The world may be upside down, but the Hugo Awards are forever! The Hugos are the longest-running fan-voted awards in the genres of science fiction and fantasy, first bring presented in 1953. The awards are generally given out during the World Science Fiction Convention, which is in a different host city every year. Sadly, the 78th Worldcon, aka CoNZealand, set to take place in (you guessed it) New Zealand, will have to be virtual this year. The Hugo ceremony will therefore also take place online.
Today, CoNZealand announced the finalists for this year’s Hugos, voted on by 1,584 people, who submitted 27,033 nominations. Those who were members of last year’s Worldcon, An Irish Worldcon, and members of this year’s Worldcon, CoNZealand, were eligible to vote, however, only CoNZealand members will be able to vote on the final ballot and choose the winners. You can still purchase a Supporting Membership on...
Today, CoNZealand announced the finalists for this year’s Hugos, voted on by 1,584 people, who submitted 27,033 nominations. Those who were members of last year’s Worldcon, An Irish Worldcon, and members of this year’s Worldcon, CoNZealand, were eligible to vote, however, only CoNZealand members will be able to vote on the final ballot and choose the winners. You can still purchase a Supporting Membership on...
- 4/7/2020
- by Kayti Burt
- Den of Geek
Dustin Hoffman directs a stellar cast in this bittersweet tale of ageing opera singers forced to face their mortality
Dustin Hoffman was 30 when he made his screen debut as the 21-year-old Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate. Three years later, in 1970, he played the 121-year-old frontiersman Jack Crabb in Arthur Penn's western Little Big Man. In his 50s he returned to star as Willy Loman and Shylock. So he knows something about the vagaries of ageing. It seems therefore not inappropriate that he makes his confident directorial debut at 75, directing a formidable ensemble cast ranging in age from the 31-year-old Sheridan Smith to actors pushing 80 and beyond in a movie adapted by the 78-year-old Ronald Harwood from his own adroitly crafted play Quartet.
Sheridan Smith plays Dr Lucy Cogan, sympathetic manager and resident physician at Beecham House, a handsomely appointed home for elderly opera singers fallen on hard times. It's...
Dustin Hoffman was 30 when he made his screen debut as the 21-year-old Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate. Three years later, in 1970, he played the 121-year-old frontiersman Jack Crabb in Arthur Penn's western Little Big Man. In his 50s he returned to star as Willy Loman and Shylock. So he knows something about the vagaries of ageing. It seems therefore not inappropriate that he makes his confident directorial debut at 75, directing a formidable ensemble cast ranging in age from the 31-year-old Sheridan Smith to actors pushing 80 and beyond in a movie adapted by the 78-year-old Ronald Harwood from his own adroitly crafted play Quartet.
Sheridan Smith plays Dr Lucy Cogan, sympathetic manager and resident physician at Beecham House, a handsomely appointed home for elderly opera singers fallen on hard times. It's...
- 1/6/2013
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
We have a bunch of posters for Quartet, an opera company filled with retired performers reunite once a year to stage a fundraiser for their theater in Dustin Hoffman’s directorial sophomore project.
Contrary to what we said before, this is not Hoffman’s directorial debut as he directed the little seen Straight Time back in 1978.
An all star cast of British luminaries including Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Pauline Collins, Tom Courtenay and Billy Connolly star with a screenplay by celebrated British playwright Ronald Harwood, based on his play.
Quartet, which also stars Sheridan Smith (Hysteria), Luke Newbury (Anna Karenina), Trevor Peacock and Welsh soprano Dame Gwyneth Jones will be released in the Us on December 28th, 2012 before going in the UK on January 1st and wider on January 4th. The film debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
Quartet is about Cecily (Pauline Collins), Reggie (Tom Courtenay...
Contrary to what we said before, this is not Hoffman’s directorial debut as he directed the little seen Straight Time back in 1978.
An all star cast of British luminaries including Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Pauline Collins, Tom Courtenay and Billy Connolly star with a screenplay by celebrated British playwright Ronald Harwood, based on his play.
Quartet, which also stars Sheridan Smith (Hysteria), Luke Newbury (Anna Karenina), Trevor Peacock and Welsh soprano Dame Gwyneth Jones will be released in the Us on December 28th, 2012 before going in the UK on January 1st and wider on January 4th. The film debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
Quartet is about Cecily (Pauline Collins), Reggie (Tom Courtenay...
- 12/26/2012
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
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