Movie News from Spain

Spanish actress Maribel Verdú

Málaga Film Festival's Focus is Movies Made in Spain

Isabel Coixet’s 'Tomorrow never ends' (Ayer no termina nunca), starring Javier Cámara and Candela Peña, will open the 16th edition of the Málaga Film Festival, which began yesterday, Saturday 20, 2013, and runs until April 27. The movie, about a couple who reunite in 2017 Barcelona after five difficult years apart, is one of 12 competing for the Golden Cactus Barrel (Biznaga de Oro) awarded to the best film prize this year.

Others in the running at the festival, which focuses on Spanish film, include Daniel Calparsoro’s 'Combustión' (Combustion), which narrates the complications arising from a love triangle formed by Adriana Ugarte, Álex González and Alberto Ammann, the feature debut of TV director Miguel Alcantud, dealing with the reality shock of imported young African soccer talent.

José Coronado will receive this year’s Málaga Prize, and Alex de la Iglesia will be honored with the 2013 Retrospective Prize. Mario Casas and María Valverde star in Civil War drama, 'The Mule' (La mula), which arrives without a credited director after Michael Radford disassociated himself from the troubled project. Gracia Querejeta offers up '15 Years and a Day' (15 años y un día),  in which Maribel Verdú plays the mother of a troubled teenager. Querejeta is the daughter of producer Elías Querejeta.

Read full article in English: http://tinyurl.com/cm4cmof

 

Alta Films Wrapping Permanently?

It appears the Spanish distributor of movies directed by Woody Allen, Danny Boyle, Michael Haneke, Mike Leigh, Michael Moore, Roman Polanski, Steven Soderbergh and others, is calling it quits, according to an article in El País. A few weeks ago, I read an article in a Spanish newspaper that the movie theaters in Madrid, especially on the Gran Via, are being bought, mainly with foreign money, and turned into retail stores, some big box.

Enrique González Macho, the current president of the Spanish Cinema Academy, has admitted that many Spaniards have stopped going to the cinema, the DVD retail business is a disaster because of Internet downloads and TV stations, especially since the public network no longer supports Spanish cinema or art films.

It appears Spanish Cinema could survive Francisco Franco's censorship, but not the rout by Spaniards hurting from the slide of the economy, which has had a huge impact on the Spanish Box Office. Macho is now trying to decide where he will "cut the fat," what to close, and what is worth a continuing fight to keep open.

Read the full article in English: http://tinyurl.com/bqmpphh

Cannes Official Poster and Opening Motion Picture

The official poster for the 66th Cannes International Film Festival (15 - 26 May, 2013) was released earlier today. It features Mr. and Mrs. Paul Newman, an acting, producing, philanthropic couple married for over five decades until his death, highly usual in Hollywood. Newman died in September, 2008. Woodward is still living in Westport, Connecticut.

The photograph was taken during the filming of the 1963 romantic comedy, "A New Kind of Love." In 1958, the year they married, the first film in which they appeared together, "The Long hot Summer" directed by Martin Ritt, was in competition at the festival. Newman has often been quoted as saying about his relationship with Woodward, "Why go out for hamburger when you can have steak at home?"

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Mulligan as Daisy and DiCaprio as Gatsby

As of now, Buz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby" (3D, Warner Bros.) based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel,  will open this year's festival May 15th, after having opened Stateside on the 10th. It has been pointed out that opening Stateside before Cannes might cause some Box Office problems for the movie. Stars Carey Mulligan, Leonardo DiCaprio and director Buz Luhrmann are expected to attend the festival. The movie also stars Tobey Maguire and Joel Edgerton.  Festival Website in English

85TH OSCAR RATINGS AND WINNERS

BEST PICTURE 2013

The 2013 Oscar broadcast hosted by Seth MacFarlane scored 40.3 million viewers, up from 2012's 39.3 million, hosted by Billy Chrystal. Before this year the broadcast has not exceeded 40 million viewers since Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin hosted in 2010.

