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British director takes Berlin cinema prize
Plaudits for Winterbottom and Whitecross as film awards circuit moves on to London and the Baftas
By Anthony Barnes and Jonathan Romney
Published: 19 February 2006
The Berlin Film Festival ended last night with a surprise result and a major award for British director Michael Winterbottom. The Silver Bear for Best Director went jointly to Winterbottom and his co-director Mat Whitecross for The Road to Guantanamo, their documentary-style recreation of the events leading to the incarceration of three British Muslims in the US camp in Cuba.
Winterbottom accepted the prize with Whitecross and then welcomed on stage the three men - Ruhel Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul - who tell their own story in the film.
It came as a surprise that The Road to Guantanamo did not win the festival's main prize, the Golden Bear, for which it had been heavily tipped.
Instead, the awards jury, headed by actress Charlotte Rampling, gave the Golden Bear to a film that received mixed critical reactions - Grbavica, a debut fiction feature by Bosnian director Jasmila Zbanic, about a young girl who believes her father is a war hero.
And so the film awards caravan moves on to London, or, to be more precise, Leicester Square, which,for a few hours tonight become as near to Hollywood as anywhere in Britain ever gets.
It's the Baftas, and tonight's awards will put up more than a passable imitation of the Oscars, which take place in a fortnight's time. Charlize Theron, George Clooney, Rachel Weisz and Jake Gyllenhaal are among the nominees who are jetting in to provide the glamour and set the flashbulbs popping.
The fate of The Constant Gardener, the only British movie up for the best film award in a field dominated by US entries, will be eagerly awaited when winners are announced at the ceremony. The adaptation, starring Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz, leads the field with 10 nominations in total for tonight's prizes.
KEY BAFTA NOMINATIONS
Best Film
'Brokeback Mountain'
'Capote'
'The Constant Gardener'
'Crash'
'Good Night, and Good Luck'
Best British Film
'A Cock and Bull Story'
'The Constant Gardener'
'Festival'
'Pride and Prejudice'
'Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were Rabbit'
Best Actor
DAVID STRATHAIRN ('Good Night, and Good Luck')
HEATH LEDGER ('Brokeback Mountain')
JOAQUIN PHOENIX ('Walk the Line')
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN ('Capote')
RALPH FIENNES ('The Constant Gardener')
Best Actress
CHARLIZE THERON ('North Country')
JUDI DENCH ('Mrs Henderson Presents')
RACHEL WEISZ ('The Constant Gardener')
REESE WITHERSPOON ('Walk the Line')
ZIYI ZHANG ('Memoirs of a Geisha')
Best Director
ANG LEE ('Brokeback Mountain')
BENNETT MILLER ('Capote')
FERNANDO MEIRELLES ('The Constant Gardener')
PAUL HAGGIS ('Crash')
GEORGE CLOONEY ('Good Night, and Good Luck')
The Berlin Film Festival ended last night with a surprise result and a major award for British director Michael Winterbottom. The Silver Bear for Best Director went jointly to Winterbottom and his co-director Mat Whitecross for The Road to Guantanamo, their documentary-style recreation of the events leading to the incarceration of three British Muslims in the US camp in Cuba.
Winterbottom accepted the prize with Whitecross and then welcomed on stage the three men - Ruhel Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul - who tell their own story in the film.
It came as a surprise that The Road to Guantanamo did not win the festival's main prize, the Golden Bear, for which it had been heavily tipped.
Instead, the awards jury, headed by actress Charlotte Rampling, gave the Golden Bear to a film that received mixed critical reactions - Grbavica, a debut fiction feature by Bosnian director Jasmila Zbanic, about a young girl who believes her father is a war hero.
And so the film awards caravan moves on to London, or, to be more precise, Leicester Square, which,for a few hours tonight become as near to Hollywood as anywhere in Britain ever gets.
It's the Baftas, and tonight's awards will put up more than a passable imitation of the Oscars, which take place in a fortnight's time. Charlize Theron, George Clooney, Rachel Weisz and Jake Gyllenhaal are among the nominees who are jetting in to provide the glamour and set the flashbulbs popping.
The fate of The Constant Gardener, the only British movie up for the best film award in a field dominated by US entries, will be eagerly awaited when winners are announced at the ceremony. The adaptation, starring Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz, leads the field with 10 nominations in total for tonight's prizes.
KEY BAFTA NOMINATIONS
Best Film
'Brokeback Mountain'
'Capote'
'The Constant Gardener'
'Crash'
'Good Night, and Good Luck'
Best British Film
'A Cock and Bull Story'
'The Constant Gardener'
'Festival'
'Pride and Prejudice'
'Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were Rabbit'
Best Actor
DAVID STRATHAIRN ('Good Night, and Good Luck')
HEATH LEDGER ('Brokeback Mountain')
JOAQUIN PHOENIX ('Walk the Line')
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN ('Capote')
RALPH FIENNES ('The Constant Gardener')
Best Actress
CHARLIZE THERON ('North Country')
JUDI DENCH ('Mrs Henderson Presents')
RACHEL WEISZ ('The Constant Gardener')
REESE WITHERSPOON ('Walk the Line')
ZIYI ZHANG ('Memoirs of a Geisha')
Best Director
ANG LEE ('Brokeback Mountain')
BENNETT MILLER ('Capote')
FERNANDO MEIRELLES ('The Constant Gardener')
PAUL HAGGIS ('Crash')
GEORGE CLOONEY ('Good Night, and Good Luck')
A evo i pisma koje sam napisao uredniku povodom ovog clanka
Dear Sir,
I was extremely disappointed at the churlish tone of your reporter's missive
from the Berlin Film festival ( Page 9, Independent on Sunday 19 February
2006).
The headline and five paragraphs are dedicated to the British film which
came second- although that is not easy to discern from the headline. Only in
the fourth paragraph is it reported that the Golden Bear was actually won by
a Bosnian film directed by a female , and this her debut feature film.
This is a astonishing achievement by any standards, and shouldn't be derided
by snide comments such as 'a film that received mixed critical reactions'.
As stated in the press conference, this is a film from a country which
doesn't even have its own 35mm cameras or a laboratory to process film
stock. Furthermore, the film is the first to tackle the sensitive issue of
women raped as an act of war and its repurcussions for the children thus
conceived NOT just ' about a young girl who believes her father is a war
hero'.
The Independent on Sunday has always been to the forefront of championing
new talents in world cinema. Perhaps the bad taste left by this review could
be removed by a serious appraisal of the film and an interview with its
young director, Jasmilla Zbanic?
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