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43rd SHADOWS AWARDS See also: SHADOWS HALL OF FAME |
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FILM: All of Us Strangers (Andrew Haigh)Runners-up: Past Lives. Joyland. Poor Things. Reality. DIR: Celine Song (Past Lives) SCR: Celine Song (Past Lives) ACT: Sandra Huller (Anatomy of a Fall, The Zone of Interest); Ali Junejo (Joyland) SUP: Da'Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers, A Little White Lie, Rustin); Paul Mescal (All of Us Strangers, God's Creatures, Foe, Carmen)
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FILM: Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert)Runners-up: No Bears. The Quiet Girl. The Inspection. The Banshees of Inisherin. DIR: Park Chan-wook (Decision to Leave) SCR: Kazuo Ishiguro (Living) ACT: Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once); Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin, After Yang, The Batman) SUP: Hong Chau (The Whale, The Menu); Diego Calva (Babylon)
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FILM: The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)Runners-up: Benediction. Quo Vadis, Aida? Judas and the Black Messiah. Flee. DIR: Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog) SCR: Terence Davies (Benediction) ACT: Penelope Cruz (Parallel Mothers); Andrew Garfield (Tick Tick... Boom, Mainstream, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Spider-Man: No Way Home) SUP: Jessie Buckley (The Lost Daughter, The Courier); Daniel Kaluuya (Judas and the Black Messiah)
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FILM: Nomadland (Chloe Zhao) Runners-up: Mangrove. The Mauritanian. System Crasher. Notturno. DIR: Steve McQueen (Small Axe) SCR: MB Traven, Rory Haines, Sohrab Noshirvani (The Mauritanian) ACT: Julia Garner (The Assistant), Tahar Rahim (The Mauritanian) SUP: Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm), Barry Keoghan (Calm With Horses)
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FILM: Parasite (Bong Joon Ho)Runners-up: Pain and Glory. Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Wild Rose. Honeyland. DIR: Pedro Almodovar (Pain and Glory) SCR: Celine Sciamma (Portrait of a Lady on Fire) ACT: Jesse Buckley (Wild Rose, Judy), Adam Driver (Marriage Story, The Report, The Rise of Skywalker, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote) SUP: Laura Dern (Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy, Marriage Story, Little Women), Noah Jupe (Honey Boy, Ford v Ferrari)
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FILM: BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee) Runners-up: Cold War. The Favourite. If Beale Street Could Talk. Generation Wealth. DIR: Pawel Pawlikowski (Cold War) SCR: Barry Jenkins (If Beale Street Could Talk) ACT: Olivia Colman (The Favourite); Michael B Jordan (Black Panther, Creed II, Fahrenheit 451) SUP: Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk); Brian Tyree Henry (If Beale Street Could Talk, Widows, White Boy Rick, Hotel Artemis)
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FILM: A Fantastic Woman
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FILM: Jackie (Pablo Larrain) Runners-up: Fire at Sea. La La Land. Son of Saul. Moonlight. DIR: Damien Chazelle (La La Land) SCR: Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) ACT: Isabelle Huppert (Elle, Things to Come). Geza Rohrig (Son of Saul) SUP: Naomie Harris (Moonlight, Our Kind of Traitor, Collateral Beauty). Lucas Hedges (Manchester by the Sea)
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FILM: Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman) Runners-up: 45 Years. Room. Tangerine. Carol. DIR: Andrew Haigh (45 Years) SCR: Aaron Sorkin (Steve Jobs) ACT: Charlotte Rampling (45 Years), Alfredo Castro (From Afar, The Club) SUP: Elizabeth Banks (Love & Mercy, Pitch Perfect 2, Magic Mike XXL, Mockingjay Part 2), Oscar Isaac (Ex Machina, Star Wars: The Force Awakens)
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FILM: Boyhood (Richard Linklater) Runners-up: Leviathan. Mommy. Selma. The Grand Budapest Hotel. DIR: Ava DuVernay (Selma) SCR: Andrey Zvyagintsev & Oleg Negin (Leviathan) ACT: David Oyelowo (Selma, A Most Violent Year, Interstellar), Julianne Moore (Still Alice, Maps to the Stars) SUP: Emma Stone (Birdman, Magic in the Moonlight), Josh Brolin (Inherent Vice, Sin City: A Dame to Die For)
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FILM: American Hustle (David O Russell) Runners-up: 12 Years a Slave. Filth. Fruitvale Station. Blue Is the Warmest Colour. DIR: Jon S Baird (Filth) SCR: Lake Bell (In a World...) ACT: Emilie Dequenne (Our Children), Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) SUP: Margo Martindale (August: Osage County, Beautiful Creatures), James Franco (Spring Breakers, Homefront, As I Lay Dying, The Iceman)
