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28th Annual Scripter Award Finalists

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The USC Libraries have named the finalists for the 28th annual USC Libraries Scripter Award. Since 1988, Scripter has honored the authors of printed works alongside the screenwriters who adapt their stories.

This year, for the first time, Scripter will honor excellence in adaptation of the printed word into a television episode in addition to feature film. The television and film finalists compete in separate categories for their own Scripter award.

The finalist writers for film are, in alphabetical order by film title:

Screenwriters Adam McKay and Charles Randolph for The Big Short, adapted from Michael Lewis’s nonfiction work The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Novelist Colm Tóibín and screenwriter Nick Hornby for Brooklyn
Screenwriter Donald Margulies for The End of the Tour, adapted from David Lipsky’s memoir Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
Novelist Andy Weir and screenwriter Drew Goddard for The Martian
Emma Donoghue for the novel and screenplay of Room

Chaired by USC professor and president of the Writers Guild of America, West, Howard Rodman, the 2016 Scripter selection committee selected the finalists from a field of 73 film and 18 television adaptations. Serving on the selection committee, among many others, are film critics Leonard Maltin, Anne Thompson and Kenneth Turan; authors Michael Chabon, Michael Ondaatje and Mona Simpson; screenwriters Graham Moore, John Ridley and Erin Cressida Wilson; producers Gale Anne Hurd and Suzanne Todd; and USC deans Elizabeth Daley of the School of Cinematic Arts and Catherine Quinlan of the USC Libraries.

Now you know some of the people who omitted honoring the adaptation of the Price of Salt (later published as Carol) by Patricia Highsmith and the screenwriter Phyllis Nagy. I loved the novel that was very fast intense reading for me; easily noticed most of the changes in the movie but believe that for creative, continuity and visual storytelling the changes were superb. Carol deserved recognition from this academic group, sigh.

The USC Libraries will announce the winning authors and screenwriters at a black-tie ceremony on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016 in the historic Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library on the University Park campus of the University of Southern California. Academy Award winners Helen Mirren and Taylor Hackford will serve as honorary dinner chairs.To check TV nominees go here or later to the official site here, as they haven't update yet.

18th Costume Designers Guild Awards Nominations

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Nominees for the 18th Costume Designers Guild Awards (CDGA), which celebrates excellence in film, television, and short form costume design, were announced today.

The CDGA ceremony, one of the most prestigious and well-respected entertainment industry awards season events, celebrates the spirit of creative and engaging storytelling through costume design on both the big and small screen. The winners of the seven competitive awards will be revealed at the black-tie gala on Tuesday, February 23rd at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Really like the Lacoste brand, so will reproduce the complete press release with lots of Lacoste promotion (lol); goes like this ...

Continuing its long-time support of the Guild, LACOSTE is returning as Presenting Sponsor of the CDGA. In the past year, LACOSTE has been featured in films such as Spotlight, Pitch Perfect 2, and Ricki and the Flash, as well as in numerous television shows including Scream Queens, Bloodline, Jane the Virgin, and Saturday Night Live.

This year’s LACOSTE Spotlight Award will be presented to two-time Academy Award® winning actress, Cate Blanchett. Acclaimed film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor Quentin Tarantino will receive the Distinguished Collaborator Award in recognition of his support of Costume Design and creative partnerships with Costume Designers. An Honorary Career Achievement Award will be presented to Costume Designer Ellen Mirojnick for her outstanding work in film and television. Revered Master Dyer Edwina Pellikka will be honored with the Distinguished Service Award.

“I would like to congratulate all of the nominees of the 18th Costume Designers Guild Awards. We look forward to celebrating the work of our members as well as this year’s honorees at our awards gala on February 23rd,” said Salvador Perez, President of the Costume Designers Guild Local #892.

Excellence in Contemporary Film
Jenny Eagan for Beasts of No Nation
Michael Wilkinson for Joy
Arianne Phillips for Kingsman: The Secret Service
Janty Yates for The Martian
Carlo Poggioli for Youth

Excellence in Period Film
Odile Dicks-Mireaux for Brooklyn
Sandy Powell for Carol
Kate Hawley for Crimson Peak
Paco Delgado for The Danish Girl
Daniel Orlandi for Trumbo

Excellence in Fantasy Film
Sandy Powell for Cinderella
Sammy Sheldon Differ for Ex Machina
Kurt and Bart for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2
Jenny Beavan for Mad Max: Fury Road
Michael Kaplan for Star Wars: The Force Awarkens

To check nominees in TV and other categories go news via event company here and later to official site here, as haven't updated yet.

Not easy for me to select my winner/best in the Contemporary category as costumes tend to be of the too much "normal" side and do not see clearly how costumes designs contribute to storytelling.  But obviously Period and Fantasy categories are a lot easier, so in Period I'm torn between The Danish Girl, Trumbo, Caron and Brooklyn (lol) and in Fantasy my vote definitively goes to Cinderella as I love the visuals in Ex Machina but the costumes? I do not know.  My crystal ball tells me that for Oscars the nominees will come more from Period films than from other categories.

69th Bodil Award Nominations

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The Filmmedarbejderforeningens (Denmark's National Association of Film Critics) announced the nominations for this major Danish film award. Leading the pack is Sommeren '92 by Kasper Barfoed with five (5) nominations including one for Best Film; following is Tobias Lindholm's Krigen (A War) with four (4) and with three (3) each Lang historie kort (Long Story Short) by May el-Toukhy and Under sandet (Land of Mine) by Martin Zandvliet.

According to Jacob Wendt Jensen, chariman of the Danish Film Critics, it's good to count how many nominations great movies have but also this year is as important to notice that 10 Danish films received at least one nomination, which undoubtedly speaks about how strong/good-quality was 2015 for Danish Cinema. I tend to agree and send my congrats.

Best Feature
Bridgen, Jeppe Rønde
Idealisten, Christina Rosendahl
Krigen (A War), Tobias Lindholm
Sommeren '92, Kasper Barfoed
Under sandet (Land of Mine), Martin Zandvliet

Best Actress
Ghita Nørby in Nøgle hus spejl (Key House Mirror)
Tuva Novotny in Krigen (A War)
Hannah Murray in Bridgend
Mille Lehfeldt in Lang historie kort (Long Story Short)
Bodil Jørgensen in Mennesker bliver spist (People Get Eaten)

Best Supporting Actress
Trine Pallesen in Nøgle hus spejl (Key House Mirror)
Trine Dyrholm in Lang historie kort (Long Story Short)
Dya Josefine Hauch in Lang historie kort (Long Story Short
Lene Maria Christensen in Sommeren ’92
Ruth Brejnholm in Skyggen af en helt (Shadow of a Hero)

Best Actor
Joachim Fjelstrup in Steppeulven (Itsi Bitsi)
Ulrich Thomsen in Sommeren ’92
Roland Møller in Under sandet (Land of Mine)
Pilou Asbæk in Krigen (A War)
Peter Plaugborg in Idealisten

Best Supporting Actor
Søren Malling in Idealisten
Henning Jensen in Sommeren ’92
Dulfi al-Jabouri in Krigen (A War)
Louis Hofmann in Under sandet (Land of Mine)
Esben Smed in Sommeren ’92

Best Documentary
Et hjem i verden (At Home in the World), Andreas Kofoed
Misfits, Jannik Splidsboel
Fassbinder – at elske uden at kræve, Christian Braad Thomsen
The Man Who Saved the World, Peter Anthony
Naturens uorden, Christian Sønderby Jepsen

Best Non-US Feature
Amy
Leviathan
Mad Max: Fury Road
La isla mínima (Marshland)
Mommy

Best US Feature
Birdman
Inside OUt
Sicario
Star Wars: Episode VII
Whiplash

Awards ceremony will be on Saturday, March 5 at Bremen Theater and will be broadcast live in several cinemas across Denmark, for more info go here. To read announcement at official site go here -available only in Danish.

2016 BAFTA Awards Nominations

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Finally today we get a better glimpse of what the industry is honoring this year as by now we have a clearer view of what film critics think, what some American Guilds -with too many regulations- think and as of this moment what British Academy members will be honoring this year. Let's recall that some British Academy members are also American Academy members and these nominations always give a necessary boost to films and sometimes look like what Oscars could look.

Carol (yay!) and Bridge of Spies lead the pack with nine (9) nominations each followed by The Revenant with eight (8), Mad Max: Fury Road with seven (7), and with six (6) each Brooklyn and The Martian.  We can say that there are around 10 films that get the top nominations, but according to what Stephen Fry says, there are 30 films that have at least one nomination which is not bad at all and could suggest a great year for British film.

But then we notice that films with nominations in the top categories are not necessarily representative of British films as Guardian's Peter Bradshaw mentions when he writes: "... it is disappointing that no fully British film makes the actual best film category ..." and well, it is a fact that social media is having a blast yelling it to all the corners of the world. Here is another comment from social media "Sad to see a distinctive lack of British Films in the BAFTA's". Sigh. In a way I'm one that's glad as believe that major awards (Oscars and BAFTA's) nowadays honor less the local industry and more the world industry which I find more interesting even when sometimes becomes repetitive with both awards honoring the same movies.

There are many surprises but perhaps the best of all is Alicia Vikander being honored twice for her work in The Danish Girl and Ex Machina; then the biggest of all is Charlotte Rampling not honored in the Best Actress category and Tom Courtney absent from the Best Actor category. Also was hoping for Carey Mulligan being honored for her work in Suffragette or Far From the Madding Crowd.

In the end what I really want is to enjoy this feast of cinema honors that will have its climax on the awards ceremony on Sunday, February 14, 20016.

Best Film
The Big Short
Bridge of Spies
Carol
The Revenant
Spotlight

Outstanding British Film
45 Years
Amy
Brooklyn
The Danish Girl
Ex Machina
The Lobster

Film Not In The English Language
The Assassin, Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Force Majeure, Ruben Östlund
Theeb, Naji Abu Nowar and Rupert LLoyd
Timbuktu, Abderrahmane Sissako
Wild Tales, Damián Szifron

Documentary
Amy
Cartel Land
He Named Me Malala
Listen to me Marlon
Sherpa

Animated Film
Inside Out
Minions
Shaun The Sheep Movie

Director
Adam McKay for The Big Short
Steven Spielberg for Bridge of Spies
Todd Haynes for Carol
Ridley Scott for The Martian
Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu for The Revenant

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
Alex Garland, director, for Ex Machina
Debbie Tucker Green, director and writer, for Second Coming
Naji Abu Nowar, director and producer, and, Rupert Lloyd, producer, for Theeb
Sean McAllister, director and producer, and Elhum Shakerifar, producer for A Syrian Love Story
Stephen Fingleton, director and writer, for The Survivalist

Leading Actress
Alicia Vikander in The Danish Girl
Brie Larson in Room
Cate Blanchett in Carol
Maggie Smith in The Lady in the Van
Saorise Ronan in Brooklyn

Supporting Actress
Alicia Vikander in Ex Machina
Jennifer Jason Leigh in The Hateful Eight
Julie Walters in Brooklyn
Kate Winslet in Steve Jobs
Rooney Mara in Carol

Leading Actor
Bryan Cranston in Trumbo
Eddie Redmayne in The Danish Girl
Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant
Matt Damon in The Martian
Michael Fassbender in Steve Jobs

Supporting Actor
Benicio del Toro in Sicario
Christian Bale in The Big Short
Idris Elba in Beasts of No Nation
Mark Rufalo in Spotlight
Mark Rylance in Bridge of Spies

Original Screenplay
Matthew Charman, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen for Bridge of Spies
Alex Garland for Ex Machina
Quentin Tarantino for The Hateful Eight
Josh Cooley, Pete Docter and Meg LeFauve for Inside Out
Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer for Spotlight

Adapted Screenplay
Adam McKay and Charles Randolph for The Big Short
Nick Hornby for Brooklyn
Phylis Nagy for Carol
Emma Donoghue for Room
Aaron Sorkin for Steve Jobs

Original Music
Thomas Newman for Bridge of Spies
Ennio Morricone for The Hateful Eight
Ryuichi Sakamoto and Carsten Nicolai for The Revenant
Jóhann Jóhannsson for Sicario
John Williams for Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Cinematography
Janusz Kamiński for Bridge of Spies
Ed Lachman for Carol
John Seale for Mad Max: Fury Road
Emmanuel Lubezki for The Revenant
Roger Deakins for Sicario

Editing
Hank Corwin for The Big Short
Michael Kahn for Bridge of Spies
Margaret Sixel for Mad Max: Fury Road
Pietro Scalia for The Martian
Stephen Mirrione for The Revenant

Production Design
Adam Stockhausen and Rena DeAngelo for Bridge of Spies
Judy Becker and Heather Loeffler for Carol
Colin Gibson and Lisa Thompson for Mad Max: Fury Road
Arthur Max and Celia Bobak for The Martian
Rick Carter, Darren Gilford and Lee Sandales for Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Costume Design
Odile Dicks-Mireaux for Brooklyn
Sandy Powell for Carol
Sandy Powell for Cinderella
Paco Delgado for The Danish Girl
Jenny Beavan for Mad Max: Fury Road

Make Up & Hair
Moma Ferguson and Lorraine Glynn for Brooklyn
Jerry De Carlo and Patricia Regan for Carol
Jan Sewell for The Danish Girl
Lesley Vanderwalt and Damian Martin for Mad Max: Fury Road
Sian Grigg, Duncan Jarman and Robert Pandini for The Revenant

Sound
Drew Kunin, Richard Hymns, Andy Nelson and Gary Rydstrom for Bridge of Spies
Scott Hecker, Chris Jenkins, Mark Mangini, Ben Osmo, Gregg Rudloff and David White for Mad Max: Fury Road
Paul Massey, Mac Ruth, Oliver Tarney and Mark Taylor for The Martian
Lon Bender, Chris Duesterdiek, Martin Hernandez, Frank A. Montaño, Jon Taylor and Randy Thom for The Revenant
David Acord, Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio, Matthew Wood and Stuart Wilson for Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Special Visual Effects
Jake Morrison, Greg Steele, Dan Sudick and Alex Wuttke for Ant-Man
Mark Ardington, Sara Bennett, Paul Norris and Andrew Whitehurst for Ex Machina
Andrew Jackson, Dan Oliver, Tom Wood and Andy Williams for Mad Max: Fury Road
Chris Lawrence, Tim Ledbury, Richard Stammers and Steven Warner for The Martian
Chris Corbould, Roger Guyett, Paul Kavanagh and Neal Scanlan for Star Wars: The Force Awakens

British Short Film
Edmond, Nina Gantz and Emilie Jouffroy
Manoman, Simon Cartwright and Kamilla Kristiane Hodol
Prologue, Richard Williams and Imogen Sutton

British Short Animation
Elephant, Nick Helm, Alex Moody and Esther Smith
Mining Poems or Odes, Callum Ricen and Jack Cocker
Operator, Caroline Bartleet and Rebecca Morgan
Over, Jörn Threlfall and Jeremy Bannister
Samuel-613, Billy Lumby and Cheyenne Conway

Rising Star in 2016
Bel Powley
Brie Larson
Dakota Johnson
John Boyega
Taron Egerton

Most interesting is the note at the end of the official list, see what they say: "Nominations are correct at the time of going to print. BAFTA reserves the right to make changes to the names listed at any time up until 14 February 2016". Perhaps the note happens now that so many mistakes plague the entertainment industry (lol).

