This year’s Oscar nominations have just been announced by Anne Hathaway and A Serious Man is up for two awards! Along with the predictable nod for Best Original Screenplay the movie is also up for the big one- Best Picture!

No Best Actor nom for Michael Stuhlbarg though. Real shame!

A full list of nominations can be seen here – http://oscar.go.com/nominations/nominees

The nominations for the 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards have just been announced and A Serious Man star Michael Stuhlbarg is up in the BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR MUSICAL category! Unfortunately this is the movie’s only nomination.

The very best of luck to him!

A Serious Man has been nominated in two categories for this year’s Critic’s Choice Movie Awards. It has been nominated for Best Picture and Joel and Ethan Coen have been nominated for the Best Original Screenplay gong.

Leading the charge with the most nominations with 10 apiece are Quentin Tarantino’s awesome Inglourious Basterds and Rob Marshall’s Nine. King of the World, James Cameron’s Avatar has 9 noms with The Hurt Locker and Up In The Air having 8.

I sometimes wonder if the Coens are bored with Best Screenplay nominations and awards…

The outrage!

Yep Burn After Reading has struck out entirely. Not a single Oscar nomination for the Coen brothers’ latest. Not even a little biddy Best Original Screenplay nod. The complete list of nominations for the 81st Academy Awards was announced this afternoon, David Finchers sumptuous looking The Curious Case of Benjamin Button leads the way with 13 nomination while Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire has amassed 10. Both The Dark Knight and Milk landed 8 apiece. Check out the full list here. Still, at least it means us Coen brothers fans need not endure the ceremony this year… no sour grapes honest…

BAFTA have announced the nominations for this year’s awards and Burn After Reading is up for three of ‘em. Perhaps the Coen brothers are getting bored of being nominated for Best Original Screenplay awards but they’ll have to contend with another. This along with Best Supporting Actor and Actress nominations for Brad Pitt and Tilda Swinton respectively, makes three.

Regular readers of You Know, For Kids! will know that the Coen brothers’ latest, Burn After Reading, was nominated in two categories at this year’s Golden Globes, well, it won neither! In the category of Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical it was beaten out by Woody Allen’s supposed return to form, Vicky Christina Barcelona while thew award for Best Performance by an Acress in a Comedy or Musical went to Sally Hawkins for her performance in Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky beating Frances McDormand.

Boo!

The 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards will be held in Hollywood on January 11, 2009, and the nominations for the prizes have just been announced and Burn After Reading is in the running for Best Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical). In addition the ever-wonderful Frances McDormand is on the shortlist for Best Performance By An Actress In A Motion Picture (Comedy Or Musical). 

Bunnie strikes again- thanks, Bunnie!

Today the Academy announced the nominations for this year’s Oscars. No Country For Old Men and Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood topped the table for most noms with eight apiece. The Coen brothers have been nominated in both the Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay categories while Javier Bardem has picked up yet another Best Supporting Actor nod and the movie is also up for the big one- Film of the Year. Other noms are Achievement in Cinematography (Roger Deakins), Achievement in Film Editing (Coen alias Roderick Jaynes), Achievement in Sound Mixing and Achievement in Sound Editing. The 80th Academy Awards takes place on 25th February. No word on whether or not the WGA strike will affect it.

No Country For Old Men has been nominated for 9 BATFAs! And this one being a British award ceremony, will be unaffected by the WGA strike and will actually happen. The film’s nominations were; Best Film, Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins), Editing (amusingly Roderick Jaynes), Best Director (Joel and Ethan Coen), Adapted Screenplay (again Joel and Ethan), two for Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem and Tommy Lee Jones), Supporting Actress (Kelly MacDonald) and Sound (Peter Kurland/Skip Lievsay/Craig Berkey/Greg Orloff). Good luck to all.

In addition to nice little haul above, No Country is also up for 4 Golden Globes; Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem), Best Director (Joel and Ethan Coen) and Best Screenplay (Joel and Ethan). The awards ceremony is on January 13th.