In 1998, Raindance created the British Independent Film Awards to celebrate merit and achievement in independently funded British filmmaking. The awards also honor new talent and promote British films and filmmaking to a wider public.
On Tuesday, November 1, 2016, the nominations for the 2015/19th Moët British Independent Film Awards were announced in London. The winners will be announced at The Moët British Independent Film Awards on Sunday, December 4, 2016 at Old Billingsgate. The event, hosted by Jennifer Saunders, will be live streamed on www.bifa.film.
The 2016 / 19th Moët British Independent Film Awards nominations:
BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM
AMERICAN HONEY Andrea Arnold, Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy, Pouya Shahbazian, Alice Weinberg, Thomas Benski, Lucas Ochoa
COUPLE IN A HOLE Tom Geens, Zorana Piggott
I, DANIEL BLAKE Ken Loach, Paul Laverty, Rebecca O’Brien
NOTES ON BLINDNESS Peter Middleton, James Spinney, Mike Brett, Jo-Jo Ellison, Steve Jamison, Alex Usborne
UNDER THE SHADOW Babak Anvari, Emily Leo, Oliver Roskill, Lucan Toh
INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM
HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE Taika Waititi, Carthew Neal, Matt Noonan, Leanne Saunders
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA Kenneth Lonergan, Kimberly Steward, Matt Damon, Chris Moore, Lauren Beck, Kevin J. Walsh
MOONLIGHT Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner
MUSTANG Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Alice Winocour, Charles Gillibert
TONI ERDMANN Maren Ade, Janine Jackowski, Jonas Dornbach, Michel Merkt
DIRECTOR
ANDREA ARNOLD American Honey
BABAK ANVARI Under the Shadow
BEN WHEATLEY Free Fire
KEN LOACH I, Daniel Blake
PETER MIDDLETON, JAMES SPINNEY, Notes on Blindness
SCREENPLAY
ANDREA ARNOLD American Honey
BABAK ANVARI Under the Shadow
BILLY O’BRIEN, CHRISTOPHER HYDE I Am Not a Serial Killer
PAUL LAVERTY I, Daniel Blake
RACHEL TUNNARD Adult Life Skills
ACTRESS
HAYLEY SQUIRES I, Daniel Blake
JODIE WHITTAKER Adult Life Skills
KATE DICKIE Couple in a Hole
NARGES RASHIDI Under the Shadow
SASHA LANE American Honey
ACTOR
DAVE JOHNS I, Daniel Blake
MAX RECORDS I Am Not a Serial Killer
MICHAEL FASSBENDER Trespass Against Us
SHIA LABEOUF American Honey
STEVE BRANDON My Feral Heart
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
AVIN MANSHADI Under the Shadow
GEMMA ARTERTON The Girl With All the Gifts
NAOMIE HARRIS Our Kind of Traitor
SHANA SWASH My Feral Heart
TERRY PHETO A United Kingdom
SUPPORTING ACTOR
ARINZÉ KENE The Pass
BRETT GOLDSTEIN Adult Life Skills
CHRISTOPHER LLOYD I Am Not a Serial Killer
JAMIE DORNAN Anthropoid
SEAN HARRIS Trespass Against Us
DOCUMENTARY
THE CONFESSION: LIVING THE WAR ON TERROR Ashish Ghadiali, James Rogan
DANCER Steven Cantor, Gabrielle Tana
THE HARD STOP George Amponsah, Dionne Walker
NOTES ON BLINDNESS Peter Middleton, James Spinney, Mike Brett, Jo-Jo Ellison, Steve Jamison, Alex Usborne
VERSUS: THE LIFE AND FILMS OF KEN LOACH Louise Osmond, Rebecca O’Brien
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN CRAFT
JOAKIM SUNDSTRÖM Sound – Notes on Blindness
PAUL MONAGHAN, MAT WHITECROSS Editing – Supersonic
ROBBIE RYAN Cinematography – American Honey
SEB BARKER Visual Effects – The Girl With All the Gifts
SHAHEEN BAIG Casting – Free Fire
THE DOUGLAS HICKOX AWARD (DEBUT DIRECTOR)
ADAM SMITH Trespass Against Us
ALICE LOWE Prevenge
BABAK ANVARI Under the Shadow
PETER MIDDLETON, JAMES SPINNEY Notes on Blindness
RACHEL TUNNARD Adult Life Skills
DEBUT SCREENWRITER
ED TALFAN The Passing (Yr Ymadawiad)
HOPE DICKSON LEACH The Levelling
JOHN CAIRNS, MICHAEL McCARTNEY A Patch of Fog
RACHEL TUNNARD Adult Life Skills
SIMON FARNABY, JULIAN BARRATT Mindhorn
BREAKTHROUGH PRODUCER
CAMILLE GATIN The Girl With All the Gifts
DIONNE WALKER The Hard Stop
MICHAEL BERLINER Adult Life Skills
MIKE BRETT, JO-JO ELLISON, STEVE JAMISON Notes on Blindness
PAUL FEGAN Where You’re Meant to Be
MOST PROMISING NEWCOMER
DAVE JOHNS I, Daniel Blake
HAYLEY SQUIRES I, Daniel Blake
LETITIA WRIGHT Urban Hymn
SENNIA NANUA The Girl With All the Gifts
STEVE BRANDON My Feral Heart
THE DISCOVERY AWARD
BLACK MOUNTAIN POETS Jamie Adams, Jon Rennie
THE DARKEST UNIVERSE Tom Kingsley, Will Sharpe, Tiani Ghosh, Jo-Jo Ellison
THE GHOUL Gareth Tunley, Jack Healy Guttmann, Tom Meeten
GOZO Miranda Bowen, Leo Scott
THE GREASY STRANGLER Jim Hosking, Toby Harvard, Daniel Noah, Andrew Starke, Ant Timpson, Josh C Waller, Elijah Wood
BRITISH SHORT
JACKED Rene Pannevis, Ashish Ghadiali, Jennifer Eriksson
MOTHER Leo Leigh, Scott O’Donnell
OVER Jörn Threlfall, Jeremy Bannister
RATE ME Fyzal Boulifa, Taina Galis
THE WRONG END OF THE STICK Terri Matthews, Chris Cornwell, Sam Bank
The BIFA Variety Award:
Naomie Harris
(The Variety Award recognises a director, actor, writer or producer who has made a global impact and helped to focus the international spotlight on the UK.)
The Richard Harris Award:
Alison Steadman
(The Richard Harris Award was introduced in 2002 in honour of Richard Harris and recognises outstanding contribution to British film by an actor.)
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Thursday, December 1, 2016
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
2016 European Film Award Nominations Announced
The European Film Awards recognize
excellence in European cinematic achievements. The awards are are
presented annually since 1988 by the European Film Academy and are
given in over ten categories, of which the most important is
“European Film,” the best film of the year award. The European
Film Awards are restricted to European cinema and European producers,
directors, and actors.
On Friday, November 5, 2016, the
nominations for the 29th European Film Awards were announced in
Seville, Spain. The EFA, in collaboration with the European Film
Academy and EFA Productions, honor the greatest achievements in
European cinema at the 2016 European Film Awards on December 10, 2016
in Wroclaw, Poland.
2016 / 29th European Film Awards
nominations:
BEST EUROPEAN FILM
“Elle,” (Paul Verhoeven, France,
Germany)
“I, Daniel Blake,” (Ken Loach,
U.K., France)
“Julieta,” (Pedro Almodóvar,
Spain)
“Room,” (Lenny Abrahamson, Ireland,
Canada)
“Toni Erdmann,” (Maren Ade,
Germany, Austria)
BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR
Paul Verhoeven
Cristian Mungiu, (“Graduation,”
Romania, France, Belgium)
Ken Loach
Pedro Almodóvar
Maren Ade, (“Toni Erdmann”)
BEST EUROPEAN ACTOR
Rolf Lassgård, (“A Man Called Ove”)
Hugh Grant, (“Florence Foster
Jenkins”)
Dave Johns, (“Blake”)
Burghart Klaußner, (“The People vs.
