Cross-posted Here @ severmore

You'll be happy to hear that AR has now been added to the Actors Who Were Snubbed List on American Movie Classics. I wrote an email the other day to the Film Historian, Tim Dirks, who handles their impressively large historical database, and he wrote right back to me. He said they might even consider my idea to have an Alan ( Read more... )

I've got a bunch of pesky trolls commenting on my previous Livejournal post saying that the Oscars are somehow infallible and sacred, and that the Academy gets the last word on Deathly Hallows. Also that critics and fans, who are merely uncultured popcorn-eaters and mindless rabble, don't really know what makes a good movie ( Read more... )

My husband made a joke yesterday about why DH2 didn't receive a Best Picture Oscar Nod:

"It was missing one important Hollywood ingredient: A Tediously Politically Correct Character played by Hollywood Royalty."And I think he's got a point there! So at first I was thinking maybe the Oscar snub had something to do with the HP series not being " ( Read more... )

UPDATE: It's official ~ no Oscar Nom for Alan Rickman ( Read more... )

Well, the Bafta Award Nominations were announced and Alan Rickman was not on the short list for Best Supporting Actor.
*sigh*

Guardian UK: Bafta Nominees

Deathly Hallows Part Two was nominated for four awards:
Production Design
Make-Up and Hair
Visual Effects
Sound

I think there's only one answer:

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Good News for the Brits!!!
Rickman might take the play "Seminar" to London's West End Theatre.

Two-time Tony Award nominee, Emmy Award and Golden Globe winner Alan Rickman (Private Lives, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, the Harry Potter franchise) is currently making his eagerly-anticipated return to Broadway starring in the World Premiere of SEMINAR, ( Read more... )

In an Interview with MTV Dan Rad makes the case once again for Alan Rickman to win an award for Best Supporting Actor, even while admitting it might not happen.

Interviewer: Briefly on the end of Potter, you went out in such a great way. It's my favorite of the Potter films. Alot of people were hoping, and they're still hoping, that there's some ( Read more... )

Seriously, if you are ever going to watch one interview, watch this one from the New York Times Arts and Leisure. It's like a mini-Actor's Studio spanning Rickman's entire career, and for once there is an intelligent interviewer who really knows what he is talking about!

Click to view

Also, our friend boushh par_tay is in the audience! How wonderful ( Read more... )

Alan Rickman has made the long list of nominees in the Bafta Voting this year.

Bafta = British Academy of Film and Television ArtsOf course he has some really strong competition, but I was just hoping he would be on the ballot!!! So it's a good day. :) Deathly Hallows 2 was also nominated in ten categories, but not in Best Film except the British ( Read more... )

Thanks to stn5 for the links:

Telegraph UK ~ Harry Potter Aims for Oscar Glory
The most likely chance of success comes in the best supporting actor category with Alan Rickman’s performance as Professor Severus Snape.
Radcliffe, who plays Potter, has added his voice to the campaign for Rickman. He said: “I don’t think there is going to be another ( Read more... )