Posted on December 3rd, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
The 18th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards (formerly known as simply the Gotham Awards) were handed out last night with Courtney Hunt’s Frozen River beating Lance Hammer’s Ballast, Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York, Tom McCarthy’s The Visitor and Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler for Best Feature. Frozen River’s Melissa Leo also took Breakthrough Actor for her [...]
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Posted on December 1st, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
I’m still not ready for awards season, but here are some more. This time it’s the Hollywood chapter of the International Animated Film Society whose Annie Awards are a reliable predictor of future Oscar glory.
Awards types seem surprised that DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda scored 16 nominations (17 if you count the animated videogame nomination) [...]
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Posted on December 1st, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
The awards train keeps on rolling with this weekend’s announcement of the nominees for the Satellite Awards from the International Press Academy where Slumdog Millionaire and Milk each received six nods.
Though Slumdog was shut out of the acting categories, it racked up nominees for best drama, director Danny Boyle, adapted screenplay Simon Beaufoy, original score [...]
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Posted on November 30th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle’s winning story of the impoverished Indian teen who has a chance to take the top prize on a popular television game show, won three prizes of its own on Sunday when it snagged a handful of British Independent Film Awards including best British independent film, best director for Boyle and most [...]
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Posted on November 18th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
The mysterious body that chooses the pool of potential documentary feature nominees for the Oscars every year probably stepped in another flaming bag of poo yesterday with the release of this year’s short list.
The effusive praise heaped upon Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father by critics, bloggers and audiences alike has gone [...]
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Posted on October 29th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Yahoo has the trailer for Laurent Cantet’s 2008 Palme d’Or winning film The Class.
Click to see trailer at Yahoo
France’s official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar opens in New York and Los Angeles on December 25. It’s also playing at AFI Fest which officially begins Thursday.
Thanks to Jennybee for the heads up!
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Posted on October 28th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Awards season picked up a little steam today with a batch of nominations from the International Documentary Association and the British Independent Film Awards.
The 2008 IDA Documentary Award nominees are:
Kassim the Dream - the story of Ugandan child soldier turned World Champion boxer Kassim “The Dream” Ouima (Coming to AFI Fest).
Man on Wire - this [...]
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Posted on October 20th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Michael J. Smith Sr. in Ballast
Ready or not, it’s officially awards season with the IFP announcing its nominees for the 18th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards (formerly known as the Gotham Awards).
Several films that might be familiar to you if you’ve been reading LiC lately have been showered with a little early awards loving and [...]
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Posted on September 10th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Dispelling any doubt that Warner Bros. is hoping for a little hardcore Oscar action for The Dark Knight, THR’s Carl DiOrio is reporting that the studio plans to re-release their blockbuster superhero film in January during the lead up to the Oscar nominations.
With nearly $513 million in the bank as of this writing, those hoping [...]
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Posted on May 7th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Do you care who was nominated for the MTV Movie Awards? Me either.
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Posted on March 19th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
The 1st Annual Cinema Eye Honors for documentary films were handed out at the IFC Center in Manhattan last night and the big winner was Manda Bala (Send a Bullet).
Winner of the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2007, Jason Kohn’s look at some of the ways that the pervasive political and economic corruption and violent crime [...]
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Posted on March 17th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Named the Best Undistributed Film of 2007 in the IndieWIRE Critics’ Poll last year, earning a Best Actress award at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival for Jeon Do-Yeon, and named by me as one of the best films I saw at AFI, South Korea’s official submission for the best foreign language Oscar, Secret Sunshine (Milyang), [...]
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Posted on March 12th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
The jury and audience awards were handed out at the 2008 SXSW Film Festival on Tuesday evening. The Austin, Texas based festival which began March 7 and concludes March 14 honored They Killed Sister Dorothy, a documentary about a 73-year-old activist nun from Ohio who was murdered in Brazil in 2005, with both the Grand [...]
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Posted on March 3rd, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
The Canadian film industry awarded its own this evening in Toronto, bestowing Canada’s top film prize, the Genie, seven times each on Sarah Polley’s Away From Her and David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises.
Polley’s drama about Alzheimer’s won best motion picture, with Polley herself winning best achievement in direction, best adapted screenplay and the Claude Jutra Award [...]
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Posted on March 2nd, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
Marion Cotillard’s campaign of world domination continues and gives me an excuse to run a picture of her. A week after winning the best actress Oscar for her performance as Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose, Cotillard was a surprise winner of the Czech Lion for best actress, an award normally bestowed upon Czech [...]
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