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Oscar 2008: Cate Blanchett, Foreign-Language Films

Joe Dziemianowicz in the New York Daily News:
"Who says it’s never as good as the first time! Cate Blanchett, up for leading actress for playing QE1 in Elizabeth: The Golden Age, was up for the same award for the same role in 1998’s Elizabeth. She joins an elite club that includes Al Pacino — he was nominated twice playing Michael Corleone in The Godfather and the first sequel."
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Others who earned two Oscar nods for the same role: Bing Crosby as Father O’Malley in Going My Way (1944, he won) and The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945); Paul Newman as Fast Eddie Felson in The Hustler (1961) and The Color of Money (1986, he won); and Peter O’Toole as Henry II [...]

Oscar 2007: Nominated Producers

Toni Collette, Abigail Breslin, Alan Arkin, Paul Dano, Steve Carell, Greg Kinnear in Little Miss Sunshine

Not everyone will fit into the 2007 Academy Award’s van.
The Academy’s Producers Branch Executive Committee has announced the final roster of producers nominated in this year’s Best Picture category. They are:

Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik and Steve Golin for Babel
Graham King for The Departed
Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, and Robert Lorenz for Letters from Iwo Jima
David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub for Little Miss Sunshine
Andy Harries, Christine Langan and Tracey Seaward for The Queen

The nominees for The Departed and Little Miss Sunshine were determined by the executive committee at a meeting held yesterday evening.
Even though up to three producers can [...]

Berlin Film Festival 2007 Film Line-Up

Berlin 2007: Official Competition Line-Up
 

300 by Zack Snyder, U.S. (World Premiere, Out of Competition)

Angel by François Ozon, France/Belgium/U.K. (World Premiere)/Closing Film

Beaufort by Joseph Cedar, Israel (World Premiere)

Bordertown by Gregory Nava, U.S. (World Premiere)

Desert Dream / Hyazgar by Zhang Lu, Republic of Korea/France (World Premiere)

Die Fälscher | The Counterfeiter by Stefan Ruzowitzky, Germany/Austria (World Premiere)

El Otro | The Other by Ariel Rotter, Argentina/France/Germany (World Premiere)

Goodbye Bafana by Bille August, Germany/France/Belgium/U.K./Italy (World Premiere)

Hallam Foe by David Mackenzie, U.K. (World Premiere)

In memoria di me / In Memory of Myself by Saverio Costanzo, Italy (World Premiere)

Irina Palm by Sam Garbarski, Belgium/Germany/Luxembourg/U.K./France (World Premiere)

La Môme | La Vie en rose by Olivier Dahan, France/U.K./Czech Republic (World Premiere)/Opening Film

Les [...]

Golden Globes 2007

2007 Golden Globes
Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s 2007 Golden Globe nominations: December 14, 2006
2007 Golden Globe winners: Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on January 15, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

© HFPA 64th Golden Globe® Awards
FILM
Best Motion Picture – Drama
* Babel
Bobby
The Departed
Little Children
The Queen
Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
The Devil Wears Prada
* Dreamgirls
Little Miss Sunshine
Thank You for Smoking
Best Foreign Language Film
Apocalypto (USA)
* Letters from Iwo Jima (USA/Japan)
Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others (Germany)
El Laberinto del fauno / Pan’s Labyrinth (Mexico)
Volver (Spain)
Best Animated Feature Film
* Cars
Happy Feet
Monster House

© HFPA 64th Golden Globe® Awards
Best Director – Motion Picture
Clint Eastwood, Flags of Our Fathers
Clint [...]

