Monica Bleibtreu
Monica Bleibtreu, a respected stage, film, and television actress, and mother of Moritz Bleibtreu, died yesterday, May 14, in Hamburg. She was 65. Bleibtreu had been battling cancer for a number of years.
Born into a theatrical family in Vienna on May 4, 1944, the dark, strong-featured Monica Bleibtreu had been working steadily on German-language television since the late 1960s. Among her TV credits are a presentation of Bertold Brecht’s play Mother (1971), the series Doctors in the mid-1990s, and the made-for-television movie Happy Hour oder Glück und Glas (2000), starring The Lives of Others‘ Martina Gedeck.
In 1975, she won a German Television Award for best actress for her performance in the made-for-TV movie Marias letzte [...]
by Andre Soares | May 15, 2009
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2009 Honorary Foreign Film Award Finalists
Five finalists will be vying for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ 2009 Honorary Foreign Film award in the 36th Annual Student Academy Awards competition. The five finalists were selected from a record 57 entries representing 39 countries. The winning student filmmaker will be brought to Los Angeles to join U.S.-based Student Academy Award winners "for a week of industry-related activities and social events," including the awards ceremony on Saturday, June 13, in Beverly Hills.
The finalists are (listed alphabetically by film title):
Elkland (above, center photo), Per Hanefjord, Dramatiska Institutet, Sweden
Face-to-Face Confrontation, Igor Khomsky, Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, Russia
The Incredible Story [...]
by Andre Soares | May 4, 2009
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Tags: Alberto Rodriguez, Animation, Ausreisser, Elkland, Face-to-Face Confrontation, Feeding Desire, Film Awards, Florian Gallenberger, Honorary Foreign Film Award, Honorary Foreign Film Award 2009, Igor Khomsky, Jan Sverak, John Rabe, Karakter, Kolya, Lola Awards, Martin Strange-Hansen, Mike van Diem, Our Wonderful Nature, Per Hanefjord, Pinhas, Pini Tavger, Quiero Ser, Reto Caffi, Shorts, Student Academy Awards, Student Academy Awards 2009, The Incredible Story of My Great Grandmother Olive, Tomer Eshed, Ulrike Grote
Oscar Shorts at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater
Badgered by Sharon Colman (top); The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello by Anthony Lucas (middle); Ausreisser / The Runaway by Ulrike Grote (bottom)
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present "Shorts!," featuring the ten Academy Award-nominated films in the Animated Short and Live-Action Short categories, on Tuesday, February 28, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The event will feature onstage discussions with the animated and live-action nominated filmmakers (subject to availability).
The 2005 Animated Shorts and Live-Action Short nominees are:
Short Film (Animated)
Badgered, Sharon Colman, director
The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation, John Canemaker, director; Peggy Stern, producer
The Mysterious Geographic Explorations [...]
by Andre Soares | February 14, 2006
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Tags: 2006 Oscar, Academy Awards, Anthony Lucas, Ausreisser, Badgered, Los Angeles Screenings, Sharon Colman, Shorts, The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello, The Runaway, Ulrike Grote
