Vera Farmiga, Jason Reitman, Anna Kendrick: London ‘09
Vera Farmiga arrives for the premiere of Up in the Air, a potential Oscar nominee, during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Vue West End on October 18.
Photos: Samir Hussein/Getty Images
Anna Kendrick, Jason Reitman, Vera Farmiga
Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick at the Up in the Air photocall
by Joan Lister | October 20, 2009
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Tags: Anna Kendrick, Film Festivals, Jason Reitman, London Film Festival, London Film Festival 2009, Photos, Up in the Air, Vera Farmiga
Oscar 2010: Early Predictions – Best Director
BEST DIRECTOR
The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow
The Lovely Bones, Peter Jackson (above, with Saoirse Ronan)
A Serious Man, Joel and Ethan Coen
Up in the Air, Jason Reitman (above, with George Clooney)
The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke
In all honesty, I don’t know who the hell will get a best direction nod this year — though I’m pretty sure it’ll be five of the ten directors listed in my "tentative" 2010 best picture Oscar list.
For the record, the other five not listed above are: Lone Scherfig for An Education; Grant Heslov for The Men Who Stare at Goats; Lee Daniels for Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire; Steven Soderbergh for The Informant!, and Rob Marshall for Nine.
Unless, of course, Jane Campion manages to [...]
by Andre Soares | October 12, 2009
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Tags: 2010 Oscar, 2010 Oscar Predictions, A Serious Man, Academy Awards, Jane Campion, Jason Reitman, Joel and Ethan Coen, Kathryn Bigelow, Michael Haneke, Peter Jackson, The Hurt Locker, The Lovely Bones, The White Ribbon, Up in the Air
Toronto 2009: UP IN THE AIR, YOUNG VICTORIA, Israel Controversy
George Clooney in Up in the Air
Nomi Morris on Up in the Air in GlobalPost, via The Huffington Post:
"This year, the film that has generated the greatest buzz is Up in the Air, the latest by [Jason] Reitman, director of the hits Juno and Thank You for Smoking, and son of Hollywood director Ivan Reitman (Ghost Busters). Up in the Air stars [George] Clooney as a "termination engineer," who has no home life outside of his job, jetting around the country helping American companies fire people. Both funny and sad, the film examines a society where frequent flier points become a substitute for family attachments. Reitman used documentary footage of 25 real people who had lost their jobs in Detroit [...]
by Anna Robinson | September 18, 2009
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Tags: Capitalism: A Love Story, Emily Blunt, George Clooney, Jason Reitman, Michael Moore, Politics, Toronto 2009, Toronto Film Festival, Up in the Air, Young Victoria
Nastri d’Argento 2008
2008 Nastri d’Argento
National Union of Italian Film Journalists’ 2008 Nastri d’Argento (Silver Ribbons) nominations: May 11, 2008
2008 Nastri d’Argento winners: Teatro Antico di Taormina, Sicily, on June 14, 2008
(”*” denotes the winner in each category)
Isabella Ragonese plays a college grad who struggles to find work in A Whole Life Ahead
Best Director
Antonello GRIMALDI – Caos calmo
Daniele LUCHETTI – Mio fratello è figlio unico
Silvio SOLDINI – Giorni e nuvole
* Paolo VIRZÌ – Tutta la vita davanti / A Whole Life Ahead
Gianni ZANASI – Non pensarci
Best European Film
Across the Universe – Julie Taymor
Elizabeth: The Golden Age – Shekar Kapur
Atonement – Joe Wright
La vie en [...]
