AVATAR, STAR TREK, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS: Art Directors Guild 2010 Nominations
Saoirse Ronan in The Lovely Bones (Barry Wetcher / DreamWorks/Paramount)
Avatar, Inglourious Basterds, The Lovely Bones, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and The Hurt Locker are five of the fifteen nominated films in the Art Directors Guild’s three categories for excellence in production design in 2009. The lists’ most glaring absentee is Rob Marshall’s elaborate musical Nine.
In the fantasy category, joining Avatar and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince are Star Trek, Where the Wild Things Are, and District 9. In the period category, Inglourious Basterds is joined by Julie & Julia, Public Enemies, Sherlock Holmes, and A Serious Man. In the contemporary category, The Hurt Locker and The Lovely Bones (not "fantasy"?) are joined by The Hangover, Up in [...]
by Anna Robinson | January 8, 2010
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Tags: Art Directors, Art Directors Guild Awards, Avatar, Film Awards, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Inglourious Basterds, Michael Baugh, Star Trek, The Lovely Bones, Up in the Air, Where the Wild Things Are
Chicago Film Critics Awards 2009
2009 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
2009 Chicago Film Critics winners: Dec. 21, 2009
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker (Jonathan Olley / Summit Entertainment)
BEST PICTURE
* The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
A Serious Man
Up in the Air
Where the Wild Things Are
BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
Broken Embraces
Red Cliff
Sin Nombre
Summer Hours
* The White Ribbon
BEST DOCUMENTARY
* Anvil!: The True Story of Anvil
Capitalism: A Love Story
The Cove
Food, Inc.
Tyson
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Ponyo
The Princess and the Frog
* Up
BEST DIRECTOR
* Kathryn Bigelow (-) The Hurt Locker
Joel & Ethan [...]
by Anna Robinson | December 21, 2009
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Tags: Chicago Film Critics Awards, Film Awards, Gabourey Sidibe, Inglourious Basterds, Maya Rudolph, Summer Hours, The Hurt Locker, Where the Wild Things Are
UP IN THE AIR Wins in Indiana
George Clooney in Up in the Air (Dale Robinette / Paramount)
The Indiana Film Journalists Association — I hadn’t heard of this group before — have also announced their list of winners. (Four of the Association’s nine members can be found at The Film Yap. I hadn’t heard about them because this is their first year giving out awards.)
Will it influence the Oscars? Not really, but it’s interesting to see that Hoosier critics have gone their own way by choosing Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air as the best picture of the year, Louie Psihoyos‘ The Cove as best documentary, George Clooney as best actor for Up in the Air, Carey Mulligan as best actress for An Education. Most shocking [...]
by Andre Soares | December 19, 2009
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Tags: Carey Mulligan, Christoph Waltz, Film Awards, George Clooney, Indiana Film Critics Awards, Mo'Nique, Spike Jonze, The Cove, Up in the Air, Where the Wild Things Are
Michael Jackson’s THIS IS IT Tops Box Office
Sony Pictures’ Michael Jackson documentary This Is It prevailed at the North American box office this weekend, with $21.3 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The Kenny Ortega-directed film opened at 3,481 locations Wednesday, bagging $11.1 million in two days. The domestic total of This Is It currently stands at a solid $32.5 million.
Most of the film’s footage was shot in June 2009 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles and The Forum in Inglewood, Calif. It includes scenes drawn from hours of rehearsal and behind-the-scenes footage.
At No. 2, Paramount’s sensational hit Paranormal Activity generated another superb $16.5 million after expanding to 2,404 locations. That [...]
by Franck Tabouring | November 1, 2009
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Tags: Astro Boy, Box Office, Chris Massoglia, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant, Josh Hutcherson, Michael Jackson, Paranormal Activity, Saw VI, Spike Jonze, This Is It, Where the Wild Things Are
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE Tops Box Office
Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are easily defeated its competition at the North American box office this weekend with a solid $32.4 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The big-screen adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s beloved book scored a strong average of $8,693 per theater at 3,735 locations. Starring Max Records, the film follows a lonely boy who bonds with a bunch of wild creatures in his imagination.
New entry Law Abiding Citizen debuted in second place with $21.2 million, with an average of $7,353 million at 2,890 locations. The F. Gary Gray-directed thriller stars Gerard Butler as a desperate widower threatening to bring down the justice system. [...]
by Franck Tabouring | October 18, 2009
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Tags: Box Office, Couples Retreat, Dylan Walsh, Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, Kristin Davis, Law Abiding Citizen, Paranormal Activity, The Stepfather, Where the Wild Things Are