The International Press Academy’ s Satellite Award, 2015
The International Press Academy honors Israeli Filmmaker Shlomi Elkabetz as Independent Producer.
By Adrienne Papp
Producer, director and writer Shlomi Elkabetz turned a spotlight on the oppressive world of divorces in Israel and will be honored by the International Press Academy on Feb. 15, at their awards ceremony.
Shlomi Elkabetz
He works closely with his sister, actress Ronit Elkabetz, who also co-wrote and co-directed the award-winning critically-acclaimed trilogy of films To Take a Wife, Shiva (Seven Days) and Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem which took the Cannes Film Festival by storm.
The film series deals with the world of Vivian (played by Ronit) and Elisha (played by Simon Abkarian), and their world within Israeli society. The first installment became more than a decade ago, and the second started about five years ago.
The brother and sister team works flawlessly together. “When we meet to work, we are on another planet,” Shlomi explains. They laugh, they discuss, they debate, he says, “And then once we’re on the set, we hardly exchange a word.” Ronit ranks as among Israel’s most respected actresses, the winner of three Ophir awards.
Gett, which was selected as Israel’s entry as the Oscars, has become a political sensation in Israel, and it is forcing policy makers to talk about the ancient law that gives men the upper hand in divorce trials. According to traditional Jewish law, which still governs all Jewish marriages in Israel. A marriage can only be dissolved by a court of rabbis, and a woman can’t get a divorce until her husband gives his full consent by signing over a gett.
In 2009, Shlomi wrote and directed the second season of Ran Foursome (15 chapters) and in 2011 he directed and produced Testimony, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival. He has taught cinema for more than a decade at the Sapir College in Sderot and at the Minshar Academy in Tel Aviv, Israel. And, he is the artistic director of “Studio South,” the production lab of the Cinema South Film Festival.
For his activism, his passion and his concern for his fellow man, this filmmaker is a perfect representation of the best of independent moviemaking.
The International Press Academy (IPA) is a global association of professional entertainment journalists representing a multitude of renowned print, broadcast, and digital media outlets. The Federation of European and Mediterranean Film Critics(FEDEORA) joined our organization in 2011, extending the IPA’s membership to approximately 200 esteemed foreign and domestic correspondents, whose markets reach over 500,000,000 people worldwide via print, television, radio, and the Internet.
The 19th Annual Satellite Awards will be presented by the International Press Academy on Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015 at the InterContinental Hotel in Century City, California.
The complete list of nominees are:
Actress in a Motion Picture
Rosamund Pike |
Gone Girl |
Fox |
Anne Dorval |
Mommy |
Roadside Attractions |
Felicity Jones |
The Theory of Everything |
Focus Features |
Gugu Mbatha-Raw |
Belle |
Fox Searchlight |
Julianne Moore |
Still Alice |
Sony Pictures Classics |
Reese Witherspoon |
Wild |
Fox Searchlight |
Marion Cotillard |
Two Days, One Night |
IFC Films |
Actor in a Motion Picture
Benedict Cumberbatch |
The Imitation Game |
The Weinstein Co. |
