2007 Producers Guild Award Winners
Little Miss Sunshine was the surprise feature-film winner at the 2007 Producers Guild Awards.
The (superficially) offbeat family comedy directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, and written by Michael Arndt has also been nominated for the Directors Guild Award and for the Screen Actors Guild Award for best ensemble, which includes Alan Arkin, Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, and Abigail Breslin (above, in red).
Five individuals — Marc Turtletaub, David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf, Albert Berger, and Ron Yerxa – were considered the official producers of the film. That will probably give the Academy some grief when Little Miss Sunshine receives its inevitable Oscar nomination for best picture next Tuesday. Academy rules allow only three producers to be credited [...]
by Andre Soares | January 21, 2007
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Tags: Abigail Breslin, Cars, David T. Friendly, Film Awards, Little Miss Sunshine, Marc Turtletaub, Producers Guild Awards, Ron Yerxa
Iowa Film Critics Awards 2007
2007 Iowa Film Critics Association Awards
2007 Iowa Film Critics Association award winners: January 10, 2007
Kate Winslet in Little Children
Best Film: Little Children directed by Todd Field
Best Animated Film: Cars directed by John Lasseter and Joe Ranft
Best Director: Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen
Best Supporting Actor: Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children
Best Supporting Actress: Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
The Best Movie Yet to Open in Iowa: Pan’s Labyrinth directed by Guillermo del Toro
Iowa Film Critics Association Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
by Andre Soares | January 11, 2007
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Tags: Abigail Breslin, Cars, Film Awards, Forest Whitaker, Helen Mirren, Jackie Earle Haley, Kate Winslet, Little Children, Martin Scorsese, Pan's Labyrinth
Online Film Critics Awards 2007
2007 Online Film Critics Society Awards
2007 Online Film Critics Society award nominations: January 2, 2007
2007 Online Film Critics Society award winners: January 8, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Best Picture
Babel
Children of Men
The Departed
Pan’s Labyrinth
* United 93 by Paul Greengrass
Best Foreign Film
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
The Child
* Pan’s Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro
Volver
Water
Best Documentary
Dave Chappelle’s Block Party
* An Inconvenient Truth by Davis Guggenheim
Jesus Camp
Neil Young Heart of Gold
Shut Up & Sing
Best Director
Alfonso Cuarón – Children of Men
Paul Greengrass – United 93
Alejandro González Iñárritu – Babel
* Martin Scorsese – The Departed
Guillermo del Toro – Pan’s Labyrinth
Best Actor
Sacha Baron Cohen – Borat
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Departed
Ryan Gosling – Half Nelson
Peter O’Toole – Venus
* Forest Whitaker – [...]
by Andre Soares | January 2, 2007
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Tags: Abigail Breslin, An Inconvenient Truth, Film Awards, Forest Whitaker, Guillermo del Toro, Helen Mirren, Jackie Earle Haley, Martin Scorsese, Pan's Labyrinth, United 93
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE – Awards and Nominations
Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Paul Dano, Toni Collette, Abigail Breslin in Little Miss Sunshine
Unless otherwise stated, all Little Miss Sunshine awards/nominations are for the year 2006.
Academy Awards: 4 nominations (best film; best supporting actor, Alan Arkin; best supporting actress, Abigail Breslin; best original screenplay, Michael Arndt)
American Cinema Editors: 1 nomination (best edited feature film, comedy or musical, Pamela Martin)
British Academy Awards: 2 wins (best supporting actor, Alan Arkin; best original screenplay, Michael Arndt)
4 additional nominations (best film; best directors, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris; best supporting actress, Abigail Breslin; best supporting actress, Toni Collette)
Broadcast Film Critics Association: 4 wins (best acting ensemble; best writing, Michael Arndt; best young actor, Paul Dano; best young actress, Abigail Breslin)
3 additional [...]
by Andre Soares | September 1, 2006
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Tags: Abigail Breslin, Alan Arkin, Film Awards, Greg Kinnear, Jonathan Dayton, Little Miss Sunshine, Michael Arndt, Paul Dano, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Valerie Faris
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE d: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Direction: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
Screenplay: Michael Arndt
Cast: Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Abigail Breslin, Alan Arkin, Paul Dano
More often than not, the term "independent film" merely indicates that an American production has received its financing from sources outside — or somewhere in the outskirts of — the Hollywood studio system. Only sporadically does the label "independent film" refer to edgy, challenging, and/or unconventional filmmaking.
Instead, "independent filmmakers" usually concoct storylines as conventional as those being churned out by the studios, probably in the hopes of selling their screenplays (or finished films) to a major distributor. Considering the amount of money involved, who can blame them? All they need is to wrap their films’ cliché-ridden core [...]
by Andre Soares | September 1, 2006
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Tags: Abigail Breslin, Alan Arkin, Film Reviews, Gay Interest, Greg Kinnear, Jonathan Dayton, Little Miss Sunshine, Michael Arndt, Paul Dano, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Valerie Faris
