Financier also backed Journey’s End, Elstree 1976 and Swallows And Amazons.
Christian Eisenbeiss, business mogul and film producer, has died at the age of 61.
As chairman of British Film Company, Eisenbeiss was an executive producer on Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie, Dad’s Army, the Bafta-nominated documentary McCullin and Star Wars documentary Elstree 1976.
He was also an executive producer on upcoming projects including Saul Dibb’s First World War drama Journey’s End and Amma Asante’s Where Hands Touch, which are both in post-production, and Spitfire, a documentary about the famous British military aircraft currently in production.
Another project, Trautmann, about the famed German goalkeeper who played for Manchester City, is scheduled to commence shooting in June.
Born in New York City on September 11, 1955, Eisenbeiss earned a master’s degree in mathematics at Columbia University before embarking on a career as an investment banker.
After becoming the chairman of German beer company Holsten Brewery, succeeding...
Christian Eisenbeiss, business mogul and film producer, has died at the age of 61.
As chairman of British Film Company, Eisenbeiss was an executive producer on Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie, Dad’s Army, the Bafta-nominated documentary McCullin and Star Wars documentary Elstree 1976.
He was also an executive producer on upcoming projects including Saul Dibb’s First World War drama Journey’s End and Amma Asante’s Where Hands Touch, which are both in post-production, and Spitfire, a documentary about the famous British military aircraft currently in production.
Another project, Trautmann, about the famed German goalkeeper who played for Manchester City, is scheduled to commence shooting in June.
Born in New York City on September 11, 1955, Eisenbeiss earned a master’s degree in mathematics at Columbia University before embarking on a career as an investment banker.
After becoming the chairman of German beer company Holsten Brewery, succeeding...
- 4/12/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
After heading to WWII for Christopher Nolan‘s Dunkirk, which has recently kicked off shooting, Tom Hardy will return to the battlefield, in a different form. He’s strapping on a camera to play British war photographer Don McCullin, Deadline reports. Along with Dunkirk, Hardy is no stranger to fictionalized wartime, with some of his first features being Black Hawk Down and The Deserter.
The film will be an adaptation of McCullin’s autobiography, titled Unreasonable Behavior, but whether or not the film will share the same name is yet to be seen. The script is penned by screenwriter Gregory Burke, who made a name for himself with last year’s Jack O’Connell-led drama ’71.
The autobiography charts McCullin’s firsthand account of his journey from living in poverty to becoming a famous photojournalist. The book (which one can pick up here) is said to be unflinching in its depiction,...
The film will be an adaptation of McCullin’s autobiography, titled Unreasonable Behavior, but whether or not the film will share the same name is yet to be seen. The script is penned by screenwriter Gregory Burke, who made a name for himself with last year’s Jack O’Connell-led drama ’71.
The autobiography charts McCullin’s firsthand account of his journey from living in poverty to becoming a famous photojournalist. The book (which one can pick up here) is said to be unflinching in its depiction,...
- 6/23/2016
- by Mike Mazzanti
- The Film Stage
According to Deadline, The Revenant and Mad Max: Fury Road star Tom Hardy has closed a deal to headline Working Title’s Don McCullin biopic as the titular war photographer.
Lifting inspiration from McCullin’s autobiography Unreasonable Behaviour, and adapted for the screen by Gregory Burke (’71), Working Title’s real-life period drama will chronicle McCullin’s remarkable journey from the working classes of London’s stricken suburbs to becoming one of the most decorated and respected war photographers of the 20th century.
Hopping from Vietnam to Cambodia, and Biafra to Uganda, it’s a story befitting of a cinematic adaptation and though Deadline didn’t disclose details of a potential director to take the reins, we imagine it won’t be long before Working Title closes in on a filmmaker to helm the biopic.
As for McCullin’s Unreasonable Behaviour, the outlet pitches the non-fiction work as “an unflinching account...
Lifting inspiration from McCullin’s autobiography Unreasonable Behaviour, and adapted for the screen by Gregory Burke (’71), Working Title’s real-life period drama will chronicle McCullin’s remarkable journey from the working classes of London’s stricken suburbs to becoming one of the most decorated and respected war photographers of the 20th century.
Hopping from Vietnam to Cambodia, and Biafra to Uganda, it’s a story befitting of a cinematic adaptation and though Deadline didn’t disclose details of a potential director to take the reins, we imagine it won’t be long before Working Title closes in on a filmmaker to helm the biopic.
As for McCullin’s Unreasonable Behaviour, the outlet pitches the non-fiction work as “an unflinching account...
- 6/22/2016
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Oscar-nominated actor signed on to play the famed British photojournalist, best known for his harrowing images taken during wars in Vietnam and Cambodia
Fresh from playing Mad Max and earning a first Oscar nomination for going up against Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant, Tom Hardy has reportedly signed on to embody famed British war photographer Don McCullin.
The film, written by ’71 scribe Gregory Burke, will be based on McCullin’s autobiography, Unreasonable Behavior, according to Deadline.
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Fresh from playing Mad Max and earning a first Oscar nomination for going up against Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant, Tom Hardy has reportedly signed on to embody famed British war photographer Don McCullin.
The film, written by ’71 scribe Gregory Burke, will be based on McCullin’s autobiography, Unreasonable Behavior, according to Deadline.
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- 6/22/2016
- by Nigel M Smith
- The Guardian - Film News
Tom Hardy is set to play legendary British war photographer Don McCullin in an adaptation of his autobiograpy "Unreasonable Behaviour" for Working Title.
"'71" scribe Gregory Burke penned the project following McCullin's journey from a poverty-stricken childhood in wartime London to becoming one of the most famous war photojournalists in Vietnam, Cambodia, Biafra and Uganda.
Hardy, Dean Baker, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will produce. Hardy is currently shooting Chris Nolan's "Dunkirk" and will be seen later this year in the TV series "Taboo".
Source: Deadline...
"'71" scribe Gregory Burke penned the project following McCullin's journey from a poverty-stricken childhood in wartime London to becoming one of the most famous war photojournalists in Vietnam, Cambodia, Biafra and Uganda.
Hardy, Dean Baker, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will produce. Hardy is currently shooting Chris Nolan's "Dunkirk" and will be seen later this year in the TV series "Taboo".
Source: Deadline...
- 6/22/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Tom Hardy will channel his inner artist in his upcoming project. According to Deadline, The “Mad Max: Fury Road” actor will portray legendary British war photographer Don McCullin in a new project produced by Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner.
The yet untitled film is being adapted by Gregory Burke from McCullin’s autobiography “Unreasonable Behaviour,” which chronicles the photographer’s journey from a poverty-stricken childhood in wartime London to finding success as one of the most sought after war photojournalists.
Read More: Tom Hardy Musical ‘London Road’ Lands Distributor
Hardy and Dean Baker of Hardy, Son & Baker will also serve as producers with McCullin and Mark George as executive producers.
McCullin’s work is monumental. He worked as an overseas correspondence for the Sunday Times Magazine and traveled to Biafra in 1968, photographed the victims of the African AIDS epidemic and risked his life covering the wars in Vietnam,...
The yet untitled film is being adapted by Gregory Burke from McCullin’s autobiography “Unreasonable Behaviour,” which chronicles the photographer’s journey from a poverty-stricken childhood in wartime London to finding success as one of the most sought after war photojournalists.
Read More: Tom Hardy Musical ‘London Road’ Lands Distributor
Hardy and Dean Baker of Hardy, Son & Baker will also serve as producers with McCullin and Mark George as executive producers.
McCullin’s work is monumental. He worked as an overseas correspondence for the Sunday Times Magazine and traveled to Biafra in 1968, photographed the victims of the African AIDS epidemic and risked his life covering the wars in Vietnam,...
- 6/22/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Tom Hardy, coming off an Oscar nom for The Revenant, will play legendary British war photographer Don McCullin in a film that ’71 scribe Gregory Burke has adapted from McCullin’s autobiography Unreasonable Behaviour. The film will be produced by Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, with Hardy and Dean Baker of Hardy, Son & Baker. McCullin and Mark George are exec producing. The book is an unflinching account of McCullin’s journey from a…...
- 6/22/2016
- Deadline
A heartrending documentary about newspaper editor Harold Evans’s campaign for justice for thalidomide victims
This powerful documentary from the makers of McCullin revisits Harold Evans’s fight to win justice for those whose lives were irrevocably changed by the drug thalidomide. It is by turns enraging, enlightening, heartbreaking and, ultimately, uplifting. Working around British laws that stifled public discussion of the scandal, crusading newspaper editor Evans mounted a moral campaign in the early 70s that highlighted the drinks and pharmaceuticals company Distillers’ callous disregard for the catastrophic human cost of the “wonder drug”. Tracing the origins of thalidomide back to concentration camp experiments (hence the “Nazi war crime” subtitle), this is both a tribute to the brave resilience of parents and children and a paean to a past age of honest, old-school investigative journalism.
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This powerful documentary from the makers of McCullin revisits Harold Evans’s fight to win justice for those whose lives were irrevocably changed by the drug thalidomide. It is by turns enraging, enlightening, heartbreaking and, ultimately, uplifting. Working around British laws that stifled public discussion of the scandal, crusading newspaper editor Evans mounted a moral campaign in the early 70s that highlighted the drinks and pharmaceuticals company Distillers’ callous disregard for the catastrophic human cost of the “wonder drug”. Tracing the origins of thalidomide back to concentration camp experiments (hence the “Nazi war crime” subtitle), this is both a tribute to the brave resilience of parents and children and a paean to a past age of honest, old-school investigative journalism.
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- 1/24/2016
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
Read More: First Person | How to Take on Programming Hot Docs Without Breaking It Before the rulebook on photography was rewritten, photographer Don McCullin went out into war zones and photographed what was really going on: the truth. In this documentary, directed by Jacqui Morris, viewers will get to learn about the legendary photographer and how he got his iconic images. "The motivation for making the film was to explore Don's world view - his way of looking at the world and his unique eye. This has been reinforced very recently" said director Jacqui Morris. "McCullin" will open for a full week at MoMA beginning on October 30, and both Don and director Jacqui Morris will be in attendance. Check out the exclusive trailer above. Read More: Docs on Nazis, Highrises and Amanda Palmer Take Top Prizes at Sheffield Doc/Fest Awards...
- 10/27/2015
- by Sonya Saepoff
- Indiewire
Universal Pictures on board film adaptation of classic British series; cast to include Billy Nighy, Catherine Zeta Jones and Toby Jones
The cast of a long-rumoured film based on classic British comedy series Dad’s Army has been revealed.
Toby Jones, best known for roles in The Hunger Games and Harry Potter franchises, will take the leading role of Captain Mainwaring, a stiff-upper-lipped veteran who oversees the Home Guard in a small village toward the end of the Second World War.
His right-hand man, Wilson, will be played by Bill Nighy, known to international audiences for his roles in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Love Actually.
Both were previously rumoured to be attached to the project, an adaptation of a BBC comedy series than ran from 1968-77, but Catherine Zeta Jones is newly attached to the film as journalist Rose Winters.
The all-star British cast will also include Tom Courtenay as Corporal Jones, Harry Potter...
The cast of a long-rumoured film based on classic British comedy series Dad’s Army has been revealed.
Toby Jones, best known for roles in The Hunger Games and Harry Potter franchises, will take the leading role of Captain Mainwaring, a stiff-upper-lipped veteran who oversees the Home Guard in a small village toward the end of the Second World War.
His right-hand man, Wilson, will be played by Bill Nighy, known to international audiences for his roles in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Love Actually.
Both were previously rumoured to be attached to the project, an adaptation of a BBC comedy series than ran from 1968-77, but Catherine Zeta Jones is newly attached to the film as journalist Rose Winters.
The all-star British cast will also include Tom Courtenay as Corporal Jones, Harry Potter...
- 10/8/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Screen Yorkshire has announced that it will fund a new documentary movie with the working title Pulp & Sheffield.
Produced by Pistachio Pictures, the day-in-the-life film will centre around Jarvis Cocker's band's last gig, which took place at the Sheffield's Motorpoint Arena on December 8, 2012.
> Pulp storm second night at Brixton Academy
British Film Company founder Steve Milne said; "Music has been a big part of my life and we are delighted to be able to support this exciting project.
"It's the second feature documentary the new company has backed after BAFTA-nominated McCullin and the second music project after [Belle & Sebastian frontman] Stuart Murdoch's God Help The Girl, which is currently in post[-production]."
Despite previously hinting at plans for new material, Cocker more recently said that the band have no plans to record new songs.
"We haven't got anything planned after the New Year... we'll just be cruising off into the sunset. Seems poetic,...
