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	<title>Alt Film Guide &#187; Tahar Rahim</title>
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		<title>Box Office: Polanski&#8217;s THE GHOST WRITER, A PROPHET; MY NAME IS KHAN Breaks Khan Record</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/box-office/the-ghost-writer-a-prophet-polanski-audiard-77771/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Hutton</dc:creator>
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Ewan McGregor in The Ghost Writer (top); Hichem Jacoubi, Tahar Rahim in A Prophet (bottom)

Martin Scorsese&#8217;s Shutter Island grossed (or rather, is grossing) millions this weekend. The same goes for Cop Out, The Crazies, Avatar and its $700 million, Percy Jackson &#38; the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, and Valentine&#8217;s Day. But forget those  Hollywood flicks  for a moment.
In fact, if you look at the box-office figures a different way,  the top success stories of the weekend belong to two &#34;small&#34; movies: Roman Polanski&#8217;s The Ghost Writer and Jacques Audiard&#8217;s A Prophet.
After adding 41 screens, The Ghost Writer  grossed a remarkable $870K, landing at #17 for the weekend according  to  Box Office Mojo. Its per [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A PROPHET: Césars for Best Picture, Director, Actor</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/a-prophet-cesar-best-picture-audiard-rahim-34348/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator>
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A Prophet, Jacques Audiard&#8217;s internationally acclaimed prison drama, was the big winner at the 2010 César Awards ceremony held at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard served as the ceremony&#8217;s honorary president. She was assisted by co-presenters Gad Elmaleh and Valérie Lemercier.
Starring relative newcomer Tahar Rahim as a new inmate who must fend off for himself while prison, A Prophet won a total of nine Césars, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay (Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Raouf Dafri, and Nicolas Peufaillit), Best Actor (Rahim), and Best Male Newcomer (also Rahim), and Best Supporting Actor (Niels Arestrup). 
Previously, A Prophet had won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, France&#8217;s Louis Delluc Prize, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cesar 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/cesar-nominations-2010-776/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator>
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Tahar Rahim in A Prophet  (Roger Arpajou / Sony Pictures Classics)

The Cesar winners will be announced  on Feb. 27.
MEILLEUR FILM / BEST FILM
  A L’ORIGINE / IN THE BEGINNING, Edouard Weil and Pierre-Ange Le Pogam; directed by Xavier Giannoli
  LE CONCERT / THE CONCERT, Alain Attal; directed by Radu Mihaileanu
  LES HERBES FOLLES / WILD GRASS, Jean-Louis Livi; directed by Alain Resnais
  LA JOURNÉE DE LA JUPE / SKIRT DAY, Bénédicte Lesage and Ariel Askénazi; directed by Jean-Paul Lilienfeld
  RAPT, Patrick Sobelman, Diana Elbaum et Sébastien Delloye; directed by Lucas Belvaux
*  UN PROPHÈTE / A PROPHET, Pascal Caucheteux, Grégoire Sorlat et Marco Cherqui; directed by Jacques Audiard
  WELCOME, Christophe Rossignon; directed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kristen Stewart Accepts Orange Rising Star Award</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/kristen-stewart-accepts-rising-star-award-98765/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator>
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Kristen Stewart, following clips showing her with the likes of Jodie Foster and, inevitably, Robert Pattinson, accepted her Orange Rising Star Award at the BAFTA ceremony held this evening at London&#8217;s Royal Opera House. Stewart&#8217;s competition was European Film Award winner Tahar Rahim (the star of Jacques Audiard&#8217;s A Prophet, winner of the Best Foreign Language Film BAFTA Award), Jesse Eisenberg, Nicholas Hoult, and Best Actress winner Carey Mulligan (An Education). Tahar Rahim can be seen applauding Stewart&#8217;s win as she walks to the stage.
&#34;First I have to thank all the fans of Twilight for proving again to be the most devoted and attentive fans ever,&#34; a very nervous Stewart said upon accepting her award. (Camera cut to Carey Mulligan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kristen Stewart Wins Orange Rising Star Award</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/kristen-stewart-orange-rising-star-award-54985/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator>
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Kristen Stewart in The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Kristen Stewart&#8217;s Orange Rising Star Award victory would only surprise someone who has been living in some  parallel universe where the Twilight Saga franchise movies haven&#8217;t played at local movie houses. Anyone could vote for the Orange Rising Star Award. I voted for Tahar Rahim, knowing full well he had no chance. But I wanted to make sure he got at least one vote. To this date I can&#8217;t quite figure out why Robert Pattinson wasn&#8217;t included in the BAFTAs Rising Star list. I mean, the guy is the embodiment of a Rising Star (see Robert Pattinson BAFTA clip). Maybe next year.
Anyhow, some weren&#8217;t all that impressed with Kristen Stewart&#8217;s win.
&#34;Hang on. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A PROPHET Beats AVATAR, THE HURT LOCKER: London Film Critics&#8217; Awards</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/a-prophet-avatar-london-critics-awards-31387/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Avatar may be the king of the box office, but it surely wasn&#8217;t king of anything at the London Film Critics&#8217; Circle Awards held this evening in, where else, London. 
The London Critics&#8217; best film of 2009? Jacques Audiard&#8217;s prison drama A Prophet, the first French-made production to win the Circle&#8217;s top award in its 30-year history. Starring European Film Award winner Tahar Rahim (above), A Prophet is set in a tough French prison where a newcomer must fend off the advances of the local Corsican mafia. A Prophet has received 13  nominations for the French Academy&#8217;s Césars and is expected to win  the Best Film award.
London Critics&#8217; Chairman and Observer writer Jason Solomons called the vote &#34;a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A PROPHET, WELCOME, Isabelle Adjani, AVATAR: Cesar 2010 Nominees</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/a-prophet-welcome-isabelle-adjani-avatar-448/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator>
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Adel Bencherif, Tahar Rahim in A Prophet (top); Vincent Lindon, Farit Ayverdi in Welcome (middle); Yvan Atall in Rapt (bottom)

