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isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=23076</guid> <description><![CDATA[Kathryn Bigelow, Barbra Streisand Barbra Streisand, who was almost nominated for a Best Director Oscar a couple of times in the past, was chosen to present the 2010 Best Director Oscar at Sunday's ceremony. &#34;From among the five gifted nominees tonight, the winner could be, for the first time, a woman,&#34; Streisand told the audience at the Kodak Theatre. And just in time, too: Monday, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/barbra-streisand-kathryn-bigelow-oscar-198/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Lee Daniels Photo: Oscar 2010 Red Carpet</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/lee-daniels-photo-oscar-red-carpet-435/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/lee-daniels-photo-oscar-red-carpet-435/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:29:41 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22907</guid> <description><![CDATA[Lee Daniels is a Best Director nominee for the urban drama Precious, starring Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, and Mariah Carey. Precious received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actress (Sidibe), and Best Supporting Actress (Mo'Nique). Daniels was also nominated for the Directors Guild Award, but lost to Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker. Bigelow is also expected to win tonight's Best Director [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/lee-daniels-photo-oscar-red-carpet-435/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Gabourey Sidibe, Lee Daniels Photo: Spirit Awards</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/gabourey-sidibe-lee-daniels-spirit-awards-8951/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/gabourey-sidibe-lee-daniels-spirit-awards-8951/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:30:38 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22837</guid> <description><![CDATA[Gabourey Sidibe, Lee Daniels Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage Click on the image to enlarge it.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/gabourey-sidibe-lee-daniels-spirit-awards-8951/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>PRECIOUS Sweeps 25th Spirits Awards</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/precious-sweeps-spirits-awards-189/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/precious-sweeps-spirits-awards-189/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:41:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22741</guid> <description><![CDATA[Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique in Precious (top); Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart (bottom) Lee Daniels' urban family drama Precious swept the 25th Spirit Awards held this evening at L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles. Precious won a total of five awards out of five nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Gabourey Sidibe), Best Supporting Actress (Mo'Nique), and Best First Screenplay (Geoffrey Fletcher). Upon receiving his [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/precious-sweeps-spirits-awards-189/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Lee Daniels, Quentin Tarantino: Oscar Nominees Luncheon Photo</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/lee-daniels-quentin-tarantino-nominees-luncheon-11233/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/lee-daniels-quentin-tarantino-nominees-luncheon-11233/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:46:20 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22069</guid> <description><![CDATA[Lee Daniels and Quentin Tarantino chat at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Oscar Nominees Luncheon at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on Monday, February 15, 2010. Quentin Tarantino is up for two Academy Awards for the World War II revenge fantasy Inglourious Basterds: Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. Lee Daniels is in the running as the director of the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/lee-daniels-quentin-tarantino-nominees-luncheon-11233/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Woody Harrelson, Jeff Bridges, Lee Daniels: Nominees Luncheon Photo</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/woody-harrelson-jeff-bridges-lee-daniels-45876/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/woody-harrelson-jeff-bridges-lee-daniels-45876/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:03:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=22056</guid> <description><![CDATA[Woody Harrelson, Lee Daniels, and Jeff Bridges got together at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Oscar Nominees Luncheon at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on Monday, February 15, 2010. Woody Harrelson is a Best Supporting Actor nominee for the drama The Messenger. Lee Daniels is in the running as the director of the urban drama Precious, while Jeff Bridges is [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/woody-harrelson-jeff-bridges-lee-daniels-45876/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Meryl Streep, George Clooney, James Cameron: Oscar Nominees Luncheon Photo</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/meryl-streep-george-clooney-james-cameron-87129/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/meryl-streep-george-clooney-james-cameron-87129/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:11:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21991</guid> <description><![CDATA[academyawards on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free Sandra Bullock was the first Oscar nominee to field questions from reporters at the Oscar Nominees Luncheon clip above. &#34;It's always unexpected to me,&#34; Bullock says, referring to whenever one of her projects really pan out. She then added that her best actress Oscar nomination for The Blind Side was unexpected as well. (She was probably the only one [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/video/sandra-bullock-farmiga-harrelson-nominees-luncheon-11188/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Kathryn Bigelow, Quentin Tarantino, James Cameron: Oscar Nominees Luncheon Photo</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/kathryn-bigelow-tarantino-cameron-nominees-luncheon-53901/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/kathryn-bigelow-tarantino-cameron-nominees-luncheon-53901/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:26:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21976</guid> <description><![CDATA[Quentin Tarantino, Kathryn Bigelow, James Cameron, Lee Daniels, and Jason Reitman at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ annual Oscar Nominees Luncheon held earlier today at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. This year's five Oscar-nominated