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Dublin Film Critics Awards 2009

Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards 2009
2009 Dublin Film Critics Circle award winners: Jan. 2009
 

Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, who also adapted Sinclair Lewis‘ novel, There Will Be Blood stars Daniel Day-Lewis as a ruthless oil baron in the California of the early 20th-century.

 
BEST FILM
There Will Be Blood
Runners-up:
Hunger
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men
WALL-E
BEST IRISH FILM
Hunger
Runners-up:
Kisses
Saviours
BEST DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood)
Runners-up:
Julian Schnabel (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
Steve McQueen (Hunger)
The Coen Brothers (No Country for Old Men)
Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight)
BEST ACTOR
Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood)
Runners-up:
Michael Fassbender (Hunger)
Heath Ledger (The [...]

The LONDON TIMES’ Top 100 Films of 2008

Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (top); Time and Winds by Reha Erdem (bottom)

The London and the Sunday Times critics are apparently quite easy to please. They’ve come up with a list of no less than 100 Best Films for one single year: 2008.
Among the best of the best found in the Times list are masterpieces such as:

Cloverfield ("An hour in I started to sweat. And I nearly threw up trying to make sense of the increasingly chaotic and frightening scenes of the gripping climax" – James Christopher);
Definitely, Maybe ("A romantic comedy with a refreshingly adult sensibility and plot that doesn’t feel that it has been recycled and regurgitated by innumerable Cameron Diaz movies" [...]

Nastri d’Argento 2008

2008 Nastri d’Argento
National Union of Italian Film Journalists’ 2008 Nastri d’Argento (Silver Ribbons) nominations: May 11, 2008
2008 Nastri d’Argento winners: Teatro Antico di Taormina, Sicily, on June 14, 2008
(”*” denotes the winner in each category)
 

Isabella Ragonese plays a college grad who struggles to find work in A Whole Life Ahead
 

Best Director
Antonello GRIMALDI – Caos calmo
Daniele LUCHETTI – Mio fratello è figlio unico
Silvio SOLDINI – Giorni e nuvole
* Paolo VIRZÌ – Tutta la vita davanti / A Whole Life Ahead
Gianni ZANASI – Non pensarci
Best European Film
Across the Universe – Julie Taymor
Elizabeth: The Golden Age – Shekar Kapur
Atonement – Joe Wright
La vie en [...]

Scripter Award 2008

2008 USC Scripter Awards
2008 Scripter Award winners: Feb. 18, 2007
("*" denotes the winner)
 

No Country for Old Men, which stars Josh Brolin (above), Javier Bardem, and Tommy Lee Jones, has won nearly every U.S. critics’ awards this season. The Coens’ adapted screenplay is also in the running for this year’s Writers Guild award. Literary Achievement Award recipient Steven Zaillian happens to be the only winner of three Scripters: Awakenings (1990), Schindler’s List (1993), and Gangs of New York (2002).
 

Atonment — screenplay by Christopher Hampton, based on the novel by Ian McEwan
Into the Wild — Screenplay by Sean Penn, based on the book by Jon Krakauer
* No Country for Old Men — Screenplay by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, based [...]

Berlin 2008: CHERRY BLOSSOMS, THERE WILL BE BLOOD

2008 Berlin Film Festival: Official Competition Line-Up Part II

Berlin 2008: Official Competition Line-Up – Part I

Kirschblüten – Hanami / Cherry Blossoms, Germany
by Doris Dörrie
with Elmar Wepper, Hannelore Elsner, Nadja Uhl

Lady Jane, France
by Robert Guédiguian
with Ariane Ascaride, Gérard Meylan, Frédérique Bonnal

Lake Tahoe, Mexico / US (World Premiere)
by Fernando Eimbcke
with Diego Cataño, Héctor Herrera, Daniela Valentine, Juan Carlos Lara and Yemil Sefani

Musta Jaä / Black Ice, Finland / Germany (International Premiere)
by Petri Kotwica
with Outi Mäenpää, Ria Kataja, Martti Suosala, Ville Virtanen

Restless, Israel / Germany / Canada / France / Belgium
by Amos Kollek
with Moshe Ivgy, Ran Danker, Karen Young, Phyllis Sommerville

S.O.P. Standard Operating Procedure, USA (World Premiere)
by Errol Morris

The Sparrow, Hong Kong
by Johnnie To
with Simon Yam Tat [...]

