the awards editions 2010-2011
the awards editions 2010-2011 the awards editions 2010-2011
campaign promise halle berry returns to the rAce with frAnkie & Alice S he hopes to duplicate what Jeff Bridges pulled off last year when he became a surprise last–minute entry into the Oscar race with Crazy Heart and won his first Academy Award. Halle Berry is trying for her second, launching a similar 11th–hour awards season qualifying run for her indie effort Frankie & Alice. It opens December 17th in New York and Los Angeles before its regular theatrical release in the top 20 markets on February 4th, shortly after nominations are announced. Freestyle Releasing is handling distribution with P&A provided by funding raised by the producers (of which Berry is one). A true story, it’s a 1970s–set psychological drama in which Berry plays a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder. It’s exactly the kind of Oscar bait that actors covet, but Berry’s motives are purer. “Her struggles with mental illness came at a time when the medical community and the public were still grappling with the veracity of multiple personality disorder, and I approached this role with feelings of humility, yet great responsibility,” Berry explains to me. “Bringing this story to the big screen has been a challenging, yet very satisfying, filmmaking experience.” The Oscar winner for Monster’s Ball (2001) has personally shepherded this “passion project” — hence the awards push which will include 10,000 DVD screeners going out to the entire Academy, critics groups, SAG Nominating Committee members, and others. But the Best Actress race is already overcrowded this year with contenders all jockeying for attention, including Jennifer Lawrence, Annette Bening, Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore, Diane Lane, Hilary Swank, Sally Hawkins, Noomi Rapace, Anne Hathaway, Natalie Portman, Nicole Kidman, Lesley Manville, and Michelle Williams — to name a few. Whether it might have been wiser for Berry to wait until next year remains to be seen. (Her entry will be vying for attention with Kidman’s Rabbit Hole opening on the same day and also entering the fray late. Like Berry, Kidman is also a producer on her film.) Geoffrey Sax directed from a script by writing teams Cheryl Edwards and Marko King & Mary King & Jonathan Watters and Joe Shrapnel & Anna Waterhouse (story by Edwards and Oscar Janiger and Phillip Goldberg). Producers also include Berry’s partner Vincent Cirrincione, Hassain Zaidi and Simon DeKaric. Tom Ortenberg’s One Way Out Media is consulting on marketing plans since he worked with Berry on the successful Monster’s Ball campaign when he was at Lionsgate. Frankie & Alice further enhances Berry’s resumé of diverse films since winning an Academy Award — from the Bond entry Die Another Day, to the X–Men films, to Catwoman, Perfect Stranger and Things We Lost In The Fire. For that, and because of her admirable lack of fear, she deserves yet another shot at Oscar. 10 deadline.com By Pete Hammond
For your consideration Best Animated Feature and Best Picture and In All Categories “When Hiccup fi rst climbs on Toothless’s back and urges the dragon to take wing, the hearts of the audience soar with a primitive and durable delight. The techniques that enabled this feeling may be dauntingly complicated, but the feeling could not be simpler.” A. O. Scott, The New York Times dwaawards.com
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For your consideration<br />
Best Animated Feature and Best Picture<br />
and In All Categories<br />
“When Hiccup fi rst climbs on Toothless’s back and<br />
urges <strong>the</strong> dragon to take wing, <strong>the</strong> hearts of <strong>the</strong> audience soar<br />
with a primitive and durable delight. The techniques that enabled<br />
this feeling may be dauntingly complicated, but <strong>the</strong> feeling<br />
could not be simpler.”<br />
A. O. Scott, The New York Times<br />
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