Tomas Alfredson Articles
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY: Four British Independent Film Award Acting Nods
Gary Oldman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy As expected, Steve McQueen’s Shame, Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin are three of the top contenders for the Raindance Institute’s 2011 British Independent Film Awards (BIFA), the British version of the United States’ Spirit Awards (West Coast) and Gotham Awards (East Coast) — apart from the fact that British [...]
Venice Film Festival 2011 Official Competition: Roman Polanski, Tomas Alfredson, George Clooney
Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, The Ides of March TOMAS ALFREDSON – TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY UK, Germany, 127′ Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt ANDREA ARNOLD – WUTHERING HEIGHTS UK, 128′ Kaya Scodelario, Nichola Burley, Steve Evets, Oliver Milburn AMI CANAAN MANN – TEXAS KILLING FIELDS USA, 109′ Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain, Chloe Grace Moretz, Jeffrey Dean Morgan GEORGE CLOONEY – THE IDES [...]
A PROPHET Beats AVATAR, THE HURT LOCKER: London Film Critics’ Awards
Avatar may be the king of the box office, but it surely wasn’t king of anything at the London Film Critics’ Circle Awards held this evening in, where else, London. The London Critics’ best film of 2009? Jacques Audiard’s prison drama A Prophet, the first French-made production to win the Circle’s top award in its 30-year history. Starring European Film Award winner Tahar Rahim (above), [...]
Guldbagge Awards 2009
2009 Golden Beetle (Guldbagge) Awards 2009 Swedish Film Institute’s Golden Beetle nominations: December 30, 2008 2009 Golden Beetle winners: Cirkus in Stockholm, January 12, 2009 A jury of 31 members picked the 2009 Guldbagge Award nominees. ("*" denotes the winner in each category) Mikael Persbrandt in Everlasting Moments by Jan Troell Best Film De ofrivilliga / Involuntary, Producer: Erik Hemmendorff Låt den rätte komma [...]