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ZIYI ZHANG The star of Memoirs of a Geisha has broken down barriers for Chinese actors. I hope Ang Lee is on the list. Because of him, Chinese filmmaking will be better recognized by the U.S. film industry. He has made his fellow Chinese extremely proud. I would also include Wang Yung-ching, a Taiwanese businessman who is donating hearing implants to the children of China this year, and Professor Han Demin, the head of Beijing's Tongren Hospital, because of his charity fund-raising efforts...
...There were even door prizes for movies that hadn?t fulfilled their original promise. As late as October, the Oscar favorites were two imminent, unseen films by recent winners of Best Picture: Rob Marshall?s Memoirs of a Geisha (exotic, elevated, epic) and Peter Jackson?s King Kong (a super-sophisticated remake of a beloved antique). Once those films opened, they fell to the back of the pack, disappointing their investors and the critics, and earned no major Academy nominations. Yet in the absence of old-style epic films among the top contenders, Geisha and Kong aced the technical categories...
...every other year, the favorite is a film with the kind of glossy production values that earn it nominations, and wins, in the frou-frou categories: art direction, costumes and, if the actors run around a bit, editing. No such easy marks this time. Look for Memoirs of a Geisha, a critical and box office disappointment but seemingly run off from the Academy template, to win a couple of these consolation prizes - and for King Kong, the film Hollywood was expecting would dominate the Oscars, to take the Special Effects trophy and maybe one or two others...
...BANNED. MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA, the Hollywood film; from distribution in China; in Beijing. Chinese officials reversed an earlier approval by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television to allow the film in the country, reportedly over concerns that the portrayal of Japanese geishas by ethnic Chinese actresses might spark anger in China, where anti-Japanese sentiment remains strong...
...Colleen Atwood: This six-time nominee, who already won for her costumes in 2002's Chicago, made covering up in a kimono look super-sexy in Memoirs of a Geisha...