James Marsh Articles

Philippe Petit in James Marsh’s Man on Wire (top); Isaiah and Julia Zagar in Jeremiah Zagar’s In a Dream (bottom) James Marsh’s Man on Wire and Jeremiah Zagar’s In a Dream will launch the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ 28th annual "Contemporary Documentaries" screening series on Wednesday, September 30, at 7 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. Admission to all screenings [...]

James McAvoy in Atonement (top); Michelle Williams, Lucy in Wendy and Lucy (bottom) The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited 134 artists and executives to join its roster in 2009. As per the Academy’s press release, all the various branches could pick a maximum of 166 new members, but as in the previous years "the several branch committees endorsed fewer candidates than [...]

2009 Directors Guild Awards 2009 DGA feature film nominations: January 8, 2009. Documentary and television nominations: January 9, 2009 2009 DGA award winners: Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, January 31, 2009 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   Following his DGA win, Danny Boyle is the odds-on favorite to win the best director Academy Award. In fact, Boyle has been the [...]

An animated film has won the National Society of Film Critics 2009 Awards. No, not WALL-E, but Ari Folman’s anti-war documentary-ish Waltz with Bashir, about Israel’s disastrous 1982 invasion of Lebanon. It’s hard not to believe that current events — the Gaza conflict has been going on since late December — influenced the vote, though war or no war in the Middle East, Waltz with [...]