BELATED POST! CASTING SOCIETY OF AMERICA'S ARTIOS AWARDS 2016

Long since past, but in the flurry of awards and reviews and, you know, other real things going on in my real life, I missed it upon announcement. The Casting Society of America has chosen its Artios Award winners for last year, and they're, um, an Oscar-friendly bunch indeed. Check out the CSA's nominations here.

Outstanding Achievement in Casting - Big Budget Drama

Jackie Burch, Bonnie Grisan and Victoria Thomas (Hidden Figures)

Outstanding Achievement in Casting - Big Budget Comedy

Deborah Aquila and Tricia Wood (La La Land)

Outstanding Achievement in Casting - Studio or Independent - Drama

Douglas Aibel, Henry Russell Bergstein and Carolyn Pickman (Manchester by the Sea)

Outstanding Achievement in Casting - Studio or Independent - Comedy

Jo Edna Boldin, Richard Hicks, Marie A. K. McMaster and Chris Redondo (Hell or High Water)

Outstanding Achievement in Casting - Low Budget - Comedy or Drama

Yesi Ramirez (Moonlight)

Outstanding Achievement in Casting - Animation

Jamie Sparer Roberts and Rachel Sutton (Moana)

Hoyt Bowers Award

Nina Gold

Marion Dougherty New York Apple Award

The Public Theater

Lynn Stalmaster Award for Career Achievement

Annette Bening

COSTUME DESIGNERS GUILD DECLARES ITS 2016 AWARD WINNERS

As awards season winds up, the Costume Designers Guild rings in with its choices for excellence in film for 2016. Oscar nominees are snubbed in two of the CDG's three film categories, with Doctor Strange and Hidden Figures winning prizes instead, and La La Land continuing its dominance of the guild awards. Nominations at this link, and full details of winners right here:

Excellence in Period Film

Renee Ehrlich Kalfus (Hidden Figures)

Excellence in Fantasy Film

Alexandra Byrne (Doctor Strange)

Excellence in Contemporary Film

Mary Zophres (La La Land)

Career Achievement Award

Jeffrey Kurland

Distinguished Collaborator Award

Meryl Streep

MOONLIGHT AND ARRIVAL TAKE WGA HONOURS

Sorry, Lion! Alas, Luke Davies' script wasn't eligible for the Writers Guild of America awards, and also I'm totally not sorry. But a tremendous coup for Moonlight, as its standing in the Adapted Screenplay Oscar race only improves with a win in Original Screenplay with the WGA. Indeed, with yet another contender to fend off this weekend in the Adapted victor here, Arrival, Barry Jenkins' groundbreaking drama nevertheless becomes an even stronger candidate by beating presumed frontrunners La La Land and Manchester by the Sea. And deservedly, too. All the details of the film award nominees at this link, and the winners below.

Best Original Screenplay

Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney (Moonlight)

Best Adapted Screenplay

Eric Heisserer - based on the story Story of Your Life by TEd Chiang (Arrival)

Best Documentary Screenplay

Robert Kenner, Brian Pearle, Kim Roberts and Eric Schlosser - based on the book Command and Control by Eric Schlosser (Command and Control)

MAKE-UP ARTISTS AND HAIR STYLISTS GUILD AWARDS SPLIT ACROSS THE BOARD

Kudos to the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild. They're capable of recognizing quality in their craft across a wide variety of titles, and their slate of award winners this year (and that for nominations) makes that quite evident. Five categories and five winners, and fairly smart choices on the whole. Take a look below:

Best Period and/or Character Make-Up

Alessandro Bertolazzi (Suicide Squad)

Best Period and/or Character Hair Styling

Cydney Cornell, Matt Danon and Pauletta Lewis-Irwin (Hail, Caesar!)

Best Contemporary Make-Up

Donald Mowat, Elaine Offers and Malanie J. Romero (Nocturnal Animals)

Best Contemporary Hair Styling

Frida Aradottir, Barbara Lorenz and Jackie Masteran (La La Land)

Best Special Make-Up Effects

Richie Alonzo and Joel Harlow (Star Trek Beyond)

2016 MPSE AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED

Hacksaw Ridge takes a healthy step closer to winning the Sound Editing Oscar with victory in two categories from the Motion Picture Sound Editors. It's the only winner in more than one field here, possibly confirming that the war film is a real contender in the Oscar tech categories for which it's nominated. MPSE nominations are here.

