Producers Guild Awards 2005

2005 Producers Guild Awards
2005 Producers Guild of America’s Golden Laurel winners: January 22, 2005
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

 

Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year
* The Aviator
Finding Neverland
The Incredibles
Million Dollar Baby
Sideways
David L. Wolper Producer of the Year – Longform Television
* Angels in America
Horatio Hornblower
Ike: Countdown to D-Day
The Lion in Winter
Something the Lord Made
Norman Felton Producer of the Year – Episodic Drama Television
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Nip/Tuck
Six Feet Under
* The Sopranos
The West Wing
Danny Thomas Producer of the Year – Episodic Comedy Television
Arrested Development
* Curb Your Enthusiasm
Scrubs
Sex and the City
Will & Grace
Producer of the Year Award – Non-Fiction Television
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Inside the Actors Studio
* The Amazing Race 5
The Apprentice
Queer [...]

by Andre Soares | January 22, 2005   
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2005 WGA Award Nominations

The biggest surprise in the 2005 Writers Guild Award nominations was the inclusion of Tina Fey’s Mean Girls (above, with Lindsay Lohan), which has thus far been ignored by other award-giving groups. Among the other nominated screenplays were those for multiple award-winners The Aviator, Sideways, and Million Dollar Baby.
According to the WGA’s press release, "films eligible for a Writers Guild Award were produced signatory to the Writers Guild minimum basic agreement, and released in the year 2004 under the jurisdiction of Writers Guild of America, East and West and affiliate guilds in Australia, Canada, French Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, and New Zealand. There were 193 films eligible for nomination in the categories of Original Screenplay (109) and Adapted Screenplay (84)."
The [...]

by Andre Soares | January 14, 2005   
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FINDING NEVERLAND: J. M. Barrie and PETER PAN

Initially, Miramax wouldn’t even consider German-born director Marc Forster for Finding Neverland. "My agent called and said, ‘They don’t see the relationship between this and your dead-baby movie,’" Forster later recalled, referring to his first feature film, Everything Put Together, a 2000 drama about a mother whose baby dies of sudden infant death syndrome. (Radha Mitchell, who plays Mary Barrie in Finding Neverland, has the lead in Everything Put Together.) Source: Newsweek.
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Finding Neverland was originally scheduled to be released in the fall of 2003. However, Columbia Pictures had the rights to James M. Barrie’s play for their film version of Peter Pan (directed by P. J. Hogan), which was to be released in December 2003.
Columbia refused to allow Miramax [...]

by Andre Soares | January 13, 2005   
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FINDING NEVERLAND – Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet

Finding Neverland (2004)
Direction: Marc Forster
Screenplay: David Magee; from Allan Knee’s play The Man Who Was Peter Pan
Cast: Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Radha Mitchell, Julie Christie, Freddie Highmore, Dustin Hoffman, Joe Prospero, Ian Hart, Kelly Macdonald
 

 

Back in 2001, German-born director Marc Forster brought a much welcome touch of non-Hollywood flavor to the independently made psychological drama Monster’s Ball. Besides the daring (if way overlong) sex scenes, that film imparted a refreshingly realistic atmosphere that was much enhanced by Forster’s minimalist touch.
As the title implies, Finding Neverland, also directed by Forster, and adapted by David Magee from Allan Knee’s play The Man Who Was Peter Pan, has absolutely nothing to do with reality, whether James M. Barrie’s or anyone else’s. Still, [...]

by Andre Soares | January 12, 2005   
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Las Vegas Film Critics Awards 2004

2005 Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards
2005 Las Vegas Film Critics Society award winners: January 3, 2005
 

Leonardo DiCaprio in The Aviator
 

Best Film: The Aviator by Martin Scorsese
Runners-up:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Sideways
Finding Neverland
The Incredibles
Ray
Kinsey
Million Dollar Baby
Vera Drake
The Passion of the Christ
Best Foreign-Language Film: Hero by Zhang Yimou
Best Director: Martin Scorsese – The Aviator
Best Actor: Jamie Foxx – Ray
Best Actress: Kate Winslet – Finding Neverland and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Best Supporting Actor: Clive Owen – Closer
Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett – The Aviator and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Best Screenplay: Charlie Kaufman – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Best Cinematography: Robert Richardson – The Aviator
Best Editing: Thelma Schoonmaker [...]

by Andre Soares | January 3, 2005   
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National Board of Review Awards 2004

2004 National Board of Review Awards
2004 National Board of Review Awards: Dec. 1, 2004
 

Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet in Finding Neverland

 
Best Film
Finding Neverland
Top Ten Films
Finding Neverland, The Aviator, Closer, Million Dollar Baby, Sideways, Kinsey, Vera Drake, Ray, Collateral, Hotel Rwanda
Best Foreign-Language Film
Mar adentro / The Sea Inside
Top Five Foreign Films
The Sea Inside, La Mala educación / Bad Education, Maria Full of Grace, Les Choristes / The Chorus, Diarios de motocicleta / The Motorcycle Diaries
Best Documentary
Born Into Brothels
Top Five Documentaries
Born into Brothels, Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession, Paper Clips, Super Size Me, The Story of the Weeping Camel
Best Animated Feature
The Incredibles
Best Director
Michael Mann, Collateral
Best Actor
Jamie Foxx, Ray
Best Actress
Annette Bening, Being Julia
Best Supporting Actor
Thomas Haden Church, Sideways
Best Supporting Actress
Laura Linney, Kinsey
Best Acting [...]

by Andre Soares | December 1, 2004   
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