Gotham Awards 2009
2009 Gotham Awards
2009 Gotham Award nominations: Oct. 19, 2009
2009 Gotham Award winners: Nov. 30, 2009 in New York City
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
The Hurt Locker by Kathryn Bigelow
Best Feature
Amreeka
Cherien Dabis, director; Christina Piovesan, Paul Barkin, producers (National Geographic Entertainment)
Big Fan
Robert Siegel, director; Jean Kouremetis, Elan Bogarin, producers (First Independent Pictures)
The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow, director; Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Greg Shapiro, producers (Summit Entertainment)
The Maid
Sebastian Silva, director; Gregorio Gonzales, producer (Elephant Eye Films)
A Serious Man
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, directors/producers (Focus Features)
Best Documentary
Food, Inc.
Robert Kenner, director; Robert Kenner, Elise Pearlstein, producers (Magnolia Pictures)
Good Hair
Jeff Stilson, director; Chris Rock, Kevin O’Donnell, Nelson George Jenny Hunter, producers (Liddell Entertainment and Roadside Attractions in association with HBO Films)
My Neighbor My Killer
Anne Aghion, director/producer (Gacaca Productions)
Paradise
Michael Almereyda, director; Michael Almereyda, Laurie Butler, producers (Post Factory Films)
Tyson
James Toback, director; James Toback, Damon Bingham, producers (Sony Pictures Classics)
Breakthrough Director
Cruz Angeles for Don’t Let Me Drown
Frazer Bradshaw for Everything Strange and New
Noah Buschel for The Missing Person (Strand Releasing)
Derick Martini for Lymelife (Screen Media Films)
Robert Siegel for Big Fan (First Independent Pictures)
Breakthrough Actor
Ben Foster in The Messenger (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
Patton Oswalt in Big Fan (First Independent Pictures)
Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker (Summit Entertainment)
Catalina Saavedra in The Maid (Elephant Eye Films)
Souleymane Sy Savane in Goodbye Solo (Roadside Attractions)
Best Ensemble Performance
Adventureland
Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Martin Starr, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Ryan Reynolds (Miramax Films)
Cold Souls
Paul Giamatti, Dina Korzun, Emily Watson, Katheryn Winnick, David Strathairn (Samuel Goldwyn Films)
The Hurt Locker
Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Ralph Fiennes, Guy Pearce, David Morse, Evangeline Lilly (Summit Entertainment)
A Serious Man
Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed (Focus Features)
Sugar
Algenis Perez Soto, Rayniel Rufino, Michael Gaston, Andre Holland, Ann Whitney, Richard Bull, Ellary Porterfield, Jaime Tirelli (Sony Pictures Classics)
Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
Everything Strange and New
Frazer Bradshaw, director; Laura Techera Francia, A.D. Liano, producers
Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
Damien Chazelle, director; Jasmine McGlade, producer
October Country
Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher, directors/producers
You Won’t Miss Me
Ry Russo-Young, director/producer
Zero Bridge
Tariq Tapa, director; Tariq Tapa, Josee Lajoie, Hilal Ahmed Langoo, producers
Career Tribute Awards
Kathryn Bigelow
Natalie Portman
Stanley Tucci
Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner
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2009 Satellite Awards – Nominations
Why should anyone give a damn about the (Golden) Satellite Awards?
Well, how often will you see a small, little-seen indie like The Stoning of Soraya M. (above) listed as one of the best films of the year? Or Hugh [...] Continue Reading…
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Satellite Awards 2009
2009 Satellite Awards
International Press Academy’s 2009 Satellite Award nominations: Nov. 29, 2009
2009 Satellite Award winners: Dec. 20, 2009
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Judi Dench, Penélope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Sophia Loren, Stacy Ferguson, Nicole Kidman, Kate Hudson, Daniel Day-Lewis [...] Continue Reading…
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BITCH SLAP Cast, Jan Kounen, Gaspar Noé: Stockholm 2009
Bitch Slap stars America Olivo, Julia Voth and Erin Cummings at the 2009 Stockholm Film Festival. (Photo: Carla Orrego Veliz.)
Directed by Rick Jacobson, and co-written by Jacobson and Eric Gruendemann, Bitch Slap is a [...] Continue Reading…
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Lee Daniels, Andreas Wilson, Anastasios Soulis: Stockholm 2009
Festival director Git Scheynius and Lee Daniels at the 2009 Stockholm Film Festival. (Photo: Carla Orrego Veliz)
Lee Daniels’ Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire earned Mo’Nique a best actress award. In the film, Mo’Nique plays illiterate, pregnant [...] Continue Reading…
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Susan Sarandon, Luc Besson: 2009 Stockholm Film Festival
Best actress Oscar winner Susan Sarandon (for Dead Man Walking back in 1995) was at the 2009 edition of the Stockholm Film Festival, where she was handed the festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award. (Photo: Kalle Mörck.)
Among Sarandon’s screen credits, [...] Continue Reading…
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Susan Sarandon at Stockholm Film Festival
Susan Sarandon, the star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Pretty Baby, Atlantic City, Thelma & Louise, Lorenzo’s Oil, The Client, and one of the leads in Peter Jackson’s upcoming The Lovely Bones, was honored with the 2009 Stockholm [...] Continue Reading…
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON Beats THE BLIND SIDE
Kristen Stewart in The Twilight Saga: New Moon (top); Rain in Ninja Assassin (middle); John Travolta, Robin Williams in Old Dogs (bottom)
Chris Weitz’s The Twilight Saga: New Moon prevailed at the North American box office for [...] Continue Reading…
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THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON – Worldwide Blockbuster
The Twilight Saga: New Moon, starring Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner (above), was the weekend’s #1 box-office hit both domestically and internationally.
