Movie Awards

Mohamed Majd + Nicolas Cazalé’s spot-on performances give a huge boost to Ismaël Ferroukhi’s’s father-son road (to Mecca) movie The Great Journey.

Sorrell and Son movie: Adult themes aplenty in father-son drama starring a superlative H.B. Warner. Anna Q. Nilsson, Alice Joyce + Nils Asther costar.

India-Pakistan relations – in the form of a star-crossed romantic liaison between Shah Rukh Khan and Preity Zinta – has topped the Indian Film Academy Awards.

Paolo Sorrentino’s mafia thriller was the surprise big winner at this year’s Italian Oscars, while a Hollywood superstar was an odd choice for the honorary award.

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Cannes Film Festival winners: Renowned Belgian brothers receive their 2nd Palme d’Or + US performer Tommy Lee Jones is Best Actor for self-directed performance.

Banned Chinese film – but is it really? – wins Tribeca Film Festival’s top prize, while Russian space drama + El Salvador Civil War tale are Moscow and Seattle faves.

Fernando Eimbcke’s feature film debut Duck Season has swept the Mexican Oscars while a Salvadoran Civil War drama scored three wins.

Stephen Chow’s blockbuster action-comedy has beaten Wong Kar-Wai international hit while strangely failing to top direction and screenplay at Hong Kong Film Awards.

Bruno Ganz Is an out-of-control Adolf Hitler and Corinna Harfouch is a coolly deranged Magda Goebbels in Oliver Hirschbiegel’s convoluted drama Downfall.

Documentary or docudrama? Is it possible to pinpoint the line separating fiction from one recent Oscar winner’s extensive use of reenactments?

Featuring Jamie Foxx in a showy but skin-deep characterization, Taylor Hackford’s uninspired Ray Charles biopic Ray aims for the big bucks.

The Sea Inside movie: Javier Bardem is an inadequate lead in Alejandro Amenábar’s pro-euthanasia melodrama. But the supporting cast is first-rate.

A Jacques Tati-inspired animated feature has been named the Genie Awards’ Best Film - its only win. Roy Dupuis and Pascale Bussières topped the acting categories.

French César shocker: Abdellatif Kechiche’s low-budget Paris banlieue drama featuring a cast of unknowns has beaten two well-regarded international hits.

Independent Spirit Awards’ winners: Crowd-pleasers and box office hits dominate the so-called ‘indie alternative’ to the mainstream Oscars.

The winners of the various Guild Awards’: Season’s curious Best Director and Best Film bifurcation continues and thus further complicates this year’s Oscar predictions.

Gianni Amelio’s acclaimed father-son drama was the Italian film journalists’ top Nastri d’Argento winner. Pedro Almodóvar and veteran Mario Monicelli were also honored.

An ASC first: The Best Cinematography Award has gone to a French-language World War I drama that unexpectedly beat big-name Hollywood product.

Is Hollywood anti-Christian? Awards season indicates ‘Not so much’ as controversial and blood-soaked Jesus biopic has been shortlisted in several categories.

Best Actress SAG Awards: Boxing-ring star beats stage diva in fierce rematch, while Katharine Hepburn has her first competitive Screen Actors Guild ‘win’ ever.

Sundance winners include a pregnant Amy Adams and a father-son love triangle reportedly inspired on a Satyajit Ray classic, plus an attack on America’s endless wars.

The British Academy Awards’ Oscar-focused new submission deadline rules have had unintended and ironically counterproductive consequences.

Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood have performed an unexpected Golden Globes turnabout, while Hilary Swank and Annette Bening have an awards season rematch ‘tie.’