Eddie Redmayne |
The Theory of Everything |
Focus Features |
Jake Gyllenhaal |
Nightcrawler |
Open Road |
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Birdman |
Fox Searchlight |
Miles Teller |
Whiplash |
Sony Pictures Classics |
Steve Carell |
Foxcatcher |
Sony Pictures Classics |
David Oyelowo |
Selma |
Paramount |
Actress in a Supporting Role
Emma Stone |
Birdman |
Fox Searchlight |
Keira Knightley |
The Imitation Game |
The Weinstein Co. |
Laura Dern |
Wild |
Fox Searchlight |
Tilda Swinton |
Snowpiercer |
Radius-TWC |
Patricia Arquette |
Boyhood |
IFC Films |
Katherine Waterston |
Inherent Vice |
Warner Bros. |
Actor in a Supporting Role
J.K. Simmons |
Whiplash |
Sony Pictures Classics |
Edward Norton |
Birdman |
Fox Searchlight |
Ethan Hawke |
Boyhood |
IFC Films |
Mark Ruffalo |
Foxcatcher |
Sony Pictures Classics |
Robert Duvall |
The Judge |
Warner Bros. |
Andy Serkis |
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes |
Fox |
Motion Picture
The Imitation Game |
The Weinstein Co. |
The Theory of Everything |
Focus Features |
Whiplash |
Sony Pictures Classics |
Mr. Turner |
Sony Pictures Classics |
Selma |
Paramount |
Gone Girl |
Fox |
Birdman |
Fox Searchlight |
Love is Strange |
Sony Pictures Classics |
Boyhood |
IFC Films |
The Grand Budapest Hotel |
Fox Searchlight |
Motion Picture, Documentary
Red Army |
Sony Pictures Classics |
Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq |
Koch Lorber Films |
Art and Craft |
Oscilloscope Pictures |
Citizenfour |
Radius-TWC |
Finding Vivian Maier |
IFC Films |
Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me |
Area23a |
Jodorowsky’s Dune |
Sony Pictures Classics |
Keep On Keepin’ On |
Radius-TWC |
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles |
Cohen Media Group |
Virunga |
Netflix |
Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media
Big Hero 6 |
Disney |
Song of the Sea |
GKIDS |
The Boxtrolls |
Focus Features |
The Lego Movie |
Warner Bros. |
Wrinkles |
GKIDS |
The Book of Life |
Fox |
How to Train Your Dragon 2 |
Fox |
Motion Picture, International Film
Greece |
Little England |
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Israel |
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem |
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Poland |
Ida |
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Sweden |
Force Majeure |
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Russia |
Leviathan |
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Canada |
Mommy |
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Estonia |
Tangerine |
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Mauritania |
Timbuktu |
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Argentina |
Wild Tales |
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Belgium |
Two Days, One Night |
IFC Films |
Screenplay, Original
Paul Webb |
Selma |
Paramount |
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Alexander Dinelaris, Armando Bo |
Birdman |
Fox Searchlight |
Richard Linklater |
Boyhood |
IFC Films |
Ira Sachs, Mauricio Zacharias |
Love is Strange |
Sony Pictures Classics |
Dan Gilroy |
Nightcrawler |
Open Road |
Christopher Miller, Phil Lord |
The Lego Movie |
Warner Bros. |
Director
Alejandro González Iñárritu |
Birdman |
Fox Searchlight |
Damien Chazelle |
Whiplash |
Sony Pictures Classics |
Richard Linklater |
Boyhood |
IFC Films |
David Fincher |
Gone Girl |
