ComingSoon has posted an article that contains interviews with David Heyman, David Yates and Daniel Radcliffe discussing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II’s chances at winning an Oscar. Some snippets may be read below.

“The film was so brilliantly received–we were probably one of the best reviewed movies of the year by a long way–and for a big, popular commercial film to get that great a response is really encouraging and heartening and I think it gives us all a bit of confidence for the Oscar campaign,” he told us. […] Yates continued to tell us why he thinks the last film was special. “It’s the last film in the series and we all put so much into it and Stuart Craig and the visual FX, Tim Burke did all the visual FX, and I think Dan, it’s probably the best performance in the whole run of the eight films, and Emma and Rupert did really well. I think David Heyman’s achievement, 8 films across 11 years is an extraordinary journey, and to manage it all so brilliantly.”

“I think it’s a great film,” Radcliffe told to us in a brief interview. “It’s stirring, it’s epic, it pulls a lot of loose ends together, which is not an easy thing to do when a story still had to go at such a pace, but it’s the advantage of splitting it. It meant we took all that time in film 1 setting up film 2, so when we got into film 2, it could just be that non-stop ride. I haven’t watched it since the premieres but I’ve never liked a ‘Harry Potter’ film as much as I liked this one. Part 2 is the one I’m proudest of.”

Heyman feels mutually about his director. “I think David really pushed the envelope. One of the things I’m very proud of is that we were always pushing to make each film better than the last, and I think that David with four films never tired of that, and Stuart Craig (production designer) and Jany Temine (costume) and Tim Burke, all of whom worked on many films—Stuart on 9, Jany on 3, the make-up people on 8, Nick Dudman (special make-up FX) on 8, Alexandre on 2. It’s a real family, but nobody ever settled. I think Alexandre’s score on Part 2 is a much stronger score than Part 1, because I think he felt safe and he pushed and he let go, and I think he was sort of nervous. I look at David Yates’ first film, the fifth, which I think is a fantastic film, but it’s quite tight.”

The Hollywood Reporter also has an article on Harry Potter’s chances at taking home the coveted award. One exciting tidbit is as follows:

Comments one prominent Academy member, who asked not to be named though he has no connection to the film: “It may not exactly be my kind of film — I’m hardly a Potter aficionado — but I think it should win. In a marketplace where the movies’ connection to audiences is more tenuous than ever, the adulation and enduring love that a generation has for this series stands apart. It’s powerful. For us as an industry not to give it that level of honor is injurious. It’s not embracing what there is about the art form that truly endures.”

WB sent SS an exclusive video clip that goes behind the scenes in the making of the Gringott’s Goblins. This clip can also be seen on the Deathly Hallows: Part II DVD/BluRay which came out in the USA 2 weeks ago and will be out in the UK this Friday.
If you don’t have the DVD/BluRay yet and live in the US then today is a great day to buy it, the WB Shop is having great Cyber Monday deals!

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (Blu-ray+DVD+UltraViolet Digital Copy Combo Pack)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (DVD)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 Limited Edition, Numbered Gift Set: Blu-ray+DVD+Digital Combo Pack with Exclusive 48 page Photo Album
• WB’s Exclusive Gift Sets for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II

Magical-Menagerie was in attendance at tonight’s Children’s BAFTA Awards where Harry Potter took home TWO awards; Best Feature Film and the Kid’s Vote for Best Film.  Our correspondent, Patrick, has written a report and also sent over some photos which you can view in the gallery!

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Tonight the stars of British Film and Television aligned at the London Hilton, for the 2011 Children’s BAFTA’s. The guest list was full of names of actors both young and old whose work over the past year was being acknowledged, but there was one particular name that brought me to the gleaming marbled halls of the Hilton, that name ‘Harry Potter’.

Nominated in the best Feature Category, this year marked the last chance for the film series to be selected for a Children’s BAFTA and with both Parts One and Two of the Deathly Hallows being nominated the odds were definitely in Harry’s favour. Flying the flag solo for Team Potter was Warwick Davis; the current star of the sitcom ‘Life’s Too Short’, a joint production between himself and the comedic team of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, but the man whom all know as both Professor Flitwick, and the treacherous Gringotts Goblin Griphook.

Once on the red carpet the flashbulbs were ablaze as Warwick and his wife, Samantha posed for the camera’s and waved for the fans. After a few words with some television newsreaders, Warwick headed over to the Harry Potter section of the press gathering, and Magical Menagerie was his first port of call.

