Directors Guild Awards 2005
2005 Directors Guild Awards
2005 Directors Guild of America winners: Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on January 29, 2005
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby
Best Director – Motion Picture
Martin Scorsese – The Aviator
Marc Forster – Finding Neverland
* Clint Eastwood – Million Dollar Baby
Taylor Hackford – Ray
Alexander Payne – Sideways
Best Director – Documentary
* Byambasuren Davaa, Luigi Falorni – The Story of the Weeping Camel
Ross Kauffman, Zana Briski – Born Into Brothels
Ross McElwee – Bright Leaves
Michael Moore – Fahrenheit 9/11
Jehane Noujaim – Control Room
Best Director – Television Movie
Robert Altman – Tanner on Tanner, Parts 1-4
Stephen Hopkins – The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Lloyd Kramer – The [...]
by Andre Soares | January 29, 2005
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Tags: Alexander Payne, Clint Eastwood, Control Room, Directors Guild of America, Fahrenheit 9/11, Film Awards, Jehane Noujaim, Marc Forster, Martin Scorsese, Taylor Hackford
Seattle Film Critics Awards 2004
2004 Seattle Film Critics Awards
2004 Seattle Film Critics Award winners: December 30, 2004
Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby
Best Film: Million Dollar Baby
Best Foreign-Language Film: Maria Full of Grace
Best Documentary (tie): Control Room and Touching the Void
Best Animated Film: The Incredibles
Best Director: Clint Eastwood – Million Dollar Baby
Best Actor: Jamie Foxx – Ray
Best Actress: Imelda Staunton – Vera Drake
Best Supporting Actor: Thomas Haden Church – Sideways
Best Supporting Actress: Virginia Madsen – Sideways
Best Original Screenplay: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Charlie Kaufman
Best Adapted Screenplay: Sideways, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor
Living Treasure Award: Henry Bumstead
Special Citation: Brian Jamieson and Richard Schickel for the reconstruction of Samuel Fuller’s 1980 The [...]
by Andre Soares | December 30, 2004
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Tags: Clint Eastwood, Control Room, Film Awards, Imelda Staunton, Jamie Foxx, Million Dollar Baby, Thomas Haden Church, Touching the Void, Vera Drake, Virginia Madsen
Dubai Film Festival 2004
"You’re appalling, you son of a dog. May your house be destroyed!" one Egyptian woman yelled during a showing of Jehane Noujaim’s Control Room at the first Dubai International Film Festival. The woman’s anger was directed at U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who is shown describing scenes of grieving Iraqis and bombed-out buildings as having been "stage-managed." Control Room, which goes behind the scenes of the Arab-language network Al Jazeera, is one of the dozens of films being presented at the festival.
The American government and military have claimed that the Qatar-based Al Jazeera is an anti-American tool for Muslim radicals, an accusation vehemently refuted by the network. Thus far, five Arab countries, among them US allies Iraq [...]
by Andre Soares | December 15, 2004
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Tags: Control Room, Dubai Film Festival, Film Festivals, Jehane Noujaim, Laila Olwi, Morgan Freeman, Orlando Bloom
