Yearly Archives: 2020
BAFTA Film Awards 2020 Winners Announced
Best film
- 1917 - WINNER
- The Irishman
- Joker
- Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood
- Parasite
Outstanding British film
- 1917 - WINNER
- Bait
- For Sama
- Rocketman
- Sorry We Missed You
- The Two Popes
Leading actress
- Jessie Buckley, Wild Rose
- Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
- Saoirse Ronan, Little Women
- Charlize Theron, Bombshell
- Renée Zellweger, Judy - WINNER
Leading actor
- Leonardo Dicaprio, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood
- Adam Driver, Marriage Story
- Taron Egerton, Rocketman
- Joaquin Phoenix, Joker - WINNER
- Jonathan Pryce, The Two Popes
Supporting actress
- Laura Dern, Marriage Story - WINNER
- Scarlett Johansson, Jojo Rabbit
- Florence Pugh, Little Women
- Margot Robbie, Bombshell
- Margot Robbie, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood
Supporting actor
- Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
- Anthony Hopkins, The Two Popes
- Al Pacino, The Irishman
- Joe Pesci, The Irishman
- Brad Pitt, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood - WINNER
Director
- Sam Mendes, 1917 - WINNER
- Martin Scorsese, The Irishman
- Todd Phillips, Joker
- Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood
- Bong Joon-Ho, Parasite
EE Rising Star Award (voted for by the public)
- Awkwafina
- Jack Lowden
- Kaitlyn Dever
- Kelvin Harrison Jr.
- Micheal Ward - WINNER
Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer
- Bait, Mark Jenkin (Writer/Director), Kate Byers, Linn Waite (Producers) - WINNER
- For Sama, Waad Al-Kateab (Director/Producer), Edward Watts (Director)
- Maiden, Alex Holmes (Director)
- Only You, Harry Wootliff (Writer/Director)
- Retablo, Álvaro Delgado-Aparicio (Writer/Director)
Film not in the English language
- The Farewell
- For Sama
- Pain And Glory
- Parasite - WINNER
- Portrait Of A Lady On Fire
Documentary
- American Factory
- Apollo 11
- Diego Maradona
- For Sama - WINNER
- The Great Hack
Animated film
- Frozen 2
- Klaus - WINNER
- A Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
- Toy Story 4
Original screenplay
- Booksmart
- Knives Out
- Marriage Story
- Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood
- Parasite - WINNER
Adapted screenplay
- The Irishman
- Jojo Rabbit - WINNER
- Joker
- Little Women
- The Two Popes
Original score
- 1917
- Jojo Rabbit
- Joker - WINNER
- Little Women
- Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
Cinematography
- 1917 - WINNER
- The Irishman
- Joker
- Le Mans '66
- The Lighthouse
Costume design
- The Irishman
- Jojo Rabbit
- Judy
- Little Women - WINNER
- Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood
Editing
- The Irishman
- Jojo Rabbit
- Joker
- Le Mans '66 - WINNER
- Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood
Production design
- 1917 - WINNER
- The Irishman
- Jojo Rabbit
- Joker
- Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood
Make-up and hair
- 1917
- Bombshell - WINNER
- Joker
- Judy
- Rocketman
Sound
- 1917 - WINNER
- Joker
- Le Mans '66
- Rocketman
- Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
Special visual effects
- 1917 - WINNER
- Avengers: Endgame
- The Irishman
- The Lion King
- Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
British short film
- Azaar
- Goldfish
- Kamali
- Learning To Skateboard In A Warzone (If You're A Girl) - WINNER
- The Trap
British short animation
- Grandad Was A Romantic - WINNER
- In Her Boots
- The Magic Boat
BAFTA Film Awards 2020 Winners Announced
Best film
- 1917 - WINNER
- The Irishman
- Joker
- Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood
- Parasite
Outstanding British film
- 1917 - WINNER
- Bait
- For Sama
- Rocketman
- Sorry We Missed You
- The Two Popes
Leading actress
- Jessie Buckley, Wild Rose
- Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story
- Saoirse Ronan, Little Women
- Charlize Theron, Bombshell
- Renée Zellweger, Judy - WINNER
Leading actor
- Leonardo Dicaprio, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood
- Adam Driver, Marriage Story
- Taron Egerton, Rocketman
- Joaquin Phoenix, Joker - WINNER
- Jonathan Pryce, The Two Popes
Supporting actress
- Laura Dern, Marriage Story - WINNER
- Scarlett Johansson, Jojo Rabbit
- Florence Pugh, Little Women
- Margot Robbie, Bombshell
- Margot Robbie, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood
Supporting actor
- Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood
- Anthony Hopkins, The Two Popes
- Al Pacino, The Irishman
- Joe Pesci, The Irishman
- Brad Pitt, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood - WINNER
Director
- Sam Mendes, 1917 - WINNER
- Martin Scorsese, The Irishman
- Todd Phillips, Joker
- Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood
- Bong Joon-Ho, Parasite
EE Rising Star Award (voted for by the public)
- Awkwafina
- Jack Lowden
- Kaitlyn Dever
- Kelvin Harrison Jr.
