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2008 Spirit Award Nominations

2008 Spirit Award Nominations

Actors Lisa Kudrow and Zach Braff announced the 2008 Film Independent’s Spirit Award nominations at Sofitel LA on Tuesday in Los Angeles.

Best feature nominations: “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” “I’m Not There,” “Juno,” “A Mighty Heart” and “Paranoid Park.”

Best actress nominations: Angelina Jolie ( “A Mighty Heart”), Sienna Miller (”Interview”), Ellen Page (”Juno”), Parker Posey (”Broken English”) and Tang Wei (”Lust, Caution”).

Best actor nominations: Pedro Castaneda (”August Evening”), Don Cheadle (”Talk to Me”), Philip Seymour Hoffman (”The Savages”), Frank Langella (”Starting Out in the Evening”) and Ton Leung (”Lust, Caution”).

Besides the two aforementioned nominations for A Mighty Heart, John Orloff was also nominated for Best first screenplay.

Complete list of nominees and more pictures inside…

2008 Spirit Award Nominations

Best feature
“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”
“I’m Not There”
“Juno”
“A Mighty Heart”
“Paranoid Park”

Best director
Todd Haynes, “I’m Not There”
Tamara Jenkins, “The Savages”
Jason Reitman, “Juno”
Julian Schnabel, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”
Gus Van Sant, “Paranoid Park”

Best first feature
“2 Days in Paris”
“Great World of Sound”
“The Lookout”
“Rocket Science”
“Vanaja”

John Cassavetes Award
“August Evening”
“Owl and the Sparrow”
“The Pool”
“Quiet City”
“Shotgun Stories”

Best screenplay
Ronald Harwood, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”
Tamara Jenkins, “The Savages”
Fred Parnes & Andrew Wagner, “Starting Out in the Evening”
Adrienne Shelly, “Waitress”
Mike White, “Year of the Dog”

Best first screenplay
Jeffrey Blitz, “Rocket Science”
Zoe Cassavetes, “Broken English”
Diablo Cody, “Juno”
Kelly Masterson, “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead”
John Orloff, “A Mighty Heart”

Best female lead
Angelina Jolie, “A Mighty Heart”
Sienna Miller, “Interview”
Ellen Page, “Juno”
Parker Posey, “Broken English”
Tang Wei, “Lust, Caution”

Best male lead
Pedro Castaneda, “August Evening”
Don Cheadle, “Talk to Me”
Philip Seymour Hoffman, “The Savages”
Frank Langella, “Starting Out in the Evening”
Tony Leung, “Lust, Caution”

Best supporting female
Cate Blanchett, “I’m Not There”
Anna Kendrick, “Rocket Science”
Jennifer Jason Leigh, “Margot at the Wedding”
Tamara Podemski, “Four Sheets to the Wind”
Marisa Tomei, “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead”

Best supporting male
Chiwetel Ejiofor, “Talk to Me”
Marcus Carl Franklin, “I’m Not There”
Kene Holliday, “Great World of Sound”
Irrfan Khan, “The Namesake”
Steve Zahn, “Rescue Dawn”

Best cinematography
Mott Hupfel, “The Savages”
Janusz Kaminski, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”
Milton Kam, “Vanaja”
Mihai Malaimare, Jr., “Youth Without Youth”
Rodrigo Prieto, “Lust, Caution”

Best documentary
“Crazy Love”
“Lake of Fire”
“Manufactured Landscapes”
“The Monastery”
“The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair”

Best foreign film
“4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” Romania
“The Band’s Visit,” Israel
“Lady Chatterley,” France
“Once,” Ireland
“Persepolis,” France

Robert Altman Award
“I’m Not There,” Todd Haynes (director); Laura Rosenthal (casting director); Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, Ben Whishaw, Marcus Carl Franklin, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Bruce Greenwood (ensemble cast)

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I hope Pax has a very happy birthday.

thanks for the pics lady G

TAOJJ NEWS @ 11/29/2007 at 10:09 am

TAOJJ DVD will be released on Feb 5

TAOJJ DVD will be released on Feb 5

TAOJJ DVD will be released on Feb 5

TAOJJ DVD will be released on Feb 5

TAOJJ DVD will be released on Feb 5

Warner Home Video have announced the Region 1 DVD release of The Assassination of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford on 5th February 2008 priced at $27.95 SRP. Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard and Mary-Louise Parker star in this western directed by Andrew Dominik.

Robert Ford (Casey Affleck) joins Jesse James’s (Brad Pitt) gang, only to become resentful of the legendary outlaw and hatch a plan to kill the fastest gun in the West.

A barebones release, the film is presented in anamorphic widescreen with English, French and Spanish audio (DD5.1 Surround) and subtitle options.

Alexanderina @ 11/29/2007 at 10:12 am

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAX THIEN JOLIE-PITT!!!!

