YAY ROONEY!! Rooney has won a Breakthrough Performance Award from the National Board of Review, for “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”, which was also listed on the group’s Top 10 Films of the Year. Congrats to Rooney, hopefully it’s the first of many!

Best Film: Hugo
Best Director: Martin Scorsese, Hugo
Best Actor: George Clooney, The Descendants
Best Actress: Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About Kevin
Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer, Beginners
Best Supporting Actress: Shailene Woodley, The Descendants
Best Original Screenplay: Will Reiser, 50/50
Best Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
Best Animated Feature: Rango
Breakthrough Performance: Felicity Jones, Like Crazy
Breakthrough Performance: Rooney Mara, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Debut Director: J.C. Chandor, Margin Call
Best Ensemble: The Help
Spotlight Award: Michael Fassbender (A Dangerous Method, Jane Eyre, Shame, X-Men: First Class)
NBR Freedom of Expression: Crime After Crime
NBR Freedom of Expression: Pariah
Best Foreign Language Film: A Separation
Best Documentary: Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Special Achievement in Filmmaking: The Harry Potter Franchise – A Distinguished Translation from Book
to Film

Top Films
(in alphabetical order)

The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
The Ides of March
J. Edgar
Tree of Life
War Horse

Added many more High Quality pictures of Rooney in Sweden promoting “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”, and also a video of the press conference.

021 x Public Appearances – 11.21.11: “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Sweden Photocall

The publicity tour for “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” has begun! Today Rooney and director David Fincher are, appropriately, in Sweden attending a press event for the movie. The movie will also have its world premiere in Sweden on Decmber 13. We should be seeing a lot of Rooney over the next few months so stay tuned!!

005 x Public Appearances – 11.21.11: “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” Sweden Photocall

A new look at Rooney and Daniel as Lisbeth and Mikael in “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” on the cover of the new issue of British film magazine Empire. Lots of new stuff promised within the covers so be sure to check back for scans and pick up and issue for yourself!

Our Nev Pierce interviewed all those involved and visited the set to bring you all the latest on the film, but here’s just a taster of what Fincher had to say about Salander herself.

“There were discussions early on where people were like, ‘She’s a superhero!’ And you go, ‘No, she’s not. Superheroes live in a world of good and evil, and she’s far more complex than a superhero. She’s been compromised. She’s been subjugated. She’s been marginalised. She’s been swept into the gutter and she’s had a part in it. She dresses like trash because she’s someone who has been betraued and hurt so badly, by forces beyond her control, that she’s just decided to be refuse. She can sit anywhere she wants on the bus, because nobody wants to deal with her.”

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A new trailer has been released for “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” and it’s almost 4 minutes long!! We finally hear Rooney’s Swedish accent for the first time and she sounds fantastic!! So much good Lisbeth footage to be found in here. HD caps will be up soon!

Ahhhh, our first interview with Rooney and Daniel about “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”! Fitting that they sat down with Swedish journalists to talk about shooting the film. Watch it below and caps coming soon!

I’ve added a couple of new stills from “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” to the gallery, along with replacing the first still with an HQ version. Enjoy!!

003 x Movie Images – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Promotional Stills

December is getting closer and closer! Today we have our first promotional still of Rooney as Lisbeth in “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”. Be sure to pick up a copy of the new issue of Entertainment Weekly because it has new images and a new interview with Rooney as well.

001 x Movie Images – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Promotional Stills

On her last meeting with Fincher after two-plus months of auditioning: “At that point I was just super frustrated. I was like, ‘You have to decide. Either you think I’m the girl or you don’t. There’s not much more I can do to prove it to you.’ I went in there sort of ready to fight. I was pissed. But David sat me down and gave me this long speech about the part. Then he handed me his iPad, and it had the press release on it. He said, ‘I’m prepared to send this out. You have half an hour to let me know if you want the part.’”

On the controversial poster, which features Mara topless: “I was supportive of it. I understand why there was a lot of controversy. People have a hard time with strong females and with nudity. But I think had I been doing something incredibly violent on the poster, people wouldn’t have had a problem with it. That sort of says a lot about the world that we live in. It’s just a teaser poster. I think it did just that. It teased people.”

On filming the book’s notoriously harrowing rape scene: “It was incredibly intense. We did it all in a week — the week of Valentine’s Day, oddly enough. We were working 16 hours a day, and it was really, really challenging, not just emotionally but physically. But it’s such an important scene. We wanted to do everything we could to get that right.”

Rooney’s “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” co-star Daniel Craig is currently making the promo rounds for his new movie “Cowboys and Aliens” and of course reporters can’t resist asking him more about Rooney and their even more highly anticipated movie. Below, he tells MTV News about how much Rooney impressed him and will impress moviegoers come December.

‘Dragon Tattoo’ Star Rooney Mara ‘Nailed’ The Part
Daniel Craig tells MTV News his co-star is “massively impressive” as hacker Lisbeth Salander.

Who would win the right to be Lisbeth Salander? Last summer, Hollywood was consumed with that question, as some of the biggest names in the business competed to land that coveted starring role in David Fincher’s adaptation of the international best-selling crime thriller, “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.”

Actresses like Natalie Portman, Kristen Stewart and Ellen Page reportedly were eyeing the gig, and yet it went to a relative unknown named Rooney Mara. The fresh-faced Mara seemed an unlikely choice at first to play Salander, an emotionally scarred, motorcycle-driving hacker not adverse to violent confrontations with anyone who crosses her. But our first look at Mara in character assuaged any fan misgivings: Mara has turned into Salander.

And perhaps no one was more impressed by that transformation than co-star Daniel Craig, who plays Mikael Blomkvist, the disgraced journalist hired to investigate a decades-old missing-persons case. Blomkvist then hires Salander to assist in the search.

“Rooney is massively impressive,” he told MTV News during a recent “Cowboys & Aliens” press event. “She took [it] on under a massive amount of pressure because obviously there’s a lot of expectation. I was massively impressed and she absolutely nailed this. People are hopefully are going to be incredibly surprised and happy with her performance.”

This movie just looks better and better. The leaked red band trailer has been taken down, but the official green band trailer, which has 98% of the same clips, has been released, and in HD! Watch it and see some caps below. Also released is the first teaser poster of the movie, and it is slightly NSFW so view at your own discretion! The official website for the movie is now up also, along with the official Twitter.

001 x Movie Images – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Posters

070 x Movie Images – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Teaser Trailer Captures