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Wall-E voted Best Picture by Los Angeles Critics Association

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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 by Los Angeles Critics: BEST PICTURE Wall-E RUNNER-UP The Dark Knight BEST DIRECTOR Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire RUNNER-UP Christopher Nolan, The [Read more...]

Hunger, Slumdog Millionaire big winners at British Independent Film Awards

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Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire and Steve McQueen's Hunger took home three trophies each at the 11th annual British Independent Film Awards (BIFA). The winners were announced at the Old Billingsgate Market in London on Sunday. The ceremony was hosted by James Nesbitt. Here is the complete list of the 2008 BIFA winners: Best British independent film: “Hunger” “In Bruges” “Man on Wire” “Slumdog Millionaire” “Somers Town” Best director: Mark Herman, “The Boy in the Striped [Read more...]

Chicago Film Festival winners announced

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All the winners of the 2008 Chicago Film Festival have been announced. Steve McQueen’s Hunger won the Gold Hugo for Best Film “for its outstanding visual and dramatic strength, telling an uncompromisingly disturbing story of the courage to fight for one’s belief.” The Silver Hugo and the Grand Jury Prize went to Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Tokyo Sonata which, in the jury’s words, “uses a story of humble family life as a metaphor of global anxieties in an era of economic and moral collapse.” The [Read more...]

Slumdog Millionaire audience’s favourite at Toronto Film Festival

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The 33rd Toronto International Film Festival closed over the weekend. British director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Sunshine) took home the Cadillac People's Choice Award and the $15,000 prize for his latest feature, Slumdog Millionaire, a story about a teenage Indian orphan who is about to win 20 million rupees on India's edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Marie-Helene Cousineau and Madeline Piujuq Ivalu's drama Before Tomorrow won Best Canadian First Feature Film and Rodrigue Jean's [Read more...]