The 16th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards Select 'The Social Network' as Best Picture and David Fincher as Best DirectorThe Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) announced the winners of the 16th annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards earlier this evening. The star-studded ceremony was held at the Hollywood Palladium and aired live on VH1. “The Social Network” was named the year’s Best Picture and David Fincher won Best Director honors for the film.Other big winners of the night incl...
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 15 films have been selected as semifinalists for Achievement in Visual Effects for the 83rd Academy Awards®.The films are listed below in alphabetical order:"Alice in Wonderland""The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader""Clash of the Titans""Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1""Hereafter""Inception" "Iron Man 2""The Last Airbender""Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief""Prince of Persia: Th...
James Franco and Anne Hathaway will serve as co-hosts of the 83rd Academy Awards®, Oscar telecast producers Bruce Cohen and Don Mischer announced today. Both have previously appeared on the telecast but not in hosting capacities."James Franco and Anne Hathaway personify the next generation of Hollywood icons— fresh, exciting and multi-talented. We hope to create an Oscar broadcast that will both showcase their incredible talents and entertain the world on February 27," said Cohen and Mischer....
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by Marc Halperin
After late night wrangling a settlement was reached between the Walt Disney Company and the UK's largest exhibition chain which is also the largest in Europe and largest in the world outside of North America to allow screening of Tim Burton's Alice. The Odeon boycott had also included its theatres in Ireland and Italy. The Boycott had grown to include several other theatre chains in Holland.
The...
The Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF) announced today that three-time Academy Award® nominee Johnny Depp will be honored with the prestigious Career Achievement Award at this year's Film Festival, taking place December 10-17 in Nassau. The announcement was made by BIFF Founder and Executive Director Leslie Vanderpool.
Depp will be on hand for the special tribute and presentation at the Balmoral Club in Nassau. Legendary leading man Sir Sean Connery will again be lending his ful...
Here are the results for the 2009 edition of the San Francisco Short Film Festival. To see the complete list of films, visit www.sanfrancisco.filmsfest.com Special Prize to the Best Short FilmCANDY DARLING by SILVIA DEFRANCE - Belgium"Candy Darling" is almost like a fun park ride, but for adults --- a sort of Freudian "Alice in Wonderland", but the landscape is a bit more ominous. A phantasmagoria of images that are at once unsettling, stimulating and darkly comical.Awarded ...
Here are the awards for the 2009 edition of the Short Film Festival of Los Angeles.
Special Prize to the Best Short Film
BECOMING ROMAN by NATHAN J MORSE - United States
Becoming Roman is a classic tale of the struggle of power to escape seemingly preordained roles and the fragile reality of an existential being. Life, Death, Comedy, Tragedy, War and Peace, told in one act.
Awarded Category: Direction
SERIAL KILLER by BAUDOUIN DU BOIS - Belgium / New-Zealand
The Gerards arri...
Le Prince de ce Monde (in fantastic competion)
One of the most popular sub-genres of terror movies is the one about diabolical possessions, seen in films such as "Repulsion", "The Exorcist" and "The Omen".
Father Donato hopes to find peace in a small village, far from worldly temptations. But Baroness De Bailleux, a young nymphomaniac aristocrat, has other plans for the cleric. Bewitched by the sensuality of the baroness, Donato finds himself involved in ...