- Micheal Ward - WINNER
Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer
- Bait, Mark Jenkin (Writer/Director), Kate Byers, Linn Waite (Producers) - WINNER
- For Sama, Waad Al-Kateab (Director/Producer), Edward Watts (Director)
- Maiden, Alex Holmes (Director)
- Only You, Harry Wootliff (Writer/Director)
- Retablo, Álvaro Delgado-Aparicio (Writer/Director)
Film not in the English language
- The Farewell
- For Sama
- Pain And Glory
- Parasite - WINNER
- Portrait Of A Lady On Fire
Documentary
- American Factory
- Apollo 11
- Diego Maradona
- For Sama - WINNER
- The Great Hack
Animated film
- Frozen 2
- Klaus - WINNER
- A Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon
- Toy Story 4
Original screenplay
- Booksmart
- Knives Out
- Marriage Story
- Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood
- Parasite - WINNER
Adapted screenplay
- The Irishman
- Jojo Rabbit - WINNER
- Joker
- Little Women
- The Two Popes
Original score
- 1917
- Jojo Rabbit
- Joker - WINNER
- Little Women
- Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
Cinematography
- 1917 - WINNER
- The Irishman
- Joker
- Le Mans '66
- The Lighthouse
Costume design
- The Irishman
- Jojo Rabbit
- Judy
- Little Women - WINNER
- Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood
Editing
- The Irishman
- Jojo Rabbit
- Joker
- Le Mans '66 - WINNER
- Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood
Production design
- 1917 - WINNER
- The Irishman
- Jojo Rabbit
- Joker
- Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood
Make-up and hair
- 1917
- Bombshell - WINNER
- Joker
- Judy
- Rocketman
Sound
- 1917 - WINNER
- Joker
- Le Mans '66
- Rocketman
- Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
Special visual effects
- 1917 - WINNER
- Avengers: Endgame
- The Irishman
- The Lion King
- Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker
British short film
- Azaar
- Goldfish
- Kamali
- Learning To Skateboard In A Warzone (If You're A Girl) - WINNER
- The Trap
British short animation
- Grandad Was A Romantic - WINNER
- In Her Boots
- The Magic Boat
Mario Creator Explains Why He Approved Another Movie
Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto has explained why he wanted to make another movie based on Nintendo's most famous mascot. He also revealed that he wants Nintendo to turn more of its games into movies.
Nintendo held an investor's meeting last week, in which it confirmed that the Super Mario Bros. movie being made in collaboration with animation studio Illumination, is still on track to be released in 2022.
However, the Japanese version of Nintendo's Q&A session during the investor's meeting has now been released. Siliconera translated Miyamoto's response to a question asking about how Nintendo approaches bringing the Mario IP to different mediums, such as smartphones, theme parks, and movies.
