The French actor bests George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Gary Oldman and Demian Bichir in the hotly contested race. By Ryan J. Downey Jean Dujardin wins Best Actor at the 2012 Oscars Photo: Robyn Beck/ AFP/ Getty Images For several weeks, conventional wisdom foretold that the Best Actor contest would come down to George Clooney (“The Descendants”) and Jean Dujardin (“The Artist”), and Sunday night (February 26), the suspense was finally lifted. And the Oscar went to: Jean Dujardin. Dujardin bested a field that included Clooney’s pal Brad Pitt (“Moneyball”), veteran actor/ first time nominee Gary Oldman (“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”) and Mexican-born Demian Bichir (“A Better Life”). “The Artist” also took home awards in two other major categories, Best Director and Best Picture. Many viewers snickered when the Oscars announcer teased a commercial break by saying, “With no clear favorite, anyone could win” leading into the bigger awards. Several of the winners at the 84th Annual Academy Awards were long thought to be foregone conclusions, but Best Actor was one of the more hotly contested, as both Clooney and Dujardin racked up several awards at ceremonies leading up to Sunday. The 39-year-old French actor and comedian spent this awards season accumulating victories at the AACTA, BAFTA, Cannes, the Golden Globes, Hollywood Film Festival, Independent Spirit Awards and several critical associations. “Key to the success of ‘The Artist’ is the work of its two French stars,” wrote the Los Angeles Times’ Kenneth Turan. “Dujardin and [B
Our Skin Skout attended the press screening of Wanderlust last night, and as predicted Jennifer Aniston ‘s topless scene was nowhere to be found. And to add insult to non-nude injury, the lesbian foursome scene featured in the red-band trailer has been cut from the movie entirely. Malin Akerman doesn’t even get naked, and she’s Swedish for God’s sake! The movie isn’t entirely skin-free, though: anonymous flower children lose their tops for a nighttime skinny-dipping scene 21 minutes in, and again for a group meeting at the commune 1 hour, 24 minutes in. We also get some full-frontal from those uncredited hippie chicks when they chase a fellow commune-goer through the grounds, but honestly our hearts just aren’t in it anymore. Looks like Wanderlust is a Wander-bust. Catch up with the greatest tits- uh, hits – of Malin Akerman and Jennifer Aniston right here at MrSkin.com!
We told you about Cherry , the screenwriting debut of kinky porn queen Lorelei Lee , last week, and despite a mixed reception at the Berlin Film Festival the team is going full speed ahead in their quest for a distributor. And to lure in investors eager to see Ashley Hinsaw (left) and Heather Graham play porn stars, they’ve cut a trailer for the film- but we’re not sure why that’s really necessary. Because if a movie written by a porn star and co-starring Heather Graham doesn’t have any nudity in it (all we know is that The Hollywood Reporter cited a nonspecific enough skin to net a Cinemax sale” ), then this thing doesn’t stand a chance. And if it does? Then consider Skin Central SOLD! We can only offer a hundred bucks for it (the rest is all tied up in Fleshlight for iPad stock), but still… See the trailer for Cherry after the jump!
First-ever festival is set for March 15 at South by Southwest and will lead up to the awards themselves. By James Montgomery Chiddy Bang Photo: Patrick Ford/Redferns The 2012 mtvU Woodie Awards will return to Austin, Texas, on March 15, during South by Southwest, and they’re definitely getting in the spirit of the annual festival. First, they announced this year’s nominees , an epically diverse field that includes everyone from Jay-Z and Kanye West, the Black Keys and Skrillex to up-and-comers like Frank Ocean, Childish Gambino and Cloud Nothings. Then they announced the first round of performers for the first-ever Woodies Fest , a (grammatically adventurous) list topped by Fun., Wallpaper. and A$AP Rocky. And on Wednesday (February 22), the Woodies announced even more performers for that festival: Chiddy Bang (whom, as you might recall, previously set a Guinness World Record for Longest Freestyle during the inaugural O Music Awards), Gary Clark Jr., Kimbra (of “Somebody That I Used To Know” fame) and British singer Ed Sheeran. The 2012 mtvU Woodie Awards Festival will take place March 15 down at SXSW and is open to both badge-holders and uncredited music fans alike. The entire fest will also stream live on