Academy Award-nominated actresses Jennifer Tilly (as best supporting actress, for Bullets Over Broadway) and Meg Tilly (also in the best supporting actress category, for Agnes of God), arrive at the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony held at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland on Saturday, November 14.
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Honorary Award recipient Gordon Willis, the cinematographer of classics such as Klute, The Godfather films, Serpico, All the President’s Men, Annie Hall, Comes a Horseman, Manhattan, Broadway Danny Rose, and The Purple Rose of Cairo, arrives at the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony held at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland on Saturday, November 14.
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Martin Scorsese will be the next recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award. Scorsese will be handed out his Cecil B.
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OUT magazine is slowly rolling out its honorees for the prestigious OUT 100. Filmmaker Lee Daniels, director of the critically-acclaimed Precious, makes this year's list: "If Daniels wins best director at this year’s Oscars for the devastatingly beautiful Precious—as he.
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So this is the new trailer for Tom Ford's film A Single Man, which stars Colin Firth as an Oscar winner.
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Lee Daniels is already becoming a favorite for Best Director at next year’s Oscar ceremony for his work on the devastatingly beautiful Precious.
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Heath Ledger in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (top); A Lake by Philippe Grandrieux (middle); Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint in North by Northwest (bottom)
AFI FEST 2009 highlights, Nov.
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Veteran actress and London Film Festival jury member Charlotte Rampling, the star of Night Porter, The Verdict, and Swimming Pool, arrives for the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony at Inner Temple on October 28.
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2009 Chicago Film Festival Awards
2009 Chicago Film Festival: Oct. 8-22, 2009
Tina Mabry’s Mississippi Damned depicts the issues faced by the children of a poor and highly dysfunctional family in rural Mississippi.
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Katie Jarvis in Fish Tank (top); Sam Rockwell in Moon (middle); Carey Mulligan, Dominic Cooper in An Education (bottom)
Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank leads the list of 2009 British Independent Film Award nominees.
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BEST DIRECTOR
The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow
The Lovely Bones, Peter Jackson (above, with Saoirse Ronan)
A Serious Man, Joel and Ethan Coen
Up in the Air, Jason Reitman (above, with George Clooney)
The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke
In all honesty, I don’t know who the hell will get a best direction nod this year — though I’m pretty sure it’ll [.
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Face by Tsai Ming-liang
With nine nominations, including best film and best director, Hong Kong filmmaker Clara Law’s romantic fantasy Like a Dream (right) leads the 2009 Golden Horse Awards.
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In my view, Chinatown (even though the ending leaves me feeling off) ranks alongside Star Wars and Rocky as one of the best movies of the 1970s.
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Thirty years after he fled the United States to avoid prison for having sex with a 13 year-old girl, yesterday Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski was arrested entering Switzerland.
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2009 San Sebastian Film Festival Awards
2009 San Sebastian Film Festival: Sept. 18-26, 2009
Official Selection
GOLDEN SHELL FOR BEST FILM
CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH by LU CHUAN (China)
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
LE REFUGE by FRANÇOIS OZON (France)
SILVER SHELL FOR BEST DIRECTOR
JAVIER REBOLLO for LA MUJER SIN PIANO (Spain-France)
SILVER SHELL FOR BEST ACTOR
PABLO PINEDA for YO, TAMBIÉN [.
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Best director winner Shirin Neshat for Women Without Men at the 2009 Venice Film Festival
George Clooney, pushing The Men Who Stare at Goats and Up in the Air, and TV presenter-actress Elisabetta Canalis
Toni Servillo at a photocall for Maurizio Zaccaro’s Il Piccolo, screened in the Controcampo sidebar
Photos: Courtesy Venice Film Festival
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2009 Venice Film Festival Awards
2009 Venice Film Festival: Aug. 31-Sept. 12, 2009
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Golden Lion for best film: Lebanon by Samuel MAOZ (Israel, France, Germany)
Silver Lion for best director: Shirin NESHAT for Zanan Bedone Mardan (Women Without Men) (Germany, Austria, France)
Special Jury Prize: Soul Kitchen by Fatih AKIN (Germany)
Colin Firth.
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Despite the miserable economy, the just-finished 2008-2009 Broadway season brought in a record $943M in ticket sales, more than any in the 24 years since collective records were kept.
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2009 Karlovy Vary Film Festival Awards
2009 Karlovy Vary Film Festival: July 3-11
OFFICIAL SELECTION – COMPETITION
Grand Prix – Crystal Globe
Angel at Sea / Un ange à la mer
Director: Frédéric Dumont
Belgium, Canada
Special Jury Prize
Twenty / Bist
Director: Abdolreza Kahani
Iran
Best Director [.
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