Fox |
Morten Tyldum |
The Imitation Game |
The Weinstein Co. |
Ava DuVernay |
Selma |
Paramount |
Screenplay, Adapted
Paul Thomas Anderson |
Inherent Vice |
Warner Bros. |
Graham Moore |
The Imitation Game |
The Weinstein Co. |
Gillian Flynn |
Gone Girl |
Fox |
Anthony McCarten |
The Theory of Everything |
Focus Features |
Jason Hall |
American Sniper |
Warner Bros. |
Cheryl Strayed, Nick Hornby |
Wild |
Fox Searchlight |
Original Score
Antonio Sanchez |
Birdman |
Fox Searchlight |
Alexandre Desplat |
The Imitation Game |
The Weinstein Co. |
Thomas Newman |
The Judge |
Warner Bros. |
Steven Price |
Fury |
Sony |
Hans Zimmer |
Interstellar |
Paramount |
Atticus Ross, Trent Reznor |
Gone Girl |
Fox |
Original Song
“Everything is Awesome” |
The Lego Movie |
Warner Bros. |
“I’m Not Gonna Miss You” |
Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me |
Area23a |
“Split the Difference” |
Boyhood |
IFC Films |
“We Will Not Go” |
Virunga |
Netflix |
“I’ll Get What You Want” |
Muppets Most Wanted |
Disney |
“What Is Love” |
Rio 2 |
Fox |
Cinematography
Hoyte Van Hoytema, F.S.F., N.S.C. |
Interstellar |
Paramount |
Dick Pope, BSC |
Mr. Turner |
Sony Pictures Classics |
Emmanuel Lubezki, ASC, AMC |
Birdman |
Fox Searchlight |
Robert Elswit |
Inherent Vice |
Warner Bros. |
Benoît Delhomme |
The Theory of Everything |
Focus Features |
Jeff Cronenweth, ASC |
Gone Girl |
Fox |
Visual Effects
Christian Irles, Matt Johnson, Stefano Pepin |
Into the Woods |
Disney |
Stephane Ceretti |
Guardians of the Galaxy |
Disney |
Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter, Paul Franklin, Scott Fisher |
Interstellar |
Paramount |
Ben Snow, Burt Dalton, Dan Schrecker, Marc Chu |
Noah |
Paramount |
John Frazier, Patrick Tubach, Scott Benza, Scott Farrar, A.S.C. |
Transformers: Age of Extinction |
Paramount |
Dan Lemmon, Joe Letteri, Matt Kutcher |
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes |
Fox |
Film Editing
Sandra Adair |
Boyhood |
IFC Films |
Gary Roach, Joel Cox |
American Sniper |
Warner Bros. |
Douglas Crise, Stephen Mirrione, ACE |
Birdman |
Fox Searchlight |
William Goldenberg, A.C.E. |
The Imitation Game |
The Weinstein Co. |
Dody Dorn, ACE, Jay Cassidy, ACE |
Fury |
Sony |
Stan Salfas, ACE, William Hoy, ACE |
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes |
Fox |
Sound (Editing and Mixing)
Craig Henighan, Ken Ishii, C.A.S., Skip Lievsay |
Noah |
Paramount |
Erik Aadahl, Ethan Van Der Ryn, Greg P. Russell, Jeffrey J. Haboush, Peter J. Devlin, C.A.S., Scott Millan |
Transformers: Age of Extinction |
Paramount |
Anna Behlmer, Mark Holding, Taeyoung Choi, Terry Porter |
Snowpiercer |
Radius-TWC |
Ben Wilkins, Craig Mann, Thomas Curley |
Whiplash |
Sony Pictures Classics |
Blake Leyh, John Casali, Michael Keller, Michael Prestwood Smith, Renee Tondelli |
Into the Woods |
Disney |
Ren Klyce, Steve Cantamessa |
Gone Girl |
Fox |
Art Direction & Production Design
George DeTitta Jr., Kevin Thompson, Stephen H. Carter |
Birdman |
Fox Searchlight |
Andrew Menzies, Peter Russell |
Fury |
Sony |
Debra Schutt, Mark Friedberg |
Noah |
Paramount |
Dylan Cole, Frank Walsh, Gary Freeman |
Maleficent |
Disney |
Adam Stockhausen, Anna Pinnock, Stephan Gessler |
The Grand Budapest Hotel |
Fox Searchlight |
Maria Djurkovic, Nick Dent |
The Imitation Game |
The Weinstein Co. |
Costume Design
Anushia Nieradzik |
Belle |
Fox Searchlight |
Milena Canonero |
The Grand Budapest Hotel |
