Berlin 2007 Winners

Yu Nan in Tuya’s Marriage

"When I started making films, my teacher said film should show people’s dreams. This film made my dreams come true," remarked Chinese director Wang Quan’an upon accepting the Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear for his rural drama Tuya’s Marriage, a portrait of the social and environmental costs of China’s unbridled economic growth.
In Tuya’s Marriage, a woman (Yu Nan) living in desertifying Inner Mongolia (a territory in northern China) tries to find a new husband to take care of herself and of her family, including handicapped husband #1. "I think that it is important, particularly in this time when the economy is booming," Wang remarked, "to ponder and reflect on what we’re losing."
Tuya’s Marriage is [...]

by Andre Soares | February 18, 2007   
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Berlin Film Festival Awards 2007

2007 Berlin Film Festival Awards
2007 Berlin Film Festival: February 8–18, 2007
Berlin 2007 Winners
 
International Competition

Golden Bear for the Best Film: Tu ya de hun shi / Tuya’s Marriage by Wang Quan’an
Silver Bear – The Jury Grand Prix: El Otro / The Other by Ariel Rotter

Silver Bear – Best Director: Joseph Cedar for Beaufort

Silver Bear – Best Actor: Julio Chávez in El Otro / The Other by Ariel Rotter

Silver Bear – Best Actress: Nina Hoss in Yella by Christian Petzold

Silver Bear – Outstanding Artistic Contribution: To the ensemble cast of The Good Shepherd by Robert De Niro
Silver Bear – Best Film Music: David Mackenzie for Hallam Foe
Alfred Bauer Prize: (for innovative work) Sai bo gu ji man [...]

by Andre Soares | February 18, 2007   
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American Society of Cinematographers Awards 2007

2007 American Society of Cinematographers Awards
American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) award 2007 feature-film nominations: January 11, 2007
2007 ASC award winners: Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on February 18, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Children of Men
 

Feature Films
* Emmanuel Lubezki, ASC, AMC, (Children of Men)
Dick Pope, BSC (The Illusionist)
Robert Richardson, ASC (The Good Shepherd)
Dean Semler, ASC, ACS (Apocalypto)
Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC (The Black Dahlia)
Motion Picture, Miniseries or Pilot Made for Television
Thomas A. Del Ruth, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (Pilot)
Adam Kane, Heroes (Pilot)
Walt Lloyd, The Librarian, "Return to King Solomon’s Mines"
Bill Roe, Day Break (Pilot)
* John Stokes, Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King, "Umney’s Last Case"
Regular Television Series (one episode)
Eagle [...]

by Andre Soares | February 18, 2007   
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American Society of Cinematographers Awards 2007 Nominations

Children of Men (top); Edward Norton, Jessica Biel in The Illusionist (middle); Matt Damon, Alec Baldwin in The Good Shepherd (bottom)

The feature-film nominees for the 2007 American Society of Cinematographers Award are critics’ fave Emmanuel Lubezki (Children of Men), plus Dick Pope (The Illusionist), Robert Richardson, (The Good Shepherd), Dean Semler (Apocalypto), and veteran Vilmos Zsigmond (The Black Dahlia), who has been shooting films — among them Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Deer Hunter — since the early 1960s.
The above list include the eighth ASC nomination for Richardson; the third for Zsigmond, who won in 1993 for the telefilm Stalin; the second for Lubezki and Semler; and the first for Pope.
Dean Semler’s nod marks [...]

by Andre Soares | January 11, 2007   
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