Awards

  • ‘My Queer Career’ Awards a prestigious competition for Australian short films held at Sydney’s Queer Screen Film Fest,

    ‘My Queer Career’ Awards a prestigious competition for Australian short films held at Sydney’s Queer Screen Film Fest,

      It’s that time of year again when Hollywood and the mainstream movie industry are tripping over themselves to hand out Awards and  give themselves a pat on the back. There is such a degree of predictability that if a journalist tips the wrong winner, they declare a ‘giant misstep’ to cover their mistakes.  However,…

  • Beats Per Minute (BPM) is a big winner – again

    Beats Per Minute (BPM) is a big winner – again

    Less than a month after it swept the boards of the  LUMIERE AWARDS  France’s equivalent to the Golden Globes, ROBIN CAMPILLO ’S masterful movie BPM BEATS PER MINUTE was the big winner at the César Awards (France’s Oscars) last night.   It picked up 6 Awards including the Best Film prize along with wins for editing, original screenplay, supporting actor, score and…

  • BPM sweeps the boards at France’s Lumiere Awards

    BPM sweeps the boards at France’s Lumiere Awards

      Just one week after it won GALECA’s prestigious DORIAN AWARD for Foreign Language Film, ROBIN CAMPILLO’S  masterful movie BPM BEATS PER MINUTE  seminal movie on the AIDS pandemic in France swept the boards of the LUMIERE AWARDS.  It makes up in part for the fact that the American Academy failed to put the movie on the shortlist…

  • Could you choose between these two?

    Could you choose between these two?

    Both Timothée Chalamet the star of Call Me By Your Name and Josh O’Connor who starred in God’s Own Country have been nominated for the  EE BAFTA Rising Star Award for 2018.  The good news is that the public gets to choose the winner, but the bad news is that we have no idea which one…