Sam Rockwell For an Oscar

I have written about how much I enjoyed Moon before, and now we are approaching awards season director Duncan Jones is trying to start an online campaign to get Sam in the running for an Oscar. This is something I can wholeheartedly get behind as I think his performance was phenomenal. Whether or not those at the Academy can ever be persuaded to feel the same way on the other hand, is a whole different matter.

There is more info about Sam's role and the Oscars in general at this great Moon fansite which I encourage everyone to go and read, so I won't post too much on here - but please spread the word, and if you use twitter tag your tweets with #SamRockwellOscar and encourage others to re-tweet!

So please - spread the word in as many ways as you possibly can, be it Facebook, Myspace, good old simple conversation - lets get Sam what he deserves!

Update: Go and show your support on Facebook now!

Up

Back in May when I was at the Cannes Film Festival I didn't manage to see Up, Pixar's latest animated feature and their first to be produced in stereoscopic 3D. Of course it was showered with fantastic reviews, and knowing that I would have to wait until October to see it released in the UK (despite the fact it opened a few weeks after the Cannes showing in the US), I was rather annoyed and very worried I wouldn't be able to avoid all the spoilers.

Roll on to October and I had indeed managed to avoid all of the spoilers and went to see the film last night. Now, I am a self-professed Pixar fanboy, and Wall-E is one of my favourite films of all time, but Up really is something special.