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The Damned United continues its awards success, following on from the South Bank nomination, by appearing on BAFTA’s 2010 Long List.

The Long List is the result of Round One of voting. With 220 films entered this year, this first round reduces the entered films down to fifteen in each category. Round Two voting will reduce these fifteen contenders down to the five nominations in each category.

The full list of nominations will be announced on Thursday 21 January at BAFTA Headquarters.

The Damned United is one on the list for Adapted Screenplay and also Michael Sheen and his co-star Timothy Spall have both been listed in Lead Actor and Supporting Actor respectively.

You can view the complete list here.

On Tuesday 26 January 2010, Melvyn Bragg will host the final South Bank Show Awards in front of a star studded audience at The Dorchester, London. These unique awards celebrate the best of British talent across the arts including: Classical Music, Comedy, Dance, Film, Literature, Opera, Pop, Theatre, TV Drama and Visual Arts.

The Damned United starring Michael Sheen as the legendary, opinionated football manager Brian Clough and his 44-day reign at Leeds United has been nominated under the Film category.

Source: ITV Press Releases

According to The Age, Australian TV channel ABC1 will be showing’ War With The World’ on January 11th at 8:40pm. The biopic about science fiction writer HG Wells  features Michael Sheen in the lead role.

The drama tells the story of Wells’ transformation from self-confident womaniser, socialist radical and young literary prophet to burdened missionary, dedicated to creating a World State that will avert man’s headlong course towards imminent annihilation.

Michael-Sheen.co.uk is now Associates with Amazon.com, as well as Amazon.co.uk.  This means that we can now offer links to Michael Sheen related Amazon products for our US visitors, so now it is even easier to complete your collection, which in turn will generate more referral commission towards our 2010 charity collection.

You will start to see two ‘Buy from‘ buttons on the product links featured on the project pages.  In the future, we hope to continue this expansion with the French and German Associate programs also so that our mainland European visitors can also contribute to our charity collection.

Michael Sheen is throwing his weight behind Swansea Bay’s bid to become UK City of Culture in 2013.

Michael, who said he was a firm supporter of Swansea’s cultural life, is one of a number of high profile industry names supporting the title bid, which could help attract world-wide interest and millions of pounds in economic benefits to the region.

“I’m very excited to be supporting this bid,” he said. “We have such a wealth of cultural activity in Swansea Bay and I’m proud to support it in any way I can. “It would be a real recognition of that if Swansea Bay were to be named UK City of Culture.”

Swansea Bay Futures, which is leading the region’s approach, has already put in an initial bid to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in London and will find out how it has got on early next month.

Swansea Bay Futures executive director Fiona Rees said: “The fantastic events we have hosted before prove Swansea Bay has the ambition and the ability to deliver even more in the future.

“It’s the centenary of the birth of Dylan Thomas in 2014, so the designation as UK City of Culture in 2013 couldn’t come at a better time.”

Source: ThisIsSouthWales

As mentioned in previous posts, this site receives a small referral fee for anyone who makes a purchase after click through to them from Michael-Sheen.co.uk.

This year, I have decided that the money raised would go to the NSPCC, as this is a very worthy cause and Michael Sheen is currently their Ambassador.

Our total for 2009 is £30.53.

The amount is made up of the following quarterly totals (Click on the links to view the Amazon statements).

Quarter 1 2009 = £0.00

Quarter 2 2009 = £2.24

Quarter 3 2009 = £7.60

Quarter 4 2009 = £20.69

I would like to thank all who made purchases through the site and helped us get this amount. We have only been running the scheme since March so I am very pleased, but I know that we can do better next year.

If you want to help us raise even more money for 2010, then follow the instructions as explained in this earlier post.

I will be sending a cheque to the NSPCC this week and will post the receipt once it has arrived.

Thank you all once again, and a Happy New Year to you all.