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VIDEO The Golden Globes 2025 Award Winners

The Golden Globes, often referred to as “Hollywood’s Party of the Year®,” is the largest awards show in the world to celebrate the best of both film and television. Emmy®-nominated comedian and actress Nikki Glaser hosted this year’s show, and multi-Emmy Award®-winning producing duo Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner of White Cherry Entertainment (WCE) served as executive producing showrunners for the 82nd Golden Globes. A Dick Clark Productions : the annua...

Göteborg Film Festival Presents the Nominees for the 2025 Ingmar Bergman Competition

  The Ingmar Bergman International Debut Award was established in 2007 by Ingmar Bergman himself, together with Göteborg Film Festival, when he served as the festival’s Honorary Chairman. The award celebrates innovation and artistic courage in filmmaking and is presented to a debut that captures the spirit of Bergman’s groundbreaking and existentially explorative artistry. This year’s eight nominees represent an impressive range of perspectives, themes, and style...

Timely Medical Thriller Noble Vision Named Best Drama Feature at Second Sight International Film Festival in Pensacola, Florida

  Timely medical drama/thriller Noble Vision continues its festival run on a high note, being named Best Drama Feature Award at the Second Sight International Film Festival in Pensacola, Florida, at a ceremony held on December 21st.   Based on the best-selling novel by Gen LaGreca, the film tells the story of beautiful dancer Nicole Hudson, played by Rayna Wilson, who is blinded in a tragic accide...

Angelina Jolie will receive the Desert Palm Achievement Award in Palm Springs on January 3, 2025

The Palm Springs International Film Awards has announced that Angelina Jolie is the recipient of the Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress, for Pablo Larraín's Maria. The Film Awards will take place on January 3, 2025, at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the festival running January 2-13, 2025. The event will be presented by Silvercrest and sponsored by Entertainment Tonight.    "Maria presents the iconic Angelina Jolie in the role of a lifetime as she em...

NEM Awards 2024: Meet the finalists!

NEM AWARDS 2024: Recognition is a key moment for every artist – external confirmation can be a game-changer and take a project to the next level. NEM Awards bring projects to life by presenting them to key industry leaders and key audiences. At last, this is what NEM Zagreb is all about – we want to connect talents with valuable opportunities, create a space for new collaborations and enhance the TV industry in Central and Eastern Europe. The perfect candidates&nbs...

97th OSCARS® shortlists in 10 award categories announced

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced shortlists in 10 categories for the 97th Academy Awards®: Documentary Feature Film, Documentary Short Film, International Feature Film, Makeup and Hairstyling, Music (Original Score), Music (Original Song), Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film, Sound and Visual Effects. DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM Fifteen films will advance in the Documentary Feature Film category for the 97th Academy Awards. &n...

Winners of the 12th African Emerging Filmmakers Awards (AEFA) announced

The eThekwini Filmmakers Association is proud to announce the winners of its annual African Emerging Filmmakers Awards (AEFA). The awards were held in Durban on Saturday the 14th of December, 2024. Hosted by celebrated television host Nonkanyiso Laconco Congo and Sibusiso Shozi, the awards lived up to expectations, inspiring emerging filmmakers to tell their own stories.  The awards recognise and celebrate emerging talent in the South African film industry. “We are thrilled to ann...

The Red Sea International Film Festival 2024 Closing Night And Awards

Red Path by Lofti Achour wins Best Feature Film at RSIFF Yusr Award Winners Revealed, Icons Viola Davis and Priyanka Chopra Jonas Honoured. Johnny Depp’s MODI, THREE DAYS ON THE WING OF MADNESS screened as Final Festival Gala. The Fourth edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival (RSIFF) came to a crescendo with the naming of the winners of this year’s prestigious Yusr Awards, Red Sea Honouree Awards for icons Viola Davis and Pr...

