Tyler Perry won bigtime in the movie and TV categories, while Prince was a surprise guest to give Halle Berry the Best Actress award for Frankie & Alice as the 42nd NAACP Image Awards were announced tonight during the live broadcast from LA’s Shrine Auditorium on Fox. The special was hosted by Holly Robinson Peete and…

Before I focus on last night’s 83rd Academy Award winners, let me describe my conversations with the "losers", only some of whom seemed to take the news in stride. Clearly, The Social Network filmmakers were licking their wounds. To the point that hands-on producer Scott Rudin didn’t even make the trip west for the…

Javier Bardem's first acting job was at the age of six, but his career has heated up since the mid-1980s not only in a number of notable films in his native Spain for such directors as Pedro Almodovar but now as a full-fledged international star. Nominated twice for Oscars, first in 2000 for Before Night Falls and…

83RD AWARDS Feature Films With 2 Or More Nominations (No Short Films or Documentary Short Subjects.) The King’s Speech – The Weinstein Company 12 True Grit – Paramount 10 Inception – Warner Bros 8 The Social Network – Sony Pictures Releasing 8 The Fighter – Paramount 7 127 Hours – Fox Searchlight 6 Black Swan – Fox…

After Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's electric feature directing debut Amores Perros, the Mexico-born filmmaker became the toast of a specialty film circuit dominated by studios willing to overspend for prestige and Oscars. Top actors lined up to work with Inarritu in 21 Grams and Babel, the latter a picture that…

This Sunday, director Werner Herzog will conduct a Q&A with Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu after a screening at the Directors Guild headquarters on Sunset Blvd at 7:30 PM. Herzog rarely does such things, but was moved  to take part in the DGA members-only-event after seeing the film last month. “I respect Werner and his…

The pace of the 2010 awards season seems at this early November juncture to be faster than any I can remember. (I feel like the title of the late and great Jill Clayburgh's star turn, I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can.) Hopefuls are getting out there earlier, and more forcefully, in order to gain a foothold in the race any…

Roadside Attractions is out with the first trailer for Biutiful, the drama by Amores Perros helmer Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. The film premiered at Cannes, where Javier Bardem won the Best Actor prize for his portrayal of a father facing his own mortality. The film opens December 29 in the…

BREAKING: While the Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu-directed Biutiful already figured to be an Oscar contender for a performance by Javier Bardem that won Best Actor honors at Cannes, the picture is now a contender for Best Foreign Language film. Biutiful, which was picked up for distribution by Mickey Liddell and Roadside…

EXCLUSIVE FROM TORONTO: As co-writer of The Hobbit and director of a 3D adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness, Guillermo del Toro plays often in Hollywood’s big budget sandbox. But his heart still beats for foreign film indies. He has two at Toronto: the Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu-directed Biutiful, and Julia's Ey…

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and I both happened to be waiting for our luggage at LAX after arriving on the charter from the Telluride Film Festival Monday night. He turned to me and said he had been thinking about the interview we did the day before. His powerful  film, Biutiful, was playing all weekend at the fest…

While Toronto International Film Festival, Sundance, Venice and Cannes sets film schedules well in advance, Telluride always springs its fest lineup at the last moment. Here it is: 37th TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 2010 FESTIVAL LINEUP Telluride, CO – Telluride Film Festival (September 3-6, 2010), presented by…