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 [...]

The DGA vs. the Academy: 1970s

Martin Balsam, Albert Finney in Murder on the Orient Express (top); Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands in A Woman Under the Influence (bottom)

The DGA vs. the Academy: 1960s
1970
DGA: David Lean for Ryan’s Daughter and Bob Rafelson for Five Easy Pieces
AMPAS: Federico Fellini for Satyricon and Ken Russell for Women in Love
 
1971
DGA: Robert Mulligan for Summer of ‘42
AMPAS: Norman Jewison for Fiddler on the Roof
 
1972
DGA: George Roy Hill for Slaughterhouse-Five and Martin Ritt for Sounder
AMPAS: Joseph L. Mankiewicz for Sleuth and Jan Troell for The Emigrants
 
1973
DGA: Sidney Lumet for Serpico
AMPAS: Ingmar Bergman for Cries and Whispers
 
1974
DGA: Sidney Lumet for Murder on the Orient Express and Francis Ford Coppola for The Conversation
AMPAS: John Cassavetes for A [...]

Oscar 2005: Sidney Lumet to Receive Honorary Award

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ Board of Governors has chosen director Sidney Lumet, 80, as the next recipient of the Honorary Oscar. The award, in honor of Lumet’s "brilliant services to screenwriters, performers and the art of the motion picture," will be presented at the 77th Academy Awards ceremony on February 27, 2005.
Lumet, who made his feature-film début in 1957, has been nominated four times for a best directing Academy Award: 12 Angry Men (1957), starring Henry Fonda; Dog Day Afternoon (top photo, 1975), starring Al Pacino; Network (1976), starring William Holden, Peter Finch, and Faye Dunaway; and The Verdict (1982), starring Paul Newman.
Lumet (along with Jay Presson Allen) was [...]