To check the list at official site go here to read pdf file or here for a friendlier look that includes film stills and trailers for major categories only.

Check video with Stephen Fry and Gugu Mbatha-Raw announcing the nominations.



If you wish to check reactions to the nominations, video has Xan Brooks, Rhianna Dillon and Jason Solomons talking to Zoë Ball.



6th Les Magritte du Cinéma Nominations

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Today the Académie André Delvaux announced the nominations for the sixth edition of the awards that honor Belgian francophone cinema and there are six (6) films dominating the nominations.

The Brand New Testament leads the pack with ten (10) nominations which is expected as film is Belgium submission to 2016 Oscars foreign-language film, film made it to the shortlist of 9 and next Thursday we will learn if gets an Oscar nomination.

Jaco van Doramel's film is followed by All Cats Are Grey with nine (9) and Alleluia with eight (8) -but five (5) are tech noms-. Then with seven (7) I'm Dead But I Have Friends followed by Préjudice with six (6) and Melody with four (4). All other films have only one (1) nomination.

Perhaps the biggest snub is the omission of Cécile De France in La Belle Saison (Summertine) by Catherine Corsini but I hope she makes it to the César. Remarkable is that none of the Best Actress nominees is in one of the five films with Best Film nomination with only one film being 100% Belgian production, one is a French film and two are France and Belgian co-productions. So obviously de France snub does not come from production country, film has already been released in Belgium and yes, is in the published list of eligible films. Sigh.

Best Film
Je suis mort mais j'ai des amis (I'm Dead But I Have Friends), Guillaume Malandrin and Stéphane Malandrin
Le tout nouveau testament (The Brand New Testament), Jaco Van Dormael
Melody, Bernard Bellefroid
Préjudice, Antoine Cuypers
Tous les chats sont gris (All Cats Are Grey), Savina Dellicour

Best First Film
L'année prochaine (Next Year), Vania Leturcq
Préjudice, Antoine Cuypers
Tous les chats sont gris (All Cats Are Grey), Savina Dellicour

Best Flemish Film
Brabançonne, Vincent Bal
Cafard, Jan Bultheel
D'Ardennen (The Ardennes), Robin Pront
Waste Land, Pieter Van Hees

Best Foreign Film in Co-Production
La famille Bélier, Eric Lartigau
Song of the Sea, Tomm Moore
Marguerite, Xavier Giannoli
Ni le ciel ni la terre (The Wakhan Front), Clément Cogitore

Best Director
Fabrice Du Welz for Alléluia
Jaco Van dormael for Le tout nouveau testament (The Brand New Testament)
Savina Dellicour for Tous les chats sont gris (All Cats Are Grey)

Best Actress
Christelle Cornil in Jacques a vu
Yolande Moreau in Le voyage en Chine (Journey through China)
Annie Cordy in Les souvenirs (Memories)
Veerle Baetens in Un début prometteur

Best Supporting Actress
Helena Noguerra in Alléluia
Yolande Moreau in Le tout nouveau testament (The Brand New Testament),
Anne Coesens in Tous les chats sont gris (All Cats Are Grey)
Babetida Sadjo in Waste Land

Best Female Newcomer
Stéphanie Van Vyve in Être
Pili Groyne in Le tout nouveau testament (The Brand New Testament)
Lucie Debay in Melody
Manon Capelle in Tous les chats sont gris (All Cats Are Grey)

Best Actor
Wim Willaert in Je suis mort mais j'ai des amis (I'm Dead But I Have Friends)
François Damiens in La famille Bélier
Jérémie Renier in Ni le ciel ni la terre (The Wakhan Front)
Bouli Lanners in Tous les chats sont gris (All Cats Are Grey)

Best Supporting Actor
Marc Zinga in Dheepan
Laurent Capelluto in L’enquête (The Cleastream Affair)
David Murgia in Le tout nouveau testament (The Brand New Testament)
Arno Hintjens in Préjudice

Best Male Newcomer
David Thielemans in Bouboule (Chubby)
Benjamin Ramon in Être
Romain Gelin in Le tout nouveau testament (The Brand New Testament)
Arthur Bols in Préjudice

Best Screenplay (Original or Adapted)
Fabrice Du Welz and Vincent Tavier for Alléluia
Guillaume Malandrin and Stéphane Malandrin for Je suis mort mais j'ai des amis (I'm Dead But I Have Friends)
Thomas Gunzig and Jaco Van Dormael for Le tout nouveau testament (The Brand New Testament)
Antoine Cuypers and Antoine Wauters for Préjudice

To check nominees in all categories and/or to read info about each film go official site here, available only in French. Awards ceremony will be on February 6th and will be broadcast by Be TV; like last edition, host will be Charlie Dupont and the Awards ceremony president is Marie Gillain.

The most interesting thing from list is me recalling Melody as a film that have to see and haven't seen yet.

#Oscars2016 Posters

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Two days before the nominations announcement the Academy releases the posters and graphic identity for the 88th edition. Can't say that I love it but definitively using photos makes these posters a bit more interesting than previous editions posters. Find this year's slogan simple, clear and direct but a bit boring and obviously spelled (again) in the graphic design (lol). Alright this is me using whatever I learned in years and years of working in advertising (LOL). Better behave like a normal movie lover...

As photos are the main focal point, favorite comes from who is in the photo and the best for me is the Acting winners of 2008 with Daniel Day-Lewis, Tilda Swinton, Marion Cotillard and Javier Bardem. Take a look. Very nice, isn't?



There are eight (8) posters in total and here are the other seven (7) for you to enjoy.





52nd Annual CAS Awards Nominations

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A few moments ago the Cinema Audio Society (CAS) announced the nominees for the current edition of the awards that honor Outstanding Achievements in Sound Mixing in film and television as well as Technical Achievement in production and post-production.

This was a year of terrific sound in both film and television,” said Mark Ulano CAS President. “These nominations represent the outstanding sound mixing being done in each category and I congratulate each of our nominees.”

Awards ceremony will be on February 20th in the Crystal Ballroom of the Millennium Biltmore Hotel. During the awards the highest honor of the CAS – the CAS Career Achievement Award will be presented to ADR Mixer Doc Kane and the CAS Filmmaker Award will be given to Jay Roach.



The following are the nominations for the Motion Picture categories

Live Action
Bridge of Spies
The Hateful Eight
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Animated
The Good Dinosaur
Hotel Transylvania 2
Inside Out
Minions
The Peanuts Movie

To check nominees for television and technical achievement awards go official site here. Final balloting for both the Outstanding Sound Mixing and the CAS Technical Achievement Awards will open online Wednesday January 27th and end Friday, February 12th.

On the evening of the Awards the Cinema Audio Society website will be updated in real time as the winners are announced.


2016 Robert Awards Nominations

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Yesterday the Danish Film Academy announced the nominations to honor Danish cinema with one category, Best Actress, delayed until next Friday, January 15. When the Academy makes the announcement this post will be modify to list the Best Actress nominees.

Obviously the Best Actress nominees could change the tally but up-to-today Krigen (A War) by Tobias Lindholm and Sommeren '92 by Kasper Barfoed lead with eight (8) nominations each.

Best Film
Idealisten, Christina Rosendahl
Krigen (A War), Tobias Lindholm
Mænd og høns (Men & Chicken), Anders Thomas Jensen
Sommeren '92, Kasper Barfoed
Under sandet (Land of Mine), Martin Zandvliet

Best Feature for Children and Youth Audiences
Albert, Karsten Kiilerich
Bridgend, Jeppe Rønde
Iqbal & den hemmelige opskrift, Tilde Harkamp
Skammerens datter (The Shamer's Daughter), Kenneth Kainz
Villads fra Valby, Frederik Meldal Nørgaard

Best Director
Christina Rosendahl for Idealisten
Martin Zandvliet for Under sandet (Land of Mine)
May el-Toukhy for Lang historie kort (Long Story Short)
Michael Noer for Nøgle Hus Spejl (Key House Mirror)
Tobias Lindholm for Krigen (A War)

Best Actress
TBA

Best Actor
Mads Mikkelsen in Mænd og høns (Men & Chicken)
Peter Plaugborg in Idealisten
Pilou Asbæk in Krigen (A War)
Roland Møller in Under sandet (Land of Mine)
Ulrich Thomsen in Sommeren '92

Best Original Screenplay
Anders August and Kasper Barfoed for Sommeren '92
Anders Thomas Jensen for Mænd og høns
Maren Louise Käehne and May el-Toukhy for Lang historie kort (Long Story Short)
Martin Zandvliet for Under sandet (Land of Mine)
Tobias Lindholm for Krigen (A War)

Best Adapted Screenplay
Anders Thomas Jensen for Skammerens datter (The Shamer's Daughter)
Karsten Kiilerich for Albert
Renée Toft Simonsen for Iqbal & den hemmelige opskrift

To read nominees in all film categories as well as TV categories go official site here, available only in Danish.

These are the nominees group photo taken at the nominees luncheon.


14th Annual VES Awards Nominations

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The Visual Effects Society announces the nominees for the current edition of the awards that honor outstanding visual effects artistry and innovation in film, animation, television, commercials and video games as well as VFX supervisors, VFX producers and hands-on-the-keys artists who bring this work to life.

Nominees were selected by VES members via events hosted by its nine sections - Australia, Bay Area, London, Los Angeles, Montreal, New York, New Zealand, Toronto and Vancouver.

There is no surprise when we find Star Wars: The Force Awakens leading the film nominations with seven (7) -but perhaps the surprise is that the leader is NOT a film but a TV show, Game of Thrones with nine (9) noms.

We already know the 10 films shortlisted for an Oscar nomination and in this group only appear in the Visual Effects category Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Mad Max: Fury Road and The Martian. Then from the Supporting Visual Effects we find The Walk and The Revenant. So, we can wonder -until next Thursday- if those five films could get an Oscar nod in VFX. Somehow imagine that the infamous Bear will make The Revenant to get a nomination, lol.



The VES Awards ceremony will be held on February 2nd at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Live Action Feature Motion Picture (Photoreal Feature)

Outstanding Visual Effects
Furious 7
San Andreas
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian

Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects
In The Heart of The Sea
Bridge of Spies
The Walk
Everest
The Revenant

Outstanding Created Environment
The Walk, World Trade Center
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Falcon Chase/Graveyard
Ant-Man, The Microverse
Jurassic World, Jungle Chase
Tomorowland, Tomorrowland Center

Outstanding Animated Performance
Star Wars: The Force Awkens, Maz
The Revenant, The Bear
Avengers: Age of Ultron, Hulk
Chappie, Chappie

Outstanding Compositing
San Andreas, Los Angeles Destruction
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Tomorrowland
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant, Bear Attack

Outstanding Models in a Photoreal or Animated Project
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, BB-8
Avengers: Age of Ultron, Hulkbuster
Everest, Mt. Everest
Jurrasic World, Indominus Rex

Outstanding Effects Simulations
Mad Max: Fury Road, Toxic Storm
Avengers: Age of Ultron, Hulk vs Hulkbuster
San Andreas, Hoover Dam/San Francisco Tsunami
San Andreas, Los Angeles Destruction
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Starkiller Base

Animated Motion Picture

Outstanding Visual Effects
The Peanuts Movie
Inside Out
Anomalisa
Hotel Transylvania 2
The Good Dinosaur

Outstanding Animated Performance
The Peanuts Movie, Snoopy
The Peanuts Movie, Charlie Brown
Inside Out, Joy
The Good Dinosaur, Spot

Outstanding Created Environment
The Good Dinosaur, The Farm
Inside Out, Imagination Land
The Peanuts Movie, Charlie Brown's Neighborhood
Shaun the Sheep Movie, Under the Arches

Outstanding Effects Simulations
Inside Out
The Peanuts Movie
The Good Dinosaur
Home

To read nominees in TV and other media go official site here. The Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to director and producer Sir Ridley Scott and the Visionary Award goes to visual futurist and conceptual artist Syd Mead.

Some of the nominations made me recall the scenes and my memory worked so good that clearly recall the great ones but can't help to wonder why awful San Andreas has so many nominations as one of the things I really disliked were the visual effects, sigh.

