GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS 2007 Candidates
Frears attempts full house, Almodóvar up against Donnersmarck
Babel, by Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu, has picked up seven nominations for the 64th edition of the Golden Globe Awards, than any other titles in the running.
However, the Europeans are also strong contenders for the awards that approximately 90 foreign critics working in Hollywood will hand out on January 15, 2007, considered important indicators for the Oscars (whose ceremony will be held on February 25, 2007).
The Queen [+see also:
film review
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interview: Andy Harries
interview: Stephen Frears
film profile] by the UK’s Stephen Frears has been nominated in four categories: the most important (Best Film), as well as Best Director, Best Actress (a magnificent Helen Mirren in the role of the Queen Elizabeth) and Best Screenplay for Peter Morgan.
Furthermore, four of the five actresses nominated are European: besides Mirren, the list also includes Judi Dench for Notes on a Scandal by the UK’s Richard Eyre, who directed Iris, also starring Dench (the film’s screenwriter Patrick Marber has also been nominated); Kate Winslet for Little Children; and Penelope Cruz for Pedro Almodóvar’s Volver [+see also:
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interview: Agustín Almodóvar
interview: Carmen Maura
interview: Pedro Almodóvar
interview: Pénélope Cruz
film profile].
The Spanish director’s latest film will vie for Best Foreign Language Film against Germany’s The Lives of Others [+see also:
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interview: Florian Henckel von Donners…
interview: Ulrich Muehe
film profile] (Das Leben der Anderen) by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.
These films will be competing against two weighty US productions, Letters From Iwo Jima by Clint Eastwood and Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto, which appear in this category because they were shot in Japanese and Mayan, respectively. The fifth film in the category is the Spanish minority co-production Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno) [+see also:
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film profile] by Mexican director Guillermo Del Toro.
The Best Actor category includes Irish legend Peter O'Toole, the star of Venus [+see also:
trailer
film profile], directed by Roger Michell (Notting Hill, The Mother) and scripted by Hanif Kureishi.
The only (indirect) Italian presence is the Best Actor nomination for Will Smith for The Pursuit of Happyness, directed by Gabriele Muccino.
(Translated from Italian)
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