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film cells, movie prop replicas, home theater decor, movie reviews & more... Posts Tagged ‘changeling’81st Annual Academy AwardsMonday, February 2nd, 2009
The Academy Awards presentation will take place on February 22, 2009 and you can purchase the movie posters for the nominated films at All Movie Replicas. Just click on the links below to shop for the original theatrical release movie posters or the replica prints. Best Picture: Best Actor: Best Actress: Best Supporting Actor: Best Supporting Actress: Best Director: Best Animated Film Benjamin Button Leads the Oscar RaceFriday, January 23rd, 2009
The 81st Oscar nominations came with some surprises up its sleeve this morning, snubbing the year’s biggest film and finding room for smaller performances. The Dark Knight, the second-largest-grossing movie of all-time, was left off the Best Picture list in favour of a list of critical favourites that include Slumdog Millionaire, the little movie that could. Slumdog, which won the Golden Globe earlier this month, also garnered nominations for adapted screenplay and for director Danny Boyle. In all, it got nine nominations. The other nominated pictures are The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which led the pack with 13 nominations, along with Frost/Nixon, Milk — which had eight nominations — and The Reader. All the Best Picture directors were also nominated. The Reader, a post-Holocaust drama about the love affair between an older woman and a young man, was a surprise inclusion because of its controversial subject matter. It also won a Best Actress nomination for Kate Winslet, who had earlier won the Supporting Actress award at the Golden Globes. Winslet had been touted as a possible Best Actress nominee for the acidic 1950s drama Revolutionary Road, but she and co-star Leonardo DiCaprio were snubbed, as was the movie itself. Joining Winslet in the Actress category was Melissa Leo, star of the well-received but decidedly small drama Frozen River. She’s going up against Anne Hathaway in Rachel Getting Married, Angelina Jolie in Changeling, and Meryl Streep in Doubt. It was a good day overall in the Jolie household: husband Brad Pitt, who ages backwards as Benjamin Button, was also nominated, along with Mickey Rourke, the comeback kid, who won the Golden Globe for his portrayal of an over-the-hill wrestler in The Wrestler. Frank Langella, who played Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon, and Sean Penn, as the gay politician Harvey Milk in Milk, are joined by longtime character actor Richard Jenkins, the star of another small but much-loved movie The Visitor. The supporting categories also were filled with unexpected names. The Supporting Actress nominees included favourites Marisa Tomei as a stripper in The Wrestler and Penelope Cruz as an angry wife in Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona, but also Amy Adams as the innocent nun and Viola Davis as the mother of a boy who may have been abused, both in Doubt, along with Taraji P. Henson, another surprise for her turn as the adoptive mother of Pitt’s character in Benjamin Button. The supporting actor nominations were headed by the favourites, the late Heath Ledger, as the evil Joker in The Dark Knight and Philip Seymour Hoffman as a priest who may or may not be a child abuser, in Doubt. But the rest of the list showed a tendency for the Academy to take chances: Josh Brolin as the conflicted politician in Milk, Robert Downey Jr., performing in blackface as a method actor in Tropic Thunder, and Michael Shannon as the mentally ill intruder in Revolutionary Road, the only major award for that movie. The Quebec movie The Necessities of Life, which was on the short list for Best Foreign Film, did not make the cut.
The nominations for the 81st Annual Academy Awards: BEST PICTURE BEST ACTOR BEST ACTRESS BEST ACTOR – SUPPORTING BEST ACTRESS – SUPPORTING BEST DIRECTOR BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM Canwest News Service
Changeling Movie ReviewFriday, October 24th, 2008
Angelina Jolie turns in an Oscar winning performance in Changeling. Please be advised that this review contains some SPOILERS. Directed by Clint Eastwood from a screenplay by Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski, Changeling recounts the Prohibition era true story of Christine Collins (Angelina Jolie), a single mom whose son Walter vanishes while she is at work. A fruitless search continues for months until one day Christine receives the news she’s been praying for: her son’s been found alive and is coming home. But when Christine arrives at the train station — besieged by cops and reporters — to be reunited with her son, she finds that this boy is not Walter. She repeatedly says as much to Captain J.J. Jones (Jeffrey Donovan), but the media savvy cop doesn’t want to hear it. The scandal-plagued LAPD — the subject of many a radio tirade by the activist Reverend Briegleb (John Malkovich) — wants this high-profile case closed. They intimidate Christine into initially agreeing to accept that this boy is her son whose appearance has been radically altered by his ordeal. The usually meek Christine starts to fight back against the cops, a virtually unheard of reaction especially by a woman of that time. The LAPD, though, have a way of dealing with those who make them look bad or threaten them in any way. For women, this is to brand them as mentally unsound and toss them into the hospital psychopath ward. This is what happens to Christine, adding one nightmare to another. Thanks to the intervention of Reverend Briegleb, though, she is able to fight back against the system that failed to find her son and punished her for taking matters in her own hands. But another twist in the disappearance of Walter Collins is soon uncovered. Click on the link belw to read the entire review: Changeling Movie PostersFriday, October 24th, 2008
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Movie Store  Mint condition, single-sided, The Hero advance, rolled. This is an original single-sided theatrical release one sheet movie poster and not a reprint.
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