Natalie Portman will be presented with an award honouring her career from the Independent Filmmaker Project.
The Oscar-nominated Closer actress, who has branched out into directing and producing, will receive the tribute at the 19th annual Gotham Independent Film Awards, which take place at New York’s Cipriani Wall Street on November 30.
“From a young age, it has always been obvious that Natalie was a unique talent - her maturity was evident from the beginning, both in the roles she chose and the quality of her performances,” said Michelle Byrd, executive director of IFP.
Stanley Tucci will also be honoured for his outstanding career, which includes roles in The Devil Wears Prada, Road To Perdition and The Terminal.
“Stanley Tucci is one of the most versatile stage and screen actors of his generation,” Michelle said.
“He has been a longtime favourite in independent film but his recent successes in TV and more mainstream films have revealed his great talents to an even wider audience. With a new production company, we look forward to more great films with Stanley in front of and behind the camera.”
Director Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, The Lovely Bones) and Working Title producers Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will also receive gongs at the ceremony.
source: pa

A Harvard University graduate, Natalie Portman knows a thing or two about being one of the smartest girls around. Now, the actress is taking her experiences one step further by producing a new movie Booksmart which revolves around two overachieving high school students.
At the end of their high school career, the two girls realize that they have yet to reach one goal: getting a boyfriend. They soon embark on a journey to snag a man by prom.
Portman has recently stepped up her producing role: she and partner Annette Savitch have two other movies (Love and Other Impossible Pursuits and Hesher) in production which both star the actress.
Drew Barrymore’s production company Flower Films has been widely successful since their high school romantic comedy Never Been Kissed. Hopefully Portman will have similar luck!

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According to The Hollywood Reporter, Forgetting Sarah Marshall actress Mila Kunis is set to star opposite Natalie Portman in the upcoming supernatural drama Black Swan.
In the Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler) film, Portman plays a veteran ballerina competing against a rival dancer (Kunis) in an upcoming dance performance. The thing is, Mila may or not be a real person.
The film begins filming in NYC in the fall.
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Marvel Studios announced today that Natalie Portman will star opposite Chris Hemsworth in Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of Thor. The Academy-award nominated actress will play the nurse, Jane Foster, who becomes Thor’s first love. Filming is set to begin in early 2010 for a May 20, 2011 release. Portman will next be seen in Jim Sheridan’s drama Brothers opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire. While she was nominated for a supporting actress for her role in Mike Nichols’ Closer, Portman is best known to sci-fi fans for her role as Queen Padme Amidala in the Star Wars Trilogy.
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Yes, Natalie Portman actually enjoys food. And she’s going to prove it in the upcoming season of Top Chef: Las Vegas.
E! Online reports that the V for Vendetta actress will be appearing on the cooking show when it returns to the airwaves. In addition to Portman, the new season of Top Chef—which debuts on August 26—will feature guests such as illusionists Penn & Teller and renowned restaurateur Wolfgang Puck.
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Natalie Portman is alive and well. It is the second false death rumour to sweep the internet in the last few days, after jeff Goldblum. According to mashable.com, the source of the stories is a web site known as faheawish.com, which actually will generate a story around the celebrity of your choice. Mashable.com reports as follows.
“As it turns out, there’s actually one site responsible for all of these stories – fakeawish.com. The site lets you input the name of a celebrity, and then generates a fictitious story about their untimely demise. The news story actually somewhat resembles a Yahoo News page, which is perhaps why these stories get wings and spread.”
So be forewarned. There are a lot of bogus death stories floating around. The reasons people would want to spread such twaddle would make for interesting speculation.
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Natalie Portman is firmly denying swirling rumors that she is romantically linked to “Milk” star Sean Penn, who recently filed for “legal separation” from his wife Robin Wright Penn after 13 years of marriage, E! Online reported.
“Sean Penn is a friend and colleague,” E! Online quotes the 27-year-old star of the upcoming “New York, I Love You.” “The reports that we are romantically involved are completely untrue. I normally do not respond to rumors about my private life, however, this repeatedly fabricated story has forced me to do so.”
Several tabloid reports have claimed the two are an item after being seen together in a West Hollywood bar shortly after Penn, 48, split from Wright Penn.
Penn and Portman both served on the 2008 Cannes Film Festival jury. Portman broke off her relationship with folk rocker Devendra Banhart last year.

source: foxnews

Brad Pitt and Natalie Portman are to star in Paramount’s film based on Leanne Shapton’s book “Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry.”

Pitt’s Plan B will produce with Portman’s Handsomecharlie Films. Portman brought the book to Pitt and both will play the couple Hal Morris (a 40ish photographer) and Lenore Doolan (a New York Times food columnist in her late 20s). The book takes the form of a Sotherby’s-like estate auction catalogue, with entries and photographs depicting items that reveal the private moments and the ups and downs of a the four-year relationship between Morris and Doolan.

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