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Dulluc prize shortlists films by Rohmer, Chabrol, and Honore
Eight films have been short-listed for France's prestigious Louis Delluc prize. Half of the nominees hail from confirmed masters and half from younger talent. The films are: Eric Rohmer's The Romance Of Astrea And Celadon , Belle Toujours from Manoel de Oliveira, A Girl Cut In Two by Claude Chabrol, ...
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Secret Sunshine wins best film at Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Korean director Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine (Miryang) tonight won the award for best feature at the inaugural Asia Pacific Screen Awards, and also best actress for Jeon Do-Yeon, but otherwise the awards were evenly spread. If any country shone through it was Iran: the international jury lead by Indian actor ...
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Golden Horse Awards announces new nominations
The Golden Horse Organising Committee has announced additional nominations for the Golden Horse Film Awards to be held on Dec 8 in Taipei. The unusual reconvening of the jury on Sunday night fills gaps created by the withdrawal of Wang Quanan's Tuya's Marriage and Li Yang's Blind Mountain under pressure ...
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Munyurangabo wins international competition at AFI FEST
Lee Isaac Chung's Munyurangabo was named AFI FEST 2007's winner of the grand jury prize for international feature competition.Andreas Mol Dalsgaard's Afghan Muscles and Nina Davenport's Operation Filmmaker shared the International documentary grand jury prize.The shorts jury prize went to Nash Edgerton's Spider, while a special award for best animated ...
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Australia - ASIA pacific awards - Pacific celebration
Held on the sandy shores of the Queensland Gold Coast in Australia, the inaugural Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Apsas) aims to celebrate and promote some of the region's leading films and film-makers to the international industry.'There is a marketing push behind all of this,' says Apsa chairman Des Power. 'I ...
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Palm Springs to honour Jerry Weintraub, Juno at awards gala
The 19th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) will honour Jerry Weintraub with the Patron Of The Arts Award presented by the Screen Actors Guild Foundation.Weintraub will receive the award at the festival's awards gala on January 5, 2008. The festival will also honour Juno with the Chairman's Vanguard ...
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First Prix Image at EFAs to go to Menegoz and Heiduschka
This year's European Film Awards will include the new Prix Eurimages, to recognise European co-production. The first award will go to two producers who have worked on many co-productions: Margaret Menegoz and Veit Heiduschka.Menegoz is Unifrance president and managing director of Les Films Du Losange and she has produced films ...
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IDA to honour When The Levees Broke, Sputnik Media
The International Documentary Association (IDA) has announced two of the winning theatrical documentaries to be honoured at the 2007 IDA Distinguished Documentary Achievement Award Gala Benefit in Los Angeles on Dec 7.Spike Lee's Hurricane Katrina film When The Levees Broke: A Requiem In Four Acts will receive the Pare Lorentz ...
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The Red Awn (Hongse Kangbaiyin)
Dir.Cai Shangjun. China. 2007. 108minsAlready established as a highly successful screenwriter whose work with Zhang Yang on Shower and Sunflower won international kudos, Cai Shangjun steps behind the camera for the first time with a film whose theme - a father-son relationship - has informed his previous work. A simple, ...
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UK films lead EFA nominations
The Queen leads the nominees for the 20th European Film Awards with six nominations, and The Last King of Scotland follows with five.Nominees for best European Film 2007 are Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Fatih Akin's The Edge Of Heaven; Kevin Macdonald's The Last King Of ...
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Piracy - Awards Piracy - Screeners: a calculated risk
When it comes to screeners, distributors are having to square the potential piracy risk with the benefits of getting their film in voters’ DVD players.
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Awards Countdown - High class of 2007
A glut of English-language movies, probably caused by the flood of equity into the production market over the last two years, will make for an unusually competitive awards season this year.
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Tuya's Marriage pulls out of Golden Horse race
Berlin Golden Bear winner Tuya's Marriage has withdrawn from Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards race. Executive producer Wang Le made the official request to the Golden Horse organisers on Wednesday, just four days after nominations were announced. The Mongolian-set drama was one of the highest profile entries set to compete at ...
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Lust, Caution leads nominations for Golden Horse awards
Ang Lee's Lust, Caution dominated the nominations for Taiwan's 44th Golden Horse Film Awards with nods in eleven categories including Best Feature Film. Also competing for the top prize and in multiple categories are Zhang Yang's Getting Home, Tony Ayres' The Home Song Stories, Wang Quanan's Tuya's Marriage and Doze ...
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Jason Reitman's Juno takes Best Film prize in Rome
Jason Reitman's teen pregnancy drama/comedy Juno won Rome Film Fest's Marco Aurelio Best Film Award, announced yesterday. Reitman was in Rome to accept the award, along with screenwriter Diablo Cody.The lucrative award also comes with $287,700 (Euros 200,000).'It is terrifying to bring your film to another culture where they speak ...
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Akin's The Edge Of Heaven wins Europe's first LUX Prize
Fatih Akin's The Edge Of Heaven, Germany's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award, is the first winner of the European Parliament's new LUX Prize. The inaugural award was presented to the film's producer Klaus Maeck and actress Hanna Schygulla at a plenary session of the parliament in ...
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Michael Sheen to host Britannia Awards in LA
Michael Sheen, who portrayed the former British Prime Minster Tony Blair in The Queen, will host the 16th Annual BAFTA/LA Cunard Britannia Awards in Los Angeles on Nov 1.Sheen, who recently appeared as a presenter at the Hollywood Film Awards, will next be seen in the drama Music Within and ...
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Corbijn's Control leads BIFAs race with 10 nominations
Anton Corbijn's debut feature Control, about Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, leads the nominations for the 10th annual British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs). Control, which premiered in Cannes, has 10 nominations, including Best Independent British Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Newcomer (Sam Riley), and Best Screenplay. Following closely behind ...
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Zobel's Great World Of Sound leads Gotham nominees
Craig Zobel's Sundance hit Great World Of Sound earned three nominations yesterday for IFP New York's upcoming 17th Annual Gotham Awards. The comedy is in the running for best feature, best director, and best breakthrough actor for Kene Holliday.Three films received two nominations each: Day Night Day Night by Julia ...
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Richard Edlund wins ASC Presidents Award
Richard Edlund will receive the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Presidents Award at the 22nd Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards in Los Angeles on Jan 26.Edlund earned four Academy Awards for his visual effects work on Star Wars (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981) ...