the marriage plot feel brand new.” Palm Springs screened 42 of the 71 official Foreign Language submissions for the Academy Awards. The FIPRESCI prize for Best Actor of the Year in a Foreign Language Film went to Cosimo Rega Savatore Striano and Giovanni Acuri from Italian pic Caesar Must Die by Paolo Vittorio. Emilie Dequenne from Our Children (Belgium), directed by Joachim Lafosse, received the FIPRESCI Prize for Best Actress of the Year in a Foreign Language Film. The Cleaner (Peru) by Adrian Saba won the festival’s New Voices/New Visions award. The film tells the story of a mysterious and deadly epidemic in Lima, Perù, where a depressed and isolated man cleans up after the dying. When he takes in a frightened young boy who has lost his mother, he’s quietly transformed by the experience of caring for another human being. Spain’s Blancaneives by Pablo Berger, which opened the festival January 3rd, received the festival’s Cine Latino Award. The silent movie is an adaptation of Snow White, where the daughter of a famous bullfighter is mistreated by her wicked stepmother.  When she runs away and joins a band of dwarfs, her natural bullfighting talent is discovered, but her stepmother plots to bring her down. The complete list of award winners are: Mercedes-Benz Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature 
 The Sapphires (Australia) Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature 
Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey (USA) FIPRESCI Prize for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year 
Fill the Void (Israel) FIPRESCI Prize for the Best Actor of the Year in a Foreign Language Film 
 Cosimo Rega , Salvatore Striano and Giovanni Arcuri from Caesar Must Die (Italy) FIPRESCI Prize for Best Actress of the Year in a Foreign Language Film 
Emilie Dequenne from Our Children (Belgium) New Voices/New Visions Award 
 The Cleaner (Peru) – Winner 
7 Boxes (Paraguay) – Honorable Mention Cine Latino Award 
 Blancanieves (Spain) – Winner
Sadourni’s Butterflies (Argentina) – Honorable Mention The John Schlesinger Award 
Stolen Seas (Somalia/Kenya/UK/Italy) – Winner
Far Out Isn’t Fair Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story (USA) – Honorable Mention HP Bridging the Borders Award 
 Jump (Ireland/UK) – Winner
When Day Breaks (Serbia/Croatia/France) – Honorable Mention

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WATCH: Jodie Foster Wins The Golden Globes With Her ‘Coming Out’ Speech

“I’m… single,” teased Jodie Foster Sunday night as she accepted the Golden Globes ‘ Cecil B. Demille award, before launching into the most riveting, daring, and yes, often random speeches of the night. What seemed to begin as a coming out speech touched on celebrity culture, privacy, Honey Boo Boo, Mel Gibson , her ex-partner Cydney Bernard and their children, and had some speculating she was talking retirement (a suggestion she refuted backstage). Watch Foster’s speech below and hit our Golden Globes coverage for more photos and memorable moments from Sunday night. MORE GOLDEN GLOBES COVERAGE: ‘Argo’ & ‘Les Misérables’ Take Top Movie Prizes At Golden Globes High Five! The Best GIFs Of The 2013 Golden Globes PHOTOS: See Who Sizzled At The Golden Globes 2013 Awards! Follow Jen Yamato on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .

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I don’t even know what to say right now, I still…

