28th Shadows Awards status report
Favourites from 2008 as of
1 May . . .
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FAVOURITE FILMS OF 2008...BEAUFORT (Joseph Cedar)
THE DEVIL CAME ON HORSEBACK (Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg)
FEMALE AGENTS (Jean-Paul SalomŽ)
FUNNY GAMES (Michael Haneke)
IN BRUGES (Martin McDonagh)
IN SEARCH OF A MIDNIGHT KISS (Alex Holdridge)
THE ORPHANAGE (Juan Antonio Bayona)
OUT OF THE BLUE (Robert Sarkies)
SAVE ME (Robert Cary)
SHINE A LIGHT (Martin Scorsese)
STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE (Errol Morris)
STOP-LOSS (Kimberly Peirce)
TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE (Alex Gibney)
THE VISITOR (Thomas McCarthy)
WATER LILIES (Celine Sciamma)
WRITERS: Philippe Aractingi (UNDER THE BOMBS). Thomas McCarthy (THE VISITOR). Mark Richard, Kimberly Peirce (STOP-LOSS).
ACTRESSES: Abbie Cornish (STOP-LOSS). Sally Hawkins (HAPPY-GO-LUCKY, CASSANDRA'S DREAM). Naomi Watts (FUNNY GAMES).
ACTORS: Casey Affleck (GONE BABY GONE). Richard Jenkins (THE VISITOR). Ryan Philippe (STOP-LOSS).
SUPPORTING ACTRESSES: Jodhi May (FLASHBACKS OF A FOOL). Saoirse Ronan (Death Defying Acts). Imelda Staunton (THREE AND OUT).
SUPPORTING ACTORS: Russell Brand (FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL). Ralph Fiennes (IN BRUGES). Jeremie Renier (IN BRUGES, PRIVATE PROPERTY, SUMMER HOURS).
WORST FILMS to date: AWAKE. DOOMSDAY. HOW SHE MOVE. LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA. MEET THE SPARTANS.
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FILM: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
Runners-up: No Country for Old Men. Paranoid Park. The Edge of Heaven. Hallam Foe.
DIR: Sidney Lumet (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead)
SCR: Joel & Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men)
ACT: Laura Linney (Jindabyne, The Savages, Breach, The Hottest State, The Nanny Diaries); Jamie Bell (Hallam Foe, The Chumscrubber)
SUP: Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton); Robert Downey Jr (Charlie Bartlett, Zodiac, Lucky You)
2 0 0 6FILM: United 93 (Paul Greengrass)
Runners-up: Little Miss Sunshine. Pan's Labyrinth.
Letters from Iwo Jima. Shut Up & Sing.
DIR: Park Chan-wook (Lady Vengeance)
SCR: Michael Arndt (Little Miss Sunshine)
ACT: Naomi Watts (Painted Veil, Ellie Parker, Stay), James McAvoy (The Last King of Scotland, Starter for Ten)
SUP: Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine), Bill Nighy (Notes on a Scandal, Stormbreaker, Dead Man's Chest)
2 0 0 5FILM: Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney)
Runners-up: The Constant Gardener. Mysterious Skin.
A History of Violence. Paradise Now.
DIR: Gregg Araki (Mysterious Skin)
SCR: Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana (Brokeback Mountain)
ACT: Maria Bello (A History of Violence), Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain, Jarhead, Proof)
SUP: Catherine Keener (Capote, The 40 Year Old Virgin, The Interpreter), Matt Dillon (Crash)
2 0 0 4FILM: Dogville
(Lars von Trier)
Runners-up: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The Twilight Samurai. The Motorcycle Diaries. Bad Education.
DIR: Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine)
SCR: Bill Condon (Kinsey)
ACT: Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake), Jamie Foxx (Ray, Collateral)
SUP: Cate Blanchett (The Aviator, The Life Aquatic, Coffee & Cigarettes), Peter Sarsgaard (Kinsey, Garden State)
2 0 0 3FILM: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
Runners-up: American Splendor. Elephant. The Triplets of Belleville. Lost in Translation.
DIR: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini (American Splendor)
SCR: Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman (American Splendor)
ACT: Toni Collette (Japanese Story, Dirty Deeds), Bill Murray (Lost in Translation)
SUP: Patricia Clarkson (Pieces of April, Station Agent, All the Real Girls, Safety of Objects), Sean Astin (Return of the King)
2 0 0 2FILM: City of God (Fernando Meirelles)
Runners-up: The Hours. Y Tu Mama Tambien. Far From Heaven. The Two Towers.
