'Moneyball' Director Bennett Miller to Receive Honor at Hollywood Film Awards (Exclusive)

Attila Dory/Sony Pictures Classics The 15th annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Film Awards, presented by Starz Entertainment, will honor Academy Award nominee Bennett Miller with its 2011 Hollywood Director Award. Miller is being recognized for his work on the critically acclaimed blockbuster Moneyball, which was adapted from Michael Lewis's best-selling novel and stars Brad Pitt as Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane. Miller will collect his statuette at the Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony, which will take place at the Beverly Hilton on Oct. 24. Prior to this film, on which Miller replaced Oscar winner Steven Soderbergh, the 44-year-old was best known for his direction of Capote, his feature directorial debut. That film received an Oscar nod for best picture, earned a best actor Oscar for Philip Seymour Hoffmanand led to best director nods from the Academy, Directors Guild of America and BAFTA for Miller. (The NY Film Critics Circle also awarded him its prize for best first film.) PHOTOS: 'Moneyball' Premiere in Oakland Carlos de Abreu, the founder and executive director of the event, told The Hollywood Reporter, "With Moneyball, Bennett Miller has given us a beautiful film, from what many called an 'unfilmable' book, and we're thrilled to honor him." He added, "Bennett found the heart in this story of baseball statistics and guided the remarkable performances of Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. 'Capote' was a masterful debut, and Moneyball further proves that Miller has a real gift for breathing life into complex material." Previous recipients of the Hollywood Director Award include Norman Jewison, John Schlesinger, John Frankenheimer, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Michael Mann, Sam Mendes, Oliver Stone, Marc Forster, Clint Eastwood, Kathryn Bigelowand Tom Hooper. Just months after collecting their Hollywood Film Festival Award, Bigelow and Hooper went on to win that year's best director Oscar, while Scorsese received a nomination. Q&A: 'Moneyball' Author Michael Lewis on Oscar Hopes, Working With Brad Pitt and His New 'Liar's Poker' Screenplay In recent weeks, as The Race was the first to report, de Abreu revealed the recipients of a number of other prizes, as well (which are determined by de Abreu and a panel of advisers): the cast of The Help for the Hollywood Ensemble Award; Oscar winner George Clooney (The Descendants) for the Hollywood Actor Award; Oscar nominee Michelle Williams (My Week with Marilyn, Meek's Cutoff, Take This Waltz) for the Hollywood Actress Award; Oscar nominee Christopher Plummer (Beginners) for the Hollywood Supporting Actor Award; Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan (Shame, Drive) for the Hollywood Supporting Actress Award; Oscar winner Diablo Cody (Young Adult) for the Hollywood Screenwriter Award; Rango for the Hollywood Animation Award; Letty Aronson (Midnight in Paris) for the Hollywood Producer Award; Oscar nominee Emmanuel Lubezki (The Tree of Life) for the Hollywood Cinematographer Award; Oscar winner Stephen Mirrione (The Ides of March) with the Hollywood Editor Award; Oscar nominee Alberto Iglesias (The Skin I Live In, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) for the Hollywood Film Composer Award; Oscar nominee James Murakami (J. Edgar) for the Hollywood Production Designer Award; Oscar winner Scott Farrar (Transformers: Dark of the Moon) for the Hollywood Visual Effects Award; Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) for the Hollywood Breakthrough Director Award; Joseph Gordon-Levitt (50/50) for the Hollywood Breakthrough Actor Award; Jessica Chastain (Coriolanus, The Debt, The Help, Take Shelter, and The Tree of Life) for the Hollywood Breakthrough Actress Award; Felicity Jones (Like Crazy) for the New Hollywood Award; Bérénice Bejo (The Artist), Jean Dujardin (The Artist), Elle Fanning (Super 8), Amber Heard (The Rum Diary), Andrea Riseborough (W.E), Shailene Woodley (The Descendants), and Anton Yelchin (Like Crazy) for the Hollywood Spotlight Award; and Oscar nominee Glenn Close (Albert Nobbs) for the Hollywood Career Achievement Award. TORONTO REVIEW: Moneyball He also announced that the nominees for this year's Hollywood Film Award, which will be determined by the public through voting on the Yahoo! Movies website, are Captain America: The First Avenger, Cowboys & Aliens, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 2, The Help, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Rango, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Super 8, Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon, and X-Men: First Class. RELATED: Can 'Moneyball' Overcome Baseball's Oscar Slump? FEINBERG FORECAST: 'Carnage' Divides, 'Extremely' Intrigues, 'Moneyball' Grows Brad Pitt Moneyball Bennett Miller

