Category: Awards

Howard Shore has won the Grammy award in the, “Best Score Soundtrack Album For A Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media” category. The award was for The Two Towers. For more details and a brief comment from Howard Shore go to CJAD.

Howard Shore has been nominated for a Grammy award in the “Best Score Soundtrack Album For A Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media” category. The 46th Annual Grammy Awards will air at 8 PM on CBS. Good luck Howard!

According to CNN, Return of the King may be “losing its Oscar luster”. The one-horse race that many are expecting may not actually happen, especially since the Academy has never given a science-fiction or fantasy film the Best Picture award.

At the 56th annual Directors Guild of America awards Peter Jackson won the directorial achievement in feature film award for RotK. When he accepted the award PJ said, “I am so proud to accept this for making a film that, thanks to JRR Tolkien’s book, promotes the values of courage, of friendship and faith.” For…

The Canadian Entertainment Network awards for home entertainment were announced on Friday night and LotR was a winner in 7 of the 8 categories it was nominated for. There were 4 awards for Fellowship of the Ring and 3 for The Two Towers. For further details go to Canada.com.

The Directors Guild of America Awards will be presented this Saturday, February 7th. Peter Jackson is in the running for the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film award. Elijah Wood and Sean Astin will be presenters. For more details, visit the Directors Guild of America official site.

No, I’ve never heard of them either, but Friday 13th February is the date of the 3rd Annual JoBlo Movie Awards. There are 29 categories, and LotR has been nominated for 14 of them. You can vote for each category here.

The Sony Ericsson Empire awards were presented tonight in the UK. Return of the King won the award for Best Film, Andy Serkis came away with the award for Best British Actor, and the Ride of the Rohirrim sequence from RotK won the Sony Ericsson Scene of the Year award. You can see the full…

The Daily Telegraph discusses the fact that the “immortal” cast of Return of the King, “our greatest drama”, received no Oscar nominations, calling it a travesty.

This Saturday, Peter Jackson was presented with the Modern Master Award at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. You can read the full story at ABC News.