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Costume Designers Guild Awards 2007

2007 Costume Designers Guild Awards
2007 Costume Designers Guild award nominations: January 11, 2007
2007 Costume Designers Guild award winners: Beverly Regent Hotel in Beverly Hills on February 17, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Michael Sheen, Helen Mirren in The Queen (top); Qin Junjie, Ye Liu, Gong Li, Jay Chou in Curse of the Golden Flower (middle); Sergi López in Pan’s Labyrinth (bottom).
 

Excellence in contemporary film
Patricia Field for The Devil Wears Prada
* Consolata Boyle for The Queen
Nancy Steiner for Little Miss Sunshine
Lindy Hemming for Casino Royale
Michael Wilkinson for Babel
Excellence in period film
Milena Canonero for Marie Antoinette
Sharen Davis for Dreamgirls
* Chung Man Yee for Curse of the Golden Flower
Ngila Dickson for The Illusionist
Penny Rose [...]

BAFTA 2007

2007 BAFTA Awards
Orange British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) 2007 award nominations: January 12, 2007
2007 BAFTA award winners: Royal Opera House in London on February 11, 2007.
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Helen Mirren in The Queen
 

BEST FILM
Babel – Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik, Steve Golin
The Departed – Brad Pitt, Brad Grey, Graham King
The Last King of Scotland – Andrea Calderwood, Lisa Bryer, Charles Steel
Little Miss Sunshine – Albert Berger, David T Friendly, Ron Yerxa
* The Queen – Tracey Seaward, Christine Langan, Andy Harries
THE ALEXANDER KORDA AWARD for the Outstanding British Film of the Year
Casino Royale – Michael G Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, Martin Campbell, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Paul Haggis
* The Last King of Scotland – Andrea [...]

BAFTA 2007 Award Winners

Helen Mirren in The Queen (top); Forest Whitaker in The Last King of England (bottom)

Perhaps there’s something I’m missing here, but the Orange British Academy of Film and Television Arts has decided that Kevin Macdonald’s The Last King of Scotland is the outstanding British film of 2006, coming out ahead of United 93, Notes on a Scandal, Casino Royale, and Stephen Frears‘ The Queen. Yet, that very same Orange Academy has picked The Queen as the best film of the year, defeating Little Miss Sunshine, Babel, The Departed, and … The Last King of Scotland. Go figure.
There were few surprises at the 2007 Bafta ceremony held at London’s Royal Opera House this evening, unless one considers a Helen Mirren victory [...]

London Film Critics’ 2007 Winners

Helen Mirren, James Cromwell in The Queen (top); Trish Gates in United 93 (bottom)

The winners of the 2007 London Film Critics’ Circle Awards were announced this evening at a ceremony held in aid of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children at the Dorchester Hotel.
London Film Critics’ Awards chair Marianne Gray stated that The Queen — winner of the best British film, best British director (Stephen Frears), best British actress (Helen Mirren), and best screenplay (Peter Morgan) awards — "symbolizes everything that is right with the British film industry at the moment and it is great to see that it can compete with the best that Hollywood can offer."
The Queen was also in the running for the [...]

London Film Critics Awards 2007

2007 London Film Critics’ Circle Awards
2007 London Film Critics’ Circle Award nominations: December 14, 2006
2007 London Film Critics’ Circle Award winners: Dorchester Hotel on February 8, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

 

Film of the Year
The Departed
Little Miss Sunshine
Volver
* United 93
The Queen
The Attenborough Award for Best British Film
Children of Men
* The Queen
Red Road
The Last King of Scotland
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Best Foreign Language Film
Apocalypto
Black Book
The Death of Mr Lazarescu
The Child
Pan’s Labyrinth
* Volver
Best Director
Guillermo del Toro, Pan’s Labyrinth
Pedro Almodóvar, Volver
* Paul Greengrass, United 93
Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men
Best British director
Andrea Arnold, Red Road
* Stephen Frears, The Queen
Christopher Nolan, The Prestige
Kevin Macdonald, The Last King of Scotland
Ken Loach, The Wind That [...]

LONDON EVENING STANDARD 2007 Winners

Dame Judi Dench roughs up Cate Blanchett after learning that her Notes on a Scandal co-star voted for fellow Dame Helen Mirren as best actress of 2006

As The Queen, Helen Mirren has brought back to her castle just about every best actress award in the United States. Ironically, she hasn’t fared all that well in Britain. First, she lost to Kate Dickie (Red Road) at the British Independent Film Awards and now she’s lost the Evening Standard Award to Judi Dench’s lonely, conniving lesbian teacher in Notes on a Scandal.
As far as the Academy Awards are concerned, there’s no suspense in the best actress category. Barring a meteor crashing into Earth during the Oscar ceremony, Helen Mirren [...]