Woodies.mtvU.com and leads up to the awards themselves. On Sunday, March 18, the best moments from the Woodies will be broadcast in a 30-minute special airing on MTV and mtvU at 8 p.m. ET. Voting is also under way in all Woodies categories — including Woodie of the Year and the coveted Best Video Woodie — and will remain open until March 9. Voting in the Breaking Woodie category will continue during the live show March 15. Fans can cast ballots in all categories through the Woodies’ website , on their mobile phones at M.MTV.com or by texting VOTE to 66333. Standard message and data rates may apply. The 2012 mtvU Woodies invade SXSW on March 15 with the Woodies Festival. The best of the 2012 mtvU Woodies will air on MTV and mtvU on March 18 at 8 p.m. ET. Related Photos 2012 mtvU Woodie Awards Nominees Related Artists Chiddy Bang
Congrats to the Taviani Bros. ( who? ), the inveterate sibling filmmakers whose Shakespeare-in-prison semi-doc Caesar Must Die has claimed the top prize at this year’s Berlinale. Stephanie Zacharek has more about the Golden Bear winner in her review from Berlin — along with more about Barbara , whose own helmer, Christian Petzold, won the festival’s Best Director award. ( Tabu and Sister nabbed hardware as well.) As Stephanie predicted, Caesar Must Die secured U.S. distribution in this week in Berlin and will be Stateside later this year; stay tuned to Movieline for details about how and when you can see it, and read on for the complete list of winners. Congrats to all! GOLDEN BEAR FOR THE BEST FILM Cesare deve morire (Caesar Must Die) by Paolo & Vittorio Taviani JURY GRAND PRIX-SILVER BEAR Csak a szél (Just The Wind) by Bence Fliegauf SILVER BEAR FOR BEST DIRECTOR Christian Petzold for Barbara (Barbara) SILVER BEAR FOR BEST ACTRESS Rachel Mwanza in Rebelle (War Witch) by Kim Nguyen SILVER BEAR FOR BEST ACTOR Mikkel Boe Følsgaard in En Kongelig Affære (A Royal Affair) by Nikolaj Arcel SILVER BEAR FOR AN OUTSTANDING ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTION Lutz Reitemeier for the photography in Bai lu yuan (White Deer Plain) by Wang Quan’an SILVER BEAR FOR THE BEST SCRIPT Nikolaj Arcel, Rasmus Heisterberg for En Kongelig Affære (A Royal Affair) by Nikolaj Arcel ALFRED BAUER PRIZE, awarded in memory of the Festival founder, for a work of particular innovation: Tabu by Miguel Gomes SPECIAL PRIZE-SILVER BEAR L’enfant d’en haut (Sister) by Ursula Meier BEST FIRST FEATURE AWARD, endowed with 50,000 Euros, funded by GWFF Kauwboy Kauwboy by Boudewijn Koole (Generation Kplus) SPECIAL MENTION Tepenin Ardı Beyond the Hill by Emin Alper (Forum) PRIZES OF THE INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM JURY GOLDEN BEAR Rafa by João Salaviza THE JURY PRIZE – SILVER BEAR Gurehto Rabitto The Great Rabbit by Atsushi Wada SPECIAL MENTION Licuri Surf Licuri Surf by Guile Martins EFA SHORT FILM NOMINEE BERLIN Vilaine Fille Mauvais Garçon Two Ships by Justine Triet DAAD SHORT FILM PRIZE: The Man that Got Away The Man that Got Away by Trevor Anderson PRIZES OF THE JURIES GENERATION Children’s Jury Generation Kplus CRYSTAL BEAR FOR THE BEST FILM: Arcadia by Olivia Silver SPECIAL MENTION: Just Pretended To Hear by Kaori Imaizumi CRYSTAL BEAR FOR THE BEST SHORT FILM: Julian by Matthew Moore SPECIAL MENTION: BINO by Billie Pleffer Youth Jury Generation 14 plus, CRYSTAL BEAR FOR THE BEST FILM: Night of Silence by Reis Çelik SPECIAL MENTION Kronjuvelerna The Crown Jewels by Ella Lemhagen CRYSTAL BEAR FOR THE BEST SHORT FILM: Meathead Meathead by Sam Holst SPECIAL MENTION 663114 by Isamu Hirabayashi International Jury Generation Kplus THE GRAND PRIX OF THE DEUTSCHES KINDERHILFSWERK FOR THE BEST FILM: Kauwboy Kauwboy by Boudewijn Koole SPECIAL MENTION: GATTU by Rajan Khosa THE SPECIAL PRIZE OF THE DEUTSCHES KINDERHILFSWERK FOR THE BEST SHORT FILM: BINO by Billie Pleffer SPECIAL MENTION: L by Thais Fujinaga Competition Panorama Forum Cesare deve morire (Caesar Must Die), by Paolo & Vittorio Taviani Rebelle (War Witch), by Kim Nguyen Die Wand (The Wall), by Julian Roman Pölsler Parada (The Parade), by Srdjan Dragojevic La demora (The Delay), by Rodrigo Plá Tabu (Tabu), by Miguel Gomes L’âge atomique (Atomic Age), by Héléna Klotz Hemel (Hemel), by Sacha Polak PRIZE OF THE GUILD OF GERMAN ART HOUSE CINEMAS: À moi seule (Coming Home), by Frédéric Videau C.I.C.A.E. PRIZE: Death For Sale (Death for Sale), by Faouzi Bensaïdi Forum Kazoku no kuni (Our Homeland), by Yang Yonghi LABEL EUROPA CINEMAS: My Brother The Devil (My Brother The Devil), by Sally El Hosaini Special