The Hollywood Film Awards® was founded in 1997 and honors excellence in filmmaking and traditionally signals the Official Launch of the Award Season®. The HFAs showcase to the public at large previews of quality films released during the calendar year. The first-ever Hollywood Film Awards® gala took place in October 1997 in the historic Blossom Room at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, in Hollywood. Kirk Douglas took home the inaugural “Hollywood Lifetime Achievement Award.” The Hollywood Film Awards launch the awards season. Over the past 18 years, prior honorees have gone on to garner many Oscar nominations and wins. With participating Hollywood insiders, our Advisory Team identifies and selects the recipients of our honors. Our winners are pre-selected to receive our awards. Our selection is based on their outstanding achievement and contribution to the art of cinema. They are not “nominees.” 2014 honorees included some of the biggest names in Hollywood such as Keira Knightley,...
- 10/2/2015
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
The Hollywood Film Awards honor established Hollywood artists. The criteria for these awards is based on the recipient’s body of work and/or a film that they have coming out this year. These awards are bestowed in all disciplines of filmmaking*: Career, Leadership, Producer, Director, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Screenwriter, Cinematographer, Editor, Film Composer, Production Designer, Costume Designer, Animation, and Visual Effects. Our award/tribute recipients are selected by our Advisory Team which is comprised of a cross section of Hollywood professionals. To read more about the Hollywood Film Awards The selection process for our honorees takes multiple elements into consideration and involves attending pre-press private industry screenings, press screenings, festival screenings, and research. It also includes the support and participation of established entertainment industry executives, from agents, critics, directors, managers, producers, publicists, screenwriters and studio execs to members of the craft guilds. With participating Hollywood insiders,...
- 10/2/2015
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
Co-curated by Marina Goldovskaya and Samuel B. Prime and co-sponsored by the French Film & TV Office, Consulate General of France in Los Angeles, Melnitz Movies and Documentary Salon present Return to Sender, Address Unknown—A Tribute to Chris Marker. On Tuesday, May 8 at 730pm, UCLA's James Bridges Theater will screen One Day in the Life of Ardrei Arsenevich (Chris Marker, 1999) and To Chris Marker, An Unsent Letter (Emiko Omori, 2012). There will be a Q&A with director Emiko Omori following the screening.
Through film clips, journal entries, and personal ...
Through film clips, journal entries, and personal ...
- 5/4/2012
- by IDA Editorial Staff
- International Documentary Association
It's an annual event as well as a browse that could suck up an entire weekend: Senses of Cinema's worldwide poll of… well, they're not all critics, so let's just call them friends of cinema. You'll want to scroll up and down the whole thing, but take a look, too, at the best of 2011 according to Notebook editor Daniel Kasman and contributors Celluloid Liberation Front, Christoph Huber, Olaf Möller and Dan Sallitt as well as a major presence here in the Forum and elsewhere, David Ehrenstein.
London. This is the year we'll be seeing the results of Sight & Sound's poll of more friends of cinema regarding the greatest films of all time. It happens only once every ten years and in the magazine's pages, Graham Fuller argues a mighty case for the return of Jean Vigo's L'Atalante (1934) to the top ten. The film's opening today for an extended run at BFI Southbank,...
London. This is the year we'll be seeing the results of Sight & Sound's poll of more friends of cinema regarding the greatest films of all time. It happens only once every ten years and in the magazine's pages, Graham Fuller argues a mighty case for the return of Jean Vigo's L'Atalante (1934) to the top ten. The film's opening today for an extended run at BFI Southbank,...
- 1/20/2012
- MUBI
The programme for the 55th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express launched today by Artistic Director Sandra Hebron, celebrates the imagination and excellence of international filmmaking from both established and emerging talent. Over 16 days the Festival will screen a total of 204 fiction and documentary features, including 13 World Premieres, 18 International Premieres and 22 European Premieres . There will also be screenings of 110 live action and animated shorts. Many of the films will be presented by their directors, cast members and crew, some of whom will also take part in career interviews, masterclasses, and other special events. The 55th BFI London Film Festival will run from 12-27 October.
