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Screen Actors Guild Awards

Bill Sullivan — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:00:10 +0000

Here are the winners of the Screen Actors Guild Awards, presented January 25, 2009:

Theatrical Motion Pictures

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Sean Penn, Milk

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Meryl Streep, Doubt

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight”

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Kate Winslet, The Reader

Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Slumdog Millionaire

Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture
The Dark Knight

Television

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
Hugh Laurie, House M.D.

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
Sally Field, Brothers & Sisters

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
Tina Fey, 30 Rock

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
Mad Men

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
30 Rock

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
Paul Giamatti, John Adams

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries
Laura Linney, John Adams

Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Television Series
Heroes

Source: Los Angeles Times

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81st Academy Award nominations

Bill Sullivan — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:00:34 +0000

The nominees for the 81st Academy Awards were announced Thursday morning.

Here are the contenders in the major categories:

Best Picture
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire

Best Actress
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie, Changeling
Melissa Leo, Frozen River
Meryl Streep, Doubt
Kate Winslet, The Reader

Best Actor
Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn, Milk
Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler
Richard Jenkins, The Visitor

Best Supporting Actor
Josh Brolin, Milk
Robert Downey Jr., Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road

Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams, Doubt
Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis, Doubt
Taraji P. Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler

Best Director
Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Stephen Daldry, The Reader
David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
Gus Van Sant, Milk

Best Foreign Language Film
The Baader-Meinhof Complex (Germany)
The Class (France)
Departures (Japan)
Revanche (Austria)
Three Monkeys (Turkey)
Waltz with Bashir (Israel)

Best Original Screenplay
Dustin Lance Black, Milk
Courtney Hunt, Frozen River
Mike Leigh, Happy-Go-Lucky
Marttin McDonagh, In Bruges
Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, WALL-E

Best Adapted Screenplay
Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire
David Hare, The Reader
Peter Morgan, Frost/Nixon
John Patrick Shanley, Doubt
Eric Roth, Robin Swicord, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Best Animated Film
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda
Wall-E

Best Art Direction
Changeling
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Duchess
Revolutionary Road

Best Cinematography
Changeling, Tom Stern
Slumdog Millionaire, Anthony Dod Mantle
The Reader, Chris Menges
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, Claudio Miranda
The Dark Knight, Wally Pfister

Best Film Editing
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall
The Dark Knight, Lee Smith
Frost/Nixon, Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill
Milk, Elliot Graham
Slumdog Millionaire, Chris Dickens

Best Costume Design
Australia, Catherine Martin
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, Jacqueline West
The Duchess, Michael O’Conner
Milk, Danny Glicker
Revolutionary Road, Albert Wolsky

Best Documentary Feature
The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
Encounters at the End of the World
The Garden
Man on Wire
Trouble the Water

Best Original Song
Slumdog Millionaire, “Jai Ho,” A.R. Rahman
Slumdog Millionaire, “O Saya,” A.R. Rahman & M.I.A.
Wall-E, “Down To Earth,” Peter Gabriel & Thomas Newman

Best Original Score
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, Alexandre Desplat
Defiance, James Newton Howard
Milk, Danny Elfman
Slumdog Millionaire, A.R. Rahman
WALL-E, Thomas Newman

Best Makeup
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Colleen Callaghan, Fionagh Cush
The Dark Knight, Peter Robb-King, John Caglione Jr.
Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Mike Elizalde, Thom Floutz

Best Sound Editing
The Dark Knight, Richard King
Iron Man, Frank Eulner, Christopher Boyes
Slumdog Millionaire, Tom Sayers
Wall-E, Ben Burtt, Matthew Wood
Wanted, Wylie Stateman

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Worst Oscar snubs

Bill Sullivan — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:45:16 +0000

Kate got mixed news. Leo got no respect at all. There was little doubt that Doubt would be a Best Picture contender…until Thursday morning, at least.

Oscar nominations day is a strange affair in Hollywood. When you don’t get a phone call right after 5:30 in the morning, you end up wishing you had. (That’s the ungodly hour, West Coast time, when the nominations are revealed.)

Here at the GetListy Film Desk, we were up bright and early to see who was in, who was out, and who might be a little bent out of shape about the whole thing. With only a half cup of coffee to go on, we were awakened by a surprise or two.

The folks at Yahoo! Movies obviously felt the same way. Here’s their list of this year’s top Oscar snubs:

– Best Picture: The Dark Knight

– Best Actress in a Leading Role: Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road

– Best Actor in a Leading Role: Leonardo DiCaprio, Revolutionary Road

– Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Debra Winger, Rachel Getting Married

– Best Actor in a Supporting Role: James Franco, Milk

– Best Picture: Doubt

– Best Actress in a Leading Role: Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky

– Best Actor in a Leading Role: Benicio del Toro, Che

– Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Kristin Davis, Sex and the City

– Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Ben Kingsley, The Wackness

To read more about these Oscar omissions, and to see a slide show, visit Yahoo! Movies.

