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...]
The Spanish Cinema Academy presented Javier Fesser's film Camino (The Road) with six Goya film awards at a ceremony held in Madrid this weekend. Camino, "the riskiest and politically most uncomfortable" candidate according to the daily El Mundo, depicts the influential conservative Catholic organization Opus Dei in a critical light. It won awards for best film, best director, best original screenplay, best actress, best new actress, and best supporting actor. Other Goya winners include [Read more...]
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 of Benjamin Button Ron Howard - [Read more...]
The Writers Guild of America has announced the nominees for this year's WGA Awards in three categories. The winners will be revealed on February 7. The WGA Award nominees are: Best Adapted Screenplay The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Screenplay by Eric Roth; Screen Story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord; Based on the Short Story by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Dark Knight, Screenplay by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan; Story by Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer; Based on Characters [Read more...]