Awards

 

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Saturday night honored fifteen student winners from colleges and universities around the world at the 41st Student Academy Awards ceremony, held at the Directors Guild of America Theater in Hollywood.  The gold, silver and bronze medals were announced and presented by actors Adrian Grenier, Nate Parker and Oscar® nominee Demian Bichir, and the Oscar-winning directing/producing team from the animated feature “Frozen,” Jennifer Lee, Chris Buck and Peter Del Vecho.

The 2014 Student Academy Award® winners are:

Alternative
Gold Medal: “Person,” Drew Brown, The Art Institute of Jacksonville, Florida
Silver Medal: “Oscillate,” Daniel Sierra, School of Visual Arts, New York

Animation 
Gold Medal: “Owned,” Daniel Clark and Wesley Tippetts, Brigham Young University, Utah
Silver Medal: “Higher Sky,” Teng Cheng, University of Southern California
Bronze Medal: “Yamashita,” Hayley Foster, Loyola Marymount University, California

Documentary
Gold Medal: “The Apothecary,” Helen Hood Scheer, Stanford University
Silver Medal: “White Earth,” J. Christian Jensen, Stanford University
Bronze Medal: “One Child,” Zijian Mu, New York University

Narrative
Gold Medal: “Above the Sea,” Keola Racela, Columbia University, New York
Silver Medal: “Door God,” Yulin Liu, New York University
Bronze Medal: “Interstate,” Camille Stochitch, American Film Institute, California

Foreign Film
Gold Medal: “Nocebo,” Lennart Ruff, University of Television and Film Munich, Germany
Silver Medal: “Paris on the Water,” Hadas Ayalon, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Bronze Medal: “Border Patrol,” Peter Baumann, The Northern Film School, United Kingdom

This year saw first-time honors go to Tel Aviv University, Israel, and The Northern Film School, United Kingdom, in the foreign competition. 

The Academy established the Student Academy Awards in 1972 to support and encourage excellence in filmmaking at the collegiate level.  Past Student Academy Award winners have gone on to receive 46 Oscar nominations and have won or shared eight awards.  They include John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Robert Zemeckis, Trey Parker and Spike Lee.

 image: via The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented its 41st Annual Student Academy Awards® on Saturday, June 7, in Hollywood.

Front row (left to right): Teng Cheng, Zijan Mu, J. Christian Jensen, Wesley Tippetts, Lennart Ruff, Daniel Sierra, Peter Baumann and Drew Brown.

Back row (left to right): Helen Hood Scheer, Hayley Foster, Camille Stochitch, Daniel Clark, Keola Racela, Yulin Liu and Hadas Ayalon.

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Fifteen students have been selected as winners in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 41st Student Academy Awards® competition.  They will arrive in Los Angeles for a week of industry activities that will culminate in the awards ceremony on Saturday, June 7, at 6 p.m., at the DGA Theater in Hollywood.  The medal placements – gold, silver and bronze – in the five award categories will be announced at the ceremony. 

The winners are (listed alphabetically by film title):

Alternative
“Oscillate,” Daniel Sierra, School of Visual Arts, New York
“Person,” Drew Brown, The Art Institute of Jacksonville, Florida

Animation 
“Higher Sky,” Teng Cheng, University of Southern California
“Owned,” Daniel Clark and Wesley Tippetts, Brigham Young University, Utah
“Yamashita,” Hayley Foster, Loyola Marymount University, California

Documentary
“The Apothecary,” Helen Hood Scheer, Stanford University
“One Child,” Zijian Mu, New York University
“White Earth,” J. Christian Jensen, Stanford University

Narrative
“Above the Sea,” Keola Racela, Columbia University, New York
“Door God,” Yulin Liu, New York University
“Interstate,” Camille Stochitch, American Film Institute, California

Foreign Film
“Border Patrol,” Peter Baumann, The Northern Film School, United Kingdom
“Nocebo,” Lennart Ruff, University of Television and Film Munich, Germany
“Paris on the Water,” Hadas Ayalon, Tel Aviv University, Israel

This year saw first-time honors go to Tel Aviv University, Israel, and The Northern Film School, United Kingdom, in the foreign competition.  Academy members voted the winners from a field of 49 finalists, announced earlier this month.

The Academy established the Student Academy Awards in 1972 to support and encourage excellence in filmmaking at the collegiate level. Past Student Academy Award winners have gone on to receive 46 Oscar® nominations and have won or shared eight awards. They include John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Robert Zemeckis, Trey Parker and Spike Lee.

