Scripter Award 2007

2007 USC Scripter Awards
2007 Scripter Award winners: Feb. 18, 2007
("*" denotes the winner)
 

Clive Owen, Julianne Moore in Children of Men
 

* Children of Men — David Arata, Alfonso Cuarón, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby and Timothy J. Sexton (screenwriters); P.D. James (author)
The Devil Wears Prada — Aline Brosh McKenna (screenwriter); Lauren Weisberger (author)
The Illusionist — Neil Berger (screenwriter); Steven Millhauser (author)
The Last King of Scotland — Jeremy Brock and Peter Morgan (screenwriters); Giles Foden (author)
Notes on a Scandal — Patrick Marber (screenwriter); Zoe Heller (author)
 
USC Scripter Awards
USC Scripter Awards: 2005 2006 2007 2008
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
 

by Andre Soares | February 18, 2007   
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American Society of Cinematographers Awards 2007

2007 American Society of Cinematographers Awards
American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) award 2007 feature-film nominations: January 11, 2007
2007 ASC award winners: Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on February 18, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Children of Men
 

Feature Films
* Emmanuel Lubezki, ASC, AMC, (Children of Men)
Dick Pope, BSC (The Illusionist)
Robert Richardson, ASC (The Good Shepherd)
Dean Semler, ASC, ACS (Apocalypto)
Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC (The Black Dahlia)
Motion Picture, Miniseries or Pilot Made for Television
Thomas A. Del Ruth, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (Pilot)
Adam Kane, Heroes (Pilot)
Walt Lloyd, The Librarian, "Return to King Solomon’s Mines"
Bill Roe, Day Break (Pilot)
* John Stokes, Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King, "Umney’s Last Case"
Regular Television Series (one episode)
Eagle [...]

by Andre Soares | February 18, 2007   
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2007 Vancouver Film Critics Winners

The Vancouver Film Critics Circle has picked its 2006 winners, which were announced yesterday.
Among them are Children of Men (above, with Clive Owen) as best film — the second time a North American critics’ group has chosen Alfonso Cuarón’s dystopic drama as the top picture of 2006 (the Central Ohio film critics also went for it) — Cuarón as best director, and veteran Alan Arkin as best supporting actor for his bigoted, drug-addicted, but oh-so-loving grandpa in Little Miss Sunshine.
Forest Whitaker and Helen Mirren took best acting honors for, respectively, The Last King of Scotland and The Queen. Cate Blanchett was the best supporting actress for Notes on a Scandal.

In the Canadian film categories, the best picture award went to [...]

by Andre Soares | January 16, 2007   
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American Society of Cinematographers Awards 2007 Nominations

Children of Men (top); Edward Norton, Jessica Biel in The Illusionist (middle); Matt Damon, Alec Baldwin in The Good Shepherd (bottom)

The feature-film nominees for the 2007 American Society of Cinematographers Award are critics’ fave Emmanuel Lubezki (Children of Men), plus Dick Pope (The Illusionist), Robert Richardson, (The Good Shepherd), Dean Semler (Apocalypto), and veteran Vilmos Zsigmond (The Black Dahlia), who has been shooting films — among them Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Deer Hunter — since the early 1960s.
The above list include the eighth ASC nomination for Richardson; the third for Zsigmond, who won in 1993 for the telefilm Stalin; the second for Lubezki and Semler; and the first for Pope.
Dean Semler’s nod marks [...]

by Andre Soares | January 11, 2007   
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Central Ohio Film Critics Awards 2007

2007 Central Ohio Film Critics Association Awards
2007 Central Ohio Film Critics Association award winners: January 11, 2007
 

Clive Owen, Michael Caine in Children of Men
 

Best Film: Children of Men directed by Alfonso Cuarón
Runner-Up: The Departed directed by Martin Scorsese
Others in the Top Ten:
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Pan’s Labyrinth
Little Miss Sunshine
Brick
United 93
Babel
Thank You for Smoking
Casino Royale
Best Foreign Language Film: Pan’s Labyrinth directed by Guillermo del Toro
Runner-Up: Letters from Iwo Jima directed by Clint Eastwood
Best Director: Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Runner-Up: Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men
Best Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Departed
Runner-Up: Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of [...]

by Andre Soares | January 11, 2007   
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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 [...]

by Andre Soares | January 9, 2007   
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