I don’t even know what to say right now, I still can’t believe I met JUSTIN BIEBER. I’m just going to say, if you haven’t met Justin, really don’t give up! My mom, dad, brother and I were in the car the night I was suppose to be getting the email saying if I had won the BieberFever contest coming home from my mom’s birthday dinner. I had entered myself, and my mom into the contest with two different pictures and two different emails and then my friend Erin, had entered too and if she won, she was going to give me the other wristband! I kept refreshing my email over and over again hoping something would come up, when suddenly I got a text from Erin saying, “YOU’RE MEETING JUSTIN BIEBER!” Then not even two seconds later my mom started to scream, “I GOT THE EMAIL, I GOT THE EMAIL! YOU’RE MEETING JUSTIN!” I immediately started bawling and screaming. I couldn’t believe this was happening. I called my friend Sally and told her I had won and as soon as I hung up I had gotten the e-mail from BieberFever saying I had won!! I was screaming and crying even more now, not only did I win 2 meet and greets, BUT 4! A couple minutes later me and Erin were texting, talking about who we should take and I already knew who one meet and greet was going to. I had met a friend on Twitter coming all the way from NEW MEXICO to Tulsa and I knew it’d make her life! I texted her saying, “We’re meeting Justin Bieber!” She couldn’t believe it! The other meet and greets, Erin and I gave to a couple of Kansas City girls who had never met Justin before! I stayed up all night thinking about what I’d say to Justin, and what I would do when the curtain opened. My mom, my brother and I decided we should leave at around 6 a.m., because we were driving from Texas, which is a 4 hour drive. After the long wait, we were finally in Tulsa. I was so excited. We parked and then we walked over to Justin’s hotel and at the time, there was only 2 other girls standing outside so I just waited with them. Out of one of the tour buses, an older man came out of the black tour bus, also known as Justin’s. We started making conversation and he asked us if we wanted a picture inside of Justin’s bus , and no doubt about it I said YES! After the man got back on the bus, Lil Twist came out. I asked him for a picture, and he was being so sweet! He turned towards me and the other girls and was like “Sure, definitely after I come back out!” During the time I was waiting for Twist to come back out, my phone had died. I was so upset, but luckily one of the girls waiting let me borrow her phone to take a selfie with him once he came back out. After the picture I waited until about 1:30 and got bored, so I walked over to the car where my brother was and I sat in there thawing because it was so cold. While I was at the hotel my mom had met this little girl and her grandma, and began to become friends with the grandma! They had told my mom about how the little girl had won a radio contest and they won two meet and greets and two tickets to the concert. Around 3 p.m. they had to go pick up their tickets and M&G’s so me, my brother, and mom walked with them. While we were standing in the room that the box office was in watching the little girl get her wristbands, the grandma walked over to us and was like, “I’m getting you two meet and greets and tickets to the show!” My mom being a fan of Justin was SO excited and my brother being a secret belieber was smiling so hard! I don’t know how she pulled it off but my mom and brother got into the show and met Justin for free! About 10 minutes later I met up with Erin in the box office waiting for my friend from New Mexico and the Kansas girls. When we all finally met up and had our wristbands on, it was time to get in line. We were in the line for like 2 hours and then finally the line started moving extremely fast. A guard had opened a door and we had to walk down stairs and as we were walking down, girls were screaming and bawling their eyes out and running past us! That’s when it hit me. I was about to meet my idol, my inspiration, the one person I’ve looked up to for 4 years now. I started crying, even though I swore to myself I wasn’t going to. When the girls ahead of us went in I got a peek of Justin when the curtain opened and started to cry even more.  I was shaking and overwhelmed. I was seconds away from meeting him. The guard then asked, “Are you ready?” and I immediately screamed YES! The curtain opened and I ran for Justin! The guards stopped me and they were like, “Woah woah woah! You can’t meet Justin if you’re gonna attack him hahaha!” Justin was literally right in front of me so I was reaching my arms out trying to get to him and trying to break free and they finally let me go! I wrapped both of my arms around Justin and I hugged him, basically crying into his shoulder and he hugged me back! I was like, “I love you so much, Justin, I love you” and he was like, “I love you too, don’t cry sweetheart.” By that time I was shaking and crying even more. We turned for the picture and once it was done, I immediately wrapped my arms around Justin again telling him I loved him. Then again the security guards were being rude and pushing me out, but they were nice enough to help me find my way out because I could barely see from the tears. If you were to have asked me what he was wearing in the M&G, I wouldn’t of been able to tell you because when I looked up at him, I saw his face and I was like “OMG he’s real” and I blacked out. It felt like a DREAM. I can’t even believe I was right beside Justin too! -@RadioBiebah See the original post: I don’t even know what to say right now, I still…

