Cannes 2009: Juliette Binoche, Monica Bellucci, Rachel Weisz, Robin Wright

Juliette Binoche (Photo by Jean Baptiste Lacroix/FilmMagic)

Monica Bellucci (Photo by Daniele Venturelli/WireImage)

Rachel Weisz (Photo by Tony Barson/WireImage)

Robin Wright Penn (Photo by John Shearer/WireImage)
 

2005 European Film Award Winners

Michael Haneke’s compelling and quite disturbing Caché / Hidden was the big winner at the 2005 European Film Awards held this evening in Berlin. The psychological-political thriller was chosen best film, in addition to wins for director Haneke, actor Daniel Auteuil (above, with Juliette Binoche), and a best editing award for Michael Hudecek and Nadine Muse.
Berlin Film Festival winner Julia Jentsch won the best European actress award for her superb portrayal of one of the young leaders of the anti-Nazi German resistance in Sophie Scholl – Die Letzten Tage / Sophie Scholl – The Final Days. Jentsch also won the Jameson People’s Choice Award, and so did Sophie Scholl’s director, fellow Berlin Film Festival winner Marc
Rothemund.
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Lauren Bacall and the 1997 Academy Awards

In By Myself and Then Some, Lauren Bacall’s updated and extended version of her 1978 bestselling autobiography By Myself, the two-time Tony Award-winning actress (for Applause in 1970 and for Woman of the Year in 1981) candidly discusses the ballyhoo surrounding her very first Academy Award nomination in the mid-1990s.
Apart from a few (film) career lulls, Bacall had been working steadily in front of the camera since 1945. But whether as mere on-screen decoration (Key Largo, Bright Leaf) or as a solid leading lady (Woman’s World, The Fan), Bacall had been invariably ignored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
More than half a century after Bacall’s film début in To Have and Have Not, actress-director-composer-singer-etc. [...]