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The 2021 Sun Valley Film Festival (SVFF) Streaming, announced this year’s juried film award winners

      2021 SUN VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES AWARD WINNERS          ·      Playing with Sharks and Everything in the End tie for Audience Award ·      See You Then and Searchers win Best Narrative & Documentary Feature Film ·      Marvelous & The Black Hole and Kid Candidate score One in A Million Awards · ...

The 54th WorldFest-Houston Best Actor/Actress Nominees!   

BEST ACTOR NOMINATIONS. With the WorldFest-Houston juries just finalizing their Best of Actor/Actress nominations, the festival is proud to announce the nominees for the 2021 Remi Awards honoring the best actor, best actress, best supporting actor, and best supporting actress plus the Rising Star nominees. This year we have also added Best Actor and Best Actress Category for Panorama Asia. The Remi Awards will be presented to the attending winners just...

Congrats to Brian Metcalf's Adverse receiving the Accolade Award of Excellence - Special Mention at the August 2020 session

  MovieMaker Magazine named The Accolade Global Film Competition among the top 25 festivals worth the entry fee! The Accolade is a 5-star rated competition unique in the industry. Attracting both powerhouse companies as well as talented new filmmakers.   http://accoladecompetition.org/ Brian Metcalf (USA), Advers...

Two awards for Angie: Lost Girls at Accolade 2020 Best Film and Best Direction

Julia Verdin (USA) won two awards for Angie: Lost Girls  At Accolade November awards session:  Award of Excellence: Direction, and Award of Excellence: Film Feature   ...

Angie Lost Girls wins the Accolade Humanitarian Award – Award of Distinction

Julia Verdin has won a prestigious  Award of Distinction Humanitarian Award from Accolade Global Film Competition. The award was given for Julia Verdin's exciting feature film Angie: Lost Girls.   The goal of the Humanitarian Award is to honor filmmakers who are bringing awareness to issues of Ecological, Political, Social Justice, Health and Wellness, Animals, Wildlife, Conservation and Spiritual importance – combined with excellence in filmmaking craft.&nb...

Aaron Sorkin will receive the “Director of the Year Award” at the upcoming L.A., Italia - Film, Fashion and Art Fest

AARON SORKIN TO RECEIVE DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR AWARD AT L.A., ITALIA FEST From Sunday, April 18, the Italian festival Will Unfold Between Hollywood and the Digital Platform Aaron Sorkin will be honored with the “Director of the Year Award” for ‘The Trial Of The Chicago 7’ (Netflix) at the upcoming L.A., Italia - Film, Fashion and Art Fest to take place both at Hollywood TCL Chinese 6 Theatres and on streaming (eventive.org and mymovies.it).  The...

Roberto Benigni Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 78th Venice International Film Festival

78th Venice International Film Festival September 1-11, 2021         The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 78th Venice International Film Festival (September 1–11, 2021) has been awarded to the director, actor, and screenwriter Roberto Benigni.   The decision was made by the board of the Biennale di Venezia, which embraced the proposal of the Festival's Director, Alberto Barbera.   Roberto Benigni, in accepting, stated, “My hear...

4 wins for Nomadland at The 2021 British Academy Film Awards

The EE BAFTAs took place the weekend of 10 and 11 April 2021 and was broadcast from The Royal Albert Hall in London.    NOMADLAND - BEST FILM PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN - OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM HIS HOUSE - OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER ANOTHER ROUND - FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE ...

Sound of excitement for NOMADLAND at 73rd DGA Awards

by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Tonight the Directors Guild of America revealed the final winners of the 73rd Annual DGA Awards. First a quick look at some of the creative artists honored for the show. Enough to be nominated… And now the final cut: Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television and Limited Series SUSANNE BIER | The Undoing (HBO) SCOTT FRANK | The Queen’s Gambit (Netflix) THOMAS KAIL | Hamilton...

36th SBIFF Award Winning Films

  Herewith the award-winning films for the 36th Santa Barbara International Film Festival. "We were so happy to have persevered and have brought a strong slate of films and a sense of continuity with this year’s SBIFF. We look forward to seeing you all in person next year!” stated SBIFF’s Executive Director Roger Durling. The films were chosen by jury members Tony Anselmo, Antwone Fisher, David Freid, Li Cheng, Geoffrey Cowper, Patricia Rosema, Siqi Son...

Nominees DOK.fest München AWARD of SOS-Kinderdörfer weltweit

Dear friends of DOK.fest München, in times of fake news and blurring boundaries between fiction and documentary, documentary film is also challenged anew. We consider the topic crucial for the future and open the DOK.fest München 2021 @home with the German premiere of the film HINTER DEN SCHLAGZEILEN (BEHIND THE HEADLINES) by Daniel Sager. An exciting and highly explosive insight into the hidden work of the "Investigative Research" department of the Süddeutsche Zeit...

GARDEN STATE FILM FESTIVAL Victory + Award Winners

Screens +300 Films to +285k Viewers | FIRST HYBRID EVENT Photo by Tom Zapcic Vice Chair Heather Brittain O'Scanlon, Board Secretary Stephanie Clineman, Founder Diane Raver, Director of Operations Kristen Dirato, Daniel Baldwin, Executive Director Lauren Concar Sheehy, Avis & Finley Baldwin Photo by Tom Zapcic HONOREES MVP Ming Chen, Spirit of New Jersey Award Recipient Senator Declan O'Scanlon, Independent Spirit Recipient Daniel Baldwin ...

