This week has been flying by.  I just remembered that it was Thursday, and that I hadn’t written this week’s mailbag.  So I’m spending lunch time writing this week’s installment.  I spent Tuesday riding roller coasters at Cedar Point, and around that day there were some really huge things happening in the world of Narnia.  The third film started shooting, and we’ve gotten some great photos of the Dawn Treader nearing completion.  I’ve got a couple of e-mails to answer this week, but before I do, I just wanted to give a status update on the secret project.  I’m currently working on speed issues on it, but it’s moving forward.  I have guests up from Florida so it’s going to take me a little longer than I had initially anticipated, but I hope that it’s worth the wait.

And a quick update on Chesterton’s The Everlasting Man that just came in from a woman named Barbara:  “C.S. Lewis’s appreciation for Chesterton’s The Everlasting Man in correspondence is well known. Tolkien borrowed the idea for Ents from Chesterton’s The Trees of Pride!  I hope these facts were brought to your attention.” Thanks Barbara!

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It’s been more than a year since the release of Prince Caspian, and it’s just been nominated for an award.  More specifically, concept artist Justin Sweet has been nominated for Best Product Illustration for The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.  The Chelsey Awards are given for excellence in science fiction and fantasy art or illustration. The awards have been presented since 1985 and are run by the Association for Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists (ASFA). The awards were named after the artist Chesley Bonestell after his death in 1986.  They are presented at the World Science Fiction Convention.  The convention will take place in Montréal, Québec, to be held Thursday 6 August – Monday 10 August, 2009.

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Congratulations to Ben Barnes, who has been nominated for the MTV Movie Award for Breakthrough Performance – Male, for the 2009 awards.  Thanks for voting for the nominees, Narnia Fans!  It certainly helped him win the nomination!

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Regina Spektor "The Call"

Regina Spektor is among those eligible for a Best Original Song Oscar nomination.  According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, there are 49 songs from films in 2008 that are eligible.

“The Call” was the song that played at the end of the film The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, which sums up the feelings that the characters were going through at the end of the adventure quite well.

There is, however, pretty stiff competition in the field.  Beyonce Knowles  co-wrote the song “Once in a Lifetime” for Cadillac Records this year, and Miley Cyrus co-wrote “I Thought I Lost You” for Bolt. Peter Gabriel could also earn a nomination for “Down to Earth” from Wall-E, and Bruce Springsteen for his song “The Wrestler” which he wrote for a film of the same name.

Nominations will be announced on or around January 22, 2009.  Let’s keep our hopes up for that possible nomination!   Hopefully the Academy loves the song as much as we do!

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Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian has been nominated for a People’s Choice Award!

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Nominations in an additional three international categories at the upcoming Australian Film Institute Awards were announced Monday by AFI president James Hewison.

AFI International Award for Excellence in Filmmaking nominations include Donald McAlpine (cinematography for “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe“); Roger Ford (production design for “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe“); Dion Beebe (cinematography for “Memoirs of a Geisha”) and Roger Donaldson (producing/direction/screenplay for “The World’s Fastest Indian”).

The AFI will hand out its annual awards at ceremonies in Melbourne in early December.

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“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” will battle it out with “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” and “Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit” at the British Academy of Film & Television Arts’ children’s film and TV awards.

The nominations in 18 groups were announced Monday in London and include five new ones: channel of the year, independent production company of the year, shorts and two categories for educational programming

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The nominees to the 2006 World Soundtrack Awards, to be handed out during the Flanders International Film Festival in Ghent, Belgium, on October 14, were revealed today. Dario Marianelli, Alberto Iglesias, James Newton Howard and Gustavo Santaolalla all received two nominations each.

”Best Original Song Written for Film”
- “A Love That Will Never Grow Old” from Brokeback Mountain (Gustavo Santaolalla/ Bernie Taupin)
- “Can’t Take It In” from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Harry Gregson-Williams/Imogen Heap)
- “Magic Works” from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Jarvis Cocker)
- “Mdlwembe” from Tsotsi (Kabelo ‘Kaybee’ Ikaneng/Zola)
- “Our Town” from Cars (Randy Newman)

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One of the British music industry’s most coveted awards, the Ivor Novello, will once again be dished out at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London on Thursday May 25th.

The awards are bestowed upon all genres of music and all kinds of performing artists, including film composers. This year sees three names in the hat for ‘Best Original Film Score’. Dario Marianelli for Pride & Prejudice, Harry Gregson-Williams for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Francis Shaw for Evil.

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The movie adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe has received a Hugo nomination in the Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form category. It’s up against Batman Begins, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Serenity, and Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

Goblet of Fire is the one Harry Potter novel to win the Best Novel Hugo.

The Hugos will be awarded on the Saturday evening of L.A.con IV, the last night of the convention. L.A.Con IV takes place at Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California, on Wednesday August 23rd thru Sunday August 27th, 2006.

Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

* Batman Begins Story, David S. Goyer. Screenplay, Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer. Based on the character created, Bob Kane. Directed, Christopher Nolan. (Warner Bros.)
* The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Screenplay, Ann Peacock and Andrew Adamson and Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely. Based on the novel, C.S. Lewis. Directed, Andrew Adamson. (Walt Disney Pictures/Walden Media)
* Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Screenplay, Steven Kloves. Based on the novel, J.K. Rowling. Directed, Mike Newell. (Warner Bros.)
* Serenity Written & Directed, Joss Whedon. (Universal Pictures/Mutant Enemy, Inc.)
* Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit Screenplay, Steve Box & Nick Park and Bob Baker and Mark Burton. Directed, Nick Park & Steve Box. (Dreamworks Animation/Aardman Animation).

[Full List of Nominees]

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