Iowa Film Critics Awards 2006
2006 Iowa Film Critics Association Awards
2006 Iowa Film Critics Association award winners: January 10, 2006
Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain
Best Film: Brokeback Mountain
Best Director: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
Best Actress: Joan Allen, The Upside of Anger
Best Supporting Actor: Paul Giamatti, Cinderella Man
Best Supporting Actress: Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener
The Best Movie Yet to Open in Iowa: Match Point directed by Woody Allen
Iowa Film Critics Association Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
by Andre Soares | January 10, 2006
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Tags: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Film Awards, Joan Allen, Match Point, Paul Giamatti, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener
Goya Awards 2006
2006 Goya Awards
2006 Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Goya Award winners: Jan. 29, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Sarah Polley, Tim Robbins in The Secret Life of Words
Mejor película / Best Film
7 vírgenes / 7 Virgins, by Alberto Rodríguez
*La Vida secreta de las palabras / The Secret Life of Words, by Isabel Coixet
Obaba, by Montxo Armendariz
Princesas, by Fernando León de Aranoa
Mejor película europea / Best European Film
Der Untergang / Downfall, by Oliver Hirschbiegel (Germany)
The Constant Gardener, by Fernando Meirelles (United Kingdom)
Les Choristes / The Chorus, by Christophe Barratier (France)
* Match point, by Woody Allen (United Kingdom)
Mejor película extranjera de habla hispana / Best Spanish-Language Foreign Film
Alma mater, by Álvaro Buela (Uruguay)
* Iluminados por el [...]
by Andre Soares | January 9, 2006
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Tags: Camarón, Candela Peña, Enlightened by Fire, Film Awards, Goya Awards, Isabel Coixet, Match Point, Óscar Jaenada, Princesas, The Secret Life of Words, Woody Allen
MATCH POINT d: Woody Allen
Match Point (2005)
Direction and screenplay: Woody Allen
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode, Brian Cox, Penelope Wilton
If Alfred Hitchcock were to direct a screenplay co-written by Nietzsche and Dostoevsky, and based on Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy, the result would be something like Woody Allen’s latest opus, Match Point. A dark fable about the vagaries of chance in a godless world, Allen’s aesthetically old-fashioned crime drama belies a haunting postmodern sensibility.
Set in London, the basic plot of Match Point follows certain key elements of Dreiser’s An American Tragedy: After experiencing the joys of wealth and high social standing (read: power), an ambitious petit bourgeois resorts to whatever it takes to maintain his newfound status. Between the [...]
by Andre Soares | December 17, 2005
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Tags: Crime Movies, Emily Mortimer, Film Reviews, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Match Point, Matthew Goode, Oscar 2005, Oscar Movies, Scarlett Johansson, Three-Star Movies, Three-Star Oscar Movies, Woody Allen
MATCH POINT II – Jonathan Rhys Meyers
MATCH POINT: Part I
Alternating with equal ease between femme fatale, sex object, and neurotic nag, Scarlett Johansson delivers what is arguably her most effective film performance to date. Both Emily Mortimer and Matthew Goode (a stage-trained actor who’s a — more likable — cross between Hugh Grant and Rupert Everett) provide solid support as the Hewett siblings — too privileged to be distrustful, too likable to be despicable — and so does Brian Cox as the generous Hewett patriarch. But it’s Penelope Wilton who steals the show whenever she’s on screen. A milder (British) version of the domineering mothers of several of Woody Allen’s New York-based comedies, Wilton’s outspoken matriarch is always meddling in her children’s affairs.
Much has been said [...]
by Andre Soares | December 17, 2005
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Tags: Film Reviews, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Match Point, Scarlett Johansson, Woody Allen
2005 Golden Globes: Nominations
Big-budget studio releases were mostly cast aside by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), whose Golden Globe nominations were announced today.
As to be expected, critics’ favorite Brokeback Mountain, about the mostly long-distance love affair between two men in the American West, ruled the pack with seven nominations. Since the Globes don’t cover any of the technical awards, Jake Gyllenhaal (above, with Heath Ledger) ended up being the only major talent in that film left without a nod.
The biggest surprise was probably the absence of Steven Spielberg’s Munich from the best picture – drama shortlist. Spielberg’s tale of terrorism and revenge, based on actual events, had been touted by those who had neither seen it nor read about it as [...]
