All Screen articles in 21 November 2006
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2006 BAFTA award winners
Best FilmBrokeback Mountain (Diana Ossana/James Schamus)Alexander Korda Award For Best British FilmWallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (Peter Lord/David Sproxton/Nick Park/ Steve Box/Mark Burton/Bob Baker)Carl Foreman Award For First Film Joe Wright (Director,Pride & Prejudice)David Lean Award For Best DirectorBrokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)Best Original ScreenplayCrash (Paul Haggis/Bobby ...
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Sergio Renan finishing Argentina shoot for new feature
Veteran Argentinianfilmmaker Sergio Renan is finishing Three of Hearts (Tresde Corazones), his first feature in five years.The 73-year-old, award-winningdirector and actor is in the last week of shooting of the $840,000 productionstarring local stars Monica Ayos, Fabian Vena and Luis Luque.Based on renowned writerJuan Jose Saer's short story ElTaximetrista, the ...
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Director Robert Altman dies at age 81
Famed director Robert Altmanhas died age 81.His New York-based Sandcastle5 Productions told the Associated Press that Altman died Monday night but didn'tdisclose the cause of death.A multiple best directorOscar nominee, Altman received an honorary Academy Award earlier in 2006 forhis body of work, which includes MASH, Nashville, The Player, Gosford ...
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2006 Academy Award winners
Crash turned the tables on popular wisdom when it was named best picture at the 78th annual Academy Awards last night as it took three Oscars, while the pre-ceremony favourite Brokeback Mountain also took home three awards including best director for Ang Lee.Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Reese Witherspoon won the ...
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Aurum strikes three-year deal with Yari Film Group
Yari Film Groupand Momentum Pictures' Spanish distribution arm Aurum have signed an exclusivethree-year output deal. The deal wasannounced by Yari Film Group CCO David Glasser and Xavier Marchand, managing directorof Momentum Europe.Aurum will acquirefull distribution rights throughout Spain for films produced and/or acquired byYari Film Group over the next three ...
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2006 Golden Globe winners
Best Motion Picture - DramaBrokeback MountainBest Performance By An Actress In A Motion Picture - DramaFelicity Huffman - TransamericaBest Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture - DramaPhilip Seymour Hoffman - CapoteBest Motion Picture - Musical Or ComedyWalk The LineBest Performance By An Actress In A Motion Picture - ...
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Beatty to receive Cecil B DeMille award from HFPA
Warren Beatty will receive the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s (HFPA) Cecil B DeMille Award for lifetime achievement.
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Balkan Fund development grants go to four features
Four film projects comingfrom three southeastern European countries received the grants handed out todayby the Balkan Fund, a script development initiative created in November 2002 bythe Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF).Two of the four awardedprojects come from Romania, where cinema has become more vital in recent years.The two projects, receiving ...
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Metrodome strikes UK deal for Mehta's Water
Metrodome Distribution hastaken UK rights to Deepa Mehta's Water, the final project in the director's Element trilogy thatalso included 1996's Fire and 1998's Earth. Metrodome plans a June 2007 release.The deal was negotiatedbetween sales agent Celluloid Dreams, producer David Hamilton and executiveproducer Doug Mankoff with Metrodome CEO Peter Urie, general ...
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Cape Town honours King And The Clown
South Korea's The King And The Clown, directed by Lee Joon-ik, has taken topprizes at the Cape Town World Cinema Festival. The period satire won BestFilm and Best Screenplay for writers Choi Seok-hwan and Kim Tae-woong.The best director prize wentto Mat Whitecross and Michael Winterbottom for The Road To Guantanamo; ...
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BAFTA builds buzz
The concept of business as usual seems entirely alien to the organisers of the annual BAFTA Awards.
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Foreign-language Oscar submissions in full
Argentina Family Law (Daniel Burman) Australia Ten Canoes (Rolf de Heer) Austria You Bet Your Life (Antonin Svoboda) Bangladesh Forever Flows (Abu Sayeed) Belgium Someone Else's Happiness (Fien Troch) Bolivia American Visa (Juan Carlos Valdivia) Bosnia and Herzegovina Grbavica (Jasmila Zbanic) Brazil Cinema, Aspirins And Vultures (Marcelo Gomes) Bulgaria Monkeys ...
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Wonders Of The World
You could argue that every year is a banner year for international cinema, but few would deny that 2006 has more than its fair share of crowd-pleasing non-English language movies. And the foreign-language Oscar category is, after all, more focused on films that play with audiences than films that please ...
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Kaurismaki doesn't want to be considered for Oscar
Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki has withdrawn from the race for an Academy Award nomination in the Best Foreign-Language Film category. He has told the Finnish Oscar Committee that he does not want Lights In The Dusk - the final film in his losers' trilogy - to be Finland's official submission. ...
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Gothams honour Winslet and Norton
Kate Winslet and Edward Norton will receive 2006 Gotham Tributes at the upcoming 16th Annual Gotham Awards in New York on Nov 29.The Gotham Awards will also honour multiple filmmakers with its first annual World Cinema Tribute. This year, the tribute will be presented to the Mexican trio of Alfonso ...
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Ten Canoes and Jindabyne shine at critics awards
It was always going to be a film that pleased the critics and Ten Canoes did just that, winning best film at the Film Critics Circle of Australia awards. Rolf de Heer's film, which brings to life the story an Aboriginal hunter tells his younger companion while on an expedition, ...
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Almodovar and Loach head EFA nominations
Nominations for the European Film Awards were announced on November 4, with Pedro Almodovar's Volver leading the field, appearing in six of the seven major categories. The Wind That Shakes The Barley , which surprised many by taking beating the much-fancied Volver for the Palm d'Or, has five nominations, including ...
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Dogwoof takes UK rights to Tough Enough
Dogwoof Pictures has taken UK rights to Detlev Buck's Tough Enough (Knallhart). The German feature is abouta 15-year-old boy (David Kross) who moves from the posh suburbs into a rough Berlin neighborhood, where he finds himself in over hishead with the criminal underworld. The deal was struck at AFMwith sales ...
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Light relief from the Globes
The Golden Globes show not only brings together the world of film and TV but it also includes categories in comedy and musical categories, one of the major differentiating features of the Globes from other awards bodies.