Where have all the drag queens gone?
The campy spectacle has lost favor with a generation of young gay men. Can RuPaul’s new reality show bring it back?
Salon Magazine
By Thomas Rogers
Jan. 31, 2009 |

As a child of the ’90s, I was taught by popular culture to expect several things from my future life as a gay man: shirtless dancing in large nightclubs, a disconcerting number of flamboyantly patterned shirts and, of course, drag queens. And by drag queens, I meant RuPaul.

During my early teens, RuPaul seemed to be everywhere. She had a hit single in 1993, “Supermodel (You Better Work),” her own VH1 talk show and, as the face of MAC Cosmetics, she popped up in ads everywhere. Her gentle brand of bitchiness and Caesar’s Palace-meets-”Dallas” aesthetic helped turn drag into a mainstream pop cultural phenomenon.

By 1994, Terence Stamp was slipping on high heels for “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,” followed one year later by Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes and John Leguizamo in “To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar.” The same year, “Wigstock: The Movie” documented the popular New York drag festival of the same name, drag queens were a fixture on the daytime talk show circuit and, in 1996, Nathan Lane seduced a Republican senator in “The Birdcage” dressed as an uptight housewife.

But something funny happened on my way to the gay ghetto: The drag queen disappeared not only from mainstream popular culture, but also, to a large extent, from the gay culture of my generation. Most young gay men I know are far more likely to head to a gay-friendly straight bar than take in a drag show, and while drag queens remain a fixture in many bars and clubs, especially those catering to older gay men, those venues appear to be dwindling.

Nearly all of New York’s mammoth gay dance clubs have shut their doors since the ’80s, and demographics suggest that gay men are increasingly leaving behind gay neighborhoods, like the Castro in San Francisco. Half of Boston’s gay bars closed between 1993 and 2007. New York’s Wigstock and San Francisco’s Trannyshack, the two best-known drag revues in the country, have ended their runs. Most conspicuously, RuPaul has disappeared from view without anybody to take her place.

On Feb. 2, however, she will be making a comeback with (what else?) a reality show. Airing on Logo, “RuPaul’s Drag Race” is a “Project Runway”-style competition hosted by the former “Supermodel of the World,” in which nine queens — with names like Ongina and Rebecca Glasscock — compete to become America’s next “drag superstar.” RuPaul hopes the show will return the drag queen to her pop culture pedestal, although, given the generational shifts that have taken place since drag’s heyday, that may be easier said than done.

The first time I wandered into a drag show, it was 2002, and I was 19 years old. While the exact details of the show remain a blur (my attention, as a teenager in a gay bar, being largely focused on other things), I remember an applause meter, some very intimidating heels, one Dolly Parton and a multitude of Celine Dions. By the end of the night I had accomplished two important things: 1) awkwardly hit on a very stoned real estate agent with a keen interest in all things Suze Orman, and 2) confirmed that drag shows had very little to do with my experience of being gay.

It’s not that I didn’t respect the hard work that went into transforming middle-aged men into French-Canadian pop stars, but watching them perform didn’t feel particularly liberating, either. While generations of gay men before me spent their teenage years yearning to escape to big cities — and discover what urban gay life was about — I had Sally Jessy Raphael, reality television and Internet search engines as a guide since my early teens. Not only had they taught me there was nothing wrong with being gay, but by eighth grade I also knew where the gay bars were in most major cities in North America and the difference between a twink, a circuit queen and a bear.

By the time I began coming out of the closet, in my final year of high school, the most shocking parts of gay culture had stopped being very shocking, and, furthermore, nobody seemed to think that my sexuality was all that big a deal. When I left for college, I knew who I was, that being gay didn’t mean I had to conform to any stereotypes, and that there was little novelty in watching a man dressed as a woman lip-syncing to the theme song from “Titanic.”

While my positive experience as a gay teenager is not a universal one, by any means, it’s one that’s becoming more and more common. In the 1970s, the average coming-out age was 21; in 2007, it was closer to 13. Gay teens are coming out earlier to increasingly accepting parents, and the cocoon-to-butterfly narrative that has shaped much of gay culture — and drag in particular — is no longer as universal. For many men of my generation, coming out registered on the personal trauma scale somewhere between our first pimple and the pain of our first breakup.

Which is somewhat at odds with the message of the drag queen. A drag queen is sassy, glittery and fabulous — “a punk rock reaction to our masculine culture,” as RuPaul told me, when I spoke to her over the phone. Drag is a way of taking what has often been held against gay men — our effeminacy, our outspokenness, our passion for ABBA — and celebrating it with style. Drag queens imitate women like Judy Garland, Dolly Parton and Cher because they overcame insult and hardship on their path to success, and because their narratives mirror the pain that many gay men suffer on their way out of the closet. These women didn’t become drag icons because they had a mildly awkward sex talk with their parents.

According to Lady Bunny, the founder of New York’s now-defunct Wigstock Festival, drag faded from pop culture at the end of the ’90s because “people got used to the idea of the drag queen.” Mainstream audiences — and gay audiences — simply stopped being shocked by the idea of a man dressed as a woman. “We’ve had an entire generation grow up seeing drag queens play basketball on daytime talk shows,” she says, “and I don’t think it’s that freeing for gay people anymore.”

It also raises a bigger question: Without the trauma of oppression, how will future generations of gay men define themselves? Through promiscuity? Party drugs? A flair for dinner parties? “With more and more teenagers coming out of the closet earlier, and parents being more supportive, the whole dynamic has changed,” says Sean Mullens, the director of “Filthy Gorgeous: The Trannyshack Story.” “The explosive party scene doesn’t really have a place anymore.”