Fritz Bauer”)
Peter Simonischek, (“Erdmann”)
Javier Cámara, (“Truman”)
BEST EUROPEAN ACTRESS
Isabelle Huppert, (“Elle”)
Emma Suárez & Adriana Ugarte,
(“Julieta”)
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, (“Like
Crazy”)
Trine Dyrholm, (“The Commune”)
Sandra Hüller, (“Toni Erdmann”)
BEST EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER
Cristian Mungiu, (“Graduation”)
Paul Laverty, (“Blake”)
Emma Donoghue, (“Room”)
Maren Ade, (“Toni Erdmann”)
Tomasz Wasilewski, (“United States of
Love”)
BEST EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY
“The Land Of The Enlightened,”
(Pieter-Jan De Pue, Belgium, Ireland, the Netherlands)
“21 X New York,” (Piotr
Stasik,Poland)
“Mr. Gaga,” (Tomer Heymann, Israel,
Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands)
“S is for Stanley – 30 Years At The
Wheel For Stanley Kubrick,” (Alex Infascelli, Italy)
“A Family Affair,” (Tom Fassaert,
the Netherlands, Belgium)
“Fire At Sea,” (Gianfranco Rosi,
Italy, France)
BEST EUROPEAN ANIMATED FEATURE
“My Life as a Zucchini,” (Claude
Barras, France, Switzerland)
“Psiconautas, the forgotten
children,” (Pedro Rivero, Alberto Vázquez, Spain)
“The Red Turtle” (Michael Dudok de
Wit, Japan, France, Belgium)
BEST EUROPEAN COMEDY
“A Man Called Ove,” (Hannes Holm,
Sweden, Norway)
“Look Who’s Back;” (David Wnendt,
Germany)
“La Vache,” (Mohamed Hamidi,
France)
FIPRESCI PRIZE – BEST EUROPEAN
DISCOVERY
“Dogs,” (Bogdan Mirica, France,
Romania, Bulgaria, Qatar)
“Liebmann” (Jules Herrmann,
Germany)
“Sand Storm,” (Elite Zexer, Israel)
“The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli
Mäki,” (Juho Kuosmanen, Finland, Sweden, Germany)
“Thirst,” (Svetla Tsotsorkova,
Bulgaria)
EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY FILM AWARD
“Fire at Sea,” (Gianfranco Rosi,
Italy, France)
“Graduation”
“I, Daniel Blake”
“The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli
Mäki”
“Toni Erdmann”
BEST EUROPEAN SHORT
“The Wall”
“Edmond”
“The Goodbye”
“90 Degrees North”
“We All Love The Sea Shore”
“In The Distance”
“A Man Returned”
“Small Talk”
“I’m Not From Here”
“Home”
“The Fullness Of Time (Romance)”
“Limbo”
“Amalimbo”
“9 Days – From My Window In Aleppo”
Lifetime Achievement Award: Jean-Claude
Carrière
Achievement in World Cinema Award:
Pierce Brosnan
Young Audience Award: Émilie Deleuze -
Miss Impossible
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Monday, August 15, 2016
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Invites New Members - Writers, Directors, and Producers
ACADEMY INVITES 683 TO MEMBERSHIP
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is extending invitations to join the organization to 683 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures. Those who accept the invitations will be the only additions to the Academy’s membership in 2016.
18 individuals (noted by an asterisk) have been invited to join the Academy by multiple branches. These individuals must select one branch upon accepting membership.
New members will be welcomed into the Academy at an invitation-only reception in the fall.
Learn more: http://www.oscars.org/2016class
The 2016 invitees are:
Directors
Lenny Abrahamson – “Room,” “Frank”
Naji Abu Nowar – “Theeb”
Maren Ade – “Everyone Else,” “The Forest for the Trees”
Lexi Alexander – “Punisher: War Zone,” “Green Street Hooligans”
Haifaa al-Mansour – “Wadjda”
Ana Lily Amirpour – “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night”
Amma Asante – “Belle,” “A Way of Life”
Katie Aselton – “Black Rock,” “The Freebie”
Ramin Bahrani – “99 Homes,” “At Any Price”
Anna Boden – “Mississippi Grind,” “It’s Kind of a Funny Story”
Catherine Breillat – “The Sleeping Beauty,” “Sex Is Comedy”
Israel Cárdenas – “Sand Dollars,” “Carmita”
Carlos Carrera – “Backyard,” “El Crimen del Padre Amaro”
Nuri Bilge Ceylan – “Winter Sleep,” “Once upon a Time in Anatolia”
Souleymane Cissé – “Brightness,” “The Wind”
Isabel Coixet – “Learning to Drive,” “Elegy”
Ryan Coogler* – “Creed,” “Fruitvale Station”
Scott Cooper – “Black Mass,” “Crazy Heart”
John Crowley – “Brooklyn,” “Closed Circuit”
Julie Dash – “Daughters of the Dust”
Tamra Davis – “Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child,” “Billy Madison”
Jonathan Dayton – “Ruby Sparks,” “Little Miss Sunshine”
Dominique Deruddere – “Flying Home,” “Everybody Famous!”
Xavier Dolan – “Mommy,” “Tom at the Farm”
Cheryl Dunye – “My Baby’s Daddy,” “The Watermelon Woman”
Deniz Gamze Ergüven – “Mustang”
Valerie Faris – “Ruby Sparks,” “Little Miss Sunshine”
Shana Feste – “Endless Love,” “Country Strong”
Hannah Fidell – “A Teacher”
Anne Fletcher – “The Proposal,” “Step Up”
Ari Folman – “The Congress,” “Waltz with Bashir”
Anne Fontaine – “Gemma Bovery,” “Coco before Chanel”
Cary Joji Fukunaga – “Beasts of No Nation,” “Jane Eyre”
Nicole Garcia – “A View of Love,” “Charlie Says”
Juan Antonio Garcia Bayona – “The Impossible,” “The Orphanage”
Sarah Gavron – “Suffragette,” “Brick Lane”
Lesli Linka Glatter – “The Proposition,” “Now and Then”
Ciro Guerra* – “Embrace of the Serpent,” “The Wind Journeys”
Laura Amelia Guzmán – “Sand Dollars,” “Carmita”
Sanaa Hamri – “Just Wright,” “Something New”
Mia Hansen-Løve* – “Eden,” “The Father of My Children”
Mahamet-Saleh Haroun – “Grigris,” “Our Father”
Mary Harron – “The Notorious Bettie Page,” “American Psycho”
Marielle Heller* – “The Diary of a Teenage Girl”
Albert Hughes – “The Book of Eli,” “Dead Presidents”
Hou Hsiao-Hsien – “The Assassin,” “Three Times”
Patty Jenkins – “Wonder Woman,” “Monster”
Naomi Kawase* – “Still the Water,” “The Mourning Forest”
Abdellatif Kechiche – “Blue Is the Warmest Color,” “Black Venus”
Abbas Kiarostami – “Certified Copy,” “Taste of Cherry”
So Yong Kim – “For Ellen,” “In Between Days”
Kiyoshi Kurosawa – “Seventh Code,” “Pulse”
Karyn Kusama – “Jennifer’s Body,” “Girlfight”
Francis H. Lawrence – “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” “I Am Legend”
Tobias Lindholm* – “A War,” “A Hijacking”
Phyllida Lloyd – “The Iron Lady,” “Mamma Mia!”