Mention: Dollhouse (Dollhouse), by Kirsten Sheridan TEDDY AWARDS Keep The Lights On (Keep The Lights On), by Ira Sachs Call Me Kuchu (Call Me Kuchu), by Malika Zouhali-Worrall, Katherine Fairfax Wright Loxoro (Loxoro), by Claudia Llosa Jaurés (Jaurés), by Vincent Dieutre INDEPENDENT JURIES PRIZES OF THE ECUMENICAL JURY MADE IN GERMANY – PERSPEKTIVE FELLOWSHIP, endowed with 15,000 Euros, funded by Glashütte Original Annekatrin Hendel for Disko (Disco) DIALOGUE EN PERSPECTIVE, funded by the German-French Youth Office This Ain’t California (This Ain’t California), by Marten Persiel CALIGARI FILM PRIZE Tepenin Ardı (Beyond the Hill), by Emin Alper Special Mentions Bagrut Lochamim (Soldier / Citizen), by Silvina Landsmann Escuela normal (Normal School), by Celina Murga Jaurès (Jaurès), by Vincent Dieutre NETPAC PRIZE Paziraie Sadeh (Modest Reception), by Mani Haghighi PEACE FILM AWARD Csak a szél (Just The Wind), by Bence Fliegauf AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL FILM PRIZE Csak a szél (Just The Wind), by Bence Fliegauf CINEMA FAIRBINDET PRIZE Call Me Kuchu (Call Me Kuchu), by Malika Zouhali-Worrall, Katherine Fairfax Wright READERS’ JURIES AND AUDIENCE AWARDS Panorama Audience Award PPP – fiction film: Parada (The Parade), by Srdjan Dragojevic Panorama Audience Award PPP – documentary film: Marina Abramovic The Artist is Present (Marina Abramovic The Artist is Present), by Matthew Akers BERLINER MORGENPOST READERS’ PRIZE Barbara (Barbara), by Christian Petzold TAGESSPIEGEL READERS’ PRIZE La demora (The Delay), by Rodrigo Plá SIEGESSÄULE READERS’ AWARD Parada (The Parade), by Srdjan Dragojevic Special Mention Call Me Kuchu (Call Me Kuchu), by Malika Zouhali-Worrall, Katherine Fairfax Wright PRIZE OF THE BERLINALE TALENT CAMPUS SCORE COMPETITION Christoph Fleischmann (Germany) BERLIN TODAY AWARD Rafael Balulu (Israel) for Batman At The Checkpoint (Batman At The Checkpoint) Special Mention David Lalé (United Kingdom) for White Lobster (White Lobster) [via Deadline ]
Lorelei Lee’s g ot the porn world all tied up, and now she’s out to make Hollywood her bitch! Sorry, couldn’t resist. Anyway, Lorelei (left, presumably reading her story notes) is one of the most popular BDSM models on the ‘net, and after receiving a Master’s in Creative Writing from NYU, she’s branching out with Cherry , a new movie based on her original screenplay. And she’s been quite successful so far, netting big-name stars like Heather Graham and James Franco to star in the film, which premieres this weekend at the prestigious Berlin Film Festival . Cherry stars nudecomer Ashley Hinsaw as Angelina, a vulnerable young woman who escapes her abusive parents and finds personal and sexual empowerment in the world of porn. Guiding Angelina on her road to flesh-flick fulfillment are her sleazy lawyer beau (Franco), a lipstick-lesbian XXX director (Graham), and her sexually repressed best friend ( Dev Patel of Slumdog Millionaire fame). Cherry has received mixed reviews from critics, but The Hollywood Reporter cites ” fierce lesbian breakup sex ” between Heather and her girlfriend and “enough skin to net a Cinemax sale” from Ashley…and that’s enough Cherry to make Mr. Skin pop! See more from Lorelei Lee and Heather Graham right here at MrSkin.com
Lorelei Lee’s g ot the porn world all tied up, and now she’s out to make Hollywood her bitch! Sorry, couldn’t resist. Anyway, Lorelei (left, presumably reading her story notes) is one of the most popular BDSM models on the ‘net, and after receiving a Master’s in Creative Writing from NYU, she’s branching out with Cherry , a new movie based on her original screenplay. And she’s been quite successful so far, netting big-name stars like Heather Graham and James Franco to star in the film, which premieres this weekend at the prestigious Berlin Film Festival . Cherry stars nudecomer Ashley Hinsaw as Angelina, a vulnerable young woman who escapes her abusive parents and finds personal and sexual empowerment in the world of porn. Guiding Angelina on her road to flesh-flick fulfillment are her sleazy lawyer beau (Franco), a lipstick-lesbian XXX director (Graham), and her sexually repressed best friend ( Dev Patel of Slumdog Millionaire fame). Cherry has received mixed reviews from critics, but The Hollywood Reporter cites ” fierce lesbian breakup sex ” between Heather and her girlfriend and “enough skin to net a Cinemax sale” from Ashley…and that’s enough Cherry to make Mr. Skin pop! See more from Lorelei Lee and Heather Graham right here at MrSkin.com
