London Film Critics Awards 2006

2006 London Film Critics’ Circle Awards
2006 London Film Critics’ Circle Award winners: Dorchester Hotel on February 8, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams in Brokeback Mountain
 

Best Film:
* Brokeback Mountain
The Constant Gardener
Crash
A History of Violence
King Kong
The Attenborough Award for British Film:
* The Constant Gardener
The Descent
Mrs. Henderson Presents
Pride & Prejudice
Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Best Foreign-Language Film:
Hidden
The Chorus
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
The Sea Inside
* Downfall
Best Director:
David Cronenberg (A History of Violence)
Paul Haggis (Crash)
Peter Jackson (King Kong)
* Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain)
Fernando Meirelles (The Constant Gardener)
Best British Director:
Stephen Frears (Mrs. Henderson Presents)
Terry George (Hotel Rwanda)
Neil Marshall (The Descent) [...]

by Andre Soares | February 8, 2006   
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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 [...]

by Andre Soares | January 16, 2006   
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New York Film Critics Online Awards 2005

2005 New York Film Critics Online Awards
2005 New York Film Critics Online Award winners: December 12, 2005
 

Laura Linney, Jeff Daniels, William Baldwin in The Squid and the Whale
 

Best Film: The Squid and the Whale
Runners up (in alphabetical order):
The Best of Youth
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
The Constant Gardener
Crash
Good Night and Good Luck.
Munich
Syriana
Best Foreign-Language Film: Downfall, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel
Best Director: Fernando Meirelles, The Constant Gardener
Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
Best Actress: Keira Knightley, Pride & Prejudice
Best Supporting Actor: Oliver Platt, Casanova
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams, Junebug
Best Screenplay: Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco, Crash
Best Documentary / Nonfiction Film: Grizzly Man directed by Werner Herzog
Best Animated Feature: Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of [...]

by Andre Soares | December 12, 2005   
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Oscar 2005: Best Foreign-Language Film Entries (Croatia to Malaysia)

Oscar 2005: Best Foreign-Language Film Entries (Afghanistan to China)

Croatia, Long Dark Night, Antun Vrdoljak, director;

Czech Republic, Up and Down, Jan Hrebejk, director;

Denmark, The Five Obstructions, Jørgen Leth and Lars von Trier, directors;

Ecuador, Chronicles, Sebastián Cordero, director;

Egypt, I Love Cinema, Oussama Fawzy, director;

Estonia, Revolution of Pigs, Jaak Kilmi and René Reinumägik, directors;

Finland, Producing Adults, Aleksi Salmenperä, director;

France, The Chorus, Christophe Barratier, director;

Germany, Downfall, Oliver Hirschbiegel, director;

Greece, A Touch of Spice, Tassos Boulmetis, director;

Hungary, Kontroll, Nimród Antal, director;

Iceland, Cold Light, Hilmar Oddsson, director;

India, Shwaas, Sandeep Sawant, director;

Iran, Turtles Can Fly, Bahman Ghobadi, director;

Israel, Campfire, Joseph Cedar, director;

Italy, The Keys to the House, Gianni Amelio, director;

Japan, Nobody Knows, Hirokazu Kore-eda, director;

Korea, Tae Guk Gi, Kang Je-gyu, director;

Macedonia, [...]

by Andre Soares | November 15, 2004   
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DOWNFALL Is a Box-Office Hit in Germany

This past weekend, 480,000 filmgoers across Germany lined up to get tickets for the €13.5 million (US$16.5 million) German-made Der Untergang / Downfall, the highly controversial film depicting Adolf Hitler’s last 12 days in his underground bunker. The figures for Downfall, which stars Bruno Ganz (the angel who becomes human in Wings of Desire) as the Nazi leader, were deemed particularly impressive since the nearly three-hour-long production only allowed two showings per evening.
In an interview with the Bild tabloid, former German chancellor Helmut Kohl declared that Downfall "was a film that had to be made and I hope that as many people as possible will see it." The former chancellor added, "It is an important film because it [...]

by Andre Soares | September 27, 2004   
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DOWNFALL Accused of Humanizing Hitler

One of history’s most hated monsters has undergone a humanizing makeover in the German motion picture Der Untergang: Hitler und das Ende des 3. Reiches (Downfall: Hitler and the End of the Third Reich), directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel.
Based on historian Joachim Fest’s best-selling Adolf Hitler biography and on the memoirs of the dictator’s last personal secretary, Traudl Junge, Downfall chronicles the last days of the German Führer, besieged inside his underground bunker while the Soviet Red Army battled the Nazi forces on the ground.
During that period, Hitler suffers psychotic delusions and goes into mad rages, but also shows courteousness and even warmth toward Junge and his wife-to-be Eva Braun.
In the film, Hitler is played by Swiss-born actor [...]

by Andre Soares | September 4, 2004   
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