SIGHT & SOUND’s Top Ten Films of 2005
Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain (top); Viggo Mortensen in A History of Violence (middle); Tony Leung, Gong Li, Ziyi Zhang in 2046 (bottom)
Sight & Sound’s Top-Ten (actually top-fourteen) Films
1 Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)
2 A History of Violence (David Cronenberg) and La Niña santa / The Holy Girl (Lucretia Martel)
4 2046 (Wong Kar Wai) and Mysterious Skin (Gregg Araki)
6 Le Conseguenze dell’amore / The Consequences of Love (Paolo Sorrentino) and The Descent (Neil Marshall)
8 Moolaadé (Ousmane Sembene)
9 Sud pralad / Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
10 De battre mon coeur s’est arrêté / The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Jacques Audiard), Gegen die Wand / Head-On (Fatih Akin), Hauru no ugoku [...]
by Andre Soares | February 25, 2006
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Tags: 2046, A History of Violence, Brokeback Mountain, Film Awards, Head-On, Howl's Moving Castle, Sight and Sound, The Beat That My Heart Skipped, The Consequences of Love, The Descent
2006 National Society of Film Critics Award Winners
Capote, which follows flamboyant writer Truman Capote while he was working on In Cold Blood, was chosen the best film of 2005 by the National Society of Film Critics. As most elsewhere this year, smaller American films and non-American productions took center stage in the voting.
Among the other winners were best director David Cronenberg for the social critique A History of Violence, which failed to win the best film award by one single vote, after six rounds of voting; best actor Philip Seymour Hoffman (above, with Catherine Keener) for Capote; best actress Reese Witherspoon for playing another real-life character, June Carter, in Walk the Line; and best foreign film Gegen die Wand / Head-On, Fatih Akin’s drama [...]
by Andre Soares | January 7, 2006
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Tags: A History of Violence, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Catherine Keener, David Cronenberg, Fatih Akin, Film Awards, Head-On, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Reese Witherspoon
National Society of Film Critics Awards 2006
2006 National Society of Film Critics Awards
2006 National Society of Film Critics award winners: New York City on January 7, 2006
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener in Capote
Best Film: Capote (12, on sixth ballot)
Runners-up: A History of Violence (11, on sixth ballot); 2046 (fifth ballot)
Best Foreign-Language Film: Head-On by Fatih Akin (26)
Runner-up: 2046 by Wong Kar Wai (23); Hidden by Michael Haneke (18)
Best Documentary: Grizzly Man by Werner Herzog (60)
Runners-up: Darwin’s Nightmare by Hubert Sauper (27); Ballets russes by Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine (19)
Best Director: David Cronenberg, A History of Violence (32)
Runners-up: Wong Kar Wai, 2046 (26); Bennett Miller, Capote (23)
Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote (68)
Runners-up: Jeff Daniels, The Squid and [...]
by Andre Soares | January 7, 2006
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Tags: Amy Adams, Capote, David Cronenberg, Ed Harris, Film Awards, Grizzly Man, Head-On, Noah Baumbach, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Reese Witherspoon
2004 European Film Awards Winners
The German drama Gegen die Wand / Head-On was picked as the best European film at the 2004 European Film Awards ceremony in Barcelona.
Directed by Fatih Akin, voted the year’s best European director, Head-On tells the story of a young Turkish-German woman (Sibel Kekilli) who marries an older Turkish man (Birol Ünel) in order to escape her strict Muslim family. Earlier this year, Head-On won both the Golden Bear and the International Critics’ FIPRESCI prize at the Berlin Film Festival.
Additionally, the film has won five German Film Academy awards: Best film, best actor, best actress, best director, and best cinematography (Rainer Klausmann).
Spaniard Javier Bardem (above, with Belén Rueda) was chosen the year’s best actor for his [...]
by Andre Soares | December 12, 2004
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Tags: Belen Rueda, Birol Unel, European Film Academy, European Film Awards, Fatih Akin, Film Awards, Gegen die Wand, Head-On, Imelda Staunton, Javier Bardem, Liv Ullmann, Sibel Kekilli, The Sea Inside
European Film Awards 2004
2004 European Film Awards
2004 European Film Awards Winners: Forum Convention Center in Barcelona on Dec. 11, 2004
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Photos: Alberto Estevez / EFE
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EUROPEAN FILM
ETT HÅL I MITT HJÄRTA (A Hole In My Heart), Sweden / Denmark
directed by Lukas Moodysson
produced by Memfis Film, Zentropa, Film I Väst, SVT, Nordic Film- & TV Fund
* GEGEN DIE WAND (Head-On), Germany
directed by Fatih Akin
produced by Wüste Filmproduktion / Corazon International / NDR / ARTE
La Mala educación / Bad Education, Spain
directed by Pedro Almodóvar
produced by El Deseo D.A., S.L.U.
Les Choristes / The Chorus, France / Switzerland
directed by Christophe Barratier
produced by Galatée Films / Pathé Renn Production / France 2 Cinéma / Novo Arturo [...]
by Andre Soares | December 11, 2004
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Tags: 2046, Darwin's Nightmare, European Film Academy, European Film Awards, Fatih Akin, Film Awards, Gegen die Wand, Head-On, Imelda Staunton, Javier Bardem, Liv Ullmann, Penélope Cruz