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BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR and 20 FEET FROM STARDOM among Winners of 19th Critics’ Choice Movie Awards

The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) announced the winners for the 19th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards and “DALLAS BUYERS CLUB” received two major awards, one for Best Actor, which went to Matthew McConaughey, the other going to Jared Leto for Best Supporting Actor. The award for Best Actress went to Cate Blanchett (“BLUE JASMINE”) and Adele Exarchopoulos (“BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR”) took home Best Young Actor/Actress. Best Foreign Language Film went to “BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR” and Best Documentary Feature to “20 FEET FROM STARDOM.”

The Critics’ Choice Movie Awards are bestowed annually by the BFCA to honor the finest in cinematic achievement. The BFCA is the largest film critics organization in the United States and Canada, representing more than 280 television, radio and online critics. BFCA members are the primary source of information for today’s film going public.

WINNERS OF THE 19th ANNUAL CRITICS’ CHOICE MOVIE AWARDS

Best Picture – “12 Years a Slave”
Best Actor – Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club”
Best Actress – Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine”
Best Supporting Actor – Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club”
Best Supporting Actress – Lupita Nyong’o, “12 Years a Slave”
Best Young Actor/Actress – Adele Exarchopoulos, “Blue Is The Warmest Color”
Best Acting Ensemble – “American Hustle”
Best Director – Alfonso Cuarón, “Gravity”
Best Original Screenplay – Spike Jonze, “Her”
Best Adapted Screenplay – John Ridley, “12 Years a Slave”
Best Cinematography – Emmanuel Lubezki, “Gravity”
Best Art Direction – Catherine Martin (Production Designer), Beverley Dunn (Set Decorator), “The Great Gatsby”
Best Editing – Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger, “Gravity”
Best Costume Design – Catherine Martin, “The Great Gatsby”
Best Hair & Makeup – “American Hustle”
Best Visual Effects – “Gravity”
Best Animated Feature – “Frozen”
Best Action Movie – “Lone Survivor”
Best Actor in an Action Movie – Mark Wahlberg, “Lone Survivor”
Best Actress in an Action Movie – Sandra Bullock, “Gravity”
Best Comedy – “American Hustle”
Best Actor in a Comedy – Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Wolf of Wall Street”
Best Actress in a Comedy – Amy Adams, “American Hustle”
Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie – “Gravity”
Best Foreign Language Film – “Blue Is the Warmest Color”
Best Documentary Feature – “20 Feet From Stardom”
Best Song – “Let It Go” Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, “Frozen”
Best Score – Steven Price, “Gravity”
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THE ACT OF KILLING and THE GRANDMASTER Among Films Honored by Denver Film Critics Society as Best Films of 2013

THE ACT OF KILLING that features former Indonesian death squad leaders re-enacting their crimes was honored by the Denver Film Critics Society as the Best Documentary of 2013. THE ACT OF KILLING emerged top doc over other nominees that included BLACKFISH, 20 FEET FROM STARDOM, CUTIE AND THE BOXER, and STORIES WE TELL. THE GRANDMASTER, the new film by director Wong Kar-wai which spans the five first decades of the 20th Century in China, and depicts the life of legendary kung fu master Ip Man, portrayed by Tony Leung won for Best Foreign Language Film. Other nominees for Best Foreign Language Film include THE GREAT BEAUTY, THE HUNT, BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR, and THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN.
THE 2013 DFCS AWARD WINNERS:
BEST PICTURE: “Gravity” BEST DIRECTOR: Alfonso Cuaron, “Gravity” BEST ACTOR: Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club” BEST ACTRESS: Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine” BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club” BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Jennifer Lawrence, “American Hustle” BEST ANIMATED FILM: “Frozen” BEST SCI-FI/HORROR FILM: “Gravity” BEST COMEDY: “This Is the End” BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: David O. Russell and Eric Singer, “American Hustle” BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Terence Winter, “The Wolf of Wall Street” BEST DOCUMENTARY: “The Act of Killing” BEST SONG: “Let It Go,” Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, “Frozen” BEST SCORE: “Gravity,” Steven Price BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM: “The Grandmaster”
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Complete List of 2014 Oscar Nominations

The nominations for the 86th Academy Awards were announced this morning and although there were quite a few snubs, films like DALLAS BUYERS CLUb and NEBRASKA received multiple nominations including Best Picture. There were not many surprises in the Documentary category, with THE ACT OF KILLING, CUTIE AND THE BOXER, DIRTY WARS, THE SQUARE and 20 FEET FROM STARDOM grabbing nominations. 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.

