Festival de Cannes 2012: 

• Palme d’Or
  AMOUR (LOVE) directed by Michael HANEKE

• Grand Prix
  REALITY directed by Matteo GARRONE

•  Award for Best Director
  Carlos REYGADAS for POST TENEBRAS LUX

• Award for Best Screenplay
  Cristian MUNGIU for DUPÃ DEALURI (BEYOND THE HILLS)

• Award for Best Actress
  Cristina FLUTUR in DUPÃ DEALURI (BEYOND THE HILLS)
  Cosmina STRATAN in DUPÃ DEALURI (BEYOND THE HILLS)

• Award for Best Actor
  Mads MIKKELSEN in JAGTEN (THE HUNT)

• Jury Prize
  THE ANGELS’ SHARE directed by Ken LOACH

2012 MTV Movie Awards nominees 

MOVIE OF THE YEAR 

• Bridesmaids
• The Hunger Games
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
• The Help
• The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE

• Emma Stone – Crazy, Stupid, Love
• Emma Watson – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
• Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games
• Kristen Wiig – Bridesmaids 
• Rooney Mara – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE

• Channing Tatum – The Vow
• Daniel Radcliffe – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt – 50/50
• Josh Hutcherson – The Hunger Games
• Ryan Gosling – Drive

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE

• Elle Fanning – Super 8
• Melissa McCarthy – Bridesmaids
• Liam Hemsworth – The Hunger Games
• Rooney Mara – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• Shailene Woodley – The Descendants

BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE

• Jonah Hill – 21 Jump Street 
• Kristen Wiig – Bridesmaids 
• Melissa McCarthy – Bridesmaids
• Oliver Cooper – Project X
• Zach Galifianakis – The Hangover Part II

BEST CAST

• 21 Jump Street
  Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube, Dave Franco, Ellie Kemper, Brie Larson
• Bridesmaids
  Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Ellie Kemper
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
  Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Tom Felton
• The Help
  Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jessica Chastain
• The Hunger Games
  Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks, Woody Harrelson, Lenny Kravitz

BEST ON-SCREEN TRANSFORMATION

• Collin Farrell – Horrible Bosses 
• Elizabeth Banks – The Hunger Games 
• Johnny Depp – 21 Jump Street
• Michelle Williams – My Week with Marilyn
• Rooney Mara – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

BEST FIGHT

• Channing Tatum & Jonah Hill vs. Kid Gang – 21 Jump Street 
• Daniel Radcliffe vs. Ralph Fiennes – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
• Jennifer Lawrence & Josh Hutcherson vs. Alexander Ludwig – The Hunger Games
• Tom Cruise vs. Michael Nyqvist – Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
• Tom Hardy vs. Joel Edgerton – Warrior

BEST KISS

• Channing Tatum & Rachel McAdams – The Vow 
• Jennifer Lawrence & Josh Hutcherson – The Hunger Games 
• Robert Pattinson & Kristen Stewart – The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1
• Rupert Grint & Emma Watson – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 
• Ryan Gosling & Emma Stone –Crazy, Stupid, Love

Cannes Festival announces 2012 line-up 

Competitive Films
Moonrise Kingdom (Dir. Wes Anderson)
De Rouille et d’Os (Dir. Jacques Audiard)
Holy Motors (Dir. Leos Carax)
Cosmopolis (Dir. David Cronenberg)
The Paperboy (Dir. Lee Daniels)
Killing Them Softly (Dir. Andrew Dominik)
Reality (Dir. Matteo Garrone)
Amour (Love) (Dir. Michael Haneke)
Lawless (Dir. John Hillcoat)
Da-Reun Na-Ra-e-Suh (In Another Country) (Dir. Hong Sangsoo)
Do-Nui Mat (The Taste of Money) (Dir. Im Sang-soo)
Like Someone in Love (Dir. Abbas Kiarostami)
The Angels’ Share (Dir. Ken Loach)
V Tumane (In the Fog) (Dir. Sergei Loznitsa)
Beyond the Hills (Dir. Cristian Mungiu)
Baad el Mawkeaa (After the Battle) (Dir. Yousry Nasrallah)
Mud (Dir. Jeff Nichols)
Vous n’avez encore rien vu (Dir. Alain Resnais)
Post Tenebras Lux (Dir. Carlos Reygadas)
On the Road (Sur la Route) (Dir. Walter Salles)
Paradies: Liebe (Paradise: Love) (Dir. Ulrich Seidl)
Jagten (The Hunt) (Dir. Thomas Vinterberg)

