Academy Award

James Caan DIVORCE: Splitting From Wife #4, Again

source: Huffington Post

LOS ANGELES — James Caan is seeking a divorce from his wife of 14 years. Court records in Los Angeles show "The Godfather" actor filed... LOS ANGELES — James Caan is seeking a divorce from his wife of 14 years. Caan, who earned an Academy Award nomination for his role as Sonny Corleone in "The Godfa...

Published Fri, Nov 20

Nov 19, 2009 (Current

source: current.org

Two pubTV films are on the short list for Documentary Feature Academy Award nominations, PBS says. Both docs, Food, Inc. on POV and Garbage Dreams on Independent Lens, will air next year. Both now advance to voting by the Documentary Branch Academy.

Published Thu, Nov 19

Oscars' 15 documentary contenders: No 'Love' for Michael Moore

source: From Inside the Box

Michael Moore's latest offering was missing conspicuously from the list of the 15 films that will be eligible for Academy Award nominations that were announced Wednesday, Nov. 18.Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story" was among those titles overlooked by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts...

Published Thu, Nov 19

Nicolas Philibert and Marcel Lozinski at DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival

source: fest21.com

The festival programme will include a comprehensive retrospective of Lozinski's work. Academy Award nominated Marcel Lozinski has been a productive filmmaker since 1972. In his documentaries Lozinski potrays people living under socialism and questioned the prevailing social cond...

Published Thu, Nov 19

Pedro Almodovar's One Taboo: S&M￿

source: Huffington Post

The Academy Award winner (best original screenplay for 2002's "Talk to Her"), whose films are watched across the world, attributes his success to the fact that his films "are very entertaining." He says old Hollywood movies in which the main character is a woman and everything happens ar...

Published Thu, Nov 19

New Czech Films

source: altfg.com

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...

Published Tue, Nov 17

Evelyn Leopold: Emma Thompson, Helen Bamber: Finding the Silent Scream (Updated)

source: Huffington Post

Thompson, an Academy Award winner, and Helen Bamber, who heads a foundation dedicated to survivors of torture and trafficking, spoke to a luncheon of journalists, UN officials, diplomats and others at United Nations. Many in the audience of 150 had met victims of abuse but listened in hu...

Published Tue, Nov 17

Gerard Butler in Signature magazine

source: OH NO!!

But he had top-notch colleagues to work with in the film. In addition to the Academy Award-winning Foxx,Viola Davis-who received an Oscar nod this year for best supporting actress in Doubt and is one of the few thespians working today who can go toe-to-toe with Meryl Streep in a heated scen...

Published Mon, Nov 16