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James and the Giant Peach (above, top), Coraline (middle), and The Nightmare Before Christmas (bottom) will be screened at a mini-retrospective on the films of animator Henry Selick presented by the American Film Institute at the ArcLight Hollywood tomorrow, Dec. 10, beginning at 5:0...

Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart Jeff Bridges will receive the Desert Palm Achievement Award at the 2010 edition of the Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) to be held January 5-18, 2010. Presented by Cartier, the Awards Gala will take place on Tuesday, January 5, at the Palm Sprin...

Toronto will be the setting of the 2011 International Indian Film Academy Awards; the Ontario metropolis will be the first North American city to host the event. The annual Indian Academy Awards ceremony is the culmination of a four-day celebration of Indian filmmaking. The 2011 edition...

Kevin Costner in Field of Dreams Field of Dreams, starring Kevin Costner in the days when he could do no wrong, is turning 20. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will celebrate the occasion by presenting a new print from the Academy Film Archive and Universal on Wednesday, Dece...

Ronald Colman in The Prisoner of Zenda: Never a dull moment, whether fighting Douglas Fairbanks Jr. or romancing Madeleine Carroll Celebrating Douglas Fairbanks Jr.’s 100th birthday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will screen The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) on Wednesday...

Ulrich Tukur in John Rabe (top); City of Life and Death (middle); Lebanon (bottom) A record 69 foreign language films are in the running for the 2010 Golden Globes, Philip Berk, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, has announced. Among the films in the longlist are Pedro...

Meryl Streep, Steve Martin, Alec Baldwin, Lake Bell in It’s Complicated Written and directed by Nancy Meyers (Something’s Gotta Give, The Holiday), It’s Complicated is an upcoming romantic comedy starring Meryl Streep as a divorced mother of three kids who unexpectedly finds hersel...

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2009 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 2009 Los Angeles Film Critics winners: Dec. 12, 2009   Carey Mulligan, Dominic Cooper in An Education   Nine, The Lovely Bones, Avatar, and The Blind Side may all be Oscar possibilities, but I don’t believe they have a chance with the Los Ang...

Sandra Bullock, the star of the year-end sleeper hit The Blind Side, will receive the Santa Barbara Film Festival’s American Riviera Award on Friday, February 5, 2010. Among Bullock’s credits are Love Potion No. 9, While You Were Sleeping, Practical Magic, Miss Congeniality, The Net, A T...

Tahar Rahim in A Prophet National Board of Review 2009: Top Winners Other National Board of Review 2009 winners: Jacques Audiard’s tough prison drama A Prophet, a likely Oscar candidate in the best foreign language film category, was named best foreign-language film. Michael Haneke’s...

Directed by Joon-ho Bong, Mother, South Korea’s submission for the 2010 best foreign language film Academy Awards, won the top prize at the Blue Dragon Awards ceremony held tonight in Seoul. Despite its important victory, Mother, the tale of a middle-aged mother (Kim Hye-ja) fighting t...

Michael Stuhlbarg in A Serious Man (top); James McAvoy, Christopher Plummer, Helen Mirren in The Last Station (middle); Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel in (500) Days of Summer (bottom) The nominees for the 25th annual Spirit Awards have been announced. Two of the best picture no...

Ronald Colman, centenarian Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Madeleine Carroll, and Mary Astor (in the Ruritanian classic The Prisoner of Zenda); Fairbanks again, with Irene Dunne and Lucille Ball (in the not-so-classic comedy Joy of Living); Bette Davis, Monty Woolley and Ann Sheridan (in the...

Catalina Saavedra in The Maid (top); Stella Schnabel in You Won’t Miss Me (middle); The Hurt Locker by Kathryn Bigelow (bottom) "Kudos to you, great performance," Rosie Perez told Willem Dafoe, after saying that Lars von Trier’s Antichrist, a dark, sex-filled drama in which Dafoe co-s...

Festival director Git Scheynius and Lee Daniels at the 2009 Stockholm Film Festival. (Photo: Carla Orrego Veliz) Lee Daniels’ Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire earned Mo’Nique a best actress award. In the film, Mo’Nique plays illiterate, pregnant teenager Gabourey Sidib...

