SAG Awards 2009: Kate Winslet, Meryl Streep, Sean Penn
Sean Penn
Kate Winslet, Sally Field
Meryl Streep
Photos: Kevin Mazur (Field/Winslet, Penn), Michael Caulfield (Streep)
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by Deborah Arthur | January 26, 2009
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SAG Awards 2009
2009 Screen Actors Guild of America (SAG) Awards
2009 SAG Award nominations: December 18, 2008
2009 SAG Award winners: January 25, 2009
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
SAG Awards 2009 photos
THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
RICHARD JENKINS / Walter Vale – THE VISITOR (Overture Films)
FRANK LANGELLA / Richard Nixon – FROST/NIXON (Universal Pictures)
* SEAN PENN / Harvey Milk – MILK (Focus Features)
BRAD PITT / Benjamin Button – THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (Paramount Pictures)
MICKEY ROURKE / Randy – THE WRESTLER (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
ANNE HATHAWAY / Kym – RACHEL GETTING MARRIED (Sony Pictures Classics)
ANGELINA JOLIE [...]
by Deborah Arthur | January 25, 2009
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Vancouver Film Critics Awards 2009
2009 Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards
2009 Vancouver Film Critics Circle award nominations: Jan. 4, 2009
2009 Vancouver Film Critics Circle award winners: The Railway Club in Vancouver, Jan. 12, 2009
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Sean Penn in Milk
BEST FILM
* Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
BEST CANADIAN FILM
* C’est pas moi, je le jure!
Heaven on Earth
The Necessities of Life
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
* The Edge of Heaven
Let the Right One In
Tell No One
BEST BRITISH COLUMBIA FILM
* Fifty Dead Men Walking
Edison and Leo
Stone of Destiny
BEST DIRECTOR
Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
* David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Gus Van Sant, Milk
BEST DIRECTOR [...]
by Deborah Arthur | January 12, 2009
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Broadcast Film Critics Awards 2009
2009 Critics’ Choice Awards
2009 Broadcast Film Critics Association Critics’ Choice Award nominations: December 9, 2008
2009 Critics’ Choice winners: Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on January 8, 2009
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Dev Patel in Slumdog Millionaire
BEST PICTURE
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
* Slumdog Millionaire
Wall-E
The Wrestler
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
A Christmas Tale
Gomorrah
I’ve Loved You So Long
Let the Right One In
Mongol
* Waltz With Bashir
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
I.O.U.S.A.
* Man on Wire
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Standard Operating Procedure
Young at Heart
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
[...]
by Deborah Arthur | January 8, 2009
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National Society of Film Critics Awards 2009
2009 National Society of Film Critics Awards
2009 National Society of Film Critics award winners: January 3, 2009
Waltz with Bashir by Ari Folman
BEST PICTURE
1. Waltz with Bashir, directed by Ari Folman (26)
2. Happy-Go-Lucky (20)
3. WALL-E (20)
BEST NON-FICTION FILM
1. Man on Wire, directed by James Marsh (55)
2. Trouble the Water (34)
3. Encounters at the End of the World (26)
BEST DIRECTOR
1. Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky (36)
2. Gus Van Sant, Milk & Paranoid Park (20)
3. Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire (16)
BEST ACTOR
1. Sean Penn, Milk (87)
2. Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler (40)
3. Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino (38)
BEST ACTRESS
1. Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky (65)
2. Melissa Leo, Frozen River (33)
3. Michelle Williams, Wendy [...]
by Deborah Arthur | January 3, 2009
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Best Films of 2008: LA WEEKLY/VILLAGE VOICE Poll
J. Hoberman in The Village Voice:
"All hail Andrew Stanton’s WALL-E — even us! Sometimes, the movies really are universal. And so a major studio’s mainstream, multiplex, mega-million-dollar-grossing, Oscar-friendly “summer movie” resoundingly won the ninth annual Village Voice–L. A. Weekly poll of (mainly) alt-press critics, named on 35 of 80 ballots.
