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Wrap-up/Awards
of the Week
Filmfestivals.com
asked 10 critics around
the world to make their choices: Best Feature, Best Director, Best
Actress, Best Actor and Best Foreign Language Film.
Check out how their choices compare to yours.
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Actors
Vote for Julia and Benicio
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Screen
Actors Guild Awards
Sunday, March 12 (Beverly Hills)
Steven Soderbergh shone at the Screen Actors' Guild Awards ceremony
held Sunday in Beverly Hills. His leading lady Julia Roberts from
Erin
Brockovich won the union's Best Actress award, while his
leading man Benicio del Toro from Traffic
earned the Best Actor award. Although the union awards no prize
for Best Picture, they do award a prize to the Best Cast -- in this
case, the honor again went to a Soderbergh film: the 135-member
cast of Traffic. Ironically, though, at the awards ceremony
the next night held by the DGA for the DGA, the top honor went not
to Soderbergh, but to Ang Lee for Crouching
Tiger Hidden Dragon.
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Crouching
Tiger Takes DGA Top Honor
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Directors
Guild of America Award Winners
Saturday, March 11 (Beverly Hills)
It was New York-based Ang Lee who stole the show, being named best
film director by the DGA for Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon. In the 53 year history of the DGA
awards ceremony, only four winners did not also win the Oscar for
Best Director.
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Shine at Santa Barbara's 16th Edition |
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Santa
Barbara International Film Festival
March 1 - 11
Although it's held only 90 miles from Hollywood, the Santa Barbara
International Film Festival hasn't made its name with star-studded
premieres, celebrity sightings or big buck acquisition deals for
independent American films. Instead, the event focuses on seminars
(often laden with Oscar nominees), foreign films and documentaries
including a human rights category.
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The
Diver Scores at Tampere
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Tampere
Film Festival
March 7 -11 (Finland)
First time since 1971 a Finnish film has won the Grand Prix prize
at the Tampere Film Festival. This year is also the first time ever
that one film won all the most sought-after awards. Hyppääjä
(The Diver) won the Grand Prix, the main prize in the under-30-minute-long
films' category in the Finnish Competition and the Risto Jarva Prize.
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Reality
Thrives in Thessaloniki
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Thessaloniki
Documentary Festival
March 5 - 11 (Greece)
Though run on a modest budget, the event attracted over 175 professional
participants, with a handful of foreign journalists coming from
as far as Vancouver and Vienna. Though generally a less formal event,
the festival had a splendid opening ceremony with the Minister for
Macedonia officiating and a capacity crowd clearly adored The
Turandot Project, a most entertaining record-filmed on 35 mm
of the production of Puccini's last opera staged in its rightful
setting, the Forbidden City in Beijing and by a Chinese director
at that, Zhang Yimou.
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