Oscar 2007: Helen Mirren and the Academy Luncheon

Following a wild — but unfulfilling (see how bored she looks?) — lifetime of food, sex, and murder, Helen Mirren settles down after being elected Queen of England.

More than 100 individuals nominated for the 2007 Oscars — including 16 of the 20 nominees in the acting categories — are expected to attend the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ annual nominees luncheon at noon on Monday, Feb. 5, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.
Among those who’ll have to mind their table manners are Leonardo DiCaprio, Peter O’Toole, Will Smith, Penélope Cruz, Helen Mirren, Kate Winslet, Adriana Barraza, Abigail Breslin, Rinko Kikuchi, Alan Arkin, Mark Wahlberg, and Jackie Earle Haley. Plus directors Alejandro González Iñárritu, Martin Scorsese, [...]

SAG Awards 2007 Winners

Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland (top); Helen Mirren in The Queen (bottom)

The 2007 SAG Award winners were announced on Sunday, Jan. 28.
Pretty much everybody that was expected to win won, from Helen Mirren and Forest Whitaker to Helen Mirren and Jeremy Irons. (Mirren I won for The Queen; Mirren II for the TV production Queen Elizabeth I.)
Little Miss Sunshine was the equally unsurprising best ensemble winner. Following on the heels of its Producers Guild Award victory, the low-budget feel-good comedy of the year is now considered the front-runner for the 2007 Academy Awards.
The problem with that prediction, however, is that Little Miss Sunshine failed to get a best direction [...]

Goya Awards 2007

2007 Goya Awards
Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 2007 Goya Award nominations: Dec. 18, 2006
2007 Goya Award winners: Palacio Municipal de Congresos del Campo de las Naciones in Madrid on Jan. 28, 2007
Nominees consist of films released in Spain between Dec. 1, 2005, and Nov. 30, 2006.
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Penélope Cruz, Yohana Cobo, Lola Dueñas in Volver
 

Best Film / Mejor película
Alatriste, by Agustín Díaz-Yanes (Estudios Picasso Fábrica de Ficción SA, Origen PC SA and NBC Universal Global Network España SL)
El Laberinto del fauno / Pan’s Labyrinth, by Guillermo del Toro (Estudios Picasso Fábrica de Ficción SA, Tequila Gang y Esperanto Filmoj)
Salvador, by Manuel Huerga (Mediapro y Future Films)
* Volver, by Pedro Almodóvar (El deseo DA, [...]

SAG Awards 2007

2007 SAG Awards
2007 SAG Award nominations: January 4, 2007
2007 SAG Award winners: Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center on January 28, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

 

THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Leonardo DiCaprio / BLOOD DIAMOND — Archer, Warner Bros. Pictures
Ryan Gosling / Half Nelson — Dan Dunne, THINKFilm
Peter O’Toole / VENUS — Maurice, Miramax Films
Will Smith / THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS — Chris Gardner, Sony Pictures
* Forest Whitaker / THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND — Idi Amin, Fox Searchlight Pictures
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Penélope Cruz / VOLVER — Raimunda, Sony Pictures Classics
Judi Dench / Notes on a Scandal — Barbara Covett, Fox Searchlight Pictures
* Helen Mirren [...]

Oscar 2007: Nominated Producers

Toni Collette, Abigail Breslin, Alan Arkin, Paul Dano, Steve Carell, Greg Kinnear in Little Miss Sunshine

Not everyone will fit into the 2007 Academy Award’s van.
The Academy’s Producers Branch Executive Committee has announced the final roster of producers nominated in this year’s Best Picture category. They are:

Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik and Steve Golin for Babel
Graham King for The Departed
Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, and Robert Lorenz for Letters from Iwo Jima
David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub for Little Miss Sunshine
Andy Harries, Christine Langan and Tracey Seaward for The Queen

The nominees for The Departed and Little Miss Sunshine were determined by the executive committee at a meeting held yesterday evening.
Even though up to three producers can [...]

Oscar 2007 Nominations: British Talent

Oscar 2007 Nominations: Part I
Among those foreign invaders from across the Atlantic are best direction nominees Stephen Frears (for The Queen, which is also up for a best film nod) and Paul Greengrass (for United 93); best actress nominees Helen Mirren (right, for The Queen), Kate Winslet (for Little Children), and Judi Dench (for Notes on a Scandal); best original screenplay nominee Peter Morgan (for The Queen); and best adapted screenplay nominees Patrick Marber (for Notes on a Scandal) and Sacha Baron Cohen (who co-wrote Borat).
Additionally, several non-British nationals got nominated for their work in British productions, e.g., Australian Cate Blanchett (best supporting actress nominee for Notes on a Scandal); American Forest Whitaker (best actor nominee for The Last King [...]

Producers Guild Awards 2007

2007 Producers Guild Awards
2007 Producers Guild of America episodic television nominees: December 5, 2006. Feature-film and long-form television nominees: January 3, 2007
Producers Guild’s 2007 Golden Laurel winners: Los Angeles on January 20, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Abigail Breslin, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Greg Kinnear in Little Miss Sunshine
 

The Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures
BABEL (Paramount Vantage)
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Steve Golin
Jon Kilik
THE DEPARTED (Warner Bros.)
Graham King
DREAMGIRLS (Dreamworks SKG/Paramount Pictures)
Laurence Mark
* LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE (Fox Searchlight)
Marc Turtletaub
David T. Friendly
Peter Saraf
Albert Berger & Ron Yerxa
THE QUEEN (Miramax Films)
Andy Harries
Christine Langan
Tracey Seaward
 
The Producers Guild of America Producer of the Year Award in Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures
* CARS (Walt Disney [...]

Golden Globes’ Firsts and Mosts

Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt in The Devil Wears Prada (top); Helen Mirren in The Queen (bottom)

Tom O’Neil in the Gold Derby:
"No, no, no, no — contrary to some wrongheaded sources over the past few days, Helen Mirren did not make Golden Globe history by becoming the first star to win kudos for acting on film and TV in the same year. Joan Plowright did so back in 1992, winning best supporting actress in [the] film Enchanted April and best supporting TV actress for Stalin.
"In addition to tying Rosalind Russell as the biggest winner of film awards by a woman (five), Meryl Streep tied another Globe record, too. Back in 2003, remember, she won a trophy for appearing on [...]

2007 Golden Globes Winners

Everything — at least as far as the winners were concerned — went according to plan at the 2007 Golden Globe awards ceremony. That is, until the very last winner of the evening was announced: Babel.
Babel??
Set in multiple countries, in multiple time frames, and with dialogue in multiple languages, Babel (above, with Rinko Kikuchi) was a multiple Golden Globe nominee (7 nods in all, more than any other film) and a multiple loser. As the evening progressed, Babel lost to Dreamgirls (best supporting actress Jennifer Hudson and best supporting actor Eddie Murphy), The Departed (best director Martin Scorsese), The Queen (best screenplay, Peter Morgan), and even The Painted Veil (best music, Alexandre Desplat).
And then, just like one [...]

BAFTA 2007 Nominations

Helen Mirren, Sylvia Syms in The Queen (top); Daniel Craig in Casino Royale (bottom)

Though usually more open to non-English-language films than the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Orange British Academy of Film and Television Arts failed to place either Pedro Almodóvar’s Volver or Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth as one (or two) of this year’s best film or best director nominees.
Pan’s Labyrinth did, however, receive a total of 8 nominations, including best foreign-language film and best original screenplay (del Toro). Almodóvar had to settle for a nomination in the best foreign-language film category, plus a best actress nod for Penélope Cruz.
As to be expected, the top nominees were The Queen, with ten nods, and [...]

DGA Awards 2007: Nominations

Helen Mirren in The Queen (top); Brad Pitt in Babel (middle); Jennifer Hudson, Beyoncé Knowles, Anika Noni Rose in Dreamgirls (bottom)

The Directors Guild of America has announced the five features nominated for the 2007 DGA Award.
The biggest surprise was the absence of the much-revered Clint Eastwood — for either Flags of Our Fathers or Letters from Iwo Jima, or both — winner of last year’s DGA Lifetime Achievement Award. (In The Envelope, Tom O’Neil states that DGA members, who weren’t able to receive screeners this year, didn’t get a chance to check out Letters from Iwo Jima, which opened late in December.)
Also missing from the DGA list were Paul Greengrass, whose United 93 has been chosen best film of [...]

BAFTA 2007 Longlists

Michael Sheen, Helen Mirren in The Queen (top); Daniel Craig in Casino Royale (bottom)

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced the longlists for the 2007 BAFTA Awards. The lists consist of 15 titles per category following the first round of BAFTA voting.
Casino Royale and The Queen, the two most commercially successful British films of 2006, were mentioned 14 times each.
Others in the longlists are Pan’s Labyrinth, Babel, Children of Men, and The Departed, each with 13 mentions; The Last King of Scotland and Little Miss Sunshine with 12; Volver and Dreamgirls with 10; Apocalypto, The Devil Wears Prada, and Notes on a Scandal with 9; Bobby and Flags of Our Fathers with [...]

SAG Awards 2007: Nominations

The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) announced its list of 2007 nominees earlier today.
The only major surprise was the inclusion of Emilio Estevez’s Bobby — instead of Stephen Frears‘ The Queen (right) — in the "Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture" category, even though no individual performance from Bobby was singled out for SAG award consideration.
Also, critics’ favorites such as United 93, and both Clint Eastwood World War II films, Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, were completely ignored by SAG voters.
Helen Mirren, on the other hand, was shortlisted in two individual categories as two different Queen Elizabeths — the current one in The Queen, and the one from the early modern era [...]

