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European Film Awards 2009: Nominations

Tahar Rahim in A Prophet (top); Dev Patel, Freida Pinto in Slumdog Millionaire (middle); The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke (bottom)

Six films are vying for the top prize at the 2009 European Film Awards. They are:

Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank, about a teenager (best actress nominee Katie Jarvis) upset that her mother has found herself a new boyfriend (Michael Fassbender)
Stephen Daldry’s The Reader, a melodrama starring Kate Winslet as a former Nazi guard who believes that being illiterate is worse than being an accomplice to mass murder
Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet, a prison drama about a toughie (best actor nominee Tahar Rahim) fighting his way to the top of the world behind bars
Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, about a young man (best actor [...]

European Film Awards 2009

2009 European Film Awards
2009 European Film Award nominations: Nov. 7, 2009
2009 European Film Award winners: Bochum, Germany, on Dec. 12, 2009
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Tahar Rahim in A Prophet (top); The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke (middle); Dev Patel in Slumdog Millionaire (bottom)
 

BEST EUROPEAN FILM
Fish Tank, UK
written and directed by Andrea Arnold
produced by Kees Kasander & Nick Laws
Låt den Rätte Komma In (Let the Right One In), Sweden
directed by Tomas Alfredson
written by John Ajvide Lindqvist
produced by John Nordling & Carl Molinder
Un Prophète (A Prophet), France
directed by Jacques Audiard
written by Jacques Audiard & Thomas Bidegain based on an original idea by [...]

London 2009: Amanda Seyfried, Michael Haneke, Thomas Turgoose

Director Michael Haneke attends the photocall for his black-and-white drama The White Ribbon, winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and a highly 2010 Oscar contender in the best foreign language film category (and possibly in the best picture category as well), during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Mayfair Hotel on October 21. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images)

Actress Amanda Seyfried, one of the stars of the UK blockbuster Mamma Mia!, attends the photocall for Atom Egoyan’s psychological thriller Chloe, co-starring Liam Neeson and Julianne Moore, during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Mayfair Hotel on October 22. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images)

Director Tom Harper and [...]

Michael Haneke’s THE WHITE RIBBON Photos

Whether or not it gets a best picture Academy Award or BAFTA nomination, Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or-winning The White Ribbon may end up as the best-reviewed film of 2009. At least in the United Kingdom.
“It is typical of Haneke, though, that he makes such strong suggestions so indirectly and purely through the sheer brilliant, precise power of his characterisations and superb conjuring up of an astonishing sense of time and place.” Dave Calhoun, Time Out
“The White Ribbon has an absolute confidence and mastery of its own cinematic language, and the performances Haneke elicits from his first-rate cast, particularly the children, are eerily perfect.” Peter Bradshaw, Guardian.co.uk
“White Ribbon“s made from material that haunts, grips and immerses." Totalfilm.com
“A visually stunning thinkpiece.” [...]

Oscar 2010: Early Predictions – Best Foreign Language Film

Best Foreign Language Film

Baaria, Giuseppe Tornatore (Italy)
An autobiographical tale set in the director’s Sicilian hometown

Forever Enthralled, Chen Kaige (China)
Biopic chronicling the life of Mei Lanfang, China’s greatest opera star.

I Killed My Mother, Xavier Dolan (Canada)
A young gay man has some serious issues with his mother.

A Prophet, Jacques Audiard (France)
Prison drama in which a young hood learns what it takes to reach the top of that small (and nasty) world.

The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke (Germany)
As a prelude to both World War I and World War II, a German village unexpectedly becomes the setting of numerous acts of cruelty.

Quality (much like fairness) is in the brain of the judge. (Of course, if we’re lucky enough to have a judge [...]

AFI FEST 2009: THE WHITE RIBBON / THE PROPHET Swap

AFI FEST 2009 presented by Audi has announced that Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or winner and Oscar contender The White Ribbon will replace Jacques Audiard’s Cannes Grand Prix winner A Prophet in the festival’s line-up. Reason for the AFI FEST swap: "a recent change in the release date for A Prophet." Both films are being distributed in the US by Sony Pictures Classics.
The White Ribbon is set in a German farming village disturbed by inexplicable acts of cruelty just before the start of World War I. The film is due for release in the US on December 30. The film will screen on Sunday, November 1, at 7:00 PM.
Good that The White Ribbon will be screened; bad that A Prophet [...]

Oscar 2010: Early Predictions – Best Director

BEST DIRECTOR

The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow

The Lovely Bones, Peter Jackson (above, with Saoirse Ronan)

A Serious Man, Joel and Ethan Coen

Up in the Air, Jason Reitman (above, with George Clooney)

The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke

In all honesty, I don’t know who the hell will get a best direction nod this year — though I’m pretty sure it’ll be five of the ten directors listed in my "tentative" 2010 best picture Oscar list.
For the record, the other five not listed above are: Lone Scherfig for An Education; Grant Heslov for The Men Who Stare at Goats; Lee Daniels for Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire; Steven Soderbergh for The Informant!, and Rob Marshall for Nine.
Unless, of course, Jane Campion manages to [...]

