"61st British Academy Film Awards The 61st British Academy Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, took place on 10 February 2008 and honoured the best films of 2007. ""Atonement"" won Best Film, while Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, won Best Director for ""No Country for Old Men"", which also went on to win Best Cinematography and Best Supporting Actor for Javier Bardem. Daniel Day-Lewis won Best Actor for ""There Will Be Blood"", Marion Cotillard won Best Actress for ""La Vie en Rose (La Môme)"", and Tilda Swinton won Best Supporting Actress for ""Michael Clayton""."
"Academy Awards, with ""There Will Be Blood"" winning the awards for Best Cinematography and Best Actor for Daniel Day-Lewis, while ""No Country for Old Men"" won for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor for Javier Bardem, and Best Picture. Despite its critical success, Paramount Vantage continually failed to deliver the financial returns Paramount Pictures expected. Only ""No Country for Old Men"" made a profit, while films that should have generated significant returns failed to deliver through either poor or excessive marketing. In June 2008, Paramount Pictures consolidated Paramount Vantage’s marketing, distribution, and physical production departments into the parent"
"Day-Lewis, Field, and Jones. The film currently holds a 89% approval rating on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 263 reviews with an average rating of 8/10, with the critical consensus ""Daniel Day-Lewis characteristically delivers in this witty, dignified portrait that immerses the audience in its world and entertains even as it informs."" On Metacritic, which assigns a rating out of 100 based on reviews from critics, the film has a score of 86 (out of 100) based on 44 reviews, indicating ""universal acclaim"", thus making it Spielberg's highest rated film on the site since ""Saving Private Ryan."""
"screenplay, were also lauded and received numerous awards and nominations. It premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Award for Best Director and a Special Artistic Contribution Award for Greenwood's score. It also appeared on many critics' ""top ten"" lists for the year, notably the American Film Institute, the National Society of Film Critics, the , and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. Day-Lewis won Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, NYFCC and IFTA Best Actor awards for his performance, cementing his position as one of the most acclaimed actors of his generation."
"the BAFTA Britannia Award for Excellence in Film. At the 70th Golden Globe Awards, on 14 January 2013, Day-Lewis won his second Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, and at the 66th British Academy Film Awards on 10 February, he won his fourth BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. At the 85th Academy Awards, Day-Lewis became the first three-time recipient of the Best Actor Oscar for his role in ""Lincoln"". John Hartoch, Day-Lewis' acting teacher at Bristol Old Vic theatre school, said of his former pupil's achievement, Following his historic third Oscar win, there was much debate"
"about Day-Lewis' standing among the greatest actors in the history of cinema. Joe Queenan in ""The Guardian"" stated: ""Arguing whether Daniel Day-Lewis is a greater actor than Laurence Olivier, or Richard Burton, or Marlon Brando, is like arguing whether Messi is more talented than Pelé, whether Napoleon Bonaparte edges out Alexander the Great as a military genius."" Day-Lewis himself when asked what it was like to be ""the world's greatest actor"", responded ""It's daft isn't it? It changes all the time"". Shortly after winning the Oscar for ""Lincoln"", Day-Lewis announced he would be taking a break from acting, retreating back"
"BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. After ""Gangs of New York"", Day-Lewis' wife, director Rebecca Miller, offered him the lead role in her film ""The Ballad of Jack and Rose"", in which he played a dying man with regrets over how his life had evolved, and over how he had brought up his teenage daughter. During filming, he arranged to live separately from his wife to achieve the ""isolation"" needed to focus on his own character's reality. The film received mixed reviews. In 2007, Day-Lewis starred in Paul Thomas Anderson's loose film adaptation of the Upton Sinclair"
"and film for most of the early 1980s, joining the Royal Shakespeare Company and playing Romeo in ""Romeo and Juliet"" and Flute in ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", before appearing in the 1984 film ""The Bounty"". He starred in ""My Beautiful Laundrette"" (1985), his first critically acclaimed role, and gained further public notice with ""A Room with a View"" (1985). He then assumed leading man status with ""The Unbearable Lightness of Being"" (1988). One of the most acclaimed actors in film history, Day-Lewis has earned numerous awards, including three Academy Awards for Best Actor for his performances in ""My Left Foot"""
"Wire<br> 2. ""Trouble the Water""<br> 3. ""Encounters at the End of the World"" 2008 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 43rd National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 3 January 2009, honored the best in film for 2008. 1. ""Waltz with Bashir"" (""Vals Im Bashir"")<br> 2. ""Happy-Go-Lucky""<br> 2. ""WALL-E"" 1. Mike Leigh – ""Happy-Go-Lucky""<br> 2. Gus Van Sant – ""Milk"" and ""Paranoid Park""<br> 3. Danny Boyle – ""Slumdog Millionaire"" 1. Sean Penn – ""Milk""<br> 2. Mickey Rourke – ""The Wrestler""<br> 3. Clint Eastwood – ""Gran Torino"" 1. Sally Hawkins – ""Happy-Go-Lucky""<br> 2. Melissa Leo – ""Frozen River""<br> 3."
"Best Actor. He followed it by playing the title roles of a soldier in Steven Spielberg's war drama ""Saving Private Ryan"" (1998) and of the criminal Tom Ripley in the thriller ""The Talented Mr. Ripley"" (1999), both of which gained critical and commercial success. A production company he formed in 2000 with Affleck and Sean Bailey, named LivePlanet, produced ""Project Greenlight"" (2001–05, 2015), a television series that helps newcomers develop their first film. Damon has served as the executive producer of a number of projects directed by winners of the show. Damon's profile continued to expand in the 2000s, as"
"2008 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 43rd National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 3 January 2009, honored the best in film for 2008. 1. ""Waltz with Bashir"" (""Vals Im Bashir"")<br> 2. ""Happy-Go-Lucky""<br> 2. ""WALL-E"" 1. Mike Leigh – ""Happy-Go-Lucky""<br> 2. Gus Van Sant – ""Milk"" and ""Paranoid Park""<br> 3. Danny Boyle – ""Slumdog Millionaire"" 1. Sean Penn – ""Milk""<br> 2. Mickey Rourke – ""The Wrestler""<br> 3. Clint Eastwood – ""Gran Torino"" 1. Sally Hawkins – ""Happy-Go-Lucky""<br> 2. Melissa Leo – ""Frozen River""<br> 3. Michelle Williams – ""Wendy and Lucy"" 1. Eddie Marsan – ""Happy-Go-Lucky""<br> 2. Heath"
"""Atonement"" – Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer ""'2008: ""The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"" – Donald Graham Burt and Victor J. Zolfo ""'2009: ""Avatar"" – Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg, and Kim Sinclair 2010: ""Inception"" – Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias, and Doug Mowat 2011: ""Hugo"" – Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo 2012: ""Les Misérables"" – Eve Stewart and Anna Lynch-Robinson 2013: ""The Great Gatsby"" – Catherine Martin and Beverly Dunn 2014: ""The Grand Budapest Hotel"" – Adam Stockhausen and Anna Pinnock 2015: """" – Colin Gibson and Lisa Thompson 2016: ""Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them"" – Stuart"
"in the 1920 film version, by Harry Carey in the 1932 film serial version, by Randolph Scott in the 1936 film version, by Kenneth Ives in the 1971 BBC serial, by Steve Forrest in the 1977 TV movie and by Daniel Day-Lewis in the 1992 film version. Day-Lewis received a BAFTA Film Award nomination for Best Actor in 1993, won an ""Evening Standard"" British Film Award for Best Actor in 1993, and won an ALFS Award for British Actor of the Year in 1993 for his interepretation of the character. In the 1992 film, however, the character's name is changed"
