BAFTA Nominations 2008
More awards nominations! This time for the BAFTAs 2008. Atonement has a massive FOURTEEN nominations… really should watch that now, shouldn’t I? I really think This Is England should win for Best British Film, and I’m happy Juno‘s Ellen Page has nods, and Diablo Cody is in there too. You can watch the Press Conference with all the announcements here.
The ceremony will be on Sunday Feb 10th at the Royal Opera House in London, and the show will be presented by Jonathan Ross.
Okay, I warn you – it’s a long list. More follow under the cut…
FILM
AMERICAN GANGSTER – Brian Grazer/Ridley Scott
ATONEMENT – Tim Bevan/Eric Fellner/Paul Webster
THE LIVES OF OTHERS – Quirin Berg/Max Wiedemann
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN – Scott Rudin/Joel Coen/Ethan Coen
THERE WILL BE BLOOD – JoAnne Sellar/Paul Thomas Anderson/Daniel Lupi
BEST BRITISH FILM
ATONEMENT – Tim Bevan/Eric Fellner/Paul Webster/Joe Wright/Christopher Hampton
THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM – Frank Marshall/Patrick Crowley/Paul L Sandberg/Paul Greengrass/Tony Gilroy/Scott Z Burns/George Nolfi
CONTROL – Orian Williams/ Todd Eckert/Anton Corbijn/Matt Greenhalgh
EASTERN PROMISES – Paul Webster/Robert Lantos/David Cronenberg/Steve Knight
THIS IS ENGLAND – Mark Herbert/Shane Meadows
LEADING ACTOR
GEORGE CLOONEY – Michael Clayton
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS – There Will Be Blood
JAMES McAVOY – Atonement
VIGGO MORTENSEN – Eastern Promises
ULRICH MÜHE – The Lives of Others
LEADING ACTRESS
CATE BLANCHETT – Elizabeth: The Golden Age
JULIE CHRISTIE – Away From Her
MARION COTILLARD – La Vie en Rose
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY – Atonement
ELLEN PAGE – Juno
Golden Globes Predictions (Movies)
Simple and easy, just like that. Guesting is Tom of Rate This Day. Apologies for the lack of italicisation. I’m being yelled at by my crazy boss.
Sam’s Films of the Year
So the list time has been upon us for a few months now and it’s our turn here at E&L to throw some assertions into the ring about the year’s finest movies. So I’m first up out of the blocks and I’d, as many have this year, like to make a toast to the quality of film which seems to have been released over the past year. There have been some truly marvellous works of movie-making-magic over the past twelve months and I salute particularly the emerging crop of talent which seems to be tearing it up right now.
So my list is based on movies that were released in the last twelve months in the UK and therefore omits a number of excellent movies that have figured constantly on the year-end charts of other sites. Notably, No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood fall into that category. I have also failed to see every excellent movie which has been released over the past year but I’ve listed the feasible candidates for that mini-category at the bottom of the list. So, without further ado, check this out.
Invasion of the Body Linkers!!
Paula Radcliffe trained through her pregnancy to win the New York Marathon women’s race today.
The Guardian be hatin’ on actor-director hyphenated types.
ZEFRON WATCH!! Like Britney Watch, but you know, less stuff hanging out. Zefron using valet service here.
Place with the above, to compliment it’s aromas, HUDGE WATCH!! The squeaky teeny tiny is definitely on for HSM3.
The San Francisco Chronicle serves up a dish on Twin Peaks‘ spanking new boxset edition. Ten discs of mind-bending detective fiction.
Salon knows that second is nowhere. Unfortunately, Oprah doesn’t believe you.
Aaron ‘West Wing’ Sorkin is going back to The Theatre. The New York Times discusses such a move with the man himself.
The Washington Post says Americans are a little down right now.
Check out The Independent’s list of the 101 greatest inventions. Notice one of them is not The Independent.
Just like us, The Observer freakin’ LOVED Hairspray in the West End!
Barack Obama checks into SNL. Probably not to cover ‘Dick In A Box’ though, huh? Time discusses.
Could Jeremy Kyle really not be the stand up guy he claims to be???? Shock. Horror.
I love that designer Roberto Cavalli went to a Halloween party as fellow designer Karl Lagerfeld…
The Music Of The Link
Marty and Leo are together again. On a movie set that is.
Slate reviews Dirty Sexy Money, which we are giving a second chance to.
Harp employs the voices of a number of luminaries to tell the story of The Replacements, maybe the greatest band ever. Maybe.
SuicideGirls talks to Debbie Harry, who will soon have her spirit inhabited by the B!!
New York Magazine talks to Omar and Bubbles from, officially, the greatest TV show of all time (according to Sammy), The Wire.
Who knew Boy Meets World‘s Topanga almost lost her virginity to N’Sync‘s out member Lance Bass?
We’ll take two tickets to Zac Efron’s gun show please…
There’s a fun new video showing rehearsals for Hairspray in the West End.
Who would win in a fight – a minotaur with a trident or a centaur with a crossbow? Ozzy Osbourne, George Clooney and Josh Hartnett are among the celebs mulling over this very question.
