Lone Scherfig Articles

Gabourey Sidibe in Lee Daniels' Precious John Cassavetes Award winner Lynn Shelton, Best First Film Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper, and Precious screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher all shed tears when accepting their awards. But the most emotional moment of the evening was the standing ovation given to Roger Ebert, who presented the Chaz and Roger Ebert Truer Than Fiction award to Bill Ross and Turner Ross' [...]

Some people complain that the Hollywood Academy is enamored of British productions and talent. Well, then perhaps Hollywood and the United Kingdom should switch academies, for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts can't get enough of Hollywood fare. (See full list of BAFTA nominations here.) James Cameron's Hollywood blockbuster Avatar, Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker, and Lone Scherfig's British-made coming-of-age [...]

The 2010 SAG Award nominations have been announced. The biggest surprise among the feature nominees was that I got 13 out of the 15 names right. The two that got away were Diane Kruger as best supporting actress for Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and Lone Scherfig's An Education for best ensemble. I had the former in the "less likely" list; the latter in the "strong [...]

2009 New York Film Critics Circle Awards New York Film Critics winners: Dec. 14, 2009   The Hurt Locker by Kathryn Bigelow   Best Film – The Hurt Locker Best Foreign Language Film – Summer Hours Best Non-fiction Film – Of Time and the City Best First Feature – Hunger, director Steve McQueen Best Animated Film – Fantastic Mr. Fox Best Director – Kathryn Bigelow [...]