2011 Santa Fe Film Festival titles
The Artist, A Separation,
and Monsieur Lazhar, are Oscar bound – time to celebrate!
On the heels of winning three Golden Globes this year – the 2011 Santa Fe Film Festival’s sold-out opening night film, The Artist, received 10 Academy Award nominations last week including noms in the Best Director (Michel Hazanavicius), Best Actor (Jean Dujardin), Best Supporting Actress (Bérénice Bejo), Best Original Screenplay (Hazanavicius) and Best Film categories. Additional nominations for this charming, love letter to Hollywood’s silent era honor the film’s cinematographer, production designer, costume designer, film editor and composer.
Since the film’s Santa Fe premiere at the 2011 festival in October, The Artist has earned kudos world-wide: making over a dozen international film critic’s top ten lists and taking top honors from the London Film Critics Circle, The New York Film Critics Circle, the Producers Guild, among many others. And the accolades do not stop there with The Artist winning the Directors Guild’s Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Feature Film for Michel Hazanaviicius (often a predictor of the Academy Award winner for Best Director) and Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role (Jean Dujardin) at the Screen Actor’s Guild (SAG) Awards.
Other Oscar contenders first screened in New Mexico at the 2011 Santa Fe Film Festival are Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation and Philippe Falardea’s Monsieur Lazhar (a US Premiere).
Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film at this year’s Golden Globes, A Separation, is also favored to take home Oscar gold in this category with its Writer/Director Farhadi nominated alongside Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) for Best Original Screenplay. Joining Iran’s A Separation, in making the Academy’s Foreign Language Film shortlist, is the Santa Fe Film Festival’s closing night film, Monsieur Lazhar representing Canada.
Mark your calendar
Join the Santa Fe Film Festival as we celebrate
The Artist, A Separation, Monsieur Lazhar
and the films of 2011 at our
Academy Awards Screening Party Sunday, February 26, 2012.