#Oscars2016 Extremely Late Nominations Predictions

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Know is extremely late to predict but 24 hours before we learn the Oscars nominations is as good as any other time, so here are my predictions to what AMPAS members could like according to all we have learned in the past month and a half.

In previous years by half January we already knew the Oscars winners with 90% accuracy, but this year is a bit more interesting as still believe that there could be surprises in tomorrow's nominations and in the winners, as there are too many good movies, good performances, good directors, and good tech achievements that deserve honors.

So let me do a brief summary of what Film Critics have honored. Best film is Spotlight with not so far second Mad Max: Fury Road and far third, Carol. Best director is George Miller with far second Tom McCarthy and third tie Todd Haynes and Alejandro G. Inarritu. Actress is Brie Larson with a far second tie between Saoirse Ronan and Charlotte Rampling. Actor is Leonardo DiCaprio with far second Michael Fassbender and still more far, Paul Dano. Documentary is Amy with far second The Look of Silence.

Then we have to consider the Guild nominations given by actual Academy members -against film critics who are NOT AMPAS members-. Too long to do a summary but in second left column you'll find a link to each guild post.

Best Film
As we know the category could have up to 10 nominees; but not always all slots are used. With the great 2015 films believe that the 10 slots have a name but the complex voting scheme perhaps will result in 8 or less nominees. Nevertheless here is my best estimate.

Sure Thing
Spotlight
The Big Short
The Revenant

Could fill other some spots
Carol
Bridge of Spies
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
Brooklyn
Inside Out

Dark Horses
Creed
Ex Machina
Room
Sicario
Steve Jobs
Straight Outta Compton
The Hateful Eight
Trumbo

I did not enjoyed much The Revenant but has outstanding cinematography; Spotlight was alright for the story it tells but no-way film is alike to All the President's Men as many wish it was -Spotlight misses what ATPM excels, tension. The Big Short story is one everyone should see, but the movie does not tell the story in a cinematic way -sometimes feels like a boring documentary. Still these three are a sure thing, will get a nomination and many speculate the winner is among those three. Then these three big movies are 100% US production while other films in the could fill spots section above are US co-productions and even non-US co-produced.

I wish Carol would be a sure thing but as the awards season evolves it has become clear that not many enjoy the film -perhaps is the lesbian story or maybe is the women-centered story, but no matter what the occult reason is, this is an impeccable movie that deserves many honors and now I wonder if will collect them. Next Mad Max was a film that surprised me as I like it much more than I could imagine with the high-engagement style George Miller gave to the storytelling style, so yes, wish film gets a nomination. I didn't enjoyed much The Martian, was boring for me and even do I really love Ridley Scott's work, I wished he gave story a more nerve-racking style, like a thriller (less like a comedy, LOL) but know film has possibilities. I didn't enjoyed much Bridge of Spies, almost left before the end as was too-much predictable (boring) for me. Liked Brooklyn was nice, entertaining with great performance by lead actress and the main supporting actress.

So, my best prediction is that the three big movies will made it plus the 5 more I talk about to have eight (8) nominees.

Best Director

This category is a mess for me. Recognize the extraordinary work George Miller did with the last Mad Max installment and believe he deserves major honors; but then tend to NOT agree with the rest of the four "sure thing" that replicates what the guild and other awards have been nominating.

Sure Thing
Alejandro González Iñárritu for The Revenant
Tom McCarthy for Spotlight
Adam McKay for The Big Short
George Miller for Mad Max: Fury Road
Ridley Scott for The Martian

Dark Horses
Todd Haynes for Carol

Why a mess? Well, because there has to be a place for Carol!!! LOL But yesterday's DGA nominations assured Miller and McKay spot. If it was for me there will be no AGI as The Revenant truly deserves cinematography but nothing else, sigh.

Best Actress

Difficult one for the possible nominees and for the annual game the industry plays to place lead performances as supporting.

Sure Thing
Brie Larson in Room
Cate Blanchett in Carol
Saoirse Ronan in Brooklyn

Could fill other 2 spots
Charlotte Rampling in 45 Years
Alicia Vikander in The Danish Girl (I know many place role as supporting but she is lead!)
Jennifer Lawrence in Joy
Rooney Mara in Carol (I know she will go to supporting but her role is lead!)

Dark Horses
Carey Mulligan in Sufragette
Charlize Theron in Mad Max: Fury Road
Helen Mirren in Woman in Gold
Maggie Smith in Lady in the Van
Lily Tomlin in Grandma
Blythe Danner in I'll See You in My Dreams
Emily Blunt in Sicario

Already said something about Ronan, Carol will not be what it is without Blanchett and Mara, so will comment about Brie Larson. She is good in Room BUT the lead role and the one that makes the movie is the child, Jacob Tremblay, he deserves a Best Actor nomination or well, according to crazy industry ways, a supporting actor nomination. Larson has some extraordinary moments (like the interview) so perhaps that's why many in the industry are honoring her for those minutes but why not a Supporting Role as she was supporting the child outstanding performance. Sigh.

My best prediction is the three sure thing plus Alicia Vikander (she really deserves major honors for ALL the movies that were released in 2015 and she is lead in The Danish Girl, as a matter of fact SHE carries the movie, TDG is her!!!) and for the celebrity value and a good-enough performance, Jennifer Lawrence. Still will not be surprised if AMPAS members react to good performances in good cinema and nominate Charlotte Rampling.

Best Actor

Sure Thing
Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant
Michael Fassbender in Steve Jobs
Bryan Cranston in Trumbo

Could fill the other 2 spots
Matt Damon in The Martina
Eddie Redmayne in The Danish Girl

Dark Horses
Johnny Depp in Black Mass
Jacob Tremblay in Room (ok, I know, I know
Michael B. Jordan in Creed
Will Smith in Concussion
Tom Hanks in Bridge of Spies

My award goes to Michael Fassbender in the three-act play filmed as a movie, Steve Jobs! What a performance with theater qualities that translate very-well to film. Very engaging performance in a film that surprised me as was not expecting the story to be as it is nor the storytelling style to be so tense, engaging and raw, very raw. But industry believes is time that DiCaprio wins an Oscar so seems he is going to get it even when Fassbender and magnificent Cranston gave better performances. My best prediction is that Matt Damon and Eddie Redmayne will fill the other 2 spots.

Best Documentary

Amy. No doubt in me that will win the Oscar because truly deserves it for the unexpected outstanding storytelling values, both visually as story wise. The other four spots will be fill by The Look of Silence, very interesting/unexpected Listen to Me Marlon, and perhaps Cartel Land and He Named Me Malala.

Briefly let's predict Supporting Actors

Best Supporting Actress: Here we could have to lead roles "strategically" placed as supporting by "studio executives": Alicia Vikander in The Danish Girl and Rooney Mara in Carol. Then we know that Kate Winslet has earned a spot even do if you ask me, Fassbender is sooo strong that she disappears in Steve Jobs. Other contenders are Jennifer Jason Leigh in The Hateful Eight, Helen Mirren in Trumbo, Alicia Vikander in Ex Machina (sorry but she ALSO was lead in that movie) and Rachel McAdams in Spotlight. Yes, I wish Kristen Stewart will get a nod, she truly deserves it for her outstanding performance in Sils Maria as we can't forget that she shared the screen with Juliette Binoche and she was able to do it magnificently, that is a major achievement in this young actress career, Bravo!!!

Best Supporting Actor: No doubt that who has to win the Oscar is Mark Rylance in Bridge of Spies, outstanding spellbinding deadpan face performance, Bravo!!! Contenders are Idris Elba in Beasts of No Nation, Jacob Tremblay in Room, Sylvester Stallone in Creed, Christian Bale in The Big Short, and Benicio del Toro in Sicario.

That's it. Next perhaps mid-February, will play the winner guessing game that many predict will not be easy as season has bring many unexpected surprises. Will see what happens with tomorrow's Oscar nominations, if they bring clarity or muddy mess to this awkward awards season. Sigh.

30th Annual ASC Award Nominations Update

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Today the American Society of Cinematographers announced the nominees for the Spotlight Award which recognizes outstanding achievement in cinematography in a feature film that was exhibited at a film festival, internationally or in limited theatrical release.

These are the nominees:

Adam Arkapaw for Macbeth
Mátyás Erdély for Son of Saul
Cary Joji Fukunaga for Beasts of No Nation

Macbeth, directed by Justin Kurzel, premiered at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and subsequently screened at several festivals around the world. It made its U.S. debut at the Mill Valley Film Festival.

Son of Saul, directed by László Nemes, also premiered at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize. It premiered in the U.S. at the Telluride Film Festival and went on to win the Bronze Frog at the Camerimage International Film Festival.

Beasts of No Nation, which Fukunaga also directed, premiered at the 2015 Venice Film Festival and made its U.S. debut at Telluride. It was the first original feature produced by Netflix, and it received a limited theatrical release and began streaming on Netflix on the same date.

All three cinematographers are first-time ASC Award nominees.  Had no idea Fukunaga was also the cinematographer as knew he directed, wrote screenplay and produced, but didn't pay attention to the cinematographer.  Great for him as he is a great director that also excels writing and behind the camera.

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1/6/16


Today, January 6th,  the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) announced the nominations for feature film category and believe no one is surprised with the choices but many are commenting about the films that didn't grab a nomination like, for example, The Hateful Eight filmed in 70mm which is the very wide format once popular in the films of the 1950s and 1960s and even do can be a novelty nowadays there are not many theaters left with the capacity to screen this type of film. Also others have been complaining that the huge format is a bit wasted on a movie that is largely interiors. So maybe is no surprise when film got no ASC nomination.

The winner will be announced on Sunday, February 14 at the awards ceremony at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles.

Roger Deakins for Sicario
Janusz Kaminski for Bridge of Spies
Ed Lachman for Carol
Emmanuel Lubezki for The Revenant
John Seale for Mad Max:Fury Road

It's hard not to notice that each of the nominated films represent a different genre and a masterfully distinct visual style, but agree that all have in common outstanding quality which visually delights many no mater the genre or style.  I'm very visual and many times have enjoyed films just because they are visually outstanding, no matter the story and sometimes, no matter dreadful performances or direction; that's the power of great cinematography for me.

All cinematographers are big names in the industry so there is no surprise when we review the following stats.

This is Deakins’ 14th ASC nomination. He won for Skyfall, The Shawshank Redemption and The Man Who Wasn’t There, and was also nominated for Unbroken, Prisoners, True Grit, The Reader (shared with Chris Menges, ASC, BSC), Revolutionary Road, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, No Country for Old Men, Kundun, Fargo and O Brother, Where Art Thou?

This is Kaminski’s sixth ASC nomination, following Lincoln, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Saving Private Ryan, Amistad and Schindler’s List.

Lachman has been nominated for ASC Awards twice previously, in the theatrical-release category for Far from Heaven and in the MOW/miniseries category for HBO’s Mildred Pierce.

Lubezki has won the ASC Award in this category four times, for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Gravity, The Tree of Life and Children of Men. He was also nominated for Sleepy Hollow.

This is Seale’s fifth ASC nomination. He won for The English Patient and received additional nominations for Cold Mountain, The Perfect Storm and Rain Man.

I have no doubt that the Oscar winner has to come from the above five nominees and my vote absolutely goes to Carol as not often cinematography is used to generate -against complement- emotions and in Carol emotions started to pour with the use of outstanding cinematography, then the acting complemented the scene and together reached an intense emotional climax. Bravo.

68th Annual DGA Awards Nominations Update

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Today, January 13, the Directors Guild of America announced the nominations for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television, Commercials and Documentary for 2015.

The winners will be announced at the 68th Annual DGA Awards on Saturday, February 6, 2016 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles. The DGA Awards will be hosted by actor Jane Lynch.

These are the nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary

Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi for Meru
Liz Garbus for What Happened, Miss Simone?
Alex Gibney for Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
Matthew Heineman for Cartel Land
Asif Kapadia for Amy

I'm surprised Joshua Oppenheimer was snubbed as his The Look of Silence documentary is as shocking as his first, The Act of Killing; also was expecting a nod for Stevan Riley for his fantastic Listen to Me Marlon. Know that Amy has to win but these two director deserve all possible honors too.

To check nominees in TV and other categories go here.

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1/12/16
The Directors Guild of America President, Paris Barclay, announced today, January 12th, the five nominees for the current edition of the award that honors Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Films and for the first time, an award that honors Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film.

There’s a first time for every feature filmmaker, but not every first time offers fresh viewpoints in storytelling that are imperative in this industry,” said Barclay. “The first-time feature directors we’re recognizing with this inaugural award we hope will develop successful and lengthy careers. We are excited and invigorated by all they have to offer.”

It's not until tomorrow, Wednesday, January 13 when the guild will announce the nominees in the documentary feature film as today they announced only the nominees for feature film.

The most painful omission absolutely is Todd Haynes for his magnificent Carol; can't help but to think that this movie travel into the Oscars will not be as how many wish, but then, this year tends to be full of surprises so still there is hope and next Thursday we will see what happens. Other notorious snubs are Steven Spielberg for Bridge of Spies and Ryan Coogler for Creed.

This post will be updated tomorrow when they announce the pending Documentary nominees.

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film

Alejandro González Iñárritu for The Revenant

Mr. Iñárritu’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Managers: Drew Locke, James W. Skotchdopole, Doug Jones
First Assistant Director: Scott Robertson
Second Assistant Directors: Megan M. Shank, Matthew Haggerty, Jeremy Marks
Unit Production Manager: Gabriela Vazquez (Argentina, California, and Montana Unit)
First Assistant Director: Adam Somner (Argentina, California, and Montana Unit)
Second Assistant Directors: Trevor R. Tavares, Jasmine Marie Alhambra (Argentina, California, and Montana Unit)
Second Second Assistant Directors: Brett Robinson, Kasia Trojak (Argentina, California, and Montana Unit)

This is Mr. Iñárritu’s fourth DGA Award nomination. He won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film in 2014 for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). He was also nominated in this category for Babel in 2006. He won the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Commercials for “Best Job” (Proctor and Gamble) in 2012.

