Ol' Father Geek back again this time with Tamsin and her 18th AICN Downunder Report, but first this little bit that arrived on Father Geek's brand new birthday widescreen flat monitor this morning...
Kraven here.
The Screen Actors Guild have released their noms. Ian McKellen has a Best Supporting nod for LOTR (this means he is sure to get an Oscar nom - WOOT!) and LOTR has a Best Ensemble nod. Nicole Kidman has NO NOMS though! BOOOOO!
Best,
Kraven the Hunter
Father Geek back, yeah, Harry suprised me with an eye saving, sharp as hell, state-of-the-art, space making, big flat screen for my computer station on my 57th B-day. Its almost as coooooool as all these award nominations that are being heaped on Downunder films this year...
Now, here's Tamsin and the...
DOWNUNDER REPORT #18
Awards/ Film Festivals
. Australian feature, BENEATH CLOUDS, has been selected for competition in Berlin Film Festival 2002 (7th - 18th February). BENEATH CLOUDS, directed by Ivan Sen, is in competition with 22 films, including GOSFORD PARK, IRIS, THE ROYAL TENANBAUMS, THE SHIPPING NEWS and 8 WOMEN.
. WALKING ON WATER, directed by Tony Ayres and written by Roger Monk, has been selected to screen in the 52nd Berlin International Film Festival as part of the Panorama section. WALKING ON WATER stars Vince Colosimo, Maria Theodorakis, Nathaniel Dean, Judi Farr, Nicholas Bishop, David Bonney, Daniel Roberts and Anna Lise Phillips.
. VFX Supervisor Chris Godfrey won Best Visual Effects for his work on MOULIN ROUGE at the 6th Annual Golden Satellite Awards over the weekend. MOULIN ROUGE won nine of the motion picture categories including Best Director (Baz Luhrmann), Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical, Best Production Design (Catherine Martin) and Best Original Score (Craig Armstrong). Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor also won awards for their performances in the film.
. The Film Critics' Circle of Australia has nominated LANTANA for 13 awards, including best film, director, actor (Anthony LaPaglia) and actress (Kerry Armstrong). MOULIN ROUGE, nominated for 7 awards all up, is also nominated for best film, actor (Ewan McGregor) and actress (Nicole Kidman).
. The DGA has nominated Baz Luhrmann as a contender for its top award for outstanding directorial achievement in feature film. Fellow nominees are Ron Howard (A BEAUTIFUL MIND), Peter Jackson (LOTR), Christopher Nolan (MEMENTO), and Ridley Scott (BLACK HAWK DOWN).
. The short screenplay, THE ADVENTURES OF ROMAN - THE TYPING POOL, by Australian Ann Slate has won the Best Short Screenplay award at the 2002 Moondance Film Festival in Boulder, Colorado.
. MOULIN ROUGE and LOTRs each garnered 12 nominations in the British Academy film Awards (BAFTA) this year. Both were nominated in the best film, best director while LOTR was nominated for best adapted screenplay and MOULIN ROUGE for best original screenplay.
NEWS
. Matthew Newton (LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI, CHANGI), Jess Gower (THE SECRET LIFE OF US), Kristian Schmid (SCOOBY DOO, NEIGHBOURS), and many other young Aussie stars have been cast in BLURRED, a film shooting on the Gold Coast in February/March. BLURRED follows the story of a group of school leavers participating in "Schoolies Week", where ex-students celebrate the end of their school lives by soaking in the sun, surf and beers. Not a pretty sight.
. Toni Collette's production company has secured an option to produce a film based on RAZOR, Larry Writer's book about notorious gang bosses Tilly Devine and Kate Leigh, who terrorised the streets of East Sydney in the 1920s and '30s.
. A new Benjamin Bratt war epic, THE GREAT RAID, has started pre-production in Queensland. A prisoner of war camp will be built specially for the project, which is due to start shooting in April. Bratt will play lieutenant colonel Henry Mucci who leads the 6th Ranger Battalion. Travelling 30 miles behind enemy lines, the battalion aims to free more than 500 American prisoners of war from the notorious Cabanatuan Japanese POW camp.
PRODUCTION GOSSIP FROM "DEEP THROAT".
. Russell Crowe is set to make his Directorial debut with THE LONG GREEN SHORE, a war story. Said to shot Qld.
. Andrew Mason to produce DANNY DECKCHAIR. Possibly for NSW.
. It has been rumoured that the new Darren Aronofsky film, THE LAST MAN, starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett will shoot in Australia this year.
