Awards Watch Archive for January, 2009
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Richard Roeper Chicago Sun Times 1 Slumdog Millionaire 2 The Dark Knight 3 The Wrestler 4 In Bruges 5 I’ve Loved You So Long 6 Gran Torino 7 Milk 8 The Visitor 9 Forgetting Sarah Marshall 10 Frozen River Susan Wloszczyna USA Today 1 The Visitor 2 The Wrestler 3 Frozen River 4 Let the…
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Peter Travers Rolling Stone 1 Milk 2 Slumdog Millionaire 3 The Dark Knight 4 Frost/Nixon 5 Wall-E 6 Revolutionary Road 7 The Visitor 8 Doubt 9 Rachel Getting Married 10 Man on Wire Lou Lumenick New York Post 1 Slumdog Millionaire 2 Wall-E 3 Milk 4 A Christmas Tale 5 Curious Case of Benjamin Button…
Read the full article »The Top Ten Chart for January 6, 2009
Top Ten Lists; 265 Films Listed; 106 Films with one vote; Five films appear on more than 100 lists; Iron Man jumps 10 spots into the Top 20. One Vote Wonders
Read the full article »2008-2009 Critics Scoreboard
Follow us as we shadow national and international awards among the following movies: Australia, Changeling, Che, Defiance, Doubt, Frost/Nixon, Gran Torino, Happy-Go-Lucky, Let the Right One In, Man on Wire, Milk, Rachel Getting Married, Revolutionary Road, Seven Pounds, Slumdog Millionaire, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The Reader, The Road, The Soloist, The Wrestler, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, W., Wall-E, Waltz with Bashir
Read the full article »Writer’s Guild of America
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Milk, Written by Dustin Lance Black, Focus Features ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Slumdog Millionaire, Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy, Based on the Novel Q and A by Vikas Swarup, Fox Searchlight Pictures DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY Waltz with Bashir, Written by Ari Folman, Sony Pictures Classics TELEVISION NOMINEES DRAMATIC SERIES Mad Men, Written by Lisa Albert, Jane Anderson,…
Read the full article »Women Film Critics Circle
BEST MOVIE ABOUT WOMEN Changeling BEST MOVIE BY A WOMAN Frozen River BEST STORYTELLER [Screenwriting Award] Jennifer Lumet: Rachel Getting Married BEST ACTRESS: Melissa Leo: Frozen River BEST ACTOR Mickey Rourke: The Wrestler BEST YOUNG ACTRESS: Abigail Breslin: Kit Kittredge and Definitely Maybe BEST COMEDIC ACTRESS: *TIE* Sally Hawkins: Happy-Go-Lucky Meryl Streep: Mamma Mia! BEST…
Read the full article »Golden Satellite Awards
FILME (Drama) SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE Director Danny Boyle, SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE Actress (Drama) Angelina Jolie, CHANGELING Actor (Drama) Richard Jenkins, THE VISITOR FILME (ComMus) Happy. Go. Lucky Actress (ComMus) Sally Hawkins, HAPPY. GO. LUCKY Actor (ComMus) Ricky Gervais, GHOST TOWN Actor Supporting Michael Shannon, REVOLUTIONARY ROAD. Actress Supporting Rosemarie DeWitt, RACHEL GETTING MARRIED. Foreign Language Film Gomorra…
Read the full article »Producer’s Guild
The Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE Christian Colson The Producers Guild of America Producer of the Year Award in Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures MAN ON WIRE Simon Chinn The Producers Guild of America Producer of the Year Award in Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures WALL-E Jim Morris The…
Read the full article »People’s Choice Awards
Movie “The Dark Knight” Family movie “WALL-E” Action movie “The Dark Knight” Comedy movie “27 Dresses” Drama movie “The Secret Life of Bees” Independent movie “The Secret Life of Bees” Favorite cast “The Dark Knight” Male movie star Will Smith Leading man Brad Pitt Male action star Will Smith Female movie star Reese Witherspoon Leading…
Read the full article »Kansas City Film Critics
BEST FILM Slumdog Millionaire BEST DIRECTOR Darren Aronofsky, The Wrestler BEST ACTOR Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler BEST ACTRESS Meryl Streep, Doubt BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Robert D. Siegel, The Wrestler BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE…
