Awards

Catherine Deneuve will be honored with the LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD by the European Film Academy for “her outstanding body of work.”  Catherine Deneuve will be an honorary guest at the 26th European Film Awards Ceremony on December 7th, 2013, in Berlin.

Catherine Deneuve has starred in over 100 films, among them DANCER IN THE DARK by Lars von Trier, 8 FEMMES (earning her a Silver Bear in Berlin and a European Film Award) and POTICHE by François Ozon, UN CONTE DE NOËL by Arnaud Desplechin and PALAIS ROYAL by Valérie Lemercier. She can currently be seen in Emmanuelle Bercot’s ELLE S’EN VA (On my Way) and is now shooting TROIS COEURS by Benoît Jacquot.

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The European Film Academy will honor director Pedro Almodóvar with the honorary award EUROPEAN ACHIEVEMENT IN WORLD CINEMA for his outstanding body of work.  Pedro Almodóvar will be an honorary guest at the 26th European Film Awards Ceremony on December 7, 2013 in Berlin.

“I am very thankful for this award. From its creation, the European Film Academy has been very generous with me and my closest collaborators,” stated Pedro Almodóvar upon receiving the news, “I share with them the joy of this award”.

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 “I’M SO EXCITED!” “HANNAH ARENDT”

46 films have been selected for the list of films recommended for a nomination for the European Film Awards 2013.  The nominations will be announced on 9 November at the Seville European Film Festival in Spain, with the 26th European Film Awards presentation of the winners taking place in Berlin on 7 December.

EFA SELECTION 2013

8-PALLO
8-BALL
Finland, 108 min
DIRECTED BY: Aku Louhimies 
WRITTEN BY: Jari Olavi Rantala
PRODUCED BY: Tero Kaukomaa & Marko Antila

TΟ ΑΓΟΡΙ ΤΡΩΕΙ ΤΟ ΦΑΓΗΤΟ ΤΟΥ ΠΟΥΛΙΟΥ 
(TO AGORI TROI TO FAGITO TOU POULIOU)
BOY EATING THE BIRD’S FOOD
Greece, 80 min 
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Ektoras Lygizos 
PRODUCED BY: Giorgos Karnavas, Ektoras Lygizos, Elina Psykou & Argyris Papadimitropoulos 

Η ΑΙΏΝΙΑ ΕΠΙΣΤΡΟΦΉ ΤΟΥ ΑΝΤΏΝΗ ΠΑΡΑΣΚΕΥΆ 
(I AIONIA EPISTROFI TOU ANTONI PARASKEUA)
THE ETERNAL RETURN OF ANTONIS PARASKEVAS
Greece, 88 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Elina Psykou
PRODUCED BY: Giorgos Karnavas & Elina Psykou

LOS AMANTES PASAJEROS
I’M SO EXCITED!
Spain, 90 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Pedro Almodóvar
PRODUCED BY: Agustín Almodóvar & Esther García 

ANNA KARENINA 
UK, 124 min
DIRECTED BY: Joe Wright 
WRITTEN BY: Tom Stoppard 
PRODUCED BY: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner & Paul Webster 

ARAF
ARAF- SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN
Turkey/France/Germany, 124 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Yeşim Ustaoğlu 
PRODUCED BY: Yeşim Ustaoğlu & Serkan Çakarer 

ÄTA SOVA DÖ
EAT SLEEP DIE
Sweden, 104 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Gabriela Pichler
PRODUCED BY: China Åhlander

BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO
UK, 92 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Peter Strickland 
PRODUCED BY: Keith Griffiths & Mary Burke  

THE BEST OFFER
Italy, 130 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Giuseppe Tornatore 
PRODUCED BY: Isabella Cocuzza & Arturo Paglia 

BLANCANIEVES
Spain/France, 104 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Pablo Berger
PRODUCED BY: Ibon Cormenzana, Jérôme Vidal & Pablo Berger

BORGMAN
The Netherlands/Belgium/Denmark, 113 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Alex van Warmerdam 
PRODUCED BY: Marc van Warmerdam, Eurydice Gysel, Koen Mortier, Tine Mosegaard & Mogens Glad

THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN
Belgium, 100 min
DIRECTED BY: Felix van Groeningen 
WRITTEN BY: Carl Joos & Felix van Groeningen 
PRODUCED BY: Dirk Impens 

THE CONGRESS
Israel/Germany/Poland/Luxembourg/France/Belgium, 120 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Ari Folman
PRODUCED BY: Ari Folman, Reinhard Brundig & Robin Wright 

ЦВЕТЬТ НА ХАМЕЛЕОНА (CVETAT NA HAMELEONA) 
THE COLOUR OF THE CHAMELEON
Bulgaria, 111 min
DIRECTED BY: Emil Christov
WRITTEN BY: Vladislav Todorov
PRODUCED BY: Vladislav Todorov & Bouriana Zakharieva

DANS LA MAISON
IN THE HOUSE
France, 105 min
DIRECTED BY: François Ozon
WRITTEN BY: François Ozon, freely adapted from the play “The Boy in the last Row” by Juan Mayorga
PRODUCED BY: Eric & Nicolas Altmayer 

DJÚPIÐ
THE DEEP
Iceland/Norway, 92 min
DIRECTED BY: Baltasar Kormákur 
WRITTEN BY: Jón Atli Jónasson & Baltasar Kormákur 
PRODUCED BY: Agnes Johansen & Baltasar Kormákur

ДОЛГАЯ СЧАСТЛИВАЯ ЖИЗНЬ (DOLGAYA SCHASTLIVAYA ZHIZN) 
A LONG AND HAPPY LIFE
Russia, 77 min
DIRECTED BY: Boris Khlebnikov 
WRITTEN BY: Alexander Rodionov & Boris Khlebnikov 
PRODUCED BY: Roman Borisevich, Alexander Kushaev 

DOM ÖVER DÖD MAN
THE LAST SENTENCE
Sweden, 120 min
DIRECTED BY: Jan Troell 
WRITTEN BY: Klaus Rifbjerg & Jan Troell          
PRODUCED BY: Francy Suntinger

EPIZODA U ZIVOTU BERACA ZELJEZA
AN EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF AN IRON PICKER
Bosnia & Herzegovina/France/Slovenia, 74 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Danis Tanović
PRODUCED BY: Amra Bakšić Čamo & Čedomir Kolar 

LA GRANDE BELLEZZA
THE GREAT BEAUTY
Italy/France , 140 min
DIRECTED BY: Paolo Sorrentino
WRITTEN BY: Paolo Sorrentino & Umberto Contarello
PRODUCED BY: Nicola Giuliano & Francesca Cima

GRENZGÄNGER
CROSSING BOUNDARIES
Austria, 88 min 
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Florian Flicker
PRODUCED BY: Viktoria Salcher & Mathias Forberg

GRZELI NATELI DGEEBI
IN BLOOM
Germany/Georgia/France, 104 min
DIRECTED BY: Nana Ekvtimishvili & Simon Gross 
WRITTEN BY: Nana Ekvtimishvili 
PRODUCED BY: Simon Gross, Marc Waechter & Guilleaume de Seille 

HANNAH ARENDT 
Germany/Luxembourg/France/Israel, 110 min 
DIRECTED BY: Margarethe von Trotta
WRITTEN BY: Pam Katz & Margarethe von Trotta 
PRODUCED BY: Bettina Brokemper & Johannes Rexin; Bady Minck, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre & David Silber

HOŘÍCÍ KEŘ
BURNING BUSH
Czech Republic, 234 min
DIRECTED BY: Agnieszka Holland
WRITTEN BY: Štěpán Hulík
PRODUCED BY: Antony Root, Tereza Polachová, Tomáš Hrubý & Pavla Kubečková 

IMAGINE
Poland/France/Portugal, 105 min 
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Andrzej Jakimowski
PRODUCED BY: Andrzej Jakimowski, Vladimir Kokh & François d’Artemare

LO IMPOSIBLE
THE IMPOSSIBLE
Spain, 114 min
DIRECTED BY: Juan Antonio Bayona
WRITTEN BY: Sergio G. Sánchez & María Belón
PRODUCED BY: Belén Atienza, Álvaro Augustín, Ghislain Barrois & Enrique López Lavigne

