Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 won the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award for Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture.
Others nominated were The Adjustment Bureau, Cowboys & Aliens, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and X-Men: First Class.
You can see the list of all the SAG nominees and winners here.
Congratulations to all!
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The Oscar nominations were announced this morning, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 received 3 nominations!
So, the big disappointment is, of course, the fact that Alan Rickman did not receive a nomination. The competition is stiff this year, and I’m sure everyone is very pleased with the nominations. It’s a huge honor.
You can see the full list here (PDF).
Congratulations to all!
The awards ceremony takes place Sunday, February 26, 2012, at 7PM E/4PM P and will show on ABC.
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Dan Radcliffe and Holliday Grainger announced the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) film award nominees today. In those announcements, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 received four nominations for:
You can see the entire list of nominees here. The awards ceremony takes place Sunday 12 February at London’s Royal Opera House.
Here is a video of the announcement.
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The Guardian reported on the winners of the People’s Choice Awards 2012 from the award ceremony last evening which was broadcast live on CBS-TV. Among the winners was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows! Yea! The film won awards for Favorite Movie, Favorite Action Movie, Favorite Movie Ensemble Cast and Favorite Book Adaptation! Yea!
The winners were chosen by the number of votes from fans who voted on the People’s Choice website.
Harry Potter fans rock! Congratulations to all the winners!
Click here to read the article.
Source: Harry Potter Official Facebook Page
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According to The London Evening Standard, the UK newspaper will break tradition this year by creating a new category for their Evening Standard British Film Awards and opening it for a public vote rather than being chosen by a film panel of critics like the other award categories are done. The new category is “Blockbuster of the Year” and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 is among the nominees! Another way this category breaks tradition is that the nominees include Hollywood films along with British ones.
So, Harry Potter UK fans, we are counting on you to click here to vote for the final Harry Potter film to be the first to receive the Evening Standard Award for “Blockbuster of the Year”.
Click here to read the announcement and vote.
Source: Harry Potter UK Official Facebook Page
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We previously reported that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 made the shortlist for the 84th Academy Awards Visual Effects award. Now according to an article posted on awardsdaily.com (a site associated with the Oscars), the final Harry Potter film is also among the seven films announced today which are in the shorlist for the Best Makeup category for the Academy award aka the Oscar, an honor bestowed by the The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The final three films to be considered for the award will be announced live with the other final Oscar nominees on Tuesday, January 24, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
The other six films on the Best Makeup shortlist are: Albert Nobbs, The Artist, Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life, Anonymous, The Iron Lady, and Hugo.
The 84th Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2011 will be presented on Sunday, February 26, 2012, at the Kodak Theatre and televised live by the ABC Television Network.
Click here to read the complete article.
Source: Awards Daily
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We previously told you that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 made the long list for the 84th Academy Awards Visual Effects award. The short list is now online and Hallows 2 made the list. Others that made the list include:
Members of the Visual Effects Branch will view 10-minute excerpts from each of these films on Thursday, January 19. After this, they’ll vote to take this list down to 5.
All nominations will be announced live on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
The Academy Awards will be presented on Sunday, February 26, 2012 on ABC. They will also be televised live in more than 225 countries worldwide.
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According to an article posted in The Guardian, Warner Bros. has made a lot of efforts to have Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 receive Oscar award nominations from the “US-based” Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences before the final Oscar ballots close on January 13, 2012. Some of those efforts have been special trailers, advertising campaigns and a “for your consideration” site. Warner Bros. would particularly like to see Alan Rickman receive a Best Actor In A Supporting Role nomination for his portrayal of “Professor Severus Snape” in the last Harry Potter film.
The article has a quote from Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) on that thought:
“I don’t think there is going to be another performance from an actor in a supporting role that is so powerful,” Radcliffe told the Daily Telegraph.
Don’t you agree? I certainly do! So, I thought fans could support Warner Bros.’ efforts by sending tweets to The Academy’s official Twitter page to show support for Alan Rickman to receive an Oscar nomination. Although The Academy does not accept public votes, the tweets may create an awareness that Rickman’s performance should be reviewed and considered by his fellow actors who do have voting power with The Academy.
Click here to read the complete article in The Guardian.
