Joel and Ethan Coen Articles

Anthony Mackie, Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker (top); Nisreen Faour, Hiam Abbass in Amreeka (middle); Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind in A Serious Man (bottom) Considered the official beginning of awards season in the United States, the Independent Feature Project announced its 2009 Gotham Award nominations earlier today in New York City. The five nominees for best picture are: Cherien Dabis‘ Amreeka, the tale of [...]

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 [...]

Michael Stuhlbarg in A Serious Man (top); Joel and Ethan Coen (bottom) Peter Knegt reports that an indieWIRE poll of "more than 25" film critics and bloggers (blogging film critics?) shows that the overwhelmingly favorite film screened at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival was Joel and Ethan Coen’s A Serious Man (not to be confused with Tom Ford’s A Single Man or the Michael Douglas [...]

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 [...]