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Central Ohio Film Critics Assc Award Ben Ripley Best Original Screenplay For Source Code

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Ben Ripley - Writer - Source Code

Central Ohio Film Critics Association have awarded Ben Ripley ‘Best Original Screenplay’ for Source Code in their 2011 Awards, beating Woody Allen into second place.

Back in 2007 Ben Ripley’s Source Code was added to the ‘Black List’, an industry distributed list of the top currently unproduced screenplays (see this article over on Little White Lies for more on that). Filmed in 2010, and released in 2011, Source Code is a Sci-Fi thriller centered on Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) who wakes up in the body of an unknown man and discovers he’s part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. Source Code stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Vera Farmiga, Michelle Monaghan & Jeffrey Wright and is Directed by Duncan Jones.

Congratulations to Ben, and everyone involved with Source Code :)

There’s a wee bit of Ben talking about the science theory in Source Code in the video below (00:44)

MOON Wins Image Gazer Festival Best Drama Film Award

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MOON Image Gazer Film Festival 2011

Wonderful news from Image Gazer Film Festival founder & Director Dylan Howard arrived this week, as Duncan Jones’ first feature MOON wins the award for Best Drama Film at this years festival held last weekend in Bucksport, Maine, USA.

MOON Image Gazer Film Festival 2011 Best Drama Film Award

You may recall we told you about this great chance to catch MOON on the big screen back in May, and Dylan has also let us know

“We had such a nice showing for it.  It was very popular, everyone loved it!”

Amazing to think that MOON is still pulling in appreciative crowds at festivals, and winning awards as well after  it’s original theatrical release in 2009.

Thanks to Dylan for selecting MOON for this years festival, and congratulations to all MOON cast & crew :)

Hideki Arichi Presented With The Joseph Meager Trust Award

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Miles Meager Presents The 2011 Joseph Meager Award to Hideki Arichi

Miles Meager & Hideki Arichi Jan 2011

Congratulations are in order for MOON Art Director Hideki Arichi, who has just been presented with the first Joseph Meager Trust Award for his work on MOON. Mollie Meager has been kind enough to send us some pics taken during the event at The Sir Richard Steele’s pub last Saturday, and also provided details on the award itself… Continue reading →

Hugo Takes Up Residence In LA

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It was back in September 2010 that MOON had the honor of winning a prestigious Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, a fantastic achievement, beating fellow nominees Avatar, District 9, Star Trek & Up.

We featured a lovely pic of the award in the original announcement, designed by Nick Stathopoulos, described as “An organic Art Nouveau Hugo”

And now the award itself has found it’s home with Duncan in LA, pictured here with Sam Bell’s original suit from MOON. What a stunna!

Photography by Rodene Ronquillo

Duncan Jones & Nathan Parker win Best First Feature-Length Screenplay At Writers Guild Awards

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Writers Guild Of Great BritainCongratulations to Duncan Jones & Nathan Parker who this evening won the Writers Guild Of Great Britain award for Best First Feature-Length Screenplay for MOON.

The awards were announced in London earlier this evening, and also on the twitter

The Guild awards, dating from 1961, are cherished accolades as they are the only ones in which writers are honoured by their peers. Recipients of special or lifetime awards over the years have included Lord (Ted) Willis, John Osborne, Sir Alan Ayckbourn, Dennis Potter and Alan Plater.

Many congratulations to Duncan & Nathan, well deserved recognition. Raising a glass in your honour, chaps :)

MOON Up For More Awards As Source Code Gets Closer To Completion

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MOON Up For More Awards

Nathan Parker, Sam Rockwell, Duncan Jones - Sundance 2009

Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images North America

Duncan Jones & Nathan Parker have been nominated in the Writers Guild Of Great Britain 2010 Awards,  in the category of Best First Feature-Length Screenplay.

The awards are set to be announced at a reception on Sunday, November 21st, and we’ll be sure to let you know if there is another win for MOON. Full list of nominations are:

  • The Hide – Tim Whitnall
  • Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll – Paul Viragh
  • Moon – Duncan Jones, Nathan Parker

Best of luck chaps! :)

Source Code Gets Closer To Completion

We also have a wee Source Code update for you this evening as Duncan tweeted earlier, typing from his safe British seat in LA

Duncan Jones British Seat

Getting close to finishing Source Code now… Hopefully we are doing the last chunk of ADR with Jake today. Effects keep rolling in.

