As with "Pan's Lab", Pedro Almodóvar's Volver was well recieved with the film being nominated for an Oscar, along with another 39 wins & 47 nominations of various award which include:
Academy Awards, USA
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2007 Nominated Oscar Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Penélope Cruz
Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2007 Won Silver Condor Best Foreign Film, Spanish Language (Mejor Película Iberoamericana)
Pedro Almodóvar
Spain.
BAFTA Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2007 Nominated BAFTA Film Award Best Actress in a Leading Role
Penélope Cruz
Best Film not in the English Language
Agustín Almodóvar
Pedro Almodóvar
Bodil Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2007 Nominated Bodil Best Non-American Film (Bedste ikke-amerikanske film)
Pedro Almodóvar
Spain.
British Independent Film Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2006 Nominated British Independent Film Award Best Foreign Independent Film
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2007 Nominated Critics Choice Award Best Actress
Penélope Cruz
Best Foreign Language Film
Cannes Film Festival
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2006 Won Best Actress
Penélope Cruz
Carmen Maura
Lola Dueñas
Blanca Portillo
Yohana Cobo
Chus Lampreave
To the female ensemble cast.
Best Screenplay
Pedro Almodóvar
Nominated Golden Palm
Pedro Almodóvar
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2006 Nominated CFCA Award Best Actress
Penélope Cruz
Best Foreign Language Film
Spain.
Chlotrudis Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2007 Won Chlotrudis Award Best Supporting Actress
Carmen Maura
Nominated Chlotrudis Award Best Director
Pedro Almodóvar
Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2007 Won CEC Award Best Actress (Mejor Actriz)
Penélope Cruz
Best Director (Mejor Director)
Pedro Almodóvar
Best Film (Mejor Película)
Best Score (Mejor Música)
Alberto Iglesias
Best Screenplay, Original (Mejor Guión Original)
Pedro Almodóvar
Best Supporting Actress (Mejor Actriz Secundaria)
Carmen Maura
Nominated CEC Award Best Cinematography (Mejor Fotografía)
José Luis Alcaine
Best Editing (Mejor Montaje)
José Salcedo
Best Supporting Actress (Mejor Actriz Secundaria)
Lola Dueñas
Best Supporting Actress (Mejor Actriz Secundaria)
Blanca Portillo
Czech Lions
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2007 Won Czech Lion Best Foreign Language Film (Nejlepsí zahranicní film)
César Awards, France
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2007 Nominated César Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger)
Pedro Almodóvar
David di Donatello Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2007 Nominated David Best European Film (Miglior Film dell'Unione Europea)
Pedro Almodóvar
Empire Awards, UK
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2007 Won Empire Award Best Actress
Penélope Cruz
European Film Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2006 Won Audience Award Best Film
Pedro Almodóvar
European Film Award Best Actress
Penélope Cruz
Best Cinematographer
José Luis Alcaine
Tied with Barry Ackroyd for The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006).
Best Composer
Alberto Iglesias
Best Director
Pedro Almodóvar
Nominated European Film Award Best Film
Best Screenwriter
Pedro Almodóvar
Flaiano Film Festival
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2006 Won Best Actress
Carmen Maura
Fotogramas de Plata
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2007 Won Fotogramas de Plata Best Film (Mejor Película Española)
Pedro Almodóvar
Tied with Laberinto del fauno, El (2006).
