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The Artist, as expected, was the big winner at yesterday’s 27th Film Independent Spirit Awards, winning awards for Best Feature, Best Director, Best Male Lead and Best Cinematography. Other winners included My Week With Marilyn, which won Best Female Lead; The Descendants, which won Best Supporting Female and Best Screenplay; Beginners, which won Best Supporting Male and Pariah, which won the John Cassavetes Award; 50/50, which won Best First Screenplay; Margin Call, which won Best […]
BLUE LIKE JAZZ, directed and co-written by Steve Taylor (THE SECOND CHANCE) will have its World Premiere in the Narrative Spotlight section at the 2012 South-by-Southwest Film Festival before opening in theatres on April 13th. Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller spent 43 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list and has sold over 1.5 million copies to date. The semi-autobiographical story was adapted for the screen by Miller, Steve Taylor and Ben […]
The Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) announced the winners for outstanding achievement in writing for the screen during 2011. Among the winners, The Descendants won the award for Adapted Screenplay and Better This World won the award for Documentary Screenplay. MOTION PICTURE WINNERS ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Midnight in Paris, Written by Woody Allen; Sony Pictures Classics ADAPTED SCREENPLAY The Descendants, Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon […]
ACE, the AMERICAN CINEMA EDITORS, an honorary society of motion picture editors founded in 1950, presented the 62nd ACE Eddie awards. The Artist and The Descendants won the awards for Best Edited Feature Films and Freedom Riders won the award for Best Edited Documentary. The winners of the 62nd Annual ACE Eddie awards are: Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic)The DescendantsKevin Tent, ACE Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy or Musical)The ArtistAnne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius Best […]
The 43rd NAACP Image Awards was held over the weekend and Pariah triumphed over I Will Follow, Kinyarwanda, MOOZ-lum and The First Grader to win the award for Outstanding Independent Motion Picture. Other award winners include Sing Your Song won the award for Outstanding Documentary (Theatrical or Television) and In the Land of Blood and Honey won the award for Outstanding Foreign Motion Picture. Winners of the 43rd annual NAACP Image Awards for Motion Pictures […]
Adopt Films has acquired for release in the U.S., Christian Petzold’s “Barbara,” only hours before it was awarded the Silver Bear for Best Director at the just-concluded 2012 Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival). Adopt Films plans to release the film theatrically in December and will mount an Academy Award campaign for Petzold and his lead actors. Set in East Berlin in 1980 “Barbara” is the riveting and compassionate story of the eponymous pediatric surgeon whose […]
In the wake of two Academy Award® Nominations for Michelle Williams, Best Actress, and Kenneth Branagh, Best Supporting Actor, the Weinstein Company announced today that they are expanding MY WEEK WITH MARILYN into 600 theaters nationwide. MY WEEK WITH MARILYN is currently in select theaters and will be expanding on February 24th. In the early summer of 1956, 23 year-old Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), just down from Oxford and determined to make his way in […]
The Moët British Independent Film Awards announced today that this year’s awards will be held on Sunday December 9th 2012. At the Moët BIFA’s Tyrannosaur also won the coveted Best British Independent Film, with Lynne Ramsay taking home Best Director for We Need to Talk About Kevin, Olivia Colman Best Actress for Tyrannosaur and Michael Fassbender Best Actor for Shame. Vanessa Redgrave won Best Supporting Actress for Coriolanus and Michael Smiley Best Supporting Actor for […]
Tribeca Film will release Side by Side, a film described as a provocative and illuminating journey through the technical and aesthetic implications of the transition from traditional film to digital technology. Produced and presented by Keanu Reeves and directed by Chris Kenneally, Reeves takes you on a tour of the past and the future of filmmaking in Side by Side. A summer release is planned for the film, which is having its world premiere at […]
The Artist was named Best Film at Orange British Academy Film Awards. The film also won six other awards: Director, Original Screenplay, Original Music, Cinematography, Costume Design as well as a performance award for Jean Dujardin who won the Leading Actor BAFTA. Other acting awards included Meryl Streep for Leading Actress for her performance as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady and Christopher Plummer for Supporting Actor for his performance in Beginners. Outstanding British Film […]
Tribeca Film will release in the Spring, The Giant Mechanical Man, a character-driven, romantic comedy written and directed by Lee Kirk. Produced by and starring Jenna Fischer (The Office) the film features a cast that includes Chris Messina (Vicky Cristina Barcelona), Topher Grace (Too Big to Fail), Malin Akerman (Watchmen, Rock of Ages), Rich Sommer (Mad Men), Lucy Punch (Dinner for Schmucks) and Bob Odenkirk (Breaking Bad, Mr. Show). The Giant Mechanical Man is a […]
by Francesca McCaffery There has rarely been such a non-formulaic and genuinely touching portrayal of a soldier returning home as Liza Johnson’s “Return,” starring the phenomenal Linda Cardelinni (“E.R.”) and always terrific Michael Shannon, opening today in limited release. To say a movie is independent film at is finest doesn’t even translate any longer, of course, but if it still does in any vernacular, this tiny, perfectly on-point little film is exactly it. Cardelinni plays […]