DGA Awards 2009
2009 Directors Guild Awards
2009 DGA feature film nominations: January 8, 2009. Documentary and television nominations: January 9, 2009
2009 DGA award winners: Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, January 31, 2009
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Following his DGA win, Danny Boyle is the odds-on favorite to win the best director Academy Award. In fact, Boyle has been the odds-on favorite for quite some time. In any case, since the DGA Awards’ inception in 1949 only eight times has the DGA winner failed to win the best director Oscar. (Actually, more like six times as there was some overlapping in the 1948-49 selections. Check out the DGA Awards/the Oscars.) Slumdog Millionaire has also won the Producers Guild Award.
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by Deborah Arthur | January 31, 2009
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Tags: Ari Folman, Christopher Nolan, Danny Boyle, David Fincher, DGA Awards, Film Awards, Gus Van Sant, James Marsh, Slumdog Millionaire, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, Waltz with Bashir
National Society of Film Critics 2009 Winners
An animated film has won the National Society of Film Critics 2009 Awards. No, not WALL-E, but Ari Folman’s anti-war documentary-ish Waltz with Bashir, about Israel’s disastrous 1982 invasion of Lebanon. It’s hard not to believe that current events — the Gaza conflict has been going on since late December — influenced the vote, though war or no war in the Middle East, Waltz with Bashir has been garnering nearly universal praise.
Waltz with Bashir, which had previously won the Los Angeles Film Critics‘ best animated film award (a sort of consolation prize for having lost to WALL-E in the best film category), is Israel’s entry for the 2009 best foreign-language film Oscar; the film is also one of [...]
by Andre Soares | January 3, 2009
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Tags: Anthony Dod Mantle, Ari Folman, Film Awards, Hanna Schygulla, Happy-Go-Lucky, James Marsh, Man on Wire, Mike Leigh, National Society of Film Critics Awards, Sally Hawkins, The Edge of Heaven, Waltz with Bashir
International Documentary Association Awards 2008
2008 International Documentary Association Awards
2008 International Documentary Association winners: December 06, 2008
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Feature Documentary (tie)
Kassim The Dream
Director/Producer: Kief Davidson
Producer: Liz Silver
Executive Producers: Forest Whitaker, Keisha Whitaker, Joshua Green
Believe Media, Urban Landscapes, Monaco Film Hamburg, ARTE/ZDF Enterprises
* Man on Wire
Director: James Marsh
Producer: Simon Chinn
Red Box Films, Wall to Wall, Discovery Films, BBC, UK Film Council, Magnolia Pictures
Stranded: I’ve come from a plane that crashed in the mountains
Director: Gonzalo Arijón
Producer: Mark Silvera
Ethan Productions, La Realidad, ARTE France, ITVS International, Zeitgeist Films
* Waltz with Bashir
Director/Producer: Ari Folman
Producers: Yael Nahlieli, Serge Lalou, Gerhard Meixner, [...]
by Deborah Arthur | December 6, 2008
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Tags: Ari Folman, Documentaries, Film Awards, International Documentary Association Awards, Isabel Vega, James Marsh, La Corona, Man on Wire, Waltz with Bashir, Young @ Heart