Tom McCarthy for Spotlight

Mr. McCarthy’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Managers: D.J Carson, Michael Bederman
First Assistant Director: Walter Gasparovic
Second Assistant Director: Penny Charter
Assistant Unit Production Manager: Danielle Blumstein (Boston Unit)
First Assistant Director: Christo Morse (Boston Unit)
Second Assistant Directors: Conte Matal, Kristina Mariko Peterson, Annie Tan, Andrea O’Connor (Boston Unit)
Second Second Assistant Directors: Phil Robinson, Mark Romanelli (Boston Unit)
Additional Second Assistant Director: Scooter Perrotta (Boston Unit)

This is Mr. McCarthy’s first DGA Feature Film Award nomination.

Adam McKay for The Big Short

Mr. McKay’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Louise Rosner
First Assistant Director: Matt Rebenkoff
Second Assistant Director: Amy Lauritsen
Second Second Assistant Director: Cali Pomés
Second Second Assistant Director: Josh Muzaffer (New York Unit)
Location Manager: Michael Kriaris

This is Mr. McKay’s first DGA Feature Film Award nomination.

George Miller for Mad Max: Fury Road

Mr. Miller’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Manager: Dean Hood
First Assistant Director: PJ Voeten
Second Assistant Directors: Samantha Smith, Wendy Croad, Chris O’Hara
Second Assistant Directors: Eddie Thorne (Sydney Unit), Emma Jamvold (Sydney Unit)
Second Second Assistant Directors: Danielle Blake (Sydney Unit), Joshua Watkins (Sydney Unit)

This is Mr. Miller’s first DGA Feature Film Award nomination.

Ridley Scott for The Martian

Mr. Scott’s Directorial Team:
Unit Production Managers: Francesca Cingolani, Miklós Tóth
First Assistant Director: Raymond Kirk
Second Assistant Directors: Sarah Hood, Bogi Móricz
Second Second Assistant Director: Nick Thomas

This is Mr. Scott’s fourth DGA Award nomination. He was nominated in this category in 1991 for Thelma and Louise, in 2000 for Gladiator, and in 2001 for Black Hawk Down.

Here are the nominees for the new category.

Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film
Fernando Coimbra for A Wolf at the Door
Joel Edgerton for The Gift
Alex Garland for Ex Machina
Marielle Heller for The Diary of a Teenage Girl
László Nemes for Son of Saul

Is the first DGA Award nomination for all of the above directors. Eligible directors for this award must have released his or her first feature-length film theatrically in Los Angeles or New York in 2015. Foreign films are eligible and the director does not need to be a DGA member.

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary
TBA

To read the press release at official site go here.  Critics vote George Miller, will guild members go critics way or will they give us another surprise? Who knows. Truth is that up-to-today guild nominations tell us that Spotlight and The Big Short are the only movies this season that have taken top nominations from every major guild, which somehow demonstrates broad industry support and suggests that Adam McKay could have a reserved place in the Oscars nominations. We already suspect that McCarthy, Gonzalez and Miller also have a reservation, so who will have the last place? Ridley Scott, Todd Haynes, Steven Spielberg or a surprise?

2016 Annual MUAHS Guild Awards Nominations

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Today the Make-Up Artist and Hair Stylists Guild announced their nominations for the 2016 edition of their awards with Mad Max: Fury Road leading with three nominations.

As previously announced Make-Up Artist Ve Neill and Hair Stylist Yolanda Toussieng, both Oscar and Emmy winners, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Awards. “The bodies of work of Ve Neill and Yolanda Toussieng are legendary, and we are proud to rank them among the best in the history of our profession. They are extraordinary artists and accomplished leaders in the industry, and it is our pleasure to name them as this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award recipients,” said President Susan Cabral-Ebert.

Award ceremony will be on Saturday, February 20th at Paramount Studios Theatre in Hollywood.

Feature Length Motion Picture

Best Contemporary Make-Up
Julie Hewett and Pamela Westmore for The Big Short
James MacKinnon, Autumn Butler and Roxy D'Alonzo for Furious 7
Melanie Hughes-Weaver and Judy Yonemoto for Pitch Perfect 2
Donald Mowat for Sicario
Maurizio Silvi and Matteo Silvi for Youth

Best Period and/or Character Make-Up
Morna Ferguson, Niamh O'Loan and Marlène Rouleau for Brooklyn
Patricia Regan for Carol
Naomi Donne and Norma Webb for Cinderella
Jan Sewell and Renata Gilbert for The Danish Girl
Lesley Vanderwalt, Nadine Prigge and Ailie Smith for Mad Max: Fury Road

Best Special Make-Up Effects
Joel Harlow, Kenny Niederbaumer and Khanh Trance for Black Mass
Sian Grigg, Charlotte Rogers and Tristan Versluis for Ex Machina
Ve Neill and Glenn Hetrick for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Damian Martin, Elka Wardega and Jaco Snyman for Mad Max: Fury Road
Neal Scanlan for Star Wars: The Force Awaakens

Best Contemporary Hair Styling
Sian Grigg and Charlotte Rogers for Ex Machina
Linda Flowers, Jennifer Santiago and Lesa Williams for Furious 7
Cheryl Marks, Meagan Herrera and Daina Daigle for Pitch Perfect 2
Zoe Tahir for Spectre
Sarah Love and Linda Flowers for Spy

Best Period and/or Charcter Hair Styling
Lorraine Glynn, Lorraine Brennan and Michelle Côté for Brooklyn
Jerry DeCarlo, Jack Curtain and Kay Georgiou for Carol
Carol Hemming, Orla Carroll and Wakana Yoshihara for Cinderella
Jan Sewell and Renata Gilbert for The Danish Girl
Anita Morgan, Kerstin Weller and Kylie Clark for Mad Max: Fury Road

To check nominations in TV and other categories go official site here (not there yet, but will be there) or news here.

My favorite tweet about these nominations says: "I'll be over here wondering why FURIOUS 7 received two Makeup Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards nominations. (Vin Diesel's spray tan?)" LOL!!! But seriously I wonder how or why Furious 7 and Pitch Perfect 2 got two nominations each... also, found make-up in The Big Short more on the really-bad side of the scale, especially Christian Bale make-up. So, go figure why or what guild is honoring.

#Oscars2016 Live stream nominations

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At 5:30 a.m. PT (8:30am ET), Guillermo del Toro and Ang Lee will announce the nominees in the following categories: Animated Feature Film, Cinematography, Costume Design, Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject, Makeup and Hairstyling, Original Song, Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing.

At 5:38 a.m. PT, John Krasinski and Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs will take the stage to unveil the nominations for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Directing, Film Editing, Foreign Language Film, Original Score, Best Picture, Production Design, Visual Effects, Adapted Screenplay and Original Screenplay.

88th Academy Awards Nominations

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Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs, Guillermo del Toro, John Krasinski and Ang Lee announced the 88th Academy Awards nominations today (January 14).

Del Toro and Lee announced the nominees in 11 categories at 5:30 a.m. PT, followed by Boone Isaacs and Krasinski for the remaining 13 categories at 5:38 a.m. PT, at the live news conference attended by more than 400 international media representatives.

Academy members from each of the 17 branches vote to determine the nominees in their respective categories – actors nominate actors, film editors nominate film editors, etc. In the Animated Feature Film and Foreign Language Film categories, nominees are selected by a vote of multi-branch screening committees. All voting members are eligible to select the Best Picture nominees.

So that's enough of official blah, blah; truth is I was, I am and I will be in next days very disappointed with the nominations. Can't understand, can't accept, can't believe Academy members dared to snub a female-centered movie with a lesbian story. On second thought, now that I read what I wrote think that is easy to speculate why they left out Carol, as obviously it has to do with women (straight, lesbian or whatever); is not about the same sex story as would be extremely ironic when Academy members accepted and widely honored a two men gay story (Brokeback Mountain) that got 8 nominations and won 3, including one to the director Ang Lee, whom by-the-way was reading the nominations this morning! Grrr... No Best Picture and/or Best Director is a MAJOR snub for an outstanding film that is clearly better than at least four or five of the eight nominated for Best Picture and Todd Haynes work is better than at least three of the five nominees in the Directing category. Upsetting.

Alright there were other snubs but no other omission is as big as Carol left out of two major categories. Period. There were no positive surprises and perhaps the best so-so surprise is Tom Hardy's nomination in Best Supporting Actor category for insufferable The Revenant.

As the nominations were coming, early, very-early noticed that The Revenant had a nomination in most tech categories and dared to speculate that will be the film with most noms.  I was right.The Revenant leads the pack with  twelve (12) nominations followed by Mad Max: Fury Road with 10, The Martian with 7, and with 6 each Bridge of Spies, Spotlight and Carol.

Will do another post with more interesting data about the nominations, so will keep this post cleaner with the list.

Best Picture
The Big Short
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Spotlight

Best Animated Feature
Anomalisa
O Menino e o Mundo (Boy and the World)
Inside Out
Shaun the Sheep Movie
Omoide no Mânî (When Marnie Was There)

Best Documentary Feature
Amy
Cartel Land
Look of Silence
What Happened Miss Simone
Winter on Fire

Best Foreign Language Film
El Abrazo de la Serpiente (Embrace of the Serpent), Ciro Guerra, Colombia
Krigen (A War), Tobias Lindholm, Denmark
Mustang, Deniz Gamze Ergüven, France
Saul Fia (Son of Saul), László Nemes, Hungary
ذيب‎ Theeb (Wolf), Naji Abu Nowar, Jordan

Achievement in Directing
Lenny Abrahamson for Room
Alejandro González Iñárritu for The Revenant
Tom McCarthy for Spotlight
Adam McCay for The Big Short
George Miller for Mad Max: Fury Road

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Cate Blanchett in Carol
Brie Larson in Room
Jennifer Lawrence in Joy
Charlotte Rampling in 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan in Brooklyn

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Jennifer Jason Leigh in The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara in Carol
Rachel McAdams in Spotlight
Alicia Vikander in The Danish Girl
Kate Winslet in Steve Jobs

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Bryan Cranston in Trumbo
Matt Damon in The Martian
Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant
Michael Fassbender in Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne in The Danish Girl

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Christian Bale in The Big Short
Tom Hardy in The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo in Spotlight
Mark Rylance in Bridge of Spies
Sylvester Stallone in Creed

Best Adapted Screenplay
Charles Randolph and Adam McKay for The Big Short
Nick Hornby for Brooklyn
Phyllis Nagy for Carol
Drew Goddard for The Martian
Emma Donoghue for Room

Best Original Screenplay
Matt Charmanm Ethan Coen and Joel Coen for Bridge of Spies
Alex Garland for Ex Machina
Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley; Original story by Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen, for Inside Out
Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy for Spotlight
Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff; Story by S. Leigh Savidge, Alan Wenkus and Andrea Berloff, for Straight Outta Compton

Best Cinematography
Ed Lachman for Carol
Robert Richardson for The Hateful Eight
John Seale for Mad Max: Fury Road
Emmanuel Lubezki The Revenant
Roger Deakins for Sicario

Best Film Editing
Hank Corwin for The Big Short
Margaret Sixel for Mad Max: Fury Road
Stephen Mirrione for The Revenant
Tom McArdle for Spotlight
Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey for Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Production Design
Adam Stockhausen (Production Design); Rena DeAngelo and Bernhard Henrich (Set Decoration), for Bridge of Spies
Eve Stewart (Production Design); Michael Standish (Set Decoration), for The Danish Girl
Colin Gibson (Production Design); Lisa Thompson (Set Decoration), for Mad Max: Fury Road
Arthur Max (Production Design); Celia Bobak (Set Decoration), for The Martian
Jack Fisk (Production Design); Hamish Purdy (Set Decoration), for The Revenant

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damian Martin for Mad Max: Fury Road
Love Larson and Eva von Bahr for Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann (The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out a Window and Disappeared)
Siân Grigg, Duncan Jarman and Robert Pandini for The Revenant

Best Costume Design
Sandy Powell for Carol
Sandy Powell for Cinderella
Paco Delgado for The Danish Girl
Jenny Beavan for Mad Max: Fury Road
Jacqueline West for The Revenant

Best Visual Effects
Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Ardington and Sara Bennett for Ex Machina
Andrew Jackson, Tom Wood, Dan Oliver and Andy Williams for Mad Max: Fury Road
Richard Stammers, Anders Langlands, Chris Lawrence and Steven Warner for The Martian
Rich McBride, Matthew Shumway, Jason Smith and Cameron Waldbauer for The Revenant
Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould for Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Sound Editing
Mark Mangini and David White for Mad Max: Fury Road
Oliver Tarney for The Martian
Martin Hernandez and Lon Bender for The Revenant
Alan Robert Murray for Sicario
Matthew Wood and David Acord for Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Sound Mixing
Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Drew Kunin for Bridge of Spies
Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff and Ben Osmo for Mad Max: Fury Road
Paul Massey, Mark Taylor and Mac Ruth for The Martian
Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Randy Thom and Chris Duesterdiek for The Revenant
Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio and Stuart Wilson for Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Original Score
Thomas Newman for Bridge of Spies
Carter Burwell for Carol
Ennio Morricone for The Hateful Eight
Jóhann Jóhannsson for Sicario
John Williams for Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Best Original Song
“Earned It” from Fifty Shades of Grey (Music and Lyric by Abel Tesfaye, Ahmad Balshe, Jason Daheala Quenneville and Stephan Moccio)
“Manta Ray”  from Racing Extinction (Music by J. Ralph and Lyric by Antony Hegarty)
“Simple Song #3” from Youth (Music and Lyric by David Lang)
“Til it Happens to You” from The Hunting Ground (Music and Lyric by Diane Warren and Lady Gaga)
“Writing’s on the Wall” from Spectre (Music and Lyric by Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith)

Short Films

Best Animated Short
Bear Story
Prologue
Sanjay’s Super Team
We Can’t Live Without Cosmos
World of Tomorrow

Best Documentary Short
Body Team 12
Chau, Beyond the Lines
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
Last Day of Freedom

Best Live Action Short
Ave Maria
Day One
Alles Wird Gut (Everything Will Be Okay)
Shok
Stutterer

Official screenings of all motion pictures with one or more nominations will begin for members on Saturday, January 23, at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Screenings also will be held at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood and in London, New York and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Active members of the Academy are eligible to vote for the winners in all 24 categories. The 88th Oscars will be held on Sunday, February 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. The Oscar® presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.

