2009 OSCAR WINNERS
Best Picture - Slumdog Millionaire
Best Actor - Sean Penn - Milk
Best Actress - Kate Winslet - The Reader
Best Supporting Actor - Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Best Supporting Actress - Penelope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Best Director - Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire
Best Original Screenplay - Dustin Lance Black - Milk
Best Adapted Screenplay - Simon Beaufoy - Slumdog Millionaire
Best Animated Feature - Wall-E
Best Animated Short Film - La Maison De Petits Cubes
Best Live Action Short Film – Spielzeugland
Best Foreign Language Film – Departures
Best Documentary – Man on Wire
Best Documentary Short Film – Smile Pinki
Achievement in Art Direction – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Achievement In Costume Design - [...]

The Screen Actors Guild Awards were broadcast on TNT and TBS last night, January 25th. The winners are:
MOTION PICTURE
Lead Actor - Sean Penn - Milk
Lead Actress - Meryl Streep - Doubt
Supporting Actor - Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Supporting Actress - Kate Winslet - The Reader
Ensemble Cast - Slumdog Millionaire
Stunt Ensemble - The Dark Knight
PRIMETIME TELEVISION
Lead Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries - Paul Giamatti - “John Adams”
Lead Actress in a Television Movie or Miniseries - Laura Linney - “John Adams”
Actor in a Drama Series - Hugh Laurie - “House”
Actress in a Drama Series - Sally Field - “Brothers & Sisters”
Ensemble in a Drama Series - “Mad Men”

Actor in [...]

Nominees for Academy Awards were announced this morning, among them “The Dark Knight” and “Milk” with eight each. Actors such as Mickey Rourke (”The Wrestler”) and Richard Jenkins (”The Visitor”) are up for Actor In A Leading Role, with other actors and actresses nominated for their films this past year including the late Heath Ledger, Josh Brolin, Anne Hathaway, and Kate Winslet. Films up for Best Picture include “Slumdog Millionaire”, “The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button”, “The Reader”, “Milk”, and “Frost/Nixon”. Also to note, “Hellboy II: The Golden Army” starring Ron Perlman and Doug Jones (Carnies, Pan’s Labyrinth) was nominated for Achievement in Makeup.
Performance by an actor [...]

The Writers Guild of America has announced its nominees for the 2009 Writers Guild Awards. The ceremony will be held on Saturday, February 7th, 2009 at 6 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
And the nominees are…
FILM
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Burn After Reading - Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Milk - Dustin Lance Black
Vicky Cristina Barcelona - Woody Allen
The Visitor - Tom McCarthy
The Wrestler - Robert Siegel
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Screenplay by Eric Roth; Screen Story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord; Based on the Short Story by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Dark Knight - Screenplay by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan; Story by Christopher Nolan [...]

Actors Angela Bassett (”ER”) and Eric McCormack (”Will & Grace”) announced the nominees for the 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild awards live this morning from the Pacific Design Center’s Silver Screen Theater in West Hollywood.
The ceremony will be simulcast live nationally on TNT and TBS on Sunday, January 25th, 2009 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, 7 p.m. CT, and 6 p.m. MT.
FILM
Actor:
Richard Jenkins - The Visitor
Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn - Milk
Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke - The Wrestler
Actress:
Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie - Changeling
Melissa Leo - Frozen River
Meryl Streep - Doubt
Kate Winslet - Revolutionary Road

Supporting actor:
Josh Brolin - [...]

Focus Features recently released another brand new movie trailer from the drama “Milk” by director Gus Van Sant (Paranoid Park, Finding Forrester, Psycho) and starring Sean Penn (21 Grams), Josh Brolin (American Gangster, Grindhouse), Emile Hirsch (Speed Racer) and James Franco (Spider-Man 3).
Synopsis: Academy Award winner Sean Penn takes the title role in Gus Van Sant’s biopic tracing the last eight years in the life of Harvey Milk, the ill-fated politician and gay activist whose life changed history, and whose courage still inspires people. When Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977, he made history for being the first openly gay man in American history [...]

Focus Features recently released the latest movie trailer from their upcoming drama “Milk” by director Gus Van Sant (Paranoid Park, Finding Forrester, Psycho) and starring Sean Penn (21 Grams), Josh Brolin (American Gangster, Grindhouse), Emile Hirsch (Speed Racer) and James Franco (Spider-Man 3).
Synopsis: The story of California’s first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk, a San Francisco supervisor who was assassinated along with Mayor George Moscone by San Francisco Supervisor Dan White.
Stay tuned to Toxic Shock TV for the latest “Milk” movie trailers and posters.