'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
Bob and Harvey Weinstein resumed their perch as Hollywood's favorite taste-makers Sunday, with "The Artist" and "The Iron Lady" sweeping up key Academy Awards and much of this year's Oscar nominations bump.
"The Artist" won best picture and three other prizes Saturday at the Spirit Awards honoring independent film, a possible prelude to a big night at the Academy Awards for the black-and-white silent movie.
"The Artist" followed its Golden Globe win by taking top honors at the Producers Guild Awards on Saturday, as the silent film continues its unlikely run toward Oscar night.
"The Artist" followed its Golden Globe win by taking top honors at the Producers Guild Awards on Saturday, as the silent film continues its unlikely run toward Oscar night.
Silent film is taking over Hollywood's awards scene. The silent-era tale "The Artist" heads the Golden Globes with six nominations, among them best comedy or musical, and acting honors for its French stars, Jean Dujardin and Berenice Bejo.
It took a French filmmaker to bring Hollywood's golden age back to glorious life.
The talk Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival was about the movie that doesn't talk: a silent film about a 1920s Hollywood star toppled by the age of talkies.
"I knew because it was silent and black and white it would be different and original," Langmann said backstage after receiving the best picture Oscar. "All the weaknesses in the beginning became strengths."
"I heard him laugh and laugh," Langmann said.