“All of us associate a gay bar with female impersonation, which you associate with gay culture,” says Terry Eason, the co-owner of the Miss Gay America pageant, the country’s largest drag competition. “Twenty years ago, the only way to meet other gay people was in the bars. Now you’ve got Web sites, and it’s much easier to find a partner without going to the bars.”

The tragic and outsize divas that have long inspired drag queens are also becoming harder to find in the manufactured pop landscape: The Bette Midlers and Whitney Houstons have been replaced by Katy Perry and the Pussycat Dolls. “The sad thing is, the pop stars that were popularly impersonated in my day all had personality,” says Lady Bunny. “How are you going to impersonate Rihanna? What is her personality? You don’t know, because she’s just a product.”

Meanwhile, the man in a dress has become a minor staple of family-friendly Hollywood comedies. In the past few years, John Travolta appeared as Edna Turnblad in “Hairspray,” and Tyler Perry’s turn as the tough-love granny Madea has made him millions. Neither of those performances has anything to with gay or drag culture. At the same time, the rise in prominence of the transgendered character (like Felicity Huffman in “Transamerica” and Katelynn, the male-to-female transsexual from this season of “The Real World”) suggests that Americans are becoming more comfortable with the much more radical notion of gender dimorphism. “Drag is a costume,” says Lady Bunny. “Transsexualism is still more taboo. It’s the costume that can not come off.”

It’s in this cultural context that Logo launches “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” a show that aims to recapture drag’s glory years — and doesn’t quite pull it off. That’s not to say RuPaul and the show’s competitors aren’t game for the cause. RuPaul manages to be both warm and bitchy in her hosting duties and spouts off some memorable catchphrases (“Prepare to lip-sync for your life,” and, more succinctly, “Don’t fuck it up”). Its flamboyant characters include Shannel, who shows up on the first day wearing buttless pants, and Tammie Brown, who looks like Lucille Ball on a crack binge. (Another contestant calls Tammie “creepy” when she won’t stop winking.)

“Drag Race” aims for high camp, but, unfortunately, with the show’s low production values and sloppy execution, it lands somewhere closer to pathos. The prizes are meager (at one point, a contestant wins a basket of chocolates and sparkling wine), and the challenges are astonishingly unimaginative (“Strike a pose and take a picture of yourself”). More tragically, with its haphazard production design and awkward camerawork, the show robs the queens and their performances of all of their glamour. The appeal of drag has always been its over-the-top fabulousness, but there’s little that’s fabulous about performing on a cheap set under dull lighting in front of Santino from “Project Runway.”

That’s not to say drag is dead. There will always be an audience, albeit likely a small one, for female impersonation. Underground balls and pageants continue to play a large part of African-American gay urban culture (as documented in “Paris Is Burning”). While Eason has noticed a decline in pageant interest in some parts of the country, there’s been an upswing in conservative states like Missouri, Louisiana and Texas, and everybody I spoke with acknowledged that, while mainstream gay culture may have changed, pop culture works in cycles: You never know when things will come back in style.

If a drag queen is to emerge as the next RuPaul, however, she’ll have to reinvent drag for the sensibilities of a generation that thinks it’s seen it all. She’ll have to make us want to turn off our computers, put on an outfit and head to the clubs. So whatever she does, it’s going to have to be pretty damn fabulous.

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Portrait of Michael J. Fox by Steve Pyke
© Steve Pyke

Every Thursday evening, the National Portrait Gallery presents “Face-to-Face,” a talk about a selected portrait on view in the gallery. As part of this regular series, Ann Shumard, who is the curator of photographs at NPG, discussed this portrait of Michael J. Fox by Steve Pyke. The portrait is on display on the museum’s first floor, in the exhibition “Portraiture Now: Feature Photography.”

Interviewed by Esquire magazine for its popular “What I’ve Learned” column, actor and medical research advocate Michael J. Fox spoke candidly about living with Parkinson’s disease: “If I let it affect everything, it’s gonna own everything. I don’t deny it or pretend it’s not there, but if I don’t allow it to be bigger than it is, I can do everything else.” Published with the interview, Steve Pyke’s portrait mirrors the determination of the man whose Michael J. Fox Foundation has funded more than $120 million in Parkinson’s research.

Steve Pyke readily admits that his life in photography has been propelled largely by his fascination with the face. Born in England and now based in New York, Pyke first won notice for his distinctive close-up portrait style in the 1980s, with editorial work for the music press and magazines such as Britain’s popular “style bible,” The Face. In the intervening decades, Pyke’s photographs have reached a wide audience through their publication in major magazines around the world and their exhibition in museums and commercial galleries.

In 2004, Steve Pyke joined the New Yorker. “Working as a staff photographer at the New Yorker magazine gives me the immediacy of making portraits and seeing them appear in an editorial context,” Pyke explains, “and this has always surprised and stimulated me.” In tandem with his career in editorial photography, he has maintained a strong commitment to personally driven projects, including his portrait series documenting the world’s leading thinkers and philosophers.

A common thread running through both Pyke’s editorial and personal work is his abiding interest in what a face can tell us. “The way we live our lives is etched into the landscape of our faces,” Pyke observes. “We create the face with which we live.”

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Listen to Ann Shumard’s Face-to-Face talk on Michael J. Fox (24:37)

To view more works by Steve Pyke and the other artists featured in “Portraiture Now: Feature Photography,” be sure to see the online exhibition. And listen to Steve Pyke in this audio slideshow from the New Yorker.

The next Face-to-Face talk is this Thursday, February 5, when researcher Maya Foo speaks about the portrait of Bette Midler by Richard Amsel in the exhibition “Ballyhoo: Posters as Portraiture.” The talk runs from 6:00 to 6:30 p.m. Visitors meet the presenter in the museum’s F Street lobby and then walk to the appropriate gallery.