Oscar 2010: Best Foreign Language Film, Short Film Deadline

The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke (top); I Killed My Mother by Xavier Donlan (middle); Police, Adjective by Corneliu Porumboiu (bottom)

The deadline to submit entries in the Live Action Short Film, Animated Short Film and Foreign Language Film categories to be considered for the 82nd Academy Awards: Thursday, October 1.
Complete entries must arrive at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by 5 p.m. PT that day.
As per the Academy’s press release, "in the short film categories, filmmakers must submit an entry form, one film print or copy in an approved digital format, and all other required materials by the deadline.
"In the Foreign Language Film category, filmmakers must submit entry forms, [...]

Cannes 2009 Winners

One of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival’s clear favorites, Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon, a stark tale about a small northern German town beset by strange happenings right before the beginning of World War I, took the Palme d’Or for best film. (Cannes 2009 winners list.)
"Happiness is very rare," said Haneke upon accepting his prize. "This is one moment in my life in which I’m very happy, and so are you, I believe," he added, speaking to his wife.
The White Ribbon also won the International Film Critics’ FIPRESCI Prize for best film in the official competition. And it’ll surely be Austria’s submission for the 2010 best foreign-language film Academy Award.

Another festival favorite, Jacques Audiard’s tough drama A [...]

Cannes 2009: Best Director Favorites

Best Director
Pedro Almodóvar for Broken Embraces
Jacques Audiard for A Prophet
Jane Campion for Bright Star
Michael Haneke for The White Ribbon
Alain Resnais for Wild Grass
 
Photos: Courtesy Festival de Cannes
 

Cannes 2009: Palme d’Or Favorites

Palme d’Or 2009, Grand Prix, Special Jury Prize:
Alain Resnais‘ romantic fantasy Wild Grass (adapted by Alex Reval and Laurent Herbiet from Christian Gailly’s novel), about a man who becomes intrigued by a younger woman
Jacques Audiard’s tough prison drama A Prophet (written by Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Raouf Dafri, and Nicolas Peufaillit)
Writer-director Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon, about a northern German community enmeshed in a series of nasty events right before the beginning of World War I
Writer-director Jane Campion’s Bright Star, about the doomed love affair between British poet John Keats and his neighbor, Fanny Brawne
 
Photos: Courtesy Festival de Cannes
 

Cannes 2009: Michael Haneke’s THE WHITE RIBBON

 
Dave Calhoun in Time Out London, via David Hudson’s The Daily:
"For quite some time at the beginning of Michael Haneke’s latest film, which is a two-and-a-half hour parable of political and social ideas set entirely in a north German village in 1913 and 1914, you wonder what you’re watching, how its disparate parts hang together and what it all might mean. More than ever, the playful, challenging, sometimes shocking director of Hidden, Funny Games and Time of the Wolf solidly resists answering the ‘what’s it all about?’ question and makes you work hard to make sense of what you’re seeing. As in Code Unknown, he resists focusing on one story or [...]

César 2006: Nominees

Romain Duris in The Beat That My Heart Skipped (top); Guillaume Canet, Daniel Brühl, Alex Ferns in Merry Christmas (middle); Roni Hadar in Go, See and Become (bottom)

This year’s winners of the French equivalent to the Oscars, the Prix César, will be announced on Feb. 25 at a ceremony held at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Best actress nominee Valérie Lemercier (for Palais royal!) will act as Mistress of Ceremony.
The best French film nominees are Jacques Audiard’s Bafta-winning psychological drama De battre, mon coeur s’est arrêté / The Beat That My Heart Skipped, which garnered nine other nominations, including best actor (Romain Duris); Christian Carion’s Academy Award-nominated war drama Joyeux Noël / Merry Christmas, with a total [...]

2005 European Film Award Winners

Michael Haneke’s compelling and quite disturbing Caché / Hidden was the big winner at the 2005 European Film Awards held this evening in Berlin. The psychological-political thriller was chosen best film, in addition to wins for director Haneke, actor Daniel Auteuil (above, with Juliette Binoche), and a best editing award for Michael Hudecek and Nadine Muse.
Berlin Film Festival winner Julia Jentsch won the best European actress award for her superb portrayal of one of the young leaders of the anti-Nazi German resistance in Sophie Scholl – Die Letzten Tage / Sophie Scholl – The Final Days. Jentsch also won the Jameson People’s Choice Award, and so did Sophie Scholl’s director, fellow Berlin Film Festival winner Marc
Rothemund.
Orlando [...]

European Film Awards 2005

2005 European Film Awards
2005 European Film Award winners: Berlin on Dec. 3, 2005
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Photos: Axel Schmidt / Action Press
 

Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche in Hidden
 

EUROPEAN FILM
BRØDRE (Brothers), Denmark/UK/Sweden/Norway
Directed by Susanne Bier
Produced by Zentropa Entertainments14 ApS., Two Brothers Ltd., Sigma Films Ltd., Memfis Int. AB, Fjellape Films
* CACHÉ (Hidden), France/Austria/Germany/Italy
Directed by Michael Haneke
Produced by Les Films du Losange, Wega Film, Bavaria Film, BIM Distribuzione
DON’T COME KNOCKING, Germany
Directed by Wim Wenders
Produced by Reverse Angle Production GmbH, Reverse Angle International GmbH, Arte France Cinéma
L’ENFANT (The Child), Belgium/France
Directed by Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
Produced by Les Films du Fleuve, Archipel 35, RTBF, Scope Invest, Arte France Cinéma
MY SUMMER OF LOVE, UK
Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski
Produced by Apocalypso Pictures
SOPHIE [...]

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