‘One Battle After Another’ Named Best Picture By National Society Of Film Critics — Full Winners List
#News #Awards #NationalSocietyofFilmCritics #NSFC #OneBattleAfterAnother
https://deadline.com/2026/01/nsfc-winners-list-one-battle-after-another-1236660949/
Andre De Grasse, Nardwuar among 80 new appointments to the Order of Canada
Gov. Gen. Mary Simon has announced 80 appointments to the Order of Canada — a list that includes Olympians, journalists, Indigenous leaders and doctors.
#awards #recognition #canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/olympians-journalists-order-of-canada-9.7030299?cmp=rss
Who Aren’t You Wearing? The “Oscars of Porn” Has Its Own Red Carpet Season
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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/avn-awards-adult-film-1236461624/
National Society of Film Critics Voting Taking Place (Updating Live)
#MovieNews #Movies #Awards
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/2026-national-society-of-film-critics-winners-list/
Meet the Kids Battling it Out for This Year’s Critics Choice Award
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Critics Choice Winner Predictions: Timothée Chalamet, Jessie Buckley and a Close Race Between ‘Sinners’ and ‘One Battle After Another’
#Variety #Awards #Columns #News #AwardsCircuitColumn #CriticsChoiceAwards #OneBattleAfterAnother #TimothéeChalamet
https://variety.com/2026/film/awards/critics-choice-predictions-one-battle-sinners-1236622810/
Another year has passed, and it's once more time to announce the winner of Tabletop Games Blog's highly sought-after and extremely prestigious Top Table Award of 2025. The top slot for this year will join the hall of fame alongside previous years' board games that made it to the number 1 spot on the podium. The winner of the 2025 award will be in the company of Charms, Enemy Anemone, Pax Pamir: Second Edition and others.
Read the full review or listen to the audio version here: https://tabletopgamesblog.com/2026/01/03/top-table-award-2025-saturday-review/
Sinners storms Alliance Of Women Film Journalists' EDA Awards https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/news/2026-01-03-sinners-storms-eda-awards-news-story-by-amber-wilkinson #awards #film #movies
Kate Winslet on Her Acting Career on Why She Directed ‘Goodbye June’: ‘In My 50th Year, I Damn Well Have to Do It’
Kate Winslet on Her Acting Career on Why She Directed ‘Goodbye June’: ‘In My 50th Year, I Damn Well Have to Do It’
#Variety #Awards #News #Podcasts #AvatarFireandAsh #AwardsCircuitPodcast #GoodbyeJune #KateWinslet #Oscars
https://variety.com/2026/film/awards/kate-winslet-directing-goodbye-june-boom-mics-1236621838/
James Gunn on Making ‘Superman,’ Not Being Interested in ‘Prestige Projects’ and DC Studios’ Future
James Gunn on Making ‘Superman,’ Not Being Interested in ‘Prestige Projects’ and DC Studios’ Future
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Toronto Sceptres forward Daryl Watts honoured by PWHL for strong play in December
Toronto Sceptres forward Daryl Watts was rewarded for her performance in December by being named to the PWHL's starting six on Friday.
#sports #awards #Toronto
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/pwhl/daryl-watts-pwhl-honours-9.7032358?cmp=rss
Toronto Sceptres forward Daryl Watts honoured by PWHL for strong play in December
Toronto Sceptres forward Daryl Watts was rewarded for her performance in December by being named to the PWHL's starting six on Friday.
#sports #awards #Toronto
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/pwhl/daryl-watts-pwhl-honours-9.7032358?cmp=rss
Most Anticipated Film Performances of 2026, Ranked: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, the Mara Sisters and More
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://variety.com/lists/most-anticipated-film-performances-2026-ranked/
Most Anticipated Film Performances of 2026, Ranked: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, the Mara Sisters and More
#Variety #Actors #Awards #Columns #BradPitt #MerylStreep #PedroPascal #TomCruise
https://variety.com/lists/most-anticipated-film-performances-2026-ranked/
tl;dr: it was not a vintage year, by any means.
More on that, after some good parts.
Talks and Travels
The year kicked off with a lot of travel and speaking – this continued throughout the year, but my Talks and Travels series of posts only covered a smaller percentage of my actual trips and gigs in 2025, there were several unpublished posts that should have covered the International Journalism Festival, trips to Amsterdam and elsewhere in the Netherlands… and the third and fourth-quarter trips didn’t get written down even in draft form.
I love to have the opportunity to share my passion and excitement for the Fediverse and a better social web with others, on stage or otherwise; and to visit different places; so these trips are in the highlights section.
I’m going to ask organisers of the events that I visited during the latter part of the year to forgive my lack of an associated post here; I may get around to a belated write-up, though!
The highlights
One huge event this year was becoming full-time employed at Mastodon – a mission I believe in. This has been my real anchor in 2025.
The major personal highlights of the year all arrived in the final few months – and in one case, even the last few days.
VOLUME
In July, I was approached by María Mazzanti, the managing editor of VOLUME magazine, to take part in a collaboration with the wonderful Silvia Dal Dosso for a featured interview in VOLUME 68. As I wrote elsewhere at the time:
Incredibly honoured to have been asked to contribute to VOLUME 68 and go interdisciplinary to discuss filter bubbles, tech, social networks and the #Fediverse. Top career highlight for me, for sure.
