National Film Awards 2009

National Film Awards 2009, The National Film Awards is the most prominent film award ceremony in India, and the country’s oldest alongside the Filmfare Awards. Established in 1954, it is administrated by the Indian government’s Directorate of Film Festivals since 1973.

Every year a national panel appointed by the government selects the winning entry, and the award ceremony is held in New Delhi, where the President of India gives away the awards. This is followed by the inauguration of the National Film Festival, where the award-winning films are screened for the public. Declared for films produced in the previous year across the country, they hold the distinction of awarding merit to the best of Indian cinema overall, as well as presenting awards for the best films in each region and language of the country. Due to the national scale of the National Film Awards, it is considered to be the equivalent of the American Academy Awards.

Here is the details of National Film Awards 2009

Best Actor-Prakash Raj for the film ‘Kancheevaram’ (Tamil)

Best Actress-Uma Shree for the film Girish Kasaravalli’s film ‘Gulabi Talkies’ (Kannada)

Best Director-Adoor Gopalakrishnan for’ Naalu Pennungal’ (Malayalam)

Best Supporting Actor-Darshan Jaariwala for ‘Gandhi, My Father’ (Hindi)

Best Screenplay-Ferroz Abbas for ‘Gandhi, My Father’

Best Lyricist-Prasoon Joshi for the song Maa’ in ‘Taare Zameen Par’ (Hindi)

Best Playback Singer-Shankar Mahadevan For the song ‘Maa’ in ‘Taare Zameen Par’ (Hindi)

Best Film in Overall Entertainment-‘Chak De India’ (Hindi)

Best Feature Film-‘Kancheevaram’

Best Family Welfare Film-‘Taare Zameen Par’

Best National Integration Film- Bhavna Talwar’s ‘Dharm’

Grand Jury Award-‘Gandhi, My Father’

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Bruni First Lady of France to Act for Woody Allen

PARIS, News Update: France’s first lady, singing ex-supermodel Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, has agreed to star in US auteur Woody Allen’s next movie, she told a television interviewer.
“He suggested I appear in his next film. I don’t know what the role would be, but I said yes,” the 41-year-old Italian-born singer-songwriter told the main evening entertainment show on the Canal+ network.

“I go into everything blindly, or I’d never do anything at all,” she added, apparently referring to her showbiz career rather than to her sudden marriage last year to President Nicolas Sarkozy.

“I’m not an actress at all. Perhaps I’ll be completely hopeless but I can’t miss an opportunity like this one. When I’m a grandmother I’d like to be able to say I made a film with Woody Allen,” she gushed.

“Woody Allen kindly asked me not to do a film with anyone else before him. If anything concrete ever comes of it, it’ll be a great experience for me.”

New York filmmaker Allen visited the French first couple in June this year during a trip to Paris to promote his last movie “Whatever Works”.

Asked whom he would like to cast in his next film, he said: “Without question, Carla Bruni! I’m sure she would be wonderful. She has charisma, and she performs, so she’s not a stranger to an audience.”

Holidays Vampire Sequel ‘New Moon’ at Box Office

LOS ANGELES, News update: The ‘Twilight’ vampire romance sequel ‘New Moon’ took a record-breaking bite out of the North American box office this weekend, final figures showed on Monday.

The second big-screen installment adapted from Stephenie Meyer’s phenomenally successful books raked in an astounding 142.8 million dollars in three days, the third biggest opening of all time, Exhibitor Relations said.

Only Batman sequel “The Dark Knight” with 158.4 million dollars and “Spider-Man 3″ with 151.1 million dollars have scored bigger openings.

However, the “New Moon” earnings are considered remarkable because the film was released in November, outside of the traditional summer blockbuster season.

Although the movie was unable to dethrone “The Dark Knight” or “Spider-Man 3″ for highest opening weekend, it did set records for biggest midnight opening and opening day, figures showed.

The “Twilight” franchise follows the fortunes of high school teenager Bella Swan, played by Kristen Stewart, and her vampire lover Edward Cullen, played by British heart-throb Robert Pattinson.

The success of “New Moon” left American football drama “The Blind Side” in second place.

The feel-good film, adapted from Michael Lewis’s 2006 book, is based on the real-life journey from rags to riches of Baltimore Ravens star Michael Oher.

