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    Necessities Of Life leads Genie Awards nominations

    2009-02-12T06:00:00Z

    Benoit Pilon's The Necessities Of Life received eight nominations and Yves-Christian Fornier's Everything Is Fine received seven as the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television announced the contenders for the 29th-annual Genie Awards. Necessities Of Life was Canada's submission for the foreign-language Oscar. The two Quebecois titles were followed closely ...

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    The Necessities Of Life leads Genie nominations

    2009-02-11T10:53:00Z

    Benoit Pilon's The Necessities Of Life received eight nominations and Yves-Christian Fornier's Everything Is Fine received seven as the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television announced the contenders for the 29th annual Genie Awards. Necessities Of Life was Canada's submission for the foreign-language Oscar.The two Quebecois titles were followed closely ...

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    Milk, Slumdog, Bashir march onwards with WGA Award wins

    2009-02-08T09:14:00Z

    Milk and Slumdog Millionaire were the big winners at the Writers Guild Of America's 2009 awards at the weekend.Dustin Lance Black took the original screenplay prize for Milk while Simon Beaufoy kept the Slumdog Millionaire bandwagon going with a win in the adapted category based on Vikas Swarup's novel Q ...

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    Slumdog Millionaire triumphs at London Film Critics' Circle Awards

    2009-02-05T17:52:00Z

    An inaugural NSPCC award for young British performer of the year was presented to Thomas Turgoose for two very different roles; a teenager escaping a bad home life in Somers Town, and a ferocious yob in Eden Lake. Kate Winslet won actress of the year for her performances in The ...

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    Boyle is DGA's top film winner as Slumdog races towards Oscar victory

    2009-02-02T00:52:00Z

    Danny Boyle won the Directors Guild Of America's top prize for Slumdog Millionaire at the weekend [Jan 31], further bolstering the film's prospects for top Oscars come February 22.Boyle in particular looks a strong bet to claim the best director Oscar at the 81st Annual Academy Awards - in the ...

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    Awards Countdown - Oscar nominations - By the numbers

    2009-01-30T15:46:00Z

    MERYL STREEP'S OSCAR HISTORY1978 The Deer Hunter (supporting)1979 Kramer Vs Kramer* (supporting)1981 The French Lieutenant's Woman1982 Sophie's Choice*1983 Silkwood1985 Out Of Africa1987 Ironweed1988 A Cry In The Dark1990 Postcards From The Edge1995 The Bridges Of Madison County1998 One True Thing1999 Music Of The Heart2002 Adaptation (supporting)2006 The Devil Wears Prada2008 ...

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    Suso D'Amico to receive first WGAW Jean Renoir Award for screenwriting

    2009-01-28T19:29:00Z

    Italian screenwriter Suso D'Amico will receive the inaugural Writers Guild Of America West's Jean Renoir Award for screenwriting achievement.D'Amico is credited with writing more than 100 films including The Bicycle Thief, Rocco And His Brothers and Big Deal On Madonna Street.The lifetime achievement award will be given on an occasional ...

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    Happy New Year bags four Swiss Film Prize nominations

    2009-01-26T18:07:00Z

    Christoph Schaub's Happy New Year garnered four nominations for the 2009 Swiss Film Prize QUARTZ in the categories of best fiction film, best screenplay, best actor and best film score. The five episodes intertwine the fates of people of a disparate group of people during Zurich's New Year's Eve celebrations. ...

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    Slumdog takes ensemble cast honours at the SAG Awards

    2009-01-26T04:41:00Z

    Fox Searchlight's Slumdog Millionaire cemented its status as the Oscar favourite as it won the 15th annual SAG Awards' ensemble cast prize on Sunday night [January 25], while Sean Penn, Meryl Streep, Kate Winslet and Heath Ledger took the top individual acting honours.Penn's acclaimed performance in Focus Features' Milk as ...

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    Slumdog takes PGA Award, inches closer to Oscar glory

    2009-01-25T06:30:00Z

    Slumdog Millionaire produced by Christian Colson maintained its remarkable awards season momentum by taking the Darryl F Zanuck Producer of the Year Award for a theatrical feature in the 2009 Producers Guild Of America awards on Saturday night [January 24].Wall-E won the award for animated feature of the year and ...

