A History of Violence Articles

William Hurt in David Cronenberg's A History of Violence Alan Arkin, Peter O'Toole, Eddie Murphy: Oscar Veterans 2006 William Hurt William Hurt, nominated as Best Supporting Actor for David Cronenberg's A History of Violence. He lost to George Clooney in Stephen Gaghan's Syriana. Hurt had three previous nominations in the Best Actor category: Hector Babenco's Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), for which won in [...]

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 [...]

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); [...]

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 [...]