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Will PJ be “Lord” of the directors?
This article at the New York Daily News puts forward the case that Peter Jackson is the favorite to win the Best Director Oscar this Sunday.
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Sixth Annual Costume Designers Guild Awards
On Saturday 21st February, Ngila Dickson won the Costume Designers Guild award for Excellence in Film, Period/Fantasy. The award was given for her work on both Return of the King and The Last Samurai. There are further details at Business Wire.
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Interview with Viggo Mortensen
Viggo Mortensen talks about how he is “…really looking forward to doing interviews for Return of the King’s DVD”; his thoughts about movie awards; his current film project and more. You can read the full interview at the HoustonChronicle.
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Directors Guild of Great Britain awards
Peter Jackson has won the award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in International Film. The other nominees in this category were Anthony Minghella (Cold Mountain), Sofia Coppola (Lost In Translation) and Alejandro González Iñárritu (21 Grams). The awards were announced on Saturday 21st February.There are further details of the other winners at Reuters.
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Screen Actors Guild awards
The Screen Actors Guild awards will be announced on Sunday, February 22. Return of the King has been nominated for the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture award. There are further details at SAG Awards. The show will air tomorrow on TNT at 8pm ET/PT.
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Writers Guild of America
The Writers Guild of America awards will be announced today, 21st February. Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson have been nominated in the Adapted Screenplay category. There are further details at the WGA website.
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Howard Shore’s heartbreaking task
The North American premiere of The Lord of the Rings: A Symphony in Six Movements for Orchestra and Chorus, will take place in Montreal this Monday, 23rd February. In this article at the Montreal Gazette, Howard Shore talks about his work including the heartbreaking task of reducing 12 hours of music down to just 2.
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Larry King Live interviews
Sir Ian McKellen and Sean Astin appeared on Larry King Live on 15th February. Topics covered included what it was like to work on 3 movies at the same time and how, before learning that PJ was casting the movies, neither Sir Ian nor Sean had read the books. You can read the full transcript…
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Visual Effects Society awards
At the 2nd Annual Visual Effects Society awards RotK was a winner in the following 4 categories: Outstanding models and miniatures in a motion picture; Outstanding visual effects in a visual effects driven motion picture; Outstanding character animation in a live action motion picture; Outstanding performance by a male or female actor in an effects…
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Lifetime achievement award for Howard Shore
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers have announced that on 21st April Howard Shore will be presented with the Henry Mancini Award for Lifetime Achievement. There are further details, including the awards that Howard Shore has already won for his music for the LotR movies, at the ASCAP website.