The nominations video



30th Teddy Awards News

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The Teddy Award is being presented for the 30th time on February 19th, 2016 at the Berlin International Film Festival. Over the past 29 years of its existence it has become an important and respected emancipation award.  There are many news so post it's long, enjoy!

As some of my friends had doubts about why is the 30th time believe that the following will clear the doubts and if not, please dear friends be so kind as to count with your fingers (lol!) to realized that 2016 will be the 30th time.

A Brief History

When the first TEDDY was awarded in 1987, there was not even a ceremony.

Mini-sized teddy bears from a department store were placed in envelopes and sent to the then unknown directors Pedro Almodóvar in Spain and Gus Van Sant in the USA.

Neither of them has forgotten this and they both remain loyal friends of the TEDDY. And this was the beginning of the success story of a film prize that, despite all initial homophobic accusations, has developed into one of the Berlinale’s largest events over the years.

The TEDDY evolved out of the meetings of festival-organizers from gay-lesbian film festivals worldwide who had been getting together in Berlin ever since the Berlinale’s Panorama section (first called the "Info-Schau") was founded in 1980. The goal of Manfred Salzgeber, then director of the Panorama, was to end the isolation of gay-lesbian cinema and give it a platform where it could not be overlooked by the film industry and the public. It was these ideas that Wieland Speck, who was Salzgeber’s right hand man from 1982 onward and is today’s Panorama director, had in mind when establishing the TEDDY – Queer Film Award.

Since then films with gay, lesbian or transgender content have been integrated in all sections of the Berlinale. Every year, these 40 or so films compete for the three TEDDY statues. The international nine-member TEDDY Jury chooses the best short film, feature film and documentary. The cash prizes accompanying the awards are raised by the TEDDY e. V. staff, who work on a voluntary basis, and its supporters.

Past prize-winners include Derek Jarman, Rosa von Praunheim, Nan Goldin, Constantine Giannaris, Francois Ozon, Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss, as well as Todd Haynes, Stanley Kwan, Heiner Carow, Lukas Moodysson, Tilda Swinton, Peggy Rajski, later Oscar-winners Rob Ebstein and Jeffrey Friedman.

Since 1997 the TEDDY is a bronze bear on top of a cobblestone, two symbols of Berlin, designed by world-famous cartoonist Ralf König.

Special Teddy Award for Producer Christine Vachon at Anniversary Edition

With her company, Killer Films, Christine Vachon has been producing movies for over 20 years. Without these works both queer and US-independent cinema would be hard to imagine – a dozen of these films have been shown in Berlinale programs.

In the early 1980s, as a student at Brown University, she met Todd Haynes, whose debut film, Poison (Teddy Award 1991), became the first feature film she produced. Ever since they have been an effective team. Vachon also produced the Academy Award-winning films Boys Don’t Cry (Best Actress, Hilary Swank 2000) and Still Alice (Best Actress, Julianne Moore 2015); and last year, once more for Todd Haynes, Carol with Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.

Christine Vachon will be honored with the Special Teddy at this year’s award ceremony. She will be a guest of the Queer Academy Summit and present, as part of the Teddy30 anniversary program, the Killer Films production Hedwig and the Angry Inch by John Cameron Mitchell, which won the Teddy Award in 2001.

On other news ...

The only official LGBTIQ (in short, queer) film prize at an A-festival in the world is celebrating its 30th anniversary: the Teddy Award. An offshoot of the Panorama, the prize has been awarded since 1987 in the categories Short Film, Documentary and Feature to works relevant to queer culture. Eligible every year are films from all of the Berlinale sections. Meanwhile, the award has achieved international significance. This year’s anniversary program will present a total of 17 films.

In 1987, before the still unknown directors Gus Van Sant (Best Short Films: Five Ways to Kill Yourself and My New Friend) and Pedro Almodóvar (Best Feature: Law of Desire) could be awarded the first Teddys, a number of filmmakers had already proven the existence of a cinematic culture that went far beyond the heteronormative mainstream.

They included female directors, such as Ulrike Ottinger, Greta Schiller or Chantal Akerman, who is now deeply missed; and male directors, such as the Spaniard Agustí Vilaronga, the Israeli Dan Wolman or Lothar Lambert, who has contributed innumerable films to the Berlinale (not to mention the well-known greats of a distinctively gay cinema, such as Rosa von Praunheim, Werner Schroeter, Rainer Werner Fassbinder or Derek Jarman).

For 2016 the Teddy has put together an anniversary program of rarely seen works, some of which had been made before the award came into existence, and were also why it was established in the first place.

In this context, the Panorama will be presenting a special screening, the world premiere of the restoration of Anders als die Andern (Different from the Others, Germany 1919). This film by Richard Oswald was the first gay film in cinematic history. Its restoration has been carried out by the Outfest Legacy Project / UCLA Film & Television Archive in Los Angeles and underscores the need to archive films on 35mm, at present the only reliable storage medium.

To check other films in the anniversary special program go to here.

The TEDDY jury of 2016

As every year, organizers collected interesting film-people from all over the world who are involved in the LGBT-Community, for the TEDDY Jury. Here we want to introduce them to you

Augustas Čičelis, Lithuania

Augustas Čičelis comes from Vilnius, Lithuania, and is the Director and Programmer of Vilnius LGBT* Festival “Kreivės”.

He has an academic background in gender studies and has been involved in LGBT* activism and wider human rights movement for about a decade. Augustas has started to combine his passion for activism and cinema in 2012, joining an LGBT* film festival in Vilnius, which then developed into “Kreivės” – a wider annual cultural festival.

Building on earlier and cooperating with current other queer initiatives, it provides a unique space for film screenings, events and community building. The upcoming festival will be a part of the “Baltic Pride 2016″ which will take place in Vilnius this June.

Alexandra Carastoian, Bucharest

Alexandra Carastoian has studied Cinematography at the University of Theater Arts and Cinematography in Bucharest, Romania (UNATC) and she is a filmmaker, a photographer and a human rights activist.

In 2015, Alexandra won the “Young Talent GOPO Cinematography Award” for the film “It Takes Two to Fence”. She started as a volunteer by organizing support groups for women in order to build up a community and facilitating LGBT groups, as well as organizing cultural events.

She works in film festivals and has been part of the team who is organizing the two main annual festivals: “LGBT History Month” and “Bucharest Pride”. She is a founding member of the first NGO in Romania which supports trans* individuals and the director of the first Feminist and Queer International Film Festival in Bucharest, Romania, which took place for the first time in November 2015.

Alice Royer, USA

Alice Royer is a film and media scholar, archivist, and programmer living in Los Angeles.

She is the Legacy Project Manager at “Outfest”, where she oversees the “Outfest UCLA Legacy Project”, the only program in the world exclusively dedicated to protecting and preserving LGBT film. She is also an Assistant Programmer at “Outfest”, and has screened films for “AFI FEST” and the “Los Angeles Film Festival”.

In addition to her film festival work, Alice is a PhD Candidate in Cinema & Media Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she previously earned an MA in Moving Image Archive Studies.

Dagmar Brunow, Germany

Dagmar Brunow is one of the programmers at the “International Queer Film Festival Hamburg”.

As a film scholar she teaches Film Studies and Gender Studies in Sweden. Dagmar has been working for the “Women’s Music Centre (fmz)” in Hamburg and has been one of the initiators of “Ladyfest” Hamburg. She regularly contributes to the journal testcard. Beiträge zur Popgeschichte and is a longstanding member of the radio collective “Freies Sender Kombinat” in Hamburg.

After publishing an edited collection on Stuart Hall (Ventil Verlag 2015), she is currently co-editing the first German-language volume on Queer Film Studies.

Adán Salinas Alverdi, Mexico

Adán Salinas Alverdi studied philosophy at the FFyL-UNAM, CU campus.

He is CEO of “ACGIC, Global Cooperation Agency for Cultural Exchange”; “MICGénero, International Film Festival with Gender Perspective and Bestiario Films”.

He works as curator, artistic director, programmer, researcher and museographer in different museums and associations such as “Museo de la Ciudad de México”; “Museo Soumaya Plaza Carso”; “Museo Tamayo”; “Circo 2.12″; “AMAPCiA A.C”. and “MANIFIESTA. Foro de resiliencia civil”.

He is currently preparing a map’s exposition “Scenarios of modernity” in co-production with SIGSA, GIS and UNAM, and other NGOs working in the field of postcolonial studies.

Nosheen Khwaja, Scotland

Nosheen Khwaja is a Glasgow School of Art graduate and many things.

Her main role is as the artistic director of “GLITCH” – Europe’s first 10 day, free, QTIPoC film festival and also the chair & leading tech tutor of the “Digital Desperados 2″ month filmmaking course for Women of Colour.

Aside from a devotion to film she is also a practicing multimedia artist, designer, filmmaker, jewellery maker and audio-visual tech & problem solver. She has run workshops, co-curated cabaret nights & screenings, exhibited artwork and performed in Hamburg, Berlin, Montreal, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, New York and the UK.

Serubiri Moses, Uganda

Serubiri Moses is an independent art writer, photographer, and curator.

His interests lie in coloniality, language and cultural space. His research experience has been through writing essays and academic papers on contemporary art and culture, published in different magazines, websites and books; as well as through curating exhibitions and panel discussions.

His research includes, ‘Life mu City’ (2014), a research project on protest language and local Hip Hop in Kampala, presented at the Goethe-Zentrum Kampala; the “biennial contemporary art festival, KLA ART 014 (2014)” on urban mapping and social classification in Uganda’s cities. As a research intern for “Contemporary And – C& website” in 2014, he produced biographical notes on contemporary artists, collectors, institutions, and curators from Africa and its diaspora.

In 2015, Serubiri has received the “City Writer fellowship” from the University of Bayreuth and curatorial fellowship from the “Kadist Art Foundation” in Paris.

Xiaogang Wei, China

Xiaogang Wei was born and raised in Xinjiang, China. He was trained as an actor at the drama department of the Xinjiang Arts Institute in Urumqi and at the Shanghai Drama Academy. Having a passion for community work and a drive to contribute to social change, Xiaogang has continually searched for meaningful ways to share his drama skills with others and to use them in socially relevant ways. After finishing his studies, he has been volunteered for a few NGOs based in Beijing, and has been a consultant for UNICEF since 2005.

During recent years he started to engage himself on the production side of various film- and other productions benefiting different social movements in China. In 2007, he founded the LGBT webcast “Queer Comrades”, for which he hosted and directed more than 50 half-hour episodes. Some of his recent directing feats include “Cures that Kill” (Queer Comrades, 2011), a documentary focusing on the “curing homosexuality” practices in China, and “Strong” (Queer Comrades, 2012), a documentary focusing on bullying faced by LGBT students. Since 2010, he’s the executive director of the NGO Beijing Gender Health Education Institute (BGHEI) which houses the webcast “Queer Comrades”. Founded in 2002, it constitutes one of the first Chinese NGOs to focus on issues of gender, sexuality and sexual health, thus fulfilling a pioneering role in Chinese society. Together with the BGHEI, he launched a series of groundbreaking events in China, including the “China AIDS Walk”, the “China Rainbow Awards” and the “China LGBT Community Leader Conference”. Xiaogang is the Co-curator of the “Beijing Queer Film Festival” and a board member of the “Beijing LGBT Centre”.

Jay Lin, Taiwan

Jay Lin (Taiwan) is the CEO of “Portico Media”, Chairman of the “Taiwan International Media and Education Association (TIMEA)”, and Director of the “Taiwan International Queer Film Festival (TIQFF)”.

In 2015, “TIQFF” successfully completed its second year with festival venues in three major Taiwan cities as well as a country-wide road-show. During the 2nd annual “TIQFF”, Jay spearheaded efforts to create a pan-Asian queer film festival alliance.

“Portico Media” distributes TV channels and programming from around the world and produces a broad range of original content including LGBT-related programming. Portico productions have won numerous awards, including the prestigious “Golden Horse Award”.

Good Links

Suggest to watch the video "Teddy - How it all began. A short introduction by Panomrama curator Wieland Speck". Actually is an excerpt from the panel "As Queer as it Gets" at Berlinale Talent Campus 2011. To watch short version go here.

In the same link you have to check the photos from the 30 years of Teddy, some are truly outstanding; click the foto to open the gallery and will be able to see who are in each photo plus a comment on why they got the Teddy.

21st Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards Winners

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So last night was the broadcast of the BFCA awards and show was alright, nothing especial but yes, I fall asleep! Now I'm wonder if will not happen the same at the Oscars show, perhaps is the winners that put me to sleep... Maybe was that most of the top winners were not even there, which always is a bummer for any awards show. Then there was no broadcast red carpet (lol) which we all know is the indispensable awards show companion for merely entertainment purposes.