Nominations for the 86th Academy Awards

Performance by an actor in a leading role
Christian Bale in “American Hustle”
Bruce Dern in “Nebraska”
Leonardo DiCaprio in “The Wolf of Wall Street”
Chiwetel Ejiofor in “12 Years a Slave”
Matthew McConaughey in “Dallas Buyers Club”

Barkhad Abdi in “Captain Phillips”
Bradley Cooper in “American Hustle”
Michael Fassbender in “12 Years a Slave”
Jonah Hill in “The Wolf of Wall Street”
Jared Leto in “Dallas Buyers Club”

Amy Adams in “American Hustle”
Cate Blanchett in “Blue Jasmine”
Sandra Bullock in “Gravity”
Judi Dench in “Philomena”
Meryl Streep in “August: Osage County”

Sally Hawkins in “Blue Jasmine”
Jennifer Lawrence in “American Hustle”
Lupita Nyong’o in “12 Years a Slave”
Julia Roberts in “August: Osage County”
June Squibb in “Nebraska”

“The Croods” Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco and Kristine Belson
“Despicable Me 2” Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin and Chris Meledandri
“Ernest & Celestine” Benjamin Renner and Didier Brunner
“Frozen” Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee and Peter Del Vecho
“The Wind Rises” Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki

“The Grandmaster” Philippe Le Sourd
“Gravity” Emmanuel Lubezki
“Inside Llewyn Davis” Bruno Delbonnel
“Nebraska” Phedon Papamichael
“Prisoners” Roger A. Deakins

“American Hustle” Michael Wilkinson
“The Grandmaster” William Chang Suk Ping
“The Great Gatsby” Catherine Martin
“The Invisible Woman” Michael O’Connor
“12 Years a Slave” Patricia Norris

“American Hustle” David O. Russell
“Gravity” Alfonso Cuarón
“Nebraska” Alexander Payne
“12 Years a Slave” Steve McQueen
“The Wolf of Wall Street” Martin Scorsese

“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
“20 Feet from Stardom” Nominees to be determined

“CaveDigger” Jeffrey Karoff
“Facing Fear” Jason Cohen
“Karama Has No Walls” Sara Ishaq
“The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life” Malcolm Clarke and Nicholas Reed
“Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall” Edgar Barens

“American Hustle” Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers and Alan Baumgarten
“Captain Phillips” Christopher Rouse
“Dallas Buyers Club” John Mac McMurphy and Martin Pensa
“Gravity” Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger
“12 Years a Slave” Joe Walker

“The Broken Circle Breakdown” Belgium
“The Great Beauty” Italy
“The Hunt” Denmark
“The Missing Picture” Cambodia
“Omar” Palestine

“Dallas Buyers Club” Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews
“Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa” Stephen Prouty
“The Lone Ranger” Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny

“The Book Thief” John Williams
“Gravity” Steven Price
“Her” William Butler and Owen Pallett
“Philomena” Alexandre Desplat
“Saving Mr. Banks” Thomas Newman

“Alone Yet Not Alone” from “Alone Yet Not Alone”
Music by Bruce Broughton; Lyric by Dennis Spiegel
“Happy” from “Despicable Me 2”
Music and Lyric by Pharrell Williams
“Let It Go” from “Frozen”
Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
“The Moon Song” from “Her”
Music by Karen O; Lyric 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; Lyric by Paul Hewson

“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 Cuarón 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
“12 Years a Slave” Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen and Anthony Katagas, Producers
“The Wolf of Wall Street” Nominees to be determined

