Chris Columbus

Awards

British Academy of Film and Television Arts

Year Result Award Movie
2001 Nominated British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best British Film
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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  • Interview: Pierce Brosnan on Polanski, Percy, and R-Patz

    02/08/10 February is about to get really interesting for Pierce Brosnan .  |  Cinematical.com
  • Logan Lerman Catches ‘Spider-Man’ Fever

    02/05/10 The Lightning Thief held Thursday at NYC's AMC Loews Lincoln Square.  |  OK! Magazine
  • EXCLUSIVE: 'Gremlins' Director Joe Dante 'Doesn't Know Of Anything Officially' Going On With 'Gremlins 3'

    01/25/10 The Internet has been buzzing today with rumors that a third "Gremlins" movie is in the works, and that it will hit theaters as a 3-D release.  |  MTV Movies Blog
  • 2010 Preview: Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief

    01/15/10 It's the 21st century, but the gods of Mount Olympus and assorted monsters have walked out of the pages of high school student Percy Jackson's Greek mythology texts and into his life.  |  Box Office Mojo
  • Hollywood no longer an 'original idea town'

    01/08/10 One of the myths about moviemaking is that the movie gods prize originality and are wide open to writers with something new to pitch.  |  The Hollywood Reporter
  • Shelf Life: Gremlins

    12/29/09 In spite of my sincere effort to look at every movie in this series on its own merits and without a sense of nostalgia or eagerness to forgive, I fully believe in the idea of the "at that time" movie.  |  Cinematical.com
  • Shelf Life: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

    12/16/09 Folks weren't too happy with my "Shelf Life" assessment of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation two weeks ago, and perhaps understandably so: the holidays, and holiday movies in particular, bring out the sentimentality, nostalgia, and often otherwise muted affection that folks feel at other times of the year and for other movies.  |  Cinematical.com
  • Chris Columbus fast-tracks 'Help'

    12/15/09 Chris Columbus' 1492 Prods. has fast-tracked a screen adaptation of "The Help," the bestselling Kathryn Stockett novel about African-American domestic servants and their wealthy white employers in Mississippi before the civil rights era.  |  Variety
  • Asian film biz preps for world market

    11/23/09 On his just-completed swing through some of the Confucian parts of Asia -- China, Japan, Singapore and South Korea -- President Obama faced issues with which the film industry in this part of the world already is familiar.  |  The Hollywood Reporter
  • Spin-ematical: New on DVD for 11/3

    11/03/09 Here's my problem with the picture: a furiously-filmed chase through the streets of Paris should be spectacular and thrilling.  |  Cinematical.com

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