Special Screenings
Opening the festival is Fernando Meirelles’ 360, written by Peter Morgan, and starring Sir Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law and Rachel Weisz. Weisz is also the star of Terence Davies’ closing night film, The Deep Blue Sea, alongside a cast which includes Simon Russell Beale and Tom Hiddleston.
Special Screenings
Opening the festival is Fernando Meirelles’ 360, written by Peter Morgan, and starring Sir Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law and Rachel Weisz. Weisz is also the star of Terence Davies’ closing night film, The Deep Blue Sea, alongside a cast which includes Simon Russell Beale and Tom Hiddleston.
- 9/7/2011
- by John
- SoundOnSight
From the 12th to the 27th of October the 55th BFI London Film Festival brings its annual box of delights to the capital. Earlier today the full programme was announced, and it look like being another fine year.
We already know that Fernando Meirelles’ latest 360 will open proceedings on the 12th and fifteen days later Terence Davies’ The Deep Blue Sea will bring the festival to a close but there are many more great films to come and see in London this October.
There was a familiar feeling creeping across the audience this morning that a lot of the films had, like last year, already played elsewhere but this is only a small consideration when you consider the scope of the festival’s remit. To bring a vital, fresh and horizon-expanding series of features, shorts and documentaries is no easy task, and while the more well known films have played...
We already know that Fernando Meirelles’ latest 360 will open proceedings on the 12th and fifteen days later Terence Davies’ The Deep Blue Sea will bring the festival to a close but there are many more great films to come and see in London this October.
There was a familiar feeling creeping across the audience this morning that a lot of the films had, like last year, already played elsewhere but this is only a small consideration when you consider the scope of the festival’s remit. To bring a vital, fresh and horizon-expanding series of features, shorts and documentaries is no easy task, and while the more well known films have played...
- 9/7/2011
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Artistic director Sandra Hebron has announced the line-up for the 55th BFI London Film Festival this morning where they will screen “a total of 204 fiction and documentary features, including 13 World Premieres, 18 International Premieres and 22 European Premieres” plus “110 live action and animated shorts”.
We are already knew Fernando Meirelles’ adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s erotic drama play 360 written by Peter Morgan and starring Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law and Rachel Weisz would open the festival and that The Deep Blue Sea, which incidentally is another adaptation of a play (Terence Rattigan’s) and also stars Rachel Weisz, will close it. Of Time and City’s Terrence Davies directed that movie which also stars Tom Hiddleston and Simon Russell Beale.
Now we know the in-between stuff from the Gala & Special Screenings and there’s a wide selection of extremely interesting films;
George Clooney is bringing his political thriller The Ides of March that...
We are already knew Fernando Meirelles’ adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler’s erotic drama play 360 written by Peter Morgan and starring Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law and Rachel Weisz would open the festival and that The Deep Blue Sea, which incidentally is another adaptation of a play (Terence Rattigan’s) and also stars Rachel Weisz, will close it. Of Time and City’s Terrence Davies directed that movie which also stars Tom Hiddleston and Simon Russell Beale.
Now we know the in-between stuff from the Gala & Special Screenings and there’s a wide selection of extremely interesting films;
George Clooney is bringing his political thriller The Ides of March that...
- 9/7/2011
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
"A Bitter Taste of Freedom" is a Personal Portrait of a Late Friend and a Nation That's Lost Its Way
Forgive my usual instinct to compare new films with old, and docs with narratives, but going into Marina Goldovskaya's new documentary, "A Bitter Taste of Freedom," I couldn't help but think of Joel Schumacher's "Veronica Guerin." There have been other female journalists assassinated for their prying, I'm sure, but Guerin and Anna Politkovskaya, the Russian reporter at the center of "Bitter," are probably the most famous. In Schumacher's drama (and no, I haven't seen John Mackenzie's earlier, names-changed version, "When the Sky Falls"), Guerin is portrayed by Cate Blanchett as more pestering than penetrating, an obnoxiously forthcoming investigator who may…...
