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Spanish Film Writers Awards 2008

2008 Spanish Film Writers Circle Awards
2008 Spanish Film Writers Circle Awards: January 21, 2008
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Siete mesas de billar francés by Gracia Querejeta
 

Best Film
* Siete mesas de billar francés, by Gracia Querejeta
La soledad, by Jaime Rosales
El orfanato / The Orphanage, by Juan Antonio Bayona
Mataharis, by Icíar Bollaín
Best Foreign Film
* Das leben der anderen / The Lives of Others, by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (Germany)
Once, by John Carney (Ireland)
Ratatouille, by Brad Bird (US)
Apocalypto, by Mel Gibson (US)
Best Documentary
* Fados, by Carlos Saura
Invisibles, by Mariano Barroso, Isabel Coixet, Fernando León de Aranoa, Javier Corcuera and Wim Wenders
El productor, by Fernando Méndez Leite
Las alas [...]

Central Ohio Film Critics Awards 2008

2008 Central Ohio Film Critics Association Awards
2008 Central Ohio Film Critics Association award winners: January 11, 2008
 

Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men
 

Best Film: No Country for Old Men by Joel and Ethan Coen
Runners-up:
Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others
Juno
Once
There Will Be Blood
Lars and the Real Girl
3:10 to Yuma
The Savages
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Le Scaphandre et le papillon / The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Foreign Language Film: The Lives of Others by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Runner-Up: El Orfanato / The Orphanage
Best Documentary: The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters by Seth Gordon
Runners-Up (tie): In the Shadow of the Moon and No End in Sight
Best Director: Joel [...]

Dublin Film Critics Awards 2008

Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards 2008
2008 Dublin Film Critics Circle award winners: January 7, 2008
 

Directed by Leonard Abrahamson and written by Mark O’Halloran, the dramatic comedy Garage revolves around the lonely and somewhat dim-witted caretaker (Pat Shortt) of a crumbling small-town gas station whose life is radically changed after a teenager comes to work with him.

 
Best Irish Film: Garage by Leonard Abrahamson
Runners-up: Once, Kings, Small Engine Repair, Shrooms
Best International Film: The Lives of Others by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Runners-up: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, This Is England, Zodiac, I’m Not There
Best Director: David Fincher, Zodiac
Best Actor: Ulrich Mühe, The Lives of Others
Best Actress: Julie Christie, Away from Her
Breakthrough Award: Saoirse Ronan, Atonement
 
Source: [...]

BAFTA 2008 Longlists: Screenplay, Animated Film

Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova in Once (top); Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men (middle); Ulrich Mühe in The Lives of Others (bottom)

BAFTA 2008 Longlists
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
American Gangster
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
Eastern Promises
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Hot Fuzz
In the Valley of Elah
Juno
Knocked Up
The Lives of Others
Michael Clayton
Once
Ratatouille
Things We Lost in the Fire
This is England
La Vie en Rose
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
3:10 to Yuma
Atonement
The Bourne Ultimatum
Brick Lane
Charlie Wilson’s War
Control
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Into the Wild
The Kite Runner
Letters from Iwo Jima
Lust, Caution
No Country for Old Men
Sweeney Todd: [...]

New York Film Critics Online Awards 2007

2007 New York Film Critics Online Awards
2007 New York Film Critics Online Award winners: December 9, 2007
 

Max von Sydow, Mathieu Amalric in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (top); There Will Be Blood by Paul Thomas Anderson (bottom)
 

BEST PICTURE (tie)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
There Will Be Blood
Runners-up (alphabetical)
Atonement (Focus Features)
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (THINKFilm)
The Darjeeling Limited (Fox Searchlight)
I’m Not There (The Weinstein Company)
Juno (Fox Searchlight)
Michael Clayton (Warner Bros.)
No Country for Old Men (Miramax)
Persepolis (Sony Pictures Classics)
Sweeney Todd (DreamWorks)
BEST FOREIGN PICTURE (tie)
The Lives of Others by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Sicko by Michael Moore
BEST DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson — There Will Be Blood
BEST ACTOR
Daniel Day-Lewis — There Will Be Blood
BEST ACTRESS
Julie [...]

New York Film Critics Awards 2007

2007 New York Film Critics Circle Awards
2007 New York Film Critics Circle Award winners: December 10, 2007
 

Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men
 

Best Picture: No Country for Old Men by Joel and Ethan Coen
Runners-up: There Will Be Blood by Paul Thomas Anderson, I’m Not There by Todd Haynes
Best Foreign Film: The Lives of Others by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Best Documentary: No End in Sight by Charles Ferguson
Best Animated Film: Persepolis by Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi
Best First Film: Sarah Polley, Away from Her
Best Director: Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Runners-up: Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood, Todd Haynes, I’m Not There
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Runner-up: Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises
Best Actress: Julie Christie, [...]

Bodil Awards 2007

2007 Bodil Awards
Danish Film Critics Association’s 2007 Bodil winners: Imperial Biografen in Copenhagen on February 25, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Pernille Fischer Christensen’s A Soap revolves around the unlikely friendship that develops between two neighbors: the owner of a beauty salon (Trine Dyrholm) and a pre-op transsexual (David Dencik, above). Additionally, A Soap shared the Jury Grand Prix (with Offside) at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival, where it also won the best first film award.
 

Best Danish Film / Bedste danske film
Drømmen / We Shall Overcome (Niels Arden Oplev)
Efter brylluppet / After the Wedding (Susanne Bier)
* En soap / A Soap (Pernille Fischer Christensen)
Prag / Prague (Ole Christian Madsen)
Råzone / Life Hits (Christian E. Christiansen)
Best American Film / Bedste [...]

German Film Critics Awards 2007 Winners

Sandra Hüller in Requiem (top); Ulrich Mühe in The Lives of Others (bottom)

Surprisingly, the Association of German Film Critics did not pick Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s internationally acclaimed Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others as the best German film of 2006. Instead, their choice was Hans-Christian Schmid’s Requiem, based on the real-life story of a woman who believed herself possessed by the devil. (That same story also inspired the undemonic The Exorcism of Emily Rose.) Henckel von Donnersmarck had to content himself with winning the best first film prize.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, The Lives of Others has had the biggest opening for a German-language film ever in the United States. (I’m assuming [...]

German Film Critics Awards 2007

2007 German Film Critics Association Awards
2007 German Film Critics Association Award winners: Berlinale on Feb. 13, 2007
 

Sandra Hüller in Requiem
 

Best Film: Requiem directed by Hans-Christian Schmid
Best First Film: Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Best Documentary (tie): Behind the Couch directed by Viet Helmer and Deutschland. Ein Sommermärchen / Germany: A Summer Fairytale by Sonke Wortmann
Best Actor: Ulrich Mühe, The Lives of Others
Best Actress: Sandra Hüller, Requiem
Best Screenplay: Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Sommer vorm Balkon / Summer in Berlin
Best Cinematography: Hagen Bogdanski, The Lives of Others
Best Editing: Patricia Rommel, The Lives of Others
Best Score: Bert Wrede, Knallhart
 
German Film Critics Association site
German Film Critics Awards: 2006 2007 2008
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 [...]

Oscar 2007

2007 Academy Awards
2007 Academy Award nominations: January 23, 2007
2007 Academy Award winners: Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland in Los Angeles on February 25, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Photos: © AMPAS
 

Best motion picture of the year
Babel (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)
An Anonymous Content/Zeta Film/Central Films Production
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik and Steve Golin, Producers
* The Departed (Warner Bros.)
A Warner Bros. Pictures Production
Graham King
Letters from Iwo Jima (Warner Bros.)
A DreamWorks Pictures/Warner Bros. Pictures Production
Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg and Robert Lorenz, Producers
Little Miss Sunshine (Fox Searchlight)
A Big Beach/Bona Fide Production
David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub
The Queen (Miramax, Pathé and Granada)
A Granada Production
Andy Harries, Christine Langan and Tracey Seaward, Producers

Best foreign language film of the year
After the Wedding [...]

Golden Beetle 2007

2007 Golden Beetle
Swedish Film Institute’s 2007 Golden Beetle (Guldbagge) nominations: January 10, 2007
2007 Golden Beetle winners: Cirkus in Stockholm on January 22, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

 

Best Film
Farväl Falkenberg / Falkenberg Farewell – Producer: Anna Anthony
* Förortsungar / Kidz in da Hood – Producers: Peter Holthausen, Pontus Sjöman
Storm – Producer: Karl Fredrik Ulfung
Best Foreign Language Film
Volver – Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Babel – Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
*Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others – Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Best Documentary Film
Alice och jag / Alice and Me – Directors: Rebecka Rasmusson
Jag minns Håkan Alexandersson / I Remember Håkan Alexandersson – Director: Carl Johan De Geer
* Vikarien / The Substitute – Directors: Åsa Blanck and Johan Palmgren
Best Director
Jesper Ganslandt [...]

Oscar 2007: Best Foreign Language Semi-Finalists

Cécile De France in Avenue Montaigne (top); Mads Mikkelsen in After the Wedding (middle); Carice van Houten in The Black Book (bottom)

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has narrowed down to nine titles the list of potential 2007 best foreign-language film nominees.
They are (listed in alphabetical order by country):

Algeria, Days of Glory, Rachid Bouchareb, director
Canada, Water, Deepa Mehta, director
Denmark, After the Wedding , Susanne Bier, director
France, Avenue Montaigne, Danièle Thompson, director
Germany, The Lives of Others, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, director
Mexico, Pan’s Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro, director
The Netherlands, Black Book, Paul Verhoeven, director
Spain, Volver, Pedro Almodóvar, director
Switzerland, Vitus, Fredi M. Murer, director

Though it may seem that the above films hail from all (or most) corners of the globe, [...]