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Fashion’s Night Out 2012 – Dress You Up by Darren Criss [HQ]

SIGN THE PETITION FOR THE RELEASE OF DARREN’S COVER OF “DRESS YOU UP” AS A CHARITY SINGLE!!! (AND SHARE!) twitition.com Promo video for Fashion’s Night Out (September 6, 2012) The song is a cover of “Dress You Up” from Madonna’s 1984 album “Like A Virgin” sung by Darren Criss (Glee, StarKid) (Although I would totally UNdress him right away with this stubble and those moves!!! Wouldn’t you?!) Also participating: Justin Bieber, Victoria Beckham, Taylor Swift, Olivia Wilde, Usher, Julie Bowen… New York City, Paris, London, Tokyo… stores all over the world will stay open late on Sept 6, 2012 to celebrate Fashion! You can get official FNO apparel here: fashionsnightout.com http://www.youtube.com/v/QSQg3Wn9ATQ?version=3&f=videos&app=youtube_gdata Read this article: Fashion’s Night Out 2012 – Dress You Up by Darren Criss [HQ]

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‘Lincoln,’ ‘Les Misérables,’ ‘Life Of Pi’ Lead British Film Academy Nominations

Lincoln , Les Misérables and Life of Pi lead the pack Wendesday among the 2013 British Academy Film Award nominations, with Spielberg’s pic on the 16th U.S. president receiving ten nominations including Best Film while Les Mis and Pi each received nine, also picking up Best Film noms. [ Related: Directors Guild Award Nominations: Was The Wrong Director Snubbed? ] Neither Les Miérables director Tom Hooper nor Spielberg landed in the Director category, however, though Pi ‘s Ang Lee made the category along with Quentin Tarantino , Michael Haneke for Amour , Ben Affleck for Argo and Kathryn Bigelow ( Zero Dark Thirty ). The U.K.’s Skyfall , meanwhile failed to receive Best Film or Director nominations by the group, though it did receive eight other nominations, including Outstanding British Film. EE British Academy Film Awards which will take place on Sunday 10 February at London’s Royal Opera House. 2013 Nominations follow: BEST FILM ARGO – Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, George Clooney LES MISÉRABLES – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh LIFE OF PI – Gil Netter, Ang Lee, David Womark LINCOLN – Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy 
ZERO DARK THIRTY – Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, Megan Ellison DIRECTOR AMOUR – Michael Haneke ARGO – Ben Affleck DJANGO UNCHAINED – Quentin Tarantino LIFE OF PI – Ang Lee ZERO DARK THIRTY – Kathryn Bigelow LEADING ACTOR BEN AFFLECK – Argo BRADLEY COOPER – Silver Linings Playbook DANIEL DAY-LEWIS – Lincoln HUGH JACKMAN – Les Misérables JOAQUIN PHOENIX – The Master LEADING ACTRESS EMMANUELLE RIVA – Amour HELEN MIRREN – Hitchcock JENNIFER LAWRENCE – Silver Linings Playbook JESSICA CHASTAIN – Zero Dark Thirty MARION COTILLARD – Rust and Bone SUPPORTING ACTOR ALAN ARKIN – Argo CHRISTOPH WALTZ – Django Unchained JAVIER BARDEM – Skyfall PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN – The Master TOMMY LEE JONES – Lincoln SUPPORTING ACTRESS AMY ADAMS – The Master ANNE HATHAWAY – Les Misérables HELEN HUNT – The Sessions JUDI DENCH – Skyfall SALLY FIELD – Lincoln OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM ANNA KARENINA – Joe Wright, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster, Tom Stoppard THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL – John Madden, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Ol Parker LES MISÉRABLES – Tom Hooper, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh, William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS – Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin 
