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 FILM
Slumdog Millionaire
OUTSTANDING BRITISH [...]
London Film Critics name The Wrestler, Slumdog films of the year
The London Film Critics’ Circle presented the awards for the best achievements in film in 2008 on Wednesday. Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler, starring Mickey Rourke and Marisa Tomei, was named the best film of the year, while Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire took home the award for Best British Film.
Here are all the winners:
FILM OF THE [...]
Oscar nominees announced
The nominees for the 81st Academy Awards were announced earlier today. Here is the complete list:
BEST PICTURE
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
“Frost/Nixon”
“Milk”
“The Reader”
“Slumdog Millionaire”
BEST ACTRESS
Anne Hathaway, “Rachel Getting Married”
Angelina Jolie, “Changeling”
Melissa Leo, “Frozen River”
Meryl Streep, “Doubt”
Kate Winslet, “The Reader”
BEST ACTOR
Frank Langella, “Frost/Nixon”
Sean Penn, “Milk”
Brad Pitt, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
Mickey Rourke, “The Wrestler”
Richard Jenkins, [...]
Golden Globe winners announced
The winners of the 2008 Golden Globe Awards were announced earlier today. Here they are:
BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Reader
Revolutionary Road
Slumdog Millionaire
BEST MOTION PICTURE – MUSICAL OR COMEDY
Burn After Reading
In Bruges
Happy-Go-Lucky
Mamma Mia
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
BEST DIRECTOR
Danny Boyle – Slumdog Millionaire
Steven Daldry – The Reader
David Fincher – The Curious Case [...]
Boston Film Critics vote Wall-E, Slumdog Millionaire Best Movies of the Year
The Boston Society of Film Critics awarded top honours to Wall-E and Slumdog Millionaire in a vote for the Best Movies of the Year. This is the second big win for Wall-E coming from a critics’ association. The film already won the Best Picture Award from the Los Angeles Critics Association earlier this month.
Similarly, there [...]
Wall-E voted Best Picture by Los Angeles Critics Association
Disney-PIXAR’s Wall-E has become the first animated feature in history to win the title of Best Picture from the Los Angeles Critics Association. It didn’t however, win Best Animated Film at the same time as the honor went to Israeli feature Waltz with Bashir.
Here are all the winners and runners-up across the categories, as voted [...]
Venice Film Festival 2008 awards
The 65th annual Venice Film Festival wrapped over the weekend. The Golden Lion for best film went to Darren Aronofsky for his drama The Wrestler, starring Mickey Rourke as a retired professional wrestler trying to make a comeback.
Rourke is one of the early contenders for an Oscar for his performance in the film, even if [...]