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All Academy Awards articles – Page 73
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There Will Be Blood, NoCountry For Old Menlead Oscar nominations
Joel & Ethan Coen's No Country For Old Men and Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood lead the Oscar race with eight nods each; Tony Gilroy's Michael Clayton and Joe Wright's Atonement follow with seven each.All are in the Best Picture race, along with Jason Reitman's Juno. Wright is ...
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Persepolis, 4 Months fail to make Oscar shortlist
Cristian Mungiu's Palme d'Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days and Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's Persepolis both failed to make the cut as the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced its nine-film shortlist for the foreign language category.The films listed in alphabetical order by country ...
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Kings, Garage lead Irish Film & Television Awards Nominees
Kings and Garage lead the nominees for the fifth-annual Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTAs), which take place in Dublin on February 17.Kings, an Irish-language feature submitted as Ireland's first Foreign Language Oscar entry, has received 14 nominations while the multi award-winning Garage has 11 nominations. Kings and Garage were ...
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Seven films make shortlist for best make-up Oscar
Seven films have made the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences' shortlist for the make-up category.The films in alphabetical order are: The Diving Bell And The Butterfly; Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix; La Vie En Rose; Norbit; Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End; Sweeney Todd ...
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Deakins, Elswit, Kaminski and McGarvey nominated for ASC award
Roger Deakins (The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford and No Country For Old Men), Robert Elswit (There Will Be Blood), Janusz Kaminski (The Diving Bell And The Butterfly) and Seamus McGarvey (Atonement) have been nominated for the 22nd Annual American Society Of Cinematographers' (ASC) feature film ...
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AMPAS names winners of Scientific & Technical achievement awards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced 10 winners of Scientific and Technical Academy Awards that will be presented at a ceremony in Beverly Hills on February 9.Unlike other Academy Awards, achievements receiving scientific and technical awards need not have been developed and introduced during 2007, however ...
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Seven films shortlisted for Visual Effects Oscar
Seven films have been shortlisted for the Oscar for achievement in visual effects by the effects branch of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences. They are 300, The Bourne Ultimatum, Evan Almighty, The Golden Compass, I Am Legend, Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End and Transformers.Members of ...
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David A Grafton to receive Academy's Gordon E Sawyer Award
David A Grafton will receive this year's Gorden E Sawyer Award, an Oscar statuette for technological industry contributions, from the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.Grafton is a pioneer in designing lenses for optical effects printers which, at the time of their development, were adopted by virtually every visual ...
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Awards Countdown - Best director - The visionaries
1. TIM BURTONSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet StreetBurton has a Bafta nomination under his belt for Big Fish in 2003 and was nominated for the feature animation Oscar for Tim Burton's Corpse Bride. But bearing in mind his films have grossed several billion dollars between them, he is ...
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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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Academy unveils 56 songs eligible for original song Oscar
Fifty-nine songs from eligible features are in the running for the 80th Academy Awards' original song category.On January 15 the Academy will screen clips featuring each song, in random order, for voting members of the music branch in both Beverly Hills and New York City. Following the screenings, members will ...
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Sky gets UK broadcast rights to Oscars and Golden Globes
UK TV company Sky has announced that it will broadcast the Golden Globe Awards live on Sky Movies Premiere for the first time. Live red carpet coverage and awards highlights will be shown on Jan 13 and Jan 14 on Sky One, in Sky's exclusive UK broadcast deal. For the ...
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Awards countdown - Women of substance
Unlike 2006, when Helen Mirren, Meryl Streep, Judi Dench, Kate Winslet and Penelope Cruz all gave showstopping performances, 2007 is not a bumper year for actresses.
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Awards Countdown - best actor prospects
1. Daniel Day-LewisThere Will Be BloodWHY As Daniel Plainview, a determined silver miner who becomes a self-made oil tycoon in turn-of-the-last-century California, Day-Lewis delivers another of cinema's great performances. Assuming a voice with a deep, resonant timbre, Day-Lewis' Plainview is menacing and intimidating, yet painfully human and desperate for human ...
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Mungiu's 4 Months set for Oscar qualifying run in LA
IFC Films & Red Envelope Entertainment will open Cristian Mungiu's acclaimed drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days for a one-week qualifying run in Los Angeles on Friday December 21.The film will officially re-open on January 25 2008 at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas and IFC Center in New York ...
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Awards Countdown - Crafts - The Perfectionist
There is a wealth of spectacular productions on offer to Academy crafts committees and voters this year, from fantasy spectacles such as Spider-Man 3, Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End, Harry Potter And TheOrder Of The Phoenix, Transformers and The Golden Compassto exquisitely designed period pieces Lust,Caution, Atonement and ...
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Academy names 15 documentary features on Oscar shortlist
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has announced its shortlist of 15 films that will contest the documentary feature category for the 80th Academy Awards.The 15 films in alphabetical order are: Autism: The Musical; Body Of War; For The Bible Tells Me So; Lake Of Fire; Nanking; No ...
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MOST NOMINATED COUNTRIES FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE OSCAR
THE LAST 30 YEARS: TOP NOMINATED COUNTRIESWinners in bold1: France (18 nominations, 3 wins)2005 Joyeux Noel2004 The Choir2001 Amelie2000 The Taste Of Others1999 East/West1996 Ridicule1992 Indochine1990 Cyrano De Bergerac1989 Camille Claudel1987 Au Revoir Les Enfants1986 Betty Blue1985 Three Men And A Cradle1983 Entre Nous1982 Coup De Torchon1980 The Last Metro1979 ...
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE OSCAR SUBMISSIONS
FULL LIST OF THE OSCAR SUBMISSIONS 2007Argentina - XXY, Lucia PuenzoAustralia - The Home Song Stories, Tony AyresAustria - The Counterfeiters, Stefan RuzowitzkyAzerbaijan - Caucasia, Farid GumbatovBangladesh - On The Wings Of Dreams, Golam Rabbany BiplobBelgium - Ben X, Nic BalthazarBosnia and Herzegovina - It's Hard To Be Nice, Srdan ...