American Cinema Editors Awards 2007
2007 American Cinema Editors Awards
2007 American Cinema Editors Award (Eddie) nominations: January 12, 2007
2007 American Cinema Editors Award winners: Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on February 18, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Adriana Barraza in Babel (top); Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon in The Departed (middle); Dreamgirls (bottom)
BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (DRAMATIC) (tie):
* Babel, Stephen Mirrione, A.C.E. & Douglas Crise
Casino Royale, Stuart Baird, A.C.E.
* The Departed, Thelma Schoonmaker, A.C.E.
The Queen, Lucia Zuccheti
United 93, Clare Douglas, Christopher Rouse, A.C.E. & Richard Pearson
BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (COMEDY OR MUSICAL):
The Devil Wears Prada, Mark Livolsi, A.C.E.
* Dreamgirls, Virginia Katz, A.C.E.
Little Miss Sunshine, Pamela Martin
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Craig Wood & Stephen Rivkin, A.C.E.
Thank You for Smoking, Dana Glauberman
BEST EDITED [...]
by Andre Soares | February 18, 2007
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Tags: American Cinema Editors Awards, An Inconvenient Truth, Babel, Dreamgirls, Eddie Awards, Film Awards, Film Editors, Stephen Mirrione, The Departed, Thelma Schoonmaker, Virginia Katz
Writers Guild Awards 2007
2007 WGA Awards
2007 Writers Guild of America Award television and radio nominations: December 13, 2006; motion picture nominations: January 11, 2007
2007 WGA Award winners: Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles and at the Hudson Theater in the Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York on February 11, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Abigail Breslin, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Greg Kinnear in Little Miss Sunshine (top); Leonardo DiCaprio, Jack Nicholson in The Departed (bottom)
FEATURES
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Babel, Written by Guillermo Arriaga, Paramount Vantage
* Little Miss Sunshine, Written by Michael Arndt, Fox Searchlight Pictures
The Queen, Written by Peter Morgan, Miramax Films
Stranger Than Fiction, Written by Zach Helm, Sony Pictures Entertainment
United 93, Written by Paul Greengrass, Universal Pictures
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Borat: Cultural [...]
by Andre Soares | February 11, 2007
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Tags: Amy Berg, Deliver Us from Evil, Film Awards, Flight 93, Little Miss Sunshine, Michael Arndt, Nevin Schreiner, The Departed, WGA Awards, William Monahan
DGA Awards 2007: Martin Scorsese Wins
Leonardo DiCaprio in The Departed
Well on his way to his first Academy Award, last night Martin Scorsese received the Directors Guild of America’s feature-film top honors for The Departed, Scorsese’s way overrated I-can-smell-a-rat gangster flick that the director himself has referred to as his "B-movie." (And despite the presence of stellar names such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, and Jack Nicholson, that’s really what The Departed is — though without the flair of some of the better crime B’s of the ’40s and ’50s.)
Needless to say, Scorsese’s DGA win — much like his by now inevitable Oscar win — should be seen as a career award instead of recognition for a single achievement. It was Scorsese’s seventh DGA nomination, [...]
by Andre Soares | February 4, 2007
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Tags: Arunas Matelis, Before Flying Back to the Earth, Broken Trail, DGA Awards, Film Awards, Martin Scorsese, The Departed, Walter Hill
Directors Guild Awards 2007
2007 Directors Guild Awards
2007 Directors Guild of America nominations: feature film nominees on January 9, 2007; made-for-TV movies on January 10, 2007; other television nominees on January 11; and documentary and commercials nominees on January 16, 2007
2007 DGA Award winners: Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on February 3, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Steven Spielberg, DGA winner Martin Scorsese, and Leonardo DiCaprio © DGA
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film:
BILL CONDON – Dreamgirls (Paramount Pictures)
Bill Condon’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Patricia Whitcher
First Assistant Director: Richard Graves
Second Assistant Director: Eric Sherman
Second Second Assistant Director: Renee Hill-Sweet
JONATHAN DAYTON & VALERIE FARIS – Little Miss Sunshine (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’ Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Michael Beugg
First Assistant [...]
by Andre Soares | February 3, 2007
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Tags: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Arunas Matelis, Before Flying Back to the Earth, Bill Condon, Broken Trail, DGA Awards, Film Awards, Jonathan Dayton, Stephen Frears, The Departed, Valerie Faris, Walter Hill
Martin Scorsese: Top Oscar Directors for Actors
Unless things change dramatically (and no, I’m not referring only to environmental chaos and apocalyptic wars), 30 or 40 years from now Martin Scorsese is going to be the best remembered name of the current top-five Oscar directors for actors. (The others being William Wyler, Elia Kazan, George Cukor, and Fred Zinnemann.)
In addition to having the most recent career — cultural amnesia is invariably a factor — Scorsese is the single director among the top five whose films can been categorized as belonging to a particular genre. Better yet, Scorsese’s forte is that much-revered tough-guy cinema.
And ain’t Scorsese’s men tough.
His first male muse, Robert De Niro, becomes a hero after slaughtering unsavory figures from the New York underworld in [...]
by Andre Soares | January 28, 2007
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Tags: Academy Awards, Classic Movies, Film Awards, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Scorsese, Matt Damon, Raging Bull, Robert De Niro, The Departed