‘Having blockbusters in your life is never a bad thing,’ he says at press conference. By Jocelyn Vena Christina Ricci and Robert Pattinson in Berlin on Friday Robert Pattinson appeared at the Berlin International Film Festival on Friday (February 17) to promote his latest effort, the big-screen adaptation of the Guy de Maupassant novel “Bel Ami.” During the press conference, the actor opened up about making the film, which follows a manipulative young man who romances various women in 19th-century Paris. “To work as a journalist? It’s funny. I kind of like the idea, especially when he gets into the gossip section of the newspaper,” the actor said about his character’s job in the flick and how he related it to his own headline-making life. Click for photos of Robert Pattinson at the “Bel Ami” event in Berlin. “Something that was written in … 1885, for it to be the exact same situation as it is now, where you have a template article and you just replace the name and it could be about anybody, I thought that was really funny. But he’s not really a journalist. … It’s basically like being a reality TV star now,” he said. “It was one of the jobs where you could kind of [get ahead]; he found a loophole in life where he could get money and a reputation by basically doing nothing. It was fun; it was interesting.” As for the film, Pattinson said that he agreed to do it because he thought he might never get the chance to play a character like that again. “It’s funny, the structure of ‘Bel Ami’ and the character of Georges really rarely comes up in movies anymore because he’s completely unrepentant, and normally a movie has to teach somebody a lesson nowadays. It was quite fun playing that,” he said. “They both have their good sides.” He added that when he first read the script, he related to Georges’ motivations. “I read the script a long time ago. I was pretty young. I think I’ve changed a little bit,” the actor said. “I kind of understood that. You create an empire just so you can sh– on someone else. I think I’ve grown up a little bit. I’m not as horrible.” The film is much different in tone than “Twilight,” and Pattinson addressed any concerns he might have about bringing that audience along to this film, which opens in March. “I guess my responsibility, I think, it’s not necessarily to give anything back other than try and do the best work you can. You get an audience for doing certain jobs, so I think the biggest disservice you can do to your audience is trying to repeat the same thing and to come just to get money or whatever,” he said. “If a ‘Twilight’ audience would come watch ‘Bel Ami,’ it’s a movie that I wouldn’t have thought that audience would go to, so I think that in some way, it’s kind of doing a service to someone. I felt like I learned a lot from it.” Pattinson spoke about balancing smaller films with big ones like “Twilight.” “Having blockbusters in your life is never a bad thing,” he said. “When you’re making it, if everyone is expecting it to be a blockbuster, it’s kind of lame.” Check out everything we’ve got on “Bel Ami.” For young Hollywood news, fashion and “Twilight” updates around the clock, visit HollywoodCrush.MTV.com . Related Photos Robert Pattinson And ‘Bel Ami’ Cast Take On Europe
A$AP Rocky, Fun., More Tapped For mtvU Woodie Awards Festival By James Montgomery Nate Ruess, Will Noon and Jack Antonoff of Fun. Photo: WireImage Last week, mtvU announced that not only would the 2012 Woodie Awards be returning to Austin, Texas, for the South by Southwest music festival, but this year, they’ll be getting in on the action too, with a free, daylong fest of their own. And on Friday (February 17), the first batch of performers for the 2012 mtvU Woodie Awards Festival were announced, a lineup chock-full of up-and-coming talent from all fields: Rock acts Fun. and Walk the Moon, rapper A$AP Rocky, and electro standout Wallpaper will all perform at the festival, which kicks off at 1 p.m. CT on March 15 and is open to both SXSW badge-holders and the great uncredentialed masses. More acts for the Woodies Fest will be announced at a later date. If you can’t make it down to Austin, don’t fret: Beginning March 11, “Woodie Awards Week” will take over MTV, mtvU and MTV.com with performances, interviews and updates from SXSW. And the entire 2012 mtvU Woodie Awards Festival will stream live at the Woodies’ official site . It all leads up to the 2012 Woodie Awards, which kick off at 8 p.m. on March 15. That Sunday, March 18, MTV and mtvU will air the best moments from the awards in a 30-minute special. Voting is already under way in all Woodie categories — nominees include Jay-Z and Kanye West, the Black Keys and Skrillex — and will remain open until March 9 … except for the “Breaking Woodie” category, for which voting will continue during the live show on March 15. Fans can vote in all categories online or on their mobile phones at m.mtv.com, or by texting “VOTE” to 66333. Standard message and data rates may apply. The 2012 mtvU Woodies invade SXSW on March 15 with the Woodies Festival. The best of the 2012 mtvU Woodies will air on MTV and mtvU on Sunday (March 18) at 8 p.m. ET. Related Photos 2012 mtvU Woodie Awards Nominees Related Artists A$AP Rocky fun.
