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2009 Primetime Emmy Awards nominees

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Here is the complete list of this year's Primetime Emmy nominees: Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series 30 Rock · Reunion · NBC · Broadway Video, Little Stranger, Inc. in association with Universal Media Studios Matt Hubbard, Writer 30 Rock · Apollo, Apollo · NBC · Broadway Video, Little Stranger, Inc. in association with Universal Media Studios Robert Carlock, Writer 30 Rock · Mamma Mia · NBC · Broadway Video, Little Stranger, Inc. in association with Universal Media Studios Ron [Read more...]

Haneke’s The White Ribbon wins Palme d’Or

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The 62nd Cannes Film Festival closed yesterday, when this year's winners were announced at the awards ceremony. German helmer Michael Haneke won the Palme d'Or with his black-and-white prison drama The White Ribbon. Haneke had previously won the director award for Cache (2005) and the Grand Prix for The Piano Teacher (2001) at the Cannes Film Festival. The Grand Prix went to French director Jacques Audiard’s drama A Prophet. Here is the list of all the winners: Palme d'Or The White [Read more...]

Jon Spaihts’ Passengers nearing green light

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Passengers, a science fiction romance written by Jon Spaihts, has moved a step closer to the big screen. Spaihts' script was on the 2007 Black List and has been in development at Company Films for some time now, with Keanu Reeves and Stephen Hamel producing. Now, Passengers is one of the three projects that have been fast-tracked by Morgan Creek, along with the psychological thriller Dream House, helmed by Jim Sheridan, and Antoine Fuqua's crime drama Scarpa, based on a true [Read more...]

Oscar winners 2009

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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 "Departures" (Japan) BEST ANIMATED [Read more...]

Cinema Audio Society honours Slumdog Millionaire, John Adams

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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 the biggest honor I can ever get. Twelve years ago in India I started in production sound. There was basically no production [Read more...]