Best Sound Editing - English Language - Effects / Foley

Steve Burgess, Alex Francis, Robert MacKenzie, Liam Price, Mario Vaccaro and Tara Webb (Hacksaw Ridge)

Best Sound Editing - English Language - Dialogue / ADR

Justine Angus, Jed Dodge, Kimberly Harris, Michele Perrone and Andy Wright (Hacksaw Ridge)

Best Sound Editing - Animation

Thom Brennan, Jonathan Borland, Pascal Garneau, Earl Ghaffari, Lee Gilmore, Matthew Harrison, Tim Nielsen, Dan Pinder, Shelley Roden and John Roesch (Moana)

Best Sound Editing - Documentary

Pete Horner, Al Nelson and Andre Zweers (The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble)

Best Sound Editing - Foreign Language - Effects / Foley / Dialogue / ADR

Fredrik Dalefjell, Erlend Hogstad, Jens Johansson, Ingela Jonsson, Lucas Nilsson, Espen Ronning and Christian Schaanning (The King's Choice)

Best Sound Editing - Musical

Jason Ruder (La La Land)

Best Sound Editing - Music

Michael Bauer and Peter Myles (Warcraft)

Verna Fields Award for Student Filmmakers

Juhasz Zoltan (Fishwitch)

Gerry Vasquez (Icarus)

MPSE Filmmaker Award

Guillermo del Toro

MPSE Career Achievement Award

Harry Cohen

FINDING DORY / LA LA LAND / THE MUSIC OF STRANGERS WIN CAS AWARDS

Saw it coming. The only people who didn't weren't watching. Check out the Cinema Audio Society's nominations here, and their 2016 winners below.

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing - Live Action
James Ashwill, Nicholai Baxter, David Betancourt, Lee Ai Ling, Steven Morrow and Andy Nelson (La La Land)

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing - Animated
Scott Curtis, Doc Kane, Nathan Nance, Michael Semanick and Thomas Vicari (Finding Dory)

Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing - Documentary
Dennis Hamlin, Peter Horner and Dimitri Tisseyre (The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble)

2016 ADG WINNERS ANNOUNCED

The Art Directors Guild has announced its award winners for 2016, and no-one is surprised. Their predictability is outdone only by their mediocracy, seemingly confirming that the year wasn't a good one for production design. It was. The ADG just didn't pick up on that fact. Nominees at this link; winners below. #JusticeForDanteFerretti!

Excellence in Production Design - Period

Wynn Thomas (Hidden Figures)

Excellence in Production Design - Fantasy

Guy Hendrix Dyas (Passengers)

Excellence in Production Design - Contemporary

David Wasco (La La Land)

THE JUNGLE BOOK TAKES TOP HONOURS AT VISUAL EFFECTS SOCIETY AWARDS

As predicted, The Jungle Book has aced it at the Visual Effects Society awards. Five wins were presented to Disney's live-action-ish remake, as the studio's fellow blockbuster Rogue One goes home empty-handed. Check out the VES' nominations at this link, and their winners in full below.

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature

Joyce Cox, Andrew R. Jones, Robert Legato, J. D. Schwalm and Adam Valdez (The Jungle Book)

Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature

Burt Dalton, John Galloway, Craig Hammack, Petra Holtorf-Stratton and Jason Snell (Deepwater Horizon)

Outstanding Animated Performance in a Photoreal Feature

Andrei Coval, Paul Story, Jack Tema and Dennis Yoo - 'King Louie' (The Jungle Book)

Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Photoreal Project

John Brennan, Robert Legato, Bill Pope and Gary Roberts (The Jungle Book)

Outstanding Models in a Photoreal or Animated Project

Jean Bolte, Kelvin Lau, Kevin Sprout and Kim Vongbunyong - 'Deepwater Horizon rig' (Deepwater Horizon)

Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal Feature

Tim Belsher, Jon Mitchell, Martijn van Herk and Adam Watkins - 'New York City' (Doctor Strange)

Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal Feature

Fabian Nowak, Ludovic Ramisandraina, David Schneider and Oliver Winwood - 'Nature effects' (The Jungle Book)

Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Feature

Matthew Adams, Masaki Mitchell, Christoph Salzmann and Max Stummer (The Jungle Book)

Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature

Steve Emerson, Travis Knight, Brad Schiff and Arianne Sutner (Kubo and the Two Strings)

Outstanding Animated Performance in an Animated Feature

Steven Clay Hunter, Jonathan Hoffman, Mark Piretti and Audrey Wong - 'Hank' (Finding Dory)

Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature

Rob Dressel, Andy Harkness, Brien Hindman and Larry Wu - 'Motonui Island' (Moana)

Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Animated Feature

Marc Henry Bryant, David Hutchins, John M. Kosnik and Dale Mayeda (Moana)

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project

Johannes Franz, Alexander Richter, Nicole Rothermel and Thomas Sali (Breaking Point)

ASC AWARDS GREIG FRASER IN SURPRISE RESULT

It was all going La La Land's way this awards season en route to Oscar glory, until the American Society of Cinematographers rang in. Long-underappreciated DP Greig Fraser wins the ASC's top award for Lion in a remarkable coup - many thought he wouldn't even be nominated - as Garth Davis' debut feature film continues to pick up goodwill with awards voters and audiences alike. Don't expect him to surprise at Oscar - that's probably still La La Land's - but this is a pleasant victory for Fraser and his film nonetheless. And an excellent choice in the Spotlight category too. Check out the ASC's nominations at this link.

Theatrical Award
Greig Fraser (Lion)

Spotlight Award
Gorka Gomez Andreu (House of Others)

Vilmos Zsigmond Graduate Heritage Award
Andrew Jeric (Prisoner)

Vilmos Zsigmond Undergraduate Heritage Award
Emmett Sutherland (Closer)

Haskell Wexler Student Documentary Award
Colin F. Shepherd (Into the Microscope)

Board of Governors Award
Denzel Washington

Presidents Award
Nancy Schreiber

International Award
Philippe Rousselot

Lifetime Achievement Award
Edward Lachman

DAMIEN CHAZELLE WINS DGA FOR LA LA LAND

A busy weekend on the awards scene, but a busy(-ish) weekend for me, so this is all old news to you. Damien Chazelle wins the top award from the Directors Guild of America for La La Land, and nobody is surprised. Check out the DGA nominations here, and all the film-related winners below.

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film
Damien Chazelle (La La Land)

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary
Ezra Edelman (O.J.: Made in America)

Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director
Garth Davis (Lion)

SAG AWARDS: HIDDEN FIGURES WINS ENSEMBLE CAST!

You didn't see this coming, did you? With La La Land out of the way, the Ensemble award from the Screen Actors Guild was perceived by most to be a race between almost any of the nominees, though few predicted Hidden Figures, not least with its lack of wins in the individual categories. Alas, this likely only strengthens La La Land's Oscar potential, given that its closest rival, Moonlight, continues to lose the big guild awards. A largely predictable SAG ceremony was closed out by two big shockers, in the Ensemble Cast choice and in a surprise pick for Lead Actor  - Denzel Washington in Fences, winning alongside his costar Viola Davis. Check out SAG's film nominees here.

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

Emma Stone (La La Land)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

Denzel Washington (Fences)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

Viola Davis (Fences)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

Mahershala Ali (Moonlight)

Outstanding Performance by a Cast

Mahershala Ali, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Taraji P. Henson, Aldis Hodge, Janelle Monae, Jim Parsons, Glen Powell and Octavia Spencer (Hidden Figures)

Outstanding Stunt Performance by an Ensemble

Hacksaw Ridge

Lifetime Achievement Award

Lily Tomlin

AND THE 2017 PGA WINNERS ARE...

...boring af.

The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures

La La Land (Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz and Marc Platt)

Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures

Zootopia (Clark Spencer)

Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures

O.J.: Made in America (Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow)

ACE EDDIE WINNERS ANNOUNCED!

Much as La La Land's victory at the American Cinema Editors awards was wholly expected, it was another film's success that has perhaps cemented its position as the undisputed Oscar frontrunner of the season - a frontrunner of the kind of stature that we haven't known for many years. Arrival wins in the Drama category, beating La La Land's only viable Oscar competition, Moonlight. Check out all the winners below, and the ACE Eddie nominations here.

Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic)
Joe Walker (Arrival)

Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy)
Tom Cross (La La Land)

Best Edited Animated Feature Film
Jeremy Milton and Fabienne Rawley (Zootopia)

Best Edited Documentary (Feature)
Bret Granato, Maya Mumma and Ben Sozanski (O.J.: Made in America)

2016 MOTION PICTURE SOUND EDITORS NOMINATIONS

The Motion Picture Sound Editors regularly take their sweet time deciding upon their favourites in film for the previous year, and this year is no exception. That's cool, though - typing this list up amid the awards onslaught of the first half of the season would not have gone down too well with this particular writer. This year's Golden Reel awards will be handed out to the finest sound editors in the business on the 19th of February.