Seth MacFarlane

FULL WINNER LIST
  1. Best Picture: "Argo."
  2. Actor in Leading Role: Daniel Day-Lewis, "Lincoln."
  3. Actress in Leading Role: Jennifer Lawrence, "Silver Linings Playbook."
  4. Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, "Django Unchained."
  5. Supporting Actress: Anne Hathaway, "Les Miserables."
  6. Directing: Ang Lee, "Life of Pi."
  7. Foreign Language Film: "Amour." Austria.
  8. Adapted Screenplay: Chris Terrio, "Argo."
  9. Original Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino, "Django Unchained."
10. Animated Feature Film: "Brave."
11. Production Design: "Lincoln."
12. Cinematography: "Life of Pi."
13. Sound Mixing: "Les Miserables."
14. Sound Editing (tie): "Skyfall," ''Zero Dark Thirty."
15. Original Score: "Life of Pi," Mychael Danna.
16. Original Song: "Skyfall" from "Skyfall," Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth.
17. Costume: "Anna Karenina."
18. Documentary Feature: "Searching for Sugar Man."
19. Documentary Short Subject): "Inocente."
20. Film Editing: "Argo."
21. Makeup and Hairstyling: "Les Miserables."
22. Animated Short: "Paperman."
23. Live Action Short: "Curfew."
24. Visual Effects: "Life of Pi."

The Oscars for outstanding film achievements of 2012 were presented on Oscar® Sunday, February 24, at the Dolby Theatre™ at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and were hosted by Seth MacFarlane. The Oscar presentation was televised live on the ABC Television Network and in more than 225 countries worldwide.

More detailed information: http://tinyurl.com/alxjy26

"Blancanieves" and "The Impossible" Top Goya Awards in Madrid

Actress Maribel Verdú with Goya

According to "Fox News Latino," Javier Bardem was smiling happily Sunday night in Madrid at the Goya Awards, Spain's national film awards, considered to be the Spanish equivalent of the Oscars.

Bardem not only took home a statuette for a documentary he narrated, “Sons of the Clouds: The Lost Colony,” which looks at how colonization of the Western Sahara has left nearly nearly 200,000 people living in refugee camps, He spoke out about human rights in the Sahara. His wife Penélope Cruz, who accompanied him and was nominated for best actress, is expecting their second child.

His mother Pilar also attended. She is an award winning actress in her own right. Two days later, Bardem and many other actors, etc., were accused by a government spokesman of not paying taxes.

"Blancanieves" received the Goya for best motion picture and nine other awards. Writer-director Pablo Berger’s black-and-white fairy tale is a silent retelling of the "Snow White" story, but it is set in Seville in the 1920s, and the protagonist is an Andalusian female bullfighter.

Actress Maribel Verdú (“Blancanieves”) bested Naomi Watts ("The Impossible"), Verdú taking home a best actress Goya for her portrayal of the cruel stepmother. Paco Delgado, who is nominated for an Academy Award in the costume category for “Les Miserables,” received a Goya award for his costumes for “Blancanieves,” especially for Verdú’s character.

“Blancanieves” also captured a Goya for best original score and best original song, but there was no Goya for writer-director Pablo Berger. "Blancanieves" is not nominated for the Best Foreign Language film Oscar, either.

"The Impossible" is an official Spain production directed by Juan Antonio Bayona who captured the Goya for best director instead of Berger. Bayona also twisted his leg during the ceremony, and it required medical attention. "The Impossible" won five Goya statuettes mostly for technical endeavors. Bayona directed "The Orphanage" in 2007.

Also, we would be remiss if we did not send congratulations to  "Beautiful" José Sacristán on his first Goya win! 

