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Posted: **Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:21 am**

This thread will be the home for all Oscar and precursor awards news, critics' group awards, and individual critics' top ten lists.

The Indpendent Spirit Awards kick it off this year with their nominations:

FEATURE (Award given to the producer)
"The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" - Producers: Kathleen Kennedy, Jon Kilik
"I'm Not There" - Producers: Christine Vachon, John Sloss, John Goldwyn, James D. Stern
"Juno" - Producers: Lianne Halfon, John Malkovich, Mason Novick, Russell Smith
"A Mighty Heart" - Producers: Dede Gardner, Andrew Eaton, Brad Pitt
"Paranoid Park" - Producers: Neil Kopp, David Cress

FIRST FEATURE (Award given to the director and producer)
"2 Days in Paris" - Director: Julie Delpy; Producers: Julie Delpy, Christophe Mazodier, Thierry Potok
"Great World of Sound" - Director: Craig Zobel; Producers: Melissa Palmer, David Gordon Green, Richard Wright, Craig Zobel
"The Lookout" - Director: Scott Frank; Producers: Roger Birnbaum, Gary Barber, Laurence Mark, Walter Parkes
"Rocket Science" - Director: Jeffrey Blitz; Producers: Effie T. Brown, Sean Welch
"Vanaja" - Director: Rajnesh Domalpalli; Producer: Latha R. Domalapalli

DIRECTOR
Todd Haynes - "I'm Not There"
Tamara Jenkins - "The Savages"
Jason Reitman - "Juno"
Julian Schnabel - "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
Gus Van Sant - "Paranoid Park"

MALE LEAD
Pedro Castaneda - "August Evening"
Don Cheadle - "Talk To Me"
Philip Seymour Hoffman - "The Savages"
Frank Langella - "Starting Out in the Evening"
Tony Leung - "Lust, Caution"

FEMALE LEAD
Angelina Jolie - "A Mighty Heart"
Sienna Miller - "Interview"
Ellen Page - "Juno"
Parker Posey - "Broken English"
Tang Wei - "Lust, Caution"

SUPPORTING MALE
Chiwetel Ejiofor - "Talk To Me"
Marcus Carl Franklin - "I'm Not There"
Kene Holliday - "Great World of Sound"
Irrfan Khan - "The Namesake"
Steve Zahn - "Rescue Dawn"

SUPPORTING FEMALE
Cate Blanchett - "I'm Not There"
Anna Kendrick - "Rocket Science"
Jennifer Jason Leigh - "Margot at the Wedding"
Tamara Podemski - "Four Sheets to the Wind"
Marisa Tomei - "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead"
More than one option

SCREENPLAY
Ronald Harwood - "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
Tamara Jenkins - "The Savages"
Fred Parnes & Andrew Wagner - "Starting Out in the Evening"
Adrienne Shelly - "Waitress"
Mike White - "Year of the Dog"

FIRST SCREENPLAY
Jeffrey Blitz - "Rocket Science"
Zoe Cassavetes - "Broken English"
Diablo Cody - "Juno"
Kelly Masterson - "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead"
John Orloff - "A Mighty Heart"

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Mott Hupfel - "The Savages"
Janusz Kaminski - "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
Milton Kam - "Vanaja"
Mihai Malaimare, Jr. - "Youth Without Youth"
Rodrigo Prieto - "Lust, Caution"

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD (Given to the best feature made for under $500,000; award given to the writer, director, and producer)
"August Evening" - Writer/Director: Chris Eska; Producers: Connie Hill, Jason Wehling
"Owl and the Sparrow" - Writer/Director: Stephane Gauger; Producers: Nguyen Van Quan, Doan Nhat Nam, Stephane Gauger
"The Pool" - Director: Chris Smith; Producer: Kate Noble; Writer: Chris Smith & Randy Russell
"Quiet City" - Director: Aaron Katz; Producers: Brendan McFadden, Ben Stambler
"Shotgun Stories" - Writer/Director: Jeff Nichols; Producers: David Gordon Green, Lisa Muskat, Jeff Nichols

