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2009 British Independent Film Award Nominations

Katie Jarvis in Fish Tank (top); Sam Rockwell in Moon (middle); Carey Mulligan, Dominic Cooper in An Education (bottom)

Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank leads the list of 2009 British Independent Film Award nominees.
The tale of a rough teenager (Katie Jarvis) whose life is upended after her mother gets a new boyfriend, Fish Tank was shortlisted in eight categories including best independent British film, best director, best screenplay (Arnold), best actress (Jarvis), best supporting actress (Kierston Wareing), best supporting actor (2008 BIFA best actor winner Michael Fassbender), and most promising newcomer (also Jarvis).
Duncan Jones‘ feature-film debut, the sci-fi thriller Moon, received seven nominations including best British film, best director, best debut director, and best actor (Sam Rockwell).
Lone [...]

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 [...]

Dublin Film Critics Awards 2009

Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards 2009
2009 Dublin Film Critics Circle award winners: Jan. 2009
 

Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, who also adapted Sinclair Lewis‘ novel, There Will Be Blood stars Daniel Day-Lewis as a ruthless oil baron in the California of the early 20th-century.

 
BEST FILM
There Will Be Blood
Runners-up:
Hunger
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men
WALL-E
BEST IRISH FILM
Hunger
Runners-up:
Kisses
Saviours
BEST DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood)
Runners-up:
Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
Steve McQueen (Hunger)
The Coen Brothers (No Country for Old Men)
Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight)
BEST ACTOR
Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
Runners-up:
Michael Fassbender (Hunger)
Heath Ledger (The [...]

Oscar 2008: Daniel Day-Lewis, Dario Marianelli, Diablo Cody

Daniel Day-Lewis – best actor winner

Dario Marianelli – Best Original Score Oscar winner

Diablo Cody – best original screenplay winner

Trevor Wood, Ben Morris, Bill Westenhofer, Michael Fink – best visual effects winners
Photos: Matt Petit / © A.M.P.A.S.
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Oscar 2008: Daniel Day-Lewis, Tilda Swinton, Marion Cotillard

Daniel Day-Lewis, Tilda Swinton, Marion Cotillard, Javier Bardem

Christopher Rouse – Best Film Editing Oscar winner

Jan Archibald, Didier Lavergne – Best Makeup Oscar winners
Photos: Matt Petit / © A.M.P.A.S.
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Oscar 2008: George Clooney, Amy Adams, Helen Mirren

Amy Adams performs "Happy Working Song" from Enchanted

George Clooney

Helen Mirren, best actor winner Daniel Day-Lewis
Photos: Michael Yada / © A.M.P.A.S.
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Oscar 2008: John Travolta, Daniel Day-Lewis, Ruby Dee

Daniel Day-Lewis at the Governors Ball

Ruby Dee and friends

John Travolta, Kelly Preston
Photos: Greg Harbaugh (Day-Lewis, Dee), Darren Decker (Travolta). All photos: © A.M.P.A.S.

Oscar 2008: Nicole Kidman, George Clooney, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz

Nicole Kidman

George Clooney, Sarah Larson

Rebecca Miller, Daniel Day-Lewis

Cameron Diaz
Photos: Matt Petit (Clooney), Richard Harbaugh (Day-Lewis), Greg Harbaugh (Diaz, Kidman). All photos: © A.M.P.A.S.
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Oscar 2008

2008 Academy Awards

2008 Academy Award nominations: Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills on Jan. 22, 2008
2008 Academy Award winners: Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles on Feb. 24, 2008

Host: Jon Stewart
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Best film
Atonement (Focus Features) A Working Title Production
Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Paul Webster, Producers
Juno (Fox Searchlight) A Dancing Elk Pictures, LLC Production
Lianne Halfon, Mason Novick and Russell Smith, Producers
Michael Clayton (Warner Bros.) A Clayton Productions, LLC Production
Sydney Pollack, Jennifer Fox and Kerry Orent, Producers
* No Country for Old Men (Miramax and Paramount Vantage) A Scott Rudin/Mike Zoss Production
Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers
There Will Be Blood (Paramount Vantage and Miramax) A JoAnne Sellar/Ghoulardi Film Company Production
JoAnne [...]