The Big Winner

List of most winners:

Best Motion Picture -"Blancanieves";
Director - Juan Antonio Bayona for "The Impossible";

Actor - Jose Sacristán for "The Dead Man and Being Happy"; 

Actress - Maribel Verdú for "Blancanieves";

Original Screenplay - Pablo Berger for "Blancanieves";

Adapted Screenplay - Javier Barreira, Gorka Magallon, Ignacio del Moral, Jordi Gasull and Neil Landau for "Tad, The Lost Explorer";

Supporting Actor - Julian Villagran for "Grupo 7";

Supporting Actress - Candela Pena for "Una Pistola en Cada Mano" (A Pistol in Each Hand);
Animated Feature Film - "The Adventures of Tadeo Jones";

Documentary Film - "Sons of the Clouds, The Last Colony" ("Hijos de las Nubes, La Ultima Colonia");

Honorary Goya - Concha Velasco;

Production Design - Sandra Hermida Muniz for "The Impossible";

Artistic Director - Alain Bainee For "Blancanieves";

Photography - Kiko de la Rica for "Blancanieves";

Special Effects - Pau Costa and Felix Berges for "The Impossible";

Costumes - Paco Delgado for "Blancanieves";

Editing - Bernat Vilaplano and Elena Ruiz for "The Impossible";

Sound - Peter Glossop, Marc Orts, Oriol Tarrago for "The Impossible";

Original Score - Alfonso Villalonga for "Blancanieves";

Original Song - "No Te Puedo Encontrar" from "Blancanieves";

European Film - "Untouchable" (France);

Makeup and Hair - Sylvie Imbert and Fermin Galan for "Blancanieves";

New Actor - Joaquin Nunez for "Grupo 7";
New Actress - Macarena Garcia for "Blancanieves";
New Director - Enrique Gato for "Tad, The Lost Explorer".

Thank you to El País English and Fox News Latino.

VOTING FOR OSCARS® ENDS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19

Seth MacFarlane

Final voting for the Oscars will end Tuesday,
February 19, at 5 p.m. PT. Ballots received after the deadline will not be counted. The Academy is urging members who have chosen to vote by paper ballot to return them well in advance of the deadline due to the Presidents Day holiday on Monday, February 18.

The 5,856 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will have until the 19th to vote in up to 24 categories. This year the Academy for the first time offered its members the option of casting their ballots online. Final voting began on February 8.

The votes are being tabulated and verified by the international accounting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Oscars for outstanding film achievements of 2012 will be hosted by Seth MacFarlane, and presented on Oscar® Sunday, February 24, at the Dolby Theatre™ at Hollywood and Highland Center®.  The Oscar presentation will be televised live on the ABC Television Network and in more than 225 countries worldwide. For more information go to Oscar.com or download the official Oscars app.

British Academy Film Awards Go For ARGO

Anne Hathaway, "Les Miserables"

BAFTA Award Winners, Sunday, February 10, 2013

Best Feature Film—"Argo"

Best British Film — "Skyfall"
Director — Ben Affleck, "Argo"
Actor — Daniel Day-Lewis, "Lincoln."
Actress — Emmanuelle Riva, "Amour"
Supporting Actor — Christoph Waltz, "Django Unchained"
Supporting Actress — Anne Hathaway, "Les Miserables"
Rising Star — Juno Temple
British Debut — Bart Layton and Dimitri Doganis, "The Imposter"
Original Screenplay — Quentin Tarantino — Django Unchained
Adapted Screenplay — David O. Russell, "Silver Linings Playbook"
Film Not in the English Language — "Amour" (France)
Music — Thomas Newman, "Skyfall"
Cinematography — "Life of Pi"
Editing — "Argo"
Production Design — Eve Stewart, Anna Lynch-Robinson, "Les Miserables"
Costume Design — "Anna Karenina"
Sound — "Les Miserables"
Makeup and Hair — "Les Miserables"
Animated Feature — "Brave"Short Film — "Swimmer"
Short Animation — "The Making of Longbird"
Documentary — "Searching for Sugar Man"
Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema — Tessa Ross
Academy Fellowship — Alan Parker

BAFTA Official Site

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Academy Hosts Luncheon for Oscar Nominees

Quvenzahané Wallis in "Beasts of the Southern Wild"

Monday, February 4, 17 of the 20 nominees in the acting categories will be among more than 160 Oscar nominees who will gather at noon at the Beverly Hilton, Beverly Hills, Ca, when the Academy honors this year's Oscar contenders during its annual Nominees Luncheon. Wallis, pictured above, a nine-year-old is the youngest person ever to be nominated for best performance by a lead actress.

