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  • Denzel Washington wins Lifetime Achievement Award

    Denzel Washington wins Lifetime Achievement Award

    NEW DELHI: Well-known actor Denzel Washington received the Donostia lifetime achievement award during the opening gala of the 62 San Sebastian Film Festival, which concluded on 30 September.

     

    Directed by Antoine Fuqua, The Equalizer, starring  Washington was chosen to open the San Sebastian Festival.

     

    Sixty-year old Washington, is an actor, film director, and film producer. He has received much critical acclaim for his work in film since the 1990s, including for his portrayals of real-life figures such as Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, Melvin B. Tolson, Frank Lucas, and Herman Boone. Washington is a featured actor in the films produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and was also a frequent collaborator of the late director Tony Scott.

     

    Washington has received two Golden Globe awards, a Tony Award and two Academy Awards for Best during a career which began in 1974 and in which he has so far starred in about fifty films. 

     

    Also, Richard Linklater’s 12-year project Boyhood was chosen the best film of the past year by the members of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESC).

     

    This is the first time a film by Richard Linklater receives FIPRESCI’s Grand Prix, which has already gone to Michael Haneke, Paul Thomas Anderson, Jafar Panahi, Pedro Almodóvar, Jean-Luc Godard, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, among others, since its establishment in 1999.

  • Argo wins BAFTA award

    Argo wins BAFTA award

    MUMBAI: Iran hostage drama Argo won three awards including best-picture, at yesterday‘s British Academy Film Awards.

    Ben Affleck was named best director for the film based on a real story of a long shot plan to rescue a group of American diplomats from Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the film also took the editing trophy.

    Quipped George Clooney, one of the producers of Argo,”I don‘t know what you‘re going to do for a third act.”

    Daniel Day-Lewis won the best-actor trophy for Lincoln – the only prize out of 10 nominations for Steven Spielberg‘s historical biopic. Emmanuelle Riva, the 85-year-old French film legend, was named best actress for Michael Haneke‘s poignant old-age portrait Amour. It also was named best foreign-language film.

    On the other hand, Les Miserables won four awards including best supporting actress for Anne Hathaway. James Bond adventure Skyfall won trophies for best music and best British film.

    Meanwhile, Suraj Sharma, who was nominated in the EE Rising Star Award for his role on Life Of Pi, lost the trophy to actress Juno Temple. Juno, the actress of The Atonement was clearly more popular than Sharma as the rising star trophy is the only award at BAFTA that is decided by public vote.

  • Haneke’s Amour to release on 9 December

    Haneke’s Amour to release on 9 December

    MUMBAI: Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) will release Michael Haneke‘s Palme d‘Or winner Amour on 9 December for a limited release.

    The film will initially open in New York and Los Angeles putting it square in the awards season. The move makes the film eligible for consideration in all the major categories.

    Amour revolves around an octogenarian couple whose love is tested as they face mortality.

    SPC had lso released Haneke‘s Cache in 2005 and The White Ribbon in 2009.

  • Michel Franco’s After Lucia tops at Cannes’ sidebar competition

    Michel Franco’s After Lucia tops at Cannes’ sidebar competition

    MUMBAI: Mexican director Michel Franco has won the top prize in the Cannes Film Festival‘s sidebar competition, Un Certain Regard for his film After Lucia. The film was chosen from a slate of twenty films by a jury headed by actor Tim Roth.

    The jury’s second prize went to Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern’s French film Le Grand Soir while a special distinction citation was presented to Bosnian film Djeca by Aida Begic.

    Un Certain Regard focuses on new and emerging filmmakers.

    It has been earlier reported that the top prize, the Palme d‘Or was bagged by Michael Haneke‘s Amour.

  • Michael Haneke wins Cannes top prize for Armour

    Michael Haneke wins Cannes top prize for Armour

    MUMBAI: Michael Haneke won the top prize for his stark film about love and death Amour. The Austrian director‘s powerful and understated film stars two acting icons from France – 85-year-old Emmanuelle Riva and 81-year-old Jean-Louis Trintignant. They play an elderly couple coping with the wife‘s worsening health.

    "I experienced something in my family that touched me." He thanked his wife and – in a rare personal comment – said he had promised her "we would never leave each other, like in the film," Haneke has been quoted to have said. The director said his reputation for delivering shocks was unjust.

    Over the years, 10 films of Haneke has made it to the Cannes including Funny Games and Hidden. He previously won the Palme in 2009 for The White Ribbon and is only the seventh director to take the top prize twice.
     
    While the second Grand Prize went to Matteo Garrone‘s Italian satire Reality, Ken Loach‘s The Angels‘ Share won the Jury Prize. Incidentally, both have won awards at the Cannes earlier – Garrone took the Grand Prize for Gomorrah in 2008 while Loach won the Palme d‘Or for The Wind That Shakes the Barley in 2006.

    Mexico‘s Carlos Reygadas was named best director for Post Tenebras Lux.

    The best actor prize went to Mads Mikkelsen for The Hunt, while the best actress award was won jointly by Cristina Flutur and Cosmina Stratan, as friends separated by faith in the Romanian film Beyond the Hills.

    The prize winners were chosen from among 22 contenders by a jury, led by Italian director Nanni Moretti, that included actors Ewan McGregor and Diane Kruger, director Alexander Payne and fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier.

  • Cannes fest announces line-up

    Cannes fest announces line-up

    MUMBAI: The Cannes Film Festival has announced the lineup for its 2012 edition. Among the filmmakers in the mix the mix this year include Michael Haneke, Ken Loach, Cristian Mungiu, Alain Resnais, Carlos Reygadas, Matteo Garrone, Jacques Audiard and Abbas Kiarostami.


    Films in the In Competition section are Amour, The Angels‘ Share, Baad el mawkeaa, Beyond the Hills, Cosmopolis, Holy Motors, The Hunt, Killing Them Softly, In Another Country, In the Fog, Rust and Bone, Lawless, Like Someone in Love, Moonrise Kingdom, Mud, On the Road, The Paperboy,Paradies: Liebe, Post tenebras lux, Reality, Matteo Garrone, Rust and Bone, Taste of Money, and You Haven‘t Seen Anything Yet.


    Films in the Un Certain Regard section are: 7 Days in Havana, 11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate, Antiviral, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Confession of a Child of the Century, Laurence Anyways, Despues de Lucia, La Pirogue, La Playa, Xavier Dolan Le grand soir, Les Chevaux de Dieu,Loving Without Reason, Miss Lovely,Mystery, Student, Trois mondes and White Elephant.


    Notably missing from official competition will be American directors Terrence Malick and Paul Thomas Anderson. Representing the US instead would be Lee Daniels with The Paperboy and Jeff Nichols with Mud.