BAFTA 2008: Keira Knightley, Lee Majors, James McAvoy, Anne Marie Duff

Keira Knightley

Lee Majors

James McAvoy, Anne Marie Duff

Anthony Hopkins

Kate Hudson

Daniel Day-Lewis, Rebecca Miller

Tilda Swinton
Photos: Getty Images

Oscar 2008 Predictions: Best Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress

Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
George Clooney (for Michael Clayton) might have been the sentimental favorite for he’s a local Hollywood-ite, while Daniel Day-Lewis (above, with Paul Dano), who plays a ruthless oil baron in There Will Be Blood, is an Englishman living in Ireland. Clooney, however, won an Oscar (for Syriana) a mere two years ago, while Day-Lewis’ SAG win has solidified his position as this year’s front-runner.
 

Best Actress: Julie Christie, Away from Her
Until the SAG Awards, it was a three-lane race: veteran Julie Christie for Away from Her, Marion Cotillard for La Vie en Rose, and Ellen Page for Juno — by far the biggest box-office hit among the films nominated in the best actress category. [...]

SAG Awards 2008

2008 SAG Awards
2008 Screen Actors Guild Award nominations: December 20, 2007
2008 SAG Award winners: Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center on January 27, 2008
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

 

THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
GEORGE CLOONEY / Michael Clayton — Michael Clayton (Warner Bros. Pictures)
* DANIEL DAY-LEWIS / Daniel Plainview — There Will Be Blood (Paramount Vantage)
RYAN GOSLING / Lars Lindstrom — Lars and the Real Girl (Sidney Kimmel Entertainment)
EMILE HIRSCH / Christopher McCandless — Into the Wild (Paramount Vantage)
VIGGO MORTENSEN / Nikolai — Eastern Promises (Focus Features)
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
CATE BLANCHETT / Queen Elizabeth I — Elizabeth: The Golden Age (Universal Pictures)
* JULIE CHRISTIE / [...]

Palm Springs Film Festival Awards 2008

2008 Palm Springs Film Festival Awards
2008 Palm Springs Film Festival: January 3-14, 2008
 

In Ognjen Svilicic’s Armin, a father and son travel to the big city where they encounter myriad temptations. Armin is Croatia’s entry for the 2008 best foreign-language film Oscar.

FIPRESCI Awards
Best Foreign Language Film: Armin (Croatia) directed by Ognjen Svilicic
Best Actor: Song Gang-ho for Secret Sunshine (South Korea) directed by Lee Chang-dong
Best Actress: Anamaria Marinca and Laura Vasiliu for 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Romania) directed by Cristian Mungiu.
 

Helen Hunt’s directorial debut, Then She Found Me, which opens in the U.S. in May 2008, was the opening gala presentation at the 2008 Palm Springs Film Festival. The romantic comedy follows a woman [...]

2008 Golden Globes Ceremony II

2008 Golden Globes Ceremony: Part I
Among the predictable winners were Julie Christie as best actress in a drama for her performance as a woman suffering from Alzheimer’s disease in Sarah Polley’s Away from Her (right, with Gordon Pinsent); Daniel Day-Lewis as best actor in a drama for his star turn as a greedy oil baron in Paul Thomas Anderson’s widely praised There Will Be Blood; and Johnny Depp as best actor in a comedy or musical for his singing serial-killing barber in Sweeney Todd. (Depp was the only American actor to win in the feature-film categories.)
Also, Brad Bird’s Ratatouille, the story of a French rat with gourmet inclinations, as best animated film; and best supporting actor Javier Bardem for his [...]

