Annette Bening Articles

Natalie Portman in Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan Best Actress: Natalie Portman, Black Swan Natalie Portman’s seriously distraught ballerina in Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan has been the North American critics’ favorite, winning nearly every Best Actress award from US and Canadian-based groups. As a plus, Black Swan has earned more than $200m worldwide to date, while Portman’s vehicle No Strings Attached fared surprisingly well early this [...]

Annette Bening (top); Cate Blanchett (bottom) Annette Bening, Cate Blanchett, and Javier Bardem are three more presenters at the 2011 Oscar ceremony. Academy governor Annette Bening is also a Best Actress nominee this year for Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right. She received her first nomination for her supporting role in The Grifters (1990); additionally, Bening was nominated in the Best Actress category for [...]

Annette Bening, Julianne Moore in Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right Of late, David Fincher’s The Social Network may have been lagging behind Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech in the United States, where American guilds have picked the British period drama as their top choice of 2010. But in Britain, the London Film Critics’ Circle has gone for Fincher’s American drama, handing it four [...]

Helena Bonham Carter, Colin Firth in Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech London Film Critics’ 2011 Nominations London Film Critics Winners: Annette Bening, Colin Firth, Lesley Manville FILM OF THE YEAR Black Swan (Fox) The Kids Are All Right (Universal) The King’s Speech (Momentum) * The Social Network (Sony) Toy Story 3 (Disney) THE ATTENBOROUGH AWARD: BRITISH FILM OF THE YEAR 127 Hours (Warner/Pathe) The Arbor [...]