“American Hustle” Production Design: Judy Becker; Set Decoration: Heather Loeffler
“Gravity” Production Design: Andy Nicholson; Set Decoration: Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard
“The Great Gatsby” Production Design: Catherine Martin; Set Decoration: Beverley Dunn
“Her” Production Design: K.K. Barrett; Set Decoration: Gene Serdena
“12 Years a Slave” Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Alice Baker

“Feral” Daniel Sousa and Dan Golden
“Get a Horse!” Lauren MacMullan and Dorothy McKim
“Mr. Hublot” Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares
“Possessions” Shuhei Morita
“Room on the Broom” Max Lang and Jan Lachauer

“Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn’t Me)” Esteban Crespo
“Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just before Losing Everything)” Xavier Legrand and Alexandre Gavras
“Helium” Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson
“Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?)” Selma Vilhunen and Kirsikka Saari
“The Voorman Problem” Mark Gill and Baldwin Li

“All Is Lost” Steve Boeddeker and Richard Hymns
“Captain Phillips” Oliver Tarney
“Gravity” Glenn Freemantle
“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” Brent Burge
“Lone Survivor” Wylie Stateman

“Captain Phillips” Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith and Chris Munro
“Gravity” Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead 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

“Gravity” Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould
“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

“Before Midnight” Written by Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
“Captain Phillips” Screenplay by Billy Ray
“Philomena” Screenplay by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
“12 Years a Slave” Screenplay by John Ridley
“The Wolf of Wall Street” Screenplay by Terence Winter

“American Hustle” Written by Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell
“Blue Jasmine” Written by Woody Allen
“Dallas Buyers Club” Written by Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack
“Her” Written by Spike Jonze
“Nebraska” Written by Bob Nelson

DGA Announces 5 Nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary for 2013

The Directors Guild of America announced the five nominees for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentaries for 2013. The winner will be named at the 66th Annual DGA Awards Dinner on Saturday, January 25, 2014 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles.

The nominees are (in alphabetical order):

Zachary Heinzerling
CUTIE AND THE BOXER

Cutie and the Boxer

Jehane Noujaim
THE SQUARE

THE SQUARE

Joshua Oppenheimer
THE ACT OF KILLING

THE ACT OF KILLING

Sarah Polley
STORIES WE TELL

STORIES WE TELL

Lucy Walker
THE CRASH REEL

THE CRASH REEL

Daniel Patrick Carbone’s HIDE YOUR SMILING FACES from 2013 Tribeca Film Festival Gets a March 2014 Release Date | VIDEO: Watch Trailer

Daniel Patrick Carbone’s directorial debut HIDE YOUR SMILING FACES, which was recognized recently with the “Best Film Still Awaiting U.S. Distribution” from the National Society of Film Critics Awards will be released after all. Tribeca Film will release HIDE YOUR SMILING FACES beginning March 25, 2014 on cable/telco and satellite video-on-demand and digital platforms, followed by a theatrical release beginning March 28, 2014. Written and directed by Carbone, the film played to rave reviews when it premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival, and received the New Directors Award at the Starz Denver Film Festival.

A dreamlike portrait of adolescence, HIDE YOUR SMILING FACES explores rural American life through the distorted lens of youth. Unfolding over one hot, hazy summer, the film follows two young brothers — nine-year-old Tommy (Ryan Jones) and 14-year-old Eric (Nathan Varnson) — as they come to terms with the mysterious death of one of Tommy’s friends.

http://youtu.be/BCni8utWHB8

Italian Film THE GREAT BEAUTY Wins Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film

Paolo Sorrentino's THE GREAT BEAUTY (LA GRANDE BELLEZZA) Paolo Sorrentino’s THE GREAT BEAUTY (LA GRANDE BELLEZZA)

Paolo Sorrentino’s THE GREAT BEAUTY (LA GRANDE BELLEZZA), beat France’s Blue is the Warmest Color; Denmark’s The Hunt; Iran’s The Past; and the Japanese animated film The wind Rises to win the award for Best Foreign Film at the 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards. Set in Rome, the 2013 THE GREAT BEAUTY follows Jep Gambardella, played by actor Toni Servillo, a hedonistic socialite who is forced to examine his party-filled life after his 65th birthday.

http://youtu.be/fJfvX6zPAuQ

Complete List of Winners of 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards

MOTION PICTURES

Picture, Drama: “12 Years a Slave.”

