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London Film Critics’ 2007 Winners

Helen Mirren, James Cromwell in The Queen (top); Trish Gates in United 93 (bottom)

The winners of the 2007 London Film Critics’ Circle Awards were announced this evening at a ceremony held in aid of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children at the Dorchester Hotel.
London Film Critics’ Awards chair Marianne Gray stated that The Queen — winner of the best British film, best British director (Stephen Frears), best British actress (Helen Mirren), and best screenplay (Peter Morgan) awards — "symbolizes everything that is right with the British film industry at the moment and it is great to see that it can compete with the best that Hollywood can offer."
The Queen was also in the running for the [...]

London Film Critics Awards 2007

2007 London Film Critics’ Circle Awards
2007 London Film Critics’ Circle Award nominations: December 14, 2006
2007 London Film Critics’ Circle Award winners: Dorchester Hotel on February 8, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

 

Film of the Year
The Departed
Little Miss Sunshine
Volver
* United 93
The Queen
The Attenborough Award for Best British Film
Children of Men
* The Queen
Red Road
The Last King of Scotland
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Best Foreign Language Film
Apocalypto
Black Book
The Death of Mr Lazarescu
The Child
Pan’s Labyrinth
* Volver
Best Director
Guillermo del Toro, Pan’s Labyrinth
Pedro Almodóvar, Volver
* Paul Greengrass, United 93
Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men
Best British director
Andrea Arnold, Red Road
* Stephen Frears, The Queen
Christopher Nolan, The Prestige
Kevin Macdonald, The Last King of Scotland
Ken Loach, The Wind That [...]

Goya Awards 2007 Winners

Yohana Cobo, Penélope Cruz in Volver (top); Maribel Verdú, Ivana Baquero in Pan’s Labyrinth (bottom)

The Spanish Academy’s Goya Awards were presented on Jan. 28. Although best picture winner Volver seemed like an easy pick, it actually faced stiff competition from both Agustín Díaz-Yanes‘ adventure period piece Alatriste and Guillermo del Toro’s dark fantasy Pan’s Labyrinth.
Ultimately, Volver took home five Goyas: best film, best direction (Pedro Almodóvar), best actress (Penélope Cruz), best supporting actress (Carmen Maura), and best original score (Alberto Iglesias).
Almodóvar, however, failed to win the original screenplay award, which went to Guillermo del Toro. Del Toro’s film, in fact, turned out to be the top Goya winner that evening: seven trophies in all. Among [...]

Goya Awards 2007

2007 Goya Awards
Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 2007 Goya Award nominations: Dec. 18, 2006
2007 Goya Award winners: Palacio Municipal de Congresos del Campo de las Naciones in Madrid on Jan. 28, 2007
Nominees consist of films released in Spain between Dec. 1, 2005, and Nov. 30, 2006.
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Penélope Cruz, Yohana Cobo, Lola Dueñas in Volver
 

Best Film / Mejor película
Alatriste, by Agustín Díaz-Yanes (Estudios Picasso Fábrica de Ficción SA, Origen PC SA and NBC Universal Global Network España SL)
El Laberinto del fauno / Pan’s Labyrinth, by Guillermo del Toro (Estudios Picasso Fábrica de Ficción SA, Tequila Gang y Esperanto Filmoj)
Salvador, by Manuel Huerga (Mediapro y Future Films)
* Volver, by Pedro Almodóvar (El deseo DA, [...]

Oscar 2007 Nominations

Penélope Cruz told Academy members to vote for her — or else.
Pedro Almodóvar should have used the same vote-getting technique.

"There’s so many Mexicans!" exclaimed Mexican actress Salma Hayek, too excited to conjugate her verbs properly, upon announcing — along with Academy president Sid Ganis — some of the nominees for the 2007 Academy Awards.
Indeed. Best supporting actress nominee Adriana Barraza (for Babel); best direction nominee Alejandro González Iñárritu, who also happens to be one of the producers of best picture nominee Babel; best original screenplay nominee Guillermo del Toro, whose Pan’s Labyrinth was also nominated in the best foreign-language film category; best adapted screenplay nominee Alfonso Cuarón, one of the screenwriters of Children of Men (which he also directed — [...]

Spanish Film Writers Awards 2007

2007 Spanish Film Writers Circle Awards
2007 Spanish Film Writers Circle Awards: January 16, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Pedro Almodóvar, Penélope Cruz in Volver
 

Best Film
* Volver, by Pedro Almodóvar
El Laberinto del fauno / Pan’s Labyrinth, by Guillermo del Toro
La noche de los girasoles, by Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo
Un franco, 14 pesetas, by Carlos Iglesias
Best Foreign Film
The Queen, by Stephen Frears (UK-France-Italy)
Copying Beethoven, by Agnieszka Holland (US-Germany)
Little Miss Sunshine, by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (US)
* Crash, by Paul Haggis (US)
Best Documentary
* Cineastas en acción, by Carlos Benpar
La leyenda del tiempo, by Isaki Lacuesta
La silla de Fernando, by Luis Alegre and David Trueba
La gran final, by Gerardo [...]

