Rodriguez isn’t just a hit in South Africa and the United States…
The 70-year-old Mexican American singer, or at least the film about him, has been heralded by one film critics group in Canada.
The Vancouver Film Critics Circle has just announced the nominees for its 13th annual awards; and the group has nominated Searching for Sugar Man for Best Documentary.
The critically acclaimed film, directed by Malik Bendjelloul, will face off against Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry and How to Survive a Plague.
Meanwhile, the French fantasy drama film Holy Motors, starring Eva Mendes, was nominated in the Best Foreign Film category, along with Amour and The Intouchables.
The Vancouver Film Critics Circle awards ceremony will be held on January 7, 2013.
It appears that crime does pay, at least for Javier Bardem… The 43-year-old Spanish actor – who earned an Oscar for playing a psychopathic assassin in No Country for Old Men – has picked up another nomination for his villainous role in Skyfall. The London Film Critics’ Circle nominated Bardem…
It looks like Searching for Sugar Man has the momentum heading into the final Oscar stretch… The critically acclaimed documentary about Mexican American musician Sixto Rodriguez, who has been dubbed “the greatest rock star who never was,” earned the film’s helmer Malik Bendjelloul his first DGA Award from the Directors…
Claudio Miranda may have to look for another place to display his growing stash of awards… The Chilean cinematographer, a favorite to win at this year’s Oscars, won the Best Cinematography gong at Sunday night’s BAFTA Awards, sponsored by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Miranda, who wasn’t…
