‘Avatar’ Best Picture Chances & Sandra Bullock from Razzie to Oscar At this year’s Oscars, James Cameron’s mega-budget fantasy adventure Avatar tied with Kathryn Bigelow’s low-budget Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker. Each film received nine Academy Award nominations, including…
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BAFTA Nominations: Hollywood & U.K. Should Switch Academies + Isabelle Adjani Returns: Prix César
by Andre S.BAFTA nominations: Hollywood productions rule. Above: Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker. Some people complain that the Hollywood Academy is enamored of British productions and talent. Well, then perhaps Hollywood and the United Kingdom should switch academies, for…
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Warren Beatty. Warren Beatty will receive the Art Directors Guild’s Outstanding Contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award, “given to an individual whose body of work in the film industry has richly enhanced the visual aspects of the movie-going experience,” at the…
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Two-time Oscar winner Emma Thompson (Best Actress for Howards End, Best Adapted Screenplay for Sense and Sensibility), Carey Mulligan and Dominic Cooper arrive for the premiere of An Education during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Vue…
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Laura Neiva in Adrift. Cannes review snippets At Firstshowing.net, Alex Billington on À Deriva / Adrift (above, with Laura Neiva), screened in the Un Certain Regard sidebar: “I think I stumbled across a big Cannes sleeper hit. From the beaches…
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The Piano movie with Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin. ‘The Piano’ movie revisited Writer-director Jane Campion’s Gothic drama The Piano, the best of the 1993 Best Picture Oscar nominees and one of the greatest – and greatest-looking – films of…
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Cries and Whispers. Ingmar Bergman (right) will be the subject of a weekend-long salute – with the screening of five of his Academy Award-nominated and winning films – beginning Friday, April 4, at 7 p.m. at the Academy of Motion…