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Gotham Awards 2007
The 17th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards, presented by the Independent Filmmaker Project, were held on November 27, 2007, and were hosted by Sarah Jones. The nominees were announced on October 22, 2007. Winners and nominees Gotham Tributes * Javier Bardem * Michael Bloomberg * Roger Ebert * Mark Friedberg * Mira Nair Mira Nair (born 15 October 1957) is an Indian-American filmmaker based in New York City. Her production company, Mirabai Films, specializes in films for international audiences on Indian society, whether in the economic, social or cultural spher ... * Jonathan Sehring Notes References External links * 2007 2007 film awards {{Gotham Awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Jones (screen Actress)
Sarah Jones (born July 17, 1983) is an American actress, best known for her starring roles as NASA astronaut Tracy Stevens in the Apple TV+ original science fiction space drama series ''For All Mankind'' and as Detective Rebecca Madsen in the Fox TV drama series ''Alcatraz.'' Life and career Jones was born in Winter Springs, Florida, and graduated from Winter Springs High School in 2001. She "grew up dancing" with the expectation that it would become her career, but she turned to acting as "the next best thing" after her dancing ended because of injuries. She had gotten her first break working as a dancer for the MTV Movie Awards. She began in acting with a role on ''Medical Investigation'', before going on to appear in other television credited roles that same year, including episodes of ''Cold Case'' and ''Judging Amy'', before she appeared in the 2007 Hallmark Channel movie, ''Murder 101: College Can Be Murder''."It's Evening in America". '' Vanity Fair''. May 2012. Page ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taxi To The Dark Side
''Taxi to the Dark Side'' is a 2007 American documentary film directed by Alex Gibney, and produced by Gibney, Eva Orner, and Susannah Shipman. It won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It focuses on the December 2002 killing of an Afghanistan, Afghan Taxicab, taxi driver named Dilawar (torture victim), Dilawar, who was beaten to death by American soldiers while being held in extrajudicial detention and interrogated at a black site at Bagram Airfield, Bagram air base. It was part of the ''Why Democracy?'' series, which consisted of ten documentary films from around the world questioning and examining contemporary democracy. As part of this series, the documentary was broadcast in over 30 countries from October 8–18, 2007. The BBC showed the film in its ''Storyville (TV series), Storyville'' series. Overview ''Taxi to the Dark Side'' examines Torture and the United States, US policy on torture and interrogation, specifically the U.S. Army and CIA interrogation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emile Hirsch
Emile Davenport Hirsch (born March 13, 1985) is an American actor. He played Chris McCandless in '' Into the Wild'' (2007). Other notable film roles include '' The Girl Next Door'' (2004), ''Lords of Dogtown'' (2005), '' Alpha Dog'' (2006), ''Speed Racer'' (2008), ''Milk'' (2008), ''Lone Survivor'' (2013), ''An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn'' (2018), and ''Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'' (2019). Early life Hirsch is of German, English, and Scots-Irish ancestry; he was born in the Palms section of Los Angeles. His mother, Margaret Esther (née Davenport), is a visual artist, teacher, and pop-up book designer, and his father, David Milton Hirsch, is an entrepreneur, manager, and producer. He has an older sister, Jennifer, and was raised in Los Angeles and Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he lived with his mother for several years. Hirsch attended at Alexander Hamilton High School where he studied in the Music program. Career Hirsch began acting on television roles in the late 1990s. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juno (film)
''Juno'' is a 2007 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman and written by Diablo Cody. Elliot Page stars as the title character, an independent-minded teenager confronting an unplanned pregnancy and the subsequent events that put pressures of adult life onto her. Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Allison Janney and J. K. Simmons also star. Filming spanned from early February to March 2007 in Vancouver, British Columbia. It premiered on September 8 at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, receiving a standing ovation. ''Juno'' won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay and earned three other Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actress for 20-year old Page (the fifth-youngest nominee in the category). The film's soundtrack, featuring several songs performed by Kimya Dawson in various guises, was the first chart-topping soundtrack since ''Dreamgirls'' and Fox Searchlight's first number-one soundtrack. ''Juno'' earne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elliot Page
Elliot Page (formerly Ellen Page; born February 21, 1987) is a Canadian actor. He has received List of awards and nominations received by Elliot Page, various accolades, including an Academy Award for Best Actress, Academy Award nomination, two British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA Awards and Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and a Satellite Award. Page publicly came out as transgender in December 2020. In March 2021, he became the first openly trans man to appear on the cover of ''Time (magazine), Time''. Page first came to recognition for his role in the television franchise ''Pit Pony (film), Pit Pony'' (1997–2000), for which he was nominated for a Young Artist Award, and for his recurring roles in ''Trailer Park Boys'' (2002) and ''ReGenesis'' (2004). One of Page's first roles in a mainstream US-distributed film was in the 2003 made-for-television film ''Going For Broke (2003 film), Going For Broke''. Page had his breakthrough starring in the film ''Hard Candy (film), Hard C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gotham Independent Film Award For Breakthrough Performer
The Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Performer is one of the annual Gotham Independent Film Awards. It was first awarded in 1998, with Sonja Sohn and Saul Williams being the first recipients of the award for their roles as Lauren Bell and Ray Joshua in ''Slam Slam, SLAM or SLAMS may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional elements * S.L.A.M. (Strategic Long-Range Artillery Machine), a fictional weapon in the ''G.I. Joe'' universe * SLAMS (Space-Land-Air Missile Shield), a fictional anti-ball ...'', respectively. The category was called Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Actor until 2021. Winners and nominees 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Notes References {{Gotham Independent Film Award for Breakthrough Actor Breakthrough Performer Awards for young actors Awards established in 1998 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seraphim Falls
