SIGHT & SOUND’s Top Ten Films of 2005
Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain (top); Viggo Mortensen in A History of Violence (middle); Tony Leung, Gong Li, Ziyi Zhang in 2046 (bottom)
Sight & Sound’s Top-Ten (actually top-fourteen) Films
1 Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
2 A History of Violence (David Cronenberg) and La Niña santa / The Holy Girl (Lucretia Martel)
4 2046 (Wong Kar Wai) and Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
6 Le Conseguenze dell’amore / The Consequences of Love (Paolo Sorrentino) and The Descent (Neil Marshall)
8 Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembene)
9 Sud pralad / Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
10 De battre mon coeur s’est arrêté / The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Jacques Audiard), Gegen die Wand / Head-On (Fatih Akin), Hauru no ugoku [...]
by Andre Soares | February 25, 2006
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Tags: 2046, A History of Violence, Brokeback Mountain, Film Awards, Head-On, Howl's Moving Castle, Sight and Sound, The Beat That My Heart Skipped, The Consequences of Love, The Descent
Scripter Award 2006
2006 USC Scripter Awards
2006 Scripter Award winners: Feb. 11, 2006
("*" denotes the winner)
Capote, directed by Bennett Miller and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, won the 2006 Scripter Award after a run-off vote, as it had initially tied with Stephen Gaghan’s Syriana screenplay
Brokeback Mountain — Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana (screenwriters); E. Annie Proulx (author)
* Capote — Dan Futterman (screenwriter); Gerald Clarke (author)
The Constant Gardener — Jeffrey Caine (screenwriter); John le Carré (author)
A History of Violence — Josh Olson (screenwriter); John Wagner and Vince Locke (authors)
Syriana — Stephen Gaghan (screenwriter); Robert Baer (author)
USC Scripter Awards
USC Scripter Awards: 2005 2006 2007 2008
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
by Andre Soares | February 11, 2006
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Tags: A History of Violence, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Dan Futterman, Film Awards, Gerald Clarke, Scripter Awards, Stephen Gaghan, Syriana, The Constant Gardener
Oscar 2006: Nominations
The Academy Award nominations are in.
Brokeback Mountain (above, with Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger) led the pack with 8 nods. Crash, Good Night and Good Luck., and Memoirs of a Geisha tied with six nominations each, while Munich and Capote received five nominations apiece. Of the aforementioned six films, the one left out of the best picture race was Memoirs of a Geisha.
Even though he’s not a film, George Clooney also received multiple nominations, three in all: best director and best original screenplay (with Grant Heslov) for Good Night and Good Luck., and a best supporting actor nod for Syriana. Clooney has just made Oscar history by becoming the first actor-director to be nominated for different films in [...]
by Andre Soares | January 31, 2006
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Tags: 2006 Oscar, A History of Violence, Academy Awards, Brokeback Mountain, Film Awards, George Clooney, Heath Ledger, Hidden, Jake Gyllenhaal, Keira Knightley, William Hurt
Online Film Critics Awards 2006
2006 Online Film Critics Society Awards
2006 Online Film Critics Society award winners: January 16, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen in A History of Violence
Best Film
Brokeback Mountain
Crash
Good Night and Good Luck.
* A History of Violence by David Cronenberg
Munich
Best Foreign-Language Film
Hidden
Kung Fu Hustle
Oldboy
2046
* Downfall by Oliver Hirschbiegel
Best Documentary
The Aristocrats
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
* Grizzly Man by Werner Herzog
March of the Penguins
Murderball
Best Animated Feature
Howl’s Moving Castle
Madagascar
Robots
Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
* Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit by Nick Park and Steve Box
Best Director
George Clooney, Good Night and Good Luck.
* David Cronenberg, A History of Violence
Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Peter Jackson, King Kong
Steven Spielberg, Munich
Best Actor
Terrence Howard, Hustle & Flow
Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
Joaquin Phoenix, Walk [...]
by Andre Soares | January 16, 2006
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Tags: A History of Violence, Brokeback Mountain, David Cronenberg, Downfall, Film Awards, Grizzly Man, Maria Bello, Mickey Rourke, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Reese Witherspoon
Central Ohio Film Critics Awards 2006
2006 Central Ohio Film Critics Association Awards
2006 Central Ohio Film Critics Association award winners: January 12, 2006
Viggo Mortensen, Mario Bello in A History of Violence
Best Film: A History of Violence
Runner-up: Brokeback Mountain
Others in the Top-Ten List:
Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Good Night and Good Luck.
