Sarajevo Film Festival Proudly Presents Award Winners for 2012: Feature Film Jury: Kornél Mundruczó (president of the jury), Frederic Boyer, Ada Condeescu, Eva Diederix and Igor Martinović The Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Film: EVERYBODY IN OUR FAMILY / TOATA LUMEA DIN FAMILIA NOASTRA Director: Radu Jude (Romania) Financial Award, in the amount of 16,000 €, is provided by Council of Eu…
Sundance Film Festival 2012 took place from Thursday, January 19 to Sunday, January 29 in Park City, Utah. The 28th edition of the festival presented about 118 independent films from 30 countries, including 45 first-timers (24 in competition) and 91 world premieres. Featured in four different competition categories were 58 individual films. Parker Posey was the host of the closing awards ceremony…
The 69th Venice International Film Festival, organized by La Biennale di Venezia, has run at Venice Lido August 29th through September 8th, 2012, directed by Alberto Barbera. The aim of the Festival is to raise awareness and promote all the various aspects of international cinema in all its forms: as art, entertainment and as an industry, in a spirit of freedom and tolerance. The Festival include…
The big winner of this year MTV Movie Awards was the breakout hit The Hunger Games that swept the ceremony, taking home four gongs. The film’s star Jennifer Lawrence won the prestigious Best Female Performance award – but unfortunately the 22-year-old wasn’t in Los Angeles to collect her trophy. However, Jennifer Lawrence accepted her award via a pre-recorded video as she is cur…
…drew influences from classical, jazz, and world music. The prog genre flourished again in the 80s with bands such as Marillion, while acts such as Porcupine Tree and Muse have helped carry it into the 21st Century. The inaugural event on Wednesday night brought together prog pioneers from the 1970s, and newer acts like progressive metal band TesseracT, who won a newcomer award – having relea…
…Sale’s life is to be commemorated with an award for the best computer restoration project Dr. David Hartley said the idea for the award emerged soon after Tony Sale’s unexpected death in August 2011. “This has all been stimulated by Tony Sale,” he said. “We hope it will be a fitting tribute to him.” Prior to embarking on the Colossus rebuild, Tony Sale worked at the…
ts in Sarajevo and Bosnia-Hercegovina alive”. The award is given by the Sarajevo county every year to a foreign national who promotes humanity, democracy and tolerance. Other films among the more than 200 screened at the event, included a documentary Football Rebels, narrated by French former football superstar turned actor Eric Cantona. It profiled five footballers – Ivory Coast’s Didier Dr…
The 18th edition of SAG Awards was held at Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium on Sunday evening, January 29. Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Actor statuette honored the prime-time television performances and the exceptional motion pictures of 2011. The SAG Awards was transmitted live on TBS and TNT. Berenice Bejo, Brad Pitt, Bryan Cranston, Don Cheadle, George Clooney and Viola Davis were among the p…
Under rules drawn up by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, up to 10 films can be shortlisted for its best picture prize when its nominations are announced on January 10, 2013. These are the movies that are most likely to be up for the Academy’s top award, and assess their chances of recognition in other categories. 1. Argo Ben Affleck won an Oscar in 1998 for the screenplay h…
…uropean Film Academy The Oscar-winning actress will be a guest at the European Film Awards on 1 December in Malta. Helen Mirren, 67, won the Academy Award for best actress for her role in The Queen in 2007. She was nominated for an Oscar again in 2010 for her role as Tolstoy’s wife in The Last Station and is tipped to pick up another nomination next year for playing Alfred Hitchcock’s…
The top ten skyscrapers of the year were named yesterday with a stunning New York residential block taking top spot. Eight Spruce Street, in Manhattan, picked up the Emporis Skyscraper Award where judges chose the best buildings which were completed in 2011. The 76-storey tower, designed by Frank Gehry, is the 12th largest tallest residential block stretching 265-metres into the sky. Its stunning…
Just one week before the Golden Globes and seven weeks before the Oscars, Hollywood began polishing its acceptance speeches Saturday night at the Palm Springs International Film Festival’s 23rd annual awards gala. Palm Springs Film Festival gala is often a bellwether of Oscar nominations – 15 of last year’s attendees collected nominations for the 2011 Academy Awards. Last night, Miche…
Dominic West and Emily Watson were among the big winners at the TV BAFTA Awards, winning for their powerful performances in Fred West drama Appropriate Adult. Coronation Street has won the best soap and continuing drama award, beating last year’s winner EastEnders. Andrew Scott won the best supporting actor for Sherlock, in which he plays Sherlock’s arch nemesis Moriarty. In winning t…
…blockbuster • Nominated for a further nine times for his role as John Coffey • Starred in blockbusters Planet Of The Apes, The Scoprion King and The Green Lantern • Suffered a heart attack on July 13, 2012 – given CPR by fiancée Omarosa Manigault • Despite treatment, Michael Clarke Duncan sadly died on September 3, aged 54 …
