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Golden Globes 2010 Predictions: Best Actor – Drama

2010 Golden Globe Predictions: Best Actor – Drama

Colin Firth, A Single Man
In 1960s Los Angeles, a gay college professor wants to end his life after learning that his lover has died in an accident.

Morgan Freeman, Invictus
By staging the Rugby World Cup in South Africa, Nelson Mandela attempts to unite black and white South Africans.

James McAvoy (above, with Paul Giamatti), The Last Station
Leo Tolstoy’s secretary and follower tries to reconcile reality with his idol’s radical ideology.

Viggo Mortensen, The Road
A man and his son struggle to survive in a cold, brutal post-apocalyptic world.

Brad Pitt in Inglourious Basterds
A ruthless Jewish-American guerrilla leader wants to kill as many Nazi officers as possible.

Stars are what matter. For every Golden Globe-nominated Djimon Hounsou there are [...]

AFI FEST 2009: A SINGLE MAN, THE SINGULARITY

Colin Firth, Julianne Moore in A Single Man (top); Steve Evets, Eric Cantona in Looking for Eric (bottom)

AFI FEST 2009 highlights on Thursday, Nov. 5:

Robert Barry Ptolemy’s The Singularity sounds fascinating: Futurist Ray Kurzweil discusses the just-around-the-corner impact of human technology, which has been growing exponentially. Imagine a world without death, hunger, disease. (Well, I’m assuming all those great things will happen if humans don’t self-destruct first. After all, all lab studies indicate that human imbecility is growing even faster than the species’ technological advances — talk about a scientific paradox; someone should come up with a documentary about that.)
Directed by Tom Ford, A Single Man stars Venice 2009 winner Colin Firth, who’ll quite likely receive an Oscar nod come [...]

Colin Firth to Be Honored in Santa Barbara

Colin Firth, Julianne Moore in A Single Man

Colin Firth, the star of Tom Ford’s A Single Man, will receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Outstanding Performance of the Year Award at Santa Barbara’s Arlington Theatre on Feb.13, 2010.
In A Single Man, the 49-year-old Firth plays a grieving, gay college professor in the Los Angeles of the early 1960s. His lover (Matthew Goode) has just died and he is seriously considering ending his own life. Also in the cast: Julianne Moore and Nicholas Hoult.
Earlier this year, Firth won the best actor prize at the Venice Film Festival, and is one of the strongest contenders to land a best actor Academy Award nomination come next February.
Among Colin Firth’s [...]

AFI FEST 2009: A SINGLE MAN – Closing Night Gala

Colin Firth, Matthew Goode in A Single Man

AFI FEST 2009’s Closing Night Gala presentation, the US premiere of Tom Ford’s A Single Man, will take place at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Thursday, November 5. (The festival, with screenings in Santa Monica, actually ends on Nov. 7.)
Based on a Christopher Isherwood novel, A Single Man chronicles a day — possibly the last one — in the life of a gay British college professor (Venice 2009 best actor Colin Firth) in the Los Angeles of the mid-’60s, as he seriously considers suicide following the unexpected death of his partner (Matthew Goode).
Written by Ford and David Scearce, A Single Man also features Julianne Moore (a likely best supporting actress [...]

Colin Firth, Matthew Goode, Nicholas Hoult: London ‘09

Nicholas Hoult, Tom Ford, Colin Firth, Matthew Goode arrive for the premiere of A Single Man, directed by Ford, during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Vue West End on October 16.
Photos: Samir Hussein/Getty Images

Colin Firth

Matthew Goode

American Film Market 2009

The 30th American Film Market (AFM) to be held in Santa Monica between Nov. 4-11 will screen 445 films in 27 languages, including 73 world premieres and 311 market premieres, to an expected 8,000-plus film buyers and industry professionals from more than 70 countries.
Films making their world and/or market premieres include Get Low (above, top photo), starring Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek and Robert Duvall (K5 International); Unthinkable, starring Samuel L. Jackson (Sierra Pictures); Harry Brown, starring Michael Caine and Emily Mortimer (HanWay Films); Within The Whirlwind, directed by Marleen Gorris and starring Emily Watson (Telepool GmbH); Coach, starring Hugh Dancy, Liane Balaban and Mamie Gummer (Lightning Entertainment); [...]

Oscar 2010: Early Predictions – Best Actor

BEST ACTOR

George Clooney, Up in the Air
A professional downsizer finds the frequent-flying love of his life while having to come to terms with his long-lost humanity.