Oscar 2008 Predictions: Best Cinematography, Editing, Music

Best Cinematography
There Will Be Blood, Robert Elswit
Robert Elswit won the American Society of Cinematographers award, beating Roger Deakins for two films, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and No Country for Old Men. Though Deakins does have a chance to win the Oscar for either film, this is one instance where the much overused — and almost invariably absurd — "votes are split; a third party wins" logic actually makes sense. That’s why I predict that Elswit will take home the Oscar.
 

Best Film Editing
No Country for Old Men, "Roderick Jaynes" (Joel and Ethan Coen)
An atmospheric suspense thriller that wins the best film Oscar will most likely also win for best film editing. If, however, Academy-ites feel [...]

Oscar 2008 Predictions: Best Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress

Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
George Clooney (for Michael Clayton) might have been the sentimental favorite for he’s a local Hollywood-ite, while Daniel Day-Lewis (above, with Paul Dano), who plays a ruthless oil baron in There Will Be Blood, is an Englishman living in Ireland. Clooney, however, won an Oscar (for Syriana) a mere two years ago, while Day-Lewis’ SAG win has solidified his position as this year’s front-runner.
 

Best Actress: Julie Christie, Away from Her
Until the SAG Awards, it was a three-lane race: veteran Julie Christie for Away from Her, Marion Cotillard for La Vie en Rose, and Ellen Page for Juno — by far the biggest box-office hit among the films nominated in the best actress category. [...]

SAG Awards 2008

2008 SAG Awards
2008 Screen Actors Guild Award nominations: December 20, 2007
2008 SAG Award winners: Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center on January 27, 2008
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

 

THEATRICAL MOTION PICTURES
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
GEORGE CLOONEY / Michael Clayton — Michael Clayton (Warner Bros. Pictures)
* DANIEL DAY-LEWIS / Daniel Plainview — There Will Be Blood (Paramount Vantage)
RYAN GOSLING / Lars Lindstrom — Lars and the Real Girl (Sidney Kimmel Entertainment)
EMILE HIRSCH / Christopher McCandless — Into the Wild (Paramount Vantage)
VIGGO MORTENSEN / Nikolai — Eastern Promises (Focus Features)
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
CATE BLANCHETT / Queen Elizabeth I — Elizabeth: The Golden Age (Universal Pictures)
* JULIE CHRISTIE / [...]

American Society of Cinematographers Awards 2008

2008 American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Awards
2008 ASC award winners: Hollywood & Highland complex in Los Angeles on January 26, 2008
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Roger Deakins became the first cinematographer to receive two ASC nominations in the same year: for No Country for Old Men and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. He lost, however, to Robert Elswit for There Will Be Blood.
 

Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in a Motion Picture
Roger Deakins, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Roger Deakins, No Country for Old Men
* Robert Elswitt, There Will Be Blood
Janusz Kaminski, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Seamus McGarvey, Atonement
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Motion Picture, Miniseries or [...]

Iowa Film Critics Awards 2008

2008 Iowa Film Critics Association Awards
2008 Iowa Film Critics Association award winners: January 16, 2008
 

Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men
 

Best Film: No Country for Old Men by Joel and Ethan Coen
Best Director: Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Savages, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, Charlie Wilson’s War
Best Actress: Julie Christie, Away From Her
Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
Best Animated Film: Ratatouille by Brad Bird
Best Film Yet to Open in Iowa: There Will Be Blood by Paul Thomas Anderson
 
Iowa Film Critics Association Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 [...]

