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Susan Sarandon: Lifetime Achievement Award at Stockholm Festival

Susan Sarandon will be the recipient of the Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award 2009 to be presented at the 20th Stockholm International Film Festival, which runs Nov. 18-29. Sarandon will be accepting the honor in person.
As per the Stockholm Film Festival’s press release, "the Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award is presented annually to honor and acknowledge a longstanding career and an outstanding achievement in cinema. The prestigious award, in the shape of a 16 lb Bronze Horse (the heaviest film award in the world), is a paraphrase on the Swedish Dala horse, designed by designer Fredrik Swärd."
Previous recipients of the Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award include Lauren Bacall, Charlotte Rampling, David Lynch, Oliver Stone, Jean-Luc Godard, Erland Josephson, and Paul Schrader.
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Genie Awards 2009

2009 Genie Awards
2009 Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television’s Genie Award nominations: Feb. 10, 2009
2009 Genie Award winners: Ottawa, April 4, 2009
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

 

BEST MOTION PICTURE / MEILLEUR FILM
Amal – David Miller, Steven Bray
Ce qu’il faut pour vivre / The Necessities of Life – Bernadette Payeur, René Chénier
Normal – Andrew Boutilier, Carl Bessai
* Passchendaele – Niv Fichman, Francis Damberger, Paul Gross, Frank Siracusa
Tout est Parfait / Everything is Fine – Nicole Robert
BEST DOCUMENTARY / MEILLEUR DOCUMENTAIRE
INFINIMENT QUÉBEC – Jean-Claude Labrecque, Yves Fortin, Christian Medawar
MY WINNIPEG – Guy Maddin, Phyllis Laing, Jody Shapiro
* UP THE YANGTZE – Yung Chang, Mila Aung-Thwin, John Christou, Germaine Ying-Gee Wong
BEST DIRECTION [...]

Jutra Awards 2009

2009 Prix Jutra
2009 Jutra Award nominations: Feb. 17, 2009
2009 Jutra Award winners: March 29, 2009
(”*” denotes the winner in each category)
 

Ce qu’il faut pour vivre / The Necessities of Life, the 2009 winner of the Prix Jutra for best film, tells the story of an Inuit hunter (best actor winner Natar Ungalaaq) suffering from tuberculosis who is sent to a sanatorium in the Quebec City of the early 1950s. The hunter’s condition is worsened by the clash of cultures, but a bicultural boy helps him to bridge the gap between the two different worldviews. Directed by Benoît Pilon from a screenplay by Bernard Émond (with Pilon’s assistance), The Necessities of Life was Canada’s submission for [...]

SAG Awards 2009: Susan Sarandon, Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine

Susan Sarandon, Emile Hirsch

Kate Winslet, Freida Pinto

Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine
Photos: Kevin Mazur
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SAG Awards 2009: Presenters

Susan Sarandon in Bernard & Doris

At the 2009 SAG Awards ceremony, Actor nominees Amy Adams, Josh Brolin, Viola Davis, James Franco, Taraji P. Henson, Emile Hirsch, Frank Langella, Dev Patel, Freida Pinto and Michael Sheen will introduce their nominated cast film clips: Doubt, Milk, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Slumdog Millionaire, and Frost/Nixon.
Evan Rachel Wood will introduce a filmed salute to performances that were “trailblazers,” either in their casting or subject matter. (That should be interesting — if the clip pickers know their Hollywood history instead of going for the obvious, e.g., Marlon Brando, who couldabinuhcontenduh, and movies made within the last twenty years.)
Emily Blunt, Claire Danes, Ralph Fiennes, Katie Holmes, [...]

Sundance 2009: I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS, Susan Sarandon, Richard Gere

Damon Wise in the London Times:
"Written by the team responsible for the similarly dark Bad Santa and based on a true story, I Love You Phillip Morris is an extraordinary film that serves as a reminder of just how good [Jim] Carrey [above, with Ewan McGregor] can be when he’s not tied into a generic Hollywood crowd-pleaser. His comic timing remains as exquisite as ever, but this is not a loveable rubber-faced rogue. One could argue that, like The Truman Show, this is another film about a lost naif, but when it plays its final hand, I Love You Phillip Morris is really much, much stranger."
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Steven Zeitchik in The Hollywood Reporter:
"One [...]

