The people behind Weekend should be smiling today, as the little film that could not only hit £200k at the UK box office over the weekend but it’s just picked up two nominations from the London Critics’ Circle Film Awards.
Director Andrew Haigh is up for Breakthrough British Filmmaker while Tom Cullen is in the mix for British Actor Of The Year. It’s a great shame the film missed out in the British Film Of The Year category, but that’s more testament to what a good year it’s been for UK film than anything about the wonderful movie.
Other LGBT allied nominations include Pedro Almodovar’s The Skin I Live In in the Foreign-Language Film Of The Year category, and Christopher Plummer up for Best Supporting Actor for playing an elderly gay man in Beginners.
You can find the full list of nominations here.
For a man who’s keen to insist he’s straight, James Franco sure does have a lot of interest in the gays (and I’m not hinting at anything there, as if he was gay Hollywood would probably be insisting he had nothing to do with anything that wasn’t 100% straight). Franco’s played gay in Milk and Howl, and the last two films he directed were both biopics of gay people.
Being out in Hollywood is still the exception rather than the rule, but one young actress who’s bucked the trend is Amber Heard, star of the recent The Rum Diary (opposite Johnny Depp). Now she’s keen to beckon others out of the closet too.
There’s no doubting George Clooney’s liberal credentials, and he’s proving it once again by confirming he’ll star in a production of a play about marriage equality by Milk and J. Edgar screenwriter Dustin Lance Black. However if you’re hoping to catch it, you’ll probably be out of luck as it’s on for one night only.
When Steven Spielberg took on directing Alice Walker’s acclaimed novel The Color Purple in 1985, many wondered whether he was the man for the job, as back then he was just known for his big entertainment pieces.