Best Movie Actress (Mejor Actriz de Cine)
Penélope Cruz
Nominated Fotogramas de Plata Best Movie Actress (Mejor Actriz de Cine)
Lola Dueñas
Best Movie Actress (Mejor Actriz de Cine)
Carmen Maura
French Syndicate of Cinema Critics
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2007 Won Critics Award Best Foreign Film
Pedro Almodóvar
Golden Globes, USA
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2007 Nominated Golden Globe Best Foreign Language Film
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Penélope Cruz
Goya Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2007 Won Goya Best Director (Mejor Director)
Pedro Almodóvar
Best Film (Mejor Película)
Best Lead Actress (Mejor Actriz Principal)
Penélope Cruz
Best Original Score (Mejor Música Original)
Alberto Iglesias
Best Supporting Actress (Mejor Actriz de Reparto)
Carmen Maura
Nominated Goya Best Cinematography (Mejor Fotografía)
José Luis Alcaine
Best Costume Design (Mejor Diseño de Vestuario)
Sabine Daigeler
Best Make-Up and Hairstyles (Mejor Maquillaje y/o Peluquería)
Ana Lozano
Massimo Gattabrusi
Best Production Design (Mejor Dirección Artística)
Salvador Parra
Best Production Supervision (Mejor Dirección de Producción)
Toni Novella
Best Screenplay - Original (Mejor Guión Original)
Pedro Almodóvar
Best Sound (Mejor Sonido)
Miguel Rejas
José Antonio Bermúdez
Manuel Laguna
Garrido
Best Supporting Actress (Mejor Actriz de Reparto)
Lola Dueñas
Best Supporting Actress (Mejor Actriz de Reparto)
Blanca Portillo
Guldbagge Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2007 Nominated Guldbagge Best Foreign Film (Bästa utländska film)
Pedro Almodóvar
Hollywood Film Festival
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2006 Won Hollywood World Award
Pedro Almodóvar
Image Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2007 Nominated Image Award Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
Penélope Cruz
Outstanding Independent or Foreign Film
Irish Film and Television Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2007 Nominated Audience Award Best International Actress
Penélope Cruz
London Critics Circle Film Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2007 Won ALFS Award Foreign Language Film of the Year
Nominated ALFS Award Actress of the Year
Penélope Cruz
Director of the Year
Pedro Almodóvar
Film of the Year
National Board of Review, USA
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2006 Won NBR Award Best Foreign Language Film
Spain.
Online Film Critics Society Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2007 Nominated OFCS Award Best Actress
Penélope Cruz
Best Foreign Film
Polish Film Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2007 Won Eagle Best European Film (Najlepszy Film Europejski)
Pedro Almodóvar
Spain.
Robert Festival
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2007 Nominated Robert Best Non-American Film (Årets ikke-amerikanske film)
Pedro Almodóvar
San Sebastián International Film Festival
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2006 Won FIPRESCI Film of the Year
Pedro Almodóvar
Satellite Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2006 Won Satellite Award Best Motion Picture, Foreign Language
Spain.
Nominated Satellite Award Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama
Penélope Cruz
Best Director
Pedro Almodóvar
Best Screenplay, Original
Pedro Almodóvar
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2007 Nominated Actor Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Penélope Cruz
Spanish Actors Union
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2007 Won Award of the Spanish Actors Union Film: Lead Performance, Female (Protagonista Cine - Categoría Femenina)
Penélope Cruz
Film: Performance in a Minor Role, Female (Reparto Cine - Categoría Femenina)
Chus Lampreave
Film: Supporting Performance, Female (Secundario Cine - Categoría Femenina)
Blanca Portillo
Nominated Award of the Spanish Actors Union Film: Supporting Performance, Female (Secundario Cine - Categoría Femenina)
Lola Dueñas
Film: Supporting Performance, Female (Secundario Cine - Categoría Femenina)
Carmen Maura
Spanish Music Awards
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2007 Won Music Award Best Score (Mejor Álbum de Banda Sonora de Obra Cinematográfica)
Alberto Iglesias
Valdivia International Film Festival
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2006 Won Audience Award
Pedro Almodóvar
Special Jury Award
Pedro Almodóvar
Vancouver Film Critics Circle
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2007 Won VFCC Award Best Foreign Language Film
All the above are from and can be found at the Internet Movie Database Website, click the title for more.
Tuesday, 21 August 2007
Wednesday, 8 August 2007
Second Critical Review for Volver
Hey back from a very enjoyed holiday and now having wacthed Pedro Almodóvar's Volver, which i found interesting and pretty good, heres the second review for it, from Total Film's website.
"Plot
Domestic goddess Raimunda (Penélope Cruz) has plenty on her plate, working drudge jobs to support her lecherous, loutish husband and 14-year-old daughter (Yohana Cobo). When hubbie’s murdered and her mother (Carmen Maura) returns from the dead, the stage is set for some bad behaviour, shock revelations and all-round female trouble...
