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- 'Lincoln' leads BAFTA nominations
- Wong Kar Wai back with kung fu epic
- Spielberg, Affleck, Ang Lee among Directors Guild nominees
| 'Lincoln' leads BAFTA nominations Posted: 09 Jan 2013 01:48 AM PST LONDON: Steven Spielberg's political drama "Lincoln", the film version of hit stage musical "Les Miserables" and Ang Lee's "Life of Pi" lead the nominations for the BAFTAs announced in London on Wednesday. All three are in the running for best film in the British awards, viewed as one of the indicators of Oscars glory, alongside Kathryn Bigelow's Osama bin Laden manhunt movie "Zero Dark Thirty" and Iran hostage drama "Argo". "Lincoln" received 10 nominations in total, including for best actor for Daniel Day-Lewis, best supporting actor for Tommy Lee Jones and best supporting actress for Sally Field, although Spielberg was overlooked for best director. Hugh Jackman is up against Day-Lewis for his role in "Les Miserables", which took nine nominations including best supporting actress for Anne Hathaway and best British film. "Life of Pi" also has nine nominations, including best director for Ang Lee, who is up against Bigelow, Ben Affleck for "Argo", Quentin Tarantino for "Django Unchained" and Michael Haneke for French-language film "Amour". Javier Bardem is up for best supporting actor for his role as the villain in the latest and most successful Bond movie, "Skyfall", among eight nominations which also include best supporting actress for Judi Dench and best British film. Affleck was nominated in the leading actor category alongside Day-Lewis, Jackman, Bradley Cooper for "Silver Linings Playbook" and Joaquin Phoenix for "The Master". In the leading actress category are Cooper's co-star Jennifer Lawrence, Jessica Chastain for "Zero Dark Thirty", Marion Cotillard for "Rust and Bone", Helen Mirren for "Hitchcock" and Emmanuelle Riva for "Amour". Alongside Bardem and Lee Jones in the supporting actor category are Alan Arkin for "Argo", Philip Seymour Hoffman for "The Master" and Christoph Waltz for "Django Unchained". Dench, Field and Hathaway are in the running for best supporting actress alongside Amy Adams for "The Master", Helen Hunt for "The Sessions". The BAFTA awards ceremony will take place on February 10 at the Royal Opera House in London. - AFP |
| Wong Kar Wai back with kung fu epic Posted: 08 Jan 2013 10:33 PM PST HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong art house director Wong Kar Wai, whose slow-paced, pensive films earned him laurels at international festivals such as Cannes, where he won best director, has just come out with The Grandmaster, his latest kung fu epic. The fruit of eight years of labour and selected as the opening movie for February's Berlin International Film Festival, The Grandmaster tells the legendary tale of Bruce Lee's master Yip Man, played by Wong's long-time collaborator and Cannes best actor award winner Tony Leung. The concept of the movie hit Wong even before he released his most celebrated work, In The Mood for Love, back in 2000, said the director, wearing his trademark sunglasses, at the movie's Hong Kong premiere on 8 January. The idea kept brewing in his head and eventually took him on a three-year journey, knocking on the doors of over 100 kung fu masters across China. "In the world of martial arts, there's a saying that goes -- 'the skies outside and inside the door are different,' he said. "When you look at it outside the door, it will forever stay a mystery. But when you have a chance to put your head inside and take a peek, you then realize that (the world) inside draws you in," added Wong, who will also serve as the president of the jury for this year's Berlinale. The auteur set his eyes on four martial art clans for his feature film, but stressed that he wanted to convey a common spirit shared by grandmasters and aficionados alike. "In the world of martial arts, there are many people who are not 'masters', but they have a deep affection for martial arts. They always hope to leave something behind for their clan and martial arts during their lifetime," he said. "I think this spirit is the spirit that The Grandmaster wants to convey -- lingering thoughts that are never forgotten, echos that will always come," Wong said. Set at the infancy of modern China in the early 1900s, the retirement of a martial arts guru leaves the title of Grandmaster up for grabs. Among the four top fighters for the position is the feisty Gong Er, played by Zhang Ziyi of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Memoirs Of A Geisha. For her role, Zhang trained under the teacher of kung fu star Jet Li, and said the movements were key to expressing the spirit of the characters. "She (Gong Er) is a combination of almost all the unique features and merits of women of that era," Zhang said. "In terms of movements, we trained for such a long time because the director hoped when we went inside the world of the characters, we already carried their spirit in our bodies." Wong took the Best Director Award at Cannes in 1997 for Happy Together, which depicts a tempestuous romance between two men and was also nominated for the Palme d'Or. Plagued by delays, The Grandmaster finally made its global premiere in Beijing on January 6, and opened across China on January 8 before showing in Berlin on February 7. |
| Spielberg, Affleck, Ang Lee among Directors Guild nominees Posted: 08 Jan 2013 07:41 PM PST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Filmmakers Steven Spielberg, Kathryn Bigelow, Ben Affleck, Tom Hooper and Ang Lee received nominations from the Directors Guild of America (DGA) on Tuesday, ahead of the Oscar nominations this week. Affleck, 40, landed his first Directors Guild film award nomination for Iran hostage thriller Argo, alongside fellow U.S. directors Bigelow and Spielberg, Taiwanese director Lee and British filmmaker Hooper. Bigelow received a nod for her Osama bin Laden-manhunt thriller Zero Dark Thirty, Spielberg for his U.S. Civil War-era drama Lincoln, Lee for his 3D adaptation of best-selling novel Life Of Pi and Hooper for his screen adaptation of hit musical Les Miserables. "These directors represent the highest standard of filmmaking, and their films are a testament to artistic achievement, innovative storytelling and the passion that filmmakers share with their audiences," DGA President Taylor Hackford said in a statement. Notably absent from the list this year was director Quentin Tarantino, whose latest film Django Unchained, a spaghetti-western slave retribution tale, has been gaining awards buzz after landing five Golden Globe nods including best director. Filmmaker David O. Russell also didn't get a DGA nomination, despite his quirky comedy Silver Linings Playbook also building awards steam and going into the Golden Globe awards on Sunday with four nominations. The DGA nominations are often a key indicator of Oscar nominees and winners, as DGA members are often also members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, which hosts the Oscars. The Academy Award for best picture also often goes to the winner of the DGA's best director award. This is the 11th DGA nomination for veteran director Spielberg, 66, who has previously won the award for Schindler's List in 1994, Saving Private Ryan in 1999 and who received a DGA lifetime achievement award in 2000. "The privilege of making Lincoln, combined with this absolutely tremendous recognition from my peers, is humbling. I thank everyone for including me on this short list of extremely unique and gifted filmmakers," Spielberg said in a statement. Since 1948, there have been only six occasions where the DGA winner has not gone on to win the Oscar for best director. Spielberg, Bigelow, Hooper and Lee all won the top directing honors at the Oscars after winning the DGA award. The winner of the DGA feature film category will be revealed at a dinner ceremony hosted by former Frasier star Kelsey Grammer on February 2 in Los Angeles, three weeks before the Academy Awards. |
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