- 8/18/2011
- Spout
One of Russia’s most celebrated filmmakers, Marina Goldovskaya, had led a colorful and peripatetic life as a nonfiction filmmaker specializing in docu-diaristic portraits of poets, artists, leaders and everyday people. Currently head of the documentary program at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, and Television, Goldovskaya was also eyewitness to a half century of turbulent history, which she has spent the past 40 years meticulously archiving on celluloid and digital video. After attending the State Institute of Cinematography (Vgik) in the 1960s, she quickly established herself as a leading cinematographer in a business dominated by men, a fertile period she details in her recent memoir Woman with a Movie Camera: My Life as a Russian Filmmaker. By the early seventies, she turned to producing and directing her own documentary features for Russian and European television. Her 1989 film Solovky Power (Vlast’ Solovetskaya) — the first in Russia to acknowledge the horrific and...
- 8/17/2011
- by Damon Smith
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Man on Wire
Photo: Magnolia Pictures I would say Man on Wire as well as Wall-e are pretty much the only two films I feel are a lock for Oscars come February 22 in Best Documentary and Best Animated Feature respectively. Of course Kung Fu Panda is knocking on Wall-e's door after the Annie Award nominations and one cannot count out the potential for Waltz with Bashir to do what Persepolis could not last year - knock Pixar off its high horse as an Academy Award sure bet. Tying with Man on Wire, the best reviewed film of all-time at Rotten Tomatoes, as best feature documentary is a pretty good start. Of course, being a best documentary and being best animated film is hardly an equal comparison, but buzz is buzz as the International Documentary Association handed out their awards on Friday, December 5 awarding the best docs of 2008. Seeing how I...
Photo: Magnolia Pictures I would say Man on Wire as well as Wall-e are pretty much the only two films I feel are a lock for Oscars come February 22 in Best Documentary and Best Animated Feature respectively. Of course Kung Fu Panda is knocking on Wall-e's door after the Annie Award nominations and one cannot count out the potential for Waltz with Bashir to do what Persepolis could not last year - knock Pixar off its high horse as an Academy Award sure bet. Tying with Man on Wire, the best reviewed film of all-time at Rotten Tomatoes, as best feature documentary is a pretty good start. Of course, being a best documentary and being best animated film is hardly an equal comparison, but buzz is buzz as the International Documentary Association handed out their awards on Friday, December 5 awarding the best docs of 2008. Seeing how I...
- 12/7/2008
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
LONDON -- Organizers have unveiled the runners in this year's race for the European Film Academy's best documentary award as well as the names of the jurors who will decide which film is first past the post. Among the nine feature-length docs competing for EFA's Prix Arte, to be presented at a Dec. 7 ceremony in Rome, is Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe's Lost in La Mancha, which chronicles Terry Gilliam's trials and tribulations when trying to adapt The Adventures of Don Quixote to the big screen. The other titles in the running are Even Benestad's All About My Father, Enzo Balestrieri and Stefano Moser's Clown in'Kabul, Nicolas Philibert's To Be and to Have, Damian Pettigrew's Federico Fellini: I'm a Born Liar, Andre Heller and Othmar Shmiderer's Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats and Jacques Perrin's Le peuple migrateur (Winged Migration), Christian Bauer's Missing Allen and Stefan Jarl's The Bricklayer. The jury members are U.S.-based Russian documentary Marina Goldovskaya, French producer Luc Martin-Gousset and German film school director Simone Stewens. The documentary prize is presented in association with French-German cultural channel Arte.
- 10/28/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Organizers have unveiled the runners in this year's race for the European Film Academy's best documentary award as well as the names of the jurors who will decide which film is first past the post. Among the nine feature-length docs competing for EFA's Prix Arte, to be presented at a Dec. 7 ceremony in Rome, is Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe's "Lost in La Mancha", which chronicles Terry Gilliam's trials and tribulations when trying to adapt "The Adventures of Don Quixote" to the big screen. The other titles in the running are Even Benestad's "All About My Father", Enzo Balestrieri and Stefano Moser's "Clown in'Kabul", Nicolas Philibert's "To Be and to Have", Damian Pettigrew's "Federico Fellini: I'm a Born Liar," Andre Heller and Othmar Shmiderer's "Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary", Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats and Jacques Perrin's "Le peuple migrateur" (Winged Migration), Christian Bauer's "Missing Allen" and Stefan Jarl's "The Bricklayer". The jury members are U.S.-based Russian documentary Marina Goldovskaya, French producer Luc Martin-Gousset and German film school director Simone Stewens. The documentary prize is presented in association with French-German cultural channel Arte.
- 10/26/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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