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Golden Globes 2009: Tom Cruise, Leonardo DiCaprio, Zac Efron

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Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Cruise © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Hayden Panettiere, Zac Efron © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Don Cheadle © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet in REVOLUTIONARY ROAD Trailer

 
Directed by Sam Mendes and adapted by Justin Haythes from Richard Yates‘ novel, Revolutionary Road stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet (Mendes’ wife) as a 1950s Connecticut couple whose "ideal" marriage is in the doldrums for they feel something is missing in both their personal and professional lives. A trip to France, which is supposed to make things better, ends up deteriorating their relationship even further.
DiCaprio, apart from a Golden Globe nod, has been all but ignored throughout the 2009 awards season, though Winslet has managed quite a few mentions, in addition to both Golden Globe and SAG nominations. The film itself has been included in several top-ten lists, and is up for a Golden Globe in the best film, [...]

Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet in REVOLUTIONARY ROAD Photos

Revolutionary Road stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as a 1950s suburban couple whose marriage hits the skids.
Directed by Sam Mendes. Screenplay adaptation by Justin Haythe from Richard Yates‘ novel.
Revolutionary Road opens in the US on Dec. 26, 2008.
Photos: DreamWorks
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Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet in Revolutionary Road

THE AVIATOR Screening

Martin Scorsese’s 2004 Best Picture nominee The Aviator is the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ "Great To Be Nominated" series. The handsome but vapid Howard Hughes biopic will be screened on Monday, July 28, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Following the screening, cast members Alec Baldwin, Jacob Davich, J.C. Mackenzie, and Amy Sloan, production sound mixer Petur Hliddal, special effects supervisor R. Bruce Steinheimer, and miniature effects supervisor Matthew Gratzner will take part in a discussion about the film.
The US$100-million-plus The Aviator wasn’t quite the hoped-for critical and box-office hit, though the biopic won numerous accolades and did good business thanks to the casting of Leonardo DiCaprio [...]

Douglas Kirkland Photo Exhibition

Brigitte Bardot (top); Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge! (bottom)

The photo exhibition "Freeze Frame: 5 Decades of Photographs by Douglas Kirkland," opens today in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ Grand Lobby Gallery in Beverly Hills. Admission is free.
"Freeze Frame" features more than 125 color and black-and-white images of old and new motion picture celebrities, including Anne Bancroft, Antonio Banderas, Brigitte Bardot, Drew Barrymore, Warren Beatty, Mel Brooks, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Gene Hackman, Salma Hayek, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Kevin Kline, Sophia Loren, and Baz Luhrmann.
Also, Shirley MacLaine, Ewan McGregor, Jeanne Moreau, Paul Newman, Jack Nicholson, Sidney Poitier, Susan Sarandon, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Peter Sellers (right, as a paparazzi going after Britt Ekland), [...]

Martin Scorsese’s Oscar Nominated Actors

Martin Scorsese
20 Acting Nominations
(s) supporting category
(*) Academy Award winner
Martin Scorsese: Top Oscar Directors for Actors
 
1974

Ellen Burstyn Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore *
Diane Ladd (s) Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
 
1976

Robert De Niro Taxi Driver
Jodie Foster (s) Taxi Driver
 
1980

Robert De Niro Raging Bull *
Joe Pesci (s) Raging Bull
Cathy Moriarty (s) Raging Bull
 
1986
Paul Newman The Color of Money *
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (s) The Color of Money
 
1990
Joe Pesci (s) Goodfellas *
Lorraine Bracco (s) Goodfellas
 
1991

Robert De Niro Cape Fear
Juliette Lewis (s) Cape Fear
 
1993
Winona Ryder (s) The Age of Innocence
 
1995
Sharon Stone Casino
 
2002

Daniel Day-Lewis Gangs of New York
 
2004

Leonardo DiCaprio The Aviator
Cate Blanchett (s) The Aviator *
 
2006
Mark Wahlberg (s) The Departed

Martin Scorsese: Top Oscar Directors for Actors

Unless things change dramatically (and no, I’m not referring only to environmental chaos and apocalyptic wars), 30 or 40 years from now Martin Scorsese is going to be the best remembered name of the current top-five Oscar directors for actors. (The others being William Wyler, Elia Kazan, George Cukor, and Fred Zinnemann.)
In addition to having the most recent career — cultural amnesia is invariably a factor — Scorsese is the single director among the top five whose films can been categorized as belonging to a particular genre. Better yet, Scorsese’s forte is that much-revered tough-guy cinema.
And ain’t Scorsese’s men tough.
His first male muse, Robert De Niro, becomes a hero after slaughtering unsavory figures from the New York underworld in [...]

