Christian McKay Articles

Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish in Bright Star (Apparition) The winners of London's Evening Standard awards will be announced at the London Film Museum on Monday, Feb. 8. Curiously, all three best picture nominees were either directed or co-directed by women: Jane Campion's Bright Star, about the love affair between John Keats and Fanny Brawne; Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank, in which a teenager rebels against her [...]

Oscar Predictions Best Supporting Actor Woody Harrelson, The Messenger Christian McKay, Me and Orson Welles Christopher Plummer, The Last Station (with James McAvoy) Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds Matt Damon (for Invictus) is the only SAG nominee missing from the list above. The Academy loves movie stars just about as much as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, but Invictus has been [...]

2010 SAG Award Predictions Best Supporting Actor Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds Christoph Waltz, who plays a ruthless (but cultured) Nazi colonel in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, has been winning just about every best supporting actor award in sight in the United States; that in addition to his best actor prize at Cannes earlier this year. Though hardly a household name in the US, Waltz seems [...]

Some people complain that the Hollywood Academy is enamored of British productions and talent. Well, then perhaps Hollywood and the United Kingdom should switch academies, for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts can't get enough of Hollywood fare. (See full list of BAFTA nominations here.) James Cameron's Hollywood blockbuster Avatar, Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker, and Lone Scherfig's British-made coming-of-age [...]