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There was no shortage of honors at the 2015 Sundance awards ceremony that closed the Park City festival with the distribution of 27 prizes in a lively affair presided over by comedienne Tig Notaro. Not that awards are really the point of the indie festival, but then again it doesn’t hurt to recognize the most noteworthy films and authors – and it was a pretty good excuse for one last mountain party.

The 65th Annual ACE Eddie Awards, given by the association of American Cinema Editors, were handed out in ten categories of film, television and documentaries took place in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, California. Award-winning filmmaker Frank Marshall received the ACE Golden Eddie Filmmaker of the Year honor presented to him by Chris Pratt.

How much activity can you pack into less than two days? Just ask Jason Isaacs, a man of boundless energy. The British actor flew in from London for the premiere of Stockholm, Pennsylvania on Friday and left early Sunday morning for Croatia where he is shooting the TV series Dig.

The date for the 73rd annual Golden Globe Awards has been announced as Sunday, January 10 2016. The ceremony will take place at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills and will be telecast live on NBC at 8 p.

It was an early Sunday morning for Ryan Reynolds and the members of the HFPA to sit down in the tent of one of the many festival sponsors and talk about his new film Mississippi Grind. The Canadian actor flew in from Westchester, New York, where he left wife Blake Lively and baby daughter Violet for a short trip to promote the film here.

The title of Liz Garbus’ fine documentary on Nina Simone is taken from an article on the singer written by Maya Angelou but is a question that many might ask about the life and career one of modern American music’s brightest and most enigmatic stars.  Born the sixth child of a North Carolina preacher in 1931, Nina Simone studied from an early age to become “the first black female classically trained concert pianist” and subsequently rose to fame as one of the most original and incisive interpreters of the jazz, blues and soul canon.

Last weekend’s box office narrative, in the U. S.

The 21st Annual SAG Awards were presented at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Sunday, January 25, 2015. Here are the nominees and winners (marked in bold): Theatrical Motion Pictures Outstanding Performance By A Male Actor In A Leading RoleSTEVE CARELL / John Du Pont – FOXCATCHER (Sony Pictures Classics)BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH / Alan Turing – THE IMITATION GAME (The Weinstein Company)JAKE GYLLENHAAL / Louis Bloom – NIGHTCRAWLER (Open Road Films)MICHAEL KEATON / Riggan – BIRDMAN (Fox Searchlight Pictures)EDDIE REDMAYNE / Stephen Hawking – THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING (Focus Features) - WINNER Outstanding Performance By A Female Actor In A Leading RoleJULIANNE MOORE / Alice Howland – STILL ALICE (Sony Pictures Classics) – WINNERFELICITY JONES / Jane Hawking – THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING (Focus Features)JULIANNE MOORE / Alice Howland – STILL ALICE (Sony Pictures Classics)ROSAMUND PIKE / Amy Dunne – GONE GIRL (20th Century Fox)REESE WITHERSPOON / Cheryl Strayed – WILD (Fox Searchlight Pictures) Outstanding Performance By A Male Actor In A Supporting RoleROBERT DUVALL / Joseph Palmer – THE JUDGE (Warner Bros.

For all its trailblazing tradition, Sundance has on occasion been accused of selecting opening-night films that have been less than buzz-worthy. That may have been on the minds of programmers who decided this year to start things off with a bang, specifically The Bronze.

It took a first time director – Kim Farrant – and a psychological family mystery/crime drama for Nicole Kidman to return to her cinematic roots with Strangerland. “It was great to be able to go back to Australia and support the Australian film industry.