Starring Sandra Bullock as the woman who helps Oher realize his dream, it earned a healthy 34.1 million dollars in its opening weekend.

In third place, end-of-the-world film “2012″ brought in 26.4 million dollars, more than double its next-runner-up, “Planet 51,” with 12.3 million.

“Disney’s A Christmas Carol” earned 12.2 million, trailed by acclaimed abuse saga “Precious” with 10.9 million dollars.

In seventh place was satire “The Men Who Stare At Goats,” starring George Clooney and Jeff Bridges as members of a military unit schooled in psychological warfare. The film took 2.8 million dollars.

Eighth spot was taken by comedy “Couples Retreat,” which earned 1.9 million dollars while extra-terrestrial drama “The Fourth Kind” was ninth with 1.7 million.

Michael Jackson concert movie “This Is It” completed the top 10 with 1.6 million dollars.

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Death Proof, Death Proof Cast

Death Proof, Death Proof Cast: Quentin Tarantino has earned his name, Total Film named him the 12th greatest director of all time. He has won an Academy, a Golden Globe ,BAFTA and the esteemed Palme d’Or Awards, while also being nominated for an Emmy and a Grammy.

Not bad for a guy born in 1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee, and a son of a health care executive /nurse, and a musician.

His heritage stemming from, Italian American from his father and Irish and Cherokee Native American Indian.

He has directed some of the 90’s most watched films such as Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill and Jackie Brown.
His debut to films was after dropping out of school at the age of 15 and with his childhood friend Adam Olis, began making movies in his backyard.

One popular film Death Proof was written as well as Directed by Tarentino. It stars Kurt Russell, Zoe Bell, Rosario Dawson, Rose McGowan, Jordan Ladd, Vanessa Ferlito, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Tracie Thoms and Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

It centres around a psychopathic man who stalks young women before takig to murdering them in staged car accidents using his “death proof” stunt car.

It was released Theatrically in the States as part of a double feature with Planet Terror by Robert Rodriguez. IT was also released on DVD outside the States.

It is a film paying tribute to muscle cars, slasher films and exploitation, popular back in the 1970’s.
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Hudson to Play Nelson Mandela’s Ex-Wife

LOS ANGELES: Oscar-winning actress and singer Jennifer Hudson is to play the role of Winnie Mandela, the controversy-plagued ex-wife of South Africa’s first black president Nelson Mandela in a new movie called Winnie, Variety reported on Wednesday.

The film is based on the Anne Marie du Preez Bezdrob biography, Winnie Mandela: A Life, according to Variety.

Production is scheduled to begin May 30 in the South African locations of Johannesburg, Cape Town, Transkei and Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela served 18 of his 27 years of imprisonment.

The movie is the second about the Mandelas this year, with Morgan Freeman set to star as the iconic president in the Clint Eastwood film Invictus, which is due in cinemas in December.

Hudson, who is expected to sing the film’s theme song, won the Oscar for her screen debut in Dreamgirls and followed with The Secret Life of Bees and Sex in the City.

“I was compelled and moved when I read the script,” Hudson said. “Winnie Mandela is a complex and extraordinary woman and I’m honoured to be the actress asked to portray her. This is a powerful part of history that should be told.”

Winnie Mandela was a fierce opponent to apartheid alongside her husband before the end of the racist regime. But she was tarnished by an association with a bodyguard who murdered a 14-year-old alleged informer in 1989. The Mandelas divorced in 1996 and she was convicted of fraud in 2003 for stealing from a funeral fund.

Winnie will be directed by Darrell J. Roodt, the veteran South African filmmaker whose 2006 film Yesterday was Africa’s Best Foreign Film nominee, and who also directed Cry, The Beloved Country and Sarafina!

Ash Opts Out of the Film with Abhi

MUMBAI: Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani’s production Crooked is set to go on the floors from January 14 next year. However, the Abhishek Bachchan starrer has no lead actress as Aishwarya, who was supposed to do the film, opted out citing date problems.

Her dates for Crooked were colliding with Vipul Shah’s Action Replay. Since Action Replay is inching towards completion, Aishwarya had to give it priority, leaving her with no choice but to opt out of Crooked, directed by Abhinay Deo. It is a thriller which will be shot at different foreign locales.

