One actress unlikely to be invited to the Oscars is Sean Young, following her outburst at the DGA awards last weekend.
Young yelled at La Vie en Rose star Marion Cotillard when she was on stage and heckled director Julian Schnabel when he was speaking, telling him "to get on with it". Schnabel responded, "Have another cocktail, honey", before Young was ejected by security guards.
Falling Slowly holding steady
There are sighs of relief all round now that the Once song, Falling Slowly, has been confirmed as eligible in the best original song Oscar category.
There had been confusion because the song featured on two albums and in a Czech movie, Beauty in Trouble, all released in 2006, before Once had its US premiere. The song turned up on the soundtrack of yet another movie last autumn, Feast of Love, starring Morgan Freeman and Greg Kinnear.
In the interactive Oscar ballot on the New York Times website, Falling Slowly is the runaway favourite among the five Oscar-nominated songs. It has 44 per cent of the votes, well ahead of one of the three nominated songs from Enchanted, which is second place with 17 per cent.
Belfast man finds sound success
Add Peter J Devlin to the list of Irish nominees for Oscars this year.
Devlin, who is from Belfast, is nominated in the best sound category for his work on Transformers. He was nominated in the same category for Pearl Harbor in 2002. On both films, Devlin was nominated with his collaborators, Kevin O'Connell and Greg P Russell. If they win for Transformers, it will break O'Connell's unlucky streak. This is his 20th Oscar nomination, but he has yet to win the award. Devlin is now working on Star Trek XI.
All decked out for the big award
The winner of an Emmy last year for The Tudors, Irish designer Joan Bergin has been nominated by her peers in the Costume Designers Guild for her work on that TV series. The guild will present its annual awards in Beverly Hills on February 19th. Bergin's many cinema credits include My Left Foot, Some Mother's Son, Dancing at Lughnasa, Veronica Guerin and The Prestige.
Sundance stars can just go fish
While smaller projects and documentaries generate the buzz at this year's Sundance festival,
Variety notes that the star-driven movies on show - among them What Just Happened? with Robert De Niro and Bruce Willis, and The Great Buck Howard with Tom Hanks, his son Colin and John Malkovich - "held all the appeal of three-day-old fish."
Duby to get the Stone treatment
Having secured the finance for his film on President George W Bush, Oliver Stone is accelerating production
on the movie, titled Bush, which is now to set to shoot in April. Stone hopes to have the film finished in time for release in November, coinciding with the US presidential election. Josh Brolin (No Country for Old Men) will play the title role in Bush.
An extreme film festival
The inaugural Wee Adventure Film Festival, presenting a programme of short sporting films, will be held at the Sugar Club in Dublin at 8pm next Wednesday. "If you are into skydiving, mountain biking, climbing, paddling, hiking, windsurfing or any other outdoor adventure sport, then this is the film festival for you," promise the organisers. www.waff.ie
Polish films to make the rounds
The newly formed PolishFilmClub.com will tour Polish movies around Irish cinemas on a year- round basis, beginning with the well-regarded Feliks Falk drama, The Collector/Komornik. It will be shown next week at Cineworld, Dublin (on Monday night), Storm, Portlaoise (Tuesday) and Gate, Cork (Thursday). www.polishfilmclub.com
