Gérard Depardieu Articles

Jean Dujardin, The Artist Best Actor Academy Award nominee Jean Dujardin — for Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist — is a first-time Oscar nominee and only the fourth Frenchman to be shortlisted for an Academy Award in the acting categories. Dujardin's predecessors were Best Actor nominees Maurice Chevalier for the Ernst Lubitsch musicals The Big Pond and The Love Parade (1929-30); Charles Boyer for Clarence Brown's [...]

2012 Oscar Predictions Best Actress: Tilda Swinton, Glenn Close. [Photo: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley in The Descendants.] Like in the Best Actress 2012 Academy Award race, there are three shoo-ins for the Best Actor shortlist: George Clooney, Jean Dujardin, and Brad Pitt. Clooney will be in the running for Alexander Payne's The Descendants, Dujardin for Michel Hazanavicius' The Artist, and Pitt for Bennett Miller's Moneyball. [...]

Michael Fassbender, Mia Wasikowska in Cary Fukunaga's Jane Eyre David Bowers' Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules topped the North American box-office chart this past weekend (March 25-27), despite earning about $700k less than studio estimates. According to actuals found at Box Office Mojo, Rodrick Rules grossed $23.75m at no. 1, followed by Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch, starring Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Vanessa Hudgens, [...]

Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu in François Ozon's Potiche You wouldn't believe it reading the vast majority of English-language publications, but there are actually a number of non-Hollywood, non-American, non-English-language movies being screened at the 2010 Toronto Film Festival. Below are snippets from four reviews of non-English-language movies. Takashi Miike's 13 Assassins: Takashi Miike doing Akira Kurosawa? Yes Please! 13 Assassins is not the goofy homage [...]