DIR: Alfonso Cuaron (Y Tu Mama Tambien)
SCR: Charlie Kaufman (Adaptation, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind)
ACT: Julianne Moore (Far From Heaven, The Hours), Danny Huston (Ivansxtc)
SUP: Toni Collette (The Hours, About a Boy, Changing Lanes), Peter Boyle (Monster's Ball)
2 0 0 1FILM: Moulin Rouge (Baz Luhrmann)
Runners-up: The Fellowship of the Ring, Monsoon Wedding, You Can Count on Me, Hedwig and the Angry Inch
DIR: Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge)
SCR: Kenneth Lonergan (You Can Count on Me)
ACT: Naomi Watts (Mulholland Drive), John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig)
SUP: Beth Grant (Sordid Lives, Rock Star, Donnie Darko), Jim Broadbent (Moulin Rouge, Iris)
2 0 0 0FILM: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee)
Runners-up: Memento, Traffic, Open Your Eyes, High Fidelity.
DIR: Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger)
SCR: Woody Allen (Sweet and Lowdown, Small Time Crooks)
ACT: Joan Allen (The Contender, When the Sky Falls), Christian Bale (American Psycho)
SUP: Frances McDormand (Almost Famous, Wonder Boys), Albert Finney (Erin Brockovich, Traffic)
1 9 9 9FILM: American Beauty (Sam Mendes)
Runners-up: Ride With the Devil, Gods and Monsters, Election, The Straight Story.
DIR: David Lynch (The Straight Story)
SCR: Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters)
ACT: Cecilia Roth (All About My Mother), Richard Farnsworth (The Straight Story)
SUP: Toni Collette (The Sixth Sense, 8˝ Women), Jude Law (The Talented Mr Ripley, Final Cut, eXistenZ)
1 9 9 8FILM: Shakespeare in Love (John Madden)
Runners-up: Saving Private Ryan, The General, The Truman Show, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
DIR: Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan)
SCR: Andrew Niccol (Truman Show, Gattaca)
ACT: Joan Allen (Pleasantville), Tom Hanks (Saving Private Ryan, You've Got Mail)
SUP: Toni Collette (The Boys, Velvet Goldmine), Ed Harris (Truman Show, Stepmom)
1 9 9 7FILM: Regeneration (Gillies MacKinnon)
Runners-up: Shall We Dance, Titanic, The Full Monty, Boogie Nights.
DIR: Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights)
SCR: James Cameron (Titanic)
ACT: Julie Christie (Hamlet, Afterglow), Jonathan Pryce (Regeneration, Tomorrow Never Dies)
SUP: Anne Heche (Donnie Brasco, Wag the Dog), Richard Briers (Hamlet)
1 9 9 6BEST FILM: Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins)
Runners-up: Shine, Trainspotting , The Pillow Book, Fargo.
DIR: Peter Greenaway (The Pillow Book)
SCR: Joel & Ethan Coen (Fargo)
ACTORS: Frances McDormand (Fargo, Lone Star), Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting, Pillow Book, Brassed Off)
SUPPORTING: Kate Winslet (Sense and Sensibility), Chris Penn (The Funeral)
1 9 9 5FILM: Land and Freedom (Ken Loach)
Runners-up: Leaving Las Vegas, Smoke, The Usual Suspects, Bullets Over Broadway.
DIR: Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas)
SCR: Paul Auster (Smoke)
ACT: Jessica Lange (Blue Sky, Rob Roy), Morgan Freeman (Seven, Shawshank Redemption)
SUP: Ashley Judd (Smoke, Heat), Martin Landau (Ed Wood)
1 9 9 4FILM: Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
Runners-up: The Hudsucker Proxy, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Shadowlands, The Last Seduction.
DIR: Joel Coen (Hudsucker Proxy)
SCR: Steve Barancik (Last Seduction)
ACT: Linda Fiorentino (Last Seduction), John Travolta (Pulp Fiction)
SUP: Uma Thurman (Pulp Fiction), Gary Sinise (Forrest Gump)
1 9 9 3FILM: In the Name of the Father (Jim Sheridan)
Runners-up: Schindler's List, Groundhog Day, The Piano, Short Cuts.
DIR: Jane Campion (The Piano)
SCR: Harold Ramis, Danny Rubin (Groundhog Day)
ACT: Holly Hunter (The Piano, The Firm), Daniel Day Lewis (In the Name of the Father, Age of Innocence)
SUP: Anne Archer (Short Cuts), Ralph Fiennes (Schindler's List)
1 9 9 2FILM: Howards End (James Ivory)
Runners-up: The Player, Aladdin, The Crying Game, The Waterdance.
DIR: Robert Altman (The Player)
SCR: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Howards End)
ACT: Emma Thompson (Howards End), Eric Stoltz (Waterdance)
SUP: Vanessa Redgrave (Howards End), Kevin Spacey (Glengarry Glen Ross)
1 9 9 1FILM: The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
Runners-up: Bugsy, Life is Sweet, Beauty and the Beast, Dead Again.
