Rings triumphs at MTV Movie Awards
BBC News
The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings was voted best movie, beating Black Hawk Down, Legally Blonde, The Fast and the Furious and Shrek.
Kent-born Orlando Bloom picked up the male breakthrough performance award for his turn as the elf archer Legolas. Bloom beat off competition from Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, Colin Hanks, Paul Walker and DMX to take the breakthrough award. Bloom, who was not at the annual awards ceremony, was delighted with the honour. He said: "I'm flattered, the experience of working on The Lord of The Rings was life-changing. I hope you enjoy the second one."
'Rings' & Orlando Bloom win MTV Award
Reuters
"The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" had gone into Saturday night's show as the most nominated movie with entries in six categories, but it walked away with only two: the top prize for best film and a second for Orlando Bloom as breakthrough male actor of the year.
Pop stars claim MTV Movie Awards
Associated Press
Pop stars rocked the MTV Movie Awards on Saturday, with rapper Will Smith winning the best actor award for "Ali" and singer Mandy Moore claiming breakthrough actress honors for "A Walk to Remember."
Elijah and Franka on RadioSonic
Vancouver @ Nite
I work for a radio show on CBC called RadioSonic and the last part of our show is always guest hosted by an up and coming journalist/musician of some sort... anyway, this particular evening we had two special guest hosts in Elijah Wood and Franka Potente.
MTV celebrates Hollywood with satirical movie awards
Associated Press
"A Beautiful Mind" may have been Oscar's best picture, but it's not even nominated in that category at the comically anti-authoritarian MTV Movie Awards.
Peter Jackson: Made in New Zealand
The New Zealand Edge
NZEDGE is proud to present a personal and fascinating account of the Peter Jackson story (thus far) by New Zealand filmmaker Costa Botes. Costa co-directed, wrote and produced with Peter the classic NZ mock-umentary Forgotten Silver in 1995. His account of Jackson's journey is a steadfastly idiosyncratic case study of innovation, focus and energy from the edge; "In giving himself something to watch, Peter Jackson has given the rest of us good cause to shake off complacency and start thinking about how to realise a few other 'impossible' goals."