Awards, 2/4.

At the Film Experience, Nathaniel R is hosting an Oscar Symposium, his third, and this year his guests are Dennis Cozzalio, Nick Davis, Boyd van Hoeij, Kim Morgan, Tim Robey and Sasha Stone.

Edward Copeland has the winners of the Producers Guild Awards.

Updated through 2/6.

"Jaime Rosales won best picture and best director statuettes for La soledad on Sunday at the Goya Awards, Spain's version of the Oscars," reports the AP. Eugene HernandezindieWIRE "reader reiterated that the victory for Rosales' film was a major upset given that The Orphanage sold millions of tickets, while La Soledad was a modest release reaching just tens of thousands of moviegoers." Related: Reviews from Cannes and James Van Maanen's take back December.

This entry'll be picking up from "Oscarology, 1/31," last updated on Sunday.

Update, 2/5: Edward Copeland's posted the results of his survey of Oscar's best and worst Best Actors.

Updates, 2/6: At european-films.net, Boyd van Hoeij notes that Spain wasn't the only European country handing out its national film awards this past weekend. "In Finland, the upcoming Berlinale Competition title Musta jää (Black Ice) from director Petri Kotwica was the big winner with a total of six awards, including Best Picture.... In Denmark, Peter Schønau Fog's Kunsten at græde i kor (The Art of Crying) was the big winner with a total of eight awards." And he's got the full lists of all three hooplas.

Jim Emerson shows us his ballot for Edward Copeland's poll.

Posted by dwhudson at February 4, 2008 2:09 AM