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Independent Spirit Awards

February 27, 2012 by · Comments Off on Independent Spirit Awards 

Independent Spirit Awards, Silent movie romance The Artist on Saturday won four Independent Spirit Awards, the year’s top honors among movies made outside Hollywood’s major studios, including best film and director in a prelude to the Oscars.
The Artist, a black-and-white movie from French writer and director Michel Hazanavicius, also picked up Spirit Awards for its star Jean Dujardin, who portrays an actor whose career collapses with the advent of the talkies, in the best actor category and Guillaume Schiffman for cinematography.

The film’s makers arrived in Los Angeles directly from Friday’s Cesar honors in France, and had to be brought to the Spirit Awards from the airport with a police escort. But they shrugged off any jet lag to happily accept their awards.

“Physically it’s tiring, but the energy is so good you don’t really feel tired,” Hazanavicius told reporters backstage about the current awards season in Hollywood and around the world.

About Sunday’s Academy Awards, the world’s top film honors, he admitted a touch of “stage fright… (An Oscar) is something that we have had in our eyes for a long time, so I can’t say I’m super cool.

“But today, this is important too,” Hazanavicius added, pointing to his Spirit Award. “This means a lot because it (‘The Artist’) is a small movie. It’s not expensive.”

Independent Spirit Awards

November 30, 2011 by · Comments Off on Independent Spirit Awards 

Independent Spirit Awards, It’s an awardsapalooza! The Gotham Awards took place Monday night, and today, the New York Film Critics made their picks, and the Independent Spirit Awards announced their nominations.
Now we’re getting a good idea of which ladies will be on the red carpets this
awards season — and who will be dressing whom. (As we keep saying, a stylist is only as powerful as the clients she or he has going to awards shows.)

Kate Beckinsale announced the Spirit nominations Tuesday morning in a very summery, tiered white lace dress from the Tadashi Shoji spring 2012 collection. On the model, it was beautiful, but Kate pulled it up to be a mini and lost the retro romance of the dress. It doesn’t work as a mini, does it? Too much fabric, and it isn’t a modern dress, so it’s wrong, wrong, wrong.

Even beautiful movie stars can make fashion mistakes — actually, take out the “even!” We all make fashion mistakes, but we aren’t all photographed doing so.

At the top of the heap of actress receiving Spirit Award nominations is Elizabeth Olsen (Martha Marcy May Marlene), who is working with stylist Cher Coulter. Olsen wore Valentino to the Gotham Awards, but we assume she will wear some of her sisters Mary Kate and Ashley’s clothing from The Row pretty soon. And there’s Michelle Williams, seemingly working this season with veteran stylist Jessica Paster.

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