All Other Awards articles – Page 109

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    Feiffer receives lifetime achievement award from WGAW

    2007-01-29T22:23:00Z

    Screenwriter, playwright and cartoonist Jules Feiffer will receive the Writers Guild of America, West's (WGAW) ninth annual Animation Writing Award for lifetime achievement.Feiffer's credits include Little Murders (1970) and Carnal Knowledge (1971), both of which earned WGA nominations, as well as 1980's Popeye, directed by the late Robert Altman.He received ...

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    Hong Kong to host region-wide Asian Film Awards

    2007-01-29T07:14:00Z

    Hong Kong is set to host the first ever Asian Film Awards (AFA), recognising talent from across the region, on the first night of the 31st Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) on March 20. Organised by the HKIFF and held in conjunction with Entertainment Expo, the awards will feature ...

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    Mirren, Whitaker win SAG awards in final stages of Oscar race

    2007-01-29T05:33:00Z

    Forest Whitaker and Helen Mirren confirmed their status as favourites to claim the Oscar after they won top honours at the 13 Annual Screen Actors Guild in Los Angeles last night.Confirming that it is a best picture Oscar frontrunner, Little Miss Sunshine won the ensemble cast award, beating heavyweight films ...

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    Volver takes best film, director, actress at Goyas in Madrid

    2007-01-29T01:09:00Z

    Pedro Almodovar's Volver and Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth split the top prizes Sunday night at Spain's 21st annual Goya Awards. Almodovar was absent from the ceremony, but his film won five prizes including best film, director, original music, actress for Penelope Cruz and supporting actress for Carmen Maura. Labyrinth ...

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    BBC World Cinema prize goes to The Death Of Mr Lazarescu

    2007-01-26T14:54:00Z

    The fourth BBC World Cinema Award was handed out to Cristi Puiu's The Death Of Mr Lazarescu. The BBC Four award was given out Jan 25 at London 's National Film Theatre. Romanian director Cristi Puiu accepted the prize from actress Emily Watson and the awards host Jonathan Ross. Tartan ...

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    Bouchareb, Ferran and Canettop Cesar nominations

    2007-01-26T11:38:00Z

    Three films tied for the most mentions at this year's Cesar nominations in Paris. Oscar nominee for best foreign film, Rachid Bouchareb's Days Of Glory has receivednine Cesar nominations, as has Pascale Ferran's Lady Chatterley and Guillaume Canet's Ne Le Dis A Personne . The three are allup for best ...

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    $50,000 cash prize for Latin American films launched

    2007-01-25T15:58:00Z

    The 22nd Mar del Plata International Film Festival (March 8-18) is set to launch the Ernesto Che Guevara prize with a cash award of $50,000 for Best Film in a new section reserved for first and second Latin American features and documentaries, which will run parallel to the official competition. ...

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    Vitus takes Best Film at 10th Swiss Film Awards

    2007-01-25T12:51:00Z

    Vitus was named Best Film at this year's Swiss Film Awards which were presented for the tenth time on Wednesday evening in a gala ceremony at the Solothurn Film Days.The drama about a child piano prodigy and his grandfather was praised by the jury as 'a film full of tenderness ...

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    Bon Cop, Kigali lead Jutra Award nominations in Quebec

    2007-01-23T19:21:00Z

    Bon Cop, Bad Cop and Un Dimanche A Kigali (A Sunday In Kigali) each received 12 nominations as Quebec's Jutra Awards announced the contenders for the 2007 edition. Philippe Falardeau's Congorama followed with six nominations, including Best Picture, while Stephane Lapointe's La Vie Secrete Des Gens Heureux (also a Best ...

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    Kidz In Da Hood sweeps Sweden 's national film awards

    2007-01-23T11:01:00Z

    Kidz In Da Hood raided the Guldbagge awards - Sweden 's national film awards - which the Swedish Film Institute presented at a ceremony Monday (22 Jan) in Stockholm 's Circus, televised by Swedish public broadcaster SVT1. A 2006 update of Guttersnipes, filmed in 1944 and 1974, the contender for ...

