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4 March 2009 10:31 AM, PST | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »

Here are the final results for Portland own film festival. Great turnout, great films. And now on to the press release ... The Northwest Film Center Announces The 32nd Portland International Film Festival’s Audience Awards The 31,000 audience members at this year’s 32nd Portland International Film Festival have selected their favorite films from among the 78 feature and 36 shorts screened February 6-22. Tying for first place for Best Feature Award are Toa Frazer’s Dean Spanley (New Zealand) and Dorie Dörrie’s Cherry Blossoms (Germany). Two films also tied for the Best Documentary Award—Festival guest Jennifer Grausman’s film Pressure Cooker (Us), co-directed with Mark Becker, and Agnés Varda’s The Beaches Of AGNÉS (France), both of which tied for second place in the overall balloting. The winner »

6 February 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- It has received some love from back at home, but when it opened at the Toronto Film Festival last September, Dean Spanley got dissed from the trades like The Hollywood Reporter who found that this was the type of "low-budget project where no one has to worry about commercial appeal. Film festivals will be most understanding but distributors who want to make money will not" and Variety thought it felt like "an after-dinner anecdote presented with the full ceremony of a formal meal".  Clearly this won't be this year's Happy-Go-Lucky project for the company, but perhaps a slate filler nonetheless in the fall? Screen Daily reports that Toa Fraser's Dean Spanley was picked up by the English-fair friendly Miramax folks and unless they paid a dirt cheap price for it, I'm surprised that Miramax projects a return on their money -- unless they think O'Toole can pack in some remaining audiences. »

6 January 2009 11:09 PM, PST | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »

Boy oh boy, the British Academy sure meant it when they said longlist, 'cause folks, their nomination list is long!

Just an example, under the Best Picture category, 15 films are nominated!

Leading the pack are "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and "Frost/Nixon" with 14 nominations each.

"Slumdog Millionaire," "The Reader," "Revolutionary Road," "Changeling" and "The Dark Knight" received 13 nominations each, and "Milk" and "Burn After Reading" 11.

The awards will take place Feb. 8 at London.s Royal Opera House.

Click Read More to see the complete list, or, longlist of nominees.

Longlist for the British Academy Film Awards:

Best Film

"The Boy in the Striped Pajamas"

"Burn After Reading"

"Changeling"

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"

"The Dark Knight "

"Doubt"

"Frost/Nixon"

"In Bruges"

"I've Loved You So Long"

"Milk"

"The Reader"

"Revolutionary Road"

"Slumdog Millionaire"

"Wall-e"

"The Wrestler"

Adapted Screenplay

"The Baader Meinhof Complex"

"The Boy in the Striped »

- Manny

3 articles from 2009