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Golden Globes 2009: Tom Cruise, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emma Thompson

Tom Cruise © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Jake Gyllenhaal © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Johnny Depp © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN Censored on Italian TV

Following a censored broadcast of the multiple-award winning Brokeback Mountain — minus the gay lovemaking scenes — on one of Italy’s public TV channels, Rai Due, Italian gay rights’ groups have demanded that the network’s director, Antonio Marano, explain the channel’s decision to censor the film.
Adding insult to injury, the cuts came days after the Vatican attacked an EU proposal for the UN to formally condemn anti-gay discrimination. (Now, when does the Catholic Boycott begin? Which film festivals will be affected in Catholic states and/or countries?)
"Who had the presumption to think that an adult public could not handle the sight of kissing and intimacy between two men?" inquired Aurelio Mancuso, president of the gay advocacy group Arcigay, which has [...]

indieWIRE Poll 2007

Via indieWIRE — "The Critics Speak: Best, Worst, the Auteurs and the Underrated." Below are a couple of sample quotes:
"More people in our world will see Juno than 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. More will see 300 than Offside. More will see Saw IV than There Will Be Blood [above]. Yet we fight on, championing those films that really mean something to us. I find this rage against an always dying light both disconcerting and empowering, and I am thankful for filmmakers like Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Paul Thomas Anderson, Jafar Panahi, Sarah Polley, Pedro Costa, Tsai Ming-liang, the Coens, Todd Haynes, and all of the others who consistently reminded me of why I do what I do and [...]

BAFTA 2006

2006 BAFTA Awards
2006 Orange British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominations: January 19, 2006
2006 BAFTA award winners: Odeon Leicester Square in London on February 19, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain
 

FILM
* BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN – Diana Ossana / James Schamus
CAPOTE – Caroline Baron / William Vince / Michael Ohoven
THE CONSTANT GARDENER – Simon Channing Williams
CRASH – Credits TBC
GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK. – Grant Heslov
THE ALEXANDER KORDA AWARD for the Outstanding British Film of the Year
A COCK & BULL STORY – Andrew Eaton / Michael Winterbottom / Martin Hardy
THE CONSTANT GARDENER – Simon Channing Williams / Fernando Meirelles / Jeffrey Caine
FESTIVAL – Christopher Young / Annie Griffin
PRIDE & PREJUDICE – Tim Bevan / Eric [...]

BAFTA 2006 Winners

Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain. Photo: Kimberly French / Focus Films

Brokeback Mountain was the big winner at the BAFTA 2006 Awards. Based on E. Annie Proulx’s short story about the doomed love affair between two Wyoming ranch hands, Brokeback Mountain won a total of four awards: best picture, best director (Ang Lee), best adapted screenplay (Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana), and, surprisingly, best supporting actor for Jake Gyllenhaal. (While accepting the best film award, producer James Schamus jokingly complained that his film has been unfairly labeled “the gay cowboy movie,” when it actually is a “universal love story about two gay shepherds.”)

Two actors portraying real-life characters also came out on top: Philip Seymour Hoffman was chosen best [...]

Oscar 2006: Nominations

The Academy Award nominations are in.
Brokeback Mountain (above, with Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger) led the pack with 8 nods. Crash, Good Night and Good Luck., and Memoirs of a Geisha tied with six nominations each, while Munich and Capote received five nominations apiece. Of the aforementioned six films, the one left out of the best picture race was Memoirs of a Geisha.
Even though he’s not a film, George Clooney also received multiple nominations, three in all: best director and best original screenplay (with Grant Heslov) for Good Night and Good Luck., and a best supporting actor nod for Syriana. Clooney has just made Oscar history by becoming the first actor-director to be nominated for different films in [...]

Palm Springs Film Festival Awards 2006

2006 Palm Springs Film Festival Awards
2006 Palm Springs Film Festival: January 5-16, 2006
 

Set in French Indochina shortly before World War II, Minh Nguyen-Vo’s Buffalo Boy depicts the coming-of-age journey of a teenager while transporting his family’s buffalos to safer pastures during the region’s seasonal floods. The line-up of the 17th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival included 232 films from more than 70 countries. Among the festival highlights were Breno Silveira’s Two Sons of Francisco, one of Brazil’s biggest box-office hits ever (and the cause of much consternation to Brazilian President Lula, who was caught watching a pirated DVD of the film); Cristina Comencini’s Don’t Tell, a drama about the consequences of incest-rape and Italy’s submission [...]