Produced by Pistachio Pictures, the day-in-the-life film will centre around Jarvis Cocker's band's last gig, which took place at the Sheffield's Motorpoint Arena on December 8, 2012.
> Pulp storm second night at Brixton Academy
British Film Company founder Steve Milne said; "Music has been a big part of my life and we are delighted to be able to support this exciting project.
"It's the second feature documentary the new company has backed after BAFTA-nominated McCullin and the second music project after [Belle & Sebastian frontman] Stuart Murdoch's God Help The Girl, which is currently in post[-production]."
Despite previously hinting at plans for new material, Cocker more recently said that the band have no plans to record new songs.
"We haven't got anything planned after the New Year... we'll just be cruising off into the sunset. Seems poetic,...
- 6/27/2013
- Digital Spy
★★★★☆ Don McCullin entered the public consciousness with his memorable photo of a North London gang, standing defiantly amidst a dilapidated building. That was his very first published photograph, displayed by The Observer in 1958, and is where the aptly-titled documentary, McCullin (2012), jumps off. Directed by David and Jacqui Morris, this is no mere exercise in eulogy by a variety of talking heads, as may well be expected. Instead, the film provides a journey through the life and work of one of the world's most fascinating and revered photographers guided by the man himself. Luckily, he proves an absolutely enthralling chaperon.
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- 2/26/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
McCullin is an unflinching documentary looking at the extraordinary work of renowned photojournalist Don McCullin. Through the 1960’s, 70’s and 80’s, McCullin was on the front line of some of the world’s most brutal and bloody wars, armed only with his trusty camera, he continually put himself in grave danger and witnessed some truly horrific sights in order to bring the true nature of war home to the UK public.
The film starts off briefly discussing McCullin’s roots and his escape from the mean streets of East London. Fittingly, his first assignment for the Observer was shooting the increasingly violent street gangs with whom he had himself been closely associated with not long prior. The majority of his work however, and the key focus of this documentary, is his astonishing array of war photography.
McCullin covered conflicts in areas ranging from the Congo, Vietnam, Biafra, Belfast, Cambodia (where...
The film starts off briefly discussing McCullin’s roots and his escape from the mean streets of East London. Fittingly, his first assignment for the Observer was shooting the increasingly violent street gangs with whom he had himself been closely associated with not long prior. The majority of his work however, and the key focus of this documentary, is his astonishing array of war photography.
McCullin covered conflicts in areas ranging from the Congo, Vietnam, Biafra, Belfast, Cambodia (where...
- 2/25/2013
- by Rob Keeling
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
This is Not a Film; McCullin; Hope Springs; Rust and Bone; Frankenweenie; On the Road; Paranormal Activity 4; Premium Rush
It is often said that the greatest auteurs make films not because they want to but because they have to – it's as natural and essential as breathing. In December 2010 the Iranian maestro Jafar Panahi was banned from making movies and sentenced to six years in prison for creating "propaganda against the Islamic republic", a judgment that sparked outrage around the world.
While awaiting the outcome of an appeal, Panahi was visited in his home by his friend Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, who filmed Panahi wandering through his apartment, feeding his pet iguana, reflecting on scenes from his past movies and describing the latest script that he had been refused permission to shoot – the story of a young girl accepted for university but locked in her house by her zealous father.
That visit...
It is often said that the greatest auteurs make films not because they want to but because they have to – it's as natural and essential as breathing. In December 2010 the Iranian maestro Jafar Panahi was banned from making movies and sentenced to six years in prison for creating "propaganda against the Islamic republic", a judgment that sparked outrage around the world.
While awaiting the outcome of an appeal, Panahi was visited in his home by his friend Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, who filmed Panahi wandering through his apartment, feeding his pet iguana, reflecting on scenes from his past movies and describing the latest script that he had been refused permission to shoot – the story of a young girl accepted for university but locked in her house by her zealous father.
That visit...
- 2/24/2013
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Rust And Bone | Frankenweenie | McCullin | From Beyond | Defying Gravity
Rust And Bone
Another film that made most serious film fans' Best Of 2012 lists yet remained conspicuous by its absence in the roll call of Oscar nominees. And you can see why: it's full of shocks and surprises, and the Academy, generally, hates that. Following on from his hard-hitting crime drama A Prophet, director Jacques Audiard tackles a very different subject matter while applying his usual method of eradicating every trace of cliche. This is a romance, albeit one that leans more toward tragedy than melodrama.Ali (Matthias Schoenaerts) uproots himself and his son from Belgium to a more promising life in France. In an unfamiliar country and a single-parent situation he turns to his kickboxing skills as a streetfighter. He hooks up with orca trainer Stephanie (Marion Cotillard), but things soon take a turn when she has a terrible accident (without wishing to spoil things,...
Rust And Bone
Another film that made most serious film fans' Best Of 2012 lists yet remained conspicuous by its absence in the roll call of Oscar nominees. And you can see why: it's full of shocks and surprises, and the Academy, generally, hates that. Following on from his hard-hitting crime drama A Prophet, director Jacques Audiard tackles a very different subject matter while applying his usual method of eradicating every trace of cliche. This is a romance, albeit one that leans more toward tragedy than melodrama.Ali (Matthias Schoenaerts) uproots himself and his son from Belgium to a more promising life in France. In an unfamiliar country and a single-parent situation he turns to his kickboxing skills as a streetfighter. He hooks up with orca trainer Stephanie (Marion Cotillard), but things soon take a turn when she has a terrible accident (without wishing to spoil things,...
- 2/23/2013
- by Phelim O'Neill
- The Guardian - Film News
Detailing the life and work of acclaimed war photographer Don McCullin, the seminal photo-journalist of the 1970s and 1980s, Jacqui and David Morris' documentary film shows the truth behind McCullin's hard hitting and controversial images. To celebrate the DVD and Blu-ray release of this celebrated, cinematic portrait of one of the 20th century's key artistic figures, we have Three Blu-ray copies of McCullin to offer out to our loyal fanbase, courtesy of the hardworking team at Artificial Eye. This is an exclusive competition for our Facebook and Twitter fans, so if you haven't already, 'Like' us at facebook.com/CineVueUK or follow us @CineVue before answering the question below.
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- 2/22/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Ben Affleck's "Argo" is not only being celebrated in the U.S., it has also been receiving love abroad particularly at the recently concluded BAFTA Awards (British Academy of Film and Television), the U.K. equivalent to the Oscars.
"Argo" took home the Best Film of the Year trophy, as well as the Best Director Award for Affleck. Once again, take that Academy -- the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, that is...
In the acting categories, Daniel Day-Lewis won for "Lincoln" (surprise, surprise), while Emmanuelle Riva (love her!!!!) won the Best Actress award for "Amour." Now, call me crazy, but I have a sneaky feeling that Riva will win the Best Actress Oscar as well. She's beloved, a classic, an icon, a legend -- everything a Best Actress Oscar winner should be!
In the supporting acting categories, my favorite, Anne Hathaway took home the Best Supporting Actress...
"Argo" took home the Best Film of the Year trophy, as well as the Best Director Award for Affleck. Once again, take that Academy -- the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, that is...
In the acting categories, Daniel Day-Lewis won for "Lincoln" (surprise, surprise), while Emmanuelle Riva (love her!!!!) won the Best Actress award for "Amour." Now, call me crazy, but I have a sneaky feeling that Riva will win the Best Actress Oscar as well. She's beloved, a classic, an icon, a legend -- everything a Best Actress Oscar winner should be!
In the supporting acting categories, my favorite, Anne Hathaway took home the Best Supporting Actress...
- 2/11/2013
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
On Sunday the Ee British Academy Film Awards were held at London’s Royal Opera House and hosted by the always delightful Stephen Fry. The show was televised here in the States on BBC America. In a continuation of what Awards watchers have witnessed over the past weeks, Argo was named Best Film, Ben Affleck won the Director BAFTA and the film also took the Editing award.
Les Misérables did win four BAFTAs for Production Design, Sound, Make Up & Hair and Supporting Actress for Anne Hathaway.
Amour won the award for Film Not in the English Language and Emmanuelle Riva won Leading Actress. Leading Actor was awarded to Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln. Christoph Waltz won Supporting Actor for his performance in Django Unchained and the film’s writer/director Quentin Tarantino won the Original Screenplay BAFTA.
Outstanding British Film and Original Music were awarded to Skyfall. Life of Pi won...
Les Misérables did win four BAFTAs for Production Design, Sound, Make Up & Hair and Supporting Actress for Anne Hathaway.
Amour won the award for Film Not in the English Language and Emmanuelle Riva won Leading Actress. Leading Actor was awarded to Daniel Day-Lewis for Lincoln. Christoph Waltz won Supporting Actor for his performance in Django Unchained and the film’s writer/director Quentin Tarantino won the Original Screenplay BAFTA.
Outstanding British Film and Original Music were awarded to Skyfall. Life of Pi won...
- 2/11/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Affleck wins again! Can Argo be stopped? What a year of awards! This weekend in London, the BAFTA (or British Academy of Film and Television Arts) held their annual show, the BAFTA Awards, honoring the finest in film and television from 2012. This year's biggest winner was quite a surprise, but nonetheless yet another sweet victory. Ben Affleck and Argo won Best Director and Best Film, along with Best Editing, but nothing else. Most of the other technical wins were split up between Tom Hooper's Les Miserables and Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, with a few for Amour and Silver Linings Playbook snuck in there. Here's the complete list of film winners (listed in bold) for the 2013 BAFTA Awards, via BAFTA.org: Best Film: Argo Les Misérables Life of Pi Lincoln Zero Dark Thirty Outstanding British Film: Anna Karenina The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Les Misérables Seven Psychopaths Skyfall Outstanding Debut by a British Writer,...
- 2/11/2013
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Honoring the best in the biz, the 2013 Orange British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) took place in London, England earlier this evening (February 10).
During the event held inside the historic Royal Opera House, many stars walked home with big trophies including the cast and producers of "Argo" who took home the award for Best Film.
Meanwhile, Emmanuelle Riva was names Best Actress for her role in "Amour", while Daniel Dawy-Lewis took home Best Actor for his work in "Lincoln."
Other winners included "Skyfall" taking home Best British Film and Anne Hathaway taking home the award for Best Supporting Actress, while Juno Temple took home the Rising Star Award and Ben Affleck took home the prize for Best Director.
See below for the complete list of 2013 BAFTA winners:
Best Film
Winner Argo Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, George Clooney
Les MISÉRABLES Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh
Life Of Pi Gil Netter,...
During the event held inside the historic Royal Opera House, many stars walked home with big trophies including the cast and producers of "Argo" who took home the award for Best Film.
Meanwhile, Emmanuelle Riva was names Best Actress for her role in "Amour", while Daniel Dawy-Lewis took home Best Actor for his work in "Lincoln."
Other winners included "Skyfall" taking home Best British Film and Anne Hathaway taking home the award for Best Supporting Actress, while Juno Temple took home the Rising Star Award and Ben Affleck took home the prize for Best Director.
See below for the complete list of 2013 BAFTA winners:
Best Film
Winner Argo Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, George Clooney
Les MISÉRABLES Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh
Life Of Pi Gil Netter,...
- 2/11/2013
- GossipCenter
The ceremony is over here in London, bringing together some of the finest and most talented people in the film industry under the same roof for one night. The BAFTAs are this country’s highest honour in film, and they have handed out their awards for the 66th time to those whom they deem the most deserving in the past year in film.
And since Ben Affleck is one of my favourite filmmakers of all time, I have been in a brilliant mood tonight, because he’s won (and very much earned) Best Director for Argo, and taken home the Best Film prize alongside his co-producers George Clooney and Grant Heslov. If you haven’t yet seen Argo, I can’t recommend enough how much you should see it as soon as possible.
If you were following Jon’s liveblog, or if you watched the BBC’s almost-live coverage of tonight’s proceedings,...
And since Ben Affleck is one of my favourite filmmakers of all time, I have been in a brilliant mood tonight, because he’s won (and very much earned) Best Director for Argo, and taken home the Best Film prize alongside his co-producers George Clooney and Grant Heslov. If you haven’t yet seen Argo, I can’t recommend enough how much you should see it as soon as possible.
If you were following Jon’s liveblog, or if you watched the BBC’s almost-live coverage of tonight’s proceedings,...
- 2/10/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The 2013 BAFTA Awards were just handed out and while Lincoln led the way with ten nominations, it was Argo that came away the night's big winner taking home awards for Best Film, Director (Ben Affleck) and Film Editing. Affleck's film continues its march to the 2013 Oscars, though the question of who will win the Academy's Best Director award remains a question with Affleck sweeping the precursors, but not nominated at the Oscars. Other big wins for the night include Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln) winning Best Actor and Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables) winning Best Supporting Actress while Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained) edged out the competition for Best Supporting Actor and Emmanuelle Riva (Amour) topped both Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook) and Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty) for Best Actress. Amour also took home Best Film Not In English while Skyfall went home with the Best British Film award. The screenplay categories...
