"Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2008 The winners of the 9th Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2008, were announced on January 13, 2009. Best Actor: Sean Penn – ""Milk"" Best Actress: Kate Winslet – ""Revolutionary Road"" and ""The Reader"" Best Director: David Fincher – ""The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"" Best Film: Milk Best Foreign Language Film: The Edge of Heaven (Auf der anderen Seite) • Germany Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger – ""The Dark Knight"" (posthumous) Best Supporting Actress: Rosemarie DeWitt – ""Rachel Getting Married"" Best Actor: ""'Natar Ungalaaq – ""The Necessities of"
"Milk (film) Milk is a 2008 American biographical film based on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Dustin Lance Black, the film stars Sean Penn as Milk and Josh Brolin as Dan White, a city supervisor who assassinated Milk and Mayor George Moscone. The film was released to much acclaim and earned numerous accolades from film critics and guilds. Ultimately, it received eight"
"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"
"Francisco had no idea. It was just a really brief, provincial, localized current events story that the mayor and a city council member in San Francisco were killed. It didn't have much reverberation."" Milk's life has been the subject of a musical theater production; an eponymous opera; a cantata; a children's picture book; a French-language historical novel for young-adult readers; and the biopic ""Milk"", released in 2008 after 15 years in the making. The film was directed by Gus Van Sant and starred Sean Penn as Milk and Josh Brolin as Dan White, and won two Academy Awards for Best"
"devoutly Christian"". ""Milk"" had received accolades from several film critics organizations. Milk (film) Milk is a 2008 American biographical film based on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Dustin Lance Black, the film stars Sean Penn as Milk and Josh Brolin as Dan White, a city supervisor who assassinated Milk and Mayor George Moscone. The film was released to much acclaim and earned"
"Dan Jinks Dan Jinks is an American film and television producer. In February 2010, Jinks launched his own film and television production company, the Dan Jinks Company. In July 2011, he signed an overall deal with CBS Television Studios. Previously, working with producing partner Bruce Cohen, Jinks produced ""Milk"", directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Sean Penn as Harvey Milk. The film was nominated for 8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won for Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay. ""Milk"" was named Best Picture of 2008 by the New York Film Critics Circle. The pair won the Best"
"Dustin Lance Black Dustin Lance Black (born June 10, 1974) is an American screenwriter, director, film and television producer, and LGBT rights activist. He has won a Writers Guild of America Award and an Academy Award for the 2008 film ""Milk"". Black is a founding board member of the American Foundation for Equal Rights and writer of ""8"", a staged reenactment of the federal trial that led to a federal court's overturn of California's Proposition 8. He was born in Sacramento County, California as Dustin Lance Garrison. His father walked out on his polio-stricken mother, Roseanna, and his two brothers,"
"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."
"Lowdown"" (1999), and ""I Am Sam"" (2001). He also received a Directors Guild of America nomination for directing ""Into the Wild"" (2007). Sean Penn Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has won two Academy Awards, for his roles in the mystery drama ""Mystic River"" (2003) and the biopic ""Milk"" (2008). Penn began his acting career in television, with a brief appearance in episode 112 of ""Little House on the Prairie,"" December 4, 1974, and directed by his father Leo Penn. Following his film debut in the drama ""Taps"" (1981), and a diverse"
"film. The film was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, and both Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell were nominated for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, which Farrell won at the 66th Golden Globe Awards ceremony, broadcast on 11 January 2009. McDonagh won the Best Original Screenplay award at the 62nd British Academy Film Awards in February 2009. The film was nominated for Best Original Screenplay award at the 81st Academy Awards in 2009, but lost to ""Milk"". In the same year, it won the Best International Film award"
"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"
"The centerpiece was a section displaying the suit Milk was wearing at the time of his death. The suit is currently on display in the Society's permanent museum space in the Castro. In 2008 the film ""Milk"" depicted the assassinations as part of a biographical story about the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk. The movie was a critical and commercial success, with Victor Garber portraying Moscone, Sean Penn playing Milk and Josh Brolin playing White. Penn won an Oscar for his performance and Brolin was nominated. In January 2012, the Berkeley Repertory Theater premiered ""Ghost Light"","