Fox Searchlight |
Colleen Atwood |
Into the Woods |
Disney |
Anna B. Sheppard |
Maleficent |
Disney |
Michael Wilkinson |
Noah |
Paramount |
Anais Romand |
Saint Laurent |
Sony Pictures Classics |
Best Ensemble
Into the Woods |
Disney |
TELEVISION
Miniseries Made for Television
24: Live Another Day |
Fox |
Endeavour |
ITV |
The Spoils of Babylon |
IFC |
Olive Kitteridge |
HBO |
Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond |
BBC America |
Happy Valley |
BBC One, Netflix |
The Honourable Woman |
BBC, Sundance Channel |
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History |
PBS |
Sherlock |
BBC One, PBS |
Actress in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television
Kristen Wiig |
The Spoils of Babylon |
IFC |
Cicely Tyson |
The Trip to Bountiful on Broadway |
Lifetime |
Sarah Lancashire |
Happy Valley |
BBC One, Netflix |
Maggie Gyllenhaal |
The Honourable Woman |
BBC, Sundance Channel |
Frances McDormand |
Olive Kitteridge |
HBO |
Motion Picture Made for Television
The Trip to Bountiful on Broadway |
Lifetime |
The Normal Heart |
HBO |
Return To Zero |
Lifetime |
Turks & Caicos |
BBC, PBS |
The Gabby Douglas Story |
Lifetime |
Actor in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television
David Suchet |
Agatha Christie’s Poirot |
Acorn TV, ITV |
Dominic Cooper |
Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond |
BBC America |
Kiefer Sutherland |
24: Live Another Day |
Fox |
Stephen Rea |
The Honourable Woman |
BBC, Sundance Channel |
Richard Jenkins |
Olive Kitteridge |
HBO |
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The Normal Heart |
HBO |
Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television
Ann Dowd |
The Leftovers |
HBO |
Allison Tolman |
Fargo |
FX |
Michelle Monaghan |
True Detective |
HBO |
Nicola Walker |
Last Tango in Halifax |
BBC, PBS |
Sarah Paulson |
American Horror Story |
FX |
Zoe Kazan |
Olive Kitteridge |
HBO |
Television Series, Drama
The Affair |
Showtime |
Fargo |
FX |
Halt and Catch Fire |
AMC |
House of Cards |
Netflix |
The Fall |
BBC, Netflix |
The Knick |
Cinemax |
Hannibal |
NBC |
True Detective |
HBO |
Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television
Matt Bomer |
The Normal Heart |
HBO |
Peter Dinklage |
Game Of Thrones |
HBO |
Rory Kinnear |
Penny Dreadful |
Showtime |
Christopher Eccleston |
The Leftovers |
HBO |
André Holland |
The Knick |
Cinemax |
Jimmy Smits |
Sons of Anarchy |
FX |
Television Series, Genre
The Leftovers |
HBO |
American Horror Story |
FX |
Game Of Thrones |
HBO |
Grimm |
NBC |
Penny Dreadful |
Showtime |
Sleepy Hollow |
Fox |
The Strain |
FX |
The Walking Dead |
AMC |
Actress in a Series, Drama
Ruth Wilson |
The Affair |
Showtime |
Eva Green |
Penny Dreadful |
Showtime |
Gillian Anderson |
The Fall |
BBC, Netflix |
Julianna Margulies |
The Good Wife |
CBS |
Kerri Russell |
The Americans |
FX |
Lizzy Caplan |
Masters of Sex |
Showtime |
Robin Wright |
House of Cards |
Netflix |
Tatiana Maslany |
Orphan Black |
BBC America |
Television Series, Comedy or Musical
Alpha House |
Amazon Studios |
Louie |
FX |
Orange is the New Black |
Netflix |
Silicon Valley |
HBO |
The Big Bang Theory |
CBS |
Transparent |
Amazon Studios |
Veep |
HBO |
Brooklyn Nine-Nine |
Fox |
Actor in a Series, Drama
Michael Sheen |
Masters of Sex |
Showtime |
Woody Harrelson |
True Detective |
HBO |
Billy Bob Thornton |
Fargo |
FX |
Charlie Hunnam |
Sons of Anarchy |
