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Title: 2003 DVD awards
Post by: Banky on December 03, 2003, 06:54:53 PM
We have just received this press information from one of our DVD contacts, so we thought we would share it with you. The information is from the 2003 DVD Awards and certainly includes some worthy winners. Anyway, here is the information in full:

DEC. 2 | LOS ANGELES--James Earl Jones, Jessica Alba, Bob Hoskins, Martin Short and Jack Black were among those honored at the 2003 DVD Exclusive Awards on Tuesday night, receiving awards for performances in movies that premiered exclusively on DVD this year.

The Alien Quadrilogy matched The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Special Extended Edition with two of the top honors for special editions, and Dick Van Dyke was on hand to collect the award for Best TV Show on DVD--more than 40 years after the broadcast debut of The Dick Van Dyke Show.

Buena Vista Home Entertainment's 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure and the star-studded indie film Interstate 60 from Back to the Future writer/producer Bob Gale took top honors for animated and live-action DVD movies, respectively.

Hosted by actress Jenny McCarthy, who came out wearing a dress made of 25 DVDs, the fast-paced show will be televised on FX at 8 p.m. (ET/PT) on Dec. 9. A crowd of about 700 at the Wiltern LG theater attended the event, which was produced by Dick Clark Productions.

It all began on the red carpet, where unique vehicles from this year's DVD movies rolled up, including Scooby-Doo's Mystery Machine, original and new Mini Coopers representing both versions of The Italian Job on DVD, the Death Machine from Animal House and street rods from 2 Fast 2 Furious.

Inside, in addition to the award winners, the show was filled with tributes to filmmakers Michael Bay and Ridley Scott, Pixar Animation Studios, Marvel Comics pioneer Stan Lee and franchises Scooby-Doo, American Pie and The Lion King.

There was also a video package of clips from DVDs featuring all manner of classic music from Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby to the Beatles, George Harrison, the Who and Led Zeppelin.

The Who's Roger Daltrey followed the salute in person to present the award for Best Original Song in a DVD premiere movie, which went to Black's outrageous and profane "Golden Rule Song" from New Line Home Entertainment's Run Ronnie Run! A handful of writers accepted the award, led by Bob Odenkirk, who was also nominated for best director of Melvin Goes to Dinner, the latter making its commercial debut Dec. 16 on DVD.

Fox's Alien Quadrilogy was named Best Overall DVD, Classic Movie, and it also picked up an award for Best Audio Commentary by the cast and crew of Alien. The presentation came on the day the serpentine nine-disc set debuted in stores.

The 600 DVD Exclusive Academy members, who are filmmakers and TV and DVD producers, judge new DVD releases all year long and are sent advance copies of DVDs that are being released late in the year.

More than 11 titles picked up awards in 23 categories, including five for 101 Dalmatians II, for which Short and character design supervisor Dan Root won the unique joint voice actor and animator award for Best Animated Character Performance in the role of a fashion designer called Lars.

Buena Vista's recently released Finding Nemo DVD won three awards, for menu design; games and interactivities; and deleted scenes, outtakes and bloopers.

Alba, Hoskins and Brenda Blethyn were named best actress, actor and supporting actor, respectively, for their work in New Line's British period drama The Sleeping Dictionary. The movie also won for Best Cinematography.

The Best Actor award went to Jones for his performance in Lions Gate Home Entertainment's psychological drama Finder's Fee, written and directed by Survivor host Jeff Probst, who announced nominees for Best Supporting Actor via video from the secret location of the next season of TV programs.

Gale accepted awards for producer of Screen Media's Interstate 60 as well as for Best Screenplay.

In one of the surprise awards, Michael Arrick's documentary West Side Memories on MGM's West Side Story beat other nominated behind-the-scenes programs from Alien Quadrilogy, Finding Nemo, New Line's Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and Paramount Home Entertainment's The Indiana Jones Trilogy.

A complete list of winners follows:

DVD Special Editions

Best Overall DVD, New Movie (including all extra features)


The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Special Extended Edition (New Line/Warner); Michael Pellerin, David X. Rodriguez, Kevin Miller

Best Overall DVD, Classic Movie (including all extra features)


Alien Quadrilogy (Fox); Charles de Lauzirika

Best Overall DVD, TV Program (including all extra features)


The Dick Van Dyke Show -- Season One (Image); Paul Brownstein

Best Behind-the-Scenes Program (new for DVD)


West Side Memories (Michael Arrick) -- West Side Story (MGM)

Best New Movie Scenes (finished -- edited into movie or stand-alone)


43 minutes of new & extended footage (Peter Jackson) -- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Special Extended Edition (New Line/Warner)

Best Audio Commentary (new for DVD)


Ridley Scott, Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett, Terry Rawlings, Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt; Alien -- Alien Quadrilogy (Fox)

