Luminita Gheorghiu Articles

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 [...]

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 — [...]