The Sydney Morning Herald scores a great interview with Hugo Weaving. Journalist Garry Maddox writes: Despite shunning Los Angeles and staying close to his Sydney home, Weaving’s profile has soared in recent years thanks to roles in the hit movies The Lord of the Rings and The Matrix. [More]
Month: April 2003
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers has been nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation of 2002. The Hugo Awards are given out each year for the best in science fiction as determined by a vote of current Worldcon members. This year’s Hugos will be given out at Torcon in Toronto on Saturday, August 30. You can check out the full list of nominees here.
Last year The Fellowship of the Ring picked up the Hugo Award in the same category. Thanks to Laurie for the info!
Cartoonist John Cook is running a cartoon caption contest on his website sev.com.au. The cartoon has Wormtongue surveying a vast army of orcs, wondering how Saruman put together such a huge army so quickly. The reader gets to write Saruman’s response. The entries are rated by readers with the funniest punchline voted on in a week’s time. The contest ends Wed 23 April. Check it out here!
Thanks to Jess for the heads up!
I’m starting to think that the folks over at the CBBC website lack a certain amount of imagination: all of their polls seem to be somehow related to Lord of the Rings. At the moment they are running one about you favorite ‘thing’ here, and your favorite celebrity (vote for Elijah Wood or Orlando Bloom) here. Vote if you dare…
A lot of people have emailed me today saying that Daniel Bedingfield (the guy we reported about yesterday) isn’t really English at all. It turns out he’s from New Zealand, which might explain his fondness of LOTR…
Sent to us from Ringer Mo Jones: As I’m sure you know, the Space Channel from up here [Canada] was at the big Oscar party and put together a really fun video… and thanks to the hard work of Demosthenes & Arathorn we’re now able to present this little gem for the rest of Planet Earth. Featuring site Co-Founder Xoanon, Green Books’ Quickbeam & Anwyn, Sandman/Orbiter illustrator Colleen Doran, actors John Rhys-Davies, Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd, and fans from around the globe, this is a great taste of what the party looked and felt like as we celebrated the nominations of Peter Jackson’s LotR: TTT during the 75th Academy Awards.
Quicktime: [Click to view video] (20.4MB, but slightly worse quality)
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