Matt Damon, The Informant!
A pathological liar helps the FBI nab his employer, a dishonest agribusiness conglomerate.

Daniel Day-Lewis, Nine (with Marion Cotillard)
In this musicalized remake of Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2, Daniel Day-Lewis plays the old Marcello Mastroianni role of the Italian film director trying to cope with the women in his life.

Colin Firth, A Single Man
In 1960s Los Angeles, a gay college professor is determined to kill himself after learning that his lover has died in an accident.

Viggo Mortensen, The Road
A man and his son struggle to survive in a post-apocalyptic world.

I’d say that four [...]

Toronto 2009: IndieWIRE’s Critics’ Poll

Michael Stuhlbarg in A Serious Man (top); Joel and Ethan Coen (bottom)

Peter Knegt reports that an indieWIRE poll of "more than 25" film critics and bloggers (blogging film critics?) shows that the overwhelmingly favorite film screened at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival was Joel and Ethan Coen’s A Serious Man (not to be confused with Tom Ford’s A Single Man or the Michael Douglas vehicle Solitary Man), a black comedy about a suburbanite (Michael Stuhlbarg) whose life suddenly unravels after his wife asks for a divorce. A Serious Man hits US theaters on Oct. 2.

Colin Firth, Julianne Moore in A Single Man

The best performance was delivered by Colin Firth in A Single Man (not to be confused with either [...]

A SINGLE MAN Photos

Colin Firth in A Single Man (top); Firth and Matthew Goode play lovers in A Single Man (bottom)

Winner of the Queer Lion for best gay-themed film, A Single Man chronicles the emotional struggles of a suicidal middle-aged college professor mourning the sudden death of his partner of 16 years in a car accident. During that period — one day in 1962 in Los Angeles (a time when gay sex was still illegal in California) — the world is facing the Cuban missile crisis.
Loosely based on Christopher Isherwood’s 1964 novel, A Single Man was directed by fashion designer-turned-filmmaker Tom Ford, and adapted by Ford and David Scearce.

Colin Firth, Julianne Moore in A Single Man

Colin Firth won the best actor award [...]

Venice 2009: Julianne Moore, Colin Firth

Tom Ford, Julianne Moore, best actor winner Colin Firth, Nicholas Hoult, Matthew Goode at the premiere of Queer Lion winner (for best film with a gay theme) A Single Man at the 2009 Venice Film Festival
Photos: Courtesy Venice Film Festival
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Colin Firth

Nicholas Hoult

Venice 2009: Jared Leto, Julianne Moore, Colin Firth

Designer-turned-director Tom Ford, Julianne Moore, best actor winner Colin Firth at the A Single Man premiere at the 2009 Venice Film Festival
Photos: Courtesy Venice Film Festival
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Julianne Moore

Jared Leto at the Mr. Nobody photocall

Venice Film Festival Awards 2009

2009 Venice Film Festival Awards
2009 Venice Film Festival: Aug. 31-Sept. 12, 2009
 
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

Golden Lion for best film: Lebanon by Samuel MAOZ (Israel, France, Germany)

Silver Lion for best director: Shirin NESHAT for Zanan Bedone Mardan (Women Without Men) (Germany, Austria, France)

Moritz Bleibtreu in Soul Kitchen. Photo: Gordon Timpen
Special Jury Prize: Soul Kitchen by Fatih AKIN (Germany)

Colin Firth. Photo: Francois Durand / Getty Images
Coppa Volpi for Best Actor: Colin FIRTH in A Single Man by Tom FORD (USA)

Kseniya Rappoport. Photo: Francois Durand / Getty Images
Coppa Volpi for Best Actress: Ksenia RAPPOPORT in La doppia ora by Giuseppe CAPOTONDI (Italy)
“Marcello Mastroianni” Award for Best New Young Actor or Actress: Jasmine TRINCA in Il grande [...]

2006 Genie Award Winners

"I’m touched. This has been something — a crazy experience," remarked director Jean-Marc Vallée upon accepting the best director Genie Award from the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television.
Vallée’s film, C.R.A.Z.Y., the story of a gay youth coming of age in the Quebec of the 1960s and 1970s, swept the Genies with a total of ten wins out of 12 nominations. In addition to the best director trophy, other awards that went C.R.A.Z.Y. include best film, best actor (Michel Côté, who beat his young co-star Marc-André Grondin, above), and best original screenplay (Vallée and François Boulay).
C.R.A.Z.Y. has also become one of the most commercially successful Canadian films ever.
Deepa Mehta’s controversial Water — which caused a major political [...]

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