Tilda Swinton to be honored at Gotham Independent Film Awards October 6, 2014 - 14:55 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Tilda Swinton and director Bennett Miller will be honored at the 24th annual Gotham Independent Film Awards on Dec. 1 in New York City, the Independent Feature Project announced, according to TheWrap. The Gotham Awards are the primary East Coast award for independent film, book-ending an awards season for indies that concludes with the Film Independent Spirit Awards in Los Angeles the day before the Oscars. Swinton will be given the Gotham Actor Tribute for 30 years of “powerful and iconoclastic performances,” according to the IFP press release. Her work includes Sally Potter's “Orlando,” Jim Jarmusch‘s “Only Lovers Left Alive” and “Broken Flowers” and Derek Jarman's “Caravaggio The Last of England,” “War Requiem” and “Edward II,” among many others. This year she appeared in Wes Anderson‘s “The Grand Budapest Hotel” and Bong Joon-Ho's “Snowpiercer.” Miller, the director of Sony Classics’ upcoming “Foxcatcher,” for which he won the best director award at Cannes, will receive the Director Tribute. His other films include “Capote” and “Moneyball,” both of which received Oscar nominations for Best Picture. He is a previous Gotham winner for “Capote.” Previously, Netflix's Ted Sarandos was named recipient of the Gotham Industry Tribute. The 2014 Gotham Awards will take place on the evening of Monday, Dec. 1 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City. In addition to the three tributes, the evening will feature seven awards in competitive categories: Best Feature, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Documentary, Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director, Breakthrough Actor and Audience Award. Last year's Gotham tributes went to director Richard Linklater, actors Forest Whitaker and the late James Gandolfini and the New York mayor's office media entertainment commissioner, Katherine Oliver. The top competitive awards were won by Matthew McConaughey for “Dallas Buyers Club,” Brie Larson for “Short Term 12” and, for best feature, the Coen brothers’ “Inside Llewyn Davis.” Gotham nominations are expected to be announced in late October.  Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty  Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty.Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza.Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations.Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |
