Awards

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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FRUITVALE STATION

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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ACT OF KILLING

The winners of the EE British Academy Film Awards were announced in London on Sunday night, and the GREAT BEAUTY won the award for Film Not in the English Language, the ACT OF KILLING received the Documentary award, and director and writer Kieran Evans received the award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer for his first feature film KELLY + VICTOR.

Sleeping with the Fishes won the British Short Animation award and the British Short Film award was presented to Room 8. 

Best Picture
Winner: 12 YEARS A SLAVE

Best British Film
Winner: GRAVITY

Best Director
Winner: Alfonso Cuarón, GRAVITY

Best Actor
Winner: Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 YEARS A SLAVE

Best Actress
Winner: Cate Blanchett, BLUE JASMINE

Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Barkhad Abdi, CAPTAIN PHILLIPS

Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Jennifer Lawrence, AMERICAN HUSTLE

Best Original Screenplay
Winner: AMERICAN HUSTLE, Eric Warren Singer, David O Russell

Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner: PHILOMENA, Steve Coogan, Jeff Pope

Best Foreign
Winner: THE GREAT BEAUTY, Paolo Sorrentino, Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima

Best Documentary
Winner: THE ACT OF KILLING, Joshua Oppenheimer

Best Animation
Winner: FROZEN, Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee

Best Cinematography
Winner: GRAVITY, Emmanuel Lubezki

Best Editing
Winner: RUSH, Dan Hanley, Mike Hill

Best Production Design
Winner: THE GREAT GATSBY, Catherine Martin, Beverley Dunn

Best Costume Design
Winner: THE GREAT GATSBY, Catherine Martin

Best Make Up and Hair
Winner: AMERICAN HUSTLE, Evelyne Noraz, Lori McCoy-Bell

Best Sound
Winner: GRAVITY, Glenn Freemantle, Skip Lievsay, Christopher Benstead, Niv Adiri, Chris Munro

Best Original Music
Winner: GRAVITY, Steven Price

Best Special Visual Effects
Winner: GRAVITY, Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, David Shirk, Neil Corbould, Nikki Penny

Best British Short Animation
Winner: SLEEPING WITH THE FISHES, James Walker, Sarah Woolner, Yousif Al-Khalifa

Best British Short Film
Winner: ROOM 8, James W. Griffiths, Sophie Venner

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
Winner: Keiran Evans (Director/Writer), KELLY + VICTOR

The EE Rising Star Award (voted for by public)
Winner: Will Poulter

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Songwriter and lead singer of the band Yeah Yeah ,Yeahs, Karen O will, for the first time, perform the Oscar®-nominated original song “The Moon Song” on the Oscars®, show. The Oscars, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, will air on Sunday, March 2, live on ABC.

“The Moon Song,” with music by Karen O and lyric by Karen O and Spike Jonze, was written for the film “HER,” directed by Jonze. The three other nominated songs are “Happy” from “Despicable Me 2,” “Let It Go” from “Frozen” and “Ordinary Love” from “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.”

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Rock band U2 will perform their Oscar®-nominated song, “Ordinary Love” at the upcoming Oscars®, show producers announced. U2’s exclusive Oscar show performance will be the first time the band will perform the song live. The Oscars, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, will air on Sunday, March 2, live on ABC.

“Ordinary Love” was written by the group for “MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM” and is nominated for Original Song. The three other nominated songs are “Happy” from “Despicable Me 2,” “Let It Go” from “Frozen” and “The Moon Song” from “Her.”

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20 FEET FROM STARDOM

The editors of the Oscar-nominated 20 FEET FROM STARDOM, which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival beat BLACKFISH and TIM’S VERMEER to win the award for Best Edited Documentary (Feature) at the 64th annual ACE Eddie Awards. THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY won the award for BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY (TELEVISION). 

Full List of 2014 ACE Eddie Award Winners

BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (DRAMATIC)
Captain Phillips, Christopher Rouse

BEST EDITED FEATURE FILM (COMEDY OR MUSICAL)
American Hustle, Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers & Alan Baumgarten

BEST EDITED ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Frozen, Jeff Draheim

BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)
20 Feet From Stardom, Douglas Blush, Kevin Klauber & Jason Zeldes

BEST EDITED DOCUMENTARY (TELEVISION)
The Assassination of President Kennedy, Chris A. Peterson

BEST EDITED HALF-HOUR SERIES FOR TELEVISION
The Office, “Finale”, David Rogers & Claire Scanlon

BEST EDITED ONE-HOUR SERIES FOR COMMERCIAL TELEVISION
Breaking Bad, “Felina”, Skip MacDonald

BEST EDITED ONE-HOUR SERIES FOR NON-COMMERCIAL TELEVISION
Homeland, “Big Man in Tehran”, Terry Kelley

BEST EDITED MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE FOR TELEVISION
Behind the Candelabra, Mary Ann Bernard

BEST EDITED NON-SCRIPTED SERIES
Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown, “Tokyo,” Nick Brigden

BEST STUDENT EDITING
Ambar Salinas, Video Symphony

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THE SELFISH GIANT

The 33rd London Critics’ Circle Film Section held its annual awards on Sunday night and THE SELFISH GIANT was one of the big winners, taking home two awards – British Film and Young British Performer for Conner Chapman – giving filmmakers Clio Barnard and Tracy O’Riordan and actors Chapman, Shaun Thomas and Lorraine Ashbourne a chance to celebrate on stage. Other winners present include Andre Singer, producer of Documentary of the Year THE ACT OF KILLING. The ceremony opened on a solemn note with the announcement of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death, which was confirmed just as the event was starting. Hoffman won Supporting Actor at last year’s CC Film Awards for his role in THE MASTER.

Full list of winners:

Film of the Year 
12 YEARS A SLAVE

Foreign-language Film of the Year
BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR

Documentary of the Year
THE ACT OF KILLING

British Film of the Year
THE SELFISH GIANT

Director of the Year
Alfonso Cuarón – GRAVITY

Screenwriter of the Year
Ethan Coen & Joel Coen – INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS

Actor of the Year
Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 YEARS A SLAVE

Actress of the Year
Cate Blanchett – BLUE JASMINE

Supporting Actor of the Year
Barkhad Abdi – CAPTAIN PHILLIPS

Supporting Actress of the Year
Lupita Nyong’o – 12 YEARS A SLAVE

British Actor of the Year
James McAvoy – FILTH / TRANCE / WELCOME TO THE PUNCH

British Actress of the Year
Judi Dench – PHILOMENA

Young British Performer of the Year
Conner Chapman – THE SELFISH GIANT

Breakthrough British Filmmaker
Jon S Baird – FILTH

Technical Achievement Award
GRAVITY – Tim Webber, special effects

Dilys Powell Award for Excellence in Film
Gary Oldman

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