With 13 nods, Jacques Audiard&#8217;s prison drama A Prophet &#8212; one of the semi-finalists for this year&#8217;s best foreign language film Oscar, leads the 2010 Cesar Award nominations. 
In addition to best film and best director mentions, A Prophet is also up for best actor and male newcomer (Tahar Rahim, with two nods), best supporting actor (Niels Arestrup), best male newcomer (Adel Bencherif), best screenplay (Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Raouf Dafri, Nicolas Peufaillit), and best editing (Juliette Welfling).
The runners-up are Xavier Giannoli&#8217;s  In the Beginning, the tale of a con man (best actor nominee François Cluzet) involved in the building [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kristen Stewart, Tahar Rahim, Carey Mulligan: BAFTA&#8217;s Orange Rising Star 2010 Nominees</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/kristen-stewart-tahar-rahim-carey-mulligan-489/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator>
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Jesse Eisenberg, Nicholas Hoult, Carey Mulligan, Tahar Rahim, and Kristen Stewart (but neither Robert Pattinson nor People&#8217;s Choice Award winner Taylor Lautner) are the British Academy of Film &#38; Television&#8217;s nominees for the 2010 Orange Rising Star Award. Former Orange Rising Star winners include James McAvoy, Eva Green, and Shia LaBeouf.
According to the BAFTA site, &#8220;The Orange Rising Star Award recognises five international actors and actresses who have demonstrated exceptional talent and have begun to capture the imagination of the public as a star in the making.&#8221; You can vote for your favorite here.
In addition to  Roger Dodger, Jesse Eisenberg was recently featured in  Adventureland and Zombieland, while Nicholas Hoult, the solitary kid in About a Boy who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AVATAR, A PROPHET, THE WHITE RIBBON Nominated in London</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Tahar Rahim in A Prophet (Roger Arpajou / Sony Pictures Classics)

The London Film Critics’  Circle&#8217;s 2009 nominations have been announced. The best thing about this year&#8217;s crop of nominees is their &#34;internationality&#34;: As usual, Hollywood productions dominate the nominations, but the London critics have found plenty of room for non-American films as well.
Jacques Audiard&#8217;s French prison drama A Prophet managed to land five nominations, including  best film (or &#34;Film of the Year&#34;),  best director, and best actor (Tahar Rahim), while  Michael Haneke&#8217;s German-Austrian psychological-political drama The White Ribbon received four nominations, including best picture and best director. Both  were also shortlisted in the best foreign film and best screenplay categories.
Additionally, British talent found its way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Film Awards 2009: Tahar Rahim, Kate Winslet, Ken Loach, Isabelle Huppert</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Best actor European Film Award winner Tahar Rahim was present at the Dec. 12 ceremony in Bochum, Germany, to receive his trophy for his performance as a prison inmate at odds with the local Corsican mafia in Jacques Audiard&#8217;s A Prophet.  However, much like last year&#8217;s best actress winner Helen Mirren (for The Queen),  Kate Winslet was nowhere to be found in the auditorium.
Winslet won for Stephen Daldry&#8217;s The Reader, in which she plays a former Nazi guard who has an affair with a teenager (best actor nominee David Kross) half her age. That was in 2008. She won an Oscar and a Golden Globe back in early 2009. She was present at both ceremonies. But we&#8217;re now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Film Awards 2009 Predictions: Best Actress, Actor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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 Penélope Cruz has already won a best actress European Film Award (for Volver in 2006) and since her role in Broken Embraces is borderline supporting, my guess is that Cannes winner Charlotte  Gainsbourg (above, with Willem Dafoe) will be the one taking home the prize for her bereaved sexed-out mother in Lars von Trier&#8217;s  Antichrist. But who knows? Oscar winner Kate Winslet (for The Reader) could be the dark horse who splits the vote with the brown one (Katie Jarvis for Fish Tank) so the rainbow-colored equine (French Academy&#8217;s Cesar winner Yolande  Moreau in Séraphine) can win.