L’INCONNU DU LAC
STRANGER BY THE LAKE
France, 110 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Alain Guiraudie 
PRODUCED BY: Sylvie Pialat

ИЗМЕНА (IZMENA) 
BETRAYAL
Russia, 115 min
DIRECTED BY: Kirill Serebrennikov 
WRITTEN BY: Natalia Nazarova & Kirill Serebrennikov 
PRODUCED BY: Sabina Eremeeva 

KAPRINGEN 
A HIJACKING
Denmark, 99 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Tobias Lindholm
PRODUCED BY: Tomas Radoor & Rene Ezra

KON-TIKI
Norway/Denmark/UK/Germany/Sweden, 113 min 
DIRECTED BY: Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg
WRITTEN BY: Petter Skavlan
PRODUCED BY: Aage Aaberge & Jeremy Thomas

KRUGOVI
CIRCLES
Serbia/Germany/France/Croatia/Slovenia, 112 min
DIRECTED BY: Srdan Golubović
WRITTEN BY: Srdjan Koljević & Melina Koljević 
PRODUCED BY: Jelena Mitrović, Alexander Ris, Emilie Georges, Boris T. Matić & Danijel Hočevar

לאםל את החלל (LEMALE ET HA’HALAL)
FILL THE VOID
Israel, 90 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Rama Burshtein
PRODUCED BY: Assaf Amir 

מעל הגבעה (MEHAL HAGIVA)
A STRANGE COURSE OF EVENTS
Israel/France, 98 min
DIRECTED BY: Raphaël Nadjari 
WRITTEN BY: Raphaël Nadjari & Geoffrey Grison
PRODUCED BY: Caroline Bonmarchand, Marek Rozenbaum & Itai Tamir 

MÔJ PES KILLER
MY DOG KILLER
Slovakia/Czech Republic, 90 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Mira Fornay
PRODUCED BY: Juraj Buzalka, Viktor Schwarcz & Mira Fornay

OH BOY!
Germany, 83 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Jan Ole Gerster 
PRODUCED BY: Marcos Kantis & Alexander Wadouh

OIKOPEDO 12
BLOCK 12 
Cyprus/Greece, 94 min
DIRECTED BY: Kyriacos Tofarides
WRITTEN BY: Panos Stathoyannis & Kyriacos Tofarides
PRODUCED BY: Kyriacos Tofarides

ONLY GOD FORGIVES
Denmark/France, 90 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Nicolas Winding Refn
PRODUCED BY: Lene Børglum, Sidonie Dumas & Vincent Maraval

PARADIES: GLAUBE
PARADISE: FAITH
Austria/Germany/France, 113 min
DIRECTED & PRODUCED BY: Ulrich Seidl 
WRITTEN BY: Ulrich Seidl & Veronika Franz 

POZITIA COPILULUI
CHILD’S POSE
Romania, 112 min
DIRECTED BY: Călin Peter Netzer
WRITTEN BY: Razvan Radulescu & Călin Peter Netzer
PRODUCED BY: Călin Peter Netzer & Ada Solomon

ROSIE
Switzerland, 106 min
DIRECTED BY: Marcel Gisler
WRITTEN BY: Marcel Gisler & Rudolf Nadler
PRODUCED BY: Susann Rüdlinger

THE SELFISH GIANT
UK, 90 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Clio Barnard
PRODUCED BY: Tracy O’Riordan

SOM DU SER MEG
I BELONG
Norway, 112 min
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Dag Johan Haugerud
PRODUCED BY: Yngve Sæther

SVECENIKOVA DJECA
THE PRIEST’S CHILDREN 
Croatia/Serbia, 93 min
DIRECTED BY: Vinko Brešan
WRITTEN BY: Mate Matišić & Vinko Brešan
PRODUCED BY: Ivan Maloča

SYNGUÉ SABOUR, PIERRE DE PATIENCE
THE PATIENCE STONE
France/Germany/Afghanistan, 102 min
DIRECTED BY: Atiq Rahimi 
WRITTEN BY: Atiq Rahimi & Jean-Claude Carrière 
PRODUCED BY: Michaël Gentile 

