Producers Guild Awards 2009
2009 Producers Guild of America’s Golden Laurel Awards
2009 Producers Guild of America feature-film and long-form TV nominations: January 5, 2009
2009 Producers Guild of America winners: Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Jan. 24, 2009
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Dev Patel in Slumdog Millionaire
The Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award
in Theatrical Motion Pictures
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
Kathleen Kennedy & Frank Marshall
Ceán Chaffin
THE DARK KNIGHT
Christopher Nolan
Charles Roven
Emma Thomas
FROST/NIXON
Brian Grazer
Ron Howard
Eric Fellner
MILK
Dan Jinks
Bruce Cohen
* SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Christian Colson
The Producers Guild of America Producer of the Year Award in Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures
* MAN ON WIRE
Simon Chinn
STANDARD [...]
by Deborah Arthur | January 24, 2009
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Tags: Christian Colson, Christian Nolan, Film Awards, Frost / Nixon, John Adams, Milk, Producers Guild Awards, Slumdog Millionaire, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight
Oscar 2009: Best Films at the Box Office
Domestic totals up to Jan. 20. Worldwide figures include domestic rentals.
Frost/Nixon — Domestic: $8.8 million; Worldwide: $10.1 million
Milk — Domestic: $20.5 million; Worldwide: $21.6 million
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button — Domestic: $103.6 million; Worldwide: $117.9 million
The Reader — Domestic: $7.9 million; Worldwide: $12.4 million
Slumdog Millionaire — Domestic: $44.2 million; Worldwide: $61.1 million
Source: Box Office Mojo (boxofficemojo.com)
by Deborah Arthur | January 22, 2009
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Tags: 2009 Oscar, Academy Awards, Box Office, Film Awards, Frost / Nixon, Milk, Slumdog Millionaire, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Reader
BAFTA 2009: Nominations Longlist
Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (top); Frank Langella, Michael Sheen in Frost/Nixon (bottom)
As usual, Hollywood and Anglo-American productions dominate the longlists of the 2009 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Frost/Nixon have 14 nominations each, followed by Slumdog Millionaire, The Reader, Revolutionary Road, Changeling, and The Dark Knight with 13; Milk and Burn After Reading with 11; and Doubt, The Wrestler, Mamma Mia!, The Duchess, and In Bruges with 9.
Small British films managed only a handful of nods: three for Hunger and Happy-Go-Lucky; two for Dean Spanley. Non-English-language films fared just as poorly: five nominations for I’ve Loved You So Long, three for Waltz with Bashir, [...]
by Deborah Arthur | January 7, 2009
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Tags: BAFTA, BAFTA 2009, Brad Pitt, Film Awards, Frank Langella, Frost / Nixon, Michael Sheen, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Oscar 2009 Predictions: Best Film, Foreign Film
Oscar 2009 Predictions
Michael Sheen, Frank Langella in Frost/Nixon
BEST FILM
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire has to be there. It’s been winning nearly every film critics’ award in the United States and it has received two SAG Award nominations: best ensemble and a surprising best supporting actor nod for Dev Patel (who, ahem, happens to be the film’s lead).
Frost/Nixon is a prestige production based on a prestige play. The sort of stuff prestige-hungry Academy members tend to go for even when reviewers haven’t been all that kind. Also, Frost/Nixon is an actors’ showcase, and actors comprise the — by far — largest contingent among Academy members. (Note: Initially, I had [...]
by Andre Soares | December 24, 2008
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Tags: 2009 Oscar, Academy Awards, Film Awards, Frost / Nixon, Milk, Oscar Predictions, Slumdog Millionaire, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight
African-American Film Critics Awards 2008
2008 African-American Film Critics Association Awards
2008 African-American Film Critics winners: Dec. 19, 2008
Best Film: The Dark Knight
Runners-up:
2. Slumdog Millionaire
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
4. (tie) The Secret Life of Bees and Cadillac Records
6. Miracle at St. Anna
7. Milk
8. Seven Pounds
9. Doubt
10. Iron Man
Best Director: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Lead Actor: Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
Best Lead Actress: Angelina Jolie, Changeling
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Best Supporting Actress: Viola Davis, Doubt
Special Achievement Award: Melvin Van Pebbles
African-American Film Critics Association site
African-American Film Critics Association Awards: 2008
Film Awards: [...]
by Andre Soares | December 20, 2008
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Tags: Angelina Jolie, Changeling, Danny Boyle, Film Awards, Frank Langella, Frost / Nixon, Heath Ledger, Melvin Van Pebbles, Slumdog Millionaire, The Dark Knight, Viola Davis
Las Vegas Film Critics Awards 2008
2008 Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards
2008 Las Vegas Film Critics winners: December 18, 2008
Michael Sheen, Frank Langella in Frost/Nixon
Best Picture: Frost/Nixon
Best Foreign Film: Mongol
Best Documentary: Man on Wire
Best Animated Film: WALL-E
Best Director: Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
Best Actor: Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
Best Actress: Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road and The Reader
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Best Supporting Actress: Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Best Screenplay: Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon
Best Cinematography: Claudio Miranda, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Film Editing: Daniel P. Hanley and Mike Hill, Frost/Nixon
Best Score: James Newton Howard, Defiance
Best Song: "Another Way to Die," Quantum of Solace
Best Art Direction: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Costume Design: The Curious Case [...]
by Deborah Arthur | December 18, 2008
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Tags: Film Awards, Frank Langella, Frost / Nixon, Heath Ledger, Kate Winslet, Man on Wire, Marisa Tomei, Mongol, Ron Howard, The Reader, WALL-E
AFI Awards 2008
2008 AFI Awards
2008 AFI Awards: Dec. 14, 2008
Christian Bale in The Dark Knight
FILM
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
THE DARK KNIGHT
FROST/NIXON
FROZEN RIVER
GRAN TORINO
IRON MAN
MILK
WALL•E
WENDY AND LUCY
THE WRESTLER
TELEVISION
BREAKING BAD
IN TREATMENT
JOHN ADAMS
LIFE
LOST
MAD MEN
THE OFFICE
RECOUNT
THE SHIELD
THE WIRE
AFI AWARDS 2008 JURORS
AFI JURY FOR MOTION PICTURES
Leonard Maltin
Chair, AFI Jury for Motion Pictures
ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT
Jeanine Basinger
Wesleyan University
Mary Corey
University of California, Los Angeles
Mark Harris
Author
Entertainment Weekly
Jim Hosney
American Film Institute
Rick Jewell
University of Southern California
Elvis Mitchell
THE TREATMENT
Daniel Petrie, Jr.
Writer/Producer/Director
Tom Pollock
Producer
Vice Chair and Chair Emeritus, AFI Board of Trustees
Richard Schickel
Time
Vivian Sobchack
University of California, Los Angeles
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by Deborah Arthur | December 14, 2008
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Tags: AFI Awards, Film Awards, Frost / Nixon, Frozen River, Gran Torino, Iron Man, Milk, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Wrestler, WALL-E, Wendy and Lucy
