Nominee for her performance in The Color Purple as best supporting actress.

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Nominee for her performance in The Color Purple as best supporting actress.

Best Actress in a Supporting Role is such an incredible cateogry this year and I cannot help but feel sorry for the other four with Da’Vine Joy Randolph sweeping across all the awards ceremonies, I mean don’t get me wrong she is outstanding in The Holdovers, but all of the other performances are so good as well!






Celie has the worst possible life with an abusive father, then allowing a man she only knows as Mister to take her as a wife who is cruel and continues the abuse. A Jazz Singer named Shug Avery will eventually help her realise she is worth more than anyone has ever told her.
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Here we have a list of the films which are nominated for the 2024 Oscars, and where they are available to watch in the UK.
American Fiction – Cinema release 2nd Feb
Anatomy of a Fall – watch from £3.49
Barbie – watch from £4.99
The Holdovers – Currently in Cinemas
Killers of the Flower Moon – Apple TV+
Maestro – Netflix
Oppenheimer – watch from £3.49
Past Lives – watch from £3.49
Poor Things – Currently in cinemas
The Zone of Interest – Currently in cinemas
Here we have the nominations for the 96th Academy Awards, which is taking place on Sunday 10th March 2024.

American Fiction
Anatomy of a Fall
Barbie
The Holdovers
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
Poor Things
The Zone of Interest
Here we have the nominations for the 2024 BAFTA Film Awards which will be annouced on Sunday 18th February on BBC1 and iPlayer in the UK.

BEST FILM
ANATOMY OF A FALL Marie-Ange Luciani, David Thion
THE HOLDOVERS Mark Johnson
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON Dan Friedkin, Daniel Lupi, Martin Scorsese, Bradley Thomas
OPPENHEIMER Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven, Emma Thomas
POOR THINGS Ed Guiney, Yorgos Lanthimos, Andrew Lowe, Emma Stone
OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM
ALL OF US STRANGERS Andrew Haigh, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Sarah Harvey
HOW TO HAVE SEX Molly Manning Walker, Emily Leo, Ivana MacKinnon, Konstantinos Kontovrakis
NAPOLEON Ridley Scott, Mark Huffam, Kevin J. Walsh, David Scarpa
THE OLD OAK Ken Loach, Rebecca O’Brien, Paul Laverty
POOR THINGS Yorgos Lanthimos, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Emma Stone, Tony McNamara
RYE LANE Raine Allen-Miller, Yvonne Isimeme Ibazebo, Damian Jones, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia
SALTBURN Emerald Fennell, Josey McNamara, Margot Robbie
SCRAPPER Charlotte Regan, Theo Barrowclough
WONKA Paul King, Alexandra Derbyshire, David Heyman, Simon Farnaby
THE ZONE OF INTEREST Jonathan Glazer, James Wilson, Ewa Puszczyńska
Continue reading “BAFTA Film Awards 2024 – Nominations”Here we have the Screen Actor Guild Awards nominations for 2024!
Continue reading “SAG Awards 2024 – Nominations”The following films will advance to the nominating stage of voting. This is the initial longlisting round.
Round Two voting, to determine the nominations, opens today at 18.00 GMT to BAFTA’s voting members and will close on Friday 12 January 2024.
The nominations for the 2024 EE BAFTA Film Awards will be announced on Thursday 18 January and the ceremony will take place on Sunday 18 February.
10 films will advance in the Best Film category. 234 eligible films were submitted for consideration. All film voting members of BAFTA vote to determine the longlist, nominations and overall winner.
15 films will advance in the Outstanding British Film category. All BAFTA film voting members were invited to join an opt-in chapter to determine the longlist (of which the top five are nominated). A jury selects the remaining five nominations. In the final round all film voting members vote to determine the winning film. 76 eligible films were submitted for consideration.
Today is World Book Day and what better way to celebrate on a film blog than putting together a list of 7 films that are based on books? I thought it was a great idea too, the thing with the list though is that I have to have read the book and seen the film for it to make the list.
Here are my choices . . .