Goya Awards 2007 Winners
Yohana Cobo, Penélope Cruz in Volver (top); Maribel Verdú, Ivana Baquero in Pan’s Labyrinth (bottom)
The Spanish Academy’s Goya Awards were presented on Jan. 28. Although best picture winner Volver seemed like an easy pick, it actually faced stiff competition from both Agustín Díaz-Yanes‘ adventure period piece Alatriste and Guillermo del Toro’s dark fantasy Pan’s Labyrinth.
Ultimately, Volver took home five Goyas: best film, best direction (Pedro Almodóvar), best actress (Penélope Cruz), best supporting actress (Carmen Maura), and best original score (Alberto Iglesias).
Almodóvar, however, failed to win the original screenplay award, which went to Guillermo del Toro. Del Toro’s film, in fact, turned out to be the top Goya winner that evening: seven trophies in all. Among [...]
by Andre Soares | January 29, 2007
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Tags: Alatriste, Film Awards, Goya Awards, Guillermo del Toro, Guillermo Navarro, Juan Diego, Pan's Labyrinth, Pedro Almodóvar, Penélope Cruz, The Hands, Volver
Oscar 2007: Best Cinematography, Music
Oscar 2007: Best Film, Acting
Achievement in cinematography
The Black Dahlia (Universal) Vilmos Zsigmond
Children of Men (Universal) Emmanuel Lubezki
The Illusionist (Yari Film Group) Dick Pope
* Pan’s Labyrinth (Picturehouse) Guillermo Navarro
The Prestige (Buena Vista) Wally Pfister
Achievement in film editing
Babel (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)
Stephen Mirrione and Douglas Crise
Blood Diamond (Warner Bros.)
Steven Rosenblum
Children of Men (Universal)
Alex Rodríguez and Alfonso Cuarón
* The Departed (Warner Bros.)
Thelma Schoonmaker
United 93 (Universal and StudioCanal)
Clare Douglas, Christopher Rouse and Richard Pearson
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
* Babel (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) Gustavo Santaolalla
The Good German (Warner Bros.) Thomas Newman
Notes on a Scandal (Fox Searchlight) Philip Glass
Pan’s Labyrinth (Picturehouse) Javier Navarrete
The Queen (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Alexandre Desplat
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
* "I Need [...]
by Andre Soares | January 23, 2007
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Tags: 2007 Oscar, Academy Awards, Babel, Film Awards, Guillermo Navarro, Gustavo Santaolalla, Melissa Etheridge, Pan's Labyrinth, The Departed, Thelma Schoonmaker
American Society of Cinematographers Awards 2007 Nominations
Children of Men (top); Edward Norton, Jessica Biel in The Illusionist (middle); Matt Damon, Alec Baldwin in The Good Shepherd (bottom)
The feature-film nominees for the 2007 American Society of Cinematographers Award are critics’ fave Emmanuel Lubezki (Children of Men), plus Dick Pope (The Illusionist), Robert Richardson, (The Good Shepherd), Dean Semler (Apocalypto), and veteran Vilmos Zsigmond (The Black Dahlia), who has been shooting films — among them Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Deer Hunter — since the early 1960s.
The above list include the eighth ASC nomination for Richardson; the third for Zsigmond, who won in 1993 for the telefilm Stalin; the second for Lubezki and Semler; and the first for Pope.
Dean Semler’s nod marks [...]
by Andre Soares | January 11, 2007
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Tags: Children of Men, Emmanuel Lubezki, Film Awards, Guillermo Navarro, José Luis Alcaine, Pan's Labyrinth, Robert Richardson, The Good Shepherd, The Illusionist, Volver
