Costume Design: Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Animated Feature: Ratatouille
Makeup: La Vie En Rose
Visual Effects: The Golden Compass
Art Direction: Sweeney Todd
Live Action Short: Le Mozart Des Pickpockets
Animated Short: Peter and the Wolf
Sound Editing: The Bourne Ultimatum
Sound Mixing: The Bourne Ultimatum
Film Editing: The Bourne Ultimatum
Original Song: “Falling Slowly” from Once
Original Score: Atonement
Documentary Short: Freeheld
Documentary Feature:Taxi to the Dark Side
Cinematography: There Will Be Blood
Foreign Language: The Counterfeiters
Adapted Screenplay: Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
Original Screenplay: Diablo Cody, Juno
Supporting Actress: Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
Actress: Marion Cotillard, La Vie En Rose
Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Director: The Coen Brothers, No Country for Old Men
Best Picture: No Country for Old Men
And commentary goes as follows;
For visual effects, I am surprised Golden Compass beat Transformers, I mean come on! Its TRANSFORMERS!
Bob Marley, a world recognized reggae singer, will become alive once again, as his life story will be revealed in a documentary style film making composed by a teaming effort of Martin Scorsese, Steve Bling’s Shangri-LA Entertainment and international sales agent Fortissimo Films.
The Marley family is excited to gather input and travel back in time to capture the ying and yang of this famous reggae star Bob Marley.
Harvey Milk was an American politician as well as a gay rights activist in San Francisco Ca.
His contributions further beyond his recognition as a politician. According to Time magazine, he was “the first openly gay man elected to any substantial political office in the history of the planet”. He was a man, a mayor of Castro Street, and active during major changes in San Francisco. Milk was assassinated in 1978 by Dan White, whose mild conviction led to the White Night Riots in San Francisco.
Currently filming in San Francisco, Ca, is a film based on the true story of this great politician and activist’s life in the 70’s, played by Sean Penn.
Directed by Gus Van Sunt, and written by Dustin Lance Black, “Milk” is expected to reach the box office towards the end of the summer of 2008.
Supporting cast involves: Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch, James Franco, etc
The Australian actor, age 28 Heath Ledger, was found dead this morning in his Manhattan apartment, New York, naked in his bed with a bottle of sleeping pills next to him, police said.
Born on April 4th, 1979 in Perth, Western Australia, Heath Ledger was an amazing actor part of many best picture films. One of his latest appearences on screen was in the film “Im not There”, as he played a figment of Bob Dylan’s life.
It wasn’t immediately clear if Ledger had committed suicide. He had an appointment for a massage at a residence in the tony neighbourhood of SoHo, NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said. A housekeeper who went to let him know the massage therapist had arrived found him dead at 3:26 p.m. The medical examiner’s office planned an autopsy Wednesday, spokeswoman Ellen Borakove said.- variety.com
For all of you film lovers… when it comes down to judgment day for the real judger’s of movies, this year, it appears as though, we are going to be experiencing a shortage in the pleasure of a show for best films, directors, crew and actors from 2007. I am sure you are aware by now of the continuing Writers’ strike in Hollywood, and it looks like they might be making a great point. Hollywood cannot survive without them, as it is a crucial part of running a show down there. Golden Globes has been cancelled due to the strike, obviously you already know , since it was suppose to air yesterday.
Do you think is safe to say that we could still be looking forward to the Oscars of ‘08?
For all of you wondering folk, of why your favorite TV Show has been discontinued, here is an idea.
Starting in late October, writers marched down the streets of Hollywood with demands for more money, of course, for their hard working days to make you, the regular TV viewer, consequently satisfied.
It is nearing toward the end of December now, and Writers are still on strike.
Last time this happened in 1988, the strike cost the film industry about $500 million.
With the present pace of the strike, the economical loss of the industry grows to about $20 million a day, and somehow, no one is doing anything to prevent this Hollywood crisis.
For your further interest in this mess in Los Angeles, I have researched a few articles that you might want to look at.
Drifting into the Christmas spirit, are you? This year the box office seems to have an overflow of Holiday movies out. And if that isn’t enough few of them are still filming.
Even actors are not satisfied in just being in one holiday movie per year I guess.
Stuck at the San Francisco Airport, on stand by for Los Angeles, the other day, I came across the filming of “Four Christmases”, a film by Seth Gordon starring Vince Vaughn And Reese Witherspoon in the holiday comedy of a married couple with divorced parents, paying their respectable family visits during the Christmas holidays.
Vince Vaughn must be a fan of this season having to be “Fred Clause”, Santa’s sloppy brother, and now the husband of Reese Witherspoon.
The expected premiere of this film comes close to the end of this month, if of course, all goes as planned.
The supposed supporting roles for this film are: Robert Duvall, Kathy Bates, Glenn Close and Stephanie Venditto.
Well, for all of you Vince Vaughn lovers out there: Look forward for another couple of hours of holiday spirit laughs with this rather talkative comedic actor.
So I checked out this film the other day, merely to see what was all the fuss about. And of course I was disappointed. New Line Cinema and director Chris Weitz present Continue Reading »
You know what music is? Harmonic connection between all living beings.- The Wizard, August Rush.
Ok, I know what you’re thinking.. Another chick flick love story, sappy drama… a tear jerker. This is a film that seems to be a waste of time to spend the few bucks to see. Especially, if you judge your movie selections from rottentomatoes.com. Its reviews seem to be horrible. But here is a good review, from a different point of view.
Brief synopsis: In Brooklyn, NY, guy meets girl, they get it on, next day they are separated. This film uses an old technique such as parallel story lines that are bound to cross together. Within the storylines, we meet the guy, an Englishman, a musician in a rock band, and we meet the girl, comes from a rich sophisticated family, plays the viola, musician as well. Then we meet the kid, an orphan, bound to one day meet his parents. Yes, it is boring, ordinary love story Oliver Twist-like, fairytale presentation of a drama. However, Continue Reading »
A curious question, to understand the power of the subconscious better, could be the idea of complete conscious during surgery, under a high dosage of anesthesia. A body fully paralyzed, yet a mind fully functioning and aware, as if awake.
The film, “Awake” attempts to answer the possibilities to this question in a series of events with a plain plot that triggers simply a further confusion behind this puzzling idea. If a subconscious state that’s so strong can enter one’s consciousness and awareness during a state of complete paralysis, is one capable to feel? Continue Reading »
“Flight of the Conchords” is funny in such an understated way that it is almost dangerous to make too much of it — it could collapse like a soufflé when the door slams. It’s much slighter than HBO’s big production comedies like “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “Entourage.” It’s also a little sweeter, less a satire of show business than wry self-parody.- Pronounces the New York Times.
Directed by Bryan Singer, “Valkyrie” is a film about WWII and the time of Hitler. Further more it is about the assassination of Hitler and the entire higher command during a time of war.
