Oscar 2005

2005 Academy Awards
2005 Academy Award winners: Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles on February 27, 2005
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Photos: © HO/AMPAS
 

Best Film
The Aviator – Michael Mann, Graham King†
Finding Neverland – Richard N. Gladstein, Nellie Bellflower
* Million Dollar Baby – Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy, Tom Rosenberg†
Ray – Taylor Hackford, Stuart Benjamin, Howard Baldwin†
Sideways – Michael London

Best Foreign-Language Film
Les Choristes / The Chorus – Christophe Barratier (France)
Der Untergang / Downfall – Oliver Hirschbiegel (Germany)
* Mar adentro / The Sea Inside – Alejandro Amenábar (Spain)
Så som i himmelen / As in Heaven – Kay Pollak (Sweden)
Yesterday – Darrell Roodt (South Africa)

Best Documentary, Features
* Born Into [...]

by Andre Soares | February 27, 2005   
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SAG Awards 2005

2005 SAG Awards
2005 Screen Actors Guild Award winners: Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles on February 5, 2005
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Sandra Oh, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, Paul Giamatti in Sideways
 

FILM
Male Actor in a Leading Role
Don Cheadle, Hotel Rwanda
Johnny Depp, Finding Neverland
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Aviator
* Jamie Foxx, Ray
Paul Giamatti, Sideways
Female Actor in a Leading Role
Annette Bening, Being Julia
Catalina Sandino Moreno, Maria Full of Grace
Imelda Staunton, Vera Drake
* Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby
Kate Winslet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Thomas Haden Church, Sideways
Jamie Foxx, Collateral
* Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby
James Garner, The Notebook
Freddie Highmore, Finding Neverland
Female Actor in [...]

by Andre Soares | February 5, 2005   
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Vancouver Film Critics Awards 2005

2005 Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards
2005 Vancouver Film Critics Circle award winners: January 20, 2005
 

Paul Giamatti, Virginia Madsen in Sideways
 

Best Film: Sideways directed by Alexander Payne
Runners-up: (tie) Million Dollar Baby directed by Clint Eastwood, and The Aviator directed by Martin Scorsese, Before Sunset
Best Canadian Film: Childstar directed by Don McKellar
Runners-up: ScaredSacred directed by Velcrow Ripper; (tie) Festival Express directed by Bob Smeaton and A Silent Love directed by Federico Hidalgo
Best Foreign-Language Film: A Very Long Engagement (France) directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Runners-up: The Motorcycle Diaries (Germany / UK / Argentina / Peru / France / U.S.) directed by Walter Salles, Maria Full of Grace (Colombia / U.S.) directed by Joshua Marston
Best Documentary: Fahrenheit 9/11 directed by [...]

by Andre Soares | January 20, 2005   
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Dubai Film Festival 2004

"You’re appalling, you son of a dog. May your house be destroyed!" one Egyptian woman yelled during a showing of Jehane Noujaim’s Control Room at the first Dubai International Film Festival. The woman’s anger was directed at U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who is shown describing scenes of grieving Iraqis and bombed-out buildings as having been "stage-managed." Control Room, which goes behind the scenes of the Arab-language network Al Jazeera, is one of the dozens of films being presented at the festival.
The American government and military have claimed that the Qatar-based Al Jazeera is an anti-American tool for Muslim radicals, an accusation vehemently refuted by the network. Thus far, five Arab countries, among them US allies Iraq [...]

by Andre Soares | December 15, 2004   
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MILLION DOLLAR BABY – Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank

Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Director: Clint Eastwood
Screenplay: Paul Haggis, mostly from "Million $$$ Baby," one of the six short stories found in F. X. Toole’s (aka Jerry Boyd) Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Jay Baruchel, Mike Colter, Lucia Rijker
 

 

Fresh off the multiple Academy Award nominee Mystic River, Clint Eastwood has gone on to tackle the ups and downs of the boxing world in Million Dollar Baby. Despite the cheery title, this is not the usual Rocky-esque rags-to-riches story of the determined underdog who inevitably becomes a super-topdog once she (in this case it’s a “she”) puts on her gloves, jumps into the boxing ring, and starts using other women as punching bags. About two-thirds [...]

by Andre Soares | November 27, 2004   
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