Ron Moore’s Virtuality to air June 26 on Fox
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Ron Moore and Michael Taylor’s SF pilot Virtuality will air on Friday, June 26 (8-10 PM ET/PT) on Fox. The pilot for the science fiction drama was filmed last year and its prospects of getting a series order seemed bleak only a couple of months ago. It remains to be seen if this will change, especially with the Friday night deathslot reserved for the premiere.
Virtuality follows a 12 member crew on a 10-year journey to a distant solar system. The crew members have a lot of time to fill, which is where the virtual reality element comes into play, and their journey is being financed by a reality show back on Earth, so they are also getting the Big Brother treatment. The pilot was directed by Peter Berg.
From the release:
The crew of the Phaeton is approaching the go/no-go point of their epic 10-year journey through outer space. With the fate of Earth in their hands, the pressure is intense. The best bet for helping the crew members maintain their sanity is the cutting-edge virtual reality technology installed on the ship. It’s the perfect stress-reliever until they realize a glitch in the system has unleashed a virus on to the ship. Tensions mount as the crew decides how to contain the virus and complete their mission. Meanwhile, their lives are being taped for a reality show back on Earth.
Virtuality stars Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Commander Frank Pike, Sienna Guillory as Rika Goddard, James D’Arcy as Dr. Roger Fallon, Ritchie Coster as Dr. Jimmy Johnson, Erik Jensen as Dr. Jules Braun, Omar Metwally as Dr. Adin Meyer, Kerry Bishe as Billie Kashmiri, Joy Bryant as Alice Thibadeau, Nelson Lee as Kenji Yamamoto, Jose Pablo Cantillo as Manny Rodriguez, Gene Farber as Val Orlovsky, Clea DuVall as Sue Parsons, and Jimmi Simpson as Virtual Ma.
Haneke’s The White Ribbon wins Palme d’Or
The 62nd Cannes Film Festival closed yesterday, when this year’s winners were announced at the awards ceremony.
German helmer Michael Haneke won the Palme d’Or with his black-and-white prison drama The White Ribbon. Haneke had previously won the director award for Cache (2005) and the Grand Prix for The Piano Teacher (2001) at the Cannes Film Festival.
The Grand Prix went to French director Jacques Audiard’s drama A Prophet.
Here is the list of all the winners:
Palme d’Or
The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke
Grand Prix
A Prophet, Jacques Audiard
Special Jury Prize
Alain Resnais, Wild Grass
Director
Brillante Mendoza, Kinatay
Jury Prize
Fish Tank, Andrea Arnold
Thirst, Park Chan-wook
Actor
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds
Actress
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist
Screenplay
Mei Feng, Spring Fever
Short Films Jury Prizes
Palme d’Or
Arena, Joao Salaviza
Special Mention
The Six Dollar Fifty Man, Mark Albiston, Louis Sutherland
Un Certain Regard Jury Awards
Main Prize
Dogtooth, Giorgos Lanthimos
Jury Prize
Police, Adjective, Corneliu Porumboiu
Special Prize
No One Knows About Persian Cats, Bahman Ghobadi
Father of My Children, Mia Hansen-Love
Other Main Jury Awards
Camera d’Or
Samson And Delilah, Warwick Thornton
Special Mention
Ajami, Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani
Critics’ Week Grand Prix
Farewell Gary Cooper, Nassim Amaouche
FIPRESCI awards
Competition
The White Ribbon, Michael Haneke
Un Certain Regard
Police, Adjective, Corneliu Porumboiu
Directors’ Fortnight
Amreeka, Cherien Dabis
Fox renews Lie to Me, picks up Human Target and Sons of Tucson
Fox has picked up its 2009 procedural Lie to Me for a second season and Shawn Ryan has been tapped as an executive producer where he’ll work alongside Brian Grazer, David Nevins and creator Sam Baum next season. Ryan, who’s also an executive producer of The Unit, is still awaiting the fate of the CBS drama.
“Lie to Me came out strong, built a solid audience throughout its run and promises to be one of our big assets next season and beyond,” said Kevin Reilly, President, Entertainment for Fox Broadcasting Company. “We’re incredibly excited to have Shawn on board to infuse Lie to Me with even more creative energy next season.”
