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Janaury 2008
2008 Screen Actors Guild Awards
Posted: 2008-01-28Marcia has attended yesterday's Screen Actors Guild Awards Ceremony, where she was nominated with the ensemble of "Into the Wild" (the award went to the cast of "No Country for Old Men"). All pictures from the event can be found in the Image Library. 
 2008 Sundance Film Festival
Posted: 2008-01-28As reported below, Marcia was among this year's jury members at the Sundance Film Festival. Courtney Hunt's film "Frozen River", about two women who help smuggle illegal people into the United States, took the top prize, winning the grand jury prize for dramatic features at the show. The audience award was won by The Wackness, a comedy from Jonathan Levine. In the World Cinema Competition, the grand jury prize for dramatic feature went to Jens Jonsson's King of Ping Pong. The audience award went to Amin Matalqa's Captain Abu Raed. I've added picture from various events, such as the jury's press conference, to the Image Library. 
The following tidbit on the jury's panel comes from
CinemaBlend: Among the jury members
present at the conference were documentary film makers Amir Bar-Lev and Leena Pasanen,
IFP (Independent Feature Project) Executive Director, Michelle Byrd, directors Jan
Schuette and Mary Harron, and actors Diego Luna, Marcia Gay Harden and Sandra Oh.
When the discussion got around to what some of the jurors anticipate in terms of the
films they’ll be judging, Marcia Gay Harden (who is as gorgeous in person as she is on
screen) was excited at the prospect of getting to really analyze and evaluate each film
individually. She said, “I know that we’re going to see things that are raw and great. I
know that [I’m] going to see things that are different and may not appeal to my taste but
I get to go ‘Huh, how do all the elements fit together? How did the craft - the
cinematography, the contributions of the actors - How did it fit together in order to
make what would be a wonderful independent film?’” 2008 Critics Choice Awards
Posted: 2008-01-08Marcia has made her first appearance in 2008, presenting the Best Actor prize to Daniel Day Lewis at the Critics Choice Awards. 
Marcia among jury members at Sundance Film Festival
Posted: 2008-01-08Marcia Gay Harden, Sandra Oh, Quentin Tarantino, Jason Reitman and Alan Alda are among the jurors lined up for this month's Sundance Film Festival. Other jurors include actress Melonie Diaz ("Be Kind Rewind"), director Mary Harron ("American Psycho"), actor Diego Luna ("Y Tu Mama Tambien") and documentary filmmaker Eugene Jarecki ("Why We Fight"). Harden, Luna and Oh will join Harron and Tarantino to choose the dramatic competition grand jury prize. Diaz and Reitman, along with filmmaker Jon Bloom, comprise the American and international shorts jury. Jarecki will help select the documentary competition grand jury prize, and Alda the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize, awarded to a film focusing on science or technology. The awards will be announced January 26 at the Park City Racquet Club. The festival kicks off January 17. "The Mist" to release on DVD, March 25
Posted: 2008-01-08Genius Products plans to release "The Mist" on DVD this March 25th. Written/directed by Frank Darabont (The Green Mile and The Shawshank Redemption) and starring Thomas Jane and Marcia Gay Harden. It appears that single and double disc editions will be available. Nothing much else is known about the release but we will bring you more details as soon as they are announced. |