movies awards winner

As really enjoy when I guess right almost all Oscar winners and knowing that guessing is done best by following awards buzz and not considering how good movies are, then this year have to do again the critics' post and today is a good day to start post that will be a work in progress until the last group announces their winner which will happen in early February 2017. Most critics' groups are American but you will also find groups from Canada, Ireland and UK. This year will include for again the FIPRESCI Grand Prix, an award that is voted by 553 film critics from all over the world. As in previous years' posts will publish link to read all winners and will list winners in the following categories: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor and Best Documentary. Before the list, and to have ALL critics in one post, is the summary for the major film critics' groups (each has an individual post in blog). This year decide to include estimate dates ...

The International Press Academy (IPA) announces its nominations for the 21st Annual Satellite Awards and for the first time the IPA is awarding a separate independent film and major studio film as Best Picture. Each year, the IPA celebrates nominees from domestic and international submissions for 37 categories: 19 in Motion Pictures, 12 in Television, 2 in Blu-ray DVDs and 4 in Video Games. Film critics and entertainment writers from throughout the world are members of the IPA, and its decisions are derived from domestic and international film festivals, guild screenings and press screenings. This year’s nominees include diverse films such as Fences, La La Land, Moonlight, Manchester by the Sea and Hell and High Water. On the TV side, major nominees include The People v. O.J. Simpson and Game of Thrones. The special achievement awards include; The Mary Pickford Award for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to the Entertainment Industry goes this year to Edward James Olmos , The Ni...

Last night the awards ceremony was entertaining enough to keep me awake most of the time with a few exceptions that included speeches that put me to sleep!  But none I regret more missing than Cate Blanchett Tribute presentation! (Winona Ryder put me to sleep, sigh)  So today will check the ceremony video as soon as organizers upload it to their youtube channel. As expected Moonlight won most awards but the biggest surprise came from who won the Best Actress award as the favorite was Natalie Portman and none other than Isabelle Huppert won what she called -as she claim was told- a very-American award.  Even do I was very pleasantly surprised have to recognize that there is a strong marketing effort behind her with the ultimate goal to get an Oscar nomination/award; still up-to-this-moment efforts seem to be rewarded in a very positive way.  No, I do not believe Elle is one of Huppert's best performances nor one of the best French movies of the year; but perhaps has ...

Recently the European Parliament announced the winner of the 2016 Lux Prize and as many expected, Toni Erdmann by Maren Ade was honored with the award. ---///--- 7/26/16 The 2016 LUX Film Prize has selected the three films in its Official Competition. The 10th-anniversary edition of the award will have Leyla Bouzid’s As I Open My Eyes (France/Tunisia/Belgium/United Arab Emirates), Claude Barras’ My Life as a Courgette (Switzerland/France) and Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann (Germany/Austria/Romania) as the final contenders. Chairwoman of the Committee on Culture and Education Silvia Costa and Vice-President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani announced the titles in contention for the award today, at the Venice Days press conference. The three films were picked from the previously announced Official Selection, ten beautiful and socially engaged films focusing on current global issues, including some slightly more humorous, yet equally challenging titles. Leyla Bouzid’s feature-film d...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that ten (10) animated short films will advance in the voting process for the 89th Academy Awards. Members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch viewed all the eligible entries for the preliminary round of voting. Sixty-nine (69) short films had originally qualified in the category. The 10 shorts are listed below. Blind Vaysha , Theodore Ushev, Canada, 8' Borrowed Time , Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj, USA, 7' Happy End , Jan Saska, Czech Republic, 6' The Head Vanishes , Franck Dion, Canada and France, 10' Inner Workings , Leo Matsuda, USA, 7' Once upon a Line , Alicja Jasina, USA, 8' Pear Cider and Cigarettes , Robert Valley, Canada and UK, 35' Pearl , Patrick Osborne, USA, 6' Piper , Alan Barillaro, USA, 6' Sous Tes Doigts (Under Your Fingers), Marie-Christine Courtès, France, 13' Short Films and Feature Animation Branch members will now select five nominees from amon...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that ten (10) live action short films will advance in the voting process for the 89th Academy Awards. Members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch viewed all the eligible entries for the preliminary round of voting.  One hundred thirty-seven (137) short films had originally qualified in the category. The 10 films are listed below. Bon Voyage , Marc Raymond Wilkins, Switzerland, Greece and Turkey, 21' Ennemis Intérieurs (Enemies Within), Sélim Azzazi, France, 27' Graffiti , Lluís Quílez, Spain and Ukraine, 30' La Femme et le TGV , Timo von Gunten, Switzerland, 30' Les Frémissements du Thé (The Way of Tea), Marc Fouchard, France, 21' Mindenki (Sing), Kristóf Deák, Hungary, 25' Nocturne in Black , Jimmy Keyrouz, Lebanon, 23' The Rifle, the Jackal, the Wolf and the Boy , Oualid Mouaness, Lebanon, 18' Silent Nights , Aske Bang, Denmark Timecode , Juanjo Giménez Peña, Spain, 15'...