Jodie Foster Hits Behind the Camera Awards
Jodie Foster Hits Behind the Camera Awards
As a celebrity, there’s a constant pressure to look your best at ever red carpet event in town. And Jodie Foster went for the classic black dress-look at the Behind the Camera Awards last night.
The Highlands in Hollywood was the setting for the awards ceremony, and the “Silence of the Lambs” actress was in good company. Sean Penn, Judd Apatow, Seth Rogen, James Woods, Julian Schnabel, Charlie Kaufman, Jason Reitman, Colleen Atwood, Jon Kilik, Mark Friedberg, and Philippe Rousselot all showed up for the evening.
Foster’s new film, “Nim’s Island” is already getting some serious attention from the press. Though it’s not due until next April, USA Today released pictures from the film last week.
“Nim’s Island” is based on the children’s book of the same name. In addition to Foster, it stars Abigail Breslin and Gerard Butler.
Megan Fox: Ready To Start Promoting
Megan Fox: Ready To Start Promoting
Wearing a grey t-shirt and her celebrity shades, Megan Fox was spotted making her way through LAX airport in Los Angeles on Tuesday (February 19).
The 21-year-old Transformers star is readying for a busy promoting season, as she has two new movies in post-production phase.
Fox will first be seen in the comedy How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, playing the role of a budding starlet named Sophie Maes.
Megan also stars in Jennifer’s Body, which is Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman’s follow-up collaboration to the hit movie Juno.
According to the studio, “Cody’s script centers on Jennifer (Fox), a cheerleader who is possessed by a demon and starts feeding off the boys in a Minnesota farming town. Her bookish best friend Needy (Seyfried) must take drastic measures to protect their town from the seductive teenager and her appetite for high school guys.”
2008 Film Independent’s Spirit Award Winners
2008 Film Independent’s Spirit Award Winners
The 2008 Film Independent’s Spirit Awards have come and gone, with the quirky comedy “Juno” winning the prize for best feature at the Santa Monica ceremony.
The movie’s star, Ellen Page, also earned the best lead actress statuette, while writer Diablo Cody took home the award for best first screenplay.
Other Spirit Award winners included Philip Seymour Hoffman, who took the prize for best lead actor for his work in “The Savages,” along with Cate Blanchett, who picked up the statuette for best supporting actress for playing music icon Bob Dylan in “I’m Not There.”
The complete list of 2008 Film Independent’s Spirit Award winners is as follows:
Best Feature
‘The Diving Bell and the Butterfly’
‘I’m Not There’
WINNER: ‘Juno’
‘A Mighty Heart’
‘Paranoid Park’
Best Director
Todd Haynes, ‘I’m Not There’
Tamara Jenkins, ‘The Savages’
Jason Reitman, ‘Juno’
WINNER: Julian Schnabel, ‘The Diving Bell and the Butterfly’
Gus Van Sant, ‘Paranoid Park’
Best Male Lead
Pedro Castaneda, ‘August Evening’
Don Cheadle, ‘Talk to Me’
WINNER: Philip Seymour Hoffman, ‘The Savages’
Tony Leung, ‘Lust, Caution’
Frank Langella, ‘Starting Out in the Evening’
Best Female Lead
Angelina Jolie, ‘A Mighty Heart’
Sienna Miller, ‘Interview’
WINNER: Ellen Page, ‘Juno’
Parker Posey, ‘Broken English’
Tang Wei, ‘Lust, Caution’
Best Supporting Male
WINNER: Chiwetel Ejiofor, ‘Talk to Me’
Marcus Carl Franklin, ‘I’m Not There’
Kene Holliday, ‘Great World of Sound’
Irfan Khan, ‘The Namesake’
Steve Zahn, ‘Rescue Dawn’
Best Supporting Female
WINNER: Cate Blanchett, ‘I’m Not There’
Anna Kendrick, ‘Rocket Science’
Jennifer Jason Leigh, ‘Margot at the Wedding’
Tamara Podemski, ‘Four Sheets to the Wind’
Marisa Tomei, ‘Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead’
Best Screenplay
Ronald Harwood, ‘The Diving Bell and the Butterfly’
WINNER: Tamara Jenkins, ‘The Savages’
Fred Parnes & Andrew Wagner, ‘Starting Out in the Evening’
Adrienne Shelly, ‘Waitress’
Mike White, ‘Year of the Dog’
Best Cinematography
‘The Savages’
WINNER: ‘The Diving Bell and the Butterfly’
‘Vanaja’
‘Youth Without Youth’
‘Lust, Caution’
Best Foreign Film
‘4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 3 Days’ (Romania)
‘The Band’s Visit’ (Israel)
‘Lady Chatterley’ (France)
WINNER: ‘Once’ (Ireland)
‘Persepolis’ (France)
Best Documentary
WINNER: ‘Crazy Love’
‘Lake of Fire’
‘Manufactured Landscapes’
‘The Monastery’
‘The Prisoner Or: How I Planned To Kill Tony Blair’
Best First Feature
‘2 Days in Paris’
‘Great World of Sound’
WINNER: ‘The Lookout’
‘Rocket Science’
‘Vanaja’
Best First Screenplay
Jeffrey Blitz, ‘Rocket Science’
Zoe Cassavetes, ‘Broken English’
WINNER: Diablo Cody, ‘Juno’
Kelly Masterson, ‘Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead’
John Orloff, ‘A Mighty Heart’
Robert Altman Award ‘I’m Not There’
Director: Todd Haynes
Casting Director: Laura Rosenthal
Ensemble Cast: Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, Ben Whishaw, Marcus Carl Franklin, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bruce Greenwood, David Cross, Julianne Moore, Michelle Williams
John Cassavetes Award
WINNER: ‘August Evening’
‘Owl and the Sparrow’
‘The Pool’
‘Quiet City’
‘Shotgun Stories’
IFC Truer Than Fiction Award
WINNER: Laura Dunn, Director of ‘The Unforeseen’
Gary Hustwit, Director of ‘Helvetica’
John Maringouin, Director of ‘Running Stumbled’
IFC/Acura Someone to Watch Award
WINNER: Ramin Bahrani, Director of ‘Chop Shop’
Lee Isaac Chung, Director of ‘Munyurangabo’
Ronnie Bronstein, Director of ‘Frownland’
Axium Producers Award
Anne Clements, Producer of ‘Ping Pong Playa’ and ‘Quinceañera’
Alexis Ferris, Producer of ‘Cthulhu’ and ‘Police Beat’
WINNER: Neil Kopp, Producer of ‘Paranoid Park’ and ‘Old Joy’
To see the entire gallery from the 2008 Film Independent’s Spirit Awards (February 23) - !