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SATURDAY NIGHT’S THE NIGHT, FOLKS!
LISA’S HBO SPECIAL, “LONG LIVE THE
QUEEN,” AIRS THE NIGHT BEFORE THE
SUPER BOWL AT 10 P.M. EST.

Make a date with LL and HBO for the airing of Lisa’s first ever one-hour HBO special on Saturday, January 31, at 10 p.m. EST! Share in Lisa’s joy over this momentous event when she joins the ranks of comic greats George Carlin, Chris Rock, and legendary others.

If you call yourself an LL loyalist, you can’t miss this momentous occasion! So, watch “Long Live the Queen” and see why HBO is the network that takes comedy seriously.

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Complete list of winners at 15th annual SAG Awards

By The Associated Press – 22 hours ago

Complete list of winners of the 15th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards:

Movies:

_Cast: “Slumdog Millionaire.”

_Actor in a leading role: Sean Penn, “Milk.”

_Actress in a leading role: Meryl Streep, “Doubt.”

_Supporting actor: Heath Ledger, “The Dark Knight.”

_Supporting actress: Kate Winslet, “The Reader.”

_Stunt ensemble: “The Dark Knight.”

Television:

_Drama series cast: “Mad Men.”

_Actor in a drama series: Hugh Laurie, “House.”

_Actress in a drama series: Sally Field, “Brothers & Sisters.”

_Comedy series cast: “30 Rock.”

_Actor in a comedy series: Alec Baldwin, “30 Rock.”

_Actress in a comedy series: Tina Fey, “30 Rock.”

_Actor in a movie or miniseries: Paul Giamatti, “John Adams.”

_Actress in a movie or miniseries: Laura Linney, “John Adams.”

_Stunt ensemble: “Heroes.”

Life Achievement: James Earl Jones.

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And The Nominees Are:

Best Feature

* Ballast
Lance Hammer, Nina Parikh
* Frozen River
Chip Hourihan, Heather Rae
* Rachel Getting Married
Neda Armian, Jonathan Demme, Marc Platt
* Wendy and Lucy
Larry Fessenden, Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani
* The Wrestler
Darren Aronofsky, Scott Franklin

Best Director

* Ramin Bahrani
Chop Shop
* Jonathan Demme
Rachel Getting Married
* Lance Hammer
Ballast
* Courtney Hunt
Frozen River
* Tom McCarthy
The Visitor

Best First Feature

* Afterschool
Antonio Campos, Sean Durkin, Josh Mond
* Medicine for Melancholy
Barry Jenkins, Justin Barber
* Sangre De Mi Sangre
Christopher Zalla, Per Melita, Benjamin Odell
* Sleep Dealer
Alex Rivera, Anthony Bregman
* Synecdoche, New York
Charlie Kaufman, Anthony Bregman, Spike Jonze, Sidney Kimmel

John Cassavetes Award

* In Search of a Midnight Kiss
Alex Holdridge, Seth Caplan, Scoot McNairy
* Prince of Broadway
Sean Baker, Darren Dean
* The Signal
David Bruckner, Dan Bush, Jacob Gentry, Alexander Motlagh
* Take Out
Sean Baker, Shih-Ching Tsou
* Turn the River
Chris Eigeman, Ami Armstrong

Best Screenplay

* Woody Allen
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
* Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck
Sugar
* Charlie Kaufman
Synecdoche, New York
* Howard A. Rodman
Savage Grace
* Christopher Zalla
Sangre De Mi Sangre

Best First Screenplay

* Dustin Lance Black
Milk
* Lance Hammer
Ballast
* Courtney Hunt
Frozen River
* Jonathan Levine
The Wackness
* Jenny Lumet
Rachel Getting Married

Best Female Lead

* Summer Bishil
Towelhead
* Anne Hathaway
Rachel Getting Married
* Melissa Leo
Frozen River
* Tarra Riggs
Ballast
* Michelle Williams
Wendy and Lucy

Best Male Lead

* Javier Bardem
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
* Richard Jenkins
The Visitor
* Sean Penn
Milk
* Jeremy Renner
The Hurt Locker
* Mickey Rourke
The Wrestler

Best Supporting Female

* Penélope Cruz
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
* Rosemarie DeWitt
Rachel Getting Married
* Rosie Perez
The Take
* Misty Upham
Frozen River
* Debra Winger
Rachel Getting Married

Best Supporting Male

* James Franco
Milk
* Anthony Mackie
The Hurt Locker
* Charlie McDermott
Frozen River
* Jim Myron Ross
Ballast
* Haaz Sleiman
The Visitor

Best Foreign Film

* The Class
Laurent Cantet
* Gomorra
Matteo Garrone
* Hunger
Steve McQueen
* Secret of the Grain
Abdellatif Kechiche
* Silent Light
Carlos Reygadas

Best Documentary

* The Betrayal
Ellen Kuras & Thavisouk Phrasavath
* Encounters at the End of the World
Werner Herzog
* Man on Wire
James Marsh
* The Order of Myths
Margaret Brown
* Up the Yangtze
Yung Chang

Best Cinematography

* Maryse Alberti
The Wrestler
* Lol Crawley
Ballast
* James Laxton
Medicine for Melancholy
* Harris Savides
Milk
* Michael Simmonds
Chop Shop

Robert Altman Award

* Charlie Kaufman (Director), Jeanne McCarthy (Casting Director), Hope Davis, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Catherine Keener, Samantha Morton, Tom Noonan, Emily Watson, Dianne Wiest, Michelle Williams
Synecdoche, New York

Piaget Producers Award

* Lars Knudsen and Jay Van Hoy
Treeless Mountain, I’ll Come Running
* Jason Orans
Goodbye Solo, Year of the Fish
* Heather Rae
Frozen River, Ibid

Acura Someone to Watch Award

* Barry Jenkins
Medicine for Melancholy
* Nina Paley
Sita Sings the Blues
* Lynn Shelton
My Effortless Brilliance

Lacoste Truer Than Fiction Award

* Margaret Brown
The Order of Myths
* Sacha Gervasi
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
* Darius Marder

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Film Nominations in 2009

15 January 09

The full list of nominations for the Orange British Academy Film Awards in 2009 taking place at the Royal Opera House on Sunday 8 February.

