Vanity Fair party changing locations
Oscar-night soiree leaves Mortons for Craft
The Vanity Fair Oscar-night party, held at Mortons for the past 14 years, is changing its venue to Craft in Century City.

AFI Awards show love to 'Father'
Roxburgh's debut dominates Australian event
Richard Roxburgh's directorial debut "Romulus, My Father" garnered 15 nominations including best film in Down Under's AFI Awards, the pre-eminent domestic film and TV industry kudos presented by the Australian Film Institute.

Sheen to host Britannia Awards
Event to be held at the Hyatt on November 1
Michael Sheen will host the 16th annual BAFTA/LA Cunard Britannia Awards at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel on November 1.

Roosters likely to crow for 'Knot'
China's Oscar entry expected to win big
China's entry for Oscar's foreign-language category, "The Knot," is tipped to dominate this week's 16th Golden Rooster Awards, China's top film kudofest, with nominations in eight out of 18 categories, including director for Yin Li.

Tokyo project award flows to 'River'
Film wins Project Gathering Award
"Just as Chao Phraya River Flows," a Thai-Japanese project, beat 37 other hopefuls to scoop the Tokyo Project Gathering Award, which includes free post-production work supplied by Sony, at the Tokyo Film Festival on Wednesday.

'Wii Sports' sweeps up six BAFTAs
'BioShock' crowned best game
Nintendo's "Wii Sports" took the lion's share of the kudos at BAFTA's Video Games Awards on Tuesday.

Diversity Awards honor 'Hairspray'
Brittany Snow, Elijah Kelley named rising artists
The 2007 Diversity Awards honorees were announced Friday, with awards going to the "High School Musical" crew, "Hairspray" cast and members of other television projects.

'Control' leads BIFA race
Awards ceremony will take place Nov. 28
Anton Corbijn's Ian Curtis biopic "Control" leads the pack in the race for prizes at the 10th edition of the British Independent Film Awards with 10 nominations.

Sands to be honored by CAS
Sound mixer to receive Audio Career award
Music scoring and sound re-recording mixer Dennis Sands will receive the Cinema Audio Society's Career Achievement Award at the CAS Awards ceremony in February.

Prix Europa honors Britain, Germany
'Die Mauer,' 'Prime Suspect' big winners
Germany and the U.K. were the big winners at this year's Prix Europa, which honored ARD's "Die Mauer -- Berlin '61," a TV movie about the building of the Berlin Wall.

Academy Tracker

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