DOCUMENTARY (Award given to the director)
"Crazy Love" - Director: Dan Klores
"Lake of Fire" - Director: Tony Kaye
"Manufactured Landscapes" - Director: Jennifer Baichwal
"The Monastery" - Director: Pernille Rose GrÃ¸nkjÃ¦r
"The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair" - Directors: Petra Epperlein & Michael Tucker

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD
"I'm Not There"
Director: Todd Haynes; Casting Director: Laura Rosenthal;
Ensemble Cast: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bruce Greenwood, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, Ben Whishaw

IFC/ACURA SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD
Ramin Bahrani, director of "Chop Shop"
Ronnie Bronstein, director of "Frownland"
Lee Isaac Chung, director of "Munyurangabo"

TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD
Laura Dunn for "The Unforeseen"
Gary Hustwit for "Helvetica"
John Maringouin for "Running Stumbled"

PRODUCERS AWARD
Anne Clements, producer of "Ping Pong Playa" and "QuinceaÃ±era"
Alexis Ferris, producer of "Cthulhu" and "Police Beat"
Neil Kopp, producer of "Paranoid Park" and "Old Joy"

Posted: **Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:34 am**

A Mighty Heart? #-o

Next year's Oscars are going to be very interesting, there really haven't been too many run-away favorites yet. I think we'll definitely see No Country For Old Men score the big one but other than that, besides Adams for Enchanted and Blanchett, I can't think of any sure-fire noms.

Posted: **Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:39 am**

domino harvey wrote:A Mighty Heart? #-o
I can't think of any sure-fire noms.

DDL?

Posted: **Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:40 am**

domino harvey wrote:Next year's Oscars are going to be very interesting, there really haven't been too many run-away favorites yet. I think we'll definitely see No Country For Old Men score the big one but other than that, besides Adams for Enchanted and Blanchett, I can't think of any sure-fire noms.

No Country may end up being a little too oblique for the fuddy-duddies in the Academy, but a bevy of critics' awards may guilt them in to nominating it. Word on the street is that Atonement will be the Oscar favorite this year.

eez28 wrote:DDL?

Yeah. I think he's a pretty sure bet. If Blood is as pitch-black as reported though, he may be the only nom from that film.

Here are the official selections for Foreign Language Film:

Argentina, â€œXXY,â€

Posted: **Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:42 am**

I think they'll put it in out of Fargo-guilt.
Good call on Daniel Day Lewis.

Posted: **Wed Nov 28, 2007 3:04 am**

The IFP's Gotham Awards ceremony is being held tonight. They only have a few categories and half the nominees are always for films you haven't heard of, but here they are anyway:

**EDIT: Updated with winners in blue**

Best Feature
Great World of Sound
Craig Zobel, director; Melissa Palmer, David Gordon Green, Richard Wright, Craig Zobel, producers (Magnolia Pictures)

I'm Not There
Todd Haynes, director; Christine Vachon, James D. Stern, John Sloss, John Goldwyn, producers (The Weinstein Company)

Into the Wild
Sean Penn, director; Sean Penn, Art Linson, Bill Pohlad, producers (Paramount Vantage & River Road Entertainment)

Margot at the Wedding
Noah Baumbach, director; Scott Rudin, producer (Paramount Vantage)

The Namesake
Mira Nair, director; Lydia Dean Pilcher, Mira Nair, producers (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Best Documentary
The Devil Came on Horseback
Annie Sundberg & Ricki Stern, directors; Ricki Stern, Annie Sundberg, Gretchen Wallace, Jane Wells, producers (International Film Circuit)

Jimmy Carter Man from Plains
Jonathan Demme, director; Jonathan Demme, Neda Armian, producers (Sony Pictures Classics)

My Kid Could Paint That
Amir Bar-Lev, producer/director (Sony Pictures Classics)

Sicko
Michael Moore, director; Michael Moore, Meghan O'Hara, producers (The Weinstein Company)

Taxi to the Dark Side
Alex Gibney, director; Alex Gibney, Eva Orner, Susannah Shipman, producers (THINKFilm)

Best Ensemble Cast
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (tie)
Albert Finney, Rosemary Harris, Ethan Hawke, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Brian F. O'Byrne, Amy Ryan, Michael Shannon, Marisa Tomei (THINKFilm)