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`40th Student Academy Award winners

Forty-one students from 23 U.S. colleges and universities as well as 10 students from foreign universities have been selected as finalists in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 41st Student Academy Awards competition. 

The Academy established the Student Academy Awards in 1972 to support and encourage excellence in filmmaking at the collegiate level.  Past Student Academy Award® winners have gone on to receive 46 Oscar® nominations and have won or shared eight awards.  They include John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Robert Zemeckis, Trey Parker and Spike Lee.

Academy members will now vote to determine up to three winning films in each category. The winners, but not their medal placements, will be announced later this month.  The winning students will be brought to Los Angeles for a week of industry activities and social events that will culminate in the awards ceremony on Saturday, June 7, at 6 p.m., at the DGA Theater in Hollywood, at which time the gold, silver and bronze medalists will be revealed.

The finalists are (listed alphabetically by film title):

Alternative
“Dreamers,” Joseph Dwyer, Boston University
“Entropic Apogee,” Bill Manolios, Art Institute of California – San Francisco
“Jaspa’ Jenkins,” Robert Carnilius, Columbia College Chicago
“Oscillate,” Daniel Sierra, School of Visual Arts, New York
“Passer Passer,” Louis Morton, University of Southern California
“Person,” Drew Brown and Ramona Ramdeen, The Art Institute of Jacksonville, Florida
“The Private Life of Fenfen,” Leslie Tai, Stanford University
“Staircases,” Steinar Bergoy Nedrebo, School of Visual Arts, New York

Animation 
“Baxter,” Ty Coyle, Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia
“Goodnight Boon,” Jeremy Jensen, New York University
“Higher Sky,” Teng Cheng, University of Southern California
“Marcel,” Eric Cunha and Seung Sung, School of Visual Arts, New York
“Owned,” Daniel Clark and Wesley Tippetts, Brigham Young University, Utah
“Roadkill Redemption,” Karl Hadrika, Ringling College of Art and Design, Florida
“Two Ghosts,” Amy Lee Ketchum, University of Southern California
“Umbra,” Pedro Jesus Atienzar Godoy, Pratt Institute, New York
“Yamashita,” Hayley Foster, Loyola Marymount University, California

Documentary
“The Apothecary,” Helen Hood Scheer, Stanford University
“Eth“no”representation,” Ryan Metzler and Scott Kulicke, Occidental College, California
“Heel’d,” Thomas Smith and McKenna Hinkle, Villanova University, Pennsylvania
“Light Mind,” Jie Yi, School of Visual Arts, New York
“My Sister Sarah,” Elizabeth Chatelain, University of Texas at Austin
“One Child,” Zijian Mu, New York University
“Punches & Pedicures,” Ashley Brandon and Dennis Höhne, Wright State University, Ohio
“Scattered,” Lindsay Lindenbaum, School of Visual Arts, New York
“White Earth,” J. Christian Jensen, Stanford University

Narrative
“AM800,” James Roe, University of New Orleans
“Above the Sea,” Keola Racela, Columbia University, New York
“Door God,” Yulin Liu, New York University
“Interstate,” Camille Stochitch, American Film Institute, California
“Istifa (Resignation),” Rahat Mahajan, Art Center College of Design, California
“So You’ve Grown Attached,” Kate Tsang, New York University
“Sweepstakes,” Mark Tumas, Temple University, Pennsylvania
“Way in Rye,” Goran Stankovic, American Film Institute, California
“What Remains,” Julie Koegl, University of North Carolina School of the Arts

Foreign Film
“Border Patrol,” Peter Baumann, The Northern Film School, United Kingdom
“Intruder,” Geun Buem Park, Korean Academy of Film Arts, South Korea
“Kam,” Katarina Morano, University of Ljubljana – Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television, Slovenia
“Nocebo,” Lennart Ruff, University of Television and Film Munich, Germany
“North,” Philip Sheerin, National Film and Television School, United Kingdom
“Paris on the Water,” Hadas Ayalon, Tel Aviv University, Israel
“Sacred Defense,” Nima Mohaghegh, Netherlands Film Academy
“Souffle Court,” Johann Dulat, ENS Louis-Lumière – The National Film, Photography & Sound Engineering School, France
“The Oasis,” Carl Marott, The National Film School of Denmark
“Wo Wir Sind,” Ilker Çatak, Hamburg Media School, Germany

To reach this stage, U.S. students competed in one of three regional competitions.  Each region is permitted to send to the Academy up to three finalists in each of the four categories.  The Student Academy Awards Nominating Committee screened and voted on the finalists in the Foreign Film category.

