Golden Globes 2009: Tom Cruise, Leonardo DiCaprio, Zac Efron

Photos: © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Cruise © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Hayden Panettiere, Zac Efron © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Don Cheadle © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

by Deborah Arthur | January 11, 2009   
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CRASH – Awards and Nominations

Jennifer Esposito, Don Cheadle in Crash

Unless otherwise noted, all Crash awards and nominations are for the year 2005.
Photos: Lorey Sebastian / © Lions Gate Films Inc.

Academy Awards: 3 wins (best film; best original screenplay, Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco; best editing, Hughes Winborne);

3 additional nominations (best director, Paul Haggis; best supporting actor, Matt Dillon; best song, "In the Deep," music by Kathleen “Bird” York and Michael Becker, lyric by Kathleen “Bird” York)

American Cinema Editors: 1 win (best edited feature – dramatic, Hughes Winborne)
Art Directors Guild: 1 nomination (best production design – contemporary film, Laurence Bennett)
British Academy Awards: 2 wins (best supporting actress, Thandie Newton; best original screenplay, Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco);

7 additional nominations (best film; best director, [...]

by Andre Soares | February 3, 2006   
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THE ASSASSINATION OF RICHARD NIXON – Sean Penn

The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)
Direction: Niels Mueller
Screenplay: Niels Mueller and Kevin Kennedy
Cast: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Don Cheadle, Jack Thompson, Michael Wincott, Brad William Henke
 

 

Although technically a psychosocial drama about those for whom the American Dream is nothing more than a pathological delusion, Niels Mueller’s The Assassination of Richard Nixon actually works as a suspenseful horror movie. From the very start, we know that something dreadful is about to happen. As the fact-based story inexorably progresses toward its bloody climax, the suspense keeps increasing until the violence, depicted in brutal detail, explodes on screen. That’s the stuff that nightmares are made of.
As depicted by Emmanuel Lubezki’s appropriately gritty, washed-out cinematography, it all begins in the winter of 1974, as [...]

by Andre Soares | December 13, 2004   
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HOTEL RWANDA: Notes

According to a Reuters report, Rwanda’s current Tutsi president Paul Kagame, who led the country’s counter takeover to end the genocide, accused Hotel Rwanda (above) of depicting a "falsehood," adding, "Some of the things actually attributed to this person [Paul Rusesabagina, played by Don Cheadle, right, with Sophie Okonedo] are not true. Even those that are true do not merit the level of highlight."
A recent French official report, extracts of which were published in Le Monde, blamed Kagame for the downing of President Juvenal Habyarimana’s plane in 1994. That event was the spark that led to the murder orgy that left between 800,000 and one million Rwandans, mostly Tutsis, dead. The Rwanda government, now in the hands of the [...]

by Andre Soares | November 21, 2004   
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HOTEL RWANDA – Don Cheadle

Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Direction: Terry George
Screenplay: Keir Pearson and Terry George
Cast: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Nick Nolte, Joaquin Phoenix, Desmond Dube, Neil McCarthy, Jean Reno
 

 
In the second quarter of 1994, while much of the world was gearing up to the World Cup to be held in Los Angeles, one of history’s deadliest wholesale slaughters of human beings was taking place in Central Africa. Following the death of Rwanda’s President Juvenal Habyarimana, an ethnic Hutu whose plane was shot down above the Kigali airport on April 6, 1994, the Hutu powers-that-be decided it was time to eliminate the Tutsi minority who were blamed for the crash. What followed in the next three months was an orgy of hackings and shootings throughout [...]

by Andre Soares | November 20, 2004   
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2004 AFI FEST Awards Winners

Terry George’s Hotel Rwanda (above) has won the top audience award at the 2004 edition of AFI Festival, while Temporada de patos / Duck Season, by Mexican filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke, won the Grand Jury Prize for best feature film in competition.
The Jury Prize in the International Shorts Competition went to Taika Waititi’s Two Cars, One Night from New Zealand, with a special mention to Chris Landreth’s Ryan, from Canada. Another Canadian picture, The Take, directed by Avi Lewis, won the Documentary Prize. Robin Scovill’s American-made The Other Side of AIDS received a special mention.
Other audience award winners (audiences voted on all films shown at the ten-day festival) were Neele Leana Vollmar’s Meine Eltern / My [...]

by Andre Soares | November 15, 2004   
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Toronto Film Festival 2004: HOTEL RWANDA Wins Audience Award

Based on the true story of a hotel manager who saved hundreds of lives during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, Terry George’s Hotel Rwanda has won the People’s Choice award at the 2004 Toronto Film Festival.
In the film, hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina (played by Don Cheadle) saves the lives of those hiding in his hotel by bribing military officers with cash, liquor, and other goods. While the world looked away, approximately 800,000 Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus were massacred during the spring and early summer of 1994.
Pete Travis‘ Omagh, the story of the relatives of victims of the bloodiest terrorist attack of Northern Ireland’s 30-year conflict, won the festival’s Discovery award, given out by attending journalists.
In My Father’s Den, [...]

by Andre Soares | September 26, 2004   
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