Archive for February, 2009
Oscar winners 2009
BEST PICTURE “Slumdog Millionaire” BEST ACTRESS Kate Winslet, “The Reader” BEST ACTOR Sean Penn, “Milk” BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Penelope Cruz, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Heath Ledger, “The Dark Knight” BEST DIRECTOR Danny Boyle, “Slumdog Millionaire” BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Dustin Lance Black, “Milk” BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Simon Beaufoy, “Slumdog Millionaire” BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM [...]
Cinema Audio Society honours Slumdog Millionaire, John Adams
Slumdog Millionaire‘s production mixer Resul Pookutty and re-recording mixers Ian Tapp and Richard Pryke were presented with the award for outstanding achievement in motion picture sound mixing at the 45th Annual Cinema Audio Awards ceremony, held on Saturday at the Millennium-Biltmore Hotel. Dedicating the award to the ”sound gods of India,” Pookutty said: “This is [...]
Berlinale ’09 ends – winners announced
The Berlin Film Festival closed on Saturday with an awards ceremony. The International Jury presented the Golden Bear for Best Film to a Latin American filmmaker for the second year in a row. The Milk of Sorrow (La Teta asustada), the winner of the Golden Bear, is the second feature from Peruvian director Claudia Llosa. [...]
American Cinema Editors award Wall-E, Slumdog, Man on Wire
American Cinema Editors (ACE) announced the winners of the 2009 ACE Eddie Awards for best achievement in editing at the Beverly Hilton Hotel last night. Mel Gibson presented Richard Donner with ACE’s filmmaker of the year award, while Robert Zemeckis handed the career achievement trophy to Arthur Schmidt, whose credits include Back to the Future [...]
The Sarah Connor Chronicles 2×14: The Good Wound
The new episode of The Sarah Connor Chronicles picks up where the show left off in December and, while it does not provide any definite answers to the questions raised in the first half of the season, it certainly doesn’t lack in major hints about where the story is going. We learn that Sarah (Lena [...]
Sci fi Friday kicks off: Sarah Connor, Dollhouse, Battlestar Galactica
For the next month and a half starting today, television will be treating science fiction fans fraktastically well on Friday nights. Battlestar Galactica goes into its final run of episodes (only six to go), Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles moves to a Friday slot and into the season two back nine, and Joss Whedon‘s Dollhouse [...]
United States of Tara picked up for another season
Showtime has ordered 12 more episodes of United States of Tara, the network’s new ratings hit starring Toni Collette, John Corbett and Rosemarie DeWitt. Season two will go into production this summer and premiere early in 2010. United States of Tara focuses on a wife and mother struggling with dissociative identity disorder and the effect [...]
Slumdog Millionaire, Man on Wire win BAFTAs for Best Film
The British Academy announced the winners of this year’s BAFTA Awards at a ceremony at the Royal Opera House in London. Slumdog Millionaire was the big winner of the evening with honours in seven categories, including Best Film. Here is the list of the BAFTA nominees, for reference. And here are this year’s winners: BEST [...]
Writers Guild announces WGA Award winners
The Writers Guild announced the winners of this year’s WGA Awards at simultaneous ceremonies at the Century Plaza in Los Angeles and the Hudson Theater in New York on Saturday. Here is the complete list of winners: FILM ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Milk, written by Dustin Lance Black ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Slumdog Millionaire, screenplay by Simon Beaufoy, based [...]
Julia Ormond, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali to star in The Wronged Man
Julia Ormond (Legends of the Fall, Inland Empire) and Mahershalalhashbaz Ali (The 4400, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) will headline The Wronged Man, a story of justice and redemption premiering on Lifetime Movie Network in November 2009. The film is based on the true story of an unlikely friendship between paralegal Janet Gregory (Ormond) [...]
