Andy Serkis News

ADDICTION INCORPORATED 2 stars. A documentary that recounts the legal battles against American Big Tobacco.

Every year there are plenty of Oscar nomination surprises. In fact, that's part of what makes covering the Oscars so much fun - thrashing the Academy for all the great movies or performances that were denied.

Andy Serkis never intended to be an actor and he only fell into the career when he took theatre studies as his second subject at college because he ''couldn't think of anything better to do''. The 47-year-old star - who portrayed Gollum in the 'Lord of the Rings' series and King Kong in the 2005 movie of the same name - never harboured ambitions to ... (more)

SANTA BARBARA, Calif, Feb 6, : Andy Serkis and Patton Oswalt, who were passed over when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences handed out its nominations, stole the show on Friday night at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, which honored Serkis, Oswalt, Shailene Woodley and three Oscar nominees with its annual Virtuoso Awards.

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Although he is an accomplished stage and screen actor in his own right, Andy Serkis has become the go-to guy for motion capture performance.

On Friday night at the Arlington, the SB International Film Festival paid tribute to six actors whose performances in recent films won the hearts of viewers around the world.

ADDICTION INCORPORATED 2 stars. A documentary that recounts the legal battles against American Big Tobacco.

You may not know what he looks like, but chances are you've seen him on the big screen - probably more than once.

In the hours and days following the announcement of the nominations, all we heard was a lot of whining from so-called "Oscar experts" about who got snubbed.

Every year we point out mistakes or out-and-out snubs in the announced Academy Award nominations.

THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN 3 stars. Wow moviemaking, bringing the comic book exploits of Herge's boy reporter hero and his colorful gang of friends and foes to life with state-of-the-art motion-capture wizardry.

The Wellywood involvement in the Steven Spielberg-Peter Jackson motion-capture 3D animation of The Adventures of Tintin has been snubbed in the Oscar nominations announced today, but the work of Weta Digital has been recognised for another film.

Andy Serkis uses motion-capture gear to play Caesar in "Rise of the Planet of the Apes." With Academy Award nominations looming Tuesday morning, there's been a lot of buzz about a possible supporting actor Oscar nod for Andy Serkis, the performance-capture pioneer who played the resistance fighter chimpanzee Caesar in "Rise of the Planet of the ... (more)

Director Peter Jackson is surrounded by cast members of 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,' from left to right: Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Andy Serkis, Elijah Wood and Viggo Mortensen as they pose for photographers at Zojoji temple in Tokyo January 22, 2004.

A YouTube video shows Andy Serkis, the human chameleon who has all of Hollywood questioning reality, dressed like a TeleTubbie in a rubber suit with red dots.

THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN 3 stars. Wow moviemaking, bringing the comic book exploits of Herge's boy reporter hero and his colorful gang of friends and foes to life with state-of-the-art motion-capture wizardry.

Andy Serkis is single-handedly creating a new art form. The man who portrayed Gollum in the Lord of the Rings films, Kong in King Kong and most recently Caesar in Rise of the Planet of the Apes has brought CGI performance to a new level.

After the release of the CGI-fueled Rise of the Planet of the Apes there was a wave of Internet buzz that actor/motion-capture artist Andy Serkis deserves an Oscar nomination for breathing an undeniable gravity and soul into the character of Caesar.

You've got to hand it to Steven Spielberg. The guy never stops directing, even when he's being interviewed moments after collecting a Golden Globe Award.