"Unlike last year, when Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood materialized in late December to snatch the prize from the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men and David Fincher’s Zodiac, there was no groupthink stampede. Critics had months in which to cogitate over the eventual poll winner. Pass the popcorn, [...]
by Andre Soares | January 2, 2009
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St. Louis Film Critics Awards 2009
2009 St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards
2009 St. Louis Film Critics Association award winners: December 17, 2008
Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Film: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Foreign Language Film: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Documentary: Man on Wire
Best Animated Film: WALL-E
Best Director: Danny Boyle, for Slumdog Millionaire
Best Actor: Sean Penn, for Milk
Best Actress: Kate Winslet, for Revolutionary Road
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, for The Dark Knight
Best Supporting Actress: Viola Davis, for Doubt
Best Screenplay: Peter Morgan, for Frost/Nixon
Best Cinematography: Mandy Walker, for Australia
Best Music (Soundtrack or Score, Original or Adapted): The Visitor
Best Visual/Special Effects: The Dark Knight
Most Original/Innovative Film: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Comedy: Burn [...]
by Deborah Arthur | December 17, 2008
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Houston Film Critics Awards 2009
2008 Houston Film Critics Society Awards
2008 Houston Film Critics Society award winners: December 17, 2008
Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
BEST PICTURE
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
MONGOL
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
MAN ON WIRE
BEST ANIMATED FILM
WALL-E
BEST DIRECTOR
Danny Boyle, SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
BEST ACTOR
Sean Penn, MILK
BEST ACTRESS
Anne Hathaway, RACHEL GETTING MARRIED
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Heath Ledger, THE DARK KNIGHT
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Viola Davis, DOUBT
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
DOUBT
BEST SCREENPLAY
Simon Beaufoy, SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Claudio Miranda, THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
MIRACLE AT ST. ANNA by Terence Blanchard
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Down to Earth," WALL-E
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMA
Andrea Grover and the Aurora Picture Show
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM PROGRAMMING
Marian Luntz and the Museum of Fine Arts [...]
by Deborah Arthur | December 17, 2008
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Dallas-Ft. Worth Film Critics Awards 2008
2008 Dallas-Ft. Worth Film Critics Association Awards
2008 Dallas-Ft. Worth Film Critics Association Award winners: December 17, 2008
Dev Patel, Freida Pinto in Slumdog Millionaire
Best Film: SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Top Ten Films (runners-up): MILK (2), THE DARK KNIGHT (3), THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (4), THE WRESTLER (5), THE VISITOR (6), FROST/NIXON (7), DOUBT (8), WALL-E (9), HAPPY-GO-LUCKY (10)
Best foreign-language film: TELL NO ONE
Runners-up: WALTZ WITH BASHIR (2), LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (3), I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG (4) and GOMORRAH (5)
Best Documentary: MAN ON WIRE
Runners-up: WALTZ WITH BASHIR (2), YOUNG @ HEART (3), STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE (4) and DEAR ZACHARY: A LETTER TO A SON ABOUT HIS FATHER (5)
Best Animated Film: WALL-E
Runners-up: KUNG FU PANDA
Best Director: Danny Boyle [...]
by Deborah Arthur | December 17, 2008
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Austin Film Critics Awards 2009
2008 Austin Film Critics Association Awards
2008 Austin Film Critics Association award winners: December 16, 2008
Christian Bale in The Dark Knight
Best Picture: The Dark Knight
Top 10 Films:
Slumdog Millionaire
Milk
Synecdoche, New York
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Wrestler
WALL-E
Frost/Nixon
Let the Right One In
Gran Torino
Best Foreign Language Film: Let the Right One In
Best Documentary Film: Man on Wire
Best Animated Feature: WALL-E
Best Director: Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight
Best Actor: Sean Penn, Milk
Best Actress: Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Best Supporting Actress: Taraji P. Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Original Screenplay: Synecdoche, New York, Charlie Kaufman
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Dark Knight, Jonathan Nolan & Christopher Nolan
Best Cinematography: The Fall, Colin Watkinson
Best Original Score: The Dark Knight, James [...]
