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LAT: Oscar's Foreign Policy Issues
The Los Angeles Times takes on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' rulebook in a story by Patrick Goldstein. From this year's The Band's Visit to 2004's Maria Full of Grace, Goldstein explains how the 44-page Academy rulebook has consistently fallen in the way of notable contenders in t...
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iW NEWS | "Control" Leads British Independent Film Award Nominations
Anton Corbijn's "Control" led the nominations of the 10th annual British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs) with a record ten, including best director, best screenplay and acting nods for Sam Riley, Samantha Morton and Toby Kebbell. Other multiple nominated films included Anand Tucker's "And When Did You Last See Your Father?" with seven, David Mackenzie's "Hallam Foe" with six and David Cronenberg's "Eastern Promises" with five. All four mentioned films were nominated for Best British Independent Film alongside Richard Eyre's "Notes on a Scandal." The nominees for Best Foreign Independent Film were "Black Book," "La Vie en Rose," "The Lives of...
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AWARDS WATCH | Zobel, Penn, Baumbach Films Lead Gotham Nominations
More than four months before Oscar night, the annual awards season essentially got underway this morning as the IFP announced the nominations for its 17th annual Gotham Awards, honoring the best in independent film. Craig Zobel's low budget indie "Great World of Sound" was the biggest single nominee...
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IW NEWS | IFP to Honor NYC's Mayor Bloomberg at Gotham Awards
The Independent Feature Project (IFP) will honor New York's Mayor, Michael Bloomberg at the 2007 Gotham Awards. The Mayor will be saluted for for his work supporting film production in New York City. "The Bloomberg administration understands that independent production is the lifeblood of New York's...
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Uninvited: "The Band's Visit" Turned Away by AMPAS, Middle East Fests
"The Band's Visit," it turns out, has not been welcomed with open arms. While first-time filmmaker Eran Kolirin's much-beloved movie about a group of Egyptian musicians astray in Israel won a special prize in Cannes, a distribution pact with Sony Pictures Classics and was looking like a shoo-in as a...
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iW NEWS | "The Band's Visit" Oscar Hopes Uncertain due to English Content
The Jerusalem Post is quoting an Israeli television report that Israel's submission for best foreign-language Oscar consideration, "The Band's Visit" -- which recently screened at the Toronto International Film Festival -- has been disqualified from the race for "containing too much English-language dialogue." indieWIRE has attempted to gain independent confirmation from the film's U.S. distributor Sony Pictures Classics as well as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. A Sony Classics insider told indieWIRE tonight that the distributor is awaiting a discussion with the Academy on the pending matter. The issue was also addressed in ...
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iW NEWS | Academy Shortlists 8 Doc Shorts
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the narrowed field from 23 eligible contenders to 8 in the Documentary Short Subject category. They are "Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy," "Freeheld," "If It Happens," "La Corona," "Ochberg's Orphans," "Portraits of a Lady," "Salim Baba" and "Sari...
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iW NEWS | IDA Award Nominations Announced
The IDA has announced their 2007 nominees for the International Documentary Association Awards in seven categories spanning film and television. The nominees in the feature film category are Dan Klores' "Crazy Love," Richard E. Robbins' "Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience," Michael Moore's "Sicko," Alex Gibney's "Taxi To the Dark Side" and Mary Olive Smith's "A Walk To Beautiful." In the short film category, the nominees are Zam Salim's "Black and White," Alice Elliott's "Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy," Mariam Jobrani's "The Fighting Cholitas," Cynthia Wade's "Freeheld" and Yoni Brook's "A Son's Sacrifice." "Operation Homecomin...
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WORLD CINEMA | The Foreign-Language Oscar Race: Where (Almost) Anything Can Happen
You've got to hand it to Bulgaria, Chile, and the Philippines: Year after year, the countries proudly enter their most celebrated films into the race for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film--with not a chance in hell of winning. And poor Portugal: it holds the record for most submission...
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AWARDS WATCH | AMPAS Streamlines Oscar Doc Rules
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has changed the rules for qualification in the feature and short documentary categories at the 81st Academy Awards, eliminating the multi-city theatrical rollout requirement. "By eliminating the multi-city rollout requirements we have significantly simplified the Academy rules while still retaining the core intent to ensure that we honor nonfiction work created for theatrical distribution," said doc branch chair Michael Apted, in a statement. "We believe the new rules will successfully eliminate from consideration documentaries made principally for television, the Internet or anywhere else." The...
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