From the Lead Actress and Actor categories, Jessica Chastain, Jennifer Lawrence, Quvenzahané Wallis, Naomi Watts, Bradley Cooper, Daniel Day-Lewis, Hugh Jackman, Joaquin Phoenix and Denzel Washington are expected to attend.

Four of the five nominees in the Directing category – Ang Lee, David O. Russell, Steven Spielberg and Benh Zeitlin – also are expected to attend. Three of the Academy's four 2012 Governors Awards recipients, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Hal Needham and George Stevens, Jr., will join this year's nominees.

Robert De Niro, Tommy Lee Jones, Christoph Waltz, Amy Adams, Sally Field, Anne Hathaway, Helen Hunt and Jacki Weaver will represent the Supporting Actor and Actress categories.

Oscars® for outstanding film achievements of 2012 will be presented on Oscar Sunday, February 24, 2013, at the Dolby Theatre™ at Hollywood and Highland Center®, and will be hosted by Seth MacFarlane live on the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries worldwide.

OSCARS AND GLOBES - - DIFFERENCES

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    Nominations for the 85th Academy Awards® were announced Thursday, January 10, 2013, the Golden Globe nominations on December 13, 2012.

The Golden Globe Awards were presented a month later January 13, 2013. The Oscar® statuettes will be presented Sunday, February 24, 2013. Many think the Globes is a predictor of the Oscars. This is an unproven assumption.

The Golden Globes are sponsored by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), or members of foreign press from around the world who converge on Hollywood to vote for winners and participate in the gala television presentations. They tend to reward their personal favorites whom they want to see in person, and want to impress their readers within their home countries.  

However, they do have rules and auditors to make sure all procedures are fair and equal. The members of the HFPA are employed by media, media associations, or media services in countries other than the USA. The Globes honor those who work and perform in Television, and they have two sections to the "Best Of" awards, Comedy or Musical and Drama.

All 70th Golden Globe Nominations and Winners:
http://www.goldenglobes.org/2012/12/nominations-2013/

The Academy Awards, on the other hand, are presented by the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, made up of members of the various motion picture guilds, e.g., Screen Actors Guild, Writers Guild, Producers Guild and so on. The categories have only to do with Movies, including awarding talents such as makeup, design, sound, etc. Members of the Academy are voting for their peers, and they have a mired of rules, checks and audits, to make sure all procedures are fair and equitable. They only honor motion pictures, and within one "Best of" award which includes comedy, music and drama.

The Academy was founded May 11, 1927, to promote the motion picture industry. However, The Academy depends upon HEPA to promote U.S. movies and the Oscar Ceremony world-wide. HEPA depends upon The Academy to provide their countries with the product about which they write and photograph - - movies.

View the Nominations for the 85th Academy Awards and where you, dear reader, see asterisks ***) you will find a comment relating to the Golden Globes at the bottom of this list of nominees between the decorative separation bars.

Seth MacFarlane and Emma Stone announced the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominees for an Oscar at a live news conference attended by more than 400 international media representatives, many of whom who voted for the 70th Golden Globes, 5:38 a.m. PT, January 10.

Nominations for the 85th Academy Awards

 Performance by an actor in a leading role

    Bradley Cooper in "Silver Linings Playbook"
    Daniel Day-Lewis in "Lincoln"***
    Hugh Jackman in "Les Misérables"***>
    Joaquin Phoenix in "The Master"
    Denzel Washington in "Flight"

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

    Alan Arkin in "Argo"
    Robert De Niro in "Silver Linings Playbook"
    Philip Seymour Hoffman in "The Master"
    Tommy Lee Jones in "Lincoln"
    Christoph Waltz in "Django Unchained"***

