"Without this community I couldn't make a film like 'The Hurt Locker,'" said the film's director, Kathryn Bigelow Monday night in New York after receiving the Best Feature prize at the Gotham Independent Film Awards, and with that, many headed out of Cipriani near Wall Street for an after-party host...
Read More »Winners for the International Documentary Association's 2009 IDA Documentary Awards competition were announced today in several major categories, including Limited Series, Continuing Series, Music, and Student, leaving Feature and Short for the night of the program, to be held December 4th at the Di...
Read More »The nominations for the 25th Anniversary Spirit Awards have been announced in Los Angeles. Film Independent executive director Dawn Hudson welcomed attendees to the nominations this morning, touting the legacy of the awards and the early nominees, including Spike Lee, the Coen Brothers, Jim Jarmus...
Read More »Lee Daniels' "Precious: Based on the novel 'Push' by Sapphire" and Michael Hoffman's "The Last Station" topped the 2010 Film Independent Spirit Award nominations, each nabbing five nods including best feature. The pair were joined in that category by Marc Webb's "(500) Days of Summer," Cherien Dabis...
Read More »The 19th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards has announced its winners at Cipriani Wall Street in Lower Manhattan. indieWIRE has a play-by-play rundown here, while a full list of winners is below:
Read More »10:00pm EST: Short and sweet, writer Mark Boal thanks Summit Entertainment, "who took a big risk to put out an Iraq War film." And with that, my work here is done. Hope you didn't mind the typos and increasing apathy toward what was going on. Again, get a full list of winners here.
Read More »An eclectic batch of awards offer a considerable honor in their own right, the Oscar precursors are about to start coming at us fast and furious. Starting early next week with the Gotham Awards, Spirit Award nominations, and the National Board of Review winners, and continuing steadily for the foll...
Read More »The Independent Filmmaker Project has announced the line-up of jurors determining the recipients of the 19th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards. The awards ceremony will be held at Cipriani Wall Street on Monday, November 30. As previously announced, career tributes will be presented as part of t...
Read More »The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 10 animated short films will advance in the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards. Thirty-seven pictures had originally qualified in the category.
Read More »With the first wave of awards season precursors less than two weeks away, I figured I would use the very last addition of this column before an onslaught of commentary on critics awards and Spirit and Globe nominations beckons to provide some optimism in the wake of last week's list of the "most des...
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