VIDEO: full ceremony - the winners of the European Film Awards 2024

Tonight, the European Film Academy revealed the winners of the European Film Awards, honouring the best of European cinema. 1.000 international guests, nominees and presenters celebrated the winners in 22 categories during a festive ceremony at the KKL Luzern on the shores of Lake Lucerne in Switzerland. With five awards (European Film, Director, Screenwriter, Actress and the Excellence Award for European Editing) EMILIA PÉREZ was the winner with most awards. The European Film Awards ar...

Red Sea International Film Festival (RSIFF) announced the winners of the Red Sea Souk Project Market

The Red Sea Souk has announced the winners of its Project Market during today’s Souk Awards Ceremony, spotlighting standout projects from a curated selection of 31 feature films and 7 series. These remarkable projects, helmed by visionary directors from the Arab world, Africa, and Asia, were recognized with an impressive array of cash prizes and in-kind support. Highlighting the evening, the Red Sea Fund backed nine awards—two for works-in-progress and seven for projects in develo...

OSCARS® FYC: Screening | Reception for the Chinese Documentary 'The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru'

      Silvia Bizio moderates Q&A with Director Fang Li An OSCARS® FYC screening and reception for the Chinese documentary 'The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru' was held at The Crescent Theater in Beverly Hills on December 10, 2024.     Synopsis: A documentary about the 1942 torpedoing of a Japanese freighter that carried British prisoners of war during World War II. The film tells the story of the sinking of the Japanese freighter and t...

AFI AWARDS 2024 Honorees Announced

AFI is thrilled to announce the AFI AWARDS 2024 honorees. The recipients include 10 outstanding motion pictures and 10 outstanding television programs deemed culturally and artistically representative of this year’s most significant achievements in the art of the moving image. An additional honoree was selected for an AFI Special Award, designated for works of excellence that fall outside of AFI AWARDS’ eligibility criteria. ...

VIDEO: presentation of the nominees for the 82nd Annual Golden Globes®:

Following is the complete list of Nominees for the 82nd Annual Golden Globes®: BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA THE BRUTALIST (A24) A COMPLETE UNKNOWN (Searchlight Pictures) CONCLAVE (Focus Features) DUNE: PART TWO (Warner Bros. Pictures) NICKEL BOYS (Orion Pictures / Amazon MGM Studios) SEPTEMBER 5 (Paramount Pictures) BEST MOTION PICTURE – MUSICAL OR COMEDY ANORA (NEON) CHALLENGERS (Amazon MGM Studios) EMILIA PÉREZ (Netflix) A REAL PAIN (Searchlight Pict...

NexTV's 2024 Writing & Pitch Competition winners announced

Elite writing competition brings Agents, Producers and Execs. CONGRATULATIONS to the WINNERS! We are so proud and humbled to announce the winners of NexTV's 2024 Writing & Pitch Competition.   We would also like to thank all participants and submitters. This was a very difficult year for our selection committee, due to the huge number of fantastic, market-ready submissions.   Congratulations to all!       ...

Announcing the winners of the 34th edition of The Gothams

A Different Man Wins Best Feature and No Other Land Wins Best Documentary Feature All We Imagine As Light Wins Best International Feature and His Three Daughters Wins Best Screenplay  Performance Awards go to Colman Domingo, Clarence Maclin, and Brandon Wilson Winners of Sixth Annual Focus Features & JetBlue Student Short Film Showcase Announced    The Gotham Film & Media Institute announced today the winners of the 34th edition of The Gothams at a ceremony held at ...

Award winners of the 27th edition the Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM)

Montreal, Saturday, November 30, 2024 - The Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) ends tomorrow, Sunday, December 1st. The winners of this 27th edition were revealed during an awards ceremony which took place this evening at the Cinémathèque québécoise.    GRAND PRIZE FOR INTERNATIONAL FEATURE COMPETITION  Republic by Jiang Jin (Singapore, China)   “Republic captures the...

IFFI 2024, 18: The Toppers, Winners all

At the 55th International Film festival of India, the following films, and casts, were awarded on the Closing session, held on 28th December 2024, afternoon. Democracy ruled, in that no entry won more than one prize. ‘Toxic’, Lithuania, won Golden Peacock, for the Best film, at IFFI 2024. Director, Saulė Bliuvaitė will share the Golden Peacock Trophy, a certificate, and a cash prize of Rs. 40,00,000, with the producer, Giedre Burokaite. The Jury praised the film for its d...

