Tilda Swinton Best Performer of 2009 – indieWIRE Poll
Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds (François Duhamel / The Weinstein Co.)
SUMMER HOURS Best Film of 2009 – indieWIRE Poll
Top choices in the indieWIRE annual poll’s other categories include Kathryn Bigelow as best director, the Coen brothers‘ A Serious Man screenplay, Tilda Swinton as best performer in a leading role for Erick Zonca’s Julia and, unsurprisingly, Christoph Waltz as best performer in a supporting role for his evil Nazi in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. Mo’Nique was a distant second for her mean mom in Precious.
Sacha Gervasi’s rockumentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil, about a Canadian heavy metal band that doesn’t quite make it to the top, was voted the best documentary of 2009. Agnès Varda’s autobiographical The Beaches [...]
by Anna Robinson | December 22, 2009
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Tags: A Serious Man, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Christoph Waltz, Film Awards, indieWIRE Poll, Julia, Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker, Tilda Swinton
Out at the Pictures: DESERT HEARTS, GET REAL, JULIA, COCKLES AND MUSCLES
Patricia Charbonneau, Helen Shaver in Desert Hearts
The British Film Institute will screen four films with (at least some) gay content in their "Out at the Pictures" series in the next two months. The four titles are: Desert Hearts (1985), Get Real (1998), Julia (1977), and Crustacés et coquillages / Cockles and Muscles / Cote d’Azur (2005). The series will also feature "Generations of Love," an intergenerational panel discussion. (See full schedule below.)
Based on Pentimento, Lillian Hellman’s 1973 book of (highly fictionalized) memoirs in which Hellman discusses her close friendship with a woman named "Julia," Julia is my favorite Fred Zinnemann film. Jane Fonda can be quite actressy, but her Lillian Hellman is perhaps her most sober, self-contained characterization, [...]
by Andre Soares | January 6, 2009
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Tags: Ben Silverstone, Cote d'Azur, Desert Hearts, Donna Deitch, Fred Zinnemann, Gay Interest, Gay Movies, Get Real, Julia, Lesbian Interest, London Screenings
Fred Zinnemann’s Oscar Nominated Actors
Fred Zinnemann
20 Acting Nominations
(s) supporting category
(*) Academy Award winner
Fred Zinnemann: Top Oscar Directors for Actors
1944
Hume Cronyn (s) The Seventh Cross
1948
Montgomery Clift The Search
1952
Gary Cooper High Noon *
Julie Harris The Member of the Wedding
1953
Montgomery Clift From Here to Eternity
Burt Lancaster From Here to Eternity
Deborah Kerr From Here to Eternity
Frank Sinatra (s) From Here to Eternity *
Donna Reed (s) From Here to Eternity *
1957
Anthony Franciosa A Hatful of Rain
1959
Audrey Hepburn The Nun’s Story
1960
Deborah Kerr The Sundowners
Glynis Johns (s) The Sundowners
1966
Paul Scofield (with Susanna York) A Man for All Seasons *
Robert Shaw (s) A Man for All Seasons
Wendy Hiller (s) A Man for All Seasons
1977
Jane Fonda Julia
Jason Robards (s) Julia*
Maximilian Schell (s) Julia
Vanessa Redgrave (s) Julia*
by Andre Soares | January 28, 2007
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Tags: A Man for All Seasons, Academy Awards, Audrey Hepburn, Classic Movies, Film Awards, Fred Zinnemann, Jane Fonda, Julia, Paul Scofield, The Nun's Story, Vanessa Redgrave