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AFI FEST 2009: THE ROAD, EASIER WITH PRACTICE

Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee in The Road (top); Brian Geraghty in Easier with Practice (bottom)

Tonight, Wed., Nov. 4, at AFI FEST 2009 in Hollywood:

The Road has been getting a lot of Oscar buzz for star Viggo Mortensen, director John Hillcoat, and for the film itself, a futuristic father-son adventure drama set in a post-apocalyptic world.
In Eduardo Coutinho’s documentary Moscow, the director of a theater group in Brazil’s third largest city sets out to stage a production of Chekhov’s Three Sisters.
Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s Easier with Practice sounds like an unusual road movie, one in which a book author (Brian Geraghty) traveling with his brother (Kel O’Neill) becomes emotionally attached to a sexy voice on the phone. Could his brother have something [...]

AFI FEST 2009: Christopher Plummer, Viggo Mortensen Tributes

James McAvoy, Christopher Plummer in The Last Station (top); Viggo Mortensen in A History of Violence (bottom)

AFI FEST 2009 has selected Christopher Plummer, who’ll turn 80 next December, and Viggo Mortensen, 51, as this year’s tribute honorees.
Sponsored by the Skirball Cultural Center, Plummer’s tribute will precede the screening of The Last Station, in which he plays Leo Tolstoy, on Tuesday, Nov. 3. Mortensen’s tribute will precede the US premiere of John Hillcoat’s futuristic drama The Road on Wednesday, Nov. 4. Both tributes will take place at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
A stage, film, and television and television veteran, during the course of his 50-plus-year career Plummer has won two Tony Awards (for Cyrano [...]

Viggo Mortensen, Cristian Mungiu: London ‘09

Viggo Mortensen at the premiere of The Road during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Vue West End on October 16.
Photos: Samir Hussein/Getty Images

Director Mia Hansen-Love and actor Louis-Do de Lencquesaing arrive at the premiere of Father of My Children (’Le père de mes enfants’) at the Vue West End on October 17.

Director Cristian Mungiu arrives at the premiere of Tales from the Golden Age at the Vue West End on October 17.

Viggo Mortensen at THE ROAD Photocall: London ‘09

Director John Hillcoat, screenwriter Joe Penhall, actor Viggo Mortensen attend a photocall for The Road during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Mayfair Hotel on October 16.
Photos: Ian Gavan/Getty Images

Viggo Mortensen

Viggo Mortensen

London 2009: THE ROAD, MEN ON THE BRIDGE

A handful of Friday highlights at the 2009 The Times-BFI London Film Festival:

The Road, based on Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, sounds like the perfect Thanksgiving movie:
"An unnamed man (Viggo Mortensen) and his young son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) travel alone through a post-apocalyptic landscape, ravaged by an unspecified catastrophe. Ash and soot hang in the air, it is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is grey. The sky is dark, the cities abandoned and empty, the roads littered with corpses, the countryside deserted save for marauding gangs eating human flesh to survive."
Appropriately enough, The Road opens in the US on Nov. 25. Mortensen, I should add, is a potential [...]

Oscar 2010: Early Predictions – Best Actor

BEST ACTOR

George Clooney, Up in the Air
A professional downsizer finds the frequent-flying love of his life while having to come to terms with his long-lost humanity.

Matt Damon, The Informant!
A pathological liar helps the FBI nab his employer, a dishonest agribusiness conglomerate.

Daniel Day-Lewis, Nine (with Marion Cotillard)
In this musicalized remake of Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2, Daniel Day-Lewis plays the old Marcello Mastroianni role of the Italian film director trying to cope with the women in his life.

Colin Firth, A Single Man
In 1960s Los Angeles, a gay college professor is determined to kill himself after learning that his lover has died in an accident.

Viggo Mortensen, The Road
A man and his son struggle to survive in a post-apocalyptic world.

I’d say that four [...]

Venice 2009: Viggo Mortensen, Salman Rushdie, Todd Haynes

Doru Boguta, Bobby Paunescu, Monica Barladeanu of Francesca, Salman Rushdie

Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee

Todd Haynes
Photos: Courtesy Venice Film Festival
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Venice 2009: Charlotte Rampling, Viggo Mortensen

Charlotte Rampling

Viggo Mortensen

Dieci inverni photocall
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Empire Awards 2009

2009 Empire Awards
2009 Empire Award winners: March 29, 2009
 

The Jameson Empire Award winners are chosen by Empire magazine readers.