Ken Loach – “The Wind That Shakes the Barley,” “Kes”
Julia Loktev – “The Loneliest Planet,” “Day Night Day Night”
Ami Canaan Mann – “Jackie & Ryan,” “Texas Killing Fields”
Lucrecia Martel – “The Headless Woman,” “The Holy Girl”
Adam McKay* – “The Big Short,” “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy”
Deepa Mehta – “Midnight’s Children,” “Water”
Ursula Meier – “Sister,” “Home”
Rebecca Miller* – “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee,” “Personal Velocity”
Karen Moncrieff – “The Dead Girl,” “Blue Car”
Cristian Mungiu* – “Graduation,” “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days”
Anna Muylaert – “The Second Mother”
László Nemes* – “Son of Saul”
María Novaro – “The Good Herbs,” “Lola”
Victor Nunez – “Spoken Word,” “Ulee’s Gold”
Euzhan Palcy – “Siméon,” “A Dry White Season”
Park Chan-wook* – “Stoker,” “Oldboy”
Lucía Puenzo – “The German Doctor,” “El Niño Pez”
Lynne Ramsay – “We Need to Talk about Kevin,” “Morvern Callar”
Dee Rees – “Pariah”
Nicolas Winding Refn – “Only God Forgives,” “Drive”
Patricia Riggen – “The 33,” “Girl in Progress”
Gillian Robespierre – “Obvious Child”
Patricia Rozema – “Kit Kittredge: An American Girl,” “Mansfield Park”
Marjane Satrapi – “The Voices,” “Persepolis”
Sam Taylor-Johnson – “Fifty Shades of Grey,” “Nowhere Boy”
George Tillman, Jr. – “Notorious,” “Soul Food”
Luis Valdez – “La Bamba,” “Zoot Suit”
Melvin Van Peebles – “Identity Crisis,” “Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song”
Margarethe von Trotta – “Rosenstrasse,” “Marianne and Juliane”
Lana Wachowski – “Cloud Atlas,” “The Matrix Trilogy”
Lilly Wachowski – “Cloud Atlas,” “The Matrix Trilogy”
Taika Waititi – “Hunt for the Wilderpeople,” “What We Do in the Shadows”
James Wan – “The Conjuring,” “Saw”
Keenan Ivory Wayans* – “Scary Movie,” “A Low Down Dirty Shame”
Apichatpong Weerasethakul – “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives,” “Tropical Malady”
Writers
Jonathan Aibel – “Kung Fu Panda” series, “Monsters vs Aliens”
Sherman Alexie – “The Business of Fancydancing,” “Smoke Signals”
Glenn Berger – “Kung Fu Panda” series, “Monsters vs Aliens”
Andrea Berloff – “Straight Outta Compton,” “World Trade Center”
Vera Blasi – “Tortilla Soup,” “Woman on Top”
Ryan Coogler* – “Creed,” “Fruitvale Station”
Destin Daniel Cretton – “Short Term 12,” “I Am Not a Hipster”
Emma Donoghue – “Room”
Tina Fey – “Mean Girls”
Efthimis Filippou – “The Lobster,” “Dogtooth”
Jennifer Flackett-Levin – “Little Manhattan,” “Wimbledon”
Ryan Fleck – “Mississippi Grind,” “Half Nelson”
Alex Garland – “Ex Machina,” “28 Days Later”
Drew Goddard – “The Martian,” “Cloverfield”
Ciro Guerra* – “Embrace of the Serpent,” “The Wind Journeys”
Mia Hansen-Løve* – “Eden,” “The Father of My Children”
Marielle Heller* – “The Diary of a Teenage Girl”
David Henry Hwang – “Possession,” “Golden Gate”
O’Shea “Ice Cube” Jackson* – “The Players Club,” “Friday”
Jia Zhangke – “Mountains May Depart,” “Still Life”
Miranda July – “The Future,” “Me and You and Everyone We Know”
Laeta Kalogridis – “Terminator Genisys,” “Shutter Island”
Naomi Kawase* – “Still the Water,” “Firefly”
Richard Kelly – “Domino,” “Donnie Darko”
Takeshi Kitano – “Outrage,” “Kikujiro”
Hirokazu Koreeda – "Like Father, Like Son,” “Nobody Knows”
Yorgos Lanthimos – “The Lobster,” “Dogtooth”
Lee Chang-dong – “Poetry,” “Oasis”
Sebastián Lelio – “Gloria,” “Navidad”
Mark Levin – “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” “Nim’s Island”
Tobias Lindholm* – “A War,” “The Hunt”
Adam McKay* – “The Big Short,” “The Other Guys”
Rebecca Miller* – “Maggie’s Plan,” “The Ballad of Jack and Rose”
Abi Morgan – “Suffragette,” “The Iron Lady”
Cristian Mungiu* – “Beyond the Hills,” “Occident”
Phyllis Nagy – “Carol”
László Nemes* – “Son of Saul”
Park Chan-wook* – “Thirst,” “Oldboy”
Charles Randolph – “The Big Short,” “The Life of David Gale”
Carlos Reygadas – “Silent Light,” “Battle in Heaven”
Clara Royer – “Son of Saul”
Misan Sagay – “Belle,” “The Secret Laughter of Women”
Lorene Scafaria – “The Meddler,” “Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist”
Josh Singer – “Spotlight,” “The Fifth Estate”
Keenan Ivory Wayans* – “White Chicks,” “A Low Down Dirty Shame”
Alice Winocour – “Mustang,” “Home”
Producers
Belén Atienza – “Out of the Dark,” “The Impossible”
Amy Baer – “A Storm in the Stars,” “Last Vegas”
David Barron – “Cinderella,” “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Parts 1 and 2)
Ram Bergman – “Don Jon,” “Looper”
Virginie Besson-Silla – “Lucy,” “The Lady”
Fernando Bovaira – “Biutiful,” “The Sea Inside”
Anne Carey – “Mr. Holmes,” “The Savages”
Debra Martin Chase – “Sparkle,” “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants”
Bonnie Curtis – “Albert Nobbs,” “Minority Report”
Susan Downey – “The Judge,” “Sherlock Holmes”
Ed Guiney – “Room,” “Frank”
Paul E. Hall – “Peeples,” “For Colored Girls”
Rachael Horovitz – “Maggie’s Plan,” “Moneyball”
Mark Huffam – “The Martian,” “Exodus: Gods and Kings”
Elizabeth Karlsen – “Carol,” “Made in Dagenham”
Gail Katz – “Pawn Sacrifice,” “The Perfect Storm”
Amy Kaufman – “Beasts of No Nation, “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”
Neil Kopp – “Green Room,” “Wendy and Lucy”
Kristie Macosko Krieger – “Bridge of Spies,” “Lincoln”
David Lancaster – “Eye in the Sky,” “Whiplash”
Albert Lee – “Chinese Zodiac,” “Let the Bullets Fly”
Roy Lee – “The Lego Movie,” “Abduction”
Mynette Louie – “Land Ho!,” “Cold Comes the Night”
Daniela Taplin Lundberg – “Beasts of No Nation,” “The Kids Are All Right”
Lori McCreary – “The Magic of Belle Isle,” “Invictus”
Edward L. McDonnell – “Sicario,” “Insomnia”
Jamie Patricof – “Mississippi Grind,” “Blue Valentine”
Amanda Posey – “Brooklyn,” “An Education”
Heather Rae – “The Dry Land,” “Frozen River”
Alexander Rodnyansky – “Leviathan,” “Stalingrad”
Esther García Rodríguez – “Wild Tales,” “The Skin I Live In”
Anish Savjani – “Green Room,” “Meek’s Cutoff”
Allison Shearmur – “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” “Cinderella”
Michael Sugar – “Spotlight,” “The Fifth Estate”
Robert Teitel – “Barbershop: The Next Cut,” “Men of Honor”
Rodrigo Teixeira – “The Witch,” “Mistress America”
Nina Yang Bongiovi – “Dope,” “Fruitvale Station”
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is extending invitations to join the organization to 683 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures. Those who accept the invitations will be the only additions to the Academy’s membership in 2016.
18 individuals (noted by an asterisk) have been invited to join the Academy by multiple branches. These individuals must select one branch upon accepting membership.
New members will be welcomed into the Academy at an invitation-only reception in the fall.
Learn more: http://www.oscars.org/2016class
The 2016 invitees are:
Directors
Lenny Abrahamson – “Room,” “Frank”
Naji Abu Nowar – “Theeb”
Maren Ade – “Everyone Else,” “The Forest for the Trees”
Lexi Alexander – “Punisher: War Zone,” “Green Street Hooligans”
Haifaa al-Mansour – “Wadjda”
Ana Lily Amirpour – “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night”
Amma Asante – “Belle,” “A Way of Life”
Katie Aselton – “Black Rock,” “The Freebie”
Ramin Bahrani – “99 Homes,” “At Any Price”
Anna Boden – “Mississippi Grind,” “It’s Kind of a Funny Story”
Catherine Breillat – “The Sleeping Beauty,” “Sex Is Comedy”
Israel Cárdenas – “Sand Dollars,” “Carmita”
Carlos Carrera – “Backyard,” “El Crimen del Padre Amaro”
Nuri Bilge Ceylan – “Winter Sleep,” “Once upon a Time in Anatolia”
Souleymane Cissé – “Brightness,” “The Wind”
Isabel Coixet – “Learning to Drive,” “Elegy”
Ryan Coogler* – “Creed,” “Fruitvale Station”
Scott Cooper – “Black Mass,” “Crazy Heart”
John Crowley – “Brooklyn,” “Closed Circuit”
Julie Dash – “Daughters of the Dust”
Tamra Davis – “Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child,” “Billy Madison”
Jonathan Dayton – “Ruby Sparks,” “Little Miss Sunshine”
Dominique Deruddere – “Flying Home,” “Everybody Famous!”
