Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah and Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo grabbed 5 nominations each with Toni Servillo getting nominated as best actor for his parts in both films.
Steve McQueen’s directorial debut has rocked the film festival circuit and will, as I had predicted minutes after living through the filmic experience that is known as Hunger back in Cannes, have swept up not only a slew of nominations at this year’s British Independent Film Awards, but walk away as 2008's big winner.
The IFP announced the nominees for the 18th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards and not surprisingly, it is Lance Hammer’s Ballast that came out on top with four noms: Best Feature, Breakthrough Director, Breakthrough Actor and Best Ensemble Performance.
Variety reports that Christine Vachon has nabbed what appears to be not only a biopic but also works as a thriller spec script by John Krokidas and Austin Bunn.
Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire may have walked away with TIFF's top prize of the People's Choice Award, but the critics are championing the latest effort from Hirokazu Kore-Eda instead and a pair of films among my tops of the festival in Ramin Bahrani's Goodbye,Solo and Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler are tied for second in a survey conducted by Eugene Hernandez over at indieWIRE.