W IMIĘ 
IN THE NAME OF 
Poland, 96 min
DIRECTED BY: Małgośka Szumowska
WRITTEN BY: Małgośka Szumowska & Michał Englert
PRODUCED BY: Agnieszka Kurzydło 

WHAT RICHARD DID
Ireland, 87 min
DIRECTED BY: Lenny Abrahamson
WRITTEN BY: Malcolm Campbell 
PRODUCED BY: Ed Guiney

 

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The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present Honorary Awards to Angela Lansbury, Steve Martin and Piero Tosi, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to Angelina Jolie.  All four awards will be presented at the Academy’s 5th Annual Governors Awards on Saturday, November 16, at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland Center.

“The Governors Awards pay tribute to individuals who’ve made indelible contributions in their respective fields,” said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs.  “We couldn’t be more excited for this year’s honorees and look forward to bringing their peers and colleagues together to celebrate their extraordinary achievements.”

Lansbury has received three Academy Award® nominations for her supporting performances on film – the first in her 1944 feature debut in “Gaslight,” followed by “The Picture of Dorian Gray” (1945) and “The Manchurian Candidate” (1962).  Her numerous other credits include “The Long, Hot Summer,” “Blue Hawaii,” “The World of Henry Orient,” “Bedknobs and Broomsticks,” “Death on the Nile” and “Mr. Popper’s Penguins,” as well as voice work for the first animated feature to receive a Best Picture nomination, “Beauty and the Beast.”

Martin, who got his start in television, is a versatile actor, writer, comedian and musician who began to display the breadth of his big-screen talent as the screenwriter and star of the 1977 Oscar®-nominated short film “The Absent-Minded Waiter.”  He wrote and starred in “The Jerk,” “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid,” “Three Amigos,” “Roxanne,” “L.A. Story,” “The Pink Panther” series and “Shopgirl,” which he adapted from his critically acclaimed book of the same name.  His other acting credits include “All of Me,” “Parenthood,” “Father of the Bride” and “It’s Complicated.”  He also is a three-time host of the Oscars®, most recently in 2010 with Alec Baldwin.

Tosi rose to prominence through his collaborations with Italian director Luchino Visconti on such films as “White Nights” and “Rocco and His Brothers,” and continued to work with him on several other features, including the Costume Design nominees “The Leopard,” “Death in Venice” and “Ludwig.”  Tosi received two more nominations for his designs for “La Cage aux Folles” and “La Traviata.”  His other notable credits include “Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow,” a Foreign Language Film winner, and “Marriage Italian Style,” a Foreign Language Film nominee, both directed by Vittorio De Sica.

Jolie, who won an Oscar for her supporting performance in “Girl, Interrupted,” has been an impassioned advocate for humanitarian causes, traveling widely to promote organizations and social justice efforts such as the Prevent Sexual Violence Initiative.  Staking out a career at the nexus of entertainment and philanthropy, Jolie has worked for a number of global advocacy groups including the Council on Foreign Relations and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), for which she was appointed Special Envoy of High Commissioner António Guterres in 2012 after twelve years of service.  Her dedication to these causes has also shaped her work in films that tackle global humanitarian issues including “A Mighty Heart” and her feature film directorial debut “In the Land of Blood and Honey.”

The Honorary Award, an Oscar statuette, is given “to honor extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement, exceptional contributions to the state of motion picture arts and sciences, or for outstanding service to the Academy.”

The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, also an Oscar statuette, is given “to an individual in the motion picture industry whose humanitarian efforts have brought credit to the industry.”

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3 Danish films – “THE HUNT”, “THE ACT OF KILLING” and “NORTHWEST” have made the shortlist to be the film submitted as the Danish candidate in the Foreign Language Film category for the Academy Awards. The films have been selected by a committee set up by the Danish Film Institute and film industry organizations. The final candidate is expected to be announced on Thursday, 26 September.

THE HUNT by Thomas Vinterberg

THE HUNT by Thomas Vinterberg
Following a tough divorce, 40-year-old Lucas has a new girlfriend, a new job and is in the process of reestablishing his relationship with his teenage son, Marcus. But things go awry. Not a lot. Just a passing remark. A random lie. And as the snow falls and the Christmas lights are lit, the lie spreads like an invisible virus. The shock and mistrust gets out of hand. Soon the small community finds itself in a collective state of hysteria, while Lucas fights a lonely fight for his life and dignity.