2008 Golden Globes Ceremony II

2008 Golden Globes Ceremony: Part I
Among the predictable winners were Julie Christie as best actress in a drama for her performance as a woman suffering from Alzheimer’s disease in Sarah Polley’s Away from Her (right, with Gordon Pinsent); Daniel Day-Lewis as best actor in a drama for his star turn as a greedy oil baron in Paul Thomas Anderson’s widely praised There Will Be Blood; and Johnny Depp as best actor in a comedy or musical for his singing serial-killing barber in Sweeney Todd. (Depp was the only American actor to win in the feature-film categories.)
Also, Brad Bird’s Ratatouille, the story of a French rat with gourmet inclinations, as best animated film; and best supporting actor Javier Bardem for his [...]

Kansas City Film Critics Awards 2008

2008 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
2008 Kansas City Film Critics Circle award winners: January 7, 2008
 

Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood
 

Best Film: There Will Be Blood by Paul Thomas Anderson
Best Foreign Language Film: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Julian Schnabel
Best Documentary: In the Shadow of the Moon by David Sington
Robert Altman Award for Best Director (tie): Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood, and Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Best Actress: Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose
Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
Best Supporting Actress: Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
Best Original Screenplay: Diablo Cody, Juno
Best Adapted Screenplay: Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old [...]

National Society of Film Critics Awards 2008

2008 National Society of Film Critics Awards
2008 National Society of Film Critics award winners: New York City on January 5, 2008
The numbers in parentheses represent the points earned by each individual/film.
 

Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood
 

Best Picture
There Will Be Blood (48) – Paul Thomas Anderson
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (28) – Julian Schnabel
No Country for Old Men (27) – Joel and Ethan Coen
Best Foreign-Language Film
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (57) – Cristian Mungiu
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (42) – Julian Schnabel
Persepolis (18) – Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson (47) – There Will Be Blood
Joel and Ethan Coen (29) – No Country for Old Men
Julian [...]

BAFTA 2008 Longlists

James McAvoy, Saoirse Ronan in Atonement (top); Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Tang Wei in Lust, Caution (middle); Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood (bottom)

According to Variety, among the eligible films utterly ignored by British Academy of Film are The Great Debaters, Grace Is Gone, The Savages, Hallam Foe, When Did You Last See Your Father?, and Half Nelson.
I’m Not There and Away from Her only managed one mention a piece, for Cate Blanchett and Julie Christie, respectively.
Half Nelson apparently suffered the fate of other films that arrive in the UK after the Oscar ballyhoo is over for them. Letters from Iwo Jima, which appears twice (adapted screenplay and special visual effects) in the longlists, probably suffered for the [...]

Oscar 2008 Predictions: Best Film, Foreign Language Film

Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men

I haven’t been following too closely the debates about who will or won’t be nominated for the 2008 Academy Awards, though a few front-runners — No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Ratatouille, Joel and Ethan Coen, Daniel Day-Lewis, Julie Christie, George Clooney, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page — have become rather obvious after U.S. critics, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and the Screen Actors Guild began announcing their winners and/or nominees.
That said, I have also read here and there comments on how this film, that star, or that sound technician (joke) will fare in the voting.
The list below is incomplete and quite likely not all that accurate. The only reason [...]

Best Films of 2007: VILLAGE VOICE/LA WEEKLY Film Poll

J. Hoberman, discussing the results of a "best of the year" poll of 56 American critics, in the Village Voice:
"Why shouldn’t we be preoccupied with homicidal sociopaths? America’s been at war for the past four and a half years — with, to cite the top-polling documentary, No End in Sight (#29). War makes you wonder what exactly defines murder and who is enabled to commit it. The morally ambiguous mode known as film noir was born during World War II and, as Jonathan Rosenbaum observed at the time, the national obsession with the cannibal genius Hannibal Lecter coincided with our first Iraq adventure, Operation Desert Storm. Where do these current killers come from? It’s suggestive that both There Will Be [...]

indieWIRE Poll 2007

Via indieWIRE — "The Critics Speak: Best, Worst, the Auteurs and the Underrated." Below are a couple of sample quotes:
"More people in our world will see Juno than 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. More will see 300 than Offside. More will see Saw IV than There Will Be Blood [above]. Yet we fight on, championing those films that really mean something to us. I find this rage against an always dying light both disconcerting and empowering, and I am thankful for filmmakers like Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Paul Thomas Anderson, Jafar Panahi, Sarah Polley, Pedro Costa, Tsai Ming-liang, the Coens, Todd Haynes, and all of the others who consistently reminded me of why I do what I do and [...]

