The New York Post have listed Fair Game as one of the top contenders for next years Oscars. Seeing as this years Oscars were only held less than 48 hours ago, it’s a bit futile to be making guesses about next year, but we certainly hope Fair Game will garner some serious buzz in the next 12 months, and get Naomi some deserved recognition!

“Fair Game” — Biopic with Naomi Watts and Sean Penn as outed CIA agent Valerie Plame and her husband.

From coronacomingattractions.com:

Thanks to our longtime friend Adam54 of Coming Attractions’ message forums, we’ve landed an exclusive in the form of an early review for Fair Game, the upcoming thriller-drama starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts. The actors play Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame, the married couple who were at the centerstorm of a Washington, D.C. scandal over Plame’s outing as an undercover CIA operative by Washington Post journalist Robert Novak. The scandal, known in the press as “Plamegate”, destroyed her career and rocked the White House as accusations were leveled against the Bush administration and its allies. Ambassador Wilson made the charge that the Bush administration had knowingly leaked his wife’s covert status as a direct response for his public statements that the administration played up or outright lied that Iraq had uranium in its possession to make nuclear bombs. While Bush used the uranium scare to build his case for the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, it was later proven that Iraq never had in its possession the material.

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A couple of months ago Naomi and her family spent some time in Israel where Liev was filming a movie, and whilst there they attended a couple of semi-events. I saw ’semi-events’ because they’re not exactly red carpet events, and they could be passed off as candids, but it appears to me that they were there in an official capacity to be photographed … therefore classed a public appearance. Anyways, they were seen with their kids at a recreation center and planting a tree as part of a reforestation project. You can see from the photos that Liev is helping Alexander plant the tree whilst Naomi watches on, holding baby Samuel. You can read a bit more about tree-planting in Israel, plus watch a video of Naomi and Liev planting their tree, at the Jewish National Fund website, and you can also read about the recreation center at that same website.

As well as photos from those 2 events, I’ve also added more stills from The Painted Veil – one of my favourite Naomi movies and just the most beautiful film – and photos of Naomi on the set of Fair Game in May, which I forgot to add until now!

• At a Recreation Center in Israel x3
• At the Jewish National Fund Park in the Galilee x5
• The Painted Veil: Stills x33 more
• Fair Game: On the set – May 18th 2009 x47

Abu Dhabi production arm Imagenation and Participant Media have joined Bill Pohlad’s River Road as co-financers and producers on helmer Doug Liman’s spy thriller “Fair Game.”

Imagenation and Participant’s involvement stems from the $250 million pact they inked in September to provide funding for 15-18 films over five years.

“Fair Game,” which stars Sean Penn and Naomi Watts and is based on the autobiography of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame, is the third project that Imagenation and Participant have teamed up on.

Breck Eisner’s “The Crazies,” starring Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell, and Roger Kumble’s “Furry Vengeance,” starring Brendan Fraser, are the first projects to emanate from the deal.

Participant CEO Jim Berk said that all the shingle’s features will be co-produced and co-financed with Imagenation.

Today I have added a couple of new batches of photos from the set of Fair Game. I’ve been a bit slow in adding these, but that was explained in a previous post. In these photos we can also see Sean Penn – there was never a press confirmation that he had signed on to this film, so it’s good to see confirmation coming through these pictures! I expect this is going to be an intense and gripping film – can’t wait!

I’ve also added photos from another 4/5 2005 appearances. My favourites from this lot are the The Ring 2 Sydney Premiere and the Tribeca Film Festival Premiere of The Interpreter (I was never too keen on this look, but looking at the pictures again now I think she looks amazing! Love the hair, dress and make-up.) – which are your favourites?! Post a comment

• Fair Game: On the set – April 7th 2009 x83
• Fair Game: On the set – April 24th 2009 x8
• The Ring 2 Sydney Premiere x9 more
• Angel Art Auction Benefiting Project Angel Food x3
• Public Theatre’s Anniversary Exhibit x5
• Live 8 x14
• Tribeca Film Festival – The Interpreter Premiere x116

Long Island officials say they plan to rent the lobby of a building housing government offices to the producers of “Fair Game,” a film based on the Valerie Plame CIA affair.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy says the filmmakers will use the 12-story H. Lee Dennison Building in Hauppauge as a double for the CIA headquarters.

The movie, reportedly starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts, is based on the memoir by Valerie Plame, the CIA operative whose identity was leaked after her husband cast doubt on claims the Iraqi government possessed weapons of mass destruction.

Levy says the county will receive $14,000 in fees for use of the facility.

It looks like Naomi has jumped from filming Mother & Child straight into Fair Game, as she was photographed on the set of the film last weekend. I’ve added the first 10 photos from the set.

Incidentally, both Naomi and her partner Liev Schreiber are currently shooting movies where they play spies – Liev is working on Salt with Ms Jolie, where he plays a CIA agent.

“Naomi and I both play CIA agents who appear normal. They aren’t Hollywood’s idea of a spy. We are both trying to figure out who they are.” – Liev Schreiber

• Fair Game: On the set – March 14th 2009 x10

“Fair Game,” the drama about the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson, has come together with Naomi Watts starring, “Mrs. and Mrs. Smith” helmer Doug Liman directing and William Pohlad’s River Road financing.

But the big question is whether Oscar-winning “Milk” star Sean Penn will close a deal to play Ambassador Joseph Wilson.

Penn is negotiating, but no deal has closed.Pohlad has a strong relationship with Penn: he was a producer on the Terrence Malick-directed “Tree of Life,” which stars Penn and Brad Pitt, and Pohlad also was a producer and financier for “Into the Wild,” which Penn directed.

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