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Marley Beats Brad Pitt, Adam Sandler, and Tom Cruise

David Frankel’s comedy Marley & Me raced to the top of the North American box office this weekend with $37 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Starring Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston as a couple struggling to keep their dog in check, Marley & Me lifted its domestic total to an impressive $51.6 million after only four days in release.

At No. 2, Adam Sandler’s latest comedy Bedtime Stories took home $28 million, reaching a cumulative gross of $38.5 million. The Adam Shankman-directed effort follows a hotel handyman whose bedtime stories come true the next day.

Meanwhile, David Fincher’s acclaimed drama The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, starring Brad Pitt [...]

Australian Film Institute Awards 2008

2008 Australian Film Institute Awards
2008 Australian Film Institute Award nominations: Oct. 29, 2008
2008 Australian Film Institute Award winners: Dec. 5 ("industry" categories) and Dec. 6 (top categories), 2008
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Elissa Down’s feature-film debut, The Black Balloon, chronicles the difficulties encountered by a teenager (Rhys Wakefield) whose younger brother (Luke Ford) is autistic. With the help of his girlfriend (Gemma Ward), the teen struggles to come to terms with the issue.
 

FEATURE FILM NOMINEES
L’Oréal Paris AFI Award for Best Film
* The Black Balloon. Tristram Miall
The Jammed. Dee McLachlan, Andrea Buck & Sally Ayre-Smith
The Square. Louise Smith
Unfinished Sky. Cathy Overett & Anton Smit
AFI Award for Best Direction
* The Black Balloon. [...]

THE AVIATOR Screening

Martin Scorsese’s 2004 Best Picture nominee The Aviator is the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ "Great To Be Nominated" series. The handsome but vapid Howard Hughes biopic will be screened on Monday, July 28, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Following the screening, cast members Alec Baldwin, Jacob Davich, J.C. Mackenzie, and Amy Sloan, production sound mixer Petur Hliddal, special effects supervisor R. Bruce Steinheimer, and miniature effects supervisor Matthew Gratzner will take part in a discussion about the film.
The US$100-million-plus The Aviator wasn’t quite the hoped-for critical and box-office hit, though the biopic won numerous accolades and did good business thanks to the casting of Leonardo DiCaprio [...]

Oscar 2008: Cate Blanchett, Jon McLaughlin, Owen Wilson

Jon McLaughlin performs "So Close" from Enchanted

Cate Blanchett

Owen Wilson
Photos: Darren Decker / © A.M.P.A.S.
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Oscar 2008: Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Penelope Cruz, Amy Adams

Cate Blanchett

Anne Hathaway

Penélope Cruz

Amy Adams
Photos: Matt Petit (Adams), Richard Harbaugh (Blanchett), Michael Yada (Hathaway), Armando Flores (Cruz). All photos: © A.M.P.A.S.

Spirit Awards 2008

2008 Spirit Awards
Film Independent’s 2008 Spirit Award nominations: November 27, 2007
2008 Spirit Award winners: February 23, 2008
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Ellen Page in Juno
 

BEST FEATURE (Award given to the Producer)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Producers: Kathleen Kennedy, Jon Kilik
I’m Not There, Producers: Christine Vachon, John Sloss, John Goldwyn, James D. Stern
* Juno, Producers: Lianne Halfon, John Malkovich, Mason Novick, Russell Smith
A Mighty Heart, Producers: Dede Gardner, Andrew Eaton, Brad Pitt
Paranoid Park, Producers: Neil Kopp, David Cress
BEST FOREIGN FILM (Award given to the director)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Director: Cristian Mungiu (Romania)
The Band’s Visit, Director: Eran Kolirin (Israel)
Lady Chatterley, Director: Pascale Ferran (France)
* Once, Director: John Carney (Ireland)
Persepolis, Directors: Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi (France)
BEST FIRST [...]

Richard Attenborough Film Awards 2008

2008 Richard Attenborough Film Awards
2008 regional British film critics’ Richard Attenborough Film Award winners: Jan. 30, 2008
 

James McAvoy in Atonement
 

Film of the Year: Atonement
Best Director: Joe Wright, Atonement
Best Actress: Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Best Actor: James McAvoy, Atonement
Best Screenwriter: Christopher Hampton, Atonement
Rising Star Award: Sam Riley, Control
 
People’s Choice Awards
Film of the Year: The Bourne Ultimatum
 
Richard Attenborough Film Awards: 2007 2008
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Oscar 2008: Cate Blanchett, Foreign-Language Films

Joe Dziemianowicz in the New York Daily News:
"Who says it’s never as good as the first time! Cate Blanchett, up for leading actress for playing QE1 in Elizabeth: The Golden Age, was up for the same award for the same role in 1998’s Elizabeth. She joins an elite club that includes Al Pacino — he was nominated twice playing Michael Corleone in The Godfather and the first sequel."
***
Others who earned two Oscar nods for the same role: Bing Crosby as Father O’Malley in Going My Way (1944, he won) and The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945); Paul Newman as Fast Eddie Felson in The Hustler (1961) and The Color of Money (1986, he won); and Peter O’Toole as Henry II [...]