Best Sound Editing - English Language - Effects / Foley

David Acord, Jonathan Borland, Luke Dunn Gielmuda, Ryan Frias, Josh Gold, J. R. Grubbs, Ronni Pitman, Frank Rinella, Christopher Scarabosio and Matthew Wood (Rogue One)

Mimi Allard, Pierre-Jules Audet, Niels Barletta, Mathieu Beaudin, Nicolas Becker, Sylvain Bellemare, Olivier Calvert, Daniel Capeille, Michelle Child, Steven Ghouti, Simon Girard, Olivier Guillaume, Alan Murray, Luc Raymond, Patrick Rioux, Gregory Vincent and Dave Whitehead (Arrival)

Jeremy Bowker, Josh Gold, J. R. Grubbs, Nia Hansen, David C. Hughes, Daniel Laurie, Shannon Mills, Jacob Riehle, Shelley Roden, John Roesch and Dee Selby (Captain America: Civil War)

Christopher Boyes, David Chrastka, David E. Eulner, Andre Fenley, Ken Fischer, James Likowski, Dee Selby, Dennie Thorpe and Jana Vance (The Jungle Book)

Jim Brookshire, John T. Cucci, Warren Hendriks, Craig Henighan, Lee Ai Ling, Wayne Lemmer and Dan O'Connell (Deadpool)

Steve Burgess, Alex Francis, Robert MacKenzie, Liam Price, Mario Vaccaro and Tara Webb (Hacksaw Ridge)

Harry Cohen, Kris Fenske, Gary Hecker, Sylvain Lasseur, Dror Mohar, Rick Owens, Wylie Stateman and Renee Tondelli (Deepwater Horizon)

David Chrastka, Ryan Frias, Josh Gold, J. R. Grubbs, Nia Hansen, David C. Hughes, Daniel Laurie, Shannon Mills, Steve Orlando, Shelley Roden and John Roesch (Doctor Strange)

Best Sound Editing - English Language - Dialogue / ADR

Justine Angus, Jed Dodge, Kimberly Harris, Michele Perrone and Andy Wright (Hacksaw Ridge)

Bub Asman, Alan Robert Murray, Hugo Weng and Katy Wood (Sully)

Chris Battaglia, Frank Gaeta, Kathryn Madsen and Harrison Meyle (Hell or High Water)

Ben Beardwood, Jim Brookshire, Teri Dorman, Laura Graham, R.J. Kizer and Wayne Lemmer (Deadpool)

Sylvain Bellemare, Valery Dufort-Boucher, Claire Pochon and Stan Sakellaropoulos (Arrival)

Susan Dawes, R. J. Kizer, Wayne Lemmer, Helen Luttrell and Derek Vanderhorst (Hidden Figures)

Robert MacKenzie and Glenn Newnham (Lion)

Richard Quinn, Christopher Scarabosio, James Spencer, Trey Turner and Matthew Wood (Rogue One)

Best Sound Editing - Animation

Bob Badami, Christopher Barnett, Jonathan Borland, Ken Fischer, Heikki Kossi, Tim Nielsen, Brad Semenoff, Catherine Wilson and Dug Winningham (The Little Prince)

Gregg Barbanell, Tim Chau, Travis Crotts, Catherine Harper, Thomas O'Neil Younkman and Clayton Weber (Kubo and the Two Strings)

Bill Bernstein, Jonathan Borland, Christopher Flick, Tim Nielsen, Jacob Riehle, Shelley Roden, John Roesch, Steve Slanec, James Spencer, Jack Whittaker and Michael Zainer (Finding Dory)

Steve Boedekker, Ronni Brown, Dustin Cawood, Luke Dunn Gielmuda, Richard Gould, Dennis Leonard, Zach Martin, Cheryl Nardi, Larry Oatfield, Shelley Roden, John Roesch, Mac Smith, Jana Vance and Andre Zweers (Sing)

Jeremy Bowker, Ronni Brown, Stephen M. Davis, Christopher Flick, Earl Ghaffari, Lee Gilmore, Dan Laurie, Willard Overstreet, Addison Teague, Daniel Waldman and Jack Whittaker (Zootopia)