Best actress Oscar winner Susan Sarandon (for Dead Man Walking back in 1995) was at the 2009 edition of the Stockholm Film Festival, where she was handed the festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award. (Photo: Kalle Mörck.) Among Sarandon’s screen credits, which span nearly 40 years, are Atl...

Screenwriter-director Leon Dai’s Taiwanese black-and-white social-cum-family drama No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti (above), Taiwan’s submission for the 2010 best foreign language film Academy Award, was the top winner at the 2009 Golden Horse Awards ceremony held Saturday evening in Taipe...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that Tuesday, December 1, is the deadline to submit official screen credits (OSC) and music submission forms for the 2010 Academy Awards. From the Academy’s press release: For a feature film to be considered for the 2009 Award...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the 10 semi-finalists in the animated short film category of the 2010 Academy Awards. Thirty-seven entries had originally qualified in the category. They are: The Cat Piano, Eddie White and Ari Gibson, directors (The People’...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the 15 semi-finalists in the 2010 Academy Awards’ Documentary Feature category. Eighty-nine films had been in the running. The 15 documentary feature semi-finalists are: The Beaches of Agnes, Agnès Varda, director (Cine-T...

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Judy Garland in A Star Is Born (top); Brigitte Helm in Metropolis (middle); Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg in Breathless (bottom) Turner Classic Movies‘ first-ever TCM Classic Film Festival, which will be held on April 22-25, 2010, in Hollywood, will feature the world premiere of a n...

Hamish Hamilton will direct the 2010 Academy Awards telecast, show producers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman have announced. It will be Hamilton”s first time directing the Oscar show. Among Hamilton’s credits are the “MTV Video Music Awards” and the “MTV Europe Music Awards,” in additi...

A Well Paid Walk by Milos Forman (top); Vaclav Havel in Citizen Havel by Pavel Koutecký and Miroslav Janek (middle); The Karamazovs by Petr Zelenka (bottom) New Czech Films at New York’s BAMcinématek. The series includes works by two-time Academy Award winner Milos Forman and Jan H?ebej...

Academy Award-nominated actresses Jennifer Tilly (as best supporting actress, for Bullets Over Broadway) and Meg Tilly (also in the best supporting actress category, for Agnes of God), arrive at the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony held at the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highla...

Honorary Award recipient Roger Corman, the producer-director of cult classics such as House of Usher, Pit and the Pendulum, Tower of London, The Terror, The Raven, The Masque of the Red Death, The Tomb of Ligeia, The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, and Bloody Mama, arrives at the 2009 Gover...

Honorary Award recipient Gordon Willis, the cinematographer of classics such as Klute, The Godfather films, Serpico, All the President’s Men, Annie Hall, Comes a Horseman, Manhattan, Broadway Danny Rose, and The Purple Rose of Cairo, arrives at the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony he...

Honorary Award recipient Lauren Bacall, who appeared in, among others, To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Young Man with a Horn, How to Marry a Millionaire, Woman’s World, Sex and the Single Girl, Murder on the Orient Express, The Fan, and The Mirror Has Two Faces, arrives at the 2009 Gove...

Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipients Dino de Laurentiis, Warren Beatty, Norman Jewison, Saul Zaentz, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Walter Mirisch and two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks present the Thalberg Award to producer John Calley (The Remains of the Day, The Da...

Previous Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award recipient Warren Beatty, who also won a best director Oscar for Reds in 1982, at the presentation of the Thalberg Award to John Calley, who was unable to attend the 2009 Governors Awards ceremony in the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland...

Honorary Award recipient Lauren Bacall, the star of classics such as To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Key Largo, How to Marry a Millionaire, and Designing Woman. Bacall was nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar for The Mirror Has Two Faces in 1996. Three-time Oscar nominated act...

David Rockwell will serve as production designer for the 2010 Academy Awards, Oscar telecast producers Adam Shankman and Bill Mechanic have announced. Rockwell served in that same capacity last year. Rockwell’s set design work includes the Broadway productions of Hairspray, Legally...

Among the upcoming screenings in the November film series of the Library of Congress’ Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation in Culpeper, Va., are vehicles for just about everyone, from Charles Chaplin to Dennis Hopper; from Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland to Robin Williams‘ voic...

Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster make love in From Here to Eternity(top); Montgomery Clift and Frank Sinatra do a little (sorta) lovemaking of their own later on in the film (bottom) Fred Zinnemann’s 1953 Academy Award-winning drama From Here to Eternity, starring Burt Lancaster, Mont...

Grace Kelly on TCM: Part I Thanks to Kelly’s Oscar win, The Country Girl is interesting as a historical curiosity — it’s the sort of "gutsy" and "realistic" film adaptation of a respected stage play that was very popular among the filmgoing elite of the 1950s (e.g., Tea and Sympathy, A Hatful...

Colin Firth, Julianne Moore in A Single Man (top); Steve Evets, Eric Cantona in Looking for Eric (bottom) AFI FEST 2009 highlights on Thursday, Nov. 5: Robert Barry Ptolemy’s The Singularity sounds fascinating: Futurist Ray Kurzweil discusses the just-around-the-corner impact of hu...

Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee in The Road (top); Brian Geraghty in Easier with Practice (bottom) Tonight, Wed., Nov. 4, at AFI FEST 2009 in Hollywood: The Road has been getting a lot of Oscar buzz for star Viggo Mortensen, director John Hillcoat, and for the film itself, a futuristic fa...

True/False Film Fest In case you think the Academy only hands out Oscars: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ Academy Foundation has awarded a total of $450,000 to 24 U.S. film festivals for the 2010 calendar year. Recipients range from Outfest: The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian F...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Into the Arms of Stranger: Stories of the Kindertransport, shown as part of the "Oscar’s Docs" series, at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood on Monday, November 2, 2009. Pictured above following the screening (left to right):...

PRESS RELEASE Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will serve as co-hosts of the 82nd Academy Awards®, Oscar telecast producers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman announced today. “We think the team of Steve and Alec are the perfect pair of hosts for the Oscars,” said Shankman and Mechanic. “Steve w...

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Team Qatar by Liz Mermin (top); Hiam Abbass in Najwa Najjar’s Pomegranates and Myrrh (bottom) Doha Tribeca Film Festival Executive Director Amanda Palmer and Robert De Niro handed out two audience awards, worth US$50,000 each, at the festival’s closing night gala on Nov. 1. Coincidenta...

Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire by Lee Daniels (top); The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke (middle); Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi in Vincere by Marco Bellocchio (bottom) Among the Sunday, Nov. 1, highlights at the AFI FEST 2009 at the Chinese Theater complex in Holly...

Tahar Rahim, the star of Jacques Audiard’s widely praised prison drama A Prophet, winner of the best picture award at the London Film Festival and a likely best foreign language film Oscar contender, arrives for the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony at Inner Temple on O...

Screenwriter Jack Thorne, voted best British newcomer for The Scouting Book for Boys, poses with his award. Actors Dominic Cooper and Jodie Whittaker are standing next to him at the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony at Inner Temple on October 28. (Photo by Gareth Catterm...

Academy Award winner and London Film Festival jury chair Anjelica Huston presents the Best Film award during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival Awards Ceremony. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images) Screenwriter Jack Thorne poses with his Best British Newcomer award for the film...

Next month, IFC Films will be releasing via its video-on-demand platform the French box office hit Cliente / A French Gigolo, starring veteran Nathalie Baye, on November 4 and Canada’s submission for the 2009 best foreign language film Oscar, The Necessities of Life, on November 11. The...

Lauren Bacall Oscar winners Anjelica Huston, Jonathan Demme, and Quentin Tarantino, and Honorary Award recipient Kirk Douglas will be some of the presenters at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ first Governors Awards event on November 14 at Hollywood & Highland Ce...

Gemma Arterton arrives for the premiere of J Blakeson’s The Disappearance of Alice Creed, in which two men (Martin Compston, Eddie Marsan) kidnap a woman (Arterton is the unlucky one) and tie her to a bed, during the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival at the Vue West End on October 24. (Phot...

Sophie Okonedo in Skin Winner of four audience awards, including at the AFI Dallas and Santa Barbara film festivals, Skin tells the factually inspired (and quite curious) story of Sandra Laing (Hotel Rwanda’s Academy Award nominee Sophie Okonedo as an adult; Ella Ramangwane as child)...