BEST FILM

* THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON – Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Ceán Chaffin
* FROST/NIXON – Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard
* MILK – Dan Jinks, Bruce Cohen
* THE READER – Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti, Redmond Morris
* SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE – Christian Colson

OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM

* HUNGER – Laura Hastings-Smith, Robin Gutch, Steve McQueen, Enda Walsh
* IN BRUGES – Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Martin McDonagh
* MAMMA MIA! – Judy Craymer, Gary Goetzman, Phyllida Lloyd, Catherine Johnson
* MAN ON WIRE – Simon Chinn, James Marsh
* SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE – Christian Colson, Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy

THE CARL FOREMAN AWARD

for Special Achievement by a British Director, Writer or Producer for their First Feature Film

* SIMON CHINN (Producer) – Man On Wire
* JUDY CRAYMER (Producer) – Mamma Mia!
* GARTH JENNINGS (Writer) – Son of Rambow
* STEVE McQUEEN (Director/Writer) – Hunger
* SOLON PAPADOPOULOS, ROY BOULTER (Producers) – Of Time And The City

DIRECTOR

* CHANGELING – Clint Eastwood
* THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON – David Fincher
* FROST/NIXON – Ron Howard
* THE READER – Stephen Daldry
* SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE – Danny Boyle

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

* BURN AFTER READING – Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
* CHANGELING – J. Michael Straczynski
* I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG – Philippe Claudel
* IN BRUGES – Martin McDonagh
* MILK – Dustin Lance Black

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

* THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON – Eric Roth
* FROST/NIXON – Peter Morgan
* THE READER – David Hare
* REVOLUTIONARY ROAD – Justin Haythe
* SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE – Simon Beaufoy

FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

* THE BAADER MEINHOF COMPLEX – Bernd Eichinger, Uli Edel
* GOMORRAH – Domenico Procacci, Matteo Garrone
* I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG – Yves Marmion, Philippe Claudel
* PERSEPOLIS – Marc-Antoine Robert, Xavier Rigault, Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
* WALTZ WITH BASHIR – Serge Lalou, Gerhard Meixner, Yael Nahlieli, Ari Folman

ANIMATED FILM

* PERSEPOLIS – Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
* WALL•E – Andrew Stanton
* WALTZ WITH BASHIR – Ari Folman

LEADING ACTOR

* FRANK LANGELLA – Frost/Nixon
* DEV PATEL – Slumdog Millionaire
* SEAN PENN – Milk
* BRAD PITT – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* MICKEY ROURKE – The Wrestler

LEADING ACTRESS

* ANGELINA JOLIE – Changeling
* KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS – I’ve Loved You So Long
* MERYL STREEP – Doubt
* KATE WINSLET – The Reader
* KATE WINSLET – Revolutionary Road

SUPPORTING ACTOR

* ROBERT DOWNEY JR. – Tropic Thunder
* BRENDAN GLEESON – In Bruges
* PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN – Doubt
* HEATH LEDGER – The Dark Knight
* BRAD PITT – Burn After Reading

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

* AMY ADAMS – Doubt
* PENÉLOPE CRUZ – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
* FREIDA PINTO – Slumdog Millionaire
* TILDA SWINTON – Burn After Reading
* MARISA TOMEI – The Wrestler

MUSIC

* THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON – Alexandre Desplat
* THE DARK KNIGHT – Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard
* MAMMA MIA! – Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus
* SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE – A. R. Rahman
* WALL•E – Thomas Newman

CINEMATOGRAPHY

* CHANGELING – Tom Stern
* THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON – Claudio Miranda
* THE DARK KNIGHT – Wally Pfister
* THE READER – Chris Menges, Roger Deakins
* SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE – Anthony Dod Mantle

EDITING **

* CHANGELING – Joel Cox, Gary D. Roach
* THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON – Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall
* THE DARK KNIGHT – Lee Smith
* FROST/NIXON – Mike Hill, Dan Hanley
* IN BRUGES – Jon Gregory
* SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE – Chris Dickens

**As there was a tie in this category there are six nominations
PRODUCTION DESIGN

* CHANGELING – James J. Murakami, Gary Fettis
* THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON – Donald Graham Burt, Victor J. Zolfo
* THE DARK KNIGHT – Nathan Crowley, Peter Lando
* REVOLUTIONARY ROAD – Kristi Zea, Debra Schutt
* SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE – Mark Digby, Michelle Day

COSTUME DESIGN

* CHANGELING – Deborah Hopper
* THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON – Jacqueline West
* THE DARK KNIGHT – Lindy Hemming
* THE DUCHESS – Michael O’Connor
* REVOLUTIONARY ROAD – Albert Wolsky

SOUND

* CHANGELING – Walt Martin, Alan Robert Murray, John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff
* THE DARK KNIGHT – Lora Hirschberg, Richard King, Ed Novick, Gary Rizzo
* QUANTUM OF SOLACE – Jimmy Boyle, Eddy Joseph, Chris Munro, Mike Prestwood Smith, Mark Taylor
* SLUMDOG MILLIONARE – Glenn Freemantle, Resul Pookutty, Richard Pryke, Tom Sayers, Ian Tapp
* WALL•E – Ben Burtt, Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, Matthew Wood

SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS

* THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON – Eric Barba, Craig Barron, – Nathan McGuinness, Edson Williams
* THE DARK KNIGHT – Chris Corbould, Nick Davis, Paul Franklin, Tim Webber
* INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL – Pablo Helman, Marshall Krasser, Steve Rawlins
* IRON MAN – Hal Hickel, Shane Patrick Mahan, John Nelson, Ben Snow
* QUANTUM OF SOLACE – Chris Corbould, Kevin Tod Haug

MAKE UP & HAIR

* THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON – Jean Black, Colleen Callaghan
* THE DARK KNIGHT – Peter Robb-King
* THE DUCHESS – Daniel Phillips, Jan Archibald
* FROST/NIXON – Edouard Henriques, Kim Santantonio
* MILK – Steven E. Anderson, Michael White

SHORT ANIMATION

* CODSWALLOP – Greg McLeod, Myles McLeod
* VARMINTS – Sue Goffe, Marc Craste
* WALLACE AND GROMIT: A MATTER OF LOAF AND DEATH – Steve Pegram, Nick Park, Bob Baker

SHORT FILM

* KINGSLAND #1 THE DREAMER – Kate Ogborn, Tony Grisoni
* LOVE YOU MORE – Caroline Harvey, Anthony Minghella, Sam Taylor-Wood, Patrick Marber
* RALPH – Olivier Kaempfer, Alex Winckler
* SEPTEMBER – Stewart le Maréchal, Esther May Campbell
* VOYAGE D’AFFAIRES (THE BUSINESS TRIP) – Celine Quideau, Sean Ellis

THE ORANGE RISING STAR AWARD

* MICHAEL CERA
* NOEL CLARKE
* MICHAEL FASSBENDER
* REBECCA HALL
* TOBY KEBBELL

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Brit awards 2009: full shortlist

MASTERCARD BRITISH ALBUM

Coldplay – Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends
Duffy – Rockferry
Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid
Radiohead – In Rainbows
The Ting Tings – We Started Nothing

BRITISH GROUP

Coldplay
Elbow
Girls Aloud
Radiohead
Take That

BRITISH SINGLE

The top 10 British singles by airplay and sales during the calendar year. Top 5 selected by UK Commercial Radio listeners. Winner chosen by live public vote on Show night.

Adele – Chasing Pavements
Alexandra Burke – Hallelujah
Coldplay – Viva La Vida
Dizzee Rascal featuring Calvin Harris and Chrome – Dance Wiv Me
Duffy – Mercy
Estelle feauturing Kanye West – American Boy
Girls Aloud – The Promise
Leona Lewis – Better In Time
Scouting For Girls – Heartbeat
The X Factor Finalists – Hero

BRITISH MALE SOLO ARTIST

Ian Brown
James Morrison
Paul Weller
The Streets
Will Young

BRITISH FEMALE SOLO ARTIST

Adele
Beth Rowley
Duffy
Estelle
M.I.A.

BRITISH BREAKTHROUGH ACT

Winner chosen by BBC Radio One listeners.

Adele
Duffy
The Last Shadow Puppets
Scouting For Girls
The Ting Tings

BRITISH LIVE ACT

Nominees chosen by a panel of live music experts under the chairmanship of Tony Wadsworth of The BPI. Winner chosen by BBC Radio Two listeners.

Coldplay
Elbow
Iron Maiden
Scouting For Girls
The Verve

INTERNATIONAL ALBUM

AC/DC – Black Ice
Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
The Killers – Day & Age
Kings Of Leon – Only By The Night
MGMT – Oracular Spectacular

INTERNATIONAL GROUP

AC/DC
Fleet Foxes
The Killers
Kings Of Leon
MGMT

INTERNATIONAL MALE SOLO ARTIST

Beck
Neil Diamond
Jay-Z
Kanye West
Seasick Steve

INTERNATIONAL FEMALE SOLO ARTIST

Beyonce
Gabriella Cilmi
Katy Perry
Pink
Santogold

CRITICS’ CHOICE AWARD

WINNER: Florence & The Machine

BRITISH PRODUCER OF THE YEAR

Nominees chosen by members of the Music Producers Guild with winner chosen by MPG judging panel under the chairmanship of Robin Miller. BRIT Award to be presented to British Producer of the Year at MPG Awards (12th February, Cafe de Paris).

Bernard Butler
Brian Eno
Steve Mac

OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO MUSIC

WINNER Pet Shop Boys

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button leads all Academy Award nominees with 13 time-defying nominations. Slumdog Millionaire is next with 10, while The Dark Knight and Milk notched eight apiece. Meryl Streep, up Best Actress for Doubt, continues her reign as the most nominated performer in Academy history, with her 15th nod.

The awards will be handed out Feb. 22 at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles. Here’s the complete list of nominees:

Best Motion Picture of the Year

* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* Frost/Nixon
* Milk
* The Reader
* Slumdog Millionaire

Achievement in Directing

* David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
* Gus Van Sant, Milk
* Stephen Daldry, The Reader
* Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

* Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
* Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
* Sean Penn, Milk
* Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

* Josh Brolin, Milk
* Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder
* Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
* Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
* Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

* Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
* Angelina Jolie, Changeling
* Melissa Leo, Frozen River
* Kate Winslet. The Reader
* Meryl Streep, Doubt

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

* Amy Adams, Doubt
* Penélope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
* Viola Davis, Doubt
* Taraji P. Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year

* Bolt
* Kung Fu Panda
* Wall-E

Original Screenplay

* Dustin Lance Black, Milk
* Courtney Hunt, Frozen River
* Mike Leigh, Happy Go Lucky
* Martin McDonagh, In Bruges
* Andrew Stanton and Jim Reardon, WALL-E

