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16 articles from 2009
PGA Honors Precious.
18 November 2009 3:18 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Jose here with some award news.
Continuing to establish itself as a front runner in the awards race, Precious: Based on the novel 'Push' by Sapphire, has been chosen by the Producers Guild of America to receive its prestigious Stanley Kramer Award for illuminating provocative social issues in an accessible and elevating fashion.
This award not only confirms the movie will be one of the ten chosen by the PGA for its Producer of the Year award, but bodes well for its chances of getting even more Oscar attention.
The Academy simply loves social issues (remember 2005?) and Kramer (who directed and produced Inherit the Wind and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner among others) was an icon in this aspect, even if the quality of the films he made didn't amount to much artistically. Stanley's films always talked about things we wanted to ignore. He taught us so much about ourselves »
- Jose
Precious Lands Kramer Accolade
18 November 2009 1:57 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Harrowing drama Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire has been given a massive Oscars boost - the film will be honoured with the Stanley Kramer Award at the 2010 Producers Guild of America prizegiving.
The film’s producers, including Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey, will be honoured with the award at the 21st Annual PGA Awards ceremony on 24 January at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles.
The Stanley Kramer Award was established in 2002 to honour "a motion picture, TV series, studio, network, producer, executive or other individual entity whose work illuminates provocative social issues in an accessible and elevating fashion".
A statement from PGA Awards co-chairmen David Friendly and Laurence Mark reads, "Precious is truly a film that... tells us quite eloquently that it isn’t what happens to us that defines who we are, but rather what we choose to become."
The film joins Nine, The Hurt Locker and Invictus among the early Oscar favourites for Best Film. »
Producers Guild to Honor 'Precious'
18 November 2009 12:51 PM, PST | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
By Wrap Staff
The Producers Guild of America will present its 2010 Stanley Kramer Award to the producers of "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire."
The PGA will hold the 21st annual PGA Awards ceremony Sunday, Jan. 24, at the Hollywood Palladium.
The Stanley Kramer Award was established in 2002 to honor a motion picture, television program, studio, network, producer, executive or other individual entity whose work illuminates provocative social issue... »
- Lisa Horowitz
PGA To Honor “Precious”
18 November 2009 12:50 PM, PST | IndieWIRE | See recent indieWIRE news »
The Producers Guild of America have announced that “Precious: Based on the novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” will be honored with the 2010 Stanley Kramer Award. The film’s producers will be honored with the award at the 21st Annual PGA Awards ceremony on Sunday, January 24, 2010 at the Hollywood Palladium. “‘Precious’ is a remarkable film that sends a powerful message of hope - brilliantly reminding us that we have the power … »
The Forgotten: Gorgeous Lifelike Color By Deluxe
29 October 2009 6:58 AM, PDT | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »
Gus Van Sant's Psycho remake is always going to divide opinion, those who see it as a conceptual art statement being able to argue, quite reasonably, that its failure to do the things Hitchcock's original does—create a consistent story world, stylized but credible characters, a sense of doom, suspense—is exactly the proof needed of its success as a conceptual artifact, dramatically redundant yet stubbornly existent.
Would the same people say the same thing for Edward Dmytryk's The Blue Angel, a faithful yet utterly arbitrary remake of Josef Von Sternberg's Der blaue Engel. Sternberg's production, Germany's first sound film, is so iconic and so utterly of its time—it marks the beginning of the Marlene myth, as well as the end of silence—that any kind of remake seems like an exercise in redundancy, like the Coens's joke proposal to re-shoot Stanley Kramer's well-intentioned liberal »
Lasseter Lands Top Producers Prize
22 October 2009 1:11 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Toy Story creator John Lasseter is to be honoured with the David O. Selznick Achievement Award at the 2010 Producers Guild of America prizegiving.
The revered animator will be feted at the 21st annual ceremony in Hollywood on 24 January.
The Selznick Award is given "in recognition of an outstanding body of work in motion pictures."
Past recipients include Stanley Kramer, Saul Zaentz, Clint Eastwood, Robert Evans, Brian Grazer and Jerry Bruckheimer.