- 2/10/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Argo was named Best Film at tonight’s Ee British Academy Film Awards hosted by Stephen Fry, held at London’s Royal Opera House. And the British Academy of Film and Television Arts award winners are… Best Film Winner – Argo Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, George Clooney Les MISÉRABLES Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh Life Of Pi Gil Netter, Ang Lee, David Womark Lincoln Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy Zero Dark Thirty Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, Megan Ellison Outstanding British Film Anna Karenina Joe Wright, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster, Tom Stoppard The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel John Madden, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Ol Parker Les MISÉRABLES Tom Hooper, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh, William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer Seven Psychopaths Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin Winner – Skyfall Sam Mendes, Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, John Logan...
- 2/10/2013
- by hnblog@hollywoodnews.com (Hollywood News Team)
- Hollywoodnews.com
'Skyfall' has taken the first Award of the evening at the 2013 Baftas, currently taking place at London's Royal Opera House.
This caps a thrilling year for the James Bond franchise, celebrating its 50th year, with a record-breaking box office taking for 'Skyfall', which has become the most successful British film ever.
All The Winners Below... As Soon As They're Announced!
But the evening's big winner remains very much undecided, with awards being shared out between 'Argo', 'Life of Pi' and 'Les Miserables' - and nothing yet for the nominations leader 'Lincoln'.
Pictures just in from the press room at the Royal Opera House, where the winners go straight after collecting their gongs..
Sam Mendes' 007 film beat Tom Hooper's 'Les Miserables' to take the first gong of the night. And 'Skyfall' has just taken another award, for Best Original Music.
But...
This caps a thrilling year for the James Bond franchise, celebrating its 50th year, with a record-breaking box office taking for 'Skyfall', which has become the most successful British film ever.
All The Winners Below... As Soon As They're Announced!
But the evening's big winner remains very much undecided, with awards being shared out between 'Argo', 'Life of Pi' and 'Les Miserables' - and nothing yet for the nominations leader 'Lincoln'.
Pictures just in from the press room at the Royal Opera House, where the winners go straight after collecting their gongs..
Sam Mendes' 007 film beat Tom Hooper's 'Les Miserables' to take the first gong of the night. And 'Skyfall' has just taken another award, for Best Original Music.
But...
- 2/10/2013
- by The Huffington Post UK
- Huffington Post
Best Film Argo - Winner Les Misérables Life of Pi Lincoln Zero Dark Thirty Outstanding British Film Anna Karenina The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Les Miserables Seven Psychopaths Skyfall - Winner Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer Bart Layton (director), Dimitri Doganis (producer) - The Imposter - Winner David Morris (director), Jacqui Morris (director/producer) - McCullin Dexter Fletcher (director/writer), Danny King (writer) - Wild Bill James Bobin (director) - The Muppets Tina Gharavi (director/writer) - I Am Nasrine Film Not in the English Language Amour - Winner Headhunters The Hunt Rust and Bone Untouchable Documentary The Imposter Marley McCullin Searching for Sugarman - Winner West of Memphis Animated Film Brave - Winner Frankenweenie Paranorman Director Michael Haneke - Amour Ben Affleck - Argo - Winner Quentin Tarantino - Django Unchained Ang Lee - Life of Pi Kathryn Bigelow - Zero Dark Thirty Original Screenplay...
- 2/10/2013
- ComicBookMovie.com
The Oscars of the United Kingdom were held Sunday, Feb. 10 in London. Here are the winners of the 2013 BAFTA Awards (updating as the show goes along).
Best Film
Argo - Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, George Clooney
Les MISÉRABLES - Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh
Life Of Pi - Gil Netter, Ang Lee, David Womark
Lincoln - Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy
Zero Dark Thirty - Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, Megan Ellison
Outstanding British Film
Anna Karenina - Joe Wright, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster, Tom Stoppard
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - John Madden, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Ol Parker
Les MISÉRABLES - Tom Hooper, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh, William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer
Seven Psychopaths - Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin
Skyfall - Sam Mendes, Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, John Logan
Outstanding Debut By A British Writer,...
Best Film
Argo - Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, George Clooney
Les MISÉRABLES - Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh
Life Of Pi - Gil Netter, Ang Lee, David Womark
Lincoln - Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy
Zero Dark Thirty - Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, Megan Ellison
Outstanding British Film
Anna Karenina - Joe Wright, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster, Tom Stoppard
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - John Madden, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Ol Parker
Les MISÉRABLES - Tom Hooper, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh, William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer
Seven Psychopaths - Martin McDonagh, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin
Skyfall - Sam Mendes, Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, John Logan
Outstanding Debut By A British Writer,...
- 2/10/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
The winners of this year's Ee British Academy Film Awards were unveiled tonight (February 10) at London's Royal Opera House, in a ceremony hosted by Stephen Fry. Argo emerged as the big winner on the night taking home three awards, while Les Miserables and Skyfall also took home BAFTAs.
> BAFTAs: The winners in pictures
> BAFTAs: Red carpet pictures
Digital Spy presents the winners in full below:
Best Film
Argo - Winner
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty
Outstanding British Film
Anna Karenina
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Les Miserables
Seven Psychopaths
Skyfall - Winner
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
Bart Layton (director), Dimitri Doganis (producer) - The Imposter - Winner
David Morris (director), Jacqui Morris (director/producer) - McCullin
Dexter Fletcher (director/writer), Danny King (writer) - Wild Bill
James Bobin (director) - The Muppets
Tina Gharavi (director/writer) - I Am Nasrine
Film...
> BAFTAs: The winners in pictures
> BAFTAs: Red carpet pictures
Digital Spy presents the winners in full below:
Best Film
Argo - Winner
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty
Outstanding British Film
Anna Karenina
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Les Miserables
Seven Psychopaths
Skyfall - Winner
Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
Bart Layton (director), Dimitri Doganis (producer) - The Imposter - Winner
David Morris (director), Jacqui Morris (director/producer) - McCullin
Dexter Fletcher (director/writer), Danny King (writer) - Wild Bill
James Bobin (director) - The Muppets
Tina Gharavi (director/writer) - I Am Nasrine
Film...
- 2/10/2013
- Digital Spy
The Guardian film team predict who will win what at this year's ceremony
On Friday Xan Brooks assessed the field of this year's Bafta contenders and found it "a hazy huddle of frontrunners, all seemingly bobbing back and forth in front of the finish line".
Lincoln is first among equals with 10 nominations. Les Misérables, Life of Pi, Skyfall and Argo all crowd in behind.
The awards momentum has swung from Life of Pi to Lincoln to Argo over the past few weeks. In a competition this close there could be upsets. There should be tears. There must be winners.
So here's what we think will take home scary award masks this year. We've listed all the nominees. Our predicted winners are in bold.
Best picture
Argo
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty
Best British film
Anna Karenina
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Les Misérables
Seven Psychopaths
Skyfall
Best director
Ben Affleck,...
On Friday Xan Brooks assessed the field of this year's Bafta contenders and found it "a hazy huddle of frontrunners, all seemingly bobbing back and forth in front of the finish line".
Lincoln is first among equals with 10 nominations. Les Misérables, Life of Pi, Skyfall and Argo all crowd in behind.
The awards momentum has swung from Life of Pi to Lincoln to Argo over the past few weeks. In a competition this close there could be upsets. There should be tears. There must be winners.
So here's what we think will take home scary award masks this year. We've listed all the nominees. Our predicted winners are in bold.
Best picture
Argo
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty
Best British film
Anna Karenina
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Les Misérables
Seven Psychopaths
Skyfall
Best director
Ben Affleck,...
- 2/10/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
The 66th annual British Academy Film Awards are here! And there was much rejoicing.
We’re here at the Royal Opera House in London to bring you all the up to the minute news on who won, who looked really annoyed when they lost, and who knows what else will be in store for us tonight?
Lord Stephen of Fry is leading proceedings once again and I’ll be updating you fine people with the winners as they are announced.
The full list of awards and nominees can be found here, and as the awards are announced I’ll update the liveblog below with the nominees and the winners.
The ceremony is due to start at around 7pm and if you’re hungry for all the red carpeting then head over here to see the arrivals from around 5pm.
Updates will be added at the top…But not anymore as we’ve finished.
We’re here at the Royal Opera House in London to bring you all the up to the minute news on who won, who looked really annoyed when they lost, and who knows what else will be in store for us tonight?
Lord Stephen of Fry is leading proceedings once again and I’ll be updating you fine people with the winners as they are announced.
The full list of awards and nominees can be found here, and as the awards are announced I’ll update the liveblog below with the nominees and the winners.
The ceremony is due to start at around 7pm and if you’re hungry for all the red carpeting then head over here to see the arrivals from around 5pm.
Updates will be added at the top…But not anymore as we’ve finished.
- 2/10/2013
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Vol. I Issue 6
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Note: See Issues 1, 2, 3, and 4 for reviews and clips of the Academy documentary films and short films. Additional reviews of the documentary features follow in this issue.
Best documentary feature
5 Broken Cameras Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
The Gatekeepers Nominees to be determined *See note below
How to Survive a Plague Nominees to be determined
The Invisible War Nominees to be determined
Searching for Sugar Man Nominees to be determined
Best documentary short subject
Inocente Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine
Kings Point Sari Gilman and Jedd Wider
Mondays at Racine Cynthia Wade and Robin Honan
Open Heart Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern
Redemption Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill
Best animated short film
Adam and Dog Minkyu Lee
Fresh Guacamole Pes
Head over Heels Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly
Maggie Simpson in The Longest Daycare David Silverman
Paperman John Kahrs
Best live action short film
Asad Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura
Buzkashi Boys Sam French and Ariel Nasr
Curfew Shawn Christensen
Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw) Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele
Henry Yan England
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song) from a documentary
Before My Time from The documentary feature Chasing Ice Music and Lyric by J. Ralph
Note: *Nominees to be determined* The Documentary Brand gives the nomination to the individual(s) most involved in the key creative aspects of the filmmaking process. A maximum of two persons may be designated as nominees, one of whom must be the credited director who exercised directorial control, and the other of whom must have a producer or director credit. If a producer is named, that individual must have performed a major portion of the producing functions, in accordance with Academy producer criteria. No more than two statuettes will normally be given in the Documentary Feature category. All individuals with a “Producer” or “Produced by” credit on films that reach the semifinal round will automatically be vetted.
The Documentary Branch Executive Committee will determine which producers, if any, are eligible to receive an Oscar. In the unlikely event of a dispute, filmmakers may appeal the committee’s decision. In extremely rare circumstances, a third statuette may be awarded.
Production companies or persons with the screen credit of executive producer, co-producer or any credit other than director or producer shall not be eligible as nominees for the motion picture.
DGA Documentary Award Nominations
Kirby Dick The Invisible War
This is Mr. Dick’s first DGA Award nomination.
Malik Bendjelloul Searching For Sugar Man
This is Mr. Bendjelloul’s first DGA Award nomination.
Lauren Greenfield The Queen of Versailles
This is Ms. Greenfield’s first DGA Award nomination.
David France How To Survive A Plague
This is Mr. France’s first DGA Award nomination.
Alison Klayman Ai WeiWei: Never Sorry
This is Ms. Klayman’s first DGA Award nomination.
Two Academy Nominated Documentary Features
& One Academy Short Listed Documentary Reviewed
The Gatekeepers, directed by Dror Moreh
Documentary Feature Nominee
Six former heads of Israel’s domestic secret service agency, the Shin Bet, share their insights and reflect publicly on their actions and decisions in The Gatekeepers, a film by Dror Moreh. These six heads of the Shin Bet stood at the center of Israel's decision-making process in all matters pertaining to security. They worked closely with every Israeli prime minister, and their assessments and insights had—and continue to have—a profound impact on Israeli policy. The Gatekeepers is an exclusive account of their successes and failures.
I find The Gatekeepers remarkable. Not for its craft but for its concept and vision. Imagine
J Edger Hoover talking about his tenure at the FBI, his successes and his failures, his interactions with the Presidents and members of Congress, and his critical self-evaluation of his mission and how his agency’s work affected our nation. Imagine. Dror Moreh accomplished this feat when he convinced these six surviving members of the Shin Bet, to speak on camera.
The film provides a historical perspective of Israel that is both candid and critical of the successive governments in this rare Middle Eastern democracy. The Shin Bet was created in 1949 by David Ben-Gurion’s government to focus on the internal affairs of Israel and evolved into dealing with counterterrorism and intelligence gathering in the West Bank and Gaza.