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With Warner Bros. hoping to get an Oscar nomination for Alan Rickman his portrayal as “Severus Snape” in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, The Los Angeles Times interviewed the actor who is currently on Broadway performing in Seminar by Theresa Rebeck. According to the article, Rickman “was more than willing to express his affection for the ‘Potter’ creative team and cast”, particularly the three stars Daniel Radcliffe (Harry), Emma Watson (Hermione), and Rupert Grint (Ron).
He was quoted to have said it was a “’unique experience’ of watching the movies grow up with the children”. Rickman also said that doing all eight Harry Potter films was a “punctuation mark in my life every year…” due to the fact that he was working on other projects but always came back to “Hogwarts” for another Harry Potter story to be filmed:
“It was a punctuation mark in my life every year because I would be doing other things but always come back to that and I was always aware of my place in the story even as others around me were not,” Rickman said. “Am I sad? The point about a great story is that it’s got a beginning, a middle and end. The ending of this story was quite popular and beautifully judged by Jo Rowling and David Yates, so it’s not a cause for sadness; it’s a cause for celebration that it was rounded off so well.”
Ever since the first Harry Potter film, Rickman knew what Snape’s motives were because he had a talk with J.K. Rowling who trusted him with the knowledge so that he could understand how to play this man who was so unpleasant to Harry Potter. He was so focused on playing this character correctly and not giving anything away that even David Yates (director of the last four Harry Potter films) was taken aback at their first meeting:
“My early reaction to Alan was, ‘Wow, he’s really prickly and quite unpleasant,’” Yates said during a recent Los Angeles visit. “But there’s a method to his madness. I realized that he has to get in that zone when he’s on the set. When I finally met him away from the job, he was a lovely guy. I don’t know that he shows that to everyone, though. I think Alan is also shy — painfully shy, in fact — and he believes his craft should have an element of mystery to it. He sees no value in talking about it too much or dissecting it too much.”
Quite aware that Rickman and Rowling had a private conversation about Snape, the producer David Heyman was amused occasionally by the fact that Rickman knew certain things concerning his character that no one else on the set knew:
“It was quite amusing, too, because there were times when a director would tell Alan what to do in a scene and he would say something like, ‘No I can’t do that – I know what is going to happen and you don’t,’” said “Potter” producer David Heyman. “He had a real understanding of the character and now looking back, you can see there was always more going on there – a look, an expression, a sentiment — that hint at what is to come … the shadow that he casts in these films is a huge one and the emotion he conveys is immeasurable.”
Rickman mentioned what his thoughts were on working with two different actors who portrayed “Professor Albus Dumbledore”, for Richard Harris who portrayed “Dumbledore” in the first two Harry Potter films died from Hodgkin’s lymphoma in October 2004:
“It was hard losing Richard so early on but it was a great gift to find Michael to pick up those reins and it was a gift to have two Dumbledores to work with,” Rickman said. “The rest of the cast stayed steady. You didn’t see the cast come and go, just get taller.”
The article went on to mention other memorable films Rickman had done in the past along with how well the theater run is going for Seminar, though he will, of course, always be known for his role as “Professor Severus Snape”.
“The Story of Snape” video, which includes a comment from Dan Radcliffe, is embedded in the article. Click here to view it and read the complete article.
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The long list for the 84th Academy Awards Visual Effects nominations have been published and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 is on the list.
Other on the list include:
“Captain America: The First Avenger”
“Cowboys & Aliens”
“Hugo”
“Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol”
“Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides”
“Real Steel”
“Rise of the Planet of the Apes”
“Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows”
“Sucker Punch”
“Super 8″
“Thor”
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon”
“The Tree of Life”
“X-Men: First Class”
The list will be narrowed down to 10 in early January.
All nominations will be announced live on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, at 5:30 a.m. PT in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
The Academy Awards will be presented on Sunday, February 26, 2012 on ABC. They will also be televised live in more than 225 countries worldwide.
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Warner Bros have released eight new Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 TV spot videos on their official YouTube site. The videos include closer looks at Xeno Lovegood, Nagini, Mundungus Fletcher and the Seven Potters scene (including a half-dressed Harry Potter in a bra), Dobby, Harry and Hagrid on the motorcycle, Fred and George Weasley, Hermione, George catching Ginny and Harry kissing, Dumbledore’s ghost in Grimmauld Place, the Dementors, Snape, Ron, Voldemort, Gryffindor Sword…well, as you can see, these videos contain MUCH more than you’ve previously seen. Check them our for yourself here!
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 will be released on November 19, 2010 and Part 2 will be released on July 15, 2011.
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