Thrilled Lasseter, a two-time Oscar winner, says, "David O. Selznick was one of Hollywood's legendary producers and master showmen, and it's a privilege to be in the company of so many other fantastic filmmakers who have received this award... I am thankful to the Producers Guild for this wonderful honour." »
Hollywood Event Honoring Streisand's Yentl Brings Awareness to Plight of Congolese Women
25 May 2009 11:58 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
When Kat Kramer announced the launch of her "Films That Changed the World" series, she got a mostly enthusiastic response, but there were a few naysayers. "You've got to be kidding me!" some said to Ms. Kramer, "Films don't change the world!" As Kramer shared this story at the premiere luncheon for her series, groans of disagreement from approximately 100 women (and a handful of men) in the entertainment industry echoed throughout a "writer's garden" area on the Sunset-Gower Studios lot in Hollywood. To those in attendance, films absolutely have the power to change the world. Kat Kramer conceived her series when Sunset-Gower named a theater in honor of her father, the late producer and director Stanley Kramer. As a matter of interest, his classic Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? was filmed... »
- Paul Katz
Cinema Retro Attends "Mad, Mad World" Screening And Tribute
6 May 2009 2:47 PM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
Paul Scrabo, who introduced the film, displays Peter Falk's cabby hat from the film- part of his remarkable Mad World collection. (Photo: Cinema Retro) By Lee Pfeiffer
In recent years, New Jersey has become Seventh Heaven for classic movie lovers, with numerous old-time theaters giving first class presentations of great films. April 29 saw a special screening of Stanley Kramer's 1963 comedy classic It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World at the Cedar Lane Theaters in Teaneck, New Jersey. Droves of fans came from far and wide to attend the show. A very nice 35mm print was screened to the delight of one and all. Theater owner Nelson Page is no stranger to movie fans. He's been sponsoring his program of Big Screen Classics for years and providing yeoman showmanship in the process. At the Cedar Lane, audiences were treated to a wonderful pre-show old time organ recital that included the film's main theme. »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
The Glass Ceiling that 'Yentl' Cracked
6 April 2009 5:45 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
While skimming my feeds, I came across a post at THR about a Stanley Kramer celebration called "Films That Changed the World." It immediately got me thinking of world-changing cinema, and how much a film can impact us. But try as I might, I couldn't come up with films that changed my world, and instead, kept going back to the story. See, this new series is celebrating the films connected with the iconic filmmaker that were socially conscious. First up: Yentl.
It wasn't so much the film that kept grabbing me, but a quote by Kramer's daughter, Kat: "The history-making film, the first major studio production ever produced, directed and co-written by its female star, shattered Hollywood's glass ceiling like no other film ever did." I wish I could say that it shattered that glass ceiling. If it did, we wouldn't have such abysmal percentages of women in the industry »
- Monika Bartyzel
TCM To Broadcast Director's Cut Of John Wayne's "The Alamo" On March 17
14 March 2009 4:36 AM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
Yet another occasion in which we use a reader's letter to give a cheap plug to a Cinema Retro book. In case you are not aware, TCM is broadcasting a letterboxed 203 minute version of The Alamo on March 17 @ 2:15pm. I have to assume that is the directors cut that was released on laser disc some years back. My DVR is ready and waiting to go.
Paul J. Casale
Retro Responds: Thanks for the heads-up, Paul. This pertains to TCM in America. It's a rare opportunity to record Wayne's original cut of the film on DVD. The film has a legendary history that Dave Worrall and I recently documented in our book The Alamo: A Visual Celebration of John Wayne's Classic Movie.(Click here for details) The complete version of the film was shown in limited roadshow engagements, but United Artists ultimately ordered Wayne to cut the film by approximately 1/2 hour. »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Tribeca Film Fest announces the rest of the lineup
11 March 2009 12:16 PM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
And here's the rest, including the Midnight Section, all after the break.
Encounters
This collection of engaging and entertaining narrative features and documentaries, a mixture of dark comedies and lighter fare, offers work from returning filmmakers, established talent, and popular subjects, and includes 10 World Premieres. Included in Encounters are performances from Academy Award®-nominated actors Thomas Haden Church, Melissa Leo, Elisabeth Shue; directorial debuts from both Eric Bana and Cheryl Hines (from a screenplay by Adrienne Shelly); stories ranging from an ill-fated man's discovery of inspiration and happiness, dysfunctional families, and unrequited high school crushes to a doc on the emergence of New York’s independent film scene.