Central Ohio Film Critics Awards 2007

2007 Central Ohio Film Critics Association Awards
2007 Central Ohio Film Critics Association award winners: January 11, 2007
 

Clive Owen, Michael Caine in Children of Men
 

Best Film: Children of Men directed by Alfonso Cuarón
Runner-Up: The Departed directed by Martin Scorsese
Others in the Top Ten:
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Pan’s Labyrinth
Little Miss Sunshine
Brick
United 93
Babel
Thank You for Smoking
Casino Royale
Best Foreign Language Film: Pan’s Labyrinth directed by Guillermo del Toro
Runner-Up: Letters from Iwo Jima directed by Clint Eastwood
Best Director: Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Runner-Up: Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men
Best Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Departed
Runner-Up: Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of [...]

SAG Awards 2007: Nominations

The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) announced its list of 2007 nominees earlier today.
The only major surprise was the inclusion of Emilio Estevez’s Bobby — instead of Stephen Frears‘ The Queen (right) — in the "Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture" category, even though no individual performance from Bobby was singled out for SAG award consideration.
Also, critics’ favorites such as United 93, and both Clint Eastwood World War II films, Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, were completely ignored by SAG voters.
Helen Mirren, on the other hand, was shortlisted in two individual categories as two different Queen Elizabeths — the current one in The Queen, and the one from the early modern era [...]

Austin Film Critics Awards 2007

2007 Austin Film Critics Association Awards
2007 Austin Film Critics Association award winners: January 2, 2007
 

 

Best Film: United 93 by Paul Greengrass
Runners-up: The Departed, Pan’s Labyrinth, Children of Men, Brick, Borat, Little Children, The Queen, The Prestige, The Fountain
Best Foreign Film: Pan’s Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro
Best Documentary: This Film Is Not Yet Rated directed by Kirby Dick
Best Animated Film: Cars by John Lasseter and Joe Ranft
Best First Film: Rian Johnson, Brick
Best Director: Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men
Best Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Departed
Best Actress: Ellen Page, Hard Candy
Best Supporting Actor: Jack Nicholson, The Departed
Best Supporting Actress: Rinko Kikuchi, Babel
Best Original Screenplay: Guillermo del Toro, Pan’s Labyrinth
Best Adapted Screenplay: Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men
Best Cinematography: Emmanuel [...]

Satellite Awards 2006

2006 Satellite Awards
2006 International Press Academy’s Satellite Award nominations: November 30, 2006
2006 Satellite Award winners: Imperial Ballroom of le Méridian in Beverly Hills on December 17, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Leonardo DiCaprio, Vera Farmiga in The Departed
 

MOTION PICTURES
Motion Picture, Drama
Half Nelson
* The Departed
Flags of Our Fathers
The Queen
The Last King of Scotland
Babel
Little Children
Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
Little Miss Sunshine
Thank You for Smoking
The Devil Wears Prada
Stranger Than Fiction
Venus
* Dreamgirls
Motion Picture, Foreign Language
The Lives of Others, Germany
* Volver, Spain
Changing Times, France
Water, Canada
The Syrian Bride, Israel
Apocalypto, U.S.
Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media
Cars
Ice Age: The Meltdown
Happy Feet
Flushed Away
* Pan’s Labyrinth
Motion Picture, Documentary
* Deliver Us from Evil
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
An [...]

2007 Golden Globes: Nominations

Following the announcement of the 2007 Golden Globe nominations early yesterday morning, I watched three entertainment "journalists" discussing the choices of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) as if they meant significantly more than the outcome of good marketing tools.
In all fairness, the same can be said about nearly every other group, no matter how self-important, that gives out film awards. After all, their choices are usually the result of p.r. and marketing strategies, past or expected box-office revenues, and personal or professional politics.
That said, those types of biases — who, when, where is giving out awards to which films and individuals — are exactly what make those myriad film awards worth reporting. By looking at the choices, [...]

Best Films – 2002

A man is dead. Who among the greedy, ruthless, amoral singing-and-dancing suspects stuck in the snowbound countryside mansion has done it? 8 women is an acquired taste, bien sûr. What seems silly the first time around becomes increasingly wittier and funnier — though no less bizarre — with each repeated viewing. Beautifully shot by Jeanne Lapoirie and chock-full of bitingly sardonic lines and situations (adapted by director François Ozon and Marina de Van, from Robert Thomas’ play), this murder musical is dotted with 8 of the brightest stars of the French cinema of the last 7 (!) decades.
More than seventy years after her film début, Danielle Darrieux, in full form both as an actress and as a singer, joins [...]

Golden Globes 2005

2004 Golden Globes
2005 Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Golden Globe winners: Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on January 16, 2005
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Leonardo DiCaprio, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett in The Aviator
 

Best Motion Picture – Drama
* The Aviator
Closer
Finding Neverland
Hotel Rwanda
Kinsey
Million Dollar Baby
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Incredibles
The Phantom of the Opera
Ray
* Sideways
Best Foreign Language Film
Les Choristes / The Chorus (France)
Diarios de motocicleta / The Motorcycle Diaries (Brazil / Argentina / US)
Un long dimanche de fiançailles / A Very Long Engagement (France)
* Mar adentro / The Sea Inside (Spain / France / Italy)
Shi mian mai fu / House of Flying [...]