2008 Oscar Winners Rejoice
2008 Oscar Winners Rejoice
The Kodak Theatre press room was full of smiling faces last night, as the 2008 Academy Award winners basked in the glory of their accomplishments.
Taking best picture honors was the Coen Brothers’ hit film, No Country For Old Men - which was thought to be a front-runner from the event’s onset.
Meanwhile, French actress Marion Cotillard took home best actress for her work in La Vie En Rose, while Daniel Day Lewis garnered best actor accolades for his riveting role in There Will Be Blood.
The complete list of 2008 Academy Award winners is as follows:
BEST PICTURE
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
WINNER:No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood
BEST DIRECTOR
Julian Schnabel, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Jason Reitman, Juno
Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton
WINNER:Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, No Country For Old Men
Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood
BEST ACTOR
George Clooney, Michael Clayton
WINNER:Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Johnny Depp, Sweeney Todd
Tommy Lee Jones, In the Valley of Elah
Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises
BEST ACTRESS
WINNER:Marion Cotillard, La Vie en Rose
Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Julie Christie, Away from Her
Laura Linney, The Savages
Ellen Page, Juno
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
WINNER:Tilda Swinton, Michael Clayton
Cate Blanchett, I’m Not There
Ruby Dee, American Gangster
Saoirse Ronan, Atonement
Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
WINNER:Javier Bardem, No Country For Old Men
Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James…
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charlie Wilson’s War
Hal Holbrook, Into the Wild
Tom Wilkinson, Michael Clayton
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
WINNER:The Counterfeiters (Austria)
Beaufort (Israel)
Katyn (Poland)
Mongol (Kazakhstan)
12 (Russia)
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
WINNER:Ratatouille
Persepolis
Surf’s Up
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
WINNER:No Country For Old Men
Atonement
Away from Her
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
There Will Be Blood
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
WINNER:Juno
Lars and the Real Girl
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
The Savages
BEST MUSIC (SCORE)
WINNER:Atonement
The Kite Runner
Michael Clayton
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma
BEST MUSIC (SONG)
WINNER:Falling Slowly - Once (performed by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova)
Happy Working Song - Enchanted (performed by Amy Adams)
Raise It Up - August Rush (performed by Jamia Simone Nash and Impact Repertory Theatre)
So Close - Enchanted (performed by Jon McLaughlin)
That’s How You Know - Enchanted (performed by Amy Adams)
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
WINNER:Taxi to the Dark Side
No End in Sight
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience
Sicko
War/Dance
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
WINNER:Freeheld
La Corona (The Crown)
Salim Baba
Sari’s Mother
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
WINNER:The Golden Compass
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Transformers
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
WINNER:There Will Be Blood
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Atonement
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country For Old Men
BEST ART DIRECTION
WINNER:Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
American Gangster
Atonement
The Golden Compass
There Will Be Blood
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
WINNER: Peter and the Wolf
I Met the Walrus
Madame Tutli-Putli
Meme Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven)
My Love (Moya Lyubov)
BEST SHORT FILM
WINNER:Le Mozart des Pickpockets
At Night
Il Supplente
Tanghi Argentini
The Tonto Woman
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
WINNER:Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Across the Universe
Atonement
La Vie en Rose
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
BEST MAKE-UP
WINNER:La Vie en Rose
Norbit
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
BEST SOUND MIXING
WINNER:The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country For Old Men
Ratatouille
3:10 to Yuma
Transformers
BEST SOUND EDITING
WINNER:The Bourne Ultimatum
No Country For Old Men
Ratatouille
There Will Be Blood
Transformers
BEST FILM EDITING
WINNER:The Bourne Ultimatum
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Into the Wild
No Country For Old Men
There Will Be Blood
Academy Awards To see the entire gallery from the 2008 Academy Awards (February 24) - !