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FILM: Life of Pi (Ang Lee)Runners-up: Rust and Bone. Holy Motors. Safety Not Guaranteed. Amour. DIR: Ang Lee (Life of Pi) SCR: Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain (Rust and Bone) ACT: Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook, The Hunger Games); Denis Lavant (Holy Motors) SUP: Anne Hathaway (The Dark Knight Rises, Les Miserables); Eddie Redmayne (Les Miserables)
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FILM: A Separation (Asghar Farhadi) Runners-up: We Need to Talk About Kevin. The Artist. Poetry. Weekend. DIR: Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) SCR: Asghar Farhadi (A Separation) ACT: Anna Paquin (Margaret); Dominic Cooper (The Devil's Double, My Week With Marilyn, Captain America) SUP: Sareh Bayat (A Separation); Andy Serkis (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Adventures of Tintin)
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FILM: The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko) Runners-up: Of Gods and Men, Inception, Toy Story 3, The Arbor. DIR: Christopher Nolan (Inception) SCR: Michael Arndt (Toy Story 3) ACT: Rosamund Pike (Barney's Version, Made in Dagenham), Colin Firth (The King's Speech) SUP: Olivia Wiliams (The Ghost), Jason Isaacs (Green Zone, Skeletons, Harry Potter 7 Part I)
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FILM: A Prophet (Jacques Audiard) Runners-up: A Serious Man. Fish Tank. Mugabe and the White African. (500) Days of Summer. DIR: Jane Campion (Bright Star) SCR: Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche (In the Loop) ACT: Katie Jarvis (Fish Tank), Tahar Rahim (A Prophet) SUP: Mo'Nique (Precious), Woody Harrelson (The Messenger, Zombieland, 2012, Management)
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FILM: The Wrestler
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FILM: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
Runners-up: No Country for Old Men. Paranoid Park. The Edge of Heaven. Hallam Foe. DIR: Sidney Lumet (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead) SCR: Joel & Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men) ACT: Laura Linney (Jindabyne, The Savages, Breach, The Hottest State, The Nanny Diaries); Jamie Bell (Hallam Foe, The Chumscrubber) SUP: Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton); Robert Downey Jr (Charlie Bartlett, Zodiac, Lucky You)
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FILM: United 93 (Paul Greengrass) Runners-up: Little Miss Sunshine. Pan's Labyrinth. Letters from Iwo Jima. Shut Up & Sing. DIR: Park Chan-wook (Lady Vengeance) SCR: Michael Arndt (Little Miss Sunshine) ACT: Naomi Watts (Painted Veil, Ellie Parker, Stay), James McAvoy (The Last King of Scotland, Starter for Ten) SUP: Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine), Bill Nighy (Notes on a Scandal, Stormbreaker, Dead Man's Chest)
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FILM: Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney) Runners-up: The Constant Gardener. Mysterious Skin. A History of Violence. Paradise Now. DIR: Gregg Araki (Mysterious Skin) SCR: Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana (Brokeback Mountain) ACT: Maria Bello (A History of Violence), Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain, Jarhead, Proof) SUP: Catherine Keener (Capote, The 40 Year Old Virgin, The Interpreter), Matt Dillon (Crash)
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FILM: Dogville(Lars von Trier) Runners-up: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The Twilight Samurai. The Motorcycle Diaries. Bad Education. DIR: Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) SCR: Bill Condon (Kinsey) ACT: Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake), Jamie Foxx (Ray, Collateral) SUP: Cate Blanchett (The Aviator, The Life Aquatic, Coffee & Cigarettes), Peter Sarsgaard (Kinsey, Garden State)
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FILM: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson)
Runners-up: American Splendor. Elephant. The Triplets of Belleville. Lost in Translation. DIR: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini (American Splendor) SCR: Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman (American Splendor) ACT: Toni Collette (Japanese Story, Dirty Deeds), Bill Murray (Lost in Translation) SUP: Patricia Clarkson (Pieces of April, The Station Agent, All the Real Girls, The Safety of Objects), Sean Astin (The Return of the King)
