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Men's Group, Son Of A Lion and The Black Balloon vie for Australian awards
The Black Balloon is the stand-out nominee in Australia's 10th Inside Film Awards with 10 nominations including best film, director and script. Director Elissa Down's story, based on her own family, was produced by Tristram Miall.The Black Balloon 's two rivals for best film are Men's Group, produced by director ...
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Polish Film Institute announces more than $4m in production support
The Polish Film Institute (PISF) has awarded funding to four projects in its third funding session this year and has tagged a number of films as eligible for support in the coming months.Husband and wife film-makers Krzysztof Krauze and Joanna Kos-Krauze (Saviour's Square, My Nikifor) will receive $1.9m (PLN 4.5m) ...
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Sparrow, Monkeys lead nominees for Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Five films - two co-productions and one each from Hong Kong, India and China - are in the running to be crowned best feature at the second Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSAs), being held in early November in Australia.The films are Tulpan (Kazakhstan/Russia/Switzerland/Poland/Germany), Uc maymun (Three Monkeys, Turkey/France/Italy), Men Jeuk ...
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Four festival favourites nominated for European Film Award
The directors of Hunger, Snijeg, Tatil Kitabit and Tulpan have been nominated for a European Film award. The European Discovery award is given to a young, upcoming director for a first full-length feature film.Steve McQueen has been nominated for Hunger, which covers the events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike ...
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Atom Egoyan to receive Douglas Sirk award
Filmfest Hamburg will honour Canadian writer-director Atom Egoyan this weekend with the Douglas Sirk Award.Egoyan will be recognised for his outstanding services to film culture, with WimWenders speaking in praise of the director.The award will be presented following the German premiere of Egoyan's latest feature Adoration.Commenting on the choice of ...
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Jack Green to receive ASC Lifetime Achievement Award
Jack Green will receive the American Society Of Cinematographers' (ASC) 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award at the 23rd Annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards in Los Angeles on February 15, 2009.Green earned an Oscar nomination for Unforgiven in 1993, and an ASC Outstanding Achievement Award nomination for The Bridges Of Madison County ...
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Dark Knight producers, Shanley among Hollywood Awards honourees
The 12th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Awards has addedThe Dark Knight film-makers Christopher Nolan, Charles Roven and EmmaThomas to its lineup of honourees.All three will receive the Hollywood Producers Of The Year Award whileJohn Patrick Shanley will receive the Hollywood Screenwriter Of TheYear Award for his adaptation of ...
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Waltz with Bashir takes six Ophirs at the Israeli Film Academy Awards
As expected, Ari Folman's Waltz with Bashir took no less than six Ophirs (Israel's version of the Oscar) at the Israeli Film Academy's annual awards ceremony last night.Folman's animated documentary officially competed as a fiction film and won all the categories it was nominated in including best film, director, script, ...
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Sean Penn to receive BAFTA/LA's Stanley Kubrick Award
Sean Penn will receive BAFTA/LA's most prestigious honour when he collects the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award For Excellence In Film at the 2008 BAFTA/LA Britannia Awards on November 6 in Los Angeles.Penn won the lead actor Oscar for Mystic River and is expected to figure in this season's awards race ...
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HBO's Sheila Nevins will receive Gotham Award Tribute
HBO Documentary Films president Sheila Nevins will be the subject of a Gotham Award Tribute at the 18th Annual Gotham Awards on December 2 in New York.'Sheila has unquestionably been one of the most influential forces in documentary film-making,' IFP executive director Michelle Byrd said. 'She is almost single-handedly responsible ...
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Melvin Van Peebles to receive Gotham Award tribute
Melvin Van Peebles will receive a Gotham Award Tribute at IFP's 18th Annual Gotham Awards on December 2 in New York.Van Peebles stamped his authority on 1970s US cinema, championing the independent scene and playing an influential role in the emerging blaxploitation wave of the early 1970s, notably directing, producing ...
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Franco, Hawkins to receive breakthrough acting awards at HFA
James Franco and Sally Hawkins, riding high following acclaimed performances in Pineapple Express and Happy-Go-Lucky, will receive the breakthrough acting awards at the 12th Annual Hollywood Film Festival's Hollywood Awards gala on October 27.Doubt director John Patrick Shanley and Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black will each collect breakthrough honours for ...
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National Society Of Film Critics sets annual voting meeting for Jan 3
The National Society Of Film Critics will stage its 43rd annual voting meeting for the best films from 2008 on January 3, 2009 at Sardi's in New York City. Results will be announced later that evening.Sixty-three members are eligible to vote on any film that opens in the US during ...
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Gus Van Sant to receive tribute at Gotham Awards
Gus Van Sant will receive a Gotham Awards Tribute at the 18th Annual Gotham Awards on December 2 in New York.Van Sant directed Milk, which stars Sean Penn as the assassinated gay supervisor of San Francisco and will be released through Focus Features on November 26.In recognition of Van Sant's ...
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Tippett to receive Georges Melies Award from Visual Effects Society
Phil Tippett, who founded Tippett Studio and won an effects Oscar for his work in Jurassic Park and a Special Achievement Academy Award for Return Of The Jedi, will receive the Visual Effects Society's (VES) George Melies Award For Artistic Excellence.The Melies Award, given to individuals who have 'pioneered a ...
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Elfman, Walker, Greenwood among Hollywood Awards recipients
Danny Elfman will receive the 12th Annual Hollywood Film Festival's (HFF) Hollywood Composer Of The Year Award, along with similar honours for cinematographer Mandy Walker, editors Daniel P Hanley and Mike Hill, production designer Sarah Greenwood and costume designer Deborah Hopper.Elfman most recently composed scores for Hellboy II: The Golden ...
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EFA announces 2008 nominees for People's Choice Award
The European Film Academy has announced the nominees for this year's People's Choice Award. Among the 12 films are Joe Wright's Atonement, David Yates's Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix, and Nic Balthazar's Ben X. From Sept 1 to Oct 31, film fans across the continent can vote ...
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National Board of Review sets 2009 awards for January 14
The National Board Of Review Of Motion Pictures (NBR) will hold its annual awards gala on January 14, 2009 at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City. This year's gala will celebrate the NBR's centennial year. The body's president Annie Schulhof said members 'could not be prouder to continue ...
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Producers Guild Of America Awards to take place on Jan 24, 2009
The Producers Guild of America will hold its 20th Annual PGA Awards at the Hollywood Palladium on January 24, 2009.'Our event is all about providing an entertaining show for our guests and the newly remodeled Palladium is the ideal location for the type of event we are planning,' awards co-chair ...
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National Board Of Review awards $75,000 in student grants
The National Board Of Review Of Motion Pictures (NBR) will award $75,000 in student grants in 2008 with this year's allocation including ten schools near or around the tri-state New York area.Each participating school will receive between $3,000 and $11,500 to be distributed to its top film-makers based on their ...