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2010 Golden Globe Predictions – Best Supporting Actor
George Clooney, The Men Who Stare at Goats (with Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges)
A man with a (goat-)killer stare
Matt Damon, Invictus
A rugby player attempts to Save His Nation
Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
Leo Tolstoy, wine-drinking radical ideologue
Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
A man with some serious issues
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
A Nazi colonel fluent in four languages
Considering the lack of stand-out supporting male performances — in terms of buzz, that is — the Golden Globe field in the Best Supporting Actor category remains wide open.
Peter Bratt’s family drama La Mission, about the relationship between an ex-con (Benjamin Bratt, above) and his gay son (Jeremy Ray Valdez), will open the 2009 edition of the Artivist Film Festival, which runs Dec.
The 2009 Artivist Film Festival will present the Los Angeles premiere of Arthur C. Smith III’s Ice Bears of the Beaufort (above) and Bryan Single’s Children of War on Friday, Dec.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that Thad Beier, Elizabeth Cohen, Don Hall and Jim Houston have accepted invitations to join the Academy’s Science and Technology Council.
2010 Golden Globe Predictions: Best Supporting Actress
Mariah Carey, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire (with Gabourey Sidibe)
An unglamorous social worker
Penélope Cruz, Nine
A film director’s seductive mistress
Mo’Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire (with Gabourey Sidibe)
A Mom from Hell
Julianne Moore, A Single Man
A married alcoholic in love with a distraught gay professor
Emma Thompson, An Education (with Ellie Kendrick, Amanda Fairbank-Hynes, Carey Mulligan)
A school headmistress coping with unruly girls in 1960s London
Saoirse Ronan, Susan Sarandon in The Lovely Bones (top); Nicole Kidman, Daniel Day-Lewis in Nine (middle, upper); Marion Cotillard in Public Enemies (middle, lower); Kathy Bates in Cheri (bottom)
Like the Golden Globe Best Actress – Drama race, the Best Supporting Actress category will be [.
Colin Firth, Julianne Moore in A Single Man, directed by Tom Ford
What’s a "gay movie"?
Brokeback Mountain? Midnight Cowboy? What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Milk? Top Gun? Lukas Licks Lodz?
Something directed by a gay man, say, The Philadelphia Story or Midnight or a couple of the biggest action blockbusters made in the last decade or so? Something written for the screen by a gay man, say, A Streetcar Named Desire or The Innocents? Something based on a book or play or short story or poem written by a gay man, say, Brief Encounter or In Cold Blood? Something starring a gay man, say, the 1925 Ben-Hur or Giant?
If you think about it, the label "gay movie" is pretty meaningless.
Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra in High Society
Turner Classic Movies‘ Grace Kelly series comes to a close with a screening of the actress’ last three films: Alfred Hitchcock’s comedy-adventure To Catch a Thief (1955), co-starring Cary Grant; Charles Walters‘ musical High Society (1956), a remake of The Philadelphia Story (1940) with Kelly as the woman between Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby; and Charles Vidor’s romantic drama The Swan (1956), in which Kelly has to make up her mind between plebeian Louis Jourdan or blue-blooded Alec Guinness.
2010 Golden Globe Predictions: Best Director
Lee Daniels, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire
Clint Eastwood, Invictus (above, Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon)
Peter Jackson, The Lovely Bones (above, Saoirse Ronan)
Rob Marshall, Nine (above, Daniel Day-Lewis, Kate Hudson)
Jason Reitman, Up in the Air
Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish in Bright Star (top);Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin in It’s Complicated (middle); Sam Worthington in Avatar (bottom)
What a difference a few weeks make.
Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner in The Twilight Saga: New Moon
The Twilight Saga: New Moon, directed by Chris Weitz, and starring Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner, did even better than its studio, Summit Entertainment, had estimated.
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