500 Days of Summer Articles

Stephen Lang in Avatar (ILM / 20th Century Fox) More sci-fi films are up for major Hollywood awards. Three of the nominees for the American Cinema Editors’ ACE Eddie Awards are Avatar, District 9 and Star Trek. The two other dramatic feature entries are The Hurt Locker and Up in the Air. Two Meryl Streep vehicles directed by women are in the running in the [...]

Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson in The Messenger There were quite a few surprises among the nominees for the St. Louis Film Critics Association 2009 Awards. I mean, Kim So Yong’s Treeless Mountain for best foreign language film? Jeff Stilson’s Good Hair for best documentary? Wes Anderson (Fantastic Mr. Fox) and Oren Moverman (The Messenger) for best director? Patton Oswald (Big Fan) and Ben Foster (The [...]

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel in (500) Days of Summer The Detroit Film Critics Society has announced its list of 2009 nominees. Those competing for the best picture award are Marc Webb’s sleeper hit (500) Days of Summer, Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker, Quentin Tarantino’s anti-Nazi fantasy Inglourious Basterds, Pete Docter’s animated Up, and Jason Reitman’s socially conscious Up in the Air. All [...]

Michael Stuhlbarg in A Serious Man (top); James McAvoy, Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren in The Last Station (middle); Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel in (500) Days of Summer (bottom) The nominees for the 25th annual Spirit Awards have been announced. Two of the best picture nominees also happen to be this year’s most nominated films: Lee Daniels‘ Precious and Michael Hoffman’s The Last Station, with five [...]