Vera Drake Articles

Nicole Kidman in Baz Luhrmann's DGA- (but not Oscar-) nominated Moulin Rouge! DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards 1990s: Odd People Out Barbra Streisand, Steven Spielberg, Robert Altman 2000 DGA Cameron Crowe, Almost Famous AMPAS Stephen Daldry, Billy Elliot DGA/AMPAS Steven Soderbergh, Traffic Ang Lee, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Ridley Scott, Gladiator Steven Soderbergh, Erin Brockovich   2001 DGA Baz Luhrmann, Moulin Rouge! Christopher Nolan, Memento [...]

Alex Kelly, Daniel Mays, Imelda Staunton, Philip Davis in Mike Leigh's Vera Drake VERA DRAKE Review: Part I Elsewhere, the director imbues Vera Drake with a somewhat artificial flavor. True, the film's 1950s working-class environment looks real — cramped homes and ugly clothes — but Leigh, as usual, overdoes the unattractiveness of his characters. His laborers have bad teeth and funny faces, and several of [...]

VERA DRAKE (2004) Direction and screenplay: Mike Leigh Cast: Imelda Staunton, Philip Davis, Peter Wight, Daniel Mays, Alex Kelly, Eddie Marsan, Ruth Sheen, Sally Hawkins, Chris O'Dowd, Heather Craney Oscar Movies Recommended with Reservations Imelda Staunton, Philip Davis, Vera Drake Director Mike Leigh's touches are found everywhere in Vera Drake, from the film's drab, working-class social setting to the somewhat bizarre characters that inhabit that [...]

2005 London Film Critics' Circle Awards 2005 London Film Critics' Circle Award winners: February 9, 2005. ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   Thomas Haden Church, Paul Giamatti in Sideways   Best Film The Aviator- Martin Scorsese The Motorcycle Diaries – Walter Salles Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – Michel Gondry House of Flying Daggers – Zhang Yimou * Sideways – Alexander Payne [...]