FX |
Clive Owen |
The Knick |
Cinemax |
Lee Pace |
Halt and Catch Fire |
AMC |
Martin Freeman |
Fargo |
FX |
Mads Mikkelsen |
Hannibal |
NBC |
Actress in a Series, Comedy or Musical
Mindy Kaling |
The Mindy Project |
Fox |
Taylor Schilling |
Orange is the New Black |
Netflix |
Zooey Deschanel |
New Girl |
Fox |
Edie Falco |
Nurse Jackie |
Showtime |
Emmy Rossum |
Shameless |
Showtime |
Julia Louis-Dreyfus |
Veep |
HBO |
Actor in a Series, Comedy or Musical
Jeffrey Tambor |
Transparent |
Amazon Studios |
Jim Parsons |
The Big Bang Theory |
CBS |
John Goodman |
Alpha House |
Amazon Studios |
Thomas Middleditch |
Silicon Valley |
HBO |
William H. Macy |
Shameless |
Showtime |
Louis C.K. |
Louie |
FX |
Television Ensemble
The Knick |
Cinemax |
NEW MEDIA Outstanding Mobile Game
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft |
Blizzard Entertainment |
80 Days |
Inkle |
Twodots |
Playdots |
Monument Valley |
Ustwo |
The Room Two |
Fireproof Games Studios |
XCOM: Enemy Within for Mobile |
2K Games |
Outstanding Platform Action/Adventure Game
Titanfall |
Respawn Entertainment |
Forza Horizon 2 |
Microsoft |
Dark Souls II |
Bandai, From Software, Namco |
Mario Kart 8 |
Nintendo |
Assassin’s Creed Unity |
Ubisoft |
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel |
2K Games |
Outstanding Overall Blu-Ray/DVD
Swelter |
Well Go USA |
Young Frankenstein 40th Anniversary |
Fox Home Ent. |
We Are the Best! |
Magnolia Home Entertainment |
The Swimmer |
Box Office Spectaculars Inc., CAV, Grindhouse Releasing, Sony Pictures |
A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, the Bad and the Ugly, The Man with No Name Trilogy [remastered] |
MGM Home Entertainment |
Sons of Anarchy Complete Series |
Fox Home Ent. |
Napoleon Dynamite: 10th Anniversary Edition |
Fox Home Ent. |
Muscle Shoals |
Magnolia Home Entertainment |
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy |
The Walt Disney Studios |
How I Met Your Mother Complete Series |
Fox Home Ent. |
Downton Abbey Seasons 1, 2, 3 & 4 |
PBS Distribution |
Borgen: The Complete Series |
MHz Networks |
A Hard Day’s Night – 50th Anniversary |
Criterion |
Agatha Christie’s Poirot: Complete Cases Collection |
Acorn Media, RLJ Home Ent. |
12 Years a Slave |
Fox Home Ent. |
Outstanding Youth Blu-Ray/DVD
The Lego Movie |
Warner Home Video |
The Fault in Our Stars |
Fox Home Ent. |
How to Train Your Dragon 2 |
Fox Home Ent. |
Frozen |
The Walt Disney Company |
About the Author of This Article: Dame Adrienne Papp is a recognized journalist, economist and feature writer who has written for many publications including Savoir; The Westside Today Publications ; such as Beverly Hills 90210; Malibu Beach; Santa Monica Sun; The Beverly Hills Times; Brentwood News; Bel-Air View ; Celebrity Society ; Celeb Staff ; It Magazine; Chic Today; LA2DAY; West Side Today among many others. She is the President and CEO of Los Angeles / New York-based publicity company, Atlantic Publicity and publishing house, Atlantic Publisher. Adrienne writes about world trends, Quantum Physics, entertainment and interviews celebrities, world leaders, inventors, philanthropists and entrepreneurs. She also owns Atlantic United Films that produces and finances true stories made for theatrical release or the silver screen. Spotlight News Magazine is owned by Atlantic United, Inc. Adrienne Papp is a member of the International Press Academy. All Copyrights Reserved
