American Society of Cinematographers Awards 2007

2007 American Society of Cinematographers Awards
American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) award 2007 feature-film nominations: January 11, 2007
2007 ASC award winners: Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on February 18, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Children of Men
 

Feature Films
* Emmanuel Lubezki, ASC, AMC, (Children of Men)
Dick Pope, BSC (The Illusionist)
Robert Richardson, ASC (The Good Shepherd)
Dean Semler, ASC, ACS (Apocalypto)
Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC (The Black Dahlia)
Motion Picture, Miniseries or Pilot Made for Television
Thomas A. Del Ruth, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (Pilot)
Adam Kane, Heroes (Pilot)
Walt Lloyd, The Librarian, "Return to King Solomon’s Mines"
Bill Roe, Day Break (Pilot)
* John Stokes, Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King, "Umney’s Last Case"
Regular Television Series (one episode)
Eagle [...]

by Andre Soares | February 18, 2007   
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Oscar 2007: Makeup Symposium in Hollywood

Doug Jones in Pan’s Labyrinth (top); Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto (middle); Christopher Walken in Click (bottom)

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will for the first time present the 2007 Oscar nominees in the makeup category at a special symposium at 2 p.m. on Saturday, February 24, at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood.
The Makeup Symposium will be hosted by Makeup Branch Governor Leonard Engelman, whose film credits include The Witches of Eastwick, Batman Forever, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
The event will screen clips of each nominated film, and audience members will be able to ask questions to the nominated makeup artists (subject to availability), who will also take part in a panel discussion.
The 2007 nominees for [...]

by Andre Soares | February 2, 2007   
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Oscar 2007: Best Makeup Longlist

Ivana Baquero, Doug Jones in Pan’s Labyrinth (top); X-Men: The Last Stand (middle); Martin Short in The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (bottom)

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the seven films up for the 2007 best makeup Academy Award.
They are (in alphabetical order):

Apocalypto
Click
Pan’s Labyrinth
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
The Prestige
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
X-Men: The Last Stand

On Saturday, Jan. 20, the Academy’s Makeup Award Nominating Committee will view ten-minute excerpts from each of the listed films. Following the screenings, members will vote to nominate three [...]

by Andre Soares | January 10, 2007   
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Golden Globes 2007: Foreign-Language Film Screenings

Penélope Cruz in Volver (top); Martina Gedeck in The Lives of Others (middle); Pan’s Labyrinth (bottom)

The American Cinematheque and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will present all five foreign-language films nominated for the 2007 Golden Globe Awards at The Aero’s Max Palevsky Theatre in Santa Monica.
The five nominees are:

Apocalypto (U.S.)
El Laberinto del fauno / Pan’s Labyrinth (Spain / Mexico / U.S.)
Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others (Germany)
Letters from Iwo Jima (U.S.)
Volver (Spain)

Invited guests (to be confirmed) for each screening are directors Pedro Almodóvar, Guillermo del Toro, Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson, and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, all of whom should also take part in a round-table discussion moderated by Screen International U.S. editor [...]

by Andre Soares | January 4, 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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2007 Golden Globes: Nominations

Following the announcement of the 2007 Golden Globe nominations early yesterday morning, I watched three entertainment "journalists" discussing the choices of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) as if they meant significantly more than the outcome of good marketing tools.
In all fairness, the same can be said about nearly every other group, no matter how self-important, that gives out film awards. After all, their choices are usually the result of p.r. and marketing strategies, past or expected box-office revenues, and personal or professional politics.
That said, those types of biases — who, when, where is giving out awards to which films and individuals — are exactly what make those myriad film awards worth reporting. By looking at the choices, [...]

by Andre Soares | December 15, 2006   
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