BAFTA 2008: Keira Knightley, Lee Majors, James McAvoy, Anne Marie Duff

Keira Knightley

Lee Majors

James McAvoy, Anne Marie Duff

Anthony Hopkins

Kate Hudson

Daniel Day-Lewis, Rebecca Miller

Tilda Swinton
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Oscar 2006: Nominations

The Academy Award nominations are in.
Brokeback Mountain (above, with Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger) led the pack with 8 nods. Crash, Good Night and Good Luck., and Memoirs of a Geisha tied with six nominations each, while Munich and Capote received five nominations apiece. Of the aforementioned six films, the one left out of the best picture race was Memoirs of a Geisha.
Even though he’s not a film, George Clooney also received multiple nominations, three in all: best director and best original screenplay (with Grant Heslov) for Good Night and Good Luck., and a best supporting actor nod for Syriana. Clooney has just made Oscar history by becoming the first actor-director to be nominated for different films in [...]

New York Film Critics Online Awards 2005

2005 New York Film Critics Online Awards
2005 New York Film Critics Online Award winners: December 12, 2005
 

Laura Linney, Jeff Daniels, William Baldwin in The Squid and the Whale
 

Best Film: The Squid and the Whale
Runners up (in alphabetical order):
The Best of Youth
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
The Constant Gardener
Crash
Good Night and Good Luck.
Munich
Syriana
Best Foreign-Language Film: Downfall, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel
Best Director: Fernando Meirelles, The Constant Gardener
Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
Best Actress: Keira Knightley, Pride & Prejudice
Best Supporting Actor: Oliver Platt, Casanova
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams, Junebug
Best Screenplay: Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco, Crash
Best Documentary / Nonfiction Film: Grizzly Man directed by Werner Herzog
Best Animated Feature: Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of [...]

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL – Johnny Depp

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Direction: Gore Verbinski
Screenplay: Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio; from an original screen story by Stuart Beattie and Jay Wolpert
Cast: Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Jack Davenport, Jonathan Pryce, Lee Arenberg
 

 

WHEN KEITH MET ZASU
Pirate films were a popular Hollywood staple for about three decades, from the mid-1920s (The Sea Hawk, The Black Pirate) to the mid-1950s, when the genre, by then relegated to mostly B films, began to die down. Sporadic resurrections in the last two decades have been disastrous (Pirates, Cutthroat Island), something that didn’t bode well for Disney’s "film adaptation" of one of their theme-park rides. However, Neptune and assorted sea gods have apparently been in [...]