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Marilyn Chambers

Marilyn Chambers, known for her erotic films of the 1970s, died Sunday at her home in the Los Angeles suburb of Canyon Country. She would have turned 57 on April 22. The cause of death is still unknown; Chambers was found by her daughter.
Born Marilyn Ann Taylor (or Marilyn Ann Briggs) in Westport, Connecticut, in 1952, former Ivory Snow soap-box girl Chambers became an adult-film superstar after appearing in the 1972 production Behind the Green Door, which became a sensation of sorts because the actress was seen having sex with a black man, Johnny Keyes. Directed by Artie and Jim Mitchell, Behind the Green Door became one of the first sexually explicit films to be widely released [...]

Genie 2008 Nominations

The two top nominees for the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television’s 2008 Genie Awards are heavy dramas: David Cronenberg’s Russian mafia thriller Eastern Promises and Roger Spottiswoode’s Rwanda genocide tale Shake Hands With the Devil, each with 12 nominations.
They were followed by Away from Her with seven nods; The Tracey Fragments with six; Continental, a Film Without Guns and Silk, both with five; and Days of Darkness with four.
The violent Eastern Promises, which is up for the best British film BAFTA (it’s a co-production), stars American Viggo Mortensen and Australian Naomi Watts as two disparate people — he a Russian hitman; she a midwife — whose paths are crossed following the death of a pregnant 14-year-old girl. [...]

Online Film Critics Awards 2006

2006 Online Film Critics Society Awards
2006 Online Film Critics Society award winners: January 16, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen in A History of Violence
 

Best Film
Brokeback Mountain
Crash
Good Night and Good Luck.
* A History of Violence by David Cronenberg
Munich
Best Foreign-Language Film
Hidden
Kung Fu Hustle
Oldboy
2046
* Downfall by Oliver Hirschbiegel
Best Documentary
The Aristocrats
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
* Grizzly Man by Werner Herzog
March of the Penguins
Murderball
Best Animated Feature
Howl’s Moving Castle
Madagascar
Robots
Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
* Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit by Nick Park and Steve Box
Best Director
George Clooney, Good Night and Good Luck.
* David Cronenberg, A History of Violence
Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Peter Jackson, King Kong
Steven Spielberg, Munich
Best Actor
Terrence Howard, Hustle & Flow
Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
Joaquin Phoenix, Walk [...]

Palm Springs Film Festival Awards 2006

2006 Palm Springs Film Festival Awards
2006 Palm Springs Film Festival: January 5-16, 2006
 

Set in French Indochina shortly before World War II, Minh Nguyen-Vo’s Buffalo Boy depicts the coming-of-age journey of a teenager while transporting his family’s buffalos to safer pastures during the region’s seasonal floods. The line-up of the 17th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival included 232 films from more than 70 countries. Among the festival highlights were Breno Silveira’s Two Sons of Francisco, one of Brazil’s biggest box-office hits ever (and the cause of much consternation to Brazilian President Lula, who was caught watching a pirated DVD of the film); Cristina Comencini’s Don’t Tell, a drama about the consequences of incest-rape and Italy’s submission [...]

Central Ohio Film Critics Awards 2006

2006 Central Ohio Film Critics Association Awards
2006 Central Ohio Film Critics Association award winners: January 12, 2006
 

Viggo Mortensen, Mario Bello in A History of Violence
 
Best Film: A History of Violence
Runner-up: Brokeback Mountain
Others in the Top-Ten List:
Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Good Night and Good Luck.
Munich
Murderball
Crash
Sin City
Pride & Prejudice
Batman Begins
Best Director: David Cronenberg, A History of Violence
Runner-up: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Best Lead Performance: Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
Runner-up: Reese Witherspoon, Walk the Line
Best Supporting Performance: Maria Bello, A History of Violence
Runner-up: Amy Adams, Junebug
Actor of the Year: Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain, Casanova, Lords of Dogtown, The Brothers Grimm
Runner up: Terrence Howard
Best Screenplay: Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, Brokeback Mountain
Runner [...]