Weekend Movie Preview: 'Footloose' Hopes to Dance Away With Weekend Crown

Such is the state of Hollywood when not one, but two remakes of beloved '80s classics open on the same weekend. The surprise is that one of them is actually apparently awesome (and it's not 'The Thing'). Can 'Footloose' cut the competition down or will Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson fly away with the weekend crown? The answers lie ahead in your Weekend Movie Preview NATIONWIDE RELEASES 'Footloose' What's the story: A Boston teen named Ren (newcomer Kenny Wormald) moves to a small Midwestern town where dancing has been outlawed. There, he falls in love with the rebellious teen daughter (Julianne Hough) of the town preacher (Dennis Quaid), and teaches everyone how to... cut loose. (Groan!) (But seriously.) Box-office projection: Your friendly Moviefone editors are totally in the tank for the new version of 'Footloose,' but will audiences be too? Perhaps. The marketing for 'Footloose' has been squarely aimed at the MTV generation (or is that now the Spotify generation?), making the film look like the perfect combination of sexy and dangerous. Even more important? The Craig Brewer-directed film has gotten fairly outstanding reviews from critics, something which might persuade fans of the original to show up alongside their sons, daughters, nieces and nephews. With little competition from new releases and 'Real Steel' showing itself as a family film, 'Footloose' could also be the destination of choice for couples. Projections are in the $18-to-$20 million range, but the guess here is that 'Footloose' dances away with a bit more. $23.4 million [Showtimes & Tickets | Mr. Moviefone's Six-Second Review] 'The Thing'] What's the story: A prequel to the John Carpenter classic, 'The Thing' focuses on a the discovery of an alien ship (and a shape-shifting alien) at an Antarctica research site. Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Ramona Flowers 4eva!), Joel Edgerton and Eric Christian Olsen star. Box-office projection: On the one hand, no one is really talking about 'The Thing' unless it's to slag the film for being a sacrilegious remake of Carpenter's classic. On the other hand: scares and aliens! There's an audience for this film, one that has seen few horror flicks since August that they can rally around. 'The Thing' isn't that film either -- check back next week for 'Paranormal Activity 3,' which should explode the somewhat stagnant box office -- but since it has the name value that something like 'Shark Night 3D' didn't, expect respectable and unspectacular numbers. $10.1 million [Showtimes & Tickets | Mr. Moviefone's Six-Second Review] 'The Big Year' What's the story: Three friends (Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson) compete in the Big Year, an annual bird-watching event that sends them on adventures to identify rare species of birds around the country. Directed by David Frankel ('Marley & Me'), 'The Big Year' also stars Rashida Jones, Angelica Huston, Rosamund Pike, Dianne Wiest and more. Box-office projection: And you thought no one was talking about 'The Thing'! With three major comedy stars as leads, logic dictates that 'The Big Year' should currently dominate weekend movie talk. That it's not is a potential box-office problem. The film is opening in a little over 2,100 theaters -- the lowest number of any wide release this weekend -- and projections have it landing in the $6-to-$7 million range. That would rank as lowest wide-release opening since 'Mixed Nuts' in 1994. Let's give Martin, Black and Wilson the benefit of the doubt and assume the PG rating will bring in a few more families than tracking indicates. $9.2 million [Showtimes & Tickets | Mr. Moviefone's Six-Second Review] LIMITED RELEASES How the mighty have fallen? Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman lead 'Trespass', which is only opening in 10 theaters. Elsewhere, Pedro Almodovar returns with the psychological thriller 'The Skin I Live In' with Antonio Banderas and Sam Worthington leads 'Texas Killing Fields'. [Photo: Universal/Paramount/Fox] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook RELATED

Oscar Isaac Lands Lead In Coen Brothers and sisters 60s Folk Music Film

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar Isaac has showed up the coveted lead role over the following film being directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Inside Llewyn Davis, that's being created using no domestic distributor, focuses on the very first folk music scene in Greenwich Village inside the 60s. The Coens in addition to their creating partner Scott Rudin are which causes it to be with only an alignment with Studio CanalThat will distribute in France and several other locations. The Coens written the script, and they have the normal volume of stars lining around play figures loosely based on folk entertainers like Dork Van Ronk and Tom Paxton. The brothers and sisters may also be running a business with Rudin, their creating partner round the Oscar-winning No Country For Old Males in addition to their last film, True Grit. Shooting will start early next season in NY. Isaac can be a fast rising actor who stood a fancy role in Drive and stars inside the Madonna-directed W.E., is presently filming the Tony Gilroy-directed The Bourne Legacy with Jeremy Renner. Since the Coens began casting, every actor in Hollywood remains chasing after after these parts, causeing this to be an authentic coup for Isaac. He’s repped by UTA, Inspire Entertainment and SMGSB.