The season finale, “Sacrifice,” airs this evening at 8PM/7PMc. The synopsis says: “In the explosive season finale episode airing Wednesday, May 13 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT), a terrorist bombing outside of Washington, DC causes FBI Agent Ben Reynolds (guest star Mekhi Phifer) to call on The Lightman Group to help identify those responsible and prevent more attacks. The case takes a personal turn for one member of the team and begs the question of whether honesty is indeed the best policy. Zoe (guest star Jennifer Beals) helps her ex-husband Lightman with the investigation, and both are concerned about their daughter’s safety.”
Fox has also ordered two pilots to series, Human Target and Sons of Tucson.
Human Target is is a drama based on the DC Comics character of the same name about a troubled bodyguard/private investigator (Mark Valley) who takes on dangerous assignments. Chi McBride and Jackie Earle Haley also star in the Warner Bros. Television-based hour, which Simon West directed from a script by Jon Steinberg. Wonderland Sound and Vision’s Peter Johnson and McG also serve as executive producers, as does Brad Kern (Charmed).
Sons of Tucson is a single-camera comedy about a charming but misguided hustler (Tyler Labine) hired by three brothers (Davis Cleveland, Frank Dolce and Troy Gentile) to act as their rich “father” while their real one serves time for a white-collar crime. Greg Bratman and Tommy Dewey co-created the half-hour, which is set up at 20th Century Fox Television. Natalie Martinez also stars while Todd Holland directed the pilot. Harvey Myman, Jason Felts and Justin Berfield of J2TV are the executive producers with Bratman and Dewey serving as supervising producers.
2009 Tony nominations announced
Billy Elliott, The Musical scored as many as 15 nominations for the 2009 Tony Awards, which were announced on Tuesday morning. Other productions that earned multiple nods this year include Next to Normal (11 nominations), Hair (8), Shrek The Musical (8), Mary Stuart (7) and The Norman Conquests (7).
Here is the full list of the 2009 Tony Award nominations:
BEST PLAY
Dividing the Estate
Author: Horton FooteProducers: Lincoln Center Theater, Bernard Gersten, André Bishop, Primary Stages
God of Carnage
Author: Yasmina RezaProducers: Robert Fox, David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers, Stuart Thompson, Scott Rudin, Jon B. Platt, The Weinstein Company, The Shubert Organization
Reasons to Be Pretty
Author: Neil LaButeProducers: Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, MCC Theater, Gary Goddard Entertainment, Ted Snowdon, Doug Nevin/Erica Lynn Schwartz, Ronald Frankel/Bat-Barry Productions, Kathleen Seidel, Kelpie Arts, LLC, Jam Theatricals, Rachel Helson/Heather Provost
33 Variations
Author: Moisés KaufmanProducers: David Binder, Ruth Hendel, Goldberg/Mills, Latitude Link, Arielle Tepper Madover, Bill Resnick, Eric Schnall, Jayne Baron Sherman, Wills/True Love Productions, Tectonic Theater Project, Greg Reiner, Dominick Balletta, Jeffrey LaHoste
BEST MUSICAL
Billy Elliot, The Musical
Producers: Universal Pictures Stage Productions, Working Title Films, Old Vic Productions, Weinstein Live Entertainment
Next to Normal
Producers: David Stone, James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo, Second Stage Theatre, Carole Rothman, Ellen Richard
Rock of Ages
Producers: Matthew Weaver, Carl Levin, Jeff Davis, Barry Habib, Scott Prisand, Relativity Media, Corner Store Fund, Janet Billig Rich, Hillary Weaver, Toni Habib, Paula Davis, Simon and Stefany Bergson/Jennifer Maloney, Charles Rolecek, Susanne Brook, Israel Wolfson, Sara Katz/Jayson Raitt, Max Gottlieb/John Butler, David Kaufman/Jay Franks, Mike Wittlin, Prospect Pictures, Laura Smith/Bill Bodnar, Happy Walters, Michele Caro, The Araca Group
Shrek The Musical
Producers: Dreamworks Theatricals, Neal Street Productions
BEST BOOK OF A MUSICAL
Billy Elliot, The Musical Lee Hall
Next to Normal Brian Yorkey
Shrek The Musical David Lindsay-Abaire
[Title of Show] Hunter Bell
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE WRITTEN FOR THE THEATRE
