2012 Oscar Nominations announced

The nominations for the 84th Annual Academy Awards was just announced more than 2 hours ago this morning. Lots of snubs here and there and none of our P&P actors are nominated, but a few of their co-stars and films have been nominated in the following categories below.

But first, the 84th Academy Awards will be presented by Billy Crystal on February 26th on ABC.   

And speaking of Oscar nominations, just have to mention here, Oscar Nominations flashback 6 years ago this month (Jan 31st), our very own favorite Pride & Prejudice film received four Oscar nominations, including one for its lead star Keira Knightley (Elizabeth Bennet) for Best Actress or Actress in a Leading Role and Dario Marianelli for Music (Original Score). Also, another P&P co-star scored an Oscar nod, Judi Dench for Actress in a Leading Role in Mrs. Henderson Presents. Joe Wright and the film got snubbed for Best Director and Best Picture noms. No win for any of their 4 noms and Reese Witherspoon won the Oscar for Actress in a Leading Role.

Here's a rundown of P&P 05's 4 Oscar Nominations (as well as Judi Dench) in 2006
Actress in a Leading Role
Keira Knightley in "Pride & Prejudice"
Judi Dench in "Mrs. Henderson Presents"
Art Direction
"Pride & Prejudice" Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
Costume Design
"Pride & Prejudice" Jacqueline Durran
Music (Original score)
"Pride & Prejudice" Dario Marianelli

Anyway, here's a list of the 2012 Oscar Nominations featuring films (War Horse, My Week with Marilyn, Drive, etc.) from P&P actors that are nominated along as well as their co-stars (Michelle Williams)...


2012 Oscar Nominees

BEST PICTURE

• War Horse (Pip Torrens co-stars)

BEST ACTOR

• Gary Oldman – Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Colin Firth co-stars)

BEST ACTRESS

• Michelle Williams – My Week with Marilyn (Judi Dench, Pip Torrens, Peter Wight co-star)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Kenneth Branagh – My Week with Marilyn
  

BEST ART DIRECTION

• War Horse

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

• Janusz Kaminski –War Horse

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

• Jane Eyre (Judi Dench and Tamzin Merchant co-star)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

• Alberto Iglesias –Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• John Williams –War Horse

BEST SOUND EDITING

• Drive (Carey Mulligan co-stars)
• War Horse

BEST SOUND MIXING

• War Horse

Watch | Listen: 'Pride & Prejudice - Dawn' piano cover by Robert Peeters

Robert Peeters, a very talented and skilled pianist has contacted me to share with you all here about his piano cover of Academy Award winning composer Dario Marianelli's film score of Dawn, which is track #1 from the Pride & Prejudice (2005) film soundtrack.


Check it out and watch/listen to his beautiful cover version and piano playing of...

 [Cover] Pride & Prejudice - Dawn  

(source: RobertPeetersPiano)

Also, check out and watch/listen to his piano cover
from Pirates of The Caribbean soundtrack
[COVER] Ultimate Jack Sparrow! (Jarrod Radnich)
  

Links of Interest

• Robert Peeters website
• Robert Peeters Piano on Facebook
• Robert Peeters on Twitter

Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Joe Wright, and Dario Marianelli together again as principal photography begins for 'Anna Karenina' this month!

Pride & Prejudice and Atonement cast (Keira Knightley star of both P&P and Atonement and , P&P only)) and crew (director , producers Paul Webster, Tim Bevan, and Eric Fellner, Academy Award winning composer (P&P, Atonement, The Soloist, Jane Eyre) twice Academy Award Nominee costume designer Jacqueline Durran (P&P/Atonement/The Soloist),  three-time Academy Award Nominee production designer Sarah Greenwood (P&P/Atonement/The Soloist/Hanna), and three-time Academy Award nominee set decorator Katie Spencer (P&P/Atonement/Hanna)...add a few The Soloist and Hanna crew as well) are all together again and will be reuniting and re-teaming for the new film, Anna Karenina starring Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Jude Law, and Aaron Johnson as principal photography starts this month in the UK and Russia. Working Title Films will produced the film, while Focus Features will distribute domestically its theatrical release and Universal Pictures will distribute internationally.

Actresses Emily Watson (Angela's Ashes and Hillary and Jackie) and Ruth Wilson (Luther and Small Island) were just announced to have joined the already confirmed Anna Karenina cast here.

Here are a few of the many news articles today about Anna Karenina (or read an official press release via Focus Features)...

