In the can: congratulations to The Hurt Lockers sound team

By David Gritten 428PM GMT twelve March 2010

Ray Beckett and Paul Ottosson with the endowment for Best Sound, perceived for The Hurt Locker Photo PA

Unsung heroes dialect no one goes in to the movie industry as a receptive to advice mixer to turn a celebrity, so it was heartening that Britains Ray Beckett won an Academy Award as piece of the group that supposing the distinguished soundtrack for Kathryn Bigelows big Oscar leader The Hurt Locker.

But Ray couldnt have finished it alone. The Association of Motion Picture Sound (AMPS) has reminded me that he was accompanied via the strenuous fire - in Amman and in Jordans breathless Swaga dried - by an additional Brit, bang user Simon Bysshe.

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With similarly small fanfare, The Hurt Lockers receptive to advice group had already picked up a Bafta too. So congratulations to Ray and Simon.

Best e.g. of box-office poison so far this year Uma Thurmans "comedy" Motherhood, about a stay-at-home tantalizing ma in New York who writes a whiny blog about her life, non-stop last week end on usually one British shade (in Londons West End) and grossed the grand sum of �88. It equates to usually around 10 people paid to see it in the initial 3 days of release.

This adds insult to the damage of agonizing reviews Motherhood scored a toxic twenty per cent on the Rotten Tomatoes website.

Still, the no record-breaker. In 2000, the British movie Offending Angels grossed usually �79 in an complete week, on a handful of UK screens (take that, Uma!). For those who feel they might be blank out, Motherhood is already accessible on DVD.

Culture wars murky headlines from America, where the struggling showbiz bible Variety has dispensed with the arch movie censor Todd McCarthy after some-more than thirty years. Variety has offering McCarthy freelance work, but he probably has bigger fish to fry.

Roger Ebert, Americas best-known movie critic, has dismissed off a mad open minute slamming Varietys decision. "Some downsizing is required cost-cutting," he writes. "Some symbolises the desertion of a mission. If Variety no longer requires the arch movie critic, it no longer requires me as a reader."

I think we have not listened the last of this.