Munich
Murderball
Crash
Sin City
Pride & Prejudice
Batman Begins
Best Director: David Cronenberg, A History of Violence
Runner-up: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Best Lead Performance: Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
Runner-up: Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line
Best Supporting Performance: Maria Bello, A History of Violence
Runner-up: Amy Adams, Junebug
Actor of the Year: Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain, Casanova, Lords of Dogtown, The Brothers Grimm
Runner up: Terrence Howard
Best Screenplay: Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, Brokeback Mountain
Runner [...]
by Andre Soares | January 12, 2006
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Tags: A History of Violence, Amy Adams, Brokeback Mountain, David Cronenberg, Diana Ossana, Film Awards, Heath Ledger, Larry McMurtry, Maria Bello, Sin City
Chicago Film Critics Awards 2005
2006 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
2006 Chicago Film Critics Association Award winners: January 9, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Jennifer Esposito, Don Cheadle in Crash
Best Film:
Brokeback Mountain
* Crash
Good Night and Good Luck.
A History of Violence
King Kong
Best Foreign-Language Film:
* Hidden
Kung Fu Hustle
Oldboy
2046
Downfall
Best Documentary:
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
* Grizzly Man
Mad Hot Ballroom
March of the Penguins
Murderball
Best Director:
George Clooney for Good Night and Good Luck.
* David Cronenberg for A History of Violence
Peter Jackson for King Kong
Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain
Steven Spielberg for Munich
Best Actor:
* Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote
Terrence Howard in Hustle & [...]
by Andre Soares | January 9, 2006
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Tags: A History of Violence, Crash, David Cronenberg, Film Awards, Gustavo Santaolalla, Hidden, Joan Allen, Maria Bello, Mickey Rourke, Philip Seymour Hoffman
2006 National Society of Film Critics Award Winners
Capote, which follows flamboyant writer Truman Capote while he was working on In Cold Blood, was chosen the best film of 2005 by the National Society of Film Critics. As most elsewhere this year, smaller American films and non-American productions took center stage in the voting.
Among the other winners were best director David Cronenberg for the social critique A History of Violence, which failed to win the best film award by one single vote, after six rounds of voting; best actor Philip Seymour Hoffman (above, with Catherine Keener) for Capote; best actress Reese Witherspoon for playing another real-life character, June Carter, in Walk the Line; and best foreign film Gegen die Wand / Head-On, Fatih Akin’s drama [...]
by Andre Soares | January 7, 2006
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Tags: A History of Violence, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Catherine Keener, David Cronenberg, Fatih Akin, Film Awards, Head-On, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Reese Witherspoon
Toronto Film Critics Awards 2005
2005 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
2005 Toronto Film Critics Association Award winners: December 21, 2005
Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello in A History of Violence
Best Film: A History of Violence
Best Canadian Film: A History of Violence
Best Foreign Film: The World by Zhang Ke Jia
Best First Feature: Capote by Bennett Miller
Best Documentary: Grizzly Man by Werner Herzog
Best Animated Film: Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit by Nick Park and Steve Box
Best Director: David Cronenberg, A History of Violence
Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
Best Actress: Laura Linney, The Squid and the Whale
Best Supporting Actor: Paul Giamatti, Cinderella Man
Best Supporting Actress: Catherine Keener, Capote
Best Screenplay: Noah Baumbach, The Squid and the Whale
Toronto Film Critics Association Site
Toronto [...]
by Andre Soares | December 21, 2005
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Tags: A History of Violence, Capote, Catherine Keener, David Cronenberg, Film Awards, Grizzly Man, Laura Linney, Noah Baumbach, Paul Giamatti, Philip Seymour Hoffman
2005 Golden Globes: Nominations
Big-budget studio releases were mostly cast aside by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), whose Golden Globe nominations were announced today.
As to be expected, critics’ favorite Brokeback Mountain, about the mostly long-distance love affair between two men in the American West, ruled the pack with seven nominations. Since the Globes don’t cover any of the technical awards, Jake Gyllenhaal (above, with Heath Ledger) ended up being the only major talent in that film left without a nod.
The biggest surprise was probably the absence of Steven Spielberg’s Munich from the best picture – drama shortlist. Spielberg’s tale of terrorism and revenge, based on actual events, had been touted by those who had neither seen it nor read about it as [...]