directors are in the running for the following movies: Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino), The Hurt Locker (Bigelow), Avatar (Cameron), Precious (Daniels), and Up in the Air (Reitman). [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/kathryn-bigelow-tarantino-cameron-nominees-luncheon-53901/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>2010 Oscar Predictions: Best Director Kathryn Bigelow</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/best-director-kathryn-bigelow-oscar-56044/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/best-director-kathryn-bigelow-oscar-56044/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:08:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21910</guid> <description><![CDATA[Best Director Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker Other nominees: James Cameron, Avatar; Lee Daniels, Precious; Jason Reitman, Up in the Air; Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds. Kathryn Bigelow is about to become the first woman to win the Best Director Academy Award. She has already won the Directors Guild Award, while The Hurt Locker has won the Producers Guild Award. The Iraq War drama has also [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/best-director-kathryn-bigelow-oscar-56044/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Sandra Bullock: From Razzie to Oscar</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/sandra-bullock-razzie-oscar-451/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/sandra-bullock-razzie-oscar-451/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:29:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21595</guid> <description><![CDATA[What a difference a day makes. Sandra Bullock went from a Razzie nod to an Oscar nod in less than 24 hours. Bullock is up for a Razzie for the year's Worst Actress for All About Steve (top photo, with Bradley Cooper). She's up for an Oscar for the year's best actress for The Blind Side (above, lower photo). Her performance in The Proposal earned [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/sandra-bullock-razzie-oscar-451/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>DGA Awards: Focus on Kathryn Bigelow&#039;s Gender</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/dga-awards-kathryn-bigelow-gender-133/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/dga-awards-kathryn-bigelow-gender-133/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:09:11 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21483</guid> <description><![CDATA[Perhaps it's a good thing that the Directors Guild Award ceremony wasn't televised. TV audiences were spared having to listen to Quentin Tarantino say &#34;both my testicles were totally tingling through the whole thing,&#34; following Brad Pitt's introduction to his Inglourious Basterds director. Or The Hurt Locker's Jeremy Renner saying &#8212; and I'm partly quoting The Wrap's Steve Pond's tweet here &#8212; that &#34;the only [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/dga-awards-kathryn-bigelow-gender-133/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>6</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>DGA Awards: First Female Best Director?</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/directors-guild-dga-awards-woman-director-449/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/directors-guild-dga-awards-woman-director-449/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:30:22 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21466</guid> <description><![CDATA[The five nominees for the 2010 Directors Guild Award are Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker, James Cameron for Avatar, Lee Daniels for Precious, Jason Reitman for Up in the Air, and Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds. The likely winner? Following the Producers Guild Award going to The Hurt Locker (box-office gross: less than $13 million) instead of Avatar (box-office gross: more than $560 million), [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/directors-guild-dga-awards-woman-director-449/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>2010 Oscar Predictions: Best Director</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/2010-oscar-predictions-best-director-759/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/2010-oscar-predictions-best-director-759/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:30:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21377</guid> <description><![CDATA[Oscar Predictions Best Director Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker James Cameron, Avatar (with Sam Worthington) Michael Haneke, The White Ribbon Jason Reitman, Up in the Air (with George Clooney) Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds (with Brad Pitt, Melanie Laurent, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Eli Roth, Christoph Waltz) Four of the directors above were nominated by the Directors Guild of America. European Film Award winner Michael Haneke [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/2010-oscar-predictions-best-director-759/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Mo&#039;Nique, Nicole Kidman: Golden Globes Photos</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/monique-nicole-kidman-golden-globes-899/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/monique-nicole-kidman-golden-globes-899/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:25:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=21075</guid> <description><![CDATA[Mo'Nique (Golden Globe Awards / © HFPA) Mo'Nique's speech at the Golden Globes this past Sunday was the evening's highlight for some. According to Brian Brooks at indieWIRE, the best supporting actress winner had already delivered a memorable speech the previous evening at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's awards dinner, held at the Century City Intercontinental Hotel. (About a stone's throw from the Globes' [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/monique-nicole-kidman-golden-globes-899/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Kathryn Bigelow, Lee Daniels: DGA Awards &amp; Women, Blacks, Gays</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/dga-awards-kathryn-bigelow-lee-daniels-768/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/dga-awards-kathryn-bigelow-lee-daniels-768/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:46:49 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=20467</guid> <description><![CDATA[Kathryn Bigelow directing The Hurt Locker (Jonathan Olley / Summit Entertainment) Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) is a first-time Directors Guild of America nominee, but her former husband James Cameron (Avatar) won the DGA Award for his megablockbuster Titanic back in early 1998. Lee Daniels (Precious) and Jason Reitman (Up in the Air) are two other first-timers, while this is Quentin Tarantino's second nod (Inglourious [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/dga-awards-kathryn-bigelow-lee-daniels-768/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Kathryn Bigelow, James Cameron, Jason Reitman: DGA Awards 2010 Nominations</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/kathryn-bigelow-james-cameron-jason-reitman-489/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/kathryn-bigelow-james-cameron-jason-reitman-489/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:43:44 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=20468</guid> <description><![CDATA[James Cameron, Sigourney Weaver on the Avatar set (Mark Fellman / 20th Century Fox) Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker), James Cameron (Avatar), Lee Daniels (Precious), Jason Reitman (Up in the Air), and Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds) are the Directors Guild of America's five nominees for their best motion picture director of 2009 award. Among those not shortlisted by DGA voters were Joel and Ethan Coen [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/kathryn-bigelow-james-cameron-jason-reitman-489/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Lee Daniels, Andreas Wilson, Anastasios Soulis: Stockholm 2009</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/lee-daniels-andreas-wilson-anastasios-soulis-123/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/lee-daniels-andreas-wilson-anastasios-soulis-123/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:06:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18950</guid> <description><![CDATA[Festival director Git Scheynius and Lee Daniels at the 2009 Stockholm Film Festival. (Photo: Carla Orrego Veliz) Lee Daniels' Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire earned Mo'Nique a best actress award. In the film, Mo'Nique plays illiterate, pregnant teenager Gabourey Sidibe's abusive mother. Additionally, Precious received an honorary mention from the International Film Critics. (Cary Fukunaga's Sin Nombre was the critics' top choice.) [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/photos/lee-daniels-andreas-wilson-anastasios-soulis-123/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Golden Globes 2010 Predictions: Best Director</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/golden-globes-2010-predictions-best-director-123/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/golden-globes-2010-predictions-best-director-123/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:08:30 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18785</guid> <description><![CDATA[2010 Golden Globe Predictions: Best Director Lee Daniels, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire Clint Eastwood, Invictus (above, Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon) Peter Jackson, The Lovely Bones (above, Saoirse Ronan) Rob Marshall, Nine (above, Daniel Day-Lewis, Kate Hudson) Jason Reitman, Up in the Air &#160; Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish in Bright Star (top);Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin in It's Complicated (middle); Sam Worthington in [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/golden-globes-2010-predictions-best-director-123/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>PRECIOUS Music: Q&amp;A with Composer Mario Grigorov</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/precious-music-mario-grigorov-interview/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/precious-music-mario-grigorov-interview/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:14:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18386</guid> <description><![CDATA[The son of a concert pianist and trumpeter, Bulgarian-born, Austrian-trained composer Mario Grigorov has been creating film music for two decades, having become particularly busy in the last ten years or so. Among his movie credits are Leonardo Ricagni's 29 Palms (1999) and El chevrolé (2002), Alison Thompson's documentary The Third Wave: A Volunteer Story (2007), additional music for Alex Gibney's Oscar-winning Iraq War documentary [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/interviews/precious-music-mario-grigorov-interview/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>AFI FEST 2009: PRECIOUS, THE WHITE RIBBON, AJAMI</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/afi-fest-2009-precious-the-white-ribbon-ajami/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/afi-fest-2009-precious-the-white-ribbon-ajami/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:58:31 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=18214</guid> <description><![CDATA[Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire by Lee Daniels (top); The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke (middle); Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi in Vincere by Marco Bellocchio (bottom) Among the Sunday, Nov. 1, highlights at the AFI FEST 2009 at the Chinese Theater complex in Hollywood are: Lu Chuan's historical drama City of Life and Death, winner of the Golden Shell for best picture [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/festivals/afi-fest-2009-precious-the-white-ribbon-ajami/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>2009 Toronto Film Festival Winners</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/2009-toronto-film-festival-winners/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/2009-toronto-film-festival-winners/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:21:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=16444</guid> <description><![CDATA[Gabourey 'Gabby' Sidibe in Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (top photo); Lee Daniels The bizarrely titled Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, formerly known as Push: Based on a Novel by Sapphire, was the Audience Award winner at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival. The Toronto win, which follows widespread critical acclaim and a couple of Sundance awards earlier in the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/2009-toronto-film-festival-winners/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>2009 Sundance Winners</title><link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/2009-sundance-winners/</link> <comments>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/2009-sundance-winners/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:01:58 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.altfg.com/blog/?p=15481</guid> <description><![CDATA[Among the top winners at Sundance 2009 were Grand Jury and Audience: U.S. Dramatic winner Push: Based on a Novel by Sapphire (as opposed to the upcoming sci-fi thriller Push, starring Dakota Fanning and Chris Evans). Directed by Lee Daniels and adapted by Damien Pearl, Push follows an overweight, pregnant teenager living in Harlem who must struggle to find her place in the world. Mo'Nique, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/2009-sundance-winners/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