Critics’ Choice Awards 2007

2007 Critics’ Choice Awards
2007 Broadcast Film Critics Association Critics’ Choice Awards nominations: December 12, 2006
2007 Critics’ Choice Awards winners: Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on January 12, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Mark Wahlberg, Matt Damon in The Departed
 

BEST FILM:
Babel
Blood Diamond
* The Departed
Dreamgirls
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Children
Little Miss Sunshine
Notes on a Scandal
The Queen
United 93
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:
Apocalypto
Days of Glory
* Letters from Iwo Jima
Pan’s Labyrinth
Volver
Water
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:
* An Inconvenient Truth
Shut Up & Sing
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Wordplay
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE:
* Cars
Flushed Away
Happy Feet
Monster House
Over the Hedge
BEST DIRECTOR:
Bill Condon – Dreamgirls
Clint Eastwood – Letters from Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears – The Queen
Paul Greengrass – United 93
* Martin Scorsese – The Departed
BEST ACTOR:
Leonardo DiCaprio – Blood Diamond
Leonardo DiCaprio [...]

Golden Globes 2007: Foreign-Language Film Screenings

Penélope Cruz in Volver (top); Martina Gedeck in The Lives of Others (middle); Pan’s Labyrinth (bottom)

The American Cinematheque and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will present all five foreign-language films nominated for the 2007 Golden Globe Awards at The Aero’s Max Palevsky Theatre in Santa Monica.
The five nominees are:

Apocalypto (U.S.)
El Laberinto del fauno / Pan’s Labyrinth (Spain / Mexico / U.S.)
Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others (Germany)
Letters from Iwo Jima (U.S.)
Volver (Spain)

Invited guests (to be confirmed) for each screening are directors Pedro Almodóvar, Guillermo del Toro, Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson, and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, all of whom should also take part in a round-table discussion moderated by Screen International U.S. editor [...]

Kansas City Film Critics Awards 2007

2007 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
2007 Kansas City Film Critics Circle award winners: January 4, 2007
 

 

Best Film: United 93 directed by Paul Greengrass
Best Foreign Language Film: Letters from Iwo Jima directed by Clint Eastwood
Best Documentary: An Inconvenient Truth directed by Davis Guggenheim
Best Animated Film: Over the Hedge directed by Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick
Robert Altman Award for Directing: Paul Greengrass, United 93
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen
Best Supporting Actor: Michael Sheen, The Queen
Best Supporting Actress: Catherine O’Hara, For Your Consideration
Best Original Screenplay: Michael Arndt, Little Miss Sunshine
Best Adapted Screenplay: William Monahan, The Departed
Vince Koehler Award for Outstanding Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror Film: Pan’s Labyrinth directed by Guillermo [...]

Utah Film Critics Awards 2006

2006 Utah Film Critics Association Awards
2006 Utah Film Critics Association award winners: December 28, 2006
 

 

Best Film: United 93 directed by Paul Greengrass
Runner-up: The Departed directed by Martin Scorsese
Best Foreign-Language Film: Letters from Iwo Jima directed by Clint Eastwood
Runner-up: Pan’s Labyrinth directed by Guillermo del Toro
Best Director: Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men
Runner-up: Paul Greengrass, United 93
Best Actor: Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Runner-up: None (Sacha Baron Cohen was the unanimous choice)
Best Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen
Runner-up: Shareeka Epps, Half Nelson
Best Supporting Actor: Michael Sheen, The Queen
Runner-up: Mark Wahlberg, The Departed
Best Supporting Actress: Rinko Kikuchi, Babel
Runner-up: Maggie Gyllenhaal, World Trade Center and Stranger Than Fiction
Best Screenplay: Rian Johnson, Brick
Runner-up: [...]

Chicago Film Critics Awards 2006

2006 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
2006 Chicago Film Critics Association Award nominations: December 19, 2006
2006 Chicago Film Critics Association Award winners: December 28, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Matt Damon in The Departed
 

Best Picture
Babel
* The Departed
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen
United 93
Best Foreign Language Film
Apocalypto
* Letters from Iwo Jima
Pan’s Labyrinth
Tsotsi
Volver
Best Director
Clint Eastwood for Letters from Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears for The Queen
Paul Greengrass for United 93
Alejandro González Iñárritu for Babel
* Martin Scorsese for The Departed
Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio for The Departed
Ryan Gosling for Half Nelson
Peter O’Toole for Venus
Will Smith for The Pursuit of Happyness
* Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress
Penélope Cruz for Volver
Judi Dench for Notes on a Scandal
Maggie Gyllenhaal for Sherrybaby
* Helen Mirren for The Queen
Meryl Streep for The [...]

