"Kids on the Slope" and on Neon Alley

VIZ MEDIA ANNOUNCES THE PREMIERE OF JAZZ ANIME DRAMA KIDS ON THE SLOPE ON NEON ALLEY

Launching On The 24/7 Digital Anime Channel, Series By The Acclaimed Team Behind Cowboy Bebop Follows A Group Of Young Jazz Musicians In 60s Era Japan 

VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), the largest publisher, distributor and licensor of manga and anime in North America, announces a very special mid-season anime series debut with the launch of KIDS ON THE SLOPE on Neon Alley on Friday, January 17th at 9:30pm (PST).

The 12-episode anime drama about a group of young Japanese jazz musicians originally aired in Japan as a part of the prestigious ‘noitaminA’ block on Fuji TV, is rated ‘TV-14,’ and new installments will debut every Friday. KIDS ON THE SLOPE is distributed in North America by Sentai Filmworks.

Get ready to be blown away as the acclaimed team behind COWBOY BEBOP reunites for a tale of life, love, and all that jazz in KIDS ON THE SLOPE! Set during the summer of 1966 and based on a popular manga series created by Yuki Kodama, KIDS ON THE SLOPE! is the story of High school freshman Kaoru Nishimi struggling to adjust to the latest of many moves in his young life - this time to his uncle’s home in the seaside town of Kyushu. It’s never easy adjusting. But this time will be different. This time he’ll meet friends who’ll change his life forever. And he’ll discover a new passion, one that grabs his heart and rocks him to his very soul. It’s called JAZZ, and together with bad boy Sentaro and music store girl Ritsuko, they’re going to follow their muse to wherever the music takes them!

Neon Alley is VIZ Media’s innovative 24-hour English-dubbed linear anime channel that is available for general web access as well as for the Xbox 360® and Xbox LIVE® and the PlayStation®3 (PS3™) gaming system and the PlayStation®Network. Fans can also take advantage of the platform’s Video-On Demand “Catch Up” option which offers the flexibility to watch shows such as KIDS ON THE SLOPE anytime. The “Catch Up” option also allows viewers to search for specific content by individual series or by latest additions.

“KIDS ON THE SLOPE is a rich character-driven drama that demonstrates the power that music has to dramatically alter lives, and we’re very excited to bring it to North American fans on Neon Alley,” says Charlene Ingram, Senior Animation Marketing Manager. “Directed by Shinichiro Watanabe of Cowboy Bebop and Space Dandy fame, the series wonderfully captures the look and sound of 60s era Japan. Watanabe reunites with acclaimed Cowboy Bebop composer Yoko Kanno, who creates a rich and textured jazz soundtrack for this dynamic new musical drama. We invite fans to catch the mesmerizing premiere!”

Neon Alley’s diverse programming schedule includes a mix of action, adventure, sci-fi, supernatural, fantasy, and horror anime, all uncut and dubbed into English and presented in HD (when available), for a low monthly subscription rate of only $6.99.

For more information on Neon Alley, please visit www.NeonAlley.com.

For more information about other anime titles from VIZ Media, please visit: www.viz.com.

For more information on Sentai Filmworks, please visit www.sentai-filmworks.com

About Sentai Filmworks
Sentai Filmworks is one of the fastest-growing anime companies in North America, producing hit series like Persona 4, Girls und Panzer, Devil Survivor 2, Bodacious Space Pirates, Majestic Prince and High School of the Dead as well as high profile theatrical films such as Grave of the Fireflies, K-ON! and Appleseed. Sentai Filmworks’ programs are distributed through Ingram Entertainment, Diamond Comic Distributors, Section23Films and Waxworks through retailers Amazon, Best Buy, Fry’s, FYE, Hastings, Suncoast, The Right Stuf, Wal-Mart and other good and fine stores.  Digital product offerings may be found at Amazon, Anime Network, Crunchyroll, Google Play, Hulu, iTunes, Netflix, PlayStation Network, Rovi, Samsung, Vudu, XBOX Marketplace and YouTube.

2014 USC Scripter Award Nominees Revealed

USC Libraries Name Finalists for 26th-Annual Scripter Award

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The USC Libraries have named the authors and screenwriters of Captain Phillips, Philomena, The Spectacular Now, 12 Years a Slave, and What Maisie Knew as finalists for the 26th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Award. Scripter honors the screenwriter or screenwriters of the year’s most accomplished cinematic adaptation as well as the author or authors of the written work upon which the screenplay is based.

The finalists are, in alphabetical order by film title:

•Richard Phillips with Stephan Talty, authors of A Captain’s Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALs, and Dangerous Days at Sea, and screenwriter Billy Ray, for Captain Phillips

•For Philomena, author Martin Sixsmith, who wrote the book The Lost Child of Philomena Lee, and screenwriters Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope

•Novelist Tim Tharp and screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber for The Spectacular Now

•Solomon Northup, author of Twelve Years a Slave, and screenwriter John Ridley for 12 Years a Slave

•Screenwriters Carroll Cartwright and Nancy Doyne for What Maisie Knew, adapted from the novel by Henry James

The Friends of the USC Libraries established Scripter in 1988. Previous Scripter winners include the screenwriters and authors of Argo, The Descendants, No Country for Old Men, and The English Patient.

