Awards

[caption id="attachment_2430" align="alignnone" width="554"]Undefeated – winner of 2012 Academy Award for Best Documentary[/caption]

Monday, September 24, 5 p.m. PT is the deadline for filmmakers to submit documentary features to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for consideration for the 85th Academy Awards®.

To be eligible, the documentaries must complete seven-day commercial runs in both Los Angeles County and the Borough of Manhattan in New York between January 1, 2012, and December 31, 2012.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2011 will be presented on Sunday, February 24, 2013, at The Dolby Theatre™ at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live on the ABC Television Network. 

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Craig Zadan and Neil Meron who produced the 2002 Academy Award Best Picture winner “Chicago,” will produce the 85th Academy Awards, Academy President Hawk Koch announced this week. The 85th Academy Awards will air live on Oscar® Sunday, February 24, 2013.

“Craig and Neil have great talent relationships and bring an infectious energy to the production,” said Academy CEO Dawn Hudson.” They are creative producers in the best sense of the word.”

Zadan and Meron served as executive producers on the 2002 Best Picture winner “Chicago,” which won Oscars® in 6 of the 13 categories in which it was nominated. Their credits also include the features “Footloose” (2011), “Hairspray” and “The Bucket List.”  Zadan also produced the original “Footloose” (1984).

Zadan and Meron’s work in television includes the series “SMASH” and such movies as “A Raisin in the Sun” and the upcoming “Steel Magnolias.”

For Broadway, they recently produced the Tony Award® winning revivals of “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” and “Promises, Promises.”

Their work has amassed 73 Emmy® nominations; 12 Tony nominations; and seven Grammy® nominations.

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Actor, singer, dancer, writer and comedian Dick Van Dyke will receive SAG-AFTRA’s highest honor – the SAG Life Achievement Award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment. Van Dyke will be presented the performers union’s most prestigious accolade, given annually to an actor who fosters the “finest ideals of the acting profession,” at the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®, which premieres live on TNT and TBS on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013, at 8 p.m. ET, 7 p.m. CT, 6 p.m. MT and 5 p.m. PT.

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The Scientific and Technical Awards Committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that seven scientific and technical achievements have been selected for further awards consideration.

The list is made public to allow individuals and companies with similar devices or claims of prior art the opportunity to submit their achievements for review. The deadline to submit additional entries is Tuesday, August 28, at 11:59 p.m. PT.

The committee has selected the following methods or devices for further consideration:

Tissue: A Physically-Based Character Simulation Framework (Weta Digital)
Zviz: Previsualization System (Lucasfilm)
Light: Lighting Tool (PDI Dreamworks)
Wavelet Turbulence for Fluid Simulation (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Planar Tracking: mocha and Enabling Technology (Imagineer Systems Ltd.)
Cine VCLX Portable Power System (Anton/Bauer)
Matthews MAX Menace Arm (Matthews Studio Equipment)

After thorough investigations are conducted on each of the entries, the committee will meet in early December to vote on recommendations to the Academy’s Board of Governors, which will make the final awards decisions.

The 2012 Scientific and Technical Awards will be presented at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills on February 9, 2013.

[via press release]

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[caption id="attachment_2495" align="alignnone"]Asghar Farhadi Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film[/caption]

Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, director of A Separation (Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film) and his producer, Memento Films Production’s Alexandre Mallet-Guy, will be awarded the European Commission’s first EU Media Prize at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

Farhadi and Mallet-Guy will receive the award for their new project that will be filmed in France and in French in the Fall.

“In these times when certain politicians are trying to turn the beautiful rainbow of cultural diversity in the world into differences and confrontations, I believe that this MEDIA award for my next film project is a very encouraging sign,” Farhadi said of the prize.

The MEDIA prize is awarded to the best project with box-office potential submitted by a screenwriter and a production company. The project is selected from the applications submitted for development support from the MEDIA program in a given year. MEDIA will allocate support for the screenplay, casting, preparing a financial plan, marketing and piloting production. The EU MEDIA prize is part of the MEDIA program’s new €1.8 billion agenda set to kick off in 2014 and run through 2020 called “Creative Europe” meant to facilitate cultural exchange among film industry professionals through digital technology.

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The Iranian film, NADER AND SIMIN, A SEPARATION dominated the 6th Asian Film Awards (AFA) at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. NADER AND SIMIN, A SEPARATION won awards for Best Film, Best Editor, and Best Director and Best Screenwriter for screenwriter-director Asghar FARHADI.