Patrick: Currently in ‘Life’s Too Short’, your character is quite nostalgic, do you think that in couple of years you will nostalgic about the Harry Potter Days?
Warwick: Oh absolutely, I think I already am in a way, because we filmed the first one ten years ago. I am looking back with great affection, and fondness, and pride. Certainly when you have nominations and awards such as this, it’s nice but I already have a sense of pride and fondness because, I say I was one a chosen few but they really were many hundreds of actors in the films, it was still a rather unique sort of project.

Patrick: Also in ‘Life’s Too Short’, you had another run in with Miss Helena Bonham Carter, how was that? Different situation to the last time you met?
Warwick: Absolutely! It was lovely to work with Helena again! We worked extensively on Deathly Hallows Part Two, when she played Hermione-Bellatrix and me as Griphook, so we spent a lot of time getting to know one another, and it was really great to have in for ‘Life’s Too Short’ and she will be playing a very unique version of herself because she is nothing like that in reality, she is really a very charming and pleasant person.

With action of the red carpet wrapped up, it was into the Press Room to watch the show, waiting anxiously to find out whether ‘The Deathly Hallows’ was going to take out the gong for best feature. Very early on it proved to be Harry’s night as the film took out the ‘BAFTA’s Kid Vote Award’ being an award decided on by the voting public, for best film. Then it was time for the winner of the Best Feature, and once again Warwick was called back to the stage to accept the award on behalf of director David Yates and producers David Heyman, David Barron, and Author J.K. Rowling.

Back in the press room, Warwick explained how this awards as well as the countless others the film franchise has received are really all testaments to the fans, and that he couldn’t wait till the whole world would get the chance to head to Leavensden and experience the set “Just as we left them” as a part of the Warners Brother’s Harry Potter Studio Tour.

So with the night all wrapped up, Harry Potter had once again taken home awards that were physical reminders of the fact that the films will leave just as much as a lasting impression on the British and International film industries, as much as the books have on our hearts. And the questions that are now left are, what will it win at the standard BAFTA’s? And could there be an Oscar in Harry Potter’s Future?

Patrick Hudson from Magical-Menagerie .com

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A huge thank you to Patrick who attended the award show on the site’s behalf!

As I reported a while ago, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II were nominated for Best Feature Film in the Children’s BAFTA awards.  The awards were held tonight and the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II won Best Feature Film and the Kid’s Vote for Best Film!  The BAFTA Kid’s Vote is where children aged 7-11 voted. Warwick Davis (Griphook) was set to attend the event, it is unknown if any other Potter stars attended, that information should be available soon.

Tonight our correspondent, Patrick, attended the awards in London, I will hopefully have some photos and maybe even a video interview later on! We shall see.

Update: The BAFTA website has been updated with a photo of Warwick Davis, who accepted both of Potter’s awards.  Harry Potter won the kid’s vote with more than 400,000 votes! Click the photo to enlarge.

James and Oliver Phelps chatted with WA Today over breakfast while in Sydney, Australia last week. Some snippets from the interview may be read below.

How did you feel about going ginger?
James: I didn’t think anything of it until I walked into school one day with red hair and everyone looked at me differently. It was weird. People do treat you differently; they’re almost a bit [ruder]. It’s odd.

Did it make you the coolest kids at school?
James: No, no one seemed to be that bothered by the hype; our mates don’t realise how big it is because none of our friends are in the industry. Film and TV was nothing I’d ever dreamt of going into. In fact, about two months before we had the audition, there were auditions for the school play and the head drama teacher, in the first round of auditions, was like, ”Nah, you’re never going to go anywhere in acting, don’t bother,” so it was great walking back in there on the first day of the next term and saying, ‘I got a contract with …”

Oliver: The drama department was just really unhelpful towards the whole acting thing, to a point where the head drama teacher said, ”Your priorities need to shift if you’re going to continue with acting so can’t you film Harry Potter on a Saturday?” He thought we should have been at school doing his class rather than making these films that were watched worldwide.

What’s next for you both?
Oliver: Yeah, there was [something we went for], actually. I won’t say the film but there was a film that had twins in it; we read for it and it looked rosy but Harry Potter was filming at the same time so we missed out. But we have different things coming up; we’ve got two individual projects in the new year and then another film together in May in the States and I’m also going to do a little documentary program as well, which will be quite cool.

Daniel Radcliffe and the cast of How to Succeed in Business Without Really performed ‘Brotherhood of Man’ at this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. A clear video of the performance is now online and may be viewed below.

If you have yet to see the play I highly recommend it, its great! Daniel finishes his run before the New Year so be sure to see it before he leaves! Nick Jonas and Darren Criss will be taking over for him; Darren in January and Nick after that.