Golden Globes 2008

2008 Golden Globes
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s 2008 Golden Globe nominations: December 13, 2007
2008 Golden Globe Award winners: January 13, 2008
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Keira Knightley, James McAvoy in Atonement
 

MOTION PICTURES
Best Motion Picture – Drama
American Gangster, Imagine Entertainment/Scott Free Productions; Universal Pictures
* Atonement, Working Title Productions; Focus Features
Eastern Promises, Kudos Pictures — UK Serendipity Point Films — Canada A UK/Canada Co-Production; Focus Features
The Great Debaters, Harpo Films; The Weinstein Company/MGM
Michael Clayton, Clayton Productions LLC; Warner Bros. Pictures
No Country for Old Men, A Scott Rudin/Mike Zoss Production; Miramax/Paramount Vantage
There Will Be Blood, A Joanne Sellar/Ghoulardi Film Company Production; Paramount Vantage and Miramax Films
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Across The Universe, Revolution Studios International; Sony Pictures Releasing
Charlie Wilson’s War, [...]

Central Ohio Film Critics Awards 2008

2008 Central Ohio Film Critics Association Awards
2008 Central Ohio Film Critics Association award winners: January 11, 2008
 

Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men
 

Best Film: No Country for Old Men by Joel and Ethan Coen
Runners-up:
Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others
Juno
Once
There Will Be Blood
Lars and the Real Girl
3:10 to Yuma
The Savages
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Le Scaphandre et le papillon / The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Foreign Language Film: The Lives of Others by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Runner-Up: El Orfanato / The Orphanage
Best Documentary: The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters by Seth Gordon
Runners-Up (tie): In the Shadow of the Moon and No End in Sight
Best Director: Joel [...]

Online Film Critics Awards 2008

2008 Online Film Critics Society Awards
2008 Online Film Critics Society award winners: January 8, 2008
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men
 

PICTURE
Atonement
Juno
* No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Zodiac
FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
* The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Julian Schnabel
The Host
La Vie en Rose
The Lives of Others
The Orphanage
DOCUMENTARY
In the Shadow of the Moon
Into Great Silence
* The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters by Seth Gordon
No End in Sight
Sicko
ANIMATED FEATURE
Beowulf
Paprika
Persepolis
* Ratatouille by Brad Bird
The Simpsons Movie
DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson – There Will Be Blood
* Joel and Ethan Coen – No Country for Old Men
David Cronenberg – Eastern Promises
David Fincher – Zodiac
Julian Schnabel – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
ACTOR
George Clooney – Michael Clayton
* Daniel [...]

Kansas City Film Critics Awards 2008

2008 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
2008 Kansas City Film Critics Circle award winners: January 7, 2008
 

Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood
 

Best Film: There Will Be Blood by Paul Thomas Anderson
Best Foreign Language Film: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Julian Schnabel
Best Documentary: In the Shadow of the Moon by David Sington
Robert Altman Award for Best Director (tie): Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood, and Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Best Actress: Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose
Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
Best Supporting Actress: Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
Best Original Screenplay: Diablo Cody, Juno
Best Adapted Screenplay: Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old [...]

Critics’ Choice Awards 2008

2008 Critics’ Choice Awards
Broadcast Film Critics Association’s 2008 Critics’ Choice Award nominations: December 11, 2007
2008 Critics’ Choice Award winners: Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on January 7, 2008
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men
 

Best Picture
American Gangster
Atonement
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into the Wild
Juno
The Kite Runner
Michael Clayton
* No Country for Old Men
Sweeney Todd
There Will Be Blood
Best Foreign Language Film
* The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
La Vie en Rose
Lust, Caution
The Orphanage
Best Documentary
Darfur Now
In the Shadow of the Moon
The King of Kong
No End in Sight
Sharkwater
* Sicko by Michael Moore
Best Director
Tim Burton – Sweeney Todd
* Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – No Country for Old Men
Sidney Lumet – Before the Devil Knows [...]