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the ABC Television Network today announced the dates for the 87th Oscars.  The Academy Awards® presentation will air live on ABC on Oscar®Sunday, February 22, 2015.

Key dates for the Awards season are:

Saturday, November 8, 2014	The Governors Awards
Wednesday, December 3, 2014	Official Screen Credits and music submissions due
Monday, December 29, 2014	Nominations voting begins 8 a.m. PT
Thursday, January 8, 2015	Nominations voting ends 5 p.m. PT
Thursday, January 15, 2015	Oscar nominations announced
Monday, February 2, 2015	Oscar Nominees Luncheon
Friday, February 6, 2015	Final voting begins 8 a.m. PT
Saturday, February 7, 2015	Scientific and Technical Awards
Tuesday, February 17, 2015	Final voting ends 5 p.m. PT
Oscar Sunday, February 22, 2015	87th Academy Awards begins 7 p.m. ET/ 4 p.m. PT

The Oscars will be held at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network.  The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.

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The 8th Asian Film Awards (AFA) was held last month in Macau, and Mr  Wong Kar Wai’s martial arts film, THE GRANDMASTER, which topped the AFA nominees’ list with 11 nominations out of 14 categories, scooped up the awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematographer, Best Production Designer, Best Composer and Best Costume Designer, while Zhang Zi yi was also crowned the Best Actress for her performance in the movie.

Indian actor Irrfan Khan with THE LUNCHBOX won Best Actor, and the film also claimed the Best Screenwriter. The incredible acting skills of HUANG Bo and YEO Yann Yann earned them Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress awards for their roles in NO MAN’S LAND and ILO ILO, while JIANG Shuying from SO YOUNG won for Best Newcomer. The 8th Asian Film Awards Academy conferred the Life-Time Achievement Award on Taiwanese celebrated director Hou Hsiao-hsien for his contribution to the film industry.

The full list of nominees and winners of 8th Asian Film Awards (AFA):

Best Film

No Man’s Land (Mainland China)

 THE GRANDMASTER

THE GRANDMASTER (Hong Kong/Mainland China)  – WINNER
The Great Passage (Japan)
The Lunchbox (India)
Snowpiercer (South Korea/U.S./France)
Stray Dogs (Taiwan)

Best Director

Bong Joon-ho, Snowpiercer (South Korea/U.S./France)
Anthony Chen, Ilo Ilo (Singapore)
Hirokazu Koreeda, Like Father, Like Son (Japan)
Tsai Ming-liang, Stray Dogs (Taiwan)

Wong Kar-wai, THE GRANDMASTER

Wong Kar-wai, THE GRANDMASTER (Hong Kong/Mainland China)  – WINNER

Best Actor

Masaharu Fukuyama, Like Father, Like Son (Japan)

Irrfan Khan, THE LUNCHBOX

Irrfan Khan, THE LUNCHBOX (India)  – WINNER
Lee Kang-sheng, Stray Dogs (Taiwan)
Tony Leung, The Grandmaster (Hong Kong/Mainland China)
Song Kang-ho, The Attorney (South Korea)

Best Actress

Eugene Domingo, Barber’s Tales (The Philippines)
Han Hyo-joo, Cold Eyes (South Korea)
Paw Hee-ching, Rigor Mortis (Hong Kong)
Maki Yoko, The Ravine of Goodbye (Japan)

Zhang Ziyi, THE GRANDMASTER

Zhang Ziyi, THE GRANDMASTER (Hong Kong/Mainland China)  – WINNER

Best Newcomer

Choi Hon-yick, The Way We Dance (Hong Kong)
Im Si-wan, The Attorney (South Korea)

Jiang Shuying, SO YOUNG

Jiang Shuying, SO YOUNG (Mainland China)  – WINNER
Misaki Kinoshita, The Backwater (Japan)
Keita Ninomiya, Like Father, Like Son (Japan)

Best Supporting Actor

Mark Chao, So Young (Mainland China)

Huang Bo, NO MAN’S LAND

Huang Bo, NO MAN’S LAND (Mainland China)  – WINNER
Jung Woo-sung, Cold Eyes (South Korea)
Joe Odagiri, The Great Passage (Japan)
Satoshi Tsumabuki, Tokyo Family (Japan)

Best Supporting Actress

Yu Aoi, Tokyo Family (Japan)
Mavis Fan, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? (Taiwan)
Kim Young-ae, The Attorney (South Korea)
Fumi Nikaido, Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (Japan)