Toronto Film Critics Awards 2006

2006 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
2006 Toronto Film Critics Association award nominations: Dec. 16, 2006
2006 Toronto Film Critics Association Award winners: December 20, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Michael Sheen, Helen Mirren in The Queen
 

BEST PICTURE
The Departed
* The Queen
United 93
BEST CANADIAN FILM
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen
* Manufactured Landscapes
Monkey Warfare
Six Figures
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
* L’Enfant / The Child
Pan’s Labyrinth
Volver
BEST FIRST FEATURE
Brick, directed by Rian Johnson
Little Miss Sunshine, directed by Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris
* Thank You for Smoking, directed by Jason Reitman
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Deliver Us from Evil
An Inconvenient Truth
* Manufactured Landscapes
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
* Happy Feet
Over the Hedge
A Scanner Darkly
BEST DIRECTOR (tie)
* Jean-Pierre Dardenne and [...]

2007 London Film Critics Awards: Nominations

The 2007 London Film Critics’ Circle nominations were announced on Dec. 14.
On the positive side, the London critics tend to be more international than their American counterparts. On the negative side, the London critics’ nominations — sub-divided into "best" and "best British" this or other — tend to get somewhat redundant.
The Queen, for instance, was nominated as both Film of the Year and Best British Film, while both Helen Mirren (above) and Judi Dench received double best actress nominations as well, for The Queen and Notes on a Scandal, respectively. (Curiously, Stephen Frears, whose The Queen is listed in no less than 7 categories, failed to receive a Best Director nomination. Frears had to content himself with a best [...]

2006 New York Film Critics Online Award Winners

The New York Film Critics Online went all out for The Queen, chosen as the best film of 2006, in addition to citations for best director Stephen Frears, best actress Helen Mirren, best screenplay for Peter Morgan, and best supporting actor Michael Sheen (who actually has a leading role in the film, but that’s how those things go).
Curiously, neither one of Clint Eastwood’s war epics — Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima — managed to make it to the NYOFC’s top-ten list. Also absent was Martin Scorsese’s The Departed.
On the other hand, David Lynch’s Inland Empire found its way into the list, and so did three non-English-language films, Water (top photo, Canada / India), directed [...]

San Francisco Film Critics Awards 2006

2006 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards
2006 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award winners: December 11, 2006
 

Kate Winslet, Patrick Wilson in Little Children
 

Best Film: Little Children directed by Todd Field
Best Foreign-Language Film: Pan’s Labyrinth directed by Guillermo del Toro (Spain / Mexico / U.S.)
Best Director: Paul Greengrass, United 93
Best Actor: Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Best Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen
Best Supporting Actor: Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children
Best Supporting Actress: Adriana Barraza, Babel
Best Original Screenplay: Rian Johnson, Brick
Best Adapted Screenplay: Todd Field and Tom Perrotta, Little Children
Best Documentary: An Inconvenient Truth directed by Davis Guggenheim
Special Citation (for overlooked gems): Moartea domnului Lazarescu / The Death of Mr. Lazarescu [...]

New York Film Critics Online Awards 2006

2006 New York Film Critics Online Awards
2006 New York Film Critics Online Award winners: December 11, 2006
 

 

Best Film: The Queen directed by Stephen Frears
Runners up (in alphabetical order):
Babel
The Fountain
Inland Empire
Pan’s Labyrinth
Little Children
Little Miss Sunshine
Thank You for Smoking
Volver
Water
Best Foreign-Language Film: Pan’s Labyrinth directed by Guillermo del Toro (Spain / Mexico / U.S.)
Best Director: Stephen Frears, The Queen
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen
Best Supporting Actor: Michael Sheen, The Queen
Best Supporting Actress (tie): Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls and Catherine O’Hara, For Your Consideration
Best Screenplay: Peter Morgan, The Queen
Best Documentary Feature: An Inconvenient Truth directed by Davis Guggenheim
Best Animated Feature: Happy Feet directed by George Miller
Best Ensemble Cast: [...]

2006 New York Film Critics Award Winners

U.S. film critics continue to make a few curious choices.
At the 2006 New York Film Critics Circle Awards, announced earlier today, the most interesting winner was the best foreign language film: the somber 1969 French Resistance drama L’Armée des ombres / Army of Shadows, adapted for the screen (from a novel by Joseph Kessel) and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. Both Melville (born Grumbach) and Kessel were French Jews who joined the Resistance in 1941.
Though made more than 35 years ago, L’Armée des ombres was only this year released in the United States. Yesterday, the film won a Special Mention from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. In the cast: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, and Simone Signoret [...]

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