"2004: Jamie Foxx – ""Ray"" as Ray Charles † 2005: Philip Seymour Hoffman – ""Capote"" as Truman Capote † 2006: Forest Whitaker – ""The Last King of Scotland"" as Idi Amin † 2007: Daniel Day-Lewis – ""There Will Be Blood"" as Daniel Plainview † 2008: Sean Penn – ""Milk"" as Harvey Milk † 2009: Jeff Bridges – ""Crazy Heart"" as Otis ""Bad"" Blake † 2010: Colin Firth – ""The King's Speech"" as King George VI † 2011: George Clooney – ""The Descendants"" as Matt King ‡ 2012: Daniel Day-Lewis – ""Lincoln"" as Abraham Lincoln † 2013: Matthew McConaughey – ""Dallas"
"transcendent performances, Daniel Day-Lewis creates a character so rich and so towering, that ""Daniel Plainview"" will haunt the history of film for generations to come. The film appeared on many critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2007. Review aggregator site Metacritic, when comparing over 40 'top ten of the decade' lists from various notable publications, found ""There Will Be Blood"" to be the most mentioned, appearing on 46% of critics' lists and being ranked the decade's best film on five of them. In December 2009, Peter Travers of ""Rolling Stone"" chose the film as the #1 film"
"of Goo NHL 09 ""WarGames"" Winners: Losers: Winners: Losers: 13th Satellite Awards The 13th Satellite Awards, honoring the best in film and television of 2008, were given on December 14, 2008. Auteur Award – Baz Luhrmann Mary Pickford Award – Louis Gossett Jr. Nikola Tesla Award – Rick Baker Outstanding New Talent – Brandon Walters Richard Jenkins – ""The Visitor"" Ricky Gervais – ""Ghost Town"" Angelina Jolie – ""Changeling"" Sally Hawkins – ""Happy-Go-Lucky"" WALL-E Australia Australia The Duchess Danny Boyle – ""Slumdog Millionaire"" "" (TIE) Man on Wire"" (TIE) Iron Man Slumdog Millionaire Happy-Go-Lucky ""Gomorrah (Gomorra)"" • Italy ""Slumdog Millionaire"""
"lists of the best films of 2008. Looking back at the experience of making ""Che"", Soderbergh has said that he now wishes that he had not made the film and remarked, ""Literally I'd wake up and think, 'At least I'm not doing that today.'"" The director blamed piracy for the film's financial failure and felt that ""It's a film that, to some extent, needs the support of people who write about films. If you'd had all these guys running around talking in accented English you'd [have got] your head taken off"". Del Toro was awarded the Best Actor Award at"
"honors for Best Picture, Best Actor (Daniel Day-Lewis), Best Supporting Actor (Tommy Lee Jones), and Best Supporting Actress (Sally Field), plus the association's inaugural award for Best Musical Score (John Williams). This continued a trend of critics groups across the United States giving their top prizes to the film about the final four months of the life of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, and his efforts to outlaw slavery with the Thirteenth Amendment. Only one other film, ""Zero Dark Thirty"" earned multiple 2012 honors from the DFWFCA. It received top honors for Best Actress (Jessica Chastain),"
"Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2008 The 21st Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, given by the CFCA on December 18, 2008, honored the best in film for 2008. Disney/Pixar's ""WALL-E"" became the most successful film in this year's ceremony, won four awards, including Best Film, out of five nominations. ""Slumdog Millionaire"" won three awards, while ""The Dark Knight"" and ""Let the Right One In"" won two awards. Mickey Rourke – ""The Wrestler"" Anne Hathaway – ""Rachel Getting Married"" WALL-E ""The Dark Knight"" – Wally Pfister Danny Boyle – ""Slumdog Millionaire"" Man on Wire WALL-E ""Let the Right One In (Låt"
"Best Actor winner awarded an Oscar in two non-consecutive decades. In 2009, Day-Lewis starred in Rob Marshall's musical adaptation ""Nine"" as film director Guido Contini. Day-Lewis was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and the Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his role, as well as sharing nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast and the Satellite Award for Best Cast – Motion Picture with"