Directed by Chris Weitz, and adapted by Melissa Rosenberg from Stephenie Meyer’s novel, New [...] Continue Reading…
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2009 Stockholm Film Festival Awards Winners
Dogtooth by Giorgos Lanthimos (top); Mo’Nique in Precious (middle); Edgar Flores in Sin Nombre (bottom)
In Giorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth, winner of the 2009 Stockholm Film Festival’s Bronze Horse for best film, a patriarch (Christos Stergioglou) tries to shield his cloistered [...] Continue Reading…
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Stockholm Film Festival Awards 2009
2009 Stockholm Film Festival Awards
2009 Stockholm Film Festival: Nov. 18-29, 2009
2009 Stockholm Film Festival Award winners
Dogtooth by Giorgos Lanthimos
BRONZE HORSE AWARDS
Best Film: Dogtooth by Giorgos Lanthimos
Best First Feature: Sin Nombre by Cory Juji Fukanaga
Best Actress Mo’Nique for Precious: [...] Continue Reading…
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GOING MY WAY – Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald – d: Leo McCarey
Going My Way (1944)
Direction: Leo McCarey
Screenplay: Frank Butler and Frank Cavett; from a story by Leo McCarey
Cast: Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Risë Stevens, Frank McHugh, Gene Lockhart, James Brown, Jean Heather, Porter Hall, Fortunio Bonanova
Barry Fitzgerald, [...] Continue Reading…
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Golden Horse Awards 2009 – Winners
Screenwriter-director Leon Dai’s Taiwanese black-and-white social-cum-family drama No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti (above), Taiwan’s submission for the 2010 best foreign language film Academy Award, was the top winner at the 2009 Golden Horse Awards ceremony held Saturday [...] Continue Reading…
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Norma Shearer: Proudly and Inescapably Neurotic
Two radically different Norma Shearer characters: as loving (ditched) wife and mother in The Women, with Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell (top); as a woman with a penchant for pointed feathers in Lady of the Night (bottom). She [...] Continue Reading…
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Golden Horse Awards 2009
2009 Golden Horse Awards
2009 Golden Horse nominations: Oct. 07, 2009
2009 Golden Horse winners: Nov. 28, 2009
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti directed by Leon Dai
Best Film
* No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti
Luminoso Film [...] Continue Reading…
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Gotham Awards 2009: Webcast at Ustream
Catalina Saavedra in The Maid (top); Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker (middle); Food, Inc. by Robert Kenner (bottom)
The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) has partnered with Ustream to present a live webcast of the 2009 Gotham [...] Continue Reading…
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Outfest Gets $30,000 from the Academy Foundation
PRESS RELEASE:
The Academy Foundation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has awarded a $30,000 grant to Outfest 2010: The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. The grant will be used to reach [...] Continue Reading…
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Oscar 2010: Deadline for Official Screen Credits
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that Tuesday, December 1, is the deadline to submit official screen credits (OSC) and music submission forms for the 2010 Academy Awards.
From the Academy’s press release:
For [...] Continue Reading…
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ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT – Lew Ayres – d: Lewis Milestone
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Direction: Lewis Milestone
Screenplay: Maxwell Anderson, George Abbott, Del Andrews; from Erich Maria Remarque’s novel
Cast: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, Russell Gleason, John Wray, William Bakewell, Raymond Griffith, Beryl Mercer, Ben Alexander, Slim Summerville, Yola [...] Continue Reading…
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BRAVEHEART – Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau – d: Mel Gibson
Braveheart (1995)
Direction: Mel Gibson
Screenplay: Randall Wallace
Cast: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Angus Macfadyen, James Robinson, Brendan Gleeson, Peter Hanly, Ian Bannen, James Cosmo, Catherine McCormack, David O’Hara, Brian Cox
Mel Gibson in Braveheart
Synopsis:
In the 13th century, William Wallace [...] Continue Reading…
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Asia-Pacific Screen Awards 2009
2009 Asia-Pacific Screen Awards
2009 Asia-Pacific Screen Award winners: Australia’s Gold Coast on Nov 26. 2009
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Writer-director Warwick Thornton’s Samson & Delilah, Australia’s submission for the 2010 best foreign-language film Academy Award, took best [...] Continue Reading…
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Alfred Hitchcock’s British Thrillers at LACMA
Dame May Whitty, Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave in The Lady Vanishes (top); Robert Donat in The 39 Steps (bottom)
On Nov. 27-28, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will present the last four films in its "Hitchcock: The British [...] Continue Reading…
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BRIEF ENCOUNTER – Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard – d: David Lean
Brief Encounter (1945)
Direction: David Lean
Screenplay: David Lean, Ronald Neame, Anthony Havelock-Allan; from Noel Coward’s play Still Life
Cast: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond
Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard in Brief Encounter
Synopsis:
A married doctor (Trevor [...] Continue Reading…
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CAVALCADE – Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard
Cavalcade (1933)
Direction: Frank Lloyd
Screenplay: Reginald Berkeley, Sonya Levien; from Noel Coward’s play
Cast: Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard, Herbert Mundin, Una O’Connor, Beryl Mercer, Irene Browne, Merle Tottenham, Frank Lawton, Ursula Jeans, Margaret Lindsay
Synopsis:
Upstairs (Clive Brook, Diana Wynyard) [...] Continue Reading…
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A PASSAGE TO INDIA – Judy Davis, Peggy Ashcroft – d: David Lean
A Passage to India (1984)
Direction: David Lean
Screenplay: David Lean; from E. M. Forster’s novel
Cast: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, Alec Guinness, Nigel Havers, James Fox, Richard Wilson, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth
Judy Davis in A Passage to India
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In [...] Continue Reading…