by Deborah Arthur | December 16, 2008
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Phoenix Film Critics Awards 2008
2008 Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards
2008 Phoenix Film Critics Society award winners: December 16, 2008
Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire
Top Ten Films of 2008 (in alphabetical order):
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
In Bruges
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
The Visitor
WALL-E
The Wrestler
Best Foreign Language Film: Let the Right One In
Best Documentary: Man on Wire
Best Animated Film: Wall-E
Best Director: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Performance by an Actor in a Lead Role: Sean Penn, Milk
Best Performance by an Actress in a Lead Role: Meryl Streep, Doubt
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role: Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Best Acting Ensemble: The cast of Milk
Best Screenplay written directly for the [...]
by Deborah Arthur | December 16, 2008
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San Francisco Film Critics Awards 2008
2008 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards
2008 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award winners: December 15, 2008
Best Picture: Milk
Best Foreign Language Film: Let the Right One In
Best Documentary: My Winnipeg
Best Director: Gus Van Sant, Milk
Best Actor (tie): Sean Penn, Milk, and Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Best Actress: Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Best Supporting Actress: Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Best Original Screenplay: Dustin Lance Black, Milk
Best Adapted Screenplay: Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon
Best Cinematography: Wally Pfister, The Dark Knight
Marlon Riggs Award "for courage & vision in the Bay Area film community": Rob Nilsson, filmmaker, in recognition of his 9@NIGHT series of films
San Francisco Film Critics Circle Site
San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Film Awards: [...]
by Andre Soares | December 15, 2008
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Women Film Journalists Awards 2008
2008 Alliance of Women Film Journalists Awards
2008 Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award winners: Dec. 15, 2008
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Best Film
Happy-Go-Lucky
Milk
* Slumdog Millionaire
Best Foreign Film
A Christmas Tale
I’ve Loved You So Long
* Tell No One
Best Documentary (tie)
* Man On Wire – James Marsh
Standard Operating Procedure – Errol Morris
* Trouble The Water – Tia Lessin, Carl Deal
Best Director
* Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
Mike Leigh – Happy-Go-Lucky
Gus Van Sant – Milk
Best Actor
Richard Jenkins – The Visitor
Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
* Sean Penn – Milk
Best Actress (tie)
* Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky
Meryl Streep – Doubt
* Kate Winslet – The Reader/Revolutionary Road
Michelle Williams – Wendy and Lucy
Best Actor in a Supporting [...]
by Deborah Arthur | December 15, 2008
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Southeastern Film Critics Awards 2008
2008 Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards
2008 Southeastern Film Critics Association winners: December 15, 2008
BEST PICTURE Milk
Runners-up:
2. Slumdog Millionaire
3. WALL-E
4. The Dark Knight
5. The Wrestler
6. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
7. The Reader
8. The Visitor
9. Frost/Nixon
10. Revolutionary Road
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM: Let the Right One In (Sweden)
Runner-up: I’ve Loved You So Long (France)
BEST DOCUMENTARY: Man on Wire
Runner-up: Young@Heart
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: WALL-E
Runner-up: Kung Fu Panda
BEST DIRECTOR: Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
Runner-up: Gus Van Sant – Milk
BEST ACTOR: Sean Penn – Milk
Runner-up: Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
BEST ACTRESS: Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
Runner-up: Kate Winslet, The Reader
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
Runner-up: Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Runner-up: Viola Davis – [...]
by Deborah Arthur | December 15, 2008
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New York Film Critics Online Awards 2008
2008 New York Film Critics Online Awards
2008 New York Film Critics Online Award winners: December 14, 2008
Dev Patel, Freida Pinto in Slumdog Millionaire
Best Film: Slumdog Millionaire
Top Ten Films (in alphabetical order)
Che
A Christmas Tale
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Happy-Go-Lucky
Milk
Rachel Getting Married
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
The Wrestler
Best Foreign Film: 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days by Cristian Mungiu
Best Documentary: Man on Wire by James Marsh
Best Animated Feature: WALL-E by Andrew Stanton
Best Director: Danny Boyle (with Loveleen Tandan) – Slumdog Millionaire
Best Actor: Sean Penn – Milk
Best Actress: Sally Hawkins – Happy-Go-Lucky
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
Best Supporting Actress: Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Best Cinematography: Slumdog Millionaire – Anthony Dod Mantle
Best [...]
