BAFTA 2009: Nominations Longlist

Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (top); Frank Langella, Michael Sheen in Frost/Nixon (bottom)

As usual, Hollywood and Anglo-American productions dominate the longlists of the 2009 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Frost/Nixon have 14 nominations each, followed by Slumdog Millionaire, The Reader, Revolutionary Road, Changeling, and The Dark Knight with 13; Milk and Burn After Reading with 11; and Doubt, The Wrestler, Mamma Mia!, The Duchess, and In Bruges with 9.
Small British films managed only a handful of nods: three for Hunger and Happy-Go-Lucky; two for Dean Spanley. Non-English-language films fared just as poorly: five nominations for I’ve Loved You So Long, three for Waltz with Bashir, [...]

by Deborah Arthur | January 7, 2009   
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BAFTA 2007 Longlists

Michael Sheen, Helen Mirren in The Queen (top); Daniel Craig in Casino Royale (bottom)

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced the longlists for the 2007 BAFTA Awards. The lists consist of 15 titles per category following the first round of BAFTA voting.
Casino Royale and The Queen, the two most commercially successful British films of 2006, were mentioned 14 times each.
Others in the longlists are Pan’s Labyrinth, Babel, Children of Men, and The Departed, each with 13 mentions; The Last King of Scotland and Little Miss Sunshine with 12; Volver and Dreamgirls with 10; Apocalypto, The Devil Wears Prada, and Notes on a Scandal with 9; Bobby and Flags of Our Fathers with [...]

by Andre Soares | January 5, 2007   
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Kansas City Film Critics Awards 2007

2007 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
2007 Kansas City Film Critics Circle award winners: January 4, 2007
 

 

Best Film: United 93 directed by Paul Greengrass
Best Foreign Language Film: Letters from Iwo Jima directed by Clint Eastwood
Best Documentary: An Inconvenient Truth directed by Davis Guggenheim
Best Animated Film: Over the Hedge directed by Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick
Robert Altman Award for Directing: Paul Greengrass, United 93
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen
Best Supporting Actor: Michael Sheen, The Queen
Best Supporting Actress: Catherine O’Hara, For Your Consideration
Best Original Screenplay: Michael Arndt, Little Miss Sunshine
Best Adapted Screenplay: William Monahan, The Departed
Vince Koehler Award for Outstanding Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror Film: Pan’s Labyrinth directed by Guillermo [...]

by Andre Soares | January 4, 2007   
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Utah Film Critics Awards 2006

2006 Utah Film Critics Association Awards
2006 Utah Film Critics Association award winners: December 28, 2006
 

 

Best Film: United 93 directed by Paul Greengrass
Runner-up: The Departed directed by Martin Scorsese
Best Foreign-Language Film: Letters from Iwo Jima directed by Clint Eastwood
Runner-up: Pan’s Labyrinth directed by Guillermo del Toro
Best Director: Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men
Runner-up: Paul Greengrass, United 93
Best Actor: Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Runner-up: None (Sacha Baron Cohen was the unanimous choice)
Best Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen
Runner-up: Shareeka Epps, Half Nelson
Best Supporting Actor: Michael Sheen, The Queen
Runner-up: Mark Wahlberg, The Departed
Best Supporting Actress: Rinko Kikuchi, Babel
Runner-up: Maggie Gyllenhaal, World Trade Center and Stranger Than Fiction
Best Screenplay: Rian Johnson, Brick
Runner-up: [...]

by Andre Soares | December 28, 2006   
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Toronto Film Critics Awards 2006

2006 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
2006 Toronto Film Critics Association award nominations: Dec. 16, 2006
2006 Toronto Film Critics Association Award winners: December 20, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Michael Sheen, Helen Mirren in The Queen
 

BEST PICTURE
The Departed
* The Queen
United 93
BEST CANADIAN FILM
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen
* Manufactured Landscapes
Monkey Warfare
Six Figures
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
* L’Enfant / The Child
Pan’s Labyrinth
Volver
BEST FIRST FEATURE
Brick, directed by Rian Johnson
Little Miss Sunshine, directed by Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris
* Thank You for Smoking, directed by Jason Reitman
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Deliver Us from Evil
An Inconvenient Truth
* Manufactured Landscapes
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
* Happy Feet
Over the Hedge
A Scanner Darkly
BEST DIRECTOR (tie)
* Jean-Pierre Dardenne and [...]

by Andre Soares | December 20, 2006   
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New York Film Critics Online Awards 2006

2006 New York Film Critics Online Awards
2006 New York Film Critics Online Award winners: December 11, 2006
 

 

Best Film: The Queen directed by Stephen Frears
Runners up (in alphabetical order):
Babel
The Fountain
Inland Empire
Pan’s Labyrinth
Little Children
Little Miss Sunshine
Thank You for Smoking
Volver
Water
Best Foreign-Language Film: Pan’s Labyrinth directed by Guillermo del Toro (Spain / Mexico / U.S.)
Best Director: Stephen Frears, The Queen
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen
Best Supporting Actor: Michael Sheen, The Queen
Best Supporting Actress (tie): Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls and Catherine O’Hara, For Your Consideration
Best Screenplay: Peter Morgan, The Queen
Best Documentary Feature: An Inconvenient Truth directed by Davis Guggenheim
Best Animated Feature: Happy Feet directed by George Miller
Best Ensemble Cast: [...]

by Andre Soares | December 11, 2006   
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Los Angeles Film Critics Awards 2006

2006 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
2006 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award winners: Dec. 10, 2006.
 

 

Best Film: Letters from Iwo Jima directed by Clint Eastwood
Runners-up: The Queen directed by Stephen Frears; United 93 directed by Paul Greengrass; L’Armée des ombres / Army of Shadows directed by Jean-Pierre Melville†
Best Foreign-Language Film: Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Runner-up: Volver directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Best Director: Paul Greengrass, United 93
Runners-up: Clint Eastwood, Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima; Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men
Best Actor (tie): Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, and Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Runners-up: Peter [...]

by Andre Soares | December 10, 2006   
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