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Best Feature nominee "Amreeka"
The nominees for the 19th annual Gotham Independent Film Awards were announced yesterday by “At the Movies” co-host and New York Times theater critic A.O. Scott. The awards will be held Nov. 30 at the Cipriani Wall Street in New York.
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The Writers Guild Of America announced their screen nominees for their 2009 awards. The winners will be announced on Saturday, February 7th.
SCREEN NOMINEES
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Burn After Reading, Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, Focus Features
Milk, Written by Dustin Lance Black, Focus Features
Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Written by Woody Allen, The Weinstein Company (pictured)
The Visitor, Written by Tom McCarthy, Overture Films
The Wrestler, Written by Robert Siegel, Fox Searchlight Pictures
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Screenplay by Eric Roth; Screen Story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord; Based on the Short Story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures
The Dark Knight, Screenplay by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan; Story by Christopher Nolan & David S. Goyer; Based on Characters Appearing in Comic Books Published by DC Comics; Batman Created by Bob Kane, Warner Bros. Pictures
Doubt, Screenplay by John Patrick Shanley, Based on his Stage Play, Miramax Films
Frost/Nixon, Screenplay by Peter Morgan, Based on his Stage Play, Universal Pictures
Slumdog Millionaire, Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy, Based on the Novel Q and A by Vikas Swarup, Fox Searchlight Pictures
DOCUMENTARY SCREENPLAY
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story, Written by Stefan Forbes and Noland Walker, InterPositive Media
Chicago 10, Written by Brett Morgen, Roadside Attractions
Fuel, Written by Johnny O’Hara, Greenlight Theatrical / Intention Media
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, Screenplay by Alex Gibney, From the Words of Hunter S. Thompson, Magnolia Pictures
Waltz with Bashir, Written by Ari Folman, Sony Pictures Classics
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on January 6, 2009 under Awards | Comments are off for this article
“Slumdog Millionaire” reportedly edged out “The Wrestler” by one vote for Best Picture of the Year by the Kansas City Film Critics Circle.
The complete list of winners:
Best Film
Slumdog Millionaire
Robert Altman Award for 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 Siegel – The Wrestler
Best Adapted Screenplay
Simon Beaufoy – Slumdog Millionaire
Best Foreign Language Film
Let the Right One In (Sweden) (pictured)
Best Documentary
Man on Wire
Best Animated Film
WALL*E
Vince Koehler Award for Best Science Fiction, Fantasy
or Horror Film
The Dark Knight
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on December 20, 2008 under Awards | Comments are off for this article
The Utah Film Critics Association went mainstream big budget and selected The Dark Knight as Best Picture of 2008 and Heath Ledger as Best Supporting Actor. The biggest surprise, there were no awards for Slumdog Millionaire, a film that made every critics list so far.
The full list of awards follows, and does include 2008 releases that have not yet opened in Utah:
Best Picture
The Dark Knight
(runner-up: Rachel Getting Married)
Best Achievement in Directing
Andrew Stanton, WALL-E
(runner-up: Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight)
Best Lead Performance by an Actor
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
(runners-up: Richard Jenkins, The Visitor; Sean Penn, Milk)
Best Lead Performance by an Actress
Melissa Leo, Frozen River
(runner-up: Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married)
Best Supporting Performance by an Actor
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
(no runner-up)
Best Supporting Performance by an Actress
Rosemarie DeWitt, Rachel Getting Married
(runners-up: Frances McDormand, Burn After Reading; Misty Upham, Frozen River; Evan Rachel Wood, The Wrestler)
Best Screenplay
Jenny Lumet, Rachel Getting Married
(runner-up: Robert Siegel, The Wrestler)
Best Documentary Feature
Man on Wire
(runners-up: Encounters at the End of the World (pictured); Waltz with Bashir)
Best Non-English Language Feature
Let the Right One In
(runner-up: Waltz with Bashir)
Best Animated Feature
WALL-E
(runner-up: Kung Fu Panda)
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