Casino Royale Articles

Linda Christian, international actress and Tyrone Power's second wife, died Friday (July 22) in Palm Springs, California. Christian, who was 87, had been suffering from colon cancer. Linda Christian was born Blanca Rosa Henrietta Stella Welter Vorhauer on November 13, 1923, in Tampico, Mexico, to a Dutch oil executive and his German-Mexican wife. As a young girl, she traveled the world with her parents, according [...]

2007 Art Directors Guild Awards 2007 Art Directors Guild award nominations: January 18, 2007 2007 Art Directors Guild award winners: Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on February 17, 2007 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   Curse of the Golden Flower (top); Daniel Craig, Jeffrey Wright in Casino Royale (middle); Ivana Baquero in Pan's Labyrinth (bottom)   FEATURE FILMS Period Film * CURSE [...]

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 [...]

Helen Mirren, Sylvia Syms in The Queen (top); Daniel Craig in Casino Royale (bottom) Though usually more open to non-English-language films than the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Orange British Academy of Film and Television Arts failed to place either Pedro Almodóvar's Volver or Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth as one (or two) of this year's best film or best director [...]