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American Cinema Editors Awards 2010
60th ACE Eddie Awards February 14, 2010 ---- Feature Film (Dramatic): The Hurt Locker ---- Feature Film (Comedy or Musical): The Hangover The 60th American Cinema Editors Eddie Awards, which were presented on Sunday, February 14, 2010 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, honored the best editors in films and television. Winners and nominees References: Film Best Edited Feature Film – Dramatic: * Chris Innis & Bob Murawski - ''The Hurt Locker'' ** Stephen E. Rivkin & John Refoua & James Cameron - '' Avatar'' ** Julian Clarke - '' District 9'' ** Mary Jo Markey & Maryann Brandon - ''Star Trek'' ** Dana Glauberman - '' Up in the Air'' Best Edited Feature Film – Comedy or Musical: * Debra Neil-Fisher – '' The Hangover'' ** Joe Hutshing & David Moritz – '' It's Complicated'' ** Richard Marks – '' Julie & Julia'' ** Roderick Jaynes – '' A Serious Man'' ** Alan Edward Bell – ''500 Days of Summer'' Best Edited Animated Feature Film: * Kevin Nolting – '' Up'' ** ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beverly Hilton Hotel
The Beverly Hilton is a hotel located on an property at the intersection of Wilshire and Santa Monica boulevards in Beverly Hills, California. The Beverly Hilton has hosted many awards shows, charity benefits, and entertainment and motion picture industry events, and is particularly known as the venue of the annual Golden Globe Awards ceremony. History Conrad Hilton opened the Beverly Hilton in 1955. American architect Welton Becket designed the hotel as a showpiece with 582 rooms. Since 1961, the hotel's International Ballroom has hosted the Golden Globe Awards ceremony, presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. In 1975, 50% of the property was sold to Prudential Insurance Company forming a partnership with the Hilton Hotels Corporation. The partnership sold the hotel to entertainer and businessman Merv Griffin for $100.2 million in December 1987. The Beverly Hilton had completed a $35 million renovation prior to Griffin's purchase. The hotel was Gri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hangover (film)
''The Hangover'' is a 2009 American comedy film directed by Todd Phillips, co-produced with Daniel Goldberg, and written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. It is the first installment in ''The Hangover'' trilogy. The film stars Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Heather Graham, Justin Bartha, Ken Jeong, and Jeffrey Tambor. It tells the story of Phil Wenneck (Cooper), Stu Price (Helms), Alan Garner (Galifianakis), and Doug Billings (Bartha), who travel to Las Vegas for a bachelor party to celebrate Doug's impending marriage. However, Phil, Stu, and Alan wake up with Doug missing and no memory of the previous night's events, and must find the groom before the wedding can take place. Lucas and Moore wrote the script after executive producer Chris Bender's friend disappeared and had a large bill after being sent to a strip club. After Lucas and Moore sold it to the studio for $2million, Phillips and Jeremy Garelick rewrote the script to include a tiger as well as a subplot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cove (film)
''The Cove'' is a 2009 American documentary film directed by Louie Psihoyos that analyzes and questions dolphin hunting practices in Japan. It was awarded the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2010. The film is a call to action to halt mass dolphin kills and captures, change Japanese fishing practices, and inform and educate the public about captivity and the increasing hazard of mercury poisoning from consuming dolphin meat. Psihoyos is a former-National Geographic photographer and a co-founder of the Oceanic Preservation Society, and the film is presented from an ocean conservationist's point of view. Portions were filmed secretly in 2007 using underwater microphones and high-definition cameras disguised as rocks."Dolphin slaughter film a hit at Sundance" '' |
Fantastic Mr
The fantastic (french: le fantastique) is a subgenre of literary works characterized by the ambiguous presentation of seemingly supernatural forces. Bulgarian-French structuralist literary critic Tzvetan Todorov originated the concept, characterizing the fantastic as the hesitation of characters and readers when presented with questions about reality. Definitions The fantastic is present in works where the reader experiences hesitation about whether a work presents what Todorov calls "the uncanny", wherein superficially supernatural phenomena turn out to have a rational explanation (such as in the Gothic works of Ann Radcliffe) or "the marvelous", where the supernatural is confirmed by the story. Todorov breaks down the fantastic into a manner of systems, filled with conditions and properties that make it easier to understand. The fantastic requires the fulfillment of three conditions. First, the text must oblige the reader to consider the world of the characters as a world o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coraline
''Coraline'' () is a dark fantasy horror children's novella by British author Neil Gaiman. Gaiman started writing ''Coraline'' in 1990, and it was published in 2002 by Bloomsbury and HarperCollins. It was awarded the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novella, the 2003 Nebula Award for Best Novella, and the 2002 Bram Stoker Award for Best Work for Young Readers. ''The Guardian'' ranked ''Coraline'' #82 in its list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. It was adapted as a 2009 stop-motion animated film, directed by Henry Selick. Plot Coraline Jones and her workaholic parents move into a large, old house that has been divided into flats. In these flats, Coraline finds she has quirky new neighbors. These include Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, two elderly women retired from the stage, and Mr. Bobo, initially referred to as "the crazy old man upstairs", who claims to be training a jumping mouse circus. The flat next to Coraline however, is empty, and linked together by a mysterious door th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Sanders (film Editor)
Ronald Sanders is a Canadian film editor and television producer. Career Sanders won Genie Awards for his work on ''Eastern Promises'' (2007), '' eXistenZ'' (2000), ''Crash'' (1996), and '' Dead Ringers'' (1989). He has collaborated extensively with director David Cronenberg; since 1979, he has edited most of Cronenberg's films. Ronald Sanders is a member of the Canadian Cinema Editors. Filmography As editor Recognition * 2008 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Editing - ''Eastern Promises'' - Won * 2007 Satellite Award for Best Film Editing - ''Eastern Promises'' - Nominated * 2006 Directors Guild of Canada DGC Craft Award for Outstanding Picture Editing - Feature Film - ''A History of Violence'' - Won * 2006 Online Film Critics Society Awards OFCS Award for Best Editing - ''A History of Violence'' - Nominated * 2005 San Diego Film Critics Society Awards SDFCS Award for Best Editing - ''A History of Violence'' - Won * 2003 Directors Guild of Canada DGC Team Award for Outst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Up (2009 Film)
