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- Director Scorsese to receive UK's BAFTA fellowship
- Meryl Streep to get Berlin Film Festival lifetime award
- Patricia Arquette to play Jeff Buckley's mother in film
| Director Scorsese to receive UK's BAFTA fellowship Posted: 04 Jan 2012 03:23 AM PST LONDON (Reuters) - "Raging Bull" director Martin Scorsese will be honoured with a fellowship by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) at the organisation's annual awards ceremony on February 12. The fellowship, BAFTA's highest honour, recognises a lifetime's contribution to film, and previous recipients include Charlie Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg and Laurence Olivier. "Martin Scorsese is a legend in his lifetime; a true inspiration to all young directors the world over," said BAFTA chairman Tim Corrie. Scorsese, also a producer and screenwriter who made acclaimed movies including "Taxi Driver" and "Gangs of New York", has been nominated nine times for a BAFTA, Britain's equivalent of the Oscars. The 69-year-old has won three times, all in 1991 for "Goodfellas". He also had a string of Oscar nominations before finally winning a statuette for his 2006 picture "The Departed". As well as adult dramas, Scorsese is behind several documentaries about music and musicians and his last film was the 3D family adventure "Hugo". Nominations for the 2012 BAFTAs will be announced on January 17 with the winners unveiled at London's Royal Opera House on February 12. Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
| Meryl Streep to get Berlin Film Festival lifetime award Posted: 03 Jan 2012 09:29 PM PST (Reuters) - Meryl Streep will get a lifetime achievement award from the Berlin Film Festival in February, along with a retrospective of some of her most famous movies of the past 30 years. Festival organizers said Streep, 62, who is currently starring as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in "The Iron Lady," would be presented with an honorary Golden Bear on Feb. 14. "We are delighted to be able to award the Honorary Golden Bear to such a terrific artist and world star. Meryl Streep is a brilliant, versatile performer who moves with ease between dramatic and comedic roles," Berlin Film Festival director Dieter Kosslick said in a statement on Monday. Organizers plan to screen six of Streep's movies, including her Oscar winning roles in "Kramer vs. Kramer" and "Sophie's Choice" during the film festival next month. The New Jersey-born Streep, considered the greatest living screen actress, has a record 16 Oscar nominations and is considered a front-runner for a 17th nod for her portrayal of Thatcher when Academy Award nominations are announced on Jan. 26 in Beverly Hills. Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
| Patricia Arquette to play Jeff Buckley's mother in film Posted: 03 Jan 2012 05:50 PM PST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Patricia Arquette will play the mother of Jeff Buckley in Jake Scott's biopic, ''Mystery White Boy,'' TheWrap has confirmed. Arquette will play Mary Guibert, the widow of singer/songwriter Tim Buckley, Jeff Buckley's father. The size of her role has not been made known. The film is currently in preproduction in Memphis, where Jeff Buckley accidentally drowned in May 1997. He was 30. Jeff Buckley will be played by Reeve Carney, star of ''Snow Falling on Cedars'' and the Broadway musical ''Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.'' Carney is also a skilled musician; his band, Carney, opened for U2 and the Arcade Fire at a concert earlier this year. The cast also features John Patrick Amedori as Michael Tighe, a singer/songwriter who performed and wrote songs with Jeff Buckley. Like Carney, Jake Scott - the son of Ridley Scott - has music-industry affiliations. He previously directed videos by U2, R.E.M. and Radiohead. ''Mystery White Boy'' - which is the name of a 2000 collection of Jeff Buckley's live recordings - is written by Ryan Jaffe (''The Rocker'') and based off David Browne's book ''Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley.'' It is being produced by Michelle Sy and Orian Williams, co-executive produced by Amy Vaughan King and executive produced by Guibert. ''Mystery White Boy'' is not to be confused with the biopic ''Greetings From Tim Buckley,'' which is also in the works. The news about her casting as Guibert was originally reported by Variety. Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
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