Awards Season

The 30th Film Independent Spirit Awards Nominations Press Conference at the W Hollywood on November 25, 2014 in Hollywood, California where the nominees were announced. Winners will be announced at the Spirit Awards ceremony.

At least for one night Hollywood spoke Spanish. The ALMA Awards which honor the achievements of Latinos in Hollywood turned 15 celebrating the strides made in the industry.

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The Southern California Journalism Awards are given by the Los Angeles Press Club, the city’s oldest and most prestigious professional association. The prizes were first awarded in forties when Los Angeles journalism was dominated by the city’s many newspapers, TV was in its infancy, women journalists were rare in mainstream media and minorities, even rarer.

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SXSW continues till March 15, in the meantime Film Awards were announced at the customarily informal Austin ceremony. The HFPA's Katherine Tulich was there and filed this report Fort Tilden by first time feature directors Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers is poised to be the next break out hit from SXSW Film Conference and Festival, picking up the Grand Jury Prize in the Narrative competition last night.

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“I woke up before dawn to watch on TV The Great Beauty winning at the Oscars," Sophia Loren tells us excitedly. She's on the phone from her house in Geneva, Switzerland, nine hours ahead of us here in Los Angeles.

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