Guldbagge Awards 2009

2009 Golden Beetle (Guldbagge) Awards
2009 Swedish Film Institute’s Golden Beetle nominations: December 30, 2008
2009 Golden Beetle winners: Cirkus in Stockholm, January 12, 2009
A jury of 31 members picked the 2009 Guldbagge Award nominees.
("*" denotes the winner in each category)

Mikael Persbrandt in Everlasting Moments by Jan Troell

 
Best Film
De ofrivilliga / Involuntary, Producer: Erik Hemmendorff
Låt den rätte komma in / Let the Right One In, Producers: John Nordling och Carl Molinder
* Maria Larssons eviga ögonblick / Everlasting Moments, Producer: Thomas Stenderup
Best Foreign Language Film
* Lust, Caution, Director: Ang Lee
No Country for Old Men, Director: Joel Coen
There Will Be Blood, Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Best Documentary Film
H:r Landshövding / Mr Governor, [...]

Nastri d’Argento 2008

2008 Nastri d’Argento
National Union of Italian Film Journalists’ 2008 Nastri d’Argento (Silver Ribbons) nominations: May 11, 2008
2008 Nastri d’Argento winners: Teatro Antico di Taormina, Sicily, on June 14, 2008
(”*” denotes the winner in each category)
 

Isabella Ragonese plays a college grad who struggles to find work in A Whole Life Ahead
 

Best Director
Antonello GRIMALDI – Caos calmo
Daniele LUCHETTI – Mio fratello è figlio unico
Silvio SOLDINI – Giorni e nuvole
* Paolo VIRZÌ – Tutta la vita davanti / A Whole Life Ahead
Gianni ZANASI – Non pensarci
Best European Film
Across the Universe – Julie Taymor
Elizabeth: The Golden Age – Shekar Kapur
Atonement – Joe Wright
La vie en [...]

Hong Kong Film Awards 2008

2008 Hong Kong Film Awards
2008 Hong Kong Film Award nominations: February 4, 2008
2008 Hong Kong Film Award winners: Hong Kong Cultural Centre, April 13, 2008
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

The Warlords stars Jet Li as a general battling in a lengthy 19th-century Chinese civil war that left millions dead.
 

Best Film
* The Warlords (Prods: Andre Morgan, Huang Jianxin, Peter Ho-sun Chan)
Protege (Prod: Peter Ho-sun Chan)
The Postmodern Life Of My Aunt (Prods: Yuan Mei, Yu Dong, Cui Yong)
Mad Detective (Prods: Johnnie To, Wai Ka Fai)
Eye In The Sky (Prods: Johnnie To, Tsui Siu Ming)
Best Asian Film
Secret
The Sun Also Rises
* Lust Caution
Tokyo Tower: Mom & Me, And Sometimes Dad
Getting Home
Best Director
* Peter Ho-sun Chan (The Warlords)
Derek Yee (Protege)
Ann Hui [...]

BAFTA 2008 Longlists

James McAvoy, Saoirse Ronan in Atonement (top); Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Tang Wei in Lust, Caution (middle); Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood (bottom)

According to Variety, among the eligible films utterly ignored by British Academy of Film are The Great Debaters, Grace Is Gone, The Savages, Hallam Foe, When Did You Last See Your Father?, and Half Nelson.
I’m Not There and Away from Her only managed one mention a piece, for Cate Blanchett and Julie Christie, respectively.
Half Nelson apparently suffered the fate of other films that arrive in the UK after the Oscar ballyhoo is over for them. Letters from Iwo Jima, which appears twice (adapted screenplay and special visual effects) in the longlists, probably suffered for the [...]

Satellite Awards 2007

2007 Satellite Awards
International Press Academy’s 2007 Satellite Award nominations: November 30, 2007
2007 Satellite Award winners: December 16, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

 

MOTION PICTURE
Motion Picture, Drama
The Lookout Miramax Films
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead Thinkfilm
Away from Her Lionsgate
Eastern Promises Focus Features
* No Country for Old Men Miramax Films
3:10 To Yuma Lionsgate
Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
Hairspray New Line Cinema
* Juno Fox Searchlight
Shoot ‘Em Up New Line Cinema
Lars and the Real Girl MGM
Knocked Up Universal Pictures
Margot at the Wedding Paramount Vantage
Motion Picture, Foreign Film
Ten Canoes Australia Palm Pictures
Offside Iran Sony Pictures Classics
La Vie en Rose France Picturehouse
* Lust, Caution China Focus Features
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days Romania IFC Films
The Orphanage Spain Picturehouse
Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media
Persepolis Sony Pictures [...]