 
Best Film: The Dark Knight
Best British Film: RocknRolla
Best Director: Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight
Best Actor: Christian Bale, The Dark Knight
Best Actress: Helena Bonham Carter, Sweeney Todd
Best Newcomer: Gemma Arterton, Quantum of Solace
Best Comedy: Son of Rambow
Best Horror: Eden Lake
Best Thriller: Quantum of Solace
Best Sci-Fi / Superhero: Wanted
Best Soundtrack: Mamma Mia!
Done in 60 Seconds Award: Jerry Maguire
Actor of Our Lifetime: Russell Crowe
Outstanding Contribution to British Film: Danny Boyle
Empire Icon: Viggo Mortensen
 
Empire Awards Site
Empire Awards: 2008
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
 
Tiburon Film Festival Awards 2009
Boston Underground Film Festival Awards 2009
Canadian Walk of Fame Nominations Contest
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Oscar 2008: Viggo Mortensen, Ruby Dee, Tony Gilroy

Viggo Mortensen and niece

Ruby Dee; James McAvoy, Dwayne Johnson (in the background)

Robert Osborne, Tony Gilroy
Photos: Richard Harbaugh (Gilroy, Dee), Greg Harbaugh (Mortensen). All photos: © A.M.P.A.S.

Oscar 2008: Colin Farrell, Helen Mirren, Patrick Dempsey, Viggo Mortensen

Colin Farrell, Robert Osborne

Patrick Dempsey, Robert Osborne

Viggo Mortensen

Helen Mirren
Photos: Matt Petit (Dempsey, Farrell, Mortensen), Richard Harbaugh (Mirren). All photos: © A.M.P.A.S.
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Toronto Film Critics Awards 2007

2007 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
2007 Toronto Film Critics Association Award winners: December 18, 2007
 

Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men
 

Best Film: No Country for Old Men by Joel and Ethan Coen
Runners-up: Eastern Promises; Zodiac
Best Foreign-Language Film: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days by Cristian Mungiu
Runners-up: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly; The Lives of Others
Best Canadian Film: Away from Her by Sarah Polley
Runners-up: Eastern Promises; Radiant City
Best Documentary: No End in Sight by Charles Ferguson
Runners-up: Iraq in Fragments; My Kid Could Paint That
Best Director: Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Runners-up: David Cronenberg, Eastern Promises; David Fincher, Zodiac
Best Actor: Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises
Runners-up: George Clooney, Michael Clayton; Gordon Pinsent, Away from Her
Best Actress (tie): [...]

Satellite Awards 2007

2007 Satellite Awards
International Press Academy’s 2007 Satellite Award nominations: November 30, 2007
2007 Satellite Award winners: December 16, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

 

MOTION PICTURE
Motion Picture, Drama
The Lookout Miramax Films
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead Thinkfilm
Away from Her Lionsgate
Eastern Promises Focus Features
* No Country for Old Men Miramax Films
3:10 To Yuma Lionsgate
Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
Hairspray New Line Cinema
* Juno Fox Searchlight
Shoot ‘Em Up New Line Cinema
Lars and the Real Girl MGM
Knocked Up Universal Pictures
Margot at the Wedding Paramount Vantage
Motion Picture, Foreign Film
Ten Canoes Australia Palm Pictures
Offside Iran Sony Pictures Classics
La Vie en Rose France Picturehouse
* Lust, Caution China Focus Features
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days Romania IFC Films
The Orphanage Spain Picturehouse
Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media
Persepolis Sony Pictures [...]

2007 Goya Awards: Nominations

Viggo Mortensen in Alatriste (top); Lola Dueñas, Yohana Cobo, Penélope Cruz in Volver (bottom)

Agustín Díaz Yanes‘ 17th-century tale of a Spanish soldier turned mercenary, Alatriste, and Pedro Almodóvar’s story of the women of La Mancha, Volver, dominated the Spanish Film Academy’s 2007 Goya Award nominations announced yesterday, Dec. 18, by actors Pilar López de Ayala and Juan José Ballesta. Alatriste, the most expensive Spanish film ever made (€24 million), received a total of 15 nods, while Volver received 14.
Both Alatriste and Volver were nominated for best film, best director, and, respectively, for best adapted screenplay (Alatriste is a cinematic condensation of five novels by Arturo Pérez Reverte) and best original screenplay. (Curiously, Volver failed to get a best editing [...]

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