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  • Sundance Institute Announces $550,000 in Grants for Contemporary Issue Documentary Films

    Sundance Institute announced the twenty two Documentary Film Program grant recipients for Fall 2010. Selected feature-length documentary films, chosen from nearly 450 projects from 80 countries, will receive $550,000 in support. Two of the 22 projects listed below are to receive a grant from the Sundance | Cinereach Project at Sundance Institute, part of a $1.5 million three-year grant funded by Cinereach. A portion of the grant is for emergency or discretionary grants and support for risk-taking documentaries on pressing global issues, as well as support.

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  • Sundance Institute Announces Twelve Feature Film Projects For January Screenwriters Lab

    Sundance Institute has selected twelve projects for the annual January Screenwriters Lab, to be held January 14-19, 2011 at the Sundance Resort in Utah. The Screenwriters Lab is a five-day writers’ workshop that gives independent screenwriters the opportunity to work intensely on their feature film scripts with the support of established writers in an environment that encourages innovation and creative risk-taking. Through one-on-one story sessions, fellows engage in an artistically rigorous process that offers them indispensable lessons in craft, as well as the means to do the deep exploration needed to fully realize their material.

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  • 41 Original Songs Queue for 2010 Oscar®

    Forty-one songs from eligible feature-length motion pictures are in contention for nominations in the Original Song category for the 83rd Academy Awards®, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today.

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  • 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards nominations; All Hail “The King’s Speech”

    THE KING’S SPEECH

    The 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards nominations were announced this morning and The Kings Speech lead the field with 7 nominations followed by The Fighter and the critics’ favorite The Social Network with 6 nominations.

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  • National Board of Review’s 2010 Film Awards

    Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work in Top Five Best Documentaries of 2010

    The National Board of Review announced their film awards for 2010. No real surprises on the list.

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  • RIP: Documentary Filmmaker J. Michael Hagopian

    Armenian-American documentary filmmaker J. Michael Hagopian, whose 70 educational and documentary films have won more than 160 national and international awards, including two Emmy nominations, died Dec. 10 in his Thousand Oaks, Calif., home. He was 97.

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  • 2010 New York Film Critics Awards; New York Critics Like The Social Network Too

    Edgar Ramirez plays Carlos in Best Foreign Language Film: Carlos

    The New York Film Critics Circle announced their awards for the best films of 2010 on Monday night and again, The Social Network is the top film of the year. As reported by the NJ.com, this year’s voting, held at New York’s Regency Hotel and done by secret ballot, took nearly four hours. The prizes will be awarded at a gala dinner on January 10th at the Manhattan nightspot, Crimson.

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  • 2010 Toronto Film Critics Association; The Social Network Wins Big Again

    Exit Through The Gift Shop; Winner of Best Documentary Feature and Best First Feature

    The Toronto Film Critics Association has announced its 2010 winners and what is becoming very much expected, David Fincher’s The Social Network took the top prizes including Best Picture, Best Director (David Fincher), Best Actor (Jesse Eisenberg), Best Supporting Actor (Armie Hammer) and Best Screenplay. Not to be ignored is the documentary “Exit Through The Gift Shop” Winner of Best Documentary Feature and Best First Feature; and Best Actress for Jennifer Lawrence in “Winter’s Bone.”

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  • Halle Berry, Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Marisa Tomei and Oprah Winfrey Lead List of Oscar Presenters

    Oprah Winfrey

    Halle Berry, Jeff Bridges, Sandra Bullock, Marisa Tomei and Oprah Winfrey will present on the 83rd Academy Awards®, telecast producers Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer announced today.

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  • 2010 Boston Society of Film Critics Awards

    Best Documentary: Marwencol

    The Boston Society of Film Critics announced its pick of films for 2010 and awarded an astonishing 5 prizes to The Social Network, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay. The 2010 Awards ceremony will be held on 01/30/2011 at the Brattle Theater, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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  • AFI Honors Top Ten Most Outstanding Motion Pictures and Television Programs of 2010

    Winter’s Bone

    American Film Institute (AFI) today announced the official selections of AFI AWARDS 2010, AFI’s almanac that records the year’s most outstanding achievements in film, television, and other forms of the moving image arts.

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  • 2010 Australian Film Institute Awards; Gangster Film “Animal Kingdom,” Breaks Records With 8 Awards

    Animal Kingdom

    “Animal Kingdom,” written and directed by David Michod swept the the Australian Film Institute (AFI) awards at the weekend, taking 10 awards including Best Film, and Best Direction out of a record 18 nominations. “Animal Kingdom,” often described as the “Australian gangster film” also took the award for Best Original Screenplay.

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