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FILM: City of God (Fernando Meirelles) Runners-up: The Hours. Y Tu Mama Tambien. Far From Heaven. The Two Towers. DIR: Alfonso Cuaron (Y Tu Mama Tambien) SCR: Charlie Kaufman (Adaptation, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind) ACT: Julianne Moore (Far From Heaven, The Hours), Danny Huston (Ivansxtc) SUP: Toni Collette (The Hours, About a Boy, Changing Lanes), Peter Boyle (Monster's Ball)
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FILM: Moulin Rouge (Baz Luhrmann) Runners-up: The Fellowship of the Ring, Monsoon Wedding, You Can Count on Me, Hedwig and the Angry Inch DIR: Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge) SCR: Kenneth Lonergan (You Can Count on Me) ACT: Naomi Watts (Mulholland Drive), John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) SUP: Beth Grant (Sordid Lives, Rock Star, Donnie Darko), Jim Broadbent (Moulin Rouge, Iris)
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FILM: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee) Runners-up: Memento, Traffic, Open Your Eyes, High Fidelity. DIR: Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon) SCR: Woody Allen (Sweet and Lowdown, Small Time Crooks) ACT: Joan Allen (The Contender, When the Sky Falls), Christian Bale (American Psycho) SUP: Frances McDormand (Almost Famous, Wonder Boys), Albert Finney (Erin Brockovich, Traffic)
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FILM: American Beauty (Sam Mendes) Runners-up: Ride With the Devil, Gods and Monsters, Election, The Straight Story. DIR: David Lynch (The Straight Story) SCR: Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters) ACT: Cecilia Roth (All About My Mother), Richard Farnsworth (The Straight Story) SUP: Toni Collette (The Sixth Sense, 8 1/2 Women), Jude Law (The Talented Mr Ripley, Final Cut, eXistenZ)
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FILM: Shakespeare in Love (John Madden) Runners-up: Saving Private Ryan, The General, The Truman Show, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. DIR: Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan) SCR: Andrew Niccol (The Truman Show, Gattaca) ACT: Joan Allen (Pleasantville), Tom Hanks (Saving Private Ryan, You've Got Mail) SUP: Toni Collette (The Boys, Velvet Goldmine), Ed Harris (The Truman Show, Stepmom)
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FILM: Regeneration (Gillies MacKinnon) Runners-up: Shall We Dance, Titanic, The Full Monty, Boogie Nights. DIR: James Cameron (Titanic) SCR: Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights) ACT: Julie Christie (Hamlet, Afterglow), Jonathan Pryce (Regeneration, Tomorrow Never Dies) SUP: Anne Heche (Donnie Brasco, Wag the Dog), Richard Briers (Hamlet)
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FILM: Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins) Runners-up: Shine, Trainspotting , The Pillow Book, Fargo. DIR: Peter Greenaway (The Pillow Book) SCR: Joel & Ethan Coen (Fargo) ACT: Frances McDormand (Fargo, Lone Star), Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting, The Pillow Book, Brassed Off) SUP: Kate Winslet (Sense and Sensibility), Chris Penn (The Funeral)
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FILM: Land and Freedom (Ken Loach) Runners-up: Leaving Las Vegas, Smoke, The Usual Suspects, Bullets Over Broadway. DIR: Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas) SCR: Paul Auster (Smoke) ACT: Jessica Lange (Blue Sky, Rob Roy), Morgan Freeman (Seven, The Shawshank Redemption) SUP: Ashley Judd (Smoke, Heat), Martin Landau (Ed Wood)
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FILM: Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino) Runners-up: The Hudsucker Proxy, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Shadowlands, The Last Seduction. DIR: Joel Coen (The Hudsucker Proxy) SCR: Steve Barancik (The Last Seduction) ACT: Linda Fiorentino (The Last Seduction), John Travolta (Pulp Fiction) SUP: Uma Thurman (Pulp Fiction), Gary Sinise (Forrest Gump)
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FILM: In the Name of the Father (Jim Sheridan) Runners-up: Schindler's List, Groundhog Day, The Piano, Short Cuts. DIR: Jane Campion (The Piano) SCR: Harold Ramis, Danny Rubin (Groundhog Day) ACT: Holly Hunter (The Piano, The Firm), Daniel Day Lewis (In the Name of the Father, The Age of Innocence) SUP: Anne Archer (Short Cuts), Ralph Fiennes (Schindler's List)
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FILM: Howards End (James Ivory) Runners-up: The Player, Aladdin, The Crying Game, The Waterdance. DIR: Robert Altman (The Player) SCR: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Howards End) ACT: Emma Thompson (Howards End), Eric Stoltz (The Waterdance) SUP: Vanessa Redgrave (Howards End), Kevin Spacey (Glengarry Glen Ross)