The best twitter from last night is one that said something like this: "winners thanks critics for their reviews that viewers read, none of the reviews people read come from critics" (lol); somehow believe reflects a constant changing truth, that's the power of internet nowadays!

Going back to the show, the best moment for me undoubtedly was when Jacob Tremblay won Best Young Actor/Actress as strongly believe he's the only lead in Room (Larson is supporting him) and yes, also believe he gave the most adorable/charming/entertaining/good-television acceptance speech. Bravo! and hope to see much more from him. The second great moment was Alicia Vikander going up to the stage twice!

Most hideous trend of the awards season? Outstanding Carol leaving empty handed and BFCA awards were no exception. Sigh.  Mad Max was the big winner of the night with seven (7) awards out of the 13 nominations it had.

Winners are in *BLUE. To check winners in TV categories go here

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The Broadcast Film Critics Association is the largest film critics organization in the United States and Canada, representing more than 300 television, radio and online critics. Each year BFCA honors the finest achievement in filmmaking with their Critics' Choice Movie Awards and today they announced their nominees.

The winners will be revealed at the awards ceremony, which will broadcast live on A&E from the Hollywood Palladium on January 17th at 8pm ET/ 5pm PT, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica and will be hosted by T. J. Miller. Red carpet broadcast will be during one hour before the show begins.  The awards show will air simultaneously on A&E, Lifetime and LMN.

Mad Max: Fury Road leads the nominations with 13 and finally Charlize Theron has a nomination, as a matter of fact she has 2, one for Best Actress and another for Best Actress in an Action Movie.  Carol, The Martian and The Revenant follow with 9 nominations each; Spotlight has 8, The Big Short 7, and The Hateful Eight with 6.

Remarkable is that Jennifer Lawrence has three nominations for her work in Joy and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2; then with 2 nominations Charlize Theron, Tom Hardy and Rachel McAdams.

Best Picture
The Big Short
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Carol
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Sicario
*Spotlight

Best Foreign Language Film
The Assassin
Goodnight Mommy
Mustang
The Second Mother
*Son of Saul

Best Documentary
*Amy
Cartel Land
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
He Named Me Malala
The Look of Silence
Where to Invade Next

Best Actress
Cate Blanchett in Carol
*Brie Larson in Room
Jennifer Lawrence in Joy
Charlotte Rampling in 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan in Brooklyn
Charlize Theron in Mad Max: Fury Road

Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Jason Leigh in The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara in Carol
Rachel McAdams in Spotlight
Helen Mirren in Trumbo
*Alicia Vikander in The Danish Girl
Kate Winslet in Steve Jobs

Best Actor
Bryan Cranston in Trumbo
Matt Damon in The Martian
Johnny Depp in Black Mass
*Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant
Michael Fassbender in Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne in The Danish Girl

Best Supporting Actor
Paul Dano in Love & Mercy
Tom Hardy in The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo in Spotlight
Mark Rylance in Bridge of Spies
Michael Shannon in 99 Homes
*Sylvester Stallone in Creed

Best Young Actor/Actress
Abraham Attah in Beasts of No Nation
RJ Cyler in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Shameik Moore in Dope
Milo Parker in Mr. Holmes
*Jacob Tremblay in Room

Best Acting Ensemble
The Big Short
The Hateful Eight
*Spotlight
Straight Outta Compton
Trumbo

Best Director
Todd Haynes for Carol
Alejandro González Iñárritu for The Revenant
Tom McCarthy for Spotlight
*George Miller for Mad Max: Fury Road
Ridley Scott for The Martian
Steven Spielberg for Bridge of Spies

Best Original Screenplay
Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen for Bridge of Spies
Alex Garland for Ex Machina
Quentin Tarantino for The Hateful Eight
Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley for Inside Out
*Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy for Spotlight

Best Adapted Screenplay
*Charles Randolph and Adam McKay for The Big Short
Nick Hornby for Brooklyn
Drew Goddard for The Martian
Emma Donoghue for Room
Aaron Sorkin for Steve Jobs

Best Cinematography
Ed Lachman for Carol
Robert Richardson for The Hateful Eight
John Seale for Mad Max: Fury Road
Dariusz Wolski for The Martian
*Emmanuel Lubezki for The Revenant
Roger Deakins for Sicario

Best Production Design
Adam Stockhausen, Rena DeAngelo for Bridge of Spies
François Séguin, Jennifer Oman and Louise Tremblay for Brooklyn
Judy Becker, Heather Loeffler for Carol
Eve Stewart, Michael Standish for The Danish Girl
*Colin Gibson for Mad Max: Fury Road
Arthur Max, Celia Bobak for The Martian

Best Editing
Hank Corwin for The Big Short
*Margaret Sixel for Mad Max: Fury Road
Pietro Scalia for The Martian
Stephen Mirrione for The Revenant
Tom McArdle for Spotlight

Best Costume Design
Odile Dicks-Mireaux for Brooklyn
Sandy Powell for Carol
Sandy Powell for Cinderella
Paco Delgado for The Danish Girl
*Jenny Beavan for Mad Max: Fury Road

Best Hair & Makeup
Black Mass
Carol
The Danish Girl
The Hateful Eight
*Mad Max: Fury Road
The Revenant

Best Visual Effects
Ex Machina
Jurassic World
*Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
The Walk

Best Animated Feature
Anomalisa
The Good Dinosaur
*Inside Out
The Peanuts Movie
Shaun the Sheep Movie

Best Action Movie
Furious 7
Jurassic World
*Mad Max: Fury Road
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
Sicario

Best Actress in an Action Movie
Emily Blunt in Sicario
Rebecca Ferguson in Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
Bryce Dallas Howard in Jurassic World
Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2
*Charlize Theron in Mad Max: Fury Road

Best Actor in an Action Movie
Daniel Craig in Spectre
Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
*Tom Hardy in Mad Max: Fury Road
Chris Pratt in Jurassic World
Paul Rudd in Ant-Man

Best Comedy
*The Big Short
Inside Out
Joy
Sisters
Spy
Trainwreck

Best Actress in a Comedy
Tina Fey in Sisters
Jennifer Lawrence in Joy
Melissa McCarthy in Spy
*Amy Schumer in Trainwreck
Lily Tomlin in Grandma

Best Actor in a Comedy
*Christian Bale in The Big Short
Steve Carell in The Big Short
Robert De Niro in The Intern
Bill Hader in Trainwreck
Jason Statham in Spy

Best Sci-fi/Horror Movie
*Ex Machina
It Follows
Jurassic World
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian

Best Song
Love Me Like You Do from Fifty Shades of Grey
*See You Again from Furious 7
Til It Happens To You from The Hunting Ground
One Kind of Love from Love & Mercy
Writing’s on the Wall from Spectre
Simple Song #3 from Youth

Best Score
Carter Burwell for Carol
*Ennio Morricone for The Hateful Eight
Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto for The Revenant
Johann Johannsson for Sicaro
Howard Shore for Spotlight

There are too many categories and some are really ridiculous if you check listed nominees, but if you concentrate only in top categories then maybe we have something interesting.  But most remarkable will be the clash of egos IF all nominees attend the TV show, especially the male nominees ...  the likes of Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Sylvester Stallone, Daniel Craig, Tom Hardy, Christian Bale, Robert De Niro, Jason Statham, plus all the male actors from TV shows! (lol).

To check the announcement at the official site go here.  Also announced today by the Broadcast Television Journalists Association, the nominees in the Television categories. To check the TV categories go official site here.

6th My French Film Festival

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The most famous online festival in the net opens today with a lineup of French films that -for the first time- find extremely interesting (finally!). Ten (10) feature films and ten shorts are in the competition section but there are more films in the selection.

The festival runs for a month, from January 18 to February 18 and is available around the world via VOD in the festival site or in 90 countries via iTunes. Also films will be available in theaters near you (check website for locations) and on airplanes.

Festival as a competition has gained more credibility with the addition of the filmmakers jury plus award for the three different juries. Now the awards are the Chopard Filmmakers Prize, the Lacoste Audience Award and the International Press Prize. The juries for the Chopard Filmmakers' Prize and the International Press Prize will meet in Paris during the festival to elect the winning films. The prize-winning films will be screened on Air France flights for a period of 6 months starting in July 2016.

As in the previous editions, all of the short films can be viewed free of charge in all countries and will offer feature films free viewing in Latin America, India, Poland, Russia, Africa, and Romania.

Most interesting are the educational support the fest provides to teachers of French as a foreign language. In this edition there are materials for 8 films and if you're interested in improve your French go here to download the materials.

The Selection this year is presented by sections and no, it's not clearly stated which films are in competition as in the film sections there are 12 films with no specific info. Then we can see that one, the restored version has to be out of competition; while another, the one produced in 2013, suspect it's also not in competition, which leaves us with 10 films in competition. Maybe I'm right but there is no way yet to confirm it.

Feature Films

French Kiss
Even if nobody knows whether or not the French kiss was invented in France, we do know that it has been refined to a certain level of perfection. A kiss shared by two or even three people, between women, between lovers... there's something to please all tastes!

À trois on y va (All About them), Jérôme Bonnell, France and Bellgium, 2015
La Belle Saison (Summertime), Catherine Corsini, France and Belgium, 2015
Les Châteaux de sable (Sand Castles), Olivier Jahan, France, 2015
Henri Henri, Martin Talbot, Canada, 2014

In Your Face
Through the years, French-language cinema has always managed to reinvent itself through an exploration of transgressive themes and aesthetic approaches. The "In Your Face" Section will knock you out!

Alléluia (Alleluia), Fabrice du Welz, Belgium and France, 2015
Un Français (French Blood), Diastème, France, 2015

Paris Comedy
Paris is by no means a sleepy museum city, nor is it just a town for tourists. No way! The true Parisians, the artists, intellectuals, and even the grouchy locals fall in love in stunning apartments, in the streets, at the theater, or when visiting museums... How French is that?

20 ans d'écart (It Boy), David Moreau, France, 2013
Caprice, Emmanuel Mouret, France, 2015
Un peu, beaucoup, aveuglément (Blind Date), Clovis Cornillac, France 2015

Crime Scene
If France is the land of lovers and artists, it is also the theater of terrifying crimes. Deep in the countryside in the midst of a heat wave or in Paris in the dark of night, danger is in every direction.

L'Affaire SK1 ( SK1), Frédéric Tellier, France, 2014
Coup de chaud (Heatwave), Raphaël Jacoulot, France and Belgium, 2015
*Ascenseur pour l'échafaud - version restaurée(Elevator to The Gallows - restored version), Louis Malle, France, 1957

*Cinemas, Cinemas
A documentary on what actors and directors from around the world think about French cinema, another one about the status of women in movie-making today… two highly instructive and refreshing documentaries are on the program this year!

Cinéast(e)s, Mathieu Busson y Julie Gayet, France, 2014
French Cinema mon amour, Damien Cabrespines y Anne-Solen Douguet, France, 2015

*Out of Competition

Check the outstanding Filmmakers' Jury for this edition
President: Nicolas Winding Refn, Denmark
David Robert Mitchell, USA
Felix van Groeningen, France
Marjani Satrapi, France
Valérie Donzelli, France

Short Films

Animation
If there's one country in the world whose animated films are taking the world by storm at this time, it's France! This year, to illustrate French animated filmmakers' savoir faire, we present a selection of the best animated shorts to be seen right now.

Le Repas dominical (Sunday Lunch), Céline Devaux
H recherche F (M Seeking W), Marina Moshkova
Dernière Porte au sud (Last Door South), Sacha Feiner

Lost Generation
While young French filmmakers are often overflowing with talent and promise, they sometimes portray a sad reality: that of an aimless and tormented youth… a lost generation.

Errance (The Wanderer), Peter Dourountzis
Essaie de mourir jeune (Try to Die Young), Morgan Simon
Toutes des connes (Life's a Bitch), François Jaros

Women's Tales
Not only are women more and more active behind the camera nowadays, but they are also even more present in front of the lens. 5 short films showcase 5 portraits of women today.

Belle Gueule (Summer of Sarah), Emma Benestan
Au sol (Grounded), Alexis Michalik
La Fin du dragon (The Dragon's Demise), Marina Diaby
Les Filles (Girls), Alice Douard
Jeunesse des loups garous (Monsters turn into Lovers), Yann Delattre

To check info about each of the films go here but will do a brief analysis to help you chose what to see.

First let me share that each year what I watch first are the short films, all in one sitting, not only they're free but in previous editions short films have been a lot better than feature films in the selection. Then comes the careful selection of what to see as most of you know my deep love for French cinema BUT it's not for all French cinema as I like French cinema that can be labeled as auteurs cinema, art-house cinema, great cinema or simply the good non-commercial cinema (lol!).

Current edition has some interesting films but none as interesting and must-be-seen as La Belle Saison by Catherine Corsini with Cécile De France, film premiered at 2015 Locarno fest where won the Variety Piazza Grande Award and had the North American premiere at Toronto fest. Film has 5 nominations at Les Lumières and I expect will also get some César nominations.

Next we have Alléluia by Fabrice Du Welz with none other than Lola Dueñas. Film premiered at 2014 Cannes Directors' Fortnight and not sure if will enjoy it (suspect will be not-easy-to-watch), but definitively will give it a chance. The third must-be-seen film is the 2015 Cannes in competition for a Palm d'Or short film by Céline Devaux, Les Repas Dominical (Sunday Lunch) that won the Silver Hugo for Best Animated Short at 2015 Chicago fest.

