Awards and noms, 10/23.

What, already? Evidently... "More than four months before Oscar night, the annual awards season essentially got underway this morning as the IFP announced the nominations for its 17th annual Gotham Awards, honoring the best in independent film," wrote Eugene Hernandez yesterday at indieWIRE. "Craig Zobel's low budget indie Great World of Sound was the biggest single nominee with three nods - for best feature, breakthrough director and breakthrough actor - topping a list that included double nominees Into the Wild and Margot at the Wedding, as well as Julia Loktev's Day Night Day Night. In total, 28 films were nominated in six categories: Best Feature, Best Documentary, Breakthrough Director, Breakthrough Actor, Best Ensemble Cast, and Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You."

And as Ted Z notes, you can download some of these screenplays.

More from ST VanAirsdale at the Reeler.

"Anyone who thinks that the rest of the world is peeved with the United States simply because of the go-it-alone policies of the Bush administration should spend some time at an international film festival," advises Patrick Goldstein in the Los Angeles Times. "Whenever the subject of the Oscars pops up, filmmakers begin to mutter all sorts of colorful anti-American imprecations - badmuts, I have learned, is Dutch slang for 'idiot' - especially when talk turns to the bizarre, impenetrable prohibitions involving foreign films."

AJ Schnack lists the awards a slew of docs have won so far this year.

"Control, the biopic of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, leads the nominations for this year's British Independent Film Awards." The BBC reports.

He may never get around to more than one entry, but there's Cristian Mungiu, blogging at the Guardian. You have to wonder if he wrote the entry's title. "Winning the Palme d'Or has changed my life."

Posted by dwhudson at October 23, 2007 9:32 AM