Las Vegas Film Critics Awards 2004

2005 Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards
2005 Las Vegas Film Critics Society award winners: January 3, 2005
 

Leonardo DiCaprio in The Aviator
 

Best Film: The Aviator by Martin Scorsese
Runners-up:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Sideways
Finding Neverland
The Incredibles
Ray
Kinsey
Million Dollar Baby
Vera Drake
The Passion of the Christ
Best Foreign-Language Film: Hero by Zhang Yimou
Best Director: Martin Scorsese – The Aviator
Best Actor: Jamie Foxx – Ray
Best Actress: Kate Winslet – Finding Neverland and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Best Supporting Actor: Clive Owen – Closer
Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett – The Aviator and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Best Screenplay: Charlie Kaufman – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Best Cinematography: Robert Richardson – The Aviator
Best Editing: Thelma Schoonmaker [...]

GANGS OF NEW YORK – Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis

Gangs of New York (2002)
Direction: Martin Scorsese
Screenplay: Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, and Kenneth Lonergan, from a story by Cocks. (Herbert Asbury’s Gangs of New York treads on some of the same territory shown in the film.)
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Jim Broadbent, Henry Thomas, Liam Neeson, Brendan Gleeson, John C. Reilly, Gary Lewis, Stephen Graham, Eddie Marsan, Alec McCowen, David Hemmings
 

 

KEEP AWAY YOUR POOR, YOUR TIRED. . .
Those who think that gangs and urban violence are a modern phenomenon should take a look at Martin Scorsese’s ambitious Gangs of New York, a riveting tale of revenge, corruption, and power lust set in mid-1860s New York City. Scorsese had already covered the dangerous streets of his hometown in [...]

Phoenix Film Critics Awards 2004

2004 Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards
2004 Phoenix Film Critics Society award winners: December 21, 2004
 

Leonardo DiCaprio in The Aviator
 

Best Film: The Aviator by Martin Scorsese
Runners-Up (in alphabetical order):
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Finding Neverland
Hero
Hotel Rwanda
The Incredibles
Million Dollar Baby
Ray
Sideways
Spanglish
Best Foreign- Language Film: Hero directed by Zhang Yimou
Best Director: Martin Scorsese The Aviator
Best Actor: Jamie Foxx Ray
Best Actress: Hilary Swank Million Dollar Baby
Best Supporting Actor: Thomas Haden Church Sideways
Best Supporting Actress: Laura Linney Kinsey
Best Ensemble Acting: Sideways
Best Original Screenplay: Charlie Kaufman Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Best Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor Sideways
Overlooked Film of the Year: Stage Beauty
Best Live Action Family Film: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Best Animated Film: The [...]

THE AVIATOR Notes: Howard Hughes’ Hollywood

Tommy Lee Jones plays Howard Hughes (above, lower photo) in the TV movie The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977); Jason Robards plays the old and haggard Hughes in Melvin and Howard (1980), for which he received an Academy Award nomination as best supporting actor; George Peppard plays a fictionalized Hughes in The Carpetbaggers (1964); and Robert Ryan plays another Hughes clone in Caught (1949).
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Initially, Michael Mann was going to direct The Aviator, but ended up co-producing it instead. Two of Mann’s recent biopics, The Insider (1999) and Ali (2001) were major box-office disappointments.
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Nicole Kidman and Gwyneth Paltrow were reportedly scheduled to play Katharine Hepburn and Ava Gardner, respectively. (Some reports have Paltrow as Hepburn, and Kidman as [...]

THE AVIATOR – Leonardo DiCaprio – d: Martin Scorsese

The Aviator (2004)
Direction: Martin Scorsese
Screenplay: John Logan
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, Alan Alda, Alec Baldwin, Kelli Garner, Gwen Stefani, Ian Holm, Adam Scott, Frances Conroy, Willem Dafoe, Jacob Davich, Jude Law, John C. Reilly, Edward Herrmann, Stanley DeSantis, Danny Huston, Matt Ross
 

 

WHAT’S NOT GOOD FOR THE SPRUCE GOOSE. . .
Imagine Citizen Kane directed by Steven Spielberg. The final result would look something like a Barry Levinson film — for instance, the superficial and glitzy Bugsy. Or the superficial, glitzy, and bloated The Aviator. Except, of course, that Levinson is not the man responsible for the mega-production starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the eccentric, billionaire ladies’ man Howard Hughes. Strangely enough, that man is Martin Scorsese, the director of hard-hitting [...]

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