These intelligence heads, like ours, report to the President/Prime Minister. They are not part of the military complex. It is this context that gives this work its power. We hear the story of Israel’s struggle to protect itself from both its internal and external enemies; the bombers, terrorists, agents and others who worked to destroy this small country. These men are not glamorous or like the fictional heads of the spy agencies we have seen in James Bond and Bourne films. They are bald or balding grandfather-types. Articulate, highly educated, calm and yet we know that they protected Israel from its enemies even if they had them killed.
This is one of the strongest of the nominated docs. It raises significant issues of personal responsibilities. Despite the lack of oversight we don’t feel that this is an organization gone amuck like the Catholic Church not protecting children or the Us Military not protecting its members from sexual harassment. We see these articulate men as guardians and protectors of their nation steadfastly doing their duty within the confines of their moral beliefs. What is scary about The Gatekeepers is that clearly there could have been abuses and wrongs done by the Shin Bet if these six had less character or their mission was redefined by the government without regard to moral or ethical standards. The film on reflection is troubling for regardless of how the spectator might feel about Israel it forces us to look at this conflict through the lenses of these six guardians and we can only wonder what they don’t tell us about what they did in the name of their country.
Credits:
Director: Dror Moreh
Camera: Avner Shahaf
Producers: Dror Moreh, Estelle Fialon, Philippa Kowarsky
Co Producer: Anna Van Der Wee
Sound: Amos Zipori
Sound Design: Aex Claude
Music: Ab Ovo, Jérôme Chassagnard, Régis Baillet
Editor: Oron Adar
Production Companies: Dror Moreh Productions, Les Films du Poisson, Cinephil
In Co-Production with: Mac Guff, Wild Heart Productions, Arte France, Iba, Ndr, Rtbf
With the support of: Cnc, Media, Région Ile-de-France, Procirep, Angoa, The Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts – Cinema Project
Distribution: Sony Classics
Trailer: http://www.sonyclassics.com/thegatekeepers/
The House I Live In, directed by Eugene Jarecki
Short Listed Documentary Feature for Academy Award nomination
The House I Live In looks at how America has waged war on some of its poorest citizens, costing countless lives, destroying families, and inflicting untold damage on future generations of Americans. It posits that over the last forty years, the War on Drugs has accounted for more than 45 million arrests and shows how America became the world’s largest jailer, damaging poor communities at home and abroad. Yet today drugs are cheaper, purer and more available than ever before. It shows that drug abuse is a public health issue. Despite this, it is treated by our society as a criminal matter and a vast machine has been created that feeds on the men and women who are incarcerated. Because of this, the prisoners are not offered help or a cure for their underlying problems, so they return to prison in a never ending cycle.
Eugene Jarecki, whose previous films looked at the military industrial complex (Why We Fight and The Trials of Henry Kissinger), won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at Sundance in both 2005 and 2010. The film tackles difficult material. Material that has been in scores of documentaries and television shows over the years. Yet Jarecki, using his personal experience, a wealth of interviews and strong case studies, builds a compelling case for changing the sentencing guidelines for crack (and cocaine) and for dealing with both addiction and the underlying causes of addiction. Jarecki is a skillful filmmaker who has picked a vast and complex subject and has created a work that while rich in content moves along at a good pace although it might have been stronger if it had tried to do less. The film editor Paul Frost and the composer Robert Miller do an excellent job building strong sequences with evocative music. It was nicely shot by Sam Cullman and Derek Hallquist. Richard Abramowitz’s Abramorama handled the distribution and was successful getting the work out which is never easy for such an issue oriented film.
Credits:
Director, Producer, Screenwriter: Eugene Jarecki
Producers: Melinda Shopsin, Sam Cullman, Christopher St. John
Executive Producers: Eugene Jarecki, Nick Fraser, Joslyn Barnes, Danny Glover, Russell Simmons, Roy Ackerman, John Legend, Sally Jo Feifer, Nick Fraser
Camera: Sam Cullman, Derek Hallquist
Sound: Matthew Freed, Art Jaso
Music: Robert Milller
Editor: Paul Frost
Production Companies: Charlotte Street Films, Zdf Enterprises, Independent Television Services, BBC, Aljazeera Documentary Channel, Vpro, Special Broadcasting Service Corporation, Louverture Films, Nhk
Distribution (Us): Abramorama Entertainment, Snag Films
How to Survive a Plague, directed by David France
Documentary Feature Nominee
How to Survive a Plague by writer and filmmaker David France tells the story of how two coalitions came together to lobby for effective treatments and funding for treatments of AIDS in the late 1980s when it was evident that the Us government and its health and other agencies were not being very effective dealing with the AIDS epidemic. The coalitions, Act Up and Tag (Treatment Action Group) helped to make AIDS more treatable. While there is still no cure for AIDS and thousands of people globally still die from the virus, it is now possible to prolong life with treatments that have been developed.
Despite having no scientific training, these self-made activists infiltrated the pharmaceutical industry and helped identify promising new drugs, moving them from experimental trials to patients in record time. With access to never-before-seen archival footage from the 1980s and '90s, filmmaker David France puts the viewer smack in the middle of the controversial actions, the heated meetings, the heartbreaking failures, and the exultant breakthroughs. Faced with their own mortality an improbable group of young men and women, many of them HIV-positive took on Washington and the medical establishment.
While there have been a handful of outstanding films dealing with the AIDS epidemic including Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter and Silverlake Life, to name a few, How to Survive a Plague picks up on the story begun in the landmark Common Threads and updates the struggle, looking at the quest to find a treatment and possibly a cure for this vicious disease. The film weaves together stories of activism and shows how a small determined group can effect change not just nationally but globally. While the film is not as well made as Common Threads or Dr. Peter, it’s powerful. The archival footage manages to capture some of the key figures of Act Up and Tag showing actions as they take place. Instead of relying on talking heads to tell this amazing story, it is presented with footage shot as the story unfolded. This footage and its solid editing distinguishes this film from so many of the works that have tried to tell this story.
Few documentaries have such powerful antagonists, the government, incompetence, a lack of urgency on the part of the medical community and fear. Throw in homophobia and it is evident that the dramatic actions of these heroes saved hundreds of thousands of possible victims from this mostly sexually spread plague.
My only serious criticism of this documentary is its failure to be clearer that the plague continues, that there is no cure for HIV/AIDS and that the community continues to give a false sense of hope. Currently the Cdc states:
” ..estimates that 1,148,200 persons aged 13 years and older are living with HIV infection, including 207,600 (18.1%) who are unaware of their infection1. Over the past decade, the number of people living with HIV has increased, while the annual number of new HIV infections has remained relatively stable. Still, the pace of new infections continues at far too high a level—particularly among certain groups.
HIV Incidence(new infections): The estimated incidence of HIV has remained stable overall in recent years, at about 50,000 new HIV infections per year.2 Within the overall estimates, however, some groups are affected more than others. Msm (men who have sex with men) continue to bear the greatest burden of HIV infection, and among races/ethnicities, African Americans continue to be disproportionately affected.”
This information could have been contained in the last few minutes of this powerful work, to inspire and warn the audience that testing is critical and that safe sex is still the only way to contain AIDS.
The Filmmaker
David France, Director, Producer
David France is an award-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author who has been writing about AIDS since 1982 and today is one of the best-known chroniclers of the epidemic. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek, GQ, and New York magazine, where he is a contributing editor, and has received the National Headliner Award and the GLAAD Media Award, among others. Several films have been inspired by his work, most recently the Emmy-nominated Showtime film Our Fathers, for which he received a WGA nomination. He is at work on a major history of AIDS, due from Alfred A. Knopf in 2013. Based on decades of reporting, How to Survive a Plague is his directorial debut.
Credits
Director: David France
Writers: David France, Todd Woody Richman, Tyler H. Walk
Producers: David France, Howard Gertler
Executive Producers: Dan Cogan, Joy A. Tomchin
Co-Producer: Todd Woody Richman
Camera: Derek Wieshahn
Sound: Stuart Deutsch, Topher Reifeiss
Original Music: Stuart Bogie
Editor: Todd Woody Richman, Tyler H. Walk
Production Companies: Public Square Films, Ninety Thousand Words
Distribution (Us): Sundance Selects
Short Notes and Update:
The International Documentary Association in Los Angeles presents Doc U: The Doc Reporter
Navigating the Intersection of Documentary and Journalism
Moderated by: Karin Skellwagen (The Brooks Institute)
With Panelists:
Sarah Burns (The Central Park Five)
Michael Donaldson (Partner, Donaldson & Callif)
David France (How To Survive A Plague)
For information: http://doc-u-jan-2013-la.eventbrite.com/
Sundance Announces 2013 International Documentary Competition:
Fallen City/ China (Director: Qi Zhao) — Fallen City spans four years to reveal how three families who survived the 2008 Sichuan earthquake to embark on a journey searching for hope, purpose, identity, and to rebuild their lives in a new China torn between tradition and modernity. North American Premiere
Fire in the Blood/ India (Director: Dylan Mohan Gray) — In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Western governments and pharmaceutical companies blocked low-cost antiretroviral drugs from reaching AIDS-stricken Africa, causing 10 million or more unnecessary deaths. An improbable group of people decided to fight back. North American Premiere
Google and the World Brain/ Spain, United Kingdom (Director: Ben Lewis) — In the most ambitious Internet project ever conceived, Google is working to scan every book in the world. Google says it is building a library for mankind. But some are trying to stop it, claiming that Google may have other intentions. World Premiere
The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear/ Georgia, Germany (Director: Tinatin Gurchiani) — A film director casting a 15-23-year-old protagonist visits villages and cities to meet people who answer her call. She follows those who prove to be interesting enough through various dramatic and funny situations. North American Premiere
The Moo Man/ United Kingdom (Directors: Andy Heathcote, Heike Bachelier) — A year in the life of heroic farmer Steve, scene stealing Ida (queen of the herd), and a supporting cast of 55 cows. When Ida falls ill, Steve’s optimism is challenged and their whole way of life is at stake. World Premiere
Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer/ Russian Federation, United Kingdom (Directors: Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin) — Three young women face seven years in a Russian prison for a satirical performance in a Moscow cathedral. But who is really on trial: the three young artists or the society they live in? World Premiere
A River Changes Course/ Cambodia, U.S.A. (Director: Kalyanee Mam) — Three young Cambodians struggle to overcome the crushing effects of deforestation, overfishing, and overwhelming debt in this devastatingly beautiful story of a country reeling from the tragedies of war and rushing to keep pace with a rapidly expanding world. World Premiere
Salma/ United Kingdom, India (Director: Kim Longinotto) — When Salma, a young girl in South India, reached puberty, her parents locked her away. Millions of girls all over the world share the same fate. Twenty-five years later, Salma has fought her way back to the outside world. World Premiere
The Square (Al Midan)/ Egypt, U.S.A. (Director: Jehane Noujaim) — What does it mean to risk your life for your ideals? How far will five revolutionaries go in defending their beliefs in the fight for their nation? World Premiere
The Stuart Hall Project/ United Kingdom (Director: John Akomfrah) — Antinuclear campaigner, New Left activist and founding father of Cultural Studies, this documentary interweaves 70 years of Stuart Hall’s film, radio and television appearances, and material from his private archive to document a memorable life and construct a portrait of Britain’s foremost radical intellectual. World Premiere
The Summit/ Ireland, United Kingdom (Director: Nick Ryan) — Twenty-four climbers converged at the last stop before summiting the most dangerous mountain on Earth. Forty-eight hours later, 11 had been killed or simply vanished. Had one, Ger McDonnell, stuck to the climbers' code, he might still be alive. International Premiere
Who is Dayani Cristal?/ United Kingdom (Director: Marc Silver) — An anonymous body in the Arizona desert sparks the beginning of a real-life human drama. The search for its identity leads us across a continent to seek out the people left behind and the meaning of a mysterious tattoo. World Premiere. Day One Film
Producer’s Guild Announces Nominations for the Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures and Non-Fiction Television:
A People Uncounted(Urbinder Films)
Producers: Marc Swenker, Aaron Yeger
The Gatekeepers(Sony Pictures Classics)
Producers: Estelle Fialon, Philippa Kowarsky, Dror Moreh
The Island President(Samuel Goldwyn Films)
Producers: Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen
The Other Dream Team(The Film Arcade)
Producers: Marius Markevicius, Jon Weinbach
Searching For Sugar Man(Sony Pictures Classics)
Producers: Malik Bendjelloul, Simon Chinn
Nominations for the Award for Outstanding Producer of
Non-Fiction Television:
American Masters(PBS)
Producers: Prudence Glass, Susan Lacy, Julie Sacks
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations(Travel Channel)
Producers: Anthony Bourdain, Christopher Collins, Lydia Tenaglia, Sandy Zweig
Deadliest Catch(Discovery Channel)
Producers: Thom Beers, Jeff Conroy, Sean Dash, John Gray, Sheila McCormack, Bill Pruitt, Decker Watson
Inside the Actors Studio(Bravo)
Producers: James Lipton, Shawn Tesser, Jeff Wurtz
Shark Tank(ABC)
Producers: Rhett Bachner, Becky Blitz, Mark Burnett, Bill Gaudsmith, Yun Lingner, Brien Meagher, Clay Newbill, Jim Roush, Laura Skowlund, Paul Sutera, Patrick Wood
BAFTA Short and Documentary Feature Nominations (British Academy of Film and Television Arts, London)
Documentary Feature
The ImposterBart Layton, Dimitri Doganis
Marley Kevin Macdonald, Steve Bing, Charles Steel
McCullin David Morris, Jacqui Morris
Searching for Sugar Man Malik Bendjelloul, Simon Chinn
West of Memphis Amy Berg
Short Animation
Here to Fall Kris Kelly, Evelyn McGrath
I’m Fine Thanks Eamonn O'Neill
The Making of Longbird Will Anderson, Ainslie Henderson
Short Film
The Curse Fyzal Boulifa, Gavin Humphries
Good Night Muriel d'Ansembourg, Eva Sigurdardottir
Swimmer Lynne Ramsay, Peter Carlton, Diarmid Scrimshaw
Tumult Johnny Barrington, Rhianna Andrews
The Voorman Problem Mark Gill, Baldwin Li
The Broadcast Film Critics Association (Bfca)
Documentary Feature Nominations
Bully
The Imposter
Queen of Versailles
Searching for Sugar Man (Winner)
The Central Park Five
West of Memphis
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Block Doc Workshops in Los Angeles February 2013 Ida Doc U
The International Documentary Association will be hosting Documentary Funding and Documentary Tune-Up Workshops with Block on February 9/10. http://www.documentary.org/news/february-documentary-producing-workshops-mitchell-block
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Poster Girl, produced by Block was nominated for a Documentary Academy Award and selected by the Ida as the Best Doc Short 2011. It was also nominated for two Emmy Awards and aired on HBO. He is an executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Carrier, a 10-hour series that he conceived & co-created. Block is a graduate of Tisch School and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. He is a member of Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the Television Academy, a founding member of BAFTA-la and has been teaching at USC School of Cinematic Arts since 1979. Currently Block teaches a required class in the USC Peter Stark Producing Program.