For the best actor award, I&#8217;d say the race is between two Cannes favorites: Tahar  Rahim (above) for his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Hurt, Tahar Rahim, Yoav Shamir: London 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator>
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Tahar Rahim, the star of Jacques Audiard&#8217;s widely praised prison drama A Prophet, winner of the best picture award at the London Film Festival and a likely best foreign language film Oscar contender, arrives for the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards  Ceremony at Inner Temple on October 28. (Photo  by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

John Hurt and Ann Rees Meyers arrive for the Times BFI 53rd London Film  Festival Awards Ceremony. Hurt and filmmaker Souleymane Cissé were given BFI Fellowships at the awards ceremony. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Filmmaker Yoav Shamir, whose documentary Defamation won the London Film Festival&#8217;s top prize in that category, arrives for the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards  Ceremony. Defamation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dominic Cooper, Jodie  Whittaker, Tahar Rahim: London 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joan Lister</dc:creator>
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Screenwriter Jack Thorne, voted best British newcomer for The Scouting Book for Boys, poses with his award. Actors Dominic Cooper and Jodie  Whittaker are standing next to him at the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards  Ceremony at Inner Temple on October 28. (Photo  by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Documentary filmmaker Yoav Shamir poses with his Grierson Award for Best Documentary Defamation, an European Film Award nominee and a potential Oscar 2010 contender, at the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards  Ceremony. (Photo  by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

Tahar Rahim, the star of Jacques Audiard&#8217;s  A Prophet, poses with the Best Film award given to Audiard&#8217;s gritty prison drama.  Academy Award winner and London Film [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London Film Festival Awards 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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Star of London for Best Film: Jacques Audiard’s A PROPHET
On behalf of the London Film Festival jury, Anjelica Huston stated: “A masterpiece: Un prohète has the ambition, purity of vision and clarity of purpose to make it an instant classic.  With seamless and imaginative story-telling, superb performances and universal themes, Jacques Audiard has made a perfect film.” In A Prophet, Tahar Rahim stars as a prison newcomer who learns how to become that realm&#8217;s top dog.

Special mention:  John Hillcoat’s THE ROAD

Best British Newcomer: Jack Thorne, screenwriter of the film THE SCOUTING BOOK FOR BOYS

Sutherland Award for most original and imaginative first feature: Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani for AJAMI 

Grierson Award  for Best Documentary: Yoav Shamir for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cannes 2009 Winners</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 22:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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One of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival&#8217;s clear favorites, Michael Haneke&#8217;s The White Ribbon, a stark tale about a small northern German town beset by strange happenings right before the beginning of World War I, took the Palme d&#8217;Or for best film. (Cannes 2009 winners list.)
&#34;Happiness is very rare,&#34; said Haneke upon accepting his prize. &#34;This  is one moment in my life in which I&#8217;m very happy, and so are you, I  believe,&#34; he added, speaking to his wife.
The White Ribbon also won the International Film Critics&#8217; FIPRESCI Prize for best film in the official competition. And it&#8217;ll surely be Austria&#8217;s submission for the 2010 best foreign-language film Academy Award.

Another festival favorite, Jacques Audiard&#8217;s tough  drama A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cannes 2009: Best Actor Favorites</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 05:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Best Actor
Tahar Rahim as a young man behind bars in A Prophet.
Ben Whishaw as John Keats in Bright Star.
André Dussollier as the elderly hero in Wild Grass.
François Cluzet as a con man in In the Beginning.
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Photos: Courtesy Festival de Cannes
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		<title>Cannes 2009: Palme d&#8217;Or Favorites</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 05:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Massimo David</dc:creator>
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Palme d&#8217;Or 2009, Grand Prix, Special Jury Prize:
Alain Resnais&#8216; romantic fantasy Wild Grass (adapted by Alex Reval and Laurent Herbiet from Christian Gailly&#8217;s novel), about a man who becomes intrigued by a younger woman
Jacques Audiard&#8217;s tough prison drama A Prophet (written by Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Raouf Dafri, and Nicolas Peufaillit)
Writer-director Michael Haneke&#8217;s The White Ribbon, about a northern German community enmeshed in a series of nasty events right before the beginning of World War I
Writer-director Jane Campion&#8217;s Bright Star, about the doomed love affair between British poet John Keats and his neighbor, Fanny Brawne
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Photos: Courtesy Festival de Cannes
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