Picture, Musical or Comedy: “American Hustle.”

Actor, Drama: Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club.”

Actress, Drama: Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine.”

Director: Alfonso Cuaron, “Gravity.”

Actor, Musical or Comedy: Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Wolf of Wall Street.”

Actress, Musical or Comedy: Amy Adams, “American Hustle.”

Supporting Actor: Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club.”

Supporting Actress: Jennifer Lawrence, “American Hustle.”

Foreign Language: “The Great Beauty.”

Animated Film: “Frozen.”

Screenplay: Spike Jonze, “Her.”

Original Score: Alex Ebert, “All Is Lost.”

Original Song: “Ordinary Love” (music by Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr. and Brian Burton, lyrics by Bono), “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.”

TELEVISION

Series, Drama: “Breaking Bad.”

Actor, Drama: Bryan Cranston, “Breaking Bad.”

Actress, Drama: Robin Wright, “House of Cards.”

Series, Musical or Comedy: “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.”

Actress, Musical or Comedy: Amy Poehler, “Parks and Recreation.”

Actor, Musical or Comedy: Andy Samberg, “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.”

Miniseries or Movie: “Behind the Candelabra.”

Actress, Miniseries or Movie: Elisabeth Moss, “Top of the Lake.”

Actor, Miniseries or Movie: Michael Douglas, “Behind the Candelabra.”

Supporting Actress, Series, Miniseries or Movie: Jacqueline Bisset, “Dancing on the Edge.”

Supporting Actor, Series, Miniseries or Movie: Jon Voight, “Ray Donovan.”

Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award: Woody Allen.

Sam Berns, Featured in LIFE ACCORDING TO SAM Documentary Dies at 17

Sam Berns, who battled the rare and fatal genetic condition that accelerates the aging process and was the subject of the award winning documentary LIFE ACCORDING TO SAM, has died. He was 17. Berns died Friday due to complications from Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, commonly known as progeria. Berns was diagnosed with progeria when he was 22 months old.

In the documentary LIFE ACCORDING TO SAM, directed by by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine, which premiered at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, the film explores Progeria, an extremely rare and fatal disease, exemplified by accelerated aging in the children who are afflicted by it. There is no treatment. There is no cure. Enter Doctors Leslie Gordon and Scott Berns. When their son, Sam, was diagnosed with progeria at age two, the prognosis was grim—the couple were simply told to enjoy the few years they had left with their only son—but they weren’t willing to give up that easily. They spearheaded a campaign to save Sam and the other children in the world who share this devastating illness. In a little more than a decade, their extraordinary advances have led not only to identifying the gene that causes progeria and testing the first experimental drug to treat it but also to the amazing discovery that it is linked to the aging process in all of us.

http://youtu.be/Z5hm44x7ICA

Comedy LOVE & AIR SEX Gets A February 2014 Release Date and Launches 10 City Road Show | VIDEO: Watch Trailer

Bryan Poyser’s LOVE & AIR SEX (f/k/a The Bounceback) which world premiered at the 2013 SXSW Film Festival, is headed to theaters this February with a day-and-date VOD and Theatrical release that will begin on demand February 4th and in theaters beginning February 7th. In LOVE & AIR SEX, when brokenhearted Stan (Michael Stahl-David, Cloverfield) flies to Austin for the weekend in hopes of “accidentally” running into his ex-girlfriend Cathy (Ashley Bell, The Last Exorcism I & II), he arrives to find their best friends Jeff (Zach Cregger, “The Whitest Kids U Know”) and Kara (Sara Paxton, The Innkeepers) in the middle of their own vicious breakup. Before too long, battle lines are drawn – and with the Air Sex World Championships in town, anything can go down.

Sara Paxton in LOVE & AIR SEX distributed by Tribeca Film.

What is Air Sex? It’s Air Guitar meets karaoke meets mime meets perversion. Contestants get on stage and act out a wild sexual scenario to a song of their choosing, completely by yourself and (usually) completely clothed. Imported from Japan by Tim League and Henri Mazza at the Alamo Drafthouse Theaters, it’s since become a national phenomenon. It’s also a major plot point in Love & Air Sex, and the routines the characters come up with have to be seen to be believed.

