Michael Sheen Articles

THE QUEEN (2006) Direction: Stephen Frears Cast: Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Alex Jennings, Sylvia Syms, Helen McCrory, Roger Allam, Julian Firth Screenplay: Peter Morgan Oscar Movies, European Film Award Movies Recommended Helen Mirren, James Cromwell, The Queen A more sober tone would have made Stephen Frears‘ filmization of Peter Morgan’s The Queen screenplay less appealing to a mass audience. However, it would also [...]

Maria Bello, Michael Sheen in Shawn Ku’s Beautiful Boy Tom Hooper’s THE KING’S SPEECH Wins Top Toronto Film Festival Award Film information from the Toronto International Film Festival website. AWARD FOR BEST CANADIAN SHORT FILM The award for Best Canadian Short Film goes to Vincent Biron for Les Fleurs de l’âge,which explores a summer day for a regular group of school kids. The jury remarked: [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T4C5mRmcP8[/youtube] Robert Pattinson’s Edward Cullen meets with three volturi leaders in this dark, moody extended scene from Chris Weitz’s The Twilight Saga: New Moon. Michael Sheen of The Queen and Frost/Nixon plays the volturi chieftain. "Edward Meets the Volturi" is a good-looking scene. I can’t quite understand why it wasn’t used in (full in) the film. The only problem I had with it was the [...]

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 [...]