''Up'' is a 2009 American computer-animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film was directed by Pete Docter, co-directed by Bob Peterson (in his feature directorial debut), and produced by Jonas Rivera. Docter and Peterson also wrote the film's screenplay and story, with Tom McCarthy co-writing the latter. The film stars the voices of Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai, and Peterson. The film centers on Carl Fredricksen (Asner), an elderly widower and Russell (Nagai), a Wilderness Explorer who goes on a journey to South America, in order to fulfill a promise that Carl made to his late wife Ellie. Along the way, they meet a talking dog named Dug (Peterson), and encounter a giant bird named Kevin, who is being hunted by the explorer Charles Muntz (Plummer), whom Carl had idolized in childhood. Originally titled ''Heliums'', Docter conceived the outline for ''Up'' in 2004 based on fantasies of escaping from life when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
500 Days Of Summer
''500 Days of Summer'' (stylized as ''(500) Days of Summer'') is a 2009 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Marc Webb from a screenplay written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, and produced by Mark Waters. The film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel and employs a nonlinear narrative structure, with the story based upon its male protagonist and his memories of a failed relationship. As an independent production, the film was picked up for distribution by Fox Searchlight Pictures and premiered at the 25th Sundance Film Festival. It garnered generally positive reviews and became a successful "sleeper hit", earning over $60 million in worldwide returns, far exceeding its $7.5 million budget. Many critics lauded the film as one of the best from 2009 and drew comparisons to other acclaimed films such as ''Annie Hall'' (1977) and '' High Fidelity'' (2000). The film received Best Original Screenplay and Best Screenplay awards at the 14th Satellit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Serious Man
''A Serious Man'' is a 2009 American black comedy-drama film written, produced, edited and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Set in 1967, the film stars Michael Stuhlbarg as a Minnesota Jewish man whose life crumbles both professionally and personally, leading him to questions about his faith. ''A Serious Man'' received widespread positive critical response, including a place on both the American Film Institute's and National Board of Review of Motion Pictures's Top 10 Film Lists of 2009. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and Stuhlbarg was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Plot A Jewish man in a 19th-century Eastern European shtetl tells his wife that he was helped on his way home by Reb Groshkover, whom he has invited in for soup. She says Groshkover is dead and the man he invited must be a dybbuk. Groshkover arrives and laughs off the accusation, but she plunges an ice pick into his chest. Bleeding, he exits their home into the snowy night. In 1967, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roderick Jaynes
Joel Daniel Coen (born November 29, 1954) and Ethan Jesse Coen (born September 21, 1957),State of Minnesota. ''Minnesota Birth Index, 1935–2002''. Minnesota Department of Health. collectively known as the Coen brothers (), are American filmmakers. Their films span many genres and styles, which they frequently subvert or parody. Their most acclaimed works include ''Raising Arizona'' (1987), ''Miller's Crossing'' (1990), ''Barton Fink'' (1991), '' Fargo'' (1996), ''The Big Lebowski'' (1998), ''O Brother, Where Art Thou?'' (2000), ''No Country for Old Men'' (2007), ''True Grit'' (2010), ''Inside Llewyn Davis'' (2013), and ''The Ballad of Buster Scruggs'' (2018). The brothers write, direct and produce their films jointly, although until '' The Ladykillers'' (2004) Joel received sole credit for directing and Ethan for producing. They often alternate top billing for their screenplays while sharing editing credits under an alias, ''Roderick and Reginald Jaynes''. They have been no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie & Julia
''Julie & Julia'' is a 2009 American biographical comedy-drama film written and directed by Nora Ephron starring Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, and Chris Messina. The film contrasts the life of chef Julia Child in the early years of her culinary career with the life of young New Yorker Julie Powell, who aspires to cook all 524 recipes in Child's cookbook in 365 days, a challenge she described on her popular blog, which made her a published author. Ephron's screenplay is based on two books: '' My Life in France'', Child's autobiography written with Alex Prud'homme, and a memoir by Powell, ''Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen'' (later retitled ''Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously''). Both of these books were written and published between 2004 and 2006. Powell's book was based on her blog ''The Julie/Julia Project'', where she documented online her daily experiences cooking each of the 524 recipes in Child's 1961 cookbook ''Mastering ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Marks
Richard Marks (November 10, 1943 – December 31, 2018) was an American film editor with more than 30 editing credits for feature and television films dating from 1972. In an extended, notable collaboration (1983–2010), he edited all of director James L. Brooks' feature films. Marks was Barry Malkin's assistant editor on ''The Rain People'' (1969), which was directed by Francis Ford Coppola early in his career. He then assisted Dede Allen on ''Alice's Restaurant'' (1969) and on ''Little Big Man'' (1970); he co-edited ''Serpico'' (1973) with Allen. Dede Allen was among the most prominent film editors of her generation, and she was known for helping to develop the careers of several younger editors. Roger Crittenden has written that "Perhaps the outstanding graduate of the Dede Allen Academy is Richard Marks." Marks was nominated for many awards including four Academy Awards (Oscars), three ACE Eddie Awards, three BAFTA Awards, and an Emmy. Marks was elected to membership in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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