David O Russell’s Oscar-hopeful Silver Linings Playbook has taken the top awards at the Independent Spirit Awards, in a marquee on the Santa Monica sea-front. The film won the Best Feature prize and the writer-director himself took the trophy for both of his roles. The film’s star Jennifer Lawrence was voted the Best Lead Actress, […]
Amour might be the Austrian nomination for the Best Foreign Language Oscar, but the film academy in France claimed Michael Haneke’s French-language drama as one of its own, to bestow five César Awards on it at a ceremony in Paris. Being there to collect his own awards for Best Film, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay meant […]
Ben Affleck – shunned for a Best Director nomination at the Oscars – has continued to pick up every other award in his path, being named the Best Director by BAFTA. At the star-studded ceremony at London’s Royal Opera House, Affleck’s Iran hostage thriller, Argo, also collected the Best Film honours, at the last major […]
The Austrian-French co-production Amour has picked up three of the top prizes at the London Film Critics Circle Awards. It was voted the Best Film, the director Michael Haneke collected the Best Screenplay award and the veteran French actress Emmanuelle Riva was the critics’ choice for the Best Actress. Ever since Amour and fellow-French-language film […]
It might have been one of the wettest Cannes Film Festivals in living memory, but from from the point of view of the industry, it had to be good news – those spare moments that critics and buyers alike might have
The Austrian director Michael Haneke has won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival for the second time in four years.
His French-language drama Love — about an elderly couple learning to cope with the wife’s stroke — has beaten off
Former winners of the Palme d’Or, including Britain’s Ken Loach and the polyglot Austrian Michael Haneke, are back in competition again at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.