(Video) ‘Brooklyn’ Press Conference at London Film Festival

Saoirse Ronan, John Crowley, Colm Tóibín, Nick Hornby and Finola Dwyer attended the London Film Festival press conference for ‘Brooklyn’ today, October 12, and you can watch the full video below:

(Photos) New Portrait Session

Our gallery has been updated with a new portrait session of Saoirse for the promotion of ‘Brooklyn’. The images were taken a few days ago in New York City, where she’ll be living until her Broadway debut in ‘The Crucible’ on February 26, 2016.

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Saoirse’s interview for AwardsDaily

While doing press for the upcoming acclaimed ‘Brooklyn’, Saoirse sat down with Jordan Ruimy from AwardsDaily to discuss the film and you can read the interview below:

It is no surprise that Saoirse Ronan gives one of the most deeply felt and wonderful female performances of the year in Brooklyn. After all, this is an actress who was nominated for an Oscar when she was just 13 years old for her pivotal role in Joe Wright’s Atonement. “When Atonement happened I was just a kid, and I can’t say I expected the nomination to happen” she tells me. Now 21 years old, Ronan has blossomed into everything we thought she could be. In recent years she has starred in Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones, kicked serious cojones in Hanna and most recently was cast as Zero’s secret crush in Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel. This all in a span of just six years.

Brooklyn is a beautifully made film about good, well-intentioned people trying to do their best in life. The gorgeously crisp and colorful cinematography by Yves Belanger is to die for, as is the direction by John Crowley, which is stylishly slick enough to harken back to a time when handsomely made, feel-good pictures worked marvelously well in Hollywood. This is an old-fashioned movie done right, a heartfelt effort by people who very much care about story and character. The screenplay was written by Nick Hornby, and captures his usual impeccable ear for small talk. Saoirse Ronan plays Ellis, an Irish girl who moves to New York to start a new life, but finds herself doubting that decision once there. The movie will make her a household name, and there’s already talk of a possible Oscar nominations for her performance –- which originally had Rooney Mara cast in the lead role –- and the film itself, which is exactly the kind of crowd-pleasing treat the Academy eyes year after year. “I pronounce it Sersha,” she tells me of her name. We might as well learn it well because a performer with this much natural, freewheeling talent and personality doesn’t come along often.

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‘Brooklyn’ Captures Top Audience Award at Vancouver Festival

The 34th annual Vancouver International Film Festival finished with a gala screening and the announcement of the audience award winners. Two Irish films were among the winners, with Brooklyn, directed by John Crowley, named winner of the Rogers People’s Choice Award as the festival’s overall most popular film, and Lenny Abrahamson’s Canadian/Irish co-production Room winning Most Popular Canadian Feature.

Director John Crowley’s Irish immigrant love story Brooklyn, acquired by Fox Searchlight at Sundance, has won the top audience award at the Vancouver Film Festival.

Adapted from Colm Toibin’s 2009 novel by Nick Hornby, Brooklyn stars Saoirse Ronan and Star Wars: The Force Awakens actor Domhnall Gleeson. Brooklyn is set in 1950s Ireland and centers on a young woman (Ronan) trapped in between two men and two countries, and testing her commitment to true love and her duty to her home country.

Emory Cohen, Julie Walters and Jim Broadbent also star. Vancouver audiences also named the Brie Larson-starrer Room the best Canadian feature.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

(Photos) Screen Talks: Saoirse Ronan – BFI London Film Festival

I have updated the gallery with high-quality pictures of Saoirse at her screen talk during the BFI London Film Festival today.

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New promotional stills from ‘Brooklyn’

Our gallery has been updated with 11 new promotional stills from ‘Brooklyn’! Thanks to Refinery29 for sharing them. Most of these are MQ, with a couple of exceptions, but we’ll replace them as soon as we get better quality versions.

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Saoirse To Be Honored At Hollywood Film Awards

It has been announced earlier this week that Saoirse will receive the “New Hollywood Award” for “Brooklyn“ at the 9th Annual Hollywood Film Awards!

The “19th Annual Hollywood Film Awards“ will take place at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, on November 1, 2015. The Hollywood Film Awards, the official launch of the awards season®, has recognized excellence in the art of cinema and filmmaking for 18 years, honoring some of the world’s biggest stars. Honorees have gone on to garner many Oscar nominations and wins.

“New Hollywood Award” recipient Saoirse Ronan will be recognized this year for her performance in Fox Searchlight’s “Brooklyn.” Ronan portrays a young woman in the 1950’s, choosing her fate between her home country or a new life.

Source: We Are Movie Geeks

(Photos) ‘Brooklyn’ Premiere at NYFF

Saoirse attended a premiere for ‘Brooklyn’ at the 53rd New York Film Festival last night, which was followed by an introduction of the cast to the audience and a Q&A. Our gallery has been updated with over 250 high quality images from the event.

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