The movie has already picked up a string of accolades and is nominated for eight Academy Awards at the upcoming Oscars in March (09), including Best Picture and Best Director.

Waltz, who is up for a Best Supporting Actor prize at the Oscars, has already picked up a London Critics’ Circle Film Award for Actor of the Year for his role as Colonel Hans Landa in the 2009 movie.

But he’s convinced Quentin Tarantino’s critically-acclaimed film would never have happened if Pitt hadn’t signed up, because Waltz believes the Fight Club star is responsible for making it such a success.

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Quentin Tarantino, Upper Playground and The Weinstein Company have teamed up to present, The Lost Art of Inglourious Basterds — a benefit for Haiti this Thurday, February 18th 2010 from 6:00-9:00pm in Downtown Los Angeles. A bunch of artists have created their own posters based on Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. You can check out eleven of the thirteen posters after the jump. The event will be held at The Upper Playground Art Gallery, and all proceeds from this program will be donated to The American Red Cross to help the victims of the Haiti Earthquake. Each print will be numbered and signed by Quentin Tarantino, in a extremely limited edition of only six prints per poster.

Thanks to Gabrielle.

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On its surface, an exploitation film about Nazi hunters doesn’t exactly have “Oscar potential” written all over it. Factor in violent scenes of people having their heads bashed in with baseball bats, gruesome laughs that arrive with the mutilation of characters, and the fact that the movie was inspired by this, and it seems like a downright miracle that “Inglourious Basterds” would be deemed award-worthy.

But award-worthy it is, as evidenced by Tuesday morning’s (February 2) announcement that “Basterds” has hunted down eight Oscar nominations, second only to “Avatar” and “The Hurt Locker.” Once again, the incomparable Quentin Tarantino has displayed his knack for dusting off genres and plot conventions dismissed by pop-culture as unworthy and reminded us of the beauty he sees in those worlds.

“This thing was a gift. It landed in my lap; six weeks later, we were shooting,” Brad Pitt recalled of Tarantino’s stunning script. “You don’t want to change a thing. I compare it to working with a Coen brothers script, because the dialogue is so spot-on. And there’s a music to it, that if you take one step off the trailer, you just muck up the whole thing. And so you stay on course. It was really so defined and laid-out.“

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Thanks to Gabriella.

As Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Christoph Waltz), Cinematography, Sound…

Congratulations!

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Inglorious Basterds cast won yesterday the award as Best Cast in a Motion Picture, also Christoph Waltz won again a new Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role. Brad didnt attend.

Whole list, here.

Hot Toys is delighted to present the 1/6th scale Lt. Aldo Raine collectible figure from the Inglourious Basterds movie. This is the first-licensed collectible figure of Brad Pitt which fully realizes his likeness in the movie.

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Thanks to Gabriella.

Sadly, none for Brad, but Inlgorious Basterds got nominations for DIRECTOR (Quentin Tarantino) and SUPPORTING ACTOR (Christoph Waltz), plus ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY, CINEMATOGRAPHY and PRODUCTION DESIGN.

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Inglorious Basterds had bad luck at Golden Globes, only winning its BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE for Christoph Waltz of the four nominations it got.

Congratulations for the fantastic work!

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As expected, Brad didnt show up, but his “Inglorious Basterds” won three of the nine nominatios it got: Best acting ensemble, best supporting actor (brilliant Christoph Waltz), and best original screenplay (for Quentin Tarantino).

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Over 6000 members of the Academy vote in three rounds to decide the winners of the Orange British Academy Film Awards and the Long List is the result of Round One of voting. With 220 films entered this year, this first round reduces the entered films down to fifteen in each category. Round Two voting will reduce these fifteen contenders down to the five nominations in each category.

The full list of nominations will be announced on Thursday 21 January at BAFTA Headquarters.

Brad is pre-nominated as leading actor for his Lt. Aldo Raine from Inglorious Basterds.

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James Cameron’s sci-fi blockbuster “Avatar” will compete against Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” and award season favourites “The Hurt Locker” and “Up in the Air” for the Producers Guild of America’s top movie prize.

Clint Eastwood’s “Invictus”, “Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire” and animated film “Up” were also among the 10 movies – instead of the usual five – included on the PGA shortlist for its Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures. “Up” is also nominated in the best animated film category, alongside “Coraline”, “The Princess and the Frog”, “9″ and “The Fantastic Mr. Fox”.

Meanwhile, Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange’s Grey Gardens scored a mention for best TV movie – it will battle with “Prayers for Bobby”, “The Prisoner”, “Taking Chance”, Georgia O’Keefe and “Little Dorrit” for the accolade.

The nominations were announced on Tuesday (05Jan10) and the winners of the 21st Annual PGA Awards will be unveiled on 24 January (10) at a ceremony in Hollywood.

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Screen Actors Guild Awards:
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role – C. Waltz
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role – D. Kruger

Thanks Natlc.

The awardshow season is approaching and nominations are coming in for Inglourious Basterds as followed:

Golden Globe Awards:
Best Motion Picture – Drama
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture: Christoph Waltz
Best Director – Motion Picture: Quentin Tarantino
Best Screenplay – Motion Picture: Quentin Tarantino

Thanks Natlc.

Critics’ Choice Awards:
Best Picture
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz
Best Directing: Tarantino
Best Acting Ensemble
Best Action Movie
Best Original Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best Art Direction
Best Editing
Best Costume Design