Finally, a little something on the 2007 Sundance Film Festival winners.
Earlier today, I posted an article on Jason Kohn’s Manda Bala / Send a Bullet, which was chosen best U.S. documentary. Manda Bala also won the best documentary cinematography prize for Heloísa Passos’s camera work.
Among the other top winners were best U.S. narrative feature Padre [...]
Jessica Lange interviewed by Michael Coveney for the Belfast Telegraph:
"George Bush really has whipped up the most poisonous scenario of neighbour against neighbour over the war in Iraq. It’s disgusting. I can’t tell you. There were times when it was really lovely to be out there and against the war. But then I had anti-war [...]
Posted in Film, Film Awards on January 31st, 2007 No Comments »
As per an AMPAS press release, final ballots for the 79th Academy Awards were mailed today to the 5,830 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. (How many of those members actually do vote only a very few can — but don’t — tell.)
The ballots contain the list of nominees in [...]
When I read the synopsis of Jason Kohn’s Manda Bala / Send a Bullet in the Sundance Film Festival independent film - documentary list – “In Brazil, known as one of the world’s most corrupt and violent countries, Manda Bala follows a politician who uses a frog farm to steal billions of dollars, a wealthy [...]
Sharon Stone does a brief zen meditation session on the set of Basic Instinct 2 while trying to uncover the elusive difference between fag and faggot.
See, it’s all about Got.
No, God has absolutely nothing to do with anything. I wrote Got. Just follow me.
Exhibit A:
When Alan Arkin’s heroin-addicted grandpa tells Steve Carell’s wimpy, sexless gay [...]
13th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards- 2006
The 13th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award winners were announced on January 24, 2007.
Johnnie To’s Election 2, a follow-up to Hong Kong Film Critics Society 2005 winner Election, revolves around more power struggles among the denizens of Hong Kong’s organized crime underworld. To also took the best [...]
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present the program "Shorts!," featuring the ten Academy Award nominees in the Animated and Live Action Short Film categories. The screening will be held on Tuesday, February 20, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Hosted by Academy Award-winning producer-director Taylor Hackford*, "Shorts!" [...]
2006 Asian Film Awards
2006 Asian Film Award nominations: January 29, 2007
2006 Asian Film Award winners: Grand Hall, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, March 20, 2007
2006 Asian Film Awards Winners - Article
2006 Asian Film Awards Nominations - Article
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Best Film
Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia / Curse of [...]
Oscar-nominated performances in Martin Scorsese’s films
Unless things change dramatically (and no, I’m not referring only to environmental chaos and apocalyptic wars), 30 or 40 years from now Martin Scorsese is going to be the best remembered name of the current top-five Oscar directors for actors. (The others being William Wyler, Elia Kazan, George Cukor, and [...]
Oscar-nominated performances in Fred Zinnemann’s films
Fred Zinnemann began his career during the studio system, but kept on going, however sporadically, long after most of his contemporaries had retired. Even so, today his name means little for most audiences and critics alike. Why?
Quite possibly because, like William Wyler’s (Wyler’s Oscar list), Zinnemann’s relatively small oeuvre (21 [...]
Known as a refined “woman’s director,” George Cukor has had his considerable output either relegated to the sidelines or simply dismissed by those who like their directors macho and their films male-centered. Not helping matters is the general perception that Cukor was merely a hired hand for the likes of David O. Selznick at RKO [...]
Oscar-nominated performances in Elia Kazan’s films
Elia Kazan is best remembered today for two things: His association with Marlon Brando during the first half of the 1950s, and the fact that he claimed to be unrepentant about naming names and ruining careers and lives during the Red-baiting hysteria of the post-World War II years.
Kazan’s 19 [...]
Oscar-nominated performances in William Wyler’s films
William Wyler was one of the greatest film directors Hollywood — or any other film industry — has ever produced. Today, Wyler lacks the following of Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, or even Howard Hawks most likely because, unlike Hitchcock or Ford, Wyler never focused on a particular genre, while his [...]
