Toni Collette Articles

Sandra Bullock (Golden Globe Awards / © HFPA) Last year’s top box-office star in the United States, Sandra Bullock won the best actress (drama) Golden Globe for The Blind Side, in which she plays a conservative, well-to-do matriarch who adopts an inner-city teenager. I don’t think it should come as a surprise to anyone that somewhere along the way Bullock’s character discovers there’s plenty of [...]

The 4th Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival, which runs April 23-30, will kick off with a screening of Joshua Sinclair’s Jump, starring Ben Silverstone (of the coming-of-age gay drama Get Real) and Patrick Swayze. Jump will screen on Thursday, April 23, at 8:00 pm at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills. Based on a real story, the film (co-written by Sinclair and Ryan James) [...]

2008 Australian Film Institute Awards 2008 Australian Film Institute Award nominations: Oct. 29, 2008 2008 Australian Film Institute Award winners: Dec. 5 ("industry" categories) and Dec. 6 (top categories), 2008 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   Elissa Down’s feature-film debut, The Black Balloon, chronicles the difficulties encountered by a teenager (Rhys Wakefield) whose younger brother (Luke Ford) is autistic. With the help of [...]

Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Paul Dano, Toni Collette, Abigail Breslin in Little Miss Sunshine Unless otherwise stated, all Little Miss Sunshine awards/nominations are for the year 2006. Academy Awards: 4 nominations (best film; best supporting actor, Alan Arkin; best supporting actress, Abigail Breslin; best original screenplay, Michael Arndt) American Cinema Editors: 1 nomination (best edited feature film, comedy or musical, Pamela Martin) British Academy Awards: [...]