The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced today the television and motion picture nominations for the 2011 Producers Guild Awards.
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Wasted Youth opens 40th International Film Festival Rotterdam
Still from Wasted Youth The 40th International Film Festival Rotterdam will open on Wednesday 26 January with the world première of the Greek film Wasted Youth, a fiction film also selected for the festival’s Tiger Awards Competition.
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2011 Writers Guild Awards Screen Nominees Announced
Original Screenplay Nominee: Please Give The Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) have announced nominations for outstanding achievement in writing for the screen during 2010. Winners will be honored at the 2011 Writers Guild Awards held on Saturday, February 5, 2011, at simultaneous ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York.
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Mo’Nique To Join Academy President Tom Sherak For Oscar(R) Nominations
Mo’Nique in Precious Nominations for the 83rd Academy Awards® will be announced on Tuesday, January 25, by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak and Oscar-winning actress and Academy member Mo’Nique.
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2011 Derby City Film Festival Finalists and Acting Nominations
Over 200 films were submitted for the 2011 Derby City Film Festival which takes place February 18th – 20th, 2011. From those submissions, 41 were selected for competition and will be screened during the three day festival. Finally, 11 films were handed to the jury for award consideration in three categories; Feature Film, Short Film and Documentary Film.
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61st Berlinale: World Cinema in the Panorama Lineup
24 films have been selected so far, to be presented in the Panorama section of the 61st Berlin International Film Festival scheduled for February 10 – 20, 2011.
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Swedish actor Per Oscarsson and His Wife Feared Dead in House Fire
Swedish actor Per Oscarsson Swedish actor Per Oscarsson and his wife were feared dead after human remains were discovered among the ashes of their burned home. Oscarsson, 83, and his wife, 67, were both believed to have been home when their house near the small town of Skara, Sweden, burned to the ground overnight Thursday.
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2011 German Film Critics Awards; Feo Aladag’s “When We Leave” with 7 Nominations
Sibel Kekilli in Feo Aladag’s film When We Leave Feo Aladag’s “When We Leave”received seven nominations from the Germany’s film critics association, basically, winning an award in every category for which the film was eligible. The film follows a woman and her son as they try to escape her husband’s abuse and finds shelter with a family in Berlin.
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RIP: Israeli actor Josef Shiloach
Israeli actor Josef Shiloach died Monday at the age of 69. Shiloach, who starred is such Israeli cult classics as Alex Hole Ahava, Sapiches and Hagiga B’Snuker passed away following a long battle with cancer.
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RIP: Actor Pete Postlethwaite
Pete Postlethwaite in Age of Stupid Oscar nominated actor Pete Postlethwaite, known recently for his role in the film “The Age of Stupid” has died at the age of 64. He reportedly passed away in a British hospital on Sunday after a long battle with cancer.
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2011 Oxford Film Festival Lineup
The Oxford Film Festival in Oxford, Mississippi announced their February 10-13, 2011 festival films, panels, workshops and conversations to play on February 10 at the Lyric Theatere, and February 11-13 at Malco Theater.
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Independent Films and Shorts and Other Films Selected for Preservation in the 2010 National Film Registry
Cry of Jazz (1959) The Librarian of Congress named 25 motion pictures—Hollywood classics, documentaries and innovative shorts reflecting genres from every era of American filmmaking—to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.