This is the season of Hollywood awards shows. Some folks love the award shows and others seem to have tenuous, strained relationships with their televisions while the awards shows are on because sometimes, that’s all that’s on. No one wants to really compete with some of the various awards shows.
Que the Syfy channel to the rescue! Yes, I just said that because Syfy has scheduled some theatrical movie marathons for the award days.
If you’re dreading Sunday, February 12th, the Syfy Grammy programming schedule wil start at 10 AM and run through to 5:30 AM the following morning. This TV movie marathon will feature End of Days, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
If the Oscars aren’t your thing, Syfy will start it’s theatrical movie marathon at 10:30 AM and run through to 5 AM the next morning. Resident Evil and Resident Evil: Apocalypse will be featured, starting at 7 PM.
[Syfy Press]
On Tuesday, January 24th, the nominations for the 84th Annual Academy Awards were announced.
Below are the lists, first, taking note of which movie got how many noms… First by category and then I sort the Academy Award nominations by movie title.
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Presented below are the nominations for this year’s Oscars, the 84th Annual Academy Awards…
Movie Nomination Tally:
| 11 |
“Hugo” |
| 10 |
“The Artist” |
| 6 |
“Moneyball” |
| 6 |
“War Horse” |
| 5 |
“The Descendants” |
| 5 |
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” |
| 4 |
“Midnight in Paris” |
| 4 |
“The Help” |
| 3 |
“Albert Nobbs” |
| 3 |
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2″ |
| 3 |
“The Tree of Life” |
| 3 |
“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” |
| 3 |
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon” |
| 2 |
“Bridesmaids” |
| 2 |
“Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” |
| 2 |
“My Week with Marilyn” |
| 2 |
“The Iron Lady” |
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The nominations seemed a little light on the original song & makeup below. The number of nods are not surprising for a few of these films, but I would have thought that if a movie had nominations for writing, or best picture, or directing, that those same nods would have potentially garnered some actors getting their own nods off that work. But that’s just me wondering out-loud about the celebrated processes at work behind the scenes of Hollywood.
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Nominations by Category
Actor in a Leading Role
Demián Bichir in “A Better Life”
George Clooney in “The Descendants”
Jean Dujardin in “The Artist”
Gary Oldman in “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”
Brad Pitt in “Moneyball”
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Actor in a Supporting Role
Kenneth Branagh in “My Week with Marilyn”
Jonah Hill in “Moneyball”
Nick Nolte in “Warrior”
Christopher Plummer in “Beginners”
Max von Sydow in “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”
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Actress in a Leading Role
Glenn Close in “Albert Nobbs”
Viola Davis in “The Help”
Rooney Mara in “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”
Meryl Streep in “The Iron Lady”
Michelle Williams in “My Week with Marilyn”
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Actress in a Supporting Role
Bérénice Bejo in “The Artist”
Jessica Chastain in “The Help”
Melissa McCarthy in “Bridesmaids”
Janet McTeer in “Albert Nobbs”
Octavia Spencer in “The Help”
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