…has received an honorary BAFTA award for her lifelong support of the British film and television industry The Queen, who attended with Prince Philip, featured with Daniel Craig as James Bond at London 2012 – when she appeared to parachute from a helicopter. To laughter from the audience, actor Kenneth Branagh said: “Your sensational appearance at the opening ceremony of last year’…
Barber Osgerby, the British creative team behind the London Olympic torch, has won the prestigious Design of the Year award 2012. The aluminum torch is perforated with 8,000 holes, each representing one of the torchbearers. The winner was chosen from 89 entries and was presented at an awards ceremony at London’s Design Museum, which organizes the annual event. Another Olympic design triumph…
Bobbi Kristina Brown last night delivered a touching tribute to Whitney Houston at the Billboard Music Awards 2012. Bobbi Kristina Brown, 19, accepted the special Millennium Award on behalf of her late mother, after she was escorted onto the stage by her adopted brother Nick Gordon and received a quick kiss from him. Whitney Houston’s daughter had been reduced to tears while watching an emotional…
Pitbull and Christina Aguilera kicked off the 26th annual Kids’ Choice Awards at the USC Galen Center in Los Angeles and slime fest with their duet Feel This Moment. And at the end of the performance, Christina Aguilera pushed a button, covering Pitbull and the dancers in the show’s signature green gunge. Selena Gomez returned to her roots to be crowned Favourite TV Actress at this ye…
…irl Supporting Actor: Peter Capaldi – The Hour Stephen Graham – Accused (‘Tracie’s Story’) Harry Lloyd – The Fear Simon Russell Beale – Henry IV, Part 2 (The Hollow Crown) Supporting Actress: Anastasia Hille – The Fear Imelda Staunton – The Girl Olivia Colman – Accused (‘Mo’s Story’) Sarah Lancashire &#…
…omed as a guest soloist by orchestras such as the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Berlin, Mozarteum Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vienna Symphony Orchestra. In 2010, her debut solo album, Piano & Forte won the ECHO Klassik award for Solo Recording of the Year. Mihaela Ursuleasa’ second solo album Romanian Rhapsody was released in March 2011….
Olivia Colman was the big winner at BAFTA Television Awards 2013, taking the prizes for best supporting actress for Accused and best female in a comedy programme for Twenty Twelve. Olivia Colman said of her win for Accused: “Turns out it does mean a lot. And I’m not going to cry.” BBC Olympic satire Twenty Twelve also won best sitcom at the TV BAFTA Awards. BBC One’s Last…
Adele was the clear winner at last tonight’s Billboard Music Awards as she scooped a whopping 12 gongs. Unfortunately, Adele wasn’t present at the Las Vegas event to collect her trophies. However there were plenty of other winners on hand to celebrate their achievements at the bash, including Justin Bieber, Katy Perry and Taylor Swift. LMFAO came second top with 6 awards, and opened the show with…
…d for the second straight year and another two acting prizes (for Julie Bowen and Ty Burrell, who play a harried married couple) as well. The cast and crew of "Modern Family" at Emmy Awards 2011 Mad Men, about the New York ad industry in the 1960s, won its fourth consecutive Emmy as Best Drama, a feat last achieved by NBC’s White House series The West Wing nearly a decade ago. Jim…
…e made a rude gesture Adele added her Brits to the six Grammy Awards she won last weekend, capping a year of huge global success. According to her record label, the London singer’s second album 21 has sold 17 million copies around the world and hit number one in 24 countries. Accepting the best album prize – the final and most prestigious of the night – Adele said: “Nothin…
The A-listers are currently sweeping into Hollywood as the biggest event in the movie industry calendar looms tonight, Oscars 2012. For all the star quality brought to the red carpet by the likes of Angelina Jolie, Kate Winslet, Rooney Mara and Halle Berry, it is the enduring icons of the golden age that still show the A-listers how it should be done. The golden generations’ pictures capture the…
Lady Gaga has been reunited with her favorite heels as she hit the town in New York in her trademark super high boots. Lady Gaga's re-emergence comes after she was seen…
Hilaria Baldwin joins husband Alec at Cannes Film Festival 2013 to promote his documentary Seduced and AbandonedAlec Baldwin famously lost his cool with film producer Harvey Weinstein at last year's Cannes film festival. But it appears that Alec Baldwin, 55, has managed to keep his…
Jennifer Lawrence wears blue body paint to portray X-Men's MystiqueJennifer Lawrence has hit the X-Men set like a bolt from the blue and her fans have been given a glimpse of the 22-year-old star in all her painted glory as she reprises her…
Ray Manzarek dead: The Doors co-founder dies aged 74 after long battle with cancerRay Manzarek, keyboardist and founder member of the 1960s rock band The Doors, has died after a long battle with cancer at the age of 74. He formed the band with lead singer…
Christine White dies in a nursing home in Washington at the age of 86Actress Christine White, who played a calming wife on a classic 1963 Twilight Zone episode that featured a young William Shatner, has died at age 86. Christine White…
Macaulay Culkin at risk of lung cancerMacaulay Culkin is said to be smoking a whopping 60 cigarettes a day, leading to new health fears for the troubled former child star. “He's put his nicotine addiction into…
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