Last summer’s box-office busting Batman movie The Dark Knight has swept the board at the People’s Choice Awards in LA, winning all five of the categories it was nominated for (with votes cast online by fans), taking Favourite Movie, Favourite Action Movie, Favourite Cast, Favourite On-Screen Match-up and Favourite Super-Hero Movie (hmm, they have some pretty specific sub categories at these awards…). At the same awards the Simpsons scored in the Favourite TV Animated Comedy category while Wall-E won the Best Family Movie. Angelina Jolie won Favourite Female Action Star (presumably for her gun-totin’ turn in Wanted). Heroes took the Favourite Sci-Fi/Fantasy show gong and one of our personal gods, Joss Whedon, scored with a nod for Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, which won Favourite Online Sensation.
(Bruce Wayne contemplates losing his security deposit on his hotel room)
Sticking with comics, animation and movie themes the BBC is reporting that the animated documentary Waltz With Bashir (one of my personal choices of best movies I saw in 2008, reviewed here) is on the shortlist for BAFTAs in the foreign film category (the film is also generating a lot of Oscar buzz). The animated movie adaptation of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis is also nominated in the same category, which reminded me that it was a film I meant to have in my own best of the year list but forgot (I’m sure I’m going to keep coming across other books, comics and movies I meant to mention there too). I’d imagine that news will not please the authorities in Tehran who have previously criticised the film claiming it offered an erroneous view of Iran and the religious revolution.
(The Fashion Police were everywhere in Persepolis)
Thu, Jan 8, 2009
Awards, Comics and cartoons, Film, TV and radio