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Actress Lupita Nyong’o and director Steve McQueen pose with their awards for ”12 Years a Slave” backstage at the 2014 Film Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, California March 1, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Danny Moloshok (Reuters) – Harrowing slavery drama “12 Years a Slave” swept the Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday with five wins, just one day ahead of the Oscar ceremony on Sunday. “12 Years a Slave” won five of its seven nominations at the […]
DANISH film director Gabriel Axel, the first Dane to win an Oscar for best foreign film “Babette’s Feast”, died Sunday, February 9, at the age of 95. News about his death was announced by his daughter, Karin Moerch, in a statement. She said her father died “quietly and peacefully after a long and eventful life.” She did not say where he died or give the cause of death. Born April 18, 1918, in Denmark’s second […]
The writers of “Her” and “Captain Phillips” were given top honors by their peers on Saturday (February 1) at the annual Writers Guild Awards, a strong predictor of success in the screenplay categories at the Oscars in a month’s time. Spike Jonze won the best original screenplay award for “Her,” a tale set in the near future about a man in a romantic relationship with a lifelike computer operating system. “It’s a high honor coming from writers,” Jonze, 44, […]
