Tag Archives: Academy Awards

85th Annual Oscar Winners Announced

All in all, not a bad year for sf/f/h at the Academy Awards, although nearly all of the genre attention was focused on Gravity, which was carefully not marketed as sf... Read more [...]

2013 Academy Award Nominees Announced

Though we may be cleaning up at the box office, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science deems fewer and fewer speculative fiction films worthy of its Oscar nominations... Read more [...]

2012 Academy Award Winners Announced

This year's Academy Award winners include a few of genre interest, though no screamingly sf/f/h films... Read more [...]

Composer Robert Sherman Dies

Composer Robert Sherman (1925-2012) was half of a brotherly songwriting duo responsible for It's a Small World, two Academy Awards, and a Grammy, as well as a slew of Disney films... Read more [...]

84th Annual Oscar Winners Announced

Movies won awards. A decent number of them were sf/f/h films. The winners... Read more [...]

2011 Academy Award Nominees Announced

The nominees for this year's Academy Awards include just as many genre pictures as last year, but two more nominations... Read more [...]

Actor Peter Falk Dies

Actor Peter Falk (1927-2011) was best known as the rumpled detective Columbo, but also appeared as the grandfather in The Princess Bride... Read more [...]

83rd Annual Oscar Winners Announced

Movies won awards. A surprisingly large number of them were sf/f/h films. The winners... Read more [...]

2010 Academy Award Nominees Announced

The nominees for this year's Academy Awards include one more genre picture than last year, but three fewer nominations... Read more [...]

Filmmaker Ronald Neame Dies

British filmmaker Ronald Neame (1911-2010) was nominated for three Academy Awards, worked with most of the major names... Read more [...]

Actress Lynn Redgrave Dies

Acting icon Lynn Redgrave (1943-2010) was nominated for Golden Globes, Oscars, BAFTA Awards, Tonys, and more. She was awarded an OBE, and appeared in... Read more [...]

82nd Annual Oscar Winners Announced

Movies won awards; a few of them sf/f/h films. The winners... Read more [...]

2009 Academy Award Nominees Announced

The nominees for this year's Academy Awards include almost twice as many genre pictures as last year, and one of them is tied for the top of the heap, with nine nominations... Read more [...]

Justin Cronin’s vampire novel The Passage to be adapted for film by John Logan for big money

Justin Cronin's third novel, futuristic vampire tale The Passage, is being adapted for the big screen by John Logan. Fox 2000 is paying Logan more than $1 million to turn the book into a script for Ridley Scott to direct... Read more [...]

Composer Maurice Jarre Dies

French composer Maurice Jarre (1924-2009) won three Academy Awards, a Grammy, four Golden Globes, and more. He composed scores for more than 160 films, with other music credits on nearly 100 more... Read more [...]

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