Natalie Portman in Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan Natalie Portman: SAG Awards’ Best Actress for ‘Black Swan.’ Natalie Portman: SAG Awards’ Best Actress winner ‘bleeped’ TNT and TBS bleeped Natalie Portman, …
Steve Montgomery
Steve Montgomery
An Alt Film Guide contributor/editor-at-large, Steve Montgomery says he hates movies but can't stop thinking about them. He also abhors awards season, which helps to explain why most of his Alt Film Guide articles have focused on movie awards from every corner of the planet.
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Catherine Deneuve & Roman Polanski: César Awards’ Nominations Best Film HEARTBREAKER produced by Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Yann Zenou, Laurent Zeitoun, directed by Pascal Chaumeil OF GODS AND MEN produced by …
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Director Christopher Nolan bypassed for the Academy Awards: Inception with Leonardo DiCaprio and Cillian Murphy. Despite the box office success of the sci-fier/thriller Inception, Christopher Nolan was snubbed once again …
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People’s Choice Awards’ winners Grown Ups and actor Adam Sandler: Computer virus infection? The People’s Choice Awards are supposed to be about the will of the people. And as so …
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Tom Hardy in Inception. The BFCA voters usually get it right, e.g., The Hurt Locker, Slumdog Millionaire, Sean Penn for Milk, Heath Ledger for The …
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LA Weekly Critics Poll offers several surprises from Assayas to Polanski plus M. Night Shyamalan and Christopher Nolan efforts’ Worst Film tie.
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Critics Awards: Natalie Portman continues to wow US groups while Australian actress and British terrorism comedy are surprise winners in central states.
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Actors Guild: SAG Awards comes up with second Annette Bening vs Hilary Swank rematch while Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon bypassed.
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Jennifer Lawrence vs. David Fincher: End of Absolute Awards Season Rule for Facebook flick but Colin Farrell definitely the biggest surprise of all.
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Golden Globes’ Omissions: Leonardo DiCaprio + Cher are 2 most startling snubs though Johnny Depp gets 2 nods and Kristen Stewart + Matt Damon MIA.
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Mainstream group choices: New York Film Critics opt for Establishment fare from inspirational king biopic to crowd-pleasing lesbian family comedy-drama.
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Groupthink choices as usual during awards season while Naomi Watts makes surprising appearance and Clint Eastwood movie among Worst of the Year?
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L.A. Film Critics adventurous international selections range from terrorists and criminals to short-tempered king and obsessively devoted mother.
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Royal Drama tops British Independent Film Awards but director snubbed and missing from respected film magazine Top Ten + Jennifer Lawrence wins Stockholm.
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Geoffrey Rush gets career award while Jennifer Lawrence and Colin Firth are Critics’ Winners plus Pixar vs. Animated Film Society fight to worsen?
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National Board of Review Awards: Clint Eastwood flop among numerous surprises while a several top Oscar contenders completely bypassed.
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Paul Mazursky career highlight: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, with Natalie Wood, Elliott Gould, Robert Culp, and Dyan Cannon. Paul Mazursky: Los Angeles Film Critics Career Achievement Award …
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Gotham Awards Nominations: Troubled Lesbian Couples, Ballerinas & Vampires The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), which bills itself the United States’ “oldest and largest organization of independent filmmakers,” announced today the …
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British street gangs top San Sebastian Film Festival: Neds directed by Peter Mullan. Peter Mullan’s Glasgow-set drama Neds, about a distraught teenager who joins a street gang in the early …
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Zac Efron. June 9 update: Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Avatar, Taylor Lautner, Tom Cruise as Tom Cruise and as Les Grossman, teaser trailers for Harry …
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Of Gods and Men, directed by Xavier Beauvois. Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, a dreamlike Thai drama about a man dying of kidney failure that …
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Sibel Kekilli in Feo Aladag’s When We Leave. Feo Aladag’s Turkish-German drama Die Fremde / When We Leave, which recently received six Lola nominations, was voted best narrative film at …
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The Thin Red Line The International Cinephile Society has released its list of the top 100 films of the ’90s. Now, before you start calling the ICS members some really …
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Taylor Lautner defeats Robert Pattinson while Selena Gomez wins at Kids’ Choice Awards plus pics of presenters Nikki Reed, Rihanna and Cory Monteith.
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Kathryn Bigelow. The Hurt Locker‘s Best Director Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar acceptance speech: “This really is… There’s no other way to describe it, it’s the moment of a lifetime. First of …
Filippo Timi and Giovanna Mezzogiorno in Marco Bellocchio’s Vincere. The Social Network, director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s retelling of the founding of Facebook, was voted the Best Film …
Facebook movie unfriending drama remains film critics’ fave while Texas group chooses Hollywood liberal celebrity Humanitarian of the Year.
Pat Tillman and Edward Cullen + other curious film awards season choices ranging from pre-med student Michelle Williams to stripper Halle Berry.
AFI Awards criminal family values movie wins 10 trophies while Jane Campion romantic drama gets 3 plus supporting or lead Jacki Weaver for the Oscars?
Michelle Williams in Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine. Winter’s Bone, in which an Ozark Mountain teenager hunts down her drug-dealing father, topped the 2011 Spirit Award nominations announced earlier today. Directed …
Tony Award winners: Eddie Redmayne in Red, with Alfred Molina. June 13 update: Hollywood took over Broadway at the 2010 Tony Awards. Or almost. Presenters included Daniel Radcliffe and Academy …
Veteran Stefania Sandrelli (Divorce Italian Style, The Conformist) and Valerio Mastandrea in Paolo Virzi’s The First Beautiful Thing (top); Giuseppe Tornatore’s Baaria (bottom). Here’s a belated report on the 2010 David di …