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Welcome to Toni Collette Online, an unofficial information resource on the Australian
act-ress and singer, best known from "Muriel's Wedding", "The Sixth Sense" and "Little
Miss Sunshine". This site offers all essential info on her life and career with
a comprehensive archive of press articles, news, images and video clips. Enjoy your
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TONI RECEIVES CHIGACO FILM CRITICS NOMINATION
Posted: 2006-12-20 |
Toni has received a Best Supporting Actress nomination for "Little Miss Sunshine" by
the Chicago Film Critics, Abigail Breslin is nominated in the same category. "Sunshine"
has scored a total of 5 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Screenplay and Most
Promising Director(s) for Jonathan Dayton an Valerie Faris.
TONI COLLETTE RECEIVES 2 GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATIONS
Posted: 2006-12-14 |
Congratulations to Toni for not only receiving one but two Golden Globe nominations!!!
She's nominated as Best Actress in a Comedy for "Little Miss Sunshine" and Best Supporting
Actress in a TV-Movie or Mini-Series for "Tsunami". "Sunshine" has also received a nod
as Best Picture (Comedy).
TONI COLLETTE SCORES SATELLITE AWARD NOMINATION
Posted: 2006-12-01 |
As the 2007 awards season kicks off, Toni has received a nomination for the Satellite Award
as Best Actress for "Little Miss Sunshine". She shares this category with Julie Walters (Driving
Lessons), Annette Bening (Running with Scissors), Meryl Streep (The Devil Wears Prada), Jodie
Whitaker (Venus) and Beyoncé Knowles (Dreamgirls). "Little Miss Sunshine" also received nominations
Best Motion Picture (Comedy), Abigal Breslin (Supporting Actress), Alan Arkin (Supporting Actor) and
its song “till The End Of Time”. A full list with all nominees
can be found here.
INDIE AWARDS SPREAD "SUNSHINE"
Posted: 2006-11-29 |
Little Miss Sunshine just racked up another superlative: most nominated. The Sundance
fave turned sleeper hit received a leading five nominations for the 2007 Independent
Spirit Awards, pitting it nod for art-house nod with Half Nelson. While the darkly
comic tale of a dysfunctional family's quest to get their daughter enrolled in the
titular pageant is vying for Best Feature against Half Nelson, American Gun, The Dead
Girl and Pan's Labyrinth, its most famous faces didn't register in the individual
categories. Steve Carell, Greg Kinnear and Toni Collette came up empty, with the film's
only acting nods going to Paul Dano and Alan Arkin, who go head to head in the Best
Supporting Male race. Little Miss Sunshine helmers Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
round out the film's five nominations with a joint nod for Best Director.
TONI RECEIVES AFI INTERNATIONAL NOMINATION
Posted: 2006-11-20 |
The Australian Film Institute today revealed the last of the nominations for the
2006 AFI Awards. The Australian actresses nominated for the AFI
International Award for Best Actress are; Toni Collette, Naomi Watts, Radha Mitchell
and Rachel Griffiths. These Awards recognise the achievements of Australians in
internationally produced film and television, highlighting the enormous creative
contribution Australian talent gives to the film and television industry worldwide.
"SUNSHINE" CAST SCORES GOTHAM NOMINATION
Posted: 2006-10-28 |
The cast of "Little Miss Sunshine" has been nominated for a Gotham Award in the "Best
Ensemble Cast" category, alongside the casts of "Babel", "For Your Consideration", "A Prairie
Home Companion" and "Shortbus". The Gothams, which will be presented on Nov. 29 at New York's Pier
Sixty at the Chelsea Piers, also will recognize both Kate Winslet and Edward Norton with 2006
Gotham Tributes.
"LIKE MINDS" ON DVD IN GERMANY OCTOBER 26, 2006
Posted: 2006-09-12 |
"Like Minds" will be released on DVD in Germany on October 26, 2006 - two weeks before its
Australian theatrical release on November 09, 2006! The DVD features an english track as well,
so in case you have a region-free player you can pre-order it at
Amazon Germany
"SUNSHINE" TRIUMPHS AT DEAUVILLE FILM FESTIVAL
Posted: 2006-09-12 |
The road trip comedy "Little Miss Sunshine" won the top prize Sunday at France's Deauville Film Festival for American movies.
The black comedy starring Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette and Steve Carell tells the story of a family's calamitous trip to a child's beauty pageant.
The festival is a European showcase for mainly small-budget American films. French director Nicole Garcia presided over a nine-member jury.
TONI COLLETTE TO ATTEND DAVID TENCH TONIGHT
Posted: 2006-09-05 |
Toni will be on "David Tench Tonight" this Thursday, September 07 2006, at 8:00 pm on Channel 10.
Thanks to Rebecca for the heads-up.
"LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE" ENTERS BOX OFFICE'S TOP TEN
Posted: 2006-08-22 |
According to Variety, "Little Miss Sunshine" broke into the top 10 thanks to a very healthy
expansion from 153 to 691 theaters. As it bowed in smaller cities like Nashville, Tenn.;
Cleveland; Tucson, Ariz.; and Norfolk, Va., along with suburban markets around bigger cities,
Fox Searchlight's Sundance buy had an average take of $8,213 and grossed $5.7 million, putting
it in seventh place. Indie comedy's cume is $12.8 million." On Friday 8/25, it goes wide to
over 1,500 playdates. Thanks to John for letting me know.
ECKHART, COLLETTE, BELLO IN BALL PIC
Posted: 2006-08-10 |
Alan Ball has set the cast and financing for his long-awaited feature directing debut, reports Variety. The untitled drama will star Aaron Eckhart, Toni Collette and Maria Bello. Steven M. Rales will finance.
Ball is using as inspiration the Alicia Erian novel "Towelhead," which he optioned in galley form in 2004 with his own cash. Ball wrote the script while presiding over his HBO series "Six Feet Under," of which he helmed six episodes.
Ted Hope is producing with Rales and Ball. Scott Rudin, Peggy Rajski and Hope's This Is That partner Anne Carey are executive producers.
The film tells the story of Jasira, who struggles with identity and sexual issues as the daughter of a Lebanese-American father and an American mother in Texas during the Gulf War.
Newcomer Summer Bishil has been cast to play the young girl and "Six Feet Under" regular Peter Macdissi will play a father trying to instill traditional Middle Eastern values in his daughter.
Shooting begins mid-September in L.A.
"TONI COLLETTE AND THE FINISH" TO PLAY LIVE
Posted: 2006-07-27 |
Toni Collette will perform songs from her debut album at Homebake in Sydney this December.
Her debut album ‘Beautiful Awkward Pictures’ which is yet to be released, features David Lane (You Am I, The Pictures), Dave Galafasi (Gelbison) and Glen Richards (Augie March).
Full article can be read here.
TONI COLLETTE TALKS "TSUNAMI: THE AFTERMATH"
Posted: 2006-07-14 |
The L.A. Daily News
has posted an article on the HBO press conference for the upcoming mini-series "Tsunami":
"I was very wary of it," Tim Roth admitted about taking a role in the miniseries coming in December, less than two years after 300,000 were killed in the tragedy. "But I found it not to be exploitive at all. If I lost my kid, our family, I don't know that I'd watch it. But I think it's quite honorable."
Toni Collette agreed, saying, "I was slightly nervous," but she cited a survivor who said, "Maybe it's too early for the survivors, but it's not too early for the people who weren't there."
Since the production shot on location in Thailand in areas devastated by the tsunami, Sophie Okonedo conceded the work was difficult. "We cried quite a lot of the time," she said. "It was very emotional
because it was all around us. You didn't have to do too much acting."
REDGRAVE, COLLETTE, DANES FOCUS FOR "EVENING"
Posted: 2006-07-14 |
Looks like Toni's involvement with "Evening" is still in negotations, as Reuters has reported:
Claire Danes, Vanessa Redgrave and Toni Collette are in negotiations to star in "Evening," Focus Features' screen adaptation of Susan Minot's best-selling novel of the same name.
Directed by Oscar nominee Lajos Koltai, the movie centers on 65-year-old cancer patient Ann Grant Lord. While her two daughters try to come to terms with her impending death and struggle with their own issues, Lord reflects on a weekend in her youth when she met the love of her life.
Redgrave is set to star as Lord, with Danes and Collette co-starring, respectively, as daughters Ann and Nina.
Minot and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham ("The Hours") adapted the story for the screen.
HBO HIT BY "TSUNAMI" PROTEST
Posted: 2006-06-06 |
According to the New York Post, HBO has run into a wall of anger from local residents as it
tries to film an upcoming miniseries about the December 2004 tsunami.
Some survivors seem most concerned about reports of ads in local papers asking for extras to play "corpses."
The miniseries, a co-production between HBO and the BBC, is currently filming in Thailand, hard hit in the tsunami that killed nearly 220,000 people.
HBO and the BBC have gone to lengths to say the miniseries, starring Toni Collette and Tim Roth, will go "beyond" the tragedy to focus on its aftermath - but some locals think it's too soon.
"Why are they doing this? We can't believe it," a local resident told a local newspaper. "It's too early ... What about the people who lost their families?"
"Some of the flyers had pictures of the tsunami," said Robert Reynolds, the director of a local charity.
"On the bottom, it said 'victims needed.' It was pretty tasteless."
COLLETTE, CASTLE-HUGHES IN "HEY, HEY, IT'S ESTHER BLUEBERGER"
Posted: 2006-05-10 |
Toni Collette and Keisha Castle-Hughes have signed on to star in Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger.
The comedy follows a 13-year-old's adventures as she attempts to navigate the pressures of family, school and her impending bat mitzvah. Shooting is scheduled for October in Australia. Cathy Randall will write and direct. Randall developed the story while attending Los Angeles Film School.
COLLETTE MENTIONED TO STAR IN "TSUNAMI" MOVIE
Posted: 2006-04-08 |
Not sure if this is official already, but according to the World Entertainment News Network,
a star-studded cast including Tim Roth, Sophie Okonedo and Toni Collette have signed up to
star in a new TV movie about the tsunami that devastated the Indian Ocean coastline in
December 2004. The two-part film will follow different groups of people caught by the natural
disaster that killed an estimated 220,000 people. It will be aired by HBO in the US and the
BBC in Britain.
TONI NAMED A "CHAMPION OF THE WEST"
Posted: 2006-04-07 |
Toni Collette has been named one of the "2006 Champions of the West", a group that
includes Bishop Kevin Manning and cricket legend Mark Waugh. Catholic Outlook reports that the
awards were presented on 10 March at the "Celebrate the West" luncheon to raise funds for the
San Miguel Family Centre, an outreach of the De La Salle Brothers' BoysTown. The awards
recognise the unique contribution made to the culture of Western Sydney by the recipients in
the areas of public life, the arts, sport and business.
COLLETTE, HARDEN, MURPHY LINE UP FOR "DEAD GIRL"
2006-03-25 |
According to Dark Horizons, Josh Brolin, Rose Byrne, Toni Collette, James Franco, Marcia Gay Harden, Mary Beth Hurt, Brittany Murphy, Giovanni Ribisi, Mary Steenburgen and Kerry Washington have all been lined up for "The Dead Girl", the follow-up project from acclaimed writer-director Karen Moncrieff ("Blue Car") reports Variety.
The story centers on the dark mystery surrounding a young woman's death, which is gradually revealed when the lives of seemingly uninvolved people intersect. Moncrieff will direct from her own script, and Lakeshore Entertainment is financing and producing.
Piper Laurie is also negotiating to join the cast of the pic, which starts lensing April 17th in Los Angeles.
Thanks to Rebecca for the great news!
COLLETTE TO STAR IN NEW CUNNINGHAM FILM
2006-03-07 |
The Hours author Michael Cunningham has written the screenplay for a movie called "Evening",
scheduled to go into production in the United States on May 15. Collette has been chosen to star
opposite Hollywood veteran Vanessa Redgrave in the romantic drama. "Evening" tells the story of an elderly
woman on her deathbed who relives a love affair she had 40 years earlier. Read the full article
here.
TONI PROMOTES LAUNCH OF BIGPOND MOVIES
2006-02-23 |
Toni Collette has thrown her support behind the country's first movies-on-demand internet
service. BigPond Movie Downloads was launched in Sydney on Wednesday with the help of the
Sydney-born star who says she's "passionate about movies". "I'm really excited about this - it
gives film fans a new way to access and watch films," Collette said.
MIRAMAX PICKS UP "NIGHT LISTENER"
2006-01-25 |
Miramax Films has acquired the North American rights to the Hart Sharp Entertainment and IFC
Films co-production, Night Listener, it was announced today from the Sundance Film Festival.
Directed and co-written by Patrick Stettner (The Business of Strangers), Night Listener tackles
the narrative of Armistead Maupin's most haunting page-turner.
The story follows popular public radio storyteller Gabriel Noone (Robin Williams) who develops
an intense phone relationship with a young listener named Pete (Rory Culkin) and the social
worker who rescued him from a life of abuse (Toni Collette). But Gabriel soon comes to the
startling realization that it is quite possible that neither the boy nor his painful account
of his childhood really exist.
"LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE" FINDS A DISTRIBUTOR
2006-01-22 |
Thanks to Linda for letting me know that "Little Miss Sunshine" has been bought at the Sundance
Film Festival for between $10 million and $12 million to FOX. Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris and starring Steve Carell, Toni Collette and Greg Kinnear, “Sunshine” follows the antics of a family that treks across the country so their daughter can have a chance at a beauty pageant title.
Visit
Fox News for the official announcement.
TONI COLLETTE TO ATTEND NEW MAHER SHOW
2006-01-20 |
Its first weekly series, Amazon Fishbowl with Bill Maher, a variety
show hosted by the HBO satirist (and former host of ABC's Politically
Incorrect), begins airing on Amazon.com on June 1.
Highlights of a preview episode, to be filmed this weekend at the
Sundance Film Festival, will begin showing on the site Tuesday.
The first guests include Stephen King, whose new book, Cell, hits
stores Tuesday; musician Rob Thomas; and screenwriter Armistead Maupin
and actress Toni Collette from the film The Night Listener, which is
showing at the festival. Learn more at
Amazon.com
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