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'1917' Dominates the BAFTA Awards with 7 out of 9 wins including Best Film, Best Director

    Sam Mendes' WWI epic received seven awards, when 'Joker' only received three (including best actor)       See the list of winners below Best Film '1917'   François Duhamel/Universal Pictures 1917 (WINNER) The Irishman Joker Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Parasite Leading Actress Renée Zellweger in 'Judy'   Jessie Buckley, Wild Rose Scarlett Johansson, Marriage Story...

The Sundance 2020 awards

Top Prizes Go To Minari, Boys State, Epicentro, and Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness Minari, Crip Camp, The Reason I Jump, and Identifying Features (Sin Señas Particulares) Win Audience Awards Park City, UT — After 10 days and 128 feature films, the 2020 Sundance Film Festival’s Awards Ceremony took place tonight, with jurors presenting 28 prizes for feature filmmaking. Honorees, named in total below, represent new achievements in global indep...

VIDEO Follow The 2020 Sundance Film Festival Awards Ceremony

Tonight's the night: At the Basin Recreation Center in Park City, Utah, we announced the award winners for the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Watch the full video of the ceremony now!     ...

'Beware of Children' wins Dragon Award Best Nordic Film at Göteborg Film Festival 2020

Beware of Children, directed by Dag Johan Haugerud, is the recipient of the 2020 Dragon Award Best Nordic Film. Dragon Award Best Nordic Film consists of one million Swedish crowns, making it the world's largest film award. Presenting partner for the competition is Volvo Car Group who together with Region Västra Götaland and the City Council of Gothenburg. The Jury's motivation: A film where the characters find a way to talk to each other and where language is b...

Rob Reiner will receive the Sedona festival’s “Lifetime Achievement Award”

SEDONA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OPENS NEXT QUARTER CENTURY OF GREAT FILMS, GREAT FILMMAKERS, SPECIAL GUESTS, FEB. 22-MARCH 1 Tribute to Leslie Uggams Opens Festival; Rob Reiner to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award; Game of Thrones Writer Bryan Cogman Headlines Workshops   Coming off a record-breaking 25th anniversary celebration, the Sedona International Film Festival launches its next quarter century with nine days of compelling films, workshops, events and special gu...

"Matrix" composer Don Davis receives Lifetime Achievement Award at SoundTrack_Cologne 17

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  SoundTrack_Cologne (04.22.20 - 04.25.20) is awarding its Lifetime Achievement Award 2020 to American composer Don Davis, who is known for composing music for the "Matrix" film series, among others. Davis will receive the Life Achievement Award for his exceptional achievements in film composing on Saturday, April 25th at the SoundTrack_Cologne grand closing gala. On Friday, April 24th he will share insights into his work in a workshop discussion and comment live on his music in...

Lift-Off Season Awards 2019 Winners

Filmmakers, nominees and Network Members from all over the world joined the Lift-Off team at our home Pinewood Studios, UK, for a celebration full of awards, drinking and dancing.   Networking is something that Lift-Off are proud to support and encourage at any chance we get - the Lift-Off Season Awards is no exception. This is an exclusive evening for Network Members and some of the best filmmakers from the indie film scene to meet and form professional collaborations which could la...

Singaporean American Filmmaker Kirsten Tan to Receive Grant and Residency in Support of Her Narrative Feature Project Higher

  SFFILM ANNOUNCES WINNER OF 2020 NEW AMERICAN FELLOWSHIP San Francisco, CA – SFFILM announced today that Singaporean American filmmaker Kirsten Tan is the winner of the 2020 SFFILM New American Fellowship, supporting her current narrative feature Higher, which is in the development and screenwriting stage. The first of its kind in the US film industry, the New American Fellowship is made possible thanks to SFFILM’s collaboration with the Flora Family Foundation and provi...

