SAG Awards 2009: Kate Winslet, Angelina Jolie, Diane Lane

Angelina Jolie

Kate Winslet, Anthony Hopkins

Josh Brolin, Diane Lane
Photos: Lester Cohen
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by Deborah Arthur | January 26, 2009   
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Oscar 2008: Diane Lane, Josh Brolin, Maya Rudolph

Paul Thomas Anderson, Maya Rudolph

Diane Lane, Josh Brolin
Photos: Richard Harbaugh. All photos: © A.M.P.A.S.

by Andre Soares | February 25, 2008   
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2007 Critics’ Choice Awards: Nominations

There were quite a few surprises among the nominees for the Broadcast Film Critics Association’s 2007 Critics’ Choice Awards.
Both Todd Field’s psychological sex drama Little Children (above, with Kate Winslet and Patrick Wilson) and Clint Eastwood’s Japanese-language Letters from Iwo Jima were nominated in the best film category, but Eastwood’s highly praised Flags of Our Fathers was not.
Letters from Iwo Jima also showed up in the best foreign language film shortlist (a first at the Critics’ Choice Awards), along with Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto, which has been both panned and praised (sometimes in the same review).

Leonardo DiCaprio received two best actor nods (another first), for Blood Diamond and The Departed, while Ben Affleck (above, with Diane Lane) was [...]

by Andre Soares | December 13, 2006   
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Oscar’s Comeback Nominees

Ellen Burstyn in Requiem for a Dream (top); Roman Polanski, Adrien Brody in The Pianist (middle); Diane Lane in Unfaithful (bottom)

Since the 1960s, nearly every year has had at least one Oscar comeback in the acting/directing categories. Some were veterans getting their first chance at the Oscars; others were Oscar veterans getting their first nod in years.
Below are a few examples in the last 10 years. As per this list, Oscar’s comeback veterans hardly ever win.

2005
William Hurt, nominated as best supporting actor for A History of Violence. Hurt has three previous best actor nominations; the last one in 1987 was for Broadcast News. He won in 1985 for Kiss of [...]

by Andre Soares | February 1, 2006   
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