Showing posts with label Nominations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nominations. Show all posts

Monday, 9 December 2013

Gossip & Gists: Kenya Tops Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards Nominations

Over 15 Kenyan actors, directors, make-up artistes and cinematographers have been nominated for the second edition of Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards holding next year.

Valerie Kimani nominated for 'Best supporting actress in a drama' for 2014 AMVCA . Photo-amarieadhis
Valerie Kimani nominated for ‘Best supporting actress in a drama’ for 2014 AMVCA
Some of the nominees include Edwin Maina Kariuki, Valerie Kimani, David Mulwa, Ian Mbugua, Elayne Okaya, Alex Gakumo, Elayne Okaya, Alex Gakumo, Catherine Kibugi, Ruth Ndulu Maingi, Mohamed Zain, Barbara Minishi, Christian Almesberger, Edwin Maina Kariuki and Njoki Muhoho.

The nominees were announced on Thursday, December 5 at Landmark village, Victoria Island. The award proper will be presented to deserving individuals in March 2014.

Best Movie (Drama)
Edwin Maina Kariuki – Nairobi Half Life (6B)

Best supporting actress in a drama
Valerie Kimani – Higher Learning Episode 26 Season 3 (4A)

Best Supporting actor in a drama
David Mulwa – Higher Learning Episode 26 Season 3 (5A)
Ian Mbugua – House of Lungula (5B)

Best Make-up artist
Elayne Okaya – Nairobi Half Life
Alex Gakumo – Sumu La Penzi Episode 1 Season 1

Best Costume Designer
Catherine Kibugi – Sumu La Penzi Episode 5
Ruth Ndulu Maingi – Lies That Bind Episode 2 Season 2

Best Lightning Designer
Mohamed Zain – Nairobi Half Life

Best Art Director
Barbara Minishi – Nairobi Half Life

Best Cinematographer
Christian Almesberger – Nairobi Half Life

Best Indigenous Language (Swahili)
Edwin Maina Kariuki – Nairobi Half Life
Njoki Muhoho – Mama Duka

Best Documentary
Sonia Maingi – Tumanka Goes To School
Peter Murimi – Matatu: My Life, My Art
Peter Murimi – Guardians of the Wild
David Campbell – Shamba Shape Up

Best Television Series comedy/Drama
Grace Kahaki Munthali – Prem Episode 2

Best Movie Director
Tosh Gitonga – Nairobi Half Life

Best New Media-online video
Dorothy Ghettuba & Oyunga Pala – Next Big Host (1D)

Sunday, 8 December 2013

Gossip & Gists: 2014 Grammy Awards Nominations Revealed [The Full List]

Friday December 6th, the Recording Academy revealed the full list of nominees for the 2014 Grammy Awards, which will take place January 26th 2014. The full list below...


Album Of The Year

The Blessed Unrest — Sara Bareilles
Random Access Memories — Daft Punk
Good Kid, M.A.A.D City — Kendrick Lamar
The Heist — Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Red — Taylor Swift

Record Of The Year

“Get Lucky” — Daft Punk & Pharrell Williams
“Radioactive” — Imagine Dragons
“Royals” — Lorde
“Locked Out Of Heaven” — Bruno Mars
“Blurred Lines” — Robin Thicke Featuring T.I. & Pharrell Williams
 
Song Of The Year

“Just Give Me A Reason” — Pink Featuring Nate Ruess (songwriters: Jeff Bhasker, Pink & Nate Ruess)
“Locked Out Of Heaven” — Bruno Mars (songwriters: Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine & Bruno Mars)
“Roar” — Katy Perry (songwriters: Lukasz Gottwald, Max Martin, Bonnie McKee, Katy Perry & Henry Walter)
“Royals” — Lorde (songwriters: Joel Little & Ella Yelich O’Connor)
“Same Love” — Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Featuring Mary Lambert (songwriters: Ben Haggerty, Mary Lambert & Ryan Lewis)

Best New Artist

James Blake
Kendrick Lamar
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Kacey Musgraves
Ed Sheeran

Producer Of The Year

Rob Cavallo
Dr. Luke
Ariel Rechtshaid
Jeff Tweedy
Pharrell Williams

Best Pop Solo Performance

“Brave” — Sara Bareilles
“Royals” — Lorde
“When I Was Your Man” — Bruno Mars
“Roar” — Katy Perry
“Mirrors” — Justin Timberlake

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

“Get Lucky” — Daft Punk & Pharrell Williams
“Just Give Me A Reason” — Pink Featuring Nate Ruess
“Stay” — Rihanna Featuring Mikky Ekko
“Blurred Lines” — Robin Thicke Featuring T.I. & Pharrell Williams
“Suit & Tie” — Justin Timberlake & Jay Z