The Cloud in Her Room by Zheng Lu Xinyuan wins Tiger Award IFFR 2020

From left to right: Yuhao Su, Cuishan Liang, Wang Zijian, Liu Xinzhu, Jinjing en Zheng Lu Xinyuan     Special Jury Award goes to Beasts Clawing at Straws by Kim Yonghoon     International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has announced the award winners of its 49th edition. Chinese filmmaker Zheng Lu Xinyuan won the Tiger Award for her film The Cloud in Her Room. South Korean filmmaker Kim Yonghoon won the Special Jury Award for Beasts Clawing at Straws. South Kore...

IFFR announces winners Ammodo Tiger Short Competition 2020

From left to right: Dorian Jespers, Maïder Fortuné, Ismaïl Bahri On Sunday 26 January 2020, the jury announced the winners of this year’s Ammodo Tiger Short Competition at International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). The winning films are Apparition by Ismaïl Bahri, Communicating Vessels by Maïder Fortuné and Annie MacDonell, and Sun Dog by Dorian Jespers. They won three equal Ammodo Tiger Short Awards. The jury consisted of recently appointed di...

Writer Sara Johnsen wins the 2020 Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize for 22 July

Sara Johnsen, writer of 22 July (22. juli), is the recipient of the 2020 Nordic TV Drama Screenplay Award – this was announced at a ceremony during TV Drama Vision at the Göteborg Film Festival. For the fourth consecutive year, the award for outstanding writing of a Nordic Drama series, was handed out at Göteborg Film Festival’s TV Drama Vision. The NOK 200 000 award, funded by Nordisk Film & TV Fond goes to the main writer(s) of the series. 22 July examines the af...

These are the winners of the IFFR Pro Awards 2020

  49th International Film Festival Rotterdam 22 January – 2 February 2020   Rotterdam, 29 January 2020  ...

THE MYSTERY OF A BURYAT LAMA by Elena Demidova (Russia) awarded at the Impact Docs Awards

Award of Merit Special Mention: Documentary Feature to Elena Demidova (Russia) for her documentary: THE MYSTERY OF A BURYAT LAMA Facebook.com/pg/impactdocsawards/posts/   ImpactDOCSAwards.com https://twitter.com/impactdocsaward                                                     Congratulations once again and thank you for your part...

4 films lead the Cesar nominations

France’s Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences unveiled the nominations for this year’s Cesar Awards with Roman Polanski's An Officer and a Spy in the lead with 12nominations with 12, (best director and best film...). It was closely followed by Ladj Ly's Les Misérables, (11 honors) Nicolas Bedos' La Belle Époque, (11 nominations) and Céline Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire, (10 nominations)  The 45th edition of the...

Shorts Awards Announced at 2020 Sundance Film Festival

So What If The Goats Die Wins Grand Jury Prize Park City, Utah — Winners of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival jury prizes in short filmmaking were announced tonight by Sundance Institute at a ceremony in Park City, Utah. The Short Film Grand Jury Prize, awarded to one film in the program of 74 shorts selected from a record high 10,397 submissions, went to So What If The Goats Die, directed and written by Sofia Alaoui. The Short Film program is presented by Southwest Airl...

Sundance Institute Awards Michael Almereyda’s Tesla + Announces New Grants to Artists at 2020 Sundance

Director-Screenwriter Michael Almereyda Honored Park City, Utah — At a reception at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival today, the beneficiaries of $70,000 in grants from Sundance Institute and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation were revealed. Doron Weber, Vice President and Program Director at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation presented the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize to Tesla and announced the new winners: Tim Delaney for The Plutonians (Sundance Inst...

VIDEO: 3 Lumiere Awards for Les Miserables, tributes to Costa Gavras and Roberto Benigni

The 25th Ceremony of the Lumier Awards, which was broadcasted in clear and exclusively for the first time on Canal +, was an opportunity to bring together winners of previous editions, including actress Isabelle Huppert, president of the ceremony, but also Oumaya Amamra, Fanny Ardant, Jeanne Balibar, Elodie Bouchez, JR, Ibrahim Maalouf, Déborah Lukumuena and Félix Maritaud.     Les Misérables won three awards - film, screenplay for Ladj Ly, Gior...