2006 San Diego Film Critics Winners

The San Diego Film Critics Society tends to go its own way when it comes to year-end film awards. For instance, last year most critics’ groups chose Brokeback Mountain as the best film of 2005. The San Diego Film Critics, for their part, opted for King Kong. Hardly a superior choice, but different nonetheless. Other more esoteric picks include Almost Famous as the best film of 2000 and Vera Drake as their top choice for 2004. To a large extent, the San Diego critics’ picks for 2006 demonstrate their continual avoidance of groupthink.
Even though the best film, best director, and best actress categories were filled with expected names — Letters from Iwo Jima and its director, Clint Eastwood, [...]

2006 Chicago Film Critics Awards: Nominations

With nine nominations, including best film and best director (Alejandro González Iñárritu), Babel (above) seems to be the Chicago Film Critics Association’s favorite 2006 flick.
Among the other multiple nominees are The Departed and The Queen, both of which are in the running for best film and best director (Martin Scorsese and Stephen Frears, respectively).
The two biggest surprises among the Chicago critics’ list were the inclusion of Maggie Gyllenhaal and Gavin Hood’s Tsotsi.
There are six nominees for the best actress slot — I’m assuming that’s how Gyllenhaal was able to sneak in for her performance as an ex-con who discovers motherhood in the little-seen Sherrybaby. She has also been nominated for a best actress – drama Golden Globe [...]

Phoenix Film Critics Awards 2006

2006 Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards
2006 Phoenix Film Critics Society award winners: December 19, 2006.
 

 

Best Film: United 93 directed by Paul Greengrass
Runners-up (in alphabetical order):
Babel
Bobby
Borat
Children of Men
The Departed
The Last King of Scotland
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen
Best Foreign-Language Film: Letters from Iwo Jima directed by Clint Eastwood
Best Documentary: An Inconvenient Truth directed by Davis Guggenheim
Best Animated Film: Flushed Away directed by David Bowers and Sam Fell
Best Director: Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen
Best Supporting Actor: Jack Nicholson, The Departed
Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
Best Original Screenplay: Michael Arndt, Little Miss Sunshine
Best Adapted Screenplay: [...]

San Diego Film Critics Awards 2006

2006 San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
2006 San Diego Film Critics Society Award winners: December 18, 2006
 

Ken Watanabe in Letters from Iwo Jima
 

Best Film: Letters from Iwo Jima directed by Clint Eastwood
Best Foreign-Language Film: Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles, directed by Zhang Yimou
Best Non-Fiction Film: Shut Up & Sing directed by Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck
Best Director: Clint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo Jima
Best Actor: Ken Takakura, Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
Best Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen
Best Supporting Actor: Ray Winstone, The Proposition
Best Supporting Actress: Lili Taylor, Factotum
Best Ensemble Performance: Babel
Best Original Screenplay: Karen Moncrieff, The Dead Girl
Best Adapted Screenplay: Jason Reitman, Thank You for Smoking
Best Animated Film: Cars directed by John Lasseter and [...]

Dallas-Ft. Worth Film Critics Awards 2006

2006 Dallas-Ft. Worth Film Critics Association Awards
2006 Dallas-Ft. Worth Film Critics Association Award winners: December 18, 2006
 

 

Best Film: United 93 directed by Paul Greengrass
Runners-up: The Departed, Little Miss Sunshine, The Queen, Babel, Letters from Iwo Jima, Dreamgirls, Blood Diamond, Little Children, Flags of Our Fathers.
Best Foreign-Language Film: Letters from Iwo Jima directed by Clint Eastwood
Runners-up: Pan’s Labyrinth; Water; Volver; Apocalypto
Best Director: Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Runners-up: Paul Greengrass, United 93; Alejandro González Iñárritu, Babel; Clint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo Jima; Stephen Frears, The Queen
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Runners-up: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Departed; Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson; Peter O’Toole, Venus; Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond
Best Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen
Runners-up: Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal; Meryl Streep, [...]

