John Landis, Gary Oldman, Andreas Deja at the 2009 Student Academy Awards

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ 36th Student Academy Awards ceremony was held on Saturday, June 13, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Above, John Landis, Cassandra Lizaire and Kelly Asmuth, winners of the Silver Medal in the Documentary Category for A Place to Land, with Alicia Tejada
Photos: Greg Harbaugh / ©A.M.P.A.S.
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Andreas Deja and Robyn Yannoukos, winner of the Gold Medal in the Alternative Category for Alice’s Attic

Gary Oldman, Jeremy Joffee

Gary Oldman, Brendan Bellomo

SAG Awards 2009: Meryl Streep, Penélope Cruz, Anthony Hopkins

Anthony Hopkins and Slumdog Millionaire cast

Penélope Cruz, Meryl Streep

Kristin Scott Thomas, Gary Oldman accepting Heath Ledger’s best supporting actor award
Photos: Michael Caulfield (Oldman/Scott Thomas), Michael Caulfield (Hopkins/Slumdog cast), Dimitrios Kambouris (Streep/Cruz)
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THE CONTENDER – Joan Allen, Jeff Bridges

The Contender (2000)
Direction and screenplay: Rod Lurie
Cast: Joan Allen, Gary Oldman, Jeff Bridges, Christian Slater, Sam Elliott, William L. Petersen, Saul Rubinek, Philip Baker Hall, Robin Thomas, Mike Binder, Mariel Hemingway, Kathryn Morris, Kristen Shaw
 

 
THE POLITICIANS’ HOUR
"Principles only mean anything when we stick by them when they’re inconvenient," says Senator Laine Hanson (Joan Allen) in Rod Lurie’s political thriller The Contender. She should know. In that film, the poor Democratic senator is grilled by a Republican inquisitor with a bad hairdo (a venom-spitting Gary Oldman) who wants to prevent at all costs her being confirmed as the next Vice President of the United States. Even if that means destroying Hanson’s political career by making public the senator’s alleged participation [...]

JFK – Kevin Costner – d: Oliver Stone

JFK (1991)
Director: Oliver Stone
Screenplay: Oliver Stone, Zachary Sklar, from Jim Marrs’ book Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy and Jim Garrison’s book On the Trail of the Assassins
Cast: Kevin Costner, Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Bacon, Gary Oldman, Joe Pesci, Laurie Metcalf, Jack Lemmon, Sally Kirkland, Jay O. Sanders, Edward Asner, Walter Matthau, Vincent D’Onofrio, Michael Rooker, John Candy, Donald Sutherland
 

 
PARANOID? MOI?
If it’s an Oliver Stone film, it must be bombastic, sentimental, clunky, and controversial. With the exception of "clunky," JFK is all of the above. It is also riveting, earnest, dishonest, moving, irritating, out-of-control paranoid, and, more frequently than one might expect, outright brilliant. In sum, Oliver Stone’s 1991 political thriller about a determined district attorney’s [...]

HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN – Daniel Radcliffe

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
Direction: Alfonso Cuarón
Screenplay: Steven Kloves, from J. K. Rowling’s novel
Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Gary Oldman, David Thewlis, Robbie Coltrane, Michael Gambon, Richard Griffiths, Alan Rickman, Fiona Shaw, Maggie Smith, Timothy Spall, Emma Thompson, Julie Walters, Julie Christie, Pam Ferris

 

 
Alfonso Cuarón may seem like an odd choice for director of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the third installment of the Harry Potter series — if one thinks only of Cuarón’s sleeper hit, the Truffaut-esque Y tu mamá también, while ignoring two of his earlier efforts, the critically acclaimed A Little Princess and the moderately respected Great Expectations.
This time around, working with a reported $130 million budget, state-of-the-art [...]