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66th Golden Globe winners

Bill Sullivan — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:05:58 +0000

Here are the winners of the 66th Golden Globe Awards, presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association:

MOTION PICTURES:

– Picture, Drama: Slumdog Millionaire

– Picture, Musical or Comedy: Vicky Cristina Barcelona

– Actor, Drama: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

– Actress, Drama: Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road

– Director: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire

– Actor, Musical or Comedy: Colin Farrell, In Bruges

– Actress, Musical or Comedy: Sally Hawkins, Happy-Go-Lucky

– Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight

– Supporting Actress: Kate Winslet, The Reader

– Foreign Language Film: Waltz With Bashir

– Animated Film: WALL-E

– Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire

– Original Score: A.R. Rahman, Slumdog Millionaire

– Original Song: “The Wrestler” (performed and written by Bruce Springsteen), The Wrestler

TELEVISION:

– Series, Drama: Mad Men

– Actor, Drama: Gabriel Byrne, In Treatment

– Actress, Drama: Anna Paquin, True Blood

– Series, Musical or Comedy: 30 Rock

– Actor, Musical or Comedy: Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock

– Actress, Musical or Comedy: Tina Fey, 30 Rock

– Miniseries or Movie: John Adams

– Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Laura Linney, John Adams

– Actor, Miniseries or Movie: Paul Giammatti, John Adams

– Supporting Actress, Series, Miniseries or Movie: Laura Dern, Recount

– Supporting Actor, Series, Miniseries or Movie: Tom Wilkinson, John Adams

– Cecil B. DeMille Award: Steven Spielberg

Source: Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Golden Globe nominations

Bill Sullivan — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:30:39 +0000

Here are the Hollywood Press Association’s 2008 Golden Globe Award nominations for the year ending Dec. 31, 2008:

BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA

– THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures; Warner Bros. Pictures and Paramount Pictures)

– FROST/NIXON (Imagine Entertainment, Working Title, Studio Canal; Universal Pictures)

– THE READER (Mirage Enterprises; The Weinstein Company)

– REVOLUTIONARY ROAD (An Evamere Entertainment BBC Films Neal Street Production; DreamWorks Pictures in Association with BBC Films and Paramount Vantage)

– SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (Fox Searchlight Pictures and Warner Bros.; Fox Searchlight Pictures and Warner Bros.)

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA

– ANNE HATHAWAY, RACHEL GETTING MARRIED

– ANGELINA JOLIE, CHANGELING

– MERYL STREEP, DOUBT

– KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS, I’VE LOVED YOU SO LONG
(IL Y A LONGTEMPS QUE JE T’AIME)

– KATE WINSLET, REVOLUTIONARY ROAD

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA

– LEONARDO DICAPRIO, REVOLUTIONARY ROAD

– FRANK LANGELLA, FROST/NIXON

– SEAN PENN, MILK

– BRAD PITT, THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON

– MICKEY ROURKE, THE WRESTLER

Actors who played gay roles

Philip Wuntch — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:49:47 +0000

At this point, Sean Penn ranks high among probable Best Actor Oscar nominees. The dynamic Penn stars as assassinated gay politico Harvey Milk in Gus Van Sant’s Milk, which opened nationwide Nov. 26. There was a time, though, when such a role would have been considered risky. Among those who proved otherwise: Hugh Jackman. What’s this, People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive once played gay? Yes, and he was heaped with praise for it. Although Jackman’s buff performance in Australia, not to mention X-Man Wolverine, helped make him People’s cover boy, he won a Tony as gay entertainer Peter Allen in The Boy from Oz. That musical hasn’t made it to the screen yet, but if it does, you can be sure Jackman will be cast. Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. Probably the movie world’s most famous onscreen gay couple, they moved critics and moviegoers in Brokeback Mountain(Watch) . But when Brokeback surprisingly lost the 2005 Best Picture Oscar to Crash, Academy homophobia was blamed. Maybe Oscar voters will anoint this year’s Penn as means of erasing that label. Russell Crowe. Six years before Gladiator, Crowe played a good-natured gay in 1994’s The Sum of Us. He and his widowed father bond while searching for appropriate Significant Others. However, Crowe was reportedly offended when he and his rock band 30 Odd Foot of Grunts played San Francisco and gays threw their underwear onstage. Meryl Streep. In 2002’s The Hours, Madame Meryl played a plain-spoken lesbian who vainly tries to keep AIDS-ridden friend Ed Harris from suicide. And near the beginning of her movie career, when handlers discourage such role choices, she played Woody Allen’s ex-wife in Manhattan. When she writes a book explaining how her same-sex relationship had been much more nurturing than her marriage, Woody’s character was not amused. Didn’t hurt Meryl’s career at all.

Movies about writers

Philip Wuntch — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:51:33 +0000

Few things are more difficult to transfer to film than the process of writing. What’s cinematic about showing a poor slob staring blankly at a computer, a typewriter or a piece of paper? Nevertheless movies find writers fascinating.

Gonzo: The Life and Works of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, currently navigating the art theater route, delightfully relates the misadventures of the maverick journalist whose Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ranks as a classic. The fall movie line-up will bring us Chris & Don: A Love Story, which explores the longtime relationship between portrait painter Don Bachardy and writer Christopher Isherwood. Isherwood’s most famous work, arguably, is Berlin Stories, which inspired the musical Cabaret.

Both these films are documentaries, but through the years, feature films have explored the writing ritual and its colorful inspirations. Recently, both Philip Seymour Hoffman and Nicole Kidman won Oscars for playing writers. Among the many efforts to capture the literati onscreen:

Hunter Thompson was anointed on film before Gonzo hit the screen. Bill Murray, whose glib exterior hides a literary bent, played Thompson as an agreeably outrageous charmer in Where the Buffalo Roam, while Johnny Depp, who narrates the current documentary, presented an earthier portrait in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

On a more genteel level, Depp won an Oscar nomination as Sir James M. Barrie, wistful author of Peter Pan, in Finding Neverland. The well-mannered film softened the tragic aspects of the family that inspired Barrie’s famous work.

Another seemingly discreet Brit, Lewis Carroll, author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, was brought to haunting life by Ian Holm in 1985’s shamefully neglected Dreamchild, which explored the obsessive relationship between Carroll and the real Alice.