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Note: See Issues 1, 2, 3, and 4 for reviews and clips of the Academy documentary films and short films. Additional reviews of the documentary features follow in this issue.
Best documentary feature
5 Broken Cameras Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
The Gatekeepers Nominees to be determined *See note below
How to Survive a Plague Nominees to be determined
The Invisible War Nominees to be determined
Searching for Sugar Man Nominees to be determined
Best documentary short subject
Inocente Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine
Kings Point Sari Gilman and Jedd Wider
Mondays at Racine Cynthia Wade and Robin Honan
Open Heart Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern
Redemption Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill
Best animated short film
Adam and Dog Minkyu Lee
Fresh Guacamole Pes
Head over Heels Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly
Maggie Simpson in The Longest Daycare David Silverman
Paperman John Kahrs
Best live action short film
Asad Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura
Buzkashi Boys Sam French and Ariel Nasr
Curfew Shawn Christensen
Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw) Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele
Henry Yan England
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song) from a documentary
Before My Time from The documentary feature Chasing Ice Music and Lyric by J. Ralph
Note: *Nominees to be determined* The Documentary Brand gives the nomination to the individual(s) most involved in the key creative aspects of the filmmaking process. A maximum of two persons may be designated as nominees, one of whom must be the credited director who exercised directorial control, and the other of whom must have a producer or director credit. If a producer is named, that individual must have performed a major portion of the producing functions, in accordance with Academy producer criteria. No more than two statuettes will normally be given in the Documentary Feature category. All individuals with a “Producer” or “Produced by” credit on films that reach the semifinal round will automatically be vetted.
The Documentary Branch Executive Committee will determine which producers, if any, are eligible to receive an Oscar. In the unlikely event of a dispute, filmmakers may appeal the committee’s decision. In extremely rare circumstances, a third statuette may be awarded.
Production companies or persons with the screen credit of executive producer, co-producer or any credit other than director or producer shall not be eligible as nominees for the motion picture.
DGA Documentary Award Nominations
Kirby Dick The Invisible War
This is Mr. Dick’s first DGA Award nomination.
Malik Bendjelloul Searching For Sugar Man
This is Mr. Bendjelloul’s first DGA Award nomination.
Lauren Greenfield The Queen of Versailles
This is Ms. Greenfield’s first DGA Award nomination.
David France How To Survive A Plague
This is Mr. France’s first DGA Award nomination.
Alison Klayman Ai WeiWei: Never Sorry
This is Ms. Klayman’s first DGA Award nomination.
Two Academy Nominated Documentary Features
& One Academy Short Listed Documentary Reviewed
The Gatekeepers, directed by Dror Moreh
Documentary Feature Nominee
Six former heads of Israel’s domestic secret service agency, the Shin Bet, share their insights and reflect publicly on their actions and decisions in The Gatekeepers, a film by Dror Moreh. These six heads of the Shin Bet stood at the center of Israel's decision-making process in all matters pertaining to security. They worked closely with every Israeli prime minister, and their assessments and insights had—and continue to have—a profound impact on Israeli policy. The Gatekeepers is an exclusive account of their successes and failures.
I find The Gatekeepers remarkable. Not for its craft but for its concept and vision. Imagine
J Edger Hoover talking about his tenure at the FBI, his successes and his failures, his interactions with the Presidents and members of Congress, and his critical self-evaluation of his mission and how his agency’s work affected our nation. Imagine. Dror Moreh accomplished this feat when he convinced these six surviving members of the Shin Bet, to speak on camera.
The film provides a historical perspective of Israel that is both candid and critical of the successive governments in this rare Middle Eastern democracy. The Shin Bet was created in 1949 by David Ben-Gurion’s government to focus on the internal affairs of Israel and evolved into dealing with counterterrorism and intelligence gathering in the West Bank and Gaza.
These intelligence heads, like ours, report to the President/Prime Minister. They are not part of the military complex. It is this context that gives this work its power. We hear the story of Israel’s struggle to protect itself from both its internal and external enemies; the bombers, terrorists, agents and others who worked to destroy this small country. These men are not glamorous or like the fictional heads of the spy agencies we have seen in James Bond and Bourne films. They are bald or balding grandfather-types. Articulate, highly educated, calm and yet we know that they protected Israel from its enemies even if they had them killed.
This is one of the strongest of the nominated docs. It raises significant issues of personal responsibilities. Despite the lack of oversight we don’t feel that this is an organization gone amuck like the Catholic Church not protecting children or the Us Military not protecting its members from sexual harassment. We see these articulate men as guardians and protectors of their nation steadfastly doing their duty within the confines of their moral beliefs. What is scary about The Gatekeepers is that clearly there could have been abuses and wrongs done by the Shin Bet if these six had less character or their mission was redefined by the government without regard to moral or ethical standards. The film on reflection is troubling for regardless of how the spectator might feel about Israel it forces us to look at this conflict through the lenses of these six guardians and we can only wonder what they don’t tell us about what they did in the name of their country.
Credits:
Director: Dror Moreh
Camera: Avner Shahaf
Producers: Dror Moreh, Estelle Fialon, Philippa Kowarsky
Co Producer: Anna Van Der Wee
Sound: Amos Zipori
Sound Design: Aex Claude
Music: Ab Ovo, Jérôme Chassagnard, Régis Baillet
Editor: Oron Adar
Production Companies: Dror Moreh Productions, Les Films du Poisson, Cinephil
In Co-Production with: Mac Guff, Wild Heart Productions, Arte France, Iba, Ndr, Rtbf
With the support of: Cnc, Media, Région Ile-de-France, Procirep, Angoa, The Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts – Cinema Project
Distribution: Sony Classics
Trailer: http://www.sonyclassics.com/thegatekeepers/
The House I Live In, directed by Eugene Jarecki
Short Listed Documentary Feature for Academy Award nomination
The House I Live In looks at how America has waged war on some of its poorest citizens, costing countless lives, destroying families, and inflicting untold damage on future generations of Americans. It posits that over the last forty years, the War on Drugs has accounted for more than 45 million arrests and shows how America became the world’s largest jailer, damaging poor communities at home and abroad. Yet today drugs are cheaper, purer and more available than ever before. It shows that drug abuse is a public health issue. Despite this, it is treated by our society as a criminal matter and a vast machine has been created that feeds on the men and women who are incarcerated. Because of this, the prisoners are not offered help or a cure for their underlying problems, so they return to prison in a never ending cycle.
Eugene Jarecki, whose previous films looked at the military industrial complex (Why We Fight and The Trials of Henry Kissinger), won the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at Sundance in both 2005 and 2010. The film tackles difficult material. Material that has been in scores of documentaries and television shows over the years. Yet Jarecki, using his personal experience, a wealth of interviews and strong case studies, builds a compelling case for changing the sentencing guidelines for crack (and cocaine) and for dealing with both addiction and the underlying causes of addiction. Jarecki is a skillful filmmaker who has picked a vast and complex subject and has created a work that while rich in content moves along at a good pace although it might have been stronger if it had tried to do less. The film editor Paul Frost and the composer Robert Miller do an excellent job building strong sequences with evocative music. It was nicely shot by Sam Cullman and Derek Hallquist. Richard Abramowitz’s Abramorama handled the distribution and was successful getting the work out which is never easy for such an issue oriented film.
Credits:
Director, Producer, Screenwriter: Eugene Jarecki
Producers: Melinda Shopsin, Sam Cullman, Christopher St. John
Executive Producers: Eugene Jarecki, Nick Fraser, Joslyn Barnes, Danny Glover, Russell Simmons, Roy Ackerman, John Legend, Sally Jo Feifer, Nick Fraser
Camera: Sam Cullman, Derek Hallquist
Sound: Matthew Freed, Art Jaso
Music: Robert Milller
Editor: Paul Frost
Production Companies: Charlotte Street Films, Zdf Enterprises, Independent Television Services, BBC, Aljazeera Documentary Channel, Vpro, Special Broadcasting Service Corporation, Louverture Films, Nhk
Distribution (Us): Abramorama Entertainment, Snag Films
How to Survive a Plague, directed by David France
Documentary Feature Nominee
How to Survive a Plague by writer and filmmaker David France tells the story of how two coalitions came together to lobby for effective treatments and funding for treatments of AIDS in the late 1980s when it was evident that the Us government and its health and other agencies were not being very effective dealing with the AIDS epidemic. The coalitions, Act Up and Tag (Treatment Action Group) helped to make AIDS more treatable. While there is still no cure for AIDS and thousands of people globally still die from the virus, it is now possible to prolong life with treatments that have been developed.
Despite having no scientific training, these self-made activists infiltrated the pharmaceutical industry and helped identify promising new drugs, moving them from experimental trials to patients in record time. With access to never-before-seen archival footage from the 1980s and '90s, filmmaker David France puts the viewer smack in the middle of the controversial actions, the heated meetings, the heartbreaking failures, and the exultant breakthroughs. Faced with their own mortality an improbable group of young men and women, many of them HIV-positive took on Washington and the medical establishment.
While there have been a handful of outstanding films dealing with the AIDS epidemic including Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter and Silverlake Life, to name a few, How to Survive a Plague picks up on the story begun in the landmark Common Threads and updates the struggle, looking at the quest to find a treatment and possibly a cure for this vicious disease. The film weaves together stories of activism and shows how a small determined group can effect change not just nationally but globally. While the film is not as well made as Common Threads or Dr. Peter, it’s powerful. The archival footage manages to capture some of the key figures of Act Up and Tag showing actions as they take place. Instead of relying on talking heads to tell this amazing story, it is presented with footage shot as the story unfolded. This footage and its solid editing distinguishes this film from so many of the works that have tried to tell this story.
Few documentaries have such powerful antagonists, the government, incompetence, a lack of urgency on the part of the medical community and fear. Throw in homophobia and it is evident that the dramatic actions of these heroes saved hundreds of thousands of possible victims from this mostly sexually spread plague.
