Posted by editor@vimooz.com on November 25, 2009 under Academy award, Short Films | 
“The Cat Piano,” Eddie White and Ari Gibson, directors (The People’s Republic of Animation)
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 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.
The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production company:
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“The Beaches of Agnès”, a film by Agnès Varda, was recently announced as selection by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of for the short-list Documentary Feature category. If nominated, it will be the first Oscar nomination for filmmaker/legend Agnès Varda, who at 81, has been making films for the past 50 years. Distributed by Cinema Guild, “The Beaches of Agnès” has received rave press during its theatrical release, including a 96% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and it is the best reviewed documentary of the year, according to Metacritic.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on November 19, 2009 under Academy award, Documentary |
“Every Little Step” James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo
As award season heats up, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Wednesday announced the 15 films in the Documentary Feature category that will advance in the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards®. Eighty-nine pictures had originally qualified in the category.
The 15 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production company:
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Hamish Hamilton will direct the 82nd Academy Awards® telecast, show producers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman announced on Wednesday. It will be Hamilton”s first time directing the Oscar show.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on November 12, 2009 under Academy award, Animation|Anime |
Coraline
Twenty features have been submitted for consideration in the Animated Feature Film category for the 82nd Academy Awards®.
The 20 submitted features are:
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on November 5, 2009 under Academy award |
Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will serve as co-hosts of the 82nd Academy Awards®, Oscar telecast producers Bill Mechanic and Adam Shankman announced earlier this week.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 15, 2009 under Academy award, Foreign Film |
Philippines “Grandpa Is Dead”
Sixty-five countries have submitted films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 82nd Academy Awards®, Academy President Tom Sherak announced today. The 2009 submissions are:
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 10, 2009 under Academy award, Documentary, Short Films |
“The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant,” Community Media Productions
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences yesterday announced that the field of Documentary Short Subject contenders for the 82nd Academy Awards® has been narrowed to eight films, of which three to five will earn Oscar® nominations.
Voters from the Academy’s Documentary Branch viewed this year’s 37 eligible entries and submitted their ballots to PricewaterhouseCoopers for tabulation.
The eight films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production company:
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 6, 2009 under Academy award, Documentary, Foreign Film, Music |
The United Kingdom has selected Havana Marking’s documentary “Afghan Star” as its 2009 submission for the Academy Awards, reports indieWIRE.
“Afghan Star” details how, after 30 years of war and Taliban rule, ‘American Idol’ has come to Afghanistan and is “taking the nation by storm.” For many in the country, this was their first encounter with democracy and for the contestants, they are actually risking their lives to sing. It won both Best Director and the Audience Award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival in the World Documentary section.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on October 4, 2009 under Academy award, Foreign Film |
Giuseppe Tornatore’s Sicilian epic Baaria was picked Tuesday as Italy’s candidate for next year’s foreign film Oscar. Giuseppe Tornatore is best known for the 1990 Oscar-winning Cinema Paradiso. Baaria opened this year’s Venice Film Festival, the first Italian film in nearly 20 years, where the film won the Pasinetti collateral prize.
Set in Tornatore’s native Bagheria (known as Baaria in the local Sicilian dialect), Baarìa is an epic tale that unfolds over several generations and spans key moments in Italy’s 20th-century history: Fascism, World War II, the rise of the Communist Party and the post-war period up to the 1980s.
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