SAG Awards 2007: Nominations
The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) announced its list of 2007 nominees earlier today.
The only major surprise was the inclusion of Emilio Estevez’s Bobby — instead of Stephen Frears‘ The Queen (right) — in the "Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture" category, even though no individual performance from Bobby was singled out for SAG award consideration.
Also, critics’ favorites such as United 93, and both Clint Eastwood World War II films, Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, were completely ignored by SAG voters.
Helen Mirren, on the other hand, was shortlisted in two individual categories as two different Queen Elizabeths — the current one in The Queen, and the one from the early modern era [...]
by Andre Soares | January 4, 2007
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Tags: Cloris Leachman, Film Awards, Helen Mirren, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mrs. Harris, Nan Martin, Sacha Baron Cohen, SAG Awards, Shirley Jones, The Queen
MUSIC OF THE HEART – Meryl Streep – d: Wes Craven
Music of the Heart (1999)
Direction: Wes Craven
Screenplay: Pamela Gray
Cast: Meryl Streep, Angela Bassett, Aidan Quinn, Cloris Leachman, Gloria Estefan, Kieran Culkin, Charlie Hofheimer, Michael Angarano, Jay O. Sanders
Wes Craven, the director of the Scream franchise and of the original A Nightmare on Elm Street, is hardly the kind of filmmaker from whom one would expect a syrupy motion picture about a determined violin teacher who wins the hearts and minds of her inner-city school students.
Yet, Craven is the man responsible for Music of the Heart, a film completely devoid of slashed faces, lethal stabbings, and deadly fingernails. Instead, this distaff version of Mr. Holland’s Opus — with touches of To Sir with Love — offers loads of sentiment, [...]
by Andre Soares | December 6, 2004
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Tags: Aidan Quinn, Angela Bassett, Charlie Hofheimer, Cloris Leachman, Film Reviews, Meryl Streep, Music of the Heart, Oscar 1999, Oscar Movies, Roberta Guaspari, Three-Star Movies, Three-Star Oscar Nominees, Wes Craven