Oscar 2008 Nominations

Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men

A few brief remarks about the Oscar 2008 nominations:
The top nominees are: There Will Be Blood (8 nominations), No Country for Old Men (8), Atonement (7), Michael Clayton (7), Ratatouille (5), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (4), Juno (4).
***
Whether in dramas or in comedies, dark themes dominated in just about every category:

greed (There Will Be Blood, American Gangster),
murder (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Sweeney Todd, Eastern Promises, No Country for Old Men, In the Valley of Elah),
corruption (Michael Clayton, Sicko, Charlie Wilson’s War),
war (No End in Sight, War/Dance, Beaufort, Katyn),
illness (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Savages, Away from Her),
political/religious [...]

Golden Globes 2008

2008 Golden Globes
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s 2008 Golden Globe nominations: December 13, 2007
2008 Golden Globe Award winners: January 13, 2008
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Keira Knightley, James McAvoy in Atonement
 

MOTION PICTURES
Best Motion Picture – Drama
American Gangster, Imagine Entertainment/Scott Free Productions; Universal Pictures
* Atonement, Working Title Productions; Focus Features
Eastern Promises, Kudos Pictures — UK Serendipity Point Films — Canada A UK/Canada Co-Production; Focus Features
The Great Debaters, Harpo Films; The Weinstein Company/MGM
Michael Clayton, Clayton Productions LLC; Warner Bros. Pictures
No Country for Old Men, A Scott Rudin/Mike Zoss Production; Miramax/Paramount Vantage
There Will Be Blood, A Joanne Sellar/Ghoulardi Film Company Production; Paramount Vantage and Miramax Films
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Across The Universe, Revolution Studios International; Sony Pictures Releasing
Charlie Wilson’s War, [...]

Central Ohio Film Critics Awards 2008

2008 Central Ohio Film Critics Association Awards
2008 Central Ohio Film Critics Association award winners: January 11, 2008
 

Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men
 

Best Film: No Country for Old Men by Joel and Ethan Coen
Runners-up:
Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others
Juno
Once
There Will Be Blood
Lars and the Real Girl
3:10 to Yuma
The Savages
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Le Scaphandre et le papillon / The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Foreign Language Film: The Lives of Others by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Runner-Up: El Orfanato / The Orphanage
Best Documentary: The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters by Seth Gordon
Runners-Up (tie): In the Shadow of the Moon and No End in Sight
Best Director: Joel [...]

National Society of Film Critics Awards 2008

2008 National Society of Film Critics Awards
2008 National Society of Film Critics award winners: New York City on January 5, 2008
The numbers in parentheses represent the points earned by each individual/film.
 

Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood
 

Best Picture
There Will Be Blood (48) – Paul Thomas Anderson
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (28) – Julian Schnabel
No Country for Old Men (27) – Joel and Ethan Coen
Best Foreign-Language Film
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (57) – Cristian Mungiu
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (42) – Julian Schnabel
Persepolis (18) – Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson (47) – There Will Be Blood
Joel and Ethan Coen (29) – No Country for Old Men
Julian [...]

VILLAGE VOICE/LA WEEKLY 2007 Film Poll: Javier Bardem, Cate Blanchett

VILLAGE VOICE/LA WEEKLY 2007 Film Poll: Part I
Best Supporting Actor:

1 Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
2 Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
3 Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild
4 Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson’s War
5 Paul Dano, There Will Be Blood
6 Vlad Ivanov, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
7 Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton
8 Max von Sydow, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
9 Steve Zahn, Rescue Dawn
10 Christopher Mintz-Plasse, [...]

