&quot;House of Flying Daggers&quot; wins Best Foreign Film in Los Angeles
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Chinese martial arts epic House of Flying Daggers was named Best Foreign Film of the Year by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA).
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Director of &quot;Empty House,&quot; Kim Ki-duk was awarded the Silver Lion as Best Director at the competition sector of the 61st Venice International Film Festival, &quot;Venecia 61.
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In a ceremony as lavish as the Arabian  Nights, Dubai wrapped up its third international film festival  on Sunday night with new cash awards for Arab cinema scooped up  by Algerian, Tunisian and Palestinian films.
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The announcements made in Los Angeles Tuesday morning saw No Country for Old Men getting eight but the big surprise was the  same number of nominations for the much acclaimed There Will Be Blood which was expected to pocket three or four noms. Both films were nominated in the best picture categories.
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The wine-happy indie comedy scored a leading five awards Saturday from the Los Angeles Film Association, including the top prize of Best Picture.
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LOS ANGELES  Â Labor strife has been topping the bill in Hollywood of late, yet you wouldn't have known it from the weekend's awards shows: The town's elite seemed more interested in celebrating, and "No Country for Old Men" emerged as the movie to beat at the Academy Awards.
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LOS ANGELES  - Handily outdrawing an eclectic mix of fading holdovers and early fall newcomers, "The Bourne Ultimatum" reclaimed the top spot at the weekend foreign box office with an estimated $16.5 million from 37 markets.
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The Elite Squad, the story of corrupt police in Brazil, wins the main prize at the Berlin Film Festival.
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Taiwan-born Ang Lee's erotic spy thriller "Lust, Caution" won the Venice Film Festival's top award Saturday, two years after he captured the same prize here with "Brokeback Mountain."
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Ang Lee's film Lust, Caution leads the nominations for the Chinese language Golden Horse Awards.
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A harrowing film about illegal abortion in Communist-era Romania beat 21 movies by well-known directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Ethan and Joel Coen, and Wong Kar-wai to win the Cannes Film Festival's top prize Sunday.
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You're unlikely to find a martial arts movie as beautiful as Zhang Yimou's House of Flying Daggers, but you'll need to look elsewhere for passion. By Jason Silverman.
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AlgeriaÂs official Oscar submission for best foreign language film is a damn good war movie.
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The Los Angeles Film Critics Association on Saturday named "Sideways," about two men searching for love in California's wine country, as the year's best film and Clint Eastwood's female boxing movie "Million Dollar Baby" as the runner-up.
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Taiwanese director Ang Lee's sexually explicit spy thriller "Lust, Caution" was the surprise winner of the top award at the Venice film festival on Saturday, just two years after he won with "Brokeback Mountain."
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The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has announced its nominees for the best foreign film of 2007, the BBC reported. They are: âLust, Caution,â âLa Vie en Rose,â âThe Lives of Others,â âThe Kite Runnerâ and âThe Diving Bell and the Butterfly.â The Bafta ceremony will be held on Feb. 10 at the Royal Opera House in London.
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The Los Angeles Film Critics  Association on Saturday named "Sideways," about two men  searching for love in California's wine country, as the year's  best film and Clint Eastwood's female boxing movie "Million  Dollar Baby" as the runner-up.