Best Menu Design


Finding Nemo (Buena Vista); Bill Kinder, David Jessen, John Ross

Best Games and Interactivities


Finding Nemo (Buena Vista); David Jessen, Bill Kinder

Best Deleted Scenes, Outtakes and Bloopers


Finding Nemo (Buena Vista); Andrew Stanton, Roger Gould, Bill Kinder

DVD Premiere Movies

Best Animated DVD Premiere Movie


101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure (Buena Vista); Carolyn Bates, Leslie Hough

Best Live Action DVD Premiere Movie



Interstate 60 (Screen Media/Universal); Peter Bray, Neil Canton, Bob Gale

Best Actor in a DVD Premiere Movie



James Earl Jones [Avery Phillips] -- Finder's Fee (Lions Gate)

Best Actress in a DVD Premiere Movie


Jessica Alba [Selima] – The Sleeping Dictionary (New Line/Warner)

Best Supporting Actor in a DVD Premiere Movie


Bob Hoskins [Henry Bullard] – The Sleeping Dictionary (New Line/Warner)

Best Supporting Actress in a DVD Premiere Movie


Brenda Blethyn [Aggie] -- The Sleeping Dictionary (New Line/Warner)

Best Animated Character Performance in a DVD Premiere Movie (voice/animator)

Lars [voice: Martin Short; Dan Root, character design supervisor] -- 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure (Buena Vista)

Best Original Song in a DVD Premiere Movie


The Golden Rule Song (performed by Jack Black with the Joey Cheesy Reunion Band; lyrics by Eban Schletter, David Cross, Bob Odenkirk, Scott Aukerman, B.J. Porter, Brian Posehn; music written and arranged by Eban Schletter) -- Run Ronnie Run! (New Line/Warner)

Best Director of a DVD Premiere Movie


Jim Kammerud, Brian Smith -- 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure (Buena Vista)

Best Screenplay for a DVD Premiere Movie

Bob Gale -- Interstate 60 (Screen Media/Universal)
Tod drama The Sleeping Dictionary. The
Best Visual Effects in a DVD Premiere Movie


Shui-Wen Tsai, Duane Loose -- Bionicle: Mask of Light - The Movie (LEGO/Miramax/Buena Vista)

Best Original Score in a DVD Premiere Movie

Richard Gibbs -- 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure (Buena Vista)

Best Cinematography in a DVD Premiere Movie



Martin Fuhrer -- The Sleeping Dictionary (New Line/Warner)

Best Editing of a DVD Premiere Movie


Robert S. Birchard -- 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure (Buena Vista)


By Richard Schuchardt
Title: Re: 2003 DVD awards
Post by: SoNowThen on December 04, 2003, 01:23:41 PM
Quote from: BankyHosted by actress Jenny McCarthy, who came out wearing a dress made of 25 DVDs

pictures please...
Title: Re: 2003 DVD awards
Post by: Jeremy Blackman on December 04, 2003, 02:35:58 PM
Quote from: BankyAlien Quadrilogy (Fox); Charles de Lauzirika

They actually called it a Quadrilogy?
Title: Re: 2003 DVD awards
Post by: coffeebeetle on December 04, 2003, 03:38:29 PM
Quote from: SoNowThen
Quote from: BankyHosted by actress Jenny McCarthy, who came out wearing a dress made of 25 DVDs

pictures please...

Yes, PLEASE.........
Title: 2003 DVD awards
Post by: Banky on December 04, 2003, 04:47:13 PM
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Title: 2003 DVD awards
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Title: 2003 DVD awards
Post by: picolas on December 05, 2003, 01:12:48 AM
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Title: Re: 2003 DVD awards
Post by: MacGuffin on December 05, 2003, 01:41:45 AM
Quote from: coffeebeetle
Quote from: SoNowThen
Quote from: BankyHosted by actress Jenny McCarthy, who came out wearing a dress made of 25 DVDs

pictures please...

Yes, PLEASE.........

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Title: 2003 DVD awards
Post by: aclockworkjj on December 05, 2003, 02:30:42 AM
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Title: 2003 DVD awards
Post by: Alethia on December 05, 2003, 07:55:06 AM
i remember when she played a transsexual on just shoot me.....
Title: 2003 DVD awards
Post by: Banky on December 05, 2003, 08:17:54 AM
Quote from: aclockworkjjremember when she was on Singled Out?


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leave it to Mac to find a pic that i couldnt
Title: 2003 DVD awards
Post by: aclockworkjj on December 05, 2003, 10:02:36 AM
Quote from: Bankyleave it to Mac to find a pic that i couldnt
I know...shit, i musta looked for an good solid hour at work yesterday.  Kudos to Mac...