SKYFALL – Sam Mendes, Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, John Logan OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER BART LAYTON (Director), DIMITRI DOGANIS (Producer)- The Imposter DAVID MORRIS (Director), JACQUI MORRIS (Director/Producer) – McCullin DEXTER FLETCHER (Director/Writer), DANNY KING (Writer) – Wild Bill JAMES BOBIN (Director) – The Muppets TINA GHARAVI (Director/Writer) – I Am Nasrine DOCUMENTARY THE IMPOSTER – Bart Layton, Dimitri Doganis MARLEY – Kevin Macdonald, Steve Bing, Charles Steel McCULLIN – David Morris, Jacqui Morris SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN – Malik Bendjelloul, Simon Chinn WEST OF MEMPHIS – Amy Berg ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY AMOUR – Michael Haneke DJANGO UNCHAINED – Quentin Tarantino THE MASTER – Paul Thomas Anderson MOONRISE KINGDOM – Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola ZERO DARK THIRTY – Mark Boal ADAPTED SCREENPLAY ARGO – Chris Terrio BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD – Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin LIFE OF PI – David Magee LINCOLN – Tony Kushner SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK – David O. Russell FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AMOUR – Michael Haneke, Margaret Ménégoz HEADHUNTERS – Morten Tyldum, Marianne Gray, Asle Vatn THE HUNT – Thomas Vinterberg, Sisse Graum Jørgensen, Morten Kaufmann RUST AND BONE – Jacques Audiard, Pascal Caucheteux UNTOUCHABLE – Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache, Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Yann Zenou, Laurent Zeitoun ANIMATED FILM BRAVE – Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman FRANKENWEENIE – Tim Burton PARANORMAN – Sam Fell, Chris Butler ORIGINAL MUSIC ANNA KARENINA – Dario Marianelli ARGO – Alexandre Desplat LIFE OF PI – Mychael Danna LINCOLN – John Williams SKYFALL – Thomas Newman CINEMATOGRAPHY ANNA KARENINA – Seamus McGarvey LES MISÉRABLES – Danny Cohen LIFE OF PI – Claudio Miranda LINCOLN – Janusz Kaminski SKYFALL – Roger Deakins EDITING ARGO – William Goldenberg DJANGO UNCHAINED – Fred Raskin LIFE OF PI – Tim Squyres SKYFALL – Stuart Baird ZERO DARK THIRTY – Dylan Tichenor, William Goldenberg PRODUCTION DESIGN ANNA KARENINA – Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer LES MISÉRABLES – Eve Stewart, Anna Lynch-Robinson LIFE OF PI – David Gropman, Anna Pinnock LINCOLN – Rick Carter, Jim Erickson SKYFALL – Dennis Gassner, Anna Pinnock COSTUME DESIGN ANNA KARENINA – Jacqueline Durran GREAT EXPECTATIONS – Beatrix Aruna Pasztor LES MISÉRABLES – Paco Delgado LINCOLN – Joanna Johnston SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN – Colleen Atwood SOUND DJANGO UNCHAINED – Mark Ulano, Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti, Wylie Stateman THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY – Tony Johnson, Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick, Brent Burge, Chris Ward LES MISÉRABLES – Simon Hayes, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, Jonathan Allen, Lee Walpole, John Warhurst LIFE OF PI – Drew Kunin, Eugene Gearty, Philip Stockton, Ron Bartlett, D. M. Hemphill SKYFALL – Stuart Wilson, Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell, Per Hallberg, Karen Baker Landers SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS THE DARK KNIGHT RISES – Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Peter Bebb, Andrew Lockley THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY – Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, R. Christopher White LIFE OF PI – Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer MARVEL AVENGERS ASSEMBLE – Nominees TBC PROMETHEUS – Richard Stammers, Charley Henley, Trevor Wood, Paul Butterworth MAKE UP & HAIR ANNA KARENINA – Ivana Primorac HITCHCOCK – Julie Hewett, Martin Samuel, Howard Berger THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY – Peter Swords King, Richard Taylor, Rick Findlater LES MISÉRABLES – Lisa Westcott LINCOLN – Lois Burwell, Kay Georgiou SHORT ANIMATION HERE TO FALL – Kris Kelly, Evelyn McGrath I’M FINE THANKS – Eamonn O’Neill THE MAKING OF LONGBIRD – Will Anderson, Ainslie Henderson SHORT FILM THE CURSE – Fyzal Boulifa, Gavin Humphries GOOD NIGHT – Muriel d’Ansembourg, Eva Sigurdardottir SWIMMER – Lynne Ramsay, Peter Carlton, Diarmid Scrimshaw TUMULT – Johnny Barrington, Rhianna Andrews THE VOORMAN PROBLEM – Mark Gill, Baldwin Li EE RISING STAR AWARD Elizabeth Olsen Andrea Riseborough Suraj Sharma Juno Temple Alicia Vikander

