Central Ohio Film Critics Awards 2009

2009 Central Ohio Film Critics Association Awards
2009 Central Ohio Film Critics award winners: Jan. 9, 2009
 

WALL-E by Andrew Stanton
 

Best Film: WALL·E
Runners-up:
2. Slumdog Millionaire
3. Frozen River
4. The Dark Knight
5. Frost/Nixon
6. Milk
7. The Wrestler
8. Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in)
9. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
10. In Bruges
Best Foreign Language Film: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile)
Runner-Up: Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in)
Best Documentary: Man on Wire
Runner-Up: American Teen
Best Animated Film: WALL·E
Runner-Up: Kung Fu Panda
Best Director: Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)
Runner-Up: Andrew Stanton (WALL·E)
Best Actor: Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler)
Runner-Up: Sean Penn (Milk)
Best Actress: Melissa Leo (Frozen River)
Runner-Up: Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married)
Best Supporting Actor: [...]

by Deborah Arthur | January 9, 2009   
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Utah Film Critics Awards 2008

2008 Utah Film Critics Association Awards
2008 Utah Film Critics winners: December 19, 2008
 

Christian Bale, Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight

 
Best Picture: The Dark Knight
Runner-up: Rachel Getting Married
Best Non-English Language Feature: Let the Right One In
Runner-up: Waltz With Bashir
Best Documentary Feature: Man on Wire
Runners-up: Encounters at the End of the World; Waltz With Bashir
Best Animated Feature: WALL-E
Runner-up: Kung Fu Panda
Best Director: Andrew Stanton, WALL-E
Runner-up: Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight
Best Actor: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Runners-up: Richard Jenkins, The Visitor; Sean Penn, Milk
Best Actress: Melissa Leo, Frozen River
Runner-up: Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight (no runner-up)
Best Supporting Actress: Rosemarie DeWitt, Rachel Getting Married
Runners-up: Frances McDormand, Burn After Reading; Misty Upham, Frozen River; [...]

by Deborah Arthur | December 19, 2008   
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Gotham Awards 2008

2008 Gotham Awards
2008 Gotham Independent Film Award nominations: October 20, 2008
2008 Gotham Award winners: December 2, 2008, at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Melissa Leo in Frozen River
 

Best Feature
Ballast
Lance Hammer, director; Lance Hammer, Nina Parikh, producers (Alluvial Film Company)
* Frozen River
Courtney Hunt, director; Heather Rae, Chip Hourihan, producers (Sony Pictures Classics)
Synecdoche, New York
Charlie Kaufman, director; Anthony Bregman, Charlie Kaufman, Spike Jonze, Sidney Kimmel, producers (Sony Pictures Classics)
The Visitor
Tom McCarthy, director; Mary Jane Skalski, Michael London, producers (Overture Films)
The Wrestler
Darren Aronofsky, director; Scott Franklin, Darren Aronofsky, producers (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
 
Best Documentary
Chris & Don: A Love Story
Guido Santi & Tina Mascara, directors; Julia Scott, [...]

by Andre Soares | December 2, 2008   
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21 GRAMS – Sean Penn, Naomi Watts

21 Grams (2003)
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Screenplay: Guillermo Arriaga
Cast: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio del Toro, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Melissa Leo, Danny Huston, Eddie Marsan, John Rubinstein
 

 

Shot in documentary-style, 21 Grams is a bleak, convoluted, and surprisingly powerful drama about three individuals linked to both one another and to the immediacy of death: Paul (Sean Penn) is a dying man in dire need of a heart transplant; Jack (Benicio Del Toro) is a born-again ex-con who has run over a father and his two daughters as they were crossing a street; and Cristina (Naomi Watts) is the woman whose family Jack has killed. (By the way, the film’s title refers to the alleged weight of a person’s soul. That figure came [...]

by Andre Soares | October 16, 2004   
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