Best Pop Vocal Album

Paradise - Lana Del Rey
Pure Heroine - Lorde
Unorthodox Jukebox - Bruno Mars
Blurred Lines - Robin Thicke
The 20/20 Experience - Justin Timberlake

Best Rap Song

“F***in’ Problems” – ASAP Rocky Featuring Drake, 2 Chainz & Kendrick Lamar
“Holy Grail” – Jay Z featuring Justin Timberlake
“New Slaves” – Kanye West
“Started From the Bottom” – Drake
“Thrift Shop” – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Featuring Wanz

Thursday, 7 March 2013

Gossip & Gists: Django Unchained, TED Lead MTV Movie Awards 2013 Nominations

The MTV Movie Awards is around the corner, this year’s awards nominations list has been revealed and topping the list is the Quentin Tarantino-directed ‘Django Unchained’ and Seth MacFarlane’s bro-mantic comedy ‘Ted’ which both lead with seven nominations.

Django Unchained


The Batman trilogy The Dark Knight Rises follows with five nods while The Avengers, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Pitch Perfect and the James Bonds action thriller Skyfall received four nominations.

Voting for the MTV Movie Awards began on Tuesday, March 5, 2013 on MTV Base and runs right through Saturday, April 13.

The awards will take place at the Sony Pictures Studios Lot in Culver City, California on April 17, 2013.

Check out the full nominations list below…

MOVIE OF THE YEAR ‘Django Unchained’ ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ ‘Ted’ ‘The Avengers’ ‘The Dark Knight Rises’

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE Anne Hathaway — ‘Les Misérables’ Mila Kunis — ‘Ted’ Jennifer Lawrence — ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ Emma Watson — ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’ Rebel Wilson — ‘Pitch Perfect’

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE Ben Affleck — ‘Argo’ Bradley Cooper — ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ Daniel Day-Lewis — ‘Lincoln’ Jamie Foxx — ‘Django Unchained’ Channing Tatum — ‘Magic Mike’

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE Ezra Miller — ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’ Eddie Redmayne — ‘Les Misérables’ Suraj Sharma — ‘Life of Pi’ Quvenzhané Wallis — ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ Rebel Wilson — ‘Pitch Perfect’

BEST SCARED-AS-S**T PERFORMANCE Jessica Chastain — ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Alexandra Daddario — ‘Texas Chainsaw 3D’ Martin Freeman — ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ Jennifer Lawrence — ‘House at the End of the Street’ Suraj Sharma — ‘Life of Pi’

BEST ON-SCREEN DUO Leonardo DiCaprio and Samuel L. Jackson — ‘Django Unchained’ Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence — ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ Mark Wahlberg and Seth MacFarlane as Ted — ‘Ted’ Robert Downey Jr. and Mark Ruffalo — ‘The Avengers’ Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis — ‘The Campaign’

BEST SHIRTLESS PERFORMANCE Christian Bale — ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Daniel Craig — ‘Skyfall’ Taylor Lautner — ‘The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2′ Seth MacFarlane as Ted — ‘Ted’ Channing Tatum — ‘Magic Mike’

BEST FIGHT Jamie Foxx vs. Candieland Henchmen — ‘Django Unchained’ Daniel Craig vs. Ola Rapace — ‘Skyfall’ Mark Wahlberg vs. Seth MacFarlane as Ted — ‘Ted’ Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson and Jeremy Renner vs. Tom Hiddleston — ‘The Avengers’ Christian Bale vs. Tom Hardy — ‘The Dark Knight Rises’

BEST KISS Kerry Washington and Jamie Foxx — ‘Django Unchained’ Kara Hayward and Jared Gilman — ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper — ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ Mila Kunis and Mark Wahlberg — ‘Ted’ Emma Watson and Logan Lerman — ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’

BEST WTF MOMENT Jamie Foxx and Samuel L. Jackson — ‘Candieland Gets Smoked’ in ‘Django Unchained’ Denzel Washington — ‘Final Descent’ in Flight’ Anna Camp — ‘Hack-Appella’ in Pitch Perfect’ Javier Bardem — ‘Oops… There Goes His Face’ in Skyfall’ Seth MacFarlane as Ted — ‘Ted Gets Saucy’ in Ted’

BEST VILLAIN Javier Bardem — ‘Skyfall’ Leonardo DiCaprio — ‘Django Unchained’ Marion Cotillard — ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Tom Hardy — ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Tom Hiddleston — ‘The Avengers

BEST MUSICAL MOMENT Anne Hathaway — ‘Les Misérables’ Channing Tatum, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Nash and Adam Rodriguez — ‘Magic Mike’ Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Anna Camp, Brittany Snow, Alexis Knapp, Ester Dean and Hana Mae Lee — ‘Pitch Perfect’ Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence — ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ Emma Watson, Logan Lerman and Ezra Miller — ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’