Soon, all that will remain is the recording of the Source Code score, which, as you may recall, will see Duncan re-united with the writer of the incredible MOON soundtrack, Clint Mansell.

March 2011 release is getting closer :)

MOON Beats Avatar, District 9, Star Trek & Up To Scoop The Hugo Award

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Hugo Awards

The 2010 Hugo Awards have just taken place at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Australia, BLIMEY O’REILLY! MOON has won the Best Dramatic Presentation, Long category, beating other nominees Avatar, District 9, Star Trek & Up. A fantastic achievement against an outstanding list of fellow nominees.

The award, designed by Nick Stathopoulos is a bit of a stunner, described as “An organic Art Nouveau Hugo”

An organic Art Nouveau Hugo by Nick Stathopoulos

An organic Art Nouveau Hugo by Nick Stathopoulos

Following Cover It Live coverage there were huge cheers at the event, with Hugo Awards Cheryl Morgan saying “Good job Duncan Jones is not here. Would have made complete fool of myself”

Duncan Jones’ reaction came via Twitter

Holy shnikey! A Bafta and a Hugo in the same year! I really CAN only go down-hill from here!! ;’)

The full list of all of this years Hugo Award winners is available here.

Congratulations AGAIN, to all team MOON :)

MOON Wins SFF 2010 Vision of the Future Award

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Space Frontier Foundation

The Space Frontier Foundation have awarded MOON their 2010 ‘Vision Of The Future’ Award.

From the SFF site:-

“The winners of the Space Frontier Foundation’s “Best Presentation of Space” and “Vision of the Future” awards have brought the possibilities and realities of space exploration to the public, sparking imaginations around the world. Fiction and non-fiction features play a role in informing and inspiring mankind to pursue its future in space and with these awards, contributions to both are recognized.

The awards will be presented at the NewSpace Awards Gala,  the signature event of the NewSpace 2010 Conference in Silicon Valley, CA on July 23-25.”

Head over to the SFF site to find out why MOON was chosen for this prestigious award, beating James Cameron’s Avatar.

Congratulations to all on team MOON :)

MOON Receives HUGO Award Nomination

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Duncan Jones Directorial debut MOON has received a nomination in the 2010 HUGO Awards. Announced on the Aussiecon4 Twitter feed this evening, the nominations for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long are:

  • Avatar
  • District 9
  • Moon
  • Star Trek
  • Up

Some stiff competition there, we’ll find out whether MOON can take the prize at the awards at Aussiecon 4 in Melbourne on Sunday, 5 September 2010. Full list of nominations on the Aussiecon 4 site.

What are the Hugo Awards?

The Hugo Awards, to give them their full title, are awards for excellence in the field of science fiction and fantasy. They were first awarded in 1953, and have been awarded every year since 1955. The awards are run by and voted on by fans.

Once again, good luck MOON!

Duncan Jones Wins Best Director in 5th Annual Kermode Awards

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Duncan Jones has received, perhaps the highest accolade in the British film industry. The coveted Kermode award for Best Director, for MOON.

Ed Sullivan Kermode

Although extremely busy on the first week of filming his second feature ‘Source Code‘ in Montreal, Canada, Jones reacted almost immediately to the news of this fantastic achievement on his Twitter account:

Thats a very special one! And the awards a looker… A model of Ed Sullivan!

For those of you who are not aware of Mark Kermode, what better introduction than that what they put on his BBC Blog HERE:

Outspoken, opinionated and never lost for words, Mark Kermode is the UK’s leading film critic.

He is resident film critic on Radio Five Live’s Mayo Show and on the News Channel, is a presenter on The Culture Show and often appears on BBC Newsnight Review.

Kermode has been a big supporter of MOON, interviewing Duncan on BBC Radio 5Live at the Edinburgh Film Festival back in June 2009 prior to the films UK July launch.

Duncan Jones & Mark Kermode

Wittertainment Live image by Martin Burns from Flickr

Kermode’s admiration for Jones’ work recently caused him to play a version of ‘Thus Spake Zarathusa‘ on a Rolf Harris Stylophone in homage to MOON.

So, once again, we say congratulations Duncan & all involved in making MOON :)