The Last Winter
Connie Britton, Kevin Corrigan, Zach Gilford, James LeGros, Ron Perlman (IFC First Take)

Margot at the Wedding
Jack Black, Flora Cross, Ciarán Hinds, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Zane Pais, John Turturro (Paramount Vantage)

The Savages
Philip Bosco, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Laura Linney (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Talk to Me (tie)
Cedric the Entertainer, Don Cheadle, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Mike Epps, Vondie Curtis Hall, Taraji P. Henson, Martin Sheen (Focus Features)

Breakthrough Director
Lee Isaac Chung for Munyurangabo
Stephane Gauger for Owl and the Sparrow
Julia Loktev for Day Night Day Night (IFC First Take)
David Von Ancken for Seraphim Falls (Samuel Goldwyn Films)
Craig Zobel for Great World of Sound (Magnolia Pictures)

Breakthrough Actor
Emile Hirsch in Into the Wild (Paramount Vantage)
Kene Holliday in Great World of Sound (Magnolia Pictures)
Ellen Page in Juno (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Jess Weixler in Teeth (Roadside Attractions)
Luisa Williams in Day Night Day Night (IFC First Take)

Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You
August the First
Lanre Olabisi, director; Shawn Alexander, Gabriel "Swede" Sedgwick, Nicky Arzeu Akmal, Lanre Olabisi, producers

Frownland
Ronald Bronstein, director; Marc Raybin, producer

Loren Cass
Chris Fuller, director; Chris Fuller, Frank Craft, Kayla Tabish, producers

Mississippi Chicken
John Fiege, director; John Fiege, Anita Grabowski, Victor Moyers, producers

Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa
Jeremy Stulberg & Randy Stulberg, directors; Eric Juhola, Jeremy Stulberg, Randy Stulberg, producers

Posted: **Wed Nov 28, 2007 6:16 am**

Oh god China, The Knot? What a terrible film. Even the cheese-loving Chinese girls that put it on turned it off after a half-hour. They need to get Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige on a rotating cycle so we can have pretty disappointing melodramas instead of shoddy third-rate melodramas.

Or grow some balls and submit Jia Zhangke. Though I guess he needs to make a nice costume drama first.

Posted: **Wed Nov 28, 2007 6:22 am**

Jeff wrote:Word on the street is that Atonement will be the Oscar favorite this year.

That's what I kept hearing at TIFF this year from anyone with an Industry pass. The frustrating thing was that every person seemed to qualify their statement by saying that it wasn't their favorite film. I guess they figured it was just the best Oscar bait they had watched.

Posted: **Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:24 pm**

I'm calling this right now: Persepolis will be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, be the frontrunner, and then lose to The Counterfeiters.

I'd love to see 4-3-2 and Jar City get nominated, but I doubt either will happen.

Posted: **Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:33 pm**

I am really surprised that no one has mentioned Brad Pitt's film The Assassination of Jesse James or Michael Clayton as possible Oscar contenders. To this i would also add The Kite Runner perhaps even The Golden Compass, at least for Kidman's performance which many critics ar claiming is as good as her performance in to Die For.
This is going to be a really interesting year for the Oscars what with the strike and the current malaise regarding America's political and socil standing around the globe.
In terms of the foreign language films, I hope this is the uear that the Academy finally recognizes the quality and importance of films being produced in South Korea. Lee Chang-dong is an amazing director who in limited career so far has managed to make some really powerful and insightful films: Green Fish, Oasis, Peppermint Candy and now Secret Sunshine.

Posted: **Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:51 pm**

Yeah, I started a thread on "Michael Clayton" which got two responses and dropped like a rock to page three of this forum.
If it fails with general audiences; as apparently it is,
and it fails with us pompous, highbrow, holier than thou, let's nitpick the masters movie geeks,
then I can hear the fat lady singing.

Posted: **Wed Nov 28, 2007 3:28 pm**

filmnoir1 wrote:I am really surprised that no one has mentioned Brad Pitt's film The Assassination of Jesse James or Michael Clayton as possible Oscar contenders.

