Joel and Ethan Coen's "No Country For Old Men was awarded top honors on Monday by the New York Film Critics' Circle, taking four awards including best picture. The Coens themselves won awards for their directing and writing, while Javier Bardem was honored for supporting actor. Yesterday's big winn...
Read More »In the fourth and final critics' award announcement of the day, Joel and Ethan Coen's "No Country For Old Men swept the Washington D.C. Film Critics Awards. Bringing the day's best picture tally to a tie between "No Country" and "There Will Be Blood," the Coens' film took best picture, best director, best cast ensemble and best supporting actor for Javier Bardem. George Clooney won best actor for "Michael Clayton" while Julie Christie won best actress for "Away From Her." Amy Ryan increased her supporting actress stash for "Gone Baby Gone" and Ellen Page did the same for breakthrough performance, with her "Juno" scribe Diablo Cody also winnin...
Read More »One day before the New York Film Critics Circle weighs in with its picks for the best movies of 2007, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) has announced Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood" was their big winner. "Blood" nabbed the awards for best picture, best director, best acto...
Read More »Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood" tied Julian Schnabel's "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" for best picture at the New York Film Critics Online's annual awards. "Blood" received 5 awards in total, including Anderson for director, Daniel Day-Lewis for actor, Jonny Greenwood's score and Robert Elswit's cinematography. Other winners included "Away From Her"'s Julie Christie for actress and Sarah Polley for directorial debut, Javier Bardem for best supporting actor for "No Country For Old Men," and Cate Blanchett's turn as Bob Dylan in "I'm Not There" for supporting actress. Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola and Jason Schwartzman shared th...
Read More »"No Country For Old Men won best picture honors at the Boston Society of Film Critics awards Sunday afternoon. Joel and Ethan Coen's film also took best supporting actor for Javier Bardem. Julian Schnabel beat the Coens for best director, with his "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" also taking best foreign-language film and best cinematography for Janusz Kaminski. Among other winners, Frank Langella took best actor for his performance in "Starting Out In The Evening," while "La Vie En Rose"'s Marion Cotillard won best actress. Boston-set "Gone Baby Gone" won best supporting actress for Amy Ryan and best directorial debut for Bostonian Ben Af...
Read More »Taiwanese director Ang Lee's erotic spy thriller "Lust, Caution" swept the top honours at the Golden Horse Film Awards, seen as the Chinese-language Oscars. Amber Wang reports.
Read More »Mary Olive Smith's "A Walk to Beautiful" won the top prize at the International Documentary Association (IDA) Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards on Friday night in Los Angeles. It is described as the story of "five courageous women in Ethiopia who have suffered from devastating childbirth injuries and have been shunned by their family and villages." Yoni Brook's "A Son's Sacrifice" won the short documentary award, Paul Taylor's "We Are Together" won the inaugural Alan Ett Music Documentary Award, and Ken Burns' longtime collaborator Buddy Squires received the IDA Outstanding Documentary Cinematography Award. Producer/Director Spike ...
Read More »With December well under way, awards season is about to enter a new phase as east and west coast critics groups prepare to weigh in with choices that will intensify the increasingly competitive race for end of the year attention. A year ago, must-read awards season blogger David Carr referred to the...
Read More »The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures announced their annual awards Wednesday afternoon, naming Joel and Ethan Coen's "No Country For Old Men" 2007's Best Film of the Year. The awards, which kick off a series of critics' awards announced throughout December and early January, also awarded ...
Read More »Lot's of news... The Slamdance Film Festival is unveiling the lineup for its upcoming festival. indieWIRE will have the news at 1 p.m. ET. Also today, the Sundance Film Festival will unveil the roster for its short film section. iW will have the news at 4 p.m. ET. Finally, the National Board of Revi...
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