 
Performance by an actress in a leading role

    Jessica Chastain in "Zero Dark Thirty"*** Drama
    Jennifer Lawrence in "Silver Linings Playbook"***
    Emmanuelle Riva in "Amour"
    Quvenzhané Wallis in "Beasts of the Southern Wild"
    Naomi Watts in "The Impossible"

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

    Amy Adams in "The Master"
    Sally Field in "Lincoln"
    Anne Hathaway in "Les Misérables"***
    Helen Hunt in "The Sessions"
    Jacki Weaver in "Silver Linings Playbook"

Best animated feature film of the year

    "Brave" Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman***
    "Frankenweenie" Tim Burton
    "ParaNorman" Sam Fell and Chris Butler
    "The Pirates! Band of Misfits" Peter Lord
    "Wreck-It Ralph" Rich Moore

Achievement in cinematography

    "Anna Karenina" Seamus McGarvey
    "Django Unchained" Robert Richardson
    "Life of Pi" Claudio Miranda
    "Lincoln" Janusz Kaminski
    "Skyfall" Roger Deakins

Achievement in costume design

    "Anna Karenina" Jacqueline Durran
    "Les Misérables" Paco Delgado
    "Lincoln" Joanna Johnston
    "Mirror Mirror" Eiko Ishioka
    "Snow White and the Huntsman" Colleen Atwood

Achievement in directing

    "Amour" Michael Haneke
    "Beasts of the Southern Wild" Benh Zeitlin
    "Life of Pi" Ang Lee
    "Lincoln" Steven Spielberg
    "Silver Linings Playbook" David O. Russell 
*** went to Ben Affleck for "Argo"

Best documentary feature

    "5 Broken Cameras" - Producers Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi.
    "The Gatekeepers" - Producers Margaret Menegoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka and Michael Katz.
   "How to Survive a Plague" - Producers David France and Howard Gertler.
    "The Invisible War" - Producers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering.
   "Searching for Sugar Man" - Producers Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn.

 Best documentary short subject

    "Inocente"
    Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine
    "Kings Point"
    Sari Gilman and Jedd Wider
    "Mondays at Racine"
    Cynthia Wade and Robin Honan
    "Open Heart"
    Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern
    "Redemption"
    Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill

Achievement in film editing

    "Argo" William Goldenberg
    "Life of Pi" Tim Squyres
    "Lincoln" Michael Kahn
    "Silver Linings Playbook" Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers
    "Zero Dark Thirty" Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg

Best foreign language film of the year

    "Amour" - Austria*** 
    "Kon-Tiki" - Norway
    "No" - Chile
    "A Royal Affair" -  Denmark
    "War Witch" -  Canada

Achievement in makeup and hairstyling

    "Hitchcock"
    Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel
    "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
    Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane
    "Les Misérables"
    Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

    "Anna Karenina" Dario Marianelli
    "Argo" Alexandre Desplat
    "Life of Pi" Mychael Danna***
    "Lincoln" John Williams
    "Skyfall" Thomas Newman

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

    "Before My Time" from "Chasing Ice"
    Music and Lyric by J. Ralph
    "Everybody Needs A Best Friend" from "Ted"
    Music by Walter Murphy; Lyric by Seth MacFarlane
    "Pi's Lullaby" from "Life of Pi"
    Music by Mychael Danna; Lyric by Bombay Jayashri
    "Skyfall" from "Skyfall"***
    Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
    "Suddenly" from "Les Misérables"
    Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg; Lyric by Herbert       Kretzmer and Alain Boublil

Best feature motion picture of the year

    "Amour" - Producers Margaret Menegoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka and Michael Katz.
    "Argo"

*** - Producers Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney.
    "Beasts of the Southern Wild" - Producers Dan Janvey, Josh Penn and  Michael Gottwald.
    "Django Unchained" - Producers Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin and Pilar Savone.
    "Les Misérables" - Producers Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward and Cameron Mackintosh.
   "Life of Pi" -Producers Gil Netter, Ang Lee and David Womark.
    "Lincoln" - Producers Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy.
    "Silver Linings Playbook" - Producers Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen and Jonathan Gordon.
    "Zero Dark Thirty" - Producers Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow and Megan Ellison.