My only serious criticism of this documentary is its failure to be clearer that the plague continues, that there is no cure for HIV/AIDS and that the community continues to give a false sense of hope. Currently the Cdc states:
” ..estimates that 1,148,200 persons aged 13 years and older are living with HIV infection, including 207,600 (18.1%) who are unaware of their infection1. Over the past decade, the number of people living with HIV has increased, while the annual number of new HIV infections has remained relatively stable. Still, the pace of new infections continues at far too high a level—particularly among certain groups.
HIV Incidence(new infections): The estimated incidence of HIV has remained stable overall in recent years, at about 50,000 new HIV infections per year.2 Within the overall estimates, however, some groups are affected more than others. Msm (men who have sex with men) continue to bear the greatest burden of HIV infection, and among races/ethnicities, African Americans continue to be disproportionately affected.”
This information could have been contained in the last few minutes of this powerful work, to inspire and warn the audience that testing is critical and that safe sex is still the only way to contain AIDS.
The Filmmaker
David France, Director, Producer
David France is an award-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author who has been writing about AIDS since 1982 and today is one of the best-known chroniclers of the epidemic. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek, GQ, and New York magazine, where he is a contributing editor, and has received the National Headliner Award and the GLAAD Media Award, among others. Several films have been inspired by his work, most recently the Emmy-nominated Showtime film Our Fathers, for which he received a WGA nomination. He is at work on a major history of AIDS, due from Alfred A. Knopf in 2013. Based on decades of reporting, How to Survive a Plague is his directorial debut.
Credits
Director: David France
Writers: David France, Todd Woody Richman, Tyler H. Walk
Producers: David France, Howard Gertler
Executive Producers: Dan Cogan, Joy A. Tomchin
Co-Producer: Todd Woody Richman
Camera: Derek Wieshahn
Sound: Stuart Deutsch, Topher Reifeiss
Original Music: Stuart Bogie
Editor: Todd Woody Richman, Tyler H. Walk
Production Companies: Public Square Films, Ninety Thousand Words
Distribution (Us): Sundance Selects
Short Notes and Update:
The International Documentary Association in Los Angeles presents Doc U: The Doc Reporter
Navigating the Intersection of Documentary and Journalism
Moderated by: Karin Skellwagen (The Brooks Institute)
With Panelists:
Sarah Burns (The Central Park Five)
Michael Donaldson (Partner, Donaldson & Callif)
David France (How To Survive A Plague)
For information: http://doc-u-jan-2013-la.eventbrite.com/
Sundance Announces 2013 International Documentary Competition:
Fallen City/ China (Director: Qi Zhao) — Fallen City spans four years to reveal how three families who survived the 2008 Sichuan earthquake to embark on a journey searching for hope, purpose, identity, and to rebuild their lives in a new China torn between tradition and modernity. North American Premiere
Fire in the Blood/ India (Director: Dylan Mohan Gray) — In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Western governments and pharmaceutical companies blocked low-cost antiretroviral drugs from reaching AIDS-stricken Africa, causing 10 million or more unnecessary deaths. An improbable group of people decided to fight back. North American Premiere
Google and the World Brain/ Spain, United Kingdom (Director: Ben Lewis) — In the most ambitious Internet project ever conceived, Google is working to scan every book in the world. Google says it is building a library for mankind. But some are trying to stop it, claiming that Google may have other intentions. World Premiere
The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear/ Georgia, Germany (Director: Tinatin Gurchiani) — A film director casting a 15-23-year-old protagonist visits villages and cities to meet people who answer her call. She follows those who prove to be interesting enough through various dramatic and funny situations. North American Premiere
The Moo Man/ United Kingdom (Directors: Andy Heathcote, Heike Bachelier) — A year in the life of heroic farmer Steve, scene stealing Ida (queen of the herd), and a supporting cast of 55 cows. When Ida falls ill, Steve’s optimism is challenged and their whole way of life is at stake. World Premiere
Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer/ Russian Federation, United Kingdom (Directors: Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin) — Three young women face seven years in a Russian prison for a satirical performance in a Moscow cathedral. But who is really on trial: the three young artists or the society they live in? World Premiere
A River Changes Course/ Cambodia, U.S.A. (Director: Kalyanee Mam) — Three young Cambodians struggle to overcome the crushing effects of deforestation, overfishing, and overwhelming debt in this devastatingly beautiful story of a country reeling from the tragedies of war and rushing to keep pace with a rapidly expanding world. World Premiere
Salma/ United Kingdom, India (Director: Kim Longinotto) — When Salma, a young girl in South India, reached puberty, her parents locked her away. Millions of girls all over the world share the same fate. Twenty-five years later, Salma has fought her way back to the outside world. World Premiere
The Square (Al Midan)/ Egypt, U.S.A. (Director: Jehane Noujaim) — What does it mean to risk your life for your ideals? How far will five revolutionaries go in defending their beliefs in the fight for their nation? World Premiere
The Stuart Hall Project/ United Kingdom (Director: John Akomfrah) — Antinuclear campaigner, New Left activist and founding father of Cultural Studies, this documentary interweaves 70 years of Stuart Hall’s film, radio and television appearances, and material from his private archive to document a memorable life and construct a portrait of Britain’s foremost radical intellectual. World Premiere
The Summit/ Ireland, United Kingdom (Director: Nick Ryan) — Twenty-four climbers converged at the last stop before summiting the most dangerous mountain on Earth. Forty-eight hours later, 11 had been killed or simply vanished. Had one, Ger McDonnell, stuck to the climbers' code, he might still be alive. International Premiere
Who is Dayani Cristal?/ United Kingdom (Director: Marc Silver) — An anonymous body in the Arizona desert sparks the beginning of a real-life human drama. The search for its identity leads us across a continent to seek out the people left behind and the meaning of a mysterious tattoo. World Premiere. Day One Film
Producer’s Guild Announces Nominations for the Award for Outstanding Producer of Documentary Theatrical Motion Pictures and Non-Fiction Television:
A People Uncounted(Urbinder Films)
Producers: Marc Swenker, Aaron Yeger
The Gatekeepers(Sony Pictures Classics)
Producers: Estelle Fialon, Philippa Kowarsky, Dror Moreh
The Island President(Samuel Goldwyn Films)
Producers: Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen
The Other Dream Team(The Film Arcade)
Producers: Marius Markevicius, Jon Weinbach
Searching For Sugar Man(Sony Pictures Classics)
Producers: Malik Bendjelloul, Simon Chinn
Nominations for the Award for Outstanding Producer of
Non-Fiction Television:
American Masters(PBS)
Producers: Prudence Glass, Susan Lacy, Julie Sacks
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations(Travel Channel)
Producers: Anthony Bourdain, Christopher Collins, Lydia Tenaglia, Sandy Zweig
Deadliest Catch(Discovery Channel)
Producers: Thom Beers, Jeff Conroy, Sean Dash, John Gray, Sheila McCormack, Bill Pruitt, Decker Watson
Inside the Actors Studio(Bravo)
Producers: James Lipton, Shawn Tesser, Jeff Wurtz
Shark Tank(ABC)
Producers: Rhett Bachner, Becky Blitz, Mark Burnett, Bill Gaudsmith, Yun Lingner, Brien Meagher, Clay Newbill, Jim Roush, Laura Skowlund, Paul Sutera, Patrick Wood
BAFTA Short and Documentary Feature Nominations (British Academy of Film and Television Arts, London)
Documentary Feature
The ImposterBart Layton, Dimitri Doganis
Marley Kevin Macdonald, Steve Bing, Charles Steel
McCullin David Morris, Jacqui Morris
Searching for Sugar Man Malik Bendjelloul, Simon Chinn
West of Memphis Amy Berg
Short Animation
Here to Fall Kris Kelly, Evelyn McGrath
I’m Fine Thanks Eamonn O'Neill
The Making of Longbird Will Anderson, Ainslie Henderson
Short Film
The Curse Fyzal Boulifa, Gavin Humphries
Good Night Muriel d'Ansembourg, Eva Sigurdardottir
Swimmer Lynne Ramsay, Peter Carlton, Diarmid Scrimshaw
Tumult Johnny Barrington, Rhianna Andrews
The Voorman Problem Mark Gill, Baldwin Li
The Broadcast Film Critics Association (Bfca)
Documentary Feature Nominations
Bully
The Imposter
Queen of Versailles
Searching for Sugar Man (Winner)
The Central Park Five
West of Memphis
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Block Doc Workshops in Los Angeles February 2013 Ida Doc U
The International Documentary Association will be hosting Documentary Funding and Documentary Tune-Up Workshops with Block on February 9/10. http://www.documentary.org/news/february-documentary-producing-workshops-mitchell-block
Mitchell Block specializes in conceiving, producing, marketing & distributing independent features & consulting. He is an expert in placing both completed works into distribution & working with producers to make projects fundable. He conducts regular workshops in film producing in Los Angeles and most recently in Maine, Russia and in Myanmar (Burma).
Poster Girl, produced by Block was nominated for a Documentary Academy Award and selected by the Ida as the Best Doc Short 2011. It was also nominated for two Emmy Awards and aired on HBO. He is an executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Carrier, a 10-hour series that he conceived & co-created. Block is a graduate of Tisch School and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. He is a member of Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the Television Academy, a founding member of BAFTA-la and has been teaching at USC School of Cinematic Arts since 1979. Currently Block teaches a required class in the USC Peter Stark Producing Program.
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- 1/17/2013
- by Mitchell Block
- Sydney's Buzz
A Bafta surprise from Berwick, a sing-off for the Oscars, and who's the best-dressed queen in the land?
The other Argo
Perhaps the biggest surprise of last week's nominations flood came in the Bafta list for outstanding British debut category. Alongside heralded films such as The Imposter was I Am Nasrine, which had not premiered at Sundance or Cannes, the Lff or even Edinburgh, but at the Berwick film and media arts festival.
I haven't spoken to anyone who'd even heard of the film prior to its nomination, though it did have a limited release in the north east, where its director, Tina Gharavi, resides and where it is partly set. So I tracked Gharavi down and spoke to her, just after she'd finished a call with the ever-voracious Weinstein Company, it turns out.
The film is about an Iranian woman who flees Tehran and finds herself smuggled to a rather bleak Tyneside.
The other Argo
Perhaps the biggest surprise of last week's nominations flood came in the Bafta list for outstanding British debut category. Alongside heralded films such as The Imposter was I Am Nasrine, which had not premiered at Sundance or Cannes, the Lff or even Edinburgh, but at the Berwick film and media arts festival.
I haven't spoken to anyone who'd even heard of the film prior to its nomination, though it did have a limited release in the north east, where its director, Tina Gharavi, resides and where it is partly set. So I tracked Gharavi down and spoke to her, just after she'd finished a call with the ever-voracious Weinstein Company, it turns out.
The film is about an Iranian woman who flees Tehran and finds herself smuggled to a rather bleak Tyneside.
- 1/13/2013
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
With awards season truly underway, it is time to dust off the gowns and practice the speeches (not to mention the he-deserved-it-more look) and make out predictions for the BAFTAs.
Part 1 will cover the following categories:
- Best Documentary
- Best Animated Feature
- Best Film not in the English Language
- Best Adapted Screenplay
- Best Original Screenplay
- Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
Best Documentary
The Imposter Marley McCullin Searching for Sugarman West of Memphis
After the cruel snub of Chasing Ice, the Academy has played it safe with their choices. It is good to see British films The Imposter and Marley in the running, not to mention hard-hitting documentary West of Memphis. My hopes are with Searching For Sugarman for being more than an almost-biographical documentary.
Best Animated Film
Brave Frankenweenie Paranorman
Hopes of a British nominee in the shape of Aardman’s Pirates!
Part 1 will cover the following categories:
- Best Documentary
- Best Animated Feature
- Best Film not in the English Language
- Best Adapted Screenplay
- Best Original Screenplay
- Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
Best Documentary
The Imposter Marley McCullin Searching for Sugarman West of Memphis
After the cruel snub of Chasing Ice, the Academy has played it safe with their choices. It is good to see British films The Imposter and Marley in the running, not to mention hard-hitting documentary West of Memphis. My hopes are with Searching For Sugarman for being more than an almost-biographical documentary.
Best Animated Film
Brave Frankenweenie Paranorman
Hopes of a British nominee in the shape of Aardman’s Pirates!
- 1/10/2013
- by Katie Wong
- SoundOnSight
A full list of nominations for this year's Baftas, which saw Lincoln lead the pack with ten
Best picture
Argo
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty
Best British film
Anna Karenina
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Les Miserables
Seven Psychopaths
Skyfall
Best director
Ben Affleck, Argo
Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
Michael Haneke, Amour
Ang Lee, Life of Pi
Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
Best actor
Ben Affleck, Argo
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Best actress
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Marion Cotillard, Rust and Bone
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Helen Mirren, Hitchcock
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Best supporting actor
Alan Arkin, Argo
Javier Bardem, Skyfall
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
Best supporting actress
Amy Adams, The Master
Judi Dench, Skyfall
Sally Field, Lincoln
Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
Helen Hunt,...