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    French Cesar nominations announced

    2009-01-23T11:49:00Z

    Nominations for France's equivalent to the Oscars were announced Friday morning in Paris with Public Enemy Number One(Mesrine)at the top of the heap, and Arnaud Desplechin's A Christmas Tale (Un Conte De Noel)and Remi Bezancon's Le Premier Jour Du Reste De Ta Vie tying with nine nods each. Cannes Palme ...

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    The Good, The Bad, The Weird tops nominations for Asian Film Awards

    2009-01-21T17:46:00Z

    The Good, The Bad, The Weird - Kim Jee-woon's rollicking Oriental Western -has racked upeight nominations for this year's Asian Film Awards, including those for best film, director and cinematographer. Song Kang-ho picked up a nod for best actor, while Jung Woo-sung and Lee Byung-hun both got nominated in the ...

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    Everlasting Moments tops Guldbagge awards

    2009-01-13T18:21:00Z

    Swedish veteran director Jan Troell's Everlasting Moments picked up four awards, including best film, at the Guldbagge awards.The film, nominated in eight categories, won the prizes for best film, best actress (Maria Heiskanen), best actor (Mikael Persbrandt) andbest supporting actor (Jesper Christensen). It also wona best achievement kudo for composer ...

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    Slumdog, Button, Milk among nominees for Eddie Awards

    2009-01-13T02:19:00Z

    The American Cinema Editors announced its nominations today [January 12] for the 59th Annual ACE Eddie Awards recognising outstanding editing in nine categories of film, television and documentaries.The nominees for best edited feature (dramatic) are: Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter for The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button; Lee Smith for ...

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    Boyle, Nolan, Fincher, Howard and Van Sant named DGA five best

    2009-01-08T22:53:00Z

    The five Directors Guild Of America 2008 outstanding directorial achievement in feature film nominees are Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire, David Fincher for The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, Ron Howard for Frost/Nixon, Christopher Nolan for The Dark Knight and Gus Van Sant for Milk.The Directors Guild Of America award ...

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    Hunger, Kisses, 32A, The Escapist lead Irish Awards nominees

    2009-01-08T17:13:00Z

    The shortlist for the 6th Irish Film and Television Awards [IFTA] includes best feature film nominations for Marian Quinn's coming of age drama 32A; the prison-break thriller The Escapist; Lance Daly's festival favourite Kisses; the IRA hunger strike drama Hunger; and Ian Fitzgibbon's dark comedy A Film With Me In ...

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    Coens, Allen, Nolans, Beaufoy among WGA nominees

    2009-01-08T00:09:00Z

    Joel and Ethan Coen's Burn After Reading, Dustin Lance Black's Milk, Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Tom McCarthy's The Visitor and Robert Siegel's The Wrestler will contest the Writers Guild Of America's original screenplay category.In the adapted category, the nominees are: Eric Roth's The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button from ...

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    ASC names Dod Mantle, Deakins, Menges among annual nominees

    2009-01-07T16:28:00Z

    The American Society Of Cinematographers has named the five finallists in its 23rd Annual Outstanding Achievement Awards to take pace in Los Angeles on February 15.They are: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button photographed by Claudio Miranda; The Dark Knight shot by Wally Pfister; The Reader by Chris Menges and ...

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    Slumdog Millionaire, Milk, Dark Knight among PGA nominees

    2009-01-05T21:44:00Z

    The Curious Case Of Benjamin, The Dark Knight, Frost/Nixon, Milk and Slumdog Millionaire will contest the Producers Guild Of America's The Darryl F Zanuck Producer Of The Year Award.Man On Wire, Standard Operating Procedure and Trouble The Water are the documentary nominees while Bolt, Kung Fu Panda and Wall-E will ...

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    Waltz With Bashir, Happy-Go-Lucky win with National Society

    2009-01-05T00:46:00Z

    Waltz With Bashir was named best picture of the year by the National Society of Film Critics with 26 votes, ahead of Happy-Go-Lucky and Wall-E tied in second place with 20 votes apiece.Sean Penn ran away with the best actor prize for Milk on 87 votes, followed by Mickey Rourke ...