Directors Guild Awards 2007

2007 Directors Guild Awards
2007 Directors Guild of America nominations: feature film nominees on January 9, 2007; made-for-TV movies on January 10, 2007; other television nominees on January 11; and documentary and commercials nominees on January 16, 2007
2007 DGA Award winners: Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on February 3, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Steven Spielberg, DGA winner Martin Scorsese, and Leonardo DiCaprio © DGA
 

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film:
BILL CONDON – Dreamgirls (Paramount Pictures)
Bill Condon’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Patricia Whitcher
First Assistant Director: Richard Graves
Second Assistant Director: Eric Sherman
Second Second Assistant Director: Renee Hill-Sweet
JONATHAN DAYTON & VALERIE FARIS – Little Miss Sunshine (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’ Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Michael Beugg
First Assistant [...]

by Andre Soares | February 3, 2007   
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Oscar 2007: Nominated Producers

Toni Collette, Abigail Breslin, Alan Arkin, Paul Dano, Steve Carell, Greg Kinnear in Little Miss Sunshine

Not everyone will fit into the 2007 Academy Award’s van.
The Academy’s Producers Branch Executive Committee has announced the final roster of producers nominated in this year’s Best Picture category. They are:

Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik and Steve Golin for Babel
Graham King for The Departed
Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, and Robert Lorenz for Letters from Iwo Jima
David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub for Little Miss Sunshine
Andy Harries, Christine Langan and Tracey Seaward for The Queen

The nominees for The Departed and Little Miss Sunshine were determined by the executive committee at a meeting held yesterday evening.
Even though up to three producers can [...]

by Andre Soares | January 26, 2007   
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Golden Globes 2007

2007 Golden Globes
Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s 2007 Golden Globe nominations: December 14, 2006
2007 Golden Globe winners: Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on January 15, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

© HFPA 64th Golden Globe® Awards
FILM
Best Motion Picture – Drama
* Babel
Bobby
The Departed
Little Children
The Queen
Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
The Devil Wears Prada
* Dreamgirls
Little Miss Sunshine
Thank You for Smoking
Best Foreign Language Film
Apocalypto (USA)
* Letters from Iwo Jima (USA/Japan)
Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others (Germany)
El Laberinto del fauno / Pan’s Labyrinth (Mexico)
Volver (Spain)
Best Animated Feature Film
* Cars
Happy Feet
Monster House

© HFPA 64th Golden Globe® Awards
Best Director – Motion Picture
Clint Eastwood, Flags of Our Fathers
Clint [...]

by Andre Soares | January 15, 2007   
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DGA Awards 2007: Nominations

Helen Mirren in The Queen (top); Brad Pitt in Babel (middle); Jennifer Hudson, Beyoncé Knowles, Anika Noni Rose in Dreamgirls (bottom)

The Directors Guild of America has announced the five features nominated for the 2007 DGA Award.
The biggest surprise was the absence of the much-revered Clint Eastwood — for either Flags of Our Fathers or Letters from Iwo Jima, or both — winner of last year’s DGA Lifetime Achievement Award. (In The Envelope, Tom O’Neil states that DGA members, who weren’t able to receive screeners this year, didn’t get a chance to check out Letters from Iwo Jima, which opened late in December.)
Also missing from the DGA list were Paul Greengrass, whose United 93 has been chosen best film of [...]

by Andre Soares | January 9, 2007   
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2006 Chicago Film Critics Awards: Nominations

With nine nominations, including best film and best director (Alejandro González Iñárritu), Babel (above) seems to be the Chicago Film Critics Association’s favorite 2006 flick.
Among the other multiple nominees are The Departed and The Queen, both of which are in the running for best film and best director (Martin Scorsese and Stephen Frears, respectively).
The two biggest surprises among the Chicago critics’ list were the inclusion of Maggie Gyllenhaal and Gavin Hood’s Tsotsi.
There are six nominees for the best actress slot — I’m assuming that’s how Gyllenhaal was able to sneak in for her performance as an ex-con who discovers motherhood in the little-seen Sherrybaby. She has also been nominated for a best actress – drama Golden Globe [...]

by Andre Soares | December 20, 2006   
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21 GRAMS – Sean Penn, Naomi Watts

21 Grams (2003)
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Screenplay: Guillermo Arriaga
Cast: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio del Toro, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Melissa Leo, Danny Huston, Eddie Marsan, John Rubinstein
 

 

Shot in documentary-style, 21 Grams is a bleak, convoluted, and surprisingly powerful drama about three individuals linked to both one another and to the immediacy of death: Paul (Sean Penn) is a dying man in dire need of a heart transplant; Jack (Benicio Del Toro) is a born-again ex-con who has run over a father and his two daughters as they were crossing a street; and Cristina (Naomi Watts) is the woman whose family Jack has killed. (By the way, the film’s title refers to the alleged weight of a person’s soul. That figure came [...]

by Andre Soares | October 16, 2004   
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