Warner's essential dumping of TAOJJBTCRF despite critical praise pretty much quashed the film's Oscar hopes. As for Michael Clayton, it's still got a fair shot and at least where I am, has been showing some very strong legs theatrically. Maybe not for Best Picture, but certainly there could be some acting noms.

I'm really just hoping Zodiac and Away From Her get some much deserved love.

Posted: **Wed Nov 28, 2007 3:35 pm**

I have to wonder, with the across the board good reviews, if Disney is going to push Enchanted for more than Amy Adams, all the way to Best Pic.

Posted: **Wed Nov 28, 2007 6:12 pm**

Maybe it's due to some weird eligibility issue, but can someone explain how the hell Away From Her managed to get zero Independent Spirit nominations?

Posted: **Wed Nov 28, 2007 8:07 pm**

I'm guessing because it's a Canadian film and ISA only recognizes American films.

Posted: **Wed Nov 28, 2007 8:34 pm**

There's Best Foreign Film (not "Foreign Language" as Once was nominated, so it could have been nominated here), and Lust, Caution managed to get three nominations. Maybe they just didn't like the film, but I'm genuinely surprised that no one involved was recognized. It seems like exactly the kind of film the ISA loves.

Posted: **Wed Nov 28, 2007 9:31 pm**

Whatever the reasoning, it certainly is a glaring and unfortunate oversight.

Posted: **Thu Nov 29, 2007 12:44 am**

Anyone think Zodiac has a shot at anything? Still the best film I've seen this year.

Posted: **Thu Nov 29, 2007 12:46 am**

No shot.

Posted: **Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:58 pm**

The main reason for this is that Paramount had no idea how to sell the film to audiences in the first place, and REALLY has no idea how to sell it to awards voters. They're really not very good at mounting awards campaigns, so Zodiac may be a darling of critic's awards but it won't get a single Oscar nomination.

Posted: **Fri Nov 30, 2007 3:19 am**

SeÃ±or Spielbergo will be this year's recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille award at the Golden Globes.

Posted: **Fri Nov 30, 2007 5:30 pm**

The Golden Satellites have weighed in with their usual wacky nominations:

ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA
Julie Christie, "Away From Her" (Lionsgate)
Angelina Jolie, "A Mighty Heart" (Paramount Vantage)
Marion Cotillard, "La Vie En Rose" (Picturehouse Entertainment)
Tilda Swinton, "Stephanie Daley" (Regent Releasing)
Keira Knightley, "Atonement" (Focus Features)
Laura Linney, "The Savages" (Fox Searchlight)

ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA
Denzel Washington, "American Gangster" (Universal Pictures)
Josh Brolin, "No Country For Old Men" (Miramax Films)
Christian Bale, "Rescue Dawn" (MGM)
Viggo Mortensen, "Eastern Promises" (Focus Features)
Frank Langella, "Starting Out in the Evening"(Roadside Attractions)
Tommy Lee Jones, "In the Valley of Elah" (Warner Independent Pictures)

ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Katherine Heigl, "Knocked Up" (Universal Pictures)
Amy Adams, "Enchanted" (Walt Disney Pictures)
Ellen Page, "Juno" (Fox Searchlight)
Emily Mortimer, "Lars and the Real Girl" (MGM)
Nicole Kidman, "Margot at the Wedding" (Paramount Vantage)
Cate Blanchett, "I'm Not There" (The Weinstein Company)

ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
Richard Gere, "The Hoax" Miramax
Seth Rogen, "Knocked Up" (Universal Pictures)
Ben Kingsley You Kill Me Ifc Films
Ryan Gosling, "Lars and the Real Girl" (MGM)
Clive Owen, "Shoot â€˜Em Up" (New Line Cinema)
Don Cheadle, "Talk to Me" (Focus Features)

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Saoirse Ronan, "Atonement" (Focus Features)
Emmanuelle Seigner, "La Vie En Rose" (Picturehouse Entertainment)
Tilda Swinton, "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Amy Ryan, "Gone Baby Gone" (Miramax Films)
Taraji P. Henson "Talk to Me" (Focus Features)
Ruby Dee, "American Gangster" (Universal Pictures)