Achievement in production design

    "Anna Karenina"
    Production Design: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer
    "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
    Production Design: Dan Hennah; Set Decoration: Ra Vincent   and Simon Bright
    "Les Misérables"
    Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Anna Lynch-     Robinson
    "Life of Pi"
    Production Design: David Gropman; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
    "Lincoln"
    Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson

Best animated short film

    "Adam and Dog" Minkyu Lee
    "Fresh Guacamole" PES
    "Head over Heels" Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly
    "Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare"" David Silverman
    "Paperman" John Kahrs

Best live action short film

    "Asad" Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura
    "Buzkashi Boys" Sam French and Ariel Nasr
    "Curfew" Shawn Christensen
    "Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw)" Tom Van         Avermaet and  Ellen De Waele
    "Henry" Yan England

Achievement in sound editing

    "Argo" Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn
    "Django Unchained" Wylie Stateman
    "Life of Pi" Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton
    "Skyfall" Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers
    "Zero Dark Thirty" Paul N.J. Ottosson

Achievement in sound mixing

    "Argo"
    John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia
    "Les Misérables"
    Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes
    "Life of Pi"
    Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin
    "Lincoln"
    Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Ronald Judkins
    "Skyfall"
    Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson

Achievement in visual effects

   "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"
    Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher   White
    "Life of Pi"
    Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and     Donald R. Elliott
    "Marvel's The Avengers"
    Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick
    "Prometheus"
    Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill
    "Snow White and the Huntsman"
    Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson.

Adapted screenplay

    "Argo" Screenplay by Chris Terrio
    "Beasts of the Southern Wild" Screenplay by Lucy Alibar and     Benh Zeitlin
    "Life of Pi" Screenplay by David Magee
    "Lincoln" Screenplay by Tony Kushner
    "Silver Linings Playbook" Screenplay by David O. Russell

Original screenplay

    "Amour" Written by Michael Haneke
    "Django Unchained" Written by Quentin Tarantino***
    "Flight" Written by John Gatins
    "Moonrise Kingdom" Written by Wes Anderson & Roman      Coppola
    "Zero Dark Thirty" Written by Mark Boal

***

WON A GOLDEN GLOBE
Not necessarily in same category as nominated for Oscar.

Academy members from each of the branches vote to determine the nominees in their respective categories – actors nominate actors, film editors nominate film editors, etc. In the Animated Feature Film and Foreign Language Film categories, nominees are selected by vote of multi-branch screening committees. All voting members are eligible to select the Best Picture nominees.

85th OSCAR NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED THURSDAY

Nominations for the 85th Academy Awards® will be announced by the show's host Seth MacFarlane, and actress Emma Stone, Thursday, January 10, 2013. MacFarlane and Stone will unveil the nominations at a 5:30 a.m. (PT) at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, where hundreds of media representatives from around the world will be gathered.

85th Academy Awards Oscar host Seth MacFarlane

 This will be the first time since 1972 an Oscar show host has participated in the nominations announcement. Before MacFarlane, the late Charlton Heston was the only host to actively engage in making the nominations announcement.

Since the first nominations announcement in 1964, the Academy president has been joined by one or more co-announcers at the event. This year the Academy will break with tradition when MacFarlane, who was named Oscar show host in October, joins Stone on Oscar nominations morning. 

Emma Stone starred in the 2011 Best Picture nominee "The Help" and the summer release "The Amazing Spider-Man." Her other film credits include "Superbad," "Zombieland," "Easy A" and "Crazy, Stupid, Love." Stone will be seen in "Gangster Squad" later this month and in "The Croods," due out in March.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2012 will be presented on Oscar Sunday, February 24, 2013, at the Dolby Theatre™ at Hollywood and Highland Center®, and televised live on the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries worldwide.