Phoenix Film Critics Awards 2005

2005 Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards
2005 Phoenix Film Critics Society award winners: December 20, 2005
 

Russell Crowe, Renee Zellweger in Cinderella Man
 

Best Film: Cinderella Man by Ron Howard
Runners-up (in alphabetical order): Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Crash, Good Night and Good Luck., A History of Violence, In Her Shoes, King Kong, Sin City, Walk the Line
Best Foreign-Language Film: Kung Fu Hustle by Stephen Chow
Best Documentary: March of the Penguins by Luc Jacquet
Best Animated Film: Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit by Nick Park and Steve Box
Best Director: George Clooney, Good Night and Good Luck.
Best Actor: Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain
Best Actress: Felicity Huffman, Transamerica
Best Supporting Actor: Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain
Best Supporting Actress: Michelle [...]

San Diego Film Critics Awards 2005

2005 San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
2005 San Diego Film Critics Society Award winners: December 19, 2005
 

 

Best Film: King Kong directed by Peter Jackson
Runner-up: Capote directed by Bennett Miller
Best Foreign-Language Film: Innocent Voices by Luis Mandoki
Best Director: Bennett Miller, Capote
Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
Best Actress: Joan Allen, The Upside of Anger
Best Supporting Actor: Jeffrey Wright, Broken Flowers
Best Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener
Best Original Screenplay: Shane Black, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Best Adapted Screenplay: Dan Futterman, Capote
Best Non-Fiction Film: Grizzly Man, directed by Werner Herzog
Best Animated Film: Howl’s Moving Castle by Hayao Miyazaki
Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, The New World
Best Editing: Ronald Sanders, A History of Violence
Best Production Design: Jeanette Scott, Sin City
Body of [...]

2005 Golden Globes: Nominations

Big-budget studio releases were mostly cast aside by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), whose Golden Globe nominations were announced today.
As to be expected, critics’ favorite Brokeback Mountain, about the mostly long-distance love affair between two men in the American West, ruled the pack with seven nominations. Since the Globes don’t cover any of the technical awards, Jake Gyllenhaal (above, with Heath Ledger) ended up being the only major talent in that film left without a nod.
The biggest surprise was probably the absence of Steven Spielberg’s Munich from the best picture – drama shortlist. Spielberg’s tale of terrorism and revenge, based on actual events, had been touted by those who had neither seen it nor read about it as [...]

2005 National Board of Review Award Winners

The New York-based group National Board of Review has selected George Clooney’s black-and-white biopic-cum-sociopolitical drama Good Night and Good Luck. (above, with Clooney and David Strathairn) as the best film of 2005.
Other winners include best director Ang Lee for critics’ fave Brokeback Mountain; another critics’ fave, Philip Seymour Hoffman, chosen as best actor for Capote; and best actress Felicity Huffman, who plays a pre-op male-to-female transsexual in Transamerica.

The best foreign film was Paradise Now, the story of two Palestinian suicide bombers directed by Hany Abu-Assad; while, inexplicably, leading man Jake Gyllenhaal (above, with Anne Hathaway) won as best supporting actor for his gay rodeo cowboy in Brokeback Mountain.
Perhaps the NBR decided to categorize Gyllenhaal’s Jack Twist as [...]

National Board of Review Awards 2005

2005 National Board of Review Awards
2005 National Board of Review Award winners: Dec. 12, 2005
 

George Clooney, Robert Downey Jr., David Strathairn in Good Night and Good Luck.
 

