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Slumdog Millionaire named year's best film by National Board Of Review
In its centenary year the National Board Of Review has named Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire the 2008 Best Film of the Year and Sergei Bodrov's Mongol best foreign film of the year.James Marsh's Man On Wire is best documentary and Wall-E is best animated feature. Clint Eastwood is named best ...
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Frozen River, Trouble The Water take top prizes at Gothams
It was Sundance redux at the Gotham Independent Film Awards, as Park City's grand jury award winners Frozen River and Trouble The Water were named best feature and best documentary, respectively.Frozen River, a drama about illegal immigration, is directed by Courtney Hunt and produced by Heather Rae and Chip Hourihan. ...
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Rachel, River, Ballast lead Spirit Award nominations with six apiece
Sony Pictures Classics' (SPC) Frozen River and Rachel Getting Married and Alluvial Film Company's Ballast lead the way in the Film Independent Spirit Awards race with six nominations apiece, followed by Focus Features' Milk on four.Today's nominations ceremony in Los Angeles [December 2] rewarded many of the season's smaller films ...
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Shooting Stars laureates to present European Film Awards 2008
Eight former laureates of the Berlin film festival's shooting stars award will present the 2008 EFAs in Copenhagen, including Anamaria Marinca, (4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days).The Berlin film festival's Shooting Stars award goes to the best rising European talent of the year.The award was initiated by the European Film ...
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Slumdog Millionaire wins best film at BIFAs
Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire was the big winner at this year's British Independent Film Awards.The film won both best film and best director at the BIFAs, hosted by James Nesbitt at London's Old Billingsgate Market. Slumdog Millionaireactor Dev Patel was also named newcomer of the year.Boyle were presented with the ...
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The Cesars best film category to increase to seven nominations
France 's Academie des Arts et Techniques du Cinema has announced modifications to this year's voting rules. In the category of best film, 7 films will vie for contention as opposed to the traditional five.In addition, in the best foreign film category, the total nominated films also moves up to ...
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Eastwood to receive Modern Master award at Santa Barbara
Clint Eastwood will receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festival's highest honour The Modern Master Award on January 29.Eastwood has two films in contention this awards season with Changeling and the upcoming Gran Torino and has won the directing Oscar twice for Million Dollar Baby in 2005 and Unforgiven in ...
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2009 European Film Awards to be held in Essen
The 22nd European Film Awards in December 2009 will be hosted by the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Essen and not Berlin as generally expected.This is a change in usual practice as the venue for the awards ceremony has alternated between Berlin and other European cities such as Warsaw, Barcelona, Rome, ...
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Jeff Skoll to win Visionary Award at annual PGA Awards
Jeff Skoll will receive the Producers Guild Of America's (PGA) 2009 Visionary Award at the 20th Annual PGA Awards on January 24 in Hollywood.Skoll is a philanthropist and the chairman and founder of Participant Media, which financed such films as The Visitor, Charlie Wilson's War, The Kite Runner, Darfur Now, ...
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LAFCA to announce winners on Dec 9, present awards on Jan 12
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) will announce this season's winners immediately after the voting meeting on December 9.The 34th annual film achievement awards ceremony will take place on January 12 at the InterContinental Los Angeles in Century City.LAFCA president Lael Loewenstein made the announcement earlier today [Nov 17]. ...
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Mickey Rourke gets American Riviera Award at Santa Barbara
Mickey Rourke, receiving rave reviews for his performance as a washed-up fighter in The Wrestler, will receive the 24th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival's American Riviera Award on January 30.Rourke will join a pantheon of previous recipients that includes Tommy Lee Jones, Forrest Whitaker, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kevin Bacon ...
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Ron Howard to receive lifetime achievement award at Palm Springs
Ron Howard will receive the 20th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival's (PSIFF) Director's Lifetime Achievement Award on Jaunary 6.Howard's latest film Frost/Nixon will open through Universal on December 5 and follows a long line of credits that includes A Beautiful Mind, which earned him the Oscar in 2001, The ...
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The Class among seven films shortlisted for Louis Delluc Prize
Seven films have been short listed for France's Louis Delluc Prize, one of the local industry's most prestigious awards. Among the titles is Laurent Cantet's The Class which is also France's entry for the foreign-language Oscar and was this year's Palme d'Or winner in Cannes.The other films rounding out the ...
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Il Divo and Gomorrah top European Film Academy nominations
Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo and Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah have picked up five nominations for this year's European Film Academy Awards.The Italian hits, which both played in competition in Cannes, compete for best film, best director, best screenplay, best actor and best cinematography.Toni Servillo is nominated as best actor for his ...
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Gomes receives FIPRESCI at Viennale for Aquele Querido Mes De Agosto
Portuguese director Miguel Gomes received the FIPRESCI Critics Award at this year's Viennale for Aquele Querido Mes De Agosto. In a statement, the critics' jury said that Gomes' film 'brings to life a world of music, passion, romanticism and tragedy.' Miguel Gomes was also the subject of a special homage ...
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Warlords heads the pack forTaiwan's Golden Horse Awards
Peter Chan's The Warlords leads the race for the 45th Golden Horse Awards with nominations in 12 categories, including best feature film, best director and best actor for Jet Li. Also competing for the best film award are Feng Xiaogang's Assembly, Wei Te-sheng's Cape No. 7, Liu Fendou's Ocean Flame ...
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Black Balloon, Unfinished Sky lead Aussie awards pack
The Black Balloon, Unfinished Sky, The Square and The Jammed all have a chance of winning best film and also the best direction category at this year's 50th Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards. It was announced today that family drama The Black Balloon, from debut director Elissa Down, was nominated ...
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Arcand, Leconte receive France-Canada cultural accolades
Canadian filmmaker Denys Arcand and French filmmaker Patrice Leconte have been awarded the Samuel de Champlain cultural prize, an annual accolade presented by the Paris-based France-Canada Institute. The prize acknowledges contributions to the understanding of the cultures of the two nations through letters, the moving image and theatre. The prizes ...
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New York Women In Film & Television honours Linney and Sedgwick
Laura Linney and Kyra Sedgwick will be among the honourees at the New York Women In Film & Television's (NYWIFT) 28th annual Muse Awards on December 9.Linney earned an Academy Award nomination this year for The Savages and won an Emmy for the HBO miniseries John Adams. She has wrapped ...
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Stockholm International Film Festival dedicated to Sydney Pollack
The 19th edition of the Stockholm International Film Festival has unveiled its 2008 programme, screening more than 170 films from 40 countries.'And we are keeping up the momentum,' explained festival director Git Scheynius at today's (Oct 22) press conference in Stockholm; 'no less than a third of the entries are ...