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The Directors Guild of America has announced the nominees for this year’s DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for 2011. The five directors competing for this year’s honours are Woody Allen, David Fincher, Michel Hazanavicius, Alexander Payne, and Martin Scorsese.

The winner will be announced at the 64th Annual DGA Awards Dinner on Saturday, January 28, 2012, at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland.

DGA President Taylor Hackford said, “The directors nominated this year for the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film Award have each demonstrated an inspired command of the medium. The fact that their prodigious talents have been recognized by their peers is the highest honor a director can achieve. I offer my most sincere congratulations to each of the nominees.”
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The Visual Effects Society has revealed the list the nominees for Outstanding Visual Effects in film, television, commercial, games, and special venues categories. The awards ceremony will take place on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, and air on ReelzChannel.

Two winners are already known. Stan Lee will be presented with the VES 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award, and Douglas Trumbull with the Georges Méliès Award.

VES Awards nominees:

Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Feature Motion Picture
Captain America: The First Avenger
Charlie Noble
Mark Soper
Christopher Townsend
Edson Williams
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Tim Burke
Emma Norton
John Richardson
David Vickery
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Gary Brozenich
David Conley
Charlie Gibson
Ben Snow
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Dan Lemmon
Joe Letteri
Cyndi Ochs
Kurt Williams
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Scott Benza
Wayne Billheimer
Matthew Butler
Scott Farrar
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The National Society of Film Critics has announced the list of the winners today. Lars von Trier’s Melancholia was named Best Picture and Kirsten Dunst Best Actress, while The Tree of Life took home the Best Director and Best Actor honours.

Here is the complete list:

BEST PICTURE
*1. Melancholia – 29 (Lars von Trier)
2. The Tree of Life – 28 (Terrence Malick)
3. A Separation – 20 (Asghar Farhadi)

BEST DIRECTOR

*1. Terrence Malick – 31 (The Tree of Life)
2. Martin Scorsese – 29 (Hugo)
3. Lars von Trier – 23 (Melancholia)
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The British Academy of Film and Television has released the Longlist of BAFTA nominees. The final list of nominees will be revealed on January 17, and the winners will be announced at the BAFTA award ceremony on February 12. The nominations are below.

The Orange British Academy Film Awards – Longlist

Best Film
The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Help
Hugo
The Ides of March
The Iron Lady
Midnight in Paris
Moneyball
My Week with Marilyn
Senna
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
War Horse
We Need to Talk About Kevin

Outstanding British Film
Arthur Christmas
Attack the Block
Coriolanus
The Guard
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
The Iron Lady
Jane Eyre
My Week with Marilyn
Senna
Shame
Submarine
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Tyrannosaur
War Horse
We Need to Talk About Kevin

Film Not in the English Language
Abel
As If I Am Not There
The Boy Mir – Ten Years in Afghanistan
Calvet
Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries)
Incendies
Little White Lies
Pina
Post Mortem
Potiche
Le Quattro Volte
A Separation
The Skin I Live In
Tomboy
The Troll Hunter
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