For those who don't know, most studios use the fall film festivals as a kind of launching
pad for their big awards contenders.
I might buy two or three different hotel packages and pool the
points for a bigger award somewhere else, or even transfer the points to a partner airline program.
Arkham City, FIFA 12, L.A. Noire, Portal 2, Skyrim, and The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword will do battle
for the big award of the night, the Best Game prize.
While anticipating
for the biggest Award show of Pakistani television, we not only look forward to all the electrifying performances or the winners of the season but also expect to visualise all the great outfits our stars and celebrities carry to the big event.
Fresh off their world premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival, two weepie films could be
headed for a big awards season.
Oscar nominated film editors Jay Cassidy and Alan Baumgarten joined me onstage last month
for our big awards season event, The Contenders Presented By Deadline.
Annnyway, with the Oscars coming up this weekend, I wanted to come up with a fun treat to share at a
party for the biggest award show celebration of the year.
That McDormand's raw performance is winning awards is no shocker, and after her Best Actress win at the Golden Globes and her Oscar nomination, she seems like a clear frontrunner
for the big award in March.
Carrie's acceptance
speech for the biggest award at the 2015 Logies stopped the nation, with the presenter encouraging the world to wear a beanie the next day to raise awareness for brain cancer.
The Hollywood Foreign Press has never been a very accurate
predictor for the bigger awards like the SAGs or the Oscars, certainly due to the strange rules they follow.
Morgan Freeman was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at Sunday's show, while movies like Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Lady Bird, and TV shows like The Crown and Game of Thrones were
nominated for big awards.
While Tom Hooper is obviously a talented director, I have no problem seeing why he isn't
up for the big awards this year.
Additionally, The Shape of Water did not win any acting or writing awards, which usually pave the
way for the biggest award of the night.
Akin's film is the penultimate title to premiere in competition at Cannes, and while it doesn't seem
headed for big awards, it still hit me hard in ways I didn't quite expect.
For the bigger awards, Russian director Andrey Svyagintsev's Loveless won the Jury Prize, Robin Campillo's BPM (Beats Per Minute) won the Grand Prix, and the coveted Palme D'Or went to Ruben Östlund's satire The Square — a reportedly divisive film that The A.V. Club's own A.A. Dowd said was one of his favorites at Cannes.
If you have points on other cards, move them all to one account so you can redeem
them for bigger awards.