Austin Film Critics Awards 2008

2007 Austin Film Critics Association Awards
2007 Austin Film Critics Association award winners: December 18, 2007
 

Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood
 

Best Film: There Will Be Blood by Paul Thomas Anderson
Runners-up:
No Country For Old Men
Juno
Into the Wild
3:10 to Yuma
Knocked Up
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
Atonement
American Gangster
Eastern Promises
Best Foreign Film: Black Book by Paul Verhoeven
Best Documentary: The King of Kong by Seth Gordon
Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
Best Actor: Daniel Day Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Best Actress: Ellen Page, Juno
Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men
Best Supporting Actress: Allison Janney, Juno
Best Animated Film: Ratatouille by Brad Bird
Best First Film: Ben Affleck, Gone Baby Gone
Best Original Screenplay: Diablo Cody, Juno
Best Adapted Screenplay: Ethan and Joel Coen, No [...]

AFI Awards 2007

2007 American Film Institute (AFI) Awards
2007 AFI Awards: December 16, 2007
 

Tom Wilkinson, George Clooney in Michael Clayton
 

FILM
BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU’RE DEAD
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
INTO THE WILD
JUNO
KNOCKED UP
MICHAEL CLAYTON
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
RATATOUILLE
THE SAVAGES
THERE WILL BE BLOOD
TELEVISION
DEXTER
EVERYBODY HATES CHRIS
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS
LONGFORD
MAD MEN
PUSHING DAISIES
THE SOPRANOS
TELL ME YOU LOVE ME
30 ROCK
UGLY BETTY
 
AFI JURY FOR MOTION PICTURES
Frank Pierson
Chair, AFI Jury for Motion Pictures
Writer/Director Artistic Director and Distinguished Filmmaker-in-Residence, AFI Conservatory
AFI Board of Trustees
David Ansen
Newsweek
Donn Cambern
Editor/Director
Senior Mentor, AFI Conservatory
Mary Corey
University of California, Los Angeles
Lawrence Kasdan
Writer/Producer/Director
AFI Trustee Emeritus
Leonard Maltin
ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT
Tara McPherson
University of Southern California
Diana Ossana
Novelist/Screenwriter/Producer
David Picker
Producer
AFI Trustee Emeritus
Tom Pollock
Vice Chair and Chair Emeritus, AFI Board of Trustees
Richard Schickel
Time
Gary Winick
Director/Producer
Kristal Brent Zook
Hosftra University
 
AFI JURY FOR TELEVISION
Rich Frank
Chair, AFI Jury for Television
Vice Chair, AFI [...]

San Diego Film Critics Awards 2007

2007 San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
2007 San Diego Film Critics Society Award winners: December 18, 2007
 

Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men
 

Best Film: No Country for Old Men by Joel and Ethan Coen
Best Foreign Language Film: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Julian Schnabel
Best Documentary (tie): Crazy Love by Dan Klores and Fisher Stevens, and Deep Water by Louise Osmond and Jerry Rothwell
Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Best Actress: Julie Christie, Away from Her
Best Supporting Actor: Tommy Lee Jones, No Country for Old Men
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
Best Original Screenplay: Diablo Cody, Juno
Best Adapted Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
Best Ensemble: [...]

Los Angeles Film Critics Awards 2007

2007 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
2007 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award winners: Dec. 9, 2007
 

FILM: There Will Be Blood by Paul Thomas Anderson
Runner-up: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Julian Schnabel

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days directed by Cristian Mungiu
Runner-up: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly directed by Julian Schnabel

DOCUMENTARY/NON-FICTION FILM: No End in Sight directed by Charles Ferguson
Runner-up: Sicko directed by Michael Moore

DIRECTOR: Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
Runner-up: Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

ACTRESS: Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose
Runner-up: Anamaria Marinca, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

ACTOR: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Runner-up: Frank Langella, Starting Out in the Evening

SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone [...]

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 [...]

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