MOON and Director Duncan Jones are up for three public votes over on Film Of The Year. Please click on the links below and Vote:
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The longlist for the Orange British Academy Film Awards in 2010 has been announced this morning, and MOON features in 10 categories!! Full list can be view on the BAFTA site HERE
The Long List
Over 6000 members of the Academy vote in three rounds to decide the winners of the Orange British Academy Film Awards. The Long List is the result of Round One voting by members of the Academy. With 220 films entered this year, the first round of voting reduces the films down to fifteen in each category. Round Two voting will reduce these fifteen contenders down to the five nominations in each category.
The full list of nominations will be announced on Thursday 21 January at BAFTA Headquarters.
MOON has been nominated for:
No nomination for Supporting Actor for Sam Rockwell though, what does a man have to do??
So there we go, a 2 week wait until we discover whether MOON makes it into the final nominations, fantastic showing for a debut Director so far though
Quick update for you on the MOON Academy Awards screeners situation, Director Duncan Jones has just confirmed on Twitter that there WILL be a series of screeners in LA:
So! Big news on the screeners front… The powers that be will be doing a series of Academy screenings in LA! guess that’s something.
Great news, and a small victory for all who have campaigned to get more attention for MOON in the build up to the 2010 Academy Awards, lets hope they take it further and put some effort into further “For Your Consideration” advertising, especially to coincide with the release of MOON on DVD / Blu-Ray next week (12th January 2010)
We shall now have a small cake
Would that this were real, backed by the studio, but it is not not (see here for Sony’s reason for no Academy screeners) still, a great image, and great backing from Marq Riley, see his posterous site for further posts in support of MOON.
Reporting on the The Dublin Film Critics Circle awards for 2009, the Irish Film Board site confirms a special award for MOON Director Duncan Jones:
Duncan Jones – David Bowie’s son – received an outstanding achievement gong for his work on making Moon, another science fiction gem, look splendid on a tiny budget.
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT, 2009 – Duncan Jones, Moon
Congratulations once again Mr.Jones, are there any more awards left to win one wonders???
Certainly could not let this milestone pass without note, the Sam Rockwell Oscar campaign petition setup by @rboulding on October 15th 2009 has passed the 2000 signature mark, not bad for a cause that has no financial / PR backing, just being passed on by word of mouth through social networks (Twitter / Facebook) by people like you & me that have seen MOON and been blown away by Sam’s stunning performance. Just scanning through recent signatures it seems Sam’s peers are making their thoughts known also, with signatures / comments most recently from Director Jim Jarmusch, and Spiderman / Pineapple Express star James Franco.
We know that a petition, no matter how many signatures, is not going to get Sam an Academy Award nomination all by itself, but the aim is to draw attention to Sam’s performance, and hope that the voters interest is stimulated enough to want to see MOON, and consider nominating him in the Best Actor category.
Ballot papers have now been sent out to Academy members (5,777 of them), ballots have to be completed and returned by 17:00 PST on January 23rd 2010, nominations for the 82nd annual Academy Awards will be announced February 2nd 2010, and the Awards themselves presented March 2nd 2010. Further details on the various branches of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences can be found on Variety’s Awards Central site.
Thanks to all who have signed the petition so far,and left comments on this blogs Sam Rockwell Oscar section, as well as the original blog entry where we kicked it all off back in mid October. It ain’t over until the ballots are returned, some voters may already know their choices and be able to complete and return their ballots, some though may have not seen MOON and witnessed the stunning performance of Sam Rockwell as Sam Bell, so we’d encourage you to continue to plug / support our little campaign on social networks, on your sites, on your blogs, and in anyway that won’t cause you to be arrested.
MOON is released on DVD – Blu-Ray in the USA on January 12th 2010, though we’re hearing some stores are selling it already, so lovely Academy members, all 5,777 of you, if you haven’t seen MOON yet, I’m sure you will be aware of how talented Mr.Rockwell is already, so try and grab a copy and consider nominating Sam Rockwell in the Best Actor category for the 82nd Academy Awards
We are crossing everything that is crossable here (except anything that may lead to hospitalisation) – Thank you for taking the time to read this.
(ps – You may get so blown away by it all that you wang in a Duncan Jones director nom and a Clint Mansell soundtrack nom as well, I would, but I can’t so….)
Another day, another batch of nominations for MOON & Director Duncan Jones.
Today the London Critics Circle announced the nominations for the 30th Critics Awards, with MOON nominated in three categories:
The 30th Awards will take place on February 18 at the Landmark Hotel, Marylebone, London.
Further details on all nominations can be found HERE. Best of luck to all films (starting with M with OO in the middle, ending in N)
More awards news (tis the season) as The Chicago Film Critics Association nominate MOON director Duncan Jones in their 2009 Awards in the ‘MOST PROMISING FILMMAKER’ category. Full list of noms in category:
The awards will be announce on December 21st, so keep an eye on their site HERE we will of course let you know should more awards come the way of Duncan & MOON in what has turned into a fantastically successful year already
Thanks to @automatic_ego on Twitter for the pointer to the announcement on Roger Ebert’s journal
Sam Rockwell has been nominated in the Best Actor category for his role as Sam Bell in Duncan Jones’ directorial debut MOON, in the The Detroit Film Critics Society best of 2009.
Full list of nominations available HERE on the Detroit Film Critics site.
Sam is up against George Clooney, Matt Damon, Colin Firth & Joseph Gordon Levitt. Quick turnaround on this as well, The 2009 winners will be announced on December 18th, 2009.
More very well deserved recognition, well in Sam! Good Luck!
MOON has won the prestigious Best British Independent Film Award at the BIFAs tonight. MOON had received 7 nominations in 6 categories, and beat off stiff competition from a strong group consisting of ‘An Education’, ‘Fish Tank’, ‘In The Loop’ and ‘Nowhere Boy’
Full list of winners for 2009 over on the BIFA site.
On top of that, Director Duncan Jones has been awarded the The Douglas Hickox Award for best debut Director. Full details of all of tonights winners over on the Birmingham Post (quick off the mark there chaps!) and over on the BBC
Many, many congratulations to Duncan Jones, Stuart Fenegan, Liberty Films, and the entire cast and crew of officially, the UK’s and the world’s 2009 BEST BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM!! Onwards…..