The Cove Articles

Best Feature Documentary, The Cove: Producer Fisher Stevens‘ Oscar acceptance speech: "I just want to say that it was an honor to work on this film and to try to make an entertaining film that also tries to enlighten everybody. I have to thank Jim Clark, who financed the film and was also kind of the guiding wisdom behind the film. Paula DuPré Pesmen, my [...]

Best Documentary, The Cove Louie Psihoyos‘ The Cove, about the abuse and indiscriminate slaughter of dolphins at a secluded cove near Taiji, Japan, has been the most honored documentary of 2009. The Cove has won awards from various US critics groups, in addition to top awards from the Producers Guild, the Directors Guild, the Writers Guild (for Mark Monroe), and the American Cinema Editors (for [...]

Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker (top); Anna Kendrick, George Clooney in Up in the Air (bottom) The Writers Guild of America came up with some pretty shocking choices at their 2010 awards held this evening: Mark Boal’s The Hurt Locker (directed by Kathryn Bigelow) for best original screenplay, Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner’s Up in the Air (directed by Reitman) for best adapted screenplay, [...]

Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker was voted the best edited feature film (drama) by the American Cinema Editors on Sunday night. Previously, The Hurt Locker won awards from the Producers Guild, the Directors Guild, and the Art Directors Guild. James Cameron’s super blockbuster Avatar has thus far won only one guild award, for art direction in the "fantasy" category. Bob Murawski and Chris Innis were [...]