“We’ve had such a blast sharing this fun, raucous movie with festival audiences,” said director Bryan Poyser. “We’re thrilled to partner with Tribeca to bring the film to theaters, along with the ‘Air Sex’ competitions featured in the film, offering audiences an ‘expanded’ cinematic experience they won’t soon forget.”

The film will also launch a 10-City “Air Sex” Road Show, featuring in-person appearances by filmmakers and cast, live “Air Sex” competitions, and shows by Austin bands featured in the film’s soundtrack.

LOVE & AIR SEX ROAD SHOW TOUR DATES

45th NAACP Image Awards Nominees; FRUITVALE STATION Gets Many Noms Including Outstanding Independent Motion Picture

FRUITVALE STATION

The nominees for the 45th NAACP Image Awards were announced today and The Weinstein Company lead with 17 nominations, followed by Fox Searchlight Pictures with seven nominations. The awards will be presented during the two-hour TV One telecast on Saturday, February 22. Nominees include The Weinstein Company’s FRUITVALE STATION up for numerous awards include Outstanding Motion Picture, Outstanding Independent Motion Picture, Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture for Michael B. Jordan, and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for Octavia Spencer. Other films up for the award for Outstanding Independent Motion Picture include BLUE CAPRICE, DALLAS BUYERS CLUB, THE INEVITABLE DEFEAT OF MISTER & PETE, and THE TRIALS OF MUHAMMAD ALI.

Following is a list of categories and nominees for the 45TH NAACP Image Awards:

MOTION PICTURE

Outstanding Motion Picture
• “12 Years A Slave” (River Road/Plan B/New Regency/Fox Searchlight Pictures)
• “Fruitvale Station” (The Weinstein Company/Forest Whitaker’s Significant Productions, OG Project)
• “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” (The Weinstein Company/Lee Daniels Entertainment, Laura Ziskin Productions, Windy Hill
Pictures, Follow Through Productions, Salamander Pictures, Pam Williams Productions)
• “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom” (The Weinstein Company/Distant Horizon, Origin Pictures, Pathé, Videovision
Entertainment)
• “The Best Man Holiday” (Universal Pictures)

Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
• Chadwick Boseman – “42” (Warner Bros. Pictures/Legendary Pictures)
• Chiwetel Ejiofor – “12 Years A Slave” (River Road/Plan B/New Regency/Fox Searchlight Pictures)
• 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)
• Idris Elba – “Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom” (The Weinstein Company/Distant Horizon, Origin Pictures, Pathé,
Videovision Entertainment)
• Michael B. Jordan – “Fruitvale Station” (The Weinstein Company/Forest Whitaker’s Significant Productions, OG
Project)

Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
• Angela Bassett – “Black Nativity” (Fox Searchlight Pictures/Mavin Pictures/Wonderful Films)
• Halle Berry – “The Call” (TriStar Pictures)
• Jennifer Hudson – “Winnie Mandela” (Ma-Afrika Films (PTY) LTD and Equinoxe Films Inc.)
• Kerry Washington – “Tyler Perry Presents Peeples” (Lionsgate)
• Nicole Beharie – “42” (Warner Bros. Pictures/Legendary Pictures)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
• Cuba Gooding Jr. – “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” (The Weinstein Company/Lee Daniels Entertainment, Laura Ziskin
Productions, Windy Hill Pictures, Follow Through Productions, Salamander Pictures, Pam Williams Productions)
• 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)
• Morris Chestnut – “The Best Man Holiday” (Universal Pictures)
• Terrence Howard – “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” (The Weinstein Company/Lee Daniels Entertainment, Laura Ziskin
Productions, Windy Hill Pictures, Follow Through Productions, Salamander Pictures, Pam Williams Productions)
• Terrence Howard – “The Best Man Holiday” (Universal Pictures)

