Film Festivals & Awards

European Film Awards 2009 – the winners

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The 2009 European Film Awards were presented last night in Bochum, Germany. German director Michael Haneke won top honours (best film, best director, best screenplay) with The White Ribbon, a drama set in a German village in the months leading up to World War I. Haneke previously won the Golden Palm at Cannes and the FIPRESCI prize at the San Sebastian festival with the film. Here is the list of winners of the 2009 European Film Awards: European Film 2009 The White Ribbon, director [Read more...]

Samuel Maoz’ Lebanon wins Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival

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The 66th annual Venice Film Festival ended with the awards ceremony earlier today. Here are this year's winners across the categories: GOLDEN LION FOR BEST FILM Lebanon, by Samuel Maoz SILVER LION FOR BEST DIRECTOR Shirin Neshat, for Women Without Men SPECIAL JURY PRIZE Soul Kitchen, Fatih Akin COPPA VOLPI FOR BEST ACTOR Colin Firth, for A Single Man COPPA VOLPI FOR BEST ACTRESS Kseniya Rappoport, for La doppia ora MARCELLO MASTROIANNI AWARD FOR BEST NEW YOUNG [Read more...]

Haneke’s The White Ribbon wins Palme d’Or

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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 [Read more...]

Oscar winners 2009

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BEST PICTURE "Slumdog Millionaire" BEST ACTRESS Kate Winslet, "The Reader" BEST ACTOR Sean Penn, "Milk" 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 [Read more...]

Cinema Audio Society honours Slumdog Millionaire, John Adams

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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 [Read more...]