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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced a while back that ten (10) films remain in the running in the Visual Effects category for the 2017 Oscars edition. The Academy’s Visual Effects Branch Executive Committee determined the shortlist. All members of the Visual Effects Branch will now be invited to view 10-minute excerpts from each of the shortlisted films on Saturday, January 7, 2017.  Following the screenings, the members will vote to nominate five films for final Oscar consideration.  Nominations will be announced on Tuesday, January 24, 2017. Arrival The BFG Captain America: Civil War Deepwater Horizon Doctor Strange Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them The Jungle Book Kubo and the Two Strings Passengers Rogue One: A Star Wars Story The 89th Oscars will be held on Sunday, February 26, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, and will be televised live on the ABC Television Network at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. Arrival Den...

Yesterday AMPAS announced the shortlist of nine (9) film that advance to the next round of voting in the Foreign-Language Film category.  Eighty-five (85) films had originally been considered in the category. Foreign Language Film nominations are determined in two phases.  The Phase I committee, consisting of several hundred Los Angeles-based Academy members, screened the original submissions in the category between mid-October and December 12.  The group’s top six choices, augmented by three additional selections voted by the Academy’s Foreign Language Film Award Executive Committee, constitute the shortlist. In Phase II, the shortlist will be winnowed down to the category’s five nominees by specially invited committees in New York, Los Angeles and London.  They will spend Friday, January 13, through Sunday, January 15, viewing three films each day and then casting their ballots. There is no need to read the articles by industry journalists as with a bird's eye to t...

Last night film critics group had their awards ceremony and no, wasn't able to watch it live; but here are the winners announced at their official site here . La La Land is the big winner with eight (8) awards followed by Jackie and Manchester by the Sea with three (3) awards each. As previously announced, Viola Davis received the first-ever #SeeHer Award presented by the Association of National Advertisers in conjunction with A&E Network and Ryan Reynolds was the recipient of Entertainment Weekly's Entertainer of the Year Award .  Winners are in (*) BLUE . ----///--- 12/1/16 The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) has announced the film nominees for the 22 nd Annual Critics’ Choice Awards. “ This year’s nominees showcase the best that Hollywood has to offer, spanning a wide array of genres, subject matters, time periods, and more ,” said BFCA President Joey Berlin.  “ We hope that they will serve as a roadmap for viewers, offering guidance for movie lovers a...

Very long and highly tiring awards ceremony but finally is over. Sigh. To be fair there were some very funny moments but speeches were too-long/too-much. I'm not surprised Toni Erdmann swept the awards but in all fairness was wondering if European Academia will follow Cannes or film critics and seems went with film critics. Sigh.  Not that I mind as win is a milestone, is the first film by a female director to win the top award.  Bravo! By the way is quite interesting to notice that is the second year in a row that a Swedish comedy wins Best Comedy and is kind of motivating me to check the films to see if they're my kind of comedy or not (I like mostly very black, dry, dead-pan comedy). To check award winners at official site go here . European Film :  Toni Erdmann , Maren Ade, Germany and Austria European Comedy : En man som heter Ove (A Man Called Ove), Hannes Holm, Sweden and Norway European Discovery - Prix FIPRESCI : Hymyilevä mies (The Happiest Day in the Life o...

Yesterday the European Film Academy announced the winner of their newer award voted by young audiences and somehow was not surprising, due to the impact film has been reporting among the European young generation, with most claiming it reflects their reality. Yes, the winner is none other than I, Daniel Blake by Ken Loach. Winner is in (*) BLUE . ---///--- 10/8/16 At the Filmfest Hamburg, the five nominated films for the first European University Film Award (EUFA)have been announced. The aim of this new initiative by the European Film Academy (EFA) and Filmfest Hamburg is to involve a younger audience, to spread the “European idea” and to transport the spirit of European cinema to an audience of university students. It shall also support film dissemination, film education and the culture of debating. Based on the lists of 50 feature films and 15 documentaries from the EFA Selections 2016 a committee consisting of of Feo Aladag (director, Germany), Dagmar Brunow (academic, Linnaeus ...

A few weeks ago The Academy announced One hundred forty-five (145) documentary films were submitted for consideration, now announces the shortlist with a surprising fifteen docs -instead of the usual ten- in the shortlist from where five (5) will be honored with a nomination. As expected Golden Bear winner Fire at Sea made the short list but also the three docs that up-to-today have won film critics awards, OJ: Made in America , 13th and I Am Not Your Negro .  Then also made the shortlist Weiner , which I tried to watch but really was annoying watching the excess of delusional situations, so stopped watching. These are the fifteen films that will be considered by the Academy's Documentary Branch to select the five nominations that will be announced on Tuesday, January 27, 2017. Cameraperson , Kristen Johnson, USA Command and Control , Robert Kenner, USA The Eagle Huntress , Otto Bell, UK, Mongolia and USA Fuocoammare (Fire at Sea), Gianfranco Rosi, Italy and France Gleason , Clay...

Since early morning the film critics group started to deliberate, vote and announce their winners.  The process went long after the infamous lunch break until the last announcement was made for a special citation.  In between the most pleasant news came when they announced Best Actress winner as with a not-so-usual agreement, East coast and West coast cinema pundits agree on a non-American actress, Isabelle Huppert! Of course I simply LOVE the news as most of blog loyal readers know, she's one of my most favorite actress, one that makes me watch every single movie she's in (at least try as she is a very-hard-working actress with too-many films per year) and one that deserves ALL the top cinema honors in the world, including infamous Oscar.  As been saying aloud, there is a strong marketing campaign for her Oscar nomination and obviously is working as top critics and east-coast award already succumbed to her.  Now let's hope she gets an Oscar nomination and we can dre...

Yesterday BIFA had their awards ceremony and surprise-surprise there was NO live streaming!  They decided to do the red-black-carpet, some winners interviews and perhaps more that I was not interested in watching.  Nevertheless was able to follow winners in twiter feeds from official site plus more that announced live. The most pleasant news for me is the recognition of Andrea Arnold that won Best Director and her film American Honey got the Best British Independent Film award plus Sasha Lane won Best Actress and Robbie Ryan won Outstanding Achievement in Craft. American Honey was the top award winner and lead with four (4) awards. Most interesting is to have UK's submission to Oscar in the foreign language category, Under the Shadow , following with three (3) awards. Surprisingly, Cannes Palm d'Or winner, I, Daniel Blake collected two (2) awards. The Special Jury Prize was presented to Clare Binns by Edith Bowman and Mark Herbert. The jury praised her unstinting efforts in ...

Since nine this morning the group started to vote and a few minutes ago finally reached the last category to after too-many hours of voting unveil the winners of this group that many call "harbingers of the Oscar nominations" but unfortunately last year was far very-far away from what happened, as Carol was barely honored by the Academy. These are the award winners listed at the group official site. Best Feature Film : La La Land Best Non-Fiction Film (Documentary): O.J.: Made in America Best Animated Film :  Zootopia Best Foreign Language Film : Toni Erdmann Best Director : Barry Jenkins for Moonlight Best First Film :  Kelly Fremon Craig for The Edge of Seventeen and Trey Edward Shults for Krisha Best Actress : Isabelle Huppert in Elle and L'Avenir (The Things to Come) Best Supporting Actress : Michelle Williams in Manchester by the Sea and Certain Women Best Actor :  Casey Affleck in Manchester by the Sea Best Supporting Actor : Mahershala Ali in Moonlight Best Cin...