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    Little Miss Sunshine surprise winner of the PGA prize for best film

    2007-01-22T07:06:00Z

    Fox Searchlight's Little Miss Sunshine trumped heavyweights Babel, Dreamgirls, The Queen and The Departed at the Producers Guild of America (PGA) awards in Los Angeles on Saturday [Jan 20].The comedy won the night's big prize, the Darryl F Zanuck award, in a result that recognised producers Marc Turtletaub, David T ...

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    Little Miss Sunshine surprise win at PGA awards

    2007-01-22T06:15:00Z

    The producers of Little Miss Sunshine were the surprise winners of the Producers Guild of America (PGA) theatical motion picture award.The winner of the award has matched the best picture at the Oscars for 11 of the last 17 years.Marc Turtletaub, David T Friendly, Peter Saraf, Albert Berger and Ron ...

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    Grave Decisions and Four Minutes top Bavarian awards

    2007-01-21T18:53:00Z

    Marcus H. Rosenmueller's Bavariancomedy Grave Decisions and Chris Kraus' prison drama Four Minutes werethe big winners at the weekend's Bavarian Film Awards in Munich. This year's top honour, the $260,000 (Euros200,000) Producers Award, went to Roxy Film, the producers of 2006'sbest film Grave Decisions, while feature debutant Rosenmueller - whosesecond ...

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    Pascal to get visionary award at Israel Film Festival

    2007-01-18T00:11:00Z

    Sony Pictures Entertainment co-chair Amy Pascal will receive the 2007 IFF Visionary Award at the 22nd Annual Israel Film Festival opening night gala on Mar 6.'Amy's achievements within the film industry as well as her continued support of Israel, make her an ideal recipient for the Visionary Award,' festival founder ...

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    WGA unveils nominees for documentary screenplay award

    2007-01-17T02:36:00Z

    Deliver Us From Evil (Amy Berg), The Heart Of The Game (Ward Serrill), Once In A Lifetime (Mark Monroe), Who Killed The Electric Car' (Chris Paine), and Why We Fight (Eugene Jarecki) have been nominated for the Writers Guild of America's documentary screenplay award.The inaugural award was handed out in ...

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    Frozen City leads Finnish Jussis awards nominations

    2007-01-16T17:34:00Z

    Finnish director Aku Louhimies' Frozen City won a top number of eight nominations for the Jussis - Finland's national film awards - as the Filmiaura Association of local film professionals announced its choice of films considered for the prizes, which will be handed out at a gala in Helsinki on ...

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    Lives Of Others leads German critics award nominations

    2007-01-16T11:43:00Z

    Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's European Film Award-winning The Lives Of Others has picked up nominations in seven of the nine categories for the 2006 German Film Critics' Award. The Stasi thriller, which is Germany's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category at next month's Academy Awards, has been nominated ...

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    Departed, Sunshine lead BFCA winners

    2007-01-15T02:08:00Z

    The Broadcast Film Critics Association named The Departed best picture of 2006, crowned Martin Scorsese best director, and declared Letters From Iwo Jima the best foreign language film.Helen Mirren and Forest Whitaker consolidated their status as Oscar frontrunners with further recognition in the best actor and actress categories for The ...

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    Ten nominees announced for WGA Awards

    2007-01-12T00:11:00Z

    The Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) have announced their nominees for top honours for 2006.The Original Screenplay nominees are:Babel (Guillermo Arriaga)Little Miss Sunshine (Michael Arndt)The Queen (Peter Morgan)Stranger Than Fiction (Zach Helm)United 93 (Paul Greengrass).Adapted screenplay nominees are:Borat (screenplay by Sacha ...

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    ASC nominates Lubezki, Pope, Zsigmond, Semler, Richardson

    2007-01-12T00:06:00Z

    Emmanuel Lubezki (Children Of Men), Dick Pope (The Illusionist), Robert Richardson (The Good Shepherd), Dean Semler (Apocalypto), and Vilmos Zsigmond (The Black Dahlia) will contest the feature film category in the 21st Annual American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Outstanding Achievement Awards.The winner will be announced at the awards gala ...