Volver – to come back or return – is an exceptionally fitting title for Pedro Almodóvar’s Palme D’Or contender. It’s a return, after the male-dominated duo of Talk To Her and Bad Education, to a story saturated with Almodóvar’s love and compassion for women of all shapes, sizes and sentiments; a hearty tribute to the Spanish maestro’s rural La Mancha roots and a captivating reunion with two of his former muses – Cruz, who appeared in All About My Mother, and Maura, the gleaming star of his career-launching ’80s movies.
They play mother and daughter in a feisty, supernatural-inflected melodrama about the redemptive power of female bonding, although Almodóvar keeps his muses apart until a third-act crescendo, when the emotional floodgates are opened. If you only know Cruz from her insipid English-language forays, prepare to be astounded: as spirited mama Raimunda, she’s earthy, sensual, electric – a radiant combo of Mildred Pierce (one of many camp classics Pedro tips his hat to) and Anna Magnani, made up as the spitting image of Sophia Loren at her sultry, early-’60s peak. Almodóvar’s camera can’t get enough of her, zooming in for soul-scorching close-ups on her limpid eyes (framed by chunky black eyeliner and frequently welling with tears), ogling her like a builder as she swings her hips through the Madrid barrios or lingering above her remarked-upon cleavage while she does the washing-up.
Despite La Cruz’s force-of-nature turn and Almodóvar’s clever, peppery writing (which sees a welcome re-emergence for his trademark farcical trimmings), Volver falls short of being a masterpiece to equal All About My Mother, the usually adept blend of comedy, thriller and melodrama not always gelling here. But it’s still the work of a poised and ambitious creative force. His early, giddy lunacy may have been replaced by a more sober maturity, but Almodóvar’s ability to generate vibrant, brightly hued characters and powerful, engaging drama remains as strong than ever.
Verdict
As career-salvaging efforts go, this is a corker for Cruz. It’s also a strong return to the female-oriented melodramas of Pedro’s early years."
As always click on the title to go the site itself.
Cheers
Alec
"Plot
Domestic goddess Raimunda (Penélope Cruz) has plenty on her plate, working drudge jobs to support her lecherous, loutish husband and 14-year-old daughter (Yohana Cobo). When hubbie’s murdered and her mother (Carmen Maura) returns from the dead, the stage is set for some bad behaviour, shock revelations and all-round female trouble...
Volver – to come back or return – is an exceptionally fitting title for Pedro Almodóvar’s Palme D’Or contender. It’s a return, after the male-dominated duo of Talk To Her and Bad Education, to a story saturated with Almodóvar’s love and compassion for women of all shapes, sizes and sentiments; a hearty tribute to the Spanish maestro’s rural La Mancha roots and a captivating reunion with two of his former muses – Cruz, who appeared in All About My Mother, and Maura, the gleaming star of his career-launching ’80s movies.
They play mother and daughter in a feisty, supernatural-inflected melodrama about the redemptive power of female bonding, although Almodóvar keeps his muses apart until a third-act crescendo, when the emotional floodgates are opened. If you only know Cruz from her insipid English-language forays, prepare to be astounded: as spirited mama Raimunda, she’s earthy, sensual, electric – a radiant combo of Mildred Pierce (one of many camp classics Pedro tips his hat to) and Anna Magnani, made up as the spitting image of Sophia Loren at her sultry, early-’60s peak. Almodóvar’s camera can’t get enough of her, zooming in for soul-scorching close-ups on her limpid eyes (framed by chunky black eyeliner and frequently welling with tears), ogling her like a builder as she swings her hips through the Madrid barrios or lingering above her remarked-upon cleavage while she does the washing-up.
Despite La Cruz’s force-of-nature turn and Almodóvar’s clever, peppery writing (which sees a welcome re-emergence for his trademark farcical trimmings), Volver falls short of being a masterpiece to equal All About My Mother, the usually adept blend of comedy, thriller and melodrama not always gelling here. But it’s still the work of a poised and ambitious creative force. His early, giddy lunacy may have been replaced by a more sober maturity, but Almodóvar’s ability to generate vibrant, brightly hued characters and powerful, engaging drama remains as strong than ever.
Verdict
As career-salvaging efforts go, this is a corker for Cruz. It’s also a strong return to the female-oriented melodramas of Pedro’s early years."
As always click on the title to go the site itself.
Cheers
Alec
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