by admin
Feb 24, 2008
Here’s the BOPsy Oscar Predictions - last minute, but right in time to help you in selecting your picks at the Oscar viewing party you are most likely attending.
Some of the choices here are educated guesses and some are just wishes (the selections for Foreign Language, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, etc. did not have clear cut winners. For a listing of DB’s Best Films of 2007 go here ….)
We’ve put a compilation of who the experts (bloggers, publications picks) here
Here’s the BOPsy choices below with the Selections in BOLD:
Performance by an actor in a leading role
George Clooney in “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.)
Daniel Day-Lewis in “There Will Be Blood” (Paramount Vantage and Miramax)
Johnny Depp in “Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”
(DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount)
Tommy Lee Jones in “In the Valley of Elah” (Warner Independent)
Viggo Mortensen in “Eastern Promises” (Focus Features)
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Casey Affleck in “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” (Warner Bros.)
Javier Bardem in “No Country for Old Men” (Miramax and Paramount Vantage)
Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Charlie Wilson’s War” (Universal)
Hal Holbrook in “Into the Wild” (Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment)
Tom Wilkinson in “Michael Clayton” (Warner Bros.)
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by admin
Feb 17, 2008
Brazil’s “The Elite Squad” picked up the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival
“The Elite Squad,” directed by Jose Padilha, won the Golden Bear award for the best movie at the 58th Berlin International Film Festival.
The movie, a hit in Brazil, is a realistic epic about police violence in Rio de Janeiro which looks at the violence and murder within a crack squad of Rio policemen battling armed drug dealers in the city slums.
Director Padilha said:
“This is a prize for Brazilian film, not just for me. This is a recognition I did not expect. It is an incentive to make new, critical films that are very important for our country.”
The film was selected from 21 films by a six-member international jury led by movie director Constantin Costa-Gavras (”Missing.”)
Academy Award nominee “There Will Be Blood,” which was among the 21 films in competition in Berin was expected to win the top prize, but ended up instead with 2 Silver Bears - one for Best Director (Paul Thomas Anderson) and the other for Best Sound (Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood.)
by D B
Feb 15, 2008
The 39th annual NAACP Image Awards inducted legend Stevie Wonder into the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame on the same night it named “The Great Debaters” the top film. Denzel Washington picked up the trophy for Best Flm on Thursday at LA’s Shrine Auditorium.
The period drama about a debating squad that takes on Harvard also earned Washington a best actor award. His costar Jurnee Smollett was handed the best actress award.
A bald and slightly chunky Washington said:
“I’m happy for everybody up here… I’m very grateful for this one, but in particular, just happy that some of these young people are recognized for their work.”
Other awards were handed to Janet Jackson for best supporting actress in “Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married?”
Janet Jackson, who is releasing an album on February 29th said:
“I’m really overwhelmed and to be in the company of such incredible women. This is such an honor. I was really not expecting this.”
In television, it was ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” that was named best drama series with an award going to Chandra Wilson for her work. America Ferrera and Vanessa L. Williams won outstanding actress and supporting actress in a comedy series for “Ugly Betty” which airs on ABC.
by admin
Feb 13, 2008
I make it rain on them hoes I make it rain,(I make It rain)
Rainn Wilson, star of NBC’s “The Office” and the best part about box-office bomb “My Super Ex-Girlfriend” is supposedly going to be showing his ass tonight in some comedy sketches he taped that will on the Spirit Awards.
“The Spirit Awards“, the psuedo-Oscars of independent film will be hosted by Rainn Wilson who said:
“When I signed up I said, ‘I’m not a standup comedian. I’m happy to tell jokes and stuff but it’s not really what I do. And you know, they were like, ‘Great, let’s film some stuff and make it close to what you did when you hosted “Saturday Night Live.”‘ That’s kind of what we’re aiming for — just funny comedy stuff. I assure you, I make an (idiot) of myself. My (butt) is actually revealed a couple of different times, so if anyone’s curious about what my (butt) might look like …. I don’t know why they would be. It’s all for a laugh. My body being exposed is good for a great deal of laughs. They use it on ‘The Office’ quite a bit when they need a laugh — they have me take my shirt off.”
The Spirit Awards, sponsored by Film Independent airs on February 23rd on IFC (a night before the live Oscars telecast.) The show will be broadcast live, uncut and without commercials. Javier Bardem, Cate Blanchett, Josh Hartnett, Forest Whitaker and Kate Beckinsale are confirmed to attend.
The Spirits and Academy Awards are so different in tone and feel, Wilson adds:
“It’s non-glitz-and-glam so the stars get to be themselves. It’s on a beach in a tent in Santa Monica so it’s more freewheeling. There’s no time limit as to how long people can talk,” he said. “It’s kind of a ramshackle, crazy awards show that’s really about cutting-edge cinema, and it’s really for movie fans and actor fans.”
