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A CO-PRODUCER of Oscars favourite The Hurt Locker has been banned from attending the awards ceremony after sending emails disparaging Avatar.

3D cleaned up at the Visual Effects Society Awards last night, with James Cameron’s Avatar snapping up six top honors, including the big one for outstanding visual effects in a visual effects-driven motion picture, and Disney-Pixar’s Up taking three animation awards. Luckily for the VES Awards, Cameron was there to accept a VES lifetime achievement award and Pixar’s Ed Catmull was onhand to …

HIS 3D extravaganza Avatar dominates the box office, but director James Cameron is adamant it won’t dominate next month’s Academy Awards.

Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ does not score highly with the British. Thad Komorowski In spite of its box office success, James Cameron’s Avatar had a disappointing night at the British Academy Film Awards. Nominated in eight categories, the film only took home two awards: Best Special Visual Effects and Best Production Design

Kathryn Bigelow’s “The Hurt Locker” dominated the BAFTA Awards, virtually shutting out ex-husband James Cameron’s “Avatar.”

Movie director Kathryn Biagelow made history and added to her awards season haul Sunday as “The Hurt Locker” soundly trounced “Avatar” at the UK’s top movie prize giving.

LONDON – The intense war drama “The Hurt Locker” and the blockbuster sci-fi spectacle “Avatar” are squaring off at the British Academy Film Awards — a curtain raiser for their Academy Awards battle in Los Angeles next month.

In an Oscar preview, ‘Hurt Locker’ and ‘Avatar’ go head-to-head at British academy awards Awards – Academy Award – Hurt Locker – Avatar – Movies

The intense war drama “The Hurt Locker” and the blockbuster sci-fi spectacle “Avatar” are squaring off at the British Academy Film Awards — a curtain raiser for their Academy Awards battle in Los Angeles next month. British coming-of-age drama “An Education” is also a favorite for the London prizes, attended by a mix of homegrown celebrity and Hollywood imports.

Gritty Iraq thriller “The Hurt Locker” and blockbuster eco-extravaganza “Avatar” are squaring off at the British Academy Film Awards _ a possible preview of their showdown at the A

LONDON, Feb 19 — Mirroring the Oscars, Britain’s top film awards the BAFTAs pit 3-D blockbuster “Avatar” against low-budget Iraq war drama “The Hurt Locker”, directed by former husband and wife James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow respectively. The movies have eight nominations each, as does British film “An Education”, going into the awards ceremony on Sunday.

Avatar and Sherlock Holmes were the feature winners at the Art Directors Guild’s 14th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards, where they topped the categories for fantasy and period film, along with The Hurt Locker , according to The Hollywood Reporter .