85th Acadamey Award Winners

The Oscars were presented on Sunday 24th of February, click through to see the full list of nominees and winners.

33rd Annual Razzies "Winners"

The 33rd Annual Razzie awards were handed out this week, and one movie in particular has cleaned up.

85th Acadamey Awards Nominees

The 2013 Oscar Nominees have been announced this week. Not every ones thoughts are reflected across the categories however, Skyfall and the Hobbit are only noted on some of the technical categories. But nonetheless there are some incredible movies nominated this year, the following are the nominees for the main categories.

Best Picture

• Amour
• Life of Pi
• Argo
• Lincoln
• Beasts of the Southern Wild
• Silver Linings Playbook
• Django Unchained
• Zero Dark Thirty
• Les Miserables

Actor in a leading role

• Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook
• Joaquin Phoenix - The Master
• Daniel Day Lewis - Lincoln
• Denzel Washington - Flight
• Hugh Jackman - Les Miserables

Actress in a leading role

• Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty
• Quvenzhane Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild
• Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook
• Naomi Watts - The Impossible
• Emmanuelle Riva - Amour

Actor in a supporting role

• Alan Arkin - Argo
• Robert De Niro - Silver Linings Playbook
• Phillip Seymour Hoffman - The Master
• Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln
• Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained

Actress in a supporting role

• Amy Adams - The Master
• Sally Field - Lincoln
• Anne Hathaway - Les Miserables
• Helen Hunt - The Sessions
• Jacki Weaver - Silver Linings Playbook

Animated Feature Film

• Brave
• Frankenweenie
• ParaNorman
• The Pirates! Band of Misfits
• Wreck-It Ralph

The full list can be seen on the official site, http://oscar.go.com/nominees

- Welsh 11/01/13

11th Annual VES Awards Nominees

With 2012 drawing to a close, its time to stop, look back, and reflect upon what the best of the year was in numerous awards ceremonies. As of January 7th, the Visual Effects Society (VES) announced their nominees for the 11th annual VES awards, which recognize outstanding visual effects across 24 categories of film, commercial, television, animation, and video games.

This year the VES are honouring Ang Lee with the VES Visionary Award, for his ground breaking work on "The Life of Pi".

The nominees include:

• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
• Prometheus
• Life of Pi
• The Avengers
• BattleshipRust and Bones
• The Impossible
• Argo
• Flight
• Zero Dark Thirty
• Game of Thrones: Volar Morghulis
• Once Upon A Time: The Stranger
• Falling Skies: Worlds Apart
• Curiosity
• Munsters: Mockingbird Lane
• Call of Duty: Black Ops II
• Halo 4
• Dirt Showdown
• Forza Horizons
• Dishonored
• Brave
• Paranorman
• Rise of the Guardians
• Wreck-It Ralph
• Hotel Transylvania

So what do you think? What Visual Effects really stood out for you in good old 2012?