Yeo Yann Yann, ILO ILO

Yeo Yann Yann, ILO ILO (Singapore)  – WINNER

Best Screenwriter

Ritesh Batra, THE LUNCHBOX (India)  – WINNER
Bong Joon-ho, Kelly Masterson, Snowpiercer (South Korea/U.S./France)
Li Qiang, So Young (Mainland China)
Kensaku Watanabe, The Great Passage (Japan)
Wong Kar-wai, Zou Jingzhi, Xu Haofeng, The Grandmaster (Hong Kong/Mainland China)

Best Cinematographer

Kim Byung-seo, Yeo Kyung-bo, Cold Eyes (South Korea)
Liao Pen-jung, Shong Woon-chong, Lu Qing-xin, Stray Dogs (Taiwan)
Philippe Le Sourd, THE GRANDMASTER (Hong Kong/Mainland China)  – WINNER
Man-ching Ng, Rigor Mortis (Hong Kong)
Aziz Zhambakiyev, Harmony Lessons (Kazakhstan/Germany/France)

Best Production Designer

William Chang, Alfred Yau Wai-ming, THE GRANDMASTER (Hong Kong/Mainland China)  – WINNER
Hao Yi, No Man’s Land (Mainland China)
Hisao Inagaki, Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (Japan)
Ken Mak, Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon (Mainland China/ Hong Kong)
Ondrej Nekvasil, Snowpiercer (South Korea/U.S./France)

Best Composer

Zeke Khaseli, Yudhi Arfan, What They Don’t Talk About When They Talk About Love (Indonesia)
Ehsaan Noorani, Shankar Mahadevan, Loy Mendonsa, Run Milkha Run (India)
Shigeru Umebayashi, Nathaniel Mechaly, THE GRANDMASTER (Hong Kong/Mainland China)  – WINNER

Best Editor

William Chang, Benjamin Courtines, Poon Hung-yiu, THE GRANDMASTER (Hong Kong/Mainland China)
Du Yuan, No Man’s Land (Mainland China)
Junichi Ito, Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (Japan)
David M. Richardson, Rigor Mortis (Hong Kong)
Shin Min-kyung, Cold Eyes (South Korea)  – WINNER

Best Visual Effects

Shuji Asano, Real (Japan)
Pierre Buffin, The Grandmaster (Hong Kong/Mainland China)
Enoch Chan, Rigor Mortis (Hong Kong)

MR. GO

Jung Sung-jin, MR. GO (South Korea/Mainland China)  – WINNER
Kim Wook, Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon (Mainland China/ Hong Kong)

Best Costume Designer

William Chang, THE GRANDMASTER (Hong Kong/Mainland China)  – WINNER
Catherine George, Snowpiercer (South Korea/U.S./France)
Lee Pik-kwan, Bruce Yu, Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon (Mainland China/ Hong Kong)
Shim Hyun-sub, The Face Reader (South Korea)

main image via 8th Asian Film Awards

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Cas & Dylan

Jason Priestley’s Cas & Dylan and Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine are the winners of Toronto International Film Festival’s 10th annual Film Circuit People’s Choice Awards. Cas & Dylan was named Best Canadian Film and Blue Jasmine was selected as the Best International Film.

“It is an unbelievable thrill and honour for us to be chosen as Best Canadian Film by the 2013 Film Circuit audiences,” said Priestley. “For our film to receive such accolades is an unexpected pleasure. Thank you.”

In Priestley’s directorial debut, Cas & Dylan, screen legend Richard Dreyfuss stars as Dr. Cas Pepper, a curmudgeonly surgeon who makes the abrupt decision to leave Winnipeg and drive west to British Columbia—and to an uncertain future. Before departing, he meets an aspiring young writer named Dylan (TIFF Rising Star Tatiana Maslany; Canadian Screen Award winner for Orphan Black) who possesses a life-altering secret of her own. The two unlikely companions hit the road, encountering a series of bizarre twists and turns along their cross-country journey.Cas & Dylan has screened in over 40 communities across Canada with Film Circuit and has been seen by over 5,500 people to date.

Blue Jasmine

Blue Jasmine follows a high-society New York housewife forced to deal with the economic and emotional consequences of her husband’s crooked financial dealings. Jasmine (Cate Blanchett, in an Oscar-winning role) is used to a life of wealth and privilege, but when her husband (Alec Baldwin) is jailed for a Madoff-like Ponzi scheme, she loses everything and is forced to move in with her blue-collar sister Ginger (Sally Hawkins) in San Francisco. As she struggles to build a new life for herself, Jasmine must learn to accept her new reality and face up to the past.