Co-chaired by Golden Globe-winning screenwriter Naomi Foner and USC professor and vice president of the Writers Guild of America, West, Howard Rodman, the 2014 Scripter selection committee selected the five finalists from a field of 86 eligible adaptations.

Serving on the selection committee, among many others, are film critics Leonard Maltin and Kenneth Turan; authors Michael Chabon, Michael Ondaatje and Mona Simpson; screenwriters Geoffrey Fletcher, Callie Khouri and Steve Zaillian; and USC deans Elizabeth Daley of the School of Cinematic Arts, Madeline Puzo of the School of Dramatic Arts and Catherine Quinlan of the USC Libraries.

The studios distributing the finalist films and the publishers of the original stories are:

•Captain Phillips—Columbia Pictures and Hyperion Books
•Philomena—Weinstein Company and Macmillan
•The Spectacular Now—A24 and Alfred A. Knopf
•12 Years a Slave—Fox Searchlight and Derby & Miller
•What Maisie Knew—Millennium Entertainment and Herbert S. Stone

The USC Libraries will announce the winning authors and screenwriters at a black-tie ceremony on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014 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.

Current silent auction donors and other event sponsors include AOC, Arthur Murray Santa Monica, At Your Side Private Exercise, Bouchon Beverly Hills, The Chopra Center for Wellbeing, Corvain Wine Access System, Del Mar Thoroughbred Club, Fess Parker Inn, Flight Deck, Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust, French Reflections, The Geffen Playhouse, Daryle Ann and Mark Giardino, The Grammy Museum, The Grill, The Kitchen For Exploring Foods, Knock, Knock, Montage Beverly Hills, The LA Opera, The Los Angeles Clippers, Lee Olvera, OPI, Pebble Beach Concors d' Elegance, Pica Peru, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Plumleigh, Porto Via Beverly Hills, Poseidon Stand Up Paddleboards, Rivera, SBE Restaurant Group, Total Wine and More, USC Athletics, and WEN Chaz Dean.

For more information about Scripter—including ticket availability, additional sponsorship opportunities, and an up-to-date list of sponsors—please email scripter@usc.edu or visit scripter.usc.edu.

"Vampire Academy" Movie Soundtrack Due February 11, 2014

Universal Music Enterprises to Release VAMPIRE ACADEMY Soundtrack out February 11, 2014

Featured artists include Katy Perry, Sky Ferreira, Goldfrapp, Iggy Azalea, Natalia Kills, Au Revoir Simone, Jaymes Bullett, Max Frost, Bear In Heaven, Rainy Milo and an exclusive track from CHVRCHES

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Universal Music Enterprises announced today that it will release the soundtrack album from the upcoming movie VAMPIRE ACADEMY on February 11. The line-up of artists includes Katy Perry, Goldfrapp, Sky Ferreira and more. Indie darlings CHVRCHES (Iain Cook, Martin Doherty and Lauren Mayberry) will contribute a self-produced exclusive track of the Bauhaus cover “Bela Lugosi's Dead.” The Weinstein Company will release VAMPIRE ACADEMY in theaters nationwide on February 14th.

The full album track list features an eclectic line-up, with “In Your Grave” by Jaymes Bullet (unreleased), “Red Lips” by Sky Ferreira, “Nice and Slow” by Max Frost, “Thea” by Goldfrapp, “Boys Don’t Cry” by Natalia Kills, “Bounce” by Iggy Azalea, ”Sinful Nature” by Bear In Heaven, “Think About It” by Naughty Boy, “Rats” by Rainy Milo (unreleased), “Spiritual” by Katy Perry, “Crazy” by Au Revoir Simone and the aforementioned exclusive CHVRCHES “Bela Lugosi's Dead.” CHVRVCHES says, "’Bela Lugosi's Dead’ is a genre defining classic. It was equal parts thrilling and daunting to attempt a reworking of such an incredible song. We can only hope that we did The Count proud." Adds Howard Paar, music supervisor, "I think we all felt a big responsibility to capture the spirit of the books with the songs that were chosen. I hope everyone has as much fun listening to the soundtrack as we did making it."

Director Mark Waters explains, "I had happily planned a career as a doctor when I first saw 'The Hunger' in the early eighties. I was immediately enraptured by it and its unforgettable use, in the classic opening sequence, of the seminal Bauhaus song, 'Bela Lugosi's Dead.' I saw the movie again the next day and, by the end of the week, I no longer wanted to be a doctor.

"If and when my journey as a filmmaker took me down the dark alley of the Vampire genre, I knew I'd want to pay homage to The Hunger, Bauhaus, and 'Bela Lugosi's Dead' in a way that took it all to another level. It was remarkable good luck we could hitch onto the comet that is CHVRCHES. I dare anyone to try walking out on the closing credits when their version of Bela is playing!"

From Mark Waters, the director of MEAN GIRLS, and his brother Daniel Waters, the screenwriter of HEATHERS, comes VAMPIRE ACADEMY, a film based on the best-selling book series by Richelle Mead.

St. Vladimir's is like any boarding school -- it’s got cute boys, gossip queens, and a strict curfew, but that’s only because when you’re a vampire the sun is annoying. Rose Hathaway (Zoey Deutch), is the 17-year-old half human/half vampire guardian of her best friend, Princess Lissa Dragomir (Lucy Fry), the last in line to become queen of the Vampire Moroi. Someone or something wants Lissa dead. To keep her alive, Rose will have to keep her hormones in check and actually learn from her hot guardian instructor Dimitri. Only then will she be able to fight off crazed vampires, deadly fire-spells, and murderous psi-hounds. If you thought high school was cut throat….

VAMPIRE ACADEMY is a best-selling series of six young-adult paranormal romance novels by author Richelle Mead. The first book in the series, Vampire Academy, was published in 2007. By 2013 the series had sold over 8 million copies in 35 countries. With its irreverent characters and Richelle's distinct voice, Vampire Academy has set itself apart from anything else the Young Adult world is reading.

VAMPIRE ACADEMY will be released through the Weinstein Company, was financed by Reliance and is produced by Don Murphy and Susan Montford of NATURAL BORN KILLERS, BULLY, REAL STEEL & TRANSFORMERS, Deepak Nayar of BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM, BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB & LOST HIGHWAY and Michael Preger of the upcoming DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS.

Broadcast Film Critics Name "12 Years a Slave" Best Picture of 2013

by Amos Semien

The Broadcast Film Critics Association named 12 Years a Slave the “Best Picture” of 2013 at the 19th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, which the BFCA presents.  Director Steve McQueen’s film also claimed “Best Supporting Actress” for Lupita Nyong’o and “Best Adapted Screenplay” for John Ridley.

Gravity led the 19th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards with seven wins, including “Best Director” for Alfonso Cuarón and “Best Actress in An Action Movie” for Sandra Bullock.  This is a record for the most Critics’ Choice Movie Award wins ever, previously held by Inception (2010) and Avatar (2009), which both had six wins.

American Hustle won four awards, including “Best Acting Ensemble” and “Best Actress in a Comedy” for Amy Adams.  Dallas Buyers Club received two major acting awards, “Best Actor” to Matthew McConaughey and “Best Supporting Actor” to Jared Leto.

The winners of the 19th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards were announced at the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards ceremony on Thursday, January 16, 2014 from the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif.  The show was broadcast live on The CW Network.  Aisha Tyler hosted the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards ceremony. Tyler currently serves as the new host of the critically acclaimed improv show, “Whose Line Is It Anyway?,” on The CW Network and is also currently a co-host of Emmy-nominated show “The Talk.”

WINNERS OF THE 2014 / 19th ANNUAL CRITICS’ CHOICE MOVIE AWARDS (for the year in film 2013):

Best Picture – “12 Years a Slave”

Best Actor – Matthew McConaughey, “Dallas Buyers Club”

Best Actress – Cate Blanchett, “Blue Jasmine”

Best Supporting Actor – Jared Leto, “Dallas Buyers Club”

Best Supporting Actress – Lupita Nyong’o, “12 Years a Slave”

Best Young Actor/Actress – Adele Exarchopoulos, “Blue Is The Warmest Color”

Best Acting Ensemble – “American Hustle”

Best Director – Alfonso Cuarón, “Gravity”

Best Original Screenplay – Spike Jonze, “Her”

Best Adapted Screenplay – John Ridley, “12 Years a Slave”

Best Cinematography – Emmanuel Lubezki, “Gravity”

Best Art Direction – Catherine Martin (Production Designer), Beverley Dunn (Set Decorator), “The Great Gatsby”

Best Editing – Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger, “Gravity”

Best Costume Design – Catherine Martin, “The Great Gatsby”

Best Hair & Makeup – “American Hustle”

Best Visual Effects – “Gravity”

Best Animated Feature – “Frozen”

Best Action Movie – “Lone Survivor”

Best Actor in an Action Movie – Mark Wahlberg, “Lone Survivor”

Best Actress in an Action Movie – Sandra Bullock, “Gravity”

Best Comedy – “American Hustle”

Best Actor in a Comedy – Leonardo DiCaprio, “Wolf of Wall Street”

Best Actress in a Comedy – Amy Adams, “American Hustle”

Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie – “Gravity”

Best Foreign Language Film – “Blue Is the Warmest Color”

Best Documentary Feature – “20 Feet From Stardom”

Best Song – “Let It Go” Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, “Frozen”

Best Score – Steven Price, “Gravity”

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Review: "The Hunt for Red October" Still a Goodie

TRASH IN MY EYE No. 3 (of 2014) by Leroy Douresseaux

The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Running time:  134 minutes (2 hour, 14 minutes)
MPAA – PG-13 for some intense action/violence and language
DIRECTOR:  John McTiernan
WRITERS:  Larry Ferguson and Donald Stewart (based on the novel by Tom Clancy)
PRODUCER:  Mace Neufeld
CINEMATOGRAPHER:  Jan De Bont (D.o.P.)
EDITORS:  Dennis Virkler and John Wright
COMPOSER:  Basil Poledouris
Academy Award winner

DRAMA/ESPIONAGE/ACTION/THRILLER

Starring:   Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill, Richard Jordan, Peter Firth, Tim Curry, Courtney B. Vance, Stellan Skarsgard, Jeffrey Jones, Fred Dalton Thompson, Daniel Davis, Gates McFadden, and James Earl Jones

Advertisements for the upcoming film, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, tout it as the return of the Tom Clancy thriller to the big screen.  That little bit of hard-selling made me want to see the first Tom Clancy thriller to hit movie theatres, again.

The Hunt for Red October is a 1990 naval thriller and action movie from director John McTiernan.  The film is based on The Hunt for Red October, a novel by the late author Tom Clancy that was first published in 1984.  The Hunt for Red October the movie focuses on a rogue Soviet submarine captain and the young CIA analyst who is trying to figure out his every move.

The Hunt for Red October opens in 1984 in the USSR and introduces Captain Marko Ramius (Sean Connery).  He commands the Red October, a ballistic missile submarine that is virtually undetectable.  The ship’s first mission is to be part of USSR war game exercises, but early in the mission, the Red October disappears.

In the United States, a young CIA analyst, Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin), gets an assignment from Vice Admiral James Greer (James Earl Jones), CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence.  Ryan must discover Ramius’ intentions before a war breaks out between the Americans and the Russians over the missing Red October.  Is Ramius trying to defect, or to start a war?

Tom Clancy’s intrepid CIA agent, Jack Ryan, makes his first big screen appearance in The Hunt for Red October.  Actor Harrison Ford would play the character in 1992’s Patriot Games and 2004’s Clear and Present Danger.  Ben Affleck would play Ryan in The Sum of All Fears (2002), which I have not seen as of this writing.  Clear and Present Danger is one of my all-time favorite movies, and honestly, I can’t say if I like Baldwin or Ford more as Ryan, because both are among my favorite actors.

The Hunt for Red October is not a great movie, but it is greatly entertaining.  It is skillfully directed by John McTiernan, who, for a time from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, was one of the supreme directors of big, masculine, and loud action movies.  The expert film editing in this movie reveals McTiernan’s efficiency at creating a story that is part clever and deceptive game and part espionage thriller – all wrapped inside the mechanics of a military film.

Sean Connery as Ramius and Alec Baldwin as Ryan are convincing and proficient, and while this is not their best work, they create characters we want to be next to and follow into adventure.  I had not seen this movie in years, but it is as good as or maybe even better than I remember.  The Hunt for Red October is the techno-thriller that does not require the viewer to be smart to watch it.  That is not a slap at the audience; that’s a compliment to say that The Hunt for Red October is a smart movie that is also successful at entertaining.

8 of 10
A

NOTES:
1991 Academy Awards, USA:  1 win: “Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing” (Cecelia Hall and George Watters II); 2 nominations: “Best Sound” (Richard Bryce Goodman, Richard Overton, Kevin F. Cleary, and Don J. Bassman), and “Best Film Editing” (Dennis Virkler and John Wright)

1991 BAFTA Awards:  3 nominations: “Best Actor” (Sean Connery), “Best Production Design” (Terence Marsh), “Best Sound” (Cecilia Häll, George Watters II, Richard Bryce Goodman, and Don J. Bassman)

Friday, January 17, 2014


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"Gravity," "American Hustle" Lead 2014 Oscar Nominations - Complete List

by Leroy Douresseaux

The 2014 / 86th Academy Awards nominations were announced on Thursday, January 16, 2014 in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater by Cheryl Boone Isaacs and Chris Hemsworth.

Director David O. Russell’s American Hustle and director Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity led the 2014 Academy Award nominations with 10 each, including “Best Picture” and “Best Director” nods.

Director Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave received 9 nominations, although it was expected to lead the nominations pack.  However, the film did not receive nominations in the categories of “Best Cinematography” and “Best Original Score,” which some prognosticators thought it would.  If 12 Years a Slave had received those two nominations, it would have given the movie a leading eleven nominations.  I think this is leading to what I predicted at the beginning of the 2013-14 movie award season; 12 Years a Slave is NOT going to win “Best Picture.”  I don’t expect it to win in the director, lead actor, and supporting actress categories, either.

Beyond that, there are so many surprises and so-called snubs, and I have neither the time nor inclination to discuss them.  But you can find lots of discussion around the web.

The Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2013 will be presented on Sunday, March 2, 2014, at the Dolby Theatre™ at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live on the ABC Television Network.  The Oscar presentation, produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, will also be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.

2014 / 86th OSCAR nominations (for the year in film 2013):

Best motion picture of the year:

“American Hustle”

Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison and Jonathan Gordon, Producers

“Captain Phillips”

Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti and Michael De Luca, Producers

“Dallas Buyers Club”

Robbie Brenner and Rachel Winter, Producers

“Gravity”

Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman, Producers

“Her”

Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze and Vincent Landay, Producers

“Nebraska”

Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa, Producers

“Philomena”

Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan and Tracey Seaward, Producers

“12 Years a Slave”

Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen and Anthony Katagas, Producers

“The Wolf of Wall Street” Nominees to be determined

Achievement in directing:

• “American Hustle” David O. Russell
• “Gravity” Alfonso Cuarón
• “Nebraska” Alexander Payne
• “12 Years a Slave” Steve McQueen
• “The Wolf of Wall Street” Martin Scorsese

Performance by an actor in a leading role

• Christian Bale in “American Hustle”
• Bruce Dern in “Nebraska”
• Leonardo DiCaprio in “The Wolf of Wall Street”
• Chiwetel Ejiofor in “12 Years a Slave”
• Matthew McConaughey in “Dallas Buyers Club”

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

• Barkhad Abdi in “Captain Phillips”
• Bradley Cooper in “American Hustle”
• Michael Fassbender in “12 Years a Slave”
• Jonah Hill in “The Wolf of Wall Street”
• Jared Leto in “Dallas Buyers Club”

Performance by an actress in a leading role

• Amy Adams in “American Hustle”
• Cate Blanchett in “Blue Jasmine”
• Sandra Bullock in “Gravity”
• Judi Dench in “Philomena”
• Meryl Streep in “August: Osage County”

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

• Sally Hawkins in “Blue Jasmine”
• Jennifer Lawrence in “American Hustle”
• Lupita Nyong’o in “12 Years a Slave”
• Julia Roberts in “August: Osage County”
• June Squibb in “Nebraska”

Adapted screenplay

• “Before Midnight” Written by Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
• “Captain Phillips” Screenplay by Billy Ray
• “Philomena” Screenplay by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
• “12 Years a Slave” Screenplay by John Ridley
• “The Wolf of Wall Street” Screenplay by Terence Winter

Original screenplay

• “American Hustle” Written by Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell
• “Blue Jasmine” Written by Woody Allen
• “Dallas Buyers Club” Written by Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack
• “Her” Written by Spike Jonze
• “Nebraska” Written by Bob Nelson

Best animated feature film of the year

• “The Croods” Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco and Kristine Belson
• “Despicable Me 2” Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin and Chris Meledandri
• “Ernest & Celestine” Benjamin Renner and Didier Brunner
• “Frozen” Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee and Peter Del Vecho
• “The Wind Rises” Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki

Achievement in cinematography

• “The Grandmaster” Philippe Le Sourd
• “Gravity” Emmanuel Lubezki
• “Inside Llewyn Davis” Bruno Delbonnel
• “Nebraska” Phedon Papamichael
• “Prisoners” Roger A. Deakins

Achievement in costume design

• “American Hustle” Michael Wilkinson
• “The Grandmaster” William Chang Suk Ping
• “The Great Gatsby” Catherine Martin
• “The Invisible Woman” Michael O’Connor
• “12 Years a Slave” Patricia Norris

Best documentary feature

• “The Act of Killing”Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen
• “Cutie and the Boxer” Zachary Heinzerling and Lydia Dean Pilcher
• “Dirty Wars” Richard Rowley and Jeremy Scahill
• “The Square” Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer
• “20 Feet from Stardom” Nominees to be determined

Best documentary short subject

• “CaveDigger” Jeffrey Karoff
• “Facing Fear” Jason Cohen
• “Karama Has No Walls” Sara Ishaq
• “The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life” Malcolm Clarke and Nicholas Reed
• “Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall” Edgar Barens

Achievement in film editing

• “American Hustle” Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers and Alan Baumgarten
• “Captain Phillips” Christopher Rouse
• “Dallas Buyers Club” John Mac McMurphy and Martin Pensa
• “Gravity” Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger
• “12 Years a Slave” Joe Walker

Best foreign language film of the year

• “The Broken Circle Breakdown” Belgium
• “The Great Beauty” Italy
• “The Hunt” Denmark
• “The Missing Picture” Cambodia
• “Omar” Palestine

Achievement in makeup and hairstyling

• “Dallas Buyers Club” Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews
• “Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa” Stephen Prouty
• “The Lone Ranger” Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

• “The Book Thief” John Williams
• “Gravity” Steven Price
• “Her” William Butler and Owen Pallett
• “Philomena” Alexandre Desplat
• “Saving Mr. Banks” Thomas Newman

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

“Alone Yet Not Alone” from “Alone Yet Not Alone”

Music by Bruce Broughton; Lyric by Dennis Spiegel

“Happy” from “Despicable Me 2”

Music and Lyric by Pharrell Williams

“Let It Go” from “Frozen”

Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez

“The Moon Song” from “Her”

Music by Karen O; Lyric by Karen O and Spike Jonze

“Ordinary Love” from “Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom”

Music by Paul Hewson, Dave Evans, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen (also known as the rock band U2); Lyric by Paul Hewson (also known as Bono)

Achievement in production design

• “American Hustle” Production Design: Judy Becker; Set Decoration: Heather Loeffler
• “Gravity” Production Design: Andy Nicholson; Set Decoration: Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard
• “The Great Gatsby” Production Design: Catherine Martin; Set Decoration: Beverley Dunn
• “Her” Production Design: K.K. Barrett; Set Decoration: Gene Serdena
• “12 Years a Slave” Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Alice Baker

Best animated short film

• “Feral” Daniel Sousa and Dan Golden
• “Get a Horse!” Lauren MacMullan and Dorothy McKim
• “Mr. Hublot” Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares
• “Possessions” Shuhei Morita
• “Room on the Broom” Max Lang and Jan Lachauer

Best live action short film

• “Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn’t Me)” Esteban Crespo
• “Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just before Losing Everything)” Xavier Legrand and Alexandre Gavras
• “Helium” Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson
• “Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?)” Selma Vilhunen and Kirsikka Saari
• “The Voorman Problem” Mark Gill and Baldwin Li

Achievement in sound editing

• “All Is Lost” Steve Boeddeker and Richard Hymns
• “Captain Phillips” Oliver Tarney
• “Gravity” Glenn Freemantle
• “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” Brent Burge
• “Lone Survivor” Wylie Stateman

Achievement in sound mixing

• “Captain Phillips” Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith and Chris Munro
• “Gravity” Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro
• “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick and Tony Johnson
• “Inside Llewyn Davis” Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland
• “Lone Survivor” Andy Koyama, Beau Borders and David Brownlow

Achievement in visual effects

• “Gravity” Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould
• “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and Eric Reynolds
• “Iron Man 3” Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash and Dan Sudick
• “The Lone Ranger” Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams and John Frazier
• “Star Trek Into Darkness” Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann and Burt Dalton

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2014 Canadian Screen Award Nominations Are Announced

by Leroy Douresseaux

The Canadian Screen Awards honor achievements in Canadian film and television production, as well as achievements in digital media.  In 2012, the formerly separate Genie Awards (for film) and Gemini Awards (for television) merged into a single ceremony, the Canadian Screen Awards.

The Canadian Screen Awards are presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television.  This is a national, no-profit, professional association dedicated to the promotion, recognition and celebration of exceptional achievements in Canadian film, television and digital media.  The Academy describes itself as a “Unifying industry professionals across Canada, the Academy is a vital force representing all screen – based industries.”

The Academy’s Canadian Screen Awards is the annual awards show to celebrate the best in film, television and digital media.  They are part of Canadian Screen Week (March 3‐9, 2014).

The 2014 Canadian Screen Awards will be presented at an awards gala on Sunday, March 9, 2014.  This two-hour live broadcast will be presented at 8pm on the CBC.  Actor Martin Short will be the host.

The following list of nominations is only a partial list, which excludes the television and new media categories, as well as most of the 2014 Special Award winners.  For a full list of nominees, go here:
http://www.academy.ca/Canadian-Screen-Awards/2014-Nominees-Winners/Film

2014 CANADIAN SCREEN AWARDS Nominations:

Feature Film Nominations:

BEST MOTION PICTURE / MEILLEUR FILM (Sponsor / Commanditaire | William F. White International and Comweb Group):

• LE DÉMANTÈLEMENT / THE DISMANTLEMENT – Bernadette Payeur, Marc Daigle
• EMPIRE OF DIRT – Jennifer Podemski
• ENEMY – Kim McCraw, Luc Déry, Miguel A. Faura, Niv Fichman, Sari Friedland
• THE F‐WORD – Andre Rouleau, David Gross, Macdara Kelleher
• GABRIELLE – Kim McCraw, Luc Déry
• THE GRAND SEDUCTION – Barbara Doran, Roger Frappier
• MAÏNA – Karine Martin, Michel Poulette, Yves Fortin
• TOM À LA FERME / TOM AT THE FARM – Charles Gillibert, Nathanaël Karmitz, Xavier Dolan

ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN / MEILLEURE
DIRECTION ARTISTIQUE
• MARIO HERVIEUX – Le Démantèlement / The Dismantlement
• PATRICE VERMETTE – Enemy
• MICHEL PROULX – Louis Cyr, l’homme le plus fort du monde / Louis Cyr: The Strongest
• Man in the World
• JEAN BÉCOTTE – Maïna
• ANTHONY IANNI, FRANÇOIS SEGUIN – The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN / MEILLEURS COSTUMES
• LEA CARLSON – The Colony
• CARMEN ALIE – Louis Cyr, l’homme le plus fort du monde / Louis Cyr: The Strongest Man
• in the World
• VÉRONIQUE MARCHESSAULT – Maïna
• SARAH MILLMAN – Molly Maxwell
• GERSHA PHILLIPS – The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY / MEILLEURES IMAGES
• NICOLAS BOLDUC CSC – Enemy
• ALLEN SMITH – Maïna
• ANTONIO RIESTRA – Mama
• FRANÇOIS DELISLE – Le Météore / The Meteor
• PIERRE GILL, CSC – Upside Down

ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTION / MEILLEURE RÉALISATION (Sponsor / Commanditaire | Pinewood Toronto Studios):
• SÉBASTIEN PILOTE – Le Démantèlement / The Dismantlement
• DENIS VILLENEUVE – Enemy
• MICHAEL DOWSE – The F‐Word
• XAVIER DOLAN – Tom à la ferme / Tom at the Farm
• PEDRO PIRES, ROBERT LEPAGE – Triptyque

ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING / MEILLEUR MONTAGE (Sponsor / Commanditaire | The PostMan):
• CARINA BACCANALE – Amsterdam
• EVAN MORGAN, MATT JOHNSON – The Dirties
• JORGE WEISZ – Empire of Dirt
• MATTHEW HANNAM ‐ Enemy
• RICHARD COMEAU – Gabrielle

ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKE‐UP / MEILLEURS MAQUILLAGES (Sponsor / Commanditaire | M•A•C Cosmetics)
• LOUISE MACKINTOSH, PEGGY KYRIAKIDOU, SHAUNA LLEWELLYN – The Colony
• FRANCOIS DAGENAIS, TRACI LOADER – Cottage Country
• BRIGITTE BILODEAU ‐ Maïna
• DAVID MARTI, LINDA DOWDS, MONTSE RIBE – Mama
• JO‐ANN MACNEIL, KAROLA DIRNBERGER, PAUL JONES – The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC ‐ ORIGINAL SCORE / MEILLEURE MUSIQUE ORIGINALE
• DANNY BENSI, SAUNDER JURRIAANS – Enemy
• KIM GABOURY, MICHEL CUSSON – Maïna
• RAMACHANDRA BORCAR – Roche Papier Ciseaux
• MICHEL CUSSON – Rouge Sang
• GABRIEL YARED – Tom à la ferme / Tom at the Farm

ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC ‐ ORIGINAL SONG / MEILLEURE CHANSON ORIGINALE (Sponsor / Commanditaire | Slaight Music)
• COLLEEN RENNISON – Down River – “Molly”
• ELISAPIE ISAAC, OLIVIER AURIOL – La légende de Sarila / The Legend of Sarila – “Far Away”
• JIMMY HARRY, SERENA RYDER – The Right Kind of Wrong – “It’s No Mistake”
• MICHEL CUSSON – Rouge Sang – “À la Claire fontaine”
• MAERIN HUNTING – Stay – “Iva / Moses”

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE / INTERPRÉTATION
MASCULINE DANS UN PREMIER RÔLE
• GABRIEL ARCAND – Le Démantèlement / The Dismantlement
• JAKE GYLLENHAAL – Enemy
• DANIEL RADCLIFFE – The F‐Word
• BRENDAN GLEESON – The Grand Seduction
• RAJESH TAILANG – Siddharth

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE / INTERPRÉTATION
MASCULINE DANS UN RÔLE DE SOUTIEN
• JAY BARUCHEL – The Art of the Steal
• ALEXANDRE LANDRY – Gabrielle
• GORDON PINSENT – The Grand Seduction
• PIERRE‐YVES CARDINAL – Tom à la ferme / Tom at the Farm
• MARC LABRÈCHE – Whitewash

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE / INTERPRÉTATION
FÉMININE DANS UN PREMIER RÔLE
• TATIANA MASLANY – Cas & Dylan
• CARA GEE – Empire of Dirt
• GABRIELLE MARION‐RIVARD – Gabrielle
• KAWENNÁHERE DEVERY JACOBS – Rhymes for Young Ghouls
• ISABELLE GUÉRARD – Rouge Sang

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE /INTERPRÉTATION
FÉMININE DANS UN RÔLE DE SOUTIEN
• FLORENCE BLAIN – L’Autre Maison
• JENNIFER PODEMSKI – Empire of Dirt
• SARAH GADON – Enemy
• MACKENZIE DAVIS – The F‐Word
• EVELYNE BROCHU – Tom à la ferme / Tom at the Farm

ACHIEVEMENT IN OVERALL SOUND / MEILLEUR SON D'ENSEMBLE (Sponsor / Commanditaire | Deluxe Toronto):
• ARNAUD DERIMAY, BENOÎT LEDUC, STÉPHANE BERGERON – Amsterdam
• BERNARD GARIÉPY STROBL, PIERRE BERTRAND – Gabrielle
• ANDREW TAY, DAVID DRAGE, DAVID GIAMMARCO, GREG CHAPMAN, MATT MCKENZIE,
• PETER PERSAUD – The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
• JOE MORROW, LALIT MALIK, LOU SOLAKOFSKI ‐ Siddharth
• FRANCOIS GRENON, OLIVIER GOINARD, SEVAN KORYAN, SYLVAIN BRASSARD – Tom à la ferme/ Tom at the Farm

ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING / MEILLEUR MONTAGE SONORE (Sponsor / Commanditaire | IMAX):
• CLAIRE POCHON, SIMON MEILLEUR, SYLVAIN BELLEMARE – Amsterdam
• CLAIRE POCHON, SIMON MEILLEUR, SYLVAIN BELLEMARE – Gabrielle
• ANTOINE MORIN, CHRISTIAN RIVEST, GUY PELLETIER, MARTIN PINSONNAULT, MIREILLE MORIN, PAUL COL – Louis Cyr, l’homme le plus fort du monde / Louis Cyr: The Strongest Man in the World
• ALEX BULLICK, CHRISTIAN SCHAANING, J.R. FOUNTAIN, JILL PURDY, KEVIN BANKS, NATHAN ROBITAILLE, NELSON FERREIRA, STEPHEN BARDEN, STEVE BAINE – The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
• GUY FRANCOEUR, ISABELLE FAVREAU, SYLVAIN BRASSARD – Tom à la ferme / Tom at the Farm

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY / MEILLEUR SCÉNARIO (Sponsor / Commanditaire | Harold Greenberg Fund):
• JONATHAN SOBOL – The Art of the Steal
• SÉBASTIEN PILOTE – Le Démantèlement / The Dismantlement
• SHANNON MASTERS – Empire of Dirt
• RICHIE MEHTA – Siddharth
• EMANUEL HOSS‐DESMARAIS, MARC TULIN – Whitewash

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY / MEILLEURE ADAPTATION
• JAVIER GULLÓN – Enemy
• ELAN MASTAI – The F‐Word
• KEN SCOTT, MICHAEL DOWSE – The Grand Seduction
• MICHEL MARC BOUCHARD, XAVIER DOLAN – Tom à la ferme / Tom at the Farm
• ROBERT LEPAGE ‐ Triptyque

ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS / MEILLEURS EFFETS VISUELS
• LAETITIA SEGUIN, MARIE‐CECILE DAHAN, MATHIEU VEILLETTE, MATTHEW ROULEAU, MIKAEL DAMANT‐SIROIS, PATRICK DAVID, VINCENT POITRAS – Enemy
• AÉLIS HÉRAUD, ANTOINE WIBAUT, CATHERINE HÉBERT, CYNTHIA CARRIER, DAVID RAYMOND, JONATHAN LEGRIS, JOSÉE CHAPDELAINE, LOUIS‐ALEXANDRE LORD, PIERRESIMON LEBRUN‐CHAPUT, SARAH NEVEU – Louis Cyr, l’homme le plus fort du monde /Louis Cyr: The Strongest Man in the World
• AARON WEINTRAUB, AYO BURGESS, DENNIS BERARDI, EDWARD J. TAYLOR IV, JASON GOUGEON, KYLE YONEDA, MICHAEL BORRETT, MICHAEL RICE, SARAH MCMURDO, TAMARA STONE ‐ Mama
• ANDY ROBINSON, DENNIS BERARDI, EDWARD J. TAYLOR IV, JAMES COOPER, JASON EDWARDH, JO HUGHES, LEANN HARVEY, SEAN MILLS, STEPHEN WAGNER, TREY HARRELL – The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
• ANNIE NORMANDIN, DOMINIC DAIGLE, FRANÇOIS DUMOULIN, MARC MORISETTE, OLIVIER GOULET – Upside Down

Docs & Short Film Nominations:

TED ROGERS BEST FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY / MEILLEUR LONG MÉTRAGE DOCUMENTAIRE TED ROGERS
• HI-HO MISTAHEY! – Alanis Obomsawin, Annette Clarke, Ravida Din
• MY PRAIRIE HOME – Chelsea McMullan, Lea Marin, Silva Basmajian
• PEOPLE OF A FEATHER – Joel Heath
• VANISHING POINT – Julia Szucs, Stephen Smith, David Christensen
• WATERMARK – Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Daniel Iron

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY / MEILLEUR COURT MÉTRAGE DOCUMENTAIRE (Sponsor / Commanditaire | Hot Docs)
• CHI – Anne Wheeler, Yves J. Ma, Tracey Friesen
• JUST AS I REMEMBER – Andrew Moir
• MARY + MYSELF – Sam Decoste, Annette Clarke
• BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT DRAMA / MEILLEUR COURT MÉTRAGE DRAMATIQUE
• A GRAND CANAL – Johnny Ma
• INA LITOVSKI – Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, André Turpin
• MÉMORABLE MOI – Jean-François Asselin
• NOAH – Patrick Cederberg, Walter Woodman
• NOUS AVIONS – Stéphane Moukarzel

BEST ANIMATED SHORT / MEILLEUR COURT MÉTRAGE D'ANIMATION
• THE END OF PINKY – Claire Blanchet, Michael Fukushima
• GLORIA VICTORIA – Theodore Ushev, Marc Bertrand
• HOLLOW LAND – Michelle Kranot, Uri Kranot, Dora Benousilio, Marc Bertrand, Marie Bro
• IMPROMPTU – Bruce Alcock, Annette Clarke, Michael Fukushima, Tina Ouellette
• SUBCONSCIOUS PASSWORD – Chris Landreth, Marcy Page, Mark Smith

Lifetime Achievement Award - For Exceptional Contribution to the Canadian Film & Television Industry: DAVID CRONENBERG

Earle Grey Award – For Acting: COLM FEORE

http://www.academy.ca/awards/

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