Best Film: Good Night and Good Luck.
Top Ten Films (in alphabetical order):
Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Crash, A History of Violence, Match Point, Memoirs of a Geisha, Munich, Syriana, Walk the Line
Best Foreign-Language Film: Paradise Now by Hany Abu-Assad
Top Foreign Films (in alphabetical order):
2046, Downfall, Walk on Water, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Best Director: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
Best Actress: Felicity Huffman, Transamerica
Best Supporting Actor: Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain
Best Supporting Actress: Gong Li, Memoirs of a Geisha
Best Acting By An Ensemble: Mrs. Henderson Presents
Breakthrough Performance Actor: Terrence Howard (Hustle & [...]

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN Awards and Nominations

Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain

Unless otherwise stated, all awards/nominations for Brokeback Mountain are for the year 2005.
Academy Awards: 3 wins (best director, Ang Lee; best adapted screenplay, Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana; best original score, Gustavo Santaolalla);

5 additional nominations (best film; best actor, Heath Ledger; best supporting actor, Jake Gyllenhaal; best supporting actress, Michelle Williams; best cinematography, Rodrigo Prieto)

American Cinema Editors: 1 nomination (best-edited dramatic feature, Geraldine Peroni and Dylan Tichenor)
American Society of Cinematographers: 1 nomination (best cinematography – feature film, Rodrigo Prieto)
Australian Film Institute (AFI) (2006): 1 win (best actor – foreign film, Heath Ledger)
Boston Society of Film Critics: 2 wins (best film; best director, Ang Lee);

also, runner-up for best actor (Heath Ledger)

British Academy Awards: [...]

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN Awards II

Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN Awards and Nominations: Part I
New York Film Critics Circle: 3 wins (best film; best director, Ang Lee; best actor, Heath Ledger)
New York Film Critics Online: One of the year’s top-ten films
Norwegian Film Institute Amanda Awards: 1 nomination (best foreign film)
Online Film Critics Society: 2 wins (best adapted screenplay, Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana; best score, Gustavo Santaolalla);

6 additional nominations (best film; best director, Ang Lee; best actor, Heath Ledger; best supporting actor, Jake Gyllenhaal; best supporting actress, Michelle Williams; best cinematography, Rodrigo Prieto)

Phoenix Film Critics Society: 5 wins (best actor, Heath Ledger; best supporting actor, Jake Gyllenhaal; best supporting actress, Michelle Williams; best adapted screenplay, Larry McMurtry and Diana [...]

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN Trivia

Background
E. Annie Proulx’s short story "Brokeback Mountain" was originally published in the October 13, 1997, issue of The New Yorker. A prologue was added to the tale when it was included in Proulx’s collection of short stories, Close Range: Wyoming Stories. Proulx won a Pulitzer for her 1994 novel, The Shipping News.
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"’Brokeback Mountain’ was/is one of a number of stories examining rural Western social situations. I was trained as an historian (French Annales school), and most of my writing is focused on rural North American hinterlands. The story was not ‘inspired,’ but the result of years of subliminal observation and thought, eventually brought to the point of writing." E. Annie Proulx, interviewed by Matthew Testa for Planet Jackson Hole.
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Long before [...]

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN II – Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN Review: Part I
Much of the publicity surrounding Brokeback Mountain has focused on presenting Ledger and Gyllenhaal as hetero off-screen studs playing homo on-screen studs, as if "acting gay" — a couple of rough kissing scenes and a simulated sex act — is per se both a display of thespian courage and an example of great screen acting. Whatever those actors’ sexual orientation may be, perhaps it’s true that they have been brave to tackle those roles.
That said, in their scenes together Ledger and Gyllenhaal are utterly incapable of conveying, whether through a spark in the eye or a quivering in the voice, the passion that Ennis and Jack are supposed to feel for one another. The chemistry [...]

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN d: Ang Lee

Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Direction: Ang Lee
Screenplay: Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana; from E. Annie Proulx’s short story
Cast: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway, Randy Quaid, Linda Cardellini, Kate Mara
 

 

Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain is without a doubt a culturally significant motion picture. The same-sex romantic drama has won numerous awards, has been discussed all over the media, and has been labeled "groundbreaking" by numerous film critics. Of course, the fact that those critics’ knowledge of film history only goes as far back as Revenge of the Sith should not be held against Lee’s film. Yet, except for a few touching moments in its second half Brokeback Mountain fails to become fully involving chiefly because its central relationship — between a [...]

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