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Cinema, News

BAFTA 2015 British Academy Awards – Nominations and Winners

 

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BAFTA FILM 2015 British Academy Awards, and as we are on the other side of the world, you will need a satellite dish to tune in to this one when shown live in the UK. Hosted live by Stephen Fry on television channel BBC One at 9:00pm on Sunday 8th February 2015 in the United Kingdom – or at least there will be edited highlights.

Mike Leigh will receive the BAFTA Fellowship, this highest accolade is given to an individual in recognition of their outstanding contribution to film, television or games.

BAFTA FILM nominations this year includes the Australian Made Animated Film THE LEGO MOVIE.

UPDATED and yes the winner is THE LEGO MOVIE (Directors: Phil Lord and Christopher Miller).

BAFTA 2015 British Academy Awards

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Australian Cinema, Awards, Cinema, News, Theatre

2014 Sydney Arts Guide Stage & Screen Awards

Bell Shakespeare's WINTERS TALE  2014 winner - Best stage production
Bell Shakespeare’s WINTERS TALE  2014 winner – Best stage production

 

Sydney Arts Guide is a key part of stage and film culture, and exists to celebrate the art of performance, in theatres and cinemas.

2014 was a year of amazing diversity, and our twenty accredited specialist reviewers, were all spoiled for choice in the quality of the live theatre performances to be experienced in the City of Sydney, and the suburbs of Sydney.

As the old adage goes, “live theatre is not dead theatre, as there is a different performance to be experienced every night”. Our team of professional reviewers, have each nominated their personal preferences for both theatre and cinema. A small number of movies were nominated out of the hundreds of cinema films that were seen during the last twelve months.

At the end of another outstanding year for the arts in Sydney, on Wednesday 31st December 2014, Sydney Arts Guide announced its 2014 awards in these Stage and Screen categories:-

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3D Cinema, Animation, Australian Cinema, Children and Family, Cinema

THE LEGO MOVIE

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Best LEGO family adventure movie ever, this modern day satire is subversive and yet counter-cultural. This Australian made 3D computer animation comedy movie film, is already so beloved by USA audiences because this film satisfies audiences of all ages, and the sequel is already being made. Decent plot with very engaging characters, and you will be taken for quite an emotional and hectic ride, but near the end, the story has that unexpected twist, with an intriguing moral lesson for all, that is essentially true to life.

Emmet (Chris Pratt) a forgettable everyman, struggles as an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average LEGO mini-figure and is hopelessly and hilariously under prepared, when mistakenly identified by our surveillance culture. When anointed by an underground resistance movement as the “The Special” and the key to saving the world, Emmet is drafted into an epic quest journey (think HOBBIT) to stop Lord Business (Will Ferrell) the evil tyrant who intends to permanently glue everyone in place. Just like MR.PEABODY AND SHERMAN, there are some surprising voices used as cameos, this time from famous female and male actors. Amazing visuals and yes it is very hard to tell that everything, is not actually made of real Lego pieces.

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