Now in its tenth year, the annual Film Circuit People’s Choice Awards are decided by audiences across the country who vote for their favourite film shown at a Film Circuit screening.

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Three films, THE CONTEST, directed by Martin Miehe-Renard, REGRET, directed by Dave Schram, and WINDSTORM, directed by Katja von Garnier, have been nominated for the EFA (European Film Academy) Young Audience Award 2014. On Young Audience Film Day on 4 May, the three nominated films will be screened to a audiences of 12 – 14 year-olds in 17 cities across Europe. And it is the young audience that will act as a jury and vote for the winner right after the screenings.

THE CONTEST 

DIRECTED BY: Martin Miehe-Renard
WRITTEN BY: Martin Miehe-Renard, Gitte Løkkegaard & Hans Hansen
PRODUCED BY: Henrik Møller-Sørensen & Marcella Dichmann
90 min, Denmark

REGRET 

DIRECTED BY: Dave Schram
WRITTEN BY: Maria Peters & Dick van den Heuvel
PRODUCED BY:  Dave Schram, Maria Peters & Hans Pos
95 min, The Netherlands

WINDSTORM

DIRECTED BY: Katja von Garnier
WRITTEN BY: Kristina Magdalena Henn & Lea Schmidbauer
PRODUCED BY: Ewa Karlström & Andreas Ulmke-Smeaton
103 min, Germany

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At  the 86th Academy Awards held on Sunday night, he best documentary award went to 20 FEET FROM STARDOM, and Italy picked up it’s 11th best foreign film Oscar for THE GREAT BEAUTY.  The documentary short Oscar went to THE LADY IN NUMBER 6: MUSIC SAVED MY LIFE, about 110-year-old Holocaust survivor, Alice Herz Sommer, who died just days before the ceremony. 

The complete list of winners of 86th Academy Awards.

Best picture
12 YEARS A SLAVE – Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen and Anthony Katagas, Producers (WINNER)
AMERICAN HUSTLE – Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison and Jonathan Gordon, Producers
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS – Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti and Michael De Luca, Producers
DALLAS BUYERS CLUB – Robbie Brenner and Rachel Winter, Producers
GRAVITY – Alfonso Cuaron and David Heyman, Producers
HER – Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze and Vincent Landay, Producers
NEBRASKA – Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa, Producers
PHILOMENA – Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan and Tracey Seaward, Producers
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET – Nominees to be determined

Best performance by an actor in a leading role
Matthew McConaughey, DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (Focus Features) (WINNER)
Christian Bale, AMERICAN HUSTLE (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Bruce Dern, NEBRASKA (Paramount)
Leonardo DiCaprio, THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (Paramount)
Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 YEARS A SLAVE (Fox Searchlight)

Best performance by an actress in a leading role
Cate Blanchett, BLUE JASMINE (Sony Pictures Classics) (WINNER)
Amy Adams, AMERICAN HUSTLE (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Sandra Bullock, GRAVITY (Warner Bros.)
Judi Dench, PHILOMENA (The Weinstein Company)
Meryl Streep, AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (The Weinstein Company)

Achievement in directing
GRAVITY, Alfonso Cuaron (WINNER)
AMERICAN HUSTLE, David O. Russell
NEBRASKA, Alexander Payne
12 YEARS A SLAVE, Steve McQueen
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET, Martin Scorsese

Original screenplay
HER, Spike Jonze (WINNER)
AMERICAN HUSTLE, Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell
BLUE JASMINE, Woody Allen
DALLAS BUYERS CLUB, Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack
NEBRASKA, Bob Nelson

Adapted screenplay
12 YEARS A SLAVE, John Ridley (WINNER)
BEFORE MIDNIGHT, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS, Billy Ray
PHILOMENA, Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET, Terence Winter

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
“Let It Go” from FROZEN; Music and Lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (WINNER)
“Alone Yet Not Alone” from ALONE YET NOT ALONE; Music by Bruce Broughton; Lyrics by Dennis Spiegel
“Happy” from DESPICABLE ME 2; Music and Lyrics by Pharrell Williams
“The Moon Song” from HER; Music by Karen O; Lyrics by Karen O and Spike Jonze
“Ordinary Love” from MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM; Music by Paul Hewson, Dave Evans, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen; Lyrics by Paul Hewson