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"We do not do something like separating our IP development strategy depending on the touchpoint," Miyamoto said. "For example, regarding IP development into movies, I was originally against Nintendo expanding into video-making, but am currently involved personally in using our company’s IP in film production; and the background behind this change is because Nintendo has re-released many games via Virtual Console."
Virtual Console is a service Nintendo provides for the Wii, Wii U, and 3DS that makes older games playable on newer hardware. It was not brought across to the Nintendo Switch but some NES and SNES games are still playable with a Switch Online subscription.
Miyamoto goes on to explain that Nintendo's games are its biggest assets, so it's important to port older games to newer hardware, hence it's something he's still actively involved in. But after doing this process several times, he thought it'd be a good idea to give those games more longevity by turning them into movies.
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"Basically, it’s not that ‘I want to make a Mario movie’, but that I began to consider that ‘we should bring more Nintendo content into the field of video-making’," he explained. "With films, the amount of people who would contact our IP would widen, and increase the amount of people engaging with our IP. Then, we’d be able to further increase the spread of our media via video."
Hopefully this new Mario movie will be much better than the poorly received live-action Super Mario Bros. film released back in 1993. It will have to be good if it wants to compete with the Sonic the Hedgehog movie, which is predicted to have a big opening week when it comes out later this month.
There's many more games being turned into films at the moment, too. Don't forget about the Monster Hunter movie, the troubled Uncharted movie, the Mortal Kombat movie, and loads more. There's got to be at least a couple of good ones in there, surely.
[poilib element="accentDivider"]Chris Priestman is a freelancer who writes news for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.
Mario Creator Explains Why He Approved Another Movie
Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto has explained why he wanted to make another movie based on Nintendo's most famous mascot. He also revealed that he wants Nintendo to turn more of its games into movies.
Nintendo held an investor's meeting last week, in which it confirmed that the Super Mario Bros. movie being made in collaboration with animation studio Illumination, is still on track to be released in 2022.
However, the Japanese version of Nintendo's Q&A session during the investor's meeting has now been released. Siliconera translated Miyamoto's response to a question asking about how Nintendo approaches bringing the Mario IP to different mediums, such as smartphones, theme parks, and movies.
[ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2018/02/03/why-the-mario-movie-might-actually-be-good"]
"We do not do something like separating our IP development strategy depending on the touchpoint," Miyamoto said. "For example, regarding IP development into movies, I was originally against Nintendo expanding into video-making, but am currently involved personally in using our company’s IP in film production; and the background behind this change is because Nintendo has re-released many games via Virtual Console."
Virtual Console is a service Nintendo provides for the Wii, Wii U, and 3DS that makes older games playable on newer hardware. It was not brought across to the Nintendo Switch but some NES and SNES games are still playable with a Switch Online subscription.
Miyamoto goes on to explain that Nintendo's games are its biggest assets, so it's important to port older games to newer hardware, hence it's something he's still actively involved in. But after doing this process several times, he thought it'd be a good idea to give those games more longevity by turning them into movies.
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"Basically, it’s not that ‘I want to make a Mario movie’, but that I began to consider that ‘we should bring more Nintendo content into the field of video-making’," he explained. "With films, the amount of people who would contact our IP would widen, and increase the amount of people engaging with our IP. Then, we’d be able to further increase the spread of our media via video."
Hopefully this new Mario movie will be much better than the poorly received live-action Super Mario Bros. film released back in 1993. It will have to be good if it wants to compete with the Sonic the Hedgehog movie, which is predicted to have a big opening week when it comes out later this month.
There's many more games being turned into films at the moment, too. Don't forget about the Monster Hunter movie, the troubled Uncharted movie, the Mortal Kombat movie, and loads more. There's got to be at least a couple of good ones in there, surely.
[poilib element="accentDivider"]Chris Priestman is a freelancer who writes news for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.
