Ben Foster Articles

Ben Foster, Contraband According to Deadline.com, this four-day Martin Luther King holiday weekend the North American box office could reach $165 million — or up about 4% compared to last year. Considering the disappointing returns in late 2011, a modest increase is good news indeed for the jittery Hollywood studios. Helping things out are the Mark Wahlberg crime thriller Contraband, which earned an estimated $9 [...]

Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson in The Messenger There were quite a few surprises among the nominees for the St. Louis Film Critics Association 2009 Awards. I mean, Kim So Yong's Treeless Mountain for best foreign language film? Jeff Stilson's Good Hair for best documentary? Wes Anderson (Fantastic Mr. Fox) and Oren Moverman (The Messenger) for best director? Patton Oswald (Big Fan) and Ben Foster (The [...]

2009 Gotham Awards 2009 Gotham Award nominations: Oct. 19, 2009 2009 Gotham Award winners: Nov. 30, 2009 in New York City ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   The Hurt Locker by Kathryn Bigelow   Best Feature Amreeka Cherien Dabis, director; Christina Piovesan, Paul Barkin, producers (National Geographic Entertainment) Big Fan Robert Siegel, director; Jean Kouremetis, Elan Bogarin, producers (First Independent Pictures) * The [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnm885kLggY[/youtube] Directed by Oren Moverman, and written by Moverman and Alessandro Camon, The Messenger stars Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton and Jena Malone. The film chronicles the emotional struggles of an American soldier after he becomes involved with the widow of a fallen officer. The Messenger won both the Silver Bear for best screenplay and the Peace Award at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival, [...]