The 85th Annual Academy Award winners have been announced with "Life of Pi," "Argo" and "Les Miserables" dominating the awards. "Argo" took the top honor of Best Picture along with screenplay and editing. "Life of Pi" took Best Director along with cinematography, score and visual effects. Meanwhile, "Les Miserables" won for Best Supporting … [Read more...]
“Fruitvale,” “Blood” Are Sundance Winners
January 27, 2013 by
The 2013 Sundance Film Festival has announced its awards winners with Ryan Coogler's "Fruitvale" and Steve Hoover's documentary "Blood Brothers" taking the top honors. "Fruitvale" is a true story drama of a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family and strangers on what would be the last day of his life. It has … [Read more...]
The 2013 Golden Globes Winners
January 13, 2013 by
This year's Golden Globe winners have been announced with "Argo" and "Les Miserables" dominating the film categories. There were no real surprises this year, aside from maybe "Brave" winning over "Frankenweenie" and "Wreck-It Ralph." In every other case the favorite to win the category essentially won. "Argo," which had been losing steam, has … [Read more...]
The 2012 Emmy Award Winners
September 24, 2012 by
The most predictable of awards ceremonies, The Emmys are famous for picking a favourite show or star and sticking with them for years. "Frasier" won Best Comedy five years in a row, "The West Wing" and "Hill Street Blues" best drama for four years in a row each, and of course "The Daily Show" which has won the Best Variety show award every year … [Read more...]
Reactions & Winners As Cannes Closes
May 28, 2012 by
The Cannes Film Festival is over for another year with the announcement of Michael Haneke’s well-received "Amour" taking home the fest's top honor - the Palme d’Or. More controversial were some of the other supporting choices such as Matteo Garrone's "Reality" winning the Grand Prix (essentially the runner-up) while Carlos Reygadas scoring Best … [Read more...]
Sun Run winners
April 15, 2012 by
All four categories of the Sun Run have their winners... with three coming from BC! With a time of 29:13, 22-year old Kelly Wiebe of Regina secures the men's category, and is the overall winner. At 34:13, Natasha Fraser of Port Moody wins in the women's category. Kelly Smith of Vancouver comes out on top in the men's wheelchair … [Read more...]
The 2012 Oscar Winners
February 27, 2012 by
The 84th Annual Academy Award nominations have been announced with "The Artist" taking the big awards (Best Picture, Actor, Director) while "Hugo" dominated the other categories. Both scored five awards each, with the only thing even vaguely close to a surprise being that "Hugo" lost out on one technical category - film editing - to "The Girl with … [Read more...]
The DGA & SAG Award Winners
January 30, 2012 by
It has been a massive weekend on the awards circuit with the Director's Guild and Screen Actor's Guild announcing their annual winners. The Director's Guild awarded its top prize to Michel Hazanavicius for his work directing the silent film "The Artist", further cementing his place to not only win a Best Directing Oscar but for the film to take … [Read more...]
The 2012 Golden Globe Winners
January 15, 2012 by
This year's Golden Globe winners have been announced with "The Artist" taking the largest number of awards with three (including Best Picture - Comedy/Musical), followed by "The Descendants" with two. The black-and-white silent film remains the front runner in the run-up to the Oscars. The winners mostly proved deserving - "A Separation" and "The … [Read more...]
B.C. MP says government picked winners, losers in shipbuilding contracts
October 20, 2011 by
Federal Opposition Leader Nycole Turmel opened fire on the Harper Conservatives today for awarding multi-billion-dollar shipbuilding contracts this week to B.C. and Nova Scotia, but not Quebec. British Columbia MP Peter Julian (Burnaby-New Westminster) says he agrees with his party's leader. Julian applauds the influx of jobs coming … [Read more...]