"8th Critics' Choice Awards The 8th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 17, 2003, honoring the finest achievements of 2002 filmmaking. Daniel Day-Lewis – ""Gangs of New York"" (TIE) Jack Nicholson – ""About Schmidt"" (TIE) Julianne Moore – ""Far from Heaven"" Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (Spirited Away) Chicago Kieran Culkin – ""Igby Goes Down"" John Williams – ""Catch Me If You Can"", ""Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"", and ""Minority Report"" Gollum – """" Steven Spielberg – ""Catch Me If You Can"" and ""Minority Report"" Bowling for Columbine Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ""And Your"
"13th Satellite Awards The 13th Satellite Awards, honoring the best in film and television of 2008, were given on December 14, 2008. Auteur Award – Baz Luhrmann Mary Pickford Award – Louis Gossett Jr. Nikola Tesla Award – Rick Baker Outstanding New Talent – Brandon Walters Richard Jenkins – ""The Visitor"" Ricky Gervais – ""Ghost Town"" Angelina Jolie – ""Changeling"" Sally Hawkins – ""Happy-Go-Lucky"" WALL-E Australia Australia The Duchess Danny Boyle – ""Slumdog Millionaire"" "" (TIE) Man on Wire"" (TIE) Iron Man Slumdog Millionaire Happy-Go-Lucky ""Gomorrah (Gomorra)"" • Italy ""Slumdog Millionaire"" – A. R. Rahman ""Another Way to Die"" –"
"Millionaire"" ""The Wrestler"" (performed by Bruce Springsteen) – ""The Wrestler"" Simon Beaufoy – ""Slumdog Millionaire"" Richard Gere Number of nominations (minimum 2) Number of awards (minimum 2) 14th Critics' Choice Awards The 14th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 8, 2009 at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, honoring the finest achievements of 2008 filmmaking. The nominees were announced on December 9, 2008. Slumdog Millionaire Danny Boyle – ""Slumdog Millionaire"" Sean Penn – ""Milk"" Anne Hathaway – ""Rachel Getting Married"" (TIE) Meryl Streep – ""Doubt"" (TIE) Heath Ledger – ""The Dark Knight"" Kate Winslet – ""The Reader"" Dev Patel –"
"year's Best Actress Oscar for playing Queen Elizabeth II in ""The Queen""), Day-Lewis knelt before her, and she tapped him on each shoulder with the Oscar statuette, to which he quipped: ""That's the closest I'll come to ever getting a knighthood."" Day-Lewis was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to drama. On 14 November 2014, he was knighted by Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, in an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace. Daniel Day-Lewis Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is a retired English actor who holds both British and Irish citizenship. Born"
"2008 New York Film Critics Circle Awards The 74th New York Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2008, were announced on 10 December 2008 and presented on 5 January 2009. 1. Sean Penn – ""Milk""<br> 2. Mickey Rourke – ""The Wrestler""<br> 3. Clint Eastwood – ""Gran Torino"" 1. Sally Hawkins – ""Happy-Go-Lucky""<br> 2. Melissa Leo – ""Frozen River""<br> 3. Anne Hathaway – ""Rachel Getting Married""<br> 3. Kate Winslet – ""Revolutionary Road"" 1. ""WALL-E""<br> 2. ""Waltz with Bashir (Vals Im Bashir)"" 1. Anthony Dod Mantle – ""Slumdog Millionaire""<br> 2. Claudio Miranda – ""The Curious Case of Benjamin"
"the older generation liked the book,"" but those of his own generation were more likely to criticize Michael (and his) inability to fully condemn Hanna. He added, ""I've heard that criticism several times but never from the older generation, people who have lived through it."" The film version, directed by Stephen Daldry, was released in December 2008. Kate Winslet played Hanna, with David Kross as the young Michael and Ralph Fiennes as the older man. Bruno Ganz and Lena Olin played supporting roles. It was nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Picture. Winslet won the Oscar for leading actress."
