Two momentous Coen brothers events this week – The Big Lebowski celebrates 10 years with a new limited-edition DVD release… and the latest Coen bros film, Burn After Reading, hits theaters September 12. Check out our ranking of the Coen brother’s films – do you agree with our rundown? Read the rest of this entry »
Javier Bardem seems to have endured something very uncomfortable for the sake of his work as an actor. It seems that the haircut he was given (left) for his sadistic killer role in the award-winning No Country For Old Men caused him severe depression.
If you see regular pictures (right) of him, he’s very handsome. But for his No Country role, he’s kind of rough looking, even slightly creepy. He apparently disliked his look so much that, according to co-star Josh Brolin, Bardem thought “he wouldn’t have sex for three months” and stayed at home.
On the flipside, he’s dating lovely Penelope Cruz at the moment and will be in an on-screen threesome with her and Scarlett Johansson in Woody Allen’s upcoming Vicky Cristina Barcelona. (These two women will be making out as well.)
January 22nd, 2008 by Jon Roth
Tagged as: Academy Awards, Actors, Actresses, Atonement, Juno, Michael Clayton, Movie Awards, Movie Posters, No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood
The following movies have been nominated for Best Motion Picture of the Year. You might notice that three of five of the nominated movies are based on novels. Some or all of the movies were selected by the American Film Institute and won or were nominated for Golden Globes.
IMDB has the rest of the Academy Award nominations. The Academy Awards are not exempt from the WGA writers strike, so hopefully some independent deal will be resolved if the strike itself is not.
What’s your pick for best movie? Any other movies that should have been on the nominations list?
Atonement
Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Saoirse Ronan.
Written by Christopher Hampton, based on a novel by Ian McEwan.
Directed by Joe Wright.
Juno
Ellen Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman.
Written by Diablo Cody.
Directed by Jason Reitman.
Michael Clayton
George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack, Michael O’Keefe, Tom Wilkinson.
Written and directed by Tony Gilroy.
No Country for Old Men
Javier Bardem, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Stephen Root.
Written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on a novel by Cormac McCarthy.
There Will Be Blood
Daniel Day-Lewis
Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, based on a novel by Upton Sinclair.