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Jeff Daniels, "The Lookout" (Miramax Films)
Brian Cox, "Zodiac" (Paramount Pictures)
Tom Wilkinson, "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Ben Foster, "3:10 To Yuma" (Lionsgate)
Javier Bardem, "No Country For Old Men" (Miramax Films)
Casey Affleck, "The Assassination of Jessie James" (Warner Bros. Pictures)

MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA
"The Lookout" Miramax
"Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" (ThinkFilm)
"Away From Her" (Lionsgate)
"Eastern Promises" (Focus Features)
"No Country For Old Men" (Miramax Films)
"3:10 To Yuma" (Lionsgate)

MOTION PICTURE, COMEDY OR MUSICAL
"Hairspray" (New Line Cinema)
"Juno"(Fox Searchlight)
"Shoot â€˜Em Up" (New Line Cinema)
"Lars and the Real Girl" (MGM)
"Knocked Up" (Universal Pictures)
"Margot at the Wedding" (Paramount Vantage)

MOTION PICTURE, FOREIGN LANGUAGE
"Ten Canoes" Australia (Palm Pictures)
"Offside Iran" (Sony Pictures Classics)
"La Vie En Rose" France (Picturehouse Entertainment)
"Lust, Caution" China (Focus Features)
"4 Months 3 Weeks & 2 Days" Romania Ifc Films
"The Orphanage" Spain (Picturehouse Entertainment)

MOTION PICTURE, ANIMATED OR MIXED MEDIA
"Persepolis" (Sony Pictures Classics)
"The Simpsons Movie" Twentieth Century Fox
"The Golden" Compass (New Line Cinema)
""Ratatouille"" (Buena Vista Pictures)
"300" Warner Brothers
"Beowulf" (Paramount Pictures)

MOTION PICTURE, DOCUMENTARY
"The King Of Kong" (Picturehouse Entertainment)
"The 11th Hour Warner" (Independent Pictures)
"Sicko" (Lionsgate)
"No End In Sight"(Magnolia Pictures)
"Darfur Now Warner" (Independent Pictures)
"Lake Of Fire" (ThinkFilm)

DIRECTOR
Ang Lee, "Lust, Caution" (Focus Features)
Olivier Dahan, "La Vie En Rose" (Picture House Entertainment)
David Cronenberg, "Eastern Promises" (Focus Features)
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, "No Country For Old Men" (Miramax Films)
Sidney Lumet, "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" (ThinkFilm)
Sarah Polley, "Away From Her" (Lionsgate)

SCREENPLAY, ORIGINAL
Scott Frank, "The Lookout" (Miramax Films)
Diablo Cody, "Juno" (Fox Searchlight)
Kelly Masterson, "Before the Devil Knows You'Re Dead" (ThinkFilm)
Tony Gilroy, "Michael Clayton" (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Nancy Oliver,"Lars and the Real Girl" (MGM)
Steven Knight, "Eastern Promises" (Focus Features)

SCREENPLAY, ADAPTED
James Vanderbilt, "Zodiac" (Paramount Pictures)
Christopher Hampton "Atonement" (Focus Features)
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, "No Country For Old Men" (Miramax Films)
David Benioff, "The Kite Runner" (Paramount Vantage)
Sarah Polley,"Away From Her" (Lionsgate)
Wang Hui Ling, James Schamus,"Lust, Caution" (Focus Features)

ORIGINAL SCORE
Dario Marianelli, "Atonement" (Focus Features)
James Newton Howard, "The Lookout" (Miramax Films)
Michael Giacchino, "Ratatouille" (Buena Vista Pictures)
Alberto Iglesias, "The Kite Runner" (Paramount Vantage)
Howard Shore, "Eastern Promises" (Focus Features)
Nick Cave, "The Assassination of Jesse James" (Warner Bros. Pictures)

ORIGINAL SONG
"Do You Feel Me"/Diane Warren, "American Gangster" (Universal Pictures)
"If You Want Me"/Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova, "Once" (Fox Searchlight)
"Come So Far"/Marc Shaiman, "Hairspray" (New Line Cinema)
"Rise"/Eddie Vedder, "Into The Wild" (Paramount Vantage)
"Grace Is Gone"/Clint Eastwood & Carole Bayer Sager, "Grace Is Gone" (The Weinstein Company)
"Lyra"/Kate Bush, "The Golden Compass" (New Line Cinema)

