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JULIE DELPY IS A LADY
by Thomas M. Sipos, managing editor.
[March 2, 2005]
[HollywoodInvestigator.com]
Actress Julie Delpy exhibited amazing ladylike behavior on Saturday, February
27, at the Independent
Spirit Awards in Santa Monica CA.
While some other celebs rudely
ignored reporters and paparazzi shrieking for their attention from behind
the ropes and barricades at the indie film awards show, when the Hollywood
Investigator called to Ms. Delpy, she came over to pose for a photo in
the glaring sun.
"Quickly," said Delpy -- exclusively to the Investigator! -- in her trademark French accent.
A writer as well as an actress,
Delpy had been nominated for a Spirit
Award for Before
Sunset's screenplay, which she co-wrote with Ethan Hawke and Richard
Linklater.
Delpy and Hawke co-star in
the film (directed by Linklater) about former lovers meeting for the first
time after nine years. Released in 2004, Before
Sunset is a sequel to 1995's Before
Sunrise, also directed by Linklater, and starring Delpy and Hawke.
Over the
years, Delpy has appeared in a wide range of roles. She was lover
to her "father" Sam Shepard in the Electra-inspired Voyager,
a quick-witted bank teller in the Pulp
Fiction-inspired Killing
Zoe, a lycanthrope in American
Werewolf in Paris, and former disciple of Objectivist philosopher Ayn Rand in The
Passion of Ayn Rand, based on Barbara Branden's bio
of the same name.
The Spirit
Awards are awarded by the Independent
Feature Project, a grassroots organization of filmmakers, actors, writers,
and others involved in indie filmmaking, that anyone can join -- even YOU!
[Since this article appeared, the California branch of the Independent Feature Project split off and renamed itself Film Independent -- aka FIND -- taking the Spirit Awards with them. Thus, for the last several years, the Spirit Awards has been presented by FIND, and no longer by the IFP -- ed., 3/14/11.]
After taking Delpy's photo,
the Investigator requested a quick interview, but Delpy begged off, explaining
that she had to get back to the awards.
Alas, Before
Sunset lost the Best Screenplay award to Sideways.
* Spotted at the Awards!
Although they didn't stop to pose, the Investigator camera caught several
other celebs at the Spirit
Awards!
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Sporting
his trademark cap, Samuel L. Jackson appears puzzled by what looks to be
an usher's rubber stamp.
Exploding
onto the scene in 1994's Pulp
Fiction, some of Jackson's other noteworthy performances include playing
a homeless concert pianist in The
Caveman's Valentine, and a handicapped comic book collector in M. Night
Shyamalan's supernatural film, Unbreakable. |
Widely popular on the indie scene, Jackson acted as Master of Ceremonies
at the Spirit
Awards.
Political
correctness doesn't intimidate indie stalwart Liev Schreiber as the actor
smokes a ciggie in broad daylight.
The
American Schreiber affected a Cockney accent to portray a tough sleazeball
bouncer in Party
Girl, but he's mostly known for playing nebbish nice guys in such films
as The
Daytrippers and Walking
and Talking. |
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* Is That Guilied Lopez?
Although Sideways won for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay, most anti-"drug
war" libertarians were rooting for Maria
Full of Grace, a Spanish-language drama about young female "mules"
who are pressured by their poverty to smuggle drugs into the U.S. -- inside
their own stomachs!
Alas, Maria
Full of Grace only won when it was not up against Sideways. Maria
Full of Grace's lead actress, Catalina Sandino Moreno, won Best Actress, and
the film's writer-director, Joshua Marston, won Best First Screenplay. But Sideways's
Virginia Madsen won Best Supporting Female over Maria
Full of Grace's Yenny Paola Vega.
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Shockingly,
Guilied Lopez wasn't even nominated for Best Supporting Female!
Lopez
is the seasoned Colombian TV actress who played Lucy, the mule who died,
in Maria
Full of Grace.
We're
pretty sure that was Lopez by the tent, though like most celebs, she didn't
respond when called to by name.
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Yes,
we're almost certain that was Guilied Lopez. |
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Patricia
Rae is another Maria
Full of Grace actress who should have been nominated -- but shockingly
was not! -- for Best Supporting Female.
Although
Rae played a haggard working class housewife in the film, she looks quite
glamorous here (in the red dress) beside some unknown person. |
* Hollywood Politics
It wouldn't be a Hollywood awards show without politics.
A young
man provided a small dose of such with his sign, offering wry commentary
to the celebs driving past autograph-hungry fans in their black tinted
limos and SUVs.
* THESE ARE THE WINNERS!
Best
Feature: Sideways (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Producer:
Michael London
Best Director:
Alexander Payne
Sideways (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Best Screenplay:
Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor
Sideways (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Best First
Feature: Garden
State (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Director:
Zach Braff
Producers:
Pamela Abdy, Gary Gilbert, Dan Halsted, Richard Klubeck
Best First
Screenplay: Joshua Marston
Maria
Full of Grace (HBO Films/Fine Line Features)
John Cassavetes
Award: Mean
Creek (Paramount Classics)
(For the
Best Feature made for under $500,000)
Writer/Director:
Jacob Aaron Estes
Producers:
Susan Johnson, Rick Rosenthal, Hagai Shaham
Best Debut
Performance: Rodrigo de la Serna
The
Motorcycle Diaries (Focus Features)
*Actors
making their first appearance in a feature film
Best Supporting
Female: Virginia Madsen
Sideways (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Best Supporting
Male: Thomas Haden Church
Sideways (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Best Female
Lead: Catalina Sandino Moreno
Maria
Full of Grace (HBO Films/Fine Line Features)
Best Male
Lead: Paul Giamatti
Sideways (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Best Cinematography:
Eric Gautier
The
Motorcycle Diaries (Focus Features)
Best Foreign
Film: The Sea Inside (Fine Line Features)
Director:
Alejandro Amenábar
Best Documentary: Metallica:
Some Kind of Monster (IFC Films)
Directors:
Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky
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