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FILM: The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme) Runners-up: Bugsy, Life is Sweet, Beauty and the Beast, Dead Again. DIR: Oliver Stone (JFK) SCR: John Sayles (City of Hope) ACT: Jodie Foster (The Silence of the Lambs), Nick Nolte (The Prince of Tides) SUP: Juliette Lewis (Cape Fear), Harvey Keitel (Mortal Thoughts, Thelma & Louise, Bugsy)
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FILM: Dances With Wolves (Kevin Costner) Runners-up: GoodFellas, Avalon, Misery, Mystery Train. DIR: Martin Scorcese (GoodFellas) SCR: Barry Levinson (Avalon) ACT: Kathy Bates (Misery), Robert DeNiro (GoodFellas) SUP: Jennifer Jason Leigh (Miami Blues), Joe Pesci (GoodFellas)
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FILM: Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee) Runners-up: Field of Dreams, Drugstore Cowboy, My Left Foot, Roger & Me. DIR: Terry Gilliam (The Adventures of Baron Munchausen) SCR: Gus Van Sant, Don Yost (Drugstore Cowboy) ACT: Andie MacDowell (Sex Lies & Videotape), Matt Dillon (Drugstore Cowboy) SUP: Brenda Fricker (My Left Foot), Denzel Washington (Glory)
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FILM: Tucker, the Man and His Dream (Francis Ford Coppola) Runners-up: Dangerous Liaisons, Five Corners, Big, Mississippi Burning. DIR: Francis Ford Coppola (Tucker) SCR: Ron Shelton (Bull Durham) ACT: Glenn Close (Dangerous Liaisons), Tom Hanks (Big) SUP: Kathleen Turner (The Accidental Tourist), Kevin Kline (A Fish Called Wanda)
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FILM: The Untouchables (Brian DePalma) Runners-up: Broadcast News, The Princess Bride, Moonstruck, Radio Days. DIR: Brian DePalma (Untouchables) SCR: James L Brooks (Broadcast News) ACT: Holly Hunter (Broadcast News, Raising Arizona), Christian Bale (Empire of the Sun) SUP: Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck), Nicolas Cage (Moonstruck, Raising Arizona)
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FILM: Stand by Me (Rob Reiner) Runners-up: Hannah and Her Sisters, Platoon, The Mission, The Fly. DIR: Woody Allen (Hannah and Her Sisters) SCR: David Lynch (Blue Velvet) ACT: Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God), Robert DeNiro (The Mission) SUP: Dianne Wiest (Hannah and Her Sisters), Tom Berenger (Platoon)
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FILM: The Breakfast Club (John Hughes) Runners-up: Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Color Purple, Brazil, Back to the Future. DIR: Steven Spielberg (The Color Purple) SCR: John Hughes (The Breakfast Club) ACT: Meg Tilly (Agnes of God), William Hurt (Kiss of the Spider Woman) SUP: Tracey Ullman (Plenty), Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future)
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FILM: The Killing Fields (Roland Joffe) Runners-up: Amadeus, This is Spinal Tap, Places in the Heart, All of Me. DIR: Milos Foreman (Amadeus) SCR: Robert Benton (Places in the Heart) ACT: Kathleen Turner (Romancing the Stone, Crimes of Passion), Haing S Ngor (The Killing Fields) SUP: Lily Tomlin (All of Me), John Malkovich (Places in the Heart, The Killing Fields)
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FILM: Local Hero (Bill Forsyth) Runners-up: The Right Stuff, The Big Chill, Yentl, Tender Mercies. DIR: Philip Kaufman (The Right Stuff) SCR: Lawrence Kasdan, Barbara Benedek (The Big Chill) ACT: Barbra Streisand (Yentl), Robert Duvall (Tender Mercies) SUP: Linda Hunt (The Year of Living Dangerously), Mickey Rourke (Rumblefish)
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FILM: E.T., The Extra-terrestrial (Steven Spielberg) Runners-up: Gandhi, Tootsie, Victor/Victoria, Sophie's Choice. DIR: Steven Spielberg (E.T.) SCR: David Mamet (The Verdict) ACT: Meryl Streep (Sophie's Choice), Ben Kingsley (Gandhi) SUP: Jessica Lange (Tootsie, Frances), Robert Preston (Victor/Victoria)
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FILM: Reds (Warren Beatty) Runners-up: Chariots of Fire, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Time Bandits, Body Heat. DIR: Warren Beatty (Reds) SCR: Colin Welland (Chariots of Fire) ACT: Diane Keaton (Reds), Warren Beatty (Reds) SUP: Maureen Stapleton (Reds), Jack Nicholson (Reds) 
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1971: Fiddler on the Roof (Norman Jewison)1972: The Poseidon Adventure (Ronald Neame) 1973: The Sting (George Roy Hill) 1974: Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks) 1975: Jaws (Steven Spielberg)
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1976: Network (Sidney Lumet) 1977: Star Wars (George Lucas) 1978: Heaven Can Wait (Warren Beatty) 1979: Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola) 1980: The Stunt Man (Richard Rush)
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