• Blank City, directed by Celine Danhier. (USA) - World Premiere, Documentary. Celine Danhier’s kinetic doc mirrors the urgent, anything-goes energy of her subject: the Diy independent film movement that emerged in tandem with punk rock in late ‘70s downtown New York. »
Motion Picture Home And Hospital To Close
15 January 2009 11:02 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Ageing stars are about to feel the pinch of the recession - a charity hospital and nursing home which cater for movie icons are to close due to lack of funds.
Officials at the Motion Picture + Television Fund, which was created by silver screen greats Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford, have announced the two Woodland Hills, California care facilities will shut their doors for good because neither are cost effective.
The residents and patients at the Motion Picture + Television Country House and Hospital will be relocated.
Famous residents have included Star Trek actor DeForest Kelley and movie mogul Stanley Kramer, who died there in 2001. »
Producers Guild of America nominees announced!
6 January 2009 12:41 AM, PST | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
2009 PGA (Producers Guild of America) awards nominees have been announced. In the theatrical motion pictures side "The Dark Knight," "Milk," "Slumdog Millionaire" Frost/Nixon" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" were considered. Those contending for the animated honors were "Bolt," "Kung Fu Panda" and "Wall-e." TV-wise in the comedy category "30 Rock" shared its nomination with "Entourage," "The Office," "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "Weeds." Brian Grazer and Ron Howard were noninated for the Milestone Award and Dan Junks and Bruce Cohen considered for the Stanley Kramer award nomination. »
Producers Guild of America nominees announced!
6 January 2009 12:41 AM, PST | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
2009 PGA (Producers Guild of America) awards nominees have been announced. In the theatrical motion pictures side "The Dark Knight," "Milk," "Slumdog Millionaire" Frost/Nixon" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" were considered. Those contending for the animated honors were "Bolt," "Kung Fu Panda" and "Wall-e." TV-wise in the comedy category "30 Rock" shared its nomination with "Entourage," "The Office," "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "Weeds." Brian Grazer and Ron Howard were noninated for the Milestone Award and Dan Junks and Bruce Cohen considered for the Stanley Kramer award nomination. »
Producers Guild of America nominees announced!
6 January 2009 12:41 AM, PST | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
2009 PGA (Producers Guild of America) awards nominees have been announced. In the theatrical motion pictures side "The Dark Knight," "Milk," "Slumdog Millionaire" Frost/Nixon" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" were considered. Those contending for the animated honors were "Bolt," "Kung Fu Panda" and "Wall-e." TV-wise in the comedy category "30 Rock" shared its nomination with "Entourage," "The Office," "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "Weeds." Brian Grazer and Ron Howard were noninated for the Milestone Award and Dan Junks and Bruce Cohen considered for the Stanley Kramer award nomination. As announced by the Producers Guild of America, here are the nominees for 2009. The Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Awardin Theatrical Motion Pictures The Curious Case Of Benjamin BUTTONKathleen Kennedy & Frank MarshallCeán Chaffin The Dark KNIGHTChristopher NolanCharles RovenEmma Thomas Frost/NIXONBrian GrazerRon HowardEric Fellner MILKDan JinksBruce Cohen Slumdog MILLIONAIREChristian Colson The Producers Guild of America Producer of the Year Award »
Producers Guild of America nominees announced!
6 January 2009 12:41 AM, PST | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
2009 PGA (Producers Guild of America) awards nominees have been announced. In the theatrical motion pictures side "The Dark Knight," "Milk," "Slumdog Millionaire" Frost/Nixon" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" were considered. Those contending for the animated honors were "Bolt," "Kung Fu Panda" and "Wall-e." TV-wise in the comedy category "30 Rock" shared its nomination with "Entourage," "The Office," "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "Weeds." Brian Grazer and Ron Howard were noninated for the Milestone Award and Dan Junks and Bruce Cohen considered for the Stanley Kramer award nomination. »
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16 articles from 2009
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