Un Certain Regard
Miss Lovely (Dir. Ashim Ahluwalia)
La Playa (Dir. Juan Andrés Arango)
Les Chevaux de Dieu (God’s Horses) (Dir. Nabil Ayouch)
Trois Monde (Dir. Catherine Corsini)
Antiviral (Dir. Brandon Cronenberg)
7 Dias en la Habana (Dir. Benicio Del Toro, Pablo Trapero, Julio Medem, Elia Suleiman, Juan Carlos Tabio, Gaspard Noé, and Laurent Cantet)
Le Grand Soir (Dir. Benoit Delépine and Gustave Kervern)
Laurence Anyways (Dir. Xavier Dolan)
Después de Lucia (Dir. Michel Franco)
Aimer à perdre la raison (Dir. Joachim Lafosse)
Student (Dir. Darezhan Omirbayev)
La Pirogue (The Pirogue) (Dir. Moussa Toure)
Elefante Blanco (White Elephant) (Dir. Pablo Trapero)
Confession of a Child of the Century (Dir. Sylvie Verheyde)
Mystery (Dir. You Le)
Beasts of the Southern Wild (Dir. Benh Zeitlin)

Non-Competitive Films
Thérèse Desqueyroux (Dir. Claude Miller)
Io e Te (Me and You) (Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci)
Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (Dir. Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath)
Hemingway & Gellhorn (Dir. Philip Kaufman)

Midnight Screenings
Dario Argento’s Dracula (Dir. Dario Argento)
Ai to Makoto (Dir. Takashi Miike)

65th Birthday
Une journée particulière (Dir. Gilles Jacob and Samuel Faure)

Special Screenings
Der Müll im Garten Eden (Polluting Paradise) (Dir. Fatih Akin)
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir (Dir. Laurent Bouzereau)
The Central Park Five (Dir. Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon)
Les Invisibles (Dir. Sébastien Lifshitz)
Journal de France (Dir. Claudine Nougaret and Raymond Depardon)
A Musica Segundo Tom Jobim (Dir. Nelson Pereira dos Santos)
Villegas (Dir. Gonzalo Tobal)
Mekong Hotel (Dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

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Hey guys, this is a project that a couple of my friends are working on to shoot (hopefully) soon. I’m probably going to be attached to it, and I’d really appreciate you spreading the word to help us bring in some funds and support. Check out the teaser above, and go here at Indiegogo to find out more and donate. Thanks!

Short Summary

Hello everyone! My name is Ashley Bonn and I’m trying my hardest with my friend and colleague, Allison Morton, to raise funds to produce and shoot our short film, Lay Me in the River.  

The story is a dark tale of death, grief, and extremism that takes place deep in the woods of Louisiana in the mid 1960s. Our goal is to be able to produce this film for a competion and to be sent to film festivals across the country.

This is our first project outside of film school.  We’re currently sophomore students, but don’t let that fool you.  We’re two passionate aspiring filmmakers willing to do whatever it takes to execute our creative visions in filmmaking. This project, in particular, is something that we are extremely passionate about.

Here’s a synopsis:

Set in the mid 60s, Lyle, a southern preacher residing in a secluded backwoods town, loses his wife in the Red River which he and his congregation have cherished as a part of their religious practice.  After his wife, Danielle’s, death, Lyle finds that the River may have been God’s way of punishing her for the sins she committed before being born again in Christ.  Upon finding a collection of photos and memorabilia in his wife’s things, Lyle realizes that she may not have been the woman he thought he’d married.  In a search for redemption, Lyle tries to prevent the same sins from being committed by other women that remind him of Danielle.

What We Need & What You Get

We need everything!  As of now, we’re just two girls starting out on a big dream and we need all the help we can get from all of you to help us realize that dream.  Your donations would go to renting equipment, housing for crew and actors, food, travel, props and costumes. Starting out is never easy, but we truly believe that’s part of the journey. Go here to donate now!

Your donations will help provide all these necessities in filmmaking, but more importantly give us an opportunity to tell a story and realize a great ambition.

Other Ways You Can Help

If your short on cash yourself, but you really want to see our project made, please post a link to this page on facebook or send it out in emails to friends.  Get the word out!  Embrace the power of modern communication! We’d really appreiate it.

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The 2012 Comedy Awards 

• Comedy Film
  The Artist
  Bridesmaids
  Crazy, Stupid, Love
  Horrible Bosses
  Midnight in Paris

• Animated Comedy Film
  Cars 2
  Kung Fu Panda 2
  Puss in Boots
  Rango
  Rio

• Performance by an Actor - Film
  Jason Bateman, Horrible Bosses
  Steve Carrell, Crazy Stupid Love
  Jean Dujardin, The Artist
  Zach Galifianakis, The Hangover Part II
  Owen Wilson, Midnight in Paris

• Performance by an Actress - Film
  Jennifer Aniston, Horrible Bosses
  Cameron Diaz, Bad Teacher
  Melissa McCarthy, Bridesmaids
  Emma Stone, Crazy Stupid Love
  Kristen Wiig, Bridesmaids

Nanni Moretti to preside over the Jury of the 65th Festival de Cannes

Nanni Moretti will be President of the Jury of the 65th Festival de Cannes to be held from May 16 to 27, 2012.

Accepting the invitation, the Italian actor and director said: “This is a real joy, an honour and a tremendous responsibility to preside over the jury of the most prestigious festival of cinematography in the world, a festival that is held in a country where film has always been treated with interest and respect. 
As a director, I was always very moved when my films were presented at the Festival de Cannes. I also have very happy memories of my experience as a jury member during the fiftieth anniversary season, and of the attentiveness and passion that went into the jury’s viewing and discussion of all the films. 
As a spectator, fortunately I still have the same curiosity that I had in my youth and so it is a great privilege for me to embark on this voyage into the world of contemporary international film.”

Nanni Moretti was born in 1953 in Brunico, Italy. After several short films, he signed his first feature, Io Sono un Autarchico (I am Self Sufficient) in 1976, and in 1978, he was selected in Competition in Cannes, with Ecce Bombo.

International film critics were quick to pick up on this young director whose corrosive wit was directed toward a subtle and political analysis of contemporary society. His films were frequent prize winners in festivals around the world: in 1981, the Special Jury Prize in Venice was awarded to Sogni d’Oro (Sweet Dreams) and La Messa è finita (The Mass is Ended) won the Silver Bear in Berlin in 1986.

A director in constant evolution, an auteur with a personal touch, and an accomplished artist, Nanni Moretti has continued to surprise, with Caro Diario (Dear Diary) presented in Competition at the Festival de Cannes in 1994 (where it won the Prize for Best Director) and with La Stanza del figlio (The Son’s Room), which won the Palme d’Or in 2001 and was a box office hit. Then came Il Caimano (The Caiman) (2006), a film that harshly criticizes the aberrations of Italian political life in the era of Silvio Berlusconi.

An iconic actor in most of his own films, Moretti has also played in the Taviani brothers’ Padre Padrone (Father and Master) (1977), and worked with Luchetti, Mazzacurati and Calopresti.  A producer and distributor as well as a director, he founded the Sacher Film production company in 1986. In 1991, he opened the Nuovo Sacher cinema in Rome, a cinema dedicated to the release of films from around the world. Since 1996, he has directed the “Sacher Festival” devoted to short films.

He has presented six films at the Festival de Cannes, including last year’s highly praised Habemus Papam(We Have a Pope).

Gilles Jacob received the new president’s acceptance with the words: “When we decided to put Ecce Bombo–a super 8 film!–into Competition when I first arrived in 1978, it was because I had a premonition that Nanni Moretti would soon become NANNI MORETTI. This is what happened and I am so gratified to have had this long and affectionate collaboration.”

Thierry Frémaux, for his part, said: “The Festival wanted to celebrate its 65th season with a European jury President. High-spirited and marked by his modernity and intelligence, Nanni Moretti’s films are the incarnation of all the best in cinema over the past thirty years. His work is always evolving and continues to carry the promise of film that engages with the world and with our times.”

The Cannes Film Festival unveils its new poster, featuring Marilyn Monroe:

On the occasion of its 65th anniversary, the Festival de Cannes pays tribute to Marilyn Monroe, selected as the icon of the 2012 Festival.

Fifty years after her death, Marilyn is still a major figure in world cinema, an eternal icon, whose grace, mystery and power of seduction remain resolutely contemporary. 

Each of her screen appearances sparks the imagination. The Festival poster captures Marilyn by surprise in an intimate moment where myth meets reality – a moving tribute to the anniversary of her passing, which coincides with the Festival anniversary. 
She enchants us with this promising gesture: a seductively blown kiss.
The Festival is a temple of glamour and Marilyn is its perfect incarnation. Their coming together symbolises the ideal of simplicity and elegance.

Best Actor winner Jean Dujardin kisses Uggie the dog after “The Artist” won the for Best Picture at the 84th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California, February 26, 2012.

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Tate Taylor, director of “The Help” and Octavia Spencer, winner of the award for Best Supporting Actress, receive candy and popcorn during a break in the telecast at the 84th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California, February 26, 2012.

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“Incredibly honored to have worked with Hans Zimmer and such a talented crew of musicians to create a live score for the Oscars. If you enjoyed what you heard, a compilation album featuring each musician’s spin on the music performed tonight is available exclusively through iTunes for you: http://bitly.com/84thoscarallstarband

The proceeds go to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences dedicated to advancing the art of film music - something that is very important to us. Thank you for watching and listening.”

Pharrell Williams.