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Costume Designers Guild Awards 2006

2006 Costume Designers Guild Awards
2006 Costume Designers Guild winners: Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on February 25, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Felicity Huffman in Transamerica (top); Ziyi Zhang in Memoirs of a Geisha (middle); Tilda Swinton in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (bottom)
 

Excellence in Contemporary Film
Michael Kaplan, Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Paul Simmons, Hustle & Flow
Nancy Steiner, Shop Girl
* Danny Glicker, Transamerica
Louise Frogley, Syriana
Excellence in Period Film
Kasia Walicka-Maimone, Capote
Louise Frogley, Good Night and Good Luck.
* Colleen Atwood, Memoirs of a Geisha
Arianne Phillips, Walk the Line
Aggie Guerard Rodgers, Rent
Excellence in Fantasy Film
Lindy Hemming, Batman Begins
Gabriella Pescucci, Charlie and the Chocolate [...]

American Society of Cinematographers Awards 2006

2006 ASC Awards
2006 American Society of Cinematographers winners: Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on February 26, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe in Memoirs of a Geisha

 
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases
* Dion Beebe, ASC, ACS for Memoirs of a Geisha
Robert Elswit, ASC for Good Night and Good Luck.
Andrew Lesnie, ASC, ACS for King Kong
Wally Pfister, ASC for Batman Begins
Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC for Brokeback Mountain
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in TV movie/miniseries/pilot
Alan Caso, ASC for Into the West/"Wheel to the Stars" (TNT)
Thomas A. Del Ruth, ASC for Code Breakers (ESPN)
* Robbie Greenberg, ASC for Warm Springs (HBO)
Jan Kiesser, ASC, CSC for Reefer Madness (Showtime) [...]

Art Directors Guild Awards 2006

2006 Art Directors Guild Awards
2006 Art Directors Guild award winners: Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on February 11, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Ken Watanabe, Ziyi Zhang in Memoirs of a Geisha
 

FEATURE FILMS
Period or Fantasy Film:
BATMAN BEGINS PD: Nathan Crowley
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY PD: Alex McDowell
GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK. PD: Jim Bissell
KING KONG PD: Grant Major
* MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA PD: John Myhre
Contemporary Film:
THE CONSTANT GARDENER PD: Mark Teldesley
CRASH PD: Laurence Bennett
JARHEAD PD: Dennis Gassner
SYRIANA PD: Dan Weil
* WALK THE LINE PD: David J. Bomba
 
TELEVISION
Single Camera Television Series:
DEADWOOD — "Requiem for a Gleet" PD: Maria Caso
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES – "They Ask Me Why I Believe You" PD:Thomas A. Walsh
LAS VEGAS [...]

Cinema Audio Society Awards 2006

2006 Cinema Audio Society Awards
2006 Cinema Audio Society winners: Crystal Ballroom in the Millennium-Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles on February 25, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon in Walk the Line
 

For Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Motion Pictures:
Crash
Re-recording Mixers: Marc Fishman
Adam Jenkins
Rick Ash
Production Mixer: Richard Van Dyke
King Kong
Re-recording Mixers: Christopher Boyes
Michael Semanick, C.A.S.
Michael Hedges, C.A.S.
Production Mixer: Hammond Peek, C.A.S.
Memoirs of a Geisha
Re-recording Mixers: Kevin O’Connell
Greg P. Russell, C.A.S.
Rick Kline
Production Mixer: John Pritchett, C.A.S.
* Walk the Line
Re-recording Mixers: Paul Massey, C.A.S.
D.M. Hemphill, C.A.S.
Production Mixer: Peter F. Kurland, C.A.S
War of the Worlds
Re-recording Mixers: Andy Nelson
Anna Behlmer [...]

Visual Effects Society Awards 2006

2006 Visual Effects Society Awards
2006 Visual Effects Society award nominations: January 9, 2006
2006 VES award winners: Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on February 15, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

 

FEATURE FILMS
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion Picture
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe – Dean Wright, Randy Starr, Bill Westenhofer, Jim Berney
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – Jim Mitchell, Theresa Corrao, Tim Alexander, Tim Webber
* King Kong – Eileen Moran, Joe Letteri, Christian Rivers, Eric Saindon
Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith – John Knoll, Roger Guyett, Rob Coleman, Denise Ream
Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Motion Picture
Jarhead – Pablo Helman, Jeanie King, Grady Cofer, Brett Northcutt
* [...]

Oscar 2006: Best Sound Editing Longlist

War of the Worlds by Steven Spielberg

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the seven semi-finalists for the 2006 sound editing Academy Award. They are (in alphabetical order):

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
King Kong
Memoirs of a Geisha
Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
Walk the Line
War of the Worlds

As per the Academy’s press release, ten-minute clips from each of the seven films will be screened for the Sound Editing Award Committee on Tuesday, January 24. Members will then vote to [...]

2005 National Board of Review Award Winners

The New York-based group National Board of Review has selected George Clooney’s black-and-white biopic-cum-sociopolitical drama Good Night and Good Luck. (above, with Clooney and David Strathairn) as the best film of 2005.
Other winners include best director Ang Lee for critics’ fave Brokeback Mountain; another critics’ fave, Philip Seymour Hoffman, chosen as best actor for Capote; and best actress Felicity Huffman, who plays a pre-op male-to-female transsexual in Transamerica.

The best foreign film was Paradise Now, the story of two Palestinian suicide bombers directed by Hany Abu-Assad; while, inexplicably, leading man Jake Gyllenhaal (above, with Anne Hathaway) won as best supporting actor for his gay rodeo cowboy in Brokeback Mountain.
Perhaps the NBR decided to categorize Gyllenhaal’s Jack Twist as [...]

MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA – Ziyi Zhang, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh

Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
Direction: Rob Marshall
Screenplay: Robin Swicord; from Arthur Golden’s novel
Cast: Ziyi Zhang, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh, Ken Watanabe, Koji Yakusho, Youki Kudoh, Mako, Tsai Chin
 

 

There are some movies that are released before their time. Only years or decades later, do they come to be appreciated. In the case Rob Marshall’s Memoirs of a Geisha, based on Arthur Golden’s bestseller about the life and love of a young geisha in pre-World War II Japan, it’s the other way around. It is a movie released after – way after — its time.
As long as its makers chopped off about a third of its 145-minute running time, Memoirs of a Geisha would have worked beautifully as a silent film, [...]

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