Marcel Duchamp the Art of the Possible wins Best Documentary Audience Award at Flickfair

FLICKFAIR.com is quickly becoming the most popular online film festival platform. We understand that the greatest value for filmmakers comes from exposure, our mission is to provide an audience that a traditional in-person festival simply cannot deliver. Traditional events only present a small number of projects to a limited audience, greatly reducing the reach of one’s work. FLICKFAIR.com breaks the norms and exceeds the value filmmakers seek from the traditional festival experience by ...

Gbeck Future Film Festival Award Winners announced

THE WINNERS LIST FOR THE 7TH GBECKFF Gbeck Future Film Festival focuses on new media and young filmmakers. The competition is divided into two parts: “Script” and “Production.” As well the films were grouped by length (short and full-length film) and organized into three types: drama, documentary, and animation. Many great young filmmakers have been fostered by this event, and many excellent new films were discovered in the selection process. Th...

Angie Lost Girls wins the Narrative Feature Grand Prize at SR Socially Relevant Festival New York

Yesss !Two prizes for Angie Lost Girls: BEST FILM and BEST ACTRESS (Jane Widdup)  Award Winners Announced at SR Socially Relevant™ Film Festival 2021   -- The Narrative Feature Grand Prize goes to SRFF International Jury favorite Dustwun and Angie:Lost Girls (Ex-Aequo) -- The Boys Who Said NO! Judith Ehrlich's production on the resistance against the Vietnam War wins Best Documentary Feature. -- How We See Water wins The Vanya Exerjian - Empowering Women ...

Nailed it: WGA Awards Noms & Winners of the 2021 LA/NY Show

by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent You're going to feel like you are at the WGA Awards 2021 show right now. Because this is a live write-cast, or on the fly coverage. And it begins at 7 pm Eastern and 4 pm Pacific (California time here), the Writers Guild Awards held their virtual ceremony from New York and LA with some exciting reveals of the winners for WGA Awards 2021. And now it is live with a montage of writers saying they “wanted to be” architects, docto...

Punto de Vista 2021 Winners

The international jury of the fifteenth Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra, made up of Nicole Brenez, James Lattimer and Antoine Thirion, after watching the entries in the Official Section, has decided to award the following prizes: Official prizes ► The Punto de Vista Grand Prize for Best Film, worth 10,000 euros, goes to The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin), by C.W. Winter and Anders Edström. The jury...

Emerald Fennell & Sacha Baron Cohen Top WGA Awards 2021 - Winners Announced

by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent   by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent You're going to feel like you are at the WGA Awards 2021 show right now. Because this is a live write-cast, or on the fly coverage. And it begins at 7 pm Eastern and 4 pm Pacific (California time here), the Writers Guild Awards held their virtual ceremony from New York and LA with some exciting reveals of the winners for WGA Awards 2021. And now it is live with a montage of writ...

The IndieFEST Film Awards Announces Latest Winners!

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:                                     Rick Prickett, Competition Director 858-454-9787 TheIndieFEST.com Info@TheIndieFEST.com   The IndieFEST Film Awards Announces Latest Winners! La Jolla, CA, February 2021 – The IndieFEST Film Awards strives to give talented directors, ...

VIDEO Oscars® nominations announced today

93RD OSCARS® NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED - THE OSCARS SET TO AIR LIVE, APRIL 25, 2021, ON ABC Oscars® nominations today (March 15), live from London, via a global live stream on Oscar.com, Oscars.org, the Academy’s digital platforms, an international satellite feed and broadcast media. Chopra Jonas and Jonas announced the nominees in 23 categories at 5:19 a.m. PT. See below the complete list of nominees, or visit the official Oscars website, www.oscar.com.     Ac...

The 93rd #Oscar Noms & Oscartini Recipe for you

by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent It’s not enough that this Award Season 2021 went virtual right out of the gate due to the Pandemic? But the Academy actually decided that the foreboding Ides of March, or March 15, would be an auspicious date for the Nominations Announcement for the 93rd Oscar Presentation. Who knows what else will happen on show date April 25, 2021. That’s where we find ourselves in the Year of COVID, where even the things we count on go awry. ...

Cesar Winners 2021 (and french actress) unveiled, Bye Bye Morons wins big

The 46th Cesar ceremony was held at the Olympia on March 12, 2021, marked by the triumph of Albert Dupontel's film "Adieu les cons" awarded 7 times, but also by political declarations, an incongruous striptease when handing the Cesar for the best costume. ... The ceremony was widely criticized for its lack of lightness, haughtiness and humor. A dark year! 1.4 M views... and growing! BEST FILM Adieu Les Cons, dir: Albert Dupontel BEST DIRECTOR Albert Dupontel, Adieu ...

VIDEO: Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick Jonas will announce the Oscar nominations this coming monday March 15

93RD OSCARS® NOMINATIONS will be revealed live Monday, March 15, 2021 5:19 a.m. PDT / 8:19 a.m. EDT / 12:19 p.m. GMT / 8:19 p.m. CST   Actor-producer Priyanka Chopra Jonas (“The White Tiger”) and singer, songwriter and actor Nick Jonas (“Kingdom”) will announce the 93rd Oscars® nominations in all 23 Academy Award® categories in a two-part live presentation on Monday, March 15, via global live stream on Oscar.com, Oscars.org, the Academy’s d...

SFFILM Announces Recipients of Dolby Institute Fellowships

  2021 Dolby Institute Fellowships Awarded to Kobi Libii’s The American Society of Magical Negroes and Beth de Araújo’s Josephine San Francisco, CA – SFFILM, in partnership with the Dolby Institute, announced today the recipients of the 2021 Dolby Institute Fellowships, which support narrative feature films from development through post-production. Created in 2018 as part of an innovative partnership between Dolby and SFFILM, these fellowships were designed to pr...

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