Fish Tank Articles

Carey Mulligan in An Education (Kerry Brown / Sony Pictures Classics) (top); James Cameron’s Avatar (ILM / 20th Century Fox) by (middle); Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish in Bright Star (Apparition) (bottom) With 17 mentions, Lone Scherfig’s An Education leads the 2010 British Academy of Film and Television Arts award longlists. Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is next with 15 mentions, followed by Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt [...]

Michael Fassbender in Fish Tank (Holly Horner / IFC Films) (top); Saoirse Ronan in The Lovely Bones (Barry Wetcher / DreamWorks/Paramount) (bottom) Some have wondered why-oh-why are Irish performers in the running for the London Film Critics’ Circle 2009 Awards. Michael Fassbender, the star of last year’s widely acclaimed Hunger and the German-born son of an Irish mother and German father, is up for a [...]

Sam Rockwell in Moon Duncan Jones‘ sci-fi thriller Moon — made for US$5 million, or about 1/zillionth of the cost of Star Trek, 2012, or Avatar — won best picture and best debut director honors at the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) held this evening in London. Written by Nathan Parker from Jones’ original story (with shades of 2001: A Space Odyssey), Moon tells the [...]

2009 British Independent Film Awards 2009 British Independent Film Award nominations: Oct. 26, 2009 2009 British Independent Film Award winners: The Brewery in London on Dec. 6, 2009 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   Sam Rockwell in Moon   BEST BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM An Education Fish Tank In the Loop * Moon Nowhere Boy BEST FOREIGN FILM Il Divo The Hurt Locker * [...]