Chicago Film Critics Awards 2005

2006 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
2006 Chicago Film Critics Association Award winners: January 9, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Jennifer Esposito, Don Cheadle in Crash
 

Best Film:
Brokeback Mountain
* Crash
Good Night and Good Luck.
A History of Violence
King Kong
Best Foreign-Language Film:
* Hidden
Kung Fu Hustle
Oldboy
2046
Downfall
Best Documentary:
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
* Grizzly Man
Mad Hot Ballroom
March of the Penguins
Murderball
Best Director:
George Clooney for Good Night and Good Luck.
* David Cronenberg for A History of Violence
Peter Jackson for King Kong
Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain
Steven Spielberg for Munich
Best Actor:
* Philip Seymour Hoffman in Capote
Terrence Howard in Hustle & [...]

2006 National Society of Film Critics Award Winners

Capote, which follows flamboyant writer Truman Capote while he was working on In Cold Blood, was chosen the best film of 2005 by the National Society of Film Critics. As most elsewhere this year, smaller American films and non-American productions took center stage in the voting.
Among the other winners were best director David Cronenberg for the social critique A History of Violence, which failed to win the best film award by one single vote, after six rounds of voting; best actor Philip Seymour Hoffman (above, with Catherine Keener) for Capote; best actress Reese Witherspoon for playing another real-life character, June Carter, in Walk the Line; and best foreign film Gegen die Wand / Head-On, Fatih Akin’s drama [...]

National Society of Film Critics Awards 2006

2006 National Society of Film Critics Awards
2006 National Society of Film Critics award winners: New York City on January 7, 2006
 

Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener in Capote
 

Best Film: Capote (12, on sixth ballot)
Runners-up: A History of Violence (11, on sixth ballot); 2046 (fifth ballot)
Best Foreign-Language Film: Head-On by Fatih Akin (26)
Runner-up: 2046 by Wong Kar Wai (23); Hidden by Michael Haneke (18)
Best Documentary: Grizzly Man by Werner Herzog (60)
Runners-up: Darwin’s Nightmare by Hubert Sauper (27); Ballets russes by Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine (19)
Best Director: David Cronenberg, A History of Violence (32)
Runners-up: Wong Kar Wai, 2046 (26); Bennett Miller, Capote (23)
Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote (68)
Runners-up: Jeff Daniels, The Squid and [...]

Toronto Film Critics Awards 2005

2005 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
2005 Toronto Film Critics Association Award winners: December 21, 2005
 

Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello in A History of Violence
 

Best Film: A History of Violence
Best Canadian Film: A History of Violence
Best Foreign Film: The World by Zhang Ke Jia
Best First Feature: Capote by Bennett Miller
Best Documentary: Grizzly Man by Werner Herzog
Best Animated Film: Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit by Nick Park and Steve Box
Best Director: David Cronenberg, A History of Violence
Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
Best Actress: Laura Linney, The Squid and the Whale
Best Supporting Actor: Paul Giamatti, Cinderella Man
Best Supporting Actress: Catherine Keener, Capote
Best Screenplay: Noah Baumbach, The Squid and the Whale
 
Toronto Film Critics Association Site
Toronto [...]

2005 Golden Globes: Nominations

Big-budget studio releases were mostly cast aside by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), whose Golden Globe nominations were announced today.
As to be expected, critics’ favorite Brokeback Mountain, about the mostly long-distance love affair between two men in the American West, ruled the pack with seven nominations. Since the Globes don’t cover any of the technical awards, Jake Gyllenhaal (above, with Heath Ledger) ended up being the only major talent in that film left without a nod.
The biggest surprise was probably the absence of Steven Spielberg’s Munich from the best picture – drama shortlist. Spielberg’s tale of terrorism and revenge, based on actual events, had been touted by those who had neither seen it nor read about it as [...]

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