You've probably heard by now that actress and noted possessor of ethereal beauty Kate Winslet went and married herself a new husband earlier this month. We have no idea if these two crazy kids can make it work, but here's hoping they decide to have kids, because husband number 3 is walking around with the unlikely name of Ned Rocknroll.
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The European Film Academy unveiled its nominees for the 2012 European Film Awards over the weekend at Spain's Seville European Film Festival, with Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or winner Amour receiving noms in six categories including Best Film and Best Director. Also in the group is worldwide box office smash Intouchables, Thomas Vinterberg's The Hunt, currently playing at L.A.'s AFI Fest, Barbara, Caesar Must Die and Shame, which had its roll-out last year Stateside.
The 2012 European Film Awards Nominations with information provided by organizers:
European Film 2012:
Amour (Love), written & directed by Michael Haneke, Produced by Margaret Menegoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka & Michael Katz, Austria/France/Germany, 127 min
Barbara, Written & Directed by Christian Petzold, Produced by Florian Koerner von Gustorf & Michael Weber, Germany, 105 min
Cesare Deve Morire (Caesar Must Die), Directed by Paolo & Vittorio Taviani, written by Paolo & Vittorio Taviani, in collaboration with Fabio Cavalli, Produced by Grazia Volpi, Italy, 76 min
Intouchables (Untouchable), Written & Directed by Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano, Produced by Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Yann Zenou & Laurent Zeitoun, France, 108 min
Jagten (The Hunt), Directed by Thomas Vinterberg, Written by Thomas Vinterberg & Tobias Lindholm, Produced by Morten Kaufmann & Sisse Graum Jørgensen , Denmark, 111 min
Shame, Directed by Steve McQueen, Written by Steve McQueen & Abi Morgan, Produced by Iain Canning & Emile Sherman, UK, 96 min
European Director 2012:
Nuri Bilge Ceylan for Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia)
Michael Haneke for Amour (Love)
Steve McQueen for Shame
Paolo & Vittorio Taviani for Cesare Deve Morire (Caesar Must Die)
Thomas Vinterberg for Jagten (The Hunt)
European Actress 2012:
Emilie Dequenne in A Perdre La Raison (Our Children)
Nina Hoss in Barbara
Emmanuelle Riva in Amour (Love)
Margarethe Tiesel in Paradies: Liebe (Paradise: Love)
Kate Winslet in Carnage
European Actor 2012:
François Cluzet & Omar Sy in Intouchables (Untouchable)
Michael Fassbender in Shame
Mads Mikkelsen in Jagten (The Hunt)
Gary Oldman in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Jean-Louis Trintignant in Amour (Love)
European Screenwriter 2012:
Michael Haneke for Amour (Love)
Tobias Lindholm & Thomas Vinterberg for Jagten (The Hunt)
Cristian Mungiu for Dupa Dealuri (Beyond the Hills)
Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano for Intouchables (Untouchable)
Roman Polanski & Yasmina Reza for Carnage
Carlo Di Palma European Cinematographer Award 2012:
Sean Bobbitt for Shame
Bruno Delbonnel for Faust
Darius Khondji for Amour (Love)
Gökhan Tiryaki for Bir Zamanlar Anadula'Da (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia)
Hoyte Van Hoytema for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
European Editor 2012:
Janus Billeskov Jansen & Anne Østerud for Jagten (The Hunt)
Roberto Perpignani for Cesare Deve Morire (Caesar Must Die)
Joe Walker for Shame
European Production Designer 2012:
Maria Djurkovic for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Niels Sejer for En Kongelig Affaere (A Royal Affair)
Elena Zhukova for Faust
European Composer 2012:
Cyrille Aufort & Gabriel Yared for En Kongelig Affaere(A Royal Affair)
François Couturier for Io Sono Li (Shun Li and the Poet)
George Fenton for The Angels' Share
Alberto Iglesias for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Roman Polanski will go French in his next project based on a Tony Award-winning stage-play and he's tapping his wife to play the star. Polanski is adapting Avid Ives' stage play Venus in Fur, relocating the setting to Paris from New York, casting his spouse Emmanuelle Seigner who auditions a role in a sadomasochistic drama.