Read the full article »Gotham Awards
Best Feature Frozen River Courtney Hunt, director; Heather Rae, Chip Hourihan, producers (Sony Pictures Classics) Best Documentary Trouble the Water Tia Lessin & Carl Deal, producers/directors (Zeitgeist Films) Best Ensemble Performance (tie) Synecdoche, New York Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, Emily Watson, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hope Davis, Tom Noonan…
Read the full article »The European Film Awards
EUROPEAN FILM 2008 Gomorra (Gomorrah) EUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2008 Matteo Garrone, Gomorra EUROPEAN ACTOR 2008 Toni Servillo, Gomorra, Il Divo EUROPEAN ACTRESS 2008 Kristin Scott Thomas, Il y a longtemps que je t’aime (I’ve Loved You So Long) EUROPEAN SCREENWRITERS 2008 Maurizio Braucci, Ugo Chiti, Gianni di Gregorio, Matteo Garrone, Massimo Gaudioso and Roberto Saviano, Gomorra…
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Nominations FEATURE FILM Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Ron Howard – Frost/Nixon Christopher Nolan – The Dark Knight Gus Van Sant – Milk
Read the full article »Costume Designers Guild
Excellence in Costume Design for Film – Period WINNER The Duchess: Michael O’Connor NOMINEES Changeling: Deborah Hopper Milk: Danny Glicker Revolutionary Road: Albert Wolsky The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Jacqueline West Excellence in Commercial Costume Design WINNER Casey Storm For “Milk, White Gold”. Excellence in Costume Design for Film – Contemporary WINNER Slumdog Millionaire:…
Read the full article »Cinema Audio Society
Awards For Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE Resul Pookutty Ian Tapp Richard Pryke Television Movies and Mini-Series John Adams, Episode 1: “Join or Die” Jay Meagher, CAS Mike Minkler, CAS Bob Beemer, CAS Television Series 24: “Redemption” William F. Gocke, CAS Michael Olman, CAS Kenneth Kobett, CAS Television – Non-Fiction, Variety or Music…
Read the full article »American Society of Cinematographers
FEATURE FILM Anthony Dod Mantle – Slumdog Millionaire Television Movie/Miniseries/Pilot David Stockton – Eleventh Hour Episodic Television Nelson Cragg – CSI
Read the full article »Art Directors Guild
WINNERS FOR EXCELLENCE IN PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR A FEATURE FILM IN 2008 Period Film THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON Production Designer: DONALD GRAHAM BURT Fantasy Film THE DARK KNIGHT PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Production Designer: NATHAN CROWLEY Contemporary Film SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE Production Designer: MARK DIGBY WINNERS FOR EXCELLENCE IN PRODUCTION DESIGN FOR TELEVISION IN 2008: Single…
Read the full article »Annie Awards
PRODUCTION Animated Feature “Kung Fu Panda,” DreamWorks Animation Animated Home Entertainment Production “Futurama: The Beast With a Billion Backs,” The Curiosity Company in association with 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Animated Short Subject “Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death,” Aardman Animations Ltd. Animated Television Commercial United Airlines “Heart,” Duck Studios Animated Television…
Read the full article »American Cinema Editors
Awards BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (DRAMATIC) Slumdog Millionaire Chris Dickens BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (COMEDY OR MUSICAL) WALL-E Stephen Schaffer BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY Man on Wire Jinx Godfrey BEST EDITED HALF-HOUR SERIES FOR TELEVISION 30 Rock “Reunion” Meg Reticker BEST EDITED ONE-HOUR SERIES FOR COMMERCIAL TELEVISION Breaking Bad “Pilot” Lynne Willingham, A.C.E. BEST EDITED ONE-HOUR…
Read the full article »The Top Ten Chart for January 1, 2009
Top Ten Lists; 236 Films Listed; 89 Films with one vote; Both Wall-E and The Dark Knight are listed 21 times at #1; Wall-E appears on almost 70% of all lists; while Milk appears on more lists, both Dark Knight and Slumdog Millionaire rank higher on the lists they appear on; Wall-E has more than…
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