Ben Whishaw Articles

BEST ACTOR George Clooney, Up in the Air A professional downsizer finds the frequent-flying love of his life while having to come to terms with his long-lost humanity. Matt Damon, The Informant! A pathological liar helps the FBI nab his employer, a dishonest agribusiness conglomerate. Daniel Day-Lewis, Nine (with Marion Cotillard) In this musicalized remake of Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2, Daniel Day-Lewis plays the old [...]

Best Actor Tahar Rahim as a young man behind bars in A Prophet. Ben Whishaw as John Keats in Bright Star. André Dussollier as the elderly hero in Wild Grass. François Cluzet as a con man in In the Beginning.   Photos: Courtesy Festival de Cannes  

Palme d’Or 2009, Grand Prix, Special Jury Prize: Alain Resnais‘ romantic fantasy Wild Grass (adapted by Alex Reval and Laurent Herbiet from Christian Gailly’s novel), about a man who becomes intrigued by a younger woman Jacques Audiard’s tough prison drama A Prophet (written by Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Raouf Dafri, and Nicolas Peufaillit) Writer-director Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon, about a northern German community enmeshed [...]

Peter Bradshaw on Bright Star (with Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw, above) in The Guardian: "Jane Campion has put herself in line for her second Palme d’Or here at the Cannes film festival with a film which I think could be the best of her career; an affecting and deeply considered study of the last years in the short life of John Keats, and the [...]