This morning at exactly 5:38:30 am, LAist was among the throng of bloggers, photographers, TV crews and bona-fide journalists in the audience of the Samuel Goldwyn Theater for the 84th Annual Academy Award nominations announcement in Beverly Hills. Doing the honors this year were Academy President Tom Sherak and actor Jennifer Lawrence, a leading actress nominee last year for Winter’s Bone. more ›

Ah, awards season! It's on and cracking here in Hollywood, and showbiz folk had an early call this morning as the nominations for the 18th annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards were announced pre-dawn at WeHo's Pacific Design Center's SilverScreen Theater. more ›

Hundreds of journalists, photographers and crews descended on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences headquarters on Wilshire Boulevard early this morning for the announcement for the 83rd Annual Academy Award (Oscar) nominations. more ›

In another early-morning press conference ritual, a set of nominations were delivered this morning for another heavyweight awards season participant, this time the 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, which focus on the talented contributions of actors in film and television. more ›

Hollywood is a-tingle this morning, and not because of the impending arrival of Christmas. Awards season is on the horizon, and this morning brought with the dawn the announcement of the nominees for the 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards. Honoring the best in film and television, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's awards are considered a strong, though not always accurate, indicator of the ensuing Oscar wins. more ›

The annual James Beard Foundation Awards nominees have been announced, and Los Angeles has its typical modest representation among a large swath of categories that includes everything from food writing to restaurant design to TV food personalities to cooking. more ›

And so the process begins. Today, nomination ballots for the 82nd Academy Awards were mailed to the 5,777 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Completed ballots must be returned to PricewaterhouseCoopers by 5 p.m. on Saturday, January 23 as nominations will be announced on February 2nd. The big day is Sunday, March 7, 2010. Anyone have predictions of what will be nominated? Precious? Crazy Heart? What, what? more ›

The 61st Primetime Emmy Awards are happening right now at L.A. Live's Nokia Theatre in downtown. Although they will be broadcast at 8 p.m. on CBS here in Los Angeles, LAist TV Editor Tom Lewis is backstage giving us some live updates. If you do not want spoilers, then do not click or look below this paragraph. We warned you! more ›

"No Country For Old Men," "There Will Be Blood," "Juno," "Michael Clayton," and "Atonement" all received nominations for Best Picture this morning, as the Academy Award nominations were announced in Beverly Hills. "No Country" and "There Will Be Blood" are the front runners with eight noms apiece, including a Best Actor nod for perennial Oscar fav Daniel Day-Lewis, and directing nominations for the Coen Bros. and Paul Thomas Anderson. While Javier Bardem was recognized with a Best Supporting nom for his work in "No Country," neither Tommy Lee Jones nor Josh Brolin were nominated for the film (although Jones is in the running for a Best Actor award for his work in "In the Valley of Elah" -- did anybody actually see that?). more ›

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Grammy nominations were announced early this morning in Los Angeles. Kanye West's album "Graduation" earned eight nods, including Album of the Year and Rap Album of the Year. The increasingly unstable Amy Winehouse garnered six nominations for "Back to Black," including Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best New Artist. Surprisingly, Bruce Springsteen did not get an Album of the Year nod for "Magic." Other nominees in... more ›