VIDEO: Is Vampire Diaries' Bonnie a Goner? Watch Our Season 3 Predictions

Kat Graham on The Vampire Diaries Is The Vampire Diaries' Bonnie a dead witch walking? The Vampire Diaries casts Alice Evans as original mother ClevverTV invited us to share our Season 3 predictions for The CW series, and among the topics discussed was whether Bonnie (Kat Graham) might be the next major character to die. When Bonnie saved boyfriend Jeremy in last season's finale, she lost her ability to call on her dead witch ancestors. Will her weakened powers that leave her more vulnerable? The Vampire Diaries Bite: Will Jeremy come clean to Bonnie? Check out the video below for more on the return of Anna and Vicki, bumps in the road for Tyler and Caroline, and why Klaus is here to stay. Plus: Will Damon and Elena ever hook up?

Tom Six describes An Individuals Centipede II

Thank you for going to your mind of director Tom Six, where stitching people together to discuss only one digestive system seems as being a fun project.Desire to delve much much deeper? Well, Six remains speaking in regards to the inspiration for his second film inside the Human Centipede series and also you might be surprised about a couple of from the influences."I understood the start must be mental because people required to become accustomed to the sick idea first. So, inside the second one I understood you possessed to exhibit things which i used to be thinking for just about any follow-up, 'What might be worse when compared to a surgeon developing a human centipede?' That could be somebody that doesn't have medical capabilities developing a human centipede, to make sure that ought to be a follower or something like that like this,Inch Six told Fangoria. "Once I was travelling the earth those asked for me, 'What if some maniac available copies your idea,' I understood certainly.InchAn Individuals Centipede (Full Sequence) may also be shot in black and white-colored. Was that to tone lower the red-colored-colored splatter like the Crazy 88 fight in Kill Bill 2?"Once I made the start, We used clinical colours, the digital camera tasks are very steady which really fit the story of Dr. Heiter. For your second one, I desired to carry out a different film. I desired to make a dark story - it required to look dirty and wonderful concurrently. Black and white-colored really aided the story of Martin," Six describes, before revealing one unusual influence."Essentially managed to get take place in colour, all the attention visits the gore and centipede. It's much additionally to that particular. It's a story, as well as the black and white-colored makes a really uncomfortable feeling, like Eraserhead which used to do a Schindler's List. Spielberg used a red-colored-colored dress, We used brown diarrhea. It is really an ode to Schindler's List!"

Beautiful Girl Using The Dragon Tattoo images online

A lot of arty Girl Using The Dragon Tattoo images happen to be launched and that we love them.Even though they just don't seem like stills in the movie - particularly the above image, unless of course Fincher's strongly experimentation with Hipstamatic camcorders - they still increase our anticipation levels by highlighting simply how much Rooney Mara's engaging in character.Check Them out below and inform us what you believe.

Leader Obama revisit La for Fundraiser Gala (Exclusive)

Leader Obama will go back to La on Monday, March. 24 for any fundraiser gala particularly taking Latino support. No location continues to be looking for the big event, but invites goes out shortly, asking potential contributor in order to save the date. One of the co-hosts are news anchor Giselle Fernandez and attorney Manny Sanchez.our editor recommendsPresident Obama Sets Two Hollywood Fundraising (Exclusive)Leader Obama to Hollywood: 'I Never Guaranteed You Easy'Mark Halperin Suspended From MSNBC for implementing Crude Slur Against Leader Obama (Video)Leader Obama Jams Jesse Trump at Whitened House Correspondents' Dinner Obama likes common support among Hollywood's Latino community, where a couple of his most prominent backers are Desperate Housewive's Avoi Longoria and The spanish language-language radio star Piolin, whose broadcasts assisted summon an believed a million individuals to marches demanding immigration reform. PHOTO: Best Presidents in Film and tv The majority of La' and California's Latino chosen authorities, including La mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and labor leaders joined the final election cycle as Hilary Clinton supporters, but with excitement campaigned for Obama within the general election, where Latino voters performed a vital role in swinging formerly red-colored states in to the Democratic column. Using the leader's campaign strategists anticipating a razor-thin contest in 2012, the Latino election again looms large, specifically in key North western states like Texas, Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada, where it may be the main difference between victory and defeat. PHOTOS: Leader George W. Rose bush on 9/11 Like Latinos generally, the guests for this month's L.A. gala is going to be searching for reassurance the Leader expects to more agressively pursue comprehensive immigration and also to reduce a deportation / removal rate that surpasses those of George W. Rose bush's administration and which many experts allege splinters working Latino families. Throughout his last campaign, Obama guaranteed introducing an extensive immigration reform bill throughout his newbie at work, a committment he and the aides say was turned away by implacable Republican opposition. Possibly the very best factor the Leader has choosing Latinos this time around around may be the current area of candidates in search of the Republicans' nomination. They appear going to make any deviation from the hardline anti-immigrant posture a capital offense, which will probably push Latinos further into Obama's embrace. Related Subjects Obama