Gotham Awards 2009 Winners
Catalina Saavedra in The Maid (top); Stella Schnabel in You Won’t Miss Me (middle); The Hurt Locker by Kathryn Bigelow (bottom)
"Kudos to you, great performance," Rosie Perez told Willem Dafoe, after saying that Lars von Trier’s Antichrist, a dark, sex-filled drama in which Dafoe co-stars with Charlotte Gainsbourg, was a "sick-ass movie." That was followed by: "Was that your … Oooohhhh. It was?"
And so went the 2009 edition of the Gotham Awards, in which performers cracked jokes that would be unacceptable on network TV. Unfortunately, that didn’t necessarily make the jokes any funnier or the show any better than, say, the Oscars or the Golden Globes, but on the bright side some of the Gotham choices were [...]
by Andre Soares | November 30, 2009
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Tags: Big Fan, Catalina Saavedra, Film Awards, Gotham Awards, Kathryn Bigelow, Meryl Streep, Robert D. Siegel, Ry Russo-Young, Shohreh Aghdashloo, The Hurt Locker, The Maid, You Won't Miss Me
Gotham 2009 Nominations
Anthony Mackie, Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker (top); Nisreen Faour, Hiam Abbass in Amreeka (middle); Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind in A Serious Man (bottom)
Considered the official beginning of awards season in the United States, the Independent Feature Project announced its 2009 Gotham Award nominations earlier today in New York City.
The five nominees for best picture are:
Cherien Dabis‘ Amreeka, the tale of a Palestinian mother (Nisreen Faour) who immigrates with her teenage son to the American Midwest. No more pesky Israeli check-points, but lots of meat-patty flipping at burger joints.
Robert D. Siegel’s Big Fan, in which a hardcore New York Giants fan (breakthrough actor nominee Patton Oswalt) gets beaten up by his favorite player — and [...]
by Andre Soares | October 19, 2009
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Tags: A Serious Man, Amreeka, Big Fan, Catalina Saavedra, Cherien Dabis, Film Awards, Gotham Awards, Joel and Ethan Coen, Kathryn Bigelow, Robert D. Siegel, The Hurt Locker, The Maid