Lucasarts’ Thrillville and Lego Star Wars II plus ILM’s The Show have all received Webby Award nominations. Click through to QueenAmidala’s blog for more information.
Librarians heart Tag and Bink
Tag and Bink Were Here, aka one of the best Star Wars comics Dark Horse has ever published (in this blogger’s opinion, anyway) has been selected by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA, a division of the ALA) by being one of their selections for the 2007 recommended list of Great Graphic Novels for Teens. Rock!
That’s no moon. That’s a Saturn!
The nominations have come out for The Saturn Awards; basically sci-fi’s answer to The Oscars and The Emmy’s combined.
Superman Returns leads the pack with ten nominations in the film categories. But even if you weren’t a fan of that film, there are tons of nominations to make most fans’ hearts go pitter-pat in at least one category.
And the TV categories seem to be a wide-open battle between Lost, Heroes, Dexter and Battlestar Galactica.
The winners are announced in May.
And the nominations go to….
Ahh. It’s that time of year! Love ’em or hate ’em, awards are handed out for the high’s and lows’. And scanning through the awards lists, genre films have scored some award nominations. We’re sure there are other films nominated, but do we really care?
The Oscars
Best Original Screenplay – Pan’s Labyrinth
Best Adapted Screenplay – Children of Men
Best Foreign Language Film – Pan’s Labyrinth
Best Art Direction – Pan’s Labyrinth, Pirates of the Caribbean 2, The Prestige
Best Cinematography – Children of Men, The Illusionist, Pan’s Labyrinth, The Prestige
Best Film Editing – Children of Men
Best Makeup – Pan’s Labyrinth
Best Original Score – Pan’s Labyrinth (Editor’s Note: No John Williams?!)
Best Sound Editing – Pirates of the Caribbean 2
Best Sound Mixing – Pirates of the Caribbean 2
Best Visual Effects – Pirates of the Caribbean 2, Poseiden, Superman Returns
The Razzies
Worst Picture – BloodRayne, Lady in the Water, Wicker Man
Worst Actor – Nicholas Cage, Wicker Man
Worst Actress – Kristanna Loken, BloodRayne
Worst Supporting Actor – Ben Kingsley, BloodRayne; M. Night Shyamalan, Lady in the Water; David Thewliss, The Omen
Worst Supporting Actress – Kate Bosworth, Superman Returns; Michelle Rodriguez, BloodRayne
Worst Screen Couple – Nicolas Cage & His Bear Suit, Wicker Man
Worst Remake – Wicker Man
Worst Director – BloodRayne, Lady in the Water
Worst Screenplay – BloodRayne, Lady in the Water
If you actually want to contribute to an awards show, The Razzies will allow you to buy a membership and make your opinion known.
Best effects of the year?
Variety (via Hyperspace) reports that Casino Royale, Eragon, Night at the Museum, X-Men: The Last Stand, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Poseidon and Superman Returns are finalists for the three visual effects Oscar nominee spots. ILM worked on Pirates, Posidon, and Eragon.
Lego Star Wars II wins award
Spike TV has annouced their 2006 Video Game Award winners, and Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy has taken the top honor for a game based on a movie or TV show. The awards, hosted by Samuel L. Jackson, will be broadcast tonight at 10pm EST/PST.
Lucas to get special award in May
George Lucas will receive a special honor at the 50th annual San Francisco Film Festival – a one-time award named after founder Irving “Bud” Levin.
Forty Nebula winners in haiku
Lego commercial animaters win award
Brain Zoo Studios has received a Davey Silver Award for Animation for work done on the Lego Star Wars II commercials.
While we were drinking…
Here’s some of what’s been going on in the outside world.
Revenge of the Sith won two DVD awards. Also on the official site, November 2006 Comics.
Speaking of comics, don’t bother looking for Legacy #3 in stores. It was supposed to come out today (the schedule even said so until this morning) but it’s… not. Word on the boards is that last week’s books didn’t ship either. (I don’t know: I only buy Legacy.) Dark Horse isn’t the only one: Something is rotten in the comics industry.
“May the force be with you” tops online quote poll. And I don’t think TFN linked the poll, which means it might actually have won fair and square. Cool.
Some new Star Wars miniatures debuted at GenCon. The set includes a “Mystral” Shadow Guard, but unless they came with booze and/or naked men, I don’t think any of us noticed. Also, it seems they’re restarting the RPG.
Colleen Doran witnesses The Fan From Hell. I think we’ve found one that beats the Woodtick, folks.
Those damn Harry Potter plagiarists made it all the way up the fannish blog chain to John Scalzi. Twice.
Other stuff I would have blogged:
– NASA has misplaced the original moon landing tapes. Our tax dollars at work!
– Daniel Radcliffe is down with Harry Potter dying.
– Crazy mofo has “temporary” Wolverine piercing. My hand hurts just looking at it.
– Hayden Christensen making some movie.
– Things writers have no control over. (Add to the list: Killing Chewbacca.)
– The Top 8 Shows For SF Myth Busters.
– 11 Things in Fantasy/That I Don’t Promise Not to Use (or Keep Using) in My Writing and 6 More Things I Could do Without in Fantastic Literature & I don’t plan to use except to make fun of.