Xavier Dolan – “Mommy,” “Tom at the Farm”
Cheryl Dunye – “My Baby’s Daddy,” “The Watermelon Woman”
Deniz Gamze Ergüven – “Mustang”
Valerie Faris – “Ruby Sparks,” “Little Miss Sunshine”
Shana Feste – “Endless Love,” “Country Strong”
Hannah Fidell – “A Teacher”
Anne Fletcher – “The Proposal,” “Step Up”
Ari Folman – “The Congress,” “Waltz with Bashir”
Anne Fontaine – “Gemma Bovery,” “Coco before Chanel”
Cary Joji Fukunaga – “Beasts of No Nation,” “Jane Eyre”
Nicole Garcia – “A View of Love,” “Charlie Says”
Juan Antonio Garcia Bayona – “The Impossible,” “The Orphanage”
Sarah Gavron – “Suffragette,” “Brick Lane”
Lesli Linka Glatter – “The Proposition,” “Now and Then”
Ciro Guerra* – “Embrace of the Serpent,” “The Wind Journeys”
Laura Amelia Guzmán – “Sand Dollars,” “Carmita”
Sanaa Hamri – “Just Wright,” “Something New”
Mia Hansen-Løve* – “Eden,” “The Father of My Children”
Mahamet-Saleh Haroun – “Grigris,” “Our Father”
Mary Harron – “The Notorious Bettie Page,” “American Psycho”
Marielle Heller* – “The Diary of a Teenage Girl”
Albert Hughes – “The Book of Eli,” “Dead Presidents”
Hou Hsiao-Hsien – “The Assassin,” “Three Times”
Patty Jenkins – “Wonder Woman,” “Monster”
Naomi Kawase* – “Still the Water,” “The Mourning Forest”
Abdellatif Kechiche – “Blue Is the Warmest Color,” “Black Venus”
Abbas Kiarostami – “Certified Copy,” “Taste of Cherry”
So Yong Kim – “For Ellen,” “In Between Days”
Kiyoshi Kurosawa – “Seventh Code,” “Pulse”
Karyn Kusama – “Jennifer’s Body,” “Girlfight”
Francis H. Lawrence – “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” “I Am Legend”
Tobias Lindholm* – “A War,” “A Hijacking”
Phyllida Lloyd – “The Iron Lady,” “Mamma Mia!”
Ken Loach – “The Wind That Shakes the Barley,” “Kes”
Julia Loktev – “The Loneliest Planet,” “Day Night Day Night”
Ami Canaan Mann – “Jackie & Ryan,” “Texas Killing Fields”
Lucrecia Martel – “The Headless Woman,” “The Holy Girl”
Adam McKay* – “The Big Short,” “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy”
Deepa Mehta – “Midnight’s Children,” “Water”
Ursula Meier – “Sister,” “Home”
Rebecca Miller* – “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee,” “Personal Velocity”
Karen Moncrieff – “The Dead Girl,” “Blue Car”
Cristian Mungiu* – “Graduation,” “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days”
Anna Muylaert – “The Second Mother”
László Nemes* – “Son of Saul”
María Novaro – “The Good Herbs,” “Lola”
Victor Nunez – “Spoken Word,” “Ulee’s Gold”
Euzhan Palcy – “Siméon,” “A Dry White Season”
Park Chan-wook* – “Stoker,” “Oldboy”
Lucía Puenzo – “The German Doctor,” “El Niño Pez”
Lynne Ramsay – “We Need to Talk about Kevin,” “Morvern Callar”
Dee Rees – “Pariah”
Nicolas Winding Refn – “Only God Forgives,” “Drive”
Patricia Riggen – “The 33,” “Girl in Progress”
Gillian Robespierre – “Obvious Child”
Patricia Rozema – “Kit Kittredge: An American Girl,” “Mansfield Park”
Marjane Satrapi – “The Voices,” “Persepolis”
Sam Taylor-Johnson – “Fifty Shades of Grey,” “Nowhere Boy”
George Tillman, Jr. – “Notorious,” “Soul Food”
Luis Valdez – “La Bamba,” “Zoot Suit”
Melvin Van Peebles – “Identity Crisis,” “Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song”
Margarethe von Trotta – “Rosenstrasse,” “Marianne and Juliane”
Lana Wachowski – “Cloud Atlas,” “The Matrix Trilogy”
Lilly Wachowski – “Cloud Atlas,” “The Matrix Trilogy”
Taika Waititi – “Hunt for the Wilderpeople,” “What We Do in the Shadows”
James Wan – “The Conjuring,” “Saw”
Keenan Ivory Wayans* – “Scary Movie,” “A Low Down Dirty Shame”
Apichatpong Weerasethakul – “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives,” “Tropical Malady”
Writers
Jonathan Aibel – “Kung Fu Panda” series, “Monsters vs Aliens”
Sherman Alexie – “The Business of Fancydancing,” “Smoke Signals”
Glenn Berger – “Kung Fu Panda” series, “Monsters vs Aliens”
Andrea Berloff – “Straight Outta Compton,” “World Trade Center”
Vera Blasi – “Tortilla Soup,” “Woman on Top”
Ryan Coogler* – “Creed,” “Fruitvale Station”
Destin Daniel Cretton – “Short Term 12,” “I Am Not a Hipster”
Emma Donoghue – “Room”
Tina Fey – “Mean Girls”
Efthimis Filippou – “The Lobster,” “Dogtooth”
Jennifer Flackett-Levin – “Little Manhattan,” “Wimbledon”
Ryan Fleck – “Mississippi Grind,” “Half Nelson”
Alex Garland – “Ex Machina,” “28 Days Later”
Drew Goddard – “The Martian,” “Cloverfield”
Ciro Guerra* – “Embrace of the Serpent,” “The Wind Journeys”
Mia Hansen-Løve* – “Eden,” “The Father of My Children”
Marielle Heller* – “The Diary of a Teenage Girl”
David Henry Hwang – “Possession,” “Golden Gate”
O’Shea “Ice Cube” Jackson* – “The Players Club,” “Friday”
Jia Zhangke – “Mountains May Depart,” “Still Life”
Miranda July – “The Future,” “Me and You and Everyone We Know”
Laeta Kalogridis – “Terminator Genisys,” “Shutter Island”
Naomi Kawase* – “Still the Water,” “Firefly”
Richard Kelly – “Domino,” “Donnie Darko”
Takeshi Kitano – “Outrage,” “Kikujiro”
Hirokazu Koreeda – "Like Father, Like Son,” “Nobody Knows”
Yorgos Lanthimos – “The Lobster,” “Dogtooth”
Lee Chang-dong – “Poetry,” “Oasis”
Sebastián Lelio – “Gloria,” “Navidad”
Mark Levin – “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” “Nim’s Island”
Tobias Lindholm* – “A War,” “The Hunt”
Adam McKay* – “The Big Short,” “The Other Guys”
Rebecca Miller* – “Maggie’s Plan,” “The Ballad of Jack and Rose”
Abi Morgan – “Suffragette,” “The Iron Lady”
Cristian Mungiu* – “Beyond the Hills,” “Occident”
Phyllis Nagy – “Carol”
László Nemes* – “Son of Saul”
Park Chan-wook* – “Thirst,” “Oldboy”
Charles Randolph – “The Big Short,” “The Life of David Gale”
Carlos Reygadas – “Silent Light,” “Battle in Heaven”
Clara Royer – “Son of Saul”
Misan Sagay – “Belle,” “The Secret Laughter of Women”
Lorene Scafaria – “The Meddler,” “Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist”
Josh Singer – “Spotlight,” “The Fifth Estate”
Keenan Ivory Wayans* – “White Chicks,” “A Low Down Dirty Shame”
Alice Winocour – “Mustang,” “Home”
Producers
Belén Atienza – “Out of the Dark,” “The Impossible”
Amy Baer – “A Storm in the Stars,” “Last Vegas”
David Barron – “Cinderella,” “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Parts 1 and 2)
Ram Bergman – “Don Jon,” “Looper”
Virginie Besson-Silla – “Lucy,” “The Lady”
Fernando Bovaira – “Biutiful,” “The Sea Inside”
Anne Carey – “Mr. Holmes,” “The Savages”
Debra Martin Chase – “Sparkle,” “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants”
Bonnie Curtis – “Albert Nobbs,” “Minority Report”
Susan Downey – “The Judge,” “Sherlock Holmes”
Ed Guiney – “Room,” “Frank”
Paul E. Hall – “Peeples,” “For Colored Girls”
Rachael Horovitz – “Maggie’s Plan,” “Moneyball”
Mark Huffam – “The Martian,” “Exodus: Gods and Kings”
Elizabeth Karlsen – “Carol,” “Made in Dagenham”
Gail Katz – “Pawn Sacrifice,” “The Perfect Storm”
Amy Kaufman – “Beasts of No Nation, “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”
Neil Kopp – “Green Room,” “Wendy and Lucy”
Kristie Macosko Krieger – “Bridge of Spies,” “Lincoln”
David Lancaster – “Eye in the Sky,” “Whiplash”
Albert Lee – “Chinese Zodiac,” “Let the Bullets Fly”
Roy Lee – “The Lego Movie,” “Abduction”
Mynette Louie – “Land Ho!,” “Cold Comes the Night”
Daniela Taplin Lundberg – “Beasts of No Nation,” “The Kids Are All Right”
Lori McCreary – “The Magic of Belle Isle,” “Invictus”
Edward L. McDonnell – “Sicario,” “Insomnia”
Jamie Patricof – “Mississippi Grind,” “Blue Valentine”
Amanda Posey – “Brooklyn,” “An Education”
Heather Rae – “The Dry Land,” “Frozen River”
Alexander Rodnyansky – “Leviathan,” “Stalingrad”
Esther García Rodríguez – “Wild Tales,” “The Skin I Live In”
Anish Savjani – “Green Room,” “Meek’s Cutoff”
Allison Shearmur – “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” “Cinderella”
Michael Sugar – “Spotlight,” “The Fifth Estate”
Robert Teitel – “Barbershop: The Next Cut,” “Men of Honor”
Rodrigo Teixeira – “The Witch,” “Mistress America”
Nina Yang Bongiovi – “Dope,” “Fruitvale Station”
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Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Negromancer News Bits and Bites from May 22nd to 31st, 2016 - Update #54
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MOVIES - From Variety: Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda (of the Broadway smash, "Hamilton") to headline Disney's "Mary Poppins" sequel.