THE ACT OF KILLING by Joshua Oppenheimer

THE ACT OF KILLING by Joshua Oppenheimer
In a country where killers are celebrated as heroes, the filmmakers challenge unrepentant death squad leaders to dramatise their role in genocide. The hallucinatory result is a cinematic fever dream, an unsettling journey deep into the imaginations of mass-murderers and the shockingly banal regime of corruption and impunity they inhabit.

NORTHWEST by Michael Noer

NORTHWEST by Michael Noer
A gangster film set in the suburbs of Copenhagen. Casper, 18, the oldest of three siblings, survives life on the streets by committing burglaries for the neighborhood boss, Jamal. When Casper gets an offer to work for Jamal’s rival Björn, he jumps at the chance for a better life, making his way into a world of drugs and prostitution. As things escalate between Björn and Jamal, Casper finds himself and his family dead center of a conflict that threatens to destroy them.

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The Academy announced today that Ellen DeGeneres will return to host the Oscars® for a second time. DeGeneres hosted the 79th Academy Awards in 2007, for which she received a Primetime Emmy nomination for “Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program.”  The Academy Awards® will be broadcast live on OscarSunday, March 2, 2014, on the ABC Television Network.

“We are thrilled to have Ellen DeGeneres host the Oscars,” said Zadan and Meron. “As a longtime friend, we had always hoped to find a project for us to do together and nothing could be more exciting than teaming up to do the Oscars. There are few stars today who have Ellen’s gift for comedy, with her great warmth and humanity. She is beloved everywhere and we expect that the audience at the Dolby Theatre, and in homes around the globe, will be as excited by this news as we are.”

“I am so excited to be hosting the Oscars for the second time. You know what they say – the third time’s the charm,” said DeGeneres.

“I agreed with Craig and Neil immediately that Ellen is the ideal host for this year’s show,” said Cheryl Boone Isaacs, Academy President. “We’re looking forward to an entertaining, engaging and fun show.”

“Ellen is talented, wonderfully spontaneous, and knows how to entertain a worldwide audience,” said Dawn Hudson, Academy CEO. “She’s a big fan of the Oscars; we’re huge fans of hers. It’s a perfect match.”

“It is an honor to welcome back Ellen DeGeneres as the host of the biggest entertainment celebration of the year,” said Paul Lee, president, ABC Entertainment Group. “She is the consummate entertainer, equally beloved by her peers in the industry, movie fans and television viewers. We very much look forward to having her back on ABC for Oscar Sunday.”

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced category submission deadlines for 86th Academy Awards consideration.

The dates are as follows:

Scientific and Technical Awards  – Friday, July 12
Documentary Short Subject  – Tuesday, September 3
Documentary Feature  – Monday, September 23
Live Action Short Film  – Tuesday, October 1
Animated Short Film  – Tuesday, October 1
Foreign Language Film  – Tuesday, October 1
Animated Feature Film  – Friday, November 1
Original Score  – Monday, December 2
Original Song  – Monday, December 2
Official Screen Credits Form  – Monday, December 2
All submissions are due by 5 p.m. PT

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2013 will be presented on Oscar Sunday, March 2, 2014, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center and televised live on the ABC Television Network. 

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Sixteen students from colleges and universities around the world were honored last night, June 8, and received medal placements, as winners of the 40th Student Academy Awards. The ceremony was hosted by writer-director and 1978 Student Academy Award® winner Bob Saget, and writer-director Kimberly Peirce and actors Clark Gregg, Jason Schwartzman and Quvenzhané Wallis presented the awards.