Because highly enjoy lead actress performances have to see À trois on y va by Jérôme Bonnell starring none other than Anaïs Demoustier. Film premiered at 2015 Moscow fest, was at 2015 Karlovy Vary and recently was at Göteborg fest. Believe film could be light but since when a three-way French film is light? LOL! Yes, must-be-seen for me. Then there is another film with Anaïs Demoustier, Caprice by Emmanuel Mouret but it's a comedy so not really sure if will watch it (yes, highly dislike French comedies).

Last but not least, MyFrenchFilmFestival (MyFFF) is also on the following places.

Website: http://www.myfrenchfilmfestival.com/
Facebook: http://facebook.com/myfrenchfilmfestival
Twitter: @myfff  http://twitter.com/myfff  with hashtag #myFFF2016
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/MyFrenchFilmFestival
DailyMotion: http://www.dailymotion.com/Myfrenchfilmfestival

The very silly official trailer

66th Berlinale Complete Lineup - In Progress

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The last time I did a very long post with everything that's going on at the Berlinale was in 2012; four years later I'm going to try to include in one post all the sections for the 2016 festival. So be prepared for a VERY-LONG post.

The official press conference hasn't happen yet, but organizers have been publishing since the end of last year -and drop by drop-, the films that make the Competition, Panorama, Forum, Generation, Perspektive Deutsches Kino, Berlinale Shorts, Berlinale Special, NATIVe and more festival sections.

No doubt that the best news the festival offers this year is not about the movies but about one particular juror, the International Jury President! Berlinale 2016 big achievement is having persuaded Meryl Streep to be part of a festival jury for the very first time in her very-long and illustrious career. On top and according to US industry publications, she will give a Masterclass to the 300 emerging film professionals taking part in this year's Berlinale Talents program. Know that I will enjoy all the nitty gritty that will surround her during the festival.

The only section that will not be is this post is all about the Teddy30 as there will be specific posts for each anniversary activity and the film list.

The Program Press Conference for the 66th Berlin International Film Festival will be held on February 2, 2016, at 11.00 am in the Press and Information Office of the German Federal Government. This post will be updated after the press conference to become final IF we learn that all films in each section have been announced.

Still to start the fest-fun will publish what we know up-to-today press release that informs the Competitive section is complete.

There are 23 films in the Competition program but only 18 will be competing for the Golden Bear. The following countries are participating in the entire program: Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Sweden, Tunisia, United Kingdom and United States of America. The Award Ceremony will take place at the Berlinale Palast on Saturday, February 20th, 2016.

Competition
Opening Film: Hail Caesar!, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, USA and UK

24 Wochen (24 Weeks), Anne Zohra Berrached, Germany
Alone in Berlin, Vincent Pérez, Germany, France and UK
Boris sans Béatrice (Boris without Beatrice), Denis Côté, Canada
Cartas da guerra (Letters from War), Ivo M. Ferreira, Portugal
长江图 Chang Jian Tu (Crosscurrent), Yang Chao, China
اژدها وارد می‌شود Ejheda Vared Mishavad! (A Dragon Arrives!), Mani Haghighi, Iran
Fuocoammare (Fire at Sea), Gianfranco Rosi, Italy and France (documentary)
Genius, Michael Grandage, UK and USA
Hele Sa Hiwagang Hapis (A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery), Lav Diaz, Philippines and Singapore
(*) Inhebbek Hedi (Hedi), Mohamed Ben Attia, Tunisia, Belgium and France
Kollektivet (The Commune), Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark, Sweden and Netherlands
L'Avenir (Things to Come), Mia Hansen-Løve, France and Germany
Midnight Special, Jeff Nichols, USA
Quand on a 17 ans (Being 17), André Téchiné, France
Smrt u Sarajevu (Death in Sarajevo), Danis Tanović, France and Bosnia Herzegovina
Soy Nero, Rafi Pitts, Germany, France and Mexico
Zero Days, Alex Gibney, USA (documentary)
Zjednoczone Stany Miłości (United States of Love), Tomasz Wasilewski, Poland and Sweden

Out of Competition
Chi-Raq, Spike Lee, USA
Des nouvelles de la planète Mars (News from Planet Mars), Dominik Moll, France and Belgium
Mahana (The Patriarch), Lee Tamahori, New Zealand
Saint Amour, Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern, France and Belgium

International Jury
President: Meryl Streep, USA

Berlinale Special
Berlinale Special will feature current works by contemporary filmmakers, documentaries and unique formats.

Galas
A Quite Passion, Terence Davies, UK and Belgium
Den allvarsamma leken (A Serious Game), Pernilla August, Sweden, Denmark and Norway
クリーピー Kurîpî (Creepy), Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan
Miles Ahead, Don Cheale, USA

Documentaries
National Bird, Sonia Kennebeck, USA
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, Morgan Neville, USA
The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger, Colin MacCabe, Christopher Roth, Bartek Dziadosz, Tilda Swinton, UK
Where To Invade Next, Michael Moore, USA)

Check available trailers and info @MOC

Panorama
Program is not finished yet. There are 30 films confirmed to date, of which 24 are fictional and 6 will run in the Panorama Dokumente, this means that two-thirds of this year's Panorama has been announced. An extra 17 works will screen in the Teddy30 anniversary program; the entire program will be finalized and announced in the coming days.

Main Program
Aloys, Tobias Nölle, Switzerland and France
Goat, Andrew Neel, USA
Grüße aus Fukushima (Fukushima, mon Amour), Doris Dörrie, Germany
(*) Indignation, James Schamus, USA
Já, Olga Hepnarová (I, Olga Hepnarová), Tomáš Weinreb and Petr Kazda, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and France
(*) Jonathan, Piotr J. Lewandowski, Germany
Junction 48, Udi Aloni, Israel, Germany and USA
Kater (Tomcat), Händl Klaus, Austria
La Helada Negra (The Black Frost), Maximiliano Schonfeld, Argentina
لانتوری Lantouri, Reza Dormishian, Iran
Les premiers, les derniers (The First, the Last), Bouli Lanners, France and Belgium
Little Men, Ira Sachs, USA
Maggie's Plan, Rebecca Miller, USA
Nakom, Kelly Daniela Norris and TW Pittman, Ghana and USA
Раненый ангел Ranenyy Angel (The Wounded Angel), Emir Baigazin, Kazakhstan, France and Germany
(*) Remainder, Omer Fast, UK and Germany
S one strane (On the Other Side), Zrinko Ogresta, Croatia and Serbia
جوّع كلبك Starve Your Dog, Hicham Lasri, Morocco
(*) Sufat Chol (Sand Storm), Elite Zexer, Israel
Théo et Hugo dans le même bateau (Paris 05:59), Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, France
(*) The Ones Below, David Farr, UK
女が眠る時 Onna ga Nemuru Toki (While the Women Are Sleeping), Wayne Wang, Japan

Panorama Special
Opening Films:
El Rey del Once (The Tenth Man), Daniel Burman, Argentina
War on Everyone, John Michael McDonagh, UK

Panorama Dokumente
Der Ost-Komplex (The GDR Complex), Jochen Hick, Germany
Don't Blink - Robert Frank, Laura Israel, USA and France
Hotel Dallas, Livia Ungur and Sherng-Lee Huang, Romania and USA
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures, Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, USA and Germany
Mariupolis, Mantas Kvedaravicius, Lithuania, Germany, France and Ukraine
Uncle Howard, Aaron Brookner, UK and USA

Check Panorama available trailers and info @MOC

Forum
The 46th Berlinale Forum will show a total of 44 films in its main program, of which 34 are world premieres and nine international premieres. One regional focus of this year’s program is the Arab region. Films shot by often young directors from an area that stretches between Egypt and Saudi Arabia explore both the past and present of their homelands

Main Program
A Magical Substance Flows into Me, Jumana Manna, Palestinian Territories, UK and UAW
Akher ayam el madina (In the Last Days of the City), Tamer El Said, Egypt, Germany, UK and UAE
And-Ek Ghes..., Colorado Velcu and Philip Scheffner, Germany
Aru michi (A Road), Daichi Sugimoto, Japan
(*) Baden Baden, Rachel Lang, Belgium and France
Barakah yoqabil Barakah (Barakah Meets Barakah) by Mahmoud Sabbagh, Saudi Arabia - WP
Bein gderot (Between Fences) by Avi Mograbi, Israel / France - WP
Dans les bois (The Wandering) by Guillaume Nicloux, France - WP
Deadweight by Axel Koenzen, Germany / Finland - WP
Dubina dva (Depth Two) by Ognjen Glavonić, Serbia - WP
Eldorado XXI by Salomé Lamas, Portugal / France - WP
Elixir by Daniil Zinchenko, Russian Federation - IP
Fantastic by Offer Egozy, USA - WP
Fei cui zhi cheng (City of Jade) by Midi Z, Taiwan / Myanmar - WP
Le Fils de Joseph (The Son of Joseph) by Eugène Green, France / Belgium - WP
Die Geträumten (The Dreamed Ones) by Ruth Beckermann, Austria - WP
Havarie by Philip Scheffner, Germany - WP
火Hee by Kaori Momoi, Japan - WP
Homo sapiens by Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Austria - WP
How Heavy This Hammer by Kazik Radwanski, Canada - IP
Ilegitim (Illegitimate) by Adrian Sitaru, Rumania / Poland / France - WP
Inertia by Idan Haguel, Israel - IP
Kate Plays Christine by Robert Greene, USA - IP
Landstück (Piece of Land) by Volker Koepp, Germany - WP
Lao Shi (Old Stone) by Johnny Ma, People’s Republic of China / Canada - WP
Liliom Ösvény (Lily Lane) by Bence Fliegauf, Hungary - WP
Makhdoumin (A Maid for Each) by Maher Abi Samra, Lebanon / France / Norway - WP
Manazil bela abwab (Houses without Doors) by Avo Kaprealian, Syria / Lebanon - WP
Maquinaria Panamericana (Panamerican Machinery) by Joaquín del Paso, Mexico / Poland - WP
Nikdy nejsme sami (We Are Never Alone) by Petr Vaclav, Czech Republic / France - WP
P.S. Jerusalem by Danae Elon, Canada - EP
Posto avançado do progresso (An Outpost of Progress) by Hugo Vieira da Silva, Portugal - WP
The Revolution Won’t Be Televised by Rama Thiaw, Senegal - WP
Rio Corgo by Maya Kosa, Sergio da Costa, Switzerland / Portugal - IP
Les Sauteurs (Those Who Jump) by Moritz Siebert, Estephan Wagner, Abou Bakar Sidibé, Denmark - WP
Short Stay by Ted Fendt, USA - WP
Ta’ang by Wang Bing, Hong Kong, China / France - WP (documentary)
Tales of Two Who Dreamt by Andrea Bussmann, Nicolás Pereda, Canada / Mexico - WP
Tempestad by Tatiana Huezo, Mexico - WP
Toz bezi (Dust Cloth) by Ahu Öztürk, Turkey / Germany - IP
Trivisa by Frank Hui, Vicky Wong, Jevons Au, Hong Kong, China - WP
Vlažnost (Humidity) by Nikola Ljuca, Serbia / The Netherlands / Greece - WP
Yarden (The Yard) by Måns Månsson, Sweden / Germany - IP
Zhī fán yè mào (Life after Life) by Zhang Hanyi, People’s Republic of China - WP

Forum Expanded
The theme of this year’s Forum Expanded is “Traversing the Phantasm”. Forum Expanded is curated by Stefanie Schulte Strathaus (head curator), Anselm Franke, Nanna Heidenreich, Bettina Steinbrügge and Ulrich Ziemons.

A Boy Needs a Friend by Steve Reinke (Canada / USA)
Abu Ammar is Coming by Naeem Mohaiemen (Bangladesh / Lebanon / United Kingdom)
Al Marhala Al Rabiaa (The Fourth Stage) by Ahmad Ghossein (Lebanon / United Arab Emirates)
Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson (Canada)
Bunker Drama by Mike Crane (USA / Lithuania)
The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun by Anton Vidokle (USA / Kazakhstan)
Continuity by Omer Fast (Germany)
La Cupola by Volker Sattel (Germany)
ESIOD 2015 by Clemens von Wedemeyer (Austria / Germany)
Expired by Islam Kamal (Egypt)
Fathy La Yaeesh Hona Baad Ala'n (Fathy Doesn't Live Here Anymore) by Maged Nader (Egypt)
From the Notebook of... by Robert Beavers (USA)
Fugue by Kerstin Schroedinger (Germany)
The Illinois Parables by Deborah Stratman (USA)
In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain by Larissa Sansour, Søren Lind (Palestinian Territories / Denmark / United Kingdom / Qatar)
Invention by Mark Lewis (Canada / United Kingdom)
Kama Tohalleq al Teyour (As Birds Flying) by Heba Amin (Egypt)
The Lamps by Shelly Silver (USA)
Le Corbusier [IIIII] Asger Jorn [Relief] by Heinz Emigholz (Germany / Denmark)
Mannerlaatta (Tectonic Plate) by Mika Taanila (Finland)
Moderation by Anja Kirschner (Greece / Italy / Egypt / United Kingdom)
Muito Romântico by Melissa Dullius, Gustavo Jahn (Germany / Brazil)
Now: End of Season by Ayman Nahle (Lebanon)
O Pássaro da Noite by Marie Losier (Portugal / France)
The Right by Assaf Gruber (Germany / Poland)
Ruina by Gabraz Sanna (Brazil)
Sign Space by Hila Peleg (Germany)
Stones Gods People by Joe Namy (Lebanon)
Transmission from the Liberated Zones by Filipa César (Portugal / France / Germany)
Wadee'at tasallul (Offside) by Marwan Hamdan (Lebanon)
We Demand by Claudrena N. Harold, Kevin Jerome Everson (USA)
Zakerat Abad El Shams (A Stroll Down Sunflower Lane) by Mayye Zayed (Egypt)

To check Performance, Reading, Exhibitions and other events go official site here.

