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The categories were for both Official sites, and Fan Run sites, and then winners were picked by Popular vote among fans, and by the Editor’s of Movies.com. That’s why there are two winners in each category. Sometimes it’s the same site, and sometimes two sites won an award.
The awards event was held at the Lucky Strike bowling alley at the Hollywood and Highland complex, and included a complimentary game. We were treated to an open bar and food (hot dogs and hamburgers, a bowling alley staple if ever there was one) and everyone from Movies.com were super nice. This is one group that understands hospitality, with one staffer actually fetching bowling shoes for the guests.
I didn’t know that much about Movies.com, but found out they are part of the Disney web family, so they are much bigger than I thought they were. Some of the other guests I talked with were from the DanRadcliffe.com site, the TeamNicole.com site, and Keith from the Ian McKellan site. Because this was a local event, and not too terribly big, it was basically just local staff for the various websites in attendance. But that didn’t seem to matter, it was a very nice event hosted by cool people and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. They even gave us gift bags on top of the awards, so kudos there.
The awards of interest to LOTR fans are as follows:
TheOneRing.net won the award for the Best Movie Fan Website, as decided upon by the Editors of Movies.com. Muggle.net won the Fan vote in this category.
TBHL won the award for the Best Director Fan site in the Fan Vote category, while Spielbergfilms.com won the Editor’s choice award.
BillyBoyd.net also won the Best Official Actor site award as voted by the Fans, while Adam Sandler’s official site won the Editor’s choice award.
Click here for a full list of winners
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Cati writes: Hi I just wanted to tell everyone about the lord of the rings concert in London at the albert hall that took place last night as there is nothing about it on your site already. It was really amazing I’d never been to the royal albert hall before it was really pretty. [More]
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Cati writes: Hi I just wanted to tell everyone about the lord of the rings concert in London at the albert hall that took place last night as there is nothing about it on your site already. It was really amazing v I’d never been to the royal albert hall before it was really pretty. Typically there was loads of traffic that night and we only arrived 1 minute before the orchestra came on stage. The whole hall was packed even the standing places at the top. We booked the day the tickets went on sale and had some of he best seats in the house right down near the front right opposite where Howard Shore was conducting.
In the first half they played 2 movements both from fotr including the prophecy concerning hobbits lothlorien and many meetings. It was really amazing. The choir were London voices and some boys from the London oratory school( the were so sweet) and fantastic singers. This is a bit depressing as I’m much older and will never be able to sing as well. The playing was done by the London philharmonic. The solos in the second half were sung by sissel who was very good although perhaps not as good as annie lennox for into the west. In the second half they played the other 4 movements for the other 2 movies. At the end there was a standing ovation from the whole audiences shore and sissel had to come on stage again 4 times to bow unfortunately no amount of clapping, screaming or whistling provoked an encore.
My friend and I waited at the stage door after the concert with a huge amount of other people several wearing cloaks and many more wearing their one rings. After much waitig and fot stamping(it was very cold) howard shore finally put in an appearance. At this point I was slowly becoming crushed as the crowd all took a few steps forward. My friend gave up and went nearer the back to get pictures on my mobile while I tried to closer without being starved of oxygen. I heard one woman yell as we were being asked to take yet another step back “we do appreciate this you know”.
Finally the moment came and he took my tickets to sign and I yelled “you can have 2 more flautists anytime you want them!” I don’t know whether he heard but I made the offer! It was about 23:00 by the time we were on our back home after an amazing night.
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Ringer staffer Garfeimao just called from the Movies.com Awards (taking place right now in Hollywood CA) to inform us that TheOneRing.net team has won two awards: The Bastards Have Landed (TBHL.TheOneRing.net) took home the award for Best Director Fan Site, and TheOneRIng.net took home the ‘Editor’s Choice’ Award! We’ll be posting details and photos from the event tomorrow. We’d like to thank the Academy…err….Movies.com and all of our supporters out there!
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If any of you are like me you were watching your brand new Star Wars Original Trilogy on DVD last night. While I have yet to check out any of the special items on the DVDs, Amy writes in to tell us of a familiar face that can be seen; ‘Peter Jackson is interviewed in several different spots on the Bonus Features (disc 4) of the new DVDs’. [Order Star Wars at Amazon.com]
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Jim Rygiel, who won three visual effects Oscars for his work on the “Lord of the Rings” films, is set to make his directorial debut on the upcoming indie feature “Bunyan and Babe” for Venice, Calif.-based Exodus Film Group. Based on the legendary figure of Paul Bunyan, “Bunyan and Babe” is a live-action family adventure following Bunyan’s attempts — with the help of a couple of kids — to rescue his ox from the evil clutches of a demented circus owner. [More]
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