Nastri d’Argento 2008
2008 Nastri d’Argento
National Union of Italian Film Journalists’ 2008 Nastri d’Argento (Silver Ribbons) nominations: May 11, 2008
2008 Nastri d’Argento winners: Teatro Antico di Taormina, Sicily, on June 14, 2008
(“*” denotes the winner in each category)
Isabella Ragonese plays a college grad who struggles to find work in A Whole Life Ahead
Best Director
Antonello GRIMALDI – Caos calmo
Daniele LUCHETTI – Mio fratello è figlio unico
Silvio SOLDINI – Giorni e nuvole
* Paolo VIRZÌ – Tutta la vita davanti / A Whole Life Ahead
Gianni ZANASI – Non pensarci
Best European Film
Across the Universe – Julie Taymor
Elizabeth: The Golden Age – Shekar Kapur
Atonement – Joe Wright
La vie en [...]
by Andre Soares | June 14, 2008
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Moviefone and Oscar Guessing
AOL Moviefone offers an amalgam of Oscar predictions from all over the blogosphere — including Alt Film Guide — on their website.
The best picture and best director categories are dominated by No Country for Old Men (above) and its directors, Joel and Ethan Coen.
Daniel Day-Lewis (for There Will Be Blood) and Julie Christie (for Away from Her) are shoo-ins for best actor and best actress, respectively.
Curiously, Javier Bardem — as much a best supporting actor shoo-in as can be for his performance as a cold-blooded killer in No Country for Old Men — is shown losing out to Hal Holbrook (for Into the Wild) and Philip Seymour Hoffman (for Charlie Wilson’s War) in a couple of cases.
Charles Ferguson’s No [...]
by Andre Soares | February 20, 2008
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Tags: 2008 Oscar, Academy Awards, Daniel Day-Lewis, Film Awards, Javier Bardem, Joel and Ethan Coen, Julie Christie, Moviefone, No Country for Old Men, No End in Sight, Oscar Predictions, Ratatouille, The Counterfeiters
Visual Effects Society Awards 2008
2007 Visual Effects Society (VES) Awards
2007 VES award nominations: January 7, 2008.
2007 VES award winners: Kodak Grand Ballroom in Hollywood on February 10, 2008
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Outstanding Special Effects in a Motion Picture
* HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX
John Richardson, Stephen Hamilton, Richard Farns, Stephen Hutchinson
Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion Picture
I AM LEGEND – Janek Sirrs, Mike Chambers, Jim Berney, Crys Forsyth-Smith
* TRANSFORMERS – Scott Farrar, Shari Hanson, Russel Earl, Scott Benza
THE GOLDEN COMPASS – Michael Fink, Susan MacLeod, Bill Westenhofer, Ben Morris
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END – John Knoll, Jill Brooks, Hal Hickel, Charlie Gibson
SPIDER-MAN 3 – Scott Stokdyk, Terry Clotiaux, Peter Nofz, Spencer Cook
Outstanding Supporting [...]
by Andre Soares | February 12, 2008
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Tags: Film Awards, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Ratatouille, Transformers, Visual Effects Society Awards, We Own the Night, Zodiac
Oscar 2008 Predictions: Best Film, Foreign Language Film, Documentary, Animated Film
Best Film: No Country for Old Men
Until late last week, things were still somewhat murky in the best film race. No Country for Old Men (above, with Tommy Lee Jones) and There Will Be Blood were the front-runners, while Juno was the fluffy dark horse that could potentially tip the scale against the heavy-drama heavyweights. But after its SAG best ensemble and DGA wins, No Country for Old Men, about a drug deal gone murderously wrong, has become the official front-runner.
Best Foreign Language Film: Katyn (Poland)
As I’ve said before, this is the toughest feature-film category to predict. None of the five nominees — Beaufort, 12, The Counterfeiters, Mongol, and Katyn — has been widely reviewed in the United States.
I’d [...]
by Andre Soares | January 29, 2008
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Tags: 2008 Oscar, Academy Awards, Andrzej Wajda, Brad Bird, Charles Ferguson, Film Awards, Joel and Ethan Coen, Katyn, No Country for Old Men, No End in Sight, Oscar Predictions, Ratatouille
Iowa Film Critics Awards 2008
2008 Iowa Film Critics Association Awards
2008 Iowa Film Critics Association award winners: January 16, 2008
Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men
Best Film: No Country for Old Men by Joel and Ethan Coen
Best Director: Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Savages, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, Charlie Wilson’s War
Best Actress: Julie Christie, Away From Her
Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
Best Animated Film: Ratatouille by Brad Bird
Best Film Yet to Open in Iowa: There Will Be Blood by Paul Thomas Anderson
Iowa Film Critics Association Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 [...]
by Andre Soares | January 16, 2008
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Tags: Amy Ryan, Film Awards, Iowa Film Critics Awards, Javier Bardem, Joel and Ethan Coen, Julie Christie, No Country for Old Men, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ratatouille, There Will Be Blood