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David di Donatello 2009

2009 David di Donatello Awards
2009 David di Donatello Award nominations: April 9, 2009
2009 David di Donatello Award winners: May 8, 2009
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Matteo Garrone’s Gomorrah (top photo); Toni Servillo in Il Divo (lower photo)
 

Best Film / miglior film
Il divo
produced by Andrea Occhipinti, Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima, Maurizio Coppolecchia
directed by Paolo Sorrentino
Ex
produced by Fulvio Lucisano, Federica Lucisano
directed by Fausto Brizzi
* Gomorra
produced by Domenico Procacci
directed by Matteo Garrone
Si può fare
produced by Angelo Rizzoli
directed by Giulio Manfredonia
Tutta la vita davanti
produced by Motorino Amaranto – Medusa
directed by Paolo Virzì
Best Film from the European Union / miglior film dell’Unione Europea
Entre les murs, by Laurent [...]

Oscar 2009: Nominees Luncheon

Kate Winslet, David Kross in The Reader (top); Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz in Vicky Cristina Barcelona (middle); Viola Davis in Doubt (bottom)

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that 15 of the 20 nominees in the acting categories will be among the almost 120 Academy Award nominees gathering at noon on Monday, Feb. 2, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills for the annual Nominees Luncheon. (See images from the 2009 Nominees Luncheon and the 2008 Nominees Luncheon.)
The nominated performers who have already confirmed their presence are: Richard Jenkins, Frank Langella, Sean Penn, Mickey Rourke, Anne Hathaway, Melissa Leo, Kate Winslet, Amy Adams, Penélope Cruz, [...]

Richard Attenborough Film Awards 2009

2009 Richard Attenborough Film Awards
2009 regional British film critics’ Richard Attenborough Film Award winners: Jan. 29, 2009
 

Freida Pinto in Slumdog Millionaire
 

Film of the Year: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Director: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Actress: Kate Winslet, The Reader
Best Actor: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Best Screenwriter: Martin McDonagh, In Bruges
Rising Star Award: Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire
 
People’s Choice Awards
Film of the Year: The Dark Knight
Best British Film: Mamma Mia!
British Breakthrough Star: Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire
Best Film Score: The Dark Knight
 
Richard Attenborough Film Awards: 2007 2008
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Scripter Award 2009

2009 USC Scripter Awards
2009 Scripter Award nominations: Jan. 6, 2009
2009 Scripter Award winners: Jan. 30, 2009
("*" denotes the winner)
 

Dev Patel, Freida Pinto in Slumdog Millionaire
 

Screenwriter Eric Roth, who shares story credit with Robin Swicord, for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, based on the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Screenwriters Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby and Art Marcum & Matt Holloway for Iron Man, based on the comic book series authored by Stan Lee and Don Heck
Screenwriter David Hare and author Bernhard Schlink for The Reader
Screenwriter Justin Haythe for Revolutionary Road, based on the novel by Richard Yates
* Screenwriter Simon Beaufoy for Slumdog Millionaire, based on Q & A by author Vikas Swarup
 
USC Scripter Awards
USC Scripter Awards: 2005 [...]

Oscar 2009: THE READER’s Nominated Producers Announced

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that producer credits for Best Picture nominee The Reader have been determined by the Producers Branch Executive Committee: The official nominees are Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti and Redmond Morris.
As per the Academy’s press release, "because four producers were listed on the credits form submitted for Oscar consideration and Academy rules allow for only three producers – except in ‘a rare and extraordinary circumstance’ – to be nominated and potentially receive Oscar statuettes, a meeting of the executive committee was necessary. In the end, the committee determined that the circumstances of The Reader – in [...]

Oscar 2009: Best Films at the Box Office

Domestic totals up to Jan. 20. Worldwide figures include domestic rentals.

Frost/Nixon — Domestic: $8.8 million; Worldwide: $10.1 million

Milk — Domestic: $20.5 million; Worldwide: $21.6 million

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button — Domestic: $103.6 million; Worldwide: $117.9 million

The Reader — Domestic: $7.9 million; Worldwide: $12.4 million

Slumdog Millionaire — Domestic: $44.2 million; Worldwide: $61.1 million

 
Source: Box Office Mojo (boxofficemojo.com)

Oscar 2009 Nominations

OSCAR NOMINATIONS 2009

Richard Harbaugh / ©A.M.P.A.S.

Most nominated films
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (13 nods)
Slumdog Millionaire (10)
Milk and The Dark Knight (8)
 

The Oscar record-tier
Meryl Streep, nominated for Doubt, ties Katharine Hepburn’s 12 best actress nominations.
Streep has been the overall Oscar record-holder for acting since 2002, when she received her 13th nomination (for best supporting actress in Adaptation). She currently has 15 Oscar nominations — including two wins — under her belt.
 
Posthumous Oscar nomination
Heath Ledger for his Joker in The Dark Knight, exactly one year after his death.
 
Double Oscar nominations
Not Kate Winslet — but Doubt, with two performers competing against one another in the best supporting actress category: Amy Adams (right) and Viola Davis.
 
The big comeback
Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler.
 
The [...]

2009 Golden Globe Winners

Kate Winslet, Leonardio DiCaprio in Revolutionary Road (top); Winslet, David Kross in The Reader (bottom)

There were few surprises among the 2009 Golden Globe winners.
The biggest one was Kate Winslet’s best actress, drama, win for Revolutionary Road. Pundits everywhere — including those in this blog — were predicting either Anne Hathaway or Meryl Streep.
Sally Hawkins‘ best actress, comedy or musical, win may have caught some by surprise — those who were expecting Meryl Streep for the box-office hit Mamma Mia!. But considering that Hawkins has been a critical favorite (New York, Los Angeles, National Society of Film Critics) and that she’s a likely Oscar contender, Golden Globe prognosticators shouldn’t have been too shocked, even though Happy-Go-Lucky is hardly what one would [...]

Las Vegas Film Critics Awards 2008

2008 Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards
2008 Las Vegas Film Critics winners: December 18, 2008
 

Michael Sheen, Frank Langella in Frost/Nixon

 
Best Picture: Frost/Nixon
Best Foreign Film: Mongol
Best Documentary: Man on Wire
Best Animated Film: WALL-E
Best Director: Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
Best Actor: Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
Best Actress: Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road and The Reader
Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Best Supporting Actress: Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler
Best Screenplay: Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon
Best Cinematography: Claudio Miranda, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Film Editing: Daniel P. Hanley and Mike Hill, Frost/Nixon
Best Score: James Newton Howard, Defiance
Best Song: "Another Way to Die," Quantum of Solace
Best Art Direction: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Costume Design: The Curious Case [...]

Kate Winslet to Be Honored

The Santa Barbara Film Festival has announced that Kate Winslet will receive the Montecito Award, which honors "a performer who has given a series of classic and standout performances in his/her career."
The Montecito Award Tribute to Kate Winslet will be held on Friday, January 23, at the Arlington Theatre, with a multimedia presentation produced by Paul Fagen of P. Fagen Productions.
2009 Santa Barbara Film Festival honorees.
***

"It is Kate Winslet’s face and Kate Winslet’s face alone that looks out from the cover of the new ‘now a major motion picture’ paperback edition of Bernhard Schlink’s exceptional novel, The Reader, and that’s as it should be," writes Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times.
"For [...]

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