Best picture
Argo
Les Miserables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty
Best British film
Anna Karenina
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Les Miserables
Seven Psychopaths
Skyfall
Best director
Ben Affleck, Argo
Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty
Michael Haneke, Amour
Ang Lee, Life of Pi
Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained
Best actor
Ben Affleck, Argo
Bradley Cooper, Silver Linings Playbook
Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln
Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables
Joaquin Phoenix, The Master
Best actress
Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty
Marion Cotillard, Rust and Bone
Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook
Helen Mirren, Hitchcock
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Best supporting actor
Alan Arkin, Argo
Javier Bardem, Skyfall
Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Master
Tommy Lee Jones, Lincoln
Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained
Best supporting actress
Amy Adams, The Master
Judi Dench, Skyfall
Sally Field, Lincoln
Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables
Helen Hunt,...
- 1/10/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
The combined mystique of Daniel Day-Lewis and Abraham Lincoln is set to overwhelm more offbeat competition
Steven Spielberg's Lincoln predictably leads the way in this year's Bafta nomination list with 10 nods, with Les Misérables, Life of Pi, Skyfall and Argo crowding in behind. A surprise awards contender, perhaps, given its cool critical reception, is Joe Wright's version of Anna Karenina with six nominations.
Lincoln is an awards-season movie through and through – that brooding poster image of Daniel Day-Lewis's president in profile, lost in thought, dealing with the burdens of history and command, hammers home the sheer granite importance of what is being dramatised. Academy voters know that this is a film they can support in good faith. In its way, Ben Affleck's suspense thriller Argo, about the 1979 hostage crisis, is every bit as fiercely patriotic and it is now poised to become the wild card success of this year's awards season.
Steven Spielberg's Lincoln predictably leads the way in this year's Bafta nomination list with 10 nods, with Les Misérables, Life of Pi, Skyfall and Argo crowding in behind. A surprise awards contender, perhaps, given its cool critical reception, is Joe Wright's version of Anna Karenina with six nominations.
Lincoln is an awards-season movie through and through – that brooding poster image of Daniel Day-Lewis's president in profile, lost in thought, dealing with the burdens of history and command, hammers home the sheer granite importance of what is being dramatised. Academy voters know that this is a film they can support in good faith. In its way, Ben Affleck's suspense thriller Argo, about the 1979 hostage crisis, is every bit as fiercely patriotic and it is now poised to become the wild card success of this year's awards season.
- 1/10/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Steven Spielberg's presidential biopic heads into Oscar nominations with the most nods from both the Golden Globe awards and the Baftas, while Tom Hooper's Les Miserables and Ang Lee's Life of Pi trail with nine and Skyfall follows with eight
The British films Les Miserables, Tom Hooper's crowd-pleasing adaptation of the West End musical, and Skyfall, the critically acclaimed 23rd outing for James Bond, were both widely rewarded in the nominations for the British Academy film awards on Wednesday.
But the biggest number of nominations went to Lincoln, Steven Spielberg's biopic of the 16th president, starring Daniel Day-Lewis. That film, which opens in the UK on 25 January, picked up 10 nominations while Les Miserables took nine and Skyfall eight (although the Bond film failed to make the best film category).
Lincoln therefore heads into the Oscar race (which begins proper on Thursday when the nominations are announced) as clear frontrunner,...
The British films Les Miserables, Tom Hooper's crowd-pleasing adaptation of the West End musical, and Skyfall, the critically acclaimed 23rd outing for James Bond, were both widely rewarded in the nominations for the British Academy film awards on Wednesday.
But the biggest number of nominations went to Lincoln, Steven Spielberg's biopic of the 16th president, starring Daniel Day-Lewis. That film, which opens in the UK on 25 January, picked up 10 nominations while Les Miserables took nine and Skyfall eight (although the Bond film failed to make the best film category).
Lincoln therefore heads into the Oscar race (which begins proper on Thursday when the nominations are announced) as clear frontrunner,...
- 1/10/2013
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
Australian effects house Fuel VFX has added a British Academy Film Awards nomination for its work on Ridley Scott.s Prometheus following its recent nod from the Visual Effects Society.
Fuel co-founder Paul Butterworth was nominated alongside non-Fuel nominees Richard Stammers, Charley Henley, and Trevor Wood. Fuel, one of the three lead visual effects vendors on the latest installment in the Aliens franchise, delivered more than 200 visual effects shots. The company, which is now part of Animal Logic after facing a near-catastrophic cash-crunch last year, created the .Orrery. (an interactive 3-dimensional map of the known universe), the holographic 'Engineer' characters, and the 'Holotable' on the Prometheus' bridge.
Its work also received two nominations in the peer-reviewed Visual Effects Society Awards. Fuel.s BAFTA and Ves nominations mean it is likely to also receive an Academy Award nomination, which will be announced January 10 (Us time). The Oscar shortlist for visual effects includes: The Amazing Spider-Man,...
Fuel co-founder Paul Butterworth was nominated alongside non-Fuel nominees Richard Stammers, Charley Henley, and Trevor Wood. Fuel, one of the three lead visual effects vendors on the latest installment in the Aliens franchise, delivered more than 200 visual effects shots. The company, which is now part of Animal Logic after facing a near-catastrophic cash-crunch last year, created the .Orrery. (an interactive 3-dimensional map of the known universe), the holographic 'Engineer' characters, and the 'Holotable' on the Prometheus' bridge.
Its work also received two nominations in the peer-reviewed Visual Effects Society Awards. Fuel.s BAFTA and Ves nominations mean it is likely to also receive an Academy Award nomination, which will be announced January 10 (Us time). The Oscar shortlist for visual effects includes: The Amazing Spider-Man,...
- 1/9/2013
- by Brendan Swift
- IF.com.au
The 2013 British Academy Film Award announced this morning its nominations which were dominated by acclaimed U.S. movies.
BAFTA honors historical biopic Lincoln with 10 nominations, though Steven Spielberg wasn’t nominated for best director.
Boy-meets-tiger saga Life of Pi and epic musical Les Misérables received nine nominations each, while James Bond adventure Skyfall had eight nods and Iran hostage thriller Argo seven. Tom Hooper also was dismissed on the direction front.
Other mulitple nominations include a period film based on the famous Tolstoy novel, Anna Karenina with six and the riveting, powerhouse thriller Zero Dark Thirty and western directed by Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained have 5 nominations each.
The British awards have helped underdog films including Slumdog Millionaire, The King’s Speech and The Artist gain momentum for Oscars gold, so many Brits hoping to see nods for Skyfall.
The winners of the 2013 Bafta film awards will be announced at...
BAFTA honors historical biopic Lincoln with 10 nominations, though Steven Spielberg wasn’t nominated for best director.
Boy-meets-tiger saga Life of Pi and epic musical Les Misérables received nine nominations each, while James Bond adventure Skyfall had eight nods and Iran hostage thriller Argo seven. Tom Hooper also was dismissed on the direction front.
Other mulitple nominations include a period film based on the famous Tolstoy novel, Anna Karenina with six and the riveting, powerhouse thriller Zero Dark Thirty and western directed by Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained have 5 nominations each.
The British awards have helped underdog films including Slumdog Millionaire, The King’s Speech and The Artist gain momentum for Oscars gold, so many Brits hoping to see nods for Skyfall.
The winners of the 2013 Bafta film awards will be announced at...
- 1/9/2013
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
The British Academy of Film and Television Awards have released their full list of nominees for 2013, with ‘Lincoln’ & ‘Les Misérables’ leading the pack!
Awards season is here once again, and Les Misérables, Lincoln, Li of Pi, Django Unchained and Zero Dark Thirty are some of the many films that have been nominated for the 2013 BAFTA Awards. Actresses of the moment Anne Hathway and Jennifer Lawrence have both been nominated — Anne for Best Supporting Actress for Les Mis and Jennifer for Best Actress for Silver Linings Playbook. You go girls!
Lincoln leads the nominations with a whopping 10, with stars Daniel Day Lewis (he is so going to win!), Tommy Lee Jones and Sally Field all receiving recognition. Director Steven Spielberg, however, got totally snubbed!
From Les Mis, the only actors nominated are Anne and Hugh Jackman. Argo and Life of Pi also received also nine nominations, while Skyfall recieved eight. And Ben Affleck got not one,...
Awards season is here once again, and Les Misérables, Lincoln, Li of Pi, Django Unchained and Zero Dark Thirty are some of the many films that have been nominated for the 2013 BAFTA Awards. Actresses of the moment Anne Hathway and Jennifer Lawrence have both been nominated — Anne for Best Supporting Actress for Les Mis and Jennifer for Best Actress for Silver Linings Playbook. You go girls!
Lincoln leads the nominations with a whopping 10, with stars Daniel Day Lewis (he is so going to win!), Tommy Lee Jones and Sally Field all receiving recognition. Director Steven Spielberg, however, got totally snubbed!
From Les Mis, the only actors nominated are Anne and Hugh Jackman. Argo and Life of Pi also received also nine nominations, while Skyfall recieved eight. And Ben Affleck got not one,...
- 1/9/2013
- by Eleanore Hutch
- HollywoodLife
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced the nominees for their annual awards and Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" led with 10 nominations including Best Picture. "Les Miserables" and "Life of Pi" followed with nine nominations each. We'll find out the winner on Sunday, February 10th.
Here's the complete list of nominees; for winners/nominees of other award-giving bodies, click here:
Rising Star Award
Elizabeth Olsen
Andrea Riseborough
Suraj Sharma
Juno Temple
Alicia Vikander
Short Film
"The Curse"
"Good Night"
"Swimmer"
"Tumult"
"The Voorman Project"
Short Animation
"Here To Fall"
"I'm Fine Thanks"
"The Making Of Longbird"
Outstanding British Debut
Bart Layton, Dimitri Doganis - "The Imposter"
David Morris, Jacqui Morris - "McCullin"
Dexter Fletcher, Danny King - "Wild Bill"
James Bobin - "The Muppets"
Tina Gharavi - "I Am Nasrine"
Film Not In The English Language
"Amour"
"Headhunters"
"The Hunt"
"Rust & Bone"
"The Intouchables"
Original Music
Dario Marianelli...
Here's the complete list of nominees; for winners/nominees of other award-giving bodies, click here:
Rising Star Award
Elizabeth Olsen
Andrea Riseborough
Suraj Sharma
Juno Temple
Alicia Vikander
Short Film
"The Curse"
"Good Night"
"Swimmer"
"Tumult"
"The Voorman Project"
Short Animation
"Here To Fall"
"I'm Fine Thanks"
"The Making Of Longbird"
Outstanding British Debut
Bart Layton, Dimitri Doganis - "The Imposter"
David Morris, Jacqui Morris - "McCullin"
Dexter Fletcher, Danny King - "Wild Bill"
James Bobin - "The Muppets"
Tina Gharavi - "I Am Nasrine"
Film Not In The English Language
"Amour"
"Headhunters"
"The Hunt"
"Rust & Bone"
"The Intouchables"
Original Music
Dario Marianelli...
- 1/9/2013
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
At this point in awards season, it’s pretty hard to surprise us. The Oscar nods are going to be announced tomorrow morning, and we’re pretty sure the top of the list will look like this: Lincoln, Silver Linings Playbook, Les Miserables, Argo, Zero Dark Thirty, Django Unchained, Life of Pi … So anyway, we could be inclined to yawn when looking at the nominations for the British Academy Film Awards (a.k.a. the BAFTAs), as the L films — Lincokn, Les Miz and Life of Pi — are in the lead. That’s why we like looking at the details, like the Outstanding British Film category, which gives Skyfall, Anna Karenina and Seven Psychopaths a chance to shine. There’s also the Rising Star award, nominated by a panel but voted on by the public. This year Elizabeth Olsen, Suraj Sharma (Pi), Andrea Riseborough (W.E.), Juno Temple (Dark Knight Rises...
- 1/9/2013
- by Sabrina Rojas Weiss
- TheFabLife - Movies
With ten nominations, Lincoln led the way at the 2013 BAFTA nominations followed closely by Les Miserables and Life of Pi with nine each. All three films were consequently nominated for Best Film, but interestingly enough, only Ang Lee scored a Best Director nomination as neither Steven Spielberg or Tom Hooper were named. Also nominated for Best Film was Argo and Zero Dark Thirty, both of which saw Ben Affleck and Kathryn Bigelow score accompanying Best Director nods along with Michael Haneke (Amour) and Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained). The Best British Film nominations went to Anna Karenina, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Les Miserables, Seven Psychopaths and Skyfall. The nomination for Exotic Marigold was its only nomination while Skyfall earned eight, including acting nominations for Javier Bardem and Judi Dench and noms for Cinematography, Production Design, Editing, Sound and Original Music. Haneke's Best Director nomination was accompanied by a Best Foreign...