The winners are:

Alternative
Gold Medal: “Bottled Up,” Rafael Cortina, Occidental College
Silver Medal: “Zug,” Perry Janes, University of Michigan
Bronze Medal: “The Compositor,” John Mattiuzzi, School of Visual Arts

Animation
Gold Medal: “Dia de los Muertos,” Lindsey St. Pierre and Ashley Graham, Ringling College of Art and Design
Silver Medal: “Will,” Eusong Lee, California Institute of the Arts
Bronze Medal: “Peck Pocketed,” Kevin Herron, Ringling College of Art and Design

Documentary
Gold Medal: “A Second Chance,” David Aristizabal, University of Southern California
Silver Medal: “Every Tuesday: A Portrait of The New Yorker Cartoonists,” Rachel Loube, School of Visual Arts
Bronze Medal: “Win or Lose,” Daniel Koehler, Elon University

Narrative
Gold Medal: “Ol’ Daddy,” Brian Schwarz, University of Texas at Austin
Silver Medal: “Josephine and the Roach,” Jonathan Langager, University of Southern California
Bronze Medal: “Un Mundo para Raúl (A World for Raúl),” Mauro Mueller, Columbia University

Foreign Film
Gold Medal: “Miss Todd,” Kristina Yee, National Film and Television School, United Kingdom
Silver Medal: “Parvaneh,” Talkhon Hamzavi, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland
Bronze Medal: “Tweesprong (Crossroads),” Wouter Bouvijn, RITS School of Arts, Erasmus University College Brussels, Belgium

The Student Academy Awards were established 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. The roster includes such distinguished filmmakers as John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Robert Zemeckis, Trey Parker and Spike Lee.

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Front row (left to right): Talkhon Hamzavi, Brian Schwarz, David Aristizabal, Eusong Lee, Lindsey St. Pierre, Ashley Graham, Kristina Yee and Rachel Loube.

Back row (left to right): John Mattiuzzi, Kevin Herron, Jonathan Langager, Perry Janes, Mauro Mueller, Wouter Bouvijn, Rafael Cortina and Daniel Koehler.

credit: Matt Petit / ©A.M.P.A.S.

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[caption id="attachment_1958" align="alignnone" width="552"]Monsieur Lazhar[/caption]

Philippe Falardeau’s Monsieur Lazhar and Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano’s The Intouchables are the winners of the 2012 Film Circuit People’s Choice Awards. Monsieur Lazhar was named Best Canadian Film and The Intouchables was selected as the Best International Film. 

The Film Circuit People’s Choice Awards is part of the TIFF’s (Toronto International Film Festival) national film outreach program Film Circuit.

Nominated for an Academy Award, Monsieur Lazhar follows the story of Bachir Lazhar (Mohamed Fellag), an Algerian immigrant hired to replace an elementary school teacher who died tragically. As he helps the class through their long healing process, Bachir must also cope with his painful former life—and a secret too great to reveal. Monsieur Lazhar won the City of Toronto Best Canadian Feature Award at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival and was recognized through TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten in 2011. 

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Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano’s The Intouchables has become a worldwide sensation. Nominated for nine César Awards, with Best Actor honors going to Omar Sy, The Intouchables tells the story of the improbable friendship between Philippe (François Cluzet), a wealthy quadriplegic, and Driss (Sy), a young offender of Senegalese descent who is hired as his live-in caregiver. 

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There is the Academy Awards, and there is the Student Academy Awards, all supported by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The Academy established the Student Academy Awards in 1972 to support and encourage excellence in filmmaking at the collegiate level; past winners include John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Robert Zemeckis, Trey Parker and Spike Lee. This year thirty-eight students from 17 U.S. colleges and universities as well as nine students from foreign universities have been selected as finalists in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Student Academy Awards competition. 

The finalists are (listed alphabetically by film title):

Alternative
“Beyond the Spheres,” Meghdad Asadi Lari, Rochester Institute of Technology
“Bottled Up,” Rafael Cortina, Occidental College
“Bye Hyungjik,” Hyungjik Lee, Florida State University
“The Compositor,” John Mattiuzzi, School of Visual Arts
“File Not Found,” Maria Sequeira, University of Southern California
“The Pirate of Love,” Sara Gunnarsdottir, California Institute of the Arts
“Zug,” Perry Janes, University of Michigan

