Lauren Bacall, Roger Corman, Gordon Willis: Governors Awards 2009

Honorary Award recipients Roger Corman, Lauren Bacall, and Gordon Willis at the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony held at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland on Saturday, November 14.
“It’s so much better … that nobody’s worrying whether 36.5 million people are watching us or 29.2,” remarked Warren Beatty, a former Irving G. Thalberg Award recipient who paid homage to this year’s Thalberg Award honoree John Calley, who, reportedly suffering from serious health issues, was unable to attend the ceremony.
After Kirk Douglas declared he once unsuccessfully tried to seduce her, and Anjelica Huston praised her “steadfastness,” 85-year-old Lauren Bacall waved away an escort trying to help her get to the podium, remembered her “great love” Humphrey Bogart, her myriad leading [...]

Oscar 2010: Anjelica Huston, Jonathan Demme, Kirk Douglas to Present Honorary Oscars

Lauren Bacall

Oscar winners Anjelica Huston, Jonathan Demme, and Quentin Tarantino, and Honorary Award recipient Kirk Douglas will be some of the presenters at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ first Governors Awards event on November 14 at Hollywood & Highland Center’s Grand Ballroom.
The evening will feature presentations of the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award to producer-executive John Calley, and Honorary Awards to actress Lauren Bacall, producer-director Roger Corman and cinematographer Gordon Willis.
The black-tie dinner event for more than 600 guests will feature film clips as well as statements from the honorees, and tributes from their colleagues and admirers.
The Honorary Award, an Oscar statuette, is given to an individual [...]

THE FINAL DESTINATION Tops Box Office

New Line Cinema’s The Final Destination slashed its competition at the North American box office, as the horror sequel took the No. 1 spot with a solid $28.3 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The David R. Ellis-directed fourth installment in the popular series delivered a better opening weekend than its predecessors, scoring an average of $9,079 per theater at 3,121 locations. The Final Destination is currently playing in both 3D and standard format.

Last week’s winner, Inglourious Basterds, slipped to No. 2, fending off Rob Zombie’s new entry Halloween II. Starring Brad Pitt (above), Quentin Tarantino’ World War II drama delivered another strong performance at the box office, earning [...]

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Tops Box Office

Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds stormed the North American box office, securing the No. 1 spot this weekend with an estimated $37.6 million in ticket sales, the biggest opening ever for a Tarantino film.
Inglourious Basterds was screened at 3,165 locations, scoring a solid average of $11,881 per theater. In the R-rated WWII drama, Brad Pitt stars as Lt. Aldo Raine, who assembles a gang of Jewish soldiers making it their mission to kill every Nazi they encounter on their way to Paris.

At No. 2, Neill Blomkamp’s sci-fi action thriller District 9 delivered another strong performance, bagging $18.9 million for a domestic total of $73.4 million after only a little more than one [...]

David Carradine

David Carradine in Bound for Glory

David Carradine, the star of the 1970s TV series Kung Fu (right), was found hanged in his Bangkok hotel room early this morning. According to reports, there was no evidence of foul play at the scene. Carradine, who was in the Thai capital working on a film, was 72.
Born in Los Angeles on Dec. 8, 1936, Carradine was the son of actor John Carradine, best known for playing assorted evildoers and mad doctors in dozens of films from the 1930s to the 1980s. David Carradine’s brothers are also actors: Keith Carradine, among whose credits is Robert Altman’s classic Nashville, and Robert Carradine, best known for his role in the Revenge of the Nerds movies.
Throughout [...]

Cannes 2009: Asia Argento, Claudia Schiffer, Isabelle Huppert, Monica Bellucci

Claudia Schiffer (Photo by Dave Hogan/Getty Images)

Asia Argento (Photo by Eric Ryan/Getty Images)

Isabelle Huppert (Photo by Kristian Dowling/Getty Images)

Quentin Tarantino, Mélanie Laurent, Mike Myers (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Monica Bellucci (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
 

Cannes 2009: INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

Brad Pitt in Inglourious Basterds

Richard Corliss/Mary Corliss in Time:
"… Inglourious Basterds — first word as in "glower," second as in "turds" — is an alternative history of World War II from the writer-director of Pulp Fiction, the Palme d’Or winner 15 years ago. As with all of his recent work — the two Kill Bill movies and Death Proof — Basterds draws portraits of strong women facing down evil men; and in Shoshanna (Mélanie Laurent) and Third Reich screen star Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) he’s created two of his fullest female portraits. But Basterds is long and, for the hypercharged auteur, surprisingly wan. It has to be declared a misfire."
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J. Hoberman in The Village Voice:
"So what is [...]

Cinema Audio Society Awards 2006

2006 Cinema Audio Society Awards
2006 Cinema Audio Society winners: Crystal Ballroom in the Millennium-Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles on February 25, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon in Walk the Line
 

For Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Motion Pictures:
Crash
Re-recording Mixers: Marc Fishman
Adam Jenkins
Rick Ash
Production Mixer: Richard Van Dyke
King Kong
Re-recording Mixers: Christopher Boyes
Michael Semanick, C.A.S.
Michael Hedges, C.A.S.
Production Mixer: Hammond Peek, C.A.S.
Memoirs of a Geisha
Re-recording Mixers: Kevin O’Connell
Greg P. Russell, C.A.S.
Rick Kline
Production Mixer: John Pritchett, C.A.S.
* Walk the Line
Re-recording Mixers: Paul Massey, C.A.S.
D.M. Hemphill, C.A.S.
Production Mixer: Peter F. Kurland, C.A.S
War of the Worlds
Re-recording Mixers: Andy Nelson
Anna Behlmer [...]