Ariel Awards 2009
2009 Ariel Awards
2009 Ariel nominations: Feb. 27, 2009
2009 Ariel winners: National Auditorium in Mexico City on March 31, 2009
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Fernando Eimbcke’s minimalist comedy Lake Tahoe presents a series of vignettes showing a small-town teenager (Diego Cataño) trying to cope with the death of his father. Lake Tahoe won three Ariels: best film, best director, and best supporting actor (Héctor Herrera). The night’s biggest winner, however, was Rodrigo Plá’s drama Desierto adentro, set during Mexico’s Cristero War, with eight awards including best actor (Mario Zaragoza) and best original screenplay. Box-office hit Arrancame la vida / Tear This Heart Out, Mexico’s submission for the 2009 foreign-language film Academy Award, failed to get a best picture nod [...]
by Anna Robinson | March 31, 2009
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Tags: Ariadna Gil, Ariel 2009, Ariel Awards, Arrancame la vida, Bajo la Sal, Desierto adentro, Diego Catano, Diego Luna, Eugenio Polgovsky, Fanny Kauffman, Fernando Eimbcke, Film Awards, Gerardo Naranjo, Intimidades de Shakespeare y Víctor Hugo, Irene Azuela, Lake Tahoe, Leonera, Los herederos, Maria Deschamps, Mario Zaragoza, Mexican Cinema, Premios Ariel, Rudo y Cursi, Tear This Heart Out, Tony Manero, Under the Salt, Voy a explotar
Sundance 2009 Buzz
Peter Travers in Rolling Stones:
"It begins again. Here I am in Park Cty [sic], Utah, where Robert Redford’s Sundance Film Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary by trying to bust through the gloom of a nation’s economic crisis and the growing pissy impatience among audiences for any movies that don’t have cute dogs or horror scenes in 3D. What does that mean for indie films of mind and heart? That’s yet to be determined."
Travers follows his introduction with the five movies he’s most eager to watch: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Tyson, Paper Heart, I Love You Phillip Morris (above, with Jim Carrey), and Big Fan.
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Jeff Vice in Deseret News:
"But for the second straight night, [...]
by Deborah Arthur | January 17, 2009
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Tags: Anna Wintour, Carlos Cuarón, Diego Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal, I Love You Phillip Morris, Jim Carrey, Rudo and Cursi, Sundance 2009, Sundance Film Festival, The September Issue
Best Films – 2001
FILM
Gosford Park
d: Robert Altman; scr: Julian Fellowes
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
d: Ashutosh Gowariker; scr:
Mulholland Dr.
d, scr: David Lynch
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The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
d: Woody Allen
Monster’s Ball)
d: Marc Forster; scr:
No Man’s Land
d: Danis Tanovic; scr:
ACTOR
Woody Allen (The Curse of the Jade Scorpion)
Gael García Bernal (Y tu mamá también / And Your Mother Too)
Rene Bitorajac (No Man’s Land)
Ricardo Darín (El Hijo de la novia / Son of the Bride)
Ethan Hawke (Training Day)
Diego Luna (Y tu mamá también)
Ewan McGregor (Moulin Rouge!)
Haley Joel Osment (A.I.: Artificial Intelligence)
Sean Penn (I Am Sam)
ACTRESS
Isabelle Huppert (La Pianiste / The Piano Teacher)
Juliane Köhler (Nirgendwo in Afrika / Nowhere in Africa)
Audrey Tautou (Le Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain / Amelie)
Maribel [...]
by Andre Soares | June 13, 2005
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Tags: Andrew Lesnie, Angelo Badalamenti, Best Films, Big Eden, Classic Movies, David Lynch, Diego Luna, Ethan Hawke, Heath Ledger, Howard Shore, Isabelle Huppert, James Horner, Jon Voight, Jude Law, Kelly Macdonald, Louise Fletcher, Macy Gray, Maggie Smith, Marc Forster, Monster's Ball, Moulin Rouge, Mulholland Dr., Nan Martin, Naomi Watts, Roberto Schaefer, Sean Penn, Sissy Spacek, The Lord of the Rings, Training Day, Woody Allen