Thom Brennan, Jonathan Borland, Pascal Garneau, Earl Ghaffari, Lee Gilmore, Matthew Harrison, Tim Nielsen, Dan Pinder, Shelley Roden and John Roesch (Moana)

Fabien Devillers, Florian Fabre, Sebastien Marquilly, Matthieu Michaux, Bruno Seznec and Sebastien Seznec (The Red Turtle)

Best Sound Editing - Documentary

Steven Avila, Terry Boyd, Trip Brock, Shasha Dong, Peter Lago, Raymond Park, Alexander Pugh, Matthew Salib and Ben Whitver (Passage to Mars)

Tim Boggs, Alex Lee, Jeffrey Perkins and Julie Pierce (13th)

Shaun Brennan, Lewis Goldstein, Tom Ryan, Alex Soto, Pierre Takal and Tseng Wen Hsuan (The Eagle Huntress)

Oscar Convers, Stephen C. Davies, Max Holland, Diego Jimenez, Jesse Peterson and Chris Stangroom (Amanda Knox)

Will Digby, Cameron Frankley, Dan Kenyon, Harrison Meyle, Jon Michaels and Melissa Muik (The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years)

Bernd Dormayer, Klaus Gartner, Thomas Kathriner, Michael Ploderl and Bernhard Zorzi (The Ivory Game)

Grant Elder, Larry Herman, Ren Klyce, Sylvia Menno, Dave Paterson and Allan Zaleski (Before the Flood)

Pete Horner, Al Nelson and Andre Zweers (The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble)

Best Sound Editing - Foreign Language - Effects / Foley / Dialogue / ADR

Adrian Baumeister, Martin Langenbach, Erik Mischijew, Jan Moser, Matz Muller, Gunther Rohn and Fabian Schmidt (Toni Erdmann)

Katia Boutin, Gwennole le Borgne, Alexis Place and Philippe van Leer (Elle)

Cho Min Kyung, Hong Yoon Sung, Kim Eun Jung, Kim Suk Won, Lee Jong Ho and Moon Chul Woo (The Handmaiden)

Tono Cubillo, Sebastian Esquivel, Miguel Hormazabal, Ivo Moraga and Herve Schneid (Neruda)

Fredrik Dalefjell, Erlend Hogstad, Jens Johansson, Ingela Jonsson, Lucas Nilsson, Espen Ronning and Christian Schaanning (The King's Choice)

Alex Joseph, Richard Kondal, Stelios Koupetoris, Alex Outhwaite and Gwilym Perry (Under the Shadow)

Best Sound Editing - Musical

Becky Bentham (Sing Street)

Fernand Bos, Vicki Hiatt and Erich Stratmann (Trolls)

Earl Ghaffari and Daniel Pinder (Moana)

Gerard McCann, Stuart Morton and Neil Stemp (Florence Foster Jenkins)

Jason Ruder (La La Land)

Best Sound Editing - Music

Michael Bauer and Peter Myles (Warcraft)

Clint Bennett (Arrival)

Warren Brown, Stephen Davis and John Finklea (Rogue One)

Warren Brown, Stephen Davis, Steve Durkee, Anele Onyekwere and Nashia Wachsman (Doctor Strange)

Stephen Davis and Paul Rabjohns (Star Trek Beyond)

Matt Friedman (Hacksaw Ridge)

Alex Gibson, Lee Scott and Nate Underkuffler (13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi)

Maarten Hofmeijer (Don't Breathe)

Verna Fields Award for Student Filmmakers

Duan Pei Qi and Zhang Tian Fu (Shallow Grave)

Dustin Elm, Chris Morocco and Derek Sepe (Amelia's Closet)

Fan Wen Rui and Li Xiao Dan (Jerry)

Tom Jenkins (Those Who Are Lost)

Juhasz Zoltan (Fishwitch)

Li Xiang (It's Just a Gun)

Taylor Scherer (Eden)

Gerry Vasquez (Icarus)

MPSE Filmmaker Award

Guillermo del Toro

MPSE Career Achievement Award

Harry Cohen

YOUR 2016 DGA NOMINEES ARE...

Surprised? The Weinstein Company was always gonna work Lion for all it's worth and then some, so you shouldn't be. Adding in the Documentary Director nominations announced yesterday. Winners announced on the 4th of February.

