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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Tags: Anne Hathaway, Dallas-Ft. Worth Film Critics Awards, Danny Boyle, Film Awards, Heath Ledger, Man on Wire, Sean Penn, Slumdog Millionaire, Tell No One, Viola Davis, WALL-E
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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Tags: Danny Boyle, Film Awards, Heath Ledger, Kate Winslet, Man on Wire, Sally Hawkins, Sean Penn, Slumdog Millionaire, Tell No One, Trouble the Water, Viola Davis, Women Film Journalists Awards
César Awards 2007 Winners
Marina Hands in Lady Chatterley by Pascale Ferran
Perhaps there’s hope for this evening’s Oscar ceremony.
On Saturday, I watched (most of) the French Academy of Film Arts and Sciences‘ 32nd César du cinéma ceremony held last night (late morning/early afternoon Los Angeles time) at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.
The event, hosted by actress Valérie Lemercier and dedicated to recently deceased French film icon Philippe Noiret, was apparently directed by former U.S. vice president Al Gore, who made sure that winners and presenters attended a class or two at the Greer Garson School of Speech Making. (For those who don’t know: At the 1943 Academy Awards ceremony, best actress winner Garson supposedly gave the most long-winded acceptance speech in Oscar history.)
In [...]
by Andre Soares | February 25, 2007
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Tags: Alain Resnais, César Awards, César Awards 2007, Film Awards, Guillaume Canet, Lady Chatterley, Marina Hands, Pascale Ferran, Sabine Azéma, Tell No One, Valérie Lemercier
Étoiles d’Or 2007
2007 Étoiles d’Or
French Film Critics’ 2007 Étoile d’Or winners: Espace Pierre Cardin in Paris on January 22, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Marina Hands in Lady Chatterley (top); Sami Bouajila in Days of Glory (bottom)
Best French Film / Etoile d’Or du Meilleur film français (ex-aequo):
* Lady Chatterley by Pascale Ferran
* Indigènes / Days of Glory by Rachid Bouchareb
Coeurs / Private Fears in Public Places by Alain Resnais
Best First French Film / Etoile d’Or du Premier film français:
* Mauvaise foi by Roschdy Zem
Pardonnez-moi / Forgive Me by Maïwenn
Le Pressentiment by Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Best Documentary / Etoile d’Or du Documentaire français:
* Kigali, des images contre un massacre / Kigali, Images Against a Massacre by Jean-Christophe Klotz
Dans la peau de [...]
by Andre Soares | January 27, 2007
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Tags: Alain Resnais, Cécile de France, Days of Glory, Film Awards, François Cluzet, Jean Dujardin, Lady Chatterley, Mauvaise foi, Philippe Lioret, Tell No One