''Seraphim Falls'' is a 2006 American revisionist Western film directed by television producer and director David Von Ancken in his only feature film. The storyline was conceived from a screenplay written by Von Ancken and Abby Everett Jaques. The fictional story focuses on a bounty hunt for a Union soldier by a Confederate colonel following the American Civil War in the late 1860s. Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson, Michael Wincott, Tom Noonan, and Ed Lauter star in principal roles. ''Seraphim Falls'' explores civil topics, such as violence, human survival and war.David Von Ancken. (2007). ''Seraphim Falls'' otion picture United States: Icon Productions. The film was produced by the motion picture studio of Icon Productions. It was commercially distributed by Samuel Goldwyn Films and Destination Films theatrically, and by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment for home media. The film score was composed by musician Harry Gregson-Williams, although a soundtrack version for the motion pic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Von Ancken
David Henry Von Ancken (December 5, 1964 – July 26, 2021) was an American film, television director and screenwriter. Career He directed one feature film, the 2006 Western ''Seraphim Falls'' starring Liam Neeson and Pierce Brosnan. Some of Von Ancken's credits as a television director include '' Oz'', ''Without a Trace'', ''Numb3rs'', ''The Shield'', ''Heroes'', ''Gossip Girl'', ''CSI: NY'', ''Cold Case'', ''Californication'', '' Tut'', ''Ghost Wars'', ''Hell on Wheels'', ''The Vampire Diaries'' and ''The InBetween''. Von Ancken died on July 26, 2021, at his home in Agoura Hills, California, after battling against stomach cancer Stomach cancer, also known as gastric cancer, is a cancer that develops from the lining of the stomach. Most cases of stomach cancers are gastric carcinomas, which can be divided into a number of subtypes, including gastric adenocarcinomas. Lymph .... He was 56. Filmography Film Television References External links * 1964 births 2021 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Day Night Day Night
''Day Night Day Night'' is a 2006 drama film written and directed by Julia Loktev. It documents 48 hours in the life of an anonymous 19-year-old as she prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. It premiered on May 25, 2006 in the Directors' Fortnight section of the 58th Annual Cannes Film Festival. Cast Release Critical reception On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 69% based on 45 reviews, and an average rating of 6.6/10. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 61 out of 100, based on 14 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". ''Variety'''s Justing Chang wrote "a dramatically limited but strangely powerful portrait of a young would-be terrorist who sets out to blow herself up in Times Square," adding, "By turns frustrating and impressive in its austerity, Julia Loktev’s experimental first feature is too radically minimalist to find much of an audience beyond the festival circuit, altho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Loktev
Julia Loktev (born December 12, 1969) is a Russian-American film director and video artist. Early life Julia Loktev was born in Leningrad, Soviet Union (now St. Petersburg, Russia). She immigrated to the United States as a child and lived in Colorado until leaving for college. She moved to Montreal to study English and film at McGill University. Career Loktev came across Tom Bishell's book of short stories '' God Lives in St. Petersburg'' and read it because she had been born in St. Petersburg. She decided to adapt the short story Expensive Trips Nowhere into the film '' The Loneliest Planet'' transporting the setting from Kazakhstan to Georgia. Loktev was resident at Eyebeam in 2005. In 2015, Richard Brody called her one of the best woman movie directors. Personal life Loktev is Jewish. In 1989, when she was 19, her father was severely injured in an automobile accident. The event was the subject of her 1998 documentary '' Moment of Impact''. Films * '' Moment of Im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owl And The Sparrow
''Owl and the Sparrow'' (''Cú và chim se sẻ'' in Vietnamese) is a 2007 film by Stephane Gauger that follows the fictional story of three Vietnamese individuals (a runaway child, a zoo keeper and a flight attendant) over a period of five days as they meet in Saigon. Plot The film takes place during five days in the lives of the main characters: Thuy (Pham Gia Han), a ten-year-old runaway orphan, Lan (Cat Ly), a flight attendant, and Hai (Le The Hu), a zookeeper. Thuy works in a factory for her uncle, Minh (Nguyen Hau), who thinks she is useless and unfit for school. Longing for a life elsewhere, she runs away from home and ends up on the streets of Saigon selling postcards and roses to earn a living. One night, Thuy meets Lan at a noodle shop and the two become friends. On hearing that Thuy is homeless, Lan gives her a place to stay at her apartment and Thuy comes to admire her for her kindness, beauty, and independence. Unbeknownst to everyone, however, Lan is having an af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephane Gauger
Stephane Gauger (August 30, 1970 – January 11, 2018) was a Vietnamese-born American film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. Biography Born in Saigon, South Vietnam to an American civilian contractor and his Vietnamese wife, Gauger was raised in Fountain Valley, California and graduated from California State University, Fullerton in theatre arts and French literature. Cinematography work He met cinematographer Matthew Libatique at CSUF and apprenticed under him as a camera loader and lighting technician. While working on thesis films at Loyola Marymount University, he met filmmaker brothers Tony Bui and Timothy Bui and worked as a lighting technician on their feature films ''Three Seasons'' (1999), directed by Tony Bui, and '' Green Dragon'' (2001), directed by Timothy Bui. Gauger also worked as a key grip on the feature film ''Six-String Samurai'' (1998), directed by Lance Mungia, as a gaffer in the Vietnamese action film '' The Rebel'' (2007), directed by Charlie N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