- 1/9/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Lincoln led all films with 10 BAFTA nominations, but director Steven Spielberg was not among the five directors recognized by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Daniel Day-Lewis, Tommy Lee Jones, Sally Field, cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, screenwriter Tony Kushner, and composer John Williams were among the Lincoln landslide, but the British Academy opted to reward Amour director Michael Hanake and Django Unchained auteur Quentin Tarantino, even though neither of those films were mentioned for Best Film.
Spielberg isn’t alone; Les Misérables director Tom Hooper was also overlooked. Both directors’ films joined Oscar contenders Argo, Life of Pi, and...
Spielberg isn’t alone; Les Misérables director Tom Hooper was also overlooked. Both directors’ films joined Oscar contenders Argo, Life of Pi, and...
- 1/9/2013
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
On Wednesday January 9th, actors Alice Eve and Jeremy Irvine joined BAFTA.s Chairman John Willis to announce the nominations for the Ee British Academy Film Awards in 2013.
Lincoln led the field with ten nominations. Les Misérables and Life of Pi were nominated in nine categories; Skyfall has eight, Argo has seven nominations and Anna Karenina has six. Django Unchained and Zero Dark Thirty saw five nominations. The Master and Amour have four nominations. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and Silver Linings Playbook were nominated for three. Hitchcock, Rust and Bone, The Imposter and McCullin have two nominations apiece. Yesterday’s DGA nominees Steven Spielberg and Tom Hooper did not make the BAFTA list for Best Director.
Lincoln was nominated in the following categories: Best Film, Adapted Screenplay, Original Music, Cinematography, Production Design, Costume Design and Make Up & Hair. Daniel Day-Lewis was nominated for Leading Actor, Tommy Lee Jones is...
Lincoln led the field with ten nominations. Les Misérables and Life of Pi were nominated in nine categories; Skyfall has eight, Argo has seven nominations and Anna Karenina has six. Django Unchained and Zero Dark Thirty saw five nominations. The Master and Amour have four nominations. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and Silver Linings Playbook were nominated for three. Hitchcock, Rust and Bone, The Imposter and McCullin have two nominations apiece. Yesterday’s DGA nominees Steven Spielberg and Tom Hooper did not make the BAFTA list for Best Director.
Lincoln was nominated in the following categories: Best Film, Adapted Screenplay, Original Music, Cinematography, Production Design, Costume Design and Make Up & Hair. Daniel Day-Lewis was nominated for Leading Actor, Tommy Lee Jones is...
- 1/9/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
London — Nominees in major categories for the British Academy Film Awards, announced Wednesday:
_Film: "Argo," "Les Miserables," "Life Of Pi," "Lincoln," "Zero Dark Thirty"
_British Film: "Anna Karenina," "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," "Les Miserables," "Seven Psychopaths," "Skyfall"
_Director: Michael Haneke, "Amour"; Ben Affleck, "Argo"; Quentin Tarantino, "Django Unchained"; Ang Lee, "Life Of Pi"; Kathryn Bigelow, "Zero Dark Thirty"
_Leading Actor: Ben Affleck, "Argo"; Bradley Cooper, "Silver Linings Playbook"; Daniel Day-Lewis, "Lincoln"; Hugh Jackman, "Les Miserables"; Joaquin Phoenix, "The Master"
_Leading Actress: Emmanuelle Riva, "Amour"; Helen Mirren, "Hitchcock"; Jennifer Lawrence, "Silver Linings Playbook"; Jessica Chastain, "Zero Dark Thirty"; Marion Cotillard, "Rust and Bone"
_Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin, "Argo"; Christoph Waltz, "Django Unchained"; Javier Bardem, "Skyfall"; Philip Seymour Hoffman, "The Master"; Tommy Lee Jones, "Lincoln"
_Supporting Actress: Amy Adams, "The Master"; Anne Hathaway, "Les Miserables"; Helen Hunt, "The Sessions"; Judi Dench, "Skyfall"; Sally Field, " Lincoln"
_Rising Star Award (voted by the public): Elizabeth Olsen,...
_Film: "Argo," "Les Miserables," "Life Of Pi," "Lincoln," "Zero Dark Thirty"
_British Film: "Anna Karenina," "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," "Les Miserables," "Seven Psychopaths," "Skyfall"
_Director: Michael Haneke, "Amour"; Ben Affleck, "Argo"; Quentin Tarantino, "Django Unchained"; Ang Lee, "Life Of Pi"; Kathryn Bigelow, "Zero Dark Thirty"
_Leading Actor: Ben Affleck, "Argo"; Bradley Cooper, "Silver Linings Playbook"; Daniel Day-Lewis, "Lincoln"; Hugh Jackman, "Les Miserables"; Joaquin Phoenix, "The Master"
_Leading Actress: Emmanuelle Riva, "Amour"; Helen Mirren, "Hitchcock"; Jennifer Lawrence, "Silver Linings Playbook"; Jessica Chastain, "Zero Dark Thirty"; Marion Cotillard, "Rust and Bone"
_Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin, "Argo"; Christoph Waltz, "Django Unchained"; Javier Bardem, "Skyfall"; Philip Seymour Hoffman, "The Master"; Tommy Lee Jones, "Lincoln"
_Supporting Actress: Amy Adams, "The Master"; Anne Hathaway, "Les Miserables"; Helen Hunt, "The Sessions"; Judi Dench, "Skyfall"; Sally Field, " Lincoln"
_Rising Star Award (voted by the public): Elizabeth Olsen,...
- 1/9/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
The 2013 British Academy of Film and Television Arts film awards nominations have been announced, with Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" leading the way with 10 nominations -- but no nomination for Spielberg himself. "Les Miserables" and "Life of Pi" are right behind with nine nominations apiece.
The BAFTAs will be awarded Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013 in London.
Best Film
Argo - Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, George Clooney
Les MISÉRABLES - Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh
Life Of Pi - Gil Netter, Ang Lee, David Womark
Lincoln - Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy
Zero Dark Thirty - Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, Megan Ellison
Outstanding British Film
Anna Karenina - Joe Wright, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster, Tom Stoppard
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - John Madden, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Ol Parker
Les MISÉRABLES - Tom Hooper, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh, William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer...
The BAFTAs will be awarded Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013 in London.
Best Film
Argo - Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, George Clooney
Les MISÉRABLES - Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh
Life Of Pi - Gil Netter, Ang Lee, David Womark
Lincoln - Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy
Zero Dark Thirty - Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, Megan Ellison
Outstanding British Film
Anna Karenina - Joe Wright, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster, Tom Stoppard
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - John Madden, Graham Broadbent, Pete Czernin, Ol Parker
Les MISÉRABLES - Tom Hooper, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh, William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer...
- 1/9/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
News Ryan Lambie Jan 9, 2013
The BAFTA film nominations are in. You can read the list of nominees in full here...
We are now well into awards list season. We've already had the list of Razzie nominees, and the actors and filmmakers up for an Oscar nod will be revealed tomorrow. In the meantime, here's the British Academy's list of nominees, which features a strong showing from Lincoln, Les Mis and even Skyfall - a surprising inclusion, given that Bond movies are usually overlooked at these sorts of things.
Make what you will of the list that follows, but we're more than a little disappointed to see The Pirates: In An Adventure With Scientists missed out of the animation category, and we're pretty sure Ben Wheatley's Sightseers deserved some sort of mention, too.
The BAFTA awards ceremony will take place on Sunday 10th February, after which there'll be face painting and a meat raffle.
The BAFTA film nominations are in. You can read the list of nominees in full here...
We are now well into awards list season. We've already had the list of Razzie nominees, and the actors and filmmakers up for an Oscar nod will be revealed tomorrow. In the meantime, here's the British Academy's list of nominees, which features a strong showing from Lincoln, Les Mis and even Skyfall - a surprising inclusion, given that Bond movies are usually overlooked at these sorts of things.
Make what you will of the list that follows, but we're more than a little disappointed to see The Pirates: In An Adventure With Scientists missed out of the animation category, and we're pretty sure Ben Wheatley's Sightseers deserved some sort of mention, too.
The BAFTA awards ceremony will take place on Sunday 10th February, after which there'll be face painting and a meat raffle.
- 1/9/2013
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
A couple of days ago we were told the nominees for the Ee BAFTA Rising Star Award 2013 and bright and early this morning, Alice Eve (who is to star in Star Trek into Darkness) and Jeremy Irvine (who recently starred in War Horse and Great Expectations) were tasked with sharing the full list of nominees with the world. The full list of movies that have made it onto the shortlist for the 65th 2013 British Academy of Film and Television Arts are all listed below.
If all goes to plan, we’ll be joining some of the biggest movie stars in the world on Sunday 10th February and if you haven’t already, click here to vote for your favourite of the rising star.
Without further ado, here’s the list of movies that will be vying for the biggest award in the British movie awards calendar. Let us know who...
If all goes to plan, we’ll be joining some of the biggest movie stars in the world on Sunday 10th February and if you haven’t already, click here to vote for your favourite of the rising star.
Without further ado, here’s the list of movies that will be vying for the biggest award in the British movie awards calendar. Let us know who...
- 1/9/2013
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The nominations for the 2013 Ee British Academy Film Awards were unveiled by Alice Eve and Jeremy Irvine at BAFTA's Piccadilly headquarters this morning (January 9). The ceremony will take place on Sunday 10 February 2013 at London's Royal Opera House, hosted by Stephen Fry, and will be broadcast by the BBC. Video: Alice Eve, Jeremy Irvine and Mark Kermode discuss the BAFTA nominations:
Best Film
Argo
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty Outstanding British Film
Anna Karenina
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Les Miserables
Seven Psychopaths
Skyfall Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
Bart Layton (director), Dimitri Doganis (producer) - The Imposter
David Morris (director), Jacqui Morris (director/producer) - McCullin
Dexter Fletcher (more)...
Best Film
Argo
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty Outstanding British Film
Anna Karenina
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Les Miserables
Seven Psychopaths
Skyfall Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
Bart Layton (director), Dimitri Doganis (producer) - The Imposter
David Morris (director), Jacqui Morris (director/producer) - McCullin
Dexter Fletcher (more)...
- 1/9/2013
- by By Simon Reynolds
- Digital Spy
The nominations for the 2013 Ee British Academy Film Awards were unveiled by Alice Eve and Jeremy Irvine at BAFTA's Piccadilly headquarters this morning (January 9). The ceremony will take place on Sunday 10 February 2013 at London's Royal Opera House, hosted by Stephen Fry, and will be broadcast by the BBC. Video - Watch the BAFTA nominations announcement below (starts at 22m30s): Best Film
Argo
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty Outstanding British Film
Anna Karenina
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Les Miserables
Seven Psychopaths
Skyfall Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
Bart Layton (director), Dimitri Doganis (producer) - The Imposter
David Morris (director), Jacqui Morris (director/producer) - McCullin
Dexter Fletcher (director/writer), Danny (more)...
Argo
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Zero Dark Thirty Outstanding British Film
Anna Karenina
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Les Miserables
Seven Psychopaths
Skyfall Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
Bart Layton (director), Dimitri Doganis (producer) - The Imposter
David Morris (director), Jacqui Morris (director/producer) - McCullin
Dexter Fletcher (director/writer), Danny (more)...
- 1/9/2013
- by By Simon Reynolds
- Digital Spy
Ever since the invention of photography the camera has been a vital witness to war: Roger Fenton in the Crimea; Mathew Brady recording the American civil war; John Warwick Brooke on the Western Front in the first world war; Robert Capa covering the Spanish civil war, the second world war and war in Indochina, where he died in 1954. The British photojournalist Don McCullin belongs in their company, and in this excellent documentary the careworn, ruggedly handsome McCullin talks straight to camera with great honesty about covering wars and conflicts in Cyprus, Congo, Biafra, Vietnam, Northern Ireland, Cambodia and Lebanon.
His first assignment was in his working-class east London for the Observer, accompanying the American writer Clancy Sigal (who came to Britain as a McCarthy fugitive in the mid-1950s) to report on a violent teenage gang with which he'd been associated. The assignment produced remarkable images, most memorably a half...
His first assignment was in his working-class east London for the Observer, accompanying the American writer Clancy Sigal (who came to Britain as a McCarthy fugitive in the mid-1950s) to report on a violent teenage gang with which he'd been associated. The assignment produced remarkable images, most memorably a half...
- 1/6/2013
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
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