Adapted Screenplay

* Eric Roth and Robin Swicord, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* John Patrick Shanley, Doubt
* Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon
* David Hare, The Reader
* Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

* The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany)
* The Class (France)
* Departures (Japan)
* Revanche (Austria)
* Waltz With Bashir (Israel)

Original Score

* Alexandre Desplat, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* James Newton Howard, Defiance
* Danny Elfman, Milk
* A.R. Rahman, Slumdog Millionaire
* Thomas Newman, WALL-E

Original Song

* “Down to Earth,” Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman; WALL-E
* “Jai Ho,” A. R. Rahman and Gulzar; Slumdog Millionaire
* “O Saya,” A. R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam; Slumdog Millionaire

Achievement in Art Direction

* Changeling
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* The Dark Knight
* The Duchess
* Revolutionary Road

Achievement in Cinematography

* Changeling
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* The Dark Knight
* The Reader
* Slumdog Millionaire

Achievement in Costume Design

* Australia
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* The Duchess
* Milk
* Revolutionary Road

Best Documentary Feature

* The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
* Encounters at the End of the World
* The Garden
* Man on Wire
* Trouble the Water

Best Documentary Short Subject

* The Conscience of Nhem En
* The Final Inch
* Smile Pinki
* The Witness—From the Balcony of Room 306

Achievement in Film Editing

* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* The Dark Knight
* Frost/Nixon
* Milk
* Slumdog Millionaire

Achievement in Makeup

* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* The Dark Knight
* Frost/Nixon
* Milk
* Slumdog Millionaire

Best Animated Short Film

* La Maison en Petits Cubes
* Lavatory—Lovestory
* Oktapodi
* Presto
* This Way Up

Best Live Action Short Film

* Auf der Strecke (On the Line)
* Manon on the Asphalt
* New Boy
* The Pig
* Spielzeugland (Toyland)

Achievement in Sound Editing

* The Dark Knight
* Iron Man
* Slumdog Millionaire
* WALL-E
* Wanted

Achievement in Sound Mixing

* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* The Dark Knight
* Slumdog Millionaire
* WALL-E
* Wanted

Achievement in Visual Effects

* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* The Dark Knight
* Iron Man

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The Envelope
Paris Hilton and ‘Love Guru’ lead Razzies nominations
January 21, 2009

When the Razzie Awards nominations were announced this morning, it was obvious that voters are really smitten with Mike Myers’ “The Love Guru” — it leads with the most nominations (seven), including a worst picture bid. Mike Myers, up for worst actor and screenplay as well as one for producing the picture, was previously in the Razzies race five years ago for “Cat in the Hat,” but was underwhelmed by the Ben Affleck-Jennifer Lopez mismatch “Gigli.”

In second place with six Razzie bids, including a worst picture nod, is the combo of “Disaster Movie” and “Meet the Spartans,” which are grouped together because they’re “two films from the same two talent-free writer/directors, both featuring essentially the same cast,” says the Razzie press release.

By comparison, it looks like Paris Hilton’s “The Hottie & the Nottie” was robbed! It only has five nominations despite being ranked by IMDB users as the 17th worst movie of all time. At Metacritic.com, it’s the 10th worst flick ever made. Apparently, moviegoers agreed. It earned only $27,696 at the box office on an estimated budget of $2 million.

Paris Hilton reaped the most nominations among people — four. One was as producer of worst picture nominee “Hottie.” The other three: worst actress (“Hottie”), supporting actress (“Repo: The Genetic Opera”) and screen couple (Hilton with either of her “Hottie” co-stars Christine Lakin or Joel David Moore). Three years ago Paris Hilton “won” worst supporting actress for “House of Wax.”

Rounding out the worst picture race are “The Happening” and “In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale.” The “winners” will be unveiled at a lampoonish ceremony to be held on Feb. 21 —the night before the Oscars — at the Barnsdall Gallery Theatre in Hollywood. That causes a serious kudos conflict. Usually, the Razzies are held during the early afternoon on Oscars eve — just hours before the Indie Spirits are doled out. Award nuts like me have been able to attend both. But — yikes! — this year they’ll be held simultaneously! Which one should I attend?!

Last year “I Know Who Killed Me” emerged as the biggest “winner” in Razzie history, reaping eight of its nine nominations, thus edging out previous champs, seven-time “winners” “Battlefield Earth” and “Showgirls.” “I Know” star Lindsay Lohan took three awards. Nominated against herself for her dual roles, Lohan received the same number of votes for both, thus tying herself to win two Razzies as worst actress. She was also razzed as worst screen couple. And Eddie Murphy became the first performer ever to win three of the four worst-acting trophies in a single year, all for his multiple roles in worst-picture nominee “Norbit”: as the nerdy title character (worst actor), Asian role Mr. Wong (worst supporting actor) and 400-pound shrew Rasputia (worst supporting actress).

Time magazine has an interesting article about the history of the Razzies, including an interview with the awards founder John Wilson. Among the tasty tidbits: “Some recipients have been happy to get in on the joke. Showgirls director Paul Verhoeven appeared in person to accept the award for Worst Picture of 1995. (‘He sat through the entire ceremony,’ Wilson says, ‘and then got up at the end and said, ‘Obviously my film has entertained you, but not in the way I intended it to.’) In 2005, Oscar-Winner Halle Berry made headlines with an overemotional parody of her Academy Awards acceptance speech while taking home the Worst Actress award for ‘Catwoman.’”

