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    Jeff Skoll to win Visionary Award at annual PGA Awards

    2008-11-19T01:19:00Z

    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

    2008-11-17T22:37:00Z

    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

    2008-11-13T23:31:00Z

    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

    2008-11-13T21:11:00Z

    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

    2008-11-10T20:49:00Z

    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

    2008-11-08T12:53:00Z

    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

    2008-10-31T13:13:00Z

    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

    2008-10-30T10:39:00Z

    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

    2008-10-29T06:36:00Z

    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

    2008-10-27T20:24:00Z

    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

    2008-10-23T11:57:00Z

    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

    2008-10-22T16:57:00Z

    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 ...

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    Czech documentary Rene wins Prix ARTE

    2008-10-21T16:37:00Z

    The European Film Academy has announced that Rene, by Czech director Helena Trestikova, will receive the 2008 Prix ARTE for documentary film.The recipient of the award is chosen by an independent jury, which this year was made up of Danish producer Karoline Leth, Moscow Film Festival programme director Kirsi Tykkyläinen, ...

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    Fatih Akin's Soul Kitchen, begins shooting in Germany

    2008-10-15T17:29:00Z

    Shooting began today (October 15) in Hamburg on Soul Kitchen, Fatih Akin's first feature film since his European Film Award 2007 winning The Edge Of Heaven. The Match Factory will be handling international sales.The film tells the story of beleaguered bar owner Zinos' attempts to keep his restaurant in business. ...

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    Hoffman, Brolin, Scott Thomas to be honoured at Hollywood Awards

    2008-10-14T19:28:00Z

    In the latest round of honourees announced by the 12th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Awards, Dustin Hoffman will receive the career achievement award while Josh Brolin is named actor of the year and Kristin Scott Thomas is feted as actress of the year.Hoffman won two Oscars for Kramer ...

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    Penelope Cruz to receive Santa Barbara's top award in Jan 2009

    2008-10-14T00:57:00Z

    Penelope Cruz will receive the 24th Santa Barbara International Film Festival's (SBIFF) Outstanding Performer Of The Year Award on January 31, 2009.Cruz is currently filming Nine for the Weinsteins and starred this year in Woody Allen's comedy Vicky Cristina Barcelona and the Philip Roth adaptation Elegy.She was nominated for an ...

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    Danish film Dancers opens competition for 50th edition of Nordic Film Days

    2008-10-10T11:04:00Z

    The Nordic Film Days main competition programme will open with Danish director Pernille Fischer Christensen's Dancers.The event is the world's largest showcase of Nordic and Baltic cinema and will celebrate its 50th anniversary when it runs in Lübeck, Germany between Oct 29-Nov 2.Other films in competition include: Finnish director Aku ...

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    Celluloid picks up international rights to Sex My Life

    2008-10-10T10:17:00Z

    Celluloid Dreams has acquired international rights to Bahman Motamedian's feature Sex My Life. The film, which debuted in Venice last month, is a mix of documentary and fiction that follows seven transsexuals living in modern-day Tehran.The subjects' journey to finding their true identity is demonstrated as they seek acceptance from ...

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    Episode 3 by Renzo Martens opens 21st edition of IDFA in Amsterdam

    2008-10-09T12:03:00Z

    The 21st International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) is to open next month with the world premiere of Episode 3 by Renzo Martens.IDFA runs from 20 to 30 Nov.The film is the third in a series of three films in which Martens questions the role of filmmakers and photographers in ...

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    Romanian CNC awards $7.2m for production and development

    2008-10-09T11:49:00Z

    The Romanian Film Board (CNC) has awarded nearly $7.2m (Euros 5.3m) in production and development funding, including grants, to new projects from Un Certain Regard winner Cristi Puiu, Camera d'Or laureate Corneliu Porumboiu, and actress Fanny Ardant on her directorial debut.The single largest award, $569,000 (Euros 417,000), went to Aurora, ...