Golden Globes 2009: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Susan Sarandon

Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Susan Sarandon © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Amy Adams © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Golden Globes 2009: Sandra Bullock, Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore

Sandra Bullock © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Susan Sarandon, Amy Adams © HFPA / 66th Golden Globe® Awards

Oscar 2008 Nominations: Foreigners and Those Missing in Action

Brad Pitt in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Oscar 2008 Nominations: Part I
Roger Deakins is competing against himself in the best cinematography category: for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and There Will Be Blood.
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Jonny Greenwood’s much praised score for There Will Be Blood was deemed ineligible reportedly because "the majority of the music was not composed specifically for the film." Alan Menken’s score for Enchanted was also deemed ineligible because it was based on the "predominant use of songs" and not on actual scoring of dramatic/comedy scenes. There was no "best adapted/best song score" category this year — though apparently there should have been. (More at The Envelope.)
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Best costume design nominee [...]

London Australian Film Festival 2007

Laura Linney in Jindabyne (top); Ten Canoes by Rolf de Heer (bottom)

PRESS RELEASE
The 13th London Australian Film Festival
Thursday 15 March – Sunday 25 March
The ten-day London Australian Film Festival returns to the Barbican for its 13th consecutive year with the biggest and strongest programme yet of 25 new features (including for the first time this year all the 2006 Australian Film Institute award winners), eight documentaries, two family films, and three archive classics, including the UK Premiere of the digital restoration of the earliest film ever made, The Story of the Kelly Gang. As in previous years the programme is enriched by the inclusion before most screenings of shorts selected from Flickerfest, Australia’s short film festival. In addition, the [...]

2006 Marrakech Film Festival Awards Winners

The 2006 Marrakech Film Festival came to a close last night, Dec. 9.
Dominik Graf’s German drama Der Rote Kakadu / The Red Cockatoo, a love story set in 1961 Dresden, starring Max Riemelt and Jessica Schwarz (above), won the Étoile d’Or for best film. Riemelt, for his part, received the best actor award.
The Grand Jury Prize went to Romanian filmmaker Radu Muntean’s political drama Hirtia va fi albastra / The Paper Will Be Blue, about a soldier who changes sides during Romania’s bloody 1989 revolution.
French-Senegalese actress Fatou N’Diaye won the best actress award for her performance as a Rwandan waitress falling in love right the time of the Hutu genocide in Robert Favreau’s Canadian drama Un dimanche à [...]

Marrakech Film Festival Awards 2006

2006 Marrakech Film Festival Awards
2006 Marrakech Film Festival was held between December 1-9, 2006.
2006 Marrakech Film Festival award winners: Palais des Congrès on December 9, 2006
 

 

L’ETOILE D’OR / THE GOLDEN STAR: Der Rote Kakadu / The Red Cockatoo by Dominik Graf (Germany)
JURY PRIZE: Hirtia va fi albastra / The Paper Will Be Blue by Radu Muntean (Romania)
BEST ACTOR: Max Riemelt for The Red Cockatoo by Dominik Graf (Germany)
BEST ACTRESS: Fatou N’diaye for Un dimanche à Kigali / A Sunday in Kigali by Robert Favreau (Canada)
TRIBUTES
Indian actress Kajol Mukherjee-Devgan
Indian actor Ajay Devgan
Moroccan actor Mohamed Majd
Egyptian filmmaker Tewfik Salah
American actress Susan Sarandon
Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhang-Ke
 
Jury: Filmmaker Roman Polanski (president, France / Poland); actress Sandrine Bonnaire (France); actress Maria de Medeiros [...]

ALFIE – Jude Law, Susan Sarandon

Alfie (2004)
Direction: Charles Shyer
Screenplay: Elaine Pope and Charles Shyer; from Bill Naughton’s 1964 play and 1966 screenplay, which were based on Naughton’s 1962 radio play Alfie Elkins and His Little Life
Cast: Jude Law, Susan Sarandon, Marisa Tomei, Jane Krakowski, Omar Epps, Sienna Miller, Nia Long
 

Jude Law in Alfie
 

A major financial flop that received — at best — mixed reviews, Charles Shyer’s Alfie remake deserved better. This dramatic comedy about a thirty-something supreme narcissist who must shag every good-looking woman in sight until he is taught a Lesson is no worse than other trendy, moralizing films like the well-received About a Boy and Bridget Jones’ Diary. In fact, Alfie is actually better than these two and than most of the product [...]

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