Billy Elliot, The Musical
Music: Elton John
Lyrics: Lee Hall
Next to Normal
Music: Tom Kitt
Lyrics: Brian Yorkey
9 to 5: The Musical
Music & Lyrics: Dolly Parton
Shrek The Musical
Music: Jeanine Tesori
Lyrics: David Lindsay-Abaire
BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
Producers: Lincoln Center Theater, André Bishop, Bernard Gersten
Mary Stuart
New Version: Peter Oswald
Producers: Arielle Tepper Madover, Debra Black, Neal Street Productions/Matthew Byam Shaw, Scott Delman, Barbara Whitman, Jean Doumanian/Ruth Hendel, David Binder/CarlWend Productions/Spring Sirkin, Daryl Roth/James L. Nederlander/Chase Mishkin, The Donmar Warehouse
The Norman Conquests
Producers: Sonia Friedman Productions, Steven Baruch, Marc Routh, Richard Frankel, Tom Viertel, Dede Harris, Tulchin/Bartner/Lauren Doll, Jamie deRoy, Eric Falkenstein, Harriet Newman Leve, Probo Productions, Douglas G. Smith, Michael Filerman/Jennifer Manocherian, Richard Winkler, Dan Frishwasser, Pam Laudenslager/Remmel T. Dickinson, Jane Dubin/True Love Productions, Barbara Manocherian/Jennifer Isaacson, The Old Vic Theatre Company
Waiting for Godot
Producers: Roundabout Theatre Company, Todd Haimes, Harold Wolpert, Julia C. Levy, Elizabeth Ireland McCann
BEST REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL
Guys and Dolls
Producers: Howard Panter and Ambassador Theatre Group, Tulchin/Bartner, Bill Kenwright, Northwater Entertainment, Darren Bagert, Tom Gregory, Nederlander Presentations, Inc., David Mirvish, Michael Jenkins/Dallas Summer Musicals, Independent Presenters Network, Olympus Theatricals, Sonia Friedman Productions
Hair
Producers: The Public Theater, Oskar Eustis, Andrew D. Hamingson, Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Gary Goddard Entertainment, Kathleen K. Johnson, Nederlander Productions, Inc., Fran Kirmser Productions/Jed Bernstein, Marc Frankel, Broadway Across America, Barbara Manocherian/Wencarlar Productions, JK Productions/Terry Schnuck, Andy Sandberg, Jam Theatricals, The Weinstein Company/Norton Herrick, Jujamcyn Theaters, Joey Parnes, Elizabeth Ireland McCann
Pal Joey
Producers: Roundabout Theatre Company, Todd Haimes, Harold Wolpert, Julia C. Levy, Marc Platt
West Side Story
Producers: Kevin McCollum, James L. Nederlander, Jeffrey Seller, Terry Allen Kramer, Sander Jacobs, Roy Furman/Jill Furman Willis, Freddy DeMann, Robyn Goodman/Walt Grossman, Hal Luftig, Roy Miller, The Weinstein Company, Broadway Across America
BEST SPECIAL THEATRICAL EVENT
Liza’s at The Palace
Producers: John Scher and Metropolitan Talent Presents, LLC; Jubilee Time Productions, LLC
Slava’s Snowshow
Producers: David J. Foster, Jared Geller, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Judith Marinoff Cohn, John Pinckard
Soul of Shaolin
Producers: Nederlander Worldwide Productions, LLC; Eastern Shanghai International Culture Film & Television Group; China on Broadway
You’re Welcome America. A Final Night with George W. Bush
Producer: Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel, Steve Traxler, Home Box Office Inc., Gary Sanchez Productions, Bat-Barry Productions, Ken Davenport, Ergo Entertainment, Ronald Frankel, Jon B. Platt, James D. Stern, The Weinstein Company, Tara Smith/b. Swibel, Dede Harris/Sharon Karmazin, Arny Granat
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTOR IN A PLAY
Jeff Daniels, God of Carnage
Raúl Esparza, Speed-the-Plow
James Gandolfini, God of Carnage
Geoffrey Rush, Exit the King
Thomas Sadoski, Reasons to Be Pretty
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Hope Davis, God of Carnage
Jane Fonda, 33 Variations
Marcia Gay Harden, God of Carnage
Janet McTeer, Mary Stuart
Harriet Walter, Mary Stuart
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
David Alvarez, Trent Kowalik, and Kiril Kulish – Billy Elliot, The Musical
Gavin Creel, Hair
Brian d’Arcy James, Shrek The Musical
Constantine Maroulis, Rock of Ages
J. Robert Spencer, Next to Normal
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A LEADING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Stockard Channing, Pal Joey
