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	<title>Alt Film Guide &#187; The Maid</title>
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		<title>Oscar 2010: Those That Didn&#8217;t Make It</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin in It&#8217;s Complicated (top); Penelope Cruz, Lluís Homar in Broken Embraces (middle); Agnes Varda in The Beaches of Agnes (bottom)

Which movies were totally ignored by the Academy? Which performers and filmmakers were ignored? The list is quite long, of course. Below are the most notable omissions from the Oscar 2010 shortlist.
Marc Webb&#8217;s (500) Days of Summer, Pedro Almodóvar&#8217;s Broken Embraces, Todd Phillips&#8216; The Hangover, Michael Moore&#8217;s Capitalism: A Love Story, Duncan Jones&#8216; Moon, Cary Fukunaga&#8217;s Sin Nombre, Sebastian Silva&#8217;s The Maid, and Olivier Assayas&#8216; Summer Hours were totally left out.
And so were Richard Linklater&#8217;s Me and Orson Welles, Nancy Meyers&#8216; It&#8217;s Complicated, Steven Soderbergh&#8217;s The Informant!, John Hillcoat&#8217;s The Road, Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BROKEN EMBRACES, THE WHITE RIBBON, A PROPHET: Golden Globe Screenings</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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Penélope Cruz, José Luis Gómez in Broken Embraces (Emilio Pereda &#38; Paola Ardizzoni / El Deseo / Sony Pictures Classics) (top); Catalina Saavedra in The Maid (Elephant Eye) (middle); Tahar Rahim in A Prophet (Roger Arpajou / Sony Pictures Classics) (bottom)

Los Angeles&#8217; American Cinematheque will host the Hollywood Foreign Press Association&#8217;s series of screenings devoted to the films and filmmakers nominated for the 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign-Language Film. 
They are: Baaria (Italy) from Giuseppe Tornatore; Broken Embraces  (Spain) from Pedro Almodóvar; The Maid  (Chile) from Sebastian Silva; A Prophet  (France) from Jacques Audiard; and The White Ribbon (Germany) from Michael Haneke. These films will each screen once between January 11 and 15 at either [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meryl Streep, Carey Mulligan: US Critics&#8217; Best Actresses of 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/meryl-streep-carey-mulligan-best-actress-889/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Montgomery</dc:creator>
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Meryl Streep in Julie &#38; Julia (Columbia Pictures) (top); Carey Mulligan in An Education (Kerry Brown / Sony Pictures Classics) (bottom)

Only two actresses delivered great performances in 2009, at least as far as most US-based critics&#8217; groups were concerned: veteran Meryl Streep as Julia Child in Julie &#38; Julia, and newcomer Carey Mulligan as a daring schoolgirl in 1960s London in An Education. 
The exceptions were critics in Las Vegas, Detroit, and Florida, who actually noticed another newcomer, Gabourey Sidibe&#8217;s  abused illiterate pregnant teen in Precious. San Diego critics, who usually go their own merry way, picked Michelle Monaghan for Trucker, while Los Angeles critics, who sometimes dare to be different, picked Cesar winner Yolande Moreau for her talented [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spirit Awards 2010: Nominations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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Michael Stuhlbarg in A Serious Man (top); James McAvoy, Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren in The Last Station (middle); Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel in (500) Days of Summer (bottom)

The nominees for the 25th annual Spirit Awards have been announced. Two of the best picture nominees also happen to be this year&#8217;s most nominated films: Lee Daniels&#8216; Precious and Michael Hoffman&#8217;s The Last Station, with five nods each.
There were quite a few surprises this year &#8212; mostly those who were left out.
First of all, where&#8217;s The Hurt Locker, winner of two Gotham Awards &#8212; best picture and best ensemble  &#8212; and a likely Oscar contender? Well, don&#8217;t panic. The Hurt Locker was nominated last year in (a mere) two categories, best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gotham Awards 2009 Winners</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/gotham-award-2009-winners-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 03:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Catalina Saavedra in The Maid (top); Stella Schnabel in You Won&#8217;t Miss Me (middle); The Hurt Locker by Kathryn Bigelow (bottom)