Berlinale Camera 2020: Tribute to Ulrike Ottinger

Ulrike Ottinger © Jelka von Langen Since 1986, the Berlinale has awarded the Berlinale Camera to honour personalities and institutions who have made a special contribution to filmmaking and with whom the festival feels closely connected. In this manner, the Berlinale expresses its appreciation towards those who have become friends and supporters of the festival. At the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, the director and artist Ulrike Ottinger will be honoured with the Berlinale C...

Sundance Institute Announces Leya Hale as 2020 Merata Mita Fellow

Now in its Fifth Consecutive Year, Fellowship Honors Artistic Contributions of Late Māori Filmmaker Sundance Institute today announced director and producer Leya Hale as the 2020 recipient of the Sundance Institute Merata Mita Fellowship, an annual fellowship named in honor of the late Māori filmmaker Merata Mita (1942-2010). The announcement was delivered today at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival by N. Bird Runningwater, Director of the Sundance Institute’s Indigenous Program.  ...

Billie Eilish sweeps top 4 awards at Grammy Awards

Record of the Year WINNER: "Bad Guy," Billie Eilish "Hey, Ma," Bon Iver "7 Rings," Ariana Grande "Hard Place," H.E.R. "Talk," Khalid "Old Town Road," Lil Nas X Featuring Billy Ray Cyrus "Truth Hurts," Lizzo "Sunflower," Post Malone & Swae Lee Album of the Year  I,I, Bon Iver Norman F---ing Rockwell!, Lana Del Rey WINNER: When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, Bil...

VIDEO: Brad Pitt Honored with Maltin Modern Master Award at 35th SBIFF 2020

Picture Mark Bennett   SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (January 23, 2020) - Day 8 of the 35th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) presented by UGG featured a sold-out tribute to Brad Pitt, who received the Maltin Modern Master Award for his long standing contributions to the film industry, most recently gracing the silver screen in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood from Columbia Pictures and Ad Astra for New Regency.  &nbs...

VIDEO: Congratulations to ALL the Winners at the 35th Santa Barbara with our interview of Richard Hobert

"It’s been a wonderful 35 years celebrating international cinema as well as our local roots.  We are grateful for all of the staff, volunteers, audiences and filmmakers that were able to join us at SBIFF to come together as a community to celebrate over 200 films - forge a sense of community and love that defies boundary,” SBIFF Executive Director Roger Durling. Also announced today were the award winning films for the 35th Festival at a breakfast held in their ho...

Sharkwater Extinction wins The INDIEFEST Humanitarian Award 2019 Outstanding Achievement

  2019 HUMANITARIAN AWARD WINNER    "Congratulations!   We have received the judges’ results for the IndieFEST Film Awards 2019 Humanitarian Awards and we are excited to inform you that you have won: Outstanding Achievement FOR  Sharkwater Extinction     Your production was hand selected by our judges and staff, from the entire pool of entries to the competition throughout 2019, as a film that represents both the spirit o...

Warner Bros. Pictures CEO & Chair Ann Sarnoff to Receive Impact Award for In The Heights Motion Picture at NHMC's Impact Awards

Magnum P.I. Lead, Jay Hernandez Among Other Honorees Ann Sarnoff                                        Jay Hernandez Warner Bros. Pictures CEO & Chair  Ann Sarnoff to Receive Impact Award for  In The Heights Motion Picture at  NHMC's Impact Awards Gala      Magnum P.I. Lead, Jay Hernandez  Among Other Honorees     ...

Jinga retrospective and Fantasporto career award to Julian Richards

JINGA FRIGHT NIGHTS IN RETROSPECTIVE JULIAN RICHARDS, A PASSIONATE CINEPHILE CAREER AWARD FANTASPORTO’2020   Of all those who have been regular visitors of Fantasporto, the British director, producer and distributor Julian Richards is a world apart. Not only because he is one of the few European directors consistently and regularly – but not exclusively -   approaching in his films the world of the imagination but also as a promoter and distributor of fantasy fil...

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