ABC Leads Nominees for GLAAD Media Honours

Despite drawing the ire in the organization due to its now-canceled mix-dressing comedy Push The Button, ABC assigned this list of nominees for your 23rd annual GLAAD Media Honours.Collecting mentions for Grey's Anatomy (outstanding drama) too "Modern Family" and "Happy Being," the Disney-possessed network also acquired a nomination for outstanding individual episode without any regular LGBT character due to its short-were living comedy "Guy Up" and reality staple "DwtsInch with Chaz Bono.Bono also considered in some other nominees: OWN's "Becoming Chaz" acquired a nom inside the documentary category and also the turn on CBS' "Late Show With David Letterman" also was stated inside the outstanding talk show area.The nominations come monthly following a Lgbt Alliance Against Defamation advised the network not to air mix-dressing comedy "Push The Button,In . proclaiming the series increased "false and dangerous stereotypes about transgender people.""Grey's Anatomy," which featured a lesbian wedding last season, will deal with TeenNick's "Degrassi," ABC Family's "Pretty Little Liars," Showtime's "Shameless" and Starz's "Torchwood: Miracle Day" inside the drama area."Happy Being" and "Modern Family," which needed home the award with Fox's "Glee" a year ago, will again deal with the Fox musical inside the comedy category where fellow nominees Logo's "Exes and Ohs" and Showtime's "The Big C" join them.Showtime also acquired three nominations inside the major groups, collecting mentions to find the best drama for "Shameless" (having a now-freely gay teen) and outstanding reality program due to its "The L Word" reality spinoff "The Particular L Word," furthermore to "The Big C."NBC's first-year singing competition The Voice, which featured four freely gay participants, also acquired a nomination inside the reality program area, where it'll deal with Oxygen's "Glee" reality spinoff "The Glee Project," Sundance's "Ladies Who Choose Boys That Like Boys," ABC's "Dancing" and "Real L Word."Round the film side, wide release nominees include Kerbside Attractions' "Albert Nobbs," Focus Features' "Beginners" and Warner Bros. Pictures' "J. Edgar." Limited release nominees include Roadside's "Circumstance," Motion Film Group's "Gun Hill Road," Focus' "Pariah," Rocket Releasing's "Tomboy" and Sundance Selects' "Weekend."The GLAAD Media Honours recognize outstanding images in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. The 23rd annual honours will probably be kept in NY on March 24, La on April 21 and San Francisco Bay Area on June 2. GLAAD on Thursday introduced 116 nominees in 25 British-language groups and 35 The the spanish language language-language nominees in 10 groups. The Hollywood Reporter

