In a recount of Critics' Choice Movie Awards ballots supervised by TheWrap, the Academy's system resulted in eight nominations

Celebrated but elusive actor Daniel Day-Lewis will receive the Montecito Award from the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, a key award-season stop

Restrictive WGA rules mean that top contenders like "Django Unchained," "Amour," "Beasts of the Southern Wild" and "Les Miserables" aren't eligible for guild honors

The alphabetical list ranges from "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" to "Zero Dark Thirty"

At TheWrap Screening Series, producer Tim Kwok said director Dain Said's second film was "blessed" to be approved by censors

Jessica Chastain says new disclosures about her "Zero Dark Thirty" character show that the movie got it right; Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal say it's "preposterous" to call their film pro-torture

Idiosyncratic critics group opts for Joaquin Phoenix, Jennifer Lawrence, Emmanuelle Riva, Dwight Henry and Amy Adams; Paul Thomas Anderson beats Kathryn Bigelow for best director

At TheWrap screening series,"White Tiger" director Karen Shakhnazarov said he made a tank film to honor his father, who fought in the Soviet army during World War II

"The Clown" auteur Selton Mello had existential worries about his acting career -- so he made a movie

George Stevens, Jr., D.A. Pennebaker, Hal Needham and Jeffrey Katzenberg receive tributes at the fourth Governors Awards, a low-key event and informal campaign stop for Oscar hopefuls

Deadline is now Friday, Dec. 14

At TheWrap screening series, the director of English-languages films like "Chocolat" and "Gilbert Grape," explains the motivations for his first Swedish film in 25 years