American Gangster Articles

Hal Holbrook, Emile Hirsch in Sean Penn's Into the Wild (top); Ruby Dee in Ridley Scott's American Gangster (bottom) Mickey Rourke, Frank Langella: Oscar Veterans 2008 Hal Holbrook Hal Holbrook was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Sean Penn's Into the Wild. He lost to Javier Bardem for Joel Coen and Ethan Coen's No Country for Old Men. That was the first Oscar [...]

Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood George Clooney (for Michael Clayton) might have been the sentimental favorite for he's a local Hollywood-ite, while Daniel Day-Lewis (above, with Paul Dano), who plays a ruthless oil baron in There Will Be Blood, is an Englishman living in Ireland. Clooney, however, won an Oscar (for Syriana) a mere two years ago, while Day-Lewis' SAG win has [...]

2008 SAG Awards 2008 Screen Actors Guild Award nominations: December 20, 2007 2008 SAG Award winners: Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center on January 27, 2008 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)     THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role GEORGE CLOONEY / Michael Clayton — Michael Clayton (Warner Bros. Pictures) * DANIEL DAY-LEWIS / Daniel Plainview — [...]

Amy Adams and Patrick Dempsey in Enchanted. Three songs from this romantic fantasy have been shortlisted. Fifty-nine songs from eligible feature films will be vying for a Best Original Song nomination at the 2008 Academy Awards. In all honesty, I don't think I know any of those songs. Some of the titles, however, are quite something, e.g., "Atkozott Egy Elet," "I Was Zapped by the [...]