Les 24e Prix Gemeaux 2009: the nominees

Les Prix Gemeaux celebrates excellence in French-language Canadian television production; the nominees for this years awards have been announced.

The nominees for Meilleurs maquillages/coiffures (Best Makeup/Hair) are:
3600 Seconded d’extase
France Signori, Louis Bond, & Sylvie Rolland-Provost
Kaboum
Diane Lapointe, Géraldine Courchesne, Jean Bégin, Josée Pellerin, Sophie Arseneault, & Stéphane Tessier
Les Boys (la series II, Épisode 23)
Adrien Morot & Marie-Angèle Breitner
Les hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin (Épisode 39)
Alex Lambert & Ann-Louise Landry
Rencontres, Le spectacle commémoratif du 400e anniversaire de Québec
France Signori & Marc-André Lessard.

The winners will announced on 20 September.

Leo Awards 2009: the winners

The winners of the Leo Awards 2009 were announced at the 2009 Celebration Awards Ceremony in Vancouver on 8 May.

The winner for Best Makeup in a Feature Length Drama was:
Iron Road
Joanne Kinchella.

The winners for Best Makeup in a Dramatic Series were:
Sanctuary ‘Warriors’
Todd Masters, Nicholas Podbrey, Sarah Pickersgill & Harlow MacFarlane.

A full list of winners is online.

51st Ariel Awards: the winners

La Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas announced the winners of the 51st Ariel Awards yesterday.

The winners for Best Makeup are:
Arráncame la vida (IMDb)
Regina Reyes & David Gameros.

A full list of winners is available at the Academia website.

54th National Film Awards (India): Best Makeup

Catching up — I missed this one at the time.

The National Film Awards is the most prominent film award ceremony in India, and the country’s oldest alongside the Filmfare Awards. Established in 1954, it has been run by the Indian government’s Directorate of Film Festivals since 1973. The National Film Awards select the best of Indian cinema overall and particularly focus on contributions to the furthering of Indian art and culture, whereas the Filmfare Awards are presented in separate categories for the best films in each region and language.

A Golden Lotus Award (Swarna Kamal) is awarded for: Best Film; Best Direction; Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment; Best Children’s Film. A Silver Lotus Award (Rajat Kamal) is awarded in all other feature film categories. Last year a Silver Lotus for Best Makeup Artist was introduced.

The winner of the Silver Lotus for Best Makeup Artist was:
Traffic Signal (IMDb)
Anil Moti Ram Palande.

Traffic Signal also won the Golden Lotus for Best Direction.

A press release (PDF) in English with full details of the Awards including, entries, jury and winners is availablefrom the Government of India’s Press Information Bureau.

the 81st Oscars: the winners

middle-aged Daisy (Cate Blanchett)

The Oscars ceremony was held last night. The winner for Achievement in Makeup was:

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Greg Cannom.

There was an inevitability about that result, though personally I was torn between Benjamin Button and Hellboy in that category. This was Greg Cannom’s ninth Oscar nomination and his second win — he’s also won a Technical Achievement Award.

Slumdog Millionaire was the big winner of the night. I enjoyed that movie, though I note that Indian slum dwellers have mounting angry protests since the movie opened there, especially against the title which many find derogatory. Amazing that it very nearly ended up going straight to DVD in the USA.

I’ve seen The Reader since the nominations were announced and it made no more favourable impression on me  than the book had — both just left me cold. It didn’t deserve the Best Film and Best Director nominations.

The full list of nominees and winners is available at the Oscars website.

29th Annual Golden Raspberries

Congratulations to Paris Hilton for a well deserved triple achievement. To win Worst Actress and Worst Supporting Actress, and a share of Worst Screen Couple all in one year — Wow! And it must have been so nearly four: I mean, I know The Love Guru was bad, obnoxious and quite possibly ‘career-killing’ but at least a few people went to see it (although it lost about $21m on a budget of $60m that performance did not come anywhere near that of The Hottie and the Nottie which took a staggering $9,000 on its first day and lost $7.4m against a budget of $9m).

So have we seen the last of her on our screens? I’m heartened to see that Paris Hilton’s British Best Friend managed a whole 1.7% share of the audience for its opening episode. The omens must be promising that sooner, rather than later, realisation will dawn that not only can’t she act but more importantly she does not attract revenue either.

I live in hope. Though I admit I might sneak a peek at Paris Hilton’s British Best Friend — but only if I can hit the exact five minutes when she goes undercover — with some help from Neill Gorton — to find out what they really think of her.