New to the distribution arena, Alamo Drafthouse co-founder Tim League became enamored of a small Belgian crime drama called Bullhead at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Less than a year later, he and his Drafthouse Films operation have an Oscar contender on their hands. Not too shabby for a company younger than the Obama administration. Bullhead , from first-time feature director Michaël R. Roskam, centers on a contemptuous, troubled cattle farmer who is dragged into Belgium’s bovine hormone mafia underworld. Lead actor Matthias Schoenaerts (pictured above) packed on 60 pounds of muscle for the complex, acclaimed role. The film made such an impression at Cannes that League lobbied “fiercely” to include it in the lineup for his venue’s annual Fantastic Fest, despite its wide perception among viewers and industry alike as a sci-fi/horror/Asian genre showcase. “We had to really convince them to show it at the festival,” League told Movieline in a recent interview. “And it was after the festival and the great response that it had from our audience that we decided we wanted to make an offer on it for the label.” “The label,” of course, is Drafthouse Films, a venture that grew out of the festival, which itself had been an evolution from programming the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema — the Austin-based theater chain that League co-founded with his wife, Karrie, in 1997. The impresario saw distribution as a natural next step, commencing in 2010 with director Chris Morris’s suicide-bomber satire Four Lions . “We realized that a lot of these films really didn’t have an opportunity to find a great home for U.S. distribution,” League said. “So we thought we were building an audience with the festival and we might as well build a label to walk alongside it with the same sensibilities.” (Incidentally, Four Lions had closed Austin’s flagship film fest, South by Southwest, six months earlier.) For its second release, the distributor gave Bullhead a U.S. home and entered the Foreign-Language Oscar race in one fell swoop. “We really loved Bullhead , and there was just a strange set of circumstances that fell into place where we expressed our interest, and before we had the contract done it was Belgium’s official entry to the Academy Awards, which kick-started the process,” League said. “But even still, we knew we were a long shot. It’s been wild to see it fall into place.” The Drafthouse team was at Sundance last month when the good news came through. “We were watching the announcement live on television,” League said. “And we got the nomination, and we celebrated and had a glass of champagne, then everybody just hunkered down at their computers for about five hours and set a lot of wheels in motion. We had to put the trailer together, the poster together, the ad campaign. We had to hire a bunch of folks to help us out with the process.” Those hires were made from preparations the team had already done for the film’s distribution, but the nomination sped up the process. Drafthouse Films plans to release six films a year theatrically and on VOD, but it isn’t following a set model each time. It has three films planned for this year so far: Bullhead , the subversive comedy Clown and SXSW favorite The FP . Meanwhile, League admits Bullhead is an underdog at the Oscars — particularly against A Separation , the Golden Globe-winning Iranian film that’s also up for best screenplay. Nevertheless, he says, it’s a category that has seen upsets and surprises. The Drafthouse team will be in Los Angeles to support the film on Feb. 26, throwing a Bullhead party on Oscar night. “Win or lose, we’re super happy to be a part of it,” League said. Bullhead will be released in New York, Los Angeles and Austin on Feb. 17, with further expansion to come ahead of the Oscars.
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