"Best Picture nominations for ""Milk"" and ""Silver Linings Playbook"". ""American Beauty"", directed by Sam Mendes, won a total of five Oscars, as well as the Golden Globe, British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA), and Producers Guild of America (PGA) awards. ""Milk"", directed by Gus Van Sant, was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won Oscars for Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay, as well as the PGA's Stanley Kramer Award. ""Silver Linings Playbook"", written and directed by David O. Russell, was nominated for eight Oscars. It was the first film in 31 years to be nominated in all four"
"for his role in ""Milk"", remarked that he was surprised and disappointed that ""Che"" and Del Toro were not also up for any Academy Award nominations. During his acceptance speech for the Best Actor's trophy at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, Penn expressed his dismay stating, ""The fact that there aren't crowns on Soderbergh's and Del Toro's heads right now, I don't understand ... that is such a sensational movie, ""Che""."" In reference to what Penn deemed a snub, he added ""Maybe because it's in Spanish, maybe the length, maybe the politics"". On 31 July 2009, Del Toro was awarded"
"people, although there was criticism that his involvement was a PR stunt as he hired a photographer to come along with his entourage. Penn denied such accusations in an article he wrote for ""The Huffington Post"". Director Spike Lee interviewed Penn for Lee's documentary about Hurricane Katrina, """" (2006). On February 22, 2009, Penn received the Academy Award for Best Actor for the film ""Milk"". In his acceptance speech, he said: ""I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the"
"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 – ""Slumdog Millionaire"" Milk The Dark Knight Tropic Thunder WALL-E Man on Wire ""Waltz with Bashir (Vals im Bashir)"" • Israel John Adams A. R. Rahman – ""Slumdog"
"and ""I've Loved You So Long"" • France/Germany Runners-Up: ""Doubt"" – John Patrick Shanley and ""Frost/Nixon"" – Peter Morgan Runners-Up: Josh Brolin – ""Milk"", Robert Downey Jr. – ""Tropic Thunder"" and Philip Seymour Hoffman – ""Doubt"" Runners-Up: Penélope Cruz – ""Vicky Cristina Barcelona"" and Viola Davis – ""Doubt"" Runners-Up: ""Continental, a Film Without Guns (Continental, un film sans fusil)"" and ""Up the Yangtze"" Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2008 The 12th Toronto Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 2008, were given on December 17, 2008. Runners-Up: Sean Penn – ""Milk"" and Jean-Claude Van Damme – ""JCVD"""
"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"
"Awards ceremony to demonstrate solidarity with the marriage equality movement. Brolin told an interviewer that co-star Sean Penn, who portrayed Milk, decided to dispel any nerves the actors had about playing gay men by grabbing the bull by the horns. At the first cast dinner, which included castmates James Franco, Emile Hirsch and Diego Luna, Brolin said, ""[Penn] walked right up and grabbed me and planted a huge one right on my lips."" Brolin has received critical acclaim for his performance and, in addition to his Oscar nomination, received NYFCC and NBR Awards for Best Supporting Actor and a nomination"
"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 –"
"Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2008 The 12th Toronto Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 2008, were given on December 17, 2008. Runners-Up: Sean Penn – ""Milk"" and Jean-Claude Van Damme – ""JCVD"" Runners-Up: Anne Hathaway – ""Rachel Getting Married"" and Meryl Streep – ""Doubt"" Runners-Up: ""Kung Fu Panda"", ""Persepolis"" and ""Waltz with Bashir"" Runners-Up: Danny Boyle – ""Slumdog Millionaire"" and Andrew Stanton – ""WALL-E"" Runners-Up: ""Standard Operating Procedure"" and ""Up the Yangtze"" Runners-Up: ""Rachel Getting Married"" and ""WALL-E"" Runners-Up: ""The Band's Visit"" and ""Frozen River"" Runners-Up: ""A Christmas Tale"" • France, ""The Class"" • France"
"has been described by media sources as his ""breakout performance"", and he was nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer and won the Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. In 2008, Cross starred in the thriller film ""Untraceable"" (2008) with Diane Lane, and portrayed gay rights activist Dick Pabich in the Academy Award-nominated Harvey Milk biopic ""Milk"" (2008). He won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble with his ""Milk"" co-stars. The following year, he played William ""Fred"" Parsons in the West End production of ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"", at"
"at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival. Coming up, Paris Barclay is slated to direct his screenplay ""A Life Like Mine"" and Gus Van Sant is set to direct his film adaptation of Tom Wolfe's book ""The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test"". Black directed his own script ""Virginia"", starring Jennifer Connelly. On February 22, 2009, Black won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for ""Milk"" at the 81st Academy Awards. He wore a White Knot to the ceremony as a symbol of solidarity with the marriage equality movement. On October 11, 2009, Black marched in the National Equality March and delivered"
