BAFTA 2007

2007 BAFTA Awards
Orange British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) 2007 award nominations: January 12, 2007
2007 BAFTA award winners: Royal Opera House in London on February 11, 2007.
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Helen Mirren in The Queen
 

BEST FILM
Babel – Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik, Steve Golin
The Departed – Brad Pitt, Brad Grey, Graham King
The Last King of Scotland – Andrea Calderwood, Lisa Bryer, Charles Steel
Little Miss Sunshine – Albert Berger, David T Friendly, Ron Yerxa
* The Queen – Tracey Seaward, Christine Langan, Andy Harries
THE ALEXANDER KORDA AWARD for the Outstanding British Film of the Year
Casino Royale – Michael G Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, Martin Campbell, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Paul Haggis
* The Last King of Scotland – Andrea [...]

Oscar 2007

2007 Academy Awards
2007 Academy Award nominations: January 23, 2007
2007 Academy Award winners: Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles on February 25, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Photos: © AMPAS
 

Best motion picture of the year
Babel (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)
An Anonymous Content/Zeta Film/Central Films Production
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik and Steve Golin, Producers
* The Departed (Warner Bros.)
A Warner Bros. Pictures Production
Graham King
Letters from Iwo Jima (Warner Bros.)
A DreamWorks Pictures/Warner Bros. Pictures Production
Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg and Robert Lorenz, Producers
Little Miss Sunshine (Fox Searchlight)
A Big Beach/Bona Fide Production
David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub
The Queen (Miramax, Pathé and Granada)
A Granada Production
Andy Harries, Christine Langan and Tracey Seaward, Producers

Best foreign language film of the year
After the Wedding [...]

Vancouver Film Critics Awards 2007

2007 Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards
2007 Vancouver Film Critics Circle nominations: January 9, 2007
2007 Vancouver Film Critics Circle winners: Vancity Theatre on January 15, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Clive Owen in Children of Men
 

Best Film:
* Children of Men
The Departed
Little Children
Best Canadian Film:
Away from Her
Manufactured Landscapes
* Maurice Richard / The Rocket
Monkey Warfare
Best Foreign-Language Film:
L’Enfant / The Child
Letters from Iwo Jima
* Volver
Best British Columbian Film:
Everything’s Gone Green
* Fido
Mount Pleasant
Unnatural & Accidental
Best Director:
* Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men
Clint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo Jima
Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Best Director of a Canadian Film:
Andrew Currie, Fido
* Reg Harkema, Monkey Warfare
Sarah Polley, Away from Her
Best Actor:
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Departed
Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
* Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Best [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]