by Deborah Arthur | December 14, 2008
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Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 2008
2008 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
2008 Boston Society of Film Critics Award winners: December 14, 2008
Dev Patel in Slumdog Millionaire (top); WALL-E by Andrew Stanton (bottom)
Best Picture (tie): Slumdog Millionaire directed by Danny Boyle and WALL-E directed by Andrew Stanton
Best Foreign-Language Film: Let the Right One In directed by Tomas Alfredson
Best Documentary: Man on Wire directed by James Marsh
Best Animated Film: WALL·E directed by Andrew Stanton
Best Director: Gus Van Sant for Milk and Paranoid Park
Best Actor (tie): Sean Penn for Milk and Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler
Best Actress: Sally Hawkins for Happy-Go-Lucky
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight
Best Supporting Actress: Penélope Cruz for Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Best Screenplay: Dustin Lance Black for Milk
Best Cinematography: [...]
by Deborah Arthur | December 14, 2008
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2008 New York Film Critics Winners
There were no major surprises in the list of the New York Film Critics Circle’s 2008 winners — unless you count last year’s Romanian abortion drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days being chosen this year’s best foreign film. (Last year, the New York critics’ picked the German drama The Lives of Others — released in Los Angeles in 2006 — as their top foreign film; the previous year, their choice was the French underground drama Army of Shadows, a 1969 release in its country of origin.)
Milk was voted best film, Sean Penn (above) was the best actor for his performance as slain gay leader Harvey Milk, and Josh Brolin was chosen best supporting actor for the same film. [...]
by Andre Soares | December 10, 2008
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New York Film Critics Awards 2008
2008 New York Film Critics Circle Awards
2008 New York Film Critics Circle Award winners: Dec. 10, 2008
Best Picture: Milk directed by Gus Van Sant
Runners-up: Rachel Getting Married; Happy-Go-Lucky and Slumdog Millionaire (tie)
Best Foreign Film: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days directed by Cristian Mungiu
Runners-up: A Christmas Tale; The Class
Best First Film: Courtney Hunt, Frozen River
Runners-up: Ballast; Reprise
Best Documentary: Man on Wire directed by James Marsh
Runners-up: Waltz with Bashir; Trouble the Water
Best Animated Film: WALL-E directed by Andrew Stanton
Runner-up: Waltz with Bashir
Best Director: Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky
Runners-up: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire; David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Actor: Sean Penn, Milk
Runners-up: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler; Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino
Best Actress: Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Runners-up: Melissa Leo, Frozen River; Kate Winslet, [...]
by Deborah Arthur | December 10, 2008
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Los Angeles Film Critics Awards 2008
2008 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
2008 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award winners: Dec. 9, 2008
Best Film: Wall-E directed by Andrew Stanton
Runner-up: The Dark Knight directed by Christopher Nolan
Best Foreign-Language Film: Still Life directed by Jia Zhangke
Runner-up: The Class directed by Laurent Cantet
Best Documentary: Man on Wire directed by James Marsh
Runner-up: Waltz with Bashir directed by Ari Folman
Best Animated Film: Waltz with Bashir
Best Director: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Runner-up: David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Actress: Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky
Runner-up: Melissa Leo, Frozen River
Best Actor: Sean Penn, Milk
Runner-up: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Best Supporting Actress: Penélope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Elegy
Runner-up: Viola Davis, Doubt
Best supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Runner-up: Eddie Marsan, Happy-Go-Lucky
Best Screenplay: Mike Leigh, [...]
by Deborah Arthur | December 9, 2008
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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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Scripter Award 2008
2008 USC Scripter Awards
2008 Scripter Award winners: Feb. 18, 2007
("*" denotes the winner)
No Country for Old Men, which stars Josh Brolin (above), Javier Bardem, and Tommy Lee Jones, has won nearly every U.S. critics’ awards this season. The Coens’ adapted screenplay is also in the running for this year’s Writers Guild award. Literary Achievement Award recipient Steven Zaillian happens to be the only winner of three Scripters: Awakenings (1990), Schindler’s List (1993), and Gangs of New York (2002).
