Pedro Almodóvar vs. Guillermo del Toro: Volver Marks director’s Premios Goya comeback while Canadian blockbuster co-leads Prix Jutra + Swiss Film Awards.
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Berlin Film Festival: Nazi era and Cold War Flops + handjob expert Marianne Faithfull and inspirational (but debatable) Nelson Mandela tale.
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Academy Awards: Mexicans Invade the Oscars and the British are back in one of most international Oscars in history while Pedro Almodóvar shockingly snubbed.
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Katharine Hepburn Oscars exhibition + crowd-pleasing indie tops Producers Guild of America Awards as veteran Monica Bleibtreu co-wins Best Actress.
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What Are the Golden Globes? Quality-oriented + multinational and multiethnic awards show embracing ‘diversity’ (especially of the British kind)?
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WGA Awards go for populist + outlandish screenplays while last year’s Maurice Richard leads Genie nods and Storm thriller among Guldbagge contenders.
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Dark Fantasy Tops NSFC while raunchy Kate Winslet film wins Iowa + is Al Gore global warming documentary going to change Americans’ warped views?
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Movie Quotes Oscar Poster: Academy Makes Offer You Can’t Refuse with dozens of dialogue bits from Best Picture winners or nominees + 3 missing classic lines.
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Goya Awards Nominations: Mercenary Viggo Mortensen vs. Manchega Penélope Cruz plus 2 anti-Franco movies: darkly violent fairy tale and Salvador biopic.
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The Dixie Chicks vs George W. Bush + Freedom of Speech Issue surprising awards season wins + San Diego Film Critics reject groupthink selections.
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Ennio Morricone: Once Upon a Time in the West and Cinema Paradiso composer gets Honorary Oscar after 500 scores plus five nominations but no wins.
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Star-struck Golden Globes’ + Broadcast Critics’ Choice Awards’ nominations range from Brad Pitt and Ben Affleck to Mel Gibson and Leonardo DiCaprio x2.
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Best Foreign Language Film Oscar Winners’ posters + W.C. Fields Pettifoggery: Academy exhibitions celebrate artworks and former vaudevillian’s career.
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National Board of Review Winners: First Foreign-Language Best Film in almost 6 decades shows key World War II battle from the Japanese side.
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European Film Award Winners Penélope Cruz and Pedro Almodóvar though spy drama Is Top Pick while Roman Polanski gets Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Iraq War & censorship among topics of documentaries still in the running for the Academy Awards. Image: Iraq in Fragments. Blind mountain climbers, female African judges, Israel’s withdrawal from the…
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The Go Master: Chinese political controversy at the Golden Horse Awards. ‘After This Our Exile’ tops Golden Horse Awards Patrick Tam’s Fu zi / After This Our Exile won this…
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John Howard Lawson Remembered “First Writers Guild president. Playwright. Screenwriter. Oscar nominee. Organizer. Teacher. ‘Premature antiracist.’ Blacklistee. ‘Dean of the Hollywood Ten.’ Jailbird. ‘Tinseltown’s cultural commissar.’ Film theorist. ‘Grand Pooh-Bah…
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The Lives of Others / Das Leben der Anderen: German Stasi spy drama. Pedro Almodóvar’s Volver, about the relationship between two young women and the ghost of their dead mother,…
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Venus with Peter O’Toole and Jodie Whittaker. There were numerous surprises at the 2006 British Independent Film Awards (Bifa) ceremony, which was held yesterday, Nov. 29, in West London. Out…
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Luchino Visconti’s White Nights has the look – but not the feel – of a Hollywood production. Great cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Maria Schell and Jean Marais.
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Nuovomondo / Golden Door with Charlotte Gainsbourg. International gay characters + Bosnian War: Best Foreign Language Film Oscar hopefuls Fifty years after the creation of the Best Foreign Language Film…
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Is the iconic 1960 nouvelle vague movie Breathless vastly overrated? Jean-Paul Belmondo + Jean Seberg star in Jean-Luc Godard’s influential noir homage.
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Krzysztof Kieslowski’s brilliant Three Colors: Red features Jean-Louis Trintignant in a career-capping star turn and Irène Jacob in a career-making one.
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In his 1966 ‘Swinging London’ masterwork Blow-Up, Michelangelo Antonioni questions the perception of reality. David Hemmings + Vanessa Redgrave star.
Best Foreign Language Film Oscar European slant clear as only 1 exception among contenders + hip-hopping immigration drama tops Guldbagge Awards.
Helen Mirren Queen Elizabeth Double Awards Season Dose + Mexican Directors Are U.S. Critics’ Winners
Helen Mirren Queen Elizabeth double + Leonardo DiCaprio triple awards season dose while Mexican directors surprise as US critics’ favorites.
Sherry Lansing: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award goes to former Paramount CEO and cancer research advocate who produced Oscar-nominated Fatal Attraction.
Romanian actress + suburban Emma Bovary and 1969 French World War II drama + the Great Kazakh hope: Major surprises among US film critics choices.
Dysfunctional families: Little Miss Sunshine. With five nods each, the crowd-pleasing dysfunctional family comedy Little Miss Sunshine (US$59 million at the U.S. and Canada box office) and the socio-psychological drama…
Tokyo Film Festival Awards 2006 Tokyo Film Festival: Oct. 21–29. The 19th Tokyo International Film Festival came to a close this past Sunday, Oct. 29. The winner of the festival’s…
The Departed with Leonardo DiCaprio. Best Picture Academy Award winner The Departed boasts a respectable pedigree: the cop thriller was directed by Martin Scorsese; edited by Thelma Schoonmaker; shot by…