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‘Lincoln,’ ‘Les Misérables,’ ‘Life Of Pi’ Lead British Film Academy Nominations

‘Lincoln,’ ‘Les Misérables,’ ‘Life Of Pi’ Lead British Film Academy Nominations

Lincoln , Les Misérables and Life of Pi lead the pack Wendesday among the 2013 British Academy Film Award nominations, with Spielberg’s pic on the 16th U.S. president receiving ten nominations including Best Film while Les Mis and Pi each received nine, also picking up Best Film noms. [ Related: Directors Guild Award Nominations: Was The Wrong Director Snubbed? ] Neither Les Miérables director Tom Hooper nor Spielberg landed in the Director category, however, though Pi ‘s Ang Lee made the category along with Quentin Tarantino , Michael Haneke for Amour , Ben Affleck for Argo and Kathryn Bigelow ( Zero Dark Thirty ). The U.K.’s Skyfall , meanwhile failed to receive Best Film or Director nominations by the group, though it did receive eight other nominations, including Outstanding British Film. EE British Academy Film Awards which will take place on Sunday 10 February at London’s Royal Opera House. 2013 Nominations follow: BEST FILM ARGO – Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, George Clooney LES MISÉRABLES – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh LIFE OF PI – Gil Netter, Ang Lee, David Womark LINCOLN – Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy 
ZERO DARK THIRTY – Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, Megan Ellison DIRECTOR AMOUR – Michael Haneke ARGO – Ben Affleck DJANGO UNCHAINED – Quentin Tarantino LIFE OF PI – Ang Lee ZERO DARK THIRTY – Kathryn Bigelow LEADING ACTOR BEN AFFLECK – Argo BRADLEY COOPER – Silver Linings Playbook DANIEL DAY-LEWIS – Lincoln HUGH JACKMAN – Les Misérables JOAQUIN PHOENIX – The Master LEADING ACTRESS EMMANUELLE RIVA – Amour HELEN MIRREN – Hitchcock JENNIFER LAWRENCE – Silver Linings Playbook JESSICA CHASTAIN – Zero Dark Thirty MARION COTILLARD – Rust and Bone SUPPORTING ACTOR ALAN ARKIN – Argo CHRISTOPH WALTZ – Django Unchained JAVIER BARDEM – Skyfall PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN – The Master TOMMY LEE JONES – Lincoln SUPPORTING ACTRESS AMY ADAMS – The Master ANNE HATHAWAY – Les Misérables HELEN HUNT – The Sessions JUDI DENCH – Skyfall SALLY FIELD – Lincoln OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM ANNA KARENINA – Joe Wright, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster, Tom Stoppard THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL – John Madden, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Ol Parker LES MISÉRABLES – Tom Hooper, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh, William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS – Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin 
SKYFALL – Sam Mendes, Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, John Logan OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER BART LAYTON (Director), DIMITRI DOGANIS (Producer)- The Imposter DAVID MORRIS (Director), JACQUI MORRIS (Director/Producer) – McCullin DEXTER FLETCHER (Director/Writer), DANNY KING (Writer) – Wild Bill JAMES BOBIN (Director) – The Muppets TINA GHARAVI (Director/Writer) – I Am Nasrine DOCUMENTARY THE IMPOSTER – Bart Layton, Dimitri Doganis MARLEY – Kevin Macdonald, Steve Bing, Charles Steel McCULLIN – David Morris, Jacqui Morris SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN – Malik Bendjelloul, Simon Chinn WEST OF MEMPHIS – Amy Berg ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY AMOUR – Michael Haneke DJANGO UNCHAINED – Quentin Tarantino THE MASTER – Paul Thomas Anderson MOONRISE KINGDOM – Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola ZERO DARK THIRTY – Mark Boal ADAPTED SCREENPLAY ARGO – Chris Terrio BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD – Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin LIFE OF PI – David Magee LINCOLN – Tony Kushner SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK – David O. Russell FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AMOUR – Michael Haneke, Margaret Ménégoz HEADHUNTERS – Morten Tyldum, Marianne Gray, Asle Vatn THE HUNT – Thomas Vinterberg, Sisse Graum Jørgensen, Morten Kaufmann RUST AND BONE – Jacques Audiard, Pascal Caucheteux UNTOUCHABLE – Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache, Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Yann Zenou, Laurent Zeitoun ANIMATED FILM BRAVE – Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman FRANKENWEENIE – Tim Burton PARANORMAN – Sam Fell, Chris Butler ORIGINAL MUSIC ANNA KARENINA – Dario Marianelli ARGO – Alexandre Desplat LIFE OF PI – Mychael Danna LINCOLN – John Williams SKYFALL – Thomas Newman CINEMATOGRAPHY ANNA KARENINA – Seamus McGarvey LES MISÉRABLES – Danny Cohen LIFE OF PI – Claudio Miranda LINCOLN – Janusz Kaminski SKYFALL – Roger Deakins EDITING ARGO – William Goldenberg DJANGO UNCHAINED – Fred Raskin LIFE OF PI – Tim Squyres SKYFALL – Stuart Baird ZERO DARK THIRTY – Dylan Tichenor, William Goldenberg PRODUCTION DESIGN ANNA KARENINA – Sarah Greenwood, Katie Spencer LES MISÉRABLES – Eve Stewart, Anna Lynch-Robinson LIFE OF PI – David Gropman, Anna Pinnock LINCOLN – Rick Carter, Jim Erickson SKYFALL – Dennis Gassner, Anna Pinnock COSTUME DESIGN ANNA KARENINA – Jacqueline Durran GREAT EXPECTATIONS – Beatrix Aruna Pasztor LES MISÉRABLES – Paco Delgado LINCOLN – Joanna Johnston SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN – Colleen Atwood SOUND DJANGO UNCHAINED – Mark Ulano, Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti, Wylie Stateman THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY – Tony Johnson, Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick, Brent Burge, Chris Ward LES MISÉRABLES – Simon Hayes, Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson, Jonathan Allen, Lee Walpole, John Warhurst LIFE OF PI – Drew Kunin, Eugene Gearty, Philip Stockton, Ron Bartlett, D. M. Hemphill SKYFALL – Stuart Wilson, Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell, Per Hallberg, Karen Baker Landers SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS THE DARK KNIGHT RISES – Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Peter Bebb, Andrew Lockley THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY – Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton, R. Christopher White LIFE OF PI – Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer MARVEL AVENGERS ASSEMBLE – Nominees TBC PROMETHEUS – Richard Stammers, Charley Henley, Trevor Wood, Paul Butterworth MAKE UP & HAIR ANNA KARENINA – Ivana Primorac HITCHCOCK – Julie Hewett, Martin Samuel, Howard Berger THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY – Peter Swords King, Richard Taylor, Rick Findlater LES MISÉRABLES – Lisa Westcott LINCOLN – Lois Burwell, Kay Georgiou SHORT ANIMATION HERE TO FALL – Kris Kelly, Evelyn McGrath I’M FINE THANKS – Eamonn O’Neill THE MAKING OF LONGBIRD – Will Anderson, Ainslie Henderson SHORT FILM THE CURSE – Fyzal Boulifa, Gavin Humphries GOOD NIGHT – Muriel d’Ansembourg, Eva Sigurdardottir SWIMMER – Lynne Ramsay, Peter Carlton, Diarmid Scrimshaw TUMULT – Johnny Barrington, Rhianna Andrews THE VOORMAN PROBLEM – Mark Gill, Baldwin Li EE RISING STAR AWARD Elizabeth Olsen Andrea Riseborough Suraj Sharma Juno Temple Alicia Vikander