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film

Damien Chazelle (La La Land)

Garth Davis (Lion)

Barry Jenkins (Moonlight)

Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea)

Denis Villeneuve (Arrival)

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary

Otto Bell (The Eagle Huntress)

Ezra Edelman (O.J.: Made in America)

Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg (Weiner)

Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro)

Roger Ross Williams (Life, Animated)

Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director

Garth Davis (Lion)

Kelly Fremon Craig (The Edge of Seventeen)

Tim Miller (Deadpool)

Nate Parker (The Birth of a Nation)

Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane)

COSTUME DESIGNERS GUILD CHIMES IN WITH ITS 2016 NOMINATIONS

Those Silence fans hoping that it might be onto something of a mini-streak with the guilds, following its nomination yesterday at the American Society of Cinematographers, will be rather disappointed by its undeserving snub from the Costume Designers Guild. Still, there's a lot to love in the CDG's picks this year, which include fare as diverse as Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie and, of all things, Kubo and the Two Strings! Save the date for the most fashionable film awards of the year: the 21st of February.

Excellence in Period Film

Marion Boyce and Margot Wilson (The Dressmaker)

Consolata Boyle (Florence Foster Jenkins)

Renee Ehrlich Kalfus (Hidden Figures)

Madeline Fontaine (Jackie)

Mary Zophres (Hail, Caesar!)

Excellence in Fantasy Film

Colleen Atwood (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them)

Colleen Atwood (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children)

Alexandra Byrne (Doctor Strange)

Deborah Cook (Kubo and the Two Strings)

David Crossman and Glyn Dillon (Rogue One)

Excellence in Contemporary Film

Rebecca Hale (Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie)

Courtney Hoffman (Captain Fantastic)

Cappi Ireland (Lion)

Arianne Phillips (Nocturnal Animals)

Mary Zophres (La La Land)

Career Achievement Award

Jeffrey Kurland

Distinguished Collaborator Award

Meryl Streep

ASC NOMINEES - THE SILENCE IS BROKEN!

To celebrate Silence's richly-deserved nomination from the American Society of Cinematographers, I post a picture of Lion. Very happy to note the former film making the cut here, and the same for James Laxton's lovely work on Moonlight. But I figure that both he and Greig Fraser will make way for Hail, Caesar! and Live by Night at this point when Oscar nominations are announced. Good to see the Spotlight Award now expanded to four nominees. The 4th of February is the official date for the 31st annual ASC Outstanding Achievement awards.

2016 ASC Award Theatrical Nominees

Greig Fraser (Lion)

James Laxton (Moonlight)

Rodrigo Prieto (Silence)

Linus Sandgren (La La Land)

Bradford Young (Arrival)

2016 ASC Spotlight Award Nominees

Lol Crawley (The Childhood of a Leader)

Gorka Gomez Andreu (House of Others)

Ernesto Pardo (Tempestad)

Juliette van Dormael (My Angel)

DGA DOCUMENTARY DIRECTOR NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED

The Directors Guild of America reveals its nominees for Best Director and Best First-Time Director tomorrow, the 12th of January, but its nominees for Best Documentary Director are already here. Fascinating, isn't it? Shame that they couldn't find more room for female directors, since they certainly had plenty of deserving choices from which to pick. Winners in all categories announced on the 4th of February.

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary

Otto Bell (The Eagle Huntress)

Ezra Edelman (O.J.: Made in America)

Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg (Weiner)

Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro)

Roger Ross Williams (Life, Animated)

FANTASTIC BEASTS MAXES OUT WITH MAKE-UP ARTISTS AND HAIR STYLISTS GUILD NOMINATIONS

The Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild has announced its 2016 awards nominations across 23 categories, five of them for film. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them leads with the maximum amount of mentions over the five available categories, taking three nominations, and all of them for makeup artist extraordinaire Fae Hammond! Award winners will be announced on the 19th of February.

Best Period and/or Character Make-Up

Alessandro Bertolazzi (Suicide Squad)

Jean Ann Black, Zoe Hay and Julie Hewett (Hail, Caesar!)

Fae Hammond and Marilyn MacDonald (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them)

Julia Lallas and Katie Middleton (Loving)

Jeremy Woodhead (Doctor Strange)

Best Period and/or Character Hair Styling

Cydney Cornell, Matt Danon and Pauletta Lewis-Irwin (Hail, Caesar!)