Sutton Foster, Shrek The Musical
Allison Janney, 9 to 5: The Musical
Alice Ripley, Next to Normal
Josefina Scaglione, West Side Story
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY
John Glover, Waiting for Godot
Zach Grenier, 33 Variations
Stephen Mangan, The Norman Conquests
Paul Ritter, The Norman Conquests
Roger Robinson, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY
Hallie Foote, Dividing the Estate
Jessica Hynes, The Norman Conquests
Marin Ireland, Reasons to Be Pretty
Angela Lansbury, Blithe Spirit
Amanda Root, The Norman Conquests
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL
David Bologna, Billy Elliot, The Musical
Gregory Jbara, Billy Elliot, The Musical
Marc Kudisch, 9 to 5: The Musical
Christopher Sieber, Shrek The Musical
Will Swenson, Hair
BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL
Jennifer Damiano, Next to Normal
Haydn Gwynne, Billy Elliot, The Musical
Karen Olivo, West Side Story
Martha Plimpton, Pal Joey
Carole Shelley, Billy Elliot, The Musical
BEST SCENIC DESIGN OF A PLAY
Dale Ferguson, Exit the King
Rob Howell, The Norman Conquests
Derek McLane, 33 Variations
Michael Yeargan, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
BEST SCENIC DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
Robert Brill, Guys and Dolls
Ian MacNeil, Billy Elliot, The Musical
Scott Pask, Pal Joey
Mark Wendland, Next to Normal
BEST COSTUME DESIGN OF A PLAY
Dale Ferguson, Exit the King
Jane Greenwood, Waiting for Godot
Martin Pakledinaz, Blithe Spirit
Anthony Ward, Mary Stuart
BEST COSTUME DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
Gregory Gale, Rock of Ages
Nicky Gillibrand, Billy Elliot, The Musical
Tim Hatley, Shrek The Musical
Michael McDonald, Hair
BEST LIGHTING DESIGN OF A PLAY
David Hersey, Equus
David Lander, 33 Variations
Brian MacDevitt, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
Hugh Vanstone, Mary Stuart
BEST LIGHTING DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
Kevin Adams, Hair
Kevin Adams, Next to Normal
Howell Binkley, West Side Story
Rick Fisher, Billy Elliot, The Musical
BEST SOUND DESIGN OF A PLAY
Paul Arditti, Mary Stuart
Gregory Clarke, Equus
Russell Goldsmith, Exit the King
Scott Lehrer and Leon Rothenberg, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
BEST SOUND DESIGN OF A MUSICAL
Acme Sound Partners, Hair
Paul Arditti, Billy Elliot, The Musical
Peter Hylenski, Rock of Ages
Brian Ronan, Next to Normal
BEST DIRECTION OF A PLAY
Phyllida Lloyd, Mary Stuart
Bartlett Sher, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
Matthew Warchus, God of Carnage
Matthew Warchus, The Norman Conquests
BEST DIRECTION OF A MUSICAL
Stephen Daldry, Billy Elliot, The Musical
Michael Greif, Next to Normal
Kristin Hanggi, Rock of Ages
Diane Paulus, Hair
BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
Karole Armitage, Hair
Andy Blankenbuehler, 9 to 5: The Musical
Peter Darling, Billy Elliot, The Musical
Randy Skinner, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas
BEST ORCHESTRATIONS
Larry Blank, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas
Martin Koch, Billy Elliot, The Musical
Michael Starobin and Tom Kitt, Next to Normal
Danny Troob and John Clancy, Shrek The Musical
SPECIAL TONY AWARD FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN THE THEATRE
Jerry Herman
REGIONAL THEATRE TONY AWARD
Signature Theatre, Arlington, Va.
ISABELLE STEVENSON AWARD
Phyllis Newman
TONY HONOR FOR EXCELLENCE IN THE THEATRE
Shirley Herz
Tahmoh Penikett, Laura Vandervoort join SCI FI’s Riverworld
Dollhouse’s leading man Tahmoh Penikett, Smallville’s Laura Vandervoort and Alan Cumming (X-Men 2, The L Word, Tin Man) have been cast in Riverworld, SCI FI Channel’s four-hour movie/backdoor pilot based on the series of novels by the recently departed science fiction author Philip Jose Farmer.
Riverworld was previously adapted as a television film in 2003.
Penikett, best known to genre fans from Battlestar Galactica, will play Matt Ellman, an American war zone reporter who has witnessed the worst of humanity first-hand yet still grasps on to an optimistic spirit.
