Zachary Quinto nominated for Drama Desk Award

Zach has been nominated for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play at the annual Drama Desk Awards, which recognise excellence on and off Broadway. He played Louis Ironson in a revival of Tony Kushner's Angels In America at the Peter Norton Space.

He is up against co-star Christian Borle, nominated for his role in Peter and the Starcatcher, as well as Brian Bedford (The Importance of Being Earnest), Boyd Gaines (The Grand Manner), Logan Marshall Green (The Hallway Trilogy), Tom Riley (Arcadia) and Yul Vazquez (The Motherf***er with the Hat).

The awards will be hosted by Harvey Fierstein on May 23rd at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City.

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Zach to present at the Artios Awards

Zachary has been announced as one of the presenters at the Casting Association of America's Artios Awards, to be held simultaneously at the New York American Airlines Theater and the Los Angeles Hyatt Regency Century Plaza on Monday November 1st.

One of the announced recipients is Tony Kushner, the writer of 'Angels in America', who will recieve the New York Apple award. A full list of nominees is here.

Star Trek wins an Oscar

Star Trek has won an Oscar for Best Make Up. It was presented by Ben Stiller who took to the stage made up as a Na'avi from Avatar. Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow were named on the award.

Trek was also nominated for Best Visual Effects, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing.

Image : Barney Burman applies Zach's makeup

Zach honoured by Hollywood Film Festival

Zach has been chosen to receive a Spotlight award at this year's Hollywood Film Festical on October 26th. The award is designed to 'spotlight excellence on exciting talent that deserves recognition this year'. Also receiving Spotlight awards are Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Saddam), Melanie Lynskey (Away We Go) and Paul Schneider (Away We Go).

The gala ceremony will be held at the Beverly Hills Hilton.

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Zach nominated for Teen Choice and Portal Awards

Zach has been nominated for a Teen Choice award as Choice TV Villain. He was nominated in the same category last year but lost out to Ed Westwick of Gossip Girl. The list of nominees in this category is the same as 2008 - Spencer Pratt (The Hills), Vanessa Williams (Ugly Betty) and Michael Rosenbaum (Smallville).

He is also nominated along with Star Trek co-star for Choice Movie Rumble. Star Trek is nominated for Best Action Adventure Movie. Heroes is nominated as Best Action Adventure TV show, and co-stars Milo Ventimiglia, Ali Larter, Hayden Panettiere and Kristen Bell are nominated in the TV acting categories.

In the lesser known Portal Awards, presented by the website AirlockAlpha Star Trek was nominated as Best Movie with Zachary and co-star Chris Pine battling it out as Best Actor alongside Heath Ledger, Christian Bale (The Dark Knight) and Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen). Zoe Saldana is also nominated as Best Actress.

Zach submitted for 2009 Emmy nomination

Not a huge surprise but we have seen confirmation that NBC have put up Zachary's name for a Supporting Actor Emmy.

He joins Masi Oka, James Kyson Lee, Jack Coleman, Greg Grunberg, Sendhil Ramamurthy,Milo Ventimiglia and Adrian Pasdar in being submitted to the nominations jury. Dan Byrd, who played Sylar's protege Luke Campbell, was also put forward as a special guest star.

The nominations will be announced on July 16th.

Zach at the MTV Movie Awards

Click on the image to see the video of Bruno and Eminem, with Zach's reaction

And in case you didn't see him - here's a still of Zach.



There are more images from the MTV red carpet here