Alternative Film Guide

I was asked about the previous winners of the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. Here they are:
1962 Eddie Cantor
1963 Stan Laurel
1965 Bob Hope
1966 Barbara [...]

78th Academy Awards
2005 Academy Award nominations: January 31, 2006.
2005 Academy Award winners: Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles on March 5, 2006.
Oscar Ceremony 2006
Oscar 2005 Nominations - Article
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Photos: © AMPAS
 

Best Film
Brokeback Mountain, Diana Ossana and James Schamus
Capote, Caroline Baron, William Vince, and Michael [...]

Kimberly French / Focus Films
The Academy Award nominations are in. Brokeback Mountain led the pack with 8 nominations. Crash, Good Night, and Good Luck., and Memoirs of a Geisha, tied with six nominations each, while Munich received five nominations. Even though he’s not a film, George Clooney also received multiple nominations, three in all - [...]

Press Release:
The 56th Berlin International Film Festival will award this year’s Honorary Golden Bears for lifetime achievement to the Polish filmmaker and screenwriter Andrzej Wajda and the British actor Sir Ian McKellen.
An Honorary Golden Bear for Andrzej Wajda
Andrzej Wajda is one of Poland’s most distinguished film directors. After studying painting and attending the film [...]

2005 EVENING STANDARD Awards
2005 EVENING STANDARD Winners: January 30, 2006
 

Winners of the 2005 London Evening Standard British Film Awards include the political thriller The Constant Gardener as best picture, Ralph Fiennes as best actor for his role as a mild-mannered but determined diplomat in The Constant Gardener, and Natasha Richardson as best actress for her [...]

In the Salt Lake Tribune, Christy Karras talks about a few of the 40 or so films with important gay/bi/tri/multi characters that were screened at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Among those, are Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’s Little Miss Sunshine, one of the festival’s most popular hits; Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer’s Quinceañera (see [...]

26th Genie Awards- 2005
The 26th Genie Award winners were announced on March 13, 2006.
2005 Genie Award Winners - Brief Article
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

 
BEST MOTION PICTURE
MEILLEUR FILM
* C.R.A.Z.Y. - Pierre Even, Jean-Marc Vallée
Familia - Luc Déry
It’s All Gone Pete Tong - Elizabeth Yake, Allan Niblo, James Richardson
Saint Ralph - Michael Souther, Teza Lawrence, [...]

"Historically, nobody has hated British film more than British film critics. Except, perhaps, British film academics, British film mandarins and the editors of British film magazines. That’s why, when the French director François Truffaut suggested that there was some fundamental incompatibility between the words ‘cinema’ and ‘Britain’, his words were taken most seriously in the [...]

2005 Cinema Audio Society (CAS) Awards
The 2005 CAS winners were announced at the Crystal Ballroom in the Millennium-Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles on February 25, 2006.
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

 
For Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Motion Pictures:
Crash
Re-recording Mixers: Marc Fishman
Adam Jenkins
Rick Ash
Production Mixer: Richard Van Dyke
King [...]

The Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Academia de las Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas de España) has announced the winners of the 2005 Goya Awards. Not surprisingly, the Best Picture was front-runner La Vida secreta de las palabras / The Secret Life of Words, the story of a young woman who takes care [...]

Among the winners of The Actor, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award, are Best Actress Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line, Best (faux) Supporting Actress Rachel Weisz for The Constant Gardener (Weisz is actually a lead character in the political drama, and is being recognized as such in Britain), Best Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman in [...]

12th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards- 2005
The 12th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award winners were announced on January 17, 2006.
2005 Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award Winners - Brief Article
 

Johnnie To’s well-received Election revolves around a power struggle within Hong Kong’s organized crime during their own election time.
 
Best Film: Hak se wui / [...]

"This is a festival with a mission," says Ashok Bantia, event coordinator for the 7 Island International Film Festival held in Mumbai. "… Everyone talks of peace and disarmament. We are showing films that capture the same and offer thought provoking ideas for the same. We intend to expose the Indian youth to film that [...]