When a suicide bomber kills both Matt and his fiance Jessie (Vandervoort), they awaken, separated in a mysterious world where everyone who has ever lived on Earth, seems to have been “reborn” along the banks of a seemingly endless river.
Determined to locate Jessie, Matt joins forces with a 13th century female samurai warrior named Tomoe (Jeananne Goossen) and American novelist Sam ‘Mark Twain’ Clemens (Mark Deklin). Together they sail upriver in search of its source, and to discover where they are and who put them there. Alan Cumming will guest star as the mysterious ‘Caretaker.’
Riverworld is produced by Reunion Pictures. It went into production this week in Vancouver. The four-hour movie is directed by Stuart Gillard and written by Robert Hewitt Wolfe (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Andromeda, The Dresden Files).
Riverworld will premiere on SCI FI in 2010. RHI will distribute internationally.
Jon Spaihts’ Passengers nearing green light
Passengers, a science fiction romance written by Jon Spaihts, has made it a step closer to the big screen.
Spaihts’ script was on the list of the best unproduced scripts in 2007 (Black List 2007) and has been in development at Company Films for some time now, with Keanu Reeves and Stephen Hamel as on board as producers.
Now, Passengers is one of the three projects that have been fast-tracked by Morgan Creek, along with psychological thriller Dream House, helmed by Jim Sheridan, and Antoine Fuqua’s crime drama Scarpa, based on a true story.
Passengers is described as a sci fi romance takes place in the future, as a spacecraft is transporting people to colonize a distant planet. Because of a malfunction, a single passenger (Reeves) is awakened 90 years before anyone else. Faced with the prospect of growing old and dying alone, he awakens a beautiful woman.
The story takes the genre to its philosophical roots and tackles the idea of utopia, the notion of a better life that always exists somewhere else, head on. Unless the script undergoes major rewrites, the film will have only three major human characters and a robot, so it’s safe to say that it’s definitely not just another SF blockbuster in the making.
Oscar winners 2009
BEST PICTURE
“Slumdog Millionaire”
BEST ACTRESS
Kate Winslet, “The Reader”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Penelope Cruz, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Heath Ledger, “The Dark Knight”
BEST DIRECTOR
Danny Boyle, “Slumdog Millionaire”
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Dustin Lance Black, “Milk”
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Simon Beaufoy, “Slumdog Millionaire”
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
“Departures” (Japan)
BEST ANIMATED FILM
“Wall-E”
BEST ART DIRECTION
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button” – Donald Graham Burt, Victor J. Zolfo
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
“Slumdog Millionaire,” Anthony Dod Mantle
BEST FILM EDITING
“Slumdog Millionaire,” Chris Dickens
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
“The Duchess,” Michael O’Connor
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
“Man on Wire”
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“Slumdog Millionaire,” “Jai Ho,” A.R. Rahman
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
“Slumdog Millionaire,” A.R. Rahman
BEST MAKEUP
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” Colleen Callaghan, Fionagh Cush
BEST SOUND EDITING
“The Dark Knight,” Richard King
BEST SOUND MIXING
“Slumdog Millionaire,” Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” Eric Barba
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
“Spielzeugland” (Toyland)
BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
“La Maison en Petits Cubes”
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
“Smile Pinki,” Megan Mylan
Cinema Audio Society honours Slumdog Millionaire, John Adams
Slumdog Millionaire’s production mixer Resul Pookutty and re-recording mixers Ian Tapp and Richard Pryke were presented with the award for outstanding achievement in motion picture sound mixing at the 45th Annual Cinema Audio Awards ceremony, held on Saturday at the Millennium-Biltmore Hotel.
Dedicating the award to the ‘’sound gods of India,” Pookutty said: “This is the biggest honor I can ever get. Twelve years ago in India I started in production sound. There was basically no production sound in that country. When I started off, I walked to the train station. I had no money. This is recognition of my struggle and of so many people like me working in the entertainment industry.”
Here are all the Cinema Audio Society Award winners in the film and television categories:
FILM
Slumdog Millionaire
Production mixer: Resul Pookutty
Re-recording mixers: Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke
TV SERIES OR MINISERIES
John Adams, Episode 1: ”Join or Die”
Production mixer: Jay Meagher
Re-recording mixers: Mike Minkler, Bob Beemer
TV SERIES
24: Redemption
Production mixer: William F. Gocke
Re-recording mixers: Michael Olman, Kenneth Kobett
TV NON-FICTION, VARIETY OR MUSICAL SERIES OR SPECIAL
Deadliest Catch: No Mercy
Re-recording mixer: Bob Bronow
DVD ORIGINAL PROGRAMMING
Smashing Pumpkins – If All Goes Wrong
Live audio mixer: Jon Lemon
Re-recording mixers: Kerry Brown, Kevin Dippold, Brian Slack
Berlinale ‘09 ends – winners announced
The Berlin Film Festival closed on Saturday with an awards ceremony. The International Jury presented the Golden Bear for Best Film to a Latin American filmmaker for the second year in a row.
The Milk of Sorrow (La Teta asustada), the winner of the Golden Bear, is the second feature from Peruvian director Claudia Llosa. It follows a young girl faced with life in Lima after her mother dies.
The Berlin jury issued a statement saying that “this year’s competition presents a broad range of films whose central aim consists in exploring ways to further the interpretation and understanding of important topics of our time. Therefore the jury has decided to award prizes to those efforts which achieve a balance between the political statement and the poetic form.”
Here are the winners in the major categories. The full list of winners is available at www.berlinale.de.
GOLDEN BEAR FOR BEST FILM
La Teta asustada (The Milk of Sorrow), directed by Claudia Llosa
SILVER BEAR – THE JURY GRAND PRIX
Alle Anderen (Everyone Else), dir. by Maren Ade
Gigante, dir. by Adrián Biniez
SILVER BEAR FOR BEST DIRECTOR
Asghar Farhadi, Darbareye Elly (About Elly)
SILVER BEAR FOR BEST ACTRESS
Birgit Minichmayr, Ale Anderen (Everyone Else)
SILVER BEAR FOR BEST ACTOR
Sotigui Kouyate, London River
SILVER BEAR FOR OUTSTANDING ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTION
Gábor Erdély and Tamás Székely for Sound Design in Katalin Varga
SILVER BEAR FOR BEST SCRIPT
Oren Moverman and Alessandro Camon, The Messenger
ALFRED BAUER PRIZE
Gigante, dir. by Adrián Biniez
Tatarak (Sweet Rush), dir. by Andrzej Wajda
BEST FIRST FEATURE AWARD
Gigante, dir. by Adrián Biniez
GOLDEN BEAR FOR BEST SHORT FILM
Please Say Something, dir. by David O’Reillly
SILVER BEAR
Jade, dir. by Daniel Elliott
DAAD SHORT FILM PRIZE
The Illusion, dir. by Susana Barriga
SHORT FILM NOMINEE FOR THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2009
Die Leiden des Herrn Karpf. Der Geburtstag, dir.by Lola Randl
FIPRESCI PRIZE – COMPETITION
La Teta asustada (The Milk of Sorrow)
American Cinema Editors award Wall-E, Slumdog, Man on Wire
American Cinema Editors (ACE) announced the winners of the 2009 ACE Eddie Awards for best achievement in editing at the Beverly Hilton Hotel last night.
Mel Gibson presented Richard Donner with ACE’s filmmaker of the year award, while Robert Zemeckis handed the career achievement trophy to Arthur Schmidt, whose credits include Back to the Future and Forrest Gump. Sidney M. Katz was also presented with career achievement honours.
Here are the winners:
EDITED FEATURE FILM (DRAMATIC)
Slumdog Millionaire, Chris Dickens
EDITED FEATURE FILM (COMEDY OR MUSICAL)
Wall-E, Stephen Schaffer
EDITED DOCUMENTARY
Man on Wire, Jinx Godfrey
EDITED HALF-HOUR SERIES FOR TELEVISION
30 Rock, “Reunion,” Meg Reticker
EDITED ONE-HOUR SERIES FOR COMMERCIAL TELEVISION
Breaking Bad, “Pilot,” Lynne Willingham, A.C.E.
EDITED ONE-HOUR SERIES FOR NON-COMMERCIAL TELEVISION
True Blood, “Strange Love,” Michael Ruscio, A.C.E. and Andy Keir
EDITED MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE FOR NON-COMMERCIAL TELEVISION
Recount, Alan Baumgarten, A.C.E.
EDITED MINISERIES OR MOTION PICTURE FOR COMMERCIAL TELEVISION
24: Redemption, Scott Powell, A.C.E.
EDITED REALITY SERIES
Greensburg: The Tornado,
Leonard Feinstein and Phontaine Judd
STUDENT EDITING COMPETITION
Junna Xiao, American Film Institute