National Society of Film Critics Awards 2008

2008 National Society of Film Critics Awards
2008 National Society of Film Critics award winners: New York City on January 5, 2008
The numbers in parentheses represent the points earned by each individual/film.
 

Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood
 

Best Picture
There Will Be Blood (48) – Paul Thomas Anderson
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (28) – Julian Schnabel
No Country for Old Men (27) – Joel and Ethan Coen
Best Foreign-Language Film
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (57) – Cristian Mungiu
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (42) – Julian Schnabel
Persepolis (18) – Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson (47) – There Will Be Blood
Joel and Ethan Coen (29) – No Country for Old Men
Julian [...]

BAFTA 2008 Longlists

James McAvoy, Saoirse Ronan in Atonement (top); Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Tang Wei in Lust, Caution (middle); Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood (bottom)

According to Variety, among the eligible films utterly ignored by British Academy of Film are The Great Debaters, Grace Is Gone, The Savages, Hallam Foe, When Did You Last See Your Father?, and Half Nelson.
I’m Not There and Away from Her only managed one mention a piece, for Cate Blanchett and Julie Christie, respectively.
Half Nelson apparently suffered the fate of other films that arrive in the UK after the Oscar ballyhoo is over for them. Letters from Iwo Jima, which appears twice (adapted screenplay and special visual effects) in the longlists, probably suffered for the [...]

Houston Film Critics Awards 2008

2008 Houston Film Critics Society Awards
2008 Houston Film Critics Society award winners: January 3, 2008
 

Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men
 

Best Picture: No Country for Old Men
Runners-up:
Juno
Atonement
Michael Clayton
Into the Wild
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
Charlie Wilson’s War
I’m Not There
Best Foreign Language Film: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Julian Schnabel
Best Documentary: The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters by Seth Gordon
Best Director of a Motion Picture: Tim Burton, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role: Julie Christie, Away from Her
Best Performance by [...]

Best Films of 2007: VILLAGE VOICE/LA WEEKLY Film Poll

J. Hoberman, discussing the results of a "best of the year" poll of 56 American critics, in the Village Voice:
"Why shouldn’t we be preoccupied with homicidal sociopaths? America’s been at war for the past four and a half years — with, to cite the top-polling documentary, No End in Sight (#29). War makes you wonder what exactly defines murder and who is enabled to commit it. The morally ambiguous mode known as film noir was born during World War II and, as Jonathan Rosenbaum observed at the time, the national obsession with the cannibal genius Hannibal Lecter coincided with our first Iraq adventure, Operation Desert Storm. Where do these current killers come from? It’s suggestive that both There Will Be [...]

indieWIRE Poll 2007

Via indieWIRE — "The Critics Speak: Best, Worst, the Auteurs and the Underrated." Below are a couple of sample quotes:
"More people in our world will see Juno than 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. More will see 300 than Offside. More will see Saw IV than There Will Be Blood [above]. Yet we fight on, championing those films that really mean something to us. I find this rage against an always dying light both disconcerting and empowering, and I am thankful for filmmakers like Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Paul Thomas Anderson, Jafar Panahi, Sarah Polley, Pedro Costa, Tsai Ming-liang, the Coens, Todd Haynes, and all of the others who consistently reminded me of why I do what I do and [...]

St. Louis Film Critics Awards 2008

2008 St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards
2008 St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association award nominations: December 17, 2007
2008 St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association award winners: December 21, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men
 

BEST PICTURE
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into the Wild
Juno
The Kite Runner
* No Country for Old Men by Joel and Ethan Coen
Sweeney Todd
Atonement
Michael Clayton
There Will Be Blood
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
* The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Julian Schnabel
The Host
The Kite Runner
La Vie en Rose
Lust, Caution
Persepolis
BEST DOCUMENTARY
In the Shadow of the Moon
The King of Kong: A Fist Full of Quarters
Manufactured Landscapes
No End in Sight
* Sicko by Michael Moore
BEST DIRECTOR
Paul [...]

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