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| Songlap and Bunohan set to dominate Posted: 01 Mar 2013 01:50 AM PST THE 25th Malaysia Film Festival awards night at the Putrajaya International Convention Centre tomorrow will see a total of 59 feature films, 66 short films and 14 animated features competing in 23 categories. Songlap is leading the list of contenders with 15 nominations. Directed by Fariza Azlina Isahak and Effendee Mazlan, Songlap is in contention for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Script, Best Original Story, Best Editor, Best Original Music Score, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress, among others. It tells the story of two brothers who are involved in a human trafficking syndicate. Their already tarnished world falls apart when a young girl comes into the picture, causing conflict between them. Meanwhile, Dain Said's Bunohan – the film that was Malaysia's submission for this year's Academy Awards – has 13 nominations, three of them in the Best Actor category alone for Faizal Hussein, Pekin Ibrahim and Zahiril Adzim. The three actors play brothers in the story, which revolves around the way they come together in the town of Bunohan, and walk down a path that leads to destruction. Other nominees include Untuk Tiga Hari, Hantu Gangster and 29 Februari. Erra Fazira and Fahrin Ahmad are slated to host the event which will be aired live on RTM2, Astro Ria dan Astro Mustika. |
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| Spielberg to head up Cannes festival jury Posted: 28 Feb 2013 01:39 AM PST PARIS (AFP) - Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg will head up this year's Cannes Film Festival jury, the organisers announced Thursday, just days after he missed out on a third best director Oscar. Spielberg, 66, one of the most powerful and respected film-makers in Hollywood, said he was flattered by the appointment. "It is an honour and a privilege to preside over the jury of a festival that proves, again and again, that cinema is the language of the world," he said in a statement. The Cannes Film Festival organisers said it was the broad reach of his film-making that had made him an obvious choice to head up the jury. The festival is one of the highlights in the international cinema calendar and this year runs between May 15 and May 26. Spielberg's work cuts across a broad spectrum "between entertainment films and serious reflections on history, racism and the human condition", festival organisers said in the statement. Thierry Fremaux, of the organising committee, said: "Because of his films, and the many causes he holds dear, he's year-in year-out the equal of the very greatest Hollywood filmmakers. "We are very proud to count him among us." Spielberg has presented several films at Cannes, though most of them were not in competition. But his 1974 film The Sugarland Express did pick up the best screenplay prize. He is best known for a succession of box office hits in the 1970s and '80s with films including E.T., Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Raiders Of The Lost Ark and Poltergeist. But it was not until he turned to darker subjects that he won his first Oscars. He won his first best director award in 1994 for Schindler's List, based on a true story about a man's efforts to save his Jewish workers from the Holocaust. The film, which starred Liam Neeson in the title role, picked up seven Oscars, including the coveted best picture. He won a second best director Oscar five years later for the devastating WWII drama Saving Private Ryan, starring Tom Hanks, which won five Oscars. Since then, Spielberg has moved comfortably between the kind of crowd-pleasing entertainment with which he made his name to those tackling more serious themes, such as last year's Lincoln. Despite leading the nominations ahead of Sunday's Oscars ceremony with 12 nods, the presidential biopic lost out in the best picture category to Argo, while Ang Lee beat Spielberg to best director for The Life Of Pi. |
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