Posted on February 2nd, 2010 by madnad | 3 Comments »
Today at 13:30 (GMT) the nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards were released and once again, our man Michael Sheen has been passed over.
Lots of websites and news groups have been listing Michael Sheen as a potential nominee for Best Actor for his performance in The Damned United.
The film Damned United and Michael’s performance have been receiving a lot of award attention.
Michael has already won GQ’s Actor of the Year, and Best Film Actor at the Variety Club Awards. Michael was nominated for Best Actor by International Press Academy, but sadly the award went to Jeremy Renner.
The Damned United received a nomination by the South Bank Show awards, but lost to Fish Tank. Both the Damned United and Michael were Long Listed by the BAFTAs, but despite favourable media opinion were sadly not short listed.
Sadly neither Michael nor The Damned United were nominated for a Golden Globe.
The Academy Awards, or Oscars, represent the pinnacle of the award season. It is a prestigious award, despite being one voted for by Academy members, and not the viewing public.
It appears to be that awards based on the vote of the ticket-buying theatre goers then Michael, and indeed The Damned United, are receiving the nominations and awards this performance deserves. On the other hand, those awards like the Golden Globes, BAFTAs and The Academy Awards that are voted by a committee of board members fail to represent the opinion of the viewing public, and repeatedly discount those films and performances that are watched, loved and appreciated by the people that matter… the audience.
The Academy Awards presentation will take place on Sunday March 7th. You can view the full list of nominees here.
Posted on January 21st, 2010 by madnad | 10 Comments »
As previously announced, Michael Sheen appeared on BAFTA’s Long List (15 nominations per category) that was released 8th January. Michael received a nomination for Lead Actor for his performance in The Damned United and his co-star, Timothy Spall, also received a nomination for Supporting Actor in the same film. The Damned United itself was on the list under the Adapted Screenplay category.
The second round of voting has now taken place and the Long List has been reduced to 5 nominations per category. Sadly, Michael did not make the short list.
The Lead Actor category now appears as:
| EFF BRIDGES – Crazy Heart |
| GEORGE CLOONEY – Up in the Air |
| COLIN FIRTH – A Single Man |
| JEREMY RENNER – The Hurt Locker |
| ANDY SERKIS – Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll |
We are all very disappointed that neither Michael Sheen, nor The Damned United made the shortlist.
Michael Sheen has been nominated for a BAFTA in the past.
- Nominated for a BAFTA Film award as Best Support Actor in The Queen in 2006.
- Nominated for a BAFTA TV award as Best Actor for Fantabulosa! in 2006
- Nominated for BAFTA TV award as Best Actor for Dirty Filthy Love in 2004
The winners will be announced and awards presented on Sunday 21 February, at the Theatre Royal in London.
You can see the full list of nominations here.
Posted on January 8th, 2010 by madnad | 2 Comments »
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.
Posted on January 7th, 2010 by madnad | 1 Comment »
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
Posted on January 4th, 2010 by madnad | 2 Comments »
Michael Sheen is listed as #23 in GQ’s Best Dressed Celebrity 2010. The list is topped by his Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson. Others featured in the list are Jude Law (11th), David Walliams (13th), Sir Elton John (14th), Daniel Day-Lewis (15th), Bill Nighy (25th), and The Wire stars Idris Elba and Dominic West (26th).
The Worst Dressed list was topped by Priminister Gordon Brown and also features Russell Brand, the Top Gear presenters, Piers Morgan and Johnny Borrell.
The full list of the 50 Best dressed can be seen in GQ’s February issue. The top 10 can be viewed here.
I am glad to see Michael made it onto the right list!
Posted on November 30th, 2009 by madnad | 3 Comments »
So it is the time of year for some of the industy’s prestigious awards to start announcing their nominees. Michael has already done well this year by scooping Best Actor for both GQ and The Variety Club.
Let us hope his luck continues as it has been announced that he has been nominated as Best Actor, once again for The Damned United, by the International Press Academy. See here for their full list of nominees. The successful nominees will be announced on December 20th
Keep your eyes peeled on the Hollywood Foreign Press Awards site, as they will be releasing their nominations for Golden Globes on December 15th. You can see their nominations here after the 15th, and the awards will be presented 17th January 2010.
The Golden Globes are considered a reasonable indication of Oscar winners so you can be sure we will be keeping our eye on this and hope our boy makes off with some serious hardware this award season.
Posted on November 16th, 2009 by madnad | 4 Comments »
Michael Sheen scooped the Best Film Actor in the Variety Club Showbiz Awards 2009.
The Variety Club, which celebrates its Diamond Jubilee this year, is one of the UK’s longest running charities dedicated to sick, disabled and disadvantaged children and young people. Every year they honour the most talented individuals from the world of entertainment and last night, at The Variety Club’s 57th Annual Showbiz Awards 2009, in London’s West End, stars came together to show their support for the charity.
Other stars receiving awards included Kevin Spacey and Sir Ian McKellan.
The show will be broadcast on FIVE on Sunday 22 November at 1535 GMT.
Source: Varietyclub.org.uk
Posted on September 10th, 2009 by madnad | No Comments »
Michael Sheen is amongst a few that are due to get honorary fellowships at the University of Wales today in Newport. He has previously received an honorary fellowship from the Metropolitan University of Swansea on 10th July this year.
Source: Wales Online
Posted on September 9th, 2009 by madnad | No Comments »
GQ Magazine has some online videos showing highlights of the awards in London last night with a brief interview from Michael. Click on images for link to videos.
Source: GQ Magazine.co.uk
Posted on September 8th, 2009 by madnad | 1 Comment »
Michael Sheen has been nominated as one of GQ Magazine’s Men Of The Year along side others such as Michael McIntyre, David Walliams, and Take That. He has been selected as Actor of the Year. There will be a full article in the special Men Of The Year edition of the British GQ that will be available for sale on September 10th.
Source: GQMagazine.co.uk