Angelina Jolie Nominated for Spirit Award
Angelina Jolie Nominated for Spirit Award
She has the cutest kids and the hottest leading man, and now Angelina Jolie is up for a prestigious Spirit Award. Is there anything she can’t do?
It’s not like anyone’s surprised about her acting chops, though. Back in 2000, Ang won an Oscar and Golden Globe award for her role in “Girl Interrupted.”
Dawn Hudson of Film Independent (the giver of the Awards) sung Jolie’s praises at the premiere. “She could make any film she wants. It’s a feat for such a movie star to be so much in that role.”
The complete list of nominees is as follows:
Best Feature:
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
I’m Not There
Juno
A Mighty Heart
Paranoid Park
Best Actress:
Angelina Jolie, A Mighty Heart
Sienna Miller, Interview
Ellen Page, Juno
Parker Posey, Broken English
Tang Wei, Lust, Caution
Best Actor:
Pedro Castaneda, August Evening
Don Cheadle, Talk to Me
Philip Seymour Hoffman. The Savages
Frank Langella, Starting Out in the Evening
Ton Leung, Lust, Caution
Best Supporting Female:
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 Supporting Male:
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Talk To Me
Marcus Carl Franklin, I’m Not There
Kene Holliday, Great World of Sound
Irrfan Khan, The Namesake
Steve Zahn, Rescue Dawn
The Spirit Awards will air live on the Independent Film Channel on February 23rd, 2008.
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’
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Arresting Developments
It's only Tuesday and already Hollywood's casting couch has had quite a workout:
- The Bluth boys are back! Sadly, not as the Bluth boys. A trio of former Arrested Development costars are reuniting to voice roles in show creator Mitch Hurwitz's new Fox comedy Sit Down, Shut Up. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Henry Winkler will all lend their pipes to the animated show, centering on staff members at a high school who put their needs above those of their students.
- Demi Moore is doubling her pleasure on the big screen, signing on to star in a pair of independent films, Happy Tears, alongside Parker Posey, and Bunraku, alongside Woody Harrelson. Per the Hollywood Reporter, the former follows a woman with an inflated sense of self who returns home to her bitter sister (Moore) and father, while the latter is a martial arts revenge flick in which Moore portrays the enslaved concubine of a warlord.
Gilmore Girls Creator Keeps Reunion Hope Alive
Hey, kids, it's Korbi again, with some good Gilmore dish. Everyone's favorite show runner, Ms. Amy Sherman-Palladino, is here at the press tour promoting her new Fox comedy, The Return of Jezebel James (with Parker Posey and Lauren Ambrose). But of course, the obvious question—Any thoughts on the Gilmore series finale?—was imminent.
Her response? "Here's the deal: I didn't watch it. I think I just got very drunk that night, and he [husband and writing partner, Daniel Palladino] read in a corner, and then we went to bed."
Sherman-Palladino went on to say that she just couldn't bear to watch, because it wouldn't be her ending. And yes, she finally let the cat out of the bag on the famed line she had intended to wrap the series: "You're adopted."
She kids! She kids!
She's keepin' it a secret for now. Why? Because the possibility of a future Gilmore project (say, a TV movie or somethin' of the sort) is still alive. "I love all those people. Lauren [Graham]'s my pal…Yeah, we've talked about doing a little song and dance sometime down the road."