Atonment — screenplay by Christopher Hampton, based on the novel by Ian McEwan
Into the Wild — Screenplay by Sean Penn, based on the book by Jon Krakauer
* No Country for Old Men — Screenplay by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, based [...]
by Andre Soares | February 10, 2008
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Directors Guild Awards 2008
2008 Directors Guild Awards
2008 DGA feature film nominations: January 8, 2008. Documentary and television nominations: January 10, 2008
2008 DGA award winners: January 26, 2008
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men
FEATURE FILMS
Paul Thomas Anderson – There Will Be Blood (Paramount Vantage)
Unit Production Manager: Daniel Lupi
First Assistant Director: Adam Somner
Second Assistant Directors: Eric Lasko, Ian Stone, Richard Oswald Second Second Assistant Director: Jenny Nolan
* Joel Coen & Ethan Coen – No Country for Old Men (Miramax Films and Paramount Vantage)
Unit Production Manager: Robert J. Graf
First Assistant Director: Betsy Magruder Second Assistant Director: Bac DeLorme Second Second Assistant Director: Jai James
Tony Gilroy – Michael Clayton (Warner Bros.)
Unit Production Manager: Christopher Goode First Assistant [...]
by Andre Soares | January 26, 2008
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Tags: Alex Gibney, Barbet Schroeder, DGA Awards, Film Awards, Joel and Ethan Coen, Julian Schnabel, No Country for Old Men, Paul Thomas Anderson, Sean Penn, Tony Gilroy
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
THE ASSASSINATION OF RICHARD NIXON – Sean Penn
The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)
Direction: Niels Mueller
Screenplay: Niels Mueller and Kevin Kennedy
Cast: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Don Cheadle, Jack Thompson, Michael Wincott, Brad William Henke
Although technically a psychosocial drama about those for whom the American Dream is nothing more than a pathological delusion, Niels Mueller’s The Assassination of Richard Nixon actually works as a suspenseful horror movie. From the very start, we know that something dreadful is about to happen. As the fact-based story inexorably progresses toward its bloody climax, the suspense keeps increasing until the violence, depicted in brutal detail, explodes on screen. That’s the stuff that nightmares are made of.
As depicted by Emmanuel Lubezki’s appropriately gritty, washed-out cinematography, it all begins in the winter of 1974, as [...]
by Andre Soares | December 13, 2004
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Tags: Don Cheadle, Emmanuel Lubezki, Film Reviews, Jack Thompson, Naomi Watts, Niels Mueller, Political Movies, Sean Penn, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, Three-Star Movies, Thrillers
21 GRAMS – Sean Penn, Naomi Watts
21 Grams (2003)
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Screenplay: Guillermo Arriaga
Cast: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio del Toro, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Melissa Leo, Danny Huston, Eddie Marsan, John Rubinstein
Shot in documentary-style, 21 Grams is a bleak, convoluted, and surprisingly powerful drama about three individuals linked to both one another and to the immediacy of death: Paul (Sean Penn) is a dying man in dire need of a heart transplant; Jack (Benicio Del Toro) is a born-again ex-con who has run over a father and his two daughters as they were crossing a street; and Cristina (Naomi Watts) is the woman whose family Jack has killed. (By the way, the film’s title refers to the alleged weight of a person’s soul. That figure came [...]
by Andre Soares | October 16, 2004
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Tags: 21 Grams, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Benicio del Toro, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Duncan MacDougall, Existentialist Drama, Film Reviews, Guillermo Arriaga, Melissa Leo, Naomi Watts, Oscar 2003, Oscar Movies, Psychological Drama, Rodrigo Prieto, Sean Penn, Three-Star Movies, Three-Star Oscar Nominees