Oscar 2007: Best Foreign Language Semi-Finalists

Cécile De France in Avenue Montaigne (top); Mads Mikkelsen in After the Wedding (middle); Carice van Houten in The Black Book (bottom)

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has narrowed down to nine titles the list of potential 2007 best foreign-language film nominees.
They are (listed in alphabetical order by country):

Algeria, Days of Glory, Rachid Bouchareb, director
Canada, Water, Deepa Mehta, director
Denmark, After the Wedding , Susanne Bier, director
France, Avenue Montaigne, Danièle Thompson, director
Germany, The Lives of Others, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, director
Mexico, Pan’s Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro, director
The Netherlands, Black Book, Paul Verhoeven, director
Spain, Volver, Pedro Almodóvar, director
Switzerland, Vitus, Fredi M. Murer, director

Though it may seem that the above films hail from all (or most) corners of the globe, [...]

2007 Vancouver Film Critics Winners

The Vancouver Film Critics Circle has picked its 2006 winners, which were announced yesterday.
Among them are Children of Men (above, with Clive Owen) as best film — the second time a North American critics’ group has chosen Alfonso Cuarón’s dystopic drama as the top picture of 2006 (the Central Ohio film critics also went for it) — Cuarón as best director, and veteran Alan Arkin as best supporting actor for his bigoted, drug-addicted, but oh-so-loving grandpa in Little Miss Sunshine.
Forest Whitaker and Helen Mirren took best acting honors for, respectively, The Last King of Scotland and The Queen. Cate Blanchett was the best supporting actress for Notes on a Scandal.

In the Canadian film categories, the best picture award went to [...]

American Society of Cinematographers Awards 2007 Nominations

Children of Men (top); Edward Norton, Jessica Biel in The Illusionist (middle); Matt Damon, Alec Baldwin in The Good Shepherd (bottom)

The feature-film nominees for the 2007 American Society of Cinematographers Award are critics’ fave Emmanuel Lubezki (Children of Men), plus Dick Pope (The Illusionist), Robert Richardson, (The Good Shepherd), Dean Semler (Apocalypto), and veteran Vilmos Zsigmond (The Black Dahlia), who has been shooting films — among them Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Deer Hunter — since the early 1960s.
The above list include the eighth ASC nomination for Richardson; the third for Zsigmond, who won in 1993 for the telefilm Stalin; the second for Lubezki and Semler; and the first for Pope.
Dean Semler’s nod marks [...]

Vancouver Film Critics Awards 2007

2007 Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards
2007 Vancouver Film Critics Circle nominations: January 9, 2007
2007 Vancouver Film Critics Circle winners: Vancity Theatre on January 15, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Clive Owen in Children of Men
 

Best Film:
* Children of Men
The Departed
Little Children
Best Canadian Film:
Away from Her
Manufactured Landscapes
* Maurice Richard / The Rocket
Monkey Warfare
Best Foreign-Language Film:
L’Enfant / The Child
Letters from Iwo Jima
* Volver
Best British Columbian Film:
Everything’s Gone Green
* Fido
Mount Pleasant
Unnatural & Accidental
Best Director:
* Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men
Clint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo Jima
Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Best Director of a Canadian Film:
Andrew Currie, Fido
* Reg Harkema, Monkey Warfare
Sarah Polley, Away from Her
Best Actor:
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Departed
Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
* Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Best [...]

Golden Globes 2007: Foreign-Language Film Screenings

Penélope Cruz in Volver (top); Martina Gedeck in The Lives of Others (middle); Pan’s Labyrinth (bottom)

The American Cinematheque and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association will present all five foreign-language films nominated for the 2007 Golden Globe Awards at The Aero’s Max Palevsky Theatre in Santa Monica.
The five nominees are:

Apocalypto (U.S.)
El Laberinto del fauno / Pan’s Labyrinth (Spain / Mexico / U.S.)
Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others (Germany)
Letters from Iwo Jima (U.S.)
Volver (Spain)

Invited guests (to be confirmed) for each screening are directors Pedro Almodóvar, Guillermo del Toro, Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson, and Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, all of whom should also take part in a round-table discussion moderated by Screen International U.S. editor [...]

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 [...]

