Showing posts with label award. Show all posts
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Saturday, January 4, 2025









Angelina Jolie was honored for her work in Maria at the Palm Springs International Film Awards on Friday, and used the moment to shine the spotlight back on her kids.

Jolie, who plays famed opera singer Maria Callas in Pablo Larrain’s biopic, told the crowd at the Palm Springs Convention Center, “There was Maria and there was Callas; Callas was loved, but Maria was often alone. But I’m around today because when I walk off this stage, I am more myself because of you, Zahara, and your brothers and sisters. I love you.”

Jolie’s 19-year-old daughter Zahara walked the carpet with her mother at the event, and Jolie’s children Vivienne, Shiloh, Maddox, Knox and Pax have also made appearances as Jolie has promoted the film in recent months. The moment comes just days after Jolie and Brad Pitt, who shared the six children, reached a divorce settlement and ended an eight-year-long contentious legal battle.

“I am very honored to be here tonight with so many artists I have long admired,” Jolie added in her speech. “But to everyone who is there as a support to a celebrated artist, tonight and every night, who is there with kindness and understanding, thank you. You make everything possible.” Jacqueline Bisset, who is Jolie’s godmother, was on hand to present the Desert Palm Achievement Award, actress to the star.





















PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 03: (L-R) Denis Villeneuve and Angelina Jolie attend the After Party for the 36th Annual Palm Springs International Film Awards at Palm Springs Convention Center on January 03, 2025 in Palm Springs, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Palm Springs International Film Society)



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Monday, September 9, 2024



By Anne Thompson

This year’s 2024 TIFF Tribute Award honorees addressed a packed black-tie Fairmont Royal York Ballroom. Sometimes the tributees go on to Oscar glory. For example, after his 2019 tribute, Joaquin Phoenix went on to win Best Actor for “Joker,” Variety Artisan Award winner Roger Deakins landed a cinematography win for “1917,” and after his 2020 tribute, Anthony Hopkins grabbed an Oscar for Best Actor for “The Father” and TIFF tributee Chloé Zhao won Best Director for her movie “Nomadland.” The list goes on. Eventual Best Actress Oscar-winner Jessica Chastain was tributed at TIFF for “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” as was Brendan Fraser for his work as an actor on the movie “The Whale.” And tributee Michelle Yeoh went on to win Best Actress for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”

Many on this year’s list harbor similar hopes. Here are the award winners:

Angelina Jolie, TIFF Tribute Award in Impact Media, stars as Maria Callas in Netflix’s “Maria.”






Angelina Jolie’s Strict Request Raises Eyebrows

Jolie, an Oscar-winning actress and director known for films such as “Unbroken” and “First They Killed My Father,” received her tribute early in the evening. Her latest film “Without Blood” premiered at the festival Sunday night. Yet, hours before the ceremony, media outlets were informed that Jolie’s team had requested no photography or videography of her speech.

A message from TIFF programmers read: “Angelina Jolie’s team has requested that there be no photography or videography of Angelina during the Tribute Awards. This includes all photography and videography by TIFF, our sponsors, our partners and our guests. Please let your teams know that to accommodate this, there will be a dip in the live feed during the presentation of the Impact Award.”

The unusual request, particularly for a speech that did not appear to be politically charged or controversial, sparked curiosity. Why would an actress of Jolie’s stature — known for her advocacy and currently taking on the award circuit to promote her acclaimed turn in Pablo Larraín’s “Maria” — request such privacy at a public event?




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Sunday, September 8, 2024






In receiving the TIFF Tribute Award in Impact Media tonight, Oscar and Tony winner Angelina Jolie exclaimed that “When I am asked how I feel about the state of the world today, I admit I feel sick.”

She added, “After pushing for basic human rights for all people, only to see the reality worsen for so many, I feel a part of the failure of the system.”

However, Jolie always seeks to make a difference in showing the resilience of humanity. “A lot of Jolie’s films are about the long impact of war,” said TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey tonight at the world premiere of her sixth directorial Without Blood. Her blockbuster 2014 holiday movie, Unbroken followed Olympian Louis Zamperini turned WWII pilot, who spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he’s caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp. In the 2017 Netflix documentary, First They Killed My Father, she followed Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung who recounts the horrors she suffered as a child under the rule of the deadly Khmer Rouge.

Without Blood, made outside the Hollywood system by Fremantle Italia and The Apartment, is based on the Alessandro Baricco novel which follows a grown woman who comes face to face with her father’s murderer, decades after he spared her own life. Though there’s no specified setting in the novel, Jolie leaned into Mexican period backdrop with Salma Hayek and Demián Bichir.

The TIFF Tribute Award in Impact Media recognizes leadership in creating a union between social impact and cinema.

Below is Jolie’s speech in full from the Tribute awards tonight:

“The challenge of making film you hope can make an impact, is that you look back and wonder if it did.

As a director, I have been drawn to films about war.

I have wanted to understand how people can be driven to commit such acts of violence and cruelty against their fellow human beings.

