2008 Golden Globe Awards

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Awards

For coverage of the 2008 Golden Globe Award Winners, please click here for the list of winners on TV Envy.

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New York Film Critics Choose ‘No Country’

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Miramax, Animation, Drama, Foreign, Foreign Language, Thrillers, Awards, Lists

On Monday, the New York Film Critics Circle revealed their 2007 film award winners.  This announcement comes shortly after the National Board of Review (NBR) and the Los Angeles Film Critics (LAFCA) revealed their honorees.  Although the Golden Globe nominations are still two days away, certain trends have already started to emerge from just these three lists.

The 2007 NYFCC winners:

• Best Picture: No Country for Old Men*
• Best Director: Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men
• Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis**, There Will Be Blood
• Best Actress: Julie Christie*, Away from Her
• Best Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, No Country for Old Men
• Best Supporting Actress: Amy Ryan***, Gone Baby Gone
• Best Screenplay: Joel and Ethan Coen*, No Country for Old Men
• Best Animated Film: Persepolis**
• Best Foreign Film: The Lives of Others
• Best Documentary: No End in Sight**

*also the NBR winner
**also the LAFCA winner
***both the NBR and LAFCA winner

Read More | New York Film Critics Circle

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NBR Picks the Best Films of ‘06

Posted by Johnny Mercedes Categories: Awards, Lists

Earlier today, The National Board of Review (NBR), a nonprofit organization, announced its top film awards for 2006.  For nearly a century, NBR has been supporting film as entertainment and art, and is still the first critical body to declare its annual awards.  The winners, selected from 270 of this year’s films, are as follows:

Best Film: Letters From Iwo Jima

Best Director: Martin Scorsese, The Departed

Best Actor: Forest Whitaker, The Last King Of Scotland

Best Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen

Best Supporting Actor: Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond

Best Supporting Actress: Catherine O’Hara, For Your Consideration

Best Foreign Film: Volver

Best Documentary: An Inconvenient Truth

Best Animated Feature: Cars

Best Ensemble Cast: The Departed

Breakthrough Performance – Male: Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson

Breakthrough Performance – Female: Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls and Rinko Kikuchi, Babel

Best Directorial Debut: Jason Reitman, Thank You For Smoking

Best Original Screenplay: Zach Helm, Stranger Than Fiction

Best Adapted Screenplay: Ron Nyswaner, The Painted Veil

These awards often foreshadow similar results come Oscar night, so keep an eye on these early predictions.  For a full list of winners, visit the NBR website.

Read More | The National Board of Review

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