Noah Baumbach Articles

2006 National Society of Film Critics Awards 2006 National Society of Film Critics award winners: New York City on January 7, 2006   Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener in Capote   Best Film: Capote (12, on sixth ballot) Runners-up: A History of Violence (11, on sixth ballot); 2046 (fifth ballot) Best Foreign Language Film: Head-On by Fatih Akin (26) Runner-up: 2046 by Wong Kar Wai [...]

2005 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2005 Toronto Film Critics Association Award winners: December 21, 2005   Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello in A History of Violence   Best Film: A History of Violence Best Canadian Film: A History of Violence Best Foreign Film: The World by Zhang Ke Jia Best First Feature: Capote by Bennett Miller Best Documentary: Grizzly Man by Werner Herzog Best Animated [...]

2005 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 2005 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award winners: Dec. 10, 2005   Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain (top); Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche in Hidden (bottom). Noticeably absent from the L.A. Critics’ list of winners and runner-ups were King Kong, Munich, Match Point, Batman Begins, Paradise Now, The New World, and Memoirs of a Geisha. “We really [...]

Darren Burrows, Forty Shades of Blue Forty Shades of Blue, a love triangle featuring a country singer (Rip Torn), the Russian immigrant with whom he lives (Dina Korzun), and the singer’s estranged son (Darren Burrows), won the Jury Prize for best American narrative film at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. Ira Sachs directed and co-wrote the Forty Shades of Blue screenplay with Michael Rohatyn. The [...]