Las Vegas Film Critics Awards 2007

2007 Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards
2007 Las Vegas Film Critics Society award winners: December 20, 2007
 

Tommy Lee Jones in No Country for Old Men

 
Best Picture: No Country for Old Men by Joel and Ethan Coen
Runners-Up:
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
3:10 to Yuma
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Zodiac
Into the Wild
Juno
Eastern Promises
The Lookout
Sunshine
Best Foreign Film: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Julian Schnabel
Best Documentary: Sicko by Michael Moore
Best Director: Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Best Actress: Ellen Page, Juno
Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett, I’m Not There
Best Screenplay: Diablo Cody, Juno
Best Animated Film: Ratatouille [...]

Toronto Film Critics Awards 2007

2007 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
2007 Toronto Film Critics Association Award winners: December 18, 2007
 

Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men
 

Best Film: No Country for Old Men by Joel and Ethan Coen
Runners-up: Eastern Promises; Zodiac
Best Foreign-Language Film: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days by Cristian Mungiu
Runners-up: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly; The Lives of Others
Best Canadian Film: Away from Her by Sarah Polley
Runners-up: Eastern Promises; Radiant City
Best Documentary: No End in Sight by Charles Ferguson
Runners-up: Iraq in Fragments; My Kid Could Paint That
Best Director: Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Runners-up: David Cronenberg, Eastern Promises; David Fincher, Zodiac
Best Actor: Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises
Runners-up: George Clooney, Michael Clayton; Gordon Pinsent, Away from Her
Best Actress (tie): [...]

New York Film Critics Online Awards 2007

2007 New York Film Critics Online Awards
2007 New York Film Critics Online Award winners: December 9, 2007
 

Max von Sydow, Mathieu Amalric in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (top); There Will Be Blood by Paul Thomas Anderson (bottom)
 

BEST PICTURE (tie)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
There Will Be Blood
Runners-up (alphabetical)
Atonement (Focus Features)
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (THINKFilm)
The Darjeeling Limited (Fox Searchlight)
I’m Not There (The Weinstein Company)
Juno (Fox Searchlight)
Michael Clayton (Warner Bros.)
No Country for Old Men (Miramax)
Persepolis (Sony Pictures Classics)
Sweeney Todd (DreamWorks)
BEST FOREIGN PICTURE (tie)
The Lives of Others by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Sicko by Michael Moore
BEST DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson — There Will Be Blood
BEST ACTOR
Daniel Day-Lewis — There Will Be Blood
BEST ACTRESS
Julie [...]

Chicago Film Critics Awards 2007

2007 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
2007 Chicago Film Critics Association Award nominations: December 10, 2007
2007 Chicago Film Critics Association Award winners: December 12, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men
 

BEST PICTURE
Into the Wild
Michael Clayton
* No Country for Old Men
Once
There Will Be Blood
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
* 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Black Book
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
La Vie en Rose
Lust, Caution
The Orphanage
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Darfur Now
The King of Kong
Lake of Fire
No End in Sight
* Sicko
BEST DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson — There Will Be Blood
* Joel and Ethan Coen — No Country for Old Men
David Fincher — Zodiac
Tony Gilroy — Michael Clayton
Jason Reitman — Juno
BEST ACTOR
George Clooney — Michael Clayton
Ryan Gosling — Lars and the Real Girl
Frank [...]

Berlin 2007: Cinema for Peace

Goodbye Bafana by Bille August

At Berlin’s Cinema for Peace charity event attended by Richard Gere, Catherine Deneuve, Christopher Lee, and Bob Geldorf this past Monday, a one-minute segment from a short video by Sergiu Matei was shown. Matei’s film depicts a Sept. 30, 2006, incident in which Chinese border police opened fire on Tibetan refugees attempting to flee the country.
Gere, a relentless Tibet advocate, stated that as this year’s head of the (do-nothing) G8, Germany has the "responsibility to encourage China to become part of the modern world [where] these kinds of actions and policies can not be tolerated." (Considering the atrocities perpetrated in and/or by the "modern world," I’m assuming that Gere must have been joking.)
Cinema for Peace award [...]

NOTES ON A SCANDAL – Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett

Notes on a Scandal (2006)
Direction: Richard Eyre
Screenplay: Patrick Marber; from Zoe Heller’s novel
Cast: Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Bill Nighy, Andrew Simpson, Phil Davis, Anne-Marie Duff
 

Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench in Notes on a Scandal
 

Directed by Richard Eyre, Notes on a Scandal is a must-see for those who enjoy a cleverly constructed plot that explores human relationships to the core.
Jaded older teacher Barbara Covett (Judi Dench) contrives to ensnare young and beautiful new teacher Bathsheba Hart (Cate Blanchett). In the meantime, 15-year old student Steve Connolly (Andrew Simpson) entices Bathsheba into a turbulent affair, while Sheba’s husband (Bill Nighy) and children all tear at Sheba’s loyalties.
Credible characters fill Patrick Marber’s clever script (from Zoe Heller’s novel): The management-minded headmaster, the happily [...]

