The DGA vs. the Academy: 2000s
Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge (top); Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring in Mulholland Dr. (bottom)
The DGA vs. the Academy: 1990s
2000
DGA: Cameron Crowe for Almost Famous
AMPAS: Stephen Daldry for Billy Elliot
2001
DGA: Baz Luhrmann for Moulin Rouge and Christopher Nolan for Memento
AMPAS: Robert Altman for Gosford Park and David Lynch for Mulholland Dr.
2002
DGA: Peter Jackson for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
AMPAS: Pedro Almodóvar for Talk to Her
2003
DGA: Gary Ross for Seabiscuit
AMPAS: Fernando Meirelles for City of God
2004
DGA: Marc Forster for Finding Neverland
AMPAS: Mike Leigh for Vera Drake
2006
DGA: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris for Little Miss Sunshine and Bill Condon for Dreamgirls
AMPAS: Clint Eastwood for Letters from Iwo Jima and Paul [...]
by Andre Soares | December 30, 2006
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Tags: Academy Awards, Baz Luhrmann, Classic Movies, David Lynch, DGA Awards, Film Awards, Moulin Rouge, Mulholland Dr.
Best Films – 2001
FILM
Gosford Park
d: Robert Altman; scr: Julian Fellowes
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
d: Ashutosh Gowariker; scr:
Mulholland Dr.
d, scr: David Lynch
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The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
d: Woody Allen
Monster’s Ball)
d: Marc Forster; scr:
No Man’s Land
d: Danis Tanovic; scr:
ACTOR
Woody Allen (The Curse of the Jade Scorpion)
Gael García Bernal (Y tu mamá también / And Your Mother Too)
Rene Bitorajac (No Man’s Land)
Ricardo Darín (El Hijo de la novia / Son of the Bride)
Ethan Hawke (Training Day)
Diego Luna (Y tu mamá también)
Ewan McGregor (Moulin Rouge!)
Haley Joel Osment (A.I.: Artificial Intelligence)
Sean Penn (I Am Sam)
ACTRESS
Isabelle Huppert (La Pianiste / The Piano Teacher)
Juliane Köhler (Nirgendwo in Afrika / Nowhere in Africa)
Audrey Tautou (Le Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain / Amelie)
Maribel [...]
by Andre Soares | June 13, 2005
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Tags: Andrew Lesnie, Angelo Badalamenti, Best Films, Big Eden, Classic Movies, David Lynch, Diego Luna, Ethan Hawke, Heath Ledger, Howard Shore, Isabelle Huppert, James Horner, Jon Voight, Jude Law, Kelly Macdonald, Louise Fletcher, Macy Gray, Maggie Smith, Marc Forster, Monster's Ball, Moulin Rouge, Mulholland Dr., Nan Martin, Naomi Watts, Roberto Schaefer, Sean Penn, Sissy Spacek, The Lord of the Rings, Training Day, Woody Allen
MULHOLLAND DR. – Naomi Watts – d: David Lynch
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
Direction and screenplay: David Lynch
Cast: Naomi Watts, Justin Theroux, Laura Elena Harring, Dan Hedaya, Ann Miller, Robert Forster, Lee Grant, Chad Everett, Billy Ray Cyrus
Mulholland Dr., David Lynch’s nightmarish take on Hollywood and on the pursuit of the "American Dream," is impossible to pigeonhole as belonging to a particular genre. The film is part black comedy, part mystery thriller, part psychological drama, part horror movie — it boasts one of the most horrific endings ever filmed. The final result is a long, bizarre — and brilliant — journey through an ambitious actress’ psyche; the most haunting such journey since the one undertaken in Sunset Blvd. more than half a century earlier.
Curiously, Mulholland Dr. was to have become a [...]
by Andre Soares | October 17, 2004
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Tags: Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch, Film Reviews, Films on Filmmaking, Five-Star Gay Movies, Five-Star Movies, Five-Star Oscar Nominees, Justin Theroux, Laura Elena Harring, Lesbian Interest, Mulholland Dr., Naomi Watts, Oscar 2001, Oscar Movies
