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Golden
Globe Awards
January 21
This year's Golden Globes brought few surprises but lots of laughs;
Gladiator took
the top prize for Best Motion Picture and Julia Roberts won her third
Golden Globe for her role in Erin
Brockovich. In accepting her award, Roberts joked that she
never thought she would have to follow Bob Dylan, who won minutes
earlier in the best song category for "Things Have Changed" from the
Wonder Boys. Roberts was also a presenter for the Best Director category,
for which she claimed a personal interest -- her Erin Brockovich director
Steven Soderbergh was twice nominated, but the award ultimately went
to Ang Lee for Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
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Mexico and Finland Tie for FIPRESCI Prize at Palm Springs |
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Palm
Springs International Film Festival
January 11 - 22 (California)
More than 150 films from 40 countries were shown during this 12th
annual event. From those, the FIPRESCI jury watched 34 of the Oscar
submissions for the best foreign language film, many of which were
US premieres. The jury gave an ex-aequo prize both to Amores
Perros (Love's a Bitch), Mexico's entry directed
by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Finland's Seitseman Laulua
Trundalta (Seven Songs from the Tundra) by Anastasia
Lapsui and Marku Lehmuskallio.
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Films Under A Red Sky - Tromso Wraps |
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Tromsψ
International Filmfestival
January 16 - 21, 2001 (Norway)
The northernmost film festival worldwide ended with an amazing red
horizon: the sun had come back the first day after four month of
disappearance. With more than 30,000 visitors in six days , the
festival received important signals for the Norwegian film market
that offers a wide selection of quality films. The audience, spoiled
with this brilliant arthouse choice, honoured Fatih Akin's In July,
one of four German movies. The main prize was awarded by the jury
to the Australian director Clara Law for The
Goddess of 1967.
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| Max
Ophuls Top Prize to a Psychological Thriller |
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Max
Ophόls Prize- Saarbrόcken Film Festival
January 16-21 (Germany)
The 22nd Saarbrucken Film Festival came to a successful close late
on Sunday night 21 January with the awarding of its Max Ophuls Prize
(worth 30,000DMs in cash and a further 30,000 DMs as a distribution
aid) to Das Weisse Rauschen a psychological thriller directed
by the young German Hans Weingartner, shown here as a world premiere.
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| Bavaria
Awards German Productions |
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Bavarian
Film Awards
Vanessa Jopp's Forget America, produced by Herbert Rimbach's
Avista Film, and Jobst Oetzmann's Die Einsamkeit Der Krokodile,
from Constantin subsidiary Olga Film, shared the top $242,000 (DM500,000)
Producers Prize at this year's Bavarian Film Awards. Esther Gronenborn
received the newcomer director award for alaska.de.
The Bavarian best actress award went to Hannelore
Elsner for her bravura performance in Oskar Roehler's No
Place To Go (Die Unberuehrbare), which also won her
a German Film Award in Gold last June.
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