"accolades for his critically acclaimed performance in the film, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, a Best Actor International Award at the 2008 Australian Film Institute Awards, for which he became the first actor to win an award posthumously, the 2008 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor, the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, and the 2009 BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. Ledger was born in Perth, Western Australia, the son of Sally Ledger (née Ramshaw), a French teacher, and Kim Ledger, a racing car driver and mining"
"title fight at London Arena. Following ""The Boxer"", Day-Lewis took a leave of absence from acting by going into ""semi-retirement"" and returning to his old passion of wood-working. He moved to Florence, Italy, where he became intrigued by the craft of shoe-making. He apprenticed as a shoe-maker with Stefano Bemer. For a time, his exact whereabouts and actions were not made publicly known. After a three-year absence from acting on screen, Day-Lewis returned in 2000 to film ""Gangs of New York"" (released in 2002), directed by Scorsese and produced by Harvey Weinstein. In his role as the villainous gang leader"
"in Ledger's previous performances, including his clown act in Terry Gilliam's fantasy film ""The Brothers Grimm"". It also references paintings by artist Francis Bacon, Anthony Burgess' novel ""A Clockwork Orange"", and various punk rock musicians. The Joker is considered to be Ledger's finest performance; he himself regarded it as his most enjoyable. When the film was released in July 2008, six months after the actor had died from an accidental prescription drug overdose, the performance caused a sensation and received universal acclaim; Ledger was posthumously awarded the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Jared Leto portrays the Joker in the"
"It would be short-lived, however, as ""Ben-Hur"" broke the record with eleven Oscars the following year. ""Gigi"" was the last film until ""The Last Emperor"" (1987) to win Best Picture without any acting nominations. It also had the biggest clean sweep at the time, winning all nine of its nominations, a record that would be tied by ""The Last Emperor"". This record was broken in 2003 when """" won all 11 of its nominations. The ceremony was hosted by an ensemble of actors: Jerry Lewis, Mort Sahl, Tony Randall, Bob Hope, David Niven, and Laurence Olivier. Niven won Best Actor"
"den rätte komma in)"", Sweden ""WALL-E"" – Thomas Newman ""Slumdog Millionaire"" – Simon Beaufoy ""WALL-E"" – Andrew Stanton and Jim Reardon Heath Ledger – ""The Dark Knight"" (posthumously) Kate Winslet – ""The Reader"" Tomas Alfredson – ""Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in)"" Dev Patel – ""Slumdog Millionaire"" Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2008 The 21st Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, given by the CFCA on December 18, 2008, honored the best in film for 2008. Disney/Pixar's ""WALL-E"" became the most successful film in this year's ceremony, won four awards, including Best Film, out of five nominations."
"He came to prominence in 1997, when he wrote and starred in ""Good Will Hunting,"" alongside Ben Affleck, which won them the Academy and Golden Globe awards for Best Screenplay and earned Damon a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He continued to garner praise from critics for his roles as the eponymous character in ""Saving Private Ryan"" (1998), the antihero in ""The Talented Mr. Ripley"" (1999), a fallen angel in ""Dogma"" (1999), an energy analyst in ""Syriana"" (2005), and a corrupt Irish-American police officer in ""The Departed"" (2006). Damon is also known for his starring roles as"
"Award for Best Actor. Brown, known as a writer and painter, was born with cerebral palsy, and was able to control only his left foot. Day-Lewis prepared for the role by making frequent visits to Sandymount School Clinic in Dublin, where he formed friendships with several people with disabilities, some of whom had no speech. During filming, he again refused to break character. Playing a severely paralysed character on screen, off screen Day-Lewis had to be moved around the set in his wheelchair, and crew members would curse at having to lift him over camera and lighting wires, all so"