Irish Film Awards 2005
2005 Irish Film Awards
2005 Irish Film & Television Academy Awards winners: November 5, 2005
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Perry Ogden’s Pavee Lackeen takes a look at poverty in modern Ireland as seen through the eyes of a young girl and her family
FILM AWARDS
Best Film
Mickybo & Me
The Mighty Celt
* Pavee Lackeen
Tara Road
Trouble with Sex
Best Director
Anthony Byrne — Short Order
Fintan Connolly — Trouble with Sex
* Terry George — Hotel Rwanda
Perry Ogden — Pavee Lackeen
Best Actor
Gabriel Byrne – Wah-Wah
Cillian Murphy – Red Eye
* Liam Neeson – Kinsey
Aidan Quinn – Convicted
Best Actress
Andrea Corr – The Boys & Girl from County Clare
Jillian Bradbury – Winter’s End
Winnie Maughan – Pavee Lackeen
* [...]
by Andre Soares | November 5, 2005
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Iowa Film Critics Awards 2005
2005 Iowa Film Critics Association Awards
2005 Iowa Film Critics Association award winners: January 10, 2005
Best Picture: Sideways by Alexander Payne
Runner-up: Million Dollar Baby by Clint Eastwood
Best Director: Alexander Payne for Sideways
Runner-up: Martin Scorsese for The Aviator
Best Actor: Paul Giamatti for Sideways
Runner-up: Jamie Foxx for Ray
Best Actress: Imelda Staunton for Vera Drake
Runner-up: Kate Winslet for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Best Supporting Actor: Thomas Haden Church for Sideways
Runner-up: Jamie Foxx for Collateral
Best Supporting Actress: Virginia Madsen for Sideways
Runner-up: Cate Blanchett for The Aviator
Best movie yet to open Iowa: Hotel Rwanda by Terry George
Iowa Film Critics Association Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
by Andre Soares | January 10, 2005
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Tags: Alexander Payne, Film Awards, Hotel Rwanda, Imelda Staunton, Paul Giamatti, Sideways, Terry George, Thomas Haden Church, Vera Drake, Virginia Madsen
HOTEL RWANDA – Don Cheadle
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Direction: Terry George
Screenplay: Keir Pearson and Terry George
Cast: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Nick Nolte, Joaquin Phoenix, Desmond Dube, Neil McCarthy, Jean Reno
In the second quarter of 1994, while much of the world was gearing up to the World Cup to be held in Los Angeles, one of history’s deadliest wholesale slaughters of human beings was taking place in Central Africa. Following the death of Rwanda’s President Juvenal Habyarimana, an ethnic Hutu whose plane was shot down above the Kigali airport on April 6, 1994, the Hutu powers-that-be decided it was time to eliminate the Tutsi minority who were blamed for the crash. What followed in the next three months was an orgy of hackings and shootings throughout [...]
by Andre Soares | November 20, 2004
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Tags: African Cinema, Don Cheadle, Film Reviews, Hotel Rwanda, Keir Pearson, Oscar 2004, Oscar Movies, Paul Rusesabagina, Political Movies, Sophie Okonedo, Terry George, Three-Star Movies, Three-Star Oscar Nominees
Toronto Film Festival 2004: HOTEL RWANDA Wins Audience Award
Based on the true story of a hotel manager who saved hundreds of lives during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, Terry George’s Hotel Rwanda has won the People’s Choice award at the 2004 Toronto Film Festival.
In the film, hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina (played by Don Cheadle) saves the lives of those hiding in his hotel by bribing military officers with cash, liquor, and other goods. While the world looked away, approximately 800,000 Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus were massacred during the spring and early summer of 1994.
Pete Travis‘ Omagh, the story of the relatives of victims of the bloodiest terrorist attack of Northern Ireland’s 30-year conflict, won the festival’s Discovery award, given out by attending journalists.
In My Father’s Den, [...]
by Andre Soares | September 26, 2004
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Tags: Don Cheadle, Film Awards, Film Festivals, Hotel Rwanda, In My Father's Den, Omagh, Paul Rusesabagina, Terry George, Toronto Film Festival