I was interviewed for a piece in VOLUME, the biennale architecture and art journal. The latest edition is themed around “Bursting Bubbles”. Bonus illustration via @_elena
This is the physical copy, I think it may be online in the future, not sure.
https://archis.org/dossier/bursting-bubbles/
— Andy Piper (@andypiper) 2025-11-22T17:59:46.457Z
I’m very grateful to María, and the team at VOLUME for allowing me to share the article here on my blog; the entire issue is absolutely fascinating, so do pick up a copy via their website if you’re interested. I’m also very curious to get to know Silvia more if our paths cross in the future – her writings and work are extremely on-point for my interests, and I think María did a fantastic job of pairing us for this conversation.
04_Silvia dal Dosso x Andy PiperDownloadOpenUK Awards
I was delighted to be invited to the annual OpenUK Awards as a nominee this year. I’d previously been honoured in the OpenUK 2023 New Year’s Honours List. I was not expecting anything else, but I was nominated in the Community category of this year’s Awards, and subsequently invited to the House of Commons for a lovely evening celebrating the best of the UK open source / hardware / data / standards communities.
I did not win the category (congratulations to Daniel Gale!), but came away with a very weighty recognition of my nomination.
It was also a delight to see my friend James Smith at the awards dinner, and now to discover that he is in the 2026 New Year’s Honours List for his work on Manyfold and the Fediverse – nice work, James! Also: congratulations to all those recognised!
A surprising namecheck
Last week was the annual Chaos Communications Congress. I’ve never been to Congress, but it is definitely on my bucket list of events I’d like to get to at some point (this may be more viable in future, given other life changes).
I had an unexpected message from a friend, to tell me that my name came up on stage, during the session “1965 + 60 Years of Algorithmic Art with Computers”.
Photo: CC-BY Trammel Hudson“Computer: zoom and enhance, lower left quadrant“
(I cheated, that’s a still image from the recording of the session)
The gentleman on the right is none other than Frieder Nake, one of the pioneers of the computer art and drawing machine movement! I’ve spoken about him several times myself – specifically during my closing keynote at QCon London in 2024, and in a shortened version of that talk at Electromagnetic Field in 2024. You can find the related resources page for those two talks here.
This was a slightly mind-blowing moment to discover, that my own talk had been referenced at the end of this one, in a joint session involving one of my subjects, and heroes of the movement. What a highlight. Thanks for letting me know about it, Trammel!
The endings
On the downside of 2025, there were a couple of huge blows.
In the summer, we unexpectedly lost our friend Dj Walker-Morgan, aka “Codepope”.
I’d known Dj for many years, and in the past ~5 years become involved with his HackWimbledon / Makeroni pop-up maker space, which he ran as an educational and community resource.
The shock of his sudden death hit many of us very hard. Dj was a very kind, generous person who helped others to understand and build with technology; and, his line of scifi-related parody / slogan t-shirts was legendary! We miss him greatly.
We’re in the process of restarting HackWimbledon, and a small group of us will be keeping it going in his memory (there’s a meetup on January 11th, FWIW).
Yvonne Ann Piper, 1945-2025
At the end of the summer, my mother turned 80.
We’ve been extremely close for many years; we lost my father back in 2000, and my brother just 7 years ago, both at Christmas time; so, we’ve made it an annual tradition to go away at the end of the year and change our scenery (Malta has been our winter holiday spot of choice, for the past few years).
For her birthday, we took her to visit family in Ireland, but we could see that she wasn’t doing too well. On our return to the UK I had to dash off (to FediDay in Berlin, and then to EmpoderaLIVE in Málaga – two talks I’ve not covered here, as yet), and while I was away, my amazing wife ended up taking her to hospital. She was there for nearly three weeks; sadly, the doctors were not able to help in the end. The end-of-life care provided at the Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust was of the best, most patient and caring quality.
My mum was the person who made me, gave me many of my values; and, she was my best friend. The very first person I wanted to tell about the three highlights above, was her – and she wasn’t there any more. Heidi and I miss her very, very much.
Needless to say, the past few months, and especially these past weeks over Christmas and New Year, remembering all three of my immediate family members – have been very difficult.
The eulogy I gave at her service was the most challenging thing I’ve done (you’re welcome to read it); but, it was also a lovely celebration and confirmation of what a great human my mum was, to have her friends and family together.
Now, we’re in the process of finalising her affairs, and slowly moving forwards.
So long, 2025. You’re not on my list of favourites.
This year, 2026 – feels like a bit of a turning point.
I turn 50 in a few months’ time. I’m all on my own now, from an immediate family perspective – the last of my line. However: I’ve got a good network of friends, around the world as well as nearby. I know what I care about, how I want to have an impact in the world, and I know the skills I have, and those I want to develop.
Time to think deeply about the future. I’m always up for a chat about that…
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MC、陳蕾、 #湯令山 及 #康堤 昨晚接受訪問時，仍顯得相當興奮。MC表示，自己早在年半前已與公司計劃爭取...
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Asian Film Awards Suspends Competitive Categories After Hong Kong Fire
