Visual Effects Society Awards 2007

2007 Visual Effects Society Awards
2007 Visual Effects Society award nominations: January 8, 2007
2007 Visual Effects Society award winners: Kodak Grand Ballroom in Hollywood on February 11, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

With special effects provided by Industrial Light & Magic, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest won in six categories at the 2007 Visual Effects Society awards ceremony held at the Kodak Grand Ballroom at Hollywood and Highland in Los Angeles. Massacred by critics, the adventure tale starring Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom was a big box-office hit nonetheless. Perhaps presenter John Landis was thinking of the night’s big winner while remarking about the difference between old and new movies with special effects. Landis said that when he [...]

by Andre Soares | February 11, 2007   
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Annie Awards 2007

2007 Annie Awards
2007 International Animated Film Society’s Annie Award nominations: December 4, 2006
2007 Annie Award winners: Alex Theatre in Glendale on February 11, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Pixar’s Cars, directed by John Lasseter and Joe Ranft, won the 2007 Annie Award for best animated feature film at the 34th International Animated Film Society Awards. Additionally, Cars won the Annie for best music in an animated feature for Randy Newman’s score. Flushed Away, however, turned out to be the evening’s top winner. The DreamWorks Animation/Aardman Animations feature about life in the London sewers, won a total of five Annies including best animated effects and best "voice acting" for Ian McKellen, who plays the character Toad. Curiously, Flushed Away was [...]

by Andre Soares | February 11, 2007   
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2007 Producers Guild Award Winners

Little Miss Sunshine was the surprise feature-film winner at the 2007 Producers Guild Awards.
The (superficially) offbeat family comedy directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, and written by Michael Arndt has also been nominated for the Directors Guild Award and for the Screen Actors Guild Award for best ensemble, which includes Alan Arkin, Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, and Abigail Breslin (above, in red).
Five individuals — Marc Turtletaub, David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf, Albert Berger, and Ron Yerxa – were considered the official producers of the film. That will probably give the Academy some grief when Little Miss Sunshine receives its inevitable Oscar nomination for best picture next Tuesday. Academy rules allow only three producers to be credited [...]

by Andre Soares | January 21, 2007   
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Producers Guild Awards 2007

2007 Producers Guild Awards
2007 Producers Guild of America episodic television nominees: December 5, 2006. Feature-film and long-form television nominees: January 3, 2007
Producers Guild’s 2007 Golden Laurel winners: Los Angeles on January 20, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Abigail Breslin, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Greg Kinnear in Little Miss Sunshine
 

The Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures
BABEL (Paramount Vantage)
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Steve Golin
Jon Kilik
THE DEPARTED (Warner Bros.)
Graham King
DREAMGIRLS (Dreamworks SKG/Paramount Pictures)
Laurence Mark
* LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE (Fox Searchlight)
Marc Turtletaub
David T. Friendly
Peter Saraf
Albert Berger & Ron Yerxa
THE QUEEN (Miramax Films)
Andy Harries
Christine Langan
Tracey Seaward
 
The Producers Guild of America Producer of the Year Award in Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures
* CARS (Walt Disney [...]

by Andre Soares | January 20, 2007   
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Iowa Film Critics Awards 2007

2007 Iowa Film Critics Association Awards
2007 Iowa Film Critics Association award winners: January 10, 2007
 

Kate Winslet in Little Children
 

Best Film: Little Children directed by Todd Field
Best Animated Film: Cars directed by John Lasseter and Joe Ranft
Best Director: Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen
Best Supporting Actor: Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children
Best Supporting Actress: Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
The Best Movie Yet to Open in Iowa: Pan’s Labyrinth directed by Guillermo del Toro
 
Iowa Film Critics Association Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
 

by Andre Soares | January 11, 2007   
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Oklahoma Film Critics Awards 2006

2006 Oklahoma Film Critics Circle Awards
2006 Oklahoma Film Critics Circle award winners: December 24, 2006
 

 

Best Film: United 93 directed by Paul Greengrass
Runner-up: The Departed directed by Martin Scorsese
Others in the top ten (in alphabetical order):
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Casino Royale
Half Nelson
The Last King of Scotland
Little Children
Little Miss Sunshine
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Queen
Best Foreign-Language Film: Pan’s Labyrinth directed by Guillermo del Toro
Best Director: Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen
Runner-up: Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal
Best Supporting Actor: Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children
Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
Best Documentary: An Inconvenient Truth directed by Davis [...]

by Andre Soares | December 24, 2006   
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2007 Annie Awards: Nominations

John Lasseter and Joe Ranft’s Cars (above, top photo), set in the back roads of the United States, and Flushed Away (above, lower photo), the story of an upscale rat who gets flushed down into the sewers of London, received the most nominations — nine in all — for the International Animated Film Society’s 2007 Annie Awards, announced Monday, Dec. 4.
Cars received a best animated feature nod, though Flushed Away was strangely absent from that category in spite of nominations for directors David Bowers and Sam Fell, and for screenwriter Will Davies.
George Miller’s Australia-U.S. co-production and box-office hit Happy Feet, about a genetically impaired penguin that tap dances, received two nods: best animated feature and writing in an [...]

by Andre Soares | December 6, 2006   
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