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, [...]
Art Directors Guild announces nominees for Excellence in Production Design
The Art Directors Guild announced the nominees for the annual Excellence in Production Design Awards on Friday.
Here are the nominees in the film and television categories:
PERIOD FILMS
CHANGELING
Production Designer: James J. Murakami
THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON
Production Designer: Donald Graham Burt
DOUBT
Production Designer: David Gropman
FROST/NIXON
Production Designer: Michael Corenblith
MILK
Production Designer: Bill Groom
FANTASY FILMS
THE DARK KNIGHT
Production Designer: [...]
American Film Institute unveils top 10 movies & TV programs of 2008
American Film Institute has revealed the winners of the 2008 AFI Awards, including the annual lists of the best films and television programs of the year. Here they are:
TOP 10 FILMS
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Frozen River
Gran Torino
Iron Man
Milk
Wall-E
Wendy and Lucy
The Wrestler
TOP 10 TELEVISION PROGRAMS
Breaking Bad
In Treatment
John Adams
Life
Lost
Mad Men
The Office
Recount
The Shield
The [...]
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 [...]
Nominees for Gotham Independent Film Awards announced
IFP announced today the nominees for the 18th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards™ which will take place on Tuesday, December 2nd at New York City’s Cipriani Wall Street. It also announced the new name for the awards, making the subtle shift from the Gotham Awards to the Gotham Independent Film Awards™.
Presented by IFP, the nation’s [...]
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 [...]
