VOTE: Beliefnet Spiritual Movie Awards
Posted on February 15, 2008 at 10:37 am
What were the best spiritual movies and performances of last year? See this year’s nominees for Best Spiritual Film, Best Spiritual Performance, and Best Spiritual Documentary. Then watch clips, join the debate, and vote on your favorites.
Nominees:
Best Spiritual Film: Amazing Grace, Away From Her, Atonement, Juno, The Kite Runner
Best Spiritual Performance: Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild), Angelina Jolie (A Mighty Heart), Ellen Page (Juno), Julie Christie (Away From Her), Will Smith (I Am Legend)
Best Spiritual Documentary: Into Great Silence, For the Bible Tells Me So, War/Dance, Nanking, What Would Jesus Buy?
One of the highlights of NBC’s “Qubo” children’s educational program schedule is 
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over twenty years ago when my children were both very young, and they’ve been in print ever since. It’s always a book I’ve been extremely fond of and you get so attached to them you want to see them grow and flourish. In the literary field you hear horror stories about having books made into film. But meeting Richard it was clear he wanted to honor what the book was trying to do. 
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should be seen by everyone.
Last night, my husband and I attended our first-ever red carpet event, the Critics Choice Awards, which were broadcast on VH1. It was a lot of fun, especially the end, when all of the critics went up on stage to present the best picture award (to “No Country for Old Men”), so I could look down from the stage and see everyone from Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie to Dixie Carter (who complimented my dress) and Hall Holbook, to Nikki Blonsky (best young actress), Queen Latifah, and Elijah Kelly from “Hairspray” to Don Cheadle (who graciously accepted the first-ever Joel Siegal award for achievement in both film and humanitarian efforts, presented to him by George Clooney). The talk of the evening was the cancellation of rival awards show the Golden Globes, due to the writers’ strike. The best line of the evening was when presenter Steve Zahn said he wished the writers would come back to work and the critics would go on strike. The funniest acceptance speech was from Casey Affleck, who wasn’t even accepting his own award, but one for his co-star, Amy Ryan. He pretended he was editing out her jokes about him as he read the speech he prepared.