Category Archives: Winners

BAFTA WINNERS 2008.

A British charity BAFTA was founded in 1947 as The British Film Academy, by David Lean, Alexander Korda, Carol Reed, Charles Laughton, Roger Manvell and others and hosts annual awards shows for film, television, television craft, video games and forms of animation. Right now it is taking place at the Royal Opera House in London’s Covent Garden. [...]

Winners in the 9 annual Golden Tomato Awards

“Ratatouille” earned a 96% rating on the Tomatometer, and was chosen as the best reviewed wide-release movie of 2007. Irish romance “Once” scored an impressive 98% rating, and snagged awards for best limited release film and best musical. Golden Tomato Awards were also given for various other film genres, including: Best Romance: “Atonement” Best Action/Adventure: [...]

Federico Fellini

“If I were to make a film about the life of a soul,it would end up being about me.” Federico Fellini, Italian film-maker and director. Federico Fellini was born 20 January, 1920, in Rimini, a resort city on the Adriatic in a family of small trader. From childhood he was fascinated by the circuses and [...]

Oscar Award Nomination.

It became known that Film “12″ by Nikita Mikhalkov, one of the winners of the last Venice Film Festival is nominated for the Oscar Award. The film is a version of the classical picture 12 Angry Men (1957) by Sidney Lumet. I must confess that in my opinion the film is worth watching. Besides 63 [...]

Canceled Globes.

The annual Golden Globes dinner and awards ceremony is canceled because of the writers’ strike that has crippled the U.S. entertainment industry since November 5. “This could be the big awards show of the season,” noted Entertainment Tonight’s Mary Hart, the Palm Springs gala’s host. Hairspray’s Nikki Blonsky, winner of a Rising Star award at [...]

65th annual Golden Globe Awards.

Next nominees for the 65th annual Golden Globe Awards which will take part on January 13 in Beverly Hills have been announced on Thursday. So Oscar season officially gets under way in Los Angeles with the announcement of this year’s nominees. The list of Golden Globe Awards Nominations includs: MOTION PICTURES: Picture, Drama: “American Gangster,” [...]

Michelangelo Antonioni.

When we call this name we recollect at once such movie masterpiece as “The Passenger”, “Blow-Up”,   Zabriskie Point other great pictures. James Brown says about films of Michelangelo Antonioni as about aesthetically complex and he is right. “They are ambiguous works that pose difficult questions and resist simple conclusions. Classical narrative causalities are dissolved in [...]

Andrzej Wajda. Katyn.

May be newest picture of famous polish film director Andrzej Wajda  ‘Katy?’  will be the candidate for next  Oscar Award. A press preview has been held in Warsaw of a new feature by Poland’s most renowned director Andrzej Wajda. Entitled ‘Katy?’, it focuses on the massacre of over 22 thousand Polish army officers by Stalin’s [...]

Good news from Venice film festival.

Director Nikita Mikhalkov won a special award at the Venice film festival last weekend for his film “12,” a Chechen-themed remake of Sidney Lumet’s “12 Angry Men. Mikhalkov’s movie tells of 12 jurors who must decide the fate of a Chechen teenager charged with murdering his stepfather, an officer in the Russian army. Though all [...]