Woody Harrelson, CRAZY HEART: Spirit Awards 2010 Winners
Woody Harrelson, Crazy Heart, and Geoffrey Fletcher were the three first Spirit Award winners announced this evening in Los Angeles.
The Last Station’s Christopher Plummer received enthusiastic applause at the ceremony, but Woody Harrelson won the Best Supporting Actor award for his performance in the Iraq War-related drama The Messenger (above). “I wasn’t expecting this,” Harrelson told the crowd. “I guess everyone says that but I really wasn’t.”
Scott Cooper’s Crazy Heart, the tale of a troubled country singer played by Jeff Bridges was chosen as the Best First Feature of 2009. Bridges is also in the running in the Best Actor category.
Geoffrey Fletcher won for Precious adaptation. “Every time I see them,” Fletcher said of the cast, “I become [...]
by Steve Montgomery | March 5, 2010
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Tags: Christopher Plummer, Crazy Heart, Geoffrey Fletcher, Precious, Spirit Awards, Spirit Awards 2010, The Messenger, Woody Harrelson
Mo’Nique – US Critics’ Top Supporting Actress
Mo’Nique in Precious (Anne Marie Fox / Lionsgate)
Like Christoph Waltz in the best supporting actor category, Mo’Nique — who plays a nasty mother in Lee Daniels‘ Precious — is by far the North American critics’ top choice for best supporting actress of 2009: 17 wins and counting, in addition to awards at both the Sundance and Stockholm film festivals. Mo’Nique has also nabbed SAG, Critics Choice, Golden Globe, and Spirit award nominations.
Anna Kendrick, as George Clooney’s assistant of sorts in Up in the Air, has come out on top in Toronto, Houston, and Austin, in addition to a National Board of Review win, while two-time Oscar nominee Samantha Morton, playing a war widow in The Messenger, won in San [...]
by Steve Montgomery | January 2, 2010
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Tags: Anna Kendrick, Critics Choices, Film Awards, Mo'Nique, Precious, Samantha Morton, The Messenger, Up in the Air
Christoph Waltz: US Critics’ Favorite Supporting Actor of 2009
Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds (François Duhamel / The Weinstein Co.)
If US critics found only two lead actresses to vote for in 2009 (Meryl Streep and Carey Mulligan), they had an even tougher time finding a supporting actor. Or perhaps it was just his own thespian brilliance that made Christoph Waltz walk away with nearly every critics’ award out there. With more than 90 film and TV productions to his credit, Waltz, 53, has finally been discovered by international audiences and critics thanks to his evil Nazi in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. All that and the best actor prize at Cannes 2009, too.
Christian McKay, playing Orson Welles in Me and Orson Welles (the "Me" is Zac Efron), managed to [...]
by Steve Montgomery | January 1, 2010
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Tags: Christian McKay, Christoph Waltz, Critics Choices, Film Awards, Inglourious Basterds, Me and Orson Welles, The Messenger, Woody Harrelson
Satellite Awards 2009
2009 Satellite Awards
International Press Academy’s 2009 Satellite Award nominations: Nov. 29, 2009
2009 Satellite Award winners: Dec. 20, 2009
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Judi Dench, Penélope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Sophia Loren, Stacy Ferguson, Nicole Kidman, Kate Hudson, Daniel Day-Lewis in Nine (David James / The Weinstein Co.)
Best Motion Picture (Drama)
Bright Star
An Education
* The Hurt Locker
The Messenger
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
The Stoning of Soraya M.
Best Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical)
The Informant!
It’s Complicated
Julie & Julia
* Nine
A Serious Man
Up in [...]
by Anna Robinson | December 21, 2009
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Tags: An Education, Bright Star, Film Awards, Julie and Julia, Meryl Streep, Nine, Penélope Cruz, Satellite Awards, The Hurt Locker, The Messenger
UP IN THE AIR, UP, Meryl Streep and Surprises: St. Louis Film Critics 2009 Nominations
Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson in The Messenger
There were quite a few surprises among the nominees for the St. Louis Film Critics Association 2009 Awards.
I mean, Kim So Yong’s Treeless Mountain for best foreign language film? Jeff Stilson’s Good Hair for best documentary? Wes Anderson (Fantastic Mr. Fox) and Oren Moverman (The Messenger) for best director? Patton Oswald (Big Fan) and Ben Foster (The Messenger) for best actor? Maya Rudolph (Away We Go) for best actress?
There were several less jarring surprises as well, including Marc Webb’s (500) Days of Summer in the running for best picture; Robert Duvall as best supporting actor for The Road; Jeremy Renner as best actor for The Hurt Locker; Melanie Laurent as best supporting actress for [...]
by Anna Robinson | December 14, 2009
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Tags: 500 Days of Summer, Avatar, Ben Foster, Film Awards, Marc Webb, Maya Rudolph, Meryl Streep, Oren Moverman, St. Louis Film Critics Awards, The Messenger