I wanted to believe that stories that allow us to understand our shared humanity, might make these horrors less likely.

When I am asked how I feel about the state of the world today, I admit I feel sick.

After pushing for basic human rights for all people, only to see the reality worsen for so many, I feel a part of the failure of the system.

In a world full of broken commitments, it seems power and control and business mean more than protecting the already fragile fabric of human rights.

As artists, and audience, we have an opportunity now more than ever to watch and learn from world cinema, and to listen to and support others who are giving their perspective.

I’ve had the privilege of working and collaborating with artists from across the world.

I’ve have been humbled by their talent and craft. Like this brilliant woman beside me, and like the extraordinary filmmakers from Iran to Sudan whose work is being screened here this week.

To know each other makes it harder for misinformation to be spread or divisions created.

And to empathize with each other – as art as it best enables us to do – can help create the unity we need.

We have no certainty of success, but no option other than to be human, and keep creating.

Thank you for allowing me to be a part of this creative community for all of these years.”








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Wednesday, January 29, 2020







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Angelina Jolie’s hair was in need of a little magic while she was filming Maleficent: Mistress of Evil.
Because it was tightly tucked under fairy horns for the majority of the film, the Oscar winner’s locks needed to be regularly repaired — and hairstylist Audrey Futterman had the perfect solution: Hask hair products (each less than $10). “I did my treatments on a daily basis for an entire month, because she was also having a problem with hair growth,” Futterman told InStyle at the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylist Guild Awards on Saturday night in Los Angeles.
“It was a lot of tea tree oil, a lot of Argan," she said, referencing Hask's multiple mask offerings. Jolie was surprised by the results, Futterman added, especially from such affordable products. “She couldn't believe it! It was a regimen that I did for morning, afternoon, and evening, and I'd let her go home with her own wave, which was unusual for her to do. But she let me do it, because she saw the results.”
Futterman's work didn't just earn her praise from Jolie, but also from the Guild — she was nominated for an MUAHS award for her work on Maleficent. “It's such a personal award and nomination," she said, adding that it felt particularly special "because I'm working with my peers."
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Thursday, December 12, 2019




The Producers Guild of America will honor Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner of Plan B with the David O. Selznick Achievement Award.
They will accept the honor at the 31st Annual Producers Guild Awards on Jan. 18 at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles. Previous recipients include Steven Spielberg, Barbara Broccoli, Saul Zaentz, Gale Anne Hurd, Brian Grazer, Jerry Bruckheimer, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, David Heyman and Kevin Feige.
“For nearly two decades, Plan B has been at the forefront of bringing unique and compelling stories that inspire, motivate and connect to diverse audiences,” said Producers Guild of America presidents Gail Berman and Lucy Fisher. “Their devotion to tackling some of America’s most timely topics with a fresh perspective and distinct voice in their storytelling is vital to raising the bar of the art and craft of filmmaking.”
The Plan B producers won the best picture Academy Award for “12 Years a Slave” and “Moonlight,” and earned nominations for “Vice,” “The Big Short,” “Selma” and “The Tree of Life.” Plan B also nabbed a Primetime Emmy Award for “The Normal Heart,” and received Emmy noms for “Feud: Bette and Joan,” “Big Men” and “Nightingale.”
Their recent productions include “The King,” directed by David Michôd and starring Timothée Chalamet, Joel Edgerton and Robert Pattinson; James Gray’s “Ad Astra” starring Pitt; “The Last Black Man in San Francisco,” helmed by Joe Talbot; and “If Beale Street Could Talk,” from Barry Jenkins and toplined by Regina King and Stephan James.
Pitt formed Plan B in 2001 and was a producer on the 2006 best picture winner “The Departed.” Gardner is the first female producer to win two Academy Awards for best picture, for “12 Years a Slave” and “Moonlight.”




Brad Pitt is everywhere these days, from revealing interviews in the New York Times Magazine to Oscar parties to support “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” But he’s also a top producer, a partner with Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner in Plan B. The respected trio will accept the coveted David O. Selznick Achievement Award — recognizing an outstanding body of work in motion pictures — at the 2020 Producers Guild Awards on Saturday, January 18, 2020 at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles.
Plan B is behind a raft of distinctive film and television projects; Pitt, Kleiner and Gardner place a premium on developing emerging talent and ignoring commercial concerns. This unconventional strategy has yielded Best Picture winners “12 Years a Slave” and “Moonlight,” and Oscar-winners “If Beale Street Could Talk,” starring Regina King, and “The Big Short,” as well as Oscar-nominated “Vice,” “Selma” and “The Tree of Life.” Other films include Pitt-starrers “Ad Astra” and “World War Z” (which has a sequel in the works), “The Last Black Man in San Francisco,” directed by Joe Talbot, Netflix’s “The King,” starring Timothee Chalamet, and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”
They are currently in post-production on “Blonde,” directed by Andrew Dominik and starring Ana de Armas for Netflix, and Minari, directed by Lee Isaac Chung and starring Steven Yeun for A24.
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