Linkin’ For The Weekend
Ever wanted to see an Eqyptian Pyramid covered in multicoloured yarn? Sony Bravia are making your dream come true…
Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding disagree about arguing whilst talking to the Observer in the lead up to the third series of The Mighty Boosh.
Dreams can come true: Once she processing mortgages at Halifax, now Leanne Jones is the star of Hairspray in the West End.
So, if you haven’t heard; Dumbledore’s gay…
This advert shows the wind has feelings too, you know…
The readers of Slate gripe and grumble ’bout those movin’ pictures…
This, right here, is an awesome, money-sapping t-shirt site. As is this.
The Guardian looks at the fantasy-film craze and why the popscene is so devoid of dudes.
Swedish pop demon Robyn floats out of obscurity and into The Telegraph.
Ray Davies discusses life and probably some other stuff with The Times.
Allegedly, the ‘skunk’ the kids are taking could cause insania in the membrania.
Time is ringside for Family Guy vs. South Park. Round 2, bitches!
The New York Times does its thing and lauds the laziest filmmaker ever (if a great artist and mythmaker) and talks about nothing with Jerry Seinfeld.
BRITNEY WATCH: The world’s most insane rich person decides her lips ain’t big enough and does this. (Not that bad)
Oscar talk begins on USA Today, wishing our lives away like a supermarket looking to Christmas.
Also, just for those who know us, I’d like to place upon here a photo of my younger brother sporting a handlebar. Sometimes, the beholder is just plain blind.
U Can’t Touch This… Link
A late posting here as we’ve just been to see the Hairspray musical. ACE!
The AV Club does something unthinkable… praises Rod Stewart?!?
Slate alerts us to the threat of German Emo kids.
Entertainment Weekly takes a look at the new graphic novel from hirsuite lizard-worshipper Alan Moore.
Rate This Day reviews Dinosaurs, a plastic Carell and Iain M Banks.
E&L hero Karl Pilkington is the subject of an ode on The Guardian.
Irish author Anne Enright won the Booker Prize.
As previously mentioned Sam and I went to see Hairspray in the West End tonight… and it was fantastic. To get an idea of what goes into a production like this go to the official UK production website and watch the rehearsal videos!
Despite being painfully obvious to all who read the clues some people were still surprised that Esquire (US) voted this women their sexiest woman of 2007, as revealed last week…
Also… How much time does this dude have on his hands?
Final thought: Michael Ball is waaaay better than John Travolta (as Edna Turnblad anyway). I never thought I would say that…
Never Gonna Link You Up
Hello! Happy Chocolate Week! Go on, stuff your faces while you look over these here links…
When comebacks go wrong. The AV Club investigates.
PopMatters talks with Debbie Harry, not so Blondie anymore.
Slate rips All-Bran a new one over their new advert and explores the myriad ways to break the law in the US.
Pitchfork interviews super-duper cronky (new word!) indie rock band Sunset Rubdown.
Menzies Campbell has resigned as leader of the Liberal Democrats. Meaning they could do okay now.
X Factor’s potential star (who can indeed sing and sung once with Take That so BACK OFF) Leona Lewis gets a lengthy profile in The Times.
Mel Smith warbles to The Telegraph about his role in the upcoming West End run of Hairspray.
Peter Bradshaw, one of those Guardian types, gives his ten movies to watch out for at the London Film Festival while Ben Myers laments the death of ‘indie’.
CBS’s fall season could have got weird with this necrophilia-loving zombie drama pilot – Babylon Fields…
Staying on the zombie theme… Andy Samberg punches a few people and then enjoys a Zombie Dance in this SNL Digital short co-starring Jon Bon Jovi, Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins.
This is a brilliant clip from the new series of The Office, ah, the things you do to pass the time …
Link Me Up, Before You Go Go
Hey, I’m not well today so I have a little morning time to tell you what’s going on in the world…
Can’t wait ’til Hairspray comes out on DVD in November? Why not dress up as one of the characters at Halloween?! Lovely Whitney tries out the looks at PopCandy…
The AV Club takes a look at how the American fall TV season is turning out. I’m loving Pushing Daisies, The Office and Chuck, Gossip Girl is getting marginally better each episode, Dirty Sexy Money is intriguing, Heroes is a little weird right now, and Sam’s also watching Reaper, Bionic Woman and Californication.
British writer Doris Lessing won the Nobel Literature Prize – “that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny”
Gary Barlow’s wife Dawn will be giving Take That bandmate Howard Donald a nightly lapdance wearing next to nothing for the next few months whilst thousands watch. The press are loving it here, here and here…
What are you going to see this weekend? Screenjabber recommends Ratatouille and The Counterfeiters. Ratatouille‘s brilliant, gives you that perky Pixar feeling afterwards, so I’ll try and get to see The Counterfeiters soon.
Simon Pegg is tipped to be playing Star Trek’s Scotty against Chris Pine (Just My Luck… you know, the McFly film?) as Captain Kirk and Sylar from Heroes (Zachary ‘eyebrows’ Quinto) as Spock. Sorry guys, but this just isn’t my thing.
Fox has axed Buffy singalongs… protest! Immediately!
Rachel Bilson, her post-Brody beau Hayden Christensen, Jamie Bell and Samuel L Jackson star in Jumper, check out the trailer below…
Electricity & Lust 
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