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Oscar 2010: Early Predictions – Best Documentary

BEST DOCUMENTARY

The Beaches of Agnès, Agnès Varda
Veteran filmmaker Agnès Varda remembers her life’s beaches, sand dunes, sun rays, and more.

Burma VJ, Anders Østergaard
In 2007, thousands of monks took to the streets of Burma to protest the military government’s brutal anti-democratic policies.

Capitalism: A Love Story, Michael Moore
Wall Streeters and the free-market system are the targets in Michael Moore’s latest.

The Cove, Louie Psihoyos
Beautiful, intelligent dolphins are abused and slaughtered to provide entertainment and fodder for ugly, stupid people. The bloody cove of the title is located near Taijii, Japan, where the government does nothing to stop the slaughter.

Defamation, Yoav Shamir
Is anti-Semitism a reality or just a politically motivated excuse to justify Zionism? Or both?

Like other categories such as best foreign-language [...]

ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER, BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE: Oscar’s Docs

Michael Moore shooting Bowling for Columbine

Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine, Kevin Macdonald’s One Day in September, and Errol Morris‘ The Fog of War are among the 12 Oscar-winning short and feature documentaries to be screened as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ "Oscar’s Docs, Part Five: Academy Award-Winning Documentaries 1998–2003" beginning Monday, October 19, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. The screenings will be held Monday evenings through November 23.
“Oscar’s Docs” is a comprehensive screening series of every short subject and feature to win the Academy Award for documentary filmmaking since the category was established in 1941.
As per the Academy’s press release, [...]

ZOMBIELAND Rules Box Office

Ruben Fleischer’s excellent horror comedy Zombieland stormed the North American box office, slashing its competition this weekend with a solid $25 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The film scored a surprising average of $8,235 per theater at 3,036 locations. Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin, Zombieland follows four humans trying to survive in a world taken over by zombies.

At a distant No. 2, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs bagged another $16.7 million, lifting its domestic gross to an impressive $82.3 million after a three-week run. The Sony Pictures Animation release is playing in both 3D and standard format.

Debuting in third place [...]

Toronto 2009: UP IN THE AIR, YOUNG VICTORIA, Israel Controversy

George Clooney in Up in the Air

Nomi Morris on Up in the Air in GlobalPost, via The Huffington Post:
"This year, the film that has generated the greatest buzz is Up in the Air, the latest by [Jason] Reitman, director of the hits Juno and Thank You for Smoking, and son of Hollywood director Ivan Reitman (Ghost Busters). Up in the Air stars [George] Clooney as a "termination engineer," who has no home life outside of his job, jetting around the country helping American companies fire people. Both funny and sad, the film examines a society where frequent flier points become a substitute for family attachments. Reitman used documentary footage of 25 real people who had lost their jobs in Detroit [...]

Toronto 2009: Michael Moore Photos

Michael Moore at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival screening of Capitalism: A Love Story
"The true believers of socialism in the United States of America are Wall Street and corporate America," Moore remarked. "They want the safety net there for themselves and they have very willingly taken … trillions (of dollars) of our money."

Anti-bailout protesters

Photos: Overture Films
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Venice 2009: Isabelle Huppert, Michael Moore, George Lucas

George Lucas at the 2009 Venice Film Festival

Isabelle Huppert

Michael Moore
Photos: Courtesy Venice Film Festival
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Oscar 2008: Miley Cyrus, Michael Moore, Ronald Harwood

Miley Cyrus, Robert Osborne

Ronald Harwood, Robert Osborne

Michael Moore, Robert Osborne
Photos: Matt Petit / © AMPAS

FAHRENHEIT 9/11 Notes

Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 was voted best non-fiction film by the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Chicago Film Critics Association, Dallas-Ft. Worth Film Critics Association, Florida Film Critics Circle, Kansas City Film Critics Circle, Las Vegas Film Critics Society, New York Film Critics Circle, Online Film Critics Society, Phoenix Film Critics Society, San Francisco Film Critics Circle, Southeastern Film Critics Association, and Vancouver Film Critics Circle. It was also the runner-up for best documentary from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association
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In April 2003, Mel Gibson’s Icon Productions rejected handling Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 project. Moore later claimed that he had a signed contract with Icon before Gibson bowed out due to pressure from the George W. Bush White House. Icon executives, however, [...]

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