Red carpet season is upon us...

Hello readers, so the new year is with us, and what a year it has been so far! First off, let me say congratulations to Colin Firth for claiming the Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama award at the Golden Globes for his role in The King's Speech (review to come soon). And with his nom for Best Actor at the Oscars, there's a chance he could bag himself another award for his mantlepiece! But he's got some stiff competition: Jeff Bridges (True Grit), Javier Bardem (Biutiful), James Franco (127 Hours) and Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network). Maybe he can even make it a hat trick if he wins the BAFTA next month! Best of luck Mr. Darcy!

As a big fan of fellow Brit, Christopher Nolan it was disappointing to not see him up for Best Director at the Oscars this year. What does this man have to do?! Seems he could end up joining his Inception star, Leonardo DiCaprio in the "why haven't they got an Oscar?!" club. But let's hope not.

Having been shunned by BAFTA, and failing to win at the Globes, what a relief it was to see the sublime animated feature, The Illusionist, up for a gong, courtesy of The Academy. If you haven't seen it, it's now out on DVD. From Sylvain Chomet, director of Belleville Rendezvous (AKA The Triplets of Belleville) the film, set in the 50s, follows a struggling French magician as he leaves Paris behind and heads to Britain, in search of success. A simple narrative, yet beautifully made, it is refreshing to watch a good old 2D animation as good as this, and Chomet is up there with Miyazaki in my book.

Now, time to start thinking about what I'm going to wear... Red dress? Black sequinned number? Floor-sweeping silk gown? But, I do want to be comfortable curled up on my sofa at 1:00 am, so perhaps I'll just stick with leggings and a baggy sweater. Sigh! One day... *daydreams of stepping onto the red carpet and posing for the cameras*.

For all Golden Globe 2011 winners see: http://www.goldenglobes.org/nominations/

For BAFTA 2011 nominations see: http://www.bafta.org/awards/film/2011-film-awards,1572,BA.html#jump8

For Oscar 2011 nominations see:

http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/83/nominees.html