Awards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 films remain in the running in the Visual Effects category for the 85th Academy Awards®. The films are listed below in alphabetical order: “The Amazing Spider-Man” “Cloud Atlas” “The Dark Knight Rises” “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” “John Carter” “Life of Pi” “Marvel’s The Avengers” “Prometheus” “Skyfall” “Snow White and the Huntsman” The 85th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on […]
Actors Anna Kendrick, Zoe Saldana, and Common announced the nominations for the 2013 Film Independent Spirit Awards this morning. Silver Linings Playbook and Moonrise Kingdom led with 5 nominations each; followed by Keep the Lights On , Beasts of the Southern Wild and Middle of Nowhere with 4 nominations each. Nominees for Best Feature include Beasts of the Southern Wild, Bernie, Keep the Lights On, Moonrise Kingdom, and Silver Linings Playbook.
Starlet was selected to receive the annual Robert Altman Award, which is bestowed upon one film’s director, casting director and ensemble cast.
Winners will be announced at the Spirit Awards on Saturday, February 23, 2013.
The complete list of nominess
The 22nd Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards were held last night in New York City at the Cipriani Wall Street, Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom took the top prize for Best Feature Film and How to Survive a Plague took the best prize for Best Documentary.
Benh Zeitlin won the Best Director award for his work on the superb indie drama, “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” and Jared Leto’s documentary, “Artifact,” received the Gotham Independent Film Audience Award, voted online.
In addition the awards (see more below) Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, David O. Russell and Jeffrey Skoll received Career Tributes.
The complete list of awards:
First time writer/director Emin Alper’s TEPENIN ARDI (BEYOND THE HILL, Turkey/Greece) won the top prize, the Best Feature Film award at the sixth Asia Pacific Screen Awards, on Friday night in Brisbane, Australia.
In the film set in the quiet foothills of Turkey, Faik lives an isolated existence. When his second son brings his boys for a visit, Faik takes the opportunity to pontificate about the law of the land, as he sees it. He shares one unsolicited thought after the next, most particularly focusing on the elusive nomads whom he suspects have been trespassing on his property. The day and night wear on, and each member of the clan takes his turn entrusting the film’s audience with his own dark secret.
Also from Turkey, writer/director Reis Çelik received the award for Best Screenplay for LAL GECE (NIGHT OF SILENCE) and the award for Achievement in Cinematography went to Touraj Aslani for Bahman Ghobadi’s FASLE KARGADAN (RHINO SEASON), a co-production between Iraqi-Kurdistan and Turkey.
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At the Seville European Film Festival the European Film Academy announced the nominations for the European Film Awards 2012.
Nominated are:
EUROPEAN FILM 2012:
AMOUR (Love)
Austria/France/Germany, 127 min
Written & directed by Michael Haneke
Produced by Margaret Menegoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka & Michael Katz
BARBARA
Germany, 105 min
Written & directed by Christian Petzold
Produced by Florian Koerner von Gustorf & Michael Weber
CESARE DEVE MORIRE (Caesar Must Die)
Italy, 76 min
Directed by Paolo & Vittorio Taviani
Written by Paolo & Vittorio Taviani, in collaboration with Fabio Cavalli
Produced by Grazia Volpi
INTOUCHABLES (Untouchable)
France, 108 min
Written & directed by Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano
Produced by Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Yann Zenou & Laurent Zeitoun
JAGTEN (The Hunt)
Denmark, 111 min
Directed by Thomas Vinterberg
Written by Thomas Vinterberg & Tobias Lindholm
Produced by Morten Kaufmann & Sisse Graum Jørgensen
SHAME
UK, 96 min
Directed by Steve McQueen
Written by Steve McQueen & Abi Morgan
Produced by Iain Canning & Emile Sherman
Twenty-one features have been submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 85th Academy Awards®.
The 21 submitted features, listed in alphabetical order by title, are:
“Adventures in Zambezia”
“Brave”
“Delhi Safari”
“Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax”
“Frankenweenie”
“From Up on Poppy Hill”
“Hey Krishna”
“Hotel Transylvania”
“Ice Age Continental Drift”
“A Liar’s Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman”
“Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted”
“The Mystical Laws”
“The Painting”
“ParaNorman”
“The Pirates! Band of Misfits”
“The Rabbi’s Cat”
“Rise of the Guardians”
“Secret of the Wings”
“Walter & Tandoori’s Christmas”
“Wreck-It Ralph”
“Zarafa”
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that 10 animated short films will advance in the voting process for the 85th Academy Awards®. Fifty-six pictures had originally qualified in the category. The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production companies: Adam and Dog,” Minkyu Lee, director (Lodge Films) “Combustible,” Katsuhiro Otomo, director (Sunrise Inc.) “Dripped,” Léo Verrier, director (ChezEddy) “The Eagleman Stag,” Mikey Please, director, and […]
Nominees in the sixth annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) were announced with 34 films from 18 Asia Pacific countries and areas nominated in the region’s highest accolade in film.
The five films nominated for Best Feature Film are Khers (Bear, Islamic Republic of Iran), Tepenin Ardi (Beyond the Hill, Turkey, Greece), Orda (The Horde, Russian Federation), Bumchoiwaui Junjaeng (Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time, Republic of Korea) and Wu Xia (Hong Kong (PRC), People’s Republic of China).
All winners in the sixth annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards will be announced on Friday November 23 in Brisbane, Australia.
The 2012 Official Nominations listed below:
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that the field of Documentary Short Subject contenders for the 85th Academy Awards® has been narrowed to eight films, of which three to five will earn Oscar® nominations.
The eight films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production companies:
The European Film Academy announced the three films nominated in the category EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY DOCUMENTARY 2012. HIVER NOMADE (Winter Nomads)Switzerland, 90 minDIRECTED BY: Manuel von StürlerWRITTEN BY: Claude Muret & Manuel von StürlerPRODUCED BY: Elisabeth Garbar & Heinz Dill LONDON – THE MODERN BABYLONUK, 128 minDIRECTED BY: Julien TemplePRODUCED BY: Amanda Temple & Stephen Malit LE THÉ OU L‘ELECTRICITÉ(Tea or Electricity)Belgium / France / Morocco, 93 minWRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Jérôme le MairePRODUCED BY: […]
The European Film Academy announced the nominees for the EUROPEAN DISCOVERY 2012 – Prix FIPRESCI, an award presented annually as part of the European Film Awards to a young and upcoming director for a first full-length feature film.
NOMINATED ARE:
A record 71 countries, including first-time entrant Kenya, have submitted films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 85th Academy Awards®.
The 2012 submissions are: