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Picture players: Best director contenders
Asthe final wet prints of year-end releases are frantically unveiled toawards voters in Los Angeles, New York and London, a picture of theplayers who will rise to the top in the kudos countdown is emerging.And that picture is a surprising one. 2006 has featured an unusuallylarge number of so-called prestige ...
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X-mas
Animated UK feature Christmas Carol: The Movie is to receive its world premiere at the forthcoming Toronto Film Festival, held Sept 6-15.The $12m Dickens adaptation is being sold internationally by the UK's Winchester Films, and is voiced by Nicolas Cage, Simon Callow, Michael Gambon, Rhys Ifans, Jane Horrocks, Juliet Stevenson ...
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Babel gets director, ensemble awards at Palm Springs festival
The 18th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) will present the cast of Babel with the festival's Ensemble Performance Award and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu with the Director of the Year Award. Cast members Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Adriana Barraza and Rinko Kikuchi are expected to attend along with Inarritu. ...
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The Lives Of Others and Volver share EFA honours
FlorianHenckel von Donnersmarck's Stasi thriller The Lives Of Others (DasLeben Der Anderen) and Pedro Almodovar's Volver were the big winners atthis year's European Film Awards. The German entry for theOscar and Golden Globes, won best European Film, best actor for UlrichMuehe and best screenplay for the director at the awards ...
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NBR honours Letters From Iwo Jima, Whitaker and Mirren
Naming the first winners of the 2006/07 awards season, The National Board of Review has voted Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima the best film of 2006, while Forest Whitaker and Helen Mirren earned respective acting honours for The Last King Of Scotland and The Queen.Martin Scorsese got his awards ...
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Iwo Jima voted best picture of 2006 by LA Critics
Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima, already named best picture of the year by the National Board Of Review on Wednesday, was names best picture of 2006 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) yesterday (Sunday). The runner-up was The Queen. The 32nd annual LAFCA achievement awards ceremony will ...
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Best in show: best actor contenders
Ifthe winner of the best actor Oscar was hardly a surprise last year whenPhilip Seymour Hoffman won for Capote or 2004 when Jamie Foxx won forRay, 2006 is anything but a one-horse race. No single performance hasleapt out so far, a far cry from the best actress category which is,unusually, ...
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Babel, Dreamgirls and The Departed lead Globes nominations
Paramount Vantage’s maiden release Babel leads the field heading into January’s 64th Golden Globe Awards with seven nominations, while Helen Mirren earned three acting nods, Leonardo DiCaprio picked up two, and Forest Whitaker kept his robust prospects alive with a nomination for The Last King Of Scotland.
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Golden Globes: the nominations
Best Motion Picture - DramaBabelBobbyThe DepartedLittle ChildrenThe QueenBest Performance By An Actress In A Motion Picture - DramaPenelope Cruz VolverJudi Dench Notes On A ScandalMaggie Gyllenhaal SherrybabyHelen Mirren The QueenKate Winslet Little ChildrenBest Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture - DramaLeonardo DiCaprio Blood DiamondLeonardo DiCaprio The DepartedPeter O'Toole ...
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Movieline
UK director Andrea Arnold's short film Dog has won the Jameson Short Film Award at the Brief Encounters short film festival, held Nov 14-18 in Bristol.Shot on High Definition, Dog is set on a South London estate, and tells the story of teenager who decides to leave her boyfriend after ...
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PBL
Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd (PBL), one of Australia's big three entertainment and media companies, has revealed its first annual loss in over 10 years for the year ending June 30. The result, which was entirely expected, was largely due to the collapse of telecommunications company One.Tel earlier this year. PBL ...
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San Seb
The San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 20-29) has unveiled the 21 titles set to compete for the Euros150,000 (pts25m) New Directors Award.Three of the films will compete in the Official Section, including: Lantana (Ray Lawrence, Australia), Magonia (Ineke Smits, Holland) and The Warrior (Asif Kapadia, United Kingdom).The remaining 18 ...
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Will Imax big screen fade to black'
Imax Corp. is in serious trouble. Ten months after its stock lost 70% of its value and a week after announcing disastrous 2001 second-quarter results, the Toronto-based giant-screen purveyor has seen another precipitous price drop -- to an all-time low of $1.02 on the US Nasdaq on August 22. In ...
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Swedish thriller sees off the competition
Not even a record-breaking heatwave combined with fierce US blockbuster competition could prevent local Swedish action-thriller, Executive Protection (Livvakterna) from drawing appreciative crowds and topping the Swedish box office last weekend.Despite reviews questioning the plausibility of the plot, about Eastern European gangsters threatening a Swedish businessman in Estonia, Anders Nilsson's ...
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UK film-makers urged to adopt lower budgets
On the day that Danny Boyle's frenetic couplet of made-for-television DV films -- Strumpet and Vacuuming Completely Nude In Paradise -- had well-received industry screenings at Edinburgh, UK film-makers were urged to embrace lower budgets and "liberating" new styles of production. "A lot of what goes on in UK production ...
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San Sebastian's 21 films in New Directors slot
The San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 20-29) has unveiled the 21 titles set to compete for the Euros150,000 (pts25m) New Directors Award.Three of the films will compete in the Official Section, including: Lantana (Ray Lawrence, Australia), Magonia (Ineke Smits, Holland) and The Warrior (Asif Kapadia, United Kingdom).The remaining 18 ...
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Oz's PBL suffers from One.Tel collapse
Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd (PBL), one of Australia's big three entertainment and media companies, has revealed its first annual loss in over 10 years for the year ending June 30. The result, which was entirely expected, was largely due to the collapse of telecommunications company One.Tel earlier this year. PBL ...
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Australia's Movieline to be online by December
Movieline is to add Internet movie ticket sales to its existing telephone ticketing and information lines in December, just in time for the peak Christmas and school holiday period. Up to 250,000 tickets are expected to be sold in the first year of what will be Australia's first nation-wide online ...
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Christmas Carol to premiere at Toronto
Animated UK feature Christmas Carol: The Movie is to receive its world premiere at the forthcoming Toronto Film Festival, held Sept 6-15.The $12m Dickens adaptation is being sold internationally by the UK's Winchester Films, and is voiced by Nicolas Cage, Simon Callow, Michael Gambon, Rhys Ifans, Jane Horrocks, Juliet Stevenson ...
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UK film policy: a dissenting voice
In the year or so since the demise of British Screen and the founding of the UK's Film Council former chief executive Simon Perry has remained silent. Now on Screendaily.com, he delivers an open letter to the UK's secretary of state for culture, media & sport, Tessa Jowell. An Open ...