Animation
“Couch & Potatoes,” Chris Lam and Eunsoo Jeong, San Jose State University
“Dia de los Muertos,” Lindsey St. Pierre and Ashley Graham, Ringling College of Art and Design
“Drifters,” Ethan Clarke, California Institute of the Arts
“Make a Wish,” Heejin Kim, School of Visual Arts
“Peck Pocketed,” Kevin Herron, Ringling College of Art and Design
“Runaway,” Emily Buchanan and Esther Parobek, Ringling College of Art and Design
“Still I Breathe,” Sang Ho Lee, School of Visual Arts
“Watercolors,” Robert Kornstein, New York University
“Will,” Eusong Lee, California Institute of the Arts

Documentary
“The Battle of the Jazz Guitarist,” Mark Columbus, University of California, Los Angeles
“Every Tuesday: A Portrait of The New Yorker Cartoonists,” Rachel Loube, School of Visual Arts
“Everybody’s Business,” Laura Green, Stanford University
“Graceland Girls,” Jordan Theresa Salvatoriello, Emerson College
“A Second Chance,” David Aristizabal, University of Southern California
“Through the Fire,” Eunice Lau, New York University
“Vultures of Tibet,” Russell O. Bush, University of Texas at Austin
“Win or Lose,” Daniel Koehler, Elon University
“Wonder Workshop,” Amitabh Joshi and Erik Spink, School of Visual Arts

Narrative
“Caught,” Bruce Li, New York University
“Cootie Contagion,” Joshua Smooha, Florida State University
“Footsteps,” Thomas (Hyungkyun) Kim, New York University
“Josephine and the Roach,” Jonathan Langager, University of Southern California
“Kalifornija,” Tomas Vengris, American Film Institute
“The Midwife’s Husband,” Deja Bernhardt, University of Texas at Austin
“Ol’ Daddy,” Brian Schwarz, University of Texas at Austin
“Samnang,” Asaph Polonsky, American Film Institute
“Un Mundo para Raúl (A World for Raúl),” Mauro Mueller, Columbia University

Foreign Film
“Erbgut (Liquidation),” Matthias Zuder, Hamburg Media School, Germany
“För Sverige i Tiden (King of Sweden),” Jonas Westbom, Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts, Sweden
“Kanyekanye,” Miklas Manneke, AFDA The South African School of Motion Picture Medium and 
Live Performance, South Africa
“The Library of Burned Books,” Alasdair Beckett-King, London Film School, United Kingdom
“Miss Todd,” Kristina Yee, National Film and Television School, United Kingdom
“MO,” Jakub Kouril, FAMU, Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Czech Republic
“Parvaneh,”Talkhon Hamzavi, Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland
“To Guard a Mountain,” Izer Aliu, The Norwegian Filmschool, Norway
“Tweesprong (Crossroads),” Wouter Bouvijn, Rits School of Arts, Erasmus College Brussels, Belgium

The 40th Student Academy Awards ceremony will take place on Saturday, June 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.

image: credit: Richard Harbaugh / ©A.M.P.A.S.

39th Annual Student Academy Awards Winners

Front row (left to right): Amanda Tasse, Ellen Tripler, Heather Burky, Mark Raso, Thomas Stuber and Justin Tipping.

Back row (left to right): David Wolter, David Winstone Elmar Imanov, Keiko Wright, Eric Prah, Ryan Prows and Mark Nelson.

 

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the ABC Television Network today announced the dates for the 86th and 87th Oscar® presentations. The 86th and 87th Academy Awards® will air live on ABC on Oscar Sunday, March 2, 2014, and February 22, 2015, respectively.

Key dates for the Awards season are: 

Saturday, November 16, 2013: The Governors Awards

Monday, December 2, 2013: Official Screen Credits due

Friday, December 27, 2013: Nominations voting begins

Wednesday, January 8, 2014: Nominations voting ends 5 p.m. PT

Thursday, January 16, 2014: Oscar nominations announced

Monday, February 10, 2014: Nominees Luncheon

Friday, February 14, 2014: Final voting begins

Saturday, February 15, 2014: Scientific and Technical Awards

Tuesday, February 25, 2014: Final voting ends 5 p.m. PT

Oscar Sunday, March 2, 2014: 86th Academy Awards

Oscar Sunday, February 22, 2015: 87th Academy Awards

The 86th and 87th Academy Awards ceremonies will be held at the Dolby Theatre™ at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network.

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