Art Directors Guild Awards 2007

2007 Art Directors Guild Awards
2007 Art Directors Guild award nominations: January 18, 2007
2007 Art Directors Guild award winners: Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on February 17, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Curse of the Golden Flower (top); Daniel Craig, Jeffrey Wright in Casino Royale (middle); Ivana Baquero in Pan’s Labyrinth (bottom)
 

FEATURE FILMS
Period Film
* CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER PD: HUO TINGXIAO
DREAMGIRLS PD: JOHN MYHRE
FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS PD: HENRY BUMSTEAD
THE GOOD SHEPHERD PD: JEANNINE OPPEWALL
THE PRESTIGE PD: NATHAN CROWLEY
Fantasy Film
CHILDREN OF MEN PD: GEOFFREY KIRKLAND
* PAN’S LABYRINTH PD: EUGENIO CABALLERO
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN’S CHEST PD: RICK HEINRICHS
SUPERMAN RETURNS PD: GUY HENDRIX DYAS
V FOR VENDETTA PD: OWEN PATERSON
Contemporary Film
BABEL PD: BRIGETTE BROCH
* CASINO ROYALE [...]

by Andre Soares | February 17, 2007   
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Costume Designers Guild Awards 2007

2007 Costume Designers Guild Awards
2007 Costume Designers Guild award nominations: January 11, 2007
2007 Costume Designers Guild award winners: Beverly Regent Hotel in Beverly Hills on February 17, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Michael Sheen, Helen Mirren in The Queen (top); Qin Junjie, Ye Liu, Gong Li, Jay Chou in Curse of the Golden Flower (middle); Sergi López in Pan’s Labyrinth (bottom).
 

Excellence in contemporary film
Patricia Field for The Devil Wears Prada
* Consolata Boyle for The Queen
Nancy Steiner for Little Miss Sunshine
Lindy Hemming for Casino Royale
Michael Wilkinson for Babel
Excellence in period film
Milena Canonero for Marie Antoinette
Sharen Davis for Dreamgirls
* Chung Man Yee for Curse of the Golden Flower
Ngila Dickson for The Illusionist
Penny Rose [...]

by Andre Soares | February 17, 2007   
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Asian Film Awards 2007 Nominations

The Host by Bong Joon-Ho

The nominees for the 1st Asian Film Awards were unveiled on Jan. 29. The awards ceremony, to be held on March 20, will open the 31st Hong Kong Film Festival.
According to the Asian Film Academy’s mission statement, the awards were created to "to acknowledge the finest of Asian Cinema, and bestow honor in various categories to film artists from across Asia, in the company of distinguished celebrities from around the world as guests and presenters."
"From across Asia"?
The vast majority of the nominated films hail from East Asia. India received only one nomination, while apart from Iran’s two nods, West Asia was completely ignored and so was Central Asia. (Not to mention northern Asia, though [...]

by Andre Soares | February 1, 2007   
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Hong Kong Film Critics Awards 2007

2007 Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards
2007 Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award winners: January 24, 2007
 

Johnnie To’s Election 2, a follow-up to Hong Kong Film Critics Society 2005 winner Election, revolves around more power struggles among the denizens of Hong Kong’s organized crime underworld. To also took the best director prize, but for Exiled, the tale of a Macau hitman pursued by two other hitmen.
 

Best Film: Election 2
Best Director: Johnnie To, Exiled
Best Actor: Jet Li, Fearless
Best Actress: Gong Li, Curse of the Golden Flower
Best Screenwriters: Wong Jing and Gary Tang Tak-hei, Wo Hu
Films of Merit: After This Our Exile, Confession of Pain, Exiled, Fearless, The Heavenly Kings, Heavenly Mission, On the Edge, Wo Hu
 
Hong Kong Film Critics Society [...]

by Andre Soares | January 30, 2007   
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