CINEMATOGRAPHY
Harris Savides, "Zodiac" (Paramount Pictures)
Robert Elswit, "There Will Be Blood" (Paramount Vantage)
Bruno Delbonnel, "Across The Universe" (Revolution Studios)
Janusz Kaminski, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (Miramax Films)
Roger Deakins, "The Assassination Of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford" (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Henry Braham, "The Golden Compass" (New Line Cinema)

VISUAL EFFECTS
Scott Farrar, "Transformers" (Paramount Pictures)
Michael Fink, "The Golden Compass" (New Line Cinema)
Chris Watts, Grant Freckelton, Derek Wentworth, Daniel Leduc, "300" (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Peter Chiang, Charlie Noble, David Vickery, Mattias Lindahl, "The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal Pictures)
Thomas Schelesny, Matt Jacobs, Tom Gibbons, "Enchanted" (Walt Disney Pictures)
Jerome Chen, Sean Phillips, Kenn Mc Donald, Michael Lantieri, "Beowulf" (Paramount Pictures)

FILM EDITING
Pietro Scalia, "American Gangster" (Universal Pictures)
Jill Savitt, "The Lookout" (Miramax)
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, "No Country For Old Men" (Miramax)
Richard Marizy, "La Vie En Rose" (Picturehouse Entertainment)
Christopher Rouse, "The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal Pictures)
Ronald Sanders, "Eastern Promises" (Focus Features)

SOUND (EDITING & MIXING)
Mike Prestwood-Smith, Mark Taylor, Glenn Freemantle, "The Golden Compass" (New Line Cinema)
Nikolas Javelle, Jean-Paul Hurier, "La Vie En Rose" (Picturehouse Entertainment)
Christopher Boyes, Paul Massey, Lee Orloff, George Watters II, "Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World'S End" (Buena Vista Pictures)
Scott Heckler, Eric Norris, Derek Vanderhorst, "300" (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Karen Baker Landers, Kirk Francis, Per Hallberg, "The Bourne Ultimatum" (Universal Pictures)
Tod Maitland, Skip Lievsay, Rick Kline, Jeremy Peirson, "I Am Legend" (Warner Bros. Pictures)

ART DIRECTION & PRODUCTION DESIGN
Guy Dyas, David Allday, "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" (Universal Pictures)
Patricia Norris, Martin Gendron, Troy Sizemore, "The Assassination Of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford" (Warner Bros. Pictures)
Dennis Davenport, David Gropman, "Hairspray" (New Line Cinema)
Mark Tildesley, "Sunshine" (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Gary Freeman, Stephen Morahan, Denis Schnegg, David Allday, Matthew Gray, Charles Wood, "Amazing Grace" (Samuel Goldwyn Films)
Mark Friedberg, Peter Rogness, "Across the Universe" (Revolution Studios)

COSTUME DESIGN
Alexandra Byrne, "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" (Universal Pictures)
Yvonne Blake, "Goya's Ghosts" (Samuel Goldwyn Pictures)
Marit Allen, "La Vie En Rose" (Picturehouse Entertainment)
Rita Ryack, "Hairspray" (New Line Cinema)
Jenny Beavan, "Amazing Grace" (Samuel Goldwyn Films)
Jacqueline Durran, "Antonement" (Focus Features)

Posted: **Sun Dec 02, 2007 8:35 am**

European Film Awards:
Rumanian film wins best picture and director. Cotillard loses with Queen Mirren. Tornatore's The unknown, gets best film voted by public (I've never voted)

Jean Luc Godard refuses his Honorary award.

Israelian Sasson Gabai is named best actor for the film Bikur Hatizmoret

Posted: **Sun Dec 02, 2007 8:42 am**

rohmerin wrote: Jean Luc Godard refuses his Honorary award.

more please

Posted: **Sun Dec 02, 2007 8:58 am**

domino harvey wrote:
rohmerin wrote:Jean Luc Godard refuses his Honorary award.
more please

My intuition told me something like this may happen especially since a Lifetime Achievement Award usually implies a filmmaker is no longer relevant and is a relic. I could not find anything yet about this news.

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