  Anna Melikyan’s “About Love” nabs top honors at Russia's Golden Eagles January 30, 2016 - 12:55 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Anna Melikyan's Pro Lyubov (About Love), a collection of romantic urban tales, was named 2015’s best Russian movie at the Golden Eagles ceremony, the Hollywood Reporter says. The awards show was held at Moscow’s film studio Mosfilm on Friday, January 29. Anna Melikyan is a Russian-Armenian film and TV director/ producer whose work has been recognized with several awards. After her participation at Sundance Film Festival she was listed in the TOP 10 of most perspective film directors by Variety magazine. In 2008 Melikian’s “Mermaid,” (Rusalka, 2007) was awarded by the Berlin International Film Festival Prize. Besides, Melikyan won the grand prize on June 14 of the 26th Kinotavr Open Russian film festival for the same film, receiving Prize of Film Distributor’s Jury. The annual Kinotavr is the most important Russian film festival and also the world’s largest of national cinema. In 2014, Anna Melikyan won the best director prize at Kinotavr. Back at the Golden Eagles, Stanislav Govorukhin collected the best director’s award for Konets Prekrasnoy Epokhi (The End Of a Beautiful Epoch), set in the 1960s and based on a novella by renowned Russian 20th century author Sergei Dovlatov. Alexander Mindadze received the best screenplay award for Mily Khans, dorogoi Pyotr (Lovely Hans, Dear Peter). Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Birdman was named the year's best foreign film. It was nominated alongside James Marsh's The Theory of Everything and Ridley Scott's The Martian. Yulia Peresild, the female lead of Bitva za Sevastopol (Battle for Sevastopol) was awarded as the best actress, and Fyodor Bondarchuk collected the best actor trophy for his role in Prizrak (Ghost). Veteran director Nikita Mikhalkov, who won an Oscar in the best foreign language film category for Burnt by the Sun back in 1995, received a lifetime achievement award. The Golden Eagles were founded by Mikhalkov in 2002 as a rival to the older national awards, the Nikas.   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 Czech-Armenian military cooperation discussed in Yerevan  A delegation led by the Director General for the Industrial Cooperation Division of the Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic visited Armenia.U.S. welcomes efforts to define Armenia-Azerbaijan border The United States welcomes efforts to define the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, says Vedant Patel.Biden honors resilience of Armenian people on April 24 U.S. President Joe Biden has issued a statement on the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.Ex-Karabakh leader moved to solitary confinement cell in Baku, his son says David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. |
