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 teenager Gabourey Sidibe's abusive mother. Additionally, Precious received an honorary mention from the International Film Critics. (Cary Fukunaga's Sin Nombre was the critics' top choice.)
Precious, Daniels, and Mo'Nique have all been touted as potential Oscar contenders. Mo'Nique, however, will probably land a best supporting actress nomination, while Gabourey Sidibe will likely get a best actress nod.
Also in the Precious cast: Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, and Lenny Kravitz.
Anastasios Soulis was the winner of this year's L'Oréal Paris Rising Star Award. (Photo: Carla Orrego Veliz.)
The 22-year-old, Stockholm-born Soulis has been working on film and television for nearly a decade. Among his credits are Richard Hobert's Everyone Loves Alice (2002), Anne Novions's Les grandes personnes (2008), and Ulf Malmros' The Wedding Photographer (2009).
Andreas Wilson, the star of the Academy Award-nominated drama Evil (2003). (Photo: Carla Orrego Veliz.)
Photos: Courtesy of the Stockholm Film Festival
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Lee Daniels look so different in this picture. You sure its him?