International

Golden Globes

The awards were announced last month on Jan 16, The Descendants and George Clooney took the Best Motion Picture (Drama) and Best Actor awards, respectively, while on the Comedy/Musical front The Artist and Jean Dujardin took the same awards (Best Motion Picture and Best Actor). Best Actress (Drama) went to Meryl Streep, and Michelle Williams won in the musical and comedy genre. Midnight in Paris didn’t get much love, except for Woody Allen’s prize for Best Screenplay.

Academy Awards

Catch the Academy Awards on Feb 27, 8am (Bangkok time) via Channel 7. As usual, the nominations looks pretty much like those of the Golden Globes. Let’s see if George Clooney will confirm his glory with the top actor award again or lose the crown to the younger Brad Pitt for his role in Moneyball.

Asian Film Awards

This regional film awards is scheduled for Mar 2 in Hong Kong. There are three nominations from Thai films to watch out for this year: Mario Maurer from The Outrage was nominated as Best Supporting Actor, Chris Horwang from Headshot is nominated as Best Supporting actress and Noppadol Techo is nominated as Best Costume Designer from The Outrage.

National

Kom Chad Luek Awards

The Thai film-award season kicked off this year with the Kom Chad Luek Awards, which were announced on Feb 9. Ladda Land got the most awards, including Best Script, Best Supporting Actress (Suthatta “Punpun” Udomsilp), Best Directing and Best Motion Picture. Poom Puang got two awards with Nattawut Sakitjai as Best Supporting Actor and Paowalee Pornpimol as Best Actress, while Noppachai Chaiyanam won Best Actor for Headshot.

Starpics Thai Films Awards

Announced the same day as the Kom Chad Luek, on Feb 9, Headshot won six out of twelve awards, including Best Motion Picture, Best Directing, Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Film Editing, Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography. Ladda Land followed, with Best Actress in a Leading Role and Best Script, while Poom Puang grabbed one award with Nattawut Sakitjai as Best Supporting Actor. Suckseed won Most Popular Film; Hiso won Best Original Sound Track; and Best Supporting Actress went to Preaw Alisara for her role in Love, Not Yet.