Posts Tagged ‘oscar’:
Written by Amy on Monday, November 10th, 2008 ( Start discussion ) |
Share/Save
With Independent Spirit Award Nominations just around the corner (Dec. 2) - Awards season pretty much begins~
I haven’t seen many (if any) films to fuzz about… yet. Studios say they trust their films, and all are hoping for December releases. This wasn’t the case last year, when Julie Christie (April) and Marion Cotillard (June) released in the US their films and swept awards.
Pretty much everyone is hoping and fuzzing about The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, I am too - because let’s face it, it looks cool… it has a good cast, and a great director. From what I could read, this will be the movie to watch… it will be IT.
Nothing else can’t be said, on my behalf…
The animation category will undeniably go to WALL-E, which was good. However, wouldn’t it be interesting if there were other animated films? One of them could be the Israeli-German-French animated production of Waltz with Bashir. I have heard interesting things about it… but could it surprise Oscar watchers? Unlikely. But it will be a good change… just like I thought Les Tiplettes de Belleville should have won, or Persepolis last year~~
Waltz with Bashir, just from the trailer, looks visually interesting. Definitely different to other animated films in subject, theme, and possibly even different animation approach. I also think this poster on the right looks way more intriguing than the other colored poster. Nonetheless, from the same trailer you could see some funkyness with the animation, as if they had used Flash on some sequences (like some of those MTV crappy animated shorts)… and some others looked just splendid.
Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: English, Films, Illustrations, Posters, Sharing, Stills
Tags: academy awards, animation, independent spirit awards, oscar, tropical toxic, waltz with bashir
Written by Amy on Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 ( Start discussion ) |
Share/Save
Multiple post day!!!
So I am a member at Film Independent, and I just got my monthly issue.
The independent Spirit Awards will begin taking submissions from tomorrow, August 6th until
September 15th (early deadline) or
October 7th (final deadline).
With nominations being announced on December 2, right on time for award season… and the award ceremony will be held on February 21, one day before the Academy Awards which will be held on February 22.
Okay, onto the topic~ This month… this August 19th to be exact. Film Independent wil be showing Shikashika in their Cinema Lounge program. This month program includes these short films:
- Little Minx Exquisite Corpse: Come Wander with Me
- 10 Things You Can Do to the Earth (According to Satan)
- A. Effect
- CU@ED’s
- Shikashika
- Empty House
Shikashika
Directed and produced by Stephen J. Hyde.
Film in Peru, this rhythmic portrait documentary reveals the process of making a colorful shave ice called Shikashika.
Duration: 10min
Location: Poolside at the W Los Angeles - Westwood
Price: Free to Film Independent members and their guests.
Time: 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Happy Hour: 8:30pm - 9:30pm
Screenings are followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.
Filed under: English, Films, Sharing, Spanish
Tags: academy awards, film independent, independent spirit awards, oscar, shikashika, short film
Written by Amy on Saturday, July 12th, 2008 ( 3 responses ) |
Share/Save
inside the gold’s following of Nine made me wonder…
Yes, Nine will have a pretty heavy list of credits when the trailer comes out. You can just imagine…
Nine… starring
Double Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis, Academy Award Winner Marion Cotillard, Academy Award Winner Judi Dench, Academy Award Winner Sophia Loren, Academy Award Winner Nicole Kidman, Academy Award Nominee Penelope Cruz
Directed by Academy Award Winner Rob Marshall.
Which made me, and other people, wonder if there had been other heavily Oscar Winner projects. I can’t really think of anything at the top of my head, but I was checking IMDb (and got side-tracked a little), and I didn’t come up with anything. Hahahaha.
From just trailers, I thought Burn After Reading did a pretty filled Academy Award credited film. Let’s see… I had to check some of the credits, but I don’t think it does as Oscar-studded as Nine. Here goes~~
Burn After Reading starring…
Academy Award Winner George Clooney, Academy Award Winner Tilda Swinton, Academy Award Winner Frances McDormand, Academy Award Nominee Brad Pitt, Academy Award Nominee John Malkovich
Written and directed by Academy Award Winners Ethan and Joel Coen.
I could even stretch this a WHOLE lot more and say Cold Mountain was pretty Oscar-studded. LOL. Considering some of the actors earned their nominations and winnings after the film xD. Check this out…
Cold Mountain starring…
Academy Award Winner Nicole Kidman, Academy Award Winner Renee Zellweger, Academy Award Winner Philip Seymour Hoffman, Academy Award Nominee Jude Law, Academy Award Nominee Natalie Portman.
Directed by Academy Award Winner Anthony Minghella
Have you got any project that is Oscar-studded??
Filed under: Celebrity, English, Films, Sharing
Tags: academy awards, brad pitt, burn after reading, daniel day-lewis, ethan coen, frances mcdormand, george clooney, joel coen, john malkovich, judi dench, marion cotillard, nicole kidman, nine, oscar, oscar-studded films, penelope cruz, rob marshall, sophia loren, tilda swinton
Written by Amy on Saturday, April 26th, 2008 ( Start discussion ) |
Share/Save
Back in January and February, I blogged a lot about the Academy Awards films, actors and people~ I had a list of the films I was to watch and had it all highlighted in colors of films:
- I have seen
- I wanted to see
- Repeated film in another category (lol)
I didn’t necessarily manage to watch all the films before awards, but I did watch a majority… minus most the films in the Documentary category, and shorts (live action, animation and documentary). But today it all changed, because I saw all the Animated Short Films, and I will share them with you (especially Julyssa, who is most likely to want to watch them also). The only clip that is not complete is Piotrus i Wilk (Peter & the Wolf), which ended up winning the category.
Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: English, Films, Motion, Sharing
Tags: academy awards, animation, even pigeons go to heaven, i met the walrus, madame tutli-putli, meme les pigeons vont au paradis, moya lyubov, my love, nominations, oscar, peter & the wolf, piotrus i wilk, short film
Written by Amy on Monday, February 25th, 2008 ( Start discussion ) |
Share/Save
How sweet were my Oscar predictions? Pretty sweet, but not as sweet as 2003. I made a 18/24 mark, not bettering my 21/24 mark from that year.
Read the rest of this entry »
Filed under: Celebrity, English, Films, Fun
Tags: academy awards, amy adams, javier bardem, johnny depp, marion cotillard, marketa irglova, oscar, predictions, thoughts, viggo mortensen, winners
