Holy Motors with Denis Lavant and Eva Mendes. The Los Angeles Film Critics Association‘s Best Foreign Language Film and a double nominee for the Online Film Critics Awards, Leos Carax’s hallucinatory Holy Motors follows a mysterious man (frequent Carax collaborator Denis Lavant) whose equally mysterious…
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Zero Dark Thirty with Chris Pratt and Joel Edgerton. With ten wins and two nominations to date, Kathryn Bigelow is the top Best Director choice this awards season for the controversial “war on terror” thriller Zero Dark Thirty, about a dogged CIA analyst (Jessica Chastain)…
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Argo with Ben Affleck. Actor-director-co-producer Ben Affleck’s political thrill ride Argo chronicles – by way of Hollywood-style flights of fancy – the real-life rescue of six U.S. embassy employees hiding in the Tehran house of Canada’s ambassador as most of their colleagues are taken hostage…
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Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty. With ten wins – and three nominations – to date, relative film newcomer Jessica Chastain is the top Best Actress pick this awards season for her portrayal of a dogged CIA analyst in Kathryn Bigelow’s political thriller Zero Dark…
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Meryl Streep in Hope Springs. In movies since the late 1970s – she was first seen in a small role in Fred Zinnemann’s Julia (1977) – Meryl Streep seems to get at least one annual Golden Globe nomination. This year, her performance as a middle-aged…
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Marion Cotillard in Rust and Bone. The SAG Awards usually bypass performers in non-English-language films. This year, however, could be a major exception thanks to two well-received French-language dramas: Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone and Michael Haneke’s Amour. The former stars Marion Cotillard and Matthias…
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Amour with Emmanuelle Riva. Michael Haneke’s French-language drama Amour is easily the top Best Foreign Language Film pick this awards season. Strangely, the film’s veteran leading man, Jean-Louis Trintignant, hasn’t been winning any awards in the U.S.; on the other hand, co-star Emmanuelle Riva has…
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This Is Not a Film with Jafar Panahi and the iguana Igi. Under house arrest[1] following accusations of spreading “propaganda against the Islamic Republic” of Iran, filmmaker Jafar Panahi (Cannes Caméra d’Or winner, The White Balloon; Venice Golden Lion winner, The Circle) got documentarian Mojtaba…
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Zero Dark Thirty director Kathryn Bigelow. The “war on terror” thriller Zero Dark Thirty has yet to open in the U.S., but it can already be labeled as one of the year’s most controversial movies, as it deals with the hunt for and assassination of…
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Michael Haneke at the 2012 European Film Awards. The story of an elderly couple facing illness and death, Amour was the top winner at this year’s European Film Awards, collecting trophies in the following categories: Best European Film, Best European Director, Best European Actor (Jean-Louis…
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Zero Dark Thirty with Jessica Chastain. Kathryn Bigelow’s thriller Zero Dark Thirty, about the hunt for – and eventual assassination of – Osama bin Laden, has already stirred quite a bit of controversy even though it has yet to open in the U.S. Whether or…
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Famous Children of Famous Parents: Edoardo Ponti and Nastassja Kinski, with Enrico Lo Verso in The Nightshift Belongs to the Stars. Edoardo Ponti & Bryce Dallas Howard live action shorts among 11 movies still in Oscar contention A Brazilian inmate trying to convince his mother…
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Jodie Foster: Cecil B. DeMille Award recipient Jodie Foster will be the next Cecil B. DeMille Award recipient, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has announced – by way of Foster’s Panic Room co-star Kristen Stewart and Simon Baker. A two-time Golden Globe winner, Jodie Foster…
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Seth MacFarlane Oscars host confirmed: Unusual pick Seth MacFarlane, best known internationally for the comedy box office hit Ted, will host the 2013 Oscar ceremony on Sunday, Feb. 24, Oscarcast producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have announced. This will mark not only MacFarlane’s first…
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Best Actor Oscar: Joaquin Phoenix a potential contender. 2013 Oscar predictions Best Actor: Joaquin Phoenix, Daniel Day-Lewis Joaquin Phoenix and Daniel Day-Lewis look like the two shoo-ins for the 2013 Best Actor Oscar at this stage. Phoenix’s nod will be for Paul Thomas Anderson’s critically…
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The Intouchables movie: France’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar entry. In the cast: Omar Sy as Driss, François Cluzet as Philippe. The Intouchables movie, France’s biggest French-language blockbuster at the international box-office, is that country’s official entry for the 2013 Best Foreign Language Film Academy…