latimes.com - 1/5/2009
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The daring film, which is nominated for a Golden Globe for best foreign-language film and uses multiple animation techniques, has earned numerous accolades, including six awards from the Israeli Film Academy and best animated film from the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. Mike Leigh's ...
indiewire.com - 1/4/2009
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indiewire.com —
by Brian Brooks (January 3, 2009) The National
Society of Film Critics weighed in with their picks...
for the best of '08 today in New York, with Ari Folman 's " Waltz with Bashir " receiving the group's choice for best picture. Mike Leigh 's " ...
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AWARDS WATCH '08 | "Waltz" and "Lucky" Take National ...
getthebigpicture.net - 1/4/2009
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getthebigpicture.net —
The last major group of film critics has
awarded its 2008 honors, with the National Society of...
Film Critics going heavily against the grain, picking 'Waltz with Bashir' the year's best picture, and giving the most trophies to Mike Leigh's character comedy, 'Happy-Go-Lucky'.
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National Society of Film Critics Honor 'Bashir,' ...
awardsdaily.com - 1/5/2009
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awardsdaily.com —
Best Picture: Waltz with Bashir Best Director: Mike
Leigh (Happy-Go-Lucky) Best Actor: Sean Penn (Milk) Best Actress:...
Sally Hawkins (Happy-Go-Lucky) (more to come)
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Awards Watch: National Critics Go for a Waltz
Movie Dearest —
... Following the holiday break, the award season kicked back into gear today with the announcement of the National Society of Film Critics Awards. And, ...
"Bashir" in a Waltz?
Carpetbagger —
... . The selection is congruent with its high-brow history — in the last 31 years, The Los Angeles Times points out, the group’s choice for best picture has dovetailed with that of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences only four times – the last being 2004’s “Million Dollar Baby.” But “Waltz With Bashir” is hardly too rarefied to be taken seriously. No other movie – give or take “Slumdog Millionaire” – left the Bagger staring in wonder like this one. Watching one of his daughters home for vacation pick over his screeners – she’s a film-involved student at a large ...
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