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PIXAR - From YahooMovies: Is that a lesbian couple in "Finding Dory."
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MOVIES - From BleedingCool: Dan Aykroyd, who co-created "Ghostbusters," praises the all-female remake.
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MOVIES - From TheGuardian: Before he died, Stanley Kubrick apparently wanted to make a war film and a children's film.
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MOVIES - From THR: Dwayne Johnson confirmed to star in Shane Black's "Doc Savage" film.
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COMICS - From Vox: "X-Men: Apocalypse" is what happens when a superhero franchise runs out of ideas.
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SPORTS - From ThePostGame: Notable college and professional athletes killed during military service.
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TELEVISION - From YahooNews: LeVar Burton on why the "Roots" reboot matters.
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ECO - From RSN: Actor/activist, Mark Ruffalo, on why Los Angeles is toxic.
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BLACK LIVES MATTER - From Truthout: Malcolm X predicted the progress of racism in the United States.
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COMICS - From YahooMovies: Jeremy Irons, who plays Alfred, Batman's butler, also has criticism for "Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice."
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COMICS - From CBR: On the reveal that Captain America is an agent of Hydra, Marvel legend Stan Lee says "I think it's crazy, but it's a good idea."
From CinemaBlend: Director James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy) doesn't think Hydra Cap is a big deal, either.
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COMICS - From CinemaBlend: Jeff Bridges has apparently joined "Kingsman: The Golden Circle," the sequel to "Kingmans: The Secret Service."
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COMICS - From BleedingCool: Actors Adam West and Burt Ward, star of the 1960s "Batman" television series have something secret planned for later this year.
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The Memorial Day weekend, 5/27 to 5/29/2016, weekend goes to "X-Men: Apocalypse" with an estimated take of $65 million.
From YahooMovies: Did Disney seriously believe that "Alice Through the Looking Glass" would be a hit. They got lucky with the first one, Tim Burton's mediocre "Alice in Wonderland." It was a fluke.
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TELEVISION - From YahooTV: Meet Malachi Kirby, the young British actor playing "Kunta Kinte" in the "Roots" remake.
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MOVIES - From IndieWire: A list of female directors ready to direct a blockbuster film.
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MOVIES - From YahooNews: "Transformers: The Last Knight" offers a cryptic tease for Memorial Day.
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MOVIES - From CinemaBlend: John Carpenter, who defined the slasher film genre with 1978's "Halloween" is not a fan of the original "Friday the 13th."
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MOVIES - From YahooMovies: Sam Mendes who directed "Skyfall" and "Spectre" said he will not return for the next James Bond movie.
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MOVIES - From Variety: Dylan O'Brien was apparently nearly killed in an on-set accident during filming of "The Maze Runner: The Death Cure." The film is now scheduled for release in 2018, although the start date for resuming of production is unknown.
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MOVIES - From Deadline: Robert Rodriguez has a star for his "Battle Angel Alita." James Cameron is producing.
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MOVIES - From TrackingBoard: Amy Schumer heads to a male friend's bachelor party in "Who Invited Her?"
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CELEBRITY - From TheWrap: Johnny Depp-Amber Heard divorce turns ugly real quick.
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COMICS - From CinemaBlend: Sony's animated Spider-Man film may involve Miles Morales, the African-American/Latino teen who is Spider-Man.
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MOVIES - From ThePlaylist: Cute Jamie Bell ("Billy Elliot," "Fantastic Four") is rumored to be contention to play James Bond, which means that they are going young for the next Bond, as Bell is 30. Actually, Bell almost looks like he could be current Daniel Craig's son. Meanwhile, Craig may not be finished with the franchise...
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MOVIES - From GameSpot: More striking images from "Alien: Covenant" set.
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MUSIC - From YahooCelebrity: 15 children that are not biologically his (although he claimed them) are fighting over B.B. King's estate.
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COMICS - From YahooMovies: See photos from the Ellis Island premiere of the first X-Men movie back in 2000.
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MOVIES - From YahooMovies: Harry Styles of the boy band, One Direction, has cut his signature locks for the movie "Dunkirk." This link has a photo of Styles from the set.
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CELEBRITY - From People: Amber Heard files for divorce from Johnny Depp.
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MUSIC - From YahooNews: New York Police Department Commissioner Bill Bratton: "so-called rap artists who are basically thugs."
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COMICS - From CinemaBlend: Wesley Snipes wants back as Blade.
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STAR TREK - From YahooMovies: Secrets from the "Star Trek Beyond" set.
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OBIT - From Variety: The pioneering CBS News correspondent, Jeanne Parr, died at 92, Friday, May 20, 2016. She was also the mother of actor Chris Noth ("The Good Wife," "Sex in the City").
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MOVIES - From OliverStone: Oliver Stone posts his commencement speech to the Class of 2016 at the University of Connecticut.
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OBIT - From TheGuardian: The actor Burt Kwouk has died at the age of 85, Tuesday, May 24, 2016. He was best known for playing Inspector Clouseau's manservant, Cato, in the Peter Sellers' "Pink Panther" movies.
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BLACK LIVES MATTER - From ProPublica: Crime prediction software targets black people - of course.
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MOVIES - From ScreenRant: John Carpenter will return to executive produce a new "Halloween" film, the tenth sequel to the original "Halloween" that was released in 1978.
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MOVIES - From ScreenRant: Images from the Prometheus sequel, "Alien Covenant."
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TELEVISION - From DeadlineTV: Showtime is prepping a documentary on legendary "Saturday Night Live" alumnus and actor, John Belushi.
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MOVIES - From Variety: It's the 36th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining," specifically May 23rd.
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MOVIES - From YahooMovies: Actor Elijah Wood says child abuse on Hollywood is kept secret by power players.
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MOVIES: From CinemaBlend: Karl Urban freely talks about why the super-excellent sci-fi comic book film, Dredd, was a box office flop. He blames marketing.
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MOVIES - From YahooMovies: Get your first glimpse of Emma Watson as "Belle" in Disney's live-action "Beauty and the Beast," which is due March 17, 2017.
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: "The Angry Birds Movie" won the 5/20 to 2/22/2016 box office weekend with an estimated haul of $39 million.
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AWARDS - From Variety: Ken Loach wins the Palme d'Or at the 69th Cannes Film Festival. The win, for his film "I, Daniel Blake," is his second one.
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TELEVISION - From TheWrap: Anthony Mackie talks playing Dr. Martin Luther King for HBO.
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MOVIES - From ThePlaylist: Shane Black, the legendary screenwriter of "Lethal Weapon," talks about his new film, "The Nice Guys." He also talks about the "Lethal Weapon 5" that almost was, and, of course, Mel Gibson.
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MOVIES - From ThePlaylist: 40 most anticipated movies of Summer 2016.
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COMICS - From ThePlaylist: 11 reasons why "Captain America: Civil War" is better than "Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice."
TRAILERS:
From YouTube: The third trailer for Pixar's "Finding Dory."