I just read Lainey’s comment about GP’s rep Huvane. Boy, that guy lowers himself to the level of the tabloids. I bet he has a lot of friends in the tabloid business. No wonder B&A are attacked so much by them.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PAX THIEN

733,huvane is a joke,making that speech will make the story more wide spread

669 micro : 11/29/2007 at 1:29 am
lylian : 11/29/2007 at 12:46 am

I know and I understand why you are coming from. Sorry if I sounded a bit abrupt in my own post. I was trying to be somewhat sarcastic about x and failing.

I genuinely believe that initially, the whole victim thing was a delibrate PR strategy on the part of Huvane and X. She didn’t want to be seen as the beeyotch who lost her man because she didn’t want to have a baby with Brad Pitt. So, her friends in the VF interview were very clear about one thing - how she really really wants children.

So the way to ensure that she wasn’t seen as the one who lost her man because she didn’t want Brad Pitts children, she had to make herself the victim. It’s not x fault that the marriage failed and they didn’t have children, it was Brad’s (and of course, Angelina’s for being so fascinating and sexy).

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You know, regarding that VF interview, NEITHER Jen NOR her friends mentioned any supporting EVIDENCE (like seeing the IVF doc, taking temperature, decorating the nursery etc ) about her wanting babies. Nothing, nada, zilch !!!

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

SNORT!!!! I don’t believe x ever tried IVF.

719 piper, with a low : 11/29/2007 at 9:35 am
712 FYI : 11/29/2007 at 9:18 am
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I went to Oprah’s site (decontaminate me, please) and according to the video preview, one of the hairdressers said that Angelina was one of his first clients, which doesn’t exactly say that she is still his client.

And they had 5 hairdressers for the show; Chris McMillan wasn’t listed among the head hairdressers or the as a member of the hairdressing teams, which can be interpreted in several ways.

Nonetheless, I will be going home for lunch and programming my recorder for this show.

In the tv preview they show Chris McMillan talking .

new Brad video @ 11/29/2007 at 10:40 am

http://www.channel4.com/watch_online/clips/clip-popup.jsp?player_id=1321280113&c4Vertical=Film&c4SubDirectory=Film&c4microsite=filmontv&c4microsite_sitename=index.html

watch the beginning of this video when Brad takes a sip of tea, He say’s Oh that’s good, the exact way Angie say’s it in Mr and Mrs Smith.

I liked his interview about Jesse james. I also watched the clip of him introducing Mr and Mrs Smith and him alluding to his relationship with Angelina.

The real lou @ 11/29/2007 at 10:46 am

Oprah did have Ted Gibson on (who does do Angelina’s hair)he stated that Angelina was his FIRST celebrity client and that it changed his life.Ted also said meeting Angelina changed him spirituality.J LO hairdresser was on,not Jen A.

712 FYI : 11/29/2007 at 9:18 am

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They are “spilling beans” about how to do makeup. Not about their clients or former clients. These people are professinals in their industry.

piper, with a low @ 11/29/2007 at 10:53 am

737 info : 11/29/2007 at 10:30 am
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Went back to Oprah’s site and the following hairdressers will be featured:

Ted Gibson
Kimberly Kimble
Ken Paves
Rita Hazan
Harry Josh

Unless there’s a super secret separate segment featuring Chris McMillan, Chris McMillan is not scheduled to appear on Oprah

BTW… the promo on Oprah featured two male hairdressers talking about specific clients: Ted Gibson (Angelina) and Ken Paves (Jessica Simpson). The blond dude is Ken Paves.

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa234/ryo_girl2007/1107_paxjoliepitt_flynet.jpg

‘Happy B’day Pax’ I hope you are having a good one! I know you are :D

738,love the video,thanks

The real lou @ 11/29/2007 at 10:57 am

Report Abuse 742 piper, with a low : 11/29/2007 at 10:53 am ,Thank you.I couldn’t remember Ken Paves name.He is doing J lo’s hair for her tour.He had to leave the show early because of that.Chris McMillan was not on the show!

Thanks for the Channel 4 interviews. I loved Brad’s into for MMS and TAOJJ

706 ENERGY : 11/29/2007 at 9:09 am
704 Variety rocks : 11/29/2007 at 9:02 am

Dont get yourself too angry.

Mr.Pitt did what he believed was the best decision for him. If universal want to have RC play that role with a bad script then that is their problem. Am sure Brad is not loosing any sleep over this.
Russell is not on the same league as Brad anyways.

Go Brad.

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Just because Brad turned it down doesn’t mean it is a bad script. It is just creative differences. I’ts quite feasable that Pitt didn’t like some of the changes that had been done since it was first introduced to him and Russel Crowe isn’t bothered by them - he probably never saw orignianl script - doesn’t make the script good or bad. Just two different people having different opinions about a movie script is all.

Check this link for more info http://www.channel4.com i hope it works!

Waving @ mf and briseis

Good for RC. He did Brad a favor. Now we can close the door on State of Play.

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