Palm Springs Film Festival Awards 2007

2007 Palm Springs Film Festival Awards
2007 Palm Springs Film Festival: January 4-15, 2007
2007 Palm Springs Film Festival Winners
 

 

FIPRESCI Award Winner – Best Foreign Language Film of the Year: El Laberinto del fauno / Pan’s Labyrinth (Mexico / Spain / U.S.) directed by Guillermo del Toro
 
New Voices New Visions Grand Jury Prize: Zemestan / It’s Winter (Iran) directed by Rafi Pitts
New Voices New Visions Special Jury Prize: Aguas Argentinas / Agua (Argentina) directed by Verónica Chen
Audience Choice Award – Best Narrative Feature: Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others (Germany) directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Audience Choice Award Best – Documentary Feature: Blindsight (United Kingdom) directed by Lucy Walker
 
Director of the Year: Alejandro González [...]

2007 Palm Springs Film Festival Winners

The 2007 Palm Springs Film Festival has announced its jury and audience winners.
The New Voices New Visions Grand Jury Prize was given to Rafi Pitts‘ Iranian drama It’s Winter, the story of a woman left behind in a small Iranian town after her husband travels abroad looking for work.

The Special Jury Prize went to Verónica Chen’s Agua, an Argentinean drama about two swimmers — one trying to refute charges of doping, the other doing whatever he can to join the national team.
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s old-fashioned spy melodrama The Lives of Others, winner of 7 German Academy Awards and the European Film Academy’s best film, was the audience choice for best narrative feature. The Lives of [...]

Golden Globes 2007: Foreign-Language Film Screenings

Penélope Cruz in Volver (top); Martina Gedeck in The Lives of Others (middle); Pan’s Labyrinth (bottom)

The American Cinematheque and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will present all five foreign-language films nominated for the 2007 Golden Globe Awards at The Aero’s Max Palevsky Theatre in Santa Monica.
The five nominees are:

Apocalypto (U.S.)
El Laberinto del fauno / Pan’s Labyrinth (Spain / Mexico / U.S.)
Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others (Germany)
Letters from Iwo Jima (U.S.)
Volver (Spain)

Invited guests (to be confirmed) for each screening are directors Pedro Almodóvar, Guillermo del Toro, Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson, and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, all of whom should also take part in a round-table discussion moderated by Screen International U.S. editor [...]

Los Angeles Film Critics Awards 2006

2006 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
2006 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award winners: Dec. 10, 2006.
 

 

Best Film: Letters from Iwo Jima directed by Clint Eastwood
Runners-up: The Queen directed by Stephen Frears; United 93 directed by Paul Greengrass; L’Armée des ombres / Army of Shadows directed by Jean-Pierre Melville†
Best Foreign-Language Film: Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Runner-up: Volver directed by Pedro Almodóvar
Best Director: Paul Greengrass, United 93
Runners-up: Clint Eastwood, Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima; Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men
Best Actor (tie): Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, and Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Runners-up: Peter [...]

European Film Awards 2006

2006 European Film Awards
2006 European Film Award nominations: Seville Film Festival on Nov. 4, 2006
2006 European Film Award winners: EXPO XXI in Warsaw on Dec. 2, 2006. Sophie Marceau and Maciej Stuhr hosted the awards ceremony.
† Eligible films had to be released in their countries of origin between July 2005 and April/May 2006.
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Photos: JaczekTurczyk/PAP
 

BEST EUROPEAN FILM
BREAKFAST ON PLUTO; Ireland/UK
directed by Neil Jordan
produced by Parallel Film Productions Ltd./Number 9 Films
GRBAVICA; Austria/Bosnia-Herzegovina/Germany/Croatia
directed by Jasmila Zbanic
produced by coop99 filmproduktion GmbH/Deblokada/Noirfilm/Jadran Film
* DAS LEBEN DER ANDEREN (The Lives of Others); Germany
directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
produced by Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion/Bayerischer Rundfunk/ARTE/Creado Film
THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO; UK
directed by Michael [...]

2006 European Film Awards Winners

The European Film Academy, whose awards ceremony was held this evening in Warsaw, has opted for conventionality by giving its best European film award to Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others, a Cold War spy-thriller-cum-melodrama lacking both thrills and drama.
Additionally, The Lives of Others star Ulrich Mühe (above, top photo), the one saving grace in the film, received the best European actor award for his role as a Stasi spy who, while eavesdropping on a playwright in the mid-1980s, begins to question both his personal ethics and his allegiance to the Communist Party. In real life, Mühe, a renowned stage actor since the 1980s, was himself spied on by East Germany’s [...]

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