"AND THE OSCAR(R) GOES TO..." (How Does a Filmmaker Become an Academy Award(R) Winner?)
Frankly My Dear... (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
It smacks of Robert Duvall's Oscar winner, Tender Mercies. Bridges plays a drunken country has-been redeemed by a good woman. Colin Farrell co-stars as a rising country star mentored by the Bridges character, with Maggie Gyllenhaal as a reporter who...
GLOBAL ENTERTAINMENT LATEST NEWS (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Oscar winner Morgan Freeman has reached an out-of-court settlement with a woman who was his passenger in a car crash and later sued him, court documents showed on Thursday. Details of Freeman's settlement with Demaris Meyer, the passenger in the August 2008 crash, were not made public in court records, and a spokesman for the actor said that no further details would be disclosed. But...
France 24 (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Oscar-winner Helen Mirren has signed on to star in espionage thriller "Red," a big-screen adaptation of the DC comic book series, it was reported Wednesday. Mirren, who scooped the best actress statuette at the Academy Awards in 2007 for her performance in "The Queen," joins a cast featuring Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman, Daily Variety reported. The three-book comic...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Can you buy an Oscar? Until this week, I wasn't sure. Film studios obviously throw cash at awards season, taking out ads in Variety and hosting cocktail bashes in support of fancied movies.
Gold Derby (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Last week we showcased the Oscars predix of top film journalists. Now it's time to tap the views of the shrewdest awards pundits around here. Below are the best-picture predix of our forum moderators Chris "Boomer" Beachum, Matthew "Boidiva02" Cormier, Darrin "DoubleD" Dortch, Robert "Rob L" Licuria, Andrew "andrew" Pickett and Paul Sheehan....
Gold Derby (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
OSCARS • Oscars' best-picture race: 12 front-runners • Gutsy Envelope gurus predict Oscar's best picture nominees • Fearless Oscar prophets predict best picture nominees (Can 'Star Trek' or 'District 9' really fly') • More best-pix predix from top Oscar oracles • Oscar derby update: 'Invictus,' 'The Hurt Locker' lead best-picture race...
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Jason Musante Klein’s 10-minute short film The Perfect Time was just named the winner of the 2009 Stella Artois Short Film Award Project. The Belgian lager company and Kevin Spacey’s Trigger Street Productions co-sponsored the competition (talk about paying it forward!), which featured a panel of glitzy A-list judges such as Laurence “Morpheus” Fishburne, Borat’s...
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | yesterday
JACQUES Audiard’s tough prison drama A Prophet has landed six nominations at this year’s European Film Awards, Europe’s equivalent of the Oscars. The film, which also took the top award at the recent London Film Festival, landed nods for best picture, director, actor (Tahar Rahim), screenwriter (Audiard and Thomas Bidegain) and photographer (Stephane Fontaine). It’s also France’s entry...
The Daily Record (Free subscription) | yesterday
OSCAR winner Jeremy Irons is to star in a major new movie about the saint who brought Christianity to Scotland.
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
The EFAs are only 20 years old, a novice awards organization really, but their prizes offer up a rich variety of films, languages and genres. It's truly a grab bag and, if you're too Oscar focused, their prizes can be head scratching. Their 2009 Best Picture Nominees encompass three years worth of U.S. release dates: (2008) Slumdog Millionaire, Let the Right One In and The Reader (2009) The...
Entertainment Tonight (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's a fashion face-off for style-savvy celebs! From Oscar winner Kate Winslet and 'Precious' actress Mariah Carey to Ashley Tisdale and "90210" actress Annalynne McCord , see which stars are working the red carpet in similar styles.
Watch Free TV Online (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Nancy Meyers directs this romantic comedy that stars Oscar-winner Meryl Streep as a woman torn between an architect (Steve Martin) and her philandering ex-husband (Alec Baldwin). ITS COMPLICATED also features the comic prowess of John Krasinski, Lake Bell, Rita Wilson, and Mary Kay Place.
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
... pub. So they stopped seeing me. Broke, out-of-work actors are very lonely people."The 76-year-old Oscar winner continued: "Not everyone's going to be a multi-millionaire movie star, but at least they can get a decent job and making a decent living and lead a happy life. That's the minimum. But some of them never got the chance."Caine also said that his mother didn't understand the...
Sunday Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
Look at a grainy black-and-white news photograph of Amelia Earhart climbing from her plane after becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. She's wearing leather head-to-toe pilot's gear, but has taken off her goggles and is laughing. She could easily pass for two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank, who plays her in Mira Nair's biopic Amelia. "No way," laughs Swank....
Clipta (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Inspired by the classic Universal film that launched a legacy of horror, The Wolfman brings the myth of a cursed man back to its iconic origins. Oscar winner Benicio Del Toro stars as Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father (Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins), Talbot sets out to find his...