From YouTube: The first trailer from FOX for the film "Morgan," directed by Luke Scott, the son of Ridley Scott.
MOVIES - From Variety: Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda (of the Broadway smash, "Hamilton") to headline Disney's "Mary Poppins" sequel.
---------------
PIXAR - From YahooMovies: Is that a lesbian couple in "Finding Dory."
---------------
MOVIES - From BleedingCool: Dan Aykroyd, who co-created "Ghostbusters," praises the all-female remake.
----------------
MOVIES - From TheGuardian: Before he died, Stanley Kubrick apparently wanted to make a war film and a children's film.
---------------
MOVIES - From THR: Dwayne Johnson confirmed to star in Shane Black's "Doc Savage" film.
---------------
COMICS - From Vox: "X-Men: Apocalypse" is what happens when a superhero franchise runs out of ideas.
--------------
SPORTS - From ThePostGame: Notable college and professional athletes killed during military service.
---------------
TELEVISION - From YahooNews: LeVar Burton on why the "Roots" reboot matters.
---------------
ECO - From RSN: Actor/activist, Mark Ruffalo, on why Los Angeles is toxic.
---------------
BLACK LIVES MATTER - From Truthout: Malcolm X predicted the progress of racism in the United States.
---------------
COMICS - From YahooMovies: Jeremy Irons, who plays Alfred, Batman's butler, also has criticism for "Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice."
---------------
COMICS - From CBR: On the reveal that Captain America is an agent of Hydra, Marvel legend Stan Lee says "I think it's crazy, but it's a good idea."
From CinemaBlend: Director James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy) doesn't think Hydra Cap is a big deal, either.
---------------
COMICS - From CinemaBlend: Jeff Bridges has apparently joined "Kingsman: The Golden Circle," the sequel to "Kingmans: The Secret Service."
---------------
COMICS - From BleedingCool: Actors Adam West and Burt Ward, star of the 1960s "Batman" television series have something secret planned for later this year.
---------------
BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The Memorial Day weekend, 5/27 to 5/29/2016, weekend goes to "X-Men: Apocalypse" with an estimated take of $65 million.
From YahooMovies: Did Disney seriously believe that "Alice Through the Looking Glass" would be a hit. They got lucky with the first one, Tim Burton's mediocre "Alice in Wonderland." It was a fluke.
---------------
TELEVISION - From YahooTV: Meet Malachi Kirby, the young British actor playing "Kunta Kinte" in the "Roots" remake.
---------------
MOVIES - From IndieWire: A list of female directors ready to direct a blockbuster film.
---------------
MOVIES - From YahooNews: "Transformers: The Last Knight" offers a cryptic tease for Memorial Day.
---------------
MOVIES - From CinemaBlend: John Carpenter, who defined the slasher film genre with 1978's "Halloween" is not a fan of the original "Friday the 13th."
---------------
MOVIES - From YahooMovies: Sam Mendes who directed "Skyfall" and "Spectre" said he will not return for the next James Bond movie.
---------------
MOVIES - From Variety: Dylan O'Brien was apparently nearly killed in an on-set accident during filming of "The Maze Runner: The Death Cure." The film is now scheduled for release in 2018, although the start date for resuming of production is unknown.
---------------
MOVIES - From Deadline: Robert Rodriguez has a star for his "Battle Angel Alita." James Cameron is producing.
---------------
MOVIES - From TrackingBoard: Amy Schumer heads to a male friend's bachelor party in "Who Invited Her?"
---------------
CELEBRITY - From TheWrap: Johnny Depp-Amber Heard divorce turns ugly real quick.
---------------
COMICS - From CinemaBlend: Sony's animated Spider-Man film may involve Miles Morales, the African-American/Latino teen who is Spider-Man.
---------------
MOVIES - From ThePlaylist: Cute Jamie Bell ("Billy Elliot," "Fantastic Four") is rumored to be contention to play James Bond, which means that they are going young for the next Bond, as Bell is 30. Actually, Bell almost looks like he could be current Daniel Craig's son. Meanwhile, Craig may not be finished with the franchise...
---------------
MOVIES - From GameSpot: More striking images from "Alien: Covenant" set.
---------------
MUSIC - From YahooCelebrity: 15 children that are not biologically his (although he claimed them) are fighting over B.B. King's estate.
---------------
COMICS - From YahooMovies: See photos from the Ellis Island premiere of the first X-Men movie back in 2000.
---------------
MOVIES - From YahooMovies: Harry Styles of the boy band, One Direction, has cut his signature locks for the movie "Dunkirk." This link has a photo of Styles from the set.
---------------
CELEBRITY - From People: Amber Heard files for divorce from Johnny Depp.
---------------
MUSIC - From YahooNews: New York Police Department Commissioner Bill Bratton: "so-called rap artists who are basically thugs."
---------------
COMICS - From CinemaBlend: Wesley Snipes wants back as Blade.
---------------
STAR TREK - From YahooMovies: Secrets from the "Star Trek Beyond" set.
---------------
OBIT - From Variety: The pioneering CBS News correspondent, Jeanne Parr, died at 92, Friday, May 20, 2016. She was also the mother of actor Chris Noth ("The Good Wife," "Sex in the City").
---------------
MOVIES - From OliverStone: Oliver Stone posts his commencement speech to the Class of 2016 at the University of Connecticut.
---------------
OBIT - From TheGuardian: The actor Burt Kwouk has died at the age of 85, Tuesday, May 24, 2016. He was best known for playing Inspector Clouseau's manservant, Cato, in the Peter Sellers' "Pink Panther" movies.
---------------
BLACK LIVES MATTER - From ProPublica: Crime prediction software targets black people - of course.
--------------
MOVIES - From ScreenRant: John Carpenter will return to executive produce a new "Halloween" film, the tenth sequel to the original "Halloween" that was released in 1978.
---------------
MOVIES - From ScreenRant: Images from the Prometheus sequel, "Alien Covenant."
---------------
TELEVISION - From DeadlineTV: Showtime is prepping a documentary on legendary "Saturday Night Live" alumnus and actor, John Belushi.
--------------
MOVIES - From Variety: It's the 36th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining," specifically May 23rd.
--------------
MOVIES - From YahooMovies: Actor Elijah Wood says child abuse on Hollywood is kept secret by power players.
---------------
MOVIES: From CinemaBlend: Karl Urban freely talks about why the super-excellent sci-fi comic book film, Dredd, was a box office flop. He blames marketing.
---------------
MOVIES - From YahooMovies: Get your first glimpse of Emma Watson as "Belle" in Disney's live-action "Beauty and the Beast," which is due March 17, 2017.
----------------
BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: "The Angry Birds Movie" won the 5/20 to 2/22/2016 box office weekend with an estimated haul of $39 million.
---------------
AWARDS - From Variety: Ken Loach wins the Palme d'Or at the 69th Cannes Film Festival. The win, for his film "I, Daniel Blake," is his second one.
---------------
TELEVISION - From TheWrap: Anthony Mackie talks playing Dr. Martin Luther King for HBO.
---------------
MOVIES - From ThePlaylist: Shane Black, the legendary screenwriter of "Lethal Weapon," talks about his new film, "The Nice Guys." He also talks about the "Lethal Weapon 5" that almost was, and, of course, Mel Gibson.
---------------
MOVIES - From ThePlaylist: 40 most anticipated movies of Summer 2016.
---------------
COMICS - From ThePlaylist: 11 reasons why "Captain America: Civil War" is better than "Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice."
TRAILERS:
From YouTube: The third trailer for Pixar's "Finding Dory."
From YouTube: The first trailer from FOX for the film "Morgan," directed by Luke Scott, the son of Ridley Scott.
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
2016 Cannes Film Festival Winners Announced; Ken Loach Wins Second Palme d'Or
The 69th annual Cannes Film Festival was held in Cannes, France from May 11 to May 22, 2016. The closing ceremony and the 2016 awards ceremony were held on Sunday, May 22, 2016.
I’ve included a list of winners from the “In Competition” categories; this is the main competition in which films compete for the festival’s top prize, the “Palme d’Or” (Golden Palm). I’ve included the winners from other Cannes award competitions, including “Un Certain Regard” and the “Golden Camera.”
The “Grand Prix” is the second most prestigious prize given at Cannes, after the Palme d’Or. The competition known as “Un Certain Regard” is a part of Cannes that runs parallel to the competition for the Palme d’Or.