Fae Hammond and Marilyn MacDonald (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them)

J.Roy Helland (Florence Foster Jenkins)

Catherine Leblanc-Caraes and Tony Rochetti (Jackie)

Elizabeth Paschall and Kenneth Walker (Loving)

Best Contemporary Make-Up

Liz Bernstrom and Sherryn Smith (Manchester by the Sea)

Akemi Hart and Karen McDonald (Captain Fantastic)

Donald Mowat, Elaine Offers and Malanie J. Romero (Nocturnal Animals)

Angel Radefeld-Wright and Torsten Witte (La La Land)

Maurizio Silvi (Zoolander 2)

Best Contemporary Hair Styling

Frida Aradottir, Barbara Lorenz and Jackie Masteran (La La Land)

Alan d'Angerio (The Girl on the Train)

Patricia Dehaney and Jose Zamora (Sully)

Jules Holdren and Yolanda Toussieng (Nocturnal Animals)

Aldo Signoretti (Zoolander 2)

Best Special Make-Up Effects

Richie Alonzo and Joel Harlow (Star Trek Beyond)

Andrew Clement and Bill Corso (Deadpool)

Fae Hammond (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them)

Christopher Nelson, Greg Nicotero and Sean Sansom (Suicide Squad)

Jeremy Woodhead (Doctor Strange)

VISUAL EFFECTS SOCIETY: ROGUE ONE, NOMINATIONS SEVEN

The Visual Effects Society has chosen its nominations for the best VFX work in film last year. The VES departs fairly significantly from the Academy's shortlist, with four of those ten absent entirely here, some of them particularly surprising. Awards will take place on the 7th of February.

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature

Richard Bluff, Stephane Ceretti, Vincent Cirelli, Paul Corbould and Susan Pickett (Doctor Strange)

Jelmer Boskma, Frazer Churchill, Hal Couzens, Andrew Lockley and Hayley Williams (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children)

Tim Burke, Pablo Grillo, Christian Manz, David Watkins and Olly Young (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them)

Neil Corbould, Erin Dusseault, Hal T. Hickel, John Knoll and Nigel Sumner (Rogue One)

Joyce Cox, Andrew R. Jones, Robert Legato, J. D. Schwalm and Adam Valdez (The Jungle Book)

Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature

Kevin Baillie, Brennan Doyle, Viktor Muller, Sandra Scott and Richard van den Bergh (Allied)

Brian Barlettani, Ivan Busquets, Juan Garcia, Pablo Helman and R. Bruce Steinheimer (Silence)

Dan Barrow, Huw Evans, Julian Gnass, Charlie Noble and Steve Warner (Jason Bourne)

Mark Curtis, Tyler Kehl, Bryan Litson, Michael Owens and Steven Riley (Sully)

Burt Dalton, John Galloway, Craig Hammack, Petra Holtorf-Stratton and Jason Snell (Deepwater Horizon)

Outstanding Animated Performance in a Photoreal Feature

Gabriel Beauvais-Tremblay, Luc Girard, Laurent Laban and Romain Rico - 'Niffler' (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them)

Brian Cantwell, Brian Paik, Park Jee Young and Sunny Wei - 'Durotan' (Warcraft)

Andrei Coval, Paul Story, Jack Tema and Dennis Yoo - 'King Louie' (The Jungle Book)

Julio del Rio Hernandez, Jake Harrell, James Hood and Benjamin Jones - 'Shere Khan' (The Jungle Book)

Cyrus Jam, Sven Jensen, Park Jee Young and Steve Walton - 'Grand Moff Tarkin' (Rogue One)

Outstanding Virtual Cinematography in a Photoreal Project

Christopher Baird, Michelle Blok, Patrick Tiberius Gehlen and Drew Wood-Davies - 'Battle of the bastards' (Game of Thrones)

John Brennan, Robert Legato, Bill Pope and Gary Roberts (The Jungle Book)

Mathew Cowie, Landis Fields, Faraz Hameed and Frederic Medioni - 'New York mirror dimension' (Doctor Strange)

Steve Ellis, Barry Howell, Lee Eui Sung and John Levin - 'Space battle' (Rogue One)

Outstanding Models in a Photoreal or Animated Project

Jean Bolte, Kelvin Lau, Kevin Sprout and Kim Vongbunyong - 'Deepwater Horizon rig' (Deepwater Horizon)

Marko Chulev, Steven Knipping, Jay Machado and Orikasa Akira - 'Star Destroyer' (Rogue One)

Chris Elmer, Andreas Maaninka, Daniel Nicholson and Rhys Salcombe - 'Enterprise' (Star Trek Beyond)

Paul Giacoppo, Gareth Jensen, James Tooley and Todd Vaziri - 'Princess Leia' (Rogue One)