2020 MVP Named in Puppy Bowl XVI
Puppy Bowl XVI MVP (Most Valuable Puppy) award winner Gina of Team Ruff dug deep into her bag of puppy tricks for her two scores, most notably pulling off the amazing "Hound-Around Ground-and-Pound" move that took her goalpost-to-goalpost without even a single other pup on her coat or tail. Terrier teammate Cafecito also poured it on to put double-digits up on the scoreboard. But the competition did give chase, with big boy Bert scoring twice for Team Fluff and showing just how "great" a Great Pyrenees can be. Neither team would let go of the lead for long in this tug-of-rope! A tied-up half-time score sent both teams to the locker room to think about what they'd done, and even in the hair-raising final 45 seconds of the game, the scoreboard rolled over on each side of this dogfight...
Final Score: 63 to 59, and the Team Fluff "Blue Bones" once again stand on the puppy podium as champions, taking home the Puppy Bowl Lombarki Trophy for the third time in its furry franchise history.
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Gina, Gina, bo-bina, Banana-fana fo-fina, Fee-fi-mo-mina -- Gina! Photo Courtesy: Animal Planet[/caption]
- Each and every one of these canine competitors left it all on the field in this year's big game. And in the end, no pup was left out in the cold, as Animal Planet found adoptive parents for the stars of the event. Puppy Bowl XVI was one for the Hound Hall of Fame. Stay tuned to IGN for more information on Fluff as it becomes apparent.
2020 MVP Named in Puppy Bowl XVI
Puppy Bowl XVI MVP (Most Valuable Puppy) award winner Gina of Team Ruff dug deep into her bag of puppy tricks for her two scores, most notably pulling off the amazing "Hound-Around Ground-and-Pound" move that took her goalpost-to-goalpost without even a single other pup on her coat or tail. Terrier teammate Cafecito also poured it on to put double-digits up on the scoreboard. But the competition did give chase, with big boy Bert scoring twice for Team Fluff and showing just how "great" a Great Pyrenees can be. Neither team would let go of the lead for long in this tug-of-rope! A tied-up half-time score sent both teams to the locker room to think about what they'd done, and even in the hair-raising final 45 seconds of the game, the scoreboard rolled over on each side of this dogfight...
Final Score: 63 to 59, and the Team Fluff "Blue Bones" once again stand on the puppy podium as champions, taking home the Puppy Bowl Lombarki Trophy for the third time in its furry franchise history.
[caption id="attachment_208929" align="aligncenter" width="504"] Gina, Gina, bo-bina, Banana-fana fo-fina, Fee-fi-mo-mina -- Gina! Photo Courtesy: Animal Planet[/caption]
- Each and every one of these canine competitors left it all on the field in this year's big game. And in the end, no pup was left out in the cold, as Animal Planet found adoptive parents for the stars of the event. Puppy Bowl XVI was one for the Hound Hall of Fame. Stay tuned to IGN for more information on Fluff as it becomes apparent.
Marvel’s Black Widow: New Character Posters
Marvel’s Black Widow: New Character Posters
Black Widow: Big Game Spot Shows Taskmaster Ripping Off Captain America
While the movie seems to be sticking close to the comics in terms of Taskmaster's powers, it remains to be seen if the character's origin and backstory will stay the same. At this point, we still don't even know who's been cast in the role. It's possible Taskmaster is being revamped to create a more direct link to the Red Room and the various Black Widows. As we've speculated before, Taskmaster could actually be Florence Pugh's Yelena Belova or Rachel Weisz's Melina Vostokoff in disguise.
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Let us know what you think of Taskmaster's killer moves in the comments below. And check out our roundup of all the Super Bowl movie commercials released so far.
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Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.Black Widow: Big Game Spot Shows Taskmaster Ripping Off Captain America
While the movie seems to be sticking close to the comics in terms of Taskmaster's powers, it remains to be seen if the character's origin and backstory will stay the same. At this point, we still don't even know who's been cast in the role. It's possible Taskmaster is being revamped to create a more direct link to the Red Room and the various Black Widows. As we've speculated before, Taskmaster could actually be Florence Pugh's Yelena Belova or Rachel Weisz's Melina Vostokoff in disguise.
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Let us know what you think of Taskmaster's killer moves in the comments below. And check out our roundup of all the Super Bowl movie commercials released so far.
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Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.