Michael Shannon Articles

Demián Bichir, A Better Life 2012 Oscar Predictions Best Actor: George Clooney, Jean Dujardin, Brad Pitt The fourth Best Actor slot should go to Michael Fassbender, who is a strong possibility for Steve McQueen's Shame. Having said that, we should add that Fassbender, though a BAFTA nominee, was bypassed by SAG voters, and rumor has it that numerous Academy members hated Shame. Yet, all Fassbender [...]

Lee Byung-hun, I Saw the Devil This year, the Austin Film Critics went for some unusual — though not exactly "surprising" — choices. Well, with one exception: Jee-woon Kim's revenge thriller I Saw the Devil, their Best Foreign Language Film. To date, US-based critics have gone instead for Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In, Asghar Farhadi's A Separation, or Takashi Miike's 13 Assassins. Earlier [...]

Asa Butterfield, Sacha Baron Cohen, Hugo I SAW THE DEVIL: Austin Film Critics Biggest Surprise Winner Best Film Hugo, directed by Martin Scoresese Top Ten Films (runners-up) Drive by Nicolas Winding Ref Take Shelter by Jeff Nichols Midnight in Paris by Woody Allen Attack the Block by Joe Cornish The Artist by Michel Hazanavicius Martha Marcy May Marlene by Sean Durkin I Saw the Devil [...]

Brad Pitt in Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life THE TREE OF LIFE, Michael Shannon, THE INTERRUPTERS: Chicago Film Critics Surprise Winners BEST PICTURE The Artist The Descendants Drive Hugo * The Tree of Life BEST FOREIGN FILM In a Better World Incendies * A Separation The Skin I Live In Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives BEST DIRECTOR Michel Hazanavicius for The [...]