Martin Scorsese’s Oscar Nominated Actors

Martin Scorsese
20 Acting Nominations
(s) supporting category
(*) Academy Award winner
Martin Scorsese: Top Oscar Directors for Actors
 
1974

Ellen Burstyn Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore *
Diane Ladd (s) Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
 
1976

Robert De Niro Taxi Driver
Jodie Foster (s) Taxi Driver
 
1980

Robert De Niro Raging Bull *
Joe Pesci (s) Raging Bull
Cathy Moriarty (s) Raging Bull
 
1986
Paul Newman The Color of Money *
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (s) The Color of Money
 
1990
Joe Pesci (s) Goodfellas *
Lorraine Bracco (s) Goodfellas
 
1991

Robert De Niro Cape Fear
Juliette Lewis (s) Cape Fear
 
1993
Winona Ryder (s) The Age of Innocence
 
1995
Sharon Stone Casino
 
2002

Daniel Day-Lewis Gangs of New York
 
2004

Leonardo DiCaprio The Aviator
Cate Blanchett (s) The Aviator *
 
2006
Mark Wahlberg (s) The Departed

Berlin Film Festival 2007

Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie in The Good Shepherd (top); Cate Blanchett, George Clooney in The Good German (bottom)

English-language productions dominate the Berlin Film Festival’s 2007 official competition line-up. In all, 22 films are competing for the Golden Bear and four are being screened out of competition at this year’s Berlinale, which runs between Feb. 8-18.
Most of the English-language fare hails from the United States and the United Kingdom, in addition to several American or British co-productions with other nations.
Robert De Niro’s Cold War drama The Good Shepherd and Steven Soderbergh’s post-WWII murder mystery The Good German had been announced earlier in January. Both films have big names attached to them (Matt Damon [...]

Vancouver Film Critics Awards 2007

2007 Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards
2007 Vancouver Film Critics Circle nominations: January 9, 2007
2007 Vancouver Film Critics Circle winners: Vancity Theatre on January 15, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Clive Owen in Children of Men
 

Best Film:
* Children of Men
The Departed
Little Children
Best Canadian Film:
Away from Her
Manufactured Landscapes
* Maurice Richard / The Rocket
Monkey Warfare
Best Foreign-Language Film:
L’Enfant / The Child
Letters from Iwo Jima
* Volver
Best British Columbian Film:
Everything’s Gone Green
* Fido
Mount Pleasant
Unnatural & Accidental
Best Director:
* Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men
Clint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo Jima
Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Best Director of a Canadian Film:
Andrew Currie, Fido
* Reg Harkema, Monkey Warfare
Sarah Polley, Away from Her
Best Actor:
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Departed
Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
* Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Best [...]

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 [...]

Florida Film Critics Awards 2006

2006 Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
2006 Florida Film Critics Circle Award winners: December 22, 2006
 

Leonardo DiCaprio in The Departed
 

Best Film: The Departed directed by Martin Scorsese
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
Best Supporting Actor: Jack Nicholson, The Departed
Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
Best Screenplay: William Monahan, The Departed
Best Non-Fiction Film: An Inconvenient Truth by Davis Guggenheim
Best Animated Film: Monster House directed by Gil Kenan
Best Cinematography: Guillermo Navarro, Pan’s Labyrinth
Pauline Kael Breakout Award: Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Golden Orange for Outstanding Contribution to Film: Billy Corben and Alfred Spellman, director and producer [...]

Toronto Film Critics Awards 2006

2006 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
2006 Toronto Film Critics Association award nominations: Dec. 16, 2006
2006 Toronto Film Critics Association Award winners: December 20, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Michael Sheen, Helen Mirren in The Queen
 

BEST PICTURE
The Departed
* The Queen
United 93
BEST CANADIAN FILM
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen
* Manufactured Landscapes
Monkey Warfare
Six Figures
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
* L’Enfant / The Child
Pan’s Labyrinth
Volver
BEST FIRST FEATURE
Brick, directed by Rian Johnson
Little Miss Sunshine, directed by Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris
* Thank You for Smoking, directed by Jason Reitman
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Deliver Us from Evil
An Inconvenient Truth
* Manufactured Landscapes
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
* Happy Feet
Over the Hedge
A Scanner Darkly
BEST DIRECTOR (tie)
* Jean-Pierre Dardenne and [...]

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