Meanwhile, Farhan’s other production directed by Zoya Akhtar featuring Hrithik Roshan, Farhan and Abhay Deol is also stuck as it has no lead actress. The film’s shooting starts from April 5 in Spain. Ritesh says, “We are now looking for a completely new face in Crooked, which actually requires three new girls. We also need a fresh face either from London or New York for Hrithik in Zoya’s film.”

Farhan says, “Hrithik has been a true friend. I start directing Don 3 from September 2010, so Zoya’s film had to be completed before that. Hrithik adjusted his dates accordingly.”

Tom Cruise in Austria To Make The Film

VIENNA: Tom Cruise has arrived in the Austrian city of Salzburg to shoot scenes for the new action comedy “Knight & Day.”

Cruise, wearing sunglasses and a casual shirt, waved as he got off a private jet at the local airport Thursday afternoon.

Austrian broadcaster ORF reports that Cameron Diaz, Cruise’s co-star, has been in Salzburg since Tuesday.

“Knight & Day” is directed by James Mangold and is due to be released next summer.

The Salzburg film shoot is expected to last less than a week. Earlier this month, hundreds of locals tried to snag spots as extras.

Penelope Cruz Has A Dream Year in Film

LOS ANGELES: Penelope Cruz feels uncomfortable talking about nude scenes and says she has “an allergy to labels,” but she becomes effusive when discussing her “dream year” with two special films about to hit theaters.

The first is Spanish director Pedro Almodovar’s “Broken Embraces,” her fourth collaboration with the filmmaker who helped make her a star, and the second is musical “Nine” from director Rob Marshall, which challenged her voice and her previously little-known dancing skills.

Both films hope to win over Oscar voters during Hollywood’s awards season, and after her own Academy Award-winning turn in Woody Allen comedy “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” last year, Cruz is again earning some early Oscar buzz — doubled.

“I feel like I have learned a lot. The movies could not be more different,” the Spanish beauty told reporters recently.

“To be able to sing for the first time professionally and dance (in ‘Nine’), it was a scary experience. ‘Broken Embraces’ is like three women in one. I feel like the luckiest girl in the world.”

“Broken Embraces” opens on Friday after turns at the Cannes and Toronto film festivals where it earned good marks from critics. Review website rottentomatoes.com gives it an 82 percent positive rating.

Cruz calls both movies homages to cinema — “Nine” to the work of the Italian director Federico Fellini, and “Broken Embraces” to the tradition of film noir.

After playing a prostitute, a nun who falls in love with a transvestite, and a woman whose husband is buried in the fridge in previous Almodovar movies, Cruz tackles the part of a poor assistant to a powerful tycoon in “Broken Embraces.”

But as lowly as her character starts out, she goes on to become the rich man’s partner and then plays a figure counter to herself in a movie within the movie. While it sounds somewhat complicated, it is vintage Almodovar.

“Every time Pedro has given me a script, I have really been blown away. The characters (I have played) couldn’t be more different from each other, and from who I am,” she said.

In “Nine,” from Oscar-winning “Chicago” director Marshall, Cruz shows audiences another new facet of her many talents.

The Fellini-inspired movie, in which she teams with Nicole Kidman, Judi Dench, Daniel Day Lewis, Sophia Loren and Marion Cotillard, does not open in the United States until Dec. 25, but already a brief clip of Cruz in a bustier performing a sultry song and dance is making waves among movie fans.

Cruz, 35, had early ambitions to be a dancer, taking ballet classes in her native Madrid from 5 to 15-years-old, but dramatic acting took its course and stardom ensued.

So, she went back to training five hours-a-day for her role as the mistress of a middle-aged moviemaker in “Nine,” after being shown the routine she would be asked to perform.

“I almost fainted. I thought this is impossible…But there was no way to fake anything,” she said.

While she is happy to talk freely about career, her personal life remains very private, and questions were banned about her two-year romance with Spanish actor Javier Bardem .

Although she may seem at ease with nude scenes in “Broken Embraces,” she won’t talk about them, saying it is too “uncomfortable” to do so.

And she sees herself as neither a role model, nor feminist in a male-dominated movie world.

“I just try not to label myself in any way. I have an allergy to labels in general,” she said, then smiled.

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