Several Gilmore Girls stars are up for a Teen Choice 2009 Award this year for their movie & tv performances. You can vote each and every day to help them win!

Gilmore Girls actors up for awards include:

• Alexis Bledel (Rory) for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
• Rob Estes (Jimmy) for 90210
• Billy Burke (Alex) for Twilight
• Jared Padalecki (Dean) for Friday the 13th
• Milo Ventimiglia (Jess) for Heroes
• Arielle Kebbel (Lindsay) for The Uninvited
• Krysten Ritter (Lucy) for Confessions of a Shopaholic

Alexis Bledel’s The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 is up for “Choice Movie: Romance”. The other contenders are: Australia, Confessions of a Shopaholic (with Krysten Ritter), He’s Just Not That Into You and Twilight (with Billy Burke). Twilight is up for a number of other awards too, as you’d expect!

Also up for an award this year is Friday the 13th, with Jared Padalecki. The movie goes up against Arielle Kebbel’s The Uninvited for “Choice Movie: Horror/Thriller”.

In the television category, Heroes (with Milo Ventimiglia) is up for “Choice TV Show: Action Adventure), and Milo himself is up for “Choice TV Actor: Action Adventure” for his Heroes role. Moving on, Rob Estes is up for “Choice TV: Parental Unit” for his role on 90210.

Good luck to everyone!!

Image: FOX

Lauren Graham attended the Tony Awards last night at Radio City Music Hall in New York. Lauren and Guys and Dolls co-star Oliver Platt introduced their co-stars to perform “Sit Down You’re Rockin’ the Boat”, one of the musical numbers in the production.

Guys and Dolls was one of the contenders for “Best Revival in a Musical”, though they didn’t take home the win.

Lauren Graham attended the Tony Awards last night at Radio City Music Hall in New York. She looked gorgeous! I have a bunch of of video interviews from Lauren’s appearance last night.

This video is an interview with Lauren Graham and her Guys and Dolls co-star Oliver Platt. The interview is very thorough, including asking the stars what their favorite moment of the production is.

Here’s another interview of Lauren Graham on her own talking about Guys and Dolls and about how great it is to be a part of the Tony Awards: Read more

Lauren Graham (Lorelai on Gilmore Girls) attended the 75th annual Drama League Awards at the Marriot Marquis on Friday afternoon.

The Drama League Awards celebrate theater in America, with the first awards going out in 1922. They are the only major theatergoers awards chosen by audience members. Guys and Dolls was up for “Distinguished Revival of a Musical” and Lauren was one of the nominees for the “Distinguished Perofrmance Award”. Lauren Graham served as one of the honorary co-chairs of the event, though she didn’t take home any awards herself. Read more

Lauren Graham will be performing at the Tony Preview Concert! The Visa Signature Tony Awards Preview Concert will air on CBS from May 29th - June 6th. It’s a one-hour broadcast that celebrates the 2008-2009 Broadway season and will promote the upcoming Tony Awards broadcast on June 7th. Guys and Dolls has been nominated for “Best Revival of a Musical” for a Tony Award!!

Here are a bunch of new fan videos taken of Lauren Graham over the last few weeks. After every performance of Guys and Dolls, Lauren takes some time to go to the Stage Door of the theater to meet with fans:

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It’s time for the Fall upfronts, with networks previewing their new pilots for the eager press. Among those, Lauren Graham’s new ABC comedy pilot, The Bridget Show, will be shown and is listed as “promising”. Probably we’ll hear a lot more about this screening during the week!

You can also VOTE FOR LAUREN in the 2009 Theater Fans’ Choice Awards at Broadway.com. Guys and Dolls is up in a number of categories, but Lauren is up only for “Best Leading Actress in a Musical”. Lauren is currently in 5th place, with Alice Ripley leading the votes.

Also for fan voting, you can Nominate your favorites in the Audience Awards. Guys and Dolls is not up for one of these, though Kelly Bishop (Emily Gilmore) play, Becky Shaw, is up for votes!

Thanks Jen & Michael & Regis! ; Image: Newscom

Lauren Graham’s Broadway revival of Guys and Dolls has been nominated in the 2009 Drama League Awards. The production was nominated in the “Distinguished Revival of a Musical” category against Enter Laughing, Garden of Earthly Delights, Hair, Pal Joey, and West Side Story, the latter probably being their biggest contender.

In addition to this nomination, Lauren Graham joins the ranks of those nominated for the “Distinguished Performance Award”, which has a huge list of nominees contending for the title!

Kelly Bishop was not nominated for an award for her play, Becky Shaw, though her co-star, David Wilson Barnes, is one of the actors up against Lauren for the performance award. The big theatrical awards, the Tony Awards, have not yet announced their nominees for 2009.

Via Broadway.com Thanks Michael!

Image: Carol Rosegg (via Barlow Hartman)

Danny Strong (Doyle on Gilmore Girls) is pictured above with his AFI Award for his HBO documentary Recount. The made-for-tv movie was named a “Program of the Year” for 2008.

Danny Strong is also up for a number of Golden Globe Awards for Recount, including Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television. Recount was nominated for 5 Golden Globe Awards, leading the way for the most award nominations (also nominated for 5 Awards was In Treatment). The Golden Globe Awards are currently airing on NBC!!

Update: Recount did not win the Golden Globe Award, but Laura Dern did take home the win as Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television for her role in Recount.

Danny Strong (Doyle on Gilmore Girls), who received several Emmy Nominations and 1 win for his HBO documentary Recount, , is up for a number of Golden Globe Awards.

Recount was nominated for 5 Golden Globe Awards, leading the way for the most award nominations (also nominated for 5 Awards was In Treatment). Cable television series and documentaries, such as this HBO documentary, led the way in nominations over traditional broadcasters (NBC, FOX, etc).

“Recount” Golden Globe Nominations:

• Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
• Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television (Kevin Spacey)
• Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television (Tom Wilkinson)
• Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television (Laura Dern)
• Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television (Denis Leary)

Recount is a political drama about the 2000 US election of George W. Bush and the controversy with Al Gore and the number of votes.

Congratulations once again to Danny Strong!!

Jared Padalecki and his Supernatural dad co-star Jeffrey Dean Morgan were photographed on the red carpet arriving for the taping of Spike TV’s 2008 Scream Awards, which will air on Tuesday. As previously mentioned, Jared is up for a Scream award for Best Actor in a Horror Movie or TV series. I hope he wins!!

Look how tanned Jared is!!

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