Outstanding Created Environment in a Photoreal Feature

Tim Belsher, Jon Mitchell, Martijn van Herk and Adam Watkins - 'New York City' (Doctor Strange)

Enrico Damm, Yanick Dusseault, Kevin George and Olivier Vernay-Kim  - 'Scarif complex' (Rogue One)

Seth Hill, Marc-Antoine Paquin, Jedediah Smith and Laurent Taillefer - 'Freeway assault' (Deadpool)

Gregory Ng, Raphael A. Pimentel, Brendan Seals and Andrew Zink - 'London' (Doctor Strange)

Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal Feature

Jacob Clark, Joseph Pepper, Klaus Seitschek and Cosku Turhan - 'Rust' (Alice Through the Looking Glass)

David Kirchner, Azhul Mohamed, Georges Nakhle and Florian Witzel - 'Hong Kong reverse destruction' (Doctor Strange)

Luca Mignardi, Ciaran Moloney, Miguel Perez Senent and Matt Puchala - 'Jedha destruction' (Rogue One)

Fabian Nowak, Ludovic Ramisandraina, David Schneider and Oliver Winwood - 'Nature effects' (The Jungle Book)

Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Feature

Matthew Adams, Masaki Mitchell, Christoph Salzmann and Max Stummer (The Jungle Book)

Jess Burnheim, Alana Newell, Andy Peel and Matthew Shaw - 'Quicksilver rescue' (X-Men: Apocalypse)

Jose Fernandez, Matthew Lane, Amy Shepard and Ziad Shureih - 'New York City' (Doctor Strange)

Mathew Giampa, Daniel Lee, Adrian Sutherland and Ed Wilkie - 'Under the mothership' (Independence Day: Resurgence)

Outstanding Visual Effects in an Animated Feature

Pascal Bertrand, Jamie Caliri, Jinko Gotoh and Mark Osborne (The Little Prince)

Chris J. Chapman, Lindsey Collins, John Halstead and Angus MacLane (Finding Dory)

Hank Driskill, Ian Gooding, Nicole P. Hearon and Kyle Odermatt (Moana)

Steve Emerson, Travis Knight, Brad Schiff and Arianne Sutner (Kubo and the Two Strings)

David Goetz, Scott Kersavage, Ernest J. Petti and Bradford S. Simonsen (Zootopia)

Outstanding Animated Performance in an Animated Feature

Andy Bailey, Jessica Lynn, Kim Slate and Dobrin Yanev - 'Monkey' (Kubo and the Two Strings)

Steven Clay Hunter, Jonathan Hoffman, Mark Piretti and Audrey Wong - 'Hank' (Finding Dory)

Mack Kablan, Nikki Mull, Matthew Schiller and Marc Thyng - 'The Mighty Maui' (Moana)

Adam Lawthers, Jeremy Spake, Jeff Riley and Ian Whitlock - 'Kubo' (Kubo and the Two Strings)

Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature

Phil Brotherton, Emily Greene, Nick Mariana and Joe Strasser - 'Hanzo's fortress' (Kubo and the Two Strings)

Rob Dressel, Andy Harkness, Brien Hindman and Larry Wu - 'Motonui Island' (Moana)

Stephen Gustafson, Jack Hattori, Jesse Hollander and Micahel Rutter - 'Open ocean exhibit' (Finding Dory)

David Horsley, Kuboto Takashi, Daniel Leatherdale and Eric Wachtman - 'Waves' (Kubo and the Two Strings)

Outstanding Effects Simulations in an Animated Feature

Marc Henry Bryant, David Hutchins, John M. Kosnik and Dale Mayeda (Moana)

Nicholas Burkard, Claudia Chung Sanii, Moe El-Ali and Thom Wickes (Zootopia)

Stephen Gustafson, Allen Hemberger, Joshua Jenny and Matthew Kiyoshi Wong (Finding Dory)

David Horsley, Timur Khodzhaev, Peter Stuart and Terrance Tornberg - 'Water' (Kubo and the Two Strings)

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Student Project

David Bellenbaum, Denis Krez, Lena-Carolin Lohfink and Adrian Meyer (Elemental)

Victor Caire, Theophile Dufresne, Gabriel Grapperon and Lucas Navarro (Garden Party)

Johannes Franz, Alexander Richter, Nicole Rothermel and Thomas Sali (Breaking Point)

Mareike Keller, Dennis Mueller and Meike Mueller (Shine)