Berlin -- Nazif Mujic was the toast of the Berlin festival last year, winning the Silver Bear for Danis Tanovic's An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker. A year on, the Romani man from Bosnia is back in the German capital, this time seeking asylum for himself and his family. A non-professional actor, Mujic played himself in Tanovic's drama -- which recounts his real-life struggles as a scrap iron collector whose wife suffered a miscarriage. When the family tried to seek medical help, there were turned away from Bosnian hospitals because of being Roma. Berlin Review: An Episode
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- 2/7/2014
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Watch Oscar 2014 nominations announcement live streaming online (photo: shirtless Leonardo DiCaprio seducing/seduced by Margot Robbie in ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’) You can watch the Oscar 2014 nominations announcement live streaming online in the embedded video link below. According to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences countdown clock, we’re 2 hours 16 minutes and 50 seconds, 42 seconds, 34 seconds … from the time of the announcement of those in the running for the 86th Academy Awards. Will Golden Globe winners American Hustle, 12 Years a Slave, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Amy Adams, Matthew McConaughey, Alfonso Cuarón, Spike Jonze, and The Great Beauty be included? Check out the 2014 Oscar nominations announcement below (once it goes live, of course). Oscar 2014 predictions "Oscar 2014 Predictions: Best Picture, Best Director." "Oscar 2014 Predictions: Best Actor." "Oscar 2014 Predictions: Best Actress." "Oscar 2014 Predictions: Best Supporting Actress." "Oscar 2014 Predictions: Best Supporting Actor". Once made available, the full list of Oscar 2014 nominations will be posted here.
- 1/16/2014
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
Oscar 2014 predictions (photo: Amy Adams and Christian Bale in ‘American Hustle’) Below are our last-minute Oscar 2014 predictions. The 86th Academy Award nominations are going to be announced on Thursday, January 16, at 5:30 a.m. Pacific Time in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. We will be posting the list of Oscar 2014 nominations here. As mentioned elsewhere on this site, the Oscar nominations always offer some kind of surprise that will leave some elated and others mighty pissed off. Last year, for example, left out of the Best Director roster were favorites Kathryn Bigelow for Zero Dark Thirty and Ben Affleck for Argo. The latter film, predictably, went on to take home the Best Picture Academy Award. Also, a few years ago, Christopher Nolan was bypassed for Inception, while a couple of years before that, Nolan and his film, The Dark Knight, were bypassed for Best Picture,...
- 1/16/2014
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2014 semi-finalists (photo: ‘Two Lives,’ with Liv Ullmann and Julia Bache-Wiig) Out of 76 submissions, nine movies have been selected as semi-finalists for the 2014 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. Listed in alphabetical order by country, the films are: Belgium, The Broken Circle Breakdown, Felix van Groeningen, director. Best Actress European Film Award winner Veerle Baetens and Johan Heldenbergh star as a couple whose love is put to the test after their daughter falls seriously ill. Bosnia and Herzegovina, An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker / Epizoda u zivotu beraca zeljeza, Danis Tanovic, director. Set in Bosnia’s Roma (gypsy) community and based on real-life events, this 2013 Berlin Film Festival Grand Prix winner stars Berlin’s Best Actor Nazif Mujic as a scrap-metal collector and salesman desperately trying to save the life of his wife, who has been denied medical assistance because she lacks health insurance.
- 12/24/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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