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
GRAVITY, Steven Price (WINNER)
THE BOOK THIEF, John Williams
HER, William Butler and Owen Pallett
PHILOMENA, Alexandre Desplat
SAVING MR. BANKS, Thomas Newman

Achievement in production design
THE GREAT GATSBY, Production Design: Catherine Martin; Set Decoration: Beverley Dunn(WINNER)
AMERICAN HUSTLE, Production Design: Judy Becker; Set Decoration: Heather Loeffler
GRAVITY, Production Design: Andy Nicholson; Set Decoration: Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard
HER, Production Design: K.K. Barrett; Set Decoration: Gene Serdena
12 YEARS A SLAVE, Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Alice Baker

Achievement in film editing
GRAVITY, Alfonso Cuaron and Mark Sanger (WINNER)
AMERICAN HUSTLE, Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers and Alan Baumgarten
CAPTAIN Phillips, Christopher Rouse
DALLAS BUYERS CLUB, John Mac McMurphy and Martin Pensa
12 YEARS A SLAVE, Joe Walker

Achievement in cinematography
GRAVITY, Emmanuel Lubezki (WINNER)
THE GRANDMASTER, Philippe Le Sourd
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS, Bruno Delbonnel
NEBRASKA, Phedon Papamichael
PRISONERS, Roger A. Deakins

Best performance by an actress in a supporting role
Lupita Nyong’o, 12 YEARS A SLAVE (WINNER)
Jennifer Lawrence, AMERICAN HUSTLE
June Squibb, NEBRASKA
Julia Roberts, AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
Sally Hawkins, BLUE JASMINE

Achievement in sound editing
GRAVITY, Glenn Freemantle (WINNER)
ALL IS LOST, Steve Boeddeker and Richard Hymns
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS, Oliver Tarney
THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG, Brent Burge
LONE SURVIVOR, Wylie Stateman

Achievement in sound mixing
GRAVITY, Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro (WINNER)
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS, Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith and Chris Munro
THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG, Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick and Tony Johnson
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS, Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland
LONE SURVIVOR, Andy Koyama, Beau Borders and David Brownlow

Best foreign-language film 
THE GREAT BEAUTY, Italy (WINNER)
THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN, Belgium
THE HUNT, Denmark
THE MISSING PICTURE Cambodia
OMAR, Palestine

Best documentary feature
20 FEET FROM STARDOM,, Morgan Neville, Gil Friesen and Caitrin Rogers (WINNER)
THE ACT OF KILLING, Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen
CUTIE AND THE BOXER, Zachary Heinzerling and Lydia Dean Pilcher
DIRTY WARS,Richard Rowley and Jeremy Scahill
THE SQUARE, Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer

Best documentary short subject
THE LADY IN NUMBER 6: MUSIC SAVED MY LIFE, Malcolm Clarke and Nicholas Reed (WINNER)
CAVEDIGGER, Jeffrey Karoff
FACING FEAR, Jason Cohen
KARAMA HAS NO WALLS, Sara Ishaq
PRISON TERMINAL: THE LAST DAYS OF PRIVATE JACK HALL, Edgar Barens

Best live-action short film
HELIUM, Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson (WINNER)
AQUEL NO ERA YO (THAT WASN’T ME), Esteban Crespo
AVANT QUE DE TOUT PERDRE (JUST BEFORE LOSING EVERYTHING), Xavier Legrand and Alexandre Gavras
PITAAKO MUN KAIKKI HOITAA? (DO I HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF EVERYTHING?), Selma Vilhunen and KirsikkaSaari
THE VOORMAN PROBLEM, Mark Gill and Baldwin Li

Achievement in visual effects
GRAVITY, Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould (WINNER)
THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG, Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and Eric Reynolds
IRON MAN 3, Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash and Dan Sudick
THE LONE RANGER, Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams and John Frazier
STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS, Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann and Burt Dalton

Best animated feature
FROZEN (WINNER)
THE CROODS
THE WIND RISES
DESPICABLE ME 2
ERNEST & CELESTINE

Best animated short film
MR. HUBLOT, Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares (WINNER)
FERAL, Daniel Sousa and Dan Golden
GET A HORSE!, Lauren MacMullan and Dorothy McKim
POSSESSIONS, Shuhei Morita
ROOM ON THE BROOM, Max Lang and Jan Lachauer

Achievement in makeup and hairstyling
DALLAS BUYERS CLUB, Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews (WINNER)
JACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA, Stephen Prouty
THE LONE RANGER, Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny

Achievement in costume design
THE GREAT GATSBY, Catherine Martin (WINNER)
AMERICAN HUSTLE, Michael Wilkinson
THE GRANDMASTER, William Chang Suk Ping
THE INVISIBLE WOMAN, Michael O’Connor
12 YEARS A SLAVE, Patricia Norris

Best performance by an actor in a supporting role
Jared Leto, DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (WINNER)
Barkhad Abdi, CAPTAIN PHILLIPS
Bradley Cooper, AMERICAN HUSTLE
Michael Fassbender, 12 YEARS A SLAVE
Jonah Hill, THE WOLF OF WALL STREET

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 Guillaume Gallienne’s ME, MYSELF AND MUM

Guillaume Gallienne’s ME, MYSELF AND MUM was the big winner at the 39th César Awards in Paris, taking home five awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Adaptation, Best First Film and Best Editing. Adapted from his one-man stage show, Guillaume Gallienne shows what it’s like to grow up as a boy when everyone is convinced that you’re really a girl – or should have been. Playing both himself and his frosty grande dame mother, Gallienne traces his life from childhood in an aristocratic family through adventures in Spain, ill-fated stints at boarding school and a hair-raising spa visit to the present, when he comes out as… well, simply as his own uncategorisable self. 

The complete list of winners of the 39th Cesar Awards:

Best Picture: Me, Myself and Mum

Honorary Cesar: Scarlett Johansson

Best Director: Roman Polanski for La Vénus à la fourrure

Best Actor: Guillaume Gallienne for Me, Myself and Mum

Best Actress: Sandrine Kiberlain for 9 Month Stretch

Best Supporting Actor: Niels Arestrup for Quai d’Orsay

Best Supporting Actress: Adèle Haenel for Suzanne

Most Promising Actress (Newcomer): Adèle Exarchopoulos for Blue Is The Warmest Color

Most Promising Actor (Newcomer): Pierre Deladonchamps for Stranger by the Lake

Best Original Screenplay: Albert Dupontel for 9 Month Stretch

Best Foreign Film: The Broken Circle Breakdown by Felix van Groeningen

Best First Film: Me, Myself and Mum by Guillaume Gallienne

Best Costume: Pascaline Chavanne for Renoir

Best Original Score: Martin Wheeler for Michael Kohlhaas

Best Production Design: Stephane Rozenbaum for L’Ecume des Jours

Best Sound:  Jean-Pierre Duret, Jean Mallet and Melissa Petitjean for Michael Kohlhaas

Best Documentary: Sur le Chemin de l’Ecole by Pascal Plisson

Best Adapted Screenplay: Me, Myself and Mum by Guillaume Gallienne

Best Animated Feature Film: Loulou l’Incroyable Secret by Eric Omond

Best Animated Short Film: Mademoiselle Kiki et les Montparnos by Amelie Harrault

Best Editing: Valerie Deseine for Me, Myself and Mum

Best Cinematography: Thomas Hardmeier for The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet

Best Short Film: Avant Que de Tout Perdre by Xavier Legrand 

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The 29th Spirit Awards ceremony was held this afternoon in a tent on the beach in Santa Monica, with top honors going to 12 YEARS A SLAVE, DALLAS BUYERS CLUB and NEBRASKA. BLUE JASMINE, FRUITVALE STATION, BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR, SHORT TERM 12, THIS IS MARTIN BONNER and 20 FEET FROM STARDOM also received awards at the ceremony.

This year’s major category winners were 12 YEARS A SLAVE, which won Best Feature, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Female and Best Cinematography and DALLAS BUYERS CLUB, which won Best Supporting Male and Best Male Lead; FRUITVALE STATION which won Best First Feature and NEBRASKA, which won Best First Screenplay; BLUE JASMINE, which won Best Female Lead, SHORT TERM 12 which won Best Editing; THIS IS MARTIN BONNER, which won the John Cassavetes Award; BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR, which won Best International Film and 20 FEET FROM STARDOM which won Best Documentary.

