BEING JULIA – Annette Bening, Jeremy Irons

Being Julia (2004)
Direction: István Szabó
Screenplay: Ronald Harwood; from W. Somerset Maugham’s 1937 novel Theatre
Cast: Annette Bening, Jeremy Irons, Shaun Evans, Bruce Greenwood, Miriam Margolyes, Juliet Stevenson, Lucy Punch, Michael Gambon, Sheila McCarthy, Leigh Lawson, Rosemary Harris, Rita Tushingham
 

 

A LITTLE ABOUT AVICE
In Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s 1950 Oscar-winning classic All About Eve, Bette Davis plays Margo Channing, a major Broadway star who, despite her talent and wit, falls prey to the ambitious wannabe Eve Harrington: sweet, soft-spoken Anne Baxter on the outside, ruthless, poisonous gargoyle on the inside.
More than a decade earlier, in 1937 to be exact, W. Somerset Maugham had written Theatre, a novel about a West End star, the stage diva Julia Lambert (that four years later would [...]

by Andre Soares | December 26, 2004   
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Southeastern Film Critics Awards 2004

2004 Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards
2004 Southeastern Film Critics Association winners: December 20, 2004
 

Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church in Sideways
 

BEST FILM Sideways
Runners-up:
Million Dollar Baby
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Kinsey
The Incredibles
Finding Neverland
Ray
The Aviator
Hotel Rwanda
Before Sunset
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM Maria Full of Grace
Runner-up: A Very Long Engagement
BEST DIRECTOR Alexander Payne, Sideways
Runner-up: Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby
BEST ACTOR Jamie Foxx, Ray
Runner-up: Paul Giamatti, Sideways
BEST ACTRESS Annette Bening, Being Julia
Runner-up: Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Thomas Haden Church, Sideways
Runner-up: Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Virginia Madsen, Sideways
Runner-up: Laura Linney, Kinsey
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Charlie Kaufman
Runner-up: [...]

by Andre Soares | December 20, 2004   
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