2007 Critics’ Choice Awards: Nominations

There were quite a few surprises among the nominees for the Broadcast Film Critics Association’s 2007 Critics’ Choice Awards.
Both Todd Field’s psychological sex drama Little Children (above, with Kate Winslet and Patrick Wilson) and Clint Eastwood’s Japanese-language Letters from Iwo Jima were nominated in the best film category, but Eastwood’s highly praised Flags of Our Fathers was not.
Letters from Iwo Jima also showed up in the best foreign language film shortlist (a first at the Critics’ Choice Awards), along with Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto, which has been both panned and praised (sometimes in the same review).

Leonardo DiCaprio received two best actor nods (another first), for Blood Diamond and The Departed, while Ben Affleck (above, with Diane Lane) was [...]

Los Angeles Film Critics Awards 2006

2006 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
2006 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award winners: Dec. 10, 2006.
 

 

Best Film: Letters from Iwo Jima directed by Clint Eastwood
Runners-up: The Queen directed by Stephen Frears; United 93 directed by Paul Greengrass; L’Armée des ombres / Army of Shadows directed by Jean-Pierre Melville†
Best Foreign-Language Film: Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Runner-up: Volver directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Best Director: Paul Greengrass, United 93
Runners-up: Clint Eastwood, Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima; Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men
Best Actor (tie): Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, and Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Runners-up: Peter [...]

2006 Los Angeles Film Critics Award Winners

The most interesting winner at the 2006 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards was best supporting actress Luminita Gheorghiu (above, with Ion Fiscuteanu), who plays a nurse assisting a sick old man in Cristi Puiu’s acclaimed Romanian comedy-drama The Death of Mr. Lazarescu.
Not only was Gheorghiu’s win a major surprise — U.S. film critics only sporadically opt for performers acting in non-English-language productions — but I could visualize Catherine O’Hara, one of this year’s top best supporting actress contenders and National Board of Review Award winner going nuts because L.A. critics chose a Romanian instead of her. (I saw the funny For Your Consideration yesterday; in that film, there’s a French Oscar nominee who inadvertently pushes O’Hara’s Oscar contender [...]

National Board of Review Awards 2006

2006 National Board of Review Awards
2006 National Board of Review Award winners: Dec. 6, 2006
 

 

Best Film
Letters from Iwo Jima by Clint Eastwood
Runners-up (in alphabetical order)
Babel, Blood Diamond, The Departed, The Devil Wears Prada, Flags of Our Fathers, The History Boys, Little Miss Sunshine, Notes on a Scandal, The Painted Veil
Best Foreign Film
Volver by Pedro Almodóvar
Runners-up (in alphabetical order)
Indigènes / Days of Glory, El Laberinto del fauno / Pan’s Labyrinth, Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia / Curse of the Golden Flower, Water
Best Director
Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Best Actor
Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress
Helen Mirren, The Queen
Best Supporting Actor
Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond
Best Supporting Actress
Catherine O’Hara, For Your Consideration
Best Acting by an Ensemble
The Departed
Best Adapted Screenplay
Ron Nyswaner, The Painted Veil
Best [...]

2006 National Board of Review Award Winners

The biggest surprise found in the list of winners of the 2006 National Board of Review awards was the choice of Clint Eastwood’s View from the Other Side, the Japanese-language World War II drama Letters from Iwo Jima, as the best film of the year.
This marked only the third time that the NBR’s best film award has gone to a non-English-language production. The last time that happened was in 1949, when they picked Vittorio De Sica’s Italian-made neo-realist drama The Bicycle Thief. The year before, another Italian film took the award, Roberto Rossellini’s Paisan.
Based on Japanese Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi’s book Picture Letters from Commander in Chief (adapted for the screen by Iris Yamashita), and starring Ken Watanabe, [...]

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