"the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Next, Penn portrayed governor Willie Stark (based on Huey Long) in an adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's classic 1946 American novel ""All the King's Men"" (2006). The film was a critical and commercial failure, named by a 2010 ""Forbes"" article as the biggest flop in the last five years. In November 2008, Penn earned positive reviews for his portrayal of real-life gay-rights icon and politician Harvey Milk in the biopic ""Milk"" (2008), and was nominated for best actor for the 2008 Independent Spirit Awards. The film also earned Penn his fifth nomination"
"Sean Penn Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has won two Academy Awards, for his roles in the mystery drama ""Mystic River"" (2003) and the biopic ""Milk"" (2008). Penn began his acting career in television, with a brief appearance in episode 112 of ""Little House on the Prairie,"" December 4, 1974, and directed by his father Leo Penn. Following his film debut in the drama ""Taps"" (1981), and a diverse range of film roles in the 1980s, including ""Fast Times at Ridgemont High"" (1982), Penn garnered critical attention for his roles in"
"for Best Cinematography. The film stars Fredric March, Elissa Landi, Claudette Colbert, and Charles Laughton, with Ian Keith and Arthur Hohl. It is the third and last in DeMille's biblical trilogy, following ""The Ten Commandments"" (1923) and ""The King of Kings"" (1927). The famous scene in which Poppaea (Claudette Colbert) bathes in asses' milk took several days to shoot. DeMille announced to the press that real asses' milk was used; however, it was actually powdered cow's milk. After a few days under the hot lights, the milk turned sour, making it very unpleasant for Colbert to work in the stench."
"editing for Gus Van Sant's 2008 film ""Milk"" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing and for the American Cinema Editors Eddie Award. Several critics have written about the editing of ""Milk"", which intermixes archival footage from the era of the film with footage of the actors. The director of each film is indicated in parenthesis. Elliot Graham Elliot Graham (born 1976, Claremont, California) is an American film editor. In 1999, Graham received a bachelor's degree in History and Film from New York University. His first editing credit was for ""The Last Minute"" (2001), an independent film"
"brothers' Academy Award-winning film ""No Country for Old Men"". Brolin also starred in another Oliver Stone film in 2008 called ""W."", a biopic about key events in the life of President George W. Bush. Stone pursued an initially hesitant Brolin for the role. He said of his decision to cast Brolin in the leading role: Brolin received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Gus Van Sant's biopic ""Milk"" as city supervisor Dan White, who assassinated San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. He made news by wearing a White Knot to the Academy"
"portrayed by Josh Brolin in the 2008 film ""Milk"". The film depicted White from his first meeting with Harvey Milk up to and including the assassination of Milk. Brolin was nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of White. White's life, the assassinations, and his trial are covered in the 1984 book ""Double Play: The San Francisco City Hall Killings"" by Mike Weiss, which won the Edgar Award as Best True Crime Book of the Year. An expanded second edition, ""Double Play: The Hidden Passions Behind the Double Assassination of George Moscone and Harvey Milk,"" was issued in 2010"
"acclaim and box office success. On January 27, 2008, the film won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. On February 24, 2008, it won four Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director (Joel and Ethan Coen), Best Adapted Screenplay (Joel and Ethan Coen), and Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh). The source novel may have been influenced by the 1973 film Charley Varrick, which features similar plot elements as the American Southwest, stolen money that is ruthlessly tracked down, and milk-drinking. No Country for Old Men No Country for Old"
"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"
"an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award. In January 2008, two of Rudin's productions—the Coen brothers' ""No Country for Old Men"", which they adapted from the Cormac McCarthy book of the same name, and Paul Thomas Anderson's ""There Will Be Blood"", which was adapted from the Upton Sinclair novel, ""Oil!""—were nominated for eight Oscars apiece at the 2008 Academy Awards, including a Best Picture nod for each of them. The two films shared the distinction of being the most nominated movies at that year's Oscar ceremony. Ultimately, ""No Country for Old Men"" won the Best Picture prize. Rudin won Primetime"
"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"