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Golden Globes 2010 Predictions: Best Picture – Drama

2010 Golden Globe Predictions: Best Picture – Drama

The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow; scr: Mark Boal
A US Army elite unit disarms bombs in Iraq.

Invictus (above, with Matt Damon), d: Clint Eastwood; scr: Anthony Peckham
Newly elected South African president Nelson Mandela campaigns to stage the Rugby World Cup in South Africa so as to unite blacks and whites.

The Last Station (above, with Helen Mirren, James McAvoy), d & scr: Michael Hoffman
Leo Tolstoy’s family life is upended by the writer’s radical politics.

The Lovely Bones (above, with Saoirse Ronan), Peter Jackson; scr: Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens
A murdered girl sees the world, chiefly her small Pennsylvania town, from up above.

Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, d: Lee Daniels; scr: [...]

Oscar 2010: Early Predictions – Best Supporting Actor

Best Supporting Actor

Alfred Molina, An Education (with Cara Seymour, Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard)
An overprotective father worries about his wayward daughter in 1960s London.

Christopher Plummer, The Last Station (with Helen Mirren)
Initially touted as a potential best actor contender, Plummer is getting the supporting treatment for his performance as the elderly Leo Tolstoy. In that category, the veteran actor has a much better chance of landing a nomination. (James McAvoy, formerly in this list for his role in The Last Station, is now in the Oscar 2010 best actor race.)

Paul Schneider, Bright Star
John Keats‘ not too sympathetic best friend Charles Armitage Brown.

Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
Apparently, nothing lovely about Tucci in this one.

Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds (with Diane Kruger)
Nazi [...]

Oscar 2010: Early Predictions – Best Actor

BEST ACTOR

George Clooney, Up in the Air
A professional downsizer finds the frequent-flying love of his life while having to come to terms with his long-lost humanity.

Matt Damon, The Informant!
A pathological liar helps the FBI nab his employer, a dishonest agribusiness conglomerate.

Daniel Day-Lewis, Nine (with Marion Cotillard)
In this musicalized remake of Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2, Daniel Day-Lewis plays the old Marcello Mastroianni role of the Italian film director trying to cope with the women in his life.

Colin Firth, A Single Man
In 1960s Los Angeles, a gay college professor is determined to kill himself after learning that his lover has died in an accident.

Viggo Mortensen, The Road
A man and his son struggle to survive in a post-apocalyptic world.

I’d say that four [...]

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS Tops Box Office

Sony Pictures Animation’s Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs stormed the North American box office this weekend with a solid $30.1 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Playing in both 3D and standard format, Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s animated adventure scored an average of $9,651 per theater at 3,119 locations. The film follows an inventor who faces the consequences of his latest invention: a device that converts water into food.

Debuting in second place with a decent three-day gross of $10.5 million was Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant!, which stars Matt Damon as an exec helping the FBI uncover his company’s price-fixing scheme. The film is showing [...]

Matt Damon in THE INFORMANT Photos

Directed by Steven Soderbergh (above, lower photo) and written by Scott Z. Burns (from Kurt Eichenwald’s book on the true story of executive-turned-whistleblower Mark Whitacre), The Informant! was recently screened out of the competition at the 2009 Venice Film Festival.
Matt Damon, who gained about 30 lbs. for the role (and who still looks nothing like Whitacre), stars as the high-ranking executive informant (and embezzler) who gets agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland in big trouble with the U.S. government.
Also in the Informant! cast: Lucas Carroll, Eddie Jemison, and Rusty Schwimmer.
The Informant! opens in the US on Sept. 18.
Photos: Claudette Barius / ©2008 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
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Venice 2009: Matt Damon, Oliver Stone, Christopher Lambert

Matt Damon

Oliver Stone

Christopher Lambert
Photos: Courtesy Venice Film Festival
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Venice 2009: Matt Damon, Jane Birkin, Jacques Rivette

Matt Damon

Jane Birkin, Sergio Castellitto, Jacques Rivette

Jane Birkin
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Venice 2009: Matt Damon, Steven Soderbergh, Vimukthi Jayasundara

Matt Damon, who stars in The Informant

Filmmaker Vimukthi Jayasundara at a photocall for Between Two Worlds at the 2009 Venice Film Festival

Steven Soderbergh at a photocall for The Informant
Photos: Courtesy Venice Film Festival
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THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM Voted Best British Film

Paul Greengrass‘ The Bourne Ultimatum, starring Matt Damon (above), is the "British people’s choice" for the Richard Attenborough Film Award for best British film. The public vote took place via 25 regional media outlets. As per The Guardian, Greengrass’ thriller has been seen by more than 4 million moviegoers in the United Kingdom.
At the 2008 Oscar ceremony, The Bourne Ultimatum won three statuettes: best editing (Christopher Rouse), best sound editing, and best sound mixing.
Greengrass and Damon are supposed to rejoin forces on a fourth and final Bourne installment. A production date has yet to be announced.

Martin Scorsese: Top Oscar Directors for Actors

Unless things change dramatically (and no, I’m not referring only to environmental chaos and apocalyptic wars), 30 or 40 years from now Martin Scorsese is going to be the best remembered name of the current top-five Oscar directors for actors. (The others being William Wyler, Elia Kazan, George Cukor, and Fred Zinnemann.)
In addition to having the most recent career — cultural amnesia is invariably a factor — Scorsese is the single director among the top five whose films can been categorized as belonging to a particular genre. Better yet, Scorsese’s forte is that much-revered tough-guy cinema.
And ain’t Scorsese’s men tough.
His first male muse, Robert De Niro, becomes a hero after slaughtering unsavory figures from the New York underworld in [...]

Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 2006

2006 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
2006 Boston Society of Film Critics Award winners: December 10, 2006
 

Perhaps hoping to lure more major Hollywood productions to their hometown, the Boston Society of Film Critics picked Martin Scorsese’s Warner Bros. gangster thriller The Departed as the best film of the year. This inane tale of moles and rats in both the Boston police force and that city’s underworld, was adapted by William Monahan from Wai Keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak’s 2002 Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs. The Departed also (undeservedly) won in the best director, best screenplay, and best supporting actor (Mark Wahlberg) categories, but at least the Boston critics had enough sense to keep Jack Nicholson’s horrendous caricature (above, [...]

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