93 Annual Oscar Recap
CMA Awards RECAP
County Fair Goes “Pop”
KLove Fan Awards in Nashville TN
Presented at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville TN, Matthew West and Mandisa hosted the first ever televised KLove Fan awards. The awards were filmed on Sunday night and aired at 8 eastern on Trinity Broadcast Networks on Thursday, May 31, 2018.
The first award handed out of the night as to Mercy Me who took group/duo of the year as well as Song and Artist of the Year. In addition the movie inspired by their number one song I Can Only Imagine took the award for Film/TV impact of the year.
In addition to the awards, Matthew West performed his song, All In/ Just As I Am as special tribute to one of the greatest/well known evangelists who past away earlier this year at 99, Billy Graham.
All the awards given out are below chosen by fans nationwide and tallied prior to the ceremony.
- group/duo of the year- MercyMe
- breakout single award- Cory Ashbury- Reckless Love
- Male Artist of the Year- TobyMac
- Female Artist of the Year- Lauren Daigle
- Film/TV Impact- “I can Only Imagine”
- Worship Song Of The Year- Reckless Love- Cory Asbury
- Song of the year- Even If- MercyMe
- Artist of the year- MercyMe
“Lady Bird” REVIEW
Saoirse Ronan is back in yet another gut wrenching Dramedy that is receiving high reviews and has already been named best movie at the 2017 New York Film Critics Circle this year.
Greta Gerwig‘s Lady Bird is a coming of age movie about a mother and daughter relationship and what happens when 17-year-old, Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson gets ready to go to college. Actress Laurie Metcalf plays her judgmental mother whose tough love drives the basis for Lady Bird wanting to go to an East Coast school away from her hometown of Sacramento.
All in all, the dramedy includes some very real moments of what nearly every mother and daughter go through at some point and time and shows that though they may not always get along, the love between them is ultimately stronger than any other love.
Lady Bird came out in theaters November 1 and has since its release already brought in over 12.5 million domestically at the box office. It’s a movie for anyone who is a daughter or has a daughter as it shows what each has to go through when getting ready to leave home for the first time.
Lady Bird is still playing in a theater near you.
74th Annual Golden Globes RECAP
Hosted by Jimmy Fallon and airing live from the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills and exclusively on NBC, the opening scene of the 74th Annual Golden Globes paid tribute to one of the best picture nominees, La La Land, with a satire skit intro, by Fallon. The following list of awards and who took them home are below.
- Ryan Reynolds and Emma stone presented the first award, for best actor in a motion picture drama, awarded to Aaron Taylor-Johnson for Nocturnal Animals.
- The best actor in a TV series drama went to Billy Bob Thornton for his role in Goliath.
- Hugh Grant introduced his movie and the first nominee for best picture, Florence Foster Jenkins.
- Drew Barrymore and Timothy Elephant presented the Best Actress in a TV Series Musical or Comedy, won by Tracee Ellis Ross for Black-ish. and the Best TV Series Musical or Comedy went to Atlanta accepted by writer, actor and director Donald Glover.
- Vince Vaughn introduced the first movie nominated for Best Picture, Hacksaw Ridge.
- Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon presented the award for Best Actress in a Limited Series or TV Movie and Sara Paulson won for her performance O.J. Simpson American Crime Story. The People vs. O.J. Simpson also won for best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television.
- Annette Bening introduced Twentieth Century Women which is nominated for Best Picture as well.
- The Best Actor in a Limited Series or Made for TV Movie went to Hugh Laurie for his role in The Night Manager.
- Sting and Carrie Underwood presented the award for best original score to Justin Hurwitz for La La Land as well as the best original song to “City of Stars” from La La Land.
- John Legend introduced the best picture musical or comedy nominated, La La Land.
- Michael Keaton presented Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture Drama to Viola Davis for her role in Fences.
- Kristen Bell and Cuba Gooding Jr presented the award to Olivia Coolman for best actress in a TV Limited Series or Made For TV Movie, though she wasn’t able to appear to accept the award.
- Dev Patel introduced his movie nominated for best picture, Lion.
- Goldie Hawn and Amy Schumer presented the award for best actor in a motion picture comedy or musical to Ryan Gosling for his stunning performance in La La Land.
- Damien Chazelle won the best motion picture screenplay for his latest movie La La Land.
- Kristin Wigg and Steve Carell presented the best animated motion picture to Zootopia.
- And jimmy Fallon also introduced a touching film montage tribute for mother daughter team Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds who passed away just days before the end of 2016.
- Casey Afflict introduced his film nominated for best picture, Manchester by the Sea.
- the Best foreign language motion picture is Elle, from France.
- Tom Hiddleton won for best actor in a limited tv or made for tv movie.
- The Crown took best tv series, drama.
- Viola Davis awarded the Cecil B. DeMille Award to Maryl Streep as she intro a video tribute to before she took the stage to accept the honor.
- Chris Pine introduced the next nominated best picture, drama, Hell or High Water.
- Damien Chazelle won best director for La La Land.
- Danny Glove won Best actor in a TV series comedy or musical for Atlanta.
- Emma Stone received the Best Actress for a motion picture, comedy or musical for La La Land.
- Pierce Brosnan introduced the last nominee for best picture, in a musical or comedy, Sing Street.
- And Brad Pitt introduced the last nominee for best picture, drama, Moonlight.
- And Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmaine awarded the best motion picture, musical or comedy to La La Land.
- The best actor in a motion picture drama goes to Casey Afflict for his role in Manchester By the Sea.
- Leonardo DiCaprio awarded Isabelle Huppert the best actress in a motion picture drama for the French movie, Elle.
- And Carl Weathers and Sylvester Stallone awarded the best motion picture, drama to Moonlight.
Congratulations to all the winners and nominees for the 74th annual Golden Globe Awards. The Golden Globes are determined by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association prior to the awards show.
2015 Ventura County Music Awards
On September 5, 2015, the Redlight District Show in Ventura County hosted the 2015 Ventura County Music Awards to celebrate and support live music in the area. Musicians of all genres performed for a packed house on the lawn of the Musuem of Ventura County.
All in all, there were roughly 25 different awards handed out including best vocalists, breakthrough star award as well as individual genres.
There were also two hall of fame inductees this year to the Ventura County Music including Jim Salzer and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.
To see performances from some of the nominees as well as learn who was chosen for this year’s Artist of the Year, click the video below.
The rest of the winners
include:
- New Artist- Square 1
- Female Vocalist- Jay Lynn
- Male Vocalist- Mitchell Blake
- Jazz- Lola Hagg
- Country- Lara Britt
- Punk- The Boxheads
- Cover band- The Bloody Reunion
- Blues- Crooked Eye Tony
- Reggae- Herbal Roots
- Rock- Kings Ransom
- Rap- King Harris
- Hip Hop- Auxillerie
- R&B- Chris Greer
- Metal- Bone Maggot
- Alternative- Holigram Empire
- Live Band- Fallen Saints
- Break Through Artist- Dosa Looch
- Video of the Year: Heart 6
- Song of the year: “Porcelein” by No Good Deeds
- Album of the Year- Wild Ride
- “Nothing Left to Give” Award- Grit Harbor
- Showman Award- The Seaside Band
- “We Bring It” Award- Magnificent Bastards
- “OMG” Award- Velveteen Band
- “Can You Feel it” Award- American Has
All of the finalists were voted on by the public through the Ventura county music awards website by way of a poll system. To be part of the voting process for next year’s awards, like the Facebook page for updates.