Tag: George Clooney
For the Second Year, Johnny Depp is America’s Favorite Actor
In 2011 he was the voice of Rango, he was Captain Jack Sparrow (again) and he was also a journalist. And, again this year, Johnny Depp has the distinction of being America’s Favorite Actor. Next on the list are two actors who haven’t actually acted in a movie this past year. Tied for number two are Denzel Washington, who was in the second spot last year, and Clint Eastwood who was number 9 on the list last year.
These are some of the results of The Harris Poll ® of 2,237 adults surveyed online between December 5 and 12, 2011 by Harris Interactive®.
2012 Golden Globe Winners
Alexander Payne‘s The Descendants and Michel Hazanavicius‘ The Artist both won a best picture prize and a best actor prize.
The Artist with six nominations won 3 prizes – for best picture (musical or comedy), best actor – Jean Dujardin (also in musical or comedy) and for best musical score.
The Descendants with 5 nominations won in the drama category and took one for a best actor - George Clooney.
The 17th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards Select THE ARTIST as Best Picture and Michel Hazanavicius as Best Director
The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) announced the winners of the 17th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards earlier this evening. Hosted by comedians Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel , the star-studded ceremony was held at the Hollywood Palladium and aired live on VH1. “The Artist” was named the year’s Best Picture and Michael Hazanavicius won Best Director honors for the film.
Other big winners of the night included George Clooney, who took Best Actor for his role in “The Descendants” and Viola Davis, who won Best Actress for her role in “The Help.” Also honored was Christopher Plummer with the Best Supporting Actor award and Octavia Spencer for Best Supporting Actress both for her work in “The Help.”
George Clooney Unveils New Project THE MONUMENTS MEN
Eternal bachelor George Clooney who recently picked up three personal Golden Globe nominations will next write and direct an adaptation of Robert M. Edsel’s book The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History, the true story of a hand-picked group of art experts chosen by the U.S. government to retrieve artwork stolen by the Nazis. Clooney is co-writing with his longtime producing partner Grant Heslov again as well.
2011 The Internet Film Critics Society (IFCS) Awards Winners
The Internet Film Critic Society announced the winners of their 5th Annual Movie Awards, giving the top honor (Best Drama) to Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life. Malick also won the Best Director prize. Other awards went to Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris (Best Comedy), Drive (Best Action Film), and Attack the Block (Best Horror or Science Fiction Film). George Clooney picked up the award for Best Actor for his performance in The Descendants and Rooney Mara won Best Actress for her role in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Brad Pitt Is Top Money-Making Star Of 2011
Brad Pitt has been voted the Top Money-Making Star of 2011 in Quigley Publishing Company’s 80th Annual Poll of Motion Picture Exhibitors. This is Pitt’s sixth appearance in the Poll, but his first win. Exhibitors felt Pitt was responsible for more traffic to theatres than any other Hollywood star based on his performances this year in “Moneyball,” “The Tree of Life” and “Happy Feet Two.” (voice)
The Quigley Poll, conducted each year since 1932, is an annual survey of motion picture theatre owners and film buyers, which asks them to vote for the ten stars that they believe generated the most box-office revenue for their theatres during the year. It has been long regarded as one of the most reliable indicators of a Star’s real box-office draw because the selections are made by professionals whose livelihood depends on choosing the films and actors that will bring audiences to their theatres. The Quigley Poll appears annually in Quigley Publishing Company’s International Motion Picture Almanac and on our web site: www.quigleypublishing.com. Both list the results of all the Polls since Marie Dressler, Janet Gaynor and Joan Crawford took the top three places in 1932.
Alfonso Cuaron’s GRAVITY Synopsis
Don’t know about you, but I’m definitely interested in the upcoming Gravity movie.
In case you’re not so familiar with this project, I will just say that it stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney.
And that should be enough for the start. In the rest of this report we bring you the official synopsis part for the whole thing, so make sure you check it out!
HUGO and THE ARTIST Lead With 11 Nominations Each for the 17th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards
The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) has announced the nominees for the 17th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards. The winners will be announced at the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards ceremony on Thursday, January 12, 2012 at the Hollywood Palladium. Hosted by Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer, featuring Fitz and The Tantrums as the house band, the show will broadcast live for the fifth year in a row on VH1 at 8:00 PM ET/PT.
“Hugo” and “The Artist” each received an impressive 11 nominations for the 17th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, one short of the record 12 nominations for “Black Swan” last year.
George Clooney to Make a Movie About the Smothers Brothers
George Clooney and Grant Heslov are in the Oscar race with The Ides of March and they are Smokehouse partners, too. So, those two busy guys and Sony Pictures will turn the story of 60s comedians Tom and Dicky Smothers, specifically focusing on their television variety show on CBS called, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.
