Awards
MTV Music Awards back in L.A.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The MTV Video Music Awards, scene of a disastrous
performance by Britney Spears last year, will return to Los Angeles for the
first time in a decade on September 7, the lifestyle cable network said on
Monday.
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Posted on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:57:27 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
South Pacific wins big at Tony Awards
By Michelle Nichols and Claudia Parsons
NEW YORK (Reuters) - "Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific" dominated
Broadway's top honors, the Tony Awards, with seven prizes on Sunday, followed by
the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "August: Osage County" with five wins.
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Posted on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:09:08 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
NASA Awards Contract for New Space Suit
NASA announced yesterday that it had awarded a contract to Oceaneering International Inc for the design, development, and production of a new space suit system for manned space missions. The contract is a cost-plus-award-fee for a performance period from June 2008 to September 2014 with a value of $183.8 million.
The test period will cover everything from the development and testing to the first flight of the new suit, NASA says that suits and support system will be needed for as many as four astronauts on moon voyages and as many as six for the ISS. Read more
Posted on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:17:42 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
Megan Fox at MTV Movie Awards 2008 and in Transformers 2
Megan Fox spiced up the MTV 2008 Movie Awards when she accepted the Best Movie award for Transformers last night in LA.
Just Jared has several photos published of Megan Fox at the MTV Awards 2008. As reported in April, Megan Fox who starred in the first Transformers movie was voted sexiest Woman in the World by FHM readers.
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Posted on Mon, 2 Jun 2008 00:50:28 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Hollywood Blaze doesn't stop MTV Movie Awards
By Dean Goodman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Fire? What fire?
MTV went ahead with its annual star-studded movie awards at the Universal
Studios lot on Sunday, hours after a spectacular blaze destroyed chunks of
Hollywood history nearby.
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Posted on Sun, 1 Jun 2008 23:33:41 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Mike Myers set to host MTV Movie Awards
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Mike Myers, the funny man star of the "Austin Powers"
comedies, is set to host the irreverent MTV Movie Awards this June, MTV said on
Wednesday.
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Posted on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:56:25 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Feist scoops up 1,2,3,4,5 Canadian music awards
By Jeffrey Jones and Scott Haggett
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Feist dominated Canada's music awards on Sunday,
scooping up five Junos for a year in which the singer-songwriter shot to
international stardom when Apple Inc. used her single "1234" in iPod TV ads.
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Posted on Sun, 6 Apr 2008 23:48:28 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Miley Cyrus Queen of the Kids Choice Awards
By Dean Goodman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Many stars vied for honors at the Kids Choice Awards on
Saturday, but only two mattered to the thousands of screaming children on hand.
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Posted on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:30:17 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Best Buy Awards Over $10 Million in gift Cards to HD DVD buyers
The end of the format wars between HD DVD and Blu-ray was good for most people, but for the early adopters out there who had backed HD DVD the failure of the format was not good news. To help appease customers that purchased HD DVD gear at Best Buy gift cards are coming.
Best Buy announced today that it will be giving out over $10 million in $50 gift cards to customers who purchased HD DVD hardware in its stores. The offer covers stand alone HD DVD players as well as HD DVD attachments, presumably for the Xbox 360. Read more
Posted on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:08:28 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
Barbara Walters, Israeli Film get Gay Media Awards
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Television journalist Barbara Walters was honored by the
gay media watchdog group GLAAD on Monday for her reporting on transgender
children and she said the award was among the most important she had even
received.
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Posted on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Foundation 9 Games Hit it Big at Xbox LIVE Arcade Awards
Foundation 9 Entertainment announced today that its Backbone Entertainment studio dominated the first ever Xbox LIVE Arcade Awards. Three of the developers Xbox LIVE Arcade games swept six of the ten categories in the show.
Among the awards won was Best Overall Arcade Game. "Backbone has been setting the bar for excellence on Xbox LIVE Arcade since the beginning," said F9E Chief Creative Officer Richard Hare. "Winning these awards solidifies our position as the leading developer on the platform, delivering high quality products that gamers love." Read more
Posted on Fri, 7 Mar 2008 12:19:51 CST | by Shane McGlaun
Arctic Monkeys dominate NME Awards again
LONDON (Reuters) - Sheffield rockers the Arctic Monkeys dominated the NME music
awards on Thursday by scooping the best British band, best track and best video
prizes.
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Posted on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:31:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Lindsay Lohan, Eddie Murphy share worst Film Awards
By Arthur Spiegelman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Eddie Murphy and Lindsay Lohan were crowned the worst
actors of 2007 at the Golden Raspberry Awards on Saturday and, perhaps not
surprisingly, neither star showed up to accept the spoof Oscars.
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Posted on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:28:45 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Juno delivers top Prize at indie Film Awards
By Dean Goodman
SANTA MONICA, California (Reuters) - "Juno," a runaway hit comedy about a
wisecracking pregnant teen, picked up the top prize at the Spirit Awards, the
independent film community's version of the Oscars, on Saturday.
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Posted on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:56:19 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Top Awards Go to COD4, Bioshock & The Orange Box
The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences announced award recipients from its 11th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards last night. Call of Duty 4, Bioshock and the Orange Box each won five wards at the ceremony.
"The Interactive Achievement Awards is the forum for the industry's best game makers to evaluate the merits of more than 160 titles submitted for consideration and honor the best in technical innovation and gameplay experience," said Joseph Olin, president, AIAS. "This year's winners truly represent the best cross section of interactive entertainment, demonstrating the power of next-generation platforms that have come of age." Read more
Posted on Fri, 8 Feb 2008 07:17:49 CST | by Shane McGlaun
In glitz-starved Awards Season, all Eyes on SAG Fete
By Kimberly Nordyke
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Sunday's Screen Actors Guild Awards will be
the industry's first red-carpet event in this strike-fractured awards season,
and even the prospect of heavy rain hasn't dampened the enthusiasm.
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Posted on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:51:25 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
People's Choice Awards get Writers Strike Makeover
By Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - And the winner is ... on videotape only.
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Posted on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Al Gore and the BBC win International Emmy Awards
By Chris Michaud
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Vice President Al Gore won another honor on Monday
when he received the Founders Award at the International Emmy Awards, which also
gave a top prize to a controversial British television film about the
assassination of President George W. Bush.
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Posted on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Idol Worship at American Music Awards
By Dean Goodman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The American Music Awards resembled a greatest-hits
version of "American Idol" on Sunday, as two former contestants of the hit
talent show, Chris Daughtry and Carrie Underwood, each won three prizes.
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Posted on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
MTV Europe Awards rapped for ignoring local Acts
By Lars Brandle
LONDON (Billboard) - The latest edition of MTV's Europe Music Awards was
designed to resolve carping about a lack of exposure for European acts on the
global broadcast. But the jury's still out as to whether it succeeded.
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Posted on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 03:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr
Wii Sports sweeps Board at Game Awards
LONDON (Reuters) - A Nintendo computer game that allows players to practice
their golf swing or fine-tune their tennis stroke in their living room has won
six Bafta awards.
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Posted on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
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