The following is the complete list of the winners:

Best Feature: 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Producers: Dede Gardner, Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, Arnon Milchan, Brad Pitt, Bill Pohlad

Best Director: Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Best Screenplay: John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Best First Feature: Fruitvale Station (The Weinstein Company)
Director: Ryan Coogler, Producers: Nina Yang Bongiovi, Forest Whitaker

Best First Screenplay: Bob Nelson, Nebraska (Paramount Pictures)

John Cassavetes Award (For best feature made under $500,000):
This is Martin Bonner (Monterey Media inc)
Writer/Director: Chad Hartigan, Producer: Cherie Saulter

Best Supporting Female: Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Best Supporting Male: Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club (Focus Features)

Best Female Lead: Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine (Sony Pictures Classics)

Best Male Lead: Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club, (Focus Features)

Robert Altman Award: Mud (Roadside Attractions / Lionsgate)
Director: Jeff Nichols, Casting Director: Francine Maisler, Ensemble Cast: Joe Don Baker, Jacob Lofland, Matthew McConaughey, Ray McKinnon, Sarah Paulson, Michael Shannon, Sam Shepard, Tye Sheridan, Paul Sparks, Bonnie Sturdivant, Reese Witherspoon

Best Cinematography: Sean Bobbitt, 12 Years a Slave (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Best Editing: Nat Sanders, Short Term 12 (Cinedigm)

Best International Film: Blue is the Warmest Color (France- IFC Films)
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche

Best Documentary: 20 Feet From Stardom (Radius-TWC)
Director/Producer: Morgan Neville, Producers: Gil Friesen, Caitrin Rogers

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The winners of the 45th NAACP Image Awards were announced this weekend, and “FRUITVALE STATION” won the award for Outstanding Independent Motion Picture, and “WAR WITCH” won  the Outstanding International Motion Picture award.  “FREE ANGELA AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS” received the award for Outstanding Documentary – (Theatrical), and RICHARD PRYOR: OMIT THE LOGIC won the award for Outstanding Documentary – (Television).  

Motion Picture Categories

Outstanding Motion Picture
“12 YEARS A SLAVE” (River Road/Plan B/New Regency/Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
Forest Whitaker – “LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER” (The Weinstein Company/Lee Daniels Entertainment,
Laura Ziskin Productions, Windy Hill Pictures, Follow Through Productions, Salamander Pictures, Pam Williams Productions)

Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
Angela Bassett – “BLACK NATIVITY” (Fox Searchlight Pictures/Mavin Pictures/Wonderful Films)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
David Oyelowo – “LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER” (The Weinstein Company/Lee Daniels Entertainment,
Laura Ziskin Productions, Windy Hill Pictures, Follow Through Productions, Salamander Pictures, Pam Williams Productions)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
Lupita Nyong’o – “12 YEARS A SLAVE” (River Road/Plan B/New Regency/Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Entertainer of the Year
Kevin Hart

Motion Picture Categories
Outstanding Independent Motion Picture
“FRUITVALE STATION” (The Weinstein Company/Forest Whitaker’s Significant Productions, OG Project)

Outstanding International Motion Picture
“WAR WITCH” (Item 7)

Documentary Categories
Outstanding Documentary – (Theatrical)
“FREE ANGELA AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS” (Codeblack Films/Lionsgate)

Outstanding Documentary – (Television)
RICHARD PRYOR: OMIT THE LOGIC (Showtime)

Writing Categories
Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series
Vincent Brown – “A.N.T. Farm” – InfluANTces (Disney Channel)

Outstanding Writing in a Dramatic Series
Janine Sherman Barrois – “Criminal Minds” – Strange Fruit (CBS)

Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture – (Theatrical or Television)
John Ridley – “12 YEARS A SLAVE” (River Road/Plan B/New Regency/Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Directing Categories
Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series
Millicent Shelton – “The Hustle” – Rule 4080 (FUSE)

Outstanding Directing in a Dramatic Series
Regina King – “SouthLAnd” – Off Duty (TNT)

Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture – (Theatrical or Television)
Steve McQueen – “12 YEARS A SLAVE” (River Road/Plan B/New Regency/Fox Searchlight Pictures)

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Director Rob Reiner, will be honored at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s 41st Annual Chaplin Award Gala held at Lincoln Center i New York City on Monday, April 28, 2014.  According to the Film Society of Lincoln Center, ‘The event will celebrate the range of Reiner’s work from the pure comedy of This Is Spinal Tap and The Princess Bride to the intense drama of Stand By Me; the romantic comedy of When Harry Met Sally…, as well as his extensive on-screen work highlighted with the role of Michael “Meathead” Stivic in the landmark television series All in the Family.’

“The Board is very excited to have Rob Reiner as the next recipient of The Chaplin Award,” said Ann Tenenbaum, The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Board Chairman. “He has brought some of the most enduring and entertaining films of recent history to the screen, from iconic cult-classic comedies to powerful dramas that together illustrate an amazing range and body of work. As a director, writer, actor, and producer, we welcome him to the list of other master multi-hyphenates who have been prior recipients of the Chaplin Award Tribute.” 

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