The Sundance Film Festival award winners have been announced. The Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was given to Christopher Quinn’s God Grew Tired of Us, which chronicles the experiences of three young Sudanese refugees trying to adjust to life in the U.S. The Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented to Quinceañera, written and directed by [...]

2006 Sundance Film Festival Awards
2006 Sundance Film Festival: Park City, Utah, January 19-29, 2006
Sundance Film Festival 2006 Line-Up
Sundance Film Festival 2006 Winners - Brief Article
Gays Did Sundance
 

 
Dramatic Grand Jury Prize (U.S.): Quinceañera directed by Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer
Documentary Grand Jury Prize(U.S.): God Grew Tired of Us directed by Christopher Quinn
World Dramatic Grand [...]

USA Today reports that Kirby Dick’s documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated "drew cheers from an audience of 1,200 at its Sundance Film Festival premiere Wednesday for its exposé on the secret group that can mean life or death for movie earnings at the box office." The "secret group" in question is the ratings [...]

Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Der Untergang / Downfall, which depicts the last days of Adolf Hitler inside his bunker, has won the BBC4 World Film Award, given to the best foreign-language film shown in the United Kingdom in 2005. Via Time Out.
Hollywood Foreign Press Association 2005 Golden Globe Award winners and nominees
List of the British Academy [...]

Munich "is a thriller inspired by real events, and the film-makers never set out to make a documentary," says Eyal Arad, the Israeli publicist for the controversial Steven Spielberg thriller. Munich has upset many Israelis who perceive it as equating terrorism with counterterrorism - something the film does not do. To question the ethics - [...]

The Guardian reports that Hungarian director István Szabó, 67, whose Mephisto won the 1981 Best Foreign-Language Film Academy Award, has been exposed "as a former informant for the communist authorities in 1950s Hungary. His activities coincided with the Soviet crackdown that followed the 1956 revolution and occurred when he was a student at the Budapest [...]

Warner Bros. Pictures has begun developing a remake of Gaslight, the 1944 thriller directed by George Cukor, and starring Charles Boyer as a suave murderer and Ingrid Bergman as his naive - and quite wealthy - wife, who almost goes bananas before the final fadeout. The film received seven Academy Award nominations: Best Picture, Best [...]

I’m pleased to report that Cinema Minima is back online. Cyndi Greening has loads of information on the Sundance Film Festival.
Press Release: Sundance 06 Film Line-Up
Press Release: Sundance 06 Premieres
Sundance Film estival 2005 Awards
Press Release: Slamdance 06 Film Line-Up

2005 Swedish Film Institute’s Golden Beetle Awards
The 2005 Golden Beetle (Guldbagge aka Golden Bug) award winners were announced on January 30, 2006.
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Writer-director Lena Einhorn’s Ninas resa / Nina’s Journey (above) was the surprise best film and best screenplay winner at Sweden’s Golden Beetle Awards, that country’s equivalent to the [...]

Brief obit: Fayard Nicholas, 91, who tap danced alongside his brother Harold on Broadway and in Hollywood films, has died. Among the Nicholas Brothers’ sporadic film appearances - almost invariably in specialty dance numbers - are those in the Eddie Cantor vehicle Kid Millions (1934), and in several Fox musicals of the early 1940s, including [...]

58th Directors Guild of America Awards - 2005
The 58th Directors Guild of America winners were announced on January 28, 2006.
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Clint Eastwood, Ang Lee © Directors Guild of America
 
Theatrical Features:
George Clooney, Good Night, And Good Luck
Clooney’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Barbara A. Hall
First Assistant Director: David Webb
Second Assistant [...]

Press Release:
Mighty Times: The Children’s March, the Academy Award winning short documentary of 2004, will be screened with Home of the Brave for the February 15 installment of the Contemporary Documentary Series, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Academy Foundation and the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Free [...]