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
• Alfre Woodard – “12 Years A Slave” (River Road/Plan B/New Regency/Fox Searchlight Pictures)
• Lupita Nyong’o – “12 Years A Slave ” (River Road/Plan B/New Regency/Fox Searchlight Pictures)
• Naomie Harris – “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom” (The Weinstein Company/Distant Horizon, Origin Pictures, Pathé,
Videovision Entertainment)
• Octavia Spencer – “Fruitvale Station” (The Weinstein Company/Forest Whitaker’s Significant Productions, OG Project)
• Oprah Winfrey – “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 Independent Motion Picture
• “Blue Caprice” (Sundance Selects)
• “Dallas Buyers Club” (Focus Features)
• “Fruitvale Station” (The Weinstein Company/Forest Whitaker’s Significant Productions, OG Project)
• “The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete” (Codeblack Films/Lionsgate/iDeal Partners/State Street)
• “The Trials of Muhammad Ali” (Kartemquin Films)

Outstanding International Motion Picture
• “Call Me Kuchu” (Lindy Hop Pictures LLC)
• “High Tech, Low Life” (Argot Pictures)
• “La Playa D.C.” (Burning Blue)
• “Lion Ark” (ADI Films)
• “War Witch” (Item 7)

DOCUMENTARY

Outstanding Documentary – (Theatrical)
• “20 Feet from Stardom” (Tremolo & Gil Friesen Productions)
• “Call Me Kuchu” (Lindy Hop Pictures LLC)
• “Free Angela and All Political Prisoners” (Codeblack Films/Lionsgate)
• “Girl Rising” (The Documentary Group)
• “The New Black” (Promised Land Film)

Outstanding Documentary – (Television)
• “Beyoncé: Life Is But a Dream” (HBO)
• “Dark Girls” (OWN)
• “Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic ” (Showtime)
• “Venus Vs.” (ESPN)
• “Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley” (HBO)

WRITING

Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture – (Theatrical or Television)
• Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón – “Gravity” (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Brian Helgeland – “42” (Warner Bros. Pictures/Legendary Pictures)
• Danny Strong – “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” (The Weinstein Company/Lee Daniels Entertainment, Laura Ziskin
Productions, Windy Hill Pictures, Follow Through Productions, Salamander Pictures, Pam Williams Productions)
• John Ridley – “12 Years A Slave” (River Road/Plan B/New Regency/Fox Searchlight Pictures)
• Ryan Coogler – “Fruitvale Station” (The Weinstein Company/Forest Whitaker’s Significant Productions, OG Project)

DIRECTING

Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture – (Theatrical or Television)
• Jono Oliver – “Home” (The Home Film Group)
• Justin Chadwick – “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom” (The Weinstein Company/Distant Horizon, Origin Pictures,
Pathé, Videovision Entertainment)
• Lee Daniels – “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” (The Weinstein Company/Lee Daniels Entertainment, Laura Ziskin
Productions, Windy Hill Pictures, Follow Through Productions, Salamander Pictures, Pam Williams Productions)
• Malcolm D. Lee – “The Best Man Holiday” (Universal Pictures)
• Steve McQueen – “12 Years A Slave” (River Road/Plan B/New Regency/Fox Searchlight Pictures)

See full list of nominations here

THE ACT OF KILLING, CUTIE AND THE BOXER, STORIES WE TELL Among 2014 Cinema Eye Winners

THE ACT OF KILLING, that features former Indonesian death squad leaders re-enacting their crimes, took the top prize – the award for Outstanding Feature at the 7th Annual Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking. Sarah Polley was named the year’s Outstanding Director for STORIES WE TELL, her personal exploration of memory and storytelling. Zachary Heinzerling’s CUTIE AND THE BOXER, a portrait of the relationship between two New York artists, received three honors, including Outstanding Debut for Heinzerling, Outstanding Graphics and Animation for Art Jail and Outstanding Original Score for Yasuaki Shimizu. Dave Grohl’s SOUND CITY won the Audience Choice Prize, voted on by the public and the Legacy Award was presented to the landmark 1976 film HARLAN COUNTY, USA, about a brutal coal strike in Kentucky.