Here are this year’s nominees:

Worst Picture
“Disaster Movie” and “Meet the Spartans”
“The Happening”
“The Hottie & the Nottie”
“In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale”
“The Love Guru”

Worst Actor
Larry the Cable Guy, “Witless Protection”
Eddie Murphy, “Meet Dave”
Mike Myers, “The Love Guru”
Al Pacino, “88 Minutes” and “Righteous Kill”
Mark Wahlberg, “The Happening” and “Max Payne”

Worst Actress
Jessica Alba, “The Eye” and “The Love Guru”
The cast of “The Women” (Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett-Smith and Meg Ryan)
Cameron Diaz, “What Happens in Vegas”
Paris Hilton, “The Hottie & the Nottie”
Kate Hudson, “Fool’s Gold” and “My Best Friend’s Girl”

Worst Supporting Actress
Carmen Electra, “Disaster Movie” and “Meet the Spartans”
Paris Hilton, “Repo: The Genetic Opera”
Kim Kardashian, “Disaster Movie”
Jenny McCarthy, “Witless Protection”
Leelee Sobieski, “88 Minutes” and “In the Name of the King”

Worst Supporting Actor
Uwe Boll as himself, “Uwe Boll’s Postal”
Pierce Brosnan, “Mamma Mia!”
Ben Kingsley, “The Love Guru,” “War, Inc.” and “The Wackness”
Burt Reynolds, “Deal ” and “In the Name of the King”
Verne Troyer, “The Love Guru” and “Uwe Boll’s Postal”

Worst Screen Couple
Uwe Boll and any actor, camera or screenplay
Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher, “What Happens In Vegas”
Paris Hilton and either Christine Lakin or Joel David Moore, “The Hottie & the Nottie”
Larry the Cable Guy and Jenny McCarthy, “Witless Protection”
Eddie Murphy and Eddie Murphy, “Meet Dave”

Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel (combined category for 2008)
“The Day the Earth Blowed Up Real Good”
“Disaster Movie” and “Meet the Spartans”
“Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”
“Speed Racer”
“Star Wars: The Clone Wars”

Worst Director
Uwe Boll, “1968: Tunnel Rats,” “In the Name of the King” and “Postal
Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, “Disaster Movie” and “Meet the Spartans
Tom Putnam, “The Hottie & the Nottie
Marco Schnabel, “The Love Guru”
M. Night Shyamalan, “The Happening”

Worst Screenplay
“Disaster Movie” and “Meet the Spartans,” both written by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer
“The Happening,” written by M. Night Shyamalan
“The Hottie & the Nottie,” written By Heidi Ferrer
“In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale,” screenplay by Doug Taylor
“The Love Guru,” written by Mike Myers and Graham Gordy

Worst Career Achievement
Uwe Boll (Germany’s answer to Ed Wood)

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Franklin makes two more ‘best places’ lists

FRANKLIN — The National Trust for Historic Preservation and Southern Living magazine both have singled out Franklin as unique and not to be missed.

Officials of the National Trust announced this morning in Franklin that the city made its list of 2009 Dozen Distinctive Destinations offering “cultural and recreational experiences different from the typical vacation destination.”

City and tourism officials received a plaque noting the recognition at 10 a.m. today.

The list also includes such cities as Athens, Ga.; Buffalo, N.Y.; and Santa Barbara, Calif.

Last week, Southern Living magazine included Franklin on its list of the ten best small towns in America.

“Franklin has fostered a strong preservation ethic that has helped retain its distinctive sense of place and protect the region’s architecture, village communities and traditional farmsteads,” said Richard Moe, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, in a press release announcing the honor. “Its rural atmosphere and southern charm make it a vacation destination not to be missed.”

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Best Motion Picture – Drama

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures; Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures

Frost/Nixon
Imagine Entertainment, Working Title, Studio Canal; Universal Pictures

The Reader
Mirage Enterprises; The Weinstein Company

Revolutionary Road
An Evamere Entertainment BBC Films Neal Street Production; DreamWorks Pictures in Association with BBC Films and Paramount Vantage

Slumdog Millionaire
Fox Searchlight Pictures and Warner Bros.; Fox Searchlight Pictures and Warner Bros.

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama

Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married

Angelina Jolie – Changeling

Meryl Streep – Doubt

Kristin Scott Thomas – I’ve Loved You So Long

Kate Winslet – Revolutionary Road

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

Leonardo DiCaprio – Revolutionary Road

Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon

Sean Penn – Milk

Brad Pitt – The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler

Best Motion Picture – Musical Or Comedy

Burn After Reading
Working Title/Releasing Company; Focus Features in association with Studio Canal

Happy-Go-Lucky
Summit Entertainment, Film4, Ingenious Film Partners, Miramax Films; Miramax Films

In Bruges
Blueprint Pictures; Focus Features

Mamma Mia!
Relativity Media, Playtone, Littlestar; Universal Pictures

Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Mediapro; The Weinstein Company

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

Rebecca Hall – Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky

Frances McDormand – Burn After Reading

Meryl Streep – Mamma Mia!

Emma Thompson – Last Chance Harvey

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical Or Comedy

Javier Bardem – Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Colin Farrell – In Bruges

James Franco – Pineapple Express

Brendan Gleeson – In Bruges

Dustin Hoffman – Last Chance Harvey

Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

Amy Adams – Doubt

Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Viola Davis – Doubt

Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler

Kate Winslet – The Reader

Best Performance by an Actor In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture

Tom Cruise – Tropic Thunder

Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder

Ralph Fiennes – The Duchess

Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt

Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight

Best Animated Feature Film

Bolt
Walt Disney Pictures; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Kung Fu Panda
DreamWorks Animation SKG; Paramount Pictures

Wall-E
Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Best Foreign Language Film

The Baader Meinhof Complex (Germany)
The Country of Germany
(DER BAADER MEINHOF KOMPLEX) Constantin Film Produktion GmbH; Summit Entertainment, LLC