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‘Lincoln,’ ‘Les Misérables,’ ‘Life Of Pi’ Lead British Film Academy Nominations

BAFTA Nominations: Lincoln Leads the Way

It’s that time of the year, movie fans. Yesterday, the 2013 Razzie Award nominations were announced. Tomorrow morning, we’ll learn who is up for an Oscar. And now, it’s time to turn our attention overseas, as Great Britain’s answer to the Academy Awards – the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) – will take place on February 10 and its nominees include… Best Film Argo Les Misérables Life of Pi Lincoln Zero Dark Thirty Outstanding British Film Anna Karenina The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Les Misérables Seven Psychopaths Skyfall Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director Or Producer The Imposter, Bart Layton (Director), Dimitri Doganis (Producer) McCullin, David Morris (Director), Jacqui Morris (Director/Producer) Wild Bill, Dexter Fletcher (Director/Writer), Danny King (Writer) The Muppets, James Bobin (Director) I Am Nasrine, Tina Gharavi (Director/Writer) Director Amour, Michael Haneke Argo, Ben Affleck Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino Life of Pi, Ang Lee Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow Documentary The Imposter Marley McCullin Searching For Sugar Man West of Memphis Original Screenplay Amour, Michael Haneke Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola Zero Dark Thirty, Mark Boal Adapted Screenplay Argo, Chris Terrio Beasts of the Southern Wild, Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin Life of Pi, David Magee Lincoln, Tony Kushner Silver Lings Playbook, David O. Russell Film Not In the English Language Amour, Michael Haneke, Margaret Ménégoz Headhunters, Morten Tyldum, Marianne Gray, Asle Vatn The Hunt, Thomas Vinterberg, Sisse Graum Jørgensen, Morten Kaufmann Rust and Bone, Jacques Audiard, Pascal Caucheteux Untouchable, Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache, Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Yann Zenou, Laurent Zeitoun Leading Actor Ben Affleck, Argo Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln Hugh Jackman, Les Misérables Joaquin Phoenix, The Master Leading Actress Emmanuelle Riva, Amour Helen Mirren, Hitchcock Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty Supporting Actor Alan Arkin, Argo Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained Javier Bardem, Skyfall Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln Supporting Actress Amy Adams, The Master Anne Hathaway, Les Misérables Helen Hunt, The Sessions Judi Dench, Skyfall Sally Field, Lincoln Original Music Anna Karenina Argo Life of Pi Lincoln Skyfall Cinematography Anna Karenina Les Misérables Life of Pi Lincoln Skyfall Editing Argo Django Unchained Life of Pi Skyfall Zero Dark Thirty Production Design Anna Karenina Les Misérables Life of Pi Lincoln Skyfall Costume Design Anna Karenina Great Expectations Les Misérables Lincoln Snow White and the Huntsman Sound Django Unchained The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Les Misérables Life of Pi Skyfall Special Visual Effects The Dark Knight Rises The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Life of Pi The Avengers Prometheus Make Up & Hair Anna Karenina Hitchcock The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Les Misérables Lincoln Short Animation Here To Fall I’m Fine Thanks The Making of Longbird Short Film The Curse Good Night Swimmer Tumult The Voorman Problem EE Rising Star Award Elizabeth Olsen Andrea Riseborough Suraj Sharma Juno Temple Alicia Vikander

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BAFTA Nominations: Lincoln Leads the Way