The following is a complete list of Cinema Eye Honors winners for 2014:

Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking

The Act of Killing
Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer
Produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen
Presented by Steve James

Outstanding Achievement in Direction

Sarah Polley
Stories We Tell
Presented by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady

Outstanding Achievement in Editing

Nels Bangerter
Let the Fire Burn
Presented by Thelma Schoonmaker

Audience Choice Prize

Sound City
Directed by Dave Grohl
Presented by John Flansburgh and Robin “Goldie” Goldwasser

Outstanding Achievement in Production

Signe Byrge Sørensen
The Act of Killing
Presented by Jennifer Fox and Ross Kauffman

Outstanding Nonfiction Film for Television

The Crash Reel
Directed by Lucy Walker
Produced by Julian Cautherley and Lucy Walker
For HBO Documentary Films: Executive Producer Sheila Nevins and Supervising Producer Sara Bernstein

Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Short Filmmaking

A Story for the Modlins
Directed by Sergio Oksman
Presented by Kirsten Johnson and Darius Marder

Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography

Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
Leviathan
Presented by Kirsten Johnson and Darius Marder

Heterodox Award

Post Tenebras Lux
Directed by Carlos Reygadas
Presented by Jeremy Saulnier and Angela Tucker

Outstanding Achievement in an Original Music Score

Yasuaki Shimizu
Cutie and the Boxer
Presented by Jeff Reichert and Farihah Zaman

Spotlight Award

The Last Station
Directed by Cristian Soto and Catalina Vergara
Presented by Jeff Reichert and Farihah Zaman

Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design and Animation

Art Jail
Cutie and the Boxer
Presented by Chris Hegedus and Jehane Noujaim

Outstanding Achievement in a Debut Feature Film

Zachary Heinzerling
Cutie and the Boxer
Presented by Chris Hegedus and Jehane Noujaim

Legacy Award

Harlan County, USA
Directed and Produced by Barbara Kopple
Presented by Kristi Jacobson

Hell Yeah Prize

Josh Fox
Gasland and Gasland, Part 2
Presented by AJ Schnack

Documentary WATERMARK Wins Toronto Film Critics Association’s 2013 Rogers Best Canadian Film Award | VIDEO

WATERMARK, directed by Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky, described as a mesmerizing portrait of the planet’s lifeblood, won the Toronto Film Critics Association’s 2013 Rogers Best Canadian Film Award. Also nominated for the award were Gabrielle, directed by Louise Archambault, and The Dirties, directed by Matt Johnson. The $100,000 value of the Rogers Best Canadian Film Award makes it by far the richest annual arts prize in Canada. As runners-up, Archambault and Johnson each received $5,000

Watermark is a feature documentary from multiple-award winning filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Nick de Pencier, and renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky, marking their second collaboration after Manufactured Landscapes in 2006. The film brings together diverse stories from around the globe about our relationship with water: how we are drawn to it, what we learn from it, how we use it and the consequences of that use. We see massive floating abalone farms off China’s Fujian coast and the construction site of the biggest arch dam in the world – the Xiluodu, six times the size of the Hoover. We visit the barren desert delta where the mighty Colorado River no longer reaches the ocean, and the water-intensive leather tanneries of Dhaka.We witness how humans are drawn to water, from the U.S. Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach to the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, where thirty million people gather for a sacred bath in the Ganges at the same time. We speak with scientists who drill ice cores two kilometers deep into the Greenland Ice Sheet, and explore the sublime pristine watershed of Northern British Columbia. Shot in stunning 5K ultra high-definition video and full of soaring aerial perspectives, this film shows water as a terraforming element, as well as the magnitude of our need and use. In Watermark, the viewer is immersed in a magnificent force of nature that we all too often take for granted- until it’s gone.

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ABFF Hollywood Awards Nominations, FRUITVALE STATION Earns Multiple Nods

FRUITVALE STATION

The ABFF Hollywood Awards an online platform created to recognize the work of persons of African descent in the motion picture industry and outstanding films portraying the Black experience announce the nominees for the 2014 award season. FRUITVALE STATION is up for multiple awards including Movie of the Year, Best Actor for Michael B. Jordan, Best Supporting Actress for Octavia Spencer, Best Screenplay, and Best Director for Ryan Coogler. Other films receiving nominations include MOTHER OF GEORGE grabbed Best Actress for Danai Gurira, and Best Screenplay for THE INEVITABLE DEFEAT OF MISTER & PETE.