Satellite Awards 2006

2006 Satellite Awards
2006 International Press Academy’s Satellite Award nominations: November 30, 2006
2006 Satellite Award winners: Imperial Ballroom of le Méridian in Beverly Hills on December 17, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Leonardo DiCaprio, Vera Farmiga in The Departed
 

MOTION PICTURES
Motion Picture, Drama
Half Nelson
* The Departed
Flags of Our Fathers
The Queen
The Last King of Scotland
Babel
Little Children
Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
Little Miss Sunshine
Thank You for Smoking
The Devil Wears Prada
Stranger Than Fiction
Venus
* Dreamgirls
Motion Picture, Foreign Language
The Lives of Others, Germany
* Volver, Spain
Changing Times, France
Water, Canada
The Syrian Bride, Israel
Apocalypto, U.S.
Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media
Cars
Ice Age: The Meltdown
Happy Feet
Flushed Away
* Pan’s Labyrinth
Motion Picture, Documentary
* Deliver Us from Evil
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
An [...]

2006 New York Film Critics Online Award Winners

The New York Film Critics Online went all out for The Queen, chosen as the best film of 2006, in addition to citations for best director Stephen Frears, best actress Helen Mirren, best screenplay for Peter Morgan, and best supporting actor Michael Sheen (who actually has a leading role in the film, but that’s how those things go).
Curiously, neither one of Clint Eastwood’s war epics — Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima — managed to make it to the NYOFC’s top-ten list. Also absent was Martin Scorsese’s The Departed.
On the other hand, David Lynch’s Inland Empire found its way into the list, and so did three non-English-language films, Water (top photo, Canada / India), directed [...]

National Board of Review Awards 2006

2006 National Board of Review Awards
2006 National Board of Review Award winners: Dec. 6, 2006
 

 

Best Film
Letters from Iwo Jima by Clint Eastwood
Runners-up (in alphabetical order)
Babel, Blood Diamond, The Departed, The Devil Wears Prada, Flags of Our Fathers, The History Boys, Little Miss Sunshine, Notes on a Scandal, The Painted Veil
Best Foreign Film
Volver by Pedro Almodóvar
Runners-up (in alphabetical order)
Indigènes / Days of Glory, El Laberinto del fauno / Pan’s Labyrinth, Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia / Curse of the Golden Flower, Water
Best Director
Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Best Actor
Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress
Helen Mirren, The Queen
Best Supporting Actor
Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond
Best Supporting Actress
Catherine O’Hara, For Your Consideration
Best Acting by an Ensemble
The Departed
Best Adapted Screenplay
Ron Nyswaner, The Painted Veil
Best [...]

2006 National Board of Review Award Winners

The biggest surprise found in the list of winners of the 2006 National Board of Review awards was the choice of Clint Eastwood’s View from the Other Side, the Japanese-language World War II drama Letters from Iwo Jima, as the best film of the year.
This marked only the third time that the NBR’s best film award has gone to a non-English-language production. The last time that happened was in 1949, when they picked Vittorio De Sica’s Italian-made neo-realist drama The Bicycle Thief. The year before, another Italian film took the award, Roberto Rossellini’s Paisan.
Based on Japanese Gen. Tadamichi Kuribayashi’s book Picture Letters from Commander in Chief (adapted for the screen by Iris Yamashita), and starring Ken Watanabe, [...]

European Film Awards 2006

2006 European Film Awards
2006 European Film Award nominations: Seville Film Festival on Nov. 4, 2006
2006 European Film Award winners: EXPO XXI in Warsaw on Dec. 2, 2006. Sophie Marceau and Maciej Stuhr hosted the awards ceremony.
† Eligible films had to be released in their countries of origin between July 2005 and April/May 2006.
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Photos: JaczekTurczyk/PAP
 

BEST EUROPEAN FILM
BREAKFAST ON PLUTO; Ireland/UK
directed by Neil Jordan
produced by Parallel Film Productions Ltd./Number 9 Films
GRBAVICA; Austria/Bosnia-Herzegovina/Germany/Croatia
directed by Jasmila Zbanic
produced by coop99 filmproduktion GmbH/Deblokada/Noirfilm/Jadran Film
* DAS LEBEN DER ANDEREN (The Lives of Others); Germany
directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
produced by Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion/Bayerischer Rundfunk/ARTE/Creado Film
THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO; UK
directed by Michael [...]

2006 European Film Awards Winners

The European Film Academy, whose awards ceremony was held this evening in Warsaw, has opted for conventionality by giving its best European film award to Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others, a Cold War spy-thriller-cum-melodrama lacking both thrills and drama.
Additionally, The Lives of Others star Ulrich Mühe (above, top photo), the one saving grace in the film, received the best European actor award for his role as a Stasi spy who, while eavesdropping on a playwright in the mid-1980s, begins to question both his personal ethics and his allegiance to the Communist Party. In real life, Mühe, a renowned stage actor since the 1980s, was himself spied on by East Germany’s [...]

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