Judges for the 2016 Main Competition – “In Competiton”:
George Miller, Australian film director (President)
Arnaud Desplechin, French film director
Kirsten Dunst, American actress
Valeria Golino, Italian actress and film director
Mads Mikkelsen, Danish actor
László Nemes, Hungarian film director
Vanessa Paradis, French actress and singer
Katayoon Shahabi, Iranian film producer
Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor
2016/69th Cannes Film Festival winners:
COMPETITION – Feature Films
Palme d’Or: “I, Daniel Blake” (Ken Loach, U.K.)
Grand Prix: “It’s Only the End of the World” (Xavier Dolan, Canada-France)
Director: TIE
Olivier Assayas, “Personal Shopper” (France)
Cristian Mungiu, “Graduation” (Romania)
Actor: Shahab Hosseini, “The Salesman” (Iran)
Actress: Jaclyn Jose, “Ma ‘Rosa” (Philippines)
Jury Prize: Andrea Arnold, “American Honey” (U.K.-U.S.)
Screenplay: Asghar Farhadi, “The Salesman” (Iran)
OTHER PRIZES
Palme d’Honneur: Jean-Pierre Léaud
Camera d’Or: “Divines” (Houda Benyamina, France-Qatar)
Short Films Palme d’Or: “Timecode” (Juanjo Jimenez, Spain)
Special Mention – Short Films Palme d’Or: “The Girl Who Danced With the Devil” (Joao Paulo Miranda Maria, Brazil)
Ecumenical Jury Prize: “It’s Only the End of the World” (Xavier Dolan, Canada-France)
UN CERTAIN REGARD
Un Certain Regard Prize: “The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki” (Juho Kuosmanen, Finland)
Jury prize: “Harmonium” (Koji Fukada, Japan)
Director: Matt Ross, “Captain Fantastic” (United States)
Screenplay: Delphine and Muriel Coulin, “The Stopover” (France)
Special Jury Prize: Michael Dudok de Wit, “The Red Turtle” (France-Japan)
DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT
Art Cinema Award: “Wolf and Sheep” (Shahrbanoo Sadat)
Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers Prize: “The Together Project” (Solveig Anspach)
Europa Cinemas Label: “Mercernary” (Sacha Wolff)
CRITICS’ WEEK
Grand Prize: “Mimosas” (Oliver Saxe)
Visionary Prize: “Album” (Mehmet Can Mertoğlu)
Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers Prize: “Diamond Island” (Day Chou)
FIPRESCI
Competition: “Toni Erdmann” (Maren Ade, Germany-Austria)
Un Certain Regard: “Dogs” (Bogdan Mirică, Romania-France)
Critics’ Week: “Raw” (Julia Ducournau, France-Belgium)
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I’ve included a list of winners from the “In Competition” categories; this is the main competition in which films compete for the festival’s top prize, the “Palme d’Or” (Golden Palm). I’ve included the winners from other Cannes award competitions, including “Un Certain Regard” and the “Golden Camera.”
The “Grand Prix” is the second most prestigious prize given at Cannes, after the Palme d’Or. The competition known as “Un Certain Regard” is a part of Cannes that runs parallel to the competition for the Palme d’Or.
Judges for the 2016 Main Competition – “In Competiton”:
George Miller, Australian film director (President)
Arnaud Desplechin, French film director
Kirsten Dunst, American actress
Valeria Golino, Italian actress and film director
Mads Mikkelsen, Danish actor
László Nemes, Hungarian film director
Vanessa Paradis, French actress and singer
Katayoon Shahabi, Iranian film producer
Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor
2016/69th Cannes Film Festival winners:
COMPETITION – Feature Films
Palme d’Or: “I, Daniel Blake” (Ken Loach, U.K.)
Grand Prix: “It’s Only the End of the World” (Xavier Dolan, Canada-France)
Director: TIE
Olivier Assayas, “Personal Shopper” (France)
Cristian Mungiu, “Graduation” (Romania)
Actor: Shahab Hosseini, “The Salesman” (Iran)
Actress: Jaclyn Jose, “Ma ‘Rosa” (Philippines)
Jury Prize: Andrea Arnold, “American Honey” (U.K.-U.S.)
Screenplay: Asghar Farhadi, “The Salesman” (Iran)
OTHER PRIZES
Palme d’Honneur: Jean-Pierre Léaud
Camera d’Or: “Divines” (Houda Benyamina, France-Qatar)
Short Films Palme d’Or: “Timecode” (Juanjo Jimenez, Spain)
Special Mention – Short Films Palme d’Or: “The Girl Who Danced With the Devil” (Joao Paulo Miranda Maria, Brazil)
Ecumenical Jury Prize: “It’s Only the End of the World” (Xavier Dolan, Canada-France)
UN CERTAIN REGARD
Un Certain Regard Prize: “The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki” (Juho Kuosmanen, Finland)
Jury prize: “Harmonium” (Koji Fukada, Japan)
Director: Matt Ross, “Captain Fantastic” (United States)
Screenplay: Delphine and Muriel Coulin, “The Stopover” (France)
Special Jury Prize: Michael Dudok de Wit, “The Red Turtle” (France-Japan)
DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT
Art Cinema Award: “Wolf and Sheep” (Shahrbanoo Sadat)
Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers Prize: “The Together Project” (Solveig Anspach)
Europa Cinemas Label: “Mercernary” (Sacha Wolff)
CRITICS’ WEEK
Grand Prize: “Mimosas” (Oliver Saxe)
Visionary Prize: “Album” (Mehmet Can Mertoğlu)
Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers Prize: “Diamond Island” (Day Chou)
FIPRESCI
Competition: “Toni Erdmann” (Maren Ade, Germany-Austria)
Un Certain Regard: “Dogs” (Bogdan Mirică, Romania-France)
Critics’ Week: “Raw” (Julia Ducournau, France-Belgium)
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Monday, December 9, 2013
"Metro Manila" Tops 2013 British Independent Film Awards
by Amos Semien
The British-Filipino film, Metro Manila, was named "Best British Independent Film" by the British Independent Film Awards. The crime drama won three awards, including "Best Director" for Sean Ellis. Metro Manila follows a man who moves his family from the rural Philippines to Manila and finds peril in his new life and job.
The British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) were created in 1998. This film award celebrates merit and achievement in independently funded British filmmaking, honors new film talent, and promotes British films and filmmaking to a wider public. The awards are currently sponsored by Moët & Chandon Champagne.
The winners of the 2013 edition of the BIFA were announced at the 16th Moët British Independent Film Awards ceremony on Sunday, December 8, 2013 held at the Old Billingsgate in London and hosted by BIFA-winning actor, James Nesbitt.
The 16th Annual Moët British Independent Film Awards winners:
BEST BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM (Sponsored by Moët & Chandon):
Metro Manila
BEST DIRECTOR (Sponsored by AllCity & Intermission):
Sean Ellis – Metro Manila
THE DOUGLAS HICKOX AWARD [BEST DEBUT DIRECTOR] - Sponsored by 3 Mills Studios:
Paul Wright – For Those in Peril
BEST SCREENPLAY:
Steven Knight – Locke
BEST ACTRESS (Sponsored by M.A.C Cosmetics):
Lindsay Duncan – Le Week-end
BEST ACTOR (Sponsored by BBC Films):
James McAvoy – Filth
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Imogen Poots – The Look Of Love
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR (Sponsored by Sanderson & St Martins Lane):
Ben Mendelsohn – Starred Up
MOST PROMISING NEWCOMER (Sponsored by Studiocanal):
Chloe Pirrie – Shell
BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION (Sponsored by Company3):
Metro Manila
BEST TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT (Sponsored by LightBrigade Media):
Amy Hubbard – Casting – The Selfish Giant
BEST DOCUMENTARY:
Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer
BEST BRITISH SHORT (Supported by BFI NET.WORK):
Z1
BEST INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM:
Blue is the Warmest Colour
THE RAINDANCE AWARD (Sponsored by Wentworth Media and Arts):
The Machine
THE RICHARD HARRIS AWARD (for outstanding contribution by an actor to British Film):
Julie Walters
THE VARIETY AWARD:
Paul Greengrass
THE SPECIAL JURY PRIZE:
Sixteen Films & Friends (AKA Team Loach)
http://www.bifa.org.uk/
END
Monday, May 28, 2012
Michael Haneke Wins Palme d'Or for "Amour" at 2012 Cannes
The 65th annual Cannes Film Festival was held from May 16 to May 27, 2012. Below is a list of winners of “In Competition,” which means the films competing for the festival’s top prize, the Palme d'Or.
“Un Certain Regard” is the part of Cannes that runs parallel to the competition for the Palme d’Or. The “Grand Prix” is the second most prestigious prize given at Cannes, after the Palme d’Or.
