“Moonlight” leads London Critics' Circle Film Awards nomsDecember 20, 2016 - 17:49 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Outside of costume design, Love & Friendship may not be considered to be among the Academy Awards hopefuls. But Whit Stilman's period comedy has emerged as a leader of the pack for London Critics' Circle Film Awards, for which nominations were announced Tuesday, December 20, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film tied with Moonlight – which is very much considered in the running for a few Oscars come February – with seven nominations and is both up for film of the year alongside several acting honors. Maren Ade's German comedy Toni Erdmann was close behind with six nominations, while La La Land, Manchester by the Sea and American Honey each earned five. The winners will be voted on by the 140 members of the film section of the Critics' Circle, the U.K.'s leading and longest-standing film critics group. The ceremony is set to take place on Jan. 22 at London's May Fair Hotel. 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 | 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. |