Generation
A total of 63 feature-length and short films produced or co-produced in 35 countries have been invited to participate in the two competitions Generation Kplus and Generation 14plus. The program was selected from around 2000 feature-length and short films submitted to Generation this year, which is more than in any year previously.

Feature Films

Generation Kplus
ENTE GUT! Mädchen allein zu Haus (Fortune Favors the Brave), Norbert Lechner, Germany
Genç Pehlivanlar (Young Wrestlers), Mete Gümürhan, Turkey and Netherlands
Jamais contente, Emilie Deleuze, France
Little Men, Ira Sachs, USA (will also be presented at Panorama)
Mavi Bisiklet (Blue Bicycle), Ümit Köreken, Turkey and Germany
Ottaal (The Trap), Jayaraj Rajashekaran Nair, India
(*) Rara, Pepa San Martín, Chile and Argentina
Rauf, Barış Kaya and Soner Caner, Turkey
Siv sover vilse (Siv Sleeps Astray), Catti Edfeldt and Lena Hanno Clyne, Sweden and Netherlands
Solan og Ludvig - Herfra til Flåklypa (Louis & Nolan – The Big Cheeserace), rasmus Sivertsen, Norway
Ted Sieger’s Molly Monster – Der Kinofilm (Ted Sieger’s Molly Monster), Ted Sieger, Matthias Bruhn and Michael Ekbladh, Germany, Switzerland and Sweden
Woorideul (The World of Us), Yoon Ga-eun, Korea
Zud, Marta Minorowicz, Germany and Poland

Generation 14plus
6A, Peter Modestij, Sweden
Ani ve snu! (In Your Dreams!), Petr Oukropec, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Bulgaria
Avant les rues (Before the Streets), Chloé Leriche, Canada
Born to Dance, Tammy Davis, New Zealand
El soñador (The Dreamer), Adrián Saba, Peru and France
Es esmu šeit (Mellow Mud), Renars Vimba, Latvia
Girl Asleep, Rosemary Myers, Australia
Las Plantas (Plants), Roberto Doveris, Chile
Ma Révolution (My Revolution), Ramzi Ben Sliman, France
Royahaye Dame Sobh (Starless Dreams), Mehrdad Oskouei, Iran
Sairat (Wild), Nagraj Manjule, India
Triapichniy Soyuz (Rag Union), Mikhail Mestetskiy, Russia
Valderama, Abbas Amini, Iran
What's in the Darkness, Yichun Wang, China
Zhaleika, Eliza Petkova, Germany

Short Films

Generation Kplus
Aurelia y Pedro (Aurelia and Pedro), Mexico, by Omar Robles, José Permar - WP
Cats & Dogs, Switzerland / Germany, by Gerd Gockell, Jesús Pérez (Berlinale Generation Kplus 2011: Der große Bruder) – IP
Chopping Onions, USA, by Adinah Dancyger – EP
El inicio de Fabrizio (Fabrizio’s Initiation), Argentina, by Mariano Biasin – IP
En la azotea (On the Roof), Spain, Damià Serra Cauchetiez - IP
Kill Your Dinner, Australia, by Bryn Chainey - WP
Le renard minuscule (The Teeny-Weeny Fox), France / Switzerland / Belgium, by Aline Quertain, Sylwia Szkiladz – IP
Lili, Denmark / Great Britain, by Siri Melchior (Berlinale Generation Kplus 2010: Fløjteløs) – WP
Little Doll, Ireland, by Kate Dolan – WP
Neiwa, Mexico, by Abraham Cruz Herrera, Javier Vázquez Cervantes – WP
Nina, Belgium, by Emmanuel Elliah, Maria Körkel – WP
Ninnoc, Netherlands, by Niki Padidar – IP
Semele, USA / Cyprus, by Myrsini Aristidou – EP
Simon's Cat: Off to the Vet, Great Britain, by Simon Tofield – IP
Skatekeet, Netherlands, by Edward Cook - IP
Take Your Partners, Great Britain, by Siri Rodnes –WP
The Boyfried Game, Australia, by Alice Englert – EP
Zeezucht (Jonas and the Sea), Netherlands, by Marlies van der Wel – EP

Generation 14plus
Balcony, Great Britain, by Toby Fell-Holden – IP
Berlin Metanoia, Germany, by Erik Schmitt (Berlinale Generation 14plus 2013: Nashorn im Galopp) – WP
Blind Vaysha, Canada, by Theodore Ushev – WP
Carousel, Great Britain, by Kal Weber – WP
Crystal Lake, USA, by Jennifer Reeder (Berlinale Shorts 2015: Blood Below the Skin) – WP
El Edén (Eden), Colombia, by Andrés Ramírez Pulido – WP
Jacked, Great Britain, by Rene Pannevis – IP
Kroppen är en ensam plats (The Body Is a Lonely Place), Sweden, by Ida Lindgren – WP
Léchez-nous, Miaou, Miaou! (Lick Us, Meow, Meow!), Switzerland, by Marie de Maricourt – IP
Mamma vet bäst (Mother Knows Best), Sweden, by Mikael Bundsen – WP
Mushkie, Israel, by Aleeza Chanowitz – WP
O noapte in Tokoriki (A Night in Tokoriki), Romania, by Roxane Stroe – WP
Refugee Blues, Great Britain, by Stephan Bookas, Tristan Daws – WP
Sensiz (Without You), Ukraine, by Nariman Aliev – WP
Spoetnik, Netherlands, by Noёl Loozen – IP
That Day, USA, by Stephanie Ard, WP
The Ballad of Immortal Joe, Canada, by Hector Herrera – EP

Perspektive Deutsches Kino
Die Prüfung (The Audition), Till Harms
Lotte, Julius Schultheiß
(*) Meteorstraße (Meteor Street), Aline Fischer
TORO, Martin Hawie
(*) Wir sind die Flut (We Are the Tide), Sebastian Hilger

Short Films
A Quiet Place, Ronny Dörfler, 24'
Research Refugees: Meinungsaustausch (Research Refugees: Duologue), Sophia Bösch and Sophie Linnenbaum, 4'
11 Short Films by students of the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf and the Bauhaus Universiät Weimar about the current refugee situation

(*) First Feature in competition for the Best First Feature Award

Berlinale Shorts
25 films from 21 countries compete for the Golden and Silver Bear, the nominee for the European Film Awards and, for the second consecutive year, the Audi Short Film Award.

Another City, Pham Ngoc Lan, Vietnam, 25’ (WP)
Bai Niao (White Bird), Wu Linfeng, People’s Republic of China, 30’ (WP)
Balada de um Batráquio (Batrachian's Ballad), Leonor Teles, Portugal, 11’ (WP)
El Buzo (The Diver), Esteban Arrangoiz, Mexico, 16’ (IP)
Das águas que passam (Running Waters), Diego Zon, Brazil, 23’ (WP)
Estate (Summer), Ronny Trocker, France / Belgium, 7’ (WP)
Freud und Friends (Freud and Friends), Gabriel Abrantes, Portugal, 23’ (EP)
He Who Eats Children, Ben Russell, USA, 25’ (WP)
Hopptornet (Ten Meter Tower), Axel Danielson & Maximilien Van Aertryck, Sweden, 17’ (IP)
In the Soldier's Head, Christine Rebet, USA / France, 4’ (WP)
Jin zhi xia mao (Anchorage Prohibited), Chiang Wei Liang, Taiwan, 16’ (IP)
Kaputt (Broken – The Women’s Prison at Hoheneck), Volker Schlecht & Alexander Lahl, Germany, 7’ (WP)
Love, Réka Bucsi, France / Hungary, 14’ (WP)
A Man Returned, Mahdi Fleifel, United Kingdom / Netherlands / Denmark, 30’ (IP)
Moms On Fire, Joanna Rytel, Sweden, 12’ (IP)
Notre Héritage (Our Legacy), Jonathan Vinel in collaboration with Caroline Poggi, France, 24’ (WP)
Oustaz, Bentley Brown, Chad, 21’ (WP)
personne, Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller, Germany, 15’ (WP)
Prelude to the General, Pimpaka Towira, Thailand, 11’ (WP)
Reluctantly Queer, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Ghana / USA, 8’ (WP)
Six Cents in the Pocket, Ricky D’Ambrose, USA, 14’ (IP)
Tsomet Haruhot (Winds Junction), Rotem Murat, Israel, 22’ (IP)
Die Unzugänglichkeit der griechischen Antike und ihre Folgen (The Inaccessibility of Ancient Greece and Its Impact), Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann & Paul Spengemann, Germany, 13’ (WP)
Vintage Print, Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Austria, 13’ (IP)
Vita Lakamaya, Akihito Izuhara, Japan, 8’ (WP)

Out of Competition
Los murmullos (Murmurings), Rubén Gámez, Mexico, 25’

International Short Film Jury
Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi, UAE
Katerina Gregos, Greece
Avi Mograbi, Israel

NATIVe
With mixed feelings this year’s NATIVe is saying goodbye to last year’s focus on Latin America and welcoming the Arctic as next year’s geographical focus. In the 2016 NATIVe programme, which will bridge the gap between the two editions, one film will represent each of these regions. They will provide the impetus to carry on the journey into the far north.

El abrazo de la serpiente (Embrace of the Serpent), Ciro Guerra, Colombia, Venezuela and Argentina, 2015
Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change, Zacharias Kunuk and Ian Mauro, Canada, 2010

Retrospective & Homage

Culinary Cinema
“Make Food Not War” is the motto of the 10th Culinary Cinema.
Ants on a Shrimp, Maurice Dekkers, Netherlands (documentary)
Café Nagler, Mor Kplansky, Israel and Germany (documentary)
Campo a través. Mugaritz, intuyendo un camino. (Off-Road. Mugaritz, Feeling a Way.), Pep Gatell, Spain (documentary)
Cooked - Fire/Air, Alex Gibney and Ryan Miller, USA (documentary-series)
How to Build an Igloo, Douglas Wilkinson, Canada
In Defense of Food, Michael Schwarz, USA (documentary)
Kivalina, Gina Abatemarco, USA (documentary)
Need for Meat, Marijn Frank, Netherlands (documentary)
Noma-My Perfect Storm, Pierre Deschamps, UK (documentary)
Portret van een tuin (Portrait of a Garden), Rosie Stapel, Netherlands (documentary
The Singhampton Project, Jonathan Staav, Canada (documentary)
Vormittags-Spuk, Hans Richter, Germany
Wanton Mee, Eric Khoo, Singapur (docu-fiction)

Berlinale Talent Campus

European Film Market & Co-Production Market
The second edition of its exclusive “CoPro Series” event has seven selected series projects that will be looking for co-production and financing partners.

Selected Projects for “CoPro Series” 2016
The Disappearance (23/5 Filmproduktion), Germany
Avrupa (Circe Film), The Netherlands
The Illegal (Conquering Lion Pictures), Canada
Wars Inc. (Drama Team), Israel
Brotherhood (Friland Produksjon), Norway
Lucky Per (Nordisk Film Production), Denmark

Project selected in cooperation with Séries Mania
DNA (Eyeworks Scandi Fiction), Denmark

World Cinema Fund

Special Presentations

2016 César Awards - Les Révélations Nominations

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Earlier this morning the Academy announced the nominations for the #César2016 and below are the ten actors that are honored with a nomination.

There are not many surprises but believe that Sophie Verbeeck deserved at least a nomination but perhaps she lost because the unfortunate singing scene (lol). Nevertheless she gave a great performance in A trois on y va as she has very little to say and lots of silences that say all. Sigh.

Nominees are in *BLUE.

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11/16/15
After the horrifying news that come from Paris since last Friday, a brief warm air came today with the announcement of the thirty-two (32) actors that were selected by the Academy as the Newcomers Selection.

Now the 4276 French Academy members will vote to select the nominees in the 2016 César Awards Best Female Newcomer and Best Male Newcomer categories.

Les Révélations 2016

Actresses
Mathilde Bisson in Au plus près du soleil
*Camille Cottin in Connasse, Princesse des coeurs
Lucie Debay in Melody
*Sara Giraudeau in Les Bêtises
*Zita Hanrot in Fatima
Stacy Martin in Taj Mahal
Freya Mavor in La Dame dans l’auto avec des lunettes et un fusil
Baya Medhaffar in À peine j’ouvre les yeux
Lena Paugam in L’Ombre des femmes
*Diane Rouxel in La Tête haute
*Lou Roy-Lecollinet in Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse
Georgia Scalliet in L’Odeur de la mandarine
Noémie Schmidt in L’Étudiante et Monsieur Henri
Pauline Serieys in Une famille à louer
Sarah Suco in Discount
Lily Taieb in Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse
Sophie Verbeeck in À trois on y va

Actors
*Swann Arlaud in Les Anarchistes
Jules Benchetrit in Asphalte
Mehdi Djaadi in Je suis à vous tout de suite
*Quentin Dolmaire in Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse
Khereddine Ennasri in Nous trois ou rien
Aurélien Gabrielli in Quand je ne dors pas
Kheiron in Nous trois ou rien
Karim Leklou in Coup de chaud
Alban Lenoir in Un Français
Martin Loizillon in Fever
Sâm Mirhosseini in Ni le ciel ni la terre
*Félix Moati in À trois on y va
*Finnegan Oldfield in Les Cowboys
Harmandeep Palminder in Bébé Tigre
*Rod Paradot in La Tête haute
Syrus Shahidi in Une histoire de fou

To read the official press release go here.  Nominations will be announced in a press conference on January 27th and on February 26 the 41st César Awards ceremony will take place at Théâtre du Châtele.

Soirée César & Révélations 2016



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