Penélope Cruz, Kate Winslet, Sean Penn: Oscar 2010 Presenters
Penélope Cruz, Kate Winslet and Sean Penn — the three living performers who won Oscars in the acting categories last year — will return as presenters at the 2010 Academy Awards ceremony on March 7. Heath Ledger won a posthumous Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance as the Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. He’d previously been nominated in the best actor category for Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain.
Last year, Penélope Cruz took home the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona, in which she plays Javier Bardem’s fiery ex. She had been previously nominated in the Best Actress category for Pedro Almodóvar’s Volver (2006), and is up for [...]
by Anna Robinson | February 11, 2010
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Tags: 2010 Oscar, Academy Awards, Film Awards, Heath Ledger, Kate Winslet, Oscar Ceremony 2010, Penélope Cruz, Photos, Sean Penn
AFI FEST 2009: SOMETHING’S GONNA LIVE, ABOUT ELLY, DOCTOR PARNASSUS
Heath Ledger in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (top); A Lake by Philippe Grandrieux (middle); Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint in North by Northwest (bottom)
AFI FEST 2009 highlights, Nov. 2:
Daniel Raim’s documentary Something’s Gonna Live, which features interviews with several behind-the-scenes veterans, including Robert Boyle, Conrad Hall, and Haskell Wexler
Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which marks Heath Ledger’s last film appearance
Asghar Farhadi’s drama About Elly, winner of the Silver Bear for best director at the 2009 Berlin Film Festival
Andrea Arnold’s family drama Fish Tank, winner of the Jury Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival
Bahman Ghobadi’s No One Knows About Persian Cats, about the obstacles faced by a couple of Iranian teenagers trying to form a rock band [...]
by Andre Soares | November 1, 2009
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Tags: About Elly, AFI FEST, AFI FEST 2009, Asghar Farhadi, Fish Tank, Heath Ledger, Los Angeles Screenings, No One Knows About Persian Cats, North by Northwest, Something's Gonna Live, Terry Gilliam, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
AFI FEST 2009: Heath Ledger, PRECIOUS, FANTASTIC MR. FOX
Fantastic Mr. Fox by Wes Anderson (top); Gabourey Sidibe in Precious (middle); Heath Ledger in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (bottom)
AFI FEST 2009, the AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival, kicks off next Friday, Oct. 30, with a screening of Wes Anderson’s animated feature Fantastic Mr. Fox, featuring the voices of George Clooney, Meryl Streep, and Owen Wilson, among others.
Other gala presentations include Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, starring Christopher Plummer — who’ll be the recipient of this year’s AFI FEST Lifetime Achievement Award — and featuring Heath Ledger’s last performance; Kirk Jones‘ Everybody’s Fine, starring Robert De Niro in this remake of Giuseppe Tornatore’s melodrama about a widower on his way to meet his family; and Sundance [...]
by Andre Soares | October 24, 2009
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Tags: AFI FEST, AFI FEST 2009, Christopher Plummer, Everybody's Fine, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Heath Ledger, Los Angeles Screenings, Terry Gilliam, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Wes Anderson
When Worlds Collide: The Science of Movies
Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (top); Tobey Maguire in Spider Man 3 (bottom)
"When Worlds Collide: The Science of Movies" is the title of the Academy’s Science and Technology Council’s program about the physics behind some of Hollywood’s best-known action and science-fiction scenes. "When Worlds Collide" will be presented on Thursday, August 6, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The evening will be hosted by author Adam Weiner (Don’t Try This at Home! The Physics of Hollywood Movies) and will feature film clips and a panel discussion with Oscar-winning visual effects artists Robert Legato (Titanic) and Scott Stokdyk (Spider-Man 2), Oscar-nominated visual effects artists [...]
by Deborah Arthur | July 24, 2009
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Tags: Adam Weiner, Heath Ledger, Los Angeles Screenings, Science and Technology Council, Spider-Man 3, The Dark Knight, Tobey Maguire, Visual Effects
Saturn Awards 2009
2009 Saturn Awards
The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films’ 2009 Saturn Award winners: June 25, 2009
(“*” denotes the winner in each category)
Iron Man (top); Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2nd from top); Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2nd from bottom); Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (bottom)
FEATURE FILMS
Best Science Fiction Film
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Eagle Eye
The Incredible Hulk
Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
* Iron Man
Jumper
Best Fantasy Film
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
* The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Hancock
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Twilight [...]
by Deborah Arthur | June 27, 2009
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Tags: Angelina Jolie, Film Awards, Heath Ledger, Iron Man, Jon Favreau, Let the Right One In, Robert Downey Jr, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, Tilda Swinton, WALL-E