Audi Shifts Awards Season Into High Gear at Pre-Globes Bash
Jan13

Audi Shifts Awards Season Into High Gear at Pre-Globes Bash

It’s one of the most highly anticipated events of the season: the annual Audi pre-Golden Globes party, held at Cecconi’s restaurant in West Hollywood.   The luxury automaker continued its tradition with the sixth annual edition of the festive soirée, which took place on Thursday night before the Globes. And you guessed it, many of the celebrities attending arrived in Audi vehicles like the A8 L TDI, the brand’s fuel-efficient...

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Film Femmes Feted at Fig & Olive for Bubbly Pre-Oscar Fabulousness
Feb25

Film Femmes Feted at Fig & Olive for Bubbly Pre-Oscar Fabulousness

Given the fact that women make up such an underrepresented proportion of those working in the film industry, it’s always lovely to attend an Oscar event that features and fetes the femmes.   Women in Film held its sixth annual pre-Oscar cocktail party at West Hollywood’s Fig & Olive, which provides more party space than the previous, but equally trendy location of nearby Cecconi’s.   WIF president Cathy...

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Golden Globes and Critics’ Choice Agree: Argo’s Ben Affleck is Best Director
Jan14

Golden Globes and Critics’ Choice Agree: Argo’s Ben Affleck is Best Director

Those who like to point out that the Golden Globes are the most fun awards show in Hollywood may not have experienced the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, which rival it as an unbuttoned affair where the biggest names in show business booze and schmooze, on and off camera.   Perhaps noticeably because of the camaraderie they engender between awards voters and contenders—although some might use a more profane term to describe the...

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Broadcast Film Critics Elect Lincoln With a Record 13 Nods
Dec11

Broadcast Film Critics Elect Lincoln With a Record 13 Nods

“Lincoln” is clearly the film to beat at the 2013 Critics Choice Movie Awards. The Steven Spielberg-directed historical epic chronicling the assassinated president’s last few months in office garnered a record-breaking 13 nominations from the Broadcast Film Critics Association in categories including best film, director, lead actor for star Daniel Day-Lewis, supporting actress for Sally Field, who plays his wife, supporting...

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