With his win for Amour, Michael Haneke became the second director to win the Palme d’Or for consecutive films. Haneke previously won the Palme d’Or for his last film, The White Ribbon, in 2009. Bille August was the first to achieve this feat. No director has won the Palme d’Or more than twice.
2012/65th Cannes Film Festival winners:
FEATURE FILMS
Palme d’Or
AMOUR (Love) by Michael Haneke
Grand Prix
REALITY by Matteo Garrone
Award for Best Director
Carlos Reygadas for POST TENEBRAS LUX
Jury Prize
THE ANGELS’ SHARE by Ken Loach
Award for Best Actor
Mads Mikkelsen in JAGTEN (The Hunt) by Thomas VINTERBERG
Award for Best Actress
Cristina Flutur & Cosmina Stratan in DUPÃ DEALURI (Beyond The Hills) by Cristian MUNGIU
Award for Best Screenplay
Cristian Mungiu for pour DUPÃ DEALURI (Beyond The Hills)
Palme d’Or (Short Film)
SESSIZ-BE DENG (Silent) by L. Rezan Yesilbas
Camera d’Or (for a directorial debut)
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD by Benh Zeitlin presented in Un Certain Regard Selection
PRIZE OF UN CERTAIN REGARD
DESPUÉS DE LUCIA by Michel Franco
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
LE GRAND SOIR by Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern
UN CERTAIN REGARD AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS
Suzanne Clément for her performance in LAURENCE ANYWAYS directed by Xavier Dolan
UN CERTAIN REGARD AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS
Emilie Dequenne for her performance in À PERDRE LA RAISON directed by Joachim Lafosse
SPECIAL DISTINCTION OF THE JURY
DJECA by Aida Begic (Children of Sarajevo)
“Un Certain Regard” is the part of Cannes that runs parallel to the competition for the Palme d’Or. The “Grand Prix” is the second most prestigious prize given at Cannes, after the Palme d’Or.
With his win for Amour, Michael Haneke became the second director to win the Palme d’Or for consecutive films. Haneke previously won the Palme d’Or for his last film, The White Ribbon, in 2009. Bille August was the first to achieve this feat. No director has won the Palme d’Or more than twice.
2012/65th Cannes Film Festival winners:
FEATURE FILMS
Palme d’Or
AMOUR (Love) by Michael Haneke
Grand Prix
REALITY by Matteo Garrone
Award for Best Director
Carlos Reygadas for POST TENEBRAS LUX
Jury Prize
THE ANGELS’ SHARE by Ken Loach
Award for Best Actor
Mads Mikkelsen in JAGTEN (The Hunt) by Thomas VINTERBERG
Award for Best Actress
Cristina Flutur & Cosmina Stratan in DUPÃ DEALURI (Beyond The Hills) by Cristian MUNGIU
Award for Best Screenplay
Cristian Mungiu for pour DUPÃ DEALURI (Beyond The Hills)
Palme d’Or (Short Film)
SESSIZ-BE DENG (Silent) by L. Rezan Yesilbas
Camera d’Or (for a directorial debut)
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD by Benh Zeitlin presented in Un Certain Regard Selection
PRIZE OF UN CERTAIN REGARD
DESPUÉS DE LUCIA by Michel Franco
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
LE GRAND SOIR by Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern
UN CERTAIN REGARD AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS
Suzanne Clément for her performance in LAURENCE ANYWAYS directed by Xavier Dolan
UN CERTAIN REGARD AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS
Emilie Dequenne for her performance in À PERDRE LA RAISON directed by Joachim Lafosse
SPECIAL DISTINCTION OF THE JURY
DJECA by Aida Begic (Children of Sarajevo)
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
2011 British Independent Film Awards Nominations Announced
At least for me, the 2012 movie award season (for movies released in 2011) has begun with the announcement yesterday (Monday, October 31, 2011) of the nominations for the 2011 British Independent Film Awards.
Created in 1998, The British Independent Film Awards, by its own description, celebrates merit and achievement in independently funded British filmmaking, honor new film talent, and promote British films and filmmaking to a wider public. Here, is the press release:
NOMINATIONS AND JURY REVEALED FOR THE MOËT BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM AWARDS
The nominations and jury members for the 14th annual Moët British Independent Film Awards were announced today, Monday 31October at St Martins Lane, London by Helen McCrory.
Joint Directors, The Moët British Independent Film Awards’ Johanna von Fischer & Tessa Collinson said: “This year’s nominees really highlight the immense wealth of British talent in this country today. We are incredibly proud that the Awards have grown to a level that garners attention worldwide, helping to bring British talent and independent filmmaking to the international stage.”
The highest number of nominations this year goes to three films, Shame, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Tyrannosaur, all with seven nods. All three titles are battling for the coveted Best British Film Award, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor or Actress awards. We Need to Talk About Kevin and Kill List each receive six nominations with Submarine following closely with five.
Nominations for Best Actress go to Rebecca Hall (The Awakening), Mia Wasikowska (Jane Eyre), MyAnna Buring (Kill List), Olivia Colman (Tyrannosaur) and Tilda Swinton (We Need To Talk About Kevin). Leading men hoping to take home the Best Actor award include Brendan Gleeson (The Guard), Neil Maskell (Kill List), Michael Fassbender (Shame), Gary Oldman (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) and Peter Mullan (Tyrannosaur).
Directors who have delivered dynamic debuts this year and are fighting for the Douglas Hickox Award are Joe Cornish (Attack The Block), Ralph Fiennes (Coriolanus), John Michael McDonagh (The Guard), Richard Ayoade (Submarine) and Paddy Considine (Tyrannosaur).
Elsa Corbineau, Marketing Director Moët & Chandon commented: “Moët & Chandon is thrilled to continue to support the Awards this year. There are some truly remarkable films in today's nominations which reflect the talent of the British filmmakers. We look forward to celebrating all of the nominees and winners on 4 December."
The Raindance Award nominees for 2011 include: Acts of Godfrey, Black Pond, Hollow, Leaving Baghdad and A Thousand Kisses Deep. This Award honours exceptional achievement for filmmakers working against the odds, often with little or no industry support. Elliot Grove, Founder Raindance Film Festival and Moët British Independent Film Awards added: "Delighted to see that this year's nominations prove that once again British independent filmmakers have risen to the creative challenge of making astounding movies in the midst of economic chaos."
The Pre-Selection Committee of 70 members viewed nearly 200 films, out of which they selected the nominations, which were decided by ballot.
The winners of The Moët British Independent Film Awards are decided by an independent jury comprised of leading professionals and talent from the British film industry.
The Jury for 2011 includes:
Josh Appignanesi (Director / Writer), Lucy Bevan (Casting Director), Edith Bowman (Broadcaster), Mike Goodridge (Editor), Ed Hogg (Actor), Neil Lamont (Art Director), Mary McCartney (Photographer), Molly Nyman (Composer), Debs Paterson (Director / Writer), Tracey Seaward (Producer), Charles Steel (Producer), David Thewlis (Actor), Ruth Wilson (Actress) and Justine Wright (Editor).
The winners will be announced at the much anticipated 14th awards ceremony, which will take place on Sunday 4 December at the impressive Old Billingsgate in London.
Proud supporters and patrons of The Moët British Independent Film Awards include Mike Figgis, Tom Hollander, Adrian Lester, Ken Loach, Ewan McGregor, Helen Mirren, Samantha Morton, Michael Sheen, Trudie Styler, Tilda Swinton, Meera Syal, David Thewlis, Ray Winstone and Michael Winterbottom.
The Moët British Independent Film Awards would like to thank all its supporters, especially: Moët & Chandon, The British Film Institute, 3 Mills Studios, BBC Films, Deluxe142, The Creative Partnership, Exile Media, M.A.C, Raindance, Soho House, Studiocanal, Swarovski, Variety, Working Title and Zander Creative.
About BIFA
Created in 1998, The British Independent Film Awards set out to celebrate merit and achievement in independently funded British filmmaking, to honour new talent, and to promote British filmmaking and British talent to a wider public.
In recognition of Moët & Chandon’s generous contribution as headline sponsor, the 2011 event is referred to as The MOËT British Independent Film Awards.
For further information on BIFA, visit http://www.bifa.org.uk/
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Ken Loach Revealed (A Negromancer Bits and Bites Extra)
Reader Supported News gave its followers a chance to read the Guardian UK's piece on director Ken Loach. The acclaimed and controversial director is currently the subject of a retrospective by the British Film Institute (BFI).
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