Oscar Ceremony 2008
It’s not over until the fat lady sings. Since Amy Adams is anything but fat, that meant another three hours of Oscar give-aways after her rendition of "Happy Working Song" from Enchanted.
Nearly four hours into the Oscarcast 2008…
And it’s finally over. No Country for Old Men has been voted the best film of 2007.
I must admit that I didn’t really watch the ceremony, except to listen to the announcements of the year’s Oscar winners. For about two seconds, I did, however, check out Amy Adams singing a ditty from Enchanted — I just wanted to take a look at her, who, in my view, should have been one of this year’s five best actress nominees.
And I did watch Jon [...]
by Andre Soares | February 25, 2008
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Tags: 2008 Oscar, Academy Awards, Amy Adams, Christopher Rouse, Film Awards, Glen Hansard, Heath Ledger, Jon Stewart, Oscar Ceremony 2008, Stefan Ruzowitzky, The Counterfeiters
Foreign Language Film Symposium 2008
Foreign Language Film Academy Award Symposium 2008: Part I
Nikita Mikhalkov, Andrzej Wajda
Sergei Bodrov, Nikita Mikhalkov
Joseph Cedar, Stefan Ruzowitzky
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Photos: Todd Wawrychuk / ©A.M.P.A.S.
by Andre Soares | February 24, 2008
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Foreign Language Film Academy Award Symposium 2008 Photos
Stefan Ruzowitzky, Joseph Cedar, Sergei Bodrov, and Academy Governor Mark Johnson
The 2010 Academy Awards‘ Foreign Language Film Symposium was held yesterday, February 23, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
All five directors of this year’s nominated films were present: Joseph Cedar (Beaufort, Israel); Nikita Mikhalkov (12, Russia); Andrzej Wajda (Katyn, Poland); Sergei Bodrov (Mongol, Kazakhstan); and Stefan Ruzowitzky (The Counterfeiters, Austria).
Academy president Bruce Davis introduced the symposium, which was moderated by the Academy’s Chair of the Foreign Language Film Committee Mark Johnson.
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Photos: Todd Wawrychuk / Darren Decker (directors’ solo photos) / ©A.M.P.A.S.
Andrzej Wajda
Nikita Mikhalkov
Joseph Cedar
by Andre Soares | February 24, 2008
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Oscar 2008: Foreign Language Film Nominees Symposium
Katyn (top); The Counterfeiters (middle); Mongol (bottom)
The filmmakers of this year’s Academy Award-nominated foreign-language films will take part — "subject to availability" — in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ Foreign Language Film Award Nominees Symposium on Saturday, February 23, at 10 a.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. [2008 Foreign Language Film Academy Award Symposium Photos.]
The event, which includes clips from the nominated films and a Q&A session with audience members, will be moderated by Oscar-winning producer and Foreign Language Executive Committee Chair Mark Johnson.
The 2007 Foreign Language Film nominees are:
Austria, The Counterfeiters, Stefan Ruzowitzky, director
Israel, Beaufort, Joseph Cedar, director
Kazakhstan, Mongol, Sergei Bodrov, director
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by Andre Soares | January 29, 2008
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Tags: 12, 2008 Oscar, Academy Awards, Andrzej Wajda, Beaufort, Film Awards, Foreign Language Film Category, Joseph Cedar, Katyn, Los Angeles Screenings, Mongol, Nikita Mikhalkov, Sergei Bodrov, Stefan Ruzowitzky, The Counterfeiters
Oscar 2008: Best Foreign-Language Film Semi-Finalists
The Unknown by Giuseppe Tornatore (top); The Counterfeiters by Stefan Ruzowitzky (bottom)
When I stated in my Oscar 2008 predictions that the Academy’s foreign-language film shortlist is the most difficult to predict, I wasn’t kidding.
Nowhere to be found in the list of nine foreign-language film semi-finalists are:
Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days — last year’s Cannes Film Festival winner and considered by numerous U.S. critics one of the best films of 2007;
Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud’s much-ballyhooed and New York Film Critics Circle winner Persepolis, which may still get a best animated feature nod;
and Juan Antonio Bayona’s box-office hit and multiple-Goya nominee The Orphanage.
Additionally, there was a major surprise among those that [...]
by Andre Soares | January 15, 2008
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Tags: 2008 Oscar, 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Academy Awards, Film Awards, Foreign Language Film Category, Katyn, Mongol, Stefan Ruzowitzky, The Counterfeiters, The Unknown