by Andre Soares | June 14, 2008
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Tags: 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, A Whole Life Ahead, Abdellatif Kechiche, Across the Universe, Agente matrimoniale, Alba Rohrwacher, Alessandro Gassman, Alina Marazzi, Amore bugie e calcetto, Andrea D’Ambrosio, Andrea Molaioli, Ang Lee, Angela Finocchiaro, Anita Caprioli, Anna Bonaiuto, Anna Negri, Antonello Grimaldi, Antonia Liskova, Antonio Albanese, Arnaldo Catinari, Atonement, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Bianco e nero, Biùtiful càuntri, Brad Bird, Caos calmo, Carla Vangelista, Carlo Lizzani, Carlo Mazzacurati, Carlo Poggioli, Caroina Crescentini, Carolina Crescentini, Catia Dottori, Cemento armato, Chris Kraus, Civico Zero, Claudio Collepiccolo, Claudio Piersanti, Colpo d'occhio, Come tu mi vuoi, Cover boy, Cristian Mungiu, Cristiana Capotondi, Cristina Comencini, Daniel Silverman, Daniele Luchetti, Daniele Silvestri, Daniele Vicari, Dante Ferretti, Davide Marengo, Domenico Procacci, Doriana Leondeff, Eduardo Crespo, Elio Germano, Elisabetta Montaldo, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Ennio Morricone, Esmeralda Calabria, Fabio Bonifacci, Federica Pontremoli, Film Awards, Four Minutes, Francesca Calvelli, Francesca Lo Schiavo, Francesca Marciano, Francesco Bruni, Francesco Maselli, Francesco Piccolo, Gianna Nannini, Gianni Zanasi, Giorgio Diritti, Giorni e nuvole, Giulia Calenda, Giuliano Gemma, Giuliano Montaldo, Giuseppe Battiston, Hotel Meina, I demoni di San Pietroburgo, I Viceré, I'm Not There, Il mio paese, Il vento fa il suo giro, Ilaria Fraioli, Into the Wild, Io l'altro, Irina Palm, Isabella Ragonese, Jason Reitman, Joe Wright, Joel and Ethan Coen, Julian Schnabel, Julie Taymor, Kasia Smutniak, Kazuko Kurosawa, La giusta distanza, La graine et le mulet, La ragazza del lago, La seconda volta non si scorda mai, La Vie en Rose, Le ferie di Licu, Lele Marchitelli, Lezioni di cioccolato, Lezioni di felicità, Lionello Cerri, Luca Lionello, Luca Lucini, Lucia Ragni, Lust Caution, Maddalena Ravagli, Marco Chimenz, Marco Pettenello, Marco Stabilini, Margherita Buy, Marina Confalone, Mario Venuti, Marjane Satrapi, Massimo Ghini, Massimo Zamboni, Michele Pellegrini, Milena Canonero, Mio fratello è figlio unico, Mirco Garrone, Mohsen Melliti, Nanni Moretti, Nastri d'Argento, Nastri d'Argento 2008, National Union of Italian Film Journalists, Nelle tue mani, Nero bifamiliare, Nessuna qualità agli eroi, Nicola Pecorini, Nicola Piovani, Nicoletta Ercole, No Country for Old Men, Non pensarci, Notturno bus, Olivier Dahan, Paolo Virzì, Parlami d'amore, Paul Thomas Anderson, Peppe Ruggiero, Persepolis, Peter Del Monte, Piano solo, Piera Degli Esposti, Piero De Bernardi, Pino Daniele, Questa notte è ancora nostra, Ramiro Civita, Ratatouille, Riccardo Tozzi, Riprendimi, Roberto Cimatti, Sabrina Ferilli, Sam Garbarski, Sean Penn, Sergio Rubini, Seta, Shekar Kapur, Sidney Lumet, Signorina Effe, Silver Ribbons, Silvio Muccino, Silvio Soldini, Sonetàula, Sweeney Todd, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Secret of the Grain, The Simpsons Movie, There Will Be Blood, Tideland, Tim Burton, Tiro Mancino, Todd Haynes, Toni Servillo, Tonino Zera, Tre donne morali, Tutta la vita davanti, Valerio Mastandrea, Vier Minuten, Vincent Paronnaud, Vittorio Moroni, Vittorio Storaro, Vogliamo anche le rose, Wilma Labate
Oscar 2008: George Clooney, Quincy Jones, Alex Gibney
George Clooney, Quincy Jones
Alex Gibney
Jason Reitman, Ivan Reitman, Jon Stewart
Photos: Greg Harbaugh / © A.M.P.A.S.
by Andre Soares | February 25, 2008
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Tags: 2008 Oscar, Academy Awards, Alex Gibney, Film Awards, George Clooney, Ivan Reitman, Jason Reitman, Jon Stewart, Photos, Quincy Jones
Oscar 2008: Saoirse Ronan, Laura Linney, Josh Brolin
Saoirse Ronan, Robert Osborne
Laura Linney, Jason Reitman
Josh Brolin (with Javier Bardem’s Oscar statuette?)
Photos: Richard Harbaugh (Ronan), Greg Harbaugh (Brolin), Darren Decker (Linney). All photos: © A.M.P.A.S.
by Andre Soares | February 25, 2008
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Tags: 2008 Oscar, Academy Awards, Film Awards, Jason Reitman, Josh Brolin, Laura Linney, Photos, Robert Osborne, Saoirse Ronan
Las Vegas Film Critics Awards 2006
2006 Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards
2006 Las Vegas Film Critics Society award winners: December 17, 2006
Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson in The Departed
Best Film: The Departed by Martin Scorsese
Runners-up:
Letters from Iwo Jima
Babel
United 93
Dreamgirls
Blood Diamond
Thank You for Smoking
Perfume
The Queen
Flags of Our Fathers
Best Foreign-Language Film: Pan’s Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro
Best Documentary: An Inconvenient Truth by Davis Guggenheim
Best Director: Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen
Best Supporting Actor: Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond
Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Best Screenplay: Jason Reitman, Thank You for Smoking
Best Animated Film: Monster House directed by Gil Kenan
Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, Children of Men
Best Film Editing: Thelma Schoonmaker, The Departed
Best [...]
by Andre Soares | December 17, 2006
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Tags: An Inconvenient Truth, Djimon Hounsou, Film Awards, Forest Whitaker, Helen Mirren, Jason Reitman, Jennifer Hudson, Martin Scorsese, Pan's Labyrinth, The Departed
