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- Jennifer Lawrence named 'Most Desirable Woman'
- 'Lincoln' gets record 13 critics choice nominations
- Quentin Tarantino nominated for top Image Award
| Jennifer Lawrence named 'Most Desirable Woman' Posted: 12 Dec 2012 01:50 AM PST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jennifer Lawrence, you are the world's most desirable woman, according to an international poll released on Tuesday by the website AskMen. The Hunger Games star rose to the top of the list from No. 47 last year on the heels of the box-office smash while buffing her credibility as a quirky, sex-mad young widow in the independent film Silver Linings Playbook, AskMen editor in chief James Bassil said. "Overall, there's a sense that she's a little more authentic than other actors," Bassil said, adding that the public still knows too little about the 22-year-old actress (pic) to form a negative opinion. "She's fresh because we haven't seen her all over the gossip pages for the past three or four years," Bassil said. Lawrence bumped last year's winner, Sofia Vergara of Modern Family fame, down to No. 12, while reality star Kim Kardashian plummeted to No. 98. The poll surveyed 2.4 million readers asking them to vote on which celebrity they would choose as a prospective partner, according to the website, which is a unit of News Corp. The top 99 are then compiled into the annual poll. Rounding out the top five were actress Mila Kunis, model Kate Upton, R&B star Rihanna and Crazy, Stupid, Love actress Emma Stone. AGE NO ISSUE Bassil said that lots of publicity often correlates to higher desirability ranking from men, but too many headlines can leave men looking elsewhere. The most notable drop was socialite Kardashian, who fell 90 places from last year's No. 8 ranking. "Kim Kardashian is petering off and basically dropping off the list at this point even as she's become more visible," Bassil said. Youth also appears to have taken a backseat in men's tastes as this year's rankings feature a handful of women over 40. "We've seen that increasingly over the past two or three years," Bassil said. "Like most things in life, attractiveness is extending into middle age ... Who knows? In 20 years we could see 60-year-olds on the list." Those over the age of 40 on the list include U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama, 48; comedienne Sarah Silverman, 42; actress Lucy Liu, 44; and British actress Rachel Weisz, 42. New Yahoo! President and Chief Executive Marissa Mayer was the only business executive to make list at No. 59. |
| 'Lincoln' gets record 13 critics choice nominations Posted: 12 Dec 2012 01:43 AM PST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Steven Spielberg's Lincoln landed a record-breaking 13 nominations for the Critics Choice Movie Awards on Tuesday, ahead of musical Les Miserables and indie comedy Silver Linings Playbook. Lincoln, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln and Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln, was nominated for best picture and best director, while actors Day-Lewis, Tommy Lee Jones and Sally Field got individual nods as well as one for best acting ensemble. It is the first time a film has landed 13 nominations for the Critics Choice Movie Awards. Black Swan, with 12 in 2011, held the previous record. Kathryn Bigelow's Osama bin Laden thriller Zero Dark Thirty, which has been winning accolades in early awards circles, picked up only five nominations from the group. The Critics Choice Movie Awards are handed out by the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA), which represents more than 270 television, radio and online critics. Winners will be announced in the California beach city of Santa Monica on January 10. The Critics Choice list come ahead of this week's Screen Actor's Guild and Golden Globe nominees, all of which are indicators for potential Oscar glory in February. The BFCA gave Les Miserables, based on the hit stage musical, 11 nominations, including best actor for Hugh Jackman, best supporting actress for Anne Hathaway and best director for Tom Hooper. David O. Russell's Silver Linings Playbook, a quirky romance between a young widow and a bipolar man, picked up 10, including acting mentions for leads Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, best supporting actor for Robert DeNiro and best director. Lawrence was the most nominated actor, winning four mentions overall for her roles in Silver Linings and in the action film The Hunger Games. Cooper led male nominees with three nods. Other nominees included Ang Lee's Life Of Pi with nine and Iran hostage thriller Argo, cult drama The Master and James Bond movie Skyfall with seven each. This year, the BFCA added five new categories in comedy and action to recognize achievements in genres sometimes overlooked in favor of drama. They included best actor/actress in comedy and in action, and best sci-fi/horror movie, in which Looper, The Cabin In The Woods and Prometheus landed nods. "This has been a truly spectacular year in filmmaking and our voters had an embarrassment of riches to choose from," Joey Berlin, president of the BFCA, said in a statement. Movie fans will also for the first time be given the opportunity to vote online for their favorite film franchise, including Harry Potter, Twilight, Batman, Lord Of The Rings, James Bond and Spider-Man. |
| Quentin Tarantino nominated for top Image Award Posted: 11 Dec 2012 08:54 PM PST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Director Quentin Tarantino's slavery era Western Django Unchained and mythological indie film Beasts Of The Southern Wild, were among the top film nominees on Tuesday for the annual NAACP Image Awards. The NAACP also nominated Flight, starring Denzel Washington as an alcoholic airline pilot, African-American wartime pilots film Red Tails, and Tyler Perry's Good Deeds for a best movie Image Award, which honor achievements by people of color in film, television, music and literature Washington and Perry were nominated best actor, along with Jaime Foxx for Django Unchained, while the NAACP also recognized the amateur stars of Beasts Of The Southern Wild - nine year-old Quvenzhane Wallis and Dwight Henry - in the acting categories. In television, best comedy nods went to Glee, Modern Family, The Mindy Project, The Game and Soul Man. In the drama category, the NAACP picked Boardwalk Empire, Grey's Anatomy, Scandal, Treme, and True Blood. Bruno Mars and Alicia Keys won multiple nominations in music categories, while late pop greats Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston were nominated respectively for the 25th anniversary edition of album Bad, and greatest hits compilation I Will Always Love You; The Best Of Whitney Houston. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founded in 1909, is the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the United States. The 44th Image Awards will be handed out a ceremony in Los Angeles on February 1. |
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