"Mad Max: Fury Road" wins 9 Critics' Choice Awards 2016

George Miller's post-apocalyptic epic Mad Max: Fury Road took home 9 Critics' Choice Awards at the 21st annual ceremony held January 17, 2016.  It received 13 total nominations.

It was nominated for Best Picture and Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie but won for Best Action Movie. George Miller won Best Director.  Charlize Theron was nominated for Best Actress but won for Best Actress in an Action Movie.  Tom Hardy was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for The Revenant, but won Best Actor in an Action Movie.  

Colin Gibson and Lisa Thompson won Best Art Direction.  Jenny Beavan won for Best Costume Design, and Margaret Sixel won Best Editing. Mad Max also won Best Hair and Makeup and Best Visual Effects. It was nominated for Best Cinematography but lost to The Revenant.

Jurassic World received 5 nominations but got beat by Mad Max every time.

Happy birthday, actor Tom Hardy!

One of the sexiest actors on screen, Tom Hardy, born September 15, 1977 in London, England, has won numerous awards for his acting, including an Oscar nomination.  He starred in Star Trek: Nemesis, Inception, Mad Max: Fury Road, and Venom.  His performance in The Revenant is the role for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.  

I came to love him when I saw him in Venom!  

"Star Trek: Nemesis" released 2002

Star Trek: Nemesis, the fourth and final movie to feature the Next Generation cast, debuted in US theaters December 13, 2002.  The film was the first to feature the Romulans primarily.  Unfortunately, it was not the box-office success as the previous Star Trek movies.  It was the first film that did not open at #1 its first weekend.  Due to its poorer than expected performance, subsequent movies featuring the Next Generation cast were cancelled. 

The original crew of Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Brent Spiner, Gates McFadden, Michael Dorn and Marina Sirtis, appeared.  Tom Hardy and Ron Perlman played antagonists.  There were cameos by Kate Mulgrew as Admiral Kathryn Janeway, Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher, Majel Barrett as the computer's voice and Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan.  

Tom Hardy was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor. 

"Venom" released 2018

Venom, starring sexy Tom  Hardy, was released October 5, 2018.  A spin-off of Marvel's Spiderman series, Venom is about a symbiote from outer space, who finds a human host and becomes a dual person.  In the comics, Venom was originally worn by Peter Parker.  But Venom became too co-dependent, and Peter had to separate from the symbiote.  Venom hated Parker for that and bonded with Eddie Brock who also had hatred for Peter.