AFI FEST 2009 Awards
AFI FEST 2009 Awards
AFI FEST 2009: Hollywood/Santa Monica, Oct. 30-Nov. 7, 2009
Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank focuses on a working-class teenager (Katie Jarvis) frustrated that her mother has found a new beau (Michael Fassbender); Javier Rebollo’s Woman Without Piano is a dramatic portrait of 24 hours in the life of a Madrid housewife (Carmen Machi); and Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani’s Ajami (above) chronicles the day-to-day, anything-but-routine lives of several denizens of a tough neighborhood in Jaffa, where Muslims, Jews, and Christians are sworn to live in bloody disharmony.
NEW LIGHTS COMPETITION AWARD WINNER
FISH TANK DIR: Andrea Arnold UK
WOMAN WITHOUT PIANO (LA MUJER SIN PIANO) DIR: Javier Rebollo Spain/France
SPECIAL JURY MENTION
AJAMI DIR: Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani Israel/Germany
AFI FEST 2009 NEW LIGHTS [...]
by Andre Soares | November 6, 2009
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2009 British Independent Film Award Nominations
Katie Jarvis in Fish Tank (top); Sam Rockwell in Moon (middle); Carey Mulligan, Dominic Cooper in An Education (bottom)
Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank leads the list of 2009 British Independent Film Award nominees.
The tale of a rough teenager (Katie Jarvis) whose life is upended after her mother gets a new boyfriend, Fish Tank was shortlisted in eight categories including best independent British film, best director, best screenplay (Arnold), best actress (Jarvis), best supporting actress (Kierston Wareing), best supporting actor (2008 BIFA best actor winner Michael Fassbender), and most promising newcomer (also Jarvis).
Duncan Jones‘ feature-film debut, the sci-fi thriller Moon, received seven nominations including best British film, best director, best debut director, and best actor (Sam Rockwell).
Lone [...]
by Andre Soares | October 26, 2009
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Tags: An Education, Andrea Arnold, Bright Star, British Independent Film Awards, Carey Mulligan, Daniel Day-Lewis, Duncan Jones, Film Awards, Fish Tank, Jane Campion, Katie Jarvis, Lone Scherfig, Moon, Sam Rockwell
British Independent Film Awards 2009
2009 British Independent Film Awards
2009 British Independent Film Award nominations: Oct. 26, 2009
2009 British Independent Film Award winners: The Brewery in London on Dec. 6, 2009
Emma Thompson, Carey Mulligan in An Education (top); Katie Jarvis in Fish Tank (bottom)
BEST BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM
An Education
Fish Tank
In the Loop
Moon
Nowhere Boy
BEST FOREIGN FILM
Il Divo
The Hurt Locker
Let The Right One In
Sin Nombre
The Wrestler
BEST DOCUMENTARY
The Age of Stupid
The End of The Line
Mugabe and The White African
Sons of Cuba
Sounds Like Teen Spirit
BEST DIRECTOR
Andrea Arnold – Fish Tank
Armando Iannucci – In the Loop
Duncan Jones – [...]
by Anna Robinson | October 26, 2009
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Tags: Abbie Cornish, An Education, Andrea Arnold, Andy Serkis, British Independent Film Awards, Carey Mulligan, Film Awards, Fish Tank, In the Loop, Jane Camion, Moon, Nowhere Boy
Cannes 2009: Ken Loach, Ang Lee, Andrea Arnold, Jacques Audiard
Derek Elley on Looking for Eric (above, Ken Loach and Eric Cantona) in Variety:
"… helmer Ken Loach and writer Paul Laverty’s ninth feature together is a curious hybrid: Three movies — boilerplate, socially aware Loach; personal fantasy; romantic comedy — wrap around a central core of a hopeless soccer fanatic who’s given a second chance to sort out his life. As in many of Laverty’s scripts, problems of overall tone and character development aren’t solved by Loach’s easygoing direction, though when it works, Eric has many incidental pleasures."
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Anthony Kaufman on A Prophet at indieWIRE:
"If James Toback’s petty-criminal tale Fingers inspired Jacques Audiard’s previous The Beat That My Heart Skipped, it’s Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas [...]
by Massimo David | May 20, 2009
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Tags: A Prophet, Allan Hunter, Andrea Arnold, Ang Lee, Anthony Kaufman, Brokeback Mountain, Cannes 2009, Cannes Film Festival, Dave Calhoun, Derek Elley, Emile Hirsch, Eric Cantona, Film Festivals, Fingers, Fish Tank, Goodfellas, indieWIRE, Jacques Audiard, James Toback, Katie Jarvis, Ken Loach, Looking for Eric, Martin Scorsese, Paul Laverty, Taking Woodstock, The Beat That My Heart Skipped, Time Out, Variety
BAFTA 2007 Award Winners
Helen Mirren in The Queen (top); Forest Whitaker in The Last King of England (bottom)
Perhaps there’s something I’m missing here, but the Orange British Academy of Film and Television Arts has decided that Kevin Macdonald’s The Last King of Scotland is the outstanding British film of 2006, coming out ahead of United 93, Notes on a Scandal, Casino Royale, and Stephen Frears‘ The Queen. Yet, that very same Orange Academy has picked The Queen as the best film of the year, defeating Little Miss Sunshine, Babel, The Departed, and … The Last King of Scotland. Go figure.
There were few surprises at the 2007 Bafta ceremony held at London’s Royal Opera House this evening, unless one considers a Helen Mirren victory [...]
by Andre Soares | February 11, 2007
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Tags: Andrea Arnold, Anne V. Coates, BAFTA 2007, Eva Green, Film Awards, Forest Whitaker, Helen Mirren, Jennifer Hudson, Little Miss Sunshine, Pan's Labyrinth, Peter Morgan, Stephen Frears, The Last King of Scotland, The Queen