Voting will take place January 15 through January 22, online at at www.abffhollywoodawards.com, and the winners will be revealed online February 19.

MOVIE OF THE YEAR

12 YEARS A SLAVE (Fox Searchlight Pictures) produced by Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Bill Pohlad, Steve McQueen, Arnon Milchan and Anthony Katagas
FRUITVALE STATION (The Weinstein Company) produced by Nina Yang Bongiovi and Forest Whitaker
LEE DANIELS’ THE BUTLER (The Weinstein Company) produced by Pam Williams, Laura Ziskin, Lee Daniels, Buddy Patrick and Cassian Elwes
MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM (The Weinstein Company) produced by David M. Thompson and Anant Singh
THE BEST MAN HOLIDAY (Universal Pictures) produced by Sean Daniel and Malcolm D. Lee

BEST ACTOR

Morris Chestnut The Best Man Holiday
Chiwetel Ejiofor 12 Years A Slave
Idris Elba Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Michael B. Jordan Fruitvale Station
Forest Whitaker Lee Daniels’ The Butler

BEST ACTRESS

Halle Berry The Call
Danai Gurira Mother of George
LisaGaye Hamilton Go for Sisters
Nia Long The Best Man Holiday
Kerry Washington Peeples

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Barkhad Abdi Captain Phillips
Cuba Gooding, Jr. Lee Daniels’ The Butler
Terrence Howard The Best Man Holiday
Samuel L. Jackson Oldboy
David Oyelowo Lee Daniels’ The Butler

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Nicole Beharie 42: The Jackie Robinson Story
Naomie Harris Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Sanaa Lathan The Best Man Holiday
Lupita Nyong’o 12 Years A Slave
Octavia Spencer Fruitvale Station
Oprah Winfrey Lee Daniels’ The Butler

BEST DIRECTOR

Ryan Coogler Fruitvale Station
Lee Daniels Lee Daniels’ The Butler
Antoine Fuqua Olympus Has Fallen
Malcolm D. Lee The Best Man Holiday
Spike Lee Oldboy
Steve McQueen 12 Years A Slave

BEST SCREENPLAY

12 Years A Slave (written by: John Ridley)
Black Nativity (written by: Kasi Lemmons)
Fruitvale Station (written by: Ryan Coogler)
The Best Man Holiday (written by: Malcolm D. Lee)
The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete (written by: Michael Starrbury)

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST

Baggage Claim
Black Nativity
Fast & Furious 6
Lee Daniels’ The Butler
The Best Man Holiday

BREAKOUT PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR

Barkhad Abdi Captain Phillips
Chadwick Boseman 42: The Jackie Robinson Story
Skylan Brooks The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
Michael B. Jordan Fruitvale Station
Lupita Nyong’o 12 Years A Slave

ARTIST OF THE YEAR for an artist (male or female) in recognition of their collective body of work for the year.

Idris Elba (appeared in: Pacific Rim, Thor: The Dark World, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom)
Kevin Hart (appeared in: Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain, This Is The End, Grudge Match; produced: Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain)
Dwayne Johnson (starred in: Snitch, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Pain & Gain, Fast & Furious 6)
Tyler Perry (appeared in: Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas, wrote, directed and produced: Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor and Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas; produced: Peeples)
Forest Whitaker (appeared in: Lee Daniels’ The Butler, Black Nativity, Out of the Furnace; produced: Fruitvale Station)

STUDIO OF THE YEAR for a motion picture studio in recognition of the distribution of quality films directed by, written by, produced by or featuring in a leading role, a person(s) of African descent.

Lionsgate/Codeblack/Summit Entertainment: (Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas, Peeples, Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor, Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain, The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete)
The Weinstein Company (Lee Daniels’ The Butler, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, Fruitvale Station, Scary Movie 5)
Twentieth Century/Fox Searchlight Pictures (12 Years A Slave, Baggage Claim, Black Nativity)
Universal Pictures (Fast & Furious 6, The Best Man Holiday, Riddick)

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