Principal Photography Starting on Joe Wright's Anna Karenina (via  ComingSoon.net)

Focus Features announced today that Joe Wright's Anna Karenina, starring Keira Knightley, Jude Law and Aaron Johnson, will start shooting in the U.K. and Russia this month:

Joe Wright will direct the epic romance Anna Karenina, adapted from Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel by Academy Award winner Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love). The Working Title Films production will commence filming in the U.K. and Russia this month. Focus Features will distribute the movie domestically, and Universal Pictures International (UPI) will distribute the movie internationally, in the second half of 2012.

Keira Knightley, Academy Award-nominated for Pride & Prejudice, will star as Anna Karenina in her third collaboration with Mr. Wright. Ms. Knightley will be starring opposite two-time Academy Award nominee Jude Law, as Anna’s husband Aleksei Karenin; and Aaron Johnson (Nowhere Boy), as Count Vronsky. Rounding out the cast will be Kelly Macdonald (Boardwalk Empire), Matthew Macfadyen (Pride & Prejudice), Domhnall Gleeson (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows), Alicia Vikander (The Seventh Son), two-time Academy Award nominee Emily Watson, Olivia Williams (Hanna), and Ruth Wilson (Luther).

Also reteaming with Mr. Wright on Anna Karenina are Academy Award-winning composer Dario Marianelli, twice-Academy Award-nominated costume designer Jacqueline Durran, and three-time Academy Award-nominated production designer Sarah Greenwood. The cinematographer will be Academy Award winner Philippe Rousselot. Melanie Ann Oliver (Focus’ Jane Eyre) will edit the feature. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui will be the choreographer on the movie.

The story unfolds in its original late-19th-century Russia high-society setting and powerfully explores the capacity for love that surges through the human heart, from the passion between adulterers to the bond between a mother and her children. As Anna (Ms. Knightley) questions her happiness, change comes to her family, friends, and community.

Read more: Principal Photography Starting on Joe Wright's Anna Karenina - ComingSoon.net

Joe Wright To Direct ‘Anna Karenina’ For Focus With Keira Knightley As Lead (via Deadline) 

It’s official: Atonement director Joe Wright and star Keira Knightley are reteaming for Anna Karenina, the Working Title films adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novel that was written by Tom Stoppard. The film will be distributed by Focus Features in the U.S. and Universal Pictures International worldwide sometime in the second half of 2012. Working Title co-chairs Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are producing with Paul Webster; the trio were 2008 Oscar nominees as producers of Atonement.

Knightley will star as Anna, Jude Law will play her husband Aleksei Karenin, and Aaron Johnson (Nowhere Boy) will play Count Vronsky. Kelly Macdonald, Matthew Macfadyen, Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Emily Watson, Olivia Williams and Ruth Wilson also have been cast in the story of a woman making her way in early-19th-century Russian high society. It’s familiar territory for Wright, who directed the period adaptations Pride & Prejudice and Atonement, also for Working Title and Focus; he also directed The Soloist for Working Title and UPI and most recently Hanna for Focus.

Focus Features to Distribute Director Joe Wright's 'Anna Karenina' (via Hollywood Reporter)

Focus Features will distribute the Joe Wright-directed adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's classic Anna Karenina in the United States in the second half of 2012. Universal Pictures International will distribute the movie internationally.

Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Johnson, Kelly Macdonald, Matthew Macfadyen and Emily Watson star in the adaptation written by Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love). Filming begins in the U.K. and Russia this month.

Working Title co-chairs Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are producing with Paul Webster.

“Joe Wright is a master filmmaker, and with Tom Stoppard’s brilliant screenplay this Anna Karenina will be full of both pageantry and emotion," said Focus Features CEO James Schamus. "To realize Joe’s vision, we have the perfect producing partners in Working Title and Paul Webster, whose acumen is unsurpassed. With Keira Knightley playing this iconic role and a splendid cast supporting her, today’s moviegoers will be drawn to this powerful story.”

Wright previously made Pride & Prejudice and Atonement with Focus and Working Title.

In Theaters Today: Jane Eyre

Now showing in two select cities (New York and Los Angeles) today is Focus Features (Pride & Prejudice and Atonement)' new film adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre starring Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell, Judi Dench (Pride & Prejudice's Lady Catherine),  Sally Hawkins, (2007 Persuasion' Anne Elliot), and (Pride & Prejudice's Georgiana Darcy).