Everlasting Moments (Sweden, Denmark)
The Country of Sweden and The Country of Denmark
(MARIA LARSSONS EVIGA ÖGONBLICK) Final Cut Productions Aps; IFC Films

Gomorrah (Italy)
The Country of Italy
(GOMORRA) Fandango; IFC Films

I’ve Loved You So Long (France)
The Country of France
(IL Y A LONGTEMPS QUE JE T’AIME) UGC YM/UGC Images/France 3 Cinema/Integral Film; Sony Pictures Classics

Waltz With Bashir (Israel)
The Country of Israel
Bridgit Folman Film Gang/Les Films D’Ici/Razor Films/Arte France/ITVS International; Sony Pictures Classics

Best Director – Motion Picture

Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire

Stephen Daldry – The Reader

David Fincher – The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon

Sam Mendes – Revolutionary Road

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Written by Eric Roth

Doubt
Written by John Patrick Shanley

Frost/Nixon
Written by Peter Morgan

The Reader
Written by David Hare

Slumdog Millionaire
Written by Simon Beaufoy

Best Original Score – Motion Picture

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Composed by Alexandre Desplat

Changeling
Composed by Clint Eastwood

Defiance
Composed by James Newton Howard

Slumdog Millionaire
Composed by A. R. Rahman

Frost/Nixon
Composed by Hans Zimmer

Best Original Song – Motion Picture

“Down To Earth” – Wall-E
Music By: Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman
Lyrics By: Peter Gabriel

“Gran Torino” – Gran Torino
Music By: Clint Eastwood, Jamie Cullum, Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens
Lyrics By: Jamie Cullum

“I Thought I Lost You” – Bolt
Music & Lyrics By: Miley Cyrus and Jeffrey Steele

“Once In A Lifetime” – Cadillac Records
Music & Lyrics By: Beyoncé Knowles, Amanda Ghost, Scott McFarmon, Ian Dench, James Dring and Jody Street

“The Wrestler” – The Wrestler
Music & Lyrics By: Bruce Springsteen

Best Television Series – Drama

Dexter (SHOWTIME)

House (FOX)
Heel and Toe Films, Shore Z Productions and Bad Hat Harry Productions in association with Universal Media Studios

In Treatment (HBO)
Sheleg, Closest To The Hole Productions and Leverage in association with HBO Entertainment

Mad Men (AMC)
Lionsgate

True Blood (HBO)
Your Face Goes Here Productions in association with HBO Entertainment

Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series – Drama

Sally Field – Brothers & Sisters (ABC)

Mariska Hargitay – Law & Order

January Jones – Mad Men (AMC)

Anna Paquin – True Blood (HBO)

Kyra Sedgwick – The Closer (TNT)

Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series – Drama

Gabriel Byrne – In Treatment (HBO)

Michael C. Hall – Dexter (SHOWTIME)

Jon Hamm – Mad Men (AMC)

Hugh Laurie – House (FOX)

Jonathan Rhys Meyers – The Tudors (SHOWTIME)

Best Television Series – Musical Or Comedy

30 Rock (NBC)
Universal Media Studios in association with Broadway Video and Little Stranger Inc.

Californication (SHOWTIME)
Showtime Presents in association with Aggressive Mediocrity, and Then…, Twilight Time Films

Entourage (HBO)
Leverage and Closest to the Hole Productions in association with HBO Entertainment

The Office (NBC)
Deedle Dee Productions/Reveille/NBC Universal Television Studio; NBC

Weeds (SHOWTIME)
Showtime/Lionsgate Television/Tilted Productions, Inc.; SHOWTIME

Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series – Musical Or Comedy

Christina Applegate – Samantha Who? (ABC)

America Ferrera – Ugly Betty (ABC)

Tina Fey – 30 Rock (NBC)

Debra Messing – The Starter Wife (USA)

Mary-Louise Parker – Weeds (SHOWTIME)

Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series – Musical Or Comedy

Alec Baldwin – 30 Rock (NBC)

Steve Carell – The Office (NBC)

Kevin Connolly – Entourage (HBO)

David Duchovny – Californication (SHOWTIME)

Tony Shalhoub – Monk (USA)

Best Mini-Series Or Motion Picture Made for Television

A Raisin In The Sun (ABC)
Sony Pictures Television, Storyline Entertainment, and Bad Boy Worldwide Entertainment

Bernard And Doris (HBO)
Trigger Street Independent Productions in association with Little Bird and Chicago Films and HBO Films

Cranford (PBS)
A Co-Production of BBC and WGBH Boston.

John Adams (HBO)
Playtone in association with HBO Films

Recount (HBO)
Spring Creek/Mirage Productions in association with Trigger Street Productions, Everyman Pictures and HBO Films

Best Performance by an Actress In A Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Judi Dench – Cranford (PBS)

Catherine Keener – An American Crime

Laura Linney – John Adams (HBO)

Shirley MacLaine – Coco Chanel

Susan Sarandon – Bernard And Doris (HBO)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Ralph Fiennes – Bernard And Doris (HBO)

Paul Giamatti – John Adams (HBO)

Kevin Spacey – Recount (HBO)

Kiefer Sutherland – 24 (FOX)

Tom Wilkinson – Recount (HBO)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Eileen Atkins – Cranford (PBS)

Laura Dern – Recount (HBO)

Melissa George – In Treatment (HBO)

Rachel Griffiths – Brothers & Sisters (ABC)

Dianne Wiest – In Treatment (HBO)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television

Neil Patrick Harris – How I Met Your Mother (CBS)

Denis Leary – Recount (HBO)

Jeremy Piven – Entourage (HBO)

Blair Underwood – In Treatment (HBO)

Tom Wilkinson – John Adams (HBO)

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