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Kate Winslet broke a PR commandment earlier this week while promoting the release of Titanic 3D: She dismissed the movie's Oscar-winning theme song, claiming that Celine Dion's overplayed ballad "My Heart Will Go On" makes her "feel like throwing up." Citing the inescapability of fans serenading her with the massive hit wherever she goes, Winslet's sentiments are understandable. Frankly, I heard that song enough times 15 years ago to never hear it again, no matter how riveting and powerful Dion's vocals are. To say that song never once gave you chills is probably a lie. But be that as it may, the song hasn't given anyone chills since post-Oscars April 1998, when we'd all had just about enough of it. All we have left for it now is just a reflexive groan of antipathy.
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Say what you will about James Cameron’s epic 1997 romance Titanic, but everyone in the universe has seen it, sniffled at it, or at least has had its iconic moments indelibly seared into their brains. (Don’t even get me started on the soul-piercing power of “My Heart Will Go On.”) When it comes to Titanic fandom, 15 years of romantic obsession plus the internet have yielded quite the bounty of fan-made Titanic creations. Naturally, with Titanic 3-D steering towards theaters this week, Movieline searched near, far, and all across YouTube in search of the best of them.
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Browsing through the photo record of Tuesday's Titanic 3D premiere in London, one notices immediately the absence of Leonardo DiCaprio. What gives? I mean, if Billy Zane can make time, then lord knows Leo should be able to drop in for at least a few snapshots with James Cameron and co-star Kate Winslet. At the very least, he'd better have a good excuse — which, according to Cameron, he did.
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Heads up, romantic drama die-hards: Movie theaters will be awash with tears in the next couple of weeks. Three epic — well, two epics and one epic-lite — love stories are being re-released for various questionable reasons, and in these challenging economic times it might not make sense to rush out and see all three. Here, then, are some points to consider before buying a ticket and travel-size tissues for Casablanca, The Bodyguard or Titanic.
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Movieline's New York-based readers had a chance over the last few days to review their favorite Shakespeare screen adaptation in exactly 10 words for a chance to win tickets to tomorrow's opening-night screening of the documentary Shakespeare High. After browsing the entries left both here and on Twitter, we have settled on a winner!
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I wanted to believe James Cameron — I really did! — but it turns out that the 3-D conversion of his megahit Titanic is not only the craven cash grab we all feared, but it's also a visually drab re-rendering of an otherwise extraordinary technical achievement. Womp wooomp.
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Over at Awards Daily, Sasha Stone forwards an interesting theory: "There is a school of thought where Oscar is concerned that goes like this: You can win if you can give them rock hard erections." The latest in said awards trend, it would seem, is the February cover spread in GQ in which My Week with Marilyn's Michelle Williams poses in lingerie as the magazine's headline screams "Who Knew Michelle Williams Had This Body?" It's a far cry from Williams' perpetual pixie-mom persona, the one she broke out in her Golden Globe acceptance speech last weekend. But is her skin-baring the key to getting that coveted Oscar nomination/win?
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In this weekend's Carnage, Kate Winslet plays an uptight investment banker who tries to broker a parental agreement concerning the damage done during a playground dispute between her son and another boy. So how did the British actress transform herself from a teenage murderer in her breakthrough role to a middle-aged New Yorker determined to settle her son's stick fight?
It wasn't so long ago that I enjoyed my own reunion with Titanic, but this time, James Cameron invites everyone to Titanic 3-D, the Avatar'd-up revamp of his 1997 blockbuster. What parts are you looking forward to seeing in 3-D? Leonardo DiCaprio's shabby togs? Kate Winslet's unadorned areolas? Kathy Bates's contempt? You'll get them all in April, 2012, which marks the 100th anniversary of the Titanic disaster. Trailer after the jump.
What happens when you let Academy Award winner Roman Polanski confine three Oscar winners (and one lonely nominee) in a single house to film an entire argument-driven black comedy? Carnage, the upcoming feature from the controversial filmmaker which stars, on one side, Kate Winslet and Christoph Waltz, and on the other side, Jodie Foster and John C. Reilly, as two sets of parents who meet to calmly discuss -- and then outright argue -- over their sparring school children.
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