Jane Eyre (directed by Cary Fukunaga), while it's showing in two select cities (and four theaters count) today, worry not, it'll eventually expand to more theaters starting next Friday. Find Theatres listing for Jane Eyre here! For JE fans who want to see this new JE film sooner (and not later), you can plan a group screening of the film at a theatre near you! For more information, Call 1-855-4JANEEYRE

Read a Jane Eyre: Film Review - The Hollywood Reporter, The Playlist'sReview: ‘Jane Eyre’ A Hauntingly Effective Gothic Drama, and JE review from Entertainment Weekly. See photos of "Jane Eyre" New York Premiere - Inside Arrivals as well as "Jane Eyre" New York Premiere - After Party


Synopsis

Based on Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel, the romantic drama stars Mia Wasikowska (“Alice in Wonderland”) and Michael Fassbender (“Inglourious Basterds”) in the lead roles. In the story, Jane Eyre flees Thornfield House, where she works as a governess for wealthy Edward Rochester. The isolated and imposing residence – and Mr. Rochester’s coldness – have sorely tested the young woman’s resilience, forged years earlier when she was orphaned. As Jane reflects upon her past and recovers her natural curiosity, she will return to Mr. Rochester – and the terrible secret that he is hiding…

Watch the trailer for Jane Eyre below...

(source: Yahoo! Movies)

Jane Eyre screen caps featuring Judi Dench as Mrs. Fairfax

and Sally Hawkins as Mrs. Reed...

Also, check out Jane Eyre stills here! 

Larger Jane Eyre stills of Tamzin Merchant (Mary Rivers) and Sally Hawkins (Mrs. Reed)... 

'Jane Eyre' Stills

 (source: Photo by Laurie Sparham/Focus Features | Yahoo! Movies)

More Jane Eyre video links (or visit Focus Feature's Jane Eyre website for more videos and clips) below...

• Jane Eyre: Featurette
• Watch the featurette featuring Judi Dench for Jane Eyre, a Focus Features release. 
• Clip: Just the Housekeeper
  Watch a clip featuring Judi Dench as Mrs. Fairfox from Jane Eyre, a Focus Features release 
• Clip: Is This How You Perceive Me
  Watch a clip featuring Tamzin Merchant as Mary Rivers from Jane Eyre, a Focus Features release.
• To Score Jane Eyre: Cary Fukunaga and Dario Marianelli Team Up
  Director Cary Fukunaga recounts working with Academy-Awarding winner composer Dario Marianelli (Atonement and Pride & Prejudice) to unlock the musical soul of the Jane Eyre. 

Jane Eyre's original soundtrack is now available in various music stores as well as through iTunes and Amazon.com!

Two of five new 'Jane Eyre' Clips featuring Judi Dench and Tamzin Merchant

Focus Features (Pride & Prejudice and Atonement)' upcoming new film adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre starring Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell, Judi Dench (Pride & Prejudice's Lady Catherine), Sally Hawkins (2007 Persuasion' Anne Elliot), and (Pride & Prejudice's Georgiana Darcy) will be in select theaters March 11th, just a month from today.

Focus Features has released 5 new clips from the new JE film with one of them featuring Judi Dench as Mrs. Fairfax and the other with Tamzin Merchant, who plays Mary Rivers.

Check out and watch them below!

Watch Clip #5 - Just The Housekeeper
featuring Judi Dench as Mrs. Fairfax

(source: Focus Features)

 Clip #2 - Is This How You Perceive Me?
featuring Tamzin Merchant as Mary Rivers 

(source: She Knows | Focus Features)

If you missed the trailer for Jane Eyre, watch it here!

Charleybrown's
Enchanted Serenity has more info on Jane Eyre here!
Also, at Enchanted Serenity, you can watch Video: 2 NEW FILM CLIPS  and Video: 2 MORE FILM CLIPS  

Plus...
Jane Eyre Soundtrack music by Dario Marianelli 
to be released March 8th! 

DARIO MARIANELLI - JANE EYRE (2011) (CD)
 

 Scoremagacine reports that the soundtrack for Jane Eyre 2011 music by Academy Award Winner composer Dario Marianelli (He received Best Original Score nominations for Pride & Prejudice and Atonement, in which he won Best Original Score twice for Atonement at thet 80th Academy Awards [See a photo of him and his acceptance speech here] and Golden Globe Awards. He has collaborated with director Joe Wright 3 times for his 3 films from Focus Features: P&P, Atonement, and The Soloist) featuring violinist Jack Liebeck can be already pre-ordered on Amazon and will be released on March 8. See Jane Eyre tracklisting here!