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Oscar 2009: Precious for Best Picture, Director and Acting Oscars

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At the recently concluded Toronto Film Fest, the People's Choice Award, voted on by regular audiences, went to Lee Daniels's Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire, a vibrant, honest and resoundingly hopeful film about the human capacity to grow and overcome hardships.

"Precious" would have had good chances to be nominated for the Best Picture, even if the Academy continued its tradition of selecting five movies for the top award.  There was always a room for one "small" indie, made outside the system.  However, now that.

Please read our review and Oscar Prospects for Mo'Nique in the Review and Oscar Alert Sections. 

 

 

 

 

Precious: Sundance Fest Hit Wins Toronto Fest Audience Award

Sept 19, 2009–At the 34th Toronto Film Fest, the Cadillac People's Choice Award, voted on by festival audiences, went to Lee Daniels's Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire, a vibrant, honest and resoundingly hopeful film about the human capacity to grow and overcome hardships. Set in 1987 Harlem, it is the story of Claireece "Precious" Jones, an illiterate African-American teenager who is pregnant for the second time by her absent father and abused by a poisonously angry mother. Despite her experiences, Precious has a dream that other possibilities exist for her and jumps at the chance to enroll in an alternative school.

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Please read our review and Oscar prospects in the Review and Oscar Alert Sections. 

Prophet

Sony Classics Feb 26 

With "A Prophet," the acclaimed French director Jacques Audiard has made a powerful, intensely realistic prison drama that contributes to the crime genre and benefits immensely from the raw freshness of its lead character.

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Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky

 Sony Classics June 11 

A speculative account of the thwarted affair between the Russian composer and the legendary French fashion designer, Jan Kounen’s biopic is an opulent production stultified by the ornate period decor.

 

Read review of the other Chanel film: emanuellevy.com/reviews/details.cfm?id=14215.

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