The winners of the 6th AFA are:

[caption id="attachment_2283" align="alignnone"]NADER AND SIMIN A SEPARATION[/caption]
Best Film
NADER AND SIMIN, A SEPARATION (Iran)

Best Director
Asghar FARHADI ― NADER AND SIMIN, A SEPARATION (Iran)

Best Actor
Donny DAMARA ― LOVELY MAN (Indonesia)

Best Actress
Deanie IP ― A SIMPLE LIFE (Hong Kong)

Best Newcomer
NI Ni ― THE FLOWERS OF WAR (Mainland China)

Best Supporting Actor
Lawrence KO ― JUMP! ASHIN (Taiwan)

Best Supporting Actress
Shamaine BUENCAMINO ― NIÑO (The Philippines)

Best Screenwriter
Asghar FARHADI ― NADER AND SIMIN, A SEPARATION (Iran)

Best Cinematographer
Jake POLLOCK, LAI Yiu-fai (HKSC) ― WU XIA (Mainland China / Hong Kong)

Best Production Designer
YEE Chung-man, SUN Li ― WU XIA (Mainland China / Hong Kong)

Best Composer
CHAN Kwong-wing, Peter KAM, Chatchai PONGPRAPAPHAN ― WU XIA
(Mainland China / Hong Kong)

Best Editor
Hayedeh SAFIYARI ― NADER AND SIMIN, A SEPARATION (Iran)

Best Visual Effects
Wook KIM, Josh COLE, Frankie CHUNG ― THE FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE (Hong Kong / Mainland China)

Best Costume Designer
YEE Chung-man, LAI Hsuan-wu ― THE FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE (Hong Kong / Mainland China)

The winners of the special awards of the 6th AFA are:

The Lifetime Achievement Award
Ann HUI

2011’s Top Grossing Asian Film Award
LET THE BULLETS FLY

The Edward Yang New Talent Award
Edwin

People’s Choice Awards: My Favorite Actor
Andy LAU ― A SIMPLE LIFE (Hong Kong)

People’s Choice Awards: My Favourite Actress
Eugene DOMINGO ― THE WOMAN IN THE SEPTIC TANK (The Philippines)

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The 85th Academy Awards nominations will be announced on Tuesday, January 15, 2013, and the Oscar® telecast will be presented on Sunday, February 24th.

The ceremony will take place at the Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network to more than 225 countries.

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[caption id="attachment_415" align="alignnone"]Best American Film – Winter’s Bone[/caption]

Lars von Trier’s “Melancholia” was voted Best Danish Film, and Winter’s Bone was voted Best American Film at the 65th Bodil Awards, presented Saturday 3 March 2012 by the Danish Film Critics’ Association. “A Funny Man” won 4 awards, including Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor.

Best Danish Film
Melancholia – Lars von Trier

Best Actor
Nikolaj Lie Kaas – A Funny Man

Best Actress
Lene Maria Christensen – A Family

Best Supporting Actor
Lars Ranthe – A Funny Man

Best Supporting Actress
Paprika Steen – SuperClásico

Best Documentary Film
The Will – Christian Sønderby Jepsen

Best Director of Photography
Manuel Alberto Claro – Melancholia, Rebounce

Best Production Design
Charlotte Bay Garnov and Peter Grant – Dirch

Best Foreign Film (other than USA)
A Separation – Asghar Farhadi

Best American Film
Winter’s Bone – Debra Granik

Special Bodil
Jes Graversen, film distributor, Miracle Film

Honorary Bodil
Ghita Nørby, actress

Blockbuster Audience Award
A Funny Man – Martin Zandvliet

Ib Award
Ib Tardini

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[caption id="attachment_2493" align="alignnone" width="550"]Thomas Langmann and Michel Hazanavicius – Best Picture – THE ARTIST[/caption]

No surprise here, The Artist was the big winner at the 84th annual Academy Awards, taking home the big award of the night, Best Picture along with Best Actor for leading actor Jean Dujardin.

The list of the winners from the 84th annual Academy Awards:

Best picture: “The Artist.”

Actress in a leading role: Meryl Streep, “Iron Lady.”

[caption id="attachment_2494" align="alignnone" width="394"]Jean Dujardin wins Best Actor for THE ARTIST.[/caption]

Actor in a leading role: Jean Dujardin, “The Artist.”

Actress in a supporting role: Octavia Spencer, “The Help.”

Actor in a supporting role: Christopher Plummer, “Beginners.”

Directing: Michel Hazanavicius, “The Artist.”

Cinematography: “Hugo.”

Art direction: “Hugo.”

Costume design: “The Artist.”

Makeup: “The Iron Lady.”

[caption id="attachment_2495" align="alignnone" width="550"]Asghar Farhadi – Foreign Language Film – Iran, A SEPARATION[/caption]

Foreign language film: “A Separation,” Iran.

Film editing: “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.”

Sound editing: “Hugo.”

Sound mixing: “Hugo.”

Documentary feature: “Undefeated.”

Animated feature film: “Rango.”

Visual effects: “Hugo.”

Original score: “The Artist.”

Original song: “Man or Muppet” from “The Muppets.”

Adapted screenplay: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, “The Descendants.”

Original screenplay: Woody Allen, “Midnight in Paris.”

Live action short film: “The Shore.”

Documentary (short subject): “Saving Face.”

Animated short film: “The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore.”

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