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Saturn Awards 2009

2009 Saturn Awards
The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films’ 2009 Saturn Award winners: June 25, 2009
(”*” denotes the winner in each category)
 

Iron Man (top); Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2nd from top); Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2nd from bottom); Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (bottom)
 

FEATURE FILMS
Best Science Fiction Film
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Eagle Eye
The Incredible Hulk
Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
* Iron Man
Jumper
Best Fantasy Film
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Hancock
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Twilight [...]

SAG Awards 2009: Kate Winslet, Angelina Jolie, Diane Lane

Angelina Jolie

Kate Winslet, Anthony Hopkins

Josh Brolin, Diane Lane
Photos: Lester Cohen
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SAG Awards 2009: Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Penélope Cruz

Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt

Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick

Penélope Cruz, Kate Winslet
Photos: Kevin Mazur (Jolie/Pitt), Lester Cohen (Bacon/Sedgwick, Cruz/Winslet)
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Golden Globes 2009: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Susan Sarandon

Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Susan Sarandon © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Amy Adams © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Golden Globes 2009: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Sally Field

Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Kevin Connolly © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Sally Field © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

African-American Film Critics Awards 2008

2008 African-American Film Critics Association Awards
2008 African-American Film Critics winners: Dec. 19, 2008
 

 

Best Film: The Dark Knight
Runners-up:
2. Slumdog Millionaire
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
4. (tie) The Secret Life of Bees and Cadillac Records
6. Miracle at St. Anna
7. Milk
8. Seven Pounds
9. Doubt
10. Iron Man
Best Director: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Lead Actor: Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
Best Lead Actress: Angelina Jolie, Changeling
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Best Supporting Actress: Viola Davis, Doubt
Special Achievement Award: Melvin Van Pebbles
 
African-American Film Critics Association site
African-American Film Critics Association Awards: 2008
Film Awards: [...]

Satellite Awards 2008

2008 Satellite Awards
2008 International Press Academy’s Satellite Award nominations: November 30, 2008
2008 Satellite Award winners: December 14, 2008
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Freida Pinto in Slumdog Millionaire
 

Motion Picture, Drama
The Reader
* Slumdog Millionaire
Revolutionary Road
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Frozen River
Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
* Happy-Go-Lucky
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Tropic Thunder
In Bruges
Choke
Motion Picture, Foreign Language Film
Let the Right One In, Sweden
The Class, France
Sangre de mi Sangre, Argentina
Reprise, Norway
* Gomorrah, Italy
Caramel, Lebanon / France
Motion Picture, Animated Or Mixed Media
The Tale of Despereaux
Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!
* WALL-E
Bolt
Waltz with Bashir
The Sky Crawlers
Motion Picture, Documentary (tie)
* Man on Wire
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
Encounters at the End of the World
Religulous
* Anita O’Day The Life of a Jazz Singer
Waltz with Bashir
Director
Thomas McCarthy, The Visitor
Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
Gus Van [...]

2009 Golden Globe Nominations

Golden Globe record holder Meryl Streep in Mamma Mia! (top) and in Doubt (bottom)

The biggest surprise in the 2008 Golden Globe nominations’ list is that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association didn’t dig a spot for Nicole Kidman in Australia (which was totally shut out), especially considering that Kidman’s former husband Tom Cruise did garner a best supporting actor nod for Tropic Thunder. (Cruise’s nomination, by the way, elicited laughter from journalists present at the Golden Globes announcement ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Laughter also greeted James Franco’s nomination — not for Milk, mind you, but as best actor in a comedy or musical for Pineapple Express.)
Among other Golden Globe oddities was the fact that Milk [...]

Oscar 2008 Nominations: Foreigners and Those Missing in Action

Brad Pitt in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Oscar 2008 Nominations: Part I
Roger Deakins is competing against himself in the best cinematography category: for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and There Will Be Blood.
***
Jonny Greenwood’s much praised score for There Will Be Blood was deemed ineligible reportedly because "the majority of the music was not composed specifically for the film." Alan Menken’s score for Enchanted was also deemed ineligible because it was based on the "predominant use of songs" and not on actual scoring of dramatic/comedy scenes. There was no "best adapted/best song score" category this year — though apparently there should have been. (More at The Envelope.)
***
Best costume design nominee [...]

Berlin Film Festival 2007

Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie in The Good Shepherd (top); Cate Blanchett, George Clooney in The Good German (bottom)

English-language productions dominate the Berlin Film Festival’s 2007 official competition line-up. In all, 22 films are competing for the Golden Bear and four are being screened out of competition at this year’s Berlinale, which runs between Feb. 8-18.
Most of the English-language fare hails from the United States and the United Kingdom, in addition to several American or British co-productions with other nations.
Robert De Niro’s Cold War drama The Good Shepherd and Steven Soderbergh’s post-WWII murder mystery The Good German had been announced earlier in January. Both films have big names attached to them (Matt Damon [...]

ALEXANDER d: Oliver Stone

Alexander (2004)
Direction: Oliver Stone
Screenplay: Oliver Stone, Christopher Kyle, and Laeta Kalogridis
Cast: Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer, Jared Leto, Anthony Hopkins, Rosario Dawson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Christopher Plummer, Gary Stretch, Neil Jackson, Raz Degan
 

Colin Farrell in Alexander
 

Two-time Academy Award winning director Oliver Stone is no stranger to controversy. His latest polemic comes courtesy of the director’s first historical epic, Alexander, the story of the Macedonian ruler (356-323 BCE) who conquered most of the world known to the Ancient Greeks. The arguments thrown about both for and against the film are due to the fact that this (reportedly) US$150,000,000 production officially boasts a bisexual hero who not only is the supreme commander of a conquering army, but who also slaughters his [...]

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