“Grand Budapest Hotel,” “Birdman” top Art Directors AwardsFebruary 3, 2015 - 11:23 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - “Guardians of the Galaxy,” “Birdman” and “The Grand Budapest Hotel” were the big feature-film winners at the Art Directors Guild’s Excellence in Production Design Awards, TheWrap reports. “Guardians” won for Fantasy Film and “Grand Budapest” for Period Film, the two ADG categories from which Oscar winners are generally taken. “Birdman” won in the Contemporary Film category. Of the three winners, “Grand Budapest” is the only one nominated for the Production Design Oscar this year. “Guardians” beat two Oscar nominees in its category, “Interstellar” and “Into the Woods.” In the television categories, winners included “Game of Thrones,” “True Detective,” “American Horror Story: Freak Show,” “Silicon Valley,” “The Big Bang Theory,” “Portlandia” and the 86th Academy Awards. Director Christopher Nolan was given the Cinematic Imagery Award, while Lifetime Achievement Awards went to designers and artists Jim Bissell, Camille Abbott, John P. Bruce and Will Ferrell. Presenters included George Clooney, Anne Hathaway, Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Tony Hale and Margo Martindale. 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. |