All Other Awards articles – Page 102
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Those Three (An Seh)
Dir/Scr: Naghi Nemati. Iran, 2007. 77mins.Naghi Nemati's assured, poetic debut proves that the Iranian talent factory is still up and running. Playing in Dubai after its Locarno festival bow and Toronto slot, this austerely-shot existential odyssey about three soldiers lost in a snowy wasteland seems tailor-made to illustrate Fellini's claim ...
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Loins of Punjab Presents
Dir: Manish Acharya India/USA 2007. 88mins.A mostly hilarious screwball comedy set around a New York talent contest for expat Indians - or 'desis' - Loins of Punjab Presents has an infectious energy that makes up for the occasional lapse into self-indulgent cliche. With its wacky ensemble cast and its affectionately ...
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Into The Wild leads Screen Actors Guild nominations
Sean Penn's Into The Wild leads the The Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, with nominations in four categories: Emile Hirsch for leading actor, Hal Holbrook for supporting actor, Catherine Keener for supporting actress, and best cast.Other films with multiple nominations are Michael Clayton and No Country For Old Men with ...
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YouTube founders to receive PGA Vanguard Award
The Producers Guild of America's (PGA) 2008 Vanguard Award will go to YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen.The award, which recognises outstanding achievement in new media and technology, will be presented at the 2008 Producers Guild Awards on February 2 2007 in Los Angeles.'YouTube has connected its global audience ...
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Captain Abu Raed
Dir/Scr: Amin Matalqa. Jordan/USA 2007. 109mins.Only a handful of full-length films have come out of Jordan in the fifty years since the country's first feature, Struggle in Jarash. This makes Captain Abu Raed's commercial poise and polish all the more remarkable: a moving dramatic fable about an elderly airport janitor's ...
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Charlie Wilson's War, Sweeney Todd fail to make AFI's Ten Best list
The American Film Institute (AFI) announced its 10 movies of the year yesterday [Dec 16], an annual roster that in the eyes of the jury advances the art of the moving image, enhances America's cultural heritage, inspires audiences and artists and/or makes a mark on American society.The titles are, in ...
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Dubai's top Muhr award goes to Lebanese drama Under the Bombs
Lebanese cine-verite drama Under the Bombs, and Soneaa Fi Masr (Made in Egypt), French director Karim Goury's first-person story of his search for his Egyptian biological father, picked up the Muhr Gold awards for best narrative feature and best documentary at this year's Dubai International Film Festival, which ran from ...
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Control, Atonement lead London Critics' Circle nominations
Anton Corbijn's Control and Joe Wright's Atonement lead the nominations for the London Critics' Circle Film Awards. Each has eight nominations. Other films with multiple nominations include There Will Be Blood, No Country For Old Men and The Lives Of Others, with four nominations each.The awards will be handed out ...
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Screenwriters vying fortop awards
The Coen brothers tell Geoffrey Macnab about the process of adapting Cormac McCarthy’s No Country For OldMen.
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UK regional critics name awards after Richard Attenborough
The UK Regional Critics' Annual Film Awards have been renamed The Richard Attenborough Film Awards. The awards were founded a year ago and will be known as the Attenborough Awards from 2008. The awards are given in six categories: film of the year, filmmaker of the year, actor and actress ...
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Garage
Dir: Leonard Abrahamson. Ireland-UK. 85minsThe remarkably assured second film from Lenny Abrahamson, Garage offers a portrait of village life in rural Ireland far removed from welcoming tourist-board cliches. Boasting a superb central performance by Pat Shortt, the film revolves around garage attendant Josie, a slow-witted, almost childlike individual whose marginal ...
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La Graine Et Le Mulet wins France's Louis Delluc prize
The 2007 Louis Delluc prize has been given to Abdellatif Kechiche's La Graine Et Le Mulet. Cannes Festival president Gilles Jacob, who also heads the Louis Delluc jury, presented the award to Kechiche in a ceremony in Paris on Wednesday - the same day that the film opens in French ...
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Into The Wild, Juno lead Broadcast Film Critics nominations
Into the Wild led the field in the 2007 Broadcast Film Critics Awards with seven nominations including best picture, director for Sean Penn, actor for Emile Hirsch and supporting actor for Hal Holbrook.Fox Searchlight's Juno was close behind with six for best picture, comedy movie, actress for Ellen Page, writer ...
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New York critics opt for No Country For Old Men
The Coen Brothers dominated the New York Film Critics Circle awards announced this morning, taking best picture, director, screenplay and supporting actor for Javier Bardem. Paul Thomas Anderson's oil saga There Will Be Blood, which was the clear favourite with the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's at the weekend, earned ...
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New York online critics pile awards on There Will Be Blood
There Will Be Blood dominated the major categories in the New York Film Critics Online's 2007 poll, tying for best film with The Diving Bell And The Butterfly and earning director and actor honours for Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day-Lewis as well as the cinematography prize for Robert Elswit ...
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There Will Be Blood dominates Los Angeles Film Critics awards
There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson's epic saga set against the backdrop of America's burgeoning oil industry, was the big winner at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) end of year voting yesterday, taking four prizes including best picture, best director and best actor for Daniel Day-Lewis.The movie ...
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A Walk To Beautiful wins IDA's top award for 2007 documentaries
Mary Olive Smith's A Walk To Beautiful took top honours in the feature competition at the 2007 International Documentary Association's (IDA) Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards Gala in Los Angeles at the weekend.The film chronicles the challenges of five women in Ethiopia as they try to rebuild their lives after suffering ...
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Lust, Caution sweeps Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards
Ang Lee's Lust, Caution dominated the 44th Golden Horse Awards in Taipei with seven wins including best feature, best director, best actor and best adapted screenplay. The film had received eleven nominations. Tony Ayres' The Home Song Stories took best actress for Joan Chen's performance and best original screenplay. The ...
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Women In Film & TV honour Alison Owen, BBC's Jane Wright
The UK's Women in Film and Television (WFTV) has hosted its 17th annual awards at a ceremony at London's Hilton Park Lane. Honorees include film producer Alison Owen, BBC Films head Jane Wright, and Harry Potter author JK Rowling. The ceremony was opened by Sophie Balhetchet, cair of WFTV, and ...