Via The Guardian:
"On most Fridays for years I have had breakfast with a group of friends in Notting Hill. Occasionally we would persuade a couple of younger women to join us. Mostly, though, it was only older men — actors, writers, theatre and film directors — people I’d known since I first began to work [...]
2007 Sundance Film Festival Awards
2007 Sundance Film Festival: Park City, Utah, January 18-28, 2007
2007 Sundance Film Festival Winners - Article
MANDA BALA - Article
The Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic: PADRE NUESTRO, directed by Christopher Zalla
The Grand Jury Prize - Documentary: MANDA BALA (SEND A BULLET), directed by Jason Kohn
Special Jury Prize [...]
French Film Critics’ 2006 Étoiles d’Or - 2006
2006 Étoile d’Or winners: Espace Pierre Cardin in Paris on January 22, 2007.
2006 French Film Critics’ Étoile d’Or Winners - Article
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Best French Film / Etoile d’Or du Meilleur film français (ex-aequo):
* Lady Chatterley by Pascale Ferran
* Indigènes / Days of Glory by [...]
32nd César Awards - 2006
The 32nd French Academy of Arts and Sciences’ César du Cinéma nominees were announced on January 26, 2007.
The 32nd César du Cinéma winners were announced at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, on February 24, 2007. Valérie Lemercier was the hostess.
2006 César Winners - Article
2006 César Nominations - Article
("*" denotes the [...]
Not everyone will fit into the Academy Award’s Van.
The Academy’s Producers Branch Executive Committee has announced the final roster of producers nominated in the Best Picture category for the 79th Academy Awards. They are:
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik and Steve Golin, for Babel
Graham King for The Departed
Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, and Robert Lorenz [...]
The 57th Berlin Film Festival’s competition line-up (which, as usual, strangely includes a handful of films that are not in competition) represents most continents, though English-language productions dominate the list of 26 motion pictures. Among these are 19 world premieres, six international premieres, and one European premiere. Twenty-two of the shortlisted films are competing for [...]
With 12 nods each, the top nominees for Quebec’s Oscars, the Prix Jutra, are Érik Canuel’s Bon Cop, Bad Cop (right), an odd couple comedy that became the top-grossing homegrown film ever in Canada (with about Can$13 million, most of it generated in Quebec itself), and Robert Favreau’s Un dimanche à Kigali / A Sunday [...]
57th Directors Guild of America Awards - 2004
The 57th Directors Guild of America winners were announced at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on January 29, 2005.
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Best Director - Motion Picture
Martin Scorsese - The Aviator
Marc Forster - Finding Neverland
* Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby
Taylor [...]
The 10th Swiss Film Awards were announced this past Wed., Jan. 24, at the 42nd Solothurn Film Festival.
Fredi M. Murer’s Vitus (top), which made it to the semi-final phase for this year’s best foreign-language film Academy Award, was picked as best Swiss film of 2006. Vitus, the story of a reluctant piano prodigy and his [...]
The Hollywood Academy Award nominations were announced yesterday, one day after the winners of the Swedish Oscars — the Guldbagge (Golden Beetles) — were announced to considerably less fanfare (except, perhaps, in Sweden).
In any case, just because Golden Beetle winners are less internationally famous than the Oscar nominees that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re [...]
By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica:
Federico Fellini’s 1973 Amarcord has often been linked with Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny och Alexander / Fanny & Alexander as films made by old men looking back on their youth. While this is true, in the main Amarcord has a loose narrative structure in which the lives of many characters are detailed [...]
79th Academy Awards
2006 Academy Award nominations: January 23, 2006.
2006 Academy Award winners: Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles on February 25, 2006.
2006 Academy Award Nominations - Article
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Photos: © AMPAS
Best motion picture of the year
Babel (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)
An Anonymous Content/Zeta Film/Central Films Production
Alejandro González [...]