ACADEMY EXTENDS OSCAR® NOMINATIONS VOTING

  HOURS AND DATES CHANGED

 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has extended the deadline for members to vote for Oscar nominations by one day to Friday, January 4, 2013, 5:00 p.m. PT.  Members may vote online or submit a paper ballot.  Any votes received after the deadline will not be counted.

 “By extending the voting deadline we are providing every opportunity available to make the transition to online balloting as smooth as possible,” said Ric Robertson, Academy COO.  “We’re grateful to our global membership for joining us in this process.”

  In order to accommodate the extension and maintain security, the online voting system will be closed for two hours only (5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. PT) on Thursday, January 3. The system will re-open at 7 p.m. PT, on January 3 and remain available to members until 5:00 p.m. PT January 4.

 This is the first year the Academy is providing its membership the opportunity to vote online. Several voting resources are available to members, including assisted voting stations in Los Angeles, New York and London, and a 24-hour support call center. 

 The nominations and final Awards ballots will be tabulated and verified by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to ensure that all aspects of the balloting process are accurate and secure. In the majority of the categories, PwC will tabulate the ballots using the preferential voting system.

 The 85th Academy Awards® nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 10, 2013, at 5:30 a.m. PT, in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

 Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2012 will be presented on Oscar Sunday, February 24, 2013, at the Dolby Theatre™ at Hollywood  & Highland Center®, and televised live on the ABC Television Network. Seth McFarlane will host. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries worldwide. 

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GOLDEN GLOBE 2013 NOMINATIONS and SBIFF

Golden Globe nominations, and much more, courtesy of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival's "film geek Confidential" blog:

http://www.sbiff.org/blog2/

 The Golden Globes ceremony, the 70th in the history of the awards show, will be held on Sunday, January 13, 2013. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will co-host. The Golden Globes awards are brought to you by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), and broadcast on MSN.

 

The 28th Santa Barbara International Film Festival will be held in Santa Barbara, California, from January 24th to February 3rd. Passes and tickets are now on sale. SBIFF takes place among the beautiful California coastal area that is considered the American Riviera™ I have been there many times and it is one of my favorite film festivals. Official Website

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SHORT LIST FOR BEST FOREIGN FILM OSCAR®

The 85th Academy Awards nominations will be announced live on Thursday, January 10, 2013, at 5:30 a.m. PT, in the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater.

Nine films will advance to the next round of voting in the Best Foreign Language Film category for the 85th Academy Awards®. Seventy-one films originally qualified.

The films, listed in alphabetical order by country, are:

     Austria, "Amour," Michael Haneke, director;
     Canada, "War Witch," Kim Nguyen, director;
     Chile, "No," Pablo Larraín, director*;
     Denmark, "A Royal Affair," Nikolaj Arcel, director;
     France, "The Intouchables," Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, directors;
     Iceland, "The Deep," Baltasar Kormákur, director;
     Norway, "Kon-Tiki," Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg, directors;
     Romania, "Beyond the Hills," Cristian Mungiu **, director;
     Switzerland, "Sister," Ursula Meier, director.

Mimi's Notes:
* "No" stars Gael Garcia Bernal.
** Mungiu's 2007 film, "4 Months,3 Weeks and 2 Days" (4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile)won at Cannes and received many, many additional awards but did not receive a nomination in this category from members of AMPAS®. Speculation abounded that it was because the movie dealt with abortion.  goo.gl/V79XM
 
Foreign Language Film nominations for 2012 are again being determined in two phases.

The Phase I committee, consisting of several hundred Los Angeles-based members, screened the 71 eligible films between mid-October and December 17. The group's top six choices, augmented by three additional selections voted by the Academy's Foreign Language Film Award Executive Committee, constitute the shortlist.

Phase II, the shortlist will be winnowed down to the five nominees by specially invited committees in New York and Los Angeles. They will spend Friday, January 4, through Sunday, January 6, viewing three films each day and then casting their ballots.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievement of 2012 will be presented on Sunday, February 24, 2013, at the Dolby Theatre™ at Hollywood and Highland Center®, and televised live on the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries worldwide.