DIR: Oliver Stone (JFK)
SCR: John Sayles (City of Hope)
ACT: Jodie Foster (Silence of the Lambs), Nick Nolte (Prince of Tides)
SUP: Juliette Lewis (Cape Fear), Harvey Keitel (Mortal Thoughts, Thelma & Louise, Bugsy)
1 9 9 0FILM: Dances With Wolves (Kevin Costner)
Runners-up: GoodFellas, Avalon, Misery, Mystery Train.
DIR: Martin Scorcese (GoodFellas)
SCR: Barry Levinson (Avalon)
ACT: Kathy Bates (Misery), Robert DeNiro (GoodFellas)
SUP: Jennifer Jason Leigh (Miami Blues), Joe Pesci (GoodFellas)
1 9 8 9FILM: Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
Runners-up: Field of Dreams, Drugstore Cowboy, My Left Foot, Roger & Me.
DIR: Terry Gilliam (Baron Munchausen)
SCR: Gus Van Sant, Don Yost (Drugstore Cowboy)
ACT: Andie MacDowell (Sex Lies & Videotape), Matt Dillon (Drugstore Cowboy)
SUP: Brenda Fricker (My Left Foot), Denzel Washington (Glory)
1 9 8 8FILM: Tucker, the Man and His Dream (Francis Ford Coppola)
Runners-up: Dangerous Liaisons, Five Corners, Big, Mississippi Burning.
DIR: Francis Ford Coppola (Tucker)
SCR: Ron Shelton (Bull Durham)
ACT: Glenn Close (Dangerous Liaisons), Tom Hanks (Big)
SUP: Kathleen Turner (Accidental Tourist), Kevin Kline (A Fish Called Wanda)
1 9 8 7FILM: The Untouchables (Brian DePalma)
Runners-up: Broadcast News, The Princess Bride, Moonstruck, Radio Days.
DIR: Brian DePalma (Untouchables)
SCR: James L Brooks (Broadcast News)
ACT: Holly Hunter (Broadcast News, Raising Arizona), Christian Bale (Empire of the Sun)
SUP: Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck), Nicolas Cage (Moonstruck, Raising Arizona)
1 9 8 6FILM: Stand by Me (Rob Reiner)
Runners-up: Hannah and Her Sisters, Platoon, The Mission, The Fly.
DIR: Woody Allen (Hannah and Her Sisters)
SCR: David Lynch (Blue Velvet)
ACT: Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God), Robert DeNiro (The Mission)
SUP: Dianne Wiest (Hannah and Her Sisters), Tom Berenger (Platoon)
1 9 8 5FILM: The Breakfast Club (John Hughes)
Runners-up: Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Color Purple, Brazil, Back to the Future.
DIR: Steven Spielberg (Color Purple)
SCR: John Hughes (Breakfast Club)
ACT: Meg Tilly (Agnes of God), William Hurt (Kiss of the Spider Woman)
SUP: Tracey Ullman (Plenty), Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future)
1 9 8 4FILM: The Killing Fields (Roland Joffe)
Runners-up: Amadeus, This is Spinal Tap, Places in the Heart, All of Me.
DIR: Milos Foreman (Amadeus)
SCR: Robert Benton (Places in the Heart)
ACT: Kathleen Turner (Romancing the Stone, Crimes of Passion), Haing S Ngor (Killing Fields)
SUP: Lily Tomlin (All of Me), John Malkovich (Places in the Heart, Killing Fields)
1 9 8 3FILM: Local Hero (Bill Forsyth)
Runners-up: The Right Stuff, The Big Chill, Yentl, Tender Mercies.
DIR: Philip Kaufman (Right Stuff)
SCR: Lawrence Kasdan, Barbara Benedek (Big Chill)
ACT: Barbra Streisand (Yentl), Robert Duvall (Tender Mercies)
SUP: Linda Hunt (Year of Living Dangerously), Mickey Rourke (Rumblefish)
1 9 8 2FILM: E.T., The Extra-terrestrial (Steven Spielberg)
Runners-up: Gandhi, Tootsie, Victor/Victoria, Sophie's Choice.
DIR: Steven Spielberg (E.T.)
SCR: David Mamet (The Verdict)
ACTORS: Meryl Streep (Sophie's Choice), Ben Kingsley (Gandhi)
SUPPORTING: Jessica Lange (Tootsie, Frances), Robert Preston (Victor/Victoria)
1 9 8 1FILM: Reds (Warren Beatty)
Runners-up: Chariots of Fire, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Time Bandits, Body Heat.
DIR: Warren Beatty (Reds)
SCR: Colin Welland (Chariots of Fire)
ACT: Diane Keaton (Reds), Warren Beatty (Reds)
SUP: Maureen Stapleton (Reds), Jack Nicholson (Reds)
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