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by Alex Deleon HIDDEN FIGURES (A számolás joga)   Hidden Figures is a very hard film to write an objective review about. You can't say anything disparaging about a film about colored people (Afro-Americans) overcoming racial  prejudice and you cant say that this is really a Kevin Costner film with a few Afro-Americans supplying support in a thriller about getting a white guy (John Glenn) into space. Nor can you say that Kirsten Dunst is a lot easier on the eye t...

Outstanding Film and Television Performances Honored at the 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®

The Screen Actors Guild Awards® presented its coveted Actor® statuettes for the outstanding motion picture and primetime television performances of 2016 at the 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® held Sunday, Jan. 29 at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center. In a ceremony attended by film and television’s leading actors, the 23rd Annual SAG Awards® was simulcast live coast-to-coast by TNT and TBS at 8 p.m. (ET). A primetime encore pres...

London Critics pick La La Land as Film of the Year

Moonlight, Manchester by the Sea and Love & Friendship win two awards each, as Isabelle Huppert claims two top honours. The UK's leading critics spread the love among a range of films at the 37th Critics' Circle Film Awards on Sunday night at The May Fair Hotel in London. Hosted by actor-filmmakers Alice Lowe and Steve Oram, the star-studded black-tie ceremony saw Damien Chazelle's musical La La Land crowned Film of the Year, with top prizes going to films from Ireland, Fr...

Important roster of actors who will honor their colleagues at the SAG Awards® Ceremony Jan 29

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            Millie Bobby Brown, Sophia Bush, Gabrielle Carteris, Common, Rashida Jones, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Alia Shawkat, Finn Wolfhard and Steven Yeun to Present at the 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®       ――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――― The 23rd Annual SAG Awards® will air live on TNT and TBS, Sunday, Jan...

The 8th Annual 20/20 Nominees: Honoring the Films of 1996 puts English Patient on top of nominations

THE ENGLISH PATIENT leads the pack with 12 nominations but was snubbed for Best Picture.             The 20/20 Awards views films through the perspective of time and annually re-evaluates films from 20 years prior. Benefiting from hindsight, a voting body of fi...

The Actor® Statuettes Cast for 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®

SAG Awards® will be simulcast on TNT and TBS on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017   The Actor® statuettes — which this year’s 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® honorees will receive for outstanding performances in 2016 — have been cast in solid bronze at the American Fine Arts Foundry in Burbank, California. SAG Award® nominated actor Mykelti Williamson (Fences, Forrest Gump) was there to watch the dramatic process in person, as were SAG Awards Committee ...

Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton to Present Lily Tomlin with the 53rd SAG Life Achievement Award

Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton to Present Lily Tomlin with the 53rd SAG Life Achievement Award at the 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®; The trio will reunite Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017 on TNT and TBS’s live SAG Awards® telecast   Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton will present the SAG Life Achievement Award to actor, comedian, writer, producer and all-round entertainment maverick Lily Tomlin during the 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®, Executive Producer Kathy...

Nominations Announced for the 11th Asian Film Awards

The Asian Film Awards Academy announced the nominations for the 11th Asian Film Awards (AFA) in Hong Kong today. For this edition, AFA received almost 1,600 submissions from 28 countries and regions. Seventy-three nominations were made for awards in 15 categories, representing 34 films from 12 countries and regions. Japanese films and talents were nominated in all 15 categories, including a Best Film Award nomination for Harmonium (Director: Koji Fukada).   ...

BAFTAs 2017: the nominations

Among the nominated films that first screened to UK audiences at the 2016 BFI London Film Festival are La La Land (receiving 11 nominations), Arrival, Manchester by the Sea, Moonlight, American Honey, Nocturnal Animals, Lion, The 13th, Toni Erdmann and The Eagle Huntress. Outstanding British debut contender The Pass was the opening night film at BFI Flare in 2016. The winners will be announced at a ceremony on 12 February at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Best Film ARRIVAL Dan Levine, Shawn ...

Golden Globes Awards 2017 Full list of winners and nominees

Winners & Nominees 2017  Best Motion Picture - Drama WINNER Moonlight     NOMINEE Hell Or High Water     NOMINEE Lion     ...

Meryl Streep honored at Golden Globes delivered a wonderful and strong speech, slamming Trump hard

Meryl Streep attacked Trump in powerful Golden Globes speech quoting "disrespect invites disrespect". Meryl Streep accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Award at Sunday’s Golden Globes ceremony and used her speech as an opportunity to slam President-elect Donald Trump without ever mentioning him by name. “I love you all. You’ll have to forgive me, I’ve lost my voice in screaming in lamentation this weekend and I have lost my mind sometimes earlier this year so ...

Golden Globe for Actress: IsabELLE Huppert our (french) heart is beating and open for Oscars

WINNERS & NOMINEES Isabelle Huppert Golden Globes: 1 Nomination, 1 Win   Isabelle Huppert (born March 16, 1953 in Paris, France) starred in La Dentellière (1977), she was directed by Claude Chabrol in Violette Nozière (1978), Une affaire de femmes (Story of Women, 1988), Madame Bovary (1991), La Cérémonie (1995), Merci pour le chocolat (2000), L&r...

Moonlight Best drama, 6 nominations

WINNERS & NOMINEES Moonlight Golden Globes: 6 Nominations, 1 Win A timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami...

