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Rinko Kikuchi's breakthrough performance as a troubled, sexually exploring, deaf-mute teenager in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Babel was so convincing that co-star Cate Blanchett didn't know the Japanese actress could actually talk until Kikuchi spoke to her off-camera. Her country's first Oscar-nominated actress in 49 years, Kikuchi talked to TIME's Michiko Toyama...
...Picture Arts & Sciences, and Salma Hayek, the cleavage at an otherwise mundane 5:30 a.m. press conference, announced the nominations for the 79th Annual Academy Awards. There were the contenders we all expected, some big snubs, and a few Cinderella stories. Let the games begin.Best Picture: “Babel,” “The Departed,” “Letters from Iwo Jima,” “Little Miss Sunshine,” “The Queen”This year, the Academy has chosen to acknowledge films from all over...
...Motion Picture Academy loves them too. Babel earned seven Oscar nominations, Pan's Labyrinth six. That's more than The Departed or Letters from Iwo Jima or Little Miss Sunshine received, and just short of Dreamgirls' eight...
More important than the awards, though, is the rare mix of ambition and imagination on display in the Mexicans' films. Babel, written by Oscar nominee Guillermo Arriaga, is a sprawling story of chance and destiny; a random gunshot from a reckless Moroccan boy triggers anguished events in Mexico, the U.S. and Japan. Children of Men conjures up a future world with no future: the human race has become infertile, and anarchy blankets the globe. Pan's Labyrinth burrows into the past, to Franco's Spain in 1944, and into a dark wonderland of fierce and magical creatures that offers escape...
...direct a film starring Gael Garca Bernal and Diego Luna, the two lads from Alfonso's hit comedy Y tu mam tambin. Arriaga has written a true-life AIDS drama, The Dallas Buyer's Club, which is to star and be produced by a member of the Babel ensemble: Brad Pitt...