Globe challengers for the best animated film

Light charm competes with scruffy surrealism within this bumper crop of fine animated photos "The Adventures of Tintin"Vital PicturesSteven Spielberg first grew to become thinking about the worldwide phenomenon that's Tintin after European experts in comparison the director's "Raiders from the Lost Ark" to some Tintin adventure, and that he rapidly acquired the film privileges. However it required 3 decades for Spielberg to finally make his Tintin film, largely according to "The Key from the Unicorn," the eleventh within the series by Belgian artist Herge. For his first-ever animated film, Spielberg partnered with "The The almighty from the Rings'" Healing For Peter Jackson who created, and shot the film while using three dimensional motion capture system developed by Jim Cameron on "Avatar." The end result cleverly captures Herge's original colorful and bold graphic style, with its tale of Tintin's visit a sunken treasure, the three dimensional adventures feels perfectly meshed with Spielberg's own sensibilities. Brit actor Jamie Bell, a long term Tintin fan, voices the plucky youthful reporter, and Andy Serkis the booze-addled Captain Haddock."Arthur Christmas"Columbia PicturesThe three dimensional cartoon Christmas comedy (co-created by The new sony) was came from and produced by respected U.K. animation house Aardman Galleries (of "Wallace & Gromit" fame), and marks the very first time Aardman has moved from its effective stop motion technique into three dimensional CGI. However with its highly detailed behind-the-moments consider the complex logistics of Christmas present delivery, along with a story of methods Santa's boy Arthur must save your day once the operation's machinery stops working, the film stays in keeping with Aardman's skewed undertake things. A high Brit voice-over cast includes James McAvoy as Arthur and Imelda Staunton as Mrs. Santa, and also the film travels all over the world, with your locations because the North Pole, Africa, Mexico, Idaho, Cuba and Cornwall, England, all beautifully animated. The project required 4 years to accomplish, using more than 300 artists adding to such rapid-fire visual gags like a hands-cleaning dispenser for hard-working elves."Rango"Vital PicturesWhile most animated projects happily accepted cuteness, typically made using the popular hard-edged shiny CG look, this subversive Western starring a delusional bug-eyed chameleon antihero went for any photo-real scruffy, frazzled look that perfectly matched up its "The Great, unhealthy and also the Ugly" meets "High Noon" vibe. And also the funky outdoors-the-box aesthetic approach was unquestionably fueled by its creatives' virgin status in animation -- it had been the very first toon film for "Pirates from the Caribbean" vet Gore Verbinski and industry VFX giant ILM -- which freed them as much as experiment with conventional techniques of animation. Rather than recording voice-over talent alone and singly, Verbinski put together his stars (including The Actor-brad Pitt, Isla Fisher, Timothy Olyphant and Harry Dean Stanton) inside a mocked-up saloon set and allow the ensemble act up their tale. This untraditional approach, which Verbinski half-amusingly calls "emotion-capture," led to a raw, chaotic but lively audio track, which in turn drove the pictures."Puss in Boots"Vital PicturesAfter showing up in "Shrek 2" in 2004, the feline hero finally will get his starring vehicle within this superbly animated CG three dimensional feature, which once more stars Antonio Banderas (in the eighth performance as Puss) because the title character entirely Zorro/Latin lover mode. The "Shrek" spin-off was directed by "Shrek 3's" Chris Burns by having an properly light and charming touch, executive created by Guillermo del Toro, featuring some inspired voice-over work from Puss sidekicks Salma Hayek as Cat Softpaws and Zach Galifianakis as Humpty Dumpty, in addition to Bill Bob Thornton and Amy Sedaris as Jack and Jill, the murderous villains of the redemption tale where the tabby needs to obvious his title. Occur a glowing, romanticized version of old The country, the prequel towards the "Shrek" films doesn't have overlapping figures aside from Puss themself, and marks the very first time a DreamWorks Animation feature continues to be partially animated in India."Cars 2"Wally Disney PicturesWith Pixar mind John Lasseter once more within the driver's chair the very first time since "Cars" (he co-directed -- with Kaira Lewis -- a tale younger crowd came from and developed), this follow up (just the second within the company's history) towards the 2006 global blockbuster also went global when it comes to its design and storytelling. As the original was firmly parked within the essential small-town Americana setting of Radiator Springs and Route 66, the 2010 model roared off and away to glamourous World Grand Prix races in Japan and Italia, with pit-stops in France and also the U.K. before coming back the place to find America. The broadened horizons, apparently inspired by Lasseter's travels all over the world marketing "Cars," provided fresh background objects for Pixar's fancy CG animation and visual jokes (Britain's full seems like a Comes-Royce) along with a layered story that combined the visceral thrills of racing with Mission Impossible-style worldwide intrigue and spies.GOLDEN GLOBES 2012Tales trump top talents Globes embrace TV's new, offbeat shows THE NOMINEESDrama: Picture Drama: Actor Drama: Actress Comedy: Picture Comedy: Actor Comedy: ActressAnimationThe Cecil B. DeMille Award: Morgan Freeman Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

MSNBC searches for '12 gains

GriffinMSNBC is looking to see election-year rankings gains in 2012, although not as large of the leap because the cabler required in 2008. MSNBC prexy Phil Griffin was careful about projecting viewership growth because the presidential race gets hotter. ''We could not possibly have 40 % growth'' the cabler saw in 2008, Griffin stated throughout the cabler's sesh Saturday in the TCA press tour in Pasadena. Still, ''we're relying on that it is a large year,'' he added. The 2008 race marked MSNBC's breakout year after its transformation to some liberal option to Fox News, also it flourished around the competish among Dems to achieve success George W. Rose bush within the Whitened House. This time around around, Griffin stated he's been surprised to date in the more moderate response from audiences to political coverage over the cable news spectrum. ''Nobody blew it out'' a week ago with coverage of Tuesday's Iowa caucuses, adding he ''expected a larger evening from Fox News.'' MSNBC used its TCA time for you to provide a large push to the ''Morning Joe'' ayemcast. Griffin recommended the show's growth and recognition due to its concentrate on in-depth interviews and measured tone, in comparison with other cable politico skeins. '' 'Morning Joe' became one from the great brands in cable,'' Griffin excited. Contact Cynthia Littleton at cynthia.littleton@variety.com