Film Festivals & Awards

Hollywood Film Festival celebrates genre cinema

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The Hollywood Film Festival, presented by STARZ, will mark its return on October 22, 2008, to the state-of-the-art ArcLight Theatres in Hollywood for a twelfth annual, weeklong series of screenings, seminars, competitions, awards and a special presentation of "Genre Cinema." Together with Film Threat and Chris Gore, the festival announces the "Call for Entries" for this year's Hollywood Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy Film Festival. "Film festivals have always been very supportive of [Read more...]

Seattle International Film Festival 2008 award winners

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The 34th annual Seattle Film Festival closed on Sunday after running for 25 days. This year's edition of the festival saw almost 200 feature films from 69 countries screened and more than 70,000 ballots cast by the audiences. Here are all the winners: AUDIENCE AWARDS Best Film "Cherry Blossoms -- Hanami," directed by Doris Dörrie (Germany) Best Documentary "The Wrecking Crew," directed by Denny Tedesco (USA) Best Director Amin Matalqa, for "Captain Abu Raed" (Jordan) Best [Read more...]

Cannes Film Festival 2008 – the winners

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The 61st annual Cannes Film Festival closed on Sunday, when the jury, with Sean Penn presiding, announced the winners. Here they are: PALME D’OR FOR BEST FILM The Class (Entre les murs), directed by Laurent Cantet In The Class, Cantet portrays a Paris junior high school teacher and his students over the period of one year. Starring François Bégaudeau as the teacher, the two-hour classroom drama is based on an autobiographical work by Bégaudeau, who plays himself in the film. Cantet [Read more...]

MTV Movie Awards nominees announced

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The nominees for the 2008 MTV Movie Awards have been announced. Here they are: BEST MOVIE Juno Transformers Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End I Am Legend Superbad National Treasure: Book of Secrets BEST MALE PERFORMANCE Will Smith -- I Am Legend Shia LaBeouf -- Transformers Denzel Washington -- American Gangster Matt Damon -- The Bourne Ultimatum Michael Cera -- Juno BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE Ellen Page -- Juno Keira Knightley -- Pirates of the Caribbean: At [Read more...]

Tribeca Film Festival 2008 – the winners

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The winner of the Tribeca Film Festival have been announced. Here they are: The Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature Let the Right One In (Lat den rätte komma in), directed by Tomas Alfredson (Sweden). Jury Comments: “For its mesmerizing exploration of loneliness and alienation through masterful reexamination of the vampire myth.” Best New Narrative Filmmaker My Marlon and Brando (Gitmek), directed by Hüseyin Karabey (Turkey, Netherlands, UK). Jury Comments: “For its [Read more...]