LA LA LAND sings to high notes winning 7

The film transformed each of the 7 nominations into gold! A record! Golden Globes: 7 Nominations, 7 Wins  A jazz pianist and a struggling actress cross paths in Los Angeles. Director:Damien Chazelle ...

Golden Globes Nominations setting the tone...

      The full list of nominations: FILM NOMINATIONS: Best Motion Picture - Drama Hacksaw Ridge Hell or High Water Lion Manchester by the Sea Moonlight Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy 20th Century Women Deadpool Florence Foster Jenkins La La Land Sing Street Best Director - Motion Picture Damien Chazelle, La La Land Tom Ford, Nocturnal Animals Mel Gibson, Hacksaw Ridge Barry Jenkins, ...

Annie Awards Nominations 2016

44th Ceremony Set for Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017 at UCLA’s Royce Hall The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood, announced nominations for its 44th Annual Annie Awards™ recognizing the year’s best in the field of animation.  This year’s Best Animated Feature nominations include: Finding Dory (Pixar Animation Studios), Kubo and the Two Strings (Laika), Kung Fu Panda 3 (DreamWorks Animation), Moana (Walt Disney Animation Studios) and Zootopia (Walt Disne...

"20th Century Women" Added to Aspen Academy Screenings Line-up!

  Annette Bening in 20th Century Women.     The film will screen on Wednesday, Dec. 28th at 5:30 p.m. at Paepcke Auditorium.  With 20th Century Women, acclaimed filmmaker Mike Mills brings a richly multilayered, funny, heart-stirring celebration of the complexities of women, family, time, and the connections...

New York Film Critics Circle Awards 2016

2016 Awards Best Picture La La Land   Best Director Barry Jenkins MOONLIGHT Best Screenplay Kenneth Lonergan MANCHESTER BY THE SEA Best Actress Isabelle Huppert ELLE & THE THINGS TO COME Best Actor Casey Affleck MANCHESTER BY THE SEA Best Supporting Actress Michelle Williams MANCHESTER BY THE SEA & CERTAIN WOMEN Best Sup...

Los Angeles Film Critics Awards 2016

42ND ANNUAL LOS ANGELES FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION AWARDS       BEST PICTURE "MOONLIGHT" RUNNER-UP: " LA LA LAND" BEST DIRECTOR BARRY JENKINS  "MOONLIGHT" RUNNER-UP: DAMIEN CHAZELLE (" LA LA LAND") BEST ACTOR ...

The Gotham Awards

Best Feature Moonlight Barry Jenkins, director; Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, producers (A24) Best Documentary O.J.: Made in America Ezra Edelman, director; Caroline Waterlow, Ezra Edelman, Tamara Rosenberg, Nina Krstic, Deirdre Fenton, Erin Leyden, producers (ESPN Films) Breakthrough Series – Long Form Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Rachel Bloom & Aline Brosh McKenna, creators; Marc Webb, Rachel Bloom, Aline Brosh McKenna, Erin Ehrlich, executive producers (The CW) ...

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Read this online     FOLLOW US ON THE SOCIAL NETWORKS:                   Advertise with us email us for a quote   Oscar Whiplash Likely for Damien Chazelle’s LALALand & Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent for filmfestivals.com Oh, to ruin Award Season… but isn’t that what we&rsqu...

TONI ERDMANN by Maren ADE shortlisted for best foreign feature

  The German film TONI ERDMANN by Maren Ade (DE/AT/MC, Komplizen Film, Missing Link Films) is on the short list of the last nine films for the 89th Oscar®  in the Best Foreign Language Film category. This was announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). The line-up also includes the German co-productions LAND OF MINE by Martin Zandvliet (DK/DE, Amusement Park Film) for Denmark with the German SHOOTING STAR Louis Hofmann and PARADISE by Andrei Konc...

People and EIF Celebrate 21 Years Hosting the SAG Awards® Post-Awards Gala

...yes and who is going to win the red carpet beauty contest? Time Inc.’s People and the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) will come together to co-host the official SAG Awards® Post-Awards Gala, held immediately following the 23rd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, January 29, 2017 in Los Angeles on a transformed Shrine Auditorium stage. This is the 21st year that People and EIF have united on the Gala, which honors the charitable efforts of actors in their commun...

Oscar Whiplash Likely for Damien Chazelle’s LALALand & Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone

by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent for filmfestivals.com Oh, to ruin Award Season… but isn’t that what we’re on earth for? To have our dreams shattered but then our lives uplifted, if only in the movies? Enter LA LA LAND, a singing, dancing act of pure wish fulfillment starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone. Wait, a musical? Don’t be fooled. This is classic cinema updated with today’s angst. Stone says &ldqu...

The King's Choice is among the nine candidates for the five nominations for Best Foreign-Language Feature

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  THE KING’S CHOICE ON THE SHORTLIST FOR AN OSCAR NOMINATION   Norwegian director Erik Poppe’s historical epic, which had after last weekend sold 705,726 tickets in Norway, is among the nine candidates for the five nominations for Best Foreign-Language Feature   Norwegian director Erik Poppe’s The King’s Choice (Kongens nei) – this year’s No 1 Norwegian film on the charts, with 705,726 admissions after last weekend – is among the to...

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