&#34;Kudos to you, great performance,&#34; Rosie Perez told  Willem Dafoe, after saying that Lars von Trier&#8217;s Antichrist, a dark, sex-filled drama in which Dafoe co-stars with Charlotte Gainsbourg, was a &#34;sick-ass movie.&#34; That was followed by: &#34;Was that your &#8230; Oooohhhh. It was?&#34;
And so went the 2009 edition of the Gotham Awards, in which performers cracked jokes that would be unacceptable on network TV. Unfortunately, that didn&#8217;t necessarily make the jokes any funnier or the show  any better  than, say, the Oscars or the Golden Globes, but on the bright side some of the Gotham choices were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gotham Awards 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/2009-gotham-awards-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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2009 Gotham Awards
2009 Gotham Award nominations: Oct. 19, 2009
2009 Gotham Award winners: Nov. 30, 2009 in New York City
(&#34;*&#34; denotes the winner in each category)
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The Hurt Locker by Kathryn Bigelow
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Best Feature
  Amreeka
Cherien Dabis, director; Christina Piovesan, Paul Barkin, producers (National Geographic Entertainment)
Big Fan
Robert Siegel, director; Jean Kouremetis, Elan Bogarin, producers (First Independent Pictures)
* The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow, director; Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Greg Shapiro, producers (Summit Entertainment)
The Maid
Sebastian Silva, director; Gregorio Gonzales, producer (Elephant Eye Films)
A Serious Man
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, directors/producers (Focus Features)
Best Documentary
* Food, Inc.
Robert Kenner, director; Robert Kenner, Elise Pearlstein, producers (Magnolia Pictures)
Good Hair
Jeff Stilson, director; Chris Rock, Kevin O’Donnell, Nelson George  Jenny Hunter, producers (Liddell Entertainment and Roadside Attractions  in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 Satellite Awards &#8211; Nominations</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/2009-satellite-awards-nominations-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Robinson</dc:creator>
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Why should anyone give a damn about the (Golden) Satellite Awards?
Well, how often will you see a small, little-seen indie like The Stoning of Soraya M. (above) listed as one of the best films of the year? Or Hugh Dancy shortlisted for his performance in Adam? Or Mozhan Marno listed as best supporting actress, also for The Stoning of Soraya M.? Or the absence of two of the &#34;top ten films of the year&#34; from the list of the year&#8217;s twelve best films (six dramas, six comedies or musicals)?
The two absent (best) films, by the way, are (500) Days of Summer and Inglourious Basterds. Quentin Tarantino was also ignored when it came to the shortlisting the year&#8217;s best directors. Three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gotham 2009 Nominations</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/awards/gotham-2009-nominations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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Anthony Mackie, Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker (top); Nisreen Faour, Hiam Abbass in Amreeka (middle); Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind in A Serious Man (bottom)

Considered the official beginning of awards season in the United States, the Independent Feature Project announced its 2009 Gotham Award nominations earlier today in New York City.
The five nominees for best picture are:

  Cherien Dabis&#8216; Amreeka, the tale of a Palestinian mother (Nisreen Faour) who immigrates with her teenage son to the American Midwest. No more pesky Israeli check-points, but lots of  meat-patty flipping at burger joints.
Robert D. Siegel&#8217;s Big Fan, in which a hardcore New York Giants fan (breakthrough actor nominee Patton Oswalt)  gets beaten up by his favorite player &#8212; and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sundance Awards 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/sundance-awards-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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2009 Sundance Film Festival Awards
 2009 Sundance Film Festival: January 15-25, 2009
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 Grand Jury Prize: U.S. Dramatic:
Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire, directed by Lee Daniels

Grand Jury Prize: U.S. Documentary:
We Live in Public, directed by Ondi Timoner

World Cinema Grand Jury Prize:  Dramatic:
The Maid (La Nana), directed by Sebastián Silva
World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary:
Rough Aunties, directed by Kim Longinotto
 
Directing Award: U.S. Documentary:
Natalia Almada, El General
Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic:
Cary Joji Fukunaga, Sin Nombre
World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary:
Havana Marking, Afghan Star
World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic:
Oliver Hirschbiegel, Five Minutes of Heaven
Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award:
Nicholas Jasenovec and Charlyne Yi, Paper Heart
World Cinema Screenwriting Award:
Oliver Hirschbiegel, Five Minutes of Heaven
U.S. Documentary Editing Award:
Karen Schmeer, Sergio, directed by Greg Barker
World Cinema Documentary Editing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sundance 2009: World Cinema Dramatic Competition</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-festivals/sundance-2009-world-cinema-dramatic-competition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Arthur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sundance 2009: World Cinema Dramatic Competition
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Nathalie Baye in A French Gigolo
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Before Tomorrow (Le Jour Avant Lendemain) / Canada  (Directors: Madeline Piujuq, Marie-Helene Cousineau)
  A wise old woman fights to survive impossible circumstances with  her young grandson in the Canadian Arctic. Cast: Peter-Henry  Arnatsiaq, Paul-Dylan Ivalu, Madeline Piujuq Ivalu, Mary Qulitalik,  Tumasie Sivuarapik. U.S. premiere
Bronson / U.K. (Director: Nicolas Winding Refn;  screenwriter: Brock Norman Brock)
  Traces the transformation of Mickey Peterson into Britain&#8217;s most  notorious, dangerous and charismatic prisoner, Charles Bronson.  Cast: Tom Hardy. North American premiere
Carmo, Hit the Road / Spain (Director-screenwriter: Murilo  Pasta)
  A lonely, handicapped smuggler and a beautiful girl embark on a  reckless ride through [...]]]></description>
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