Timothée Chalamet to be awarded at Palm Springs International Film Awards

PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM AWARDS TO HONOR TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET WITH THE CHAIRMAN’S AWARD   The Palm Springs International Film Awards has announced that Timothée Chalamet is the recipient of the Chairman’s Award for his performance in Searchlight Pictures’ A Complete Unknown from James Mangold. The Film Awards will take place on January 3, 2025, at the Palm Springs Convention Center, with the festival running J...

VIDEO Awards Ceremony and wrap up figures at PÖFF (Tallinn Blacck Nights Film Festival) 2024

The Grand Prix winners of 2024 (Silent City Driver, dir. Sengedorj Janchivdorj). Photo: Erlend Štaub.  Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival wrapped up the numbers of 2024 The 28th edition of Black Nights broke the all-time audience record, as the number of admissions in 2024 were 93 044. The previous record was set in 2019, when the festival gathered around 90 000 visits at the screenings. The festival had also a record number of sold-out screenings (118). ...

VIDEO: Just Film WIP Awards during the Industry @Tallinn and Baltic event Awards Ceremony

Following an introduction from Marge Liiske, Head of Industry at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2024, Diana Mikita, NAFTA films producer commented "all the projects are winners! " and presented the "Best Just Film Project" to EMI as THE winner and recipient of the 2500 euro monetary prize by Nafta Films. The Best Just Film Project received a 2500 euro monetary prize by Nafta Films. Winner: Emi Writer and director: Ezequiel Erriquez M...

A Night of Victory at the Cairo International Film Festival

By Kate Elfatah The 45th Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) was capped off with an elegant award ceremony on Friday, November 22, at the Cairo Opera House , which honoured a wide variety of film accomplishments around the world. I was lucky enough to be there, to experience first-hand the passion and craftsmanship that underwrote this year’s stellar line-up of movies. The Best Film was the Romanian film, Bogdan Mureșanu’s The New Year That Never Came. It was an intense...

Awards of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival have been announced

The proud winners of the Audience Award (Pyre, dir. Vinod Kapri).      Highlights:  Silent City Driver wins the Grand Prix for the Best Film of Official Selection Competition, also scooped the Best Production Design Award; The Best First Feature Film Award goes to No Dogs Allowed; Southern Chronicles gets the Best Baltic Film award; In the Rebels with a Cause competition programme, the award for the Best Film go...

PÖFF Honors Georgian film legend Lana Gogoberidze for Lifetime Achievement Award

The second lifetime achievement award of this year’s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) will be given to one of Georgia’s most renowned directors, Lana Gogoberidze.  The 96-year-old legend will be presenting two of her films at this year's festival. Photo: Lana Gogoberidze Recently celebrating her 96th birthday, Gogoberidze is known for her films that predominantly depict strong women who fight against fate and dare to defy societal nor...

Winners of TV Beats Co-Financing Market 2024 revealed!

Yesterday evening, the winners of the TV Beats Co-Financing Market—now in its fourth year—were announced. The international jury selected Finnish drama series project The Women I Think about at Night (Producer: Liisa Karpo, production company: napafilms) as the most promising project. The winner was handed out the Series Co-Production Development Award, worth 50,000 euros, intended to foster creative collaborations in series co-production and empower independent producers. The awa...

Awards of the 40th Warsaw International Film Festival

1. INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION Jury members Maryna Er Gorbach (Ukraine), Oana Iancu (Romania), Anna Kazejak (Poland), Vinko Brešan (Croatia), Alberto Triano (Spain) gave the following awards: 1.1. Warsaw Grand Prix went to TRAFFIC / REOSTAT